The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1774-06-23 00:00:00

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To the printer of the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
SIR,
THE English constitution, which hath stood the test of ages, and been the envy and wonder of surrounding nations, is now verging towards a dissolution. Luxury, corruption, and an inordinate lust of power, hath been infinitely more fatal than the hostile attacks of all her other foes, and hath finally proved triumphant in England, and, I may say, without pretending to a spirit of prophecy, that American freedom will soon be annihilated, unless we unitedly exert our utmost virtue and firmness; nothing less can rescue our liberties, now eagerly grasped by the Russian hand of power. I lament the unhappy situation of both worlds, and when I think of England, that once renowned seat of freedom and justice, I cannot, in the agony of my mind, help exclaiming in the prophetic language of John of Gaunt, as given by the inimitable Shakespeare:
“England bound in with the triumphant sea, whose rocky shore beats back the enemies of watry Neptune, is bound in with shame, with inky blots and rotten parchment bonds, that England that was wont to conquer others hath made a shameful conquest of itself, Ah!”
The following little extract gave me such pleasure, the perusal, that I would wish to see it recorded among the useful performances that grace your paper:
“As the people are the fountain of power and authority, the original seat of majesty, the authors of laws, and the creators of officers to execute them, if they find the powers they have conferred abused by their trustees, their majesty violated by tyranny, or by usurpation, their authority prostituted to support violence or screen corruption, the laws grown pernicious through accidents unforeseen, or unavoidable, or rendered ineffectual through the infidelity and corruption of the executors of them, then it is their right, and what is their right is their duty, to resume that delegated power, and call their trustees to an account, to resist the usurpation and extirpate the tyranny, to restore their sullied majesty and prostituted authority, to suspend, alter, or abrogate, those laws, and punish their unfaithful and corrupt officers; nor is it the duty only of the united body, but every member of it ought, according to his respective rank, power, and weight, in the community to concur in advancing and supporting those glorious designs.”
“The obligations of every Briton to fulfil the political duties receive a vast accession of strength when he calls to mind of what a noble and well balanced constitution of government he has the honour to partake; a constitution founded on common reason, common consent, and common good; a constitution of free and equal laws, secured against arbitrary will and popular licence, by an admirable temperament of the governing power controuling and controuled by one another. How many every one who has tolerable honesty to acknowledge the happy effects, venerate and love a constitution in which the majesty of the people is, and has been, frequently recognized, in which kings are made and unmade by the choice of the people, laws enacted, or annulled only by their own consent, and for their own good, in which none can be deprived of their property, abridged of their freedom, or forfeit their lives without an appeal to their laws, and the verdict of their peers or equals; a constitution, in fine, the nurse of heroes, the parent of liberty, the patron of learning and arts, the dominion of laws, the pride of Briton, the envy of her neighbours, and their sanctuary too! how dissolute and execrable must their character and conduct be, who, instead of sacrificing their interest and ambition, will not part with the least degree of either, to preserve inviolate, and entail in full vigour to their posterity, such a glorious constitution, the labour of so many ages, and price of so much blood and treasure, but would chuse rather to sacrifice it, and all their own independency, freedom, and dignity, to personal power and hollow grandeur, to any little pageant of a king, who should prefer being the master of slaves to being the guardian of freemen, and consider himself as the proprietor, not the father, of his people. But words cannot express the selfishness and servility of those men, and as little the public and heroic spirit of such, if any such there are, as have virtue enough left to stem the torrent of corruption, and guard our sacred constitution against the profligacy and prostitution of the corruptors and the corrupted.”
From the PUBLIC LEDGER To Lord CLARE.
MY LORD, DURING your administration the colonies were noted for their active zeal in support of his majesty's royal family, and of the power of the whole English nation, in and out of the island of Britain. Since the unhappy measures, which the arts of deluding men have misled ministers into, which were by
in their beginnings opposed, your wisdom and experience shewed you the weakness and wickedness of the persons persuaded, and the creatures persuading them; you foresaw, and with manly fortitude represented against them; and as your firm and clear arguments did not convince, you nobly declined contributing towards measures of which you saw the dangerous tendency. To you, my lord, the people of Bristol lift their eyes, trusting that you will assist them in shewing to the honourable body, “of which you are a member,” the dreadful condition the trade of this city will be reduced to if any violent measures should be taken in America. Your lordship knows that the city hath had but little trade to Turkey, and even that little is lessened by the present troubles of the Levant; that the Italian trade is become very considerable; that the severe regulations of the government of Portugal, and the edicts of the king of Spain, hath reduced our commerce with those kingdoms so much as to make it a most considerable object. Our dependence now is on the American and Irish trades. Suppose the representatives of the India company, on behalf of themselves, and some governors and crown officers, whose conduct hath been complained of by the people, should be believed, what must be the natural consequence of determinations unjust to the accused, and hurtful to the interest of these realms? The India company, whose conduct hath not always been judged immaculate, and governors and governmental officers, who have been accused and never tried, it is hoped these are not to be admitted as evidence against a body of some millions of the English nation. I cannot believe what is said of these accused towns and provinces; are they not to be heard in answer before determination? We hope, if such attempts are made, your lordship will use the great advantages your eloquence and experience give you, in prevailing that both parties may be heard. The people complain of oppression by a monopolizing company, and the people complain of governmental officers for misdemeanors, oppressions, and misrepresenting his majesty's good subjects, and striving to raise excise. This was a crime in Scotland punished with death, under the name of liege leasing . A peer of the name of Campbell, an ancestor of the earl of Bute, was condemned to death for this crime. If instead of hearing the people in their defence, against the heavy charges laid against them, you should proceed to judgment against them, and allow allegata to have the force of probata , this must give no reputation to the justice of the proceedings of such a court. Suppose this interested, monopolizing company, should prevail, and men of war and armies should be ordered to force the English in America to drink tea, as they were forced to force the unhappy people of Indostan to chew opium, the effect would probably be the same: There would be massacres and famine; but no money accruing to the government. My lord, you know the nature of trade, which for years flourished under your direction; you know that North America is mostly supplied from Great Britain with goods; that teas, amongst others, sent by the merchants chiefly from London, to their correspondents there, whose houses had the advantage either of the sale or the commission. The people there complain that a monopolizing company send over teas on the account of a body corporate ; an exclusive body corporate, which has no right to trade in America. Some people opposed this, which they took to be an illegal action of the said company. We have heard the matter so; is it not therefore fitting to try whether this is so or not, before you justify the company? If the company have the liberty granted of trading to, and having warehouses in, America, under any pretence, there is an end of the trade of Britain; an end of the riches of London, Bristol, and Liverpool. The company will be able to supply, with all manufactures from China and Coromandel, cheaper than our merchants and manufacturers can goods from Britain; and we know they can smuggle, even in the river Thames, how much more in the vast rivers and coast of America! What must the revenue lose by such a step? Next, your lordship knowing the merchants and planters in America are indebted to those in Britain; the sums together are immense. If any distress is laid on those in America, it will disable them from paying us, and we from paying duties and excise, as well as from supporting our families. You see, my lord, the dreadful consequences of precipitate measures. We are happy in having a representative of your lordship's experience, courage, and eloquence, and trust in preserving us and the nation from ruin.
A MAJORITY OF MERCHANTS.
From the BOSTON GAZETTE. Messieurs EDES and GILL,
THIS country never yet saw a time in which the people, and of course their fathers and representatives, ought to stand more firm and play the man; never was there a time in which a wise, upright, and ready council of the land, was more necessary to our common safety. A weak and pusillanimous counsellor,
at this period, may do more mischief than many wise and intrepid ones will be able to remedy in an age. Let us throw aside personal attachment and private connection; let us consider the evils which we may do by a bad choice; evils which it will never be in our power to correct, though we weep tears of blood. If we have ever given our suffrages for wicked, base, or unworthy characters, let us now repent of that great sin, and make the best reparation to our injured brethren and posterity, that we have now power and opportunity, by giving our voices to none but such who have understanding, integrity, and zeal, to guide the commonwealth, in this storm of power and oppression. Should we be careless and unconcerned, indifferent or inactive, at this season, we shall only endanger the great ship of the state, in which our treasures are laden; then let us bear weightily on our mind, that we are all embarked in one common bottom: Lives and fortune, children and posterity, must be overwhelmed and sink in case of shipwreck. Let none of us, therefore, make shipwreck of our consciences, lest we not only perish in this world, but most miserably perish in that which is to come.
AN OLD COMMONER.
From the LONDON GAZETTEER of April 5. A CHAPTER from the lost book of CHRONICLES.
1. The fast. 4. The men of the united provinces of Holland confer with the men of North America. 40. The final determination of the latter. 45. Mention is made of another book.
1. AND behold! though the men of America waited the event, yet they waited for it with fear, and with trembling; they fasted, and they prayed.
2. They put on sackcloth, they rent their garments, and humbled themselves in the dust, before the lord their maker.
3. Even before the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god of Jacob, they humbled themselves.
4. And now to it was, that the high and mighty states, even the men of the united provinces of Holland, lift up their voices, and cried aloud, saying;
5. O ye men of Boston! and all ye inhabitants of North America! why are ye so disquieted? And wherefore is it that your souls are so troubled within you?
6. Seeing that we worship one God, and after the same manner, turn ye now unto us, let us traffic together, and let us be as one people.
7. And the men of America answered and said, nay, nay, but wilt ye not that our mother, and our elder brethren, have set their faces against us, and are in wrath.
8. Verily, verily, ye above all men ought to know, and acknowledge, how pleasant and how profitable it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
9. Nevertheless, the high and mighty states, even the men of the united provinces of Holland, cried out without ceasing, and said,
10. Albeit as your mother hath become a step mother unto you, and as your elder brethren have estranged their countenances from you;
11. Now then, eschew them in the bitterness of your hearts, forsake them, and cleave unto us.
12. And behold, we will be as a loving mother, and as loving brethren unto you, henceforth, and for evermore.
13. For lo! have we not heard with our ears, and hath it not been told unto us, how that your mother hath given you vinegar when you have asked for milk?
14. That she hath given you a stone when you have asked for bread, and that she hath given you a serpent when you have asked for a fish?
15. Furthermore, have not your elder brethren made hewers of wood, and drawers of water of you?
16. And are they not now seeking to burthen ye with heavy burthens?
17. Now fear not ye, but be of good cheer, forasmuch as ye must have heard with your ears, and your forefathers, who fled from persecution, from the house of Stuart, and from the land of bondage, must have told ye.
18. How that in the days of old, even in the time of Philip the Second of Spain, our forefathers were also fore troubled, by means of a governor called the duke d'Alva.
19. And behold, they named themselves the poor and distressed states of Holland, and they humbly besought Elizabeth, the great queen of your forefathers, for succour, and she gave them help.
20. And our forefathers united as one man; they sprang forth like a green leaf; they became lasting as the evergreen, and sturdy as the mighty oak tree.
21. And lo! do not all the princes of the earth call us high and mighty at this day?
22. Moreover, we cannot but have heard how the men of Helvetia struggled in a much older time with the oppression of their oppressors;
23. Who ruled over them with a rod of iron, and with an outstretched arm.

24. And how that the angel of the Lord appeared unto William Tell, and directed his hands and his eyes, so that he might shoot the apple upon his son's head, without hurting the hair upon the head of his son. 25. And by his means the men of Helvetia became freemen; and behold, are they not called unto this day, the freemen of Switzerland, even of the thirteen cantons thereof? 26. Now, then, arise ye also as one man, unite ye together, gird up your loins, and make your appeal unto him who sitteth above the clouds; 27. Who rideth upon the wings of the wind, and who ruleth the waves of the sea, even unto the most high. 28. And feel ye bold in the cause of freedom ; 29. For surely ye are not yet to learn that the race is not always given to the swift, or the battle to the strong. 30. And the men of America answered the men of the united provinces of Holland again, saying, 31. Why tempt ye us in the day of our distress, even in the hour of bitter anguish, to forsake our dearly beloved brethren, and our lord the king? 32. Surely some deadly enemy towards the household of our lord the king, and towards his family, must have beguiled you with lies, touching our mother and our brethren; 33. For until the men of Belial waxed numerous, and powerful at home , we lived together in the most perfect harmony. 34. We were drawn together with cords of love; we were a constant comfort and support unto each other in war and in peace. 35. But now an evil spirit hath gone forth for the destruction of us all. 36. And lo! it cometh from the North . 37. Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will seek the Lord our God, and earnestly beseech him not to harden the hearts of our lord the king, and of our elder brethren, against us. 38. Peradventure the spirit of oppression may prevail, but for a time; peradventure it may pass over as the passing of a heavy cloud. 39. And furthermore, wot we not that out of evil sometimes cometh forth good. 40. But if it should please the Lord Jehovah to visit us for our sins, and to punish us for our transgressions, inasmuch that should our elder brethren persist in violence, and should they bring an armed host against us, to destroy or enslave us, our wives, our concubines, and our little ones, to force away our flocks and our herds, 41. Then, but not till then, will we resist with the arm of flesh; we will call for the sword of the Lord, and of Gideon, and we will seal the covenant of freedom with our blood. 42. Then, and not before, shall it be fulfilled as it was written of the children of Israel , and we will say like them, 43. "What portion have we in DAVID? What inheritance have we in the son of Jesse? Every man to your tents, O Israel ; and now, DAVID, see to thine own house." 44. And as to the rest of the acts of the men of America, and the things that they did, their improvements in the cunning arts and in manufactures, their wares, and their traffic; 45. Lo! are they not as yet written only in the book of fate ?
B O S T O N, May 30.
The following ADDRESS of the episcopal ministers and wardens was presented to governor Hutchinson on Monday last, at the castle:
SIR, THE ministers of the episcopal churches in Boston, and the neighbouring towns, with as many of the wardens as could conveniently attend, hearing of your intention to embark in a short time for England, beg leave to express our unfeigned gratitude for your generous attention and unwearied application to the important interests of this province, in which your wisdom and integrity have been equally conspicuous. If any of our fellow citizens have viewed your administration in a less favourable light, we are persuaded it must be owing to some misapprehension of your excellency's intentions. But that which falls more immediately within our province is the regard you have always paid to the interests of religion, and the favourable notice you have taken of the church of England within your government. Be pleased, sir, to accept this sincere testimony of our respect and gratitude, together with our earnest prayers that the divine blessing may attend you through the remaining stages of your life, and reward you with an eternity of happiness in the life to come.
His excellency's answer.
Gentlemen,
Whatever favourable notice I may have taken of the church of England, the grateful return you have made, in this mark of your respect, is alone an ample reward, and will be an additional inducement to me, in whatever station I may be the remaining part of my life, sincerely to wish your prosperity, and to contribute every thing in my power to the advancement of the interest of religion among you.
On Saturday last a number of gentlemen waited on our late governor, Mr. Hutchinson, and presented to him the following address:
To governor HUTCHINSON.
SIR,
We, merchants and traders of the town of Boston, and others, do now wait on you, in the most respectful manner, before your departure for England, to testify, for ourselves, the entire satisfaction we feel at your wise, zealous, and faithful administration, during the few years that you have presided at the head of this province. Had your success been equal to your endeavours, and to the warmest wishes of your heart, we cannot doubt that many of the evils under which we now suffer, would have been averted, and that tranquility would have been restored to this long divided province; but we assure ourselves, that the want of success in those endeavours will not abate your good wishes when removed from us, or your earnest exertions still, on every occasion, to serve
the true interest of this your native country. While we lament the loss of so good a governor, we are greatly relieved that his majesty, in his gracious favour, hath appointed, as your successor, a gentleman who, having distinguished himself in the long command he hath held in another department, gives us the most favourable prepossession of his future administration. We greatly deplore the calamities that are impending and will soon fall on this metropolis, by the operation of a late act of parliament for shutting up the port on the first of next month: You cannot but be sensible, sir, of the numberless evils that will ensue to the province in general, and the miseries and distresses into which it will particularly involve this town in the course of a few months. Without meaning to arraign the justice of the British parliament, we could humbly wish that this act had been couched with less rigour, and that the execution of it had been delayed to a more distant time, that the people might have had the alternative, either to have complied with the conditions therein set forth, or to have submitted to the consequent evils on refusal; but as it now stands, all choice is precluded, and however disposed to compliance or concession the people may be, they must unavoidably suffer very great calamities before they can receive relief. Making restitution for damage done to the property of the East India company, or to the property of any individual, by the outrage of the people, we acknowledge to be just; and though we have ever disavowed it, we are now solemnly disavow it.
We are fully disposed to bear our proportions of the damages, whenever the sum and the manner of paying it can be ascertained. We earnestly request that you, sir, who know our condition, and have at all times displayed the most benevolent disposition towards us, will, on your arrival in England, interest yourself in our behalf, and make such favourable representations of our case as that we may hope to obtain speedy and effectual relief. May you enjoy a pleasant passage to England; and under all the mortifications you have patiently endured, may you possess the inward and consolatory testimonies of having discharged your trust with fidelity and honour, and receive those distinguishing marks of his majesty's royal approbation and favour, as may enable you to pass the remainder of your life in quietness and ease, and preserve your name with honour to posterity. Signed by 125.
His excellency's answer.
Gentlemen, You may be assured that I have nothing so much at heart as to contribute to the relief of my country in general, and of the town of Boston in particular, from the distresses which you have described so fully in your address to me. Your persons and characters are so well known to me that I am sure you will do what may be necessary on your part, and your sentiments declared in this open manner, together with your known disposition to promote peace and good order in the government, will, I flatter myself, have a tendency to facilitate the success of my endeavours. I entirely agree with you in your just sentiments of his excellency the present governor, whose administration I hope you will strive to make easy to himself as well as prosperous to the province. I thank you for so warm, affectionate and respectful an address.
On Sunday last a number of gentlemen of the law waited on our late governor with the following address:
To his excellency governor Hutchinson.
SIR,
A firm persuasion of your inviolable attachment to the real interests of this your native country, and of your constant readiness, by every service in your power, to promote its true welfare and prosperity, will, we flatter ourselves, render it not improper in us, barristers and attorneys at law in the province of Massachusetts Bay, to address your excellency upon your removal from us, with this testimonial of our sincere respect and esteem. The various important characters of legislator, judge, and first magistrate over this province, in which, by the suffrages of your fellow subjects, and by the royal favour or the best of kings, your great abilities, adorned with a uniform purity of principle, and integrity of conduct, have been eminently distinguished, must excite the esteem, and demand the grateful acknowledgments, of every true lover of his country, and friend to virtue. The present perplexed state of our public affairs, we are sensible must render your departure far less disagreeable to you than it is to us. We assure you, sir, we feel the loss but when, in the amiable character of your successor, we view a fresh instance of the paternal goodness of our most gracious sovereign, when we reflect on the probability that your presence at the court of Great Britain will afford you an opportunity of employing your interest more successfully for the relief of this province, and particularly of the town of Boston, under their present distresses, we find a consolation which no other human source could afford. Permit us, sir, most earnestly to solicit the exertion of all your distinguished abilities in favour of your native town and country upon this truly unhappy and distressing occasion. We sincerely wish you a prosperous voyage, a long continuation of health and felicity, and the highest rewards of the good and faithful. We are, sir, with the utmost cordial affection, esteem and respect, your excellency's most obedient and very humble servants. Signed by 24.
His excellency's answer.
Gentlemen,
The relation to the bar which I stood in for many years together makes this mark of your affection and esteem peculiarly acceptable. I feel the distress coming upon the town of Boston. I am confident nothing will be wanting on your part which may tend to promote the free course of law, and that peace and good order in government which seems to have been made the conditions of obtaining relief from this distress. You may be assured that nothing shall be wanting on my part which may tend to procure this relief for you as speedily as effectually as may be. You certainly may be happy under the administration of his excellency the present
governor, and I have great reason to join with you in a testimony to his amiable disposition and character.
June 2. Yesterday captain Callahan sailed for London, with whom went passengers his excellency governor Hutchinson, Elisha Hutchinson, esquire, his second son, and Miss Hutchinson, his excellency's youngest daughter.
Yesterday arrived here from England several transports with troops.
Thursday last arrived here his majesty's ship Tartar, captain Meadows, from Virginia.
On the 13th of May the towns of Hatfield, Whately, and Williamsburg, met to make choice of a representative to serve them in the general court for the year ensuing, when Mr. John Dickinson was chosen by a majority of votes. Then the towns proceeded to vote, as an instruction to their representative, that he would by no means agree that the province pay for the tea destroyed by Bostonian Mohawks , or any part thereof, but use his utmost influence to the contrary.
Tell it in Gath , publish it in Ashkelon , that the Boston port bill, in all its parts, is now carrying into execution, and that Boston is thereby put into greater distress, and is more insulted by an English armament, than she ever was by a French or Spanish fleet in the hottest war, when left without one British ship for her protection. The town is become a spectacle to angels and men . God grant that it may not be intimidated by the present horrors to make a surrender of the rights of America, or in any respect to do an act of itself in this day of trial and peril.
We hear that boats from Charlestown, Winnesimmit, and other places, are stopped, and not so much as a brick to mend our chimneys is suffered to be brought us.
The regiment on board the transports, arrived yesterday, we are informed, is the 4th, or king's own, which is to encamp on Boston common. We are now told that this, or other regiments, will be quartered here until we are brought to a sense of our duty. Is it not the duty of a virtuous, brave, and free people, to resist tyranny?
Two or three regiments are hourly expected. One is to relieve that at Halifax.
Yesterday his excellency governor Gage, attended by the secretary of the province and other gentlemen, set out for Salem.
Thousands in this town, who cannot discern between the right hand and the left, are by the Boston port bill involved in the general calamity. May their cries enter into the ear of that potentate who delighteth himself in mercy.
Yesterday three transports with troops on board arrived at Nantasket road from England.
Business was finished at the customhouse at 12 o'clock yesterday noon, and this harbour is shut against all vessels bound hither, and on the 15th instant none will be allowed to depart hence. Be it ever remembered, to thy grief and shame, O Britain!
His majesty's ships, frigates, and schooners, are now placed in such a manner in Boston harbour, as to prevent any vessels going out, or coming in, agreeable to the act of parliament for blocking up the said harbour, which took place yesterday; so that we have reason to expect in a little time the town of Boston will be truly in a distressed and melancholy situation. God send us speedy relief!
N E W Y O R K, June 9.
IT may be depended upon that Mr. William Jones, of Bristol, intending this summer for Boston, engaged a ship, and went down to the manufacturing towns to engage a cargo for her to bring out with him; and on his return homewards, he met with the Boston port bill, which influenced him, at considerable expence, to contradict all orders. These disappointments, with the many countermands and letters declarative of the present disposition of the colonists in general, must throw the manufacturers into a worse consternation than any thing of the kind that has ever yet happened; as all ranks and degrees of men can now plainly perceive the designs of administration.
We have the pleasure to assure our readers, that as far as our intelligence has hitherto extended (since the news of the Boston port bill) that is, from New Hampshire to Williamsburg in Virginia, it appears, by all our letters and advices, that all our colonies breathe the same spirit, and seem actuated by one soul; and that it appears to be the general sentiment, that the man is unworthy to be called an English American who would hesitate a moment to prefer death to the slavish subjection demanded by the ministry and parliament of Great Britain. Extract of a letter from Boston, dated May 21, to sundry gentlemen in New York.
On the receipt of your letter by express, on advice of the late tyrannical acts of parliament, we of the committee speedily assembled and scasted on the welcome report; a general joy spread through the whole city, who had the most pleasing resentment of the noble and patriotic generosity of our worthy brethren in New York, who even prevented our solicitations for assistance. We are in the most assiduous and vigorous motion here, have sent circular letters to every town and district in the province, and though we have not had time to receive answers from distant towns, we have this day received from an inland town a full declaration of their resolution to stand by us with their lives and fortunes; another topic for Wedderburne to harangue upon! The British merchants themselves have already begun to anticipate our non-importation agreement, which will be confirmed by a brig which failed yesterday for London, with countermands and letters enough, expressive of the general sense of the colonies, as far as we have been able to collect it. The ends of government (or rather despotism) here, finding their patron Hutchinson in the deepest distress, have been handing about an address to him, applauding his virtue and public spirit, declaring his letters quite harmless, and imploring his intercession with his majesty on their behalf, at least that the port might be opened, one of them having talked loudly of giving largely to the sum proposed to be raised by them to compensate for the East India company's tea; but this project drags heavily, notwithstanding Mr. Hutchinson sent word to the town, that in case they would pay only the first cost of the tea, he would engage that every thing else should be made

easy. They absolutely tremble with a dread of the junction of the colonies, and a suspension of trade with Great Britain, which, at this critical season, must bury the authors of this complicated, treasonable conspiracy, against the peace and security of the nation, in the ruins of their own scheme. It is given out here, by some of the crew, that your chamber of commerce have written letters to Chambers, offering if he will be easy, and return, they will pay him for his tea, and provide him the command of a good ship. But this report gains no credit here."
Last Monday evening the committee of correspondence met, when they read and answered the dispatches brought by Mr. Cornelius Bradford from Boston. Next Monday they will assemble again, after which, it is hoped, their proceedings will be published, for the information of their constituents; the times are critical, and big with interesting events, which has occasioned the committee of correspondence at Philadelphia to promulgate their letter to Boston, and such other proceedings as were judged necessary for the satisfaction of the public.
Extract of a letter from one of the members of the house of assembly of New Jersey, and one of the committee of correspondence which consists of nine members, dated June 2, 1774.
"I returned yesterday from New Brunswick, where six of our committee met. We answered the Boston letters, informing them, that we look on New Jersey as eventually in the same predicament with Boston, and that we will do every thing which may be generally agreed on. We have signed a request to the governor to call the general assembly, to meet at such times as his excellency may think proper, before the first of August next. Our committee is well disposed in the cause of American freedom."
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated June 2.
"Yesterday we had a pause in the business of this city, and a solemn pause indeed it was; if we except the Friends, I believe nine tenths of the citizens shut up their houses. The bells were rang muffled all the day, and the ships in the port had their colours half hoisted."
Extract of another letter from Philadelphia, dated June 4.
"I pity our brethren in Boston, they are very severely punished; but some of their friends here, and I fear with you also, are too warm, and to serve them seem willing to draw us into the same dilemma; but surely this is not the way to serve the general cause. We can be of more use to our brethren when whole than when broken, and I cannot let go my hopes that we may, by a joint petition of our rights to the crown, prevent things from going to extremities, and get Boston restored to the same liberties with the other colonies; but some wish to push all things into confusion. With them I can never join, while any other expedient is left. Our letter to Boston is a moderate one, yet warm and firm enough. You have no doubt seen it, as a copy was sent to your committee, who are of our sentiments, and I hope will continue cool."
We hear that Francis Masseres, esquire, late attorney general of Quebec, and now one of the barons of the exchequer, has wrote a pamphlet upon the necessity of a representation of the American colonies in the parliament of Great Britain, of which we may probably give some account very soon.
A fort is already laid out, and to be immediately constructed, at Crown Point, in the room of the old one lately burnt down.
Saturday last, being the anniversary of his majesty's birth day, when he entered the 37th year of his age, at 12 o'clock his excellency general Haldimand, attended by a number of gentlemen, walked to the common, where they were received by a royal salute from the train of artillery, and the royal Welch fusileers, then under arms, after which his excellency returned to his residence, where his majesty's and other loyal healths were drank, under the discharge of a royal salute from Fort George, his majesty's ship Swan, James Ayscough, esquire, commander, and sundry other vessels in the harbour. The Swan man of war made a beautiful appearance, adorned with a fine variety of colours. In the evening some very curious fireworks were exhibited, and the city was very handsomely illuminated.
The committee of correspondence for the city of New York have ordered circular letters to be sent to the supervisors of the several counties within this colony, requesting them to communicate the same to the several inhabitants.
On the 17th of last month a very awful shock of an earthquake was felt at Cape Nichola Mole.
By accounts from St. Christopher's, we learn that admiral Parry, with his squadron, were at Crab Island, which gave the governor of St. John De Porto Rico much umbrage, that he would not supply the fleet from his territories with any fresh provisions, although applied to.
We hear from Anguilla, that there has been a great mortality in that island, which had carried off a number of the inhabitants, among the rest his honour lieutenant governor Roberts. That island has been remarkably unhealthy since the two Spanish ships were stranded on that coast.
When the principal people of Marblehead and Boston received information that some of the mercenary inhabitants had addressed governor Hutchinson, they hissed them, and showed every other mark of disapprobation.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9. As many people are desirous of knowing what steps were taken by the inhabitants of this city, on the late application made to them by their brethren of Boston, upon receiving the act of parliament for shutting up their port, and as it is reasonable, that in a matter of such general concern to the liberties of all, the inhabitants of the different counties of this province should be made acquainted with the proceedings of the metropolis, that they may approve or dissent from them, as they shall see cause, you are therefore requested to publish the following articles, viz.—At a meeting of between two and three hundred of the respectable inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, at the city tavern, on Friday evening, May 20, 1774, agreed, that a committee be appointed to correspond with our sister colonies; that John
Dickinson, esquire, William Smith, D. D.* Edward Pennington,* Joseph Fox, John Nixon,* John M. Nesbit, Samuel Howell,* Thomas Mifflin,* Joseph Reade, Thomas Wharton, junior,* Benjamin Marshall, Joseph Moulder,* Thomas Barclay,* George Clymer,* Charles Thomson,* Jeremiah Warder, junior,* John Cox,* John of correspondence until an alteration is made by a more general meeting of the inhabitants; that the committee be instructed to write to the people of Boston, that we truly feel for their unhappy situation, that we consider them as suffering in the general cause, that we recommend to them firmness, prudence, and moderation, and the cause of American liberty; that the above resolutions be transmitted by the committee to the other colonies; to call the assembly of the province; that they be authorised to call a meeting of the inhabitants when necessary. On the day following, those gentlemen of the committee, whose names are marked thus*, having met, the following letter was drawn up and signed by them, to be immediately forwarded by Mr. Paul Revere to Boston; most of the southern colonies. The gentlemen of the prevented by necessary business, but the proceedings of that meeting have been since fully approved by them.
A letter from the committee of the city of Philadelphia to the committee of Boston, sent by Mr. Paul Revere, May 21, 1774.
Gentlemen, "We have received your very interesting letter, together with another from the town of Boston, and the vote they have passed on the present alarming occasion; and such measures have been pursued thereon as the shortness of the time will allow. To collect the sense of this large city is difficult, and when their sense is obtained, they must not consider themselves as authorized to judge or act for this populous province in a business so deeply interesting as the present is to all British America. A very respectable number of the inhabitants of this city was, however, assembled last evening, in order to consult what was proper to be done; and after reading the sundry papers you transmitted to us, and also a letter from the committee of correspondence at New York, the enclosed resolves were passed, in which you may be assured we are sincere, and that you are considered as suffering in the general cause. But what further advice to offer on this sad occasion is a matter of the greatest difficulty, which not only requires more mature deliberation, but also that we should take the necessary measures to obtain the general sentiments of our fellow inhabitants of this province, as well as our sister colonies. If satisfying the East India company for the damage they have sustained would put an end to this unhappy controversy, and leave us on the footing of constitutional liberty for the future, it is presumed, that neither you nor we could continue a moment in doubt what part to act; for it is not the value of the tea, but the indefeasible right of giving and granting our own money, a right from which we never can recede, that is the matter now in consideration. By what means the truly desirable circumstances of a reconciliation and future harmony with our mother country on constitutional grounds may be obtained is indeed a weighty question; whether by the method you have suggested of a non-importation and non-exportation agreement, or by a general congress of deputies from the different colonies, clearly to state what we conceive our rights, and to make a claim or petition of them to his majesty, in firm but decent and dutiful terms, so as that we may know by what line to conduct ourselves in future, are now the great points to be determined. The latter we have reason to think would be most agreeable to the people of this province, and the first step that ought to be taken; the former may be reversed as our last resource, should the other fail, which we trust will not be the case, as many wise and good men in the mother country begin to see the necessity of a good understanding with the colonies, upon the general plan of liberty as well as commerce. We shall endeavour as soon as possible to collect the sentiments of the people of this province and the neighbouring colonies on these grand questions, and should also be glad to know your sentiments thereon. In the mean time, with sincere fellow feelings of your sufferings, and great regard to your person, we are, gentlemen, yours, &c."
The ACCOUNT between BRITAIN and her COLONIES candidly stated.
AMERICA stands clearly indebted to Britain for her original existence, for her happy constitution, for the lenient and tender indulgence and support extended to her in her infancy, for the protection of her territories and her commerce when invaded hostily by an usurping power, for establishing her limits on a solid and permanent basis, immovable and incontrovertible, and for extending her possessions at an enormous expence, for undertaking a long, bloody, and expensive war, in support of her rights, and the future security of her property and trade, for securing a foreign market for such of her commodities as the British dominions cannot consume, and for the annual expences of supporting a government, and military establishments, in the provinces and islands in America. On the other side of the account, Great Britain is indebted to her colonies in America for the consumption of her manufactures, for immense sums arising from duties and excise on the commodities of America, for the balance which the American productions, exported to foreign countries, bring in favour of Britain, for the consumption of India goods, which leave a considerable revenue in duties, and great gains behind, for the gains arising by the African trade, for the service of able mariners that are raised by the vast navigation carried on between Britain and America; but above all for the influence and consideration which the extensive and populous dominions of Britain in America give her with other states, as a martial, powerful, and commercial nation. Without the support of Britain, America must become tributary to some other nation; without America, Britain would cease to be an opulent, powerful nation; their interests are inseparable and their
separation is incompatible with their natural ideas and high notions of liberty and freedom, in the pure, unadulterated sense, in which antient, not modern, patriots have conceived them. Thus circumstanced, Britain should confirm to America her original privileges and immunities without blemish; her powers of distinct legislation and taxation, under the immediate controul of the crown and its governors; the trade and navigation of America should be so limited as to make the same mutually useful; America should look up to Britain for defence and protection, and for the encouragement of her trade, and good government of her police; America must abandon her illicit trade with Holland and France, and receive such necessaries of life and convenience as her industry and her fertile soil have not yet produced, from Britain, Ireland, and her sister colonies; America must, by her own special act, bear a proportional part of the expences of government; America and Britain must conclude that their interests and security are inseparable; and they must look upon the promoters of seditious sentiments to revive dissensions, and lead their affections astray from each other, as enemies to both, and tools to foreign powers.
The protest of part of the people of Annapolis against the resolves lately entered into by that city.
To the PRINTER.
Annapolis, May 30, 1774.
A PUBLICATION of the enclosed protest, supported by a considerable number of the inhabitants of the city of Annapolis, will, it is presumed, furnish the most authentic grounds for determining the sense of the majority on a question of the last importance.
We whose names are subscribed, inhabitants of the city of Annapolis, conceive it our clear right, and most incumbent duty, to express our cordial and explicit disapprobation of a resolution, which was carried by 47 against 31 at the meeting held on the 27th instant. The resolution against which we protest in the face of the world is the following: "That it is the opinion of this meeting that the gentlemen of the law of this province bring no suit for the recovery of any debt, due from any inhabitant of this province to any inhabitant of Great Britain until the said act be repealed." Dissentient, because we are impressed with a full conviction that this resolution is founded in treachery and rashness, inasmuch as it is big with bankruptcy and ruin to those inhabitants of Great Britain, who relying with unlimited security on our good faith and integrity, have made us masters of their fortunes; condemning them unheard for not having interposed their influence with parliament in favour of the town of Boston, without duly weighing the force with which that influence would probably have operated, or whether, in their conduct, they were actuated by wisdom and policy, or by corruption and avarice. Because whilst the inhabitants of Great Britain are partially despoiled of every legal remedy to recover what is justly due to them, nor provision is made to prevent us from being harassed by the prosecution of internal suits, but our fortunes and persons are left at the mercy of domestic creditors, without a possibility of extricating ourselves, unless by a general convulsion; an event, in the contemplation of sober reason, replete with horror. Because our credit as a commercial people will expire under the wound; for what confidence can possibly be reposed in those who shall have exhibited the most avowed and most striking proof, that they are not to be bound by obligations as sacred as human invention can suggest?
ADVERTISEMENT.
To be SOLD cheap, for ready money, FOUR WHEELED SULKEY, for a single horse; also a horse for the saddle or chaise, but would best suit a lady's riding. Enquire of the printer.
PHILADELPHIA NEWS CONTINUED.
June 13. On Wednesday last the following petition was presented:
To the honourable John Penn, esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Pennsylvania, &c.
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania,
Humbly sheweth,
That since the recess of the assembly of this province, the proceedings of the British parliament towards America, and particularly an act lately passed against the town of Boston, have filled the minds of your petitioners and others, their fellow subjects, with deep anxiety and concern; that your petitioners apprehend the design of this act is to compel the Americans to acknowledge the right of parliament to impose taxes upon them at pleasure; that the precedent of condemning a whole town or city unheard, and involving all its inhabitants, of every age and sex, and however different in political sentiment or action, in one common ruin, gives universal alarm. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, and at the same time solicitous to preserve peace, order, and tranquility, we do earnestly entreat the governor to call the assembly of the province as soon as it can conveniently be done, that they may have an opportunity not only to devise measures to compose and relieve the anxieties of the people, but to restore that harmony and peace between the mother country and the colonies, which has been of late so much and so unhappily interrupted. And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c.—Signed by near nine hundred respectable freeholders, in and near the city of Philadelphia.
To which his excellency was pleased to return the following answer.
Gentlemen,
Upon all occasions, when the peace, order, and tranquility, of the province require it, I shall be ready to convene the assembly; but as that does not appear to be the case at present, I cannot think such a step would be expedient or consistent with my duty.

Last Thursday evening about twelve hundred mechanics of this city and suburbs assembled at the statehouse, to hear a letter and other papers read, from the mechanics of the city of New York, and to form such resolutions as should be judged proper for their future conduct at this most alarming and critical time, when American liberty is so deeply wounded, and her rights so unjustly invaded, by levying taxes on us without our consent for the purpose of raising a revenue, and for refusing payment of those illegal taxes, blocking up with divers ships of war the port and town of Boston, thereby most unjustly depriving that once flourishing town of its whole trade, the inhabitants of their private property, and the labouring poor of the means of subsisting themselves and families. These proceedings of the parent state against her American children call aloud upon all Americans to assemble, consult, and determine firmly, to pursue such measures for their own and neighbours future security as shall be judged most likely to avert the present calamity, and secure to them the perfect enjoyment of their liberties and properties upon a fixed and lasting foundation; for which purpose the mechanics of this city did propose, and intend at this meeting to form, such resolutions, to co-operate with the committee of merchants, and to strengthen their hands, as will convince the world Americans were born and determined to live free, and that they never will be slaves; that liberty is their birthright; they cannot, they will not give it up. But since the sending out the hand bills for calling this great assembly, information was received that the present committee have sent expresses to all the southern colonies for their advice on this alarming occasion, and returns to those expresses are expected in a very few days. That the committee had determined to call a general meeting of all the inhabitants in the city and county, to be held here next Wednesday, the 15th instant, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, then to chuse one grand joint committee to represent the whole inhabitants of this city and county, to correspond with the committees of the neighbouring provinces, and to adopt such measures, to be pursued by all, as their united wisdom shall direct: Wherefore it is judged best at present to omit going into particular resolutions, or appointing a particular committee to represent the mechanics, as the grand general meeting is so near at hand.
As it was judged there would not be sufficient time to give proper notice to the county, it was agreed, on Saturday last, by the committee and a number of the most respectable inhabitants called to advise on the present occasion, that the general meeting be postponed to Saturday next, at or near the statehouse, at three o'clock, P. M. at which time and place the inhabitants of this city and county, qualified to vote for representatives, are desired to attend, in order to take into their consideration certain propositions prepared to be laid before them.
Extract of a letter from Pittsburg, dated May 30.
"I arrived here last Wednesday with Messieurs Duncan and Wilson, guarded by a party of Delawares, who treated us with a great deal of kindness, and gave us great reason to think they meant nothing but peace and friendship from all their actions. The Shawanese have raised 20 warriors to strike the Virginians, who were to set off last Monday. I fear all the traders are killed at the Shawanese towns, as there was a party of Mingoes gathered for that purpose. I am of opinion it will be a general Indian war, though colonel Croghan thinks the matter will be settled in a short time.
Extract of a letter from Bedford, dated May 30.
"I suppose you have heard of the Indians being killed at Whaling; since that time Indian White Eyes, Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Sanderson, who were sent down the river from Fort Pitt, in order to accommodate matters with the Shawanese, are returned, but had hard work to get back. The Delawares, who at present seem to be friends, had enough to do to save their lives, and as to the poor traders down among the Shawanese, no person can tell whether they are dead or alive. White Eyes, on his return to Fort Pitt, said the Shawanese were for war, and that 40 odd of them are at present out, intending a stroke, as is supposed, at some part of Virginia. The Delawares say they will not go to war; but there is no dependence on them; we expect every day to hear of their striking in some quarter. It is lamentable to see the multitudes of poor people that are hourly running down the country; such of them as stay are building forts. God knows how it will turn out with them. We intend, as soon as we hear of any damage being done, to erect fortifications here. The Shawanese themselves say that they have nothing against Pennsylvania, but only Virginia; though we may depend, as soon as they strike Virginia, they will also fall on us."
WILLIAMSBURG, JUNE 23.
An address of thanks to the reverend Mr. William McKay, rector of Northampton parish, in the county of Richmond.
REVEREND SIR,
WE his majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the inhabitants of Northampton parish, deeply impressed with the highest sentiments of gratitude, humbly beg leave thus publicly to return you our sincere and unfeigned acknowledgements, for the truly spirited and patriotic sermon you was pleased this day to deliver from your pulpit.
The Neptune, Punderfon, is arrived in York river.
☞ We have lately received several pieces, and would most willingly oblige their different authors; but the very great length of some of them will, we hope, apologize for our not giving them a speedy publication.
WILLIAMSBURG, JUNE 20, 1774.
LOST, a WARRANT, under the hand and seal of his excellency the earl of Dunmore, granted to Edward Wilkinson, and by him assigned to me, for 200 acres of land in Augusta, on the western waters, directed to the surveyor of that county. Any person that will deliver the same to Mr. James Southall, of this city, or to me, in Berkeley county, shall have 20s. The public are hereby warned against taking a conveyance of the said warrant; and the several surveyors are requested to observe this advertisement. 2† R. RUTHERFORD.
To be SOLD, at public auction, at Westmoreland courthouse, on Tuesday the 27th day of September, being Westmoreland court day,
TWENTY very likely VIRGINIA born SLAVES. Credit will be allowed until the 10th of November following, on giving bond and good security. The bonds to bear interest from the date, if not punctually discharged. tdf RICHARD PARKER.
To be SOLD, by execution, for ready money, at Ayett's warehouse, on Wednesday the 13th of July, TWENTY seven likely VIRGINIA born NEGROES, consisting of men, women, boys, and girls, the estate of col. James Quarles, deceased, to satisfy three judgments, obtained in York court by the executors of Philip W. Claiborne, deceased.
2 GOODRICH CRUMP, S. Sheriff.
ON Friday the 15th of August next will be SOLD, at Chesterfield courthouse, to the highest bidder, for ready money, by virtue of a deed of trust, from Thomas Branch, deceased, to John Pankey, Bernard Markham, and Robert Goode, a tract of LAND, in Chesterfield county, about nine miles from Manchester town, containing 150 acres. 3 JOHN PANKEY.
FOR SALE,
A TRACT of LAND in Gloucester county, Petworth parish, containing 1170 acres, lying upon Poropotank river, and convenient to fish and Oysters. The plantation is in good order for cropping, has a valuable dwelling house upon it, all necessary out-houses, barns, orchards, &c. and a mill upon an excellent stream of water. Also 2675 1/2 of land in the same county and parish, which will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. Application is to be made to the next general assembly for an act to dock the intail of the above lands. They will be shewn by Mr. Lewis Booker, of whom the terms may be known. 4 WILSON M. CARY.
TO BE SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND, containing 1600 acres, in the county of Dunmore, on both sides the North river Shanandoah, and in the forks of Smith's creek and the said river; about 400 acres are low grounds, part of which cost the subscriber 3l. per acre; the rest is level, and well calculated for farming. There is on the premises a dwelling house, 38 by 32 feet, 5 rooms on the lower floor, and 4 fire places, 3 rooms above, with a good cellar, a storehouse, smith's shop, kitchen, quarter, a large barn, stables, and all other outhouses, with about 20 acres of good timothy meadow now in grass, and 100 acres more may be made. One half of the purchase money will be expected when a title is made, and extensive credit given for the remainder. 4† B. HARRISON.
AS I purpose giving up the charge of the store now under my management at Petersburg, on account of Mess. William Cuningham and company, of Glasgow, to Mr. Alexander Hanburgh, on the 1st of September next, I beg the favour of all those who have had dealings with me on account of the above mentioned company, to settle their accounts before that time, and grant bond, or some other specialty, that no dispute may arise thereafter. The store will be supplied with goods, and carried on to the same extent as usual, by Mr. Hanburgh. 3 THOMAS GORDON.
THE different creditors of the late Mr. Augustine Smith, of Middlesex, deceased, by forthwith sending states of their several accounts, either to J. Ambler, esquire, in York, or to col. William Churchill, in Middlesex, will much oblige their humble servant, 2† JOHN SMITH.
THE clearing the Seven Island falls, in James river, will be let to the lowest bidder, on the 3d Thursday in August next, at which time any person inclinable to undertake the same may depend on meeting a sufficient number of trustees at the place, who will pay down one half of the money, upon the undertaker's giving bond and security for the performance of the same. N
LANDED from Liverpool, four BALES, marked C I. The owner may have them on paying the charges to ISAAC YOUNGHUSBAND, who has for sale a parcel of low priced Irish LINENS.
ASOBER, diligent young man, who can write a tolerable good hand, would willingly engage with any merchant as a clerk. Any one wanting such a person may hear of him by applying to the printer hereof.
STRAYED, or stolen, from Mr. Edward Walker's, in Dinwiddie, on the 20th of April last, a small bay horse, with a hanging mane and switch tail, shod before, trots and gallops, and is branded on the near buttock S, or a figure of 8; the under part of his mane, on the off side, is cut, by reason of its thickness, on the near side is a kind of a feather, beginning about half the root of the mane, and continues to the ear; he is 6 or 7 years old. Whoever conveys him to the said Mr. Walker shall receive 5 dollars reward, and if to me, in Williamsburg, ten dollars. 3 JOSEPH CRAWLEY.
☞ We received THREE SHILLINGS with the following advertisement, which is the principal reason for our inserting it. In order that it may not lose any of its merit, the reader has it verbatim.
TUMBLING TOM
NOW Rising 8 years 13 hands and 1 Inch High Stands This Season at Calloden & will Cover mares at 5s. the leap and 3s. 9d. the Season his Coular nor pedigree ant Worth mentioning I will not be accountable for any Mares that Shall be Lost for I have no passeridge (Some Gentlemens Curcosety may lead them So fare as to be desirous of knowing What his Name derive from Which may be done in a few Words that is when Rod he often Tips all nine & follows the bole. † H. La
TO BE SOLD,
THE noted and well accustomed TAVERN, at present occupied by the subscriber, lying in James City county, about 15 miles from Williamsburg, on the main road leading to New Kent courthouse and Russel's ferry, with 500 acres of land in good order for cropping, and 6 fields under good fence. The terms of payment will be made easy by the subscriber. THOMAS DONCASTLE.
FOR L I V E R P O O L,
THE ship Greenwood, Mackey Reed, master, loads at Norfolk, has two thirds of her cargo already engaged, can take 200 hogheads of tobacco, on liberty of consignment. Any gentleman inclined to ship by her will please to send their orders either to Mr. Richard Taylor, of Petersburg, Mr. Richard Squire Taylor, in King William, or to us, at Norfolk. GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.
THE debtors to Messieurs Perkins, Buchanan, and Brown, late of London, merchants, having paid no regard to a former advertisement, I think it expedient to call on them in this manner once more to request payment of their debts to me, as attorney of the assignees under the commission of bankrupt. I am advised, that under this commission, which issued the 5th of August, 1773, every interest Mess. Perkins and company then had became vested in the assignees of their effects; that the assignments to Mess. Barlow and company, and Mess. Holland and company, of January and April 1773, being executed by Perkins and Brown alone, were for that reason (without offering any other) incomplete and superseded by the assignment, under the commission aforesaid; and that payments and engagements to pay to Mess. Barlow and company, and Mess. Holland and company, under colour of their respective assignments, are absolutely void, and that the assignees under the commission have yet a right at law to recover all the debts due to Mess. Perkins and company. But to remove all objections, I will indemnify every person for what I shall receive of them for debts contracted with Mess. Perkins, Buchanan, and Brown. CHARLES YATES.
To be SOLD, and entered on the 1st of September next,
THE only TAVERN in the town of Manchester, at the falls of James river, with every conveniency for a public house; several of the out houses are newly finished. Besides the houses used for the tavern, there is a good new house, well finished, with 2 rooms below and 2 above, where the family may live quite retired, and a large garden newly paled in, with 5 or 6 acres of land, which runs above 300 feet on the main street, in a valuable part of the town, and capable of improvements. At this tavern are constantly boarded 20 gentlemen, at 25l. each per ann. besides servants. Long credit will be given for part of the purchase money, giving bond, with approved security. 3* BETTY TODD, junior.
To be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 1st day of September next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, and entered upon at Christmas,
A PLEASANT seat upon Potowmack river, late the property of Richard Foote, deceased. It lies in the lower parish of Stafford county, contains 200 acres of high level ground, and the same quantity of fine firm marsh, has a convenient dwellinghouse of four rooms on a floor, many necessary outhouses, and a good peach and apple orchard, thereon. For fish and wild fowl, few places, within many miles, are equal to it. The sale will be on the premises, and twelve months credit will be allowed, on giving bond, with approved security; the bond to carry interest from the date, if not punctually discharged. Five per cent. discount will be allowed for ready money, and an indisputable title will be made by William Stuart, Richard Foote, George Foote.
WANTED, as a clerk for the church of Richmond town, a sober man, of a good character, that reads and sings well, and understands teaching psalmody; he will meet with great encouragement, besides what is allowed by the vestry. For further particulars apply to the church-wardens, or Samuel Du Val, near Richmond. 2†
I FIND it necessary to give this public notice, that Jasper Mauduit Gidley was dismissed from being my collector in September last, and that no receipts given by the said Gidley for money on my account, since that time, will be allowed by me; and I request the favour of the gentlemen of the law, in the different counties, to retain in their own hands any bonds or accounts of mine delivered them by the said Gidley, either before or after September last, and be kind enough to let me know, by a line, what steps they have taken on such bonds and accounts. THOMSON, MASON.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform the public that as soon as the courts proceed on their docket, he proposes to practise as an attorney in the county courts of York and James City, and in the court of Hustings at Williamsburg, and to continue his practice in New Kent and Charles City courts; and as his whole time and attention will be employed in this business, he thinks he can safely promise the utmost diligence and punctuality in it. He proposes to attend at his lodgings, at Mrs. Rind's, in Williamsburg, the day before the courts of York, James City, and the Hustings, and in all public times, to receive the commands of those that will employ him. At other times, his clients letters left there will be forwarded to him in New Kent by a careful hand, who will receive and pay such money at Williamsburg as the convenience of his clients requires. Titles will be examined, and conveyances drawn, with care and dispatch, by 4* B. DANDRIDGE.
PURSUANT to a decree of the worshipful court of Amherst, will be exposed to sale, at the courthouse of the said county, on Monday the 4th of July next, being court day, to the highest bidder, for ready money, a valuable tract of land in the said county, whereon Joseph Magann now lives, situate on the main Carolina road, about 10 miles from Lynch's ferry, whereon is a good plantation, with orchards, and all convenient and valuable houses, well calculated for carrying on the business of ordinary keeping to advantage, also two valuable slaves, of the estate of the said Magann, to satisfy judgment lately obtained by Daniel Gaines, gentleman, against the said Joseph Magann, in the said county court of Amherst. 3* GABRIEL PENN.
NORFOLK, June 13, 1774.
THE subscribers have for SALE MADEIRA WINE, BARBADOS RUM, CANE, SPIRIT, and MUSCOVADO SUGAR. PHRIPP and BOWDOIN.