The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1772-10-08 00:00:00

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L O N D O N, July 11.
SOME dispatches, of a very important nature, it is said, are preparing at the secretary's office, for the court of Copenhagen. It is said they will be carried by a person of distinction, who is to demand an explicit answer within ten days after his arrival.
An edict was published at Genoa, a few weeks since, to prevent the expensive wear of jewels, trinkets, &c. and to confine both men and women to one set, both at home and abroad. The penalty on the men for transgressing is, the first time, 40 crowns; for the second 60, and for the third 100. With respect to the Ladies and children, for the first offence they are to be confined two months to their chamber, and, if found abroad within the time, to pay 40 crowns; for the second offence to be confined three months, under the penalty of 60 crowns; and for the third offence four months confinement, under the penalty of 100 crowns. During the confinement of the Ladies, or children, they are not to receive visits from any persons except their parents, in the first degree; and any others attempting to visit them are to be fined from 25 to 50 crowns, at the discretion of the Magistrates.
Extract of a letter from an officer at Madras.
The siege laid by our troops to the capital of the Nabob of Tanjore is raised after a disgraceful compromise. Hyder Ally is totally ruined by the Marattos, and he has retired with a few horse into the mountains. What will then become of us, when Hyder, who forced us into an ignominious peace, is undone by this power? The Maratto army of horse, which has now entered the Carnatic under the specious pretext of assisting the injured Nabob of Tanjore, is very numerous, and spreads terror and devastation on every side. General Wedderburne, in order to make a diversion, has, on the side of Bombay, entered the field, and waits but for orders to begin action. The forces of the Marattos, as they are now constituted and disciplined, are the most formidable that we ever encountered in Hindostan.
Private letters from Paris, brought by a Gentleman just arrived in England from that capital, say, that something very extraordinary is on the carpet; that the ambassadors of Spain, Portugal, and Sardinia, are daily holding conferences with the Ministry at Versailles, after which couriers are dispatched to their respective courts. The same letters say that the English ambassador has a strict eye upon them, but is not admitted to the consultation.
July 13. His Majesty has issued a proclamation, in Saturday's Gazette, commanding that all ships, &c. coming from or through the Mediterranean sea, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic ocean, or from Archangel, Petersburg, Narva, Riga, or from any other place in the dominions of Russia, to this kingdom, or to the Isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, do perform their quarantine for forty days, the same to be computed from the day each ship shall come to anchor in the place appointed for performing such quarantine.
It is reported that a certain unhappy Lady abroad has lately wrote some very affecting letters to a Great Personage, in which she strongly denies any criminality of conduct, and earnestly supplicates leave to return to her native country.
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, June 8.
A Russian courier having brought the acceptance of a suspension of arms, is gone on to Paros, to carry the Russian Admiral his orders in consequence thereof. The Porte has given him a galley for his voyage, and has had him attended by the Erogueman of the Porte, and a Turkish officer; so that now there will be nothing to fear from the Russians for the vessels loaded with corn, &c. for our port. The Ministers of the mediating powers (Vienna and Berlin) will set out in eight or ten days from thence for the camp, to make a conclusion, and it is generally believed that preliminaries towards the peace are already well agreed upon between the Belligerent powers, and that the present suspension of arms, limited to 100 days, will be successively prolonged.
They advise from Smyrna that 18,000 recruits, which that city has furnished for the Grand Signior, are departed for Constantinople.
The measure so often proposed for keeping a proper force in the Mediterranean is at length adopted; and some of the ships now preparing at his Majesty's dockyards are for that purpose.
A young man has been presented to the Royal academy of sciences at Paris, who has the very extraordinary gift of hydroscopy, or discovering at what depth water may be found before the earth is broken up. He has been tried in different parts of the country, where he has been an entire stranger, and water has always been discovered on the spot and the distance from the surface where he declared he saw it.
Two letters are handed about, which came by the last packet, and dated at Paris, from Mr. Fordyce to two of his friends in London, one of whom was totally ruined by his failure. The purport of the letter addressed, to this Gentleman is little more than advising him to keep company with men of honour and virtue . The second was likewise directed to a very great sufferer by him, wherein Mr. Fordyce acquaints him, seemingly with unconcern, that he has broken into his last guinea; supposes many aspersions and severe reflections are thrown on his character; notwithstanding which, he hopes to drink many a bottle with him, and to convince all the world that he has ever acted with the strictest integrity and honour to all mankind.
Expresses have been sent over to a certain bankrupt, informing him that application will be made for him to the French court, if he does not appear to his statute; in consequence of which, we hear, he intends retiring to Holland, and getting himself naturalized in one of the provinces.
It is reported that two northern Dukes applied lately to the governor of the bank for a loan of 100,000. on the security of their estates, which they hold only as tenants for life, with power to grant annuities for two lives. Now, though it is well known that an annuity for two lives, in any registered country, is worth from 16 to 18 years purchase, yet these noble Personages offered to grant them at the low rate of eight years purchase only, provided they could have a clause of redemption in the respective annuity deeds. Tempting as this offer was, the governor rejected it, and politely told the Dukes that, as he was a trustee for the public, he could neither take more than five per cent. for any loan, nor was the security now offered by them such as would justify him to lend so large a sum of the public money, their Graces being only tenants for life.
The above Noblemen were, it is said, introduced to Mr. Payne by General Scott. After Mr. Payne had refused the money to the noble Dukes, he turned about to the General, and said, "General, you have sixty thousand pounds sterling in the bank, the direction will immediately advance you one hundred thousand upon that security; and you, if you please, may, by this means, accommodate the two noble Dukes with the sum they require." The General coldly replied, that he came to borrow money for his two noble friends, not to lend it to them.
The bank of England, it is said, lent, on Thursday last, to a celebrated bank, 150,000. By this seasonable relief that bank will not only recover its credit, but many other houses in town, who were obliged to stop for some time, will be restored to their former situation. The bank of England had this loan two days under consideration.
Thursday a bill discounted at the bank was offered for payment at Mess. Wakefields, Pratt, and Myers, merchants in Ladlane, which proves to be forged. A person in the neighbourhood of Lothbury is suspected of this offence, who has absconded, but diligent search is making after him by Sir John Fielding's people. The bill forged is for 500l.
Notwithstanding the frequent deplorable instances of suicide in this island, it appears that the crime is very predominant among our lively neighbours the French, who have often asserted it was almost peculiar to the English, as from authentic lists, just published at Paris, we find that no fewer than one hundred and eight persons put an end to their own lives in that metropolis last year, and in the year 1769 the number of self murders there amounted to one hundred and forty seven!
So critical are the affairs of the Ministry that they are doing and undoing almost every hour. An express was a few days ago sent for a noble Lord to town, and about six hours after was countermanded. What can these things portend? The downfall of the Ministry, or new chains forging for the people? The latter pray that the makers may be the wearers.
A correspondent, on reading in our paper that the great defaulter had not yet made out his accounts, says, that the public may suspend their expectations,
for his accounts will not be made out till after his death, when all the secrets will be revealed in his will.
Lord—— has certainly only been a cat's paw, and not the defaulter of unaccounted millions, as is imagined. He will undoubtedly never unbosom this affair, to the prejudice of those who have most reason to be afraid, having pledged his life for their security; but when that life is at end, then tremble defaulters!
Two great Personages have actually the present extravagance of dress, in both sexes, under consideration to reform them, if setting the example themselves, and enjoining all their dependents to imitate them, would do it. Indeed the many ill consequences that the modern mode of dress has been the source of, has long called for a reformation.
If a native either of England, Ireland or Scotland, commits any misdemeanor in Spain, so as to be liable to punishment, enquiry is always made, by the proper officers, whether he is a mechanic, and ingenious in his profession. If he is, he is immediately set at liberty, on condition of his agreeing to go and exercise his art in such place and manner as is thought proper by the emissaries of government employed for that purpose. This is proof enough how willing they are to give encouragement to our artificers; though our government, by their indifferent behaviour, seem to think them of no more importance to the kingdom than so many jackasses.
An accommodation is almost compleated between Alderman Wilkes and his Lady, through the pious interposition of his amiable daughter; a circumstance, which, when finished, will elevate him above the feeble attempts of the ministerial malignants, as he then will be master of an immense fortune.
It is said that Mr. Sheriff Wilkes stands a very fair chance of being Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, partly owing, as it is said, to the other candidate's having obliged the majority of the Court of Aldermen, and partly as it is insisted from the presumed assistance he will receive from the Ministry, who are of opinion, when once his ambition is accomplished, they shall have nothing to fear from so formidable and insidious an adversary.
It is likewise certain, that Mr. Wilkes's assiduity as a Magistrate, together with the universal odium of his enemies, has very considerably contributed to the probability of such an event.
July 14. Mr. Alderman Oliver and Watkin Lewes, Esquire, have written letters to the sheriffs Wilkes and Bull, thanking them, in the most genteel terms, for their exact propriety of conduct during the poll for the shrievalty, and confessing that, in discharging the duties of their office, they kept entirely clear of party attachment, and acted with that consistent impartiality which ever distinguishes men of liberal principles.
The disputes some time subsisting between the Earl of Hillsborough and the Ministry, relative to some grants of land intended for a settlement in North America, are compromised to the satisfaction of both parties.
Upwards of 270 prisoners and fugitives for debt will be carried this day to Guilford session from the King's Bench, and other prisons in Surry, in order to take the benefit of the late act of Parliament for the relief of insolvent debtors.
On the 17th ult. died at Invertrommie in Badenoch, in Scotland, Alexander Gordon, aged 108. He was never troubled with sickness or indisposition till within a fortnight of his death.
July 16. A correspondent observes, that the method in which we treat the Irish is so extremely impolitic and barefacedly oppressive, that we ought not to be surprized, if they were driven by desperation and revenge, to act in a manner diametrically opposite to the interests of Great Britain. We seize their revenues with a merciless hand, and convert them to the uses of bribery and prostitution; we tax their labour and industry to provide for a set of the most worthless wretches in the creation. The complexion of the pensioners upon the Irish establishment is such as plainly to shew we must ransack the stews, before we could find such a despicable group; and as to their places of profit, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, they are most of them filled with creatures belonging to the different Lord Lieutenants, inasmuch that, though the Irish House of Commons have petitioned, they have never yet been able to obtain even a decent provision for their own Chaplain, who is, unfortunately for him, a native of that kingdom.

tion to colonization, if on, that a considerable part lies waste and uncultivated, is just, it certainly should first be improved.
It is said that the marriage of Prince Frederick of Denmark with the Princess Royal of Sweden is concluded upon, but that the time for consummating the same, depends on the pleasure of the King of Prussia.
Extract of a letter from Rome, June 18.
"Some time since mention was made of a vulnerary water, the secret for making which was known only by a criminal who had been condemned to die, but obtained his pardon on condition of his communicating the secret to his Holiness. His Holiness has granted an exclusive privilege to the author for making and vending it in the ecclesiastical state, by an edict dated the 26th ult. strictly forbidding any one to imitate it. This water has been examined by the most skilful physicians and surgeons, who have made a number of trials of its effects, the result of which is, that they have declared it to be most efficacious in stopping hæmorrhages of all kinds, as well those of the arteries as from common wounds. It has been tried on several persons with the greatest success, and experiments have been made on several animals purposely further to experience its effects: The main artery of a lamb, and the crural artery of a dog being cut, and the wounds having some of this water applied to them, they were healed in forty eight hours. This discovery, so valuable for humanity, will not die with its author, as his Holiness is possessed of the receipt for making it, and we are told he has presented a copy of it to the Emperor of Germany."
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, July 9.
"I never remember such a season as we have at present; the fields look most beautiful, a great appearance of a fine crop of all sorts of grain, a fine hay season, and a prodigious crop, a vast appearance of fruit; strawberries, the best I ever saw, at two pence and three pence the quart. If our money be scarce we shall have plenty in the country for men and beast."
There are now living at Ledbury, in Herefordshire, one Thomas Price, and his wife, whose ages together make 213 years; the man being 109, and the woman 104.
Yesterday se'nnight died at Clackmannan castle, in Scotland, Harry Bruce, of Clackmannan, Esquire, aged 72; descended of John de Bruce, third son of Robert Lord Annandale, who was competitor for the Crown of Scotland with John Baliol. He was heir of Sir Robert Bruce, of Clackmannan, who, in 1359, obtained a charter of the castle and lands of Clackmannan from King David Bruce, in which he was stiled the King's beloved and faithful cousin. By his leaving no issue, the ancient family of Bruce, of Clackmannan, becomes extinct.
A French Gentleman, who arrived in England some weeks ago, and lodged all his money in the hands of Mr. Fordyce, had the good fortune to save it by a very droll and lucky accident. While he was standing one day in a fruit shop, near 'Change, a Gentleman entered, and ordered a desert of fruit of various kinds, to the amount of five or six pounds, for his dinner. The Parisian, at his departure, enquired what great Duke, or Lord, or Secretary of State, that was, who had been so profuse in the simple article of fruit: He was answered that it was Mr. Fordyce, the banker. "Oh ho! you say dat? (returned the astonished foreigner) begar den me go dis minute, and take all my money from him, or he will eat it all up." He drew out his money immediately, and Mr. Fordyce stopped payment, two days after.
Sunday the wife of an eminent tradesman in the city set off for France with an officer on half pay. She has taken with her 4000l. in notes and cash.
July 17. The Lords of the Treasury are, we hear, determined in future that every banker who keeps cash on account of the Crown shall give a large security; as the late loss by Mr. Fordyce shews that houses, the most seemingly solvent, may totter on the verge of destruction.
Some letters from the Hague mention that the city of Dantzick has chosen the King of Prussia for its patron and protector; in consequence of which, the citizens have refused to pay the capitation tax to the King of Poland as before.
A correspondent informs us that there are upwards of seventeen thousand pounds depending on the match between Mr. Pigot's Lycurgus, and Mr. Charles Fox's Pantaloon.
We have the pleasure of hearing that there is an intention of suppressing all the Royal plates given for the encouragement of running horses, as this particular breed of animals is not only utterly without use, but often the source of destruction to many of our first families.
Wednesday came on to be tried, in the court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice De Grey, and a special jury, a remarkable cause, wherein Doctor Bofanberg, an eminent High German doctor, oculist, cupper, and surgeon, was plaintiff, and the executor of — Briggs, Esquire, late of Kennington Gore, in Middlesex, was defendant. It appeared in the course of the trial that the plaintiff was an intimate acquaintance of the deceased, and therefore to be considered as a friend. The doctor, however, delivered a bill after his death,
amounting to about 700l. the last item of which was, six years attendance on the deceased, at two pounds two shillings per week. The executor, on the other hand, thought not one shilling due, the defendant being a man of fortune, and scrupulously particular in paying every one generously with ready money; whereupon issue was joined, and the jury found for the plaintiff with 210l. damages, and costs of suit.
August 10. Whether Lord Chatham will or will not enter, as many imagine, on an active part in the administration the ensuing Winter, is somewhat doubtful; but many assert it is certain that his Lordship has recently taken several steps, and been engaged in divers interviews, which can be no otherwise interpreted than agreeably to the wishes of the public.
It is very remarkable that the three courts of France, Spain, and England, should, instead of following the example of their ancestors, politely debate their political points. For example: France claims the Spice Islands, but waits till his Catholic brother's fleet be ready to embark on the same enterprize; and Spain, with infinite kindness, attends the motions of Great Britain, and Great Britain of Spain, that no cause for umbrage may arise to either party.
The Spice Islands are now the grand objects, it is imagined, of ministerial consideration; but as they are beheld with wishful eyes by so many other powers, query whether we must not pay a price for them beyond their value, if fortune were even at last to declare in our favour?
The celebrated Doctor Fordyce, whose piety and abilities are so well known, and so generally respected, has, we hear, since the failure of his brother, directed his sermons chiefly against the luxury of the times, and dwelt upon frugality and justice, as the grand sources of private happiness, and public prosperity.
Lord Hillsborough, finding it his Majesty's pleasure to proceed in the grant of lands on the Ohio, contrary to the opinion of the Board of Trade, begs leave to retire, and he is succeeded by the Earl of Dartmouth.
Extract of a letter from Pera, near Constantinople, June 17.
"Seid Ala Aga, an officer (a Black) who last year defended a redoubt, with 800 men, bravely against the Russians, but was at last made prisoner, is arrived here. Count Romanzow made a present of him to his Prussian Majesty, who gave him several suits of clothes, and a fine sabre, with liberty to return to Constantinople, and all his charges paid him. He related the generosity of the King of Prussia to the Grand Signior, who immediately ordered two slaves to be delivered to the Prussian secretary, who had been officers, and were taken at the battle of Maxen."
It is asserted that a certain great and amiable Lady has appropriated no less a sum than 4000l. for the relief of poor families, within these two years.
We are informed that Mess. Glyn and Halifax have paid all bills that have been presented to them, and are ready to pay all demands, with interest, as they shall be tendered.
Letters from Vienna say that a young girl there, a native of Bavaria, has the same gift as young Parangue, the Hydroscope of the south of France. Several attestations have been made of her surprizing discoveries of water, which she has declared she could perceive under ground.
Letters by the Indians lately arrived say that the Marattoes, to the number of 20,000, have entered the Carnatic, and have actually committed great depredations in the territories of Madras. The same letters add, that Schah Allum, whom these people had placed on the Mogul's Throne, was then at Dehli.
Extract of a letter from Compeigne, July 25.
"The Sieur de Kerguelen, Lieutenant in the navy, who was sent out to make discoveries of the Terra Australis, is lately returned, and the following particulars of the success of his voyage are published here: After three weeks navigation from the island of Bourbon, the Sieur de Kerguelen discovered, in 47 degrees of south latitude, westward of that island, an unknown country, which he has named South France. He coasted along an extent of fifty leagues, and, according to the report of some of his people, whom he sent on shore, the country is very fine, and appears to be extremely fruitful. It is peopled by a vast number of inhabitants, of a blackish complexion; there are forests, and meadows covered with numberless herds of cattle."
On Thursday night a man intoxicated with liquor was so elated with the performance of Columbine, at Sadler's Wells, that he, after expressing the greatest admiration in the most vociferous terms, jumped from the top of the balcony to the stage, where he broke his arm, and terribly bruised one of the musicians, on whom he fell; he was immediately taken care of by Mr. King's people, and carried to a neighbouring surgeon's.
Thursday a woman at Greenwich was taken into custody, on a violent suspicion of starving her nurse child to death. The infant (being only two years and a half old) had gnawed part of the flesh from off its fingers.
Two regiments of Highlanders are shortly to be raised in Scotland, intended for garrison duty in North America.
Orders are sent to Ireland for a stop to be put to the exportation of salt provisions to the Spanish islands in the West Indies.
Monday last arrived at Spithead his Majesty's bark Endeavour, Lieutenant James Gordon, commander, from the Falkland Islands. She left England December 5, 1771. Thus she was not quite eight months going and coming, which is the quickest passage ever known.
Thursday afternoon a famous boxing match was fought, in the presence of many thousand spectators, in the valley between the city and Goswell street roads, near Islington, between the noted bruifers Sam. Stevens the shoemaker, and Ben. Hamilton the tripeman, for a considerable sum of money. Bets running high among the knowing ones, their arts were never more conspicuous, which occasioned the poor fellows to fight four severe battles; towards the end of each, one side or other cried a foul blow, and then the interested mob broke in and wrangled for an hour between each battle, neither side allowing the money lost. Stevens, however, was declared conqueror at last, by the aforesaid manœuvre. A fifth battle is expected.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 8.
The Fanny, Capt. James Barron, the Innermay, Capt. Laughton, from London, and the Katie, Capt. Clark, from Glasgow, are arrived in James river.
WILLIAM and MARY COLLEGE, October 1, 1772- BY direction of the President and Masters, I am to give notice to the several surveyors, who have executed bonds for the proportion of their fees due to the college in tobacco, to be discharged at any particular rate, that they are required to give new bonds for one sixth part of whatever they receive for surveying, before the 15th of next month, or they will be superseded. I am also directed to inform those surveyors who doubted their right to a proportion of the fees for private surveys, that the society have had the advice of counsel, who are of opinion they are well entitled thereto, and that the question was so determined by the General Court in April last.
ROBERT MILLER, BURSAR.
NORFOLK, October 4, 1772.
On Monday the 12th of this instant (October) will be SOLD, at public vendue, for ready money, for the benefit of the owners, or underwriters,
THE HULL and MATERIALS of the snow NANCY, as she lately returned to this place in distress, on her passage to Liverpool; together with her cargo, consisting of 480 BARRELS of TAR, 120 BARRELS of TURPENTINE, 10,000 PIPE and BARREL STAVES. In lots agreeable to the purchasers. GEORGE KELLY, V. M.
NORFOLK, September 29, 1772.
WHEREAS the creditors of Mr. John Atkinson expect to receive a dividend at the approaching General Court, and as many bonds which I have taken, payable to Mess. Eilbeck and Lawrence, trustees for the said creditors, will be due the 25th of October next, I hereby give notice that I propose to attend at Mr. Atkinson's store, in Sussex county, on Monday and Tuesday, the 2d and 3d of November next, when I hope all persons concerned will be prepared to discharge, as well the open accounts as bond debts, these affairs being so circumstanced that no longer indulgence can or will be given.
BENJAMIN CROOKER.
At same time and place will be SOLD, eight or ten valuable country born SLAVES; amongst whom are some good HOUSE SERVANTS, for ready money, or short credit, as may be agreed on at the sale.
To be SOLD, at public vendue, on Saturday the 17th of October, pursuant to a decree of the Hustings court of Norfolk borough,
A NEW erected two story BRICK HOUSE situate on the main street in said borough, with part of a lot of land adjoining the same. Also an unimproved water lot adjoining the water lot of Cornelius Calvert, Esquire, the whole appertaining to the estate of Henry Rothery, deceased, and subject to his widow's dower. The sale will be on the premises at twelve o'clock on the day aforesaid, and a credit of three months allowed the purchasers, on giving bond, with approved security, to the creditors of the said Henry Rothery.
JOHN GREENWOOD, Commissioner.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Hanover county, the 22d of August last, a Negro man who says his name is GEORGE, but cannot, or will not, tell his master's name, is about 5 feet 7 inches high, and seems to be about 35 years old; had on, when committed, a Virginia cloth jacket, crocus trowsers, and oznabrig shirt. The owner is desired to apply for him, and pay charges.
PAUL THILMAN, Gaoler.

FERRY POINT, Norfolk county, Sept. 30, 1772.
WHEREAS sundry ill disposed persons frequently pull down my fences, and let horses, cattle, and hogs, into my corn fields and pasture, I hereby forewarn all persons from going through my pasture or corn fields, or turning their horses, cattle, or hogs, upon my land, as I am determined to prosecute every person who shall presume to take those liberties with my property. HENRY HERBERT.
JOSEPH NORTHUP, SILK DYER AND SCOWERER, IN CHURCH STREET, NORFOLK,
BEGS leave to acquaint the public that he has set up the business of colouring and scowering SILKS, CLOTHS, FUSTIANS, VIRGINIA CLOTH, and other stuffs, and has got both hot and cold presses for dressing them equal to any done at home; likewise clear starches white silk, and silk stockings, and takes spots out of all kinds of womens wear, at the most reasonable rates, and with the greatest care and expedition.
TOBACCO remaining in BOLLINGBROOK WAREHOUSE, inspected in the year 1769.
   No. Tare No.     2728 101 1114 Thomas Pollitt.   1894 106 1156 Robert Westmoreland.   1051 128 807 James Brady.   1380 124 1015 John Barns.   652 155 1191 Young McLamore.   2493 108 1127 John Kelly.   2523 137 1027 James Bradley.   1344 125 1162 Robert Cunningham.    GOODWYN and GOODWYN.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Westmoreland county, on suspicion of being a runaway, a Negro man slave who calls himself WILL, but cannot, or will not, tell his master's name, is a well set fellow, about 5 feet 10 inches high, of a yellowish complexion, the fore part of his hair, or wool, grey, is an African, and marked in the manner of his country, with dots under both eyes, and on the right side of his neck with something resembling a ladder, the fourth finger of his left hand is bent, and seems to have been broken; has on a country cotton shirt, and oznabrig trowsers. There is some reason to suspect that he belongs to Dr. William Savage, of Prince William. The owner is desired to pay charges, and take him away.
RICHARD BARNETT, Gaoler.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Westmoreland county, on suspicion of being a runaway, a white man who calls himself WILLIAM WATSON, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has short dark brown hair, and sandy beard, a little pitted with the smallpox, appears, from his dialect, to be a Yorkshireman, is a pert impudent fellow, very talkative, and says he lived with Mr. John Gunyon, in Dumfries, but seems very nearly to answer the description given of John Booker, advertised by Mr. James Duncan, of Fredericksburg; had on a brown linen shirt, and trowsers of the same, and appears to be about 30 or 35 years of age. The owner is desired to pay charges, and take him away.
RICHARD BARNETT, Gaoler.
COMMITTED to the prison of Sussex county, the 19th of September, a Negro man named JACK, about 5 feet 6 inches high, a stout well made fellow, and says he belongs to Mr. John Chistum, of Mecklenburg county; has on an old crocus shirt and trowsers. The owner is desired to apply for him, and pay charges. NATHANIEL WYCHE, Gaoler.
TAKEN up, on Rock Island creek, Buckingham county, a bright bay mare, branded on the near shoulder D, and on the near buttock C, has a bald face, her hind feet white, is about four feet four or five inches high, and eleven or twelve years old. Appraised to 5l. WILLIAM K. WEAKLAND.
TAKEN up, in Gloucester county, a small black mare about 13 hands high, but no brand perceivable. Posted, and appraised to 3l.
JOHN IVISON.
IN obedience to a decree of the General Court, bearing date the 26th of October, 1771, will be SOLD, by the trustees of Mr. William Bradley, at public vendue, in Norfolk, the 15th instant (October) being court day, the following LAND, viz. Six lots lying in the borough, four of which have fronts on two streets, and another on three streets; a tract of three hundred acres in the parish of St. Bride's, and county of Norfolk, with a dwellinghouse, kitchen, quarter, barn, stable, dairy, and other outhouses thereon; another tract of one hundred and fifty acres at the foot of the north west river bridge, in the said parish and county, with a dwellinghouse, storehouse, dairy, &c. thereon; also a lot of land at the foot of the Great Bridge, fronting the tobacco house, with a dwellinghouse, kitchen, quarter, stable, chairhouse, and warehouses thereon, in said parish and county. Credit will be given till the 25th of April next, the purchasers giving bond, with approved security, to JOHN PRENTIS, and company.
TAKEN up in Cumberland a sitty black mare, about 4 feet 6 inches high, paces tolerably well, and neither docked nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 8l. JOHN BURTON.
JAMES CRAIG, AT THE GOLDEN BALL, WILLIAMSBURG,
BEGS leave to inform the public that he has just got an eminent HAND from Great Britain, who served a regular apprenticeship to the WATCH and CLOCK MAKING BUSINESS, which he intends carrying on in all its branches. The jewellery, gold, and silver work, will be carried on in the usual manner. He can assure the public that the young man understands his business, as he has had sufficient proof of his workmanship, and that, with reasonable charges, as well as the good situation of his shop, he hopes will be some inducement for the public to favour him with their commands, which shall ever be his study to execute with the greatest care.
N. B. REPEATING, HORIZONTAL, and STOP WATCHES, made and repaired in the best manner.
To be SOLD, pursuant to the last will and testament of Mr. William Brooke, deceased,
EIGHT hundred and forty ACRES of LAND, situate in the county of Orange, about 60 miles from Fredericksburg, is well watered and wooded, the soil good for corn, wheat, tobacco, hemp, and flax, affords as good a range for flocks of all kinds as any land in that county, and may be had at the low price of one hundred and sixty pounds ready money, or one hundred and sixty eight pounds on twelve months credit, by bond, with approved security. Any person inclinable to purchase may be shewn the land by applying to Major Zachariah Burnley, who lives in the neighbourhood thereof, and who will contract for JOHN ROWZEE, } Executors. ROBERT BROOKE, }
To be LET for a life, or term of years, as may be agreed on, or the interest of my lease to be sold of Mrs. Elizabeth Holt's dower land in Hog Island. The land is extremely good, and in good order, drained, ditched, and so well fenced that it will not require a rail for seven years to come. I have this, and the two last years, laid upwards of 4000 cart loads of dung on it. There is a brick dwellinghouse, good stables, and a plentiful kitchen garden thereon, and a profitable ferry, abounding with great plenty of fish. I can assure any person that I know of no place so advantageous as this, lies within seven miles of Williamsburg, and the Gentlemen merchants, and others, who go to that city, by way of said island, leave their horses there until their return from court; so that the stable only brings in, in public times, from three to five pounds per day, and upwards. Proposals, in writing, will be received by H. U. ST. GEORGE.
N. B. Any person inclinable to rent, or purchase, is requested to view the premises, that they may better judge of its value. Some people have made proposals that never saw the place. The land may be entered upon the 1st day of January next.
To be RENTED, for a term not exceeding thirteen years,
A TRACT of LAND containing about two thousand acres, in the county of Berkeley, on the drains of Opekan, the soil is thought to be inferior to no high land in the country, is in a very good neighbourhood, only a few miles from Mr. Jacob Hite's and Mr. Rutherford's mills, has as fine a range for stock as in those parts (which are remarkable in that particular) and a quarter upon it with about 80 or 100 acres of cleared land in order for cropping. I propose to rent the whole together, and will give leave of sub-tenants, under a reservation, of no more than two thirds of the land being cut down during the term. I will also hire ten valuable SLAVES with the land, and will lend the stock, to be returned, in quantity and quality, at the expiration of the lease. For terms apply to the subscriber, living near Dumfries, in Prince William county.
THOMAS BLACKBURN.
LANDED at the subscriber's store in Cumberland town, from on board the Betsey, Crowell Hatch, master, in September, 1770, a CASE marked IH (inclosed with a diamond) No. 1, GLASS. The owner may have it on paying charges.
JAMES UNDERWOOD.
MESSIEURS Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, merchants and partners, on the 29th of June last executed a deed of assignment of all the said company's debts and effects in Virginia to Edward Payne, Esquire, governor of the bank of England, and Rene Payne, of London, merchant, in trust, that an equitable division may be made of the said debts and effects amongst all the creditors of the said company. And on the same day the said Edward Payne, and Rene Payne, and the said company, executed a power of attorney to the subscribers, empowering us jointly and severally to receive and transmit the said debts and effects: Notice is therefore given to the several debtors to the said company, that attendance will be given by the subscribers, or one of them, at Williamsburg, from the 20th of October to the end of the General Court. No indulgence can be given after. JOHN TAYLOE, ARCHIBALD RITCHIE.
N. B. The assignment and power of attorney are recorded in Richmond county, for the satisfaction of those concerned.
FALLS of POTOWMACK, Sept. 16, 1772.
THE subscriber am the manufacturer of SNUFF and TOBACCO, who formerly resided at Bladenburg, in Maryland, and at this time have a quantity of very good old snuff by me, grown better by age, which I would willingly dispose of by wholesale on very reasonable terms; that is, in such a manner as to allow the purchaser a very good profit in retailing it. Those who incline to become customers to me may be furnished with any quantity on notice given, and it shall either be packed in Weston's or Kippen's bottles, or in country made pots, agreeable to orders. From my own observation, patriotism in Virginia and Maryland is not so dormant but it may be awakened by a proper application to a person's real interest; and I am convinced that many Gentlemen, through choice, and taste likewise, would prefer mine to foreign snuff, provided they could be furnished with it in their own neighbourhood; which induces me to think that the Gentlemen merchants can have no objections to procure it for them, when I can assure them that customary commissions will be allowed them, or that they will have a sufficient profit in retailing it. However, such Gentlemen as would take one dozen bottles, or more, at a time, and lodge payment for the same with some merchant convenient to them, shall have it at my wholesale prices; and I will engage to deliver the same to their orders at general landing places, on both sides of the rivers Potowmack and Rappahannock, and at Norfolk for Gentlemen on York and James rivers, they paying package and freight, the charge whereof will be very small, and shall not forget to recommend it to the care of their merchant. The prices will be as follow: For one dozen, or more, of snuff, commonly called plain Scotch, in Kippen's bottles, three dollars per dozen; in Weston's bottles five dollars per dozen; and in proportion for pots. Those who chuse it, may have the snuff packed in bulk, either in large pots of twelve to twenty pounds each, or in tight casks from thirty or forty pounds each, to four or five hundred pounds, at two shillings and eight pence, Maryland currency, per pound, payable in dollars, at seven shillings and six pence each, exclusive of the charge for pot or cask. I likewise make round high toast at two shillings and six pence, rappee at four shillings, and Spanish snuff at five shillings, Virginia currency, per pound, when six pounds, or more, are taken at a time. The two latter kinds, either plain or scented, at choice of the purchaser. I would gladly enforce an encouragement of my manufacture by a reiteration of my good opinion of the taste of the Gentlemen and Ladies of Virginia and Maryland, as well as of the readiness and willingness of the merchants to oblige them, by taking quantities of me for the purpose of retailing; and would recommend it to Gentlemen at a distance to give their orders to their merchant, who will forward them to me; all which orders shall be strictly and punctually complied with, both as to the kinds of snuff they may direct, and in every other respect. Those Gentlemen merchants who may receive snuff from me, to be distributed by them to Gentlemen in their neighbourhood, shall be entitled to 10 per cent. for their trouble; and I only request from them a remittance of the balance, after deducting their commissions. A collection of all orders that may be offered them is therefore desired, and their forwarding them to me immediately by post, or otherwise, will be acknowledged a particular favour. I would likewise furnish cut tobacco of two sorts, viz. shag and saffron; the first for chew, the latter for the pipe; provided orders of consequence enough to induce me to manufacture it are timely received. The price of each will be nine pence, Virginia currency, per pound, by the dozen, and in smaller quantities at ten pence per pound. I have now only to observe that those Ladies and Gentlemen who are not already acquainted with the quality of my snuff and tobacco (which I affirm to be good) may receive information from many Gentlemen concerning it, in most parts of Virginia and Maryland, who have heretofore had trial of both; and I wish for no other recommendation. I humbly conceive that the interest of the public is concerned in the encouragement of country manufactures, and I shall, in future, if properly supported by it, in this very useful branch of its commerce, gratefully acknowledge the favours that may be conferred on the public's very humble servant, RICHARD THOMPSON.
N. B. I should be glad to have a personal conference with those merchants, and others, who may incline to favour my plan; and for that purpose I intend (God willing) to be at Spotsylvania and Prince William courts in October next, and at Charles, Prince George, and Frederick counties, in Maryland, at their next November court.
KING WILLIAM, September 17, 1772.
WHEREAS I purchased a tract of LAND of Mr. William Hickman, son of Thomas Hickman, for which he has my bond for ninety one pounds two shillings and three pence; since which Mr. William Buckner, of Orange county, has got a decree of King & Queen court to have the land sold to satisfy a debt due from the said Buckner: I hereby forewarn any person from taking an assignment of the said bond, as I will not pay it till the said Hickman makes me a good right to the land. LISTON TEMPLE.

General Post Office, New York, Nov. 1, 1771. NOTICE is hereby given, that on account of the new regulation of the post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday evening at this office, and the weekly post from the eastward and southward arriving every Wednesday, the mail going from hence by the packets will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'clock at night, on the first Wednesday in every month (being the same time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America) and a packet despatched therewith, the next day, for Falmouth.
By command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secretary.
To be SOLD at WARWICK, on Thursday the 22nd of October,
THE estate of the deceased Daniel Macpherson, consisting of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, a Negro FELLOW, WENCH, and CHILDREN, a well built SCHOONER, burthen from 2500 to 3000 bushels, with all her appurtenances, one year old, and in very good repair, well calculated for the river or West India trade; also one half of a thirty five hoghead FLAT. Those that have demands against the estate are desired to make them known by that day, and those indebted to make payment to us the administrators.
JAMES FAIRLIE, SIMON FRASER.
EIGHT acres of LAND in Albemarle county the north side of the Rivanna river, on the Long Island creek. Also eight hundred acres in Dinwiddie county, lying on the north side of the Run, and one hundred acres on the south side of the said Run, and one lot in the town of Bedford. Credit will be given till next April or June. For terms apply to Thomas B. Griffin in London, or William Griffin, in King & Queen; one will attend on the second day of next November in Williamsburg.
AS to attend for British credit, I must beg the favour of all persons who have any dealings with Logan, G. Cur, and company to have their accounts read and settle at the next General Court. The business will be continued to its full extent. ROBERT GILMOUR.
THREE HUNDRED and fifty PRINCE ILLS from AFRICA, ship CAPT. JAMES HUNTER, healthy about 100 HUNDRED.
THE above will be at BERMUDA in November, and will be sold at public auction.
THREE HUNDRED and fifty PRINCE ILLS from AFRICA, ship CAPT. JAMES HUNTER, healthy about 100 HUNDRED. The lots and houses may be viewed at any time between this and the day of sale, by applying to Mr. Alexander Smith. Credit till the first day of May next, giving bond and security to SARAH SCANDRETT, GRIFING BOUGHAN, JAMES CHAMBERLAIN.
THREE POUNDS REWARD. RUN away on the 8th of July, from the subscriber's plantation, near Frederick Zimmerman's ordinary, in Culpeper, an English country servant man named JOHN BOOKER, about 33 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, narrow visage, ruddy countenance, a little marked with the smallpox, dark hair not tied, born in the Isle of Wight, speaks broad, fond of liquor, and talkative, has been about two years in the country, is a good disher, and well acquainted with other country business; had on, and took with him, two brown colour coats, one with twist, the other with flat metal buttons, a lappelled scarlet jacket, his breeches much the same with the coats, several shirts, two pair of shoes, yarn stockings, and brown trowsers; he had with him a box of wafers, and a parchment covered memorandum pocket book, and it is probable he will have some kind of a pass, and change his name. This fellow, with one belonging to Mr. William Allen of Culpeper, ran away together last April, and were advertised in this Gazette: Booker delivered himself to a man in Albemarle, who brought him home, but the other made his escape; and my fellow has now made another elopement without any kind of provocation. I will give THREE POUNDS to any person who delivers him either to Mr. Edward Stevens at Culpeper courthouse, the overseer at my plantation, or to me in Fredericksburg, or FORTY SHILLINGS if secured in any gaol so that I get him again. JAMES DUNCANSON.
VIRGINIA, &c. At a GENERAL COURT held at the CAPITOL May 7, 1772.
John Bowdoin, and Isaac Smith, merchants, surviving partners of Littleton Eyre, deceased, plaintiffs, against John Smith, and Edward Smith, and Matthew Smith, infants, Augustine Smith, Martha Jaquelin, Jaquelin Ambler, Sarah Smith, Thomas Smith, Wilson Miles Cary, James Buchanan, & co. of London, merchants, Edmund Pendleton, and Peter Lyons, surviving administrators, &c. of John Robinson, Esquire, deceased, Peter Presley Thornton, and Sarah his wife, and Mary Ambler, Jaquelin Ambler, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Miles Cary, and John Blair, executors, &c. of Edward Ambler, deceased, defendants.
THE defendant John Smith is appointed guardian to the defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, who are infants, to defend them in this suit; and, by consent of parties, this cause was this day heard, upon the bill, answers, and sundry exhibits. On consideration whereof it is decreed and ordered, that George Purdie, John Bowdoin, John Lee, and John Smith, Gentlemen, or any two or more of them, after giving convenient notice in the Virginia Gazette, sell, at public auction, the lands in the counties of Gloucester and Northumberland, known by the names of the Dragon Quarter and Fleet's Bay, comprized in the indentures of mortgage in the bill mentioned, at twelve months credit, to be entered upon the first day of January next; and also the slaves, with their increase, and other things in the said mortgages mentioned, at three months credit, taking bonds, with sufficient security, from the purchasers, and return an account thereof to the court, that Dudley Digges, Thomas Nelson, junior, and David Jameson, Gentlemen, or any two of them, do state and settle the claims of the plaintiffs, and the defendants, and of any other creditors of John Smith, deceased, in the bill named, who may desire it, and make report thereof to the court; and that the sales of the lands, in the counties of Spotsylvania and Culpeper, made by the said John Smith in his lifetime, be confirmed to the several purchasers thereof, upon their paying the purchase money; and that the several mortgagees, the defendant John Smith, and the defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, when they shall arrive at the age of twenty one years, release to those purchasers, and the purchasers of the said lands and slaves, to be sold under this decree, all their right and interest in the said lands and slaves, unless the said infants shall shew cause to the contrary within six months after the time of age respectively.
BEN: WALLER.
THE subscriber, having served a regular apprenticeship to the noted Mr. JOSEPH CARN-CROSS, of the city of Dublin, coachmaker, and for many years past carried on the coachmaking trade, in all its different branches, in Ireland and in New York, where he has had the honour of making a coach, phaeton, and chaise, for his Excellency the Right Honourable Earl of DUNMORE, is now removed, with his family, from New York to Palace Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he proposes to make and repair all sorts of coaches, landaus, chariots, postchaises, phaetons, curricles, chaises, and chairs, with harness of every sort. Also steel springs, and iron work of every kind, relative to the coachmaking trade. Likewise painting, gilding, and japanning. The subscriber being determined to do all his work in the best manner, and on the lowest terms, humbly hopes those Gentlemen that are pleased to employ him will pay cash, at least for any piece of new work, on delivery of the same; and will be truly thankful to every Gentleman or Lady who will employ him to repair carriages, even if the repairs do not exceed half a bit. The utmost care, and dispatch of business, shall be the constant study of the public's most humble servant, ELKANAH DEANE.
The subscriber having two or three spare rooms, would be glad to accommodate Gentlemen with private lodgings.
TO BE SOLD. ONE thousand four hundred acres of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND in Stafford county, on the branches of Aquia and Potowmack runs. The land is extremely well timbered and watered, twelve miles from Falmouth, and ten from Aquia. One half the land rents for thirty pounds a year. There is a small plantation on the other part. The land, if not privately sold, will be set up at one thousand two hundred pounds on the 10th of October, 1772, and a mill near the plantation. Also 1100 acres of land on Rocky Run, in Fauquier county (the rents of this land amount to 4130 pounds of tobacco) either in lots or together, as may suit the purchasers. An indisputable title will be made to the land by the trustees of CHARLES CARTER.
To be RENTED, for a term of years, or otherwise, THE HOUSES, GARDEN, STABLES, PASTURE, FIRE WOOD, &c. where the subscriber now lives. The place is so well known that I need not mention the convenience as to a public house, store, &c. I shall therefore only say to any person inclined to rent the above, that I can also rent both men and maid servants, and household furniture almost sufficient to enter into business immediately. YELVERTON PEYTON.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Friday the 30th of October, on the premises,
THE noted ORDINARY situated in Dinwiddie county, about 9 miles from Petersburg, known by the name of BURGES'S ORDINARY. It was advertised for sale about the first of August, but finding inconvenient to sell at that time, did defer it; and as its several advantages were fully described then, it will be needless to mention, at this time, any thing more than that it contains between four and five hundred acres of land, lies well, is well timbered, and has sundry improvements thereon. The purchaser is to pay the purchase money at three yearly equal payments, to commence from the 25th of December next, at which time the possession of the place will be given up. Bond, with approved security, will be required. ROBERT JONES, jun. HAMILTON JONES, THOMAS ESKRIDGE.
STOLEN, or strayed, from my pasture, on the 6th of Sept. r., a brown horse, about 14 hands 3 inches high, and branded on the left side RW; he was poor and had a fore back. Whoever will bring him to me shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS. PEYTON RANDOLPH.
Pursuant to an act of the last session of Assembly, will be LEASED, for the term of twenty one years, to the highest bidders, on the 20th of October next, if fair, otherwise next fair day, on the premises, to be entered upon immediately,
ABOUT 3000 ACRES of LAND, the property of the NOTTOWAY INDIANS, and lying in Southampton, on the south side of Nottoway river, the whole of it very good corn land, and the greatest part will produce good tobacco. It is to be laid off in lots, not exceeding 300 acres each. The rents are to be paid annually, and bonds, with approved security, for the performance thereof, will be required by THE TRUSTEES.
At the same time and place will be sold, all the lands belonging to the said Indians, on the north side of Nottoway river, consisting of two parcels containing about thirty acres each.
To be SOLD, to the lowest bidder, on Wednesday the 18th of November next, at Richmond county courthouse.
THE building of a BRICK PRISON, for the use of the said county; at which time and place attendance will be given by the Gentlemen commissioners appointed for that purpose, and THE SHERIFF.
On Monday the 12th of October next, being Loudoun court day, will be exposed to public sale,
SIX hundred and twelve acres of valuable LAND, lying in the said county, within two miles of Leesburg, and half a mile of a bolting mill. The subscriber will be on the land by the 9th of October, in order to shew it to any person inclined to purchase. VINCENT RUST.
COMMITTED to York prison, the 21st instant, a Negro girl about 5 feet high, stout made, and says she belongs to Mr. Joseph Mountfort, of Southampton; has on a green jacket, and oznabrig petticoat and shift. The owner is desired to apply for her, and pay charges to WILLIAM MITCHELL.
PETERSBURG, Jan. 2, 1772. FOR SALE.
THE following TRACTS of LAND in Pittsylvania county, viz. Four hundred acres on Banister river, 770 acres on Beaver creek, 345 acres on Burch's creek, 380 acres on Leatherwood, 400 acres on Snow creek.
These lands were formerly the property of Mr. Samuel Gordon, deceased. The price, and time of payment, may be known by applying to JERMAN BAKER.
TO BE LET ON LEASE. A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the town of Petersburg, built for a tavern, and well fitted for that business; it is two stories high, has a number of very convenient lodging rooms, and large and small rooms for the entertainment of guests. Any person qualified for the business of a tavern keeper, with a proper capital, may find this an advantageous a situation as any on the continent. Apply to the subscriber, who lives on the premises. THOMAS EGLETON.