The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1771-02-07 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
Open to ALL PARTIES,
but influenced by NONE.
LONDON, Oct. 31.
A MEETING of the electors of Westminster was held at Westminster-hall—Mr. Wilkes, attended by the committee appointed at a meeting the day before, and an infinite number of people, was seated in the chair—three loud acclamations proclaimed the persecuted hero Chairman of the day.—Mr. Wilkes took out a paper, and said that the meeting was to consult whether instructions should not be given their Members for impeaching the Honourable Frederick N——, commonly called Lord N——, in Parliament—This motion was opposed by Mr. Sawbridge, he urging that it would be impeaching Lord North to Lord North in the present House of Commons, and that what with the Bishops, Scotch Lords, and a train of pensioned Lords, who are always at the beck of a Minister, his strength was greater in the Upper House: Mr. Sawbridge therefore proposed to drop it; and added—“I have the highest opinion of the virtues of his Majesty's heart, who at present has a thick mist before his eyes, I trust in God that he will himself soon listen to the united complaints of his people, and redress their every wrong; and proposed another remonstrance in its stead; not doubting, but if the people persevere, and are steady in having their invaded rights re-established, or the invaders of these condignly punished, his Majesty sooner or later, would have that thick mist dispelled from before his eyes.
At the meeting the day before, the following instructions were read and approved by the electors—but upon considering Mr. Sawbridge's arguments against impeaching Lord North, a remonstrance to his Majesty was voted in their room.
To the Right Honourable EARL PERCY and Sir ROBERT BERNARD, Bart.
WE, the electors of the city and liberty of Westminster, reflecting with the deepest concern that all addresses, petitions, and remonstrances from the people to the throne have of late been not only received with strong marks of disapprobation, but proved entirely ineffectual, and that the nation can have no prospect of having their intolerable grievances redressed by the interposition of their Sovereign, think it our duty to direct and instruct you, our Representatives in Parliament, to endeavour, after the manner of our great ancestors, a constitutional remedy for the many evils we suffer, by impeaching in Parliament the Right Honourable F—— N——, commonly called Lord N——, Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer, and first Commissioner of the Treasury, for that he the said Lord N—— did publicly in express terms deny the right of the subject to petition the King for the dissolution of Parliament, and afterwards used various threats to prevent the legal exercise of that right; and also that he the said Lord N—— advised the fatal measure of imposing on the county of Middlesex a Representative who was not chosen by the greater part of the freeholders of the said county, and employed unconstitutional methods to carry it into execution, by which the invaluable right of election, and the antient and fundamental privileges of the people, have been violated. We likewise direct and instruct you to promote a Parliamentary inquiry into the foundation of the reports, which have spread the most general alarm, and been universally credited; that he the said Lord N—— has exerted an undue and corrupt influence over the legislative body; that such influence still continues in the greatest force; that the contempt in which this nation is now held abroad, in consequence of his administration, has been the true cause of the insults we have received in Europe, and the loss of our territories in America; and lastly, that he the said Lord N—— has been the adviser of many pernicious counsels, manifestly tending to sow dissensions between the King and his people at home and in the colonies, to sap the public credit of the nation abroad, and to destroy the first principles of this free government, and bring on a total dissolution of this excellent constitution.”
[In an account published by Mr. Wilkes, in the London Chronicle of Nov. 10, of the proceedings of the general meeting of the Westminster electors, he says, “I avow having drawn up the instructions for the impeachment of Lord N——, in which my hand and heart perfectly concurred, for I think him a weak, w——, and d—— Minister, and that from the two important posts he now fills, he must be considered as the ostensible Minister, and the chief instrument of the tyranny we groan under at home and in the colonies.”]
The following is a correct copy of the remonstrance.
To the KING's most excellent MAJESTY. The humble address, remonstrance, and petition of the electors of the city and liberty of Westminster. May it please your Majesty,
As long as we have any confidence left in the integrity of your Majesty's intentions, and in the sincerity of your declarations, we cannot cease most humbly, though earnestly, to implore your Royal interposition in behalf of a loyal and much injured people. We have already petitioned your Majesty for a dissolution of the present Parliament. That power is wisely and incontestably placed by the constitution in your Majesty, for the benefit of your people. There are but two situations in which it can be exercised—either when the peo-
ple are dissatisfied, or when they are satisfied with the conduct of their Representatives. If your Majesty means wholly to decline this power, as irreconcilable with the principles of the constitution, the people will lose a constitutional remedy: If your Majesty means to retain it, and to exercise it only in the latter case, as it has been very recently, and without scruple exercised over the American Assemblies, it can never be a benefit; but, on the contrary, must be a grievous injury to your subjects. Your faithful city and liberty of Westminster do therefore most earnestly implore your Majesty to exert it now, when the whole kingdom is most justly and generally offended with the conduct of this Parliament.
With the most dutiful respect to your Majesty, and with the most inviolable attachment to your Royal person and family, we beg leave to represent to your Majesty, that the redress of every grievance, the security of all our violated rights, the relief of all our sufferings, the prayer of every petition, the restoration of unanimity, harmony and peace (so often recommended by your Majesty from the throne) are all entirely in your Majesty's power to bestow: For the injuries we have sustained, and the evils of which we complain, have been voted and produced by your Majesty's own Ministers, officers, and servants, and by those Members of Parliament, especially who are under the immediate influence of the Crown.
Your Majesty has long been so happily situated as to have a choice of means to give redress and contentment to your people. Either by removing such of your servants who have done the wrong (instead of dismissing those who refused their concurrence) or by dissolving the present Parliament: That so, since no adequate provision has hitherto been made to prevent the Crown and its Ministers from chusing all their servants and dependants from amongst the Representatives of the people, the people by a fresh election may have an opportunity of chusing for their Representatives those who shall not be the servants and dependants of the Crown and its Ministers.
By the choice of independent, unbiased, and real Representatives of the people, and by the measures which such men will naturally take for our security, we trust, under the good providence of God, that we shall not continue to see in this kingdom electors denied the right of election, juries denied the right of judgment, and petitioners denied the right of complaint.
[After Mr. Wilkes had signed, as Chairman, the foregoing remonstrance, he said to Mr. Sawbridge, and several other Gentlemen, that he always should most cheerfully submit his opinion to the majority of his friends, but that he feared the present remonstrance would have no more effect than the former, and be only another paper kite for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. It has been since presented to his Majesty by Sir Robert Bernard, but no answer returned.]
Nov. 15. A bill, it is said, is intended to be brought in to take away the charter from the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
We are informed that the authors of the intended assassination of her Imperial Majesty the Czarina, have been happily discovered. This wicked conspiracy, after tracing it through a variety of labyrinths, has at last been fixed upon the House of Bourbon. The French King's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, has been fully proved to be charged by his court with this commission. In consequence of this discovery, the French Ambassador, now at Petersburg, is a close prisoner in his own house, where he is guarded day and night by a military detachment, and most probably in a few days will be sentenced to the punishment due to so black a crime, which, in that country, is the KNOUT.
A correspondent informs us, that debates in the lower room of the Robin-Hood Society yesterday, were agitated with great warmth. Mr. Barry spoke near an hour and an half, Mr. Buck near an hour, and Mr. Dodge well finished the opposition of the day. The chief charge brought against the managers was, that of their supinely enjoying themselves at their country seats during the summer instead of immediately beginning those preparations for blows which they are now in such a panic about; that war had been meditating by our enemies ever since the conquest of Corsica, which by the least spirited measures here at home, must have been prevented, and very thankfully too by the French, who would at last have been glad of any pretence to have saved the blood and treasure which that conquest cost them: That we are not prepared in any one part of the world for a stroke from the enemy: Gibraltar, Minorca, the fisheries, defenceless; and no dependence on the colonies for their hearty support, as in the late war. Mr. Barrington talked of faction and sedition, which the Buck of the society took to himself, and threatened to bring before them during the season, in a regular manner, a new representation of St. George's Fields, which, from materials he had procured, he was enabled to do. Mr. North acquitted himself by observing, that had he prepared for blows three months ago, Mr. Bourbon and his family would have done the same; that indeed we then should have had rather the start of them, but that, as it is, we have the start of them, and every advantage we could have had sooner. Mr. Barry was very confident that he smelt war, but nothing more than a very strong smell of it appeared from any thing that fell in the conversation of the day.
A very pathetic eulogium was, we hear, spoken in a certain assembly yesterday, on a lately deceased popular
commander, by Col. Barry. His description was so just, and his language so elegant and affecting, that it drew tears from almost every eye.
Lord North, in answer to a hint that had been thrown out, that it was absurd to employ one branch of the House of Bourbon to mediate our differences with the other, assured a certain assembly on Tuesday last, “that England wanted no mediator; that she was able to settle her own disputes, and resent any injuries offered to her; and that he was certain the Gentleman who entertained that opinion, must have collected his information either from news-papers or coffee-house politicians.”
Mr. D—— pledged his honour in a certain house on Tuesday last, that he would at least once in every session during this Parliament, move that assembly to restore to the people their rights which had been violated in the determination upon the Middlesex election.
Tuesday the Robin-Hood debates commenced for the winter season; when both the upper and lower societies were extremely full. The former transmitted, as usual, some propositions to the latter, which being read by the Chairman, were afterwards largely and lamely expatiated upon by Mr. Greville, from whom little could be heard, or understood, except a motion for the thanks of the society for the above propositions. He was seconded very audibly in the sermonizing way, by Mr. Ap-Rice. Considerable objections however to these thanks were raised on the other side of the room, particularly by the great performer Mr. Barry, who poured forth his eloquence for above an hour, by the glass; in the midst of which a thunder storm broke forth that almost shook the room; but happily a calm soon succeeded. In the course of this oration much freedom was taken with a certain insinuation, that the late hostile proceedings was the alt of the Governor of Buenos Ayres . He desired to be informed if it was certain that this Governor had acted from his own motion, and not from the instruction of his court: In which case he must have taken upon him to warn the English from Falkland's island; afterwards to threaten them with a force that should oblige them to leave the place; and lastly, actually to send that force; and all this without receiving orders to do so from the King his master. He added, with great pleasantry, that he had formerly been well acquainted with this Governor, who was at that time an officer in a superior command, and had great merit: But little (says he) did my good friend Don Francisco ever dream of arriving at this pitch of honour, and being considered by the K. of G. B. as his enemy. But the resentment of the K. of G. B. it seems was levelled for two years together against a wretched libeller, and now against the poor Governor of Buenos Ayres; against John Wilkes, Esq.; just come out of the King's Bench prison, and my old acquaintance Don Francisco.
In the course of this oration, the notorious Mr. Berrington having been a little freely dealt with, for sending some unintelligible orders in the last war, Mr. Berrington declared that since he had been in office, he had written letters upon letters, hundreds of letters, and thousands of letters, nay, he believed he might even say an hundred thousand letters, without the least fault having been found with any of them, except indeed one, about some doings in St. George's Fields, which the voice of faction and sedition had formerly misrepresented in that self-same Robin-Hood Society.
The Gentleman at whom this last stroke was aimed (Minheer Burkenhoof) started from his seat, returned the blow with great fury indeed, and swore by all the Gods, that he then pledged himself to bring St. George's Fields into that assembly room, by ways and means he had lately procured, and which, he seemed to threaten should confound his antagonist, and astonish that society. Much more was added in the menacing as well as the flowery way.
It is remarkable that no amendment to the proposition was moved; so the thanks of the society, as usual, passed by a very great majority.
Tuesday Mr. Burke and Col. Barry convinced the members of a certain great assembly, that they were as firm in the cause of freedom as ever, by their animated attack upon the unaccountable proceedings of the Premier, who was observed several times to turn pale and gnaw his nether lip.
The complaint of the Governor of Buenos Ayres, in a certain oration, looks as if a great Personage had been advised to call the servant to an account, instead of the master.
They write from Amsterdam, that above 80 tons of tea were actually shipped there lately for St. Eustatia, to be disposed of to the North-American traders.
We hear that the celebrated Irish patriot, Doctor Lucas, is shortly expected in London from Dublin, in order to lay a complaint of an extraordinary nature before a great personage.
Extract of a letter from Ayr, in Scotland, Oct. 28.
“Mr. Duff, sheriff in Ayr, is advised from Strauraer, and the west coast, as well as from the Isle of Man, that the plague has broke out in that island. If this is a fact, it will be very difficult to prevent its being communicated to Britain; for the Isle of Man is inhabited by a nest of smugglers, and from Greenock to Liverpool is crowded with their adherents. You see the risk we run. I wrote this because it came from a sure hand.”

Another paper contradicts this account, and says there is no infectious disorder in the Isle of Man.
It is said that a body of Gentlemen, not fewer than fifty in number, at a meeting held in the city on Friday evening, came to the unanimous resolution of not paying any land tax this year.
On Thursday last Capt. Ferguson, late of a ship belonging to Virginia, was lodged in Woodstreet Compter, on a charge against him for the wilful murder of two sailors and a boy on board the said ship on the high seas. He was on Saturday examined before the Lord Mayor, when the facts appearing very clear on the depositions of two seamen who were on board the vessel, he was committed to the above prison, in order to take his trial at the next session of admiralty, which will be held some time next month.
Killegrew being told that King Charles the Second's nose was fore, said, 'No wonder, when his Majesty has been led by it so long.'
Sir William Meredith, in a certain club on Tuesday, that what seemed most extraordinary to him in the proceedings of the Governor of Buenos Ayres should be the only Prince mentioned to have committed hostilities against the King of Great Britain, and wanted to know what might potentate this Governor of Buenos Ayres was, that dared to attack his Majesty's dominions without provocation. That he feared there was something covered under that deceit; that it seemed to proclaim to all Europe the subterfuge that the English Ministry wanted to take advantage of, by disclaiming the act of their Governor, and thereby evading the stroke that ought to have been returned, before it was in their power to repel it. As to the mention made of our colonies, he said that he did not like that vindictive spirit that seemed to threaten vengeance against the only protestant colony on which this country can with confidence rely against the common enemy; and wished the Ministry would declare openly what was their intention: That he had, during the recess, opportunities of discovering the fact of the accounts with which the accounts were received, by the manufactures of this kingdom, that the spirit of opposition was beginning to subside in our colonies; that our brethren in America were again sending their orders to their correspondents as usual, and commerce was returning to the old channel; that what was now threatened against the Massachusetts Bay would again tend to restore that spirit of combination that was now, in a great measure, at rest, and which would gradually die away, if no fresh matter of aggravation was proposed to increase them: That, for his part, he thought every American had as just a title to all the rights of English freedom, as he himself had; and that he would as soon give his vote for the deprivation of his own rights, as for that of his fellow subjects on the other side the Atlantic; that he had always opposed the measures that had brought on the dispute, and should ever oppose every measure that was likely to continue it.
It was further observed, on this subject, that the Ministry had nothing to boast of with regard to the late resolutions of the Americans to renew their commerce with the Mother country, who had done no more than the King of Prussia, and every other wise Prince, did in the conduct of commercial affairs. When any of his neighbours think it policy to lay a duty on any commodity that is imported into his country, he immediately lays a greater duty, which amounts to a prohibition of that commodity. Just so the Americans. When, upon commercial principles, a duty was laid on certain commodities that were imported into America, they immediately, upon commercial principles, entered into an agreement not to receive any of those commodities. When, upon commercial principles, you thought proper to repeal those duties, they again, upon commercial principles, agreed to receive them. You still continue to retain the duty upon tea, to shew your sovereignty; they still continue their agreement not to receive that commodity, to shew you that they deny it. What, therefore, is there in this, but the most consummate policy, and the most determined firmness that can animate any people whose liberty is at stake?
After all, the grand question, peace or war , was by no means answered on this occasion. It seemed, however, to be the opinion that war is at no great distance. Mr. Barry, indeed, thought it to be very near. He is allowed to have an excellent nose, and he declared that he smelt it.
Extract of a private letter from Constantinople. The north eastern parts of Europe are at present both delighted and terrified by a species of magnificence with which the world has been for some time unacquainted. The Grand Signior has at last taken the field in person. He is the only Turkish emperor who has headed his own armies since the time of Solymán the magnificent. When notice was given in the seraglio that an imperial camp was to be formed, it may easily be conceived what was the surprise, and what was the tumult. As all the preparation was new, every officer of the household had something to do which he had never done before, and which therefore he knew not how to do. It was observed that the Grand Signior, who through all the accidents of this war, had preserved a natural or affected tranquility, came out of his harem solicitous and dejected, having been, as it is supposed, ruffled by the disorder of the women, and their attendants, of whom some were weeping and fainting, because they were selected for the march, and others furious and clamorous, because, being left behind, they thought themselves neglected. But in the courts of eastern Princes, fear and resentment are idle passions. The order of the master must be obeyed. The Grand Signior sets out with a pomp becoming what he styles himself, the master of the world. The imperial tent contains a square of an hundred feet every way, and is covered on the outside with the costliest tapestry. All the furniture is of silver, and over every apartment into which it is divided, is a banner interwoven with golden threads, and edged with diamonds. The crescent, which is raised high over the entrance, is of massy gold. Around this pavilion are the tents of his women, and their attendants, into which it is death to enter, and which are therefore distinguished from all others by a covering of yellow silk, and by white plumes of ostrich feathers waving on their tops. Their march is little less magnificent than their encampment. The wagons which convey the women, and which are probably the same as the harim of the ancient Persians, are covered in like manner with yellow silk; and the harness of the horses is adorned with pearls. When the women dismount from these carriages, notice is given by a particular sound of the instruments of war, and the whole army turn their backs that they may not look upon them. It is easy to perceive, that however this magnificence may gratify the sultan's vanity, it can contribute little to his success. The Russians will fight with more eagerness to gain these riches for themselves, than the Turks to preserve them for their master.
That no encouragement may however be wanting, on the 5th day of their march was published the following proclamation:
Be it known to the invincible defenders of our illustrious empire, the officers and soldiers of the army now marching
to chastise insolence and support justice, that since the sultan has put himself at the head of his faithful troops, it is his pleasure that his presence be perceived not more by the strictness of his discipline, than by the splendour of his liberality. He therefore makes it known to the utmost limits of his camp, that when his cannon shall have swept away resistance, and his scymetar shall have fallen on the neck of obstinacy; when he shall hear no voice but that of supplication, and shall see nothing but the dust of armies lying before him, he will reward his steady followers by distributing amongst them the spoils of the conquered. He will give them kingdoms to be parcelled out, and cities to be set to sale. Let them look round the territories of their enemies, and consider them as their own possessions. Let them number the armies that oppose them, and consider them as the slaves by whose future labour those possessions shall be cultivated.
It was observed, that when this proclamation was published, it produced no exultation. The whole army was silent except a few troops, which were prepared before hand to receive it with acclamation.
It was reported this morning, that the respectable inhabitants of two of our American colonies have thought of petitioning government for an augmentation of troops to be stationed in their capital to protect the subjects from the violence of a licentious rabble.
Lord Bute, it is confidently said, is now at the court of Madrid in disguise.
Yesterday a second remonstrance from some of the inhabitants of the city and liberty of Westminster, for the redress of grievances, was presented to his Majesty at St. James's, by Sir Robert Bernard, one of the Members for that city; which was received, but no answer returned.
Yesterday a caveat was entered at Doctors Commons by a principal creditor of the late Rev. George Whitefield.
The Magistrates of Edinburgh have offered a reward of two guineas to every able seamen, and one guinea to every ordinary seamen, over and above his Majesty's bounty, who shall voluntarily enter to serve on board the Royal navy on or before the 30th of November instant.
The Romney man of war, Capt. Hood, from Halifax, is arrived at Portsmouth.
A Gentleman of this city was a few days ago called on to give his reasons for refusing to pay the land tax, for his estates in a certain county, or suffer his tenants to pay it; he answered, that he will never pay a farthing till he is legally represented in Parliament, and that if his tenants pay the tax he will not allow it them again.
His Majesty has commanded orders to be transmitted to all the Governors of forts, both in and out of Great Britain, to send an account of their strength, and lose no time in making application for such supplies of men and ammunition as are necessary for the greater security of those places from the depredations of an enemy.
It is now positively said at the west end of the town, that a respectable part of the present armament will in a few days be dispatched for the Tagus, to procure a full satisfaction for the many injuries done to our commerce by the most ungrateful court of Portugal, whose country we have saved in time of war and famine.
Mr. Potter, who was sent a second time with dispatches to the court of Spain, we are informed is not expected till after the meeting of the Parliament.
Last week, at a meeting of many freeholders of Middlesex, at the Denmark Tavern, it was unanimously agreed to refuse to pay the land tax for the year ensuing; and several Gentlemen of the city have come to the same resolution.
The ship London Packet, Capt. James Cook, is arrived in the river from Philadelphia, and brings a confirmation of the account lately received of the merchants of that place having come to a resolution to import goods as usual (tea excepted); in consequence of which she is immediately to load for that place.
Some letters received yesterday by the New-York packet, mention, that most of the principal American colonies are torn with intestine divisions, which are not soon like to be at an end.
The following letter was on Saturday sent to Lloyd's Coffee-house in Lombard-street, dated Portsmouth, November 9.
"At Spithead there are 16 sail of men of war under the command of Admiral Geary; there are also at Spithead the ship Ysselmondoon, an outward bound East Indiaman, which has on board 286 men, of whom there are upwards of 90 very ill with a violent fever. Six of her complement are already dead, as are also two Custom-House officers who were put on board her; the fever they have, it is said, is very contagious."
A letter from Admiral Geary has been transmitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, and the Commissioners of the Customs, acquainting them with the above unhappy event, and that he has taken every precaution to prevent the infectious disorder spreading, having placed a guard round the ship, to prevent any of the crew going on shore. The Admiral also sent physicians and apothecaries on board, who are all of opinion, that the disorder is contagious. The crew, &c. are to be carried to Stangate creek, where an hospital ship will be stationed for them to perform quarantine.
We hear much about the Manila ransom; should it not be settled to the satisfaction of this kingdom, in the present negotiation carrying on by our Ministry, or made a point of our quarrel, should a war ensue, there is a way of deciding the difference which has not been thought of; namely, commencing a suit against his Catholic Majesty; nor is this proceeding without precedent. The King of Spain (says Mr. Spíden) was outlawed in Westminster-hall, I being of counsel against him. A merchant had recovered costs against him in a suit, which, because he could not get, we advised to have the King outlawed for not appearing; and so he was. As soon as Gondimar heard that, he presently sent the money, by reason if his master had been outlawed, he could not have had the benefit of the law, which would have been very prejudicial, there being then many suits depending betwixt the King of Spain and our English merchants.
If war with Spain is unavoidable (says a correspondent) let us comprehend France in our declaration. Let no chicanery on the side of the latter, put off the blow till she is able to ward it away. The house of Bourbon is united; and when any branch of it pretends to be your friend, while the others are at war, that branch means to deceive. We know where France is vulnerable: Fortune herself cannot prevent her sugar-islands from falling into our hands. Turn the wealth of her West Indies into our own commerce, and she loses the means of continuing the war.
The following promotions are immediately to take place in consequence of the Duke of Argyle's death:
The Earl of Panmure to be Colonel of the Scot's Greys. Major General Mackay to be Colonel of the 21st regiment of foot, vice Lord Panmure.
Major General Urmston of the Guards, to be Colonel of the 6th regiment of foot, vice General Mackay.
An elegant house is taken in Hill street, Berkeley-square, for the reception of Dr. Lucas, the Irish Patriot, who is speedily expected in this capital.
We hear that the common cry amongst the people in Spain is for peace with the English.
Yesterday summonses were issued for a court of Common Council to meet at Guildhall next Thursday, to consider of a proper bounty to be given by the Corporation to able bodied seamen, his Lordship being of opinion that the fleet will be more expeditiously manned by that salutary method than by impressing. Some other interesting matters will also come under the consideration of the court.
On the 3d instant died at his seat of Cullen-house in Scotland, James Earl of Findlater and Seafield, a Nobleman of very singular and extraordinary merit.
Lord Holland's accounts will be laid before an august Assembly after Christmas holidays.
A letter received yesterday from Portsmouth, mentions that the distemper on board the Dutch ship at that place, is no other than what we call the gaol distemper, having several felons on board, which they were carrying to the East-Indies.
We hear that William De Grey, Esq; who was yesterday appointed Lord Chancellor, took his seat this day as Speaker in the House of Peers.
It is confidently asserted that, if the Common Pleas should determine the words spoken by Mr. Horne at Epiphany actionable, the case will be carried to the King's-bench, and after the Chief Justice has determined against Mr. Horne there, it will be carried to the House of Lords:—The question is first, whether the words are actionable in themselves? and secondly, whether freeholders have a right to debate and give their reasons for petitioning the King?
On Friday last the Aldermen Townsend, Sawbridge, and Oliver, requested the Lord Mayor to call a Common Council, to consider of a bounty for seamen, which his Lordship readily granted for Thursday. It is supposed that some of the Common Council will move at the same time for a remonstrance, that they may convince his Majesty, that whilst they are desirous to shew the utmost alacrity in his service, they are determined to have redress for the injuries the constitution has received from his Ministers.
On Saturday Mr. Serjeant Glynn moved in the Court of Common Pleas for a rule to shew cause why the verdict against Mr. Horne should not be set aside; when after a hearing, the Court granted the rule.—It remains now for the Court to consider whether the words in the two accounts in the prosecution are actionable, as on that depends the force of the verdict.
A certain popular Gentleman having lately taken the lead in some public proceedings, contrary to the opinion of many eminent lawyers, we are told that the security given for his good behaviour for seven years, is likely to be agitated during the present term at Westminster.
Lord Mansfield sat yesterday in the House of Lords as Speaker.
Yesterday the Earl of Chatham arrived in town from Hayes, but was not at the House of Peers.
We hear that doubts have already arisen, in a quarter little suspected, relative to granting the supplies.
The case of press warrants has been accurately stated by the direction of the Lord Mayor, and sent to Serjeant Glynn, Mr. Dunnings, and Mr. Wedderburn, for their opinion.
James Cock, the freeholder of Middlesex, applied by his brother, John Cock, to Mr. Alderman Wilkes, who advised every step he pursued. After the habeas corpus was freed out, the Lords of the Admiralty not only granted his discharge, but sent it down to him by express at their own expence before the habeas corpus could be served.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, November 13.
"The account I have seen in the papers about the disorder on board the Dutch East-Indiaman being erroneous, and calculated to alarm the public, I think it necessary to acquaint you that, though it is true that the two tidesmen who came on shore sick from this ship have died of the fever they got on board her, yet it is equally true, that it has not been communicated to either of their families, or to any other person. It is rumoured that Mrs. Hayter, of Gosport, died with the same fever, but she really did not. The fever in question is, no doubt, a very bad one, but is nothing more than a fever, and such as is not uncommon on board a ship crowded with a number of men, many of whom, in the present case, were taken from the gaol in Holland."
"Effectual precautions have been used to prevent a communication of the said fever to the crews of any of his Majesty's ships at this port, or to any of the inhabitants of this or the neighbouring towns. The ready and powerful assistance afforded by Admiral Geary to the proper officers of the customs, upon this occasion, is highly meritorious."
A CHARACTER.
THE Most Noble MARQUIS of GRANBY was one of the first characters of the age. The blood which flowed through his veins was rich with the tribute of many centuries; it descended to him in the noble channels of a long race of ancestors, purified and refined—and he left it so. He possessed their virtues too: His heart was the treasure where they were all deposited, collected, and improved. He gave them to the world with additional splendour.
The darling of his soul was glory. He courted her as a mistress; and sought for her and won her. Free of those little selfish views which allure other soldiers, honour was his guide to the field. Others fought for themselves, he fought for his country: To such he left the plunder of the war, and returned home crowned with virtue, victory and laurels.
Who has not heard of his humanity? This was he, who blended the gentlest faculties with the most manly courage: He fought the battles of his King with one hand, while he closed the soldier's wounds with the other.—Let those Heroes read this, whose souls are centered in themselves. Read it, ye feeble trifling Nobles, who shut your hearts against the cries of the hardy veteran, whilst you waste your days at home, in folly, indolence, and contempt. How he lived, how he conquered, let Ferdinand, let his fellow soldiers tell.—How he died, let the tears of Britons witness.
Never were the following beautiful lines more properly applied than to GRANBY: It is indeed but fitting that the sweetest poet should sing the dirge of the greatest Hero.
HOW sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to dress their hallow'd mould; She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet had ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there.

To the PRINTER.
SIR, I HAVE sent you the following recipe, which I accidentally met with in an old manuscript book, where it is called, 'A most excellent medicine against the PLAGUE;' and at the bottom is this note: 'Keep this as your life, above all worldly treasure; in time of plague (under God) trust to this, for there was never man, woman, or child, that it deceived.'
At this time when the plague rages in distant parts, and perhaps may soon make nearer approaches to us, I thought it my duty to make it as public as I could, therefore hope you will insert it in your paper. I am, SIR,
Your humble servant, A Friend to Mankind.
R E C I P E.
Take 3 pints of muscadine wine, boil in it a handful of sage, and as much rice, till a pint is wasted, then strain it and let it on the fire again, and put in it long pepper, ginger, and nutmeg, of each the third part of an ounce, beat together to a fine powder; let it boil a little, then put in it 2 ounces of treacle, 1 ounce of mirthridate, and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water; dissolve the treacle and mirthridate in the Angelica water before you put them in.
Directions for taking the above medicine
Take 1 spoonful of it warm both morning and evening in your bed, or 2 spoonfuls if infected, and sweat after it; but if not infected, a spoonful a day will be sufficient, half in the morning, and half in the evening, to prevent infection. This is good also for the small-pox, measles, fevers, or fevers.
NEW-YORK, January 17.
Saturday last arrived here the brig Friendship, John Lewis, master, in 8 weeks from Bristol. In lat. 29:53, long. 64:33. Capt. Lewis spoke a schooner from Virginia, bound to Barbados, George Gibbons, master.
Capt. Lewis informs us, that there was a very hot press for seamen when he left Bristol; that the Mayor of that city refused to sign the press warrants.
We hear that on Monday last, Mr. John Lambert, of this city, who for several years had been afflicted with the stone, had a large one, weighing between 4 and 5 ounces extracted (by Doctor Jones) and we are told he is in a promising way; it is remarkable that the stone was formed upon a bullet, which was lodged in his bladder, by a gunshot wound, received above 25 years ago.
[N. B. The above remarkable stone, which was seen by the printer hereof, is somewhat of an oval form, a little flattened on two sides, the side which lodged undermost almost as smooth as if polished, the upper side rough and full of knobs like large grains of gravel. A small part of the bullet appears on the under side, not covered by the stone.]
WILLIAMSBURG, February 7.
Mr. RIND,
THE extensive and multiplied injuries which the unhappy people of this country have sustained from the manner in which the slave trade is carried on, calls loudly for the interposition of humanity and benevolence. Not contented with the vast avowed profit that is demanded, the boundless avidity of the seller urges him privately to impose more than thirty per cent. sterling on the first cost of his goods. That speedy ruin must be the fate of those who buy on such terms requires no argument to prove, but it proclaims the necessity, the incumbent duty that rests upon the worthy and the wise in every part of the colony, to rescue their suffering countrymen from such ruinous bondage. It was not without foundation that a mercantile character, some few years past, made this invidious observation, when the people were generously opposing the invasion of their liberties: "It is unnecessary to send troops here, for the people are already made captives with the ledger." It is from this ledger, Mr. Rind, this shameless instrument of abuse, that we should emancipate our ill-used countrymen.
Well fitted for this purpose appears the scheme adopted by some worthy Gentlemen in the Northern Neck, whose example, it is to be hoped, will be followed all over the colony. It is surely no difficult matter for two or three counties to subscribe a fund sufficient to import a great part of the goods they want, to sell them here without any charges but the necessary ones of importation, of store-keeping, and ten per cent. interest for those whose public spirit leads them to the support of so laudable an undertaking. The persons concerned in this benevolent business, will soon find their small profits sufficiently compensated by incessant profit, and the eye of humanity gratified with surveying the agreeable change from universal distress to universal happiness, from a state of debt and thralldom to one of ease and independence. By such noble and spirited exertions alone can we ever expect to see this country redeemed from a worse than Japanese trade, to a just, wise, and mutually beneficial commerce. BENEVOLUS.
* The Japanese are said to trade with but two nations in the world, the Chinese, and the Dutch; who gain a thousand per cent. from these senseless islanders. See Du Halde, v. 2, p. 170.
ESSEX, January 21, 1771.
To PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esq; MODERATOR.
AT a meeting of the committee of associators in Essex county, for supervising the importation or purchase of goods contrary to the terms of the association, at Tappahannock, on the 14th and 16th days of January, 1771, Messrs. Muscoe Garnett, and company, Meriwether Smith and Archibald Ritchie, merchants, severally produced their letters and other papers relative to the cargoes of goods by them respectively imported in the ships Chatham Frigate, John Anderson, master, and the Thomas and Mary, James Dunlsey, master; and, upon examination, it appears that orders were actually given for the goods of said Garnett, and company, the 1st of said Smith the 13th, and of the said Ritchie the 15th of June, in consequence of which they were purchased, and put on board the ships in September; that the Chatham Frigate was necessarily delayed at Gravesend till the 5th of October, and that the said ships were, by contrary winds, retarded in their arrival here till after the 25th of December. Upon mature consideration of the committee, it is their opinion, that (although there are sundry prohibited goods in the said cargoes) the said Garnett, and company, Meriwether Smith, and Ar-
chibald Ritchie, have not violated the true meaning and spirit of the association in receiving the said cargoes, and that they be permitted to make sale thereof.
SIR,
Above you have a true state of our proceedings, upon the first importation of goods into this county since our being chosen a committee; and as the Gentlemen concerned have acted with much candour, and appear extremely cautious in not violating the association, we think we should be wanting in duty, as well to the public in general, as to them in particular, were we not to transmit our proceedings to you, that a publication thereof may be made in the next Gazette.
We are, Sir, your most obedient humble servants, WILLIAM ROANE, JOHN UPSHAW, JAMES EDMONDSON, THOMAS ROANE.
IT is hoped and expected that all those who still continue in Arrear to the late Governor's Estate, will settle their Accounts with the Treasurer some Time in the succeeding April General Court at farthest, that the Gentlemen appointed to manage his Lordship's Affairs in this Country may be enabled to close their Accounts, and remit whatever Balance remains to his Lordship's Executor. 3
RICHMOND, February 6, 1771.
I INTEND to leave this place by the 18th of April next, and to settle in Williamsburg; where I shall open a shop on the main street, near the capitol, to clean and repair CLOCKS and WATCHES, and to make and sell all sorts of GOLD and SILVER WORK, at the most reasonable rates. Those who please to employ me may depend on their work being done well, and expeditiously. 6 JAMES GALT.
RUN away, some time last spring, from the subscriber's plantation at the Green Mountain, in Albemarle county, a Negro man named GEORGE; he is a tall dark coloured fellow, speaks broken English, has several long marks down each of his cheeks, and was clothed as plantation Negroes generally are. This same fellow formerly left his overseer, and was out near two years; he rambled, as I was informed, as low down the country as the county of King William, and was at last taken up in the county of Hanover. Whoever apprehends and will deliver him either to Mr. Charles Simms in Albemarle, Mr. William Walker, at Weyham, in Henrico, or to me in Williamsburg, shall be generously rewarded in proportion to the trouble he may be at. R. C. NICHOLAS.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Amherst county, on or about the 5th of October last, a new Negro man slave who calls himself CHARLES, which is every word of English he can speak, he is a black fellow, with a smooth skin, of a middle size, well made for strength, appears to be about 18 years of age, and has a good set of teeth. He was purchased from the Tanimerees the 14th of last September, and was one of the number judged to have had the small pox. Had on when he left me a Negro cotton jacket with buttons (both top and bottom) of brass, a pair of cotton breeches, very long, with flat metal buttons to the waistband, cotton boots, and a coarse linen cap. Whoever will deliver him to me, or secure him so that I may get him again, shall receive a reward of FIVE POUNDS; and if he is taken out of the colony and brought home to me TEN POUNDS current money. JOHN JACOBS.
JANUARY 13, 1771.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, on Saturday night last, from Pride's old field, in Petersburg, a dark bay horse, branded on the near buttock PL in a piece, with a small star in his forehead, his mane and fore-top cut off, a thin small tail, a blemish in one of his eyes, shod all round, and I believe some of his shoes are wore off, he paces and trots, is about 12 years old, about 14 hands and a half high, and is very much rubbed with the gears, being a waggon horse. Whoever brings the said horse to William Timberlake's ordinary in Petersburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward, and upon conviction of the thief FIVE POUNDS. ROBERT BARCKLY.
TAKEN up and killed by the subscriber, in Chesterfield county, near Pokobontas, on the 1st of Jan. 1771, a blue-grey barrow, marked as follows, the right ear half cropped on the upper side, and the left ear half cropped on the under side. He was in very good order, and weighed net 104 lb. The owner is desired to apply to JOHN THOMPSON.
BRUNSWICK, January 30, 1771.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 28th of February next,
ONE hundred seventy-five acres of LAND, with good improvements thereon, being the plantation whereon the subscriber now lives. Also to be sold, or leased, 900 acres of low grounds on Meherrin river. Likewise 10 Virginia born SLAVES for ready money. The terms for the land to be agreed on at the day of sale. I desire my creditors will meet at my house the day before the sale. SIMON TURNER.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 19th of February next, at the late dwelling plantation of Charles Walden, deceased, near Mr. Hubbard's, in Caroline county, for ready money,
TWO tracts of LAND, one whereon he lived, containing 192 acres, the other on the opposite side of Mattapony river, in King William county, containing 125 acres. Some part of the tract in King William the widow is to have for her life. Also 12 likely Virginia born SLAVES, STOCKS of all sorts, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and some fatted PORK, which may be had of John Walden any time before, about 100 barrels of CORN, with the FODDER. An undoubted title will be made to every thing by JOHN WALDEN, CHARLES WALDEN, } Executors.
To be SOLD on Tuesday the 19th of February, at the plantation whereon Drury Dunn, deceased, lately lived, upon Monk's Neck creek, about seven miles from Petersburg, in Dinwiddie county, for ready money,
EIGHTEEN LIKELY SLAVES,
Consisting of men, women, boys, and girls, among whom are some lawyers, coopers, and carpenters. And at the same time and place will be sold, upon credit until the 10th day of December next, about forty more likely SLAVES; also the stocks of CATTLE, HORSES, HOGS, a neat RIDING CHAIR, and all the HOUSE and KITCHEN FURNITURE, PLANTATION TOOLS, and a large crop of CORN and FODDER, the purchasers giving bond and approved security to
WILLIAM DUNN, } Administrators. HENRIETTA DUNN, }
Pursuant to the last will and testament of the late Reverend Mr. Charles Jeffery Smith, deceased, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, at Providence forge, in New Kent county, on Monday the 18th day of March next,
ONE undivided moiety of a tract of good level LAND, well timbered with pine, oak, and cypress, containing, by old surveys, 2500 acres, with the appurtenances, situate in the counties of New Kent and Charles City, on both sides of Chickahominy river, whereon are several plantations in good order for making grain of all sorts, which it produces very plentifully; a well built forge in good repair, with every thing necessary for carrying it on in the most profitable manner; also a well built water grist mills, with 3 pair of stones, and a bolting mill that goes by water, which are all well accustomed from both the said counties; a well built saw mill, all which works are convenient to navigation, and on a large and constant stream of water; also several dwellings-houses, with brick chimnies, a large store-house, granary, smith's shop, and many other convenient houses, all newly built in the best manner, and a good fishery. Also to be sold, at the same time and place, one half of a vessel, burthen about 1200 bushels, sundry European and West-India goods, stocks of all kinds, plank, scantling, smith's tools, and other things, possessed by Mr. Smith, in partnership with Mr. William Holt. At the same time and place will likewise be sold, a tract of good land, containing 500 acres, adjoining the former, on which is a brick dwelling-house, and sundry out houses, a delightful situation, with an agreeable prospect; also a Negroes, and a large and valuable collection of books, of which Mr. Smith was sole owner. Credit will be allowed for one half the purchase money, for all sums above FIFTY SHILLINGS till the 30th of April next, and for the other half till the 30th of October, the purchaser giving bond, with good security, to
JULIUS KING BURBEDGE, } Executors. BARTHOLOMEW DANDRIDGE, }
ALL persons indebted to the estate of the Reverend Mr. Charles Jeffery Smith, deceased, or to the partnership of the said Smith with William Holt, are desired to make payment before the 18th day of March next, or they must be sued without further notice, Mr. Smith's executors having no power to grant any indulgence. All persons who have any demands against Mr. Smith, or the said partnership, are desired to make them known.
J. K. BURBEDGE, } Executors. B. DANDRIDGE, } WILLIAM HOLT.
To be SOLD on Monday the 18th of February next, at the subscriber's plantation, near Burk's Bridge, in Caroline county,
ABOUT 400 acres of very good LAND, part of the tract he lives on. It is all first and second low grounds, very level, and will produce anything usually cultivated in this colony. It is subject to a mortgage to Mr. James Miller, merchant in Port Royal. Also several choice Virginia born SLAVES, amongst which are some tradesmen, subject to a mortgage to Mr. Edmund Pendleton. The mortgagees will attend the sale, allow a reasonable credit to be given, and release their interest, upon bond and security given to them. JOHN WILY.
ESSEX county, January 24, 1771.
HAVING received certain information that Doctor Nicholas Flood, of the county of Richmond, has offered for sale a tract or parcel of land, lying in Essex county, upon Pissatoway creek, which land I purchased of George Clayton, bar by the perils of the said Mr. Flood, whose daughter I married, the deeds were made to him upon his engagement, by repeated letters, to settle the same immediately on me and my wife. The said land has ever since remained in my possession, and I have brought a suit in chancery in the county court of Richmond against him, to compel a conveyance according to his agreement; I therefore give this public notice of my claim. ARCHIBALD M'CALL.
THE officers, and others, who may be principally interested in the grant of 200,000 acres of land, under Governor Dinwiddie's proclamation, in 1754, confirmed to them by an order of Council of the 15th of December, 1759, are earnestly requested to meet at Winchester, on Monday the 4th day of March next. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
WANTED ON CHARTER,
TO load tar and turpentine, in North Carolina, a vessel about 1500 barrels burthen. For terms apply to James Mursden, Norfolk, or the subscribers at Richmond; who have for sale a quantity of good SEINE TWINE. STORRS & ELLIS.
TAKEN up in Spotsylvania county, a sorrel mare, with a blaze in her face, 4 feet 4 inches high, branded on the near buttock I. G. trots and gallops, about 4 or 5 years old. Poked, and appraised to 51. CHARLES SMITH.

FREDERICKSBURG, January 3, 1771.  STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, about 12 months ago, a dark grey mare, has no brand, about 13 hands high, paces naturally, and is very remarkable, one side of her head being much lighter than the other, she was bred in Richmond county, and it is reasonable to believe she has made down the river. Any person contriving the said mare to me, or giving information, so that I get her again, shall receive 20s. reward, paid by GEORGE HILL.
THE instructions I have lately received, render it my duty to urge the payment of his Majesty's quit-rents with the utmost punctuality. The several sheriffs therefore, herein concerned, are desired to take notice that it is expected they will make their payments immediately for all arrears, and in June and October next, for the present year's collection. And whereas great inconvenience attends the payments being delayed until the business of the General Court is over, notice is hereby given, that merchants notes will not be allowed in the office, unless made payable the 15th of April and October in each court. RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
To be LET to the lowest bidder, on Thursday the 14th of March, at Charlottesville, in Albemarle,
THE building of a PRISON of brick, with two rooms below, and two above stairs. Plans, prepared for the inspection of those disposed to undertake the same, may be seen on application to JOHN HENDERSON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN WALKER.
For SALE,  TWENTY thousand acres of LAND, in the counties of Frederick and Hampshire, which was advertised some years ago in this colony, and the neighbouring provinces, and its situation and qualities then described; therefore think it needless to repeat them now. It will be sold very cheap, and reasonable time of payment will be allowed the purchaser, or purchasers, for one half of the purchase money, who may be shown the premises by applying to the subscriber, in Winchester. BRYAN BRUIN.
On Wednesday the 13th of February next, will be SOLD, in the town of Blandford, to the highest bidders, pursuant to the last will and testament of Walter Boyd, Gentleman, deceased,
A PARCEL of very valuable Negroes, consisting chiefly of good watermen, house servants, a man cook, and gardener; likewise several flats that will carry from 12 to 40 hogheads of tobacco, compleatly fitted with masts, sails, &c. Also some valuable lots in the said town, whereon is a commodious dwelling house, with all convenient office houses, and a large garden, formerly the property of Mr. Peter Randolph Bland. At the same time will be sold, a good stock of horses and cattle; also a single chair, carts, drays, &c. And on Friday the 1st day of March, will be sold, on the premises, his plantation in the fork of Nottoway, Amelia county, containing about 400 acres of very fine tobacco land, with houses and land cleared, sufficient to work 8 hands, with the crop of corn and fodder, and plantation utensils thereon, a large stock of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs; likewise about 20 choice plantation Negroes, mostly Virginia born. Twelve months credit will be allowed for the lots, houses and land, and for the Negroes, stock, &c. to the 15th of June next, for one half, and for the other half the 15th of Dec. following. Bond, with sufficient security, will be required by THE EXECUTORS.
N. B. All persons who have any demands against the estate of Mr. Boyd, are desired immediately to let them be known to the Executors, that they may provide for payment; and all those indebted, are requested to discharge their balances, or give bond between this and the 25th of April next; for after that time, all open accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney. PRINCESS ANNE, January 18, 1771.
For SALE,  NOW on the stocks, the hull of a vessel about 130 tons burthen, well calculated for European or West-India trade, being double decked, she is extremely well put together, her timbers, planks, &c. being of as good white oak as this country affords. She may be ready for launching in six weeks after sold. Also a well built sloop, well found, of about 4000 bushels burthen, about 4 years old. Likewise several hogheads of good West-India rum. Six months credit will be allowed the purchaser, on giving bond, with approved security. Any person or persons inclined to purchase, are desired to apply to William Calvert at Norfolk, or James Hunter, sen. in Princess Anne. 1 3 w
CURL'S, HENRICO county, January 17, 1771.
RUN away from my plantation, in the upper end of Cumberland county, on Friday the 4th instant, the following slaves: JACK SUNDAY, 35 years old, jet black, near 6 feet high, very sensible, and flutters a good deal, especially when in liquor, which he is very fond of, is sprightly and stout made, and knows little else but that of taking care of horses, having been, till lately, accustomed to that kind of business only, and as he was my valet for many years, made himself well acquainted with the country. PETER, who is rather yellow, and was my right hand man in the house for ten years past, is about 5 feet 10 inches high, has a scar in his forehead, as well as each side his nose, occasioned by a kick he received from a horse when young, part of the fore finger of his right hand cut off, is about 30 years of age, and not quite the understanding or spirits of the former, but much neater in his dress. They both had on, when they went away, cloaths of the best kind that are given to Negroes that work in the ground, and perhaps may have some of their old livery, which was green cloth, and fustian faced with green shalloons. I expect they are gone towards Carolina, having attempted once before to make their escape that way. I will give THREE POUNDS for each, if taken in this colony, and FIVE if in any other, and delivered to RICHARD RANDOLPH.
I MISS a third volume of BURROW'S REPORTS. Whether it was lent out I forget. Perhaps some Gentleman's servant carried it from the capitol by mistake last October court. Whoever will let me know where it is, I shall be obliged to him for the information. GEORGE WYTHE.
To be LET on CHARTER, for any port in BRITAIN, or to any port to the Eastward,
THE new ship MORANT BAY, James Craig, master, which will be ready to take in her load by the 1st of February next. Any person inclined to charter may know the terms by applying to said master, or of the subscribers. She has excellent accommodations for passengers. LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. NORFOLK, December 25, 1770.
DUMFRIES, January 1, 1771.
On the 4th of March next, at Prince William court-house, will be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND, containing about 800 acres, within three miles of Dumfries, on which is a neat dwelling-house, pleasantly situated, and other convenient houses for cropping. And on the 2d day of April next, at Winchester, will be sold, a tract of land in Frederick county, containing 200 acres, known by the name of David Wood's creek. The said lands were directed by Capt. Wm. Bennett, deceased, to be sold by his Executors, to satisfy his creditors. Long credit will be given for great part of the purchase money. WILLIAM CARR.
AYLETT'S, October 15, 1770.
WHEREAS Messrs. Murdochs, Donalds, and Co. of Glasgow, have discontinued their trade at this place, I hereby give notice to all those who have open accounts on my books to come and settle them; and in order to prevent disputes hereafter, bonds will be required for their respective balances, for which purpose I will attend regularly at this place during the ensuing winter and spring, unless when the General and Oyer Courts, or any of the neighbouring county courts, intervene. As personal application to every one concerned cannot be made, therefore due regard it is hoped will be paid to this advertisement. Those who fail to settle in due time must blame themselves for laying me under the necessity of bringing suits against them without further notice; as those who shew the greatest readiness to settle may expect the greatest indulgence. The GOODS on hand will be sold by wholesale, on very reasonable terms, which may be known by applying to ARCHIBALD GOVAN.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, in Fredericksburg, on the 26th of December last, a bay mare about 13 hands high, with a roached mane and bob tail, her brand I have forgot, though believe it was WF. She trots and canters very well, and is about 9 years old. Whoever will bring her to me shall receive 15s. reward. GEORGE WEEDON.
TAKEN up in the forks of Hanover county, a middle sized bay mare, about 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, has a small blaze in her face, and has one hind foot white, she is branded on the near buttock G. I. and on the near shoulder L. D. Posted, and appraised to 21. 12. 6. ANNE DICKINSON.
To be SOLD at the plantation where Mr. Robert Alcock lives, in the county of Culpeper, on the last of February next,
TWELVE thousand acres of LAND, lying on the fork of Rappidan, and Robinson's river, in the said county. Credit will be given till the 25th of October following, the purchasers giving bond and security to the executors of the Honourable Philip Grymes, Esq.; and a discount allowed, at the rate of 5 per cent. per ann. for prompt payment. The land will be sold in parcels, and Mr. Alcock has directions to shew it to any person who is desirous of seeing it before the day of sale. CHARLES GRYMES, BENJAMIN GRYMES, jun. Maryland, August 15, 1770.
THE subscriber, who has been regularly bred to the practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY, gives this public information that he begins to inoculate on the 5th of September, and continues till the last of June 1771, at his house which stands about half a mile from Baltimore Town, on a healthy situation, with a very agreeable prospect. The price (as before) TWO PISTOLES, and twenty-five shillings per week for board. The sickness is really trifling, and the confinement none. They may safely return to their homes in 21 days. Those that choose to come, are requested not to alter their diet, and to give timely notice, that necessary care may be taken to prevent their being disappointed. NEGROES will be insured at five per cent. The subscriber declares he has inoculated upwards of eight thousand, and has lost but seventeen, and they died more from obstinacy and a too great indulgence, than from the small-pox. HENRY STEVENSON.
To be SOLD by the Printer hereof,
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK For the Year of our LORD 1771.
LATELY PUBLISHED, And to be sold by the printer hereof, The LAWS of the last SESSION of ASSEMBLY.
DUMFRIES, January 8, 1771.  Messrs. James and William Carr Lane, of Loudoun county, sold a parcel of convicted servants this last fall: As the bonds arising from the sale are in the hands, and assigned over to the subscribers, we desire all persons indebted to be punctual in discharging their bonds to us, as we can allow of no indulgence. JOHN NELSON, CUMBERLAND WILSON.
FREDERICK, July 2, 1770.  THE subscriber thinks proper to inform the public, that he purposes beginning to inoculate the SMALL-POX on the 12th day of September next, and to continue the same until July following, at his house, six miles from Winchester: The situation healthful and agreeable. The terms for each patient TWO PISTOLES for inoculation, and 20s. a week for board.
He flatters himself that his experience in Europe, and his repeated success in inoculating in this county, will render any account of his being regularly qualified, unnecessary. To these he chuses to appeal, rather than speak confidently of himself. Patients may depend upon every necessary accommodation; likewise the greatest care and tenderness; and need not be under any apprehension of confinement. JOHN M c DONALD.
WHEREAS I have the following tracts of LAND in Bedford, Pittsylvania, and Botetourt counties for SALE, and have estimated the value of each tract, for which I will take NEGROES, TOBACCO, HEMP, and WHEAT, as far as 2000l. I have also about 3000 acres to sell for Col. Archibald Cary, and about 14000 acres, the remains of the Randolph's land, for the Pleasants.
  700 Acres, the Royal Forest, 100 acres in plantation, with large orchards, whereon hath been made upwards of 1000 gallons of brandy in one year, £. 600   2200 Acres, with three plantations, a good saw-mill and grist-mill, with bolting cloths for merchant and country work, all which goes by water, 1000   900 Acres, on Little Otter river, with plantation, &c. 500   400 Acres, Little Otter square, 200   330 Acres, Fear's place, plantation, &c. 150   530 Acres, Preston's place, plantation, &c. 120   300 Acres, Crab Forest, plantation, &c. on Goose Creek, 150   300 Acres, on Crab Orchard Creek, and Goose Creek, 100   650 Acres, on Blackwater, and Simmons's Run, Pittsylvania, 140   363 Acres, on Mill Creek, plantation, &c. 100   453 Acres, on Glady branch of Goose Creek, 100   7500 Acres, on Stanton river, Indian Run, and Gill's Creek, with two plantations, at ten pounds per hundred, 750   286 Acres, on Stanton river, 60   368 Acres, on Gill's Creek, plantation, &c. 100   1000 Acres, on Blackwater river, with two plantations, &c. 100   3000 Acres, in partnership with Capt. Itham Talbot, 300   15000 Acres, in Pittsylvania, at ten pounds per hundred, 1500   2500 Acres, on Goose Creek, at ten pounds per hundred, 250   15500 Acres, in Botetourt county, at ten pounds per hundred, 1550   Any person inclined to purchase may see the land by applying to me, at New London, in Bedford county. W. MEAD.
FAUQUIER county, October 10, 1770.
RUN away from the subscriber, the 4th of this instant, a mulatto fellow named WILL, 4 feet 10 or 11 inches high, about 34 years of age, is well set, has a smooth insinuating way of talking, he has a small scar under one of his eyes, though as I never took notice of it myself don't know on which side of his face, he has a large scar upon his right leg, occasioned by the cut of an ax: Had on when he went away a blue duffil coat lined with red shalloons, an osnabrig shirt and trowsers, a felt hat about half worn, a pair of coarse store shoes, with brass buckles; he took with him a pair of Russia drill breeches, two waistcoats, one a light coloured frize, and the other a black duroy, and an osnabrig coat. He has worked some time at the carpenters and coopers trade, though knows but little of either, but is a tolerable good turner, and has taken with him several of his tools, though as they may be troublesome to carry he probably may sell them, and being an artful subtle fellow, imagine he will go as much in disguise as possible, to prevent suspicion. Having reason to believe, from the information of his companions, that he intends to steer his course for the back country or the upper part of Maryland, I will give to any person that will deliver the said fellow to me, in Fauquier county, near the court-house, 3l. reward, if taken up in this county or any of the adjacent counties, if out of the colony, 5l. besides what the law allows. JAMES SCOTT, jun.
Indian creek, Northumberland county, May 30, 1770.
RUN away from the subscriber three slaves, viz. a dark Mulatto named MICHAEL, about 5 feet 7 inches high, is well set, about 25 years old, by trade a shoemaker; also a light Mulatto, about the same size, named LEWIE, one of his arms has been broke, which occasions a stiffness in it; he is a brother of Michael's, and are supposed to be together; also a Negro, about 40 years old, named WILL, by trade a carpenter, about 5 feet 6 inches high; he is supposed to be about York. Whoever will deliver them to me shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS reward for each, besides what the law allows. JOHN SMITH.
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