The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-07-01 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
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PETERSBURGH, March 16.
G ENERAL SUKATIN, who commanded the troops in the expedition in Georgia, is returned. He had a very insufficient number of men under his command to act in a country filled with mountains, marshes, and narrow passes. He laid siege to a place wherein all the wealth of the country was shut up, and having nothing but field pieces with him, he battered it a long time in vain, and having lost all his men by sickness, famine, and forced marches, has brought back with him only twelve officers.
Brunswick, April 3. Yesterday in the evening died her Serene Highness the Princess Amelia Louisa Carolina Dorothea, grand daughter of his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick.
From the Frontiers of Poland, April 12. The English Consul at Dantzic has communicated to two deputies of the Magistracy the letters which he had lately received, and at the same time informed them that in negotiating with him they were not to look on themselves as treating with the court of Berlin, but as an English Minister, authorized also by the King of Prussia, to whom they were desired to deliver all papers necessary to make an estimate of the rights of the city. In consequence of this, the above Magistrates have proposed to the three orders of the state to appoint a secret committee to confer with the English Consul.
Paris, April 23. The Count de Estaing, who was to have set out the 19th instant for Toulon, is still here. He will, without doubt, command a squadron in the Mediterranean, which will be composed only of a few ships, with an intention merely to exercise our seamen; and it appears, from the whole that is said of our armaments, that no acts of hostility are intended this year. Russia doth not depend so much as heretofore upon the success of her arms, and, notwithstanding the advantages she has gained, inclines to make peace upon the terms which our Ministry shall think reasonable. It is likewise said that that court is by no means satisfied with the exorbitant claims of the King of Prussia in Poland, and his adding provinces to those he at first seized in that kingdom. The Emperor himself begins likewise to take umbrage at the disposition of that Prince.
A Minister is lately arrived at this court from Russia, and Mr. Durand is sent from hence to reside as our Minister at Petersburg.
LONDON, April 26.
T HE Lord Mayor was yesterday informed at the Old Bailey that a number of weavers intended to assemble in Moorfields, in order to go up to his Majesty; his Lordship went thither with some Gentlemen, but did not stay five minutes, as there was no occasion for his presence. It is said that a person genteelly dressed, who stiled himself a Peer, has gone for several days among the weavers, advising them to go in a body to the King.
A person just arrived from the West Indies reports that one of our men of war, of 74 guns, is put into Jamaica with the loss of her masts, having met with a gale of wind off Cape Francois, in which she threw most of her guns overboard.
A misrepresentation of a late transaction at St. Alban's having appeared in some of the papers, we are desired to insert the following:
On Sunday last it was currently reported in Spitalfields that on the Monday following a Gentleman of St. Alban's would attend at the weaver's arms, in Brown's Lane, and take a great number of workmen for digging a canal in or near St. Alban's, on very advantageous terms. The bait was unfortunately swallowed, and accordingly he took with him 485 men, from whom he made several endeavours to escape when they came near to St. Alban's, and though these poor wretches had then too much reason to mistrust him, yet none of them offered him any harm, nor did they behave outrageously towards the inhabitants, as has been insinuated. They were told that their conductor was a madman, and that his family was in distress; and they received from the Mayor of St. Alban's, and from all the inhabitants, every mark of hospitality which a kind consideration can suggest. The Mayor thanked them for the remarkable peaceableness of their behaviour, wished them a better chance, gave them victuals and drink, and the next morning gave sixpence to each of them, to support themselves in their way home. A man of veracity, who was at St. Alban's during all the time, hath taken the trouble to relate all the facts above stated, speaking with rapture of the wise, manly, and humane conduct of the Mayor, and of the decency of all the transactions there on all sides. He adds, that on his return to London in a stage, he met several bands of these unfortunate creatures, whom some of the outside passengers insulted, but they never returned a single harsh expression. They were, no doubt, overwhelmed by their actual misery, and
the sense of that of their starving families encreased by such disappointment.
On Thursday the ships under mentioned were ordered to be victualled with all expedition for immediate service: At Chatham, the Marlborough, with 600 men; at Sheerness, the Resolution, Egmont, and Lenox, with 600 men each, and the Barfleur with 750; at Portsmouth, Royal Oak and Terrible, the Alcion, Dublin, and Kent, with 600 men; and St. Alban's and Worcester with 500 each; at Plymouth, the Torbay, with 600 men, and the Boyne and Somerset, with 520 each. The Conqueror, a guardship, at Sheerness; the Pallas and Seahorse at Portsmouth.
The preparations for war are now carrying on with the utmost vigour. The fleet mentioned in our paper of Thursday, it is said, will be commanded by Admiral Keppel, who is to have a Commodore under him.
The shyness long subsisting between England and Prussia is now in a fair way to subside, and, like the Sovereigns of Brentford, smell at the same nosegay. These are tidings much more grateful to the true British ear than the futile suggestions of dancing cotillions with the Bourbon family.
A report is prevalent that the Emperor of Germany has concluded a treaty with the Empress of Russia, and means to aid her in the war against the Turks. The House of Austria expects an attack in Italy, their dominions being daily reinforcing with fresh troops. Well they may; for Spain is pouring 60,000 men from Barcelona upon the Imperialists. The King of Sardinia, too, will join France and Spain in the enterprize.
All the blackguards, &c. that attend Mr. Wilkes on Monday next, it is whispered will be saluted with some compliments from a strong press gang when they arrive at the Parliament house. This will be a very judicious stroke of government, and the industrious part of this metropolis will be greatly obliged to them for it.
The French Consul, who lately embraced Mahometanism, and had retired too near Adrianople, was last month found strangled in his bed.
To the PEOPLE.
BRITONS!
I F you have yet the spirit to resist oppression, now is the time to exert it. You have too long been treated like slaves, like mere beasts of burthen, by the present crew of favourites . The crisis, thank Heaven! is now arrived, when you may ease your shoulders, by shaking off the galling yoke. War and the din of arms resound from every quarter throughout Europe; press warrants are about to be issued; but are they not illegal ? And what Magistrate will dare to indorse them? What Briton will submit to fight in conjunction with FRENCH TROOPS? The people, therefore, in combination with their patriotic Magistrates, can now overthrow the accursed schemes of an infamous Ministry, who have sacrificed this country to France and Spain; nay further, the people, supported by patriotic Magistrates, can now most effectually obstruct the measures of a Frenchified administration. Money and troops will be wanted to carry on the war; they must be fools indeed who will part with the first to such Ministers as the present, and no honest Briton, who loves his country, will enter into either the sea or land service to act in obedience to French commanders. In a just and honourable war Englishmen cannot be too free of their blood or treasure; when the welfare of our country is at stake, every private consideration should yield to public necessity. On this principle ONLY press warrants are justifiable; but if corrupt Ministers, after trampling under foot our laws and liberties, seek an alliance with France and Spain, to carry on their plan of tyranny, are Britons then to submit? Forbid it, Heaven! Roue then, my friends, to save your sinking country; seize the present favourable opportunity to harrafs the Ministry; drive them from the helm of state; follow them with IMPEACHMENTS for having dared to conclude a villainous alliance with France; and never cease your efforts until you bring to the scaffold TRAITORS, who, if there is TRUTH IN GOD, would enslave this country, reduce it to a French province, and betray, not their Sovereign only, but, Judas like, the Saviour of the world, was he now on earth, for a LOUIS D'OR, instead of THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.
May 4. On the 22d of April died at Paris, on his return hither, Count Burzynski, Knight of the Orders of the White Eagle and of St. Stanislaus, late Envoy Extraordinary from the King and the Republic of Poland to this court, from whence he had been absent some time for the recovery of his health.
They write from Aix, in Provence, that a considerable insurrection has happened there on account of the want of bread, and that several couriers have lately arrived at court from thence relative to this affair, which the Ministry take great pains to conceal from the public.
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, March 27.
"His Sublime Highness and the whole Divan are now certain that the Emperor of Germany means to assist the Empress of Russia in the renewed war against the Turks, and have given notice to the Austrian ambassador at the Porte to depart the Ottoman dominions in 30 days, on pain of perpetual imprisonment, which is conferring a great favour on that ambassador, as it is the almost immutable custom of the Turks to confine the Ministers of any power they mean or expect to war with."
Some letters from Berlin mention that the King of Prussia has given a General's staff to Prince George of Mecklenburgh, youngest brother to the Queen of Great Britain.
They write from Vienna that his Imperial Majesty is preparing to set out for Prague in Bohemia, to preside at the grand diet of that kingdom.
Letters from Venice say that six sail of the Russian squadron have put in there with some rich Turkish prizes.
Some dispatches were yesterday received at St. James's from his Excellency Lord Viscount Stormont at the court of Versailles.
The French ambassador is said to have given our Ministry the most satisfactory answers to some questions, lately proposed, relative to the warlike preparations of the court of France.
It is said that a Great Personage is highly pleased with the alacrity of the sea officers, &c. in the present preparations.
His Majesty's ships Albion, Torbay, Boyne, Dublin, Kent, and Somerset, are arrived at Spithead from Plymouth.
The Pomona frigate is sailed from Plymouth with an express for Gibraltar, and the Nottingham East Indiaman for London.
The Otter sloop of war, Capt. Morris, is sailed from Portsmouth for Newfoundland.
The Venus, Parr, Lion, Folliet, and Eagle, Norris, from Waterford for Newfoundland, are on shore near Drumore Bank, near Waterford.
His Majesty's ship Carcafe is now fitting out at Sheerness, for a voyage to the South Seas, the command of which is given to Captain Skeffington Lutwidge.
Yesterday the Lapwing packet, from the East Indies, passed by Gravesend, in her way for the river.
Yesterday the Royal Exchange, Union, Success, and Countess of Darlington, transports, from St. Vincent's and the Leeward Islands, with the 32d regiment of foot on board, arrived off Dover.
Capt. Duke, of the Providence, arrived in the Downs from Lisbon, in 20 days, gives an account that the Cornwall packet, Webb, being on her passage from Teneriffe for Cork, having two Spanish sailors on board, they murdered the mate, and threw him overboard; the Captain being below, and hearing a noise, was going on deck, but seeing the villains ready to murder him, retired into the cabin, and a little boy with him, and with a musket shot one of them, and confined the other, and at last got to Lisbon, after being many days at sea in this distress.
On Friday a draught of 500 men was made from Greenwich hospital, who are to be sent on board the guardships, in the room of the men draughted for immediate service.
The members of the Upper Assembly were summoned to attend this day on the bill to regulate the exportation and importation of corn.
The call of the House of Commons, which was to have been made yesterday, is postponed to next Monday.
The House of Commons have ordered an account of all foreign linens, printed, painted, or stained, in Great Britain, which have been exported, distinguishing what have been sent to his Majesty's colonies, and what to other places, for ten years preceding January 1772.
This morning the House of Commons resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, to consider further of the bill for better regulating the alliance, and making of bread.
Col. Barre we hear, intends bringing in a bill for augmenting the pay of the army in general, which at present is so very inadequate, considering the high price of provisions.
Yesterday the House of Commons, on the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the affairs of the East India company. Lord North opened the debate with a long speech, much of which consisted of general reasoning, but contained the substance of several motions, which were to be the business of the day. His Lordship, among other things, proposed that the court of directors should, in future, be elected for four years, six members annually, but none to hold their seats longer than for four years; that no person should vote at the election of the directors who had possessed their stock twelve months; that the

stock of qualification should, instead of 500l. be 1000l. that the Mayor's court of Calcutta should be for the future confined to small mercantile causes, to which only the jurisdiction extended before the territorial acquisition; that in lieu of this court, thus taken away, a new one be established, consisting of a Chief Justice and three puisne Judges; that these Judges be appointed by the Crown; and that a superiority be given to the presidency of Bengal over the other presidencies in India.
It is reported that the States General have resolved on an augmentation of 12,000 soldiers.
Soon after nine o'clock the House broke up, and the further consideration of the East India matters, with the reports of the committee or enquiry, are adjourned till next Monday.
By the master of a vessel just arrived from Cadiz we learn that the Spaniards, when he left that place, were proceeding with the utmost diligence in their maritime preparations, and that it was publicly said there that the Spaniards, by the first of next month, would have a powerful fleet in the Mediterranean.
Great Britain, says a correspondent, never was in a more formidable situation than at present. A fleet of 20 ships of the line will be ready to sail in a week; and if the petulance of France, or the haughtiness of Spain, required it, 20 more could be fit for service by the beginning of June.
Some say that the present fleet is designed only as a fleet of observation: It is certain, however, that it has had a severe effect upon our funds, though we believe it has not been prejudicial to any sort of merchandise.
Yesterday morning a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Langford, tallowchandlery in Lemon Street, Goodman's Fields, which consumed the same, with the furniture and stock in trade. From several circumstances it appears to have been done wilfully by some villains, who, it is supposed, robbed the house first, and set fire to it afterwards.
Yesterday a machine to preserve lives in case of fire, on a new construction, was exhibited, in the presence of a great number of people, at Mr. Browning's, in the Old Bailey, when it safely conveyed 26 people, one at a time, from the third story, in less than five minutes, into the street.
We hear from Carlisle that on Tuesday se'nnight they had a very heavy rain for 12 hours, which swelled the rivers upon the borders 18 inches higher than in the memory of man; along the river Esk a prodigious quantity of new sown land, to a considerable value, was swept away, and at Longtown part of the abutment of the bridge was carried away; but by the assistance of the Reverend Mr. Graham, of Netherby, it was immediately repaired.
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, April 27.
"The Albion, Capt. Barrington, is come down out of Hamoaze into the Sound, and will sail, if the wind will permit, tomorrow, for Spithead, where the guardships from this port are to rendezvous. An order was this day received for fitting the Blenheim for service, and it is reported there are five others ordered to be commissioned at this port, viz. Shrewsbury, Prince of Wales, Defiance, Hercules, and Belleisle."
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, May 2.
"Sailed the Pearl, Tucker, for Havre de Grace, Hayling, Lawford, for Plymouth, and the Vansittart East Indiaman, on her voyage. Arrived at Spithead from Plymouth the following men of war, viz. the Albion, Torbay, Dublin, Kent, and Boyne, of 74 guns each, and the Somerset of 64 guns, which makes 16 sail of the line, and six frigates. And last night Lieutenant Col. Boyd, Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar, came down here; he is going out to his government in the Thames frigate, Captain Locker, which is expected to sail tomorrow."
Colchester, in Essex. A tradesman in this city, who was to give up a certain lease when his mother was buried, has kept the good old Gentlewoman in a leaden coffin above ground ever since her decease, which is now eight years, and has by that means continued in possession of the premises.
EDINBURGH, May 8.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the bank of Douglas, Heron, and company, mentioned in our last, there were present his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, the Earl of Dumfries, Sir Adam Ferguson, and 80 other proprietors. It was the opinion of some of the Gentlemen, before the meeting, that the company should be dissolved, and the debts due to and by the company paid off as soon as possible. Others were of opinion that to call in their debts, and take their notes out of the circulation too suddenly, would be a great inconvenience and hurt to the country. Upon inspection of the affairs of the company at the meeting, they were found to be in a better situation than was expected, and the proprietors unanimously agreed to let their affairs go on much in the same footing as at present till the 24th of June, when it is likely there will be another meeting.
We hear also that at the above meeting the extraordinary directors were vested with a power of giving up the Dumfries and Edinburgh branches of the Douglas bank when they think proper.
Wednesday last was held at Glasgow a general meeting of the merchant banking company, when the affairs of that concern gave entire satisfaction to the whole proprietors. The company unanimously returned thanks to the directors for their prudent and steady conduct, and adjourned their general meeting to the first Wednesday of November next.
The Monkland canal is now navigable about five miles, and boats of a considerable burthen, loaded with coals, manure, &c. passing upon it daily.
The Peggy, Thomson, from Clyde, for France, with tobacco, is lost, and all the crew perished.
On Friday and Saturday last two gabbards, one laden with meal, the other with tobacco, ran foul on their anchors at the Broomielaw. The meal is so much damaged that it is selling for threepence and fourpence a peck.
Description and character of the King of Poland.
HE is about five feet ten inches high, perfectly well made, and remarkably graceful and shewy in the formation of his chest, and the fall of his shoulders; his hair is dark, his eyes large, black, and piercing, his complexion olive, his nose rather aquiline, and his whole countenance has in it a pleasing, serene melancholy, but when he speaks it opens into something inexpressibly sweet, intereasing, and rather cheerful; his voice is distinct, clear, and melodiously manly. The education which he received from his father (the confidante of Charles the XIIth, and really an extraordinary genius) was a most sensible one, and the success has corresponded with the plan. He is a complete master of Latin, and four or five modern languages, French, German, Italian, and English; in the two former he is not only equally fluent with the most classical natives of those countries, but he is astonishingly eloquent. In Italian and English (though he converses with great propriety and exactness) from want of practice, he has not the same facility of expression. His reading is very extensive; but his inclinations have led him principally to the belles lettres , or polite literature, in which he includes the great historians and orators of Greece and Rome. For poetry he has an enthusiastic passion, and (what perhaps is the criterion of every man's taste and feeling) our SHAKESPEARE is the chief object of his adoration. From his intimacy with the great writers of antiquity, as Xenophon, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch, and some of the most illustrious of these latter ages, as Sydney, Montaigne, and Beccaria, he has strengthened the notions (before dictated by the happy temperature of his nature) on the rights of mankind in gross, of the obligations which the governing part, or Magistrates (whatever titles they bear) are under to make the welfare and prosperity of the great aggregate their principal, their only object; and though it may, perhaps, with some propriety, be said, that these his noble sentiments have hastened the explosion of those clouds which have been long gathering over his country, it can never be said that any deficiency of head or heart has given rise to them.
B O S T O N, May 27.
This day his Excellency Governor HUTCHINSON was pleased to make the following SPEECH to both Houses:
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
SINCE the dissolution of the late Assembly the commissaries on the part of this province have met the commissaries on the part of New York, at Hartford, in Connecticut, and have amicably agreed upon a boundary line, on the eastern part of New York, from the south to the north boundary of this province, and their agreement has been consented to by the Governors of the two provinces, who were present on the occasion, and who will take the first opportunities to transmit the same to be laid before his Majesty for his Royal approbation. His Excellency Governor Tryon has proposed to me to join with him in the appointment of one or more surveyors, and necessary chainmen, to run and mark this line as soon as may be. A known certain boundary is so essential to the peace of each government, that I hope for the earliest signification of his Majesty's pleasure; but I conceive that it may be of utility to the borderers to know immediately where the line will run, especially as it is not likely to give much discontent on either side; seeing it does not greatly differ from a line, which has been for divers years considered as the temporary boundary between the two provinces.
I have lately received a letter from his Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore, Governor of the colony of Virginia, informing me that the paper money of that colony had been counterfeited in other governments, that it is difficult to bring the offenders to justice, as the counterfeiting the paper money of the several colonies is only made felony in the respective governments where the offence is committed, and therefore desiring, that I would recommend to you to come into an act to make it felony here, the General Assembly of the colony of Virginia having passed a similar act there, in order to prevent the counterfeiting the paper money of the other colonies; a copy of which act, together with his Lordship's letter, shall be laid before you, and I recommend them to your consideration. Although we are without a paper currency in this province, and can have no benefit from the act of Virginia, yet I doubt not you will have the same disposition to do a good office for a neighbouring colony, as if the benefit had been reciprocal.
I must also recommend to your consideration some further provision for preventing the counterfeiting the silver and gold currency established by the laws of this province. Convictions for this offence have been greatly multiplied. One of the penalties which the court may by law inflict is twenty years confinement to hard labour. I believe no country has been able to make the labour of such offenders pay the charge of their support, and in some instances the offenders have soon made their escape. After execution of the other penalties of the law, criminals are immediately at large, and, having been once rendered infamous, are more easily led to a repetition of the crime.
I have had application made to me by the Indians upon the eastern frontier to allow them a Priest to baptise their children, and perform the other offices of their religion. I gave them no encouragement to expect this indulgence, it being contrary to the law of the province. They also desire to be furnished with goods at some place nearer to their settlement than Fort Pownal. This I think may be very proper. The conference which I had with one of their Chiefs shall be laid before you.
I will cheerfully concur with you in your determinations upon what I have now proposed, and upon all other matters which may properly come before you, so far as the duty which I owe to the King and to the province will permit.
Council Chamber,
May 27, 1773.
T. HUTCHINSON.
May 31. Last Thursday, after the House of Representatives had determined a contested election, and agreed upon the rules and orders for their own government, the Speaker communicated a letter from the Speaker of the House of Burgesses in the colony of Virginia, enclosing a resolution of that Assembly, to keep up and maintain a correspondence and free communication with the sister colonies, and requesting the House to appoint a committee to join with their committee for that purpose. The Speaker communicated also a letter from the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the colony of Rhode Island, acquainting him that they had agreed to the salutary measure proposed by Virginia; and the same being read, the House assigned the next morning, at nine o'clock, to take them under consideration, and then adjourned.
The said letters and enclosure were accordingly read again on Friday morning, and, after due consideration thereon, the House came into the following resolutions, there being 113 members present, and only four dissentients.
WHEREAS the Speaker hath communicated to this House a letter from the truly respectable House of Burgesses in his Majesty's antient colony of Virginia, enclosing a copy of the resolves entered into by them the 12th of March last, and requesting that a committee of this House may be appointed to communicate, from time to time, with a corresponding committee, then appointed by the said House of Burgesses in Virginia.
And whereas this House is fully sensible of the necessity and importance of an union of the several colonies in America, at a time when it clearly appears that the rights and liberties of all are systematically invaded, in order that the joint wisdom of the whole may be employed in consulting their common safety:
Resolved, that this House have a very grateful sense of the obligations they are under to the House of Burgesses in Virginia, for the vigilance, firmness, and wisdom, which they have discovered, at all times, in support of the rights and liberties of the American colonies, and do heartily concur with them in their said judicious and spirited resolves.
Resolved, that a standing committee of correspondence and enquiry be appointed, to consist of fifteen members, any eight of whom to be a quorum, whose business it shall be to obtain the most early and authentic intelligence of all such acts and resolutions of the British Parliament, or proceedings of administration, as may relate to or affect the British colonies in America, and to keep up and maintain a correspondence and communication with our sister colonies, respecting these important considerations, and the result of such their proceedings, from time to time, to lay before the House.
Resolved, that it be an instruction to the said committee that they do, without delay, inform themselves particularly of the principles and authority on which was constituted a court of enquiry, held in Rhode Island, said to be vested with powers to transport persons, accused of offences committed in America, to places beyond the seas to be tried.
Resolved, that the said committee be further instructed to prepare and report to this House a draft of a very respectful answer to the letters received from the Speaker of the Honourable House of Burgesses of Virginia, and the Speaker of the Honourable House of Representatives of the colony of Rhode Island; also a circular letter to the Speakers of the several other Houses of Assembly on this continent, enclosing the aforesaid resolves, and requesting them to lay the same before their respective Assemblies, in confidence that they will readily and cheerfully comply with the wise and salutary resolves of the House of Burgesses in Virginia.
Then the House immediately made choice of the following Gentlemen to be the committee of correspondence and communication with the other colonies.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Samuel Adams, Honourable John Hancock, Esquire, Mr. William Phillips, Capt. William Heath, Honourable Joseph Hawley, Esquire, Honourable James Warren, Esquire, Richard Derby, junior, Esquire, Mr. Elbridge Gerry, Jeremiah Bowers, Esquire, Jedediah Foster, Esquire, Daniel Leonard, Esquire, Capt. Thomas Gardner, Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf, and James Prescott, Esquire.
We hear that the Honourable House of Representatives of the province of New Hampshire have taken into their wise consideration the plan of union between the colonies, as proposed by the Honourable House of Burgesses in Virginia, and have chosen a committee of correspondence to communicate with the other colonies; have wrote letters to the Houses of Assembly in Virginia and Rhode Island, and assured them that the House of Representatives of the province of New Hampshire are ready to co-operate with all their sister colonies to recover and perpetuate the liberties of America.

June 3. The beautiful ship built at New York, named the Britannia, and employed there in the London trade, under the command of Capt. Thomas Miller, was lately burnt to the water's edge in our harbour.
The Connecticut Assembly has agreed to emit twelve thousand pounds lawful money.
NEW YORK, June 7.
On Thursday the 27th ultimo an elegant entertainment was given by the merchants, and a great number of the inhabitants, at Hull's tavern, to his Excellency General GAGE, on occasion of his approaching embarkation for England. The cheerfulness and harmony which presided at every table spoke the highest sense of his Excellency's affable and benevolent deportment during his ten years residence in this province. Our worthy Governor, several of the members of his Majesty's Council, and of the Assembly, together with the Gentlemen of the military establishment, and all the officers of the army, favoured the citizens with their presence.
June 10. On Tuesday about 11 o'clock his Excellency the Honourable General GAGE, with his Lady, their son and two daughters, Miss Morris, Major Sheriffe, and the Captains Kemble and Dobson, embarked on board the ship Earl of Dunmore, Capt. Lawrence, for London. The Royal artillery were under arms, and saluted his Excellency with 17 guns; a great company of Gentlemen attended his Excellency to the ship, expressing, in very fervent terms, their wishes of safety and felicity to this most valuable and sincerely beloved personage, his truly amiable Lady and family.
The Highlanders, who, to the number of 70 souls, lately arrived in this city, by way of Dublin, have settled upon the estate of Sir William Johnstón, Bart. and are much pleased with their situation.
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.
Extract of a letter from London, April 25. "War is inevitable! Press warrants were issued some days ago at the admiralty, and orders for recruiting are preparing at the war office. An augmentation in the guards has already taken place. Wapping, and the environs of this great metropolis, are swarming with press gangs. The clerks in the admiralty, navy, and war office, have been obliged to give attendance for some time past till 12 at night. The Russian and Prussian Ministers have daily conferences with the Premier and Lord Rochford. All foretells what must soon happen. Grim war is too conspicuous in every countenance. The din of arms sits heavy in the forehead of the landholder, while the soldier is elate with the coming expectation of being crowned with laurel. Vain hope! That bubble honour will excite many a good husband to take their last adieu of loving wives; many a fond father must bid farewell to their tender prattlers, and many an honest bachelor must leave endearing friends and obliging mistresses."
"I do not know how you Americans may relish this, but I believe a war carried on in the West Indies is of service to the continent, and am convinced a stroke of importance will be struck there, as Admiral Keppell will assuredly command the fleet destined for that part of the world, and Admiral Saunders the fleet of observation in the Mediterranean."
The public are cautioned to beware of counterfeit Maryland ONE DOLLAR bills, which are circulating among us. They may be easily detected by carefully viewing them, as they are done with copper plates; the borders and letters much blacker and broader faced, and the paper whiter, thinner, and smoother than the true ones; they are dated the 1st of March, 1770, and the signers names wrote much fliffer.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 1.
The Speirs, Lusk, from Edinburgh, and the Dinan, Woodford, from London, are arrived in James river. Capt. Thomas Woodford may be daily expected, in whom, we are informed, Capt. Necks will come passenger.
On Sunday the 6th of June departed this life, in the flower of his age, Mr. ROBERT NICHOLSON, of Brunswick county, leaving his wife and acquaintances to deplore the loss of a kind husband, a steady friend, and an agreeable and social companion.
Mr. R I N D,
As the dispute on TOLERATION seems to be again revived in the papers, you will probably oblige many of your customers by inserting the following extract from the UNIVERSAL MUSEUM.
SOME time ago, being in company with a friend from North America, as well known throughout Europe for his ingenious discoveries in natural philosophy, as to his countrymen for his sagacity, his usefulness, and activity, in every public spirited measure, and to his acquaintance for all the social virtues, the conversation happened to turn on the subject of persecution. My friend, whose understanding is as enlarged as his heart is benevolent, did not fail to urge many unanswerable arguments against a practice so obviously repugnant to every dictate of humanity: At length, in support of what he had advanced, he called for a bible, and turning to the book of GENESIS read as follows:
C H A P. XXVII.
AND it came to pass after those things, that Abraham sat in the door of his tent, about the going down of the sun.
2. And behold a man, bowed with age, came from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff.
3. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet,
and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
4. But the man said, nay, for I will abide under this tree.
5. And Abraham pressed him greatly; so he turned, and they went into the tent; and Abraham baked unleavened bread, and they did eat.
6. And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, wherefore dost thou not worship the most High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth?
7. And the man answered and said, I do not worship the God thou speakest of, neither do I call upon his name; for I have made to myself a God, which abideth alway in mine house, and provideth me with all things.
8. And Abraham's zeal was kindled against the man, and he arose and fell upon him, and drove him forth with blows to the wilderness.
9. And at midnight God called unto Abraham, saying, Abraham, where is the stranger?
10. And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name; therefore have I driven him out from before my face into the wilderness.
11. And God said, have I borne with him these hundred ninety and eight years, and nourished him and clothed him, notwithstanding his rebellion against me, and couldst not thou, that art thyself a sinner, bear with him one night?
12. And Abraham said, let not the anger of my Lord wax hot against his servant: Lo, I have sinned; forgive me, I pray thee.
13. And he arose, and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man, and found him:
14. And returned with him to his tent; and when he had entreated him kindly, he sent him away on the morrow with gifts.
15. And God spake again unto Abraham; saying, for this thy sin shall thy seed be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land.
16. But for thy repentance will I deliver them; and they shall come forth with power, and with gladness of heart, and with much substance.
I own I was struck with the aptness of the passage to the subject, and did not fail to express my surprize, that in all the discourses I had read against a practice so diametrically opposite to the genuine spirit of our holy religion, I did not remember to have seen this chapter quoted; nor did I recollect having ever read it, though no stranger to my bible. Next morning, turning to the book of Genesis, I found there was no such chapter, and that the whole was a well meant invention of my friend, whose sallies of humour, in which he is a great master, have always a useful and benevolent tendency.
With some difficulty I procured a copy of what he pretended to read, which I now send you for the entertainment of your readers; and you will perhaps not think it unreasonable at a time when our church more particularly calls upon us to commemorate the amazing love of HIM, who, possessing the divine virtue of charity in the most supreme degree, laid down his life EVEN FOR HIS ENEMIES.
I am, &c.
W. S.
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 Maton, of Brunswick, and Mr. John Cargill, of Sussex, to transact my business during absence from this colony.
DAVID MASON.
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, } Trustees. NEIL CAMPBELL, } WILLIAM PRESTON, }
To be SOLD, for ready money, on Friday the 16th of this instant (July) at the late plantation of Robert Boggs, 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 BOGGS, 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, intituled as follow, viz.
'An act to repeal an act made in the twenty second year of his late Majesty's reign, intituled "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 intituled "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, intituled as follow, viz.
'An act to amend an act intituled "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 repaid 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.
TAKEN up, in Prince George, a small bay mare, about 4 feet 5 or 6 inches high, with three dots on her near buttock, has a small white streak in her face, and one of her hind feet is white. Potted, and appraised to 2l. RICHARD BOOKER.
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. Potted, and appraised to 11l. WILLIAM HINES, jun.

HANOVER town, June 19, 1773. J UST 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, black- smiths, white-smiths, gold and silver-smiths, 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 secu- rity, 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 NTEND to leave the colony soon. THOMAS DAVIS, jun.
HANOVER, June 17, 1773. T HE 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 Messrs. Farell and Jones, of Bristol, merchants, will be left under the direction of Mr. John Winton, 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 indul- gence that has been already given. THOMAS EVANS.
P URSUANT 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 Pohick, 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 pur- chaser will have Mr. Meade's right under Mr. Wat- son, with a general warranty from Mr. Watson, con- veyed at the sale by The SHERIFF of FAIRFAX.
P URSUANT 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, for- merly Odle's, about 10 miles from Winchester, ad- joining to the lands of Joseph Smith, Spur, and Robert Rutherford; also 400 acres, on both sides of Back creek, in said county, formerly Richard Nea- ly'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.
P URSUANT 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 mort- gaged by Mr. Joseph Watson to Mr. Garret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has obtained a de- cree 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.
P URSUANT 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. Gar- ret Meade, of the city of Philadelphia, who has ob- tained 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.
T AKEN up, in Mecklenburg, a small brown cow, marked with a crop and hole in the left ear, and a swallowfork in the right. Posted, and appraised to 2l. THOMAS PINSON.
T AKEN 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.
YORK TOWN, June 9th, 1773. T HE subscribers being very solicitous to comply with the will of their testator, the late Honour- able William Nelson, desire that all persons, who were indebted to him, will endeavour to make as speedy payments as possible. Those who have ac- counts open on his books and who cannot immediate- ly 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 un- doubted securities, so soon as it can be done. Those who have any demands are desired to make them im- mediately known. THOMAS NELSON, THOMAS NELSON, jun. HUGH NELSON, RO. C. NICHOLAS.
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, ci- tron, 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 beat- er's skin, court plaster, gold and silver leaf, Dutch metal, potash, crucibles, zinc, pumstone, rotten- stone, verdigree, vermilion, Prussian blue, Spanish brown, red and white lead, pearl barley, best smel- lingbottles with cases, common ditto, spirit and oil of turpentine, best and common lancets, lancet cases, marble mortars, lavender and honey water, eau de luc, 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 livivium for the stone and gravel, Norris's drops, Keyser's pills, British oil, Turlington's bal- sam, allum, borax, brimstone, &c. &c. &c. JOHN POWELL.
Choice MADEIRA WINE, A FEW CASES OF CLARET, BARBADOS RUM, BRANDY, RAISINS, AND MAHOGANY, SOLD BY PREESON BOWDOIN, IN NORFOLK. tf
F OR SALE. Several valuable tracts of land, adjoining each other, on both sides of Chappawamick Run, in the coun- ties of Stafford and Prince William, containing 2600 acres, being the seat whereon the subscriber formerly resided. These lands are situate four miles above Aquia warehouses, 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 quan- tity of white oak and pine timber, a tolerable com- modious dwellinghouse, a great number of conveni- ent 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 pre- mises; 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 per- sons, 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 mort- gages; 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.
J OHN SCOTT having petitioned the Governor and Council for a grant of 295 acres of land in the county of Albemarle, on the north side of the Fluvanna river, on both sides of Milldam and Rocky creeks, in the same county, which land was surveyed on the 21st day of April, 1755, for one John Driver, and it appearing to the board that since that survey was made the said Driver departed this Life intestate, without leaving any heir or widow in this country, and without having returned his survey into the Se- cretary's Office, and paid the usual right money and patent fees, as the rules of government require; this is therefore to give notice that if no person appear to claim and prove him or herself intitled to the said Driver's survey before the end of December next, that the said Land will be then granted to the above- named petitioner. JOHN BLAIR, Cl. Com.
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 fawmill, &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 deal- ings at the Rocky Ridge and Bedford stores. tf PATRICK HUNTER.
FOR SALE. T HE tenement at present occupied by Captain James Gunn, in that part of the town of Rich- mond called Shockoe, 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 Ren- nolds, plaintiffs, against John Bland, late of London, merchant, John Bland, junior, and Messrs. Field and Call, defendants, in chancery. T HE 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 fur- ther 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 Ga- zette, 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 Wil- iamsburg. 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. T HE defendant Robert being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plain- tiffs, 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 Ga- zette, 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.