The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1774-10-27 00:00:00

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TO THE KING. HEAR ME; FOR I WILL SPEAK! SHAKESPEARE. SIR,
WHEN the dignity and respect which royalty ought to command are forfeited by the prince, either in a supine inattention to a just discharge of the powers vested in him, or by a wilful misadministration of that authority, the prince then stands a culprit before the awful tribunal of the public; for as the sovereign of the British empire is, in fact, elected by the people, he indubitably holds his power under their suffrage, and as such, the subject is as much at liberty to arraign his conduct as it is to approve it. Happy would it be for your majesty were I your only accuser; but, alas! I am but one of many millions of your loyal subjects in Europe and America who impeach you of an undue execution of the power of the crown, and a most unfaithful execution of that duty which you are, by all the ties of nature, justice, and religion, bound to discharge with fidelity. When your illustrious predecessor, your ever to be lamented royal grandfather, reigned an earthly sceptre to enjoy an heavenly residence, your majesty acceded to the throne of your realms in the midst of triumphs, encircled with glory, and rivetted in the hearts of your subjects; you then took a solemn oath, and called Heaven to witness it, that you would reign the guardian of your people, and secure them in their just rights, privileges, and religion, as obtained under the blessed reformation. Milaneis and justice were then your shining characteristics; but, alas! how art thou fallen! how hast thou apostatized! Instead of being hailed the happy guardian of your people, you are become their tyrant and oppressor! Instead of being titled the darling, and well beloved of hundreds of thousands of your subjects, you are become the hated object of millions! You have violated the most solemn engagement with God and your subjects, your coronation oath, that sacred deposit your people had for the trust reposed in you! And from the late diabolical act respecting the government of Canada, which has received your concurrence, one would imagine you had imbibed the doctrine of infallibility, purgatories, bulls, adoration, &c. &c. and that you are beginning to introduce the religious, as well as political, principles of the wicked superintendant of your puerile years. Time has been when this language would have been an insult to royalty, but the time now is when the subject is degraded in prostituting more respectful language to THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN; I should therefore, unawed, proceed to a detail of the cruel measures which have been prosecuted against your subjects, under your countenance, and the wickedly unconstitutional laws which have been authorized under your royal sanction, but this would be a voluminous work, and be but recapitulating what, though it hath not impressed your callous heart, has astonished the whole world! If, however, sir, your ambition is capable of being touched by a sense of your having had it in your power to be the happiest monarch on the face of the globe, give me leave to point out, by way of memento, to you, some particular cases, wherein you seem to have been unfortunately regardless of this material consideration, your cognizance at, or rather your approbation of, a bloody massacre of your own subjects, for bravely and honestly asserting their privileges as Englishmen and freemen; the representatives of your people in parliament-corrupted and awed, under your countenance, by a venal administration; a list of pensioners, of your own creation, supported at the expence and poverty of one half of your subjects to ruin the other half; several different elections of a member for parliament set aside for no other reason, that the people have ever been informed of, than because he had the majority of ten to one; a stamp act in Ireland, where the inhabitants had long before been burthened with oppressions far beyond their ability to bear; your appointment of men the most obnoxious to your loyal subjects, every where, and at all times, to offices in government, and particularly in America, to the establishment of odious acts, some of which your ministers, blushingly, condescended to induce you to repeal; the introduction of the act for altering the government of Canada, replete with the most diabolical mischiefs to your protestant subjects throughout your realms, openly countenancing popish conspiracies, and a manifest dereliction of the protestant faith, in support of which our forefathers made so noble a stand, and thousands of whom, martyrs, sealed with the testimony of their precious blood. These, sir, and numberless other hideous calamities, have generally been attributed to your ministers, but I am bold to say they become chargeable on you, as responsible for the conduct of those men whom you yourself nominate to office. Were I to attempt to account for your majesty's conduct, I should do it physically, and attribute it to a disorder, by the faculty called a catatopsis, in which the patient is void of sense, and continues so, and in the same posture in which the malady seized him, until it terminates. To be plainer with your majesty, the greater part of the world, particularly your own subjects, corroborate this opinion, and have always attributed every miscarriage in the state to the weakness of your understanding; and it is further justified by the wise king Solomon, who says, "A weak prince will always be an oppressive ruler; a sentiment, which, I must confess, has been exactly verified in your whole reign of near fourteen years, unless what has been charged to the weakness of your head, may, with more truth, be imputed to the wickedness of your heart." If, sir, you expect, by a continued exercise of the oppressions complained of, to perplex our councils, and disturb our unanimity, you are much mistaken. The colonies, from end to end, are under the government of a FIRMSNESS, which all the machinations of a corrupt administration will never be able to shake. The efforts of a GAGE, though armed with tyrant authority, will be impotent against the virtuous and persevering zeal of men struggling for their religious rights and liberties; men incapable of feeling dejection of mind from threats, stimulated from motives of liberty, justice, and conscience, and who owe no fear but to their God. Look forward, then, sir, to the sad catastrophe which the unwarrantable and unnatural measures now pursuing here, under your sanction, threaten. Should the people of the Massachusetts government, now meekly suffering under the torturing hand of venal power, be further provoked, and it is suggested they will, force must repeal force. Your majesty's conception will save me the pain of being particular here. More regiments will be wanting, and where are they to come from? Perhaps from Germany, or perhaps, if they can be spared, from England or Ireland, and how readily the people of those distressed kingdoms will agree to pay troops for the purpose of massacring their friends and kindred in the colonies, I leave your majesty to judge. I am saved the trouble, from well knowing the principles of your preceptor, of blushing for his remissness in your education, but I sincerely lament your majesty's misfortune in discovering so great an ignorance of the histories of your own nations, as well as those of France, Spain, Germany, and other countries; an intimacy with which must have made you sensible of the fatal corruption and evils which have been produced in the world by an over-bearing administration of monarchy. "The breach of a tyrant's blasts and poisons every thing, changes blessings and plenty into curses and misery, great cities into gloomy solitudes, and their rich citizens into beggars and vagabonds." Effects similarly dismal now threaten your dominions every where; your sun of glory is fast setting; your kingdoms at home depopulating; arts and manufactures, the support of states, rapidly decaying; and your millions of your American subjects, whose prosperity and opulence would have been the pride and glory of a wise and good sovereign, determined rather to yield their lives than make a sacrifice of
their liberty at the shrine of despotism. Good God, for I awake from your lethargy, and recede from the measures you have taken. Do not believe that your brave and free-born American subjects possess the same poltroon principles of those base-minded tools, those abject tools, who buy your smiles at the price of truth and their consciences. They acknowledge you as their rightful sovereign, and as such ever did, and now do profess, for your sacred person, a decent and loyal obedience as subjects, but they dare tell you they will never become your slaves. The sword, great fire, is a dreadful umpire; and much as the unhappy differences, which have fatally interrupted the peace and interest of Great Britain and her colonies, have been heightened by the wicked schemes of your ministers, and your own too early concurrence in them, it is not yet too late to recur to a milder mode of determining the controversy. Hear with your own ears, and behold with your own eyes, the humble and dutiful representations of your petitioning subjects, let their complaints come before you, and direct them impartially; but, previous thereto, reverse the severe decrees against them, which you too rashly confirmed; for even an atrocious criminal is not tried until he is loosed from his bonds. Your majesty will then be sensible how hardly and unjustly they have been treated; and remember, that though subjects have made concessions to kings, kings have also made concessions to their subjects. Your people throughout these extensive colonies are ready to stretch forth the hand of amity, and to convince you that they are, upon all occasions, willing to render up their lives and fortunes in your just service. It is yours, sir, to maintain and support, equitably, the prerogative of your crown; it is your subjects to oppose every encroachment of that authority, to prevent the smallest violation of their civil and religious liberties, and to endeavour to be always before hand with the pope, the Devil, and ALL their emissaries, which, to avert the mischiefs of furious, unyielding, and destructive tyranny, it is beyond all doubt, they will incessantly and vigorously strive to effect. SCIPION.
FROM THE PUBLIC LEDGER. To the PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
THE passing of the Quebec bill, although so shameful an infringement on the constitution, and so flagrant a breach of the coronation oath, ought not to surprise us. It is no new thing for princes to commit perjury, or to attempt to establish popery and slavery in their dominions; but it would be new indeed (and God forbid that it should ever happen) did such tyrants escape a punishment equal to their demerits. The English history is replete with instances both of the perfidy of our princes, and the manly resistance of the people; for as often as kings have attempted to subvert the free constitution of this country, destruction hath been swiftly hurled on their miscreant heads. The detestable minions who at present surround the throne, and, serpent-like, dart their venom at the heart of majesty; the leaden-headed ministers of this religion-loving reign, seem to be confident that, by a systematic plan of corruption, they shall be able to reduce this mighty empire to an abject state of slavery, and erect the standard of despotism in the heart of the British dominions; but they had better desist from the attempt, or to their cost they will find that, according to the poet, it is "delusion all." The French have been, and are enslaved; the once warlike Danes have submitted to the galling yoke; Sweden now groans under absolute tyranny; those Swedes, who made so shining a figure in the annals of Europe, have ignobly survived the loss of liberty, and degenerated into the servile condition of base born slaves. In fine, most of the princes of Europe seem to have entertained designs unfavourable to liberty, and to have carried those designs into every country which, by either force or fraud, they have been able to subdue. Hence, encouraged by the success foreign tyrants have met with in their attempts to tear up by the roots the civil rights of men; encouraged by this, a crew of ignoble villains have impudently dared to make a similar damnable attempt on the liberties of Great Britain, her Asiatic and American dependencies! His majesty we readily acquit of the attempt; he is too chaste to tamper in seductive arts; he is most deservedly the darling of his people; for his pious ears are ever as open to their complaints as to the tolling of a chapel bell. But this the trump of truth should sound in the ears of the nincompoops in office, that the British empire never will submit to any tyrants; Britons dare and will be free; and if either a Brunswick, a Bute, or a Mansfield, should make a diabolic attempt to enslave them; should they openly establish popery and French laws in any part of the English dominions (which they have all solemnly sworn not to do) should this be the case, I will not mention the manner in which they ought to be punished; I will not presume to prophesy their fate, nor dare I hint at the vengeance of a routed, long insulted, and much injured people; but I may, without offence, remind my fellow subjects of the British empire, that there are (and, sorry am I to say it, since a certain act hath passed) three vacant SPIKES on Temple Bar.
A SCOTCHMAN.
To General GAGE. SIR,
THE measures of the British administration have of late been so infamous, that no man can guide them without being the subject of general censure. The domestic virtues of lord North, and the religious graces of lord Dartmouth, have not exempted them from the execrations of the public. These facts have been examined by a new sect of philosophers at St. James's, and have been pronounced the truest touchstone of merit. The acclamations of millions are now looked upon as the breath of faction, and the resentment of a nation is esteemed the only reward (to borrow a phrase from the court) for doing one's duty. The times are forgotten when every breath that ascended from Britain called down blessings upon the heads of Bureleigh and Chatham. Contemptus famæ, contemni virtutem. Public virtue, and the love of fame, will always stand and fall together in a free country. This introduction was necessary in an address to your excellency. You have learned, since your graduation at the British St. Omer's, to prefer the approbation of your sovereign to the applause of the whole of your fellow subjects in America. You have substituted the former for the latter with the name of calumny. Give me leave, sir, to examine the nature of this vice, and to enquire how far you have a right to charge your loss of character on it. Calumny is a tax, imposed by a few bad men only, upon extraordinary merit. The influence of a party has sometimes made it general; but in such cases it is always transitory. A few strictures upon your character and conduct will show how far you are entitled to the honour of suffering from this cause. You are so far from possessing any extraordinary merit that you have defeated the designs of your friends, who attempted to supply your want of the qualities of a governor, and a general, by ascribing to you the simple virtues of a good man. You have not been condemned by a transitory faction, but by the permanent, unbiased suffrages, of every free man in America. By assuming to yourself, therefore, those credentials of merit, which justice and wisdom derive from calumny, you commit a more criminal act of forgery than ever was expiated at Tyburn. You have received many flattering addresses since your accession to your government. Permit me to furnish your excellency with a medium, through which I beg you would read them. The art of embalming dead
bodies was contrived only to preserve them from putrefaction. Flattery serves the same purposes upon living characters. It collects the scattered rays of human depravity into a focus. The most flagitious crimes appear like holiness when compared with the offerings which it has kindled at the shrine of arbitrary power. I blush for my country when I reflect that she has discovered in her infancy a return to her federal bond by injured this original corruption. Men have been found, even in Boston, who have absolved a Bernard and an Hutchinson. The same men have extolled your moderation and equity. They have discovered an olive branch in your mouth. Nay, they have gone further. They have equalled, in maturity of corruption, the sycophants in the eye of Westminster. They have ascribed to your excellency abilities.
It is to no purpose to say that some of those men are persons of the first rank and fortune in your government. Men of such characters were the first on the list of defection in the united provinces. I honour public virtue in a rich man as much as I do piety in a soldier; but I never harbour the idea of America being enslaved without fancying I see the badges of our subjection seared with the names of men, who have been fattened upon her breasts. This idea is at all times a fugitive one; for since the spirit of liberty has gone forth among our farmers, I no longer wish to pry into the decrees of Heaven. I see already transcribed, in the annals of our history, the Americans are an incincible people. The dominion of VIRGINIA has given the signal to the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay for resistance and reproof; and it is not because your iniquities have not exceeded the price of their blood that they have not made the severity of military discipline necessary in your government. Their allegiance to the crown of Great Britain borders upon enthusiasm; but should you provoke them by another illegal proclamation, I tremble to think of the consequences. The savages who chased you on the banks of the Ohio were gentle as lambs, compared with men bereaved of their liberties. You will find the strength of the British Lyon has not been impaired by his couching a century or two in the woods of America. The Americans have hitherto viewed you with pity, as part of that unconscionable machine, which was set to work by some invisible hands, to destroy the British constitution in America. But you have lately discovered your relation to human nature, by shewing that you possess the principle of revenge. The sovereign of the British empire, the arbiter of Europe, and the Neptune of the ocean, called forth the wisdom and power of both houses of parliament, together with the flower of his troops, to deprive a merchant in Boston of his property in a wharf. As humble in your imitation of his majesty's reignment, as of his royal proclamation for encouraging virtue and piety, you have chosen the same man as the object of your revenge. You have deprived him of his company of cadets, and have condescended to assign a reason for it, which will be ratified at St. James's.
"Colonel Hancock has used me ill, and has not treated me with that respect that is due to the governor of the province; therefore I dismissed him. I will not be treated ill by colonel Hancock, nor any other man in the province."
Could the truth of our reflections upon our sovereign be washed away, tears of blood should not be wanting for that purpose. I cannot, however, agree with the majority of his subjects in attributing to him a single with to enslave his empire. Tyrants have always made pioneers of their ministers, but the present ministry have placed our sovereign upon the forsaken hope. By investing him with a discretionary power to repeal the Boston port bill, they have staked his popularity in America, his revenues, and his crown, upon the success of a sham engagement. Let not our suffering countrymen in Boston call the wisdom, justice, and lenity, of our king, in question. The power of prolonging your misery was forced upon him by his ministers. Let your imprecations for vengeance fall only upon the heads of Bute, Mansfield, and North. Mercy to such wretches would transform herself into a common prostitute. Let nothing satiate your rage till the scaffold overflows with their blood. The garden of liberty in England stands in need of such manure. Patriots, American patriots, shall spring up spontaneously from it.
JUNIOR AMERICANUS.
BOSTON, September 29.
THE following letter, dated September 12, from one of the best characters in a distant part of the province to his friend in Boston, merits the attention of the public: "I imagine that by this time you are made in a good degree acquainted with the general commotion that has been lately caused by the mistaken report that the army was come out of Boston, murdering the people in the country, and taking from them their ammunition; the movements in Connecticut have been great, still greater in this province; thousands of men have mustered, armed, and travelled, some on horseback, 20, 30, and 40 miles. I apprehend that such mistakes, and the alarms occasioned by them, will be likely by and by to harden the people so that there will be great danger of their not moving at all, or not in season, when there shall be a real necessity of it. It appears to me, sir, therefore, absolutely necessary, that there should be a number of vigilant, judicious, trusty, and faithful men, appointed in Boston, another set of like men in Roxbury, another in Charlestown, and perhaps in other places, whose names shall be published to the country, whose particular duty and business it shall be to determine where the aid and assistance of the country shall be called for, and that the call and demand be always in writing, under the hands of such committee, or some of them, and that they signify for what time the people should come prepared to stay, if the occasion will permit so much writing. Something of this sort, I humbly conceive, may be proper for the present groundless alarms, and that the people below, in case of emergencies, may have timely and necessary relief. But it seems to me most clear, that there is immediate necessity of a provincial congress or convention, to settle more matters than I can now enumerate, as the above. I am, &c."
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated September 11. "The contempt and abhorrence in which addressers, protestors, and sworn counsellors, are held here, is ineffable." Extract of a letter from a gentleman of distinction in Philadelphia to his friend in this town.
"I cannot but congratulate you on the appearance of a spirit so decisive and vigorous in this august body, at so critical a juncture, and I hope it will have a happy effect with you. This continent is now completely represented from New Hampshire to Georgia, and as far as we are able to judge from the account of what passes within doors, and private conversation without, a more glorious assembly of patriots have never met since the days of the first Charles; if there has been any lukewarmness, it is swallowed up, and lost in the public virtue, which surrounds it. We have the utmost reason to think there will be no strife or emulation, but who shall do most for his country."
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Dorchester, &c. September 26, 1774. "WHEREAS a number of carpenters have gone from this town, to build barracks for the soldiers, voted, that they be desired to desist therefrom, and that if they refuse to desist, they will incur the displeasure of the town. A copy of the vote passed the day above said."
Last Friday the town made choice of Dr. Joseph Warren, Dr. Benjamin Church, and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton, to serve as delegates in the provincial congress, to be held at Concord, on the second Tuesday of

October next, in addition to the four representatives of this town, and the following instructions for our representatives were voted, viz.
Gentlemen, As we have chosen you to represent us in the great and general court to be held at Salem, on Wednesday the 5th day of October next ensuing, We do hereby instruct you, that in all your doings, as members of the house of representatives, you adhere firmly to the charter of this province, granted by their majesties king William and queen Mary, and that you do no act which can possibly be construed into an acknowledgment of the validity of the act of the British parliament for altering the government of the province of Massachusetts Bay; more especially that you acknowledge the honourable board of counsellors, elected by the general court at their sessions in May last, as the only rightful and constitutional council of this province; and we have reason to believe that a conscientious discharge of your duty will produce your dissolution as an house of representatives. We do hereby empower and instruct you to join with the members who may be sent from this and the other towns in the province, and to meet with them at a time to be agreed on in a general provincial congress, to act upon such matters as may come before you in such a manner as shall appear to you most conducive to the true interest of this town and province, and most likely to preserve the liberties of all America.
October 3. It is said, that upon the arrival of admiral Montague in London the merchants there began to be very uneasy at their having shipped their goods to America, and that many of them wished they had stopped their hands until the disputes between the mother country and the colonies were settled.
Extract of a letter from London, dated July 30. "Do not be surprised if you should hear that other bills, worse, if possible, than those you have heard of, should pass next sessions of parliament, as I am told there are some for dividing and separating the provinces, taking away the charters of some, and abolishing the government of others, and joining them to others."
We have the pleasure to assure the public, that at the earnest request of a number of the wisest and best friends to American liberty (in this and the other colonies) Josiah Quincy, junr. Esq. sailed for England last Wednesday morning, on board capt. ... Mr. Quincy's acquaintance with the other colonies, and his perfect knowledge of the laws of the province, renders him capable of doing ... that he will employ his opportunities and talents to the utmost in the lasting welfare of the old and new world.
Last week all the ... carpenters that were employed in framing barracks for the ...
Extract of a letter from Worcester, dated September 27. "Yesterday we had a meeting of all the male inhabitants of this town, from the age of 16 to 70, who formed themselves into companies, and proceeded to the choice of officers. These who held their commissions under Hutchinson (except a few) have resigned them. One third part of the inhabitants were appointed to be in readiness to march, at a minute's warning, to whatever place their assistance may be wanting. On Friday next there will be a meeting of the county committee, in order to remonstrate to general Gage respecting his fortifications at the only entrance by land into our much esteemed capital."
Sires, outhouses, &c. are engaged in different parts of this town for barracks, sufficient to accommodate the several regiments that are now here.
NEW YORK, October 6.
IT is surmised that Joseph Thorpe (who was formerly advertised in this and other papers, with a reward of 50l. and 10 per cent. on the sum recovered) is still upon this continent, and thought to be lurking in the interior parts of the eastern colonies. The public are therefore earnestly requested to keep a sharp look out, at the different tea ports, to prevent the villain's escaping; and also to give whatever information they can respecting him, to any of the persons mentioned in the advertisements, that may be nearest to them. It appears his real name is JOSEPH THROPP, a native of Litchfield, in Staffordshire.
October 10. At a meeting of the importers of goods from Great Britain, to take into consideration the dissatisfaction that has already appeared upon the advance of divers articles, some of them the real necessaries of life, and being determined, as far as in us lies, to preserve the peace of the country, we think it necessary, in order to remove the cause for any future murmurings, to make the following declarations: That we will not, from the ... of a non-importation agreement, put any unreasonable ... when such an agreement shall have taken place ... for a moderate profit, and no more; that we will not ... all engrossers, and persons who buy up goods with a view of creating an artificial scarcity, thereby to obtain a more plausible pretext for enhancing prices; that if any retailer, or other person, should, by a contrary conduct, endeavour to defeat these our good intentions, we will, as one man, decline dealing with him, and shall consider him or them as the author or authors of all the disturbances that shall be consequent thereupon. Signed by order of a large number of importers met at the Exchange.
HENRY REMSEN.
This morning his majesty's 47th regiment, and part of the Royal Irish, will embark on board the transports, and sail directly for Boston. The remainder of the Royal Irish, we are informed, will be stationed here for the ensuing winter.
NEW PORT, October 3.
BY a very moderate computation it is most certain, that if the present tyrannic plan carrying on against the colonies should succeed, there would be, in ten years time, an increase of not less than TEN THOUSAND idle, ministerial tools, in this country, put into petty offices to prey on the industry of the people.
Liberty poles, from 100 to 170 feet high, are erected and erecting in most of the towns in Connecticut.
Captain Gage is arrived at Salem, from London, and brings advice that the merchants there were so thoroughly convinced a non-importation would take place in America that they had determined to stop all the vessels then loading for the colonies, and take out what goods they had put on board, being persuaded they would not be received here.
We have good reason to think that lord Dartmouth has transmitted a number of copies of a jespitical, ministerial pamphlet, in defence of the Canada bill, to every governor in America, with the vain hope of reconciling the free and protestant Americans to that most detestable act, calculated to enable the ministry to exert the whole force of the French papists in that colony, to destroy the British protestant colonies, and to establish the most arbitrary and despotic government throughout America. Quere, whether this condescension of a secretary of state, in spreading pamphlets in America, written by some birdling tool of the ministry (perhaps a wretched garetter) is a proof of the boasted almighty power and authority of parliament?
Extract of a letter from Boston, dated September 25.
"Let me felicitate you, with my whole soul, on the divine entertainment that awaits you in the publications of this day. Mr. Revere returned last Friday evening. The continental congress are such as we wished them. The name of a Bostonian succeeds to the Roman in the scroll of fame."
"I have a letter from our common friend Adams: He is animation itself; and Revere tells me, that had the resolutions of Suffolk county been less animated, less sensible, they would have concluded at Philadelphia that we had freighted our members at the congress there with all the spirit and wisdom of the colony; such, and so respected, are they. General L- is there, battenning beneath the rays of the assembled gods; he rejoices unmeasurably at the brightening prospect. I saw a letter from London, this day, to Smith, timman. His friend informs him that government are determined to carry their point, and to continue a standing army in this capital, and a large fleet in the harbour, till the rebels submit. Poor Britain! I could laugh at her folly, did I not lament her wretchedness. Our representatives are appointed for the general court, the old ones, an addition of three delegates for the provincial congress, Warren, Church, and Appleton."
"The centinels on the Neck grow more and more insolent, challenging and abusing passengers. Last evening Joseph Russell had his horse stabbed by them on entering the town. How long, O Lord! how long?"
Last Monday some of our committee of correspondence waited on captain Smith, of the brig Thomas and Betty, who arrived the day before from London, as mentioned in our last, to enquire whether he had any tea, who declared he had none, that tea was offered him, but refused, and that if any had been put on board he would have given up the voyage. Captain Smith further said that all the New England captains had refused to take any tea.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated September 29.
"The congress have passed the vote for an absolute non-importation; the particulars will be made public tomorrow or next day. Captain Eyre, who was to sail for London this morning, is detained to take the account with him."
PHILADELPHIA, October 5. Extract of a letter from St. John's parish, in Georgia, September 2.
THE struggle for liberty, in the province of Georgia, has been very considerable. At a general convention at Savannah, on the 10th day of August, a number of spirited resolutions were entered into, and unanimously agreed upon, as you may see published in the Georgia gazette; but a difference of opinion arising on this proposition, viz. "Whether deputies should be sent to join with the deputies of the other colonies at the general congress?" It was over ruled in the negative; but this negative was maintained by a majority of numbers of the gentlemen of Savannah, who were not properly constituted, and had no right to vote in the case. The other parishes immediately expressed their dissatisfaction, and made a second attempt, in which the parish of St. John took the lead, and came to this further resolution: "That if the majority of the other parishes would join with them, they would send deputies to join the general congress, and faithfully and religiously abide by and conform to such determinations and resolutions, as should be there entered into, and come from thence recommended." Their meeting was on the 30th of August, at which time there appeared representatives from two parishes, viz. St. George's and St. David's, to join with the parish of St. John. As we since learn that the parish of St. Andrew has concurred in the same resolution) and that the other parishes were inclined to nominate one deputy, who will, in the name of all, be finally, attend at the general congress. It is important to us, that a subscription for the relief of the unhappy sufferers at Boston; and, in this single parish, have already subscribed to the amount of two hundred barrels of rice, which is to be forwarded by the committee of correspondence, and they, with the other parishes that join them, express the strongest desire to be united with the other colonies, in every constitutional measure, for the removal of public grievances, and are willing, in this noble struggle, to exert themselves to the utmost, to make every sacrifice that men, impressed with the strongest sense of their rights and liberties, and warm with the most benevolent feelings for their oppressed brethren, can make, to stand firmly, or fall gloriously, in the common cause."
Although we may have blankets enough to keep us warm for this winter, yet, in all probability, we may want next, if a non-importation should take place, and we be drained of what few there are in this place; therefore, the venders of BLANKETS are desired to be cautious to whom they sell, as the order for that article is renewed to a gentleman in this city, from general Gage, for the use of his soldiery, who are at the siege of Boston.
We hear a number of gentlemen in Fairfax county, Virginia, being alarmed in this time of extreme danger with the Indian enemy in their own country, and threatened with the destruction of their civil rights and liberties, and all that is dear to British subjects and freemen, are determined to use their utmost endeavours to make themselves masters of the military exercise, and to hold themselves in readiness in case of necessity, hostile invasion, or real danger of the community, of which they are members, to defend to the utmost of their power, the just prerogatives of their sovereign king George the third, and the just rights and privileges of their country, the liberty, prosperity, and themselves, upon the principles of the British constitution.
As it is confidently asserted, that the Canadians are to be poured in on the back parts of our provinces, the English troops in our front, and our governors forbid giving assent to militia laws, make it high time that we should look around us, and enter into associations for learning the use of arms, and to chuse officers; so that if ever we should be attacked, we may be able to defend ourselves, and not be drove like sheep to the slaughter.
Since our last arrived here the ship Union, captain Bryson, from Rotterdam, with 250 German passengers.
We are informed by a gentleman from Winchester, in Virginia, that the inhabitants have entered into associations to discountenance all butchers or other persons who shall presume to kill or offer for sale a sheep of any sort after the 20th of last month.
Extract of a letter from Boston.
"The other day, at the north end, I fell into conversation with an honest shipcarpenter. Very dull times, Mr. R-! "Yes, sir, very dull. The last vessel which was upon the stocks, in this part of the town, was launched this week, and there is to be no more set up, because the admiral will not let them sail after they are launched." This is very discouraging; do not you think it time to submit, pay for the tea, and get the harbour opened? "Submit! No, it can never be time to become slaves; I have yet some pork and meal, and when they are gone I will eat clams; and after we have dug up all the clam banks, if the congress will not let us fight, I will retreat to the woods; I am always sure of acorns." What a Roman! By heaven, I glory in being this man's fellow citizen!"
October 12. We have authority to assure the public, that the reports which have been circulated respecting a neighbouring governor having wrote to the ministry, recommending certain hostile measures against America, are without any just foundation.
Extract of a letter from London.
"This being the time of recess from public business, little is stirring in the political hemisphere; but to shew that your friends here are not idle, a pamphlet is enclosed, which is now circulating in this kingdom. The spirit which has appeared in all America has given much uneasiness to our wicked ministers, and I conjecture they will, by their wicked emissaries, try every expedient to bring about a disunion among you, when the congress meets; therefore, with much circumspection you should watch their motions, and take all possible precaution to defeat their attempts. It appears to me the greatest stake that ever was played for; no less than whether the Americans, and their endless generations, shall enjoy the common rights of mankind, or be worse than eastern slaves. The trial must now come to issue, as open war is declared by the Boston port act, the others for altering your charter, and licensing the soldiery and customhouse officers in
murder and bloodshed, and above all, by the Quebec bill. These are the fruits of the seeds that have been sowing ever since 1764; therefore it will be necessary in your bill of rights, which it appears the congress means to draw up, to specify every oppressive act of parliament since that period, and if that is done with decency and manly firmness, I think lord Chatham and his friends will support it, though it is by no means prudent to rely over much on any support on this side the water; your chief confidence must be in your own virtue, unanimity, and steadiness; temper and resolution must be joined. When your bill of rights is agreed on, the great consideration will be how to get it confirmed here. Was the congress composed of deputies, regularly authorized by the assemblies of each province, it would be proper to have it presented to the king, by a deputation from every colony; but as the congress will not be so constituted, your bill will not be received through such a medium; therefore I suppose it must pass through the old channel of the agents. But this I would have you rely on, as a thing of absolute certainty, that, your bill or petition will not be in the least regarded, unless you can compel the merchants, manufacturers, and people of England, to join you. For this end I know of no possible means, but immediately to stop all commerce with this country, both exports and imports, which plan must be steadily and with the strictest faith adhered to, until you have obtained redress. The want of American naval stores, particularly pitch, tar, and turpentine, would be most sensibly felt here immediately; and tobacco alone yields above 500,000l. to the revenue, which deficiency it would puzzle the ministers in the extreme to make good. Your province will surely be wise and prudent enough not to enter into any violent measures, without the strictest concert with the other colonies, particularly Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, because upon them depend the whole effect of the American non-exportation. The northern colonies have all the European markets almost for their exports; those colonies have hardly any but the English market for their chief exports, which are tobacco and naval stores; therefore it will acquire your greatest address to get them to join in the non-exportation as well as the non-importation, for I am well convinced that the latter without the former will not avail, nor indeed will they both do, unless put in immediate practice; for if you lose the present crisis, the new house of commons will be modelled in a year's time to the ministerial mould, and Carleton will have forwarded the plan of the Quebec bill, so that any resistance you can make then will be fruitless; whereas if all commerce is immediately stopped, the intelligence will be known over the whole kingdom in the winter, when we are in the height of a general election, and then will be the best time that can be wished for the people at large to convince the candidates to serve in parliament of the necessity there is to do you justice, by repealing all the late wicked acts; and I think it more than probable, that in such an event it would be made a stipulation with the candidates, that they should use their utmost efforts to obtain a total repeal of all the oppressive acts that you complain of. You must make the merchants feel before they will stir for you, as their conduct respecting the Boston port bill sufficiently evinces."
Last Sunday morning left this ... a certain DAVID ... others of the passive obedient ... This person is one of the truly despicable addressers to the infamous traitor HUTCHINSON. His sudden departure was occasioned by a visit from some respectable gentlemen of this city, who assured him his continuance in this place was highly disagreeable, and that, was he found here after a certain hour on that day, they would not be answerable for the consequences that might ensue. As we are informed there are several of the same kidney daily expected here, it is hoped this notice will render it needless for them to be waited on in the same manner. They having taken their rout through New York; it is not doubted they will meet all the respect due to them in that city.
Extract of a letter from London, dated August 6.
"Our newspapers are replete with alarming resolutions and associations on your side the water, which does not a little affect our ministry. It is an unlooked for event. The talk is, that these worthy men will make the late governor Hutchinson the scape goat, if no other resource is to be found."
The following is a LIST of the DELEGATES who attend the CONGRESS at PHILADELPHIA.
FROM New Hampshire, major John Sullivan, and colonel Nathaniel Folsom. From Massachusetts Bay, the honourable Thomas Cushing, esquire, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert T. Paine, esquires. From Rhode Island, the honourable Stephen Hopkins, esquire, and the honourable Samuel Ward, esquire. From Connecticut, the honourable Eliphalet Dyer, Silas Deane, and the honourable Roger Sherman, esquires. From New York, James Duane, John Jay, Philip Schuyler, Isaac Low, colonel William Floyd, and Henry Wefter, esquires. From New Jersey, James Kinsey, William Livingston, John L. Stevens, esquires, and Kichard Smith, esquires. From Pennsylvania, the honourable Joseph Galloway, Samuel Rhoads, Thomas Mifflin, Charles Humphreys, John Morton, Edward Biddle, and George Ross, esquires. From New Castle, Kent, and Sussex government, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, and George Read, esquires. From Maryland, Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, junior, Robert Goldsborough, William Paca, and Samuel Chase, esquires. From Virginia, the honourable Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, esquires. From North Carolina, William Hooper, and Joseph Hewes, esquires. From South Carolina, the honourable Henry Middleton, John Rutledge, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, and Edward Rutledge, esquires.
To the printer of the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
SIR,
BY a letter, which I have just now received from a correspondent of the first credit in Barbados, I am enabled to assure you that an express had lately arrived there from the British court, the purport of which was to know how far that island might be aggrieved non-exportation from these colonies to it; that, in consequence thereof, the council convened; that the result of the convention was their unanimous opinion that non-exportation from the colonies to said island must inevitably prove distressing to its inhabitants in the highest degree, and that it was generally believed the inhabitants of the West India islands would immediately prefer a petitionary remonstrance to the British parliament, in hopes of preventing a suspension of an intercourse so

valuable and convenient to them. Thus, fir, notwithstanding what is advanced against the propriety and success of a non-importation and non-exportation agreement, by a few men whose political sentiments veer as circumstances of private interest occur, it is evident, even beyond probability, that should virtue and a steady perseverance, founded under the interposition of Divine Providence, on the justice of our cause, from the grand conjunction of continental interests, we may expect, instead of being reduced to a nation of slaves, to become the freest and happiest of all people, and transmit to our posterity the invaluable blessing of liberty in such maturity, and on such a firm basis, that the characters of Rome and Athens, when at the summit of liberty, and the acquisitions of Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Syracuse, and all the greatest commercial states of those times, will be faint when put in comparison with the superior greatness and unequalled virtue of Americans.
C A T O.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 28.
THE congress is at length broke up. Willingly would we oblige our readers with a full account of the most material transactions of that august body, but want of time hinders us. Next week we hope to present them with news highly satisfactory to every well-wisher to America, and shall now take the opportunity to acquaint them that the resolves entered into by this colony were almost universally adopted, a few particulars only excepted. It seems the Carolinians, as rice being their most essential commodity, are indulged to export that article, but to what place we are not yet acquainted with. The non-importation and non-exportation scheme is to take place a month after the time which was prefixed by our assembly, at the late convention held in this city. They have also determined not to export to, or import from, any of the West India islands, commodities of what nature soever. Colonel Pendleton, and Patrick Henry, esquire, are returned to their respective homes, and the other delegates are hourly expected.
General Gage having issued writs, bearing date the 1st of September last, for the election of members, to serve as representatives in a great and general court, which he did "think fit and appoint" to be convened and hold the 5th day of October instant, and they having met accordingly, but were not favoured with his presence, or other constitutional officer, there to be qualified, agreeable to charters, for taking seats, and acting as representatives, to serve in the great and general court; and as a proclamation, by his excellency, bearing date the 28th of September, was published, containing many reflections on that province, as a tumultuous people, they therefore consider the said reflections as highly injurious and unkind, and as tending to an opposition to a reconciliation between Great Britain and the colonies; a reconciliation so much wished for by every well-wisher to America.
THE subscribers being engaged in the erection of a WOOLLEN and WORSTED MANUFACTORY, have met with great encouragement, by our worthy representatives, in their late convention, which we esteem as the most certain prelude of success; and being encouraged by many of the most patriotic gentlemen of the country, have presumed to ask the assistance of such persons as may incline to promote so beneficial an undertaking. We have given security to repay in work all the money any gentleman may advance for our encouragement, in the following manner, viz. Half the price of our work to be received in cash, the other half, from time to time, is to be placed to the credit of our generous benefactors, till the whole is repaid; which will enable the subscribers to carry on their business with life and spirit; who have, at a great expence, sent to Great Britain for a number of the best workmen, among whom there is to be a flocking weaver, which branch of business will, if we meet with proper encouragement, be carefully attended to. As our works will be very convenient to the counties of King William, New Kent, and Henrico (being placed in the lower end of Hanover) we hope their inhabitants in particular will favour us with their custom. To the gentlemen who have subscribed we gratefully return our sincere and warmest thanks, and entreat them, and others, who may incline to promote American manufactures, to favour us with their subscriptions as soon as possible, as we are under the necessity to advance considerable sums to complete the works, and procure the necessary utensils. SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken, and the monies received, by Mr. Bartholomew Dandridge of New Kent, Major John Hickman of King William, Mr. William Duval, attorney, of Henrico, and in Hanover by the public's obliged, and very humble servants,
ELISHA & ROBERT WHITE.
WE the subscribers will be responsible to the gentlemen who have or may subscribe for the encouragement of Eliza and Robert White's WOOLLEN MANUFACTORY, and do oblige ourselves that they shall comply with their engagements to the subscribers, or that they shall return the subscribers their money. Witness our hands this 15th day of August, 1774.
SAMUEL MEREDITH, BARRETT WHITE, JOHN STARK, RICHARD CHAPMAN.
For the information of all whom it may concern, I give this public notice, that JAMES McDONALD (or M'DANIEL) labourer, EDWARD SWENEY, butcher, EDWARD LUTON, shoemaker, and PATRICK RYAN, were, on the 17th of this present month, brought to the bar of the general court, then sitting, to take their trials for a supposed murder, by them committed in Pittsylvania county, where they were apprehended. Ryan was sworn as a witness, and the other three being convicted of manslaughter, were burnt in the hand.
It appearing to the court that they were accused of a certain felony in the province of North Carolina, they were remanded to gaol. They were transported to this country as convicts, and have been in possession of Mr. John Hook, merchant in Bedford, who sold or consigned them to Messieurs Chambers and Montgomery, merchants in Salisbury, North Carolina, whence they fled from justice.
M c Donald, or M c Daniel, is 20 years old, has short, brown, curled hair, a thin visage, blue eyes, is of a slender make, and about 5 feet 4 inches high.
Sweny is of M c Donald's height, 32 years old, has short dark hair, blue eyes, a down-cast look, and is well made.
Luton is 25 years old, has dark short hair, blue eyes, is thin visaged, of a slender make, 5 feet 10 inches high, and is a very saucy, impertinent fellow.
Ryan is 25 years old, has dark short hair, hazel eyes, is long visaged, has a full beard, and is 5 feet 4 inches high. They are all Irishmen.
I shall be ready to deliver them to any person or persons who may make a proper application to PETER PELHAM, Williamburg, Oct. 27, 1774. Keeper of the public gaol.
To be SOLD, at the Rocky Ridge, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 10th day of November,
TWENTY-FIVE VIRGINIA BORN SLAVES.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, or tobacco, on Monday the 14th of November, at Louisa courthouse, being court day, A TRACT OF LAND, lying on Cuffy's Creek, containing by estimation 550 acres. This land was purchased by William Temple of the executors of John Ragland, deceased, and by him sold to Benjamin Pynes, and is now offered for sale by virtue of a deed of trust from said Pynes to
OVERTON COSBY and company.
To be SOLD, pursuant to an act of assembly, on Monday the 5th of December next, being Prince William court day, at the courthouse, in the town of Dumfries,
THE GLEBE LANDS of Dettingen parish, in the said county, adjoining Westwood, the seat of the reverend Mr. James Scott, the present incumbent, situate on Quantico Run, about 9 miles from Dumfries and Aquia. The soil is good for wheat or tobacco; and there may be got some meadow on the same. Six months credit will be given by
THE CHURCHWARDENS.
For L O N D O N.
THE ship Bland, Michael Danby, master, now lying at Norfolk, has two thirds of her cargo engaged, will take in tobacco, on liberty of consignment, at 5l. sterling per ton, has good accommodations for passengers, and will sail by the 15th of November. Notes, or orders, left with Mr. Thomas Gordon, merchant in Petersburg, Mr. George Lwiner, merchant in Urbanna, Mr. Gavin Hamilton, merchant in Norfolk, or the master on board, will be particularly attended to. October 23, 1774.
RUN away from a small schooner, called the Kingston, just below Four Mile Creek, a tall, slim, thin visaged man, who goes by the name of William Griffin; had on a black yarn waistcoat, and a wilton one under it, a check shirt, and oznabrig trousers. He has very sore legs. Took out of my chest a pocket book, containing eight or ten pounds in cash, a silver stockbuckle, a brooch, and a note of hand from Godfrey Walker, at Richmond, for 2l. 9s. 9d. Whoever will take up the said fellow, and bring him to me, in Warwick county, near the courthouse, or commit him to the great gaol, shall receive FIVE POUNDS. PETER RIDLEY.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a chestnut sorrel mare, about 4 feet, 6 inches and an half high, has a switch tail, and hanging mane, some faddle spots, branded on the near buttock 1 G, and is about 5 or 6 years old. Potted, and appraised to 12l.
THOMAS JOHNSON, Minor.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a young bay horse, about 4 feet 4 inches high, about three years old, and branded on the near buttock T T. Potted, and appraised to 7l.
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Just IMPORTED, and to be sold by the subscriber, in Williamsburg, THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, viz.
IRISH linens, dark grounded fine Irish calicoes, white satin, minonnet, blond, and black lace, silk petticoats, satin, stuff, and Didsbury leather shoes, gauze, caquet, and ribbands, silk, cotton, and thread stockings, shawl of all colours, net hoods, patent net ditto, and aprons, tambour sword knots, gilt and other writing paper, under, worsted, and thread stockings, a large assortment of ladies elegant caps, fine Irish garters, and wafers, black silk patterns, violet hair powder, powder puffs, and hair pins, fine lawn and silk pocket handkerchiefs, with bells, white and coloured trimmings for ladies necks, freemason fishes and brooches, satin cloaks, hats, and bonnets, Dresden worked ruffles, childrens stockings, shaving powders, fans, French beads, silk gloves and mits, childrens shoes and staws, flannel waistcoats, new robbangs, paste necklaces and earrings, ditto springs and pins, pearl, garnet, paste, and plain gold lockets, sets of paste buttons for ladies stomachers and sleeve knots, foilstone, paste, silver, pinchbeck, and mourning buckles, paste and silver stock and knee buckles, gold and pebble sleeve buttons, coral and bells, silver teaspoons, salt shovels, punch ladles, tea tongs, and thimbles, ladies riding hats and whips, toothpick cases, inside and outside tooth brushes, pruning, office, pen, and travelling knives, printing types, with double sets of letters and figures, seals and trinkets, watch chains, strings, and keys, diamond pencils, sword canes and rattans, violins, altes skin memorandum books, with instruments, silk purses, cotton night caps and hair nets, with laces, dolls, and toys, and many other things too numerous to insert. The above GOODS to be sold on reasonable terms for ready money.
C. R AT H E L L.
Doctor JOSEPH DE SABBE, LATELY ARRIVED IN WILLIAMSBURG,
OFFERS his best services to all persons who may be afflicted with any disorders incident to the human frame. Without pleading infallibility, or a superior degree of knowledge to many others of his profession, he thinks it necessary to acquaint the public, as being almost a stranger here, that after many years practice in the principal parts of France, and several years experience in America, he can venture to boast his skill in the following disorders, to wit---The JAUNDICE of any kind, AGUE and FEVER, BLOODY FLUX, violent LAX, ULCERS of the most malignant nature, SCURVY, GRAVEL, WEAKNESS of the EYES, the cure of the FILM, CONSUMPTION, &c. &c. &c. Those who please to favour him with their commands may rely on the strictest attendance being given, and the utmost care taken of them.
FOR SALE.
THE land and plantation where I now live, in New Kent county, containing about 300 acres of good level land, with good improvements thereon. There are about 40,000 corn hills sowed in wheat, and very promising. This place was advertised some time ago, and a particular description given of its situation and convenience; therefore I think it needless to say any more about it, as I presume the purchaser would chuse to view the premises before he purchased. Whoever is inclined to purchase may know the terms by applying to me. Also will be sold, at public auction, on the 10th of November next, at New Kent courthouse, being court day, several likely, young, Virginia born NEGROES, for ready money. An undoubted title will be made the purchaser. Those persons that I have trusted with my effects in many counties seem at a great distance from me; I hope they will be honest enough to contrive me the money at the ensuing session of assembly, as I have no other opportunity of getting it. Should it not be convenient for them, any gentlemen coming this way, and particularly those with whom I am acquainted, would readily transact that business for them.
JAMES DILLARD.
P E T E R H A R D Y, In BOTETOURT TOWN,
G L O U C E S T E R C O U N T Y,
CARRIES on the COACH and CHAIR MAKING BUSINESS, in all its various branches, and upon the most reasonable terms. PAINTING, JAPANNING, and GILDING, are done in the neatest and most elegant manner. The most grateful acknowledgments will be made to all those who may please to entrust him with their commands. A WHEELWRIGHT, and two CHAIR-MAKERS, are immediately wanting; to whom he will give good encouragement, if they be discreet, and diligent in their business.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, at Belvoir, on Potowomack river, the late seat of the honourable George William Fairfax, esquire, on Monday the 5th day of December next,
ALL the genteel FURNITURE of two rooms, and KITCHEN FURNITURE, eight or ten HORSES, all his flock of HOGS, and part of his CATTLE and SHEEP, together with the PLANTATION UTENSILS, three WAGGONS, and fifty BARRELS of FISH. Purchasers of more than five pounds will have credit till the 15th day of August next, on giving bond, with approved security, paying interest from the date, if the principal should not be discharged within forty days after it becomes due. At the same time and place will be rented, to the highest bidder, a small PLANTATION, for one year, and two very fine FISHERIES, for a term of years; the MANSION HOUSE, OUT HOUSES, GARDEN, ORCHARDS, and PLANTATION, with a sufficient quantity of LAND to suit the tenant, will also be let for a term of years. Any person inclined may rent the dwellinghouse before the day of sale, and know the terms by applying to FRANCIS WILLIS, junior.
To be SOLD, for ready money, by the executors of Newton Keene, deceased, pursuant to his last will, by public auction, to the highest bidder, on Monday the 19th of November next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, at the place called Newgate, in the county of Loudoun,
A TRACT of valuable LAND, lying in the said county, adjoining to the said place called Newgate, and partly bounded by the Mountain road, containing about 1400 acres; about 100 acres whereof are under a lease for one or two lives, at a small yearly rent. There is only one small plantation, and but very little ground cleared thereon. It has a considerable quantity of ground upon it, fit for improving into meadow, and is extremely well watered and timbered. This land is very conveniently situated, being only 25 miles from Alexandria, 23 from Dumfries, and 18 from Culpepper, and has a merchant mill within less than a mile of it. Newgate is a very public place, and well situated for trade and public house keeping. Deeds will be executed on the day of sale. There will also be sold, by the said executors, for ready money, at public sale, on Monday the 9th of January next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, at the late dwelling plantation of the said Newton Keene, in Northumberland county, TWENTY very likely VIRGINIA born
N E G R O E S,
BELONGING TO HIS ESTATE.
RICHARD LEE, DAVID BOYD, Executors.
STRAYED, or stolen, from the subscriber, in Williamsburg, a small, unbroke, sorrel mare, 3 years old next spring, neither docked or branded; I believe she has a small star in her forehead. Whoever delivers her to me shall have TEN SHILLINGS reward; if stolen, upon conviction of the thief, FORTY SHILLINGS will be given.
WILLIAM BLAND.
THE death of Mr. Hugh McMakin, late of Norfolk, renders it absolutely necessary that the business carried on by him thereby Mr. Matthew Anderson in King & Queen, end by Mr. Christopher Pryor at Gloucester courthouse, be discontinued. All persons, therefore, who are indebted for dealings with either of these gentlemen, on account of Messieurs John McDowell and company, of Glasgow, are earnestly requested to discharge their respective balances immediately. Those who have it not in their power to make payment will, it is expected, grant bond. Messieurs Anderson and Pryor will give constant attendance for that purpose, who are authorized to receive and grant discharges. The goods on hand at King & Queen and Gloucester courthouse, amounting to about 1500l. sterling, will be sold, and the time of payment made as easy to the purchaser as the hardness of the times will admit of. As most of these goods were imported last spring, they are fresh, look well, and are tolerably well assorted. There are likewise on hand a cargo of goods, adapted for the present season, just imported in the Bland, captain Danby, from London, and Juno, captain McCann, from Glasgow, amounting to between 1000l. and 1200l. sterling. For terms apply to Messieurs John Johnson and Archibald Govan at Page's, Mr. Simon Fraser at Urbanna, Mr. Matthew Anderson in King & Queen, or to
BENNETT BROWNE, Attorney in fact
For Messieurs JOHN McDOWELL and company.
VIRGINIA, sc.
At a GENERAL COURT, held at the CAPITOL the 19th day of
October, 1774,
THIS court being unable to proceed upon business, by reason of the non-attendance of the lawyers, suitors, and witnesses, it is ordered, that the court be adjourned till the 10th day of April next. BEN: WALLER.
To be SOLD, and entered upon at Christmas next, THE HOUSES and LOTS in Hanover town, at present in the possession of Mr. John McInverness, who keeps tavern in them. They are well situated for that purpose, having every convenient house, together with a good stable, and large garden, and lie in the most public part of the town, being on the main street that leads to Page's warehouse and the bridge. There have generally been six or eight boarders at the house. Its situation is equally good for a store. A convenient time of payment will be allowed. For terms apply to
JOHN JOHNSON,
ARCHIBALD GOVAN.
THE building of an elegant WOODEN COURTHOUSE for Halifax county will be let, to the lowest bidder, at the place where the courthouse now stands, on the 1st day of November next. The terms of building, and plan, will be shewn that day by
ROBERT WOODING,
WALTER COLES,
GEORGE BOYD,
JOHN COLEMAN.
At the same time and place the building a genteel DWELLING-HOUSE, to stand near the said courthouse, will also be let, to the lowest bidder, by
ROBERT WOODING.
DUMFRIES, October 5, 1774. THE subscriber has for sale a parcel of mens and womens LEATHER and CALIMANCO SHOES, to the amount of about 250l. sterling, well sorted in calks of about 30l. sterling each; also some NEGRO SHOES, which will be disposed of on very reasonable terms. A. CAMPBELL.
TAKEN up, in Northumberland, a dark, iron grey mare, about 7 years old, 4 feet 2 inches high, not branded, has 3 saddle spots, one of them very large. Potted, and appraised to 5l. 10s. GEORGE OLDHAM.
TAKEN up, in the Second Forks of Hanover, a bay horse, 4 feet 2 inch high, has a star in his forehead, some white spots on his fore legs and breast, and some saddle spots, branded on the near buttock W, and on the near shoulder 8, has a roach mane and switch tail, and is about 9 years old. Potted, and appraised to 4l. PETER GOODWIN.
THERE have been three HOGS-HEADS of TOBACCO lying in Hanover warehouse upwards of three years. One of them was brought to inspection by Mr. Devareux Godwin, marked D.G., another by Mr. Thomas Pettit, marked T.P., and the other by Mr. Thomas Bill, marked T.B. WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM.
FALMOUTH, October 11, 1774.
I INTEND to leave the colony immediately. ROBERT LAWSON.
THURSDAY, December 4, 1766.
ORDERED, that the clerks of the several county courts in this colony do transmit to the clerk of this house, in the first part of every meeting of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY, a list of the titheables in their counties, containing the names of such titheables; and that they transmit also, at the same time, a list of the public charges of their respective counties;
Ordered, that the clerk of this house do cause the same to be published in the Virginia gazette,
BY THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES.
G. WYTHE, C. H. B.
TO THE REVEREND THE CLERGY.
Gentlemen, YOU will be pleased to observe, that, according to the agreement entered into by those of you who honoured the late convention with their attendance, the 10th of next month falls out to be the day on which our body is to meet at the college. I am your loving brother, and humble servant, JOHN CAMM. COLLEGE, October 12, 1774.
JAMES GEDDY, GOLD S M I T H,
NEAR THE CHURCH, WILLIAMSBURG,
HAS just imported from London a genteel assortment of PLATE and JEWELLERY; he has likewise on hand all sorts of country made GOLD and SILVER WORK, which he will sell at lower rates than usual. Old SILVER taken in exchange for new work, at 7s. per ounce, and GOLD at 5l. 5s. He repairs his own work, that fails in a reasonable time, without any expence to the purchaser.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 6, 1774.
I BEG leave to inform the public, and particularly those gentlemen who were pleased to take my subscription papers to their respective counties, to raise a small sum of money for the encouragement of making salt, that after viewing many places on this and the other side of the bay, and on the sea coast of the Eastern Shore, I have now fixed on a convenient spot, on the coast, for erecting proper works; and as nothing more can be done on my part, without money, I must beg the favour of them to forward such sums, as they may be able to collect, to Ro. C. Nicholas, esquire, who is so kind as to take the trouble of receiving and paying the money out to me. Proper security shall be lodged in his hands for any sum that I may draw. The certainty of my being able to make salt as good as any whatever is hardly to be doubted, from the several experiments which I have made, and which are pretty fully certified by gentlemen of veracity, whose certificates will be lodged in the hands of Mr. Nicholas. The gentlemen will readily see the necessity I am under of requesting speedy assistance, when I inform them that I have for some time past devoted my whole attention to this business, and given over every pursuit from whence my family might have derived any advantage, and that, in order to put the works in as great forwardness as it was in my power, I have incurred a considerable expence, and been obliged to contract for some of the necessary materials. JAMES TAIT.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 13, 1774.
AT the request of Mr. JAMES TAIT, I do hereby certify, that he hath lodged in my hands his bond, with such securities as I am persuaded, will be approved, for his diligent and expeditious prosecution of his scheme of making SALT, and a faithful application and expenditure of all such sums of money as may be contributed for so desirable a purpose. He is extremely anxious to enter upon the work, and flatters himself that he will be enabled to do it very speedily from the assurances he received of being supported by a generous assistance from different counties. RO. C. NICHOLAS.
TAKEN up, on the Horsepen creek, in Charlotte, a large bay horse, about 4 feet 9 inches high, 14 years old, branded with a poock on the near buttock, has a star in his forehead, and is a natural pacer. Appraised to 2l. 5s. TEMPLE DAVIS.
TAKEN up, in Loudoun, a black horse, about 14 hands high, has a small star in his forehead, and a snip on his nose, branded on the near shoulder W, and on the near buttock R. Potted, and appraised to 12l. FRANCIS PEYTON.