The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-07-08 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
Open to ALL PARTIES,
but influenced by NONE.
FROM THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER.
To the Right Honourable the EARL of DARTMOUTH.
WILL your Lordship give me leave to recommend to your most attentive perusal a sermon lately preached before the society for the propagation of the gospel by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph? The sentiments it contains might do honour to the best christian and the wisest man that ever lived. It abounds with political precepts of the most sterling and extensive wisdom.
The policy of this good Bishop, touching our AMERICAN COLONIES, is that which I have already had the honour of recommending to your Lordship. To follow the wisdom of our fathers, to resume their system founded in the equitable principles of our most excellent constitution, and hallowed by the hand of time, is the only way to heal those wounds which the folly, the vice, the intemperance, of others have given, and which I am sure your Lordship laments.
The following passage in the sermon I have mentioned is so pointedly expressive of the wishes I have conveyed to your Lordship, that I am sure you will forgive me for recommending the matter of it to your maturest consideration.
"Perhaps the disinterested zeal of this society for the instruction of our brethren in North America may tend to revive that union and cordiality between the mother country and its colonies, which, for the common utility, ought never to have been interrupted. It is by no means decent, from this place, to censure the conduct of our superiors, or even to suppose it blameable; but surely, as good subjects, we may with endeavour to heal the wounds of our country, without enquiring by what hand they were inflicted. We may, and I think ought, to wish that the true interest of the whole extensive community may govern our future contests, and regulate all our claims. Our mutual relation was formed, and has hitherto subsisted, by a perpetual communication of benefits. We want the produce of soils and climates that differ so much from our own, and they will long have occasion for the fruits of our arts, our industry, and our experience; and should they ever cease to want our protection, which as long as we render it beneficial to them they never will, yet we may still continue united in interest, in commerce, and the grateful remembrance of old services."
"May the wise and good on both sides, without enquiring too minutely into the grounds of past animosities, endeavour, by all prudent means, to restore that old public friendship and confidence which made us great, happy, and victorious. To countries so closely united, it is needless, and even dangerous, to have recourse to the interpretation of charters and written laws. Such discussions excite jealousy, and intimate an unfriendly disposition. It is common utility, mutual wants, and mutual services, that should point out the true line of submission and authority. Let them respect the power that saved them, and let us always love the companions of our dangers and our glories. If we consider their prosperity as making part of our own, we shall feel no jealousy at their improvements, and they will always cheerfully submit to an authority which they find is exercised invariably to the common advantage. During all our happy days of concord, partly from our national moderation, and partly from the wisdom, and sometimes from the carelessness, perhaps, of our Ministers, they have been entrusted, in a good measure, with the entire management of their affairs, and the success they have met with ought to be to us an ever memorable proof that the true art of governing consists in not governing too much. And why should friendship, and gratitude, and long attachments, which inspire all the sweetness and relish of private life, be supposed to be of no weight in the intercourse between great communities? These are principles of human nature, which act with much greater certainty on numbers than on individuals. If properly cultivated, they may to us be productive of the noblest benefits, and, at all events, will neither lessen the extent of our power, nor shorten the duration of it."
"When things are on this reasonable footing, if there should happen to be any errors in government they will soon be corrected by the friendly disposition of the people; and the endeavours to separate the interest of the colonies from that of Great Britain will be received with the indignation that is due to the artifices of factious men, who wish to grow eminent by the misfortunes of their country."
For Heaven's sake, my Lord, let not this wise, benevolent, and pious man, persuade in vain. Adopt his plan; confirm his wishes. What a noble, what a benevolent, what a useful view has he opened before us; how much to the honour of this country, the happiness of America, and the advantage of both! The little low opinions of a thousand attorneys and
solicitors general should not weigh a moment against the intrinsic wisdom and utility of these sentiments. Adopt the great lines of liberal policy, and not the little arts of professional subtlety? The artifice of a lawyer may justify the literal legality of a measure; but where is the art which will prevent its general impropriety and rigour from inflaming the minds, and alienating the affections of the people? Where is the power that will obviate the injurious consequences; where the wisdom that will relieve them? We have already tried what advantage can be found in governing by force, and have no reason to be proud of the experiment. We have teased and perplexed them with the opinions of lawyers, and innumerable regulations of trade; we have terrified them with menacing resolves from both Houses of Parliament, with fleets, armies, and high commissioners for trials of treason; we have made their Governors and Judges totally dependent on the Crown; we have put the most treacherous, worthless, and obnoxious of their fellow subjects in authority over them, and we have subjected them to officers and informers without number, and without restraint. Of these strange severities, what has been the issue? Is the revenue improved? Is commerce promoted? My Lord, you know the reverse. Contention has been the companion, and barrenness the fruit of this unadvised experiment.
Having studied to provoke, let us now try to pacify, to please the colonists. It will not derogate from our dignity, nor impeach our spirit. The trial will be more pleasant, the event cannot be more unprofitable. You may hold the reins of empire with a secure hand without insulting and enraging them with the sound of the lash, and the irritation of the curb. Shew them that you are just, and they will revere you; that you are liberal, and they will love you.
"In fact, says the Bishop, by what bond of union shall we hold together the members of this great empire, dispersed and scattered as they lie over the face of the earth? No power can be swift or extensive enough to answer the purpose. Some art must be employed to interest all the distant parts in the preservation of the whole, which can only be effected by serving, obliging, and protecting them. It ought not to be the first object in contemplation what we are to get by them, but how we can best improve, assist, and reward them; by what benefits we may procure their happiness, and win their affection. But is government, then, entitled to no emolument in recompence for all its cares? I answer, that they who have the heart to do good to those who depend upon them will always meet with an ample return. None are so sure to reap the benefit of the soil as they who have spared no expence in the cultivation; and it is universally true that the more we exact from our subjects the less we shall gain from them. "Bountifulness is a "plentiful garden, and mercifulness endureth for ever." Let the distant nations that depend upon us be made to know and feel that they owe their peace and happiness to our protection; let them be encouraged to consider themselves not as our slaves, but as our friends and brethren. A time, I doubt not, will come in the progressive improvement of human affairs, when the checks and restraints we lay on the industry of our fellow subjects, and the jealousies we conceive at their prosperity, will be considered as the effects of a mistaken policy, prejudicial to all parties, but chiefly to ourselves. It would be a noble effort of virtuous ambition to anticipate this discovery, to break through the prejudices and selfish spirit of the age, to find a better path to our true interest, and to make our country great and powerful, and rich, not by fraud or force, but by justice, friendship, and humanity."
My Lord, may the christian piety, the political wisdom and virtue, which dictated these sentiments, inspire your Lordship's counsels, and direct his Majesty's measures; so shall the people be happy, and the generations yet to come rejoice.
R A L E I G H.
FROM THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER.
To the Right Reverend JONATHAN, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.
GIVE me leave, my Lord, to offer you, in behalf of a much injured people, my most sincere thanks for the wisdom, the justice, the magnanimity of sentiment respecting America, which appear in your sermon preached lately before the society for the propagation of the gospel. Had one ray of that political wisdom and virtue, which shine through it, directed the counsels of those who commenced or conducted the late innovations in America, we had not now been a divided, and I must add, a desperate people.
You regard the Americans as fellow subjects and fellow christians. You can contemplate with a noble pleasure, felt only by enlarged minds, the prospect
of a growing empire in America; where, when England shall feel that fate to which Providence has doomed all mortal things, the British constitution, her religion, her laws, her liberties, her arts, her arms, may revive with new lustre, dignity, and power. It is this glorious prospect which inspires you to say "perhaps the annals of history have never afforded a more grateful spectacle to a benevolent and philosophic mind than the growth and progress of the British colonies in North America."
It is this spectacle, however, that has prompted the rapacity of some, and the jealousy of others. Upon these pernicious principles the late system of American administration was founded; and they whose will it is to trample upon the liberties of the whole empire, have availed themselves of these means, to make this country instrumental in the subjection of that. Had they succeeded, America, would in her turn, have been the instrument of imposing chains on this people. Every one, then, who values his liberty, has reason to join my Lord Chatham in rejoicing at that resistance on the part of America, which eventually saved the liberties of England.
Our ancestors, while they maintained a supreme power over the colonies, for the purposes of commerce, left them internally the free enjoyment of their rights and liberties, constitutionally secured. It was the violation of these rights first disturbed that union and cordiality between us, which you justly say "for the common utility ought never to have been interrupted." It is an union worth every wise and good man's endeavour to restore. But I may venture to affirm that nothing but a generous return to the system of our fathers can ever effect this salutary purpose. This is all the Americans require; and surely such a request did not deserve the treatment it has received. The terms on which you propose healing this unhappy division are too wise, fair, and benevolent, to fail of success. But I am very sorry to say that there is very little hope of any conciliatory plan being adopted. We often see men in their sober senses pursue measures which, in contemplation, we should imagine nothing less than madness could inspire. Some such fatality hangs over the American department, and urges us to extremities. They persevere in a system from which they expect no good, and which threatens infinite ill; as if rashness were magnanimity, and obstinacy wisdom. The late measure of dragging Americans across the ocean to take their trials here, on suspicion of a crime, is so replete with horror, injustice, and oppression, so unexampled, so dangerous, so reproachful, that it threatens more than anything that has yet happened, to incense and alienate the minds of that people, beyond a possibility of reconciliation. We know they have feelings, and quick ones too. What then must be their reflections, when they see themselves exposed to a mode of trial, in which innocence is ruin?
From whatever cause this violence proceeds, the consequence will, I am sure, be lamented. The artifices of factious and interested men, who, as your Lordship observes, "wish to grow eminent by the misfortunes of their country," are certainly not unexercised to precipitate matters to the most desperate issue. Sir Francis Bernard, Governor Hutchinson, and others of the same complexion, see their own safety involved in the calamities of their country. It is the hour of deliberate enquiry, and determined justice, which they tremble to meet; the true interests of England, the peace and happiness of America, the dictates of policy, justice, and humanity, have hitherto contended against their artifices in vain.
It is impossible not to feel the wisdom and benevolence of your Lordship's sentiments, regarding all the unhappy appendages of this mighty empire. True humanity, like the providence of God, in its views, is universal. Wherever misery exists compassion is due. Whether the unhappy objects be Americans, Africans, or Indians, they were born of woman, and are our brothers.
We have seen the colonies flourish by the indulgence of the mother country, and I hope we shall see them surmount even her rigour. This hope is founded on a long and full consideration of the subject. They were rising like laurels about her table, like towers about her strong hold; her ornament in peace, her arrows in war. Their confidence, their love, their veneration, were like hooks of steel, that grappled them to this island. It is not so now. But they may yet be her resource in misfortune, her asylum in misery. If ever the iron hand of oppression should afflict us, we shall find how much a peopled and polished country is preferable to the savage shores on which our ancestors were obliged to take refuge from the pressure of the same calamity.
Your Lordship will forgive me for thus addressing you in a public paper. It is the only way I have of avowing my gratitude, not for your partiality to the cause I support, but for those wise, benevolent, and generous sentiments, which do honour to human na-

ture. Sentiments, which in your Lordship only might render that right reverend bench respectable, from which, to speak with moderation, the Americans have hitherto met with no mercy.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
FROM THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
ADDRESSED to the LORD MAYOR of LONDON.
THAT rectitude of thought and action conveys to susceptible minds a pleasure far superior to that arising from outward applause is a fact to which I presume your Lordship's own experience can bear ample testimony. To men of your stamp, who prefer a self-approving consciousness to popular approbation, praise, though not an unwelcome, is yet an unsolicited guest. Sensible, my Lord, that you act to DESERVE, and not merely to GAIN applause, I should not venture to approve your conduct, unless I thought it merited every eulogium. Compliments, paid at the expence of truth, may please the vain, as bombast those whose souls have lost all relish to the true sublime; but men of real worth abhor, as fulsome flattery, every encomium to which the monitor within assures them they have no claim.
I am led into this train of thinking by an observance of your late behaviour towards those wretched objects whose crimes rendered them amenable to justice. An attendance at the Old Bailey is a most disagreeable part of the duty of your office; you discharge it in a manner becoming the first Magistrate of an opulent city. But it is by no means my design to touch upon your judicial conduct; I would depict your feelings as a man; I would announce to the world that you have an heart formed in nature's softest mould, and so humanized as to be susceptible of the tenderest emotions. One tear shed over the miseries of the wretched, one sigh heaved in sympathy to a fellow creature's woe, argues more real virtue than public actions of the most conspicuous kind. I congratulate you, my Lord, on possessing this virtue. I was an eye witness to the exercise of it, when at the Old Bailey you ordered several persons (who after acquittal had not where to lay their wretched heads) to be accommodated, at your expence, with lodging, and every other necessary, till they could be properly provided for.
Your political adversaries have harangued upon the warmth of your passions. Can passions of the virtuous kind be too warm? I saw, on Friday, an instance of their warmth, and of their virtue also. A girl was set to the bar, whose mind seemed tortured with anguish inexpressible, and whose body, through illness and confinement, was indeed a piteous spectacle: She was acquitted; but finding, on enquiry, that she was destitute of every convenience, your feelings took instant alarm. Pity was strikingly portrayed in your countenance, and nature struggled in your eyes for vent. You ordered the deplorable object every accommodation, declaring that "none after discharge should be turned into the streets a prey to want and wretchedness." I could enumerate other instances, but let this suffice.
Proceed, then, my Lord, in the path you have hitherto trod, and, as a Magistrate, you must be ESTEEMED; follow the dictates of your own humanity, and, as a man, you will be LOVED; give full scope to your feelings, you will be truly virtuous, and thus obtain, what you most wish for, the APPLAUSE OF HONEST MEN, that best and surest testimony of worth, of honour, and of merit.
PHILANTHROPOS.
H A G U E, March 21.
WE have learnt here that an English ship, employed in the Greenland fishery, has sailed so far as to the 84th degree N. consequently was not more than six degrees from the pole. The sea at this latitude was found calm, free from ice, and might be navigated with the greatest safety. We are assured that in consequence of this essay, which is most certainly a fact, some English Gentlemen (among whom is Mr. Bankes, already well known by his voyages) are determined to sail this year towards the pole, from whence they intend to attempt to sail westward towards America, and particularly to try to gain the coasts of California. If another nation, equally anxious for the glory of discoveries, should attempt to terminate the voyage of Baron de Benyofski, by the way of Kamtschatka, two passages may be discovered instead of one, and there may probably be found two routes to the Indies by the north, as there are already two by the south, one by the Cape of Good Hope, and the other by the way of Cape Horn.
Warsaw, March 24. The Dietine was held here last Monday in the church of the Augustine Friars. One of the members, who was intoxicated, began to make a noise, but he was immediately obliged to retire, after which every thing was carried on with great tranquility. Mr. Skalski, Burgrave of the Grod of Warsaw, was unanimously elected Marshal, and after that began the election of Nunciates for the General Diet, when Mr. Szamoski, a learned Civilian, and Mr. Stanizewski, judge of the district of Warsaw, were chosen. After this, the declarations of the three allied powers were read, which will be delivered to the Diet; then the citations of those who were accused of regicide were also read; and lastly, a letter of the Bishop, to recommend the choice of persons qualified to fill the charge of Nunciates to the Diet in these critical circumstances, was laid before them.
The Dietines in the other districts of Muscovy have all happily ended, except two, which broke up fruitlessly. We are assured that the Poles in those pro-
vinces occupied by the Austrians were forbidden to assist at any Dietines.
Thorn, March 19. Our Magistracy hath received a Prussian summons in writing to repair to Marienwerder on the 16th of April, there to do homage, on pain of confiscation of the city's possessions in this territory. We know not yet the resolution of our Magistracy on this subject.
Poland, March 25. It is reported that the Austrians have summoned the commandant of Kamienieck to give up that place, and the commission of war of the republic has sent him orders to defend it to the last. The success of the negotiations between the court of Berlin and the Magistrates of Dantzick is not known yet; in the interim the town is daily more and more straitened, the Prussians have raised a new toll of 15 per cent on goods coming to Dantzick, and 4 per cent on those coming to Elbing. A Prussian engineer, with some adjutants, have taken a draught of Dantzick and its environs. The districts of Butow and Lunenbourg, which were formerly of the fiefs of Poland, have been incorporated into the estates of the King of Prussia. They are raising recruits in Polish Prussia with the greatest diligence, and six regiments are already formed. We are assured that 30,000 Prussians have orders to assemble at Graudentz, and 300 waggons are preparing to carry their provisions.
Petersburg, March 23. General Sinowjen, Commandant of this city, and uncle to the Prince and Count Orlow, died here the beginning of last week.
Otranto, March 19. By accounts from Smyrna, Cara Osman Oglo, from whom the Porte has taken the government of that city, being summoned to Constantinople, has refused to go, and having heard that orders had been issued out to put him to death, he intends to declare himself an open enemy to the Porte, and act against it accordingly. His prudent and valiant behaviour has gained him the friendship of the Agas and Pachas of Natolia and Turcomania, who are all ready to declare him their Chief; by which means he is enabled to bring 60,000 men into the field, and if he should join himself to Aly Bey and Chick Daher, the next accounts from Natolia may be of great importance.
Paris, April 9. Our letters from Warsaw, of the 22d of March, contain the following interesting accounts: "Every thing here is in the most embarrassing and uncertain situation. The same harmony doth not prevail between the three united powers. The arrival of a certain General at Warsaw has given umbrage to one of the three powers which is using its utmost efforts to prevent the Dietines being held, and is desirous that the general Diet should not take place. It is even assured that this power has declared to the King of Poland, by his ambassador, that he is sensibly affected with the troubles of Poland; that the happiness of that kingdom was always his principal aim, though perhaps he had been mistaken in some measures he had used for that purpose; that, nevertheless, he was disposed to do every thing in his power to repair the misfortunes of that kingdom; that, in short, his advice to the Polish Ministry was not to assemble the Diet, if they had in view to put a stop to the calamities of the Republic."
The Empress of Russia has caused the Senate to pass an Ukase in favour of Count Orlow, importing, among other articles, that this Nobleman shall not be accountable for his conduct to the Empress, or his successors.
L O N D O N, April 24.
THOUGH we are constantly crying out against continental connections, it is our constant fate to be involved in them. The party that is out never scruple to say that, as we are islanders, we have nothing at all to do with our neighbours, and that the balance of power amongst them is a mere farce, only a jugglery and trick of State. The party that is in never fail to hold out in the contrary opinion, and to act agreeably to it; the only difference between them is the exchange of one arbitrary Roman Catholic Ally for another; the Queen of Hungary and the Emperor for the Kings of France and Spain.
If the alliance so much talked of with France and Spain should take place every consequent measure must be destructive to us. If we sit still, and suffer them to fight the common cause, our part must be made up in subsidies, which will act doubly against us, as it will be so much specie lost to us, and gained by our real enemies. If we send troops to join them the political principles of our allies, perhaps their religion, will infect our army, the most dangerous part of our constitution, especially when they are to act with so many of their own countrymen who are in those services. It is a well known fact, that the famous Duke of Marlborough, who has been so often mentioned on this occasion, was no enemy to tyranny, provided he might but have been the chosen instrument of it himself.
His Excellency Count M——n has since his return been admitted to several private audiences; at one of them he had the honour of reading the Toefn des Russ in the closet, which had so powerful an effect that the whole auditory were convinced the confederacy between the great powers never can have any dangerous consequences wellward; that they are only meditating a holy war, the object of which is to annihilate the Ottoman empire merely for the purposes of destroying infidelity and promoting the christian faith.
Extract of a letter from Newcastle, April 9.
"The members of the company of Spurriers and Lorrimen, in Newcastle upon Tyne, at their meeting house this day assembled, taking into serious consideration the pernicious effects of long Parliaments,
and being convinced that the most effectual remedy for the many grievances under which the people of this country have so long laboured is to be found in a frequent appeal to the electors by short Parliaments, resolved that they would not vote for, countenance, or support, either directly or indirectly, any candidate to represent this town in Parliament, until he shall solemnly assent to and sign an engagement for shortening the duration of Parliaments."
The approach of war is now so strongly confirmed from all quarters that the creatures of Lord Mansfield can no longer deny it. France has been preparing these four months, and, till within these few days, has lulled us into a fatal security of neutrality. Can we be neuter and behold her riding in the Baltic and Mediterranean? The Quay at Dunkirk is nearly finished; her coasts are filled with warlike stores and men. In a word, her object in the north is to support Sweden against Denmark and Russia, and in the Mediterranean to support the Turks against Russia and the Emperor; and we have not only hitherto been the dupes of this accursed policy, but are, so long as France pleases, to continue in this dark and blundering situation, unless the flames of war alarm us to a just sense of our folly and danger. The plan laid down, and now pursuing by France, will inevitably draw every nation in Europe into a war; and we, from being the great umpire in such disputes, are sunk to the low state of tools to France, acting by a second or third hand, under French Councils.
Twenty four surgeons were taken from the halfpay list, by order from the admiralty board, to serve on board the Royal navy.
We hear that an alliance, offensive and defensive, is entered into between the court of Great Britain and the Pope, the Devil and the Pretender, against a certain virtuous and upright Prince; and that, upon a certainty of this event, the said Prince is in full march to Hanover with 20,000 men. For farther particulars, enquire of Mr. C. M——, or of Mr. Stag, in Pall Mall.
The late Earl of Chesterfield, a few days before his death, being congratulated by a Gentleman, who met his carriage driving pompously flow in Hyde Park, upon his Lordship's being able to enjoy the benefit of the air, answered, "Enjoy the air! No, I am only rehearsing my funeral!"
In one page only of one newspaper this morning there are 31 invitations to the public for as many different entertainments: If we are therefore undone, we are the merriest undone people upon earth, and wear a smile upon our faces, though we are encompassed by destruction.
April 27. We hear from Chatham that one day last week an officer was walking in the fields near that place, he observed, at some little distance, two non-commissioned officers with their swords drawn, upon which he made up to them with a view to prevent their fighting, when one of them immediately threw his sword on the ground, and with his fist struck the officer so violent a blow on the collar bone that he broke it; an able surgeon was immediately sent for to London, but notwithstanding the officer continues very ill. It is said that the non-commissioned officer will be tried for his life by a General Court Martial, it being death by the martial law for a non-commissioned officer or private soldier to strike or speak disrespectful to or of a commissioned officer.
We hear that much is expected from the pamphlet upon the subject of the India Dividend, advertised for Wednesday the 21st instant. It will afford to the curious a peep behind the curtain, which will enable them to see the sordid mercenary motives that have of late actuated our councils in opposition to every principle of national policy, or of justice to individuals. This publication will likewise shew how easy it is for any man to be his own broker when in the secret.
Corke, March 25. Yesterday an evidence in the county court, who pretended he could speak only Irish, had this question put to him in English, after he had been sworn: "By virtue of your oath, cannot you speak English?" When he answered, in the same tongue, "No, by virtue of my oath, I cannot speak one word of English."
KINGSTON (JAMAICA) May 1.
On the 16th of December was wrecked on the Northern Triangle a Spanish register ship named the Thetis, commanded by Don Diego Britto, mounting 26 twelve pounders, bound from Rio Dulce to the Havannah, on board of which was 100,999l. registered money, and private property to a very great amount, particularly 2780 serons of indigo, a great quantity of specie, and wrought plate. The registered money was saved by James Farrell, Esquire, of Honduras, and transmitted to the Governor of Bacacalao. The private property was in general plundered or concealed by other settlers at the bay. There were 116 people belonging to her that were taken off the keys, after being sixty four days thereon. Mr. Farrell is now here to solicit assistance from Sir George Bridges Rodney, in behalf of the unhappy sufferers.
B O S T O N, June 7.
We hear that the honourable and patriotic General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut have adopted the wise plan of UNION recommended by the House of Burgesses of Virginia.
For several days past some extraordinary discoveries have been talked of, which were expected to amaze the whole province. Hints have been thrown out that the characters of some men in power would appear infamous in the highest degree; all seemed to be a general surmise and expectation until Wednesday about eleven o'clock before noon, when the galleries in the Commons House of Assembly were ordered to be cleared of all present. This confirmed the general

opinion, and we are well informed that very important matters will soon transpire, which will bring many dark things to light, gain many profelytes to the cause of freedom, make tyrannical rulers tremble, and give occasion for the whole people to bless the Providence of God, who causeth the wicked man to fall into the pit he hath digged for another.
We learn that the matters above alluded to were a number of original letters, sent to England by several great men in this province, and returned here, which were laid before the Honourable Commons House of Assembly, on the consideration of which "VOTED, that the tendency and design of said letters was to subvert the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province."
The doors leading to the galleries in the House continued shut whilst the letters were reading.
N E W Y O R K, June 10. Friday last his Excellency General GAGE gave a grand entertainment to a great number of the merchants and military Gentlemen of this city at Hull's tavern. The just sense the inhabitants of this place have of his conduct, during a command of ten years in America, is fully evinced by the following address: To his Excellency the Honourable THOMAS GAGE, General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's forces in North America.
The humble ADDRESS of the corporation of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in the city of New York.
May it please your Excellency, WHEN we review your conduct as Commander in Chief of his Majesty's forces, and reflect on the happiness derived to this colony, from your eminent justice, from the discipline and good order of the army, and your constant attention to secure to North America the solid effects of a series of victories so glorious to the British arms; when to these we unite your engaging manners, and polite and obliging deportment, we feel, Sir, in common with the rest of our fellow citizens, the liveliest sentiments of esteem and respect for a character so truly valuable. These impressions, as they encrease the regret with which we consider the approach of your departure for England, cannot fail of exciting in us a warm desire thus publicly to testify the high sense we entertain of your exalted merit.
We are persuaded, Sir, that as you take with you the deserved applause of the colonies, and the cordial affections of the inhabitants of this city, long honoured by your immediate residence, so your zeal and fidelity, in the discharge of a trust the most important, will recommend you to the favour and approbation of our gracious Sovereign.
Permit us to with your Excellency, your amiable Lady, and family, an agreeable passage to your native country, and every degree of felicity, both in public and private life, so justly due to your distinguished virtues. By order of the Chamber,
THEOPHILACT BACHE, President. To the Gentlemen of the corporation of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in the city of New York.
GENTLEMEN, IT is a circumstance the most flattering to me that my public and private conduct should meet the approbation of so respectable a body, and I return you my best thanks for your polite and affectionate address.
I have resided long amongst you, and lived happily with you, and your fellow citizens, so it is natural that I should leave you with regret and concern; and I beg you to believe that I carry with me sentiments the most friendly to the colonies in general, and the warmest wishes for the prosperity and happiness of the inhabitants of New York.
June 14. Last Friday arrived the schooner Hope, Captain Thomas Cunningham, in fourteen days from St. Croix, who informs that the day before he left that place a snow arrived there from Copenhagen, the Captain of whom gave information that eight sail of French men of war of the line had entered the sound, and passed Elsinore Castle, without permission, and without a gun being fired at them; that the commander of the French fleet applied to the Governor of the castle for leave to enter, and was returned, for answer, he must wait to know the King's pleasure, who was not above 15 miles distant. He did not incline to wait, but entered by force, which had caused great uneasiness at Copenhagen.
Captain Rescot, in six weeks from Plymouth, arrived here last Wednesday, with part of the Royal Welch fuzileers; having parted from the other transports with the remainder of the regiment on board the 23d of May, in latitude 40, 53, and left the transports for Quebec ten days before.
PHILADELPHIA, June 16. Since our last arrived here the ship Minerva, Captain Faries, with 300 passengers, and the brig Charlotte, Captain Montgomery, with 150 passengers, both from Newry.
We hear from Ireland that the great emigrations to America has so worked on the minds of the landlords, that they are falling the rent of their lands to induce the people to stay at home.
On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last, we had the weather very cold here. On Friday morning a thermometer being exposed for a short time in the air, the mercury sunk to 50°.
Yesterday were committed to our gaol two men taken up at Potts Grove for attempting to utter a counterfeit Maryland eight dollar bill, and on searching, there was found on them eighty of those bills.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 8. Yesterday Mrs. MARTHA BROOKES, a poor woman who lives between this city and York town, was safely delivered of THREE CHILDREN. What renders it the more remarkable is, she has been
long afflicted with the dropsy, and was so at the time of her delivery.
On Tuesday the 20th of June departed this life, after a short illness, which she bore with fortitude and resignation, Miss NANCY LIGHTFOOT, fourth daughter of William Lightfoot, Esquire, deceased. Let it suffice just to mention that she was a dutiful daughter, a tender sister, and an agreeable companion. To portray her character in its truest colours would require the skill of an Apelles. What parent's heart but feels a parent's woe— Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus tam chari capitis! HORACE.
Arrived in James river the Virginia Packet, Jones, from Bermuda, the Homer, Dunnet, from Rotterdam, and the George, Coats, from London.
ARRIVALS from VIRGINIA. The Industry, Lowes, at Dover; Prince George, Sampson, at Bristol; Dorothy, Thompson, at Hull; Assistance, Farish, at Whitehaven; Prince George, Bozeman, at Gravesend; and the Liberty, Brocklebank, at Dover.
NORFOLK, July 4, 1773. THE subscribers intending to send a VESSEL to MADEIRA, will be much obliged to any Gentlemen for their orders for WINE.
MATTHEW PHRIPP, THOMAS NEWTON.
To be SOLD, by the subscriber in Stiffex, TWO tracts of LAND, one containing 900 acres, whereon he now lives, situated on Notoway river, of very good quality for tobacco, wheat, or Indian corn, and has many valuable improvements on it. The other tract lies on the said river, a little below the former, and contains 112 acres, is mostly valuable low grounds, and has some improvements on it. Any person inclinable to buy the whole, or either parcel, may purchase on reasonable terms, which may be known by applying to EDWARD POWELL.
TO BE SOLD, A CARGO of GOODS, lately imported from LIVERPOOL, amounting to upwards of 500l. sterling, first cost, consisting of linens, cottons, calico, flats, shoes, pewter, glass, paint, and oil, earthenware, iron ware, and other articles; an invoice of which may be seen at any time, and the terms of sale known by applying to Capt. Clark, of the Tom, on York river, or to the subscriber, in Caroline county. EDMUND PENDLETON.
TO BE SOLD, A PLANTATION, containing 276 acres of LAND, with tolerable good improvements, and lying on the main road leading from Fredericksburg to Culpeper, about ten miles from the former; about 170 acres thereof is leased land, at fifty shillings per annum; the remaining 106 acres is a fee simple. Likewise two Negroes, the flock of cattle, horses, hogs, and sundry household furniture, beds, chairs, tables, &c. The sale to be at the place on the 6th day of August next ensuing, and possession given at Christmas; the purchasers to have liberty to provide for the ensuing year's crop. Three months credit will be allowed for one third of the land, six months for another third, and for the remainder 12 months; but if the money be paid down 7½ per cent. will be discounted. Six months credit will be given for the flock and household goods for all sums above forty shillings, and for any thing under ready cash will be required. The purchasers on credit must give bond and security. THOMAS ALLEN.
*** Those indebted by accounts, &c. it is hoped, will be kind enough shortly to pay me.
NORFOLK, June 29, 1773. AS I intend for Great Britain soon, and to return in a few months, all persons indebted to me, or to the late concern of Archibald White and company, or to the estate of Archibald White, deceased, are desired to make payment before or at the meeting of the merchants next month, after which time no indulgence will be given; but all bonds, accounts, &c. will be put into the hands of an attorney, with orders to commence suits immediately, without respect of persons. Any matters relative to the concern of Archibald White and company will be transacted in my absence by Anthony Walke, Esquire, of Princess Anne; and such of my own affairs as may remain unsettled at my departure will be managed by Messrs. Eilbeck, Ross, and company, of this place, whom I have empowered so to do. Such as have claims against me are desired to make them known, without loss of time, in order that they may be adjusted. JOHN MACLEAN.
SUSSEX, June 23, 1773. THE subscriber intending to leave the colony about the 1st of September next for a few months, and being desirous of adjusting all his affairs before his departure, so as to admit of no dispute either with debtor or creditor, earnestly entreats all who have any demand against him, either by bond or otherwise, to make application, and it shall be paid in money, or bonds; and if it is not agreeable to a creditor to settle in that way, they shall have bond, with undoubted security, either personal or otherwise, to pay any balances, that may remain unpaid, in a few months. He likewise hopes that all who are indebted to him will be kind enough to apply and discharge their respective balances, or give bond, payable at a short day, the better to enable him fully to discharge his engagements, being determined so to do between this and April next.—I shall depute Mr. Daniel Fisher and Mr. James Mason, of Brunswick, and Mr. John Cargill, of Sussex, to transact my business during absence from this colony. DAVID MASON.
To be SOLD, for ready money, on Friday the 16th of this instant (July) at the late plantation of Robert Boggess, deceased, in Fairfax,
TEN Virginia born NEGROES, consisting of men, women, and children, together with the STOCK OF HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, and SHEEP, all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, and all the PLANTATION UTENSILS.
ROBERT BOGNESS, Administrator.
FREDERICKSBURG, June 22, 1773.
I INTEND for England shortly. ELIZABETH MIDDLETON.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Prince William county, the 16th of June, a Negro fellow who calls himself QUE, and says he belongs to Nathaniel Burwell, of the Isle of Wight county; he is a young, black fellow, about 21 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, has on a drill coat, black worsted stockings, and red waistcoat—Also committed, the 7th of June, a Mulatto fellow who says his name is Samuel Butcher, and that he formerly belonged to Robert Evans, of Dinwiddie, but that he has heard that Mr. Mason obtained his freedom last April General Court. The owners, if any, are desired to prove their property, and pay charges.
JOHN BLANSIT, Gaoler.
By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION For publishing the ratification of three acts of Assembly, and the repeal of three other acts.
VIRGINIA, &c. WHEREAS his Majesty in Council hath been pleased to signify his Royal approbation and allowance of three acts of Assembly passed in the year 1769, intitled as follow, viz.
'An act to repeal an act made in the twenty second year of his late Majesty's reign, intitled "An act concerning strays," and to establish a more effectual method to prevent frauds committed by persons taking up strays.'
'An act to amend the act intitled "An act to amend the act for the better government of servants and slaves."
'An act to prevent the exorbitant exactions of the collectors of the county and parish levies.'
And hath also been pleased to signify his disallowance of three other acts passed in the year 1772, intitled as follow, viz.
'An act to amend an act intitled "An act to prevent malicious maiming and wounding."
'An act for continuing and amending several acts, and reviving one act for laying duties upon slaves imported.'
'An act to compel ships importing convicts, servants, or slaves, infected with the gaol fever or smallpox, to perform quarantine.'
I do, therefore, in pursuance thereof, by this proclamation, publish and declare, that the three acts first above mentioned are confirmed, finally enacted, and ratified, and that the three last mentioned acts are repealed, made void, and of none effect; and for the more solemn signification thereof, I do appoint this proclamation to be read and published at the courthouse of the several counties within this dominion, and the sheriffs are to take care the same be done accordingly.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this twenty fourth day of June, 1773, and in the thirteenth year of his Majesty's reign. DUNMORE.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
WILLIAMSBURG 18th June 1773.
PURSUANT to the several Acts of the General Assembly we this day repair'd to the public Treasury, and, having examin'd the Treasurer's Accounts of the different Receipts and Payments since the last Settlement and compar'd them with their proper Vouchers, find that they are all fairly and justly stated. The several Balances due to and from the Public we found to be as follow; to the public Account £.6,196 19 4½; to the Fund of the ten thousand Pounds issued in 1769 a Balance of £.8,175; to the Fund of thirty thousand Pounds issued in 1771, a Balance of £.8414 9 5, and that there was due from the Fund of the old Notes to the other Funds a Balance of £.7,665 1 11. We have burnt and destroy'd of the old Notes £.6034 17 9; of the Notes issued in 1769 £.3955 and of the Notes issued in 1771 the Sum of £.18,183 in which last Sum is included such of the Notes issued in 1771 as appear to have been received in Exchange for the new Treasury Notes lately emitted. The total Sum now burnt and destroy'd amounts to £.28,172 17 9. The several Balances still due to the Public in the Treasurer's Hands he produced to us and they remain with him to be accounted for at a future Day. Given under our Hands the Day and Year above written.
LEWIS BURWELL, JOHN RANDOLPH, BEN: WALLER, JOHN BLAIR, G. WYTHE.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 24, 1773.
THIS is to give notice to all persons that none of my Negroes are to be hired but by myself, and if any person hires or employs either of them in their service but by agreeing with me, I most assuredly will sue such person; and no money due for hire is to be paid unless to myself, or my note.
GRISSEL HAY.

To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 26th of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day.
A VERY valuable TRACT of LAND on James river, in Amherst county, a few miles below Doctor William Cabell's, containing about 600 acres of high and low grounds, and runs above a mile on the river, it being about half the tract on which John Howard formerly lived, including the dwellinghouse, &c. with a beautiful situation to live on, and cleared low grounds sufficient for a good plantation; there is also on it a remarkable natural fishpond, and a fishery for white shads. The place is suitable for wheat, tobacco, or hemp—At the same time will be sold, if a suitable price for them be offered, an island adjacent, and the remaining part of the before mentioned tract of land, either separate or altogether. Part of the purchase money will be wanted at the day of sale on the premises, or in October next, at farthest, and the remainder will be made easy to the buyer by sundry payments, as shall be then agreed on. An indisputable title will be made the purchaser.
THOMAS PROSSER, NEIL CAMPBELL, WILLIAM PRESTON, } Trustees.
HANOVER town, June 19, 1773.
JUST arrived at Cumberland, on York river, the PLANTER, Capt. MILLER, from London, with about seventy fine healthy indented SERVANTS, amongst whom are the following TRADESMEN, viz. housecarpenters and joiners, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths, whitesmiths, gold and silvermiths, tailors, shoemakers, weavers, gardeners, leather dressers, and painters, perukemakers, saddlers and harnessmakers, London bakers, dyers, brass founders and smiths, clerks and book-keepers, labourers, husbandmen, a print colourer, a schoolmaster, a surgeon, a brazier, a pewterer, a groom, a footman, &c. &c. The sale will commence at Richmond on Monday the 5th of July, and a proper discount will be made for ready money or tobacco. Those on credit will be allowed a reasonable time, giving bond, with approved security, to
THOMAS SMITH.
*** The Captain on board has a quantity of very good IRON BOUND CASKS and BUTTS, which he will sell reasonably.
COLLEGE, June 23, 1773.
I INTEND to leave the colony soon. THOMAS DAVIS, jun.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Fairfax courthouse, on the third Monday in July next, being court day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, a tract of 190 acres of LAND, on the north run of Polick, formerly the property of Richard Steerman, by him sold to Mr. Joseph Watson, who mortgaged it to Garret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has obtained a decree for selling the same. The purchaser will have Mr. Meade's right under Mr. Watson, with a general warranty from Mr. Watson, conveyed at the sale by
The SHERIFF of FAIRFAX.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Hampshire courthouse, on the second Tuesday in September next, being court day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following tracts of LAND in that county, to wit, 800 acres on the north branch of Potowmack, about 8 miles from Fort Cumberland; 400 acres on George Andis's mill run, adjoining Andis's land; both tracts being mortgaged by Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Garret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has obtained a decree for a sale. The purchaser will have Mr. Meade's right under Mr. Watson, with a general warranty from Mr. Watson, conveyed at the sale by
The SHERIFF of HAMPSHIRE.
YORK TOWN, June 9th, 1773.
THE subscribers being very solicitous to honour with the will of their testator, the late Honourable William Nelson, desire that all persons, who were indebted to him, will endeavour to make as speedy payments as possible. Those who have accounts open on his books and who cannot immediately discharge the balances, are desired to give their bonds. This request is the more necessary as most of the legacies bequeathed by the testator are to be paid in sterling money, and he has directed his younger sons fortunes shall be placed out at interest upon undoubted securities, so soon as it can be done. Those who have any demands are desired to make them immediately known.
THOMAS NELSON, THOMAS NELSON, jun. HUGH NELSON, RO. C. NICHOLAS.
HANOVER, June 17, 1773.
THE subscriber intends to leave the colony very soon, and desires that all persons who have any demands against him will apply for payment before the first of August next.—The concerns in this colony of Mess. Farrell and Jones, of Bristol, merchants, will be left under the direction of Mr. John Winston, merchant in Hanover, to whom all persons indebted to the said Gentlemen, and that have declined their correspondence with them, are desired to pay their respective balances; and it is hoped that no one will compel him to the necessity of pursuing disagreeable methods to enforce payment, after the great indulgence that has been already given.
THOMAS EVANS.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Dunmore courthouse, on the 4th Tuesday in July next, being court day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, 250 acres of LAND, about two miles from Woodstock, adjoining the lands of Samuel Bailey, formerly the property of Capt. Burr Harrison; also a tenement in said town, now in good repair, in possession of a tenant at will, together with a ten acre lot thereto belonging, as a common. These lands were mortgaged by Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Garret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has obtained a decree for a sale. The purchaser will have Mr. Meade's right under Mr. Watson, with a general warranty from Mr. Watson, conveyed at the sale by
The SHERIFF of DUNMORE.
TAKEN up, in Sussex, a dark bay horse, about 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, 5 or 6 years old, and with some saddle spots on his back. Posted, and appraised to 11l. WILLIAM HINES, jun.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham, a bay mare about 7 years old, 4 feet 4 inches high, has a small star, and some saddle spots, but no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 8l.
JOHN HODNETT.
NORFOLK, June 21, 1773.
The brig MOLLY, THOMAS PRICE, Master, about two years old, will take in FREIGHT for LISBON or MADEIRA, and can be ready by the middle of next month. For terms apply to said master, or the subscriber.
MATTHEW PHRIPP.
Just imported from LONDON, in the Hanbury, Capt. Esten, and to be sold remarkably cheap, by the subscriber, at his shop in the upper end of Richmond.
A VERY large and well assorted PARCEL of DRUGS and MEDICINES; also capers, olives, walnuts, anchovies, best jar raisins, common ditto, currants, almonds, figs, prunes, white and brown sugar candy, barley sugar, orange chips, citron, candied almonds, comfits, eringo, and ginger, Spanish liquorice, best sallad oil, fine Durham flour of mustard, isinglass, hartshorn shavings, saltpetre, ivory and pewter syringes, toothbrushes, gold beater's skin, court plaster, gold and silver leaf, Dutch metal, potash, crucibles, zink, pumilone, rottenstone, verdigree, vermillion, Prussian blue, Spanish brown, red and white lead, pearl barley, best smellingbottles with cases, common ditto, spirit and oil of turpentine, best and common lancets, lancet cases, marble mortars, lavender and honey water, eau de luce, essence of bergamot and lemons, mace, cloves, cinnamon, nutmegs, ginger, black and long pepper, alspice, turmeric, alkanet, cochineal, fago, salop, sponge, James's fever powders, Walker's jesuit drops, Stoughton's and Squire's elixir, Bateman's drops, Freeman's and Godfrey's cordial, anodyne necklaces, pectoral balsam of honey, Anderson's and Lockyer's pills, Greenough's tincture for the teeth and gums, Blackrie's lixivium for the stone and gravel, Norris's drops, Keyser's pills, British oil, Turlington's balsam, allum, borax, brimstone, &c. &c. &c.
JOHN POWELL.
FOR SALE.
Several valuable tracts of land, adjoining each other, on both sides of Chappawamsick Run, in the counties of Stafford and Prince William, containing 2600 acres, being the seat whereon the subscriber formerly resided. These lands are situate four miles above Aquia warehousies, and four miles below the town of Dumfries, the soil of more than half of it exceeding good; there is on it as fine a mill seat as any in the colony, upon a large and never failing stream. There is a great appearance of iron ore, and a large quantity of white oak and pine timber, a tolerable commodious dwellinghouse, a great number of convenient outhouses, good orchards, and several tenements in order for cropping. There are also 200 acres of fine meadow ground, half of which was sowed in timothy last fall and this spring. A more particular description will be unnecessary, as it is presumed that any person inclined to purchase will view the premises; and the subscriber earnestly entreats all such to form their ideas of the value of this estate from their own observations, and not from any accounts they may receive from others, as there are some persons, who are thought goodnatured, worthy men, amuse themselves with decrying the property of their neighbours, even at the expence of truth, and under the mask of friendship to the person injured. And the subscriber is more particular in this caution, as he hath formerly received several severe injuries of that kind from one in that neighbourhood. The above lands are under the incumbrance of two mortgages; the one for a considerable sum, made by the subscriber himself, the other for an inconsiderable sum, made by the person of whom he purchased one of the small tracts, which mortgages are to be first paid out of the money arising from the sale. For terms apply to
THOMSON MASON.
TO BE SOLD.
ABOUT fourteen thousand acres of exceeding good LAND in the county of Pittsylvania. For terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amherst, who will treat with any person inclined to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal title.
THOMAS LOMAX.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Frederick courthouse, on the first Tuesday in August next, being court day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following tracts of LAND, to wit, 181 acres on the drains of Opekan, in Frederick county, formerly the property of Jonathan Lupton; also 200 acres, formerly Odle's, about 10 miles from Winchester, adjoining to the lands of Joseph Smith, Spur, and Robert Rutherford; also 400 acres, on both sides of Back creek, in said county, formerly Richard Neely's. These several tracts were mortgaged by Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Garret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has obtained a decree for a sale. The purchaser will have Mr. Meade's right under Mr. Watson, with a general warranty from Mr. Watson, conveyed at the sale by
The SHERIFF of FREDERICK.
WARWICK, June 7, 1773.
I THINK it necessary to inform the public that the 7000 acres of land lying in Bedford county, with the improvements thereon, consisting of a forge and sawmill, &c. which was lately advertised by Robert Harper and Thomas James for sale, is made over by a deed of trust to James and Robert Donald, and company, as security for a debt due them for dealings at the Rocky Ridge and Bedford stores.
PATRICK HUNTER.
FOR SALE.
THE tenement at present occupied by Captain James Gunn, in that part of the town of Richmond called Shockoes, on the north side of the falls of James river, with a number of convenient houses upon it, well adapted for either a merchant, tavern-keeper, or private Gentleman, rented at forty pounds a year; also the public storehouse at the same place, rented at fifteen pounds a year; the two half acre lots, No. 400 and No. 670, in the same town; the valuable lot of one hundred acres of timbered land, near the same, known by the description of No. 799; also the two half acre lots, No. 116 and No. 267, in the town of Manchester or Rocky Ridge, on the south side of the falls of James river. For terms apply to Joshua Storrs of Richmond, or to the subscriber.
THOMSON MASON.
VIRGINIA, sc.
At a GENERAL COURT, held at the Capitol May 5, 1773.
John Upshaw, and John Renolds, plaintiffs, against John Bland, late of London, merchant, John Bland, junior, and Mess. Field and Call, defendants, } in chancery.
THE defendant John Bland being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the other defendants, who have effects of the said Bland in their hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete, such effects, until the further order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that they deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is further ordered, that the said defendant John Bland do appear here on the 1st day of next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service, in the church of the parish of Martin's Brandon, in the county of Prince George, and be also posted up at the front door of the Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg.
BEN: WALLER.
VIRGINIA, sc.
At a GENERAL COURT, held at the Capitol May 5, 1773.
Arthur Edie, and James Laird, of London, merchants and partners, plaintiffs, against Robert Jardine, late of London, merchant, and George Mitchell, defendants, } In chancery.
THE defendant Robert being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the other defendant, who hath effects of the said Robert in his hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete, such effects, until the further order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is further ordered, that the said defendant Robert do appear here on the 1st day of the next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service in the church of the parish of St. George, in the county of Spottsylvania, and be also posted up at the front door of the Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg.
BEN: WALLER.