The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-03-11 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
Open to ALL PARTIES,
but influenced by NONE.
LANEVILLE, February 8, 1773. THE sheriffs who have been so long in arrear to his Majesty's revenue of quitrents are once more called upon, in this public manner, to settle their accounts with the Auditor, and pay their respective balances into the Receiver's office by the 25th of April next. My instructions on this head are positive and peremptory, and I shall be obliged, in consequence of them, strictly to enforce the law against every sheriff who fails in his duty, and neglects to make due payment.
RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
Mr. RIND,
HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBI.
A FEW days ago I took down some very old pamphlets to turn over, that I might not read any thing that would require any burthen to my memory, and by chance I met with an old list of epitaphs, &c. among which, although I saw many a memento mori , yet only one of them seemed to strike me, that which I have made the motto to this paper. The shortness, as well as the expressiveness of the words, suited so fitly to the transitoriness of life, that I could not avoid considering the propriety of them, as something in the true sublime, if the half read critics will pardon me the use of the term. Therefore I complimented them with every serious thought on the real situation of human nature, as they must certainly put every stately tibi who reads them in mind that possibly tomorrow, or sooner, he may be in the low inhumed condition of the humbled mihi before him. This naturally led me to endeavour to carry the sentence through all the variety of ideas that the vast range of human conception is capable of, that I might catch every parallel to which this motto would also be a good lesson. In that round of imagination I fell upon the present attack on freedom, which we read of in our papers, begun, and possibly by this time put in execution, against our poor unhappy countrymen the Rhode Islanders. To mention for what they are to be thus reduced to slavery, without a proper information of the particulars, might perhaps make any body too hasty, either in concluding their guilt, or impalliating their offence. Therefore as it seems as if these particulars are not intended impartially to be known in America, I shall only say that as yet we are but publicly informed that it is for burning the Gaspee armed schooner. Let the punishment be adequate or not to the offence, this motto hodie mihi crastibi is surely as applicable to freedom violated, or even justly taken away, as it is to life itself, and of course it behoves every man to consider that what this day may be one man's, or one people's fate, may be his tomorrow . Every freeman, then, should ask himself, let him live where he will, whether in Great Britain or in America, what is that life which he fancies that he enjoys, without that active drop called freedom, allowed by nature, and of course by his particular constitution, to preserve the due medium of life, in its various purposes either of mind or body? That drop which, like the human bile, if the learned faculty will spare me the application, attenuates or renders more fluid the several viscid and coagulating humours, that would otherwise obstruct life in its natural and necessary channels. To be sure, there is no man who hath not sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, or, as the Boetian translators render the Hebrew text, for buttermilk and pratars , but must own that freedom and life, like twins joined in one body, cannot be prudently separated; for although the latter for a while may be languishingly continued without the former, yet no one who has ever experienced them together can possibly think that such a languishing continuance can be in the least desirable. No, it rather seems as if
Heaven in our cups this pleasing drop has thrown,
To make the nauseous draughts of life go down.
And to think otherwise of freedom, on account of some abuse of it, is, indeed, to condemn one's self to act the fatalist in every sense of the doctrine; for the free agency of every member of every society, whether the civil or the religious, has its moas agendi prescribed to it, as well by the laws of man as of God, beyond which it cannot act with justice, and therefore not with impunity; by which laws, however, it can only be adjudged, and then but by a constitutional enquiry. I have reason therefore to hope that nothing but mere ignorance can fancy that I am en-
deavouring, by this analogy between freedom and life, to hint that this right to freedom cannot be forfeited. For my part I know of no right upon earth held indissoluble by any tenure; but I have taken up my pen purely to induce a proper consideration on this motto hodie mihi crastibi , in every man who fancies himself free, when he knows not how soon, or how equally fleeting, his freedom may be, though he should be permitted to exist; therefore it should engage him seriously to examine as well how his freedom or his life may be taken away, that by his own prudence he may endeavour to avoid the forfeiture of either to the society in which he lives. Common sense, then, should inform us all that by common justice the forfeiture of either ought to be equally, and with great candour, adjudged of; and it must become a question, which I am persuaded can never be fairly solved, how such a necessary appendage as freedom is to life can be forfeited in any other manner than by the same methods, which we know that our lives can? Could any man who has ever experienced their inseparability (should he forfeit his life) agree to be indulged by a pardon to enjoy that, provided he would give up his freedom? I cannot but think that this must be too close an application to any breast, not instructed by birth, to hesitate long about the answer.
It has been, it seems, surmised that the rebellious state in which these islanders must have been, when they perpetrated that action, may have rendered it suspicious, that they would not have suffered the offence to be constitutionally adjudged. This can be no British reasoning; for then the same thing may be concluded in every case. To be sure, then, such an indulged suspicion cannot but help to confirm the analogy between freedom and life, and must establish the equality of the motto as to both, hodie mihi crastibi . But how can it be supposed that such a most arbitrary power, which could order squadrons and armies to these people, could adopt so specious, as well as so dangerous, an excuse for the attempt? If I could think so of them, I would ask whether it has been ever known, that when such an arbitrary experiment had established itself into a precedent, it has either confined itself to the complexion of the offence, or, indeed, contented itself with such delinquents only on which it commenced? May not, then, the same pretended, or at best but presumed, rebellious disposition be urged against any behaviour that a resentful man in office shall be pleased to suggest, and wantonly to aggravate by his squadrons, his armies, his Judges, &c. to make a shew only for a fair examination? Will not, then, every man living in America, at least, be under the same unhappy predicament with the islanders, who shall but dare to complain, or even to speak, of his violated rights? But in order to quiet some reasonable alarms that this lugging a man from the least chance of his vicinage to a place where his pares cannot possibly attend, to digest and pronounce the nature of his offence, to be tried for that offence; I say, to quiet that presumptive alarm, which his fellow subjects at home (as it is called) may naturally take on their own accounts, who may be the next to be so served, should such a proceeding gather from such a violent precedent, they may possibly advance that it is only done that wiser and better Judges may determine the matter of the offence, and its punishment, under their own eyes. But the egg is so certainly known by the crow that lays it that the bird hatched from it must forever be suspected, especially when it is often caged up, by particular instructions, to countenance, if not justify, any method of proceeding, however unconstitutional, that it must be but a very small consolation to any subject of Great Britain, already prejudged, to be so compelled to a trial, especially the distant free born subject in America, who has now repeatedly experienced an intention to divest him of every constitutional British right. For though in the case of a SOMERSET, or any other slave-born black, such Judges may, in the support of freedom, overlook, or seem to forget, the several acts of PROPERTY, that would have spared a much less knowledge, joined with a much less venality, full in the face: Yet in the case of an American free born white subject it seems rather to be dreaded, that the older , the more obsolete , and longer dormant , act of Henry VIII. that mere warrant for murder would be remembered and even strained against him (according to a late intentional revival of the act, though most unconstitutionally effected) especially where eve-
ry cause now-a-days seems to be so artfully bewildered, or quibbled into subtle points of law, that jurymen (those bulwarks of all liberty) are often deterred out of their general power of deciding the rights of their fellow subjects; or where questions are tendered to their considerations in enquiry, that nothing but a mere unsuspected ignorance could excuse from being most insidiously contrived. Surely then every paragraph, amounting to such a pregnant expectation, must conclude strongly in support of the analogy aimed at between freedom and life. Hodie mihi crastibi .
Indeed every idea of this scheme centers in a halter, and every strand of that halter is resentment , and that against all America, provoked by the struggles made against the taxation aimed at, by the memorable stamp act. The extraordinary projector of that but with difficulty put up with the defeat which the nation gave him; in that bold instance of violating the constitutional right which every Briton had of taxing himself by his representatives; but as he had not carried his plan of corruption far enough, he could only bequeath his threats to the money changers who succeeded him, whose open business since has been to turn the house of prayer into ——; and behold to what a pitch has that assistance carried these his succeeding directors, influenced, no doubt, by the same resentful conduct, a resentment that could only be appeased by a down right murder . The letting blood for the disorder in the delinquents vicinage, even the constitutional bed chamber assigned him on the spot, as it were, which carries with it every rational expectation to remove the evil, or to effect a cure, would be too much like the old English physician, who only draws blood to save life in every real or analogical instance of disorder; but these resentful doctors only attempt their cures by actual murder , with all its concomitant, butchering horrors . There is such a ne tenter aut perfice in the endeavour, such a mere kill or cure in the dose intended, that it is much to be wondered at that it has not been more frequently recommended in the medical essays of government. A Sidney, or a Locke, would have been fain to have met with such a discovery to have reasoned upon their sensible, though but casual, disquisitions on civil distractions. But possibly court physicians do not care to make their nostrums too public, lest their rebellious patients, under the operations of them, should fall into a state of desperation, and they of course be exactly condemned themselves for malpractice. Is this the avowed use of the British cannon! this the motive for settling colonies within their reach! Are these floating batteries, so lately famed for shaking and levelling forts, fortresses, and castles, of the nations standing enemies, to their very foundations, to be at last employed in knocking down the profitable American farmers cottages, or their graziers stalls? Certainly the annals of 1773 will make a most glorious appearance on the shelves of 1759. O for some inimical compact, rather than this of parents against their children, to deal about every quickening insult, every rousing hostility, to force these friendlike , domestic directors, to employ their squadrons in nobler purposes than those of strowing British fields , with British citizens , and drenching them with slaughter , and with blood more dear than that of patricians, in its vulgar appellation; the blood of innocents! O Heaven!
Your general complaints, Rind, against too much length, here prevents my pointing out another circumstance that seems stealing in with all its concealments, to bring all America into the same situation with these unhappy islanders; for where such inquisitions are opening on American subjects only, apprehensions ought never to be charged with a prophetic wildness. But as no eye but that of a supine indolence, or that of a real absentee, which knows not that it sees an object, though it long seems to be poring at it, can avoid taking the hint, I shall only, in short, bid every prudent Virginian, at least, to look well to those warrants of assistance not long ago moved for, and refused, because not located to the places and goods suspected, as they are again to be moved for, attended with some mercenary opinion, which Judges, sworn to make the laws their only rule of determination, and Judges, ever acting up to such oaths, will surely never be influenced, by such new methods of making laws for the subjects, to agree to; and then beware of the strange pretent to ——, and consider the intended complexion of that effect. Can it then be possible for any free born subject, who

has never forfeited his freedom, to submit (with his life) to have his innocent and not suspected house, his constitutional cattle, searched by these half starved harpies, prowling for a subsistence? If it cannot, the hodie , the TODAY , of these poor Rhode Islanders, will lead to the cras , the TOMORROW , of every colony in America, and this by a m——l contrivance; for here they would begin with enslaving, that, as it was once sensibly urged in P——t, such numbers, so dead to every feeling of oppression, might be the proper tools to enslave the rest of the nation with.
Is this the beginning of that change in administration which America so willingly flattered herself that she should have no cause to lament! Is this the gan- det tentamine virtus ! Could virtue only form to itself the ideas of blood and murder in such a case to rejoice in! Could it not endeavour at a more consistent music than the cries of expiring innocents! Certainly every surviving Rachael must, with her incessant, her comfortless tears, record the miseries of the present day on the obdurate hearts of these noble projectors, and their venal executioners. Possibly it might have been expected that the natural tendency of human nature only between American parents and children would have made these unhappy creatures surrender up themselves as required; but certainly when a man finds himself already prejudged by the very mode of apprehending him, the actual loss of freedom, doubtlessly to be followed in every just and prudent expectation by death, must remove all the tenderness of nature, and make them the more desperate in their own preservation.
It used to be an approved saying, in every body's mouth, Nemo repente fit turpissimus ; but what must we think of this first public deviation , this instantaneous digression , from a constantly presumed goodness of heart! To be sure, the days of the second Dionysius of Sicily are reviving among us, when experienced age became taught to lament the removal of one tyrannical monster from the certain expectation of a worse to succeed him. But probably the Satanic disguised Lucifer , under the banner of some nuptial connection , may have set his masifs preper , his supporters loose, again to rouse the dying, unnatural contest between Great Britain and her colonies, this dispute about their infringed and violated constitutional rights, which, if continued, can only end in one general anarchy, that must instruct every subject how to die hard , or to shelter himself under some fatal D——m , which God, of his infinite mercy, avert! as being of the most dangerous of all the forms that were deemed of civil institution .
As the printing of this so near the setting the Assembly is but mere accident, it is hoped no reader will conclude it written either to foment hostilities with, to study insults against, or frame libels on administration; and further, that no person, invested with a representative capacity, will think that he shall disparage his constituents by decently endeavouring again and again to support their constitutional rights, that posterity may never find themselves precluded, by any neglect or tacit submission of their ancestors, from doing whatever the grand disposer of all things may, in his wisdom, one day enable them to effect. Perhaps a PHILIP , better informed, may yet be inclined to listen to and adjust the humble claims of his still faithful subjects.
The motto paraphrased according to the foregoing.
My fate's today; tomorrow you must die! Just so it is with fancied liberty. Rhode Island first, her freedom lost today; Tomorrow ends it in America. Does Britain think she can be free alone? Alas! how idle! how incautious grown! All heads, without their limbs, must be undone. What boots it who's enslav'd, or first or last? 'Tis equal chance, when such a die is cast. Corruption plann'd it; what can ward the stroke? To hope it otherwise is a simple joke. Be wise in time, nor with desponding cry, He must be free who can for freedom die.
L O N D O N, December 14.
IN the debate about an act for restraining the East India company from sending supervisors to India, Alderman Harley said that the company this time are much distressed; and yet they were going to send out supervisors, the expence of which would, he thought, amount to 120,000l.
Then Mr. Dempster rose up, and spoke to the following purport: The proceedings of the secret committee are the most extraordinary I ever heard of. The idea of a secret committee is unconstitutional, and only allowable in cases of a criminal nature. The honourable Alderman speaks of the distress of the East India company: It is true, Sir, there is a deficiency of cash at present, but I affirm that the affairs of that company are neither in a ruinous nor a deplorable situation. The honourable Gentleman complains of the extraordinary expences attending the commission. That expence is not yet ascertained; and, Sir, since Parliament have undertaken to enquire into their affairs, they resolved to wait the determination of the House, before they proceeded any farther in the business of the supervisors. The
abuses committed in India, particularly at Bengal, made it necessary a set of Gentlemen should be appointed, in whom we could confide, for regulating and managing our affairs in India. The choice fell upon six Gentlemen; and notwithstanding the great expence, which the honourable Alderman has calculated to be 120,000l. yet I affirm that millions may be saved in consequence of that expence. The report, as it lies on the table, strikes at the very charter and constitution of the company. It is the most unprecedented and unparliamentary proceeding I ever knew. I am far from denying the power of Parliament, and their right to superintend the company; but before they venture to dispossess the company of its privileges, they should be first assured of those privileges being abused. Nothing else can justify such a measure; and as that has not yet appeared, I hope the House will proceed to the previous question.
Lord North It is the will of Parliament, and particularly of administration, to make the East India company a great and glorious company, and settle it upon a permanent foundation. They are going into an expensive commission, at a time when they are considerably in arrears to government, at an expence, Sir, of 120,000l. Surely, Sir, it is the duty of Parliament to preserve them from ruin. I am sure no hostile intentions are conceived against that company; but the committee, appointed by ourselves, have judged it expedient a restraint should be laid, and as no restraint can possibly be laid but by an act of Parliament.
Mr. Burke. I rise up to thank the noble Lord in office for his extreme bounty in assuring us that no hostile intentions are designed against the East India company, and that he wishes to make it a great and glorious company (for those are his pompous expressions ) and put it upon a permanent footing. Three Kings have entered an unfortunate kingdom with fire and sword, in order, I presume, to make it also a great and glorious kingdom , and secure to it its liberties and laws . They have published a manifesto to that purpose, which the noble Lord has perhaps just received; and he gives it to you today lest it might be stale tomorrow. But let us examine into this extraordinary matter: Here is a committee appointed last year, a fair and open committee, which have produced nothing. This was the lawful wife publicly avowed: but, finding her barren , they have taken a neat, little snug one, which they call a secret committee , and this is her first born . Indeed, from the singular expectations of this extraordinary delivery, I am apt to think she was pregnant before wedlock ; yet after all, what is this report but a direct invasion of the company's charter? It is, Sir, a bill to suspend a law of the land; it is neither more nor less; and we are, after the distressing the company, about to rob them of their charter, and overthrow their constitution. In the year 1767 administration plundered the company of 400,000l. and this I assert to have occasioned their present distress. If we suffer this bill to pass, we shall, in fact, become the East India company; and you, Sir, will be seated in that chair with a little hammer, by an inch of candle. The Treasury Bench will be the buyers, and on this side we shall be the sellers; the senate will become an auction room, and the Speaker an auctioneer! Shame upon such proceedings! Here is an end to confidence and public faith. Public faith! alas! that has long been given up; that has not been attended to for some years. However, I hope the House will let this report lie upon the table until the secret committee have furnished us with more substantial reasons than have yet appeared for invading the charter of that company.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 11.
To his EXCELLENCY the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same: The humble ADDRESS of the COUNCIL. May it please your EXCELLENCY,
WE, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Council of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, offer our grateful thanks to your Lordship for your speech at the opening of this session.
The alarming and ruinous progress of forgery evinces the necessity of convening us at this period; on so important an occasion, as one wherein the credit of the colony is so much concerned, we judge with your Lordship, that the voice of the people by their representatives, and every branch of the legislature, can only apply a cure to this political malady.
From the experience we had of your administration at our last meeting, we found in you a ready disposition to concur in every measure, and assent to every law recommended to your consideration; in our recess we have seen your vigilance employed in the execution of the laws, by pursuing every step for the detection of the ingenious, and therefore more dangerous artifices of the forgers of our paper money; your Lordship's activity in this instance commands our warmest acknowledgments, as members of a community, whose fortunes might have been
deeply affected by the circulation of a base medium, vile in its nature, as destructive in its consequences. In the maintenance, protection, and advancement of this colony, your Lordship may ever rely on our zealous co-operation; and we beg leave to assure you, when we consult its prosperity, we do not lose sight of that of the Mother country, esteeming, with your Lordship, their interests to be inseparable.
To which his EXCELLENCY was pleased to return the following ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN,
AFTER offering you my most sincere acknowledgment for this fresh mark of your goodness, permit me to assure you that nothing can give me greater pleasure than the thoughts of having acted in such a manner as to merit your approbation, which cannot fail of being extremely flattering to me.
To his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same: The humble ADDRESS of the HOUSE of BURGESSES.
MY LORD,
WE, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Burgesses of Virginia, now met in General Assembly, beg leave to return your Excellency our unfeigned thanks for your kind speech at the opening of this session.
It gives us much concern to find that our paper currency, which we hoped had been effectually guarded, hath been forged in so ingenious and masterly a manner as to render the counterfeits of it the most dangerous and alarming. The debasing of our gold and silver coin also we consider as the greatest addition to our calamities; but it affords us much consolation to be informed by your Excellency, that mischiefs, of such extensive and destructive influence, have been so happily and seasonably discovered, and that the authors of them are likely to be brought to exemplary and condign punishment. We beseech your Excellency to accept our grateful acknowledgments for giving us so early an opportunity of deliberating on a subject of such infinite importance to the credit of this colony. We will take the matter immediately under our most serious consideration, and flatter ourselves that, in the discussion of this, and every other subject, which may come before us, we shall give your Excellency the most convincing proofs of that coolness and candour, which a proper regard to our own honour will incline us to upon all occasions.
Sensible, as we are, my Lord, of the reciprocal benefits which redound to our Mother country and this colony from their intimate connection with each other, we should be wanting to ourselves and the duty we owe to our constituents, did we not consider their interests as inseparable: We cannot therefore but receive great satisfaction and pleasure from your Lordship's assurances of your concurrence with us in enacting such laws as may be thought advantageous and conducive to the happiness of both countries.
To which his EXCELLENCY was pleased to return the following ANSWER.
MR. SPEAKER, and Gentlemen of the HOUSE of BURGESSES,
I RETURN you my most hearty thanks for your most obliging address. It gives me much pleasure that you propose taking immediately under your most serious consideration the subject for which you are now assembled; and I make no doubt but your wisdom will suggest such a plan as will relieve this country from the very unfortunate situation in which you now find it.
EXTRACTS from the JOURNAL of the Honourable the HOUSE of BURGESSES.
TUESDAY, March 9, 1773.
THE House, according to order, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, to take into their further consideration the Governor's speech.
Mr. Speaker left the chair.
Mr. Bland took the chair of the committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the chair.
Mr. Bland reported from the committee that they had come to a resolution, which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the clerk's table, where the same was read, and is as followeth, viz.
Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee that, in order to relieve the people from their present distress, occasioned by the circulation of counterfeit paper money, the Treasurer ought to be empowered to borrow specie to redeem the emillions of 1769, and 1771; and, if he cannot effect the same in a short time, that those notes now in circulation ought to be called in, and exchanged for others, to be issued, the most guarded that may be against counterfeits, to circulate until a proper paper can be imported for a further exchange of such as may not then be otherwise redeemed.
The said resolution, being read a second time, was, upon the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House.

Ordered, that a bill be brought in pursuant to the said resolution, and that Mr. Treasurer, Mr. Bland, Mr. Edmund Pendleton, Mr. Cary, Mr. Richard Henry Lee, and Mr. Harrison, do prepare, and bring in the same.
M A R R I A G E S.
BENJAMIN DULANY , Esquire, of Maryland, to Miss FRENCH , of Fairfax county, with a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
Doctor WILLIAM BROWN , of Alexandria, to Miss SCOTT , daughter of the Reverend Mr. Scott, of Prince William.
Heaven to KITTY 's lovely form has join'd An elevated soul, a spotless mind; Her bosom, fraught with ev'ry female grace, Heightens the glowing beauties of her face. Charms such as these must ev'ry breast inspire With love's soft tumults, and create desire: But KITTY can of BROWN alone approve, His kindred virtues warm her into love; To him, with modest grace, the maid resigns, And her chaste rapture ev'ry joy refines. Long may HYGIEA bless the matchless pair, And HYMEN make them his peculiar care.
On hearing that the Reverend Mr. — preached the sermons of other Clergymen. THE sermons of others 'tis said that — preaches, For no man his own ever thought 'em: This censure his honesty falsely impeaches, Since well do I know where he bought 'em.
To be SOLD , for the benefit of the insurers, or owners, on the 22d instant (March) at the house of Mr. Caleb Upsher, in Accomack, and on the next day at the house of Capt. John Coleburn, in said county,
A FURTHER quantity of goods saved out of the ship Phenix , John Lamont, master, from Glasgow; together with the hull of the said vessel. EDWARD KER.
To be SOLD , on Monday the 29th of this instant (March) if fair, if not, the next fair day, SEVERAL LOTS in the town of Colchester, in Fairfax county, which appear to be forfeited by not building thereon. THE TRUSTEES.
WILLIAMSBURG , March 10, 1773. THE next meeting of the subscribers to the fund for the relief of widows and orphans of Clergymen is to be held on Saturday the first day of May next. Officers for the present year are the Reverend John Camm, treasurer, the Reverend Samuel Klug, William Bland, William Willie, Henry Skyring, James Maury Fontaine, and Thomas Lundie, trustees; the Reverend William Harrison the morning preacher, and the Reverend Mr. Price the afternoon preacher. JACOB BRUCE , clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given to all those who have demands against the estate of George Livingstone, late of Gloucester county, deceased, to make such demand known to me before the first day of June next, as I shall by that time settle my administration of the said estate, and not look upon myself as being liable for any demand that may be made afterwards, whether by bond, judgment, or account. CORNELIUS LIVINGSTONE.
AMELIA , March 1, 1773. WHEREAS last September Amelia court day I purchased a bay mare and sorrel colt of a horse jockey, who said he came from North Carolina, and gave my bond, or note of hand, with Abraham Green, junior, security, for thirty two pounds, payable in April next; and whereas I have been since informed that the said beasts were stolen, this is to forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of the said note of hand, as I will not answer it till I am satisfied that I have a good right to the said mare and colt. WILLIAM WILSON.
THE inspectors at Page's and Crutchfield's warehouses take this early opportunity of informing the public that no tobacco will be shipped by them from their respective warehouses unless the inspection money accompanies the notes or orders. Their frequent disappointments from shippers of tobacco oblige them to insert this advertisement in the gazette.
TINSLEY & CLARKE, CLARKE & WINGFIELD.
N. B. Inspection 6s. 4d. per hogshead.
TAKEN up, in Goochland, two sorrel horses, with white faces, hanging manes, switch tails, and are shod all round; the largest of them is about 4 feet 8 inches high, has some saddle spots, but no perceivable brand; the other is about 4 feet 5 inches high, his hind legs white, and is branded on the off buttock ● ● ● . Potted, and appraised, the largest to 7l. and the other to 6l.
ELIZABETH HODGES.
TAKEN up, in Albemarle, a small grey mare, about 4 feet 2 inches high, branded on the near buttock ● , has a wart on her right ear, her hind feet are white, has a hanging mane and tail, trots altogether, and is about 5 years old. Potted, and appraised to 4l.
EDWARD BARBER.
RICHMOND county, March 1, 1773.
THIS is to give notice to all whom it may concern that there will be taken no other than gold or silver for the inspection of tobacco at Tuttlekey inspection. THE INSPECTORS.
FREDERICKSBURG , March 3, 1773.
UPON the night of Saturday the 27th ult. the store kept by the subscriber, in the absence of his employer, George Mitchell, of Fredericksburg, merchant, was broke open, and robbed of a drawer containing cash, a bill of sale from George Mitchell to Col. Fielding Lewis, sundry other papers, tobacco notes, a case with money, scales and weights, and a garnet necklace, set in gold like open roses, valued at about twenty guineas.
THE TOBACCO, viz.
On FREDERICKSBURG warehouse. When received. Dec. 21, 1773.
   marks. No. gros. tare. nett.     E. C. 483 1204 133 1071   1773. Jan. 19. W. H. 1132 952 124 828   27. R. D. 1131 1374 127 1247   (R D remarked WD, with a crow's foot, and figure of 4, between. No. 2)   Feb. 9. R. D. 377 1096 153 944   155 1142 108 1034   800 1108 104 1004   24. W. A. 175 1286 110 1176   On ROYSTON 's.   1773. Jan. 11. H. E. 1143 823 119 704   Feb. 12. R. Y. 1218 800 114 686   On DIXON 's.   Jan. 27. I. A. 384 1160 120 1040   385 1130 124 1006   Feb. 24. N. M. B. 2 1343 187 1156   4 1190 100 1090   On MORTON 's.   23. M. 148 1284 125 1156   1284 128 2156   W. G. 142 1114 96 1018   On CONWAY 's.   16. L. W. 355 1120 118 1002   On ROY 's.   1772. July 22. L. 1158 1090 102 988   On QUANTICO .   March 10. I. C. 1912 1149 107 1042   On EAST YORK RIVER .   1773. Jan. 7. C. D. 1 1128 123 1005   2 1156 114 1042  
Upon making out a proper list of the tobacco on Fredericksburg, Royston's, and Dixon's, the notes have been got, lists of the tobacco on other warehouses have been sent, and the notes are expected in course, of which the public are requested to take notice, as well for the particular safety of individuals as for the detection of the villainous banditti, whose education being probably of a degree with their humanity, they may be ignorant enough to expose the above contents, where they cannot fail of being detected after this timely notice, to which the public are again entreated to pay due regard.—If any person, having a just suspicion tending to the discovery of the above robbery, or have got any of the above contents ignorantly, or otherwise, their discovering the same to the subscriber shall be duly acknowledged.
JOHN MUNRO, FOR GEORGE MITCHELL.
THE NOTED HORSE, OLD PARTNER,
stands at my plantation in Goochland, and will cover mares at FIVE POUNDS the season each mare. There is very good pasturage; but I will not be answerable for any mares that may be stolen, or strayed away. THOMAS M. RANDOLPH.
FREDERICKSBURG , March 3, 1773.
I INTEND to leave the colony immediately. ANDREW MILLER.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Goochland, near two years ago, a likely Negro man named JUBA , about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, between 25 and 30 years of age, by birth an African, squints much, and speaks bad English. He is supposed to be lurking about Mattox's warehouse, in the northern neck, where he formerly lived with Mr. Archibald Bryce, or Hobb's Hole in Essex. Whoever will deliver the said slave to me shall receive a reward of TWENTY POUNDS , or TEN POUNDS for committing him to any gaol within this colony, so that I get him again. JOHN BOLLING.
STOLEN , or strayed, from Berkeley mills, in Charles City, the 7th of January last, a grey mare, four feet four inches high, has a bushy mane and tail, branded on the near buttock 7 . Whoever conveys the said mare to Berkeley mills shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS . CALEB BLAG.
THERE is now remaining in Tuttlekey warehouse one hogshead of tobacco, which has been inspected three years, John Smith, proprietor, marked with a crow's foot, with an S in the middle, and an O at the top, number 11, gros 1145, tare 95, nett 1050. THE INSPECTORS.
TAKEN up, in Prince George, a roan mare, about 4 feet 5 inches high, with a sprig tail and hanging mane. Potted, and appraised to 3l. SARAH EPPES.
GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To the sheriff of Albemarle county, greeting: We command you to summon Charles Thompson and Richard Bruce, executors of David Thompson, deceased, to appear before the Justices of our said county court, in chancery, at the courthouse of the said county, on the second Thursday in next month, to answer a bill in chancery exhibited against them by David Anderson. And have then there this writ. Witness John Nicholas, clerk of our said court, the eighteenth day of September, in the tenth year of our reign. TUCKER WOODSON, D. C.
To be LET , to the lowest bidder, on Tuesday the 16th of this instant (March) at the plantation of Mr. Samuel Grigsby,
SUNDRY BUILDINGS for the use of the parish of Leeds, viz. a stone house 32 by 28, a kitchen, stable, and other outhouses. Thirty five thousand weight of tobacco will be paid in June next. The plans may be seen the preceding day by applying to Mr. Pickett, one of the subscribers. The undertakers must give bond, and approved security.
J. MOFFETT, M. PICKETT, J. OBANNON, H. PEYTON.
PRINCESS ANNE , February 12, 1773.
THIS is to acquaint Charles Conner, son of Lewis Conner, late of Norfolk county, deceased, that he may hear of something to his advantage by applying to
WILLIAM WISHART.
STRAYED from Mr. Henry Bell's, in Buckingham, on the 24th of February last, a bright bay horse, with a hanging mane and switch tail, branded on the near buttock ● , has a scar on his left cheek near the eye, 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, about 7 or 8 years old, is pretty and high spirited, trots fast for his size, and when he gallops gathers quick. Whoever brings him to me, near Mr. Trent's, or to Mr. Bell, shall be well rewarded.
DOLPHIN DREW.
THIS is to give public notice that the business of the customhouse of South Potowmack was discontinued at Lee Hall (where the office has been kept for many years) on Friday the 29th of January, 1773, and the customhouse books and papers are removed to Homony Hall, the seat of the late Col. James Step-toe, which is on the river, and is the second house above Sandy Point; the office is there opened for the dispatch of public business.
JOSEPH LANE , Deputy Collector, GILBERT CAMPBELL , Comptroller.
To be LET , on Thursday the 18th instant, being court day,
THE building of a BRICK WORK HOUSE two stories high. A plan will be shewn, and the terms agreed on, the day the work is let.
JOSEPH HUTCHINGS, } Churchwardens. MATTHEW PHRIPP, }
NORFOLK , March 3, 1773.
OLD LISBON and low priced WHITE WINES, LOAF SUGAR , and a few WHEAT FANS , to be sold by HARMANSON & HARVEY.
RUN away from Eltham , on Sunday the 10th of January, a light Mulatto fellow named OTHO , about 5 feet 9 inches high, freckled in the face, has light grey eyes, and brown hair, which he wears tied behind, his skin under his clothes is very white, and had on, when he went away, a blue cloth waistcoat, and a coat of the same, with a red velvet cape. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a white man. All masters of vessels are forewarned from harbouring or carrying the said slave off at their peril. I will give FIVE POUNDS to any person who will deliver him to me, or secure him in any gaol, and give notice thereof. BURWELL BASSETT.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber, living in Westmoreland, the 12th of August last, an Irish convict servant man named MATTHEW THARP , by trade a gardener, about 5 feet 5 inches high, well made, much pitted with the smallpox, has short dark hair, but generally wears a dark wig over it clubbed; had on, and took with him, a pair of leather breeches, light coloured cloth coat, old striped jacket, several white and oznabrig shirts, one check ditto, an old brown holland coat, striped holland trowsers much stained, shoes and stockings of many sorts, a hat almost new, with a band and buckle. This fellow was convicted, last June Oyer court was a twelve-month, for horsestealing. Whoever will secure him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that I get him, shall receive the above reward. I have been credibly informed that some time after the said Tharp eloped, he went down to Williamsburg, and applied to John Randolph, Esquire, for a pass, which he obtained. JOSEPH PEIRCE.
TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a dark brindle cow, marked with a crop and slit in each ear, appears to be very old, and has some white by her bag. Potted, and appraised to 2l. 5s.
WILLIAM FOSTER.

To be SOLD, at Norfolk, on Friday the 12th of this instant (March)
ALL the personal estate of Captain James Pat- terfon, late of Portfmouth, deceafed, confif- ting of one half of the brigantine Friendship, and her cargo, as fhe now lies in the harbour of Nor- folk, and fundry other articles. Her cargo confifts of red and white hogfhead ftaves and heading, bread and flour. All perfons indebted to the faid eftate, by bond or otherwife, are defired to make immediate payment; and thofe that have any accounts or bonds againft the faid eftate are defired to make them known, that the fame may be adjusted, and paid ac- cording to their dignity.
MARSDEN, MAXWELL, and Company, Administrators.
N. B. The other half of the faid veflel and car- go will be fold at the fame time.
KING & QUEEN, January 28, 1773.
I INTEND to leave the colony very foon. EDWARD WYATT.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 1, 1773.
I HAVE lately received a power of attorney from Meffieurs John Thompson and Walter King, of Bristol, merchants, and furviving partners of Tar- ley, Thompson, and company, to collect the debts due to that company, with directions to commence fuits, without lofs of time, againft thofe debtors who delay payment. The fituation of this concern (which has proved an unfortunate one to thefe Gentlemen) makes a fpeedy fettlement thereof abfolutely neceff- ary: This confideration therefore, as well as the very long indulgence the debtors have already received, will, it is hoped, induce them to make fpeedy pay- ment; if not, I fhall moft certainly obferve my in- ftructions, however disagreeable they may prove to the perfons concerned. JOHN TAZEWELL.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, by virtue of a deed from Mr. Benjamin Chapman to the fubfcri- ber, on Thursday the 1ft of April, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Hick's Ford, in Brunfwick county,
ALL the eftate of the faid Benjamin Chapman, confifting of twenty likely NEGROES, many of which are very choice fellows; alfo about thirty good WORK HORSES, OXEN, STOCKS of CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS, &c. Credit will be allowed till the 25th of December next for one half the purchase money, the other half to be ready mo- ney; all bonds to bear intereft from the date, unlefs punctually difcharged. The public may be affured that the fale will be on the day above mentioned.
W. EDWARDS.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 27th of this instant (March)
THE LAND and PLANTATION whereon the fubfcriber formerly lived, in Dinwiddie, on Namizeen road, about 14 miles above Peterfburg, whereon is a very good dwellinghoufe 28 feet fquare, four rooms on the lower floor, and two above, two brick chimnies, with three fireplaces, a good kitchen 32 by 16, with brick chimnies alfo, a very good weaving houfe, with a ftone chimney, and a barn 32 feet by 20, a fmokehoufe 12 feet fquare, and fome other convenient outhoufes; likewife a very good ap- ple and peach orchard, and ground fufficient to work fix hands. The place is fuitable for either public or private bufinefs. Alfo two hundred acres of land in the fame county, on Butterwood creek, with houfes and orchards, and four hundred and fifty acres more on Whippernock creek and Hatch's Run, whereon is a fmall plantation. An undoubted right will be made to the purchafers, and patents given for each tract. Credit will be allowed for one half of the money till October next, and for the other half a twelvemonth longer, on giving bond, with approved fecurity. There will likewife be fold, at the fame time and place, a fet of blacksmith's tools, a waggon, an ox cart, and fome ftock, for which credit will be given till October next. STEPHEN DANCE.
*** The fale is to be at the firft mentioned place.
FREDERICKSBURG, February 24, 1773.
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the books here have not paid due regard to my adver- tisement of the 1st of December last, I give them this last notice that all and every account not paid off, or a good part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May fair at fartheft, or fettle by bond, or other fpecialty, before that time, will moft certainly be put into the hands of a lawyer, without refpect of per- fons. Unavoidable reafons will oblige me to this, which I fhall probably, in time, acquaint them with. Thofe who are put to trouble and expence cannot now blame me for want of notice. I have fold part of the goods on hand, but fo as not to diffort the ftore, and have still a large affortment by me, which I will fell in wholefale or retail on the terms for- merly advertised. Any perfon who will purchafe the whole fhall have them on terms which they them- felves will fay are very low and reafonable.
GEORGE MITCHELL.
FALMOUTH February 26, 1773.
A CAUSE having arose to prevent Mr. Francis Hay from continuing the direction of Mr. William Cuningham and company's business at Dumfries, he is succeeded therein by Mr. William Cuningham, to whom, or to his order, all persons indebted for transactions with the deceased Mr. John Neilfon, or Mr. Hay, on account of said company, are desired to pay the respective sums they owe. The business will be continued to the former extent, and the usual indulgence of credit given.
JAMES ROBISON.
RUN away from Urbanna, on Monday the 8th of February, an English convict servant named JOHN WOOD, by trade a bricklayer, about 22 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, thick and well set, speaks very plain, of a brown complexion, very full faced, wears long brown hair tied behind, and is pitted with the smallpox; had on, and took with him, a dark coloured duffil frock coat with white metal buttons, a light yellow waistcoat, leather breeches, white yarn stockings, a fine hat about half worn, with a knee garter buckled round the crown, and a piece of a knee garter sewed on for a loop to the button, one white and one oznabrig shirt, and a piece of black silk which he wore about his neck in the manner of a neckcloth, together with sundry other clothes which he stole, viz. two pair of shoes, one pair of white worsted hose, one pair of grey ditto, one white shirt, a light coloured wilton cloth coat half worn, and a striped silk waistcoat. Who- ever apprehends the said fellow, and brings him to the subscriber in Gloucester county, or to Mr. George Lorimer in Urbanna, shall have FIFTEEN DOL- LARS reward, and all reasonable expences paid.
JOHN HOWLET.
By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Domini- on of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
Virginia, to wit.
WHEREAS I have received information upon oath that GIDEON RUCKER and SHEM COOKE, late of the county of Pittsylvania, and JOHN HIGHTOWER and JOSEPH HIGH- TOWER, late of the county of Lunenburg, have been concerned in the counterfeiting and passing se- veral treasury notes of this colony, and are fled, so that the process of law cannot be served on them: To the end, therefore, that such atrocious offenders may be brought to justice, I have thought fit to issue this proclamation, hereby in his Majesty's name strictly charging and commanding all sheriffs, constables, and other his Majesty's liege subjects, to make diligent search and pursuit after the said offenders, and them or either of them having found, to apprehend and convey before some one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to be dealt with according to law. And for the more effectual discovery of the said offenders, I do hereby promise a reward of FIFTY POUNDS for the apprehending of each of them, to be paid on his or their conviction.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the colony, this 25th day of February, 1773, and in the 13th year of his Majesty's reign.
DUNMORE.
GOD save the KING.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Lunenburg, last April, a Negro man named DAVID, about 25 years old, 5 feet 9 inches high, of a yellow com- plexion, and has had a whitlow on his right thumb; he was clothed as Negroes commonly are. Who- ever apprehends the said fellow, and conveys him to me, shall receive FIVE POUNDS, or FIFTY SHILLINGS if secured in any of his Majesty's gaols. JOHN WINN.
FOR SALE,
THE plantation whereon the subscriber lives, in King and Queen, about a mile and a half from Todd's warehouse, containing 657 acres, in good or- der for cropping, with a large peach and apple or- chard thereon beginning to bear, and a quantity of low grounds, which may be made good meadow with very little expence. The dwellinghouse, kit- chen, and other outhouses, have been built between four and five years. Any person inclinable to pur- chase may know the terms by applying to ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
STRAYED, or stolen, out of one of my lots in Williamsburg, a bright bay mare, with a short switch tail, and long black mane, very big with foal, has a small star in her forehead, trots extremely well in a chair, and was, I believe, shod before, her brand, if any, not known, and upon turning her head to the left there appears a swelling under her throat, just at the joining of the neck and head. If she is stolen, I will give any person THREE POUNDS upon con- viction of the thief; if not, TWENTY SHILLINGS upon her delivery to the subscriber, in Williamsburg. WILLIAM BLAND.
Customhouse, Boston, December 15, 1772.
WHEREAS there has been great neglect on the part of the owners of fundry vessels in the plan- tations, in not complying with the act of the 7th and 8th of William III. chap. 22d, and more particular- ly the 21st section, wherein it is enacted, "That no ship's name registered shall be afterwards charged without registering such ship de novo , which is re- quired to be done upon any transfer of property to another port, and delivering up the former certifi- cate to be cancelled; and in case there be any altera- tion of property in the same port, by the sale of one or more shares in any ship after registering thereof, such sale shall always be acknowledged by endorse- ment on the certificate of the register, before two witnesses, in order to prove that the entire property in such ship remains to some of the subjects of Great Britain, if any dispute arises concerning the same. And whereas all vessels trading at, or belonging to, any port in America, the owners or masters of which shall omit to comply with the directions given in the said act, will be liable to the same prosecutions and penalties as if such vessels were owned entirely by foreigners, the commissioners of his Majesty's customs therefore give this notice, that all persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly.
By order of the commissioners.
SAMUEL MATHER, Principal Secretary.
DOCTOR GRAHAM, oculist and aurist, at Philadelphia, thus publicly gives notice that he proposes to be at Williamsburg about the middle of April next, where those persons whose circum- stances or situation have precluded them from the benefit of applying for assistance at Philadelphia may consult him in all disorders of the eye, and its ap- pendages, and in every species of deafness, hardness of hearing, ulcerations, noise in the ears, &c. Those persons, likewise, who have been born deaf and dumb, or those who labour under any impediment in their speech, by applying personally, will probably be assisted.
COMMITTED to Westmoreland county gaol a Negro man who calls himself JOE, and says he belongs to Jesse Pollard, of Amelia; he appears to be about 35 years old, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, and has on an oznabrig shirt, cotton breeches and jacket, and a sheepskin cap. The owner is desired to take him away, and pay charges.
RICHARD BARNETT, Gaoler.
I WILL sell twelve or fifteen hundred acres of rich LAND on each side of Fifth Pond creek, in the lower end of Buckingham , whereon are all necessary houses for cropping; also the CORN, FODDER, and STOCK on the said land, and six valuable Vir- ginia born SLAVES. If my debtors had not un- justly kept me out of considerable sums of money for a long time I should have had no occasion to have sold land or Negroes to have paid my debts. Land that I sold eleven years ago I am not yet paid for, and a cargo of goods I entrusted a notorious villain with several years ago, I have not received forty pounds from him, and he refuses to let me see the books to copy them, or to settle with me.
ANTHONY WINSTON.
*** The land shall be laid off in parcels if not sold soon
COMMITTED to the gaol of Accomack a run- away slave, about 21 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, very likely, and has a scar over his left eye, at his first commitment said he belonged to Mr. Otto Ball on James river , but now says he belongs to Mr. Morgan Sabb in Charleston, South Carolina , and formerly was the property of Mr. Cornelius Div- wicks of Maryland , and was sold by Capt. Benjamin Hammond to the said Sabb , and that his own name is ABNER; had with him, when taken up, two oznab- rig shirts, and one pair of trowsers. He says he has been from his master two or three years, and has fol- lowed the water ever since. The owner, on proving his property, and paying charges, may have him of ISAAC DUNTON, Sheriff.
RUN away from the subscriber, at Petersburg , about the middle of September last, a very likely Negro man named PHIL, about 20 years of age, of a yellowish complexion, about 5 feet 9 inches high, and proportionably made; he is a native of Africa , but speaks broken English , having been some years in the West Indies , and has lost two joints off two of his fingers on his right hand; had on an oznabrig shirt, an old Virginia cloth waistcoat, with a new Negro cot- ton jacket over it, and a pair of old check trowsers. As he has been used to the sea, he will probably en- deavour to get on board some ship, and make his es- cape out of the colony; all masters of vessels are there- fore forewarned from harbouring or carrying him off, at their peril. I will give THREE POUNDS re- ward to any person who will deliver said slave to me, or to Mr. Hugh McMeikin at Portsmouth , and FOR- TY SHILLINGS to secure him in any gaol, and give notice thereof.
THOMAS GORDON.
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