The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-09-23 00:00:00

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CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.
THE Grand Vizier having received advice that the Russians had gained an advantage over our troops near Babadagh, detached three Bashaws, with a part of his army, who have not only driven the Russians from Babadagh, but have killed or made prisoners the greatest part of them before they were able to repass the Danube.
Warsaw, June 26. The following is a copy of a letter from Count Romanzow, dated June 9. "I have just received advice that General Weisiman, on the 27th of May, attacked at Carafan, at eight in the evening, a Turkish entrenched camp, consisting of 12,000 men, mostly infantry, under the command of Sultan Tartare Bachmet Guirey, and the Pachas Aboulla, Arnaut, and Czerkes Hassan. He killed on the spot and in the pursuit about 1500 men, made about 100 prisoners, and took nine colours, 16 cannon, and all their camp equipage. The enemy retired with the greatest precipitation towards Bazardgik, and were pursued ten wrets. Our cavalry only was engaged on this occasion."
Vienna, June 26. The Prince of Gonzague, who has resided in this city for six years past, in great want, waiting the issue of his cause with respect to his principality of Caltiglione, which was sequestered during the war about the Spanish succession, has ceded his right to the house of Austria for 300,000 florins.
Leiden, July 12. It has been said in several public prints that it was the court of Berlin which had been the cause of proroguing the sittings of the delegates at Warsaw, alledging that the reason for this act was that the partition allowed to the first mentioned court was not equal to that of the other two powers. But we are informed that both the above assertions are false, the King of Prussia being content with his portion, and that he was not the cause of the prorogation.
Belgrade, June 26. We learn from Constantinople that two Tartars, arrived there lately from the camp of the Grand Vizier, confirms the melancholy news that the Russians, having passed the Danube, had advanced as far as Babadagh, and there formed a fortified camp, from whence they marched out and attacked a body of 15,000 Turks, the greatest part of whom perished by the blowing up of a mine.
Constantinople, June 11. We have just furnished with a large quantity of artillery the castles lately constructed at the entrance of the canal at Constantinople.
Venice, June 23. We are assured that the Russian minister here hath received a letter from Cataro, which confirms what we had before learned from Transylvania, viz. that there has been a bloody battle near the Danube, between the Russians and the Ottomans, in which, it is said, the latter lost 30,000 men, with the military chest, and several standards. We expect every moment to receive letters with a more circumstantial detail.
Rome, June 23. Letters from Malta advise that two Corsairs off that island, took, on the 30th of April, in the Levant sea, two Turkish merchant ships, with a cargo valued at 150,000 crowns.
Hamburgh, June 25. The advices which we receive from Moldavia continue to be favourable to the Russians. Many of their piquets have made incursions on the other side of the Danube, and repulsed the advanced posts of the Ottomans. However, we have not yet learnt whether the grand army hath passed the above river. It is composed of 61,000 foot, and 23,400 cavalry, besides 2600 cannoners. According to this list, the army of Field Marshal Romanzow will consist of 87,000 men.
Paris, June 25. Mr. Bruce, of whom we have already spoken, and who has sent to the Count de Buffon birds and grain unknown hitherto in Europe, is arrived at Marfeilles. This learned traveller is attacked with a disorder particular to the country which he has just traversed. They call it Vena Medina, from the town of Medina, where in commonly reigns. It is a worm of the thickness of four habands twisted together, and sometimes six feet long, which introduces itself into the skin, and lodges in the cellular membrane. There is no curing this singular disorder but by the total extraction of the worm; but if it happens to break in the operation, that part of the worm, which re-enters the skin, occasions sharp pains, and frequently a mortification. Such is the case of Mr. Bruce; the worm broke in attempting to draw it out, and has given him such severe pain, that they fear for his life. They were forced to land him on a litter.
L O N D O N, July 1. NOTWITHSTANDING it has been so confidently asserted that the Queen of Denmark was sponsor to the daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, a correspondent informs us that it was not a crowned head by proxy, but the Princess Amelia, who took this opportunity of shewing her approbation of the marriage, by standing godmother in person.
They advise from Bret that two superb crowns, together with other presents to a considerable amount, were lately shipped on board a King's frigate for Goree isle, intended to be presented to some powerful princes on the African coast, whom the French are said to have gained over to their interest.
Sunday morning a servant girl in the borough was to have been married to a journeyman tailor in the neighbourhood, when, O dire mischance! just as the happy couple were setting out for church, the bride fell in labour, and was delivered of two chopping boys in less than an hour; a circumstance which occasioned an unavoidable suspension of the ceremony.
Yesterday the young Marquis of Granby was presented to his Majesty at St. James's and most graciously received.
We are informed that a negotiation is on foot with the court of Madrid, for the English logwood cutters to be indulged with a larger extent of territory in the Bay of Honduras.
A gentleman of veracity, just arrived from France, assures us that the French in general seem desirous of a renewal of war with us, but that the sentiments of their King are at present averse to hostilities.
A Dutch ship from France to Amsterdam was boarded a few days since, off Beachy Head, by two cutters with 12 men in each, armed, who took from her 15 anchors of brandy and some other goods, to the value of upwards of 100l.
It is said that a Danish East India ship was lately taken in India by the Marattas, and afterwards retaken by a Portuguese ship, and carried into one of their settlements.
It is an undoubted fact, and may be maintained as coming from the most respectable authority, that the ministry have determined parliament shall meet again so early as November, in order to amend the East India regulating bill.
July 3. The Russians and Turks have both lately published memorials, accusing each other for their obstinacy in not giving up certain points towards fixing a peace. The above courts differ very greatly in their accounts of the behaviour of the respective ministers at the congress. The Russians in their memorial say that on their part the congress and treaties were managed with the utmost reason, temper, and christian calmness; but that the Turks were obstinate, impatient, and full of passion, which were the principal reasons for breaking off the negotiations. While the Turks assert that several sittings were held, and the time passed in reciprocal discussions; but that ten days before the expiration of the armistice, the Sienr Obrescow became more inflexible than usual, and without abating a single article of what he had demanded at the commencement of the negotiation, he added thereto certain propositions equally oppressive and imperious.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, June 30.
"When the King was walking round the ramparts of this garrison he expressed a desire to go down the High street, but was persuaded from it by Lord Robert Bertie, who told him that there was too great a croud of people about him, and that, besides neither his carriage or guards were at hand. His Majesty replied, "What need have I of guards, whilst so many of my faithful subjects are round me?" His Majesty's great condescension and behaviour, during his stay amongst us, has entirely won the hearts of his subjects here, and he must, from the tour, experience, in some degree, what it is to reign over a brave and free people. The company went away perfectly satisfied; no complaints of imposition or extortion; in fact there was no just cause; for, in general, both lodgings and provisions were plenty, good, and moderate. We have no doubt of his Majesty's paying us future visits; for he said, in the hearing of many, that it exceeded his coronation; that he never before knew what pleasure was; that he did not know how to leave Portsmouth, and when he came next he would have no guards, and expressed himself with perfect rapture on several occasions. Fie upon your bill of rights and constitutional societies, as they are called! They have poisoned the minds of thousands of his Majesty's honest, well meaning, but deluded subjects! The expence of the King's journey is found to be much under what was imagined; and although above 525 guns have been fired from every one of the twenty gun ships, and six rounds from every gun in the garrison, besides occasional salutes, yet it is observed, that the powder used was all so much damaged as not to be fit for real service without milling, the salt-petre being chiefly evaporated.
July 5. Two very eminent artists are at this time employed in drawing views about Portsmouth, and of the Isle of Wight, by order of his Majesty, in order to furnish a new picture gallery, which is now building at Kew palace.
Our resident at Constantinople, we hear, has lately transmitted to our court some proposals of an extraordinary kind from the Grand Signior, in order to engage us to take such a part in the dispute between him and the Empress of Russia, as might prevail upon her to offer more equitable terms for an accommodation than those lately refused by the Turks. Our court it seems do not chuse to be so deeply concerned in this affair as an acquiescence to the above proposals would oblige them to; however, by other measures, administration will endeavour to bring about an accommodation.
In order to pave the way to the establishment of an arbitrary government our ministry, and their dependents, are often putting us in mind of the advantages of the government of France. They tell us that that King can, when he pleases, pay off his debts, being absolute master of the
lives and properties of his subjects. Fine advantages these, even if we admit the truth of them. But the reverse is the truth; for the King, in the midst of his unlimited power, has very lately been reminded, by those who certainly are his friends, if he could think so, that the abilities of the subject must set bounds to the most despotic prince, and that the most loyal people may be made desperate by oppression. Such expressions as these, and even stronger than these, have been offered to the throne, and heard without resentment.
The King and ministry, we are told, now pay the greatest deference to the dictates of that celebrated casuist Doctor Samuel Johnson. As a proof of this, we need only notice how truly conformable his Majesty's late excursion to Portsmouth has been to the advice given by this great man in his Rambler, and which was repeated at court previous to the settling of the plan of operations for the review alluded to: "I must recommend to the consideration of all, from the statesman to the apprentice, a position replete with mercantile wisdom, that a penny saved is two pence got." The apprentices, indeed, who rambled down to Portsmouth, did not think the Doctor's position so replete with mercantile wisdom; their conduct seemed to prove that they thought the more money circulated the more trade would flourish.
Parson Horne, alias Squire Horne, we hear was actually seen at Portsmouth last week in scarlet and gold clothes, and a sword by his side.
Strict orders, we hear, were left at Portsmouth, for the reservation of all the broken victuals, &c. which is to be exported from thence to Oxford, to entertain Lord North's friends with at the ensuing installation, his lordship now being determined that all his measures shall be conformable to the rules of economy. How can the people of England be otherwise than happy when so much virtue prevails at the helm?
Saturday a poor weaver who lodged in Cross Key Court, White Cross street, having a wife, four children, and an antient mother, to maintain, on milling some money, which he had lost out of his pocket, in a fit of desperation hung himself; but his mother coming opportunely into the room, cut him down, and he was recovered with difficulty.
We hear the Welch boy, who ran at Monmouth, now sends a challenge to all the swift-footed Englishmen, to run with any of them for a thousand guineas, at Monmouth or Hereford races. Let the man who accepts the challenge appear at the Golden Lion in Brecon, within the month, and there he will meet Proffer and Williams, who will close the bet.
July 8. By letters from the Archipelago we learn that the Russian ships of war in those seas have taken, in the course of the last 18 months, vessels of different nations, as well Turks as others, with effects on board, belonging to the Porte, to the amount of above 3,000,000 of florins; and that in general the trade of the French and Venetians in that quarter is totally ruined.
The Anti Sejanus, Good, from South Carolina to Belfast, took fire at sea by some accident, and was burnt down to the water's edge. The crew were taken up by a French merchant man from St. Domingo, and carried to St. Valery.
Letters from Stockholm, dated the 25th of May, advise that the Sienr Troil, son of the late archbishop of Upsal, is on his way to that city, after having made a voyage to Iceland in company with Mr. Banks. He asserts that the language now spoken in the above island is absolutely the same with that which is preserved in the Swedish books written in the eighth century, which, he says, is a proof of the great connection that island has always had with the kingdom of Sweden.
A curious and valuable bust of his Majesty has been presented to the University of Oxford by the Queen, which was exposed to view at the installation of Lord North.
It is said the Terrible, Royal Oak, Dartmouth, and Pallas men of war, at Portsmouth, are ordered for the Mediterranean directly.
A gentleman just arrived from the ceded islands says that the few remaining Caribbee Indians have given themselves up entirely to idleness. He says they have an equal aversion to thought and labour, and would sooner die with hunger than prepare their cassava bread, or make their pots boil. Their wives do every thing. The men labour only one or two hours a day in cultivating the earth, and spend the rest of their time in hammocks. If any person desired to buy their bed, they will sell it very cheap in the morning; for they will not give themselves the trouble of thinking whether they shall not want it at night.
Within the last fortnight the society at the Thatched House discharged 36 debtors, chiefly manufacturers, seamen, and labourers, who had, among them, 25 wives, with 73 children, from the several prisons of this metropolis.
It is said that on account of the late great advance on wheat, a popular member of the privy council has moved for a trial of the rice starch; intending, should it be found to answer the purpose of our manufactories, to use his efforts to procure a prohibition of wheat from being made into starch, during the recess of parliament.

We are informed that Lord Dartmouth has nominated Colonel GEORGE MERCER to be governor of the new colony on the Ohio, which should be called Pittsylvania. Our correspondent observes that this act is a strong proof of his Lordship's strict justice, as well as of his good judgment. Colonel Mercer has not only great public merit to recommend him, but few men possess so many amiable qualities, either as a friend, or as a gentleman. He is a native of Virginia, and received a very liberal education at the college of William and Mary in that colony. He afterwards studied the law, and though he might have lived very independently and quietly on the estate which his father had portioned him with, yet he preferred the hazardous service of his country to a life of ease. He accepted of a military commission at the commencement of the late war, and served in different ranks, till the regiment he belonged to was reduced; he also represented a county in the general assembly of that province. In 1763 he came over to England to solicit for a confirmation of grants of land for the Ohio company in the very spot where the new government is to be established; and, as a public testimony of his zealous and disinterested services, the governor, council, and assembly of Virginia, recommended him to his Majesty. When the famous stamp act passed, the late Mr. Grenville appointed him stamp master in Virginia, in which difficult office he acquitted himself with so much diligence and firmness as justly to entitle him to the entire approbation of parliament and administration; and though he was at the head of the list of those gentlemen who were recommended by the house of commons to his Majesty for some adequate employment when the act was repealed, yet he is the only one of them who has not been provided for. All these circumstances, so highly recommendatory of him, with a character perfectly unexceptionable, seem only to have operated as a bar to his preferment, till Lord Dartmouth (who has always been distinguishable for his upright and equitable conduct) rewarded his long neglected merit. The propriety of his choice redounds much to his lordship's wisdom, as well as to his honour; for Colonel Mercer's perfect knowledge of that country, his thorough acquaintance of the American laws, and the well known candour, integrity, and firmness of his mind (exclusive of his other fair pretensions) render him better qualified for that appointment than almost any other man.
It is said that some signal honours will be conferred upon Lord Stormont previous to his return to the continent, as a testimony of approbation of his conduct during his late residence in the quality of British ambassador at the court of Versailles.
A person at Clapton has a four wheeled carriage which, by the means of a couple of treadles, is made to go without horses. The person who guides the machine, by pressing his feet alternately on the treadles, gives it whatever direction he thinks proper. The proprietors intend to use this carriage as a stage to convey passengers between Clapton and London. It carries only two persons at a time.
So cautious are the public in taking guineas that look any way light, since the passing the late act respecting that coinage, that we are well assured the bank of England, on Saturday last, out of 6000 guineas, sent them by a private bank, returned 2000 only.
July 10. The blind servility and obsequiousness of the majority to every mandate of the minister, however wrong in itself, or absurd, contradictory, and inconsistent, when compared with its several constituent parts; the jobbing and sordid scheming spirit which prevailed in almost every part of the public business, not included in the above general description, and, above all, a shameful succession of thin, unfrequented houses, arising from a manifest inattention or total disregard of every leading and subordinate duty, consequent on those high trusts they were chosen to faithfully discharge, from such an aggregate of shameful venality, insuperable meanness, and criminal neglect, as the annals of this country, at least since the revolution, have not been able to equal.
At former periods, in the worst of times , some measures were pretended to be kept with the people by government on one hand, and opposition on the other. It was a point made by our most corrupt ministers, and who were supposed most hostile to the liberties of their fellow subjects, to countenance, if not to propose, some salutary laws, in order at least to create a partial popularity, and endeavour to avert a portion of the odium, incurred by measures which they looked upon as necessary to secure to them the confidence of their prince, the possession of their present power, or the facility of procuring more; while those in opposition never failed to distinguish themselves, in a similar manner, as the test of the performance of their duty, least liable to be misinterpreted or controverted. Thus good not unfrequently came to be wrought out of evil , and the people were highly benefited, in many instances, through this scramble for power, place, and emolument.
We are informed that a scheme is on foot to apply part of the crown revenues in America, towards the construction of a certain number of ships of war, and the establishing regular arsenals and dockyards, in the chief maritime provinces on the continent.
Such is the spirit which the parliamentary enquiry has raised against the East Indians, that the people censure without discrimination, and when the news was brought of the unhappy fate of the late supervisors on board the Aurora, a great man declared that he saw no more in it, than that a pack of hounds had destroyed the foxes; and what matter was it whether the foxes kept, or the dogs enjoyed, the geese and turkies!
We are assured that the city of London have come to a resolution (if it be found practicable) to make a navigable canal from the river Lea to Middle Moorfields, and from thence to Marybone; and that orders were on Saturday given to an eminent surveyor to take an immediate survey of the land for that purpose.
By the act which passed last sessions for the more effectually restraining the retailing of distilled spirituous liquors, and for preventing the forging or counterfeiting any stamp used for marking silks, calicoes, linens, and stuffs, to be printed, painted, stained, or dyed in Great Britain, it is enacted, that after July 5, 1773, if any person shall retail spirituous liquors, strong waters, &c. without a licence,
they shall forfeit for every offence 30l. and if the offender shall be once prosecuted for the penalty by this act given, he shall not be again prosecuted for the same offence by any former act; and such offender as shall be prosecuted for the penalty given by any former act shall not be prosecuted again for the same offence, by virtue of this present act. The penalties are to be sued, prosecuted, and recovered by any law of excise now in force; and one moiety is to go to his Majesty, and the other to the person who shall sue for the same; but this penalty of 30l. is not to be mitigated below 5l.
Some letters from Warsaw mention that it is thought his Polish Majesty will soon retire to the court of Petersburg.
By letters from Vienna we learn that the Empress Queen will set out for her dominions in Hungary, &c. as soon as the Emperor returns.
A person just arrived from Barbados informs us that the French continue indefatigable in fortifying every place of any consequence at St. Domingo; they have erected several batteries in the bight of Leogan, which is thereby rendered a complete shelter for their privateers and merchants in any future war.
They write from Paris that the Grand Duke of Russia is expected at Versailles on some affairs of importance.
Letters from Paris say that pasquinades and libels against the government are stuck up in all parts of that city, and that the people are divided into several parties.
Advices from Petersburg import that the Empress of Russia had wrote a letter to Prince d'Orlow to the following purport:
"PRINCE GREGORY ORLOW, "It is with the utmost satisfaction that we have heard of the re-establishment of your health; and as we have nothing more at heart than the welfare and prosperity of the empire, we wish that you would employ those eminent talents you are endowed with according to your wonted zeal and assiduity in our service, to promote those great ends. We therefore hereby signify our will and pleasure, that you should resume the functions of the offices which have been confided to you; and as for the rest, we remain your most affectionate,
(Signed)
CATHERINE."
The same advices add that this letter having been registered in the senate, the Prince Orlow had again taken upon him the charge of all his posts and dignities, from which he had been exempted for some time past.
The East India company have ordered seventeen ships to be put into commission for their service the ensuing year.
By some papers lately seized on board a smuggling vessel a discovery is said to be made of several persons concerned in the illegal practice of sending wool to Holland and France.
The mate of a ship which lately touched at Madagascar, even assures us that part of the bottom of a vessel was lately driven on shore there, sheathed with copper, from which circumstance it is supposed to have belonged to the Aurora, and that the original story of her having perished is the truth.
We are informed that fifty American built vessels have been sold, in the course of the present year, to foreign powers in the Mediterranean.
A certain courtier was bragging the other day, in a coffeehouse, that he never heard louder acclamations in his life than those at Portsmouth during the late review. Do you mean those, cries a bystander, from the voice of the people, or the mouth of the cannon?
A discovery has lately been made by an ingenious gentleman of the society of arts, which appears likely to turn out of great benefit to this kingdom. He has found out a new species of oak, which grows in Devonshire; it is as straight and handsome as a fir, its leaves ever green, its wood as hard as the common oak, and its growth so amazingly quick, that in the space of twenty or thirty years it will outgrow in altitude and girth the common oak at an hundred. It is very frequent about St. Thomas's in the above county, and is now cultivated with great success by the neighbouring farmers.
A few days ago a carman in Southwark received a legacy of 3000l. left him by a relation, upon which he immediately equipped himself with a suit of clothes and a watch, and afterwards sent the sum of half a crown to a woman who had lived many years with him as his wife, with an injunction never to come near him, as he was resolved to have nothing more to do with her. Soon after this she was found hanging in her room, but was cut down before she expired, and, proper remedies being applied, she recovered herself, and the next night went upon the town.
On the 7th instant the great cause so long depending between the heirs of the late General Stanwix was finally determined before Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, in the court of King's Bench: The gentlemen of the long robe recapitulated the old arguments relating to the probability of each party being drowned before the other, but the court advised them to compromise the matter, and let all parties come in upon an equal footing, which was agreed to.
July 13. The proposition that a libel is the more so for being true , is, says a correspondent, repugnant to law and reason; it is, indeed, an express contradiction in terms. It is much the same thing as to contend that falsehood is not essential to constitute a lie , or that virtue and vice may be referred to the same action. Where is the man, however naturally penetrating and sagacious, but untutored in the refinements of modern policy, who can perceive the justice of prosecuting for the publication of a false libel, and at the same time prevent the defendant from proving it to be true ? Is this the boasted wisdom and exemplary justice of the laws of England? Or is it rather an iniquitous improvement on the tyranny, cruelty, and absurdity, of the Russian chancery, and Spanish inquisition, in either of which the culprit is permitted to justify or recant?
It is said a messenger arrived on Thursday from our minister at Constantinople, with the news that the Porte had offered to accede to every demand of the court of Petersburg, but that of the independence of the Crim Tartars; and that they had offered to pay Russia, in the course of seven years, at stipulated periods, the whole expence the war had put them to, in lieu of that article.
Some years ago, when Irish peerages were almost given to every body, a grocer in Dublin being sheriff, and having occasion to go up to the castle with an address, was accordingly knighted. The man being a plain citizen, and not very much pleased with his new dignity, was telling the awkwardness of his situation to Counsellor Hargrave (who was at that time the Foot of that capital) and at the same time observing such a circumstance might hurt his credit, "Pho, pho, said the lawyer, you are very well off they did not make a lord of you; for then your credit would not only be gone, but nobody would keep your company."
By the captain of a ship arrived from Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, we are informed, that on the 10th of last month upwards of 150 Dutch vessels rendezvoused in Brassa Sound, and from thence proceeded on the herring fishery, which, by the best accounts, were likely to turn out very plentiful.
A few days ago arrived at Edinburgh Sir Basil Keith, governor of Jamaica.
Lord North, we hear, has now hit upon a scheme, which, if he puts in execution, will gain him universal applause. His intention is to have the salaries of all those who compose the ministry reduced, and, to prevent murmurings on this account, proposes, as long as he continues in office, to receive no salary at all. The money that government will save by this scheme is to be appropriated to the discharge of the national debt.
A certain noble lord said yesterday that Lord North had now finished the business of a long, busy, and troublesome session (a Herculean labour to any one else) with as much ease and seeming comfort to himself as if he had rescued his country from those very ills he had involved her in.
A corn vessel that arrived this week from Holland was obliged to unload its cargo, and put it in some granaries at Erith, there being so much corn in the river that they cannot get granaries to stow it in.
The King, it is said (to silence the murmurs of those gentlemen of the navy who did not participate of his royal favours at Portsmouth) will make a general promotion very soon of rank and title among that distinguished body of men, who are undoubtedly the grand bulwark of the nation, and alone render it formidable.
July 16. It is now with confidence asserted that a reconciliation will soon take place between the King and Queen of Denmark.
The report of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester intending soon to visit the continent is groundless, as their highnesses have accepted of an invitation from the Duke of Cumberland to spend some part of the summer in Hampshire.
There will be no particular minister for East India affairs, as has been reported. Lord North says he will superintend so much of those which respects government himself till such time as peace and order is happily established both in Leadenhall street and the east, which ("by the blessing of God upon the operation of the two East India bills") he concludes will be at the close of next session of parliament. The business after that will, as usual, lie principally with the directors, who, from the late regulations, will be little better than so many ministers of the crown themselves.
Sir George Macartney is expected from Ireland in a few days, and will be created an Irish peer for his having managed the parliament of that country so successfully.
There is now a person who fills a respectable place in the household, as well as who has great confidence at court, that originally recommended himself by a peculiar method of torturing a mouse in an air pump. Parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus!
Yesterday a packet was sent off from the Earl of Dartmouth's office to Falmouth, to be forwarded with the utmost dispatch to the governor of South Carolina.
They write from the Hague that all the garrisons and barrier towns in Holland, Flanders, and Dutch Brabant, are completely garrisoned by order of the states.
They write from Cadiz that the Bucephalus, a fine new 36 gun frigate, built at the Caraccas, in the Spanish West Indies, was lost in her passage to Spain, and all her crew perished.
The Reason, Captain Legros, from Cadiz to Havre de Grace, is totally lost near Havre de Grace, and all the people drowned. Seventy per cent. was given on the above ship.
Letters from the north of Ireland say the number of French and Dutch fishermen has been very great this season on those coasts, which occasions brandies, &c. to be cheap there.
We hear that the late Lord Tyrawley has left the greater part of his effects, both real and personal, to his eldest son James O'Hara, Esq; governor of Fort Lewis on the African coast.
The legislature by their great penetration and sagacity have produced a most marvellous and extraordinary effect. By the late act for regulating the coin, people of all professions, occupations, and denominations, through London, are for some hours in the day busy in weighing of gold: Lord North, therefore, can boast of having done more than any prime minister ever did in this or any country, for it may be said, during his administration, all men were engaged in one kind of business.
It is thought that the bank of England will gain above a million by the act for preventing the diminishing of coin.
The report of the lords of trade and plantation upon the conduct of an American governor (which was to have come on a fortnight past) is finally determined to be rehearsed on Thursday next, the 22d instant, at eleven o'clock precisely, at Whitehall, in the council chamber. The lords have summonses to attend, and the parties are to be heard by their council: Mr. Dunning and Mr. Ambler for the report, Mr. Skinner and Mr. Hotham for the governor.
The light money occasioned an amazing confusion in Smithfield on Saturday. Those who had sold cattle would not take money, and those who had bought could not pay for them, but in bank paper or notes of hand.
By the new gold coin act the ministry have trampled upon some acts of parliament which are held among the most sacred of our body of laws, and they have evidently withheld a right from the people which was never before disputed. When the coin is become improper for currency, the legal method is to call it in, and give in return for it new gold; an exchange for which the nation amply compensates.

The most profitable trade now is the business of scale making; many thousands have already been sold, and more thousands bespoke. Thanks to the premier, our great master of the equilibrium, we shall have balance-masters in every shop and every house in the kingdom.
The bank of England is now in such credit, and many have such great sums of ready money always at command, that it is in their power to encrase our ready money, by circulating their notes as much as they please. This, we are glad to hear, they are determined to do by speedily issuing five pound notes, which will essentially serve the trading part of this kingdom, and in great measure remedy the inconveniencies we labour under by the late act to prevent the diminishing the gold coin.
Many gentlemen have, for several days past, taken their light money to the goldsmiths, and sold them for weight: All should see them cut, or do it themselves, to prevent circulation.
On Saturday evening a poor bricklayer went into the Whitechapel market to purchase a leg of mutton, for the payment of which he offered a half guinea to the butcher to change, who weighing it, and finding it one shilling too light, cut it in pieces, and then delivered it to the poor man, on whom the inhumanity so strongly operated, that he went up stairs and hanged himself at his lodgings in Tooke's Court, Towerhill.
A Scotch perukemaker was employed to make a great personage's Spanish fly, so that now both the out, as well as the inside of his head, is entirely furnished by Scotchmen.
July 19. The following piece of cruelty was acted a few days since in Oxfordshire: A farmer's wife having contracted an affection for a young fellow in the same village, and often expressing her desire for the death of her husband, that she might enjoy the wickedness of her heart, the young man very soon compleated her wishes; for being at a neighbouring public house along with the husband, where the latter had drank too freely, they both sat out about eleven o'clock at night to return home; when the former took an opportunity to knock down the farmer, and then cut his throat in a most shocking manner. The villain immediately fled the country, and has not as yet been heard of.
On Thursday there was a full council at St. James's, which sat very late, after which it was said to be solely on some dispatches received from our minister at the court of Portugal; wherein he complains that in spite of the remonstrances he has lately made, the British factory there is still oppressed, if not further cramped than before, in regard to trade; and at the same time desired to be recalled.
It was yesterday morning strongly reported upon Change that certain advice is received of the death of the Queen Dowager of Denmark, and that another revolution is hourly expected in favour of the exiled Queen.
They write from Dantzic that the report circulated of an approaching revolution in Courland is no longer thought of, the Empress of Russia having consented to the proposal that the reigning Duke should intermarry with some princess of Germany; and it is talked that he has made choice of the princess Christiana, elder sister to the Queen of Great Britain.
They write from the Hague that the merchants there have come to a resolution not to advance any loans to foreign powers for five years to come.
We hear from Paris that the whole village of Erpy, in the jurisdiction of Rheims, with the church, parsonage-house, &c. is burnt down. A woman and three children perished in the flames. Three hundred and seventeen inhabitants, without bread, without shelter, and nearly without garment, are now wandering in the midst of the ashes of their old habitations. The intendant of the province being informed of their calamity, hath ordered bread and rice to be distributed amongst them, and barracks for their refuge to be erected as soon as possible.
Extract of a letter from Bombay.
"We are at last in possession of Broach, but paid dear for the victory, in losing General Wedderburne, whose bravery and conduct in the field could be equalled only by his abilities in the cabinet. He planned the attack, and his successor adopted it after his death. The nabob, who has been so troublesome to us, is with a few miserable adherents straggling about the frontiers, afraid to appear; the rest of his army are either destroyed or routed, as we stopped the impetuosity and ardour of our brave fellows as soon as possible. We expected to have found upwards of a million sterling, but the plunder does not amount to anything like it. I expected to have had at least 5000, but a subaltern's share is estimated only at 100l. Four hundred men are to remain in garrison at Broach, and among the officers that are to stay I am included."
A few days since a poor woman, who used to cry the dying speeches about the streets, found in Old street road a diamond of a large size, which she sold to a Jew for four hundred pounds.
July 20. It is said a considerable number of French refugees, well skilled in the management of silk worms, and making of wines, have, within these few days, engaged themselves on very advantageous terms to go to New York and South Carolina, where the cultivation of these two lucrative branches is carrying on with great spirit.
The King of Prussia, we hear, has intimated to his minister at our court that peace will soon take place on the continent, the preliminaries of which are by this time signed between the Belligerant powers, and will be soon declared.
On Monday morning, precisely at nine o'clock, the great cause between Alexander Campbell, Esquire, and William Hall, Esquire, will be tried before Lord Mansfield, by a special jury, at the sittings in Guildhall. This cause will be deserving of the public attention, in as much as it will determine the constitutional rights of a British subject residing in our colonies in America, as it will, in its even shew, how far the prerogative of the crown extends over these countries, and whether a dangerous tax in its consequences, necessarily fatal to the liberties of England, imposed by the hand of power, on the inhabitants of the new ceded islands in the West Indies, can be supported in law. The wishes of numbers are sanguine against it, for a moment's attention to the subject will shew that a revenue so raised and unaccounted for must seduce the best of Kings
to think himself and the general run of them to be independent of the people.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 23. On Monday last died, in childbed, Mrs. BLAGROVE, wife of the Reverend Mr. Blagrove, rector of Southwark parish. The duties of a wife and a parent she always discharged with fidelity and affection, as a friend she was candid and sincere; whilst her amiable disposition and engaging behaviour procured her universal esteem.
On the 11th instant died Miss SALLY MASON, daughter of Major John Mason, of Sussex county, aged 17 years. In the death of this amiable young Lady is lost a most dutiful and affectionate daughter, a fond and obliging sister and friend; and, above all, a good christian.
Last Thursday evening the following accident happened in York river: Capt. Joshua Gough, and several others, being on board a schooner, on a party of pleasure, the captain, who was upon deck, was knocked off into the water by an unexpected gibe of the mainsail, and the long boat, which was in tow, went entirely over him. The wind being high, every effort to save him proved ineffectual. His body was found on the Monday following, and decently interred.
The Dorothy, Haslie, the Donald, Ramsay, from London, and the Picters, Lang, from Glasgow, are arrived in James river. Capt. White, of the Neptune, and Capt. Bozeman, of the Prince George, may be expected in daily. Capt. Barron, of the Nancy, is arrived at London.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 23, 1773. To be SOLD, on Saturday the 2d of October, at the dwellinghouse of the late Mr. William Rind, deceased, ALL the estate of the said Rind, consisting of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, &c. Six months credit will be allowed the purchasers, on giving bond, with approved security, to the subscriber, who is empowered by the court of York county to settle the said estate. All persons who have any demands against the same are desired to make them known immediately; and those indebted are requested to pay their respective balances, that I may be enabled to settle the estate, and pay off the creditors, as no indulgence will be given.
WILLIAM RUSSELL, Deputy Sheriff.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, at Charlotte courthouse, on the first Monday in October next, being court day,
ABOUT THIRTY LIKELY VIRGINIA BORN NEGROES, for ready money. If it rains, there will be a sale notwithstanding, and continue the next day, unless all are sold the first.
FOR SALE, THE three following TENEMENTS in the city of Williamsburg, which formerly belonged to the Honourable Philip Ludwell, and are now held by William Lee, Esquire, of the city of London, in right of his lady, viz. the large wooden house on the back street, next door but one to Mr. Speaker's, the brick house on the Main Street, where Mrs. Rind lives, and the house called the Blue Bell, below the Capitol, and opposite to the playhouse, in which Mr. Brammer formerly lived; together with all the lots and their appurtenances. The terms may be known of the subscribers. If these tenements should not in the mean time be disposed of, they will be offered at public sale, before Mr. Southall's door, on Friday the 29th of October next, at four o'clock in the afternoon.
RICHARD HENRY LEE, FRANCIS L. LEE, RO. C. NICHOLAS.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 23, 1773. JUST IMPORTED, A LARGE assortment of WOOLLENS, viz. beaver coating, plains of various sorts, fearnoughts, frizes, Kendal cottons, rugs, duffel and Dutch blankets, Welch, Shetland, and plaid hose, worsted stockings of all sorts and sizes, Scotch carpets and carpeting of almost all sizes; also currants, raisins in casks and jars, capers, India mangoes, anchovies, mens, womens, and childrens shoes, womens morocco and childrens shoes, threads of all sorts, as usual, wholesale and retail, a large parcel of Scotch lawns, figured and plain, will be sold, by wholesale, on very reasonable terms. ALLAN & TURNER.
N. B. We expect, in a few weeks, a large quantity of BROADCLOTHS and TRIMMINGS.
NORFOLK, September 15, 1773. I AM directed by the Common Hall of this borough to give notice that the first Monday in April and October in every year is appointed for holding of public fairs, or meetings, for selling such goods or commodity as may be brought thereto, free from toll, and agreeable to charter: Every person coming to, being at, and returning home, from such fair, held within the said borough, is exempted from all prosecutions and arrests at common law for three days preceding, and three days after, such fair is held; and, for the encouragement of the industrious farmer, and housewife, a handsome bounty will be given to those who produce for sale the finest and best wove Virginia manufactured linen, or woollen cloth, either plain or mixed, also for the best beef, veal, mutton, lamb, poultry, of all kinds, &c. &c. JOSEPH CALVERT, Serjeant.
FREDERICKSBURG September 7, 1773. NOTICE is hereby given that the copartnership of Hunters and Taliaferro is discontinued. All persons having demands against the said company, or indebted thereto, are to apply to the subscriber, in Fredericksburg, who has the settlement of the said concern. Those indebted, who fail to come and settle their accounts, and pay the balances, or give bonds for the payment thereof, will meet with no indulgence.—Upon hand, for sale, about seven hundred pounds sterling worth of GOODS, which will be lumped off at a moderate advance, and a reasonable time of payment allowed.
JOHN TALIAFERRO.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 9, 1773. I INTEND to leave the COLONY shortly. FRANCIS COX.
Sussex, September 16, 1773. AS the partnership of Glaister Hunnicutt and company expires the first day of October next, we have appointed Peter Williams to collect and settle all accounts due to that concern; all those, therefore, that are indebted to the said company, are desired to make speedy payment to him. The store will be continued under the firm of Glaister Hunnicutt, who will be much obliged to all his old friends for a continuance of their custom.
GLAISTER HUNNICUTT.
AS Mess. Glaister Hunnicutt and company have thought proper to appoint me to collect and settle all accounts due them after the first day of October next, and the books must be closed as soon as possible, I request all persons indebted to them to come and settle their accounts, and give bond, otherwise no indulgence can be given. I shall give due attendance on every Wednesday and Friday at the said store, in order to settle, and on no other days.
PETER WILLIAMS.
*** I shall attend the county courts of Sussex and Prince George.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 23, 1773.
ALL persons who have demands against the estate of the late Mr. John Tyler are desired to make them known to me immediately, that provision may be made to discharge them. JOHN TYLER.
NORFOLK, September 22, 1773.
FOR CHARTER, to LIVERPOOL, THE ship NANCY, JAMES DYSART, master, burthen about 300 hogheads of tobacco. For terms apply to JOHN LAWRENCE, and company.
Who have for sale Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica rum, Barbados and Jamaica spirit, muscovado sugar, molasses, coffee, ginger, pimento, mold candles, fine salt in sacks, Madeira and Teneriffe wines, &c. &c. *4
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 14th of October next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Wellbury, in Charles City county,
ALL the personal estate of the late Littlebury Cocke, deceased, consisting of horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs, household and kitchen furniture. Six months credit will be allowed the purchasers, on giving bond, with approved security, to
REBECCA HUBBARD COCKE, Executrix.
To be SOLD, on the first Wednesday in October, being Charles City court,
TWO hundred acres of LAND, whereon the courthouse stands, with a commodious tavern, and all necessary outhouses. One third of the purchase money to be paid on New Year's day, when the premises may be entered upon, one third in October 1774, and the other third in October 1775. Also a merchant mill, with two pair of stones, and eight acres of ground adjoining, with a stream that never fails, however dry the summer. The mill may be had in possession immediately. Bond and security will be required. 2 SAMUEL HARWOOD.
To be SOLD, on Thursday the 7th of October next, at Mr. John Gardner's ordinary, near the Park church, in King and Queen county, to the highest bidder,
THE TRACT of LAND whereon I now live, containing 785 acres, on which is an exceeding good BRICK DWELLINGHOUSE 50 by 20, and all other convenient houses; also a well accustomed GRIST MILL, with a plentiful stream of water, and was built to manufacture wheat, but not finished, which might be compleated at the expence of about seventy five pounds. I will divide the land into lots, or sell it altogether, as may best suit those inclined to purchase. It is to be laid off as follows: The dwellinghouse with 400 acres, Rogers's tract with 300, and the mill with 85 acres. The terms will be made known at the day of sale. Bond with approved security will be required. ** GABRIEL THROCKMORTON.
Pursuant to the last will and testament of Mr. Robert Pitt, late of New Kent county, deceased, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, the 20th day of October next, on the premises,
THE plantation whereon the said Robert Pitt lived, two miles above the Long Bridge, ten from New castle, eighteen from Richmond, and eight from Holt's forge, containing about 500 acres of level land, 200 of which are excellent low grounds, proper for wheat, tobacco, or meadow; great part of the remainder is fine tobacco, the rest very good corn land, and the uncleared ground abounds with large white oaks, cypress, and ash; there is also on it a good situation for a mill, with a pretty good stream of water. The buildings consist of a handsome and commodious dwellinghouse, with all necessary offices, an overseer's house, several large barns and tobacco houses framed, and shingled with cypress. The plantation is now in good order for cropping, as there is a large opening, under good fences, and the ground fresh. The houses have been built within a few years, and are now in good repair, it being the plantation purchased by Mr. Pitt of Mr. Peter Russell. At the same time and place will be sold, about twelve likely SLAVES, consisting of men, women, and children; also horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep, a parcel of very good household and kitchen furniture, a good collection of law books, and other books; likewise wheat, corn, fodder, plantation utensils, and all other the personal estate of the said Robert Pitt. The time of payment will be agreed on at the day of sale.
The EXECUTORS.
*** All persons indebted to the estate of Mr. Robert Pitt are desired to make payment; and those who have just demands against it are desired to make them known at the day of sale.
I HAVE received advice that a quantity of COARSE WOOLLENS will be consigned to me in the Kingston Packet, Joseph Turner, master, from Hull, which I will sell on reasonable terms for ready money, or short credit. JOSHUA STORRS.
J O U R N E Y M E N C A B I N E T M A K E R S,
who are well acquainted with their business, will meet with good encouragement by applying to me, in Williamsburg. EDMUND DICKINSON.

STRAYED , or stolen, from the subscriber, living in King William, about 4 miles from Newcastle, on the 20th of August, a bay horse, branded on the near buttock H, has some saddle spots, a hanging mane, and short switch tail, a white spot in his forehead, paces naturally, is about 4 feet 6 inches high, and was very fat when he went away. Whoever will convey the said horse to me shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS.
EDWARD VALLINTINE.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 22, 1773.
THE subscribers intend to leave this colony soon. EDWARD WITTS, JOHN VENCE.
ABOUT thirty likely Virginia born NEGROES, for ready money. If it rains, there will be a sale notwithstanding, and continue the next day, unless all are sold the first.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD BY THE PRINTER HEREOF.
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1774: BEING THE SECOND AFTER BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP YEAR.
Containing the days of the week and month; remarkable days; changes of the weather; rising and setting of the sun; the place, rising, and setting of the moon; the southing of the seven stars; the aspects of the planets; length of the days and nights; eclipses, &c. also a list of his Majesty's council, and of the house of burgesses; a table of court days; and a list of the officers of his Majesty's customs. Likewise the following entertainment. A dissuasive against libertinism; the folly of gaming; God considered as a father; a singular instance of affection between brutes; a very interesting story; an admonition to those who glory in seducing the fair; the unnatural son; the unfaithful depositary; the industrious Roman; thoughts on travelling; a remarkable instance of royal humanity in King George the first; verses on friendship; the prudent wife; mutual forgiveness; description of roads; and a great number of JESTS and ANECDOTES, entirely new. Together with many pieces of POETRY, both new and entertaining.
By the celebrated Mr. RITTENHOUSE, Philomath.
INSPECTORS NOTES, &c. May be had at this office as usual; where all persons may be supplied, on the shortest notice, with
BLANKS OF EVERY DENOMINATION.
FOR SALE, A WATER GRIST MILL, on Joseph's swamp, about twelve miles from Petersburg; she is a well going mill, has great custom, and usually clears, by toll, near two hundred barrels of grain a year. Some time of credit will be allowed the purchaser. There are 200 acres of good corn land, and a fine swamp for a meadow, adjoining the mill, which I will also sell. If the mill cannot be sold to satisfaction, she will be rented, upon the most reasonable terms, for four years. Any person inclinable to purchase, or rent, are desired to apply to the subscriber, living near the mill. SAMUEL TEMPLE.
To be SOLD, in Pittsylvania county, on both sides of Banister river, TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES OF LAND.
For terms apply to the subscribers. JOHN BURTON, WILLIAM FINNEY.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 14, 1773.
THE PUBLIC HOSPITAL, established by an act of the General Assembly for the reception of idiots, lunatics, and other persons of unsound minds, being now completed, notice is hereby given that the court of directors will meet at the said hospital on Tuesday the 12th of October next, to receive all such persons as may be sent thereto, according to the directions of the said act, and that the court, for the same purpose, and the better ordering the general business of the hospital, will meet on the same day in every succeeding week, till farther notice.
It is hoped that the magistrates in the several counties will in every instance distinguish between such persons as have no estates and those who are able to defray the whole or part of the expence of their support and maintenance as the law requires, and that none but such as are proper objects of the act of Assembly will be sent to the said hospital. By order of the court of directors. JACOB BRUCE, Clerk.
To be SOLD, on the premises, on Saturday the 2d of October next, by virtue of a power of attorney to the subscriber,
A TRACT OF LAND belonging to Mr. Thomas A. Booth, whereon he formerly lived, near Mr. Benjamin Hubbard's, in Caroline county, containing 233 acres, well situated for a little farm, with a comfortable dwellinghouse thereon, after some small repairs. Possession to be delivered the first of December, and credit allowed for the money, to be declared at the sale, provided bond and approved security be given to EDMUND PENDLETON.
BEING desirous of paying every shilling that I am indebted, I will sell, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 26th of October next, on the premises, my plantation, commonly known by the name of PURTON, containing from 2500 to 3000 acres, and lies about six miles above Queen's Creek, on the north side of York river. Great part of the land is very fine, has abundance of good timber on it, consisting of red and white oak, pine, and some black walnut; also some hundred acres of fine marsh, most of which, with little trouble, may be made arable land. There is a mill on the said land, supplied by a constant stream. The times of payment to be as follow: One third next December, another third in April 1774, and the balance the succeeding October. Bond and good security will be expected; and an undoubted title will be made by LEWIS BURWELL.
N. B. Those of my creditors that do not approve of the credit mentioned in the above advertisement, it is hoped they will be so kind as to acquaint me in time; for, notwithstanding the great loss I shall sustain, and particularly several children, whose dependence is entirely on what may hereafter be raised from my estate, two thirds of which being entailed, I will sell on any credit they shall think proper. L. B.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the subscriber, living in Westmoreland, the 12th of August last, an Irish convict servant man named MATTHEW THARP, by trade a gardener, about 5 feet 5 inches high, well made, much pitted with the small-pox, has short dark hair, but generally wears a dark wig over it clubbed; had on, and took with him, a pair of leather breeches, light coloured cloth coat, old striped jacket, several white and oznabrig shirts, one check ditto, an old brown holland coat, striped holland trousers much stained, shoes and stockings of many sorts, a hat almost new, with a band and buckle. This fellow was convicted last June Oyer court was a twelvemonth for horsestealing. Whoever will secure him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that I get him, shall receive the above reward. I have been credibly informed that some time after the said Tharp eloped, he went down to Williamsburg, and applied to John Randolph, Esquire, for a pass, which he obtained. JOSEPH PEIRCE.
ESSEX, August 23, 1773 To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, at Tappahannock, on MONDAY the 20th of September, being court day, ABOUT THIRTY THOUSAND WEIGHT OF TOBACCO, FOR READY CASH, BY THE SHERIFF.
FOR SALE, Several valuable tracts of land, adjoining each other, or both sides of Chappawamick Run, in the counties of Stafford and Prince William, containing 2600 acres, being the seat whereon the subscriber formerly resided. These lands are situate four miles above Aquia warehouses, and four miles below the town of Dumfries, the soil of more than half of it exceeding good; there is on it as fine a mill seat as any in the colony, upon a large and never failing stream. There is a great appearance of iron ore, and a large quantity of white oak and pine timber, a tolerable commodious dwellinghouse, a great number of convenient outhouses, good orchards, and several tenements in order for cropping. There are also 200 acres of fine meadow ground, half of which was sowed in timothy last fall and this spring. A more particular description will be unnecessary, as it is presumed that any person inclinable to purchase will view the premises; and the subscriber earnestly entreats all such to form their ideas of the value of this estate from their own observations, and not from any accounts they may receive from others, as there are some persons, who are thought good natured, worthy men, amuse themselves with decrying the property of their neighbours, even at the expence of truth, and under the mask of friendship to the person injured. And the subscriber is more particular in this caution, as he hath formerly received several severe injuries of that kind from one in that neighbourhood. The above lands are under the incumbrance of two mortgages; the one for a considerable sum, made by the subscriber himself, the other for an inconsiderable sum, made by the person of whom he purchased one of the small tracts, which mortgages are to be first paid out of the money arising from the sale. For terms apply to THOMSON MASON.
FOR SALE, THE tenement at present occupied by Captain James Gunn, in that part of the town of Richmond called Shockoes, on the north side of the falls of James river, with a number of convenient houses upon it, well adapted for either a merchant, tavernkeeper, or private Gentleman, rented at forty pounds a year; also the public storehouse at the same place, rented at fifteen pounds a year; the two half acre lots, No. 400 and No. 670, in the same town; the valuable lot of one hundred acres of timbered land, near the same, known by the description of No. 799; also the two half acre lots, No. 116 and No. 267, in the town of Manchester or Rocky Ridge, on the south side of the falls of James river. For terms apply to Joshua Storrs of Richmond, or to the subscriber. THOMSON MASON.
TAKEN up, in Fauquier county, near the head of Goose creek, a strawberry roan mare, branded on the near shoulder TW in a piece, has a small star in her forehead, about 4 feet 6 inches high, and appears to be about seven or eight years old. Posted, and appraised to 10l. WILLIAM SEATON.
TAKEN up, near Aquia Run, four unmarked white ewes. Posted, and appraised to 1l. 12s. JOHN MASON.
TO BE SOLD,
ABOUT fourteen thousand acres of exceeding good LAND in the county of Pittsylvania. For terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose, of Amherst, who will treat with any person inclinable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal title. THOMAS LOMAX.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Prince William, the 27th of August, an outlandish Negro woman, speaks English very indifferently, but, as well as I can learn from her, her name is JENNY; she is of the middle size, has on a brown linen shift and petticoat, and is about 25 years old, slim made. The owner is desired to pay charges, and take her away. JOHN BLANSET, Gaoler.
AS I am desirous of discharging all the debts of the late Mr. William Drummond in the speediest manner, I purpose to sell the well known, beautiful, and convenient situation, PORTO BELLO. Whoever is inclinable to become a purchaser may know the terms by applying to my brother, John Tyler, who will be frequently in Williamsburg between this and Christmas. It may not be amiss to say that a third of the purchase money must be paid down on the delivery of the above place, which will be on the 1st of January next. This is thought necessary, because there are many young Negroes, which, if exposed to sale by execution, will sell to a great disadvantage. But I hope this rigorous method will not be prosecuted by those who have it directly in their power, as my integrity is pawned to do ample and immediate justice to every creditor. RACHEL DRUMMOND.
All those indebted to the estate of Mr. Drummond are desired to make immediate payment; and those who have demands against it are requested to make them known.
At a court continued and held for Goochland county, July the 20th, 1773.
William Craig, plaintiff, against John McDonald, defendant, In chancery. THE defendant having absconded and removed out of the colony of Virginia, and failing to enter his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the plaintiff's motion by his counsel, it is ordered by the court that the bill of the plaintiff be taken, as confessed, unless the defendant appear here, and answer thereto, within the space of three months from this court; and also that a copy of this order be fixed up at the front door of the courthouse, and at the church door of the parish of Trinity, in the county of Louisa, and likewise inserted in the Virginia gazette for two months successively. VALENTINE WOOD, C. C.
TAKEN up, on Conway river, in Orange, a small white horse, branded on the near shoulder CB, and appears to be very old. Likewise a middle sized bay mare, about 7 years old, has a small bell on, branded on the near shoulder I, and on the near buttock B. Posted, and appraised, the horse to 3l. and the mare to 7l. 10s. CHARLES TAYLOR.
TAKEN up, in Spotsylvania, a red steer, about three years old, marked with a crop, slit, and unlerkeel, in the left ear, and a slit in the right, which seems to have been torn. Also a red and white steer, about three years old, with a white back and belly, mottled face, has a staple fork in each ear, and a white tail. Likewise one pale red and white cow and calf, with a crop and hole in each ear. Also another red and white cow, with a calf, has a staple fork in each ear, and some white in her face. The above cattle are appraised to 11l. 5s. RICHARD BROOKE.
WOOLLENS.
THE subscriber has now upon hand several bales of coarse woollens, properly assorted for a store, from 60l. to 80l. sterling value. Also a large quantity of coarse cloths and trimmings, in small bales, from 3s. 6d. to 12s. per yard sterling, which he intends selling by the bale, or retailing by the piece. I also expect more coarse woollens in very soon of all sorts. I sell at a low advance for cash, or short credit. Any person applying to me, at Mr. John Woodside's, in Norfolk, or at the general courts, may depend on being served to satisfaction. JOHN STONEY.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 4th of November next, before the Raleigh tavern, in Williamsburg,
THE exceeding fine PLANTATION and TRACT of LAND in Chesterfield county, at the falls of James river, belonging to the subscriber, which contains upwards of 2000 acres, and, on account of its richness and situation, is deservedly esteemed the most valuable in the colony, nay, equal to any in America. It is in good order for cropping, and about 250 acres will be sowed in wheat this fall; from which may be expected to be reaped at least 5000 bushels. Twelve months credit will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond and approved security to W. BYRD, and his TRUSTEES.
YORK town, June 9, 1773.
THE subscribers being very solicitous to comply with the will of their testator, the late Honourable William Nelson, desire that all persons who were indebted to him will endeavour to make as speedy payments as possible. Those who have accounts open on his books, and who cannot immediately discharge the balances, are desired to give their bonds. This request is the more necessary, as most of the legacies bequeathed by the testator are to be paid in sterling money, and he has directed that his younger sons fortunes shall be placed out at interest upon undoubted securities, so soon as it can be done. Those who have any demands are desired to make them immediately known.
THOMAS NELSON, THOMAS NELSON, jun. HUGH NELSON, RO. C. NICHOLAS.