The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-11-04 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
Open to ALL PARTIES,
but influenced by NONE.
The following letter from UTRECHT, in the dominion of the STATES GENERAL, to a gentleman in DUBLIN, gives an account of a most shocking attempt of a ROBBERY and MURDER, which happened near that town, on the 14th of JULY last.
ONE Mary Anne de Rantzaw, a widow, who kept a small public house adjoining the high road, having received two thousand guilders, by the fortunate event of a lottery ticket, and resolving to live private for the rest of her life, took down her sign, and discontinued furnishing travellers with entertainment of beds. On the evening of the above mentioned day a Dutchman, who in the late war served as a hussar, and has been often quartered with the widow, came to her house and demanded a lodging, which she refused on account of her quitting public business, and keeping no liquors for sale. The hussar entreated her to let him sleep any where for that night, as he was much fatigued, to which, with some reluctance, she consented. About eleven, somebody knocked at the door, and the hussar, who lay in the upper chamber, looked out of the window, and saw two men muffled in cloaks, who desired to speak with Mrs. de Rantzaw, on business of the last moment. The soldier came down, and after informing his landlady of his suspicions, locked her up in a closet, and getting a brace of pistols and a sabre, with which he always travelled, opened the door, and ran into the kitchen before them, where he in a determined manner waited for the event. The disguised hussars followed, and seeing an armed man prepared to receive them, instantly fired together, but without effect, the balls going through the hussar's cloak and hat. He then thought himself authorized to fire, in turn, and taking a cocked pistol in each hand, fortunately shot the villains, who stood close, dead on the spot. After recharging his arms, and locking the door, the hussar and his hostess sat up till day, and went into the city to relate this transaction to a magistrate, and procure proper witnesses to inspect and search the bodies, in order to an inquest. He was directed to an officer called the schout, who acts in every town as a sub-sheriff, but was informed that neither he nor his bailiff were at home, being gone out on an expedition. The hussar went then to the chief justice, before whom he made oath of the affair, and prevailed on his lordship to go to the widow's house and hold the proper enquiry. But what was the surprize of all present, when after washing the faces of the dead they proved to be no others than the schout himself, and his bailiff, who came thither to rob and murder the innocent woman on account of her acquisition in the lottery, of which the report had spread! The soldier and widow were tried for form sake, and the bodies of the villains who had been killed, after being hung up in the market place for several hours, were burnt, and their ashes thrown into the canal.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25.
THEY write from Aleppo, in Syria, that the plague continues to make great havock at Bagdad; insomuch, that a great number of christians and Jews have retired to Bassora and Damascus, in consequence of which that dreadful distemper has likewise broke out at Bassora.
Warshaw, July 29. The King having represented to the ministers of the three neighbouring powers the very bad state of his finances, from the dreadful situation of Poland, their excellencies assured him that each of their courts was ready to send him immediately 100,000 ducats.
Ceneva, July 21. It is with the greatest satisfaction that we have learnt here, by letters from London, that Mr. J. A. de Luc, a citizen of this city, correspondent of the royal academies of sciences of Paris and Montpellier, and author of the Researches on the Modifications of the Atmosphere, had the honour of being presented to the King and Queen, who gave him a most gracious reception. This learned man made an experiment, in presence of their Britannic Majesties, on the barometer which he invented, to find exactly the height of objects inaccessible. He measured a tower, and his calculation was immediately verified with a cord, the difference being only a few inches. The King has granted Mr. de Luc permission to place his barometer in his observatory, and the Queen has also been pleased to accept of an ignometer of a new construction.
Vienna, July 28. The court has been for some days at Laxenbourg, to which place the foreign mi-
nisters are going this day to pay their court to her Imperial Majesty.
L O N D O N, August 14.
AN old Turkish woman in Smyrna, a short time ago, declared she could extract worms from the blood of diseased persons, and effect their cure. She persuaded three Europeans to become her patients, and brought her apparatus to their houses. Having ordered a back to be uncovered, she muttered a prayer, and made, with a razor, two or three incisions, near the shoulder blade, then enclosed the wounds under the large end of a bullock's horn, and pressed it against the flesh, applying her mouth to a hole at the small end through which she seemed to suck the blood of the christian. When the operation was over, a number of certain things, which she called worms, were in the horn, and about the wound. This new manner of purifying the blood astonished the multitude, and not an Asculapian could give any reason for the appearance of these animals. A surgeon obtained some of them, and preserved them in spirits for the royal academy in Paris; and another of the brotherhood affirmed he had been as successful as the old woman in the same operation. One of her patients thought he had received great benefit, and sent his servant to request her second attendance. But, alas! he went in an unguarded hour; found her very busy in taking little membranes from the lights of a sheep, which perfectly resembled the blood worms, and acquainted his master with the discovery. He, full of fury, sent for the surgeon who had boasted of his abilities, that he might in some measure vent his rage, by taxing him with perfidy and falsehood; but neither he, nor his fellow sufferers, could avoid the ridicule of even those who had given the woman great credit. She had not cut them to the quick. Query, if an old woman in England had pretended to such extraordinary art, would not many have been present at the trial of it?
Letters have been received from Germany, within these few days, which make mention of a violent storm of hail that fell lately in Bohemia, extending from Prague to Sorau. The hailstones are said to have weighed, several of them, three pounds each; the grain and other fruits of the earth were destroyed for 120 miles in circumference, and many persons, together with the beasts that were in the fields, were killed. The same letters say that there is the most general appearance of very plentiful crops throughout Germany, except in that particular district where the storm fell, which came from the south, and took its direction northerly.
The following was spoken extempore in Durham gaol, on seeing a broken pane of glass stopped by a leaf torn out of the larger prayer book:
'Tis very strange! 'tis something more than odd! To stop the window with the word of God!
We hear from Dublin that Mr. Gardener, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Bagnelle, Mr. Dawson, and other gentlemen of distinction, have offered to advance, upon government security, a sum sufficient to satisfy, for the present, the numerous demands upon the treasury in that kingdom.
The parliament it will certainly meet, as we are well informed, early in November, in order to settle the matters relating to the jurisdiction in India, as the bill which lately passed the house must be arranged in an entire new manner.
The court of Spain, we are assured, have a private, though not a public ambassador, now resident in London, which they find answers their purpose very well. This is a species of art hitherto never made use of in times of peace, but perhaps they do not consider themselves at peace with Great Britain, and therefore do right in planting their spies to advantage.
It is pleasant, says a facetious correspondent, to hear the good people of this country boast of a long line of British Kings . We have had them, indeed, of every country but Britain;—Danes, Normans, Saxons, French, and Dutch; but where are the British Kings to be found? Scotland is the only place which hath afforded us any thing in the shape of a British King ; and notwithstanding all the abuse cast upon that country, it is certain we are indebted to it for— satire and Monarchs!
There is now living in the parish of Itham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, one George Burge, by profession a carpenter, aged 105; he retains his senses perfect, was a serjeant in the reign of William III. and was present at the taking of Gibraltar.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated July 30.
The archbishop of Bourdeaux has given an instance of benevolence to the world which few people, we fear, will be willing to imitate. Being informed that the greatest distress prevailed in the city of Bourdeaux, on account of the scarcity and dearness of provisions, in order to lessen it as much as possible, he immediately retrenched all the superfluities of his table and other expences, and distributed the savings (about 100 crowns a day) amongst the most needy of the people. More was not in his power to do, and by doing all that he could, he has set an example of singular charity to his ecclesiastical brethren."
A strange incident happened the other day in the parish of St. Saviour. A young woman was just setting off from her house for the church, to be married, and all the family were assembled in order to accompany her. At this time the mother, as is frequently the case, burst into a flood of tears, on being about to have her daughter torn from her, after being accustomed to her company so many years. This sensibility had a very sympathetic effect upon all present, except the daughter; and the bridegroom observing her not in the least touched, immediately retracted his word, saying, that indeed he would not join himself for life to a woman who appeared to be destitute of every sentiment of affection and tenderness. On which he immediately left her, to mourn in private her want of sensibility.
August 17. From the disposition of the different courts of Europe, and the obstinacy of the Turks and Russians, the war is likely to become general. The terms proposed by the Empress of Russia sufficiently prove her aversion to peace; and it will be found necessary to interrupt her ambition, lest the rapidity of her conquests, and her repeated success destroy the balance of power in Europe, and enlarge with her dominion her capacity for war.
A King of England can have no interest in the politics of Europe personally . That distinction, I hope, says a correspondent, will never be introduced here; the very moment it is, farewell to our liberties, and even to the forms of our constitution. That idea is inseparable from the idea of despotism; and we may judge of the integrity and disposition of that prince who introduces it either in his language or his actions.
With respect to the necessity of our interference in the dispute between the Turks and Russians, it is needless to urge any thing while we have an administration whose continuance in office depends upon the continuance of peace. Without abilities or influence, and equally destitute of public confidence, they would find themselves unequal to the task, should a war ensue; and it is their interest, as indeed it is the first object of their care, to ward it off as long as possible. Notwithstanding the honour of the nation has been in effect betrayed, and notwithstanding by being themselves the betrayers of that honour, they run the risk of losing their heads, whenever the people have a virtuous representation, or the people, deprived of that blessing, in justice to posterity and themselves, are forced to take vengeance on the guilty traitors, and bring the dignified villains to the block. To this necessity they will be reduced, if one spark of British patriotism or virtue remains amongst us, unless a peace takes place, or we take part in the war; or either is absolutely necessary to preserve us from ruin.
Thursday morning an eminent merchant of this city, who breakfasted with Lord North, told his lordship that unless the gold act was entirely repealed or altered very materially, one half of the traders of this kingdom would be ruined by Christmas next.
We are assured that Lord North, who is deservedly acknowledged one of the first financiers in Europe, has it in contemplation to make gold the standard money of this country instead of silver, which, it is said, will be attended with great advantages to the public, and remedy the present inconveniencies arising from the scarcity of silver coin.
When the Egyptians embalmed their Kings, they always took out their brains first. Their notion for preserving the bodies was, that after a certain term of years they were to be reanimated with the same souls again. Might not one be sometimes led to suspect, that many of our modern Kings were but some of these moving mummies, gutted by the antient Viziers, to be made use of as a machine by their descendants, the present race of ministers?
The whole of the pecuniary supplies now in a train of raising for the wants of a neighbouring nation,

being found to be barely sufficient for carrying on the routine of affairs there, the late talk of establishing a new order to be called "the order of Saint Patrick," is again revived with confidence, as the most effectual means of securing a majority in parliament.
The Spaniards keep still encreasing their naval power, and hold a very large fleet in readiness both in Ferrol and Carthagena. This does not alarm the ministry, though our ambassador has given every reason to our court to expect a severe and sudden blow from that quarter.
It is a shame, says a correspondent, that the tame-ness of these times suffers the merchant ships to be so daily insulted and taken by the Spaniards in the West Indies; we have not less than 8000 seamen in different Spanish gaols at this time. Does not this call aloud for redress?
The true particulars of the action at Silistria, between the Russians and Turks, of which so many accounts have been published, do not appear to be yet ascertained. By the most recent accounts, the advantage of the day is given to the Turks, and not to the Russians, as has been the case hitherto.
Letters from good authority assure us that the Russians, notwithstanding their continued successes over the Ottomans, appear more than ever disposed to peace, and that they are taking new measures for procuring it.
Extract of a genuine letter from on board the John and Mary, Captain Daniel Jarvis, belonging to Carlisle Bay, in the island of Barbados, dated at Mamora, June 24, 1773.
"On the 16th of March last we sailed from Barbados, on a voyage to the coast of Guinea for slaves, and likewise intended to touch at the Madeiras, in order to take in some wine. We had but indifferent weather, yet met with nothing very remarkable during our whole voyage to the coast. We arrived safe at Alampo, on the slave coast, where we met a good market for our cargo, which consisted of sugars, rums, &c. and took on board 120 negroes, with a small quantity of ivory, and some gold dust. As soon as we had compleated our cargo there, which was on the 2d of May, we set sail for the island of Madeira, but met several hard gales of wind, and a tornado, off Cape Bajador, in which we pitched away our foremast, and sprung a leak, which kept the crew at the pump for four days before they could find it out to stop it. Added to this distress, our water ran low, and the slaves began to shew some signs of mutiny, and once attempted to rise, but were prevented by the scheme being timely discovered. However, it was not thought proper to punish them at that time, as it might tend to make them desperate, and their numbers were far superior to ours. At last we arrived at the island of Ferro, one of the Canaries, where we refitted and got plenty of water. We then shaped our course again for the Madeiras, but had not sailed above 20 leagues, when we found that we were chased by four Moorish gallies. It was in vain we crowded all our sail to get out of their reach; the breeze was but light; and they, having the advantage of oars, soon came up, ran along side, and boarded us; but, contrary to their usual custom upon boarding a European ship, they did not begin to rumage and break open the hatches; but commanding all the men except six, the captain, his mate, and the boatswain, below deck, the largest galley took us in tow; and in two days time we all arrived in this port. Notice was immediately sent of our arrival to the Basha of the city, and an order came to take all the negroes on shore, but to continue the white men on board. We had a guard of 25 men on board to look after us, but were not confined in any manner, having the free liberty of the deck whenever we pleased. In this situation we remained near a fortnight, nor could all our solicitations and remonstrances prevail upon them to grant our liberty, even with the loss of our slaves. Excuses were made, that orders must be received from the court of Morocco, as some of the slaves were his Imperial Majesty's subjects, before our releasement could be granted. During this time we were well treated, having provisions, &c. sent on board every day. At last, on the 16th of this month, a French ship, from the coast for the Mediterranean, put in here and remained a few days: By her we contrived to send an account of our treatment and bondage to Gibraltar, and hope soon to gain our liberty through the intervention of the English consuls."
An apothecary near Temple Bar has advertised, in a morning paper, a reward to any one who will give him intelligence where he may find any drowned persons, or others who have made away with themselves, in order to prescribe for them. Risum teneatis?
However strange it may appear, a reputable correspondent assures us a gentleman coming from Vauxhall on Saturday morning was struck down by the lightning, which melted the blade of a silver hilted sword he had by his side, and did him no other damage beside leaving him a slight contusion on the ankle.
They write from Toulon that two new men of war were launched there the 20th of last month, 5 feet longer in keel than any ships of the same rate in the navy, with breadth proportionable. They are to carry a superior weight of metal; and two more are to be built in the same place.
A correspondent, who was at St. James's Garlick Hill church last Sunday morning, informs us that a truly patriotic clergyman, well known in the city,
preached his second and last sermon on the famous popular subject, "Whether former times were better than the present?" In his enquiry of which, having occasion to lay before his audience the true and real state of affairs in this kingdom amongst all orders, ranks, and degrees of people, and which he did very honestly and impartially, beginning with the nobility and gentry; and, well knowing what an Herculean task he had undertaken, in trying to cleanse the Augean stable, and it being very hot, he found himself forced to preach in his shirt; which he did to the earnest observation of all that were there, and to the admiration of all that were not.
We hear that the Earl of Rochford is about to resign his place as secretary of state.
Yesterday a single ox sold at Smithfield for the extraordinary price of 39l. 15s.
Yesterday morning a fire broke out at a house in Whitehart Yard inn, in the borough, which consumed the same. Had it spread farther, the consequences, in all probability, would have been very fatal, as there was lodged in a warehouse facing the above house, in the same yard, a great quantity of gunpowder, brought there last Saturday, to be carried in a waggon from thence to Portsmouth.
A letter received yesterday from Bath mentions that the Duke of Kingston is somewhat better since his late relapse, and there is hope of his recovery.
A few days ago died, at his seat in the county of Meath, in Ireland, Lord Dunboyne.
August 19. Since the establishment of government securities, and the consequent encrease of stockjobbing, our whole system of rule has been quite altered; the power of the crown has been enlarged, and long strides made to despotism. People submit to every imposition of a minister, who has their fortunes in his hands; they are afraid to resist an act of power, though never so oppressive, lest they should lessen the strength of their own securities in the public funds.
A corrupt and tricking administration lays hold of every public distress to advance their own immediate interest. Common sense can easily point out a just and equitable method of redressing the mischiefs arising from the clipping, &c. of the gold coin. We would ask who receive the greatest advantages from the great circulation of coin in this kingdom? The bank and bankers! What a prodigious number of bank notes have never, nor ever will be, brought to account? How many have been lost at sea? How many perished in the flames? How many destroyed by various accidents? Some carefully hidden by avaricious or melancholy people, and will never see the light, &c. &c.
They write from Gibraltar that three French men of war sailed lately from Toulon to Algiers to demand restitution of three Corsican vessels, lately seized by the Dey's cruisers, though under French colours.
Extract of a letter from Chester, dated August 12.
"All business here is, in a manner, at a stand. No money to be had, but all deal upon credit. The confusion the coin act has made is beyond description, as the tenth part of the gold in this country is deficient more than one shilling in a guinea."
The linen printing business has decayed so much of late, that a house at Bromley, which used to pay 1400l. duty once in six weeks, paid at the last collection only about 50l.
The draughtsmen in the above branch, who used to earn from 3 to 4l. each weekly, are now happy to get from 15 to 18s. and of the printers, many are reduced to work in repairing the highways.
It has been observed, that when any of the neighbouring nations insult or injure our government, such quarrel, if we may term it so, has always been made up without the assistance of our men of war; but when our governors think themselves insulted by our colonies, men of war are immediately fitted out to procure satisfaction. What a fine advantage it is to England to have a navy of strength!
Yesterday se'nnight, at 7 o'clock in the morning, came on here, before Mr. Justice Gould and a special jury, the important and much talked of trial between the free burgesses and the magistracy of Newcastle, to wit, Hopper, nominal plaintiff, as lessee under the magistracy, and Bayles and Gibson, defendants, for the burgesses. The cause was opened on behalf of the magistracy by Mr. Davenport, who stated to the jury the nature of the pleadings, and the several issues which were then depending before them. A dispute then arose between Mr. Serjeant Glynn and Mr. Wallace, who should first enter in the cause, which was conteited with spirit for some time, and was finally decided by the judge in favour of the serjeant, who had very properly contended, inter alia , that as he admitted the trespass, it was his undoubted right to justify under the custom. This material point being settled, the learned serjeant, with the greatest eloquence and strength of argument, entered minutely into the merits of the trial. He stated with precision the several points on which issue had been joined, but declared that he meant to rest the matter solely on the established and hitherto uncontroverted title of the freemen and their widows to enjoy, subject to no other controul, their clear right of common on the town moor. This right he observed, so established as he found it, was not to be shaken by any attempt whatever; that the evidence in its support was so strong, uniform, and so well confirmed by every circumstance he should adduce, that he protested, in the course of his experience, he had never met with a claim of this nature which stood upon so
firm a basis; relying, therefore, upon the goodness of his cause, he could not entertain a doubt that a verdict must follow for his clients. He pointed out to the jury the very great importance of their office, and painted in the most striking colours, the situation of numbers of the poor burgesses and their widows, who received great benefit from the pastureage of the common, and who were enabled, by that assistance, to rear up their children, and to administer comfort to age and infirmity; that many of his clients had their sole reliance on these comparatively small advantages of their inheritance; for with great justice he added, that it was peculiarly cruel in the governing part of the corporation, who ought to be the guardians and protectors of their rights, and who enjoyed so magnificent a property as 16 or 17,000l. a year, to endeavour wantonly to cut off from their fellow citizens this only small resource, which was reserved to them from such immense possessions; for although it might be alledged, and possibly might be the case, that there were no such intentions on the part of the magistracy in the present instance, yet he observed, and called the attention of the jury to this point, that a verdict against his clients on this issue would infallibly operate to the exclusion of their rights, and lay hundreds of the freemen at the mercy of six and thirty of their own body for ever. He said, that under whatever pretence of a view to the interest of the freemen this prosecution might be pleaded to have been carried on, a determination in favour of the plaintiff could not but be fatal to their interests, as it deprived them to all intents and purposes of that right, which is the best and only security against the arbitrary encroachments of bad men, possessed of power, in these or any future times. The question of what was intended, therefore, by the governing part of the corporation, ought by no means, however artfully introduced, to be a subject of their consideration. But it is impossible to give an idea of the energy with which the worthy serjeant expressed himself, or the abilities he displayed, on this occasion. Indeed, nothing could be more affecting than his language, when he disanted upon the distressful situation to which many of his clients might be reduced, if the verdict of the jury was unfavourable to them. Mr. Chambre, Mr. Bolton, and other able counsel for the defendants, were then proceeding to examine witnesses; the first of whom was Mr. Alderman Scafe, and after him Sir Walter Blackett, when a compromise was proposed by the counsel for the plaintiff, the terms of which were so very favourable, and so perfectly satisfactory to the committee of the burgesses, that their counsel very readily accepted it; for by the accommodation the exclusive right of the burgesses and widows to the town moor and lease is to be confirmed to them by act of parliament for ever, which act is to be drawn up by the counsel on both sides, and solicited at the expence of the corporation; the late lease is declared invalid and totally given up; the moor, by the same act, is to be cultivated in portions not exceeding 100 acres at a time; the mode of cultivation to be left to two persons skilled in agriculture, one to be chosen by agreement or by ballot, by the common council, the other by the burgesses; if those two differ they are to chuse a third; the portions so improved, at the expiration of the time necessary for the cultivation, to be restored to the common; the full expences already incurred by the burgesses to be defrayed out of the corporation chest, and this act to be carried into execution next sessions of parliament. This agreement gave universal satisfaction to the burgesses, who testified their joy by ringing of bells, firing of guns, illuminations at night, &c. &c. Large parties paraded the town the whole day with music, and decked with blue ribbands; and their expressions of gratitude to the worthy serjeant, who was escorted to his lodgings by many hundreds of them with continued acclamations, cannot be described. The court, during the sitting on the cause, was kept remarkably still, and was not much crowded, as all the freemens apprentices, journeymen, &c. were ordered not to attend; and though many houses were illuminated on the event, at night, yet none were molested which were not so, nor was any individual insulted, of what part soever. Thus liberty seemed to reign in its genuine purity; all were permitted to act as they pleased. A noble example of what Englishmen should be! The committee having propagated that the serjeant would stay a day or two longer among them, got an opportunity of conducting this great and good man privately out of the town very early the next morning, to the unspeakable disappointment of all our Hearts of Oak, their grateful brethren.
PHILADELPHIA, October 13.
By Captain Eve, from the Bay of Honduras, we are informed that a few days before he sailed they had taken three of the runaway Negroes; that they chained two of them to a stake, cut off their right hands, and then set fire to them; the other was hung in chains, who lived seven days, and was taken down and burnt. Captain Eve further informs us that the packet which went up to Jamaica, to the Admiral, arrived there the day he sailed, in company with his Majesty's ship Garland, in order to suppress the Negroes, and when the last were brought in, there were only 20 left in the bush, and it was supposed they were lost.
The 30th of September being the day appointed for the several students in the college of Princeton, in New Jersey, to deliver their discourses, Mr. Henry

Lee, and Mr. Charles Lee, both of Leesylvania, in Virginia, obtained, the former the degree of bachelor of arts for his excellent English oration on the li eral arts , and the latter, two of the prizes, for an admirable discourse in the Latin language, and on pronouncing English orations.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 4.
This morning died, in the prime of life, Mr. JACOB ALLAN, of this city, merchant. By his probity in trade he had acquired a very fair reputation, and the many good qualities of his heart rendered him a worthy member of society. He was, in short, a man in whose mouth there was found no guile .
The Sea Flower, Stewart, from Bolton, the John and Bella, Green, from Whitehaven, and the Blandford, Troop, from Liverpool, are arrived in James river.
The SALE of the Honourable William Byrd's LAND, advertised in this paper to be on the fourth instant, is postponed till THURSDAY the twenty fifth.
JUST IMPORTED FROM LONDON, In the Bland, Captain DANBY, and to be sold, at my SHOP, in WILLIAMSBURG,
A LARGE and compleat ASSORTMENT of DRUGS and MEDICINES , the best and freshest in their kinds: Doctor Norris's antimonial drops, at five pounds per dozen, or fifty shillings the half dozen, Keyser's pills, at 12s. 6d. a box, James's fever powders, Turlington's and Fryer's balsam, Doctor Hill's pectoral balsam of honey, Godfrey's and Freeman's cordial, essence of waterdock, elixir bardana, Daffy's, Squire's, and Stoughton's elixirs, Jesuits and Bateman's drops, Anderson's and Lockyer's pills, Greenhow's tincture for the gums and teeth, ditto for the toothach; also best Durham flour of mustard, saltpetre, fine sallad oil, fago, saloop, anchovies, capers, olives, and pickled walnuts, fine jar raisins, currants, figs, candied ginger, nutmegs, barley sugar, white and brown sugar candy, black pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace and nutmegs, a large quantity of gold and silver leaf, best London lancets, smelling bottles, ivory and pewter syringes, tooth brushes, Prussian blue, verdigrease, red and white lead, vermilion, &c. &c. &c.
WILLIAM PASTEUR.
I am in want of a NEGRO CARPENTER, and will give a good price for one that I like.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 4, 1773.
I SHALL return here the 20th instant: In the interim Mr. Robert Nicolson will receive any payments that any person may incline to make him for
JAMES MERCER.
ON Tuesday the 9th of November PORTO BELLO will certainly be sold, to the highest bidder, before Mr. Southall's door, on the terms mentioned in my last advertisement.—Many people, I am told, have endeavoured to undervalue this place, some of whom have made offers for it. This I take extremely unkind; for if they have not generosity enough to make a proposition worthy notice, I beg they will not prevent others from purchasing agreeable to their inclinations. Can it be conceived that the above situation, attended with so many happy conveniences, which few in this country, to its size, can boast of, is worth less than the lands near Williamsburg, not so good in quality, and without even houses of any sort, or any other improvements? And why a third person will interfere in any matter which does not concern him, and which perhaps may do me a prejudice, is out of my power to determine. I therefore repeatedly request it as a favour of those who have been so forward in declaring their opinion, that when they cannot do me a service (which by the bye I ask not of them) they will not do me an injury without a cause
RACHEL DRUMMOND.
I have several likely young Negroes, which I would willingly sell.
TO BE SOLD,
THE houses and lots in this city, belonging to my father's estate. For terms apply to
JOHN TYLER.
ALL persons indebted to John Hunter, late of Norfolk borough, deceased, are desired to make speedy payment to the subscriber, of said borough; and those who have any demands against the estate are desired to bring in their accounts, properly attested, that they may be discharged.
JOSEPH HARDING, administrator.
JUST imported from London, in the ship Bland, Capt. Danby, an assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, to be sold, by the subscriber, in Norfolk, by wholesale or retail, at a moderate advance, for ready money; likewise most sorts of patent medicines, viz. Norris's drops, Keyser's pills, &c. &c.
ALEXANDER GORDON.
COMMITTED to the gaol of New Kent county, the 11th of October, a runaway Negro man, who says his name is BEN, and that he belongs to Mr. Benjamin Harrison, of the county of Prince George. The said Negro is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high; had on a cotton jacket, a pair of short oznabrig breeches, and a shirt of the same sort. He says he formerly belonged to the Reverend Mr. McDonald, of the county of King George. He appears to be about 26 years of age. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away.
FOSTER WEBB, Sheriff.
FREDERICKSBURG, October 26, 1773. To the debtors of Mess. PERKINS, BUCHANAN, and BROWN, in the colony of Virginia.
Sirs, I AM directed by several Gentlemen in LONDON, creditors of the said Mess. PERKINS, BUCHANAN, and BROWN, to insert the following in the VIRGINIA newspapers, viz.
GENTLEMEN, TAKE notice that a commission of bankrupt, under the great seal of Great Britain, bearing date the 4th day of August, 1773, hath been awarded and issued against William Perkins and William Brown, late of London, merchants and partners with Thomas Buchanan, of the colony of Maryland, merchant, and that you are not to pay any debt which may be due and owing by you to the estate of the late copartnership to any person or persons whatsoever, without the order in writing of the assignees, who shall be duly chosen, under the said commission, of which due notice will be given as soon as they are chosen.
I am farther advised, that sundry debts due in this colony to that partnership, amounting to upwards of 70,000. sterling, a list whereof is enclosed me, and which I shall have at the ensuing meeting of merchants in Williamsburg, have been assigned over to Mess. Barlow and company, who have possession of the bankrupts books; also that they understand other extraordinary assignments have been made by Mr. Brown, all which, they say, they have great reason to believe will be set aside, not being executed by all the partners. Until this matter is determined, it is hoped the concerned will, for their own security, pay proper regard to the creditors notice and this information, by their order, from your most humble servant,
CHARLES YATES.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 1, 1773.
ALL persons indebted to the partnership of Cooke and Wray are requested to discharge their respective balances without delay. They hope this notice will be sufficient, to prevent farther trouble.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE tract of land, in Chesterfield county, containing 1800 acres, together with a fine apple orchard, and a great quantity of meadows and marshes, with fine fishing and fowling; it lies within about five miles of Petersburg, and six of Osborne's. Likewise another tract of land, lying in the said county of Chesterfield, containing 1600 acres, well timbered, lies level, and, with a very little expence, may be erected on it a very fine grist mill, on Swift Creek; it is quite convenient to Petersburg or Osborne's, not exceeding six miles to either. I will sell this land altogether, or in parcels, as may best suit the purchaser. Also a tract of land, in Amelia, containing 1250 acres, well set out with buildings, having on it a very good dwellinghouse, kitchen, and all necessary out houses, together with a fine apple and peach orchard, and an exceeding good grist mill; the plantation is in good order for cropping. Any person inclinable to purchase the above mentioned tracts of land may know the terms by applying to me, in Chesterfield county.
JOHN RANDOLPH.
IN obedience to a decree of the Honourable the general court, we hereby give notice that we shall meet at Mr. Peter Lambkin's, in Amelia county, on the 8th of December next, in order to state and settle the accounts between Edward Thweat, and Katy his wife, plaintiffs, and William Covington, and Amy his wife, defendants, agreeable to the said decree.
Lyddal Bacon, John Winn, John Aylett, Samuel Garland, John Gray.
At a general court, held at the Capitol, Oct. 13, 1773. Edward Thweat, and Katy his wife, plaintiffs, against William Covington, and Amy his wife, defendants, in chancery.
THE decretal order of the last court not being complied with, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered that Lyddal Bacon, John Winn, John Aylett, Samuel Garland, and John Gray, Gentlemen, or any three of them, do proceed to perform the same ex parte in case any of the parties shall fail to attend them, after advertising the time and place appointed for that purpose three times in the Virginia Gazette. * 3 BEN: WALLER.
RUN away, last Sunday morning, from the subscriber, an English convict servant named Joseph Lloyd, by trade a house carpenter and joiner, about 21 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, is a little round shouldered, has short light brown hair, and has had the smallpox favourably, the pits being broad and shallow. Took with him a German oznabrig frock and waistcoat, a shirt and two pair of long breeches, white shirt of Irish linen, a frock of blue fearnought, with plain white metal buttons, a Virginia cloth waistcoat, kersey wove, of black and white, and a pair of black cloth breeches. A reward of three pounds will be paid for conveying him to me at Morattico, in Lancaster county, or proportionably for securing him in a public gaol, and giving timely notice thereof. Masters of vessels are hereby forewarned not to carry him out of the colony, or to detain him on board any vessel whatever.
RAWLEIGH DOWNMAN.
For CHARTER, to any port in EUROPE, THE ship RITCHIE, William Robertson, master, burthen about 380 HOGSHEADS of TOBACCO; she is immediately expected at Hampton. For terms apply to Neil McCaull, who will be in Williamsburg about the 5th of November.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, on the fork of Great Nottoway river, a sorrel mare, 4 feet high, with a blaze in her face, neither docked nor branded, and has one eye out. Potted, and appraised to 21. 10s. * THOMAS PHILLIPS.
FOR BRISTOL, THE snow ELIZABETH, JOHN SAMPSON, master, a fine new British built vessel, now lying at Bull Hill, in Appomattox river, hath good accommodations for passengers, and will take in 250 hogsheads of tobacco, on freight, with liberty of consignment; she will be ready to sail by the middle of December. For freight, or passage, apply to the captain on board, or the subscriber in Petersburg. EDWARD STABLER.
Just imported, and selling, by the subscriber, at her store, opposite the Raleigh, in Williamsburg,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF MILLINERY AND JEWELLERY, ON THE LOWEST TERMS, viz.
WHITE fanns and huirings, fannin cloaks and bonnets, Dresden ruffles, stomachers, and knots, Italian flowers, rolls, and curls, quilted puddings, black and white silk aprons, fannin and farsnet quilted petticoats, patent net aprons and hoods, breake flowers, lawns, and cambricks, silk breeches patterns, ribbands, a great variety of Didbury's shoes, white and coloured silk hose, silk and leather gloves, mens and boys hats, silk purles, childrens stays, under flannel waistcoats, under stockings, night caps, boys hussar caps and feathers, Irish garters and waisters, freemasons sashes, fannin and queen's silk shoes, table crosses and salts, passe stuy hooks, tambour sword knots, bordered cambricks and India silk, pocket handkerchiefs, buck, woodstock, silk, and other gloves, trimmings of all sorts, gauze and catguts, blond and thread laces, thread and cotton hose, christening baskers, childrens shoes and stockings, white and other fans, passe and bead necklaces and earrings, gold wires, stone, silver, London gilt, black and blue shoe and knee buckles, gold, passe, silver, and black stock buckles, combs, lockets, passe and garnet sprigs and pins, soup ladies and salt shovels, knives and scissors, steel watch chains, pocket books and etwee cases, toothpick cases and brushes, decanter corks, with labels, coral and bells, shoe clasps for children, black pins, sword canes, riding hats and feathers, Pue's famous eyewater for weak or sore eyes, snuff boxes, toys, shaving boxes, sewing silks, &c. &c. with a number of other articles too tedious to insert.
C. RATHILL.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Hampshire courthouse, on the 8th day of March 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 Potomack, 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.
These lands were advertised to be sold on the 2d Tuesday of September last past, and postponed, but they will certainly be sold at the time now mentioned.
To be SOLD, by auction (or privately) on Thursday the 11th of November next, being the day after the fair, on the premises,
THE LOT whereon Hogg and Rowland lately kept store, on the top of Shockoe hill. There is on it a new storehouse conveniently formed for either the retail or West India trade, with two side sheds, a lodging and counting room, and one of the best cellars in this colony. Also a dwellinghouse, 16 feet square, and just finished, has a very good room below for a single man, and a good lodging room, with a fireplace, above stairs, and a cellar underneath, that will well answer the purpose of a kitchen; there is likewise a good granary and stable, entirely new. It is on the main country road, where no commodity is brought to town from above but must come by the store door. It is a high, pleasant, and healthy situation, and commands one of the most beautiful prospects in the colony. The time of payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and agreed on at the day of sale.
RICHMOND, } ZACHARIAH ROWLAND. Oct. 12, 1773. }
THE subscriber begs leave to inform the public that he has got an extraordinary good painter, who understands his business as well as any man in the colony. He is a good limner, landscape painter, &c. and an excellent hand at painting of coats of arms and cyphers on carriages. He can also paint any kind of pictures as well, and as much to the life, as those imported from England. Those that want such painting may depend on having it done in the best and most expeditious manner by applying to me, in Newcastle. * CHARLES TINSLEY.

FOR SALE,
A TRACT of LAND in the county of Frederick, containing (from an accurate survey lately made) 800 acres, whereon are convenient, good buildings, and out houses for 12 or 15 Negroes. There are 11 acres in choice timothy meadow, 20 acres in exceeding fine pasture, well set with timothy, both, it is expected, will be in their prime the ensuing year; also 60 acres of rich high ground, sown in wheat this fall, well fenced in, and about 40 or 50 acres cleared for a crop of corn next summer. This tract is situated in the most convenient part of the country, being only six miles from the river Shenandoah, and ten from Winchester; it joins Mr. Threlton's estate, is inferior to no land in that neighbourhood, and convenient to church, mill, and blacksmith's shop. For terms please to apply to Mr. Francis Willis, junior, at Belvoir, in Fairfax county, or to the printer of this paper. 3
T HE subscriber has just opened tavern in the town of Newcastle, in the new house lately built by Mr. Charles Tinsley for that purpose, which is well adapted for that business, having a number of very convenient lodging rooms, and a sufficient number of large and small rooms for the entertainment of gentlemen and ladies; there is also an extraordinary good pasture convenient to the same. Those who will favour me with their custom may depend they shall be well accommodated, and their horses taken the best care of. 3 DAVID CLARKE.
On Wednesday the 10th of November, if fair, if not, the next fair day, will be SOLD , at Fredericksburg,
TWENTY likely Virginia born SLAVES . Credit will be allowed the purchasers until the 1st day in May, 1774. Bond and approved security will be required; the bonds to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. 2* JOHN TALIAFERRO.
T AKEN up, in Fairfax, a large pied cow, with an overkeel in the right ear. GERARD TRAMMELL.
To be SOLD , to the highest bidder, the 11th day of November next, at Albemarle courthouse, being court day,
SEVERAL tracts of land, lying in Albemarle county, on Moreman's and Doyle's rivers, and on the waters of Rockey Creek, viz. one tract of 650 acres, one of 400, one of 359, one of 264, one of 210, one of 142, another of 130, and eight unimproved lots in the town of Charlottesville. If the said lands are not sold at the time above mentioned, they will be set up for sale, to the highest bidder, at Orange courthouse, the 25th of November, being also court day. Great part of the said lands are very rich, and allowed to be, by those who know them, as good for producing large, clean tobacco, as any made in this colony. The times of payment will be made known on the day of sale. Bond and security will be required. Any person that may be willing to buy any of the aforesaid lands at private sale may be shewn them, at any time, by the subscriber, living in Hanover county. 3 BEN: BROWN.
To be SOLD , pursuant to the will of Colonel Peter Fontaine, deceased,
A TRACT of LAND, in Halifax county, on the south fork of Terrible creek, containing 825 acres of good fresh land. Likewise another tract, of 600 acres, on the head of the said creek, which is also good fresh land. Both tracts will be sold on long credit. Col. Abraham Maury, Mr. Moses Fontaine, and Col. Wooding, will shew the lands, and explain every particular to those inclined to purchase. 3 ELIZA FONTAINE, Executrix.
T HIS is to inform whoever it may concern that a dark Mulatto boy, who says his name is CHARLES, came to my house, in Cumberland, about the 30th of September, and says that he made his escape from a traveller who had stolen him. The name of his proper owner he could not tell, as he was sent to James river to be sold, among some more slaves, from Gloucester; and, by his account, his former master was Mr. Francis Willis. He is about 12 or 13 years old. 3 MAURICE LANGHORNE.
T AKEN up, in Albemarle, a small sorrel horse, supposed to be about 5 years old, has a snip on his nose, some saddle spots, branded on the near buttock WL, on the near shoulder ●, and under his mane, on the right side of his neck, ●; has on a middle sized bell, with a leather collar. Pasted, and appraised to 8l. 10s. WILLIAM DOLTON.
NORFOLK, September 28, 1773. WE have lately imported a quantity of EUROPEAN GOODS, in small assorted packages, which we will sell at a low advance for cash, or short credit, viz. KENDAL COTTONS, SADDLERY, IRISH LINENS, OZNABRIGS, low priced HATS, CHECKS, stamped COTTONS, and SUITS of CLOATHS, with trimmings; also RUSSIA LINEN, DUFFILS, &c. We have likewise for sale, a quantity of CADIZ and LAMATTA SALT, GINGER, PIMENTO, and choice LISBON WINE in quarter casks. GREENWOOD, RITSON, AND MARSH.
FOR CHARTER,
T HE ship NEPTUNE, ARCHIBALD WHITE, master, burthen about 400 hogheads, or 10,000 bushels. For terms apply to the subscribers. NORFOLK, } JOHN GREENWOOD, October 12, 1773. } 5* JOHN LAWRENCE.
T AKEN up, in Dunmore, a small brown mare, with a star in her forehead, her mane hangs on the near side, has a switch tail, branded on the near shoulder I, on the near buttock A, and trots naturally. * WALTER MOFFETT.
To be SOLD and entered upon immediately, A TRACT of LAND containing 1300 acres, more or less, on Pianketank river, in Gloucester county. It is needless to be particular about it as it is the same I advertised last year and then gave a full account of it, since then I sold it to John Attaway Clarke, of Maryland, but as he refuses to take it, necessity obliges me once more to offer it to the public. Any person inclined to purchase may know the terms by applying to me in Middlesex. I want part of the money at the meeting of the merchants, and for the remainder I will give reasonable credit. tf AUGUSTINE SMITH.
Just imported, and to be SOLD , by the subscriber in Williamsburg,
A NEW assortment of MILLINERY, and other goods, viz. white sattin and lustrine, coloured lustrings, striped ditto, Brussells, minionet, and blond laces, edgings, caps, stomachers, fans, gloves, and ribbands, a variety of muslins, gauze, and catgut, sattin shoes, calimanco ditto, sattin and calimanco petticoats, fine suits of childbed linen, baskets, pin-cushions, chimney lines, blankets, corded dimity and diaper, silk and cotton stockings, Gentlemens Didbury's shoes, Ladies riding hats, fashionable bonnets, rolls and curls, a variety of JEWELLERY, French necklaces and earrings, with sundry other articles. 3 JANE CHARLTON.
At a court continued and held for Goochland county, July the 20th, 1773.
William Craig, plaintiff, } In chancery. John McDonald, defendant, }
T HE defendant having absconded and removed out of the colony of Virginia, and failing to enter his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the plaintiff's motion by his counsel, it is ordered by the court that the bill of the plaintiff be taken, as confessed, unless the defendant appear here, and answer thereto, within the space of three months from this court; and also that a copy of this order be fixed up at the front door of the courthouse, and at the church door of the parish of Trinity, in the county of Louisa, and likewise inserted in the Virginia gazette for two months successively.
VALENTINE WOOD, C. C. NORFOLK, July 27, 1773. T HE subscriber has lately received, on consignment from the manufacturer, in bales of about 23l. sterling each, a large parcel of KENDAL COTTONS, which he will dispose of on reasonable terms, payable next April. Any person inclined to purchase will please to apply to him at the ensuing meeting in Williamsburg, or afterwards, by orders addressed to him here. JAMES INGRAM.
YORK town, June 9, 1773. T HE subscribers being very solicitous to comply 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 that 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. tf THOMAS NELSON, THOMAS NELSON, jun. HUGH NELSON, RO. C. NICHOLAS.
TO BE SOLD, A BOUT 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. tf THOMAS LOMAX.
T AKEN up, on Goose creek, Fauquier county, a small bay mare, about 12 hands high, branded all round N, has a star in her forehead, one hind foot white, has on an old patched bell, with a double strap and a double square buckle, and shod before with old shoes. * ISAAC ADAMS.
T AKEN up, in Amelia, an iron grey horse, 4 feet 7 inches high, with a switch tail and hanging mane, no perceivable brand, has a remarkable black spot near as big as a dollar on the right shoulder, and judged to be 10 or 11 years old. Pasted, and appraised to 10l. * THOMAS ELLIS.
FOR SALE , sundry TRACTS of LAND , in Orange county, North Carolina, namely, FIVE hundred and thirteen acres on Dan river, formerly the property of George Lumpkins; has on it convenient houses, good orchards, and a good quantity of fine low grounds.
147 acres on Hagan's creek, on which is a remarkable good seat for a mill, and is convenient to the above tract.
320 acres on Mill creek, which formerly belonged to Abraham Miles, has on it some improvements, and is good land for hemp or tobacco.
270 acres on North Hico river, which also belonged to Abraham Miles, and is exceeding good land.
Also one tract of land in this colony of 25 acres, being an island in Dan river, Pittsylvania county, which is said to be the best fishing place on that river.
The above lands are about 140 miles from the falls of Appomattox. For a more particular description of them, any person inclined to purchase may be informed by applying to Mr. Roger Atkinson, or Mr. John Jones, at Petersburg. I shall be in Williamsburg at the November meeting, and will there let such as want to buy know the price for the whole, or any separate parcel, and allow a reasonable credit. Bond, with approved security, will be required at the time deeds are executed. 8 CHARLES YATES, Attorney in fact for the assignees of Younger, Wilkinson, and company. FREDERICKSBURG, September 15, 1773.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. R UN away from the subscriber, living in Westmoreland, the 12th of August last, an Irish convict servant man named MATTHEW THARP, by trade a gardener, about 5 feet 5 inches high, well made, much pitted with the small pox, has short dark hair, but generally wears a dark wig over it clubbed; had on, and took with him, a pair of leather breeches, light coloured cloth coat, old striped jacket, several white and oznabrig shirts, one check ditto, an old brown holland coat, striped holland trousers much stained, shoes and stockings of many sorts, a hat almost new, with a band and buckle. This fellow was convicted last June Oyer court was a twelvemonth for horsestealing. Whoever will secure him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that I get him, shall receive the above reward. I have been credibly informed that some time after the said Tharp eloped, he went down to Williamsburg, and applied to John Randolph, Esquire, for a pass, which he obtained. JOSEPH PEIRCE.
To be SOLD , to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 4th of November next, before the Raleigh tavern, in Williamsburg,
THE exceeding fine PLANTATION and TRACT of LAND in Chesterfield county, at the falls of James river, belonging to the subscriber, which contains upwards of 2000 acres, and, on account of its richness and situation, is deservedly esteemed the most valuable in the colony, nay, equal to any in America. It is in good order for cropping, and about 250 acres will be sowed in wheat this fall; from which may be expected to be reaped at least 5000 bushels. Twelve months credit will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond and approved security to "W. BYRD, and his TRUSTEES."
W O O L L E N S. T HE subscriber has now upon hand several bales of coarse woollens, properly assorted for a store, from 60l. to 80l. sterling value. Also a large quantity of coarse cloths and trimmings, in small bales, from 3s. 6d. to 12s. per yard sterling, which he intends selling by the bale, or retailing by the piece. I also expect more coarse woollens in very soon of all sorts. I sell at a low advance for cash, or short credit. Any person applying to me, at Mr. John Woodside's, in Norfolk, or at the general courts, may depend on being served to satisfaction. JOHN STONEY.
P URSUANT to a decree of the Honourable the General Court, at Dunmore courthouse, on the 4th Tuesday in November 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 M. Watson, conveyed at the sale by * 3 THE SHERIFF OF DUNMORE.
** These lands were advertised to be sold on the 2d Tuesday in March last past, and postponed, but they will certainly be sold at the time now mentioned.
T AKEN up, in Stephensburg, Frederick county, a sorrel mare, about 3 years old, has a bald face, and her hind feet are white; she is unbranded, and ringed. Pasted, and appraised to 10l. * LEWIS STEPHENS.