The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1772-11-05 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
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L O N D O N, August 18.
ON Saturday the Earl of Hillsborough set out from his house, in Hanover Square, for Ireland.
The Earl of Dartmouth, who has succeeded Lord Hillsborough as Secretary of State to the American department, is reckoned, beside being a man of business, one of the most accomplished Noblemen in England, being a doctor of the civil law, and fellow of the royal society.
By a very intelligent farmer, who has just returned from a tour through most of the counties of England, we are informed that there never was a more plentiful crop of all kinds of grain, particularly wheat, oats, and peas, and that the farmers would be at a loss for room to hold it, as their housing, which used to contain their crops, was not this year nearly sufficient to receive the produce of their fields.
They write from Coventry that several plush weavers have lately been engaged there to embark for New England.
August 20. It is believed by some that Lord Dartmouth's entrance into the Ministry is only a prelude to other important changes; the names of Temple, Chatham, and Rockingham, being still frequently brought up at court, as if they were at last to be permitted to save this nation from destruction.
The noble resolutions entered into by several capital merchants of this city to import American wheat must, it is believed, more effectually strike at the horrid practice of forestalling, than any legal provision that can be made against it.
Such puppets are the English populace, that they are constantly played off against their own best interests. The forestallers, alarmed at the idea of American wheat being approved in this country, have already begun to prejudice the lower orders of the community against it, and it is well known that obstinacy and credulity are strong alliances in favour of their schemes.
August 24. It is said that a proclamation will shortly be issued, offering great advantages to those people who embark for America, in order to cultivate the country, and facilitate the Mississippi scheme.
A correspondent informs us that a certain northern Monarch has sunk into such an inactive state as to be totally indifferent about the affairs of his court.
Lord Hillsborough, says a correspondent, ought to be greatly honoured by all mankind for his motives of resignation; for as it was impossible to convince him that a settlement, inaccessible to our navy, could be advantageous to this country, it was noble in him to forego his appointment, rather than prostitute his opinion.
It is now generally believed that Lord Hillsborough will be the chosen person to relieve the Viceroy of a neighbouring kingdom; or, in other words, heal the discords of an oppressed people.
The martial spirit which shines forth in the heir apparent to these kingdoms, promises honour and security to the rising generation; as the Prince that has a repugnancy to every military operation beyond a harmless review must at all times be ready to pay an unworthy price for his pacific enjoyments.
The manufacture of cambric is now so much improved in Ireland, as to be superior in colour, fineness, and service, to any made in the other parts of Europe.
August 27. Yesterday Lord Garlies kissed his Majesty's hand, on being appointed one of the Lords of Trade, in the room of John Roberts, Esquire, deceased. Charles Jenkinson, Esquire, is to be member for Harwich, in the room of Mr. Roberts; and that Sir George Macartney is to be member for Appleby, in the room of Mr. Jenkinson.
Should the settlement on the Ohio take place, no emigrants whatsoever are to be permitted from this country except the actual proprietors.
An extra board is appointed to take cognizance of the Mississippi and Ohio schemes, at which the merits of both will be finally determined.
Lord Hillsborough, it is now pretty certain, has visited his native country on the noblest of motives; the purport of his commission being no less to enquire into, than redress, the real grievances of that kingdom.
From St. Alban's we learn, that an inhabitant of that town keeps a tame rat in his house; the consequence of which is, that his dwelling is infested by no other rats, nor by mice. As other instances of
the like kind have been known, particularly on ship board, there is no doubt but from this circumstance, a new method might be put in practice for getting rid of these troublesome and highly mischievous vermin.
It is said that no superior posts in the army will, for the future, be disposed of, or exchanged, without the consent and approbation of his Majesty.
Great Britain feels at this hour the fatal effects of her ill judged conduct towards the Americans. The balance of trade to America was so great before the division happened as to fill this country with gold and silver, particularly the latter, the want of which is now so grievously felt by every man in trade from one end of this kingdom to the other. The division between the Mother country and her colonies gave the first rise to the extension of paper credit, the evil consequence of which is now manifested.
Sept. 1. Yesterday a commission passed the great seal, appointing the Lord Chancellor, and the other Ministers of state, together with William, Earl of Dartmouth, Soame Jenyns, Edward Elliot, Lord Robert Spencer, George Greville, Bamber Gascoyne, William Jolliffe, Esquires, and Lord Garlies, to be commissioners for promoting the trade of Great Britain, and inspecting and improving the plantations in America, and elsewhere, with a revocation of the last commission.
Also passed the great seal a reversionary grant of the office of secretary of his Majesty's province of New York, to William Knox, Esquire, during his life, on the death, or any sooner determination of the interest therein, of George Clark, Esquire, the present secretary.
Also passed the seal a proclamation promising a reward of 500l. for the discovering and apprehending any of the persons concerned in burning the Gaspée schooner in Providence river, on the 10th of June last; also a reward of 500l. and his Majesty's pardon, to any of the offenders, for apprehending each of the ringleaders.
The French and Corsicans are now at perpetual war, which is carried on by military executions on one side, and murder and assassinations on the other. So averse are the Corsicans to a French government, that, it is said, they really poison the wells, cisterns, and fountains, in that part of the country which the French inhabit.
Sept. 2. Orders are come from the court of Denmark to their agent here to pay to this court 60,000l. which is the fortune given to Queen Carolina Matilda, and which the court of Denmark have thought proper to return; also 20,000l. more in consideration of the presents made to the Queen on her marriage with the King of Denmark. And, we hear, that the above sums of money are to be appropriated for the future maintenance and support of the Queen of Denmark.
Sept. 3. We hear that it is in contemplation with a little truly patriotic committee to build, in convenient parts of the town, ovens for baking the bread made of American flour, with shops adjoining, where the poor may purchase it on easy terms.
It is generally believed that a revolution is inevitable at a certain northern court, as also that some powers are concerned in it, who affect, at present, to be mere spectators.
It is reported that the French have lately given very large orders for powder and ball in the ports of Holland, to be delivered into his Christian Majesty's dockyards before Christmas next.
Accurate plans are taking of all our forts, sea coasts, and settlements, in Africa, and on the coast of Guiney.
By letters from Cadiz we learn that the Juno frigate of war was lately arrived in that port from La Vera Cruz, but last from the Havannah, with a million and a half of piastres in specie, on account of his Catholic Majesty; aboard this ship the Archbishop of Mexico took his passage, being appointed Archbishop of Toledo, the richest ecclesiastical preferment in Europe, except the Popedom.
They write from Lerwick, in Shetland, that the fishery this season has been beyond the most sanguine expectations, the Dutch having cleared, by the article of white herrings only, above ten millions sterling; so that, allowing one-twentieth part to the revenue, the government has gained 500,000l.
Letters from Corsica inform that the duties laid on all English goods imported into that island are so high that they almost amount to a prohibition.
The Fox, Capt. Norman, from Casco Bay, with masts for the dockyard, is safe arrived at Plymouth, after a very fine passage.
A letter from Hambourg, dated August 25, says, "The day before yesterday two couriers, dispatched from Stockholm, passed through this city; since which it is no longer a secret here, that the four great cities of Sweden, viz. Christianstadt, Joenkjoeping, Landscrona, and Gottenburgh, have declared the King of Sweden their absolute Sovereign. On the 13th of this month Prince Charles put himself at the head of the troops and the militia of Landscrona, and Prince Frederick Adolphus did the same at Gottenburgh. These two Princes joined together, and marched with their army consisting of 16,000 men, and encamped before the walls of Stockholm, declaring the King to be absolute at every place in their march. On their arrival before Stockholm, they demanded their princely rights, which had been limited and opposed by the deputies of the states, and insisted that they should revoke the late act called, "The assurance of the King." The private letters from thence since that date, say, that his Majesty kept himself close at Stockholm till the army came before the walls, and then communicated his design to the states; that a resistance was made by a great part of the Clergy and some of the nobles, but that they found themselves obliged to discharge the King from his oath, and to declare him an absolute Sovereign. The other two states of the burghers and peasants made not the least resistance.
A letter from the confines of Poland says, "The distresses of this unhappy country seem to encrease daily. Within the distance of fourteen leagues there are no less than eight different armies; and the united horror of fire, sword, pestilence and famine, combine to make it the most wretched spot on the inhabitable globe."
Lord Clive, it is said, has declared an intention of adding one more public charity to the many in this kingdom, viz. a house of accommodation and reception for the blind of both sexes. An extensive act of benevolence, let what may be the motives.
Lord Dartmouth is the first of the Rockingham party that has accepted of a place with the present Ministry, and, it is said, was with the concurrence of his friends.
A Scotch officer on half pay, it is said, is a claimant for the title and estate of Lord Lenox in Scotland, which has lain some time dormant. The estate, which is 12,000l. per annum, is invested in the Crown, and the claimant is supported by two noble families, till he can make good his title.
It is said that every cause of disagreement between the Earl of Chatham and Lord Camden is entirely laid aside, and a very strict friendship now subsists between those noblemen.
The ship Little Pompey, Capt. George Thomson, from St. Christopher's to London, is taken by a pirate ship off the Madeiras, and carried into a Spanish port.
The Spaniards are very assiduous with respect to their naval armaments; and it is hoped England will, for once, copy their example.
An address is, we hear, preparing by a very respectable body of North American merchants to the Earl of Hillsborough, to thank him for the very polite reception which they constantly received at his board during the time he presided, and to acknowledge their high idea of his intentions for the mutual benefit, no less of the colonies than of the Mother country.
An eminent merchant of this city is under prosecution for taking 25l. per cent. interest on money, which he had advanced on bottomry bonds . This term denotes a bond given for the repayment of a sum of money, on condition that the ship, on which the money was lent, returns in safety; but if she should be lost, the bond then becomes void. The interest always given on these occasions is 25 per cent.
Letters from Margate assure us that the effects of the late bankruptcies have been severely felt at that place of entertainment; the company has been very thin all the summer, and the subscribers to the rooms do not now amount to more than 400.
Last Wednesday died, at his house at Marden, in Kent, JOHN OSBORNE, Esquire, of Smallbridge: Perhaps there was not a more corpulent man in England since the time of Edward Bright, the Chelmsford butcher, who died in 1750, aged 37.

No less than eight commissions of bankruptcy passed the great seal yesterday. One of them is against a person who is said to have stopped for near 300,000.
St. James's, Sept. 1. The King has been pleased to grant unto George James Williams and Francis North, Esquires, the office of Receiver General of all his Majesty's revenues within his colony and dominion of Virginia.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 5.
A letter from London, of the 5th of September, says, "The confusion occasioned by the late bankruptcies is not yet subsided, and there appears to be a general distrust among the trading part of the nation."
THE assignees legally chosen on a commission of bankruptcy against Messrs. Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott , of London, merchants, having, by a power of attorney, appointed Robert Gilchrist, James Robb, and William Bogle , jointly and severally their attorneys here, we give notice to all persons indebted to those Gentlemen that one or both of us will attend in Williamsburg during the time the merchants are doing business this court, in order to receive such debts. We hope, when Messrs. Bogle and Scott's present circumstances are considered, that we shall be excused for doing immediate diligence on such who fail paying off their balances at this court. Note, Messrs. Edward and Rene Payne have joined the assignees in the power of attorney to us, and at the same time have revoked their power formerly sent the Honourable John Tayloe , Esquire, and Mr. Archibald Ritchie .
ROBERT GILCHRIST, JAMES ROBB.
To be SOLD, RENTED, or EXCHANGED, for back lands in any of the northern counties in this colony,
A TRACT of six hundred acres, including about two hundred of cleared land, lying on the north side of Rappahannock river, opposite to the lower end of Fredericksburg . On this tract (a little above the road) is one of the most agreeable situations for a house that is to be found upon the whole river, having a clear and distinct view of almost every house in the said town, and every vessel that passes to and from it. Long credit, if desired, will be given, the purchaser paying interest from the sale, and an indisputable title will be made. For further particulars enquire of Col. Lewis in Fredericksburg , or the subscriber in Fairfax .
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
WARWICK, October 25, 1772.
As the store formerly kept by Alexander Stewart at Rocky Ridge , for James and Robert Donald , and company, is now broke up, and the debts put into my hands to collect, all those indebted for dealings there are desired to pay off their accounts immediately, or settle their balances by bond, and those who have any demands against the store are desired to apply to me for payment.
PATRICK HUNTER.
Who has for sale a TRACT of LAND lying on the forks of Roanoke , in Mecklenburg county, containing about 600 acres, on which is an exceeding good dwellinghouse, storehouse, and other necessary buildings, as also several valuable improvements. As the land lies within sixteen miles of the courthouse, and eighty from Petersburg , it would answer any person very well who intends keeping a back store.
AGREEABLE to my former advertisement, on Thursday the 10th of December will be exposed to public sale, at the storehouse of the subscriber, in Northumberland county, upwards of sixty fine SLAVES, among which are several tradesmen and house servants. Also on the same day, and the succeeding days, will be exposed to public sale, several horses and mares, eighty head of neat cattle, forty head of sheep, eighty head of hogs, some of which will be fattened for bacon, three hundred and fifty barrels of corn, twenty thousand pounds of tobacco, two riding chairs with proper harness, and several kinds of household and kitchen furniture, among which is a handsome and genteel eight day-moon clock quite new, two copper stills of about thirty gallons each, two writing desks and book cases, twelve feather beds, with bedsteads, curtains, and all other furniture complete, plantation tools, and many other things too tedious to mention. Likewise a sixty hoghead sloop compleat, two years old last April , several plantations or tracts of land, some of which are good, lying on Dividing creek; the others are hearty, fit for tobacco, wheat, or corn, are convenient to churches, courts, and many mills, and fish and oysters in abundance; on the dwelling plantation is a water grist mill, and well situated for custom. All the said plantations are in good order for cropping, with good and convenient houses thereon. The subscriber will attend from the 20th of November to the day of sale, in order to shew the lands to any persons that are desirous of purchasing them. If the day appointed for the sale be bad, so as to prevent people from repairing thither, it will be held the next fair day, and every other succeeding day, till all are sold. Some of the slaves will be sold for ready money, and credit allowed for the others, and lands and stocks, till April next, the purchasers giving bond, with good security; the bonds to bear interest from the date if not discharged when due.
JOHN HEATH.
WARWICK, November 1, 1772.
THE subscriber has for sale about five thousand acres of LAND, lying in different parts of Pittsylvania county, and mostly upon Smith's river, the soil of which is well calculated either for making tobacco or hemp. The terms may be known by applying to John Rowland , who lives near the land, and will shew it to any person inclining to purchase.
PATRICK HUNTER.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Monday the 21st day of December, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Hobb's Hole , being Essex court day,
A VERY valuable tract of LAND, adjoining the town of Tappahannock , containing about 700 acres, the soil inferior to none in the colony for wheat, corn, or tobacco; also two lots in the said town of Tappahannock , with houses on each. Twelve months credit will be allowed, the purchasers giving bond and security to
SARAH SCANDRETT, GRIFFING BOUGHAN.
THE following genteel assortment of MILLINERY, just imported in the Industry , Captain Lowes , is now selling off by MARY and ANNE STRACHAN , at their shop in Richmond town, for ready money, or short credit: Full suits of rich minionet and blond lace, suits of deep and second mourning, full suits of plain book muslin and gauze, suits of headclothes for young Ladies of different ages, a variety of laced caps, gauze ditto, dressed and undressed, blond and Italian stomachers and knots, ribband, sheneal, and silk ditto, net hoods, plain and figured patent ditto, black and white patent mits, gauze hoods, childrens fishes and teresas, boys sattin caps and feathers, Ladies riding hats, mode and sattin cardinals and bonnets of different colours, persian and black russet quilts, thick and book muslin, half yard wide ditto, striped muslins, plain and figured gauze, spider-web ditto, coarse and fine catgut, striped bordered gauze handkerchiefs, book and thick muslin ditto, worked muslin aprons, honeycomb and other new fashioned ribband, ruffs, velvet collars, beaded and spangled ditto, a variety of fashionable necklaces and earrings, genteel wedding and other fans in cases, black paper and gauze ditto, fashionable woolpacks, French kid gloves and mits, coloured lamb and black glazed ditto, blond and minionet laces, edging and lappet, a variety of gauze and other fashionable ribbands, Jacob's ladder, white and coloured sack and gown trimmings and sheneals, bunch and skeleton wire, head and breast flowers, French and Italian ditto, fattin and calimanco shoes, mens Didbury ditto, mens buckskin and kid gloves, tabby and ticking stays, long lawns and humhums, paste combs, plain tortoiseshell ditto, Venetian pearl, marcasite and paste pins and sprigs, paste knee and stockbuckles, plain pinchbeck ditto, womens shoe buckles double gilt, marcasite and garnet lockets, a variety of new fashioned morocco pocket books, Whitechapel needles, pins, threads, tapes, penknives, scissars, toothpick cases, dressed dolls, toy fiddles, filligree watches, and other toys, &c.
*** All kinds of MILLINERY made in the newest taste.
GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. To John Morris , greeting: We command and firmly injoin you, that, all other matters and excuses whatsoever set aside, in your proper person, you be and appear before our Justices of our General Court, in chancery, at the Capitol in Williamsburg , the first day of the next court, to answer a bill in chancery, exhibited against you by Hudson Muse . And this you shall in no wise omit, under the penalty of 100l. And have then there this writ. Witness John Earl of Dunmore , our Lieutenant and Governor General, at Williamsburg , the 10th day of October , in the 12th year of our reign.
BEN: WALLER.
JOSEPH FAULKES, WHO has performed his EXPLOITS in HORSE-MANSHIP twice in the city of Williamsburg , with great applause, will perform at Leeds town races, and upon his return to Williamsburg will perform, for the last time, on Monday the 16th instant ( November ) at twelve o'clock. His performances are, riding one, two, and three horses, in many different attitudes.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Friday the 20th of November, at the town of Beaufort , in Essex county, on Rappahannock river,
MY tract of LAND adjoining the said town, containing 150 acres, with a number of lots, some of which have good improvements suitable for both merchant and ordinary keeper. There is a ferry, and ferry boat, belonging to me, will be sold with the land. I have several horses, and a good stock of both cattle, and hogs, will be sold the same day. Twelve months credit will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond and security to
THOMAS LEY.
STRAYED, or stolen, on Sunday night, the 4th instant ( October ) out of my pasture, in Culpeper , a large sorrel horse, a natural pacer, his left ear cropped, branded on the off side with a woman's stirrup iron. Any person that will bring the said horse to me shall have SIX DOLLARS reward.
FREDERICK ZIMMERMAN.
ABOUT the beginning of last month one Lewis brought a waggon load of goods from Petersburg to this place, in a waggon belonging to one Dennis , of Petersburg : After delivering the goods, he carried his waggon to a blacksmith's shop, and turned out the horses; there was a man along with him, who called himself Adams , and said he was a blacksmith looking for work. The night after they delivered the goods they both disappeared, and next morning two of my horses were missing; the horses were raised in this neighbourhood, and would not run away. Lewis left the waggon and team at the smith's shop, and every thing belonging to them, except two saddles; and he and Adams have been since seen with three horses in their possession on the road that leads from Petersburg to Carolina . From this I conclude that mine were stolen; and that they stole them. I will give TEN POUNDS to any person that will apprehend either or both of them with the horses, and secure them so that the law may take its course, and FIVE POUNDS more for delivering the horses to Mr. James Donald at Rocky Ridge , or to me at Bedford courthouse. The description of the horses is as follows: A white gelding about 4 feet 10 inches high, 7 years old, hanging mane and switch tail, a natural pacer, branded with I on the shoulder, and A on the buttock; a bay of the same height and age, roached mane and switch tail, a natural pacer, and branded B on the buttock.
Bedford courthouse, } ROBERT DONALD. October 15, 1772. }
Just imported, from London, in the Dawes , Captain Brown , and to be SOLD, at the subscriber's shop, in Williamsburg ,
A LARGE and fresh assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, viz. best jesuits bark, rhubarb, jalap, ipecacuani, camphor, glauber salts, and sal rochel, best flaky and common manna, antimony, flour of sulphur, spermaceti, ether, extract of lead, essence of lemons and bergamot, Indian pink, castor oil, magnesia, fine jar raisins, currants, prunes, figs, and barley sugar, orange chips, carraway comfits, white and brown candies, candied ginger, ditto nutmegs, best Durham flour of mustard, salt-petre, shavings of hartshorn, fine fallad and barbers oil, anchovies, capers, olives, walnuts, cloves, cinnamon, mace and nutmegs, gold and silver leaf, rotten stone, French chalk, verdigree, vermillion, red and white lead, Prussian blue, tooth brushes, ivory syringes, small marble mortars, small physical scales and weights, court plaster, Dutton's corn salve, Freeman's and Godfrey's cordial, Daffy's , Squire's , and Stoughton's elixirs, Jesuit's , Bateman's , and Norris's antimonial drops, James's fever powders, Anderson's and Lockyer's pills, Turlington's balsam, pectoral balsam of honey, essence of water dock, elixir bardana, smelling bottles, best and common lancets, fago, salop, pearl barley, &c. &c. &c.
WILLIAM PASTEUR.
TAKEN up, in Gloucester county, a small black mare about 13 hands high, but no brand perceivable. Posted, and appraised to 3l.
JOHN IVISON.
TAKEN up in Cumberland a fitty black mare, about 4 feet 6 inches high, paces tolerably well, and neither docked nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 8l. JOHN BURTON.
TAKEN up, in Louisa , near the head of Little River , a grey horse about 4 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a slit in one ear, but not branded. Posted, and appraised to 2l. ZACHEUS COSBY.
TAKEN up, in Botetourt , a white mare about 13 hands high, 10 years old, trots naturally, branded on the near shoulder y , and on the off shoulder j , on the off buttock P , and on the near buttock with something that cannot be made out, has an old bell, and bell collar, with a large double buckle. Posted, and appraised to 3l. DAVID WALLACE.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , a red steer, two or three years old, marked with a crop and underkeel in the right ear, and a slit in the left. Posted, and appraised to 2l. 5s. JOHN CHILES.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , on Staunton river, a brindle cow, with some white spots on her belly, has on a small bell, with WM on it, marked with a crop in the left ear, and a half crop in the right. Posted, and appraised to 2l. 15s. JOHN CHILES.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania , a small red bull, two years old last spring, has a short crop in the right ear, and the left clipped above and below, which makes it sharp. JAMES CRAWFORD.
TAKEN up, on Mulberry Island, Richmond county, a bay horse, four feet nine or ten inches high, branded on the near buttock with three dots, has a large bushy mane and switch tail, one or two saddle spots, a small white star in his forehead, paces slow, and appears to be 13 or 14 years old. Posted, and appraised to 10l. JOHN CREWDSON.
TAKEN up, on Rock Island creek, Buckingham county, a bright bay mare, branded on the near shoulder D , and on the near buttock C , has a bald face, her hind feet white, is about four feet four or five inches high, and eleven or twelve years old. Appraised to 5l. WILLIAM K. WEAKLAND.