The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1775-03-10 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
ALWAYS FOR LIBERTY,
AND THE PUBLICK GOOD.
ALEXANDER PURDIE, PRINTER.
LONDON, December 20.
The following is a genuine copy of a letter received from Joshua Dudley, who pretended to make a discovery of the persons concerned in setting fire to the dockyards at Portsmouth in July 1771, and who was transported in the year 1772.
WINCHESTER, in the county of FRE- DERICK, and colony of VIRGINIA, August 4, 1774.
Dear Sir,
HEREWITH I send you a small account of the good and bad fortune which has fallen to my lot since my arrival. On the 25th day of December, 1772, we cast anchor at Hampton road, and from thence proceeded up to Leeds town. On my arrival I was engaged to Sampson and George Matthews, merchants in Staunton, Augusta county, where I lived as book-keeper for about six months; and from thence I came down to this county, where I engaged to educate some young Gentlemen and Ladies, which I took great delight in. I lodged at a Gentlewoman's house who was a widow, and had one only daughter, about 18 years of age. I lived in a most delightful manner, being wholly taken up with the recreations and instructions of my pupils. I enjoyed this felicity for about four months, when the old Gentlewoman was taken sick. I sent for physicians, who declared her in a dangerous state. She sent for me to her room, where she was accompanied only by her daughter. Ordering the door to be shut, she said, Mr. Dudley, I am about to leave you and all the world; and it is to you I leave the dearest part of it, I mean my daughter. Pray protect her virtue, and guard her against any action which may in the least seem to deviate from innocence. I leave her in making a choice in marriage, but you have my wishes. She desired I would send for a lawyer to draw her will, which I did; and in two days after the will was perfected the most worthy woman departed this life, in the arms of her daughter and me.
When she was buried, we had the will opened, which disposed of her whole fortune to her daughter, except 1000l. which she bequeathed to me, and left me her daughter's guardian. I now became master of the whole; the plantation contained 3000 acres of land, 320 negroes, besides a large flock of horses, black cattle, sheep, hogs, &c.
I now employed myself in riding among the negro quarters, and examining the overseers books and accounts, and in which rides my dear Isabella (for that was her name) accompanied me. We lived in the most perfect state of happiness and felicity for the space of six months; but oh! how uncertain are the pleasures of this transitory life! my dear Isabella began to decline in health, and lose that virgin bloom which used to spread the most beautiful face I ever beheld. Indeed she was endowed with all the perfections of the fair sex, and had scarce any of their failings; but my dear companion, or sister (for by that name we used to salute each other) grew worse, and the doctors had but little hopes of her recovery. She desired I would send for the same lawyer
that had made her mother's will, which I did. As soon as the servant went for him, she and I being alone, she told me, that had God prolonged her life we should have been happy in each other's company; but as it was the will of Providence that she should follow her dear mother, she was content, and as she could not give me the pleasure of her company, begged I would accept of her estate. I could not refrain from shedding abundance of tears, and we wept a considerable time; for I loved her as a sister, with the most sincere love, nor did it ever grow into any other. I have reason to believe her's was so too; we loved in innocence, and so we lived, for I had not my heart to give; it is already disposed of, to a fair object in England. The lawyer came, and the whole estate, and all things thereon, were bequeathed and made over to a young Lady in England, in trust for me. In three weeks after, she expired.
Now, Sir, I live retired, shunning all company. I had my Isabella interred in a tomb, the side of which enters the room where I sleep. I have her picture just above the tomb; and I am now in the possession of the whole estate, but I want the company of my Isabella.
Now Sir, I have given you a sketch of my fortune, I shall speak a few words of our country affairs. We are involved in a very hot Indian war; they have committed many dreadful murders in the back settlements. Our Governour was here the other day, and is going out against the enemy with an army which is now raising here. He intends to march to their towns, and destroy all he can. We are in great confusion here; the Indians on one side, and blocked up by the English ships on the other. Lord North's effigy has been hanged, and burned, in every town in the colony. The merchants here will neither import any goods from England, nor send any there. The people are come to a resolution of putting every Scotch merchant on board of vessels, with all their goods, and send them off to England; but are determined to burn all their account books. They have set gunpowder mills to work; they have discovered saltpetre in the back counties, and are providing every thing necessary for a war. There was never known a finer harvest than this season, contrary to the expectation of most people; for in the beginning of June we had a very hard frost, which we thought had destroyed all the grain, but it only destroyed the fruit. Your very disconsolate, but sincere,
J. DUDLEY.
*** This very same Joshua Dudley (if the printer be rightly informed) is still with Mr. Sampson and George Matthews, in the capacity of a servant; ergo, the whole account of his good and bad fortune is a most notorious falsity, calculated, probably, for the amusement of his sweetheart in England.
SHIP NEWS extraordinary.
THE good ship St. Stephen, Capt. North commander, is safe in port; the crew all well, except about sixty doubt-fuls, who, on account of their being picked up in places where the pestilential disease, by some physicians called influenza, so fatal
in its effects as almost instantaneously to corrupt the whole body, were obliged to perform fourteen days quarantine, which are now expired, but still many are to undergo an inquiry, and submit to a regimen prescribed by Dr. Granville. This vessel has long been employed in the Guinea trade, in a new way; which, though not invented by Capt. North, is practised by him with greater advantage to himself, and the majority of his crew, than by their former commanders. He trades in gold dust, but he chooses to confine his traffick to a particular number, while other merchants think it most for their interest to deal with mankind at large. He deals largely in slaves too, but they are not negroes, nor does he purchase them of the conquerors, as is usual in Negroland; but his white slaves offer themselves to sale, and often leave it to the Captain to fix his price. These white slaves are more absolutely and more abjectly so than the blacks, for when you have bought the master his whole family consider themselves as yours; nor is the property confined to the body with Capt. North, for all his slaves are bound to him, body and soul. The simple negro comforts himself that the term of his bondage lasts only for life, and flatters himself when he dies he shall return to his dear native country. Capt. North's slaves care not a jot for their native country, and are indifferent as to where they shall go when they die. Though the Captain has a number of free sailors on board, he leaves the conduct of the vessel to his slaves, not on account of their superior skill, but merely on account of their numbers; for the minority are not sufficient of themselves to work the vessel, and they are too proud to unite with the slaves; they are rather the ballast than the sails of the ship, and, like the ballast, which always acts in opposition to the sails, keep the vessel from oversetting. It is said the Captain shortly intends an expedition to America, but it is thought the Captain and his slaves will be in some danger; for there are certain rocks and shoals on the coasts of Boston and New York, which neither he nor they have skill enough to avoid.
WORCESTER, Dec. 15. On Saturday last the following melancholy accident happened at Great Whitley, in this county. Two servants belonging to Thomas Faley, Esq; being out with their guns, one of them shot a duck, which falling on a large deep pool, that was froze over, he very imprudently (though his companion endeavoured to dissuade him) ventured upon the pool, took up the duck, and put it into his pocket; but in his return the ice gave way, and let him in up to his chin. In this distressful situation, he had no other support than resting his hands upon the edges of the breach, calling for help, and so continued upwards of an hour, when, through the excessive cold, and vast fatigue, he at last sunk, and was drowned in the presence of a great number of people, who had used every possible means to save him.
EDINBURGH, Nov. 28. The weather was hardly ever known to be more severe so early in the season as it has been this last week, by the great falls of snow, which we hear in some parts of the south lies

near five feet deep; and being succeeded on Sunday night by very high winds, and heavy rains, the roads have been thereby rendered almost impassable. The severe frost, which has now set in, will make them still more dangerous.
BOSTON, February 20.
IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, CAMBRIDGE, February 9, 1775.
To the Inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay.
Friends and fellow sufferers,
W HEN a people entitled to that freedom which our ancestors have nobly preserved, as the richest inheritance of their children, are invaded by the hand of oppression, and trampled on by the merciless feet of tyranny, resistance is so far from being criminal that it becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.
While you see the lives of your fellow men, in other nations, sported with and destroyed, and their estates confiscated by the Prince, only to gratify the caprice, ambition, or avarice of a tyrant, you ought to entertain and cultivate in your minds the highest gratitude to the Supreme Being, for having placed you under such a form of government, as, when duly administered, gives the meanest peasant the same security in his life and property as his sovereign has in his crown.
This constitution of government secures to each one subject thereto such an entire property in his inheritance, and the fruit of his industry, that they cannot be taken from him without his personal or representative consent; and as the evidence of entire property arises from the uncontrollable power of disposing, when your estates shall be brought into such a situation, or under such a form of government, as that they can be disposed of, or granted by persons who are by no means accountable to you therefore, you cease to have any thing more than a licensed and precarious property in them.
Notwithstanding these principles have been warmly contended for, and nobly defended, at the expense of much blood and treasure, by your British ancestors, who have ever been seriously alarmed at the least infringement on this branch of their happy privileges, the House of Commons there, over whom you have not the least controul, and in whose election you have no voice, have claimed and exercised the powers of granting your money without your consent; and what renders the same more aggravated, is, that the money extorted from you is applied to the vile purpose of maintaining a set of men who, through depravity of mind, and cruelty of disposition, have been, and still are, endeavouring to enforce certain acts of Parliament, made with express purpose to take from you your charter rights, and reduce you to a state of misery equal to that ever attendant on those whose Prince has the sole disposal of their lives and properties.
Fleets, troops, and every implement of war, are sent into the province, with apparent design to wrest from you that freedom which it is your duty, even at the risk of your lives, to hand inviolate to posterity.
Those strides of tyranny have fixed the united attention of all America, and, being greatly and justly alarmed, the wisdom of the whole continent has been collected in that Congress whose salutary resolutions have pointed you to effectual means of redress, and the execution of the plan projected by that honourable assembly has been warmly recommended to you by your former Provincial Congress.
The transactions of your former Congress, with regard to placing the militia on such a footing as may serve to defend you from each act of hostility that may be offered, have been carefully transmitted to you; and we rejoice to hear that you have cheerfully paid the strictest attention to them, and ardently wish that the same martial spirit which so remarkably prevails among you may be encouraged and increased.
Though we deprecate a rupture with the mother state, yet we must still urge you to every preparation for your necessary defence; for unless you exhibit to your enemies such a firmness as shall convince them that you are worthy of that freedom your ancestors fled here to enjoy, you have nothing to expect but the vilest and most abject slavery.
The foregoing pages contain the resolutions* of your former Congress, respecting the improvement of your publick monies at this critical juncture of your publick affairs. Such is the alarming state of the province, that the necessity of punctually complying with these resolves can by no means need any farther argument to stimulate thereto than what naturally arises from facts under your constant observations; but as necessary preparations for your defence require immediate supplies of money, duty and faithfulness to you compel us to take leave to hint, that should you be so unhappy as to be driven to unsheath the sword, in defence of your lives and properties, the having proper magazines duly prepared may give that success which cannot be expected without them.
Subjects generally pay obedience to the laws of the land, to avoid the penalty that accrues on breach of them; and on the same principles, we are assured, that, as you hitherto have, you will continue still strictly to adhere to the resolutions of your several Congresses, for we can conceive of no greater punishment for the breach of human laws than the misery that must inevitably follow your disregarding the plans that have, by your authority, with that of the whole continent, been projected.
Your conduct hitherto, under the severest trials, has been worthy of you, as men and Christians; and notwithstanding the pains that have been taken by your enemies to inculcate the doctrines of non-resistance and passive obedience, and by every art to delude and terrify you, the whole continent of America has this day cause to rejoice in your firmness. We trust you will continue steadfast, and, having regard to the dignity of your characters as freemen, and those generous sentiments resulting from your natural and political connexions, you never will submit your necks to the galling yoke of despotism prepared for you, but, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which Heaven gave, and no man ought to take from you.
Signed by order of the Provincial Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
A true extract from the minutes.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Secretary.
* These resolves (which are now published in a pamphlet) relate chiefly to a recommendation to the several towns and districts in the province to cause their respective proportions of the province tax to be paid into the hands of Henry Gardner, Esq; of Stow, who had given bond and sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of the Congress.
IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.
CAMBRIDGE, February 16, 1775.
W HEREAS it has pleased Almighty God, the just and good governor of the world, to permit so great a calamity to befall us as the present controversy between Great Britain and these colonies, and which threaten us with the evils of war; and whereas it has been the annual and laudable custom of this colony, at the opening of the spring, to observe a day of fasting and prayer, to humble themselves before God for their sins, and to implore his forgiveness and blessing:
It is therefore resolved, as the sense of this Congress, that it is highly and peculiarly proper, and a duty incumbent upon this people, more especially at a time of such general distress, that a day of publick fasting and prayer should be observed and kept throughout this colony, not only on account of the present calamity, but also in conformity to the laudable custom of our ancestors; and it is accordingly recom-
mended to the several religious assemblies in the same, that Thursday the 16th day of March next be observed as a day of fasting and prayer, to humble ourselves before God, on account of our sins, to implore his forgiveness, to beg his blessing upon the labours of the field, upon our merchandise, fishery, and manufactures, and upon the various means used to recover and preserve our just rights and liberties; and also that his blessing may rest upon all the British empire, upon George III. our rightful King, and upon all the Royal Family, that they may be great and lasting blessings to the world; to implore the outpourings of his spirit, to enable us to bear and suffer whatever his holy and righteous providence may see fit to lay upon us, and also humbly to supplicate his direction and assistance to discover and reform whatever is amiss, that so he may be pleased to remove these heavy afflictions, these tokens of his displeasure, and may cause harmony and union to be restored between Great Britain and these colonies, and that we may again rejoice in the free and undisturbed exercise of all those rights and privileges for the enjoyment of which our pious and virtuous ancestors braved every danger, and transmitted the fair possession down to their children, to be by them handed down entire to the latest posterity.
Signed by order of the Provincial Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, CAMBRIDGE, February 15, 1775.
W HEREAS it appears to this Congress, from the present disposition of the British Ministry and Parliament, that there is real cause to fear that the reasonable and just applications of this continent to Great Britain, for "peace, liberty, and safety," will not meet with a favourable reception; but, on the contrary, from the large reinforcement of troops expected in this colony, the tenour of intelligence from Great Britain, and general appearances, we have reason to apprehend that the sudden destruction of this colony in particular is intended, for refusing, with the other American colonies, tamely to submit to the most ignominious slavery:
Therefore resolved, that the great law of self-preservation calls upon the inhabitants of this colony immediately to prepare against every attempt that may be made to attack them by surprise; and it is, upon serious deliberation, most earnestly recommended to the militia in general, as well as the detached part of it in minute men, that they spare neither time, pains, nor expense, at so critical a juncture, in perfecting themselves forthwith in military discipline, and that skilful instructors be provided for those companies which are not already provided therewith.
And it is recommended to the towns and districts in this colony, that they encourage such persons as are skilled in the manufacture of fire arms and bayonets diligently to apply themselves thereto, for supplying such of the inhabitants as shall be deficient.
And for the encouragement of American manufactures of fire arms and bayonets, it is farther resolved, that this Congress will give the preference to, and purchase from them, so many effective arms and bayonets as can be delivered in a reasonable time, upon notice given to this Congress at its next session.
Signed by order of the Provincial Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
A true extract from the minutes.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Secretary.
The Massachusetts Provincial Congress, we hear, is adjourned to the 22d day of March next.
We hear from Falmouth, in Casco Bay, that one day last week as four or five men belonging to the Gaspée (one of the armed cutters on the American station) were attempting to go ashore in the boat, they were fired at from the vessel, and one of them killed. They however landed with the dead body, and a jury of inquest was sum-

moned, who brought in their verdict wilful murder ; upon which the proper civil officers went off with intent to secure the murderer, but were not permitted to go on board.
Extract of a letter from Savannah, in Georgia, December 9, 1774.
" YESTERDAY the inhabitants of Savannah met and chose deputies to meet in Provincial Congress, the deputies of the several parishes and districts of this province to be chosen before the 18th of next month; on which day they meet, and there is not the least doubt they will adopt every measure recommended by the Congress, and firmly enter into the association. You may be assured they will on that day also elect deputies to meet the Continental or General Congress, to be held in Philadelphia, on or about the 10th day of May next. The spirit of opposition has subsided, and most of the protesters against the former resolves came to the poll, and voted for delegates. Two of our back parishes, which made the most noise, are now come over to us. As the Carolina trade was ready to be stopped, it immediately lessened the value of Indian corn one third. When you consider our local situation, and the circumstance of having as many placemen and publick offices, with their connexions, as the largest and most populous government on the continent, and those with independent salaries from government, add to that the Indian war with which the province was threatened (which is now settled) was a strong argument with many why the opposition to government should not be made by us, as we had just applied home for troops. That difficulty being removed, there is not the least doubt but Georgia will appear among the foremost in support of civil and religious liberty. There are large donations of rice collecting for the poor sufferers in Boston; and, had we the means of sending it to them with very little trouble, much more would be collected and sent. If no opportunity offers soon directly to Boston, it will be sent to New York or Philadelphia to be disposed of for them."
Extract of a letter from a worthy Gentleman in Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 1.
"I have taken up this paper, to give you a hint on the state of our Jamaica politics. I find the many excellent publications sent hither from the continent have had a wonderful effect in softening the minds of our opponents, enlightening those who were uninstructed, and confirming the faithful. I claim some little merit to myself for having transmitted those papers, though it is of that inferior kind which was due to the sexton who tolled the bell at the church of the late excellent Dr. Sherlock. I have now a choice piece of intelligence for our friends, at which they will be agreeably surprised; The assembly of this island, by a majority of 16 to 9, have passed a memorial to his Majesty, and have petitioned for a repeal of all the late acts of Parliament respecting America. It is spirited and judicious, though not expressed in the elegant diction which may be found in the papers offered by the Congress. You may be indulged with a sight of it, in the hands of my worthy friend Mr. -----.
P. S. The memorial is to be sent home by the Grantham packet, which is to sail the 7th instant."
Extract of a letter from London, to a Gentleman in New York, Dec. 6, 1774.
"Enclosed you have a paper which contains the Lords protest against the address to the King's speech, which you will no doubt receive by the packet. It is very unusual to have any division , though there is commonly a debate on such addresses, and still more unusual for such division to be followed with a protest. Yesterday there were strong debates, and a division, in the House of Commons, on their address in answer to the speech; which latter, viz. the division, is uncommon on such an occasion. The courtiers carried their point by a considerable majority, but these steps
show plainly that there is a determined resolution among the patriots here to resist the wicked ministerial measures against America. Indeed your cause gathers strength in this kingdom every day, for now it is plain, beyond a doubt, that the measures taken against America are intended finally to subvert the liberties of this country; and I make not the least question but the sword being once drawn against you will produce something very like a civil war in this country, in less than 12 months.
"The people at present do not feel , and therefore are quiet, nor can you (when our luxury, riches, and dissipation, are considered) in reason expect they should, while you are ministering to their pleasure by such plentiful remittances.
"This day there was a report current that the Congress of the states of America had adjourned, having fixed on stopping all imports into America from Great Britain the first of this month, and all exports from America to Great Britain after the first of January. From curiosity, I strolled upon change, and for the first time saw concern and deep distress in the face of every American merchant; they seemed to think that it was absolutely necessary to apply to Parliament and Administration to relax and settle the American business on the old footing, as it was at the end of the last war, and then things would go on as they should do. This convinced me of the truth of what many have said before, that the merchants will never stir till they feel , and every one knows that the manufacturers will never take the lead of the merchants.
"If the report of the exports being stopped the first of January next should prove true, and you add to it a determination of not paying any British debts till your rights are fully restored, I am sure in less than three months you will have as strong a mercantile combination in your favour as there was in the time of the stamp act. Artful, designing, and wicked men, who never had in truth an honest or virtuous feeling in their lives, will pretend to exclaim against such a conduct as dishonest; but ask any of these drivellers this question, had any of you in your hand a stick belonging to another man, whom you knew, if he could get it into his own, was determined to break your head with it, would you, on the stick's being demanded by the right owner, give it up to him?
"Indeed, I am convinced the merchants here will not assist you till their remittances are stopped; but I am afraid of your town, for it is currently said here, and with much confidence, that a good deal of publick money has been put in the hands of a Mr. -----, one of the -----, and some of your other great men, in order to buy their influence in favour of ministerial measures, in order to secure the province of New York on the side of our wicked rulers, and thereby cut off the communication of the other colonies with the New England provinces. But, should these great men prove traitors to their country, I hope the yeomanry at large in your province set too great a value on your inestimable rights and liberties to let any great men cheat you out of them."
ADVERTISEMENTS.
To be SOLD,
SUNDRY LOTS in the town of Blandford , one of which has a good dwelling-house upon it, with three rooms below and two above, a good cellar, all convenient outhouses, and a garden. The others are unimproved, but very good situations. Likewise a tract of LAND in the county of Amherst , containing 1100 acres. It is exceeding fine tobacco land, and in good order for cropping, with all necessary houses upon it. This land may be seen by applying to Mr. William Lee , who lives in the county, and the terms made known by applying to Mr. John Baird , merchant in Blandford , or the subscriber.
4|| ALEXANDER GORDON.
GOODE'S BRIDGE, Chesterfield, March 8.
THE noted English horse JANUS is in great perfection. He stands at my house, and covers at 5l. the season, or 40s. the leap. Mares that go by the season shall be covered night and morning, provided no other mare interferes. The leap money to be paid at the stable door. I have rented a large pasture for the use of the mares gratis. I will not be liable for any of the mares that get away. The season expires the 15th day of August next.
JOHN GOODE.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 8, 1775.
LENT to some of my acquaintances in this city, The Country Cousins , and The Memoirs of Count de Forbes . The favour will be gratefully acknowledged, if the person, in whose possession the above mentioned books are, would be so obliging as to send them to
4|| WILLIAM DAWSON.
For SALE,
TRACT of LAND in Caroline county, near Newmarket , containing about 3000 acres of well timbered land, having thereon two plantations, in good repair, with proper and convenient edifices for farming, or making tobacco. For terms apply to the subscriber.
(tf) JOHN BAYLOR.
For SALE,
TRACT of LAND in Caroline county, contiguous to Mattapony , containing about 2000 acres of well timbered land, the property of Mr. Robert Baylor . The terms may be known by applying to Mr. Nathaniel Burwell in King William , Mr. John Armistead in Caroline , or Mr. John Baylor , Executors. (tf)
FREDERICKSBURG, Feb. 24, 1775.
HAVING for some time established a manufactory as a SADDLER in all its branches, in the town of Falmouth , I find it requisite to give my personal attendance chiefly at that place, and therefore have appointed Mr. Edward Simpson , a person of integrity, and a master workman, to superintend my shop in this town, and hope for the continuance of the favours received of my customers, either here or at Falmouth .---I want a journeyman well recommended, who is acquainted with the harness branch of my profession; and I hereby notify a certain John Green , now of this town, who was formerly in my employ, to refrain from deluding and assisting my workmen with horses in order to remove them from their engagements with me.
|| RICHARD LEWIS.
RUN away from the subscriber, the 27th of February , a negro fellow named CUFF , about five feet six or seven inches high, and his clothing such as field negroes generally have. I imagine he is lurking about Mr. James Glover's in Suffex , near Freeman's bridge. He formerly belonged to Mr. Benjamin Marrable , deceased, of Charles City . Whoever brings the said negro to me, in Charles City , shall have 20s. reward, besides what the law allows.
1|| EDWARD MARRABLE, Adm.
*** I hereby forewarn all persons from harbouring or employing the said fellow.
MARCH 8, 1775.
RUN away from the subscriber, some time in November last, a negro fellow named HENRY PERFUME , alias SHARPER , about four feet eight inches high, pitted with the smallpox, one of his fore teeth much decayed, and one of his little fingers is crooked. He was tried last March in Gloucester county for felony, and found guilty, but a pardon was obtained for him by Mr. Lewis Burwell ; after which he was set at liberty, and lived near the courthouse many months, and I suppose is lurking about there now, as he has a wife in the neighbourhood. I will give 40s. to any person who will deliver him to me, in Charles City .
2|| JOHN EDLOE.

R UN away from the subscriber, in Fauquier, the 25th of February, a servant man named JOHN BRUTON , a well set fellow, of a swarthy complexion, five feet eight inches high, has short brown hair, full faced, bow-legged, and has a scar on one of his thumbs; had on, when he went away, a blue lappelled duffil jacket, a check shirt, buckskin breeches, cotton leggins, coarse shoes tied with strings, and an old fine hat. He went off on a bay HORSE about fourteen hands and a half high, four years old last summer, branded on the near buttock and shoulder, as well as I remember, HM in a piece. Whoever brings the said servant and horse to me shall have a reward of 50s. or 40s. for the servant only.
1|| WILLIAM WITHERS.
T AKEN up, in Brunswick, a small bay HORSE about ten years old, four feet one inch high, some white hairs in his forehead, is hip-shot, and branded on the near buttock S . Posted, and appraised to 40s. ALEXANDER WATSON.
TREASURY OFFICE, Feb. 27, 1775.
O BSEVING, from a ROYAL PROCLAMATION published in the last gazette, that his MAJESTY hath been GRACIOUSLY PLEASED to authorise the currency of copper money throughout this colony, agreeable to the terms of an act of our General Assembly, I do hereby give notice that such copper money is now ready to be issued in exchange either for gold, silver, or any of the treasury notes. Those who have demands, properly authenticated, may receive what proportion they please in copper; but are not obliged to take above 2s. 6d. in any sum above 20s. and not more than 1s. in any sum under 20s. Constant attendance will be given at this office every day in the week, except Sunday, from eight to one o'clock.
I must again call upon all such inspectors, clerks, and other collectors, as have not settled their accounts and paid their respective balances due to the treasury. If they fail doing it longer than the next meeting of merchants in April, they may be assured that I shall prefer regular complaints before proper authority against every delinquent; and that I shall, moreover, without fail, publish lists of all defaulters in the publick gazettes.
THIS MAY BE RELIED ON.
2 RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
I MPORTED some time in Feb. 1773, in the Warwick, M c Vey, from Glasgow, a box containing LINENS, &c. and a case containing a GUN, both directed for Mr. Maclaurin Gillies at Milner's, which the Captain says he sent to Burwell's ferry. Whoever can give intelligence of the same, to the Printer, the favour will be gratefully acknowledged. ||
R UN away from the subscriber, in Richmond town, an English indented servant man, named WILLIAM PARKER , by trade a blacksmith, but since he has been in Virginia has acted as a waiting man. He is 21 years of age, about five feet eight inches high, well made, and of a quick speech; had on, when he made his elopement, a black coat and jacket, a pair of buckskin breeches, a round hat bound with velvet, and a brown surtout coat. He carried away sundry ruffled shirts, silk stockings, &c. I expect he will attempt to ship himself on board some vessel for Britain. All masters of vessels are hereby forewarned from carrying away any such person. Whoever secures the said servant in any jail, so that I get him again, shall have 3l. for his trouble.
ARCHIBALD M c KENDRICK.
T AKEN up, in Stafford, a dark brown MARE about twelve years old, thirteen hands high, with a bushy mane and switch tail, but no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 6l.
|| THOMAS SUDDIN.
MANCHESTER, Feb. 11, 1775.
T HE subscriber intending for Britain, by the ensuing fall, proposes to sell the following TRACTS of LAND , viz. About 2000 acres in Bedford county, lying upon both sides of the north fork of Otter river, and Hurricane creek, about 100 acres thereof cleared, producing tobacco of a fine quality; there are several houses upon the land, large peach and apple orchards, and a meadow. The land lies well, is a remarkable good place for raising stocks of all kinds, having an excellent range upon the mountains joining it.----- Also another tract of about 300 acres, a mile below the other, which has a grist-mill upon it, lately built, with a stone dam, and a never-failing stream. There are little more improvements upon this tract, but the soil is good, and would make a valuable settlement.-----Likewise a valuable and well known tract of land, in Hanover county, called Half Sink , on Chickahominy river, containing, by a late survey, 667 acres, a great part of which is rich low ground, affording a vast quantity of large white oak timber. The plantation is in good order to work ten hands, has the necessary houses upon it, lately built, and lies eleven miles from Richmond town.----Four lots in the town of Richmond, with houses thereon, one or two of which are new, and is the place where Mr. James Vaughan formerly kept ordinary. The pasture is fenced with posts and rails, and it would be a suitable place for a tavern, or afford conveniencies for three private families.---The above lands may be entered upon next fall, and the lots at the expiration of the present year they are rented for. I shall be glad to treat with any person who inclines to purchase.
4 ALEXANDER BAINE.
*** I want to purchase the half acre lot at Rocky Ridge, No. 132, drawn to ticket No. 373, in Col. Byrd's lottery.
R UN away from the subscriber, in King George county, the first of January last, a Dutch servant man who goes by the name of JOHN OCINHYSER , a baker by trade, about five feet high, dark complexion, short stiff hair cut on the top, black eyes, and bow-legged. He talks broken English, and when he speaks it is with a smiling countenance. Had on, and took with him, a blue coat with brass buttons; three waistcoats, one white kersey, another striped with blue and white, and the other a kind of brownish white, much worn, with sleeves; a pair of black everlasting, a pair of black stocking, and a pair of negro cotton breeches; two pair of stockings, one black, the other blue, with a pair of brass carved shoe buckles, and one bound and one macaroni hat. Any person who will bring the said servant to me, in Falmouth, shall have 40s. reward, besides what the law allows.
|| PETER BOWERS.
S TRAYED, or STOLEN, out of the subscriber's lot, in Williamsburg, on the 23d of January last, a bay HORSE about four years old, four feet eight inches high, a star in his forehead, some white on his off hind footlock, has a dull look, thick mane, trots, gallops slow, is low in flesh, branded on the near shoulder A , and on the near buttock W . Whoever brings the said horse to me shall have two dollars reward.
JAMES NICHOLS.
T AKEN up, in Prince William, a dark brown Steer with some white spots under his belly, and white at the end of his tail, about three years old, and marked with a crop in each ear. Posted, and appraised to 45s.
MOSES SUTHARD.
MARCH 3, 1775.
T HE Frederickburg Jockey Club are desired to meet on Saturday the 11th instant, at which time some matters of consequence will be left to their consideration.
2 GEORGE WEEDON, Secretary.
To cover this SEASON,
BAY BOLTON , a full blooded hunter, got by old Starling out of a hunter mare. He is a dark bay, seven years old, sixteen hands high, well made and formed. He stands at my plantation, about four miles from Alexandria, and will cover mares at thirty shillings the leap, and five shillings to the groom, or three pounds the season, and five shillings to the groom. Many good judges have seen him, and all agree he is as complete a horse as has been imported for this country. His colts have turned out very fine, several having been sold at thirty pounds currency when three months old. Those that choose the season may have good pasturage, and great care will be taken of the mares, but I will not be answerable for any that may be lost. The money will be expected when the mares are taken away.
4 JOHN CARLYLE.
*** If any person inclines to purchase my horse, I will sell him after the season, and give reasonable credit.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
R UN away from the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Frederick Baker, lying at Alexandria, four sailors, viz. JAMES ROBB , born in the north of England, about five feet ten inches high, smooth faced, with black hair; had on, or took with him, a suit of blue clothes with a red velvet cape. WILLIAM TATE , six feet high, much pitted with the smallpox, and has short curly hair; had on a red waistcoat and trousers. CHARLES THOMPSON , about five feet five inches high, a short, thick, well set fellow, smooth faced, with short straight hair. JOHN FIELD , about five feet seven inches high, well set, smooth faced, lips, looks a little askint, and has brown lank hair tied behind. They carried with them their chests and beddings, and robbed the ship of the hammocks they slept in, and four oars. They also carried with them, from on board the said ship, an indented servant for four years, named WILLIAM WILLIAMS , but went amongst the servants and ship's company by the name of Alick. He is about 23 years of age, pock marked, speaks much in the Scotch accent, has short curly black hair, a watch in his pocket, a baker by trade, and will endeavour to pass for a freeman; had on a pepper and salt coloured cloth coat, and leather breeches. It is certain that they went down the river, as they were seen at Nanjemay, and will probably endeavour to get on board some ship, or proceed straight to Norfolk. All masters are forewarned from taking them on board. They went off in a Moses New England built boat, the stuff on her looks like turpentine and ochre, and is of a brown colour. She was formerly a tender to a fishing Schooner. Whoever apprehends them shall have the above reward, or 40s. for each sailor, or the boat, and 5l. for the servant, with reasonable charges if delivered to the Captain on board the said ship, or for the servant committed to any jail, or delivered to
4 ROBERT ADAM & Co.
T AKEN up, in Archer's Hope creek, two pettiaugers, one two feet ten inches over, and sixteen feet long, with rowlocks for four oars; the other two feet eleven inches over, and twenty four feet four inches long, with rowlocks cut in the sides for four oars. The owners may have them, on proving their property, and applying to
JOHN RONE.
*** Who will give good encouragement to one who understands GOING by WATER and is well acquainted with James river, and not fond of drink.
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BOSTON, February 20. To the PRINTER.
SIR, ON reading the account of the battle between the brave Virginians and their savage neighbours, it brought to my mind the keen resentments, and mortifying reflections, that must naturally kindle in the breasts of an experienced general, brave officers, and intrepid soldiers, to remember that the professed design of Britain, in maintaining standing armies in America, was the protection of the colonies, and yet know, at the very moment the noble Virginians were bleeding, dying, and winning the laurels of victory, they were confined, and basking in their tents, to execute one of the most inglorious designs that ever disgraced the name of a British soldier, viz. enslaving a free province, that has supported itself more than 150 years against her savage foes. These resentments and reflections must still increase, when they feel and know the irresistible conviction this proceeding will give to every honest man in Britain or America, of these two facts: First, that the real design of keeping a standing army in America was not the protecting, but enslaving, the colonies; the second thing thus demonstrated is, that the colonies do not need or desire protection from the standing armies, but are able and willing to defend themselves, and therefore they must view their stay in America as useless and burthensome. In this situation, it is natural for Americans to imagine the honest generous souls of the Gentlemen of the army will kindle to such a degree, when their inglorious and base employment is compared with that of the virtuous Virginians, gaining the art of war and glory of victory, that they would rather resign their commissions, or lives, than suffer the eternal disgrace of having their names handed down to posterity, with these facts to fully some future page, in British or American story. Can we expect less from these generous spirits, than that they let their corrupt employers know the just indignation they feel at this abuse and disgrace that is, and will be, fixed eternally on their names, as the dupes of tyranny?
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.
NEW YORK, February 20.
THE ship Beulah, Capt. Bussell, arrived at the watering-place last Thursday night, in nine weeks from London, but has brought no late news. He spoke the Schooner Byrd, from Virginia for Jamaica, who the day before lost every thing off her decks in a gale of wind.
Easterly winds prevailed so much on the coast of England, the latter end of November and beginning of December, that several vessels from America, that might otherwise have been arrived, had not got there the middle of December; which caused ensurance to rise prodigiously, inasmuch that 40 per cent. was offered on the ship Britannia, from this port for London; she failed from hence the beginning of October, but sprung a leak, put back to Philadelphia, and failed again from thence the latter end of October.
Mr. Wales, a member of the Connecticut Assembly, with others, are gone, as a committee, to meet a committee from Boston, to consult upon the important matters that will come before the General Assembly of Connecticut, in the ensuing session. It is said that in that Assembly a motion will be made, for raising, clothing, and paying a large body of provincial troops.
The uncommon open weather that we have had for some time past has brought
down many sloops from Fishkills, Poughkeepsie, &c. inasmuch that the like was scarce ever known in America at this season; by which means many vessels have got full loads of wheat, flour, &c. and have failed for England, &c. &c.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.
COMMITTEE CHAMBER, Feb. 18. The following letter, in answer to one wrote by the committee of correspondence to the committee of Kent county, was read and ordered to be published.
J. B. SMITH, Secretary.
DOVER, Feb 15.
GENTLEMEN, WE were this morning favoured with your's of the 13th instant, informing us of the purport of a piece of intelligence, published in the Pennsylvania Ledger of Saturday last, said to be "an extract of a letter from Kent county on Delaware," very injurious to the publick spirit of the inhabitants of this county. We can assure you, from the knowledge we have of the sentiments of the inhabitants, that they have not in the least changed their opinions with respect to the important subject of dispute between the mother country and the British colonies in America, and are as well disposed to make a virtuous stand against tyranny and oppression, from whatsoever quarter they may threaten us, as the inhabitants of any other of these colonies; and that the said extract is a base calumny, replete with falsehood, and only designed, by the wicked insidious author, to cause divisions, and excite mutual suspicions and distrust in the minds of Americans, weaken our hands, and prepare the way for an easy victory to the enemies of America.
We would, therefore, request the favour of your committee to call upon the printer of the above paper, to discover, if he can, the author of this piece of slander; and that this letter may be published in all the Philadelphia newspapers.
We conclude, Gentlemen, with our grateful acknowledgments to you for your vigilance and care, in endeavouring to guard and preserve the rights and privileges of America in general.
Signed by order of a full committee for Kent county.
MARK M'CALL, Clerk.
To the committee of correspondence for the city and liberties of Philadelphia.
We hear that it was determined on Friday night last, at a meeting of the owners of goods on board the ship Beulah, arrived at New York, that she should return to London with all her goods, agreeable to the resolves of the Congress, and that she should depart in two days after the above-mentioned meeting.
We learn from Kingston, Jamaica, that in a gale of wind, at Montego Bay, on the 3th of January, the brig Betsey, Capt. Yorke, from this port, parted her anchor, drove on a reef of rocks, and is irrecoverably lost. The same evening the Britannia's boat overset, and one of the people was drowned.
Last Wednesday night, about 8 o'clock, as three men were going quietly along Fourth street, near Appletree alley, they were insulted by several persons; upon which a quarrel ensued, when one of the injured party was killed on the spot, and another severely bruised. The body of the deceased being examined, it was imagined he died in an apoplectic fit, which was occasioned by a violent blow he received on the left side of his head, and one of his sides was very much bruised. The persons concerned in this unhappy affair are committed to prison.
By Capt. Moore, just arrived from Charlestown, we have the following.
IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, Charlestown, Monday, January 16, 1775.
RESOLVED, that it is the unanimous opinion of this Congress, that no action for any debt should be commenced in the court of Common Pleas in this colony, nor any such action depending there, which was commenced since last September return, be proceeded in, without the consent of the committee of the parish or district in which the defendant resides, until it shall be otherwise determined in Provincial Congress. That the said committees respectively, or a majority of such of them as shall meet (provided they are not less than three in the country parishes and districts) do, upon application, give permission for the bringing or proceeding on such suits, in the following cases, that is to say, where the debtors refuse to renew their obligations, or to give reasonable security, or are justly suspected of intentions to leave the province or to defraud their creditors, or where there shall appear, to the majority of such committee as aforesaid, any other reasonable cause for the granting such permission; which committees shall meet and sit on the first and third Saturdays in every month, at twelve o'clock at noon, in the country, or oftener, if it shall be found necessary, for the purpose of hearing and determining on such applications. That seizures and sales, upon mortgages, shall be considered on the same footing as actions for debt. That it be recommended to the committees for each parish and district that they use their best endeavours to prevent any debtors removing their effects out of the province, without the knowledge and consent of their creditors. That the Congress will indemnify the committees for so doing. And that no summons should be issued by any magistrate, in small and mean causes, without the like consent.
Resolved, that any eleven members of the committee for Charlestown, assembled together, be a sufficient number to receive and determine upon applications relative to law processes there.
Jan. 17. Resolved, that a strict conformity to the resolves of this Congress be recommended to the Gentlemen of the law who practise in the country, as well as in the town, in regard to the issuing of writs, and proceeding on suits and mortgages.
A true copy from the journals.
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
On the 24th instant the Provincial Congress, which met here on Wednesday the 11th of this month, adjourned. The Hon. Henry Middleton, Esq; Thomas Lynch, Esq; Christopher Gadsden, Esq; John Rutledge, Esq; and Edward Rutledge, Esq; the deputies from this province at the Congress holden in Philadelphia in September and October last, are elected deputies from this province to attend the Congress to be holden in the said city on the 10th of May next.
NEW BERN, February 10.
HIS Excellency the Governour has been pleased to appoint Archibald Nielson, Esq; Auditor General of this province, in the room of Isaac Edwards, Esq; deceased.
A few days since, the most daring robbery was committed in this county that has perhaps been perpetrated in America. In the evening, two men came to the house of Mr. John Foy, a wealthy planter, who lives on the main road about eight miles above this town. They lodged with Mr. Foy that night, and in the morning, after breakfast, gave him a bill to change, in order to pay him their reckoning; but as Mr. Foy went into his room, where his money was, they both followed him, pre-

sented their rifles (which they had with them) to his breast, and demanded his money instantly. Mr. Foy endeavoured to parley a little with them, on the rectitude of such an unreasonable request; but on finding instant death was his doom on refusal, he gave them 7501. in cash and paper bills; they then most audaciously upbraided Mr. Foy with his penury, took his best horse, and some of his clothes, and rode off about 8 o'clock in the morning. People were passing the road which goes through the yard, at the instant they were committing the robbery. They are thought to be part of a gang of villains that inhabit the back parts of the province, who have long been engaged in the iniquitous traffick of horse-stealing.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 10.
THIS day the libel, exhibited against the schooner Wray galley, laden with 84 hogsheads of tobacco, by Henry Collins, Esq; commander of his Majesty's armed schooner Magdalen, came on to be heard in the court of Admiralty. The cause of seizure alledged was a supposed violation of an act of Parliament, in not having given bond, before any tobacco had been taken on board, that the same should be unladed in Great Britain, the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or some British plantation. Upon consideration of the arguments, the Judge determined that no country craft was required to give such bond; and therefore, the libelled vessel being in that predicament, was acquitted. The prosecutor has entered an appeal; and, probable cause of seizure being certified, the respondents were ordered to pay costs.
By Captain Hatch, from Boston, we learn that Ensign Halkinshaw, belonging to one of the regiments quartered in that town, having lately insulted the watch, was bound over to his good behaviour; but having committed a misdemeanor since, by cutting a young man's arm, the General allowed him only a short time to sell his commission, and he is now in custody, to take his trial.
By a proclamation of Governor Martin's, in the North Carolina gazette of the 17th ult. there is the following information. That a certain Richard Henderson, late of Granville county, in that province, confederating with divers other persons, had, in open violation of his Majesty's royal proclamation, and of an act of the General Assembly, entered into treaty with some Cherokee Indians for the purchase and cession of a very large tract of country, by some reputed to be 200 miles square, by others 300 miles, and said to be part of the hunting grounds of the Cherokee nation, and actually comprised within the limits of the colony of Virginia and the royal grant to the right Hon. the Earl Granville: That such a daring, unjust, and unwarrantable proceeding, is of a most alarming and dangerous tendency to the peace and welfare of that province and the colony of Virginia, inasmuch as it is represented that the said Richard Henderson, and his confederates, have conditioned to pay the Indians, for the cession of the said land, a considerable quantity of gunpowder, whereby they will be furnished with the means of annoying his Majesty's subjects in that and the neighbouring colonies; and that he has also invited many debtors, and other persons in desperate circumstances, to desert the province, and become settlers on the said lands, to the great injury of creditors: That it is to be apprehended, if the said Richard Henderson is suffered to proceed in his unwarrantable and lawless undertaking a settlement may be formed that will become an asylum to the most abandoned fugitives from the several colonies, to the great molestation and injury of his Majesty's subjects.
The Blandford, Troop, from Philadelphia, is arrived in James River.
Marriages. ] DAVID COPELAND, Esq; of Cumberland, to Miss NANCY HARRISON, second daughter of Benjamin Harrison, Esq; of Berkeley.
Mr. PURDIE, R EAL patriotism is a virtue of that exalted nature which will induce individuals to set aside every private advantage, when such happens to clash with the interests of the community. "Our duty to our country (said a patriotick orator in the House of Commons) is like our duty to God; after we have done every thing for it, we have still done too little." Considering patriotism in this light, we should naturally expect to find it earnest to promote every scheme calculated for the publick benefit, and ready to make a sacrifice of every lucrative consideration, if it is rendered necessary.
The SALT SCHEME, with which the publick was made acquainted in August last, is evidently of the above nature. Not a doubt with regard to the practicability of making salt in Virginia can remain, as the fact has been clearly demonstrated by repeated experiments, attended with the most successful issue; yet, extraordinary as it may appear, it has met with every discouragement that the most airy, ill conceived, and ill digested project, could have been exposed to.
After Mr. TAIT was flattered with the thoughts of meeting with all possible assistance from the several counties where his plan had been promulgated, he was reduced, after remaining in anxious suspense for several months, to the disappointment of seeing his offers to serve the colony overlooked. The money that has been paid in to the Treasurer, on this occasion, I am told, amounts to a sum too trifling to be named. It is not my design to ascribe this to a deficiency of patriotism amongst the people; such a conjecture cannot, by any means, be reconciled to that publick spirit which animates this extensive country: The backwardness shewn in advancing the salt scheme, therefore, appears the more extraordinary.
In consequence of its cold reception from the publick, the plan for establishing a salt-work, was in a most forlorn situation, when a few Gentlemen resolved to form themselves into a company, and forward the work which seemed to promise so many beneficial effects to their country; this accordingly is brought about. It remains only to fix upon a spot to carry on the works at; this also is accomplished. And now matters wore a most favourable aspect, when the scheme is a second time retarded.
The company had made choice of a tract of land, the property of a Gentleman who had expressed for some time an inclination to sell it; and it was not doubted but he would give the preference in this case to the partnership entered into for establishing a salt work: Accordingly, when the company made application to him, he very readily came into the terms they offered for the land, and every thing to the necessary writings is concluded upon; but when a finishing hand was to be put to the business, the proprietor of the land (in the course of an hour) had altered his mind, and thought proper to decline it.
In order, Sir, to account for the proprietor's extraordinary conduct, it is necessary to inform you, that he was not made acquainted with the intention of the company in purchasing the land till after he had agreed to their terms. But should it not, Sir (as it afforded him an opportunity to serve his country) have been a superior inducement with him to part with it? Surely! however, it operated very differently; for it suggested to him (and I think the conclusion is inevitable) the design of making the most of his land on this occasion, well knowing that its vicinity to the sea, and the great quantity of wood on it, rendered it by far the most
convenient spot in the country for the company's undertaking.
But the Gentleman is disappointed in his expectations. Discouraged, I suppose, by this early obstruction towards a completion of their plan, the partnership is dissolved; and the unfortunate salt scheme, devoted to neglect, is again relinquished, though it is to be hoped that Gentlemen of weight in the colony will take it into consideration, and render it all the assistance its utility seems so highly to merit.
I have been informed, Sir, that the Gentleman who has been the cause of the salt scheme's miscarriage is extremely solicitous to be distinguished for a patriot. If your readers think that a person who could behave in the manner related above is entitled to that appellation, it surely may be allowed me to exclaim, with Corregio (though you must observe I never had a pencil in my hand) "and I also am a painter." I am, Sir, your very humble servant, PROBUS.
Mr. PURDIE, W ERE not the merits and event of the dispute between the Treasurer and Mr. Henley really indifferent to my hopes or fears, you would have remained unaddressed by me, because strictures on the virulence and improprieties of one party most commonly imply an adoption of the cause of the other.
Give me leave then, as a friend to decency and society, with humble deference to conceive, that though invectives may be deemed lawful modes of reprisal against an adversary, with whom the use of such weapons commenced, those schemes of conduct which conscience abhors, and his own moral agency might have suppressed, are the only proper subjects for such purposes. General approbation of the father reflects, in ordinary life, a degree of esteem and imagined worth on the son, not only from a presumption that an education, flowing from a virtuous heart, forms the pupil to the same standard; or, because the pattern at home, proposed to his imitation, in a system of virtuous manners, crowned with the acquisition of a good name, by inspiring, gains the credit of having been successfully copied; but also, because the publick wishes to render the objects of its favour still happier, by extending its applause to their near and interesting connections. Farther, to common sense and charity I appeal, whether the converse of such reasoning be feasible? Yet, for a moment, let it be otherwise: A bad parent produces a bad child, and a perverse exemplar an image like unto itself, as often as the contrary produces the contrary; but does not the concession become untenable, when positive merit, and a series of laudable actions, are confronted with it, when the whole tenour of life evinces an adherence to those paths which no wise man ever disdained to tread? Again, is it not a victory, a triumph over corrupt instruction, to counteract it by self-taught virtue?
Believe me, Sir, it is an impolitick thrust thus to aim at the vitals of an enemy. It carries the marks of desperate rancour and revenge in the offensive, and innocence beyond the reach of malice in the defensive side, thus industriously, thus wretchedly, to winnow the character of one, in order to stigmatise that of another; nay, it detaches those from the side of the aggressor, who, as to other points in contention, might possibly have enlisted with him.
The application of what has been said above will appear by reference to a short piece in the 5th column of Pinkney's last gazette. The fact, there obscurely hinted at, I know not the truth of; but, though I should acknowledge the certainty of it, I disapprove of, I condemn, I execrate the unnatural idea, and experiment, of calling the manes of a father from their rest, that they may become an engine of harrasment to his son.
NEUTER.