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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1775. NUMBER 40 UNI AEGUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICUS. – HOR. NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office; where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of News from VIRGI- NIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully and duly inserted.----Advertisements of a moderate Length for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. ----Price of the PAPER. 12s. 6d. per ANNUM. <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> TO THE PUBLIC. THE PUBLISHERS beg Leave at this Time to apologize for the Alteration in Size, of this Weeks Paper, being a Degree smaller than the former Ones; though on Examination, they will find as much Reading in it still, as what many News-Papers printed on a larger Paper contain; the Types being small and closely arranged.----They hope for the Indulgence of the PUBLIC, ‘till they get a Supply of the usual Sort which is soon expected. No Pains will be spared to give their READERS every possible Satisfaction. Essays on either Side of the present Dispute between GREAT_BRITAIN and the COLONIES will be attended to, and (if worthy of Notice) will be duly inserted; as well as any miscellaneous or fugitive Piece, tending to the entertainment or instruction of the Public; being ever solicitous to attain the Approbation of their FRIENDS. The following curious Letter was found a- mong the Papers of Mr. Goldwyer, Surge- on of Salisbury, who died about a fortnight ago. LONDON Decem. 1775. To Mr. EDWARD GOLDWYER, At his House in the Close of Salisbury. SIR, BEING informed that you are the only surgeon in this city (or county) that anatomises men, and I being under the unhappy circumstance, and in a very mean condition, would gladly live as long as possibly I can, but by all appearance I am to be executed next March, ha- ving no friends on earth that will speak a word to save my life, nor send me a morsel of bread to keep life and soul together until that fatal day; so, if you will vouch safe to come hither, I will gladly sell you my body, (be ing whole and sound) to be ordered at your discretion, knowing it shall rise again at the General Resurrec- tion as well from your house as from the grave. Your answer, Sir, will highly oblige Your must humble servant Fisherton Anger Gaol, JAMES BROOKE. Oct. 3, 1736. The PORTRAIT of an IMPOSTER. THE extraordinary personage, who is the hero of this piece, was born under the protection of a monarch renowned for [illegible, smudged] and affection for his subjects.---His kingdom is the envy and terror of the world, and there did our Hero receive a most liberal education.---A restless disposition (without one virtuous attachment to his cout- try) pointed out the service, as a field for opposition, in every commanding officer he saw an usurper, he knew no enemies but order and obedience—Thus accomplished, he embarked in his mistaken profession; by application to books, he strengthened his youthful acquisitions, and become possessed of abilities which might have been as ornamental, as they are now disgraceful. However the season of war favoured his embarkation, and he arrived at a respectable rank.----Here we shall pass over many unfavourable anecdotes, and proceed to a relation of his conduct, after his judgement had received the advantages of maturity.---Although possessed of a fortune, infinitely superior to his ideas of living, he left the peaceful plains of his nativity, in pursuit of discord, and flew into the arms of contention, without being im- pelled by want, duty or affection.---Having for some time indulged himself in the enjoyment of those scenes, which are ever attendant on conflicts between unpolished nations, he retired, as it were, satiated with the distresses of others, ---but he is possessed of a mind, which never can afford a clam retreat---it wants the hallowed stamp of charity, and is at variance with itself.---A knowledge of languages, with matchless effrontery, introduced him to the Court of an amiable, but unfortunate Prince.---Whe- ther his new master vainly imagined that he might be useful as an intercessor with a powerful monarch, or was blended by an ostentatious shew of politics, is not for us to determine. However, certain it is that he was received into inti- macy, and we can only find his retreat in the page of antiquity,---His native country, became once more a dis graced receptacle—Rank, fortune, and honour presented themselves to his ardent mind; favors he deemed acts of justice, and because his Sovereign dared to hesitate, he pu- blicly dissoved his allegiance—At this time a favorable opportunity offered, of displaying those talents, which rendered him so eminently obnoxious.---The sons of Al- bion transplanted beyond the Atlantic, became numerous and important.---Cherished like favorite shrubs, they sprouted up almost beyond the reach of their gardiner. It was at length found necessary to prune them, but their planter perceiving them stubborn and inflexible, began to </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> lament his mistaken indulgence, which now obliged him to lop of many of the limbs in blossom; least their luxur iance should sap the root, and deprive him of slips in the ensuing season.---Our Hero remarkably vindictive, and ever astrange to the secret ties of gratitude and love, set sail for the country of those people, who had been already pronounced by the law-givers, in a state of unwarrantable opposition.---On his arrival he found every thing to an- swer his most ardent wishes; resistance to the laws became almost general, and a prospect of rebellion added vigor to his hopes.---He immediately laid hold of the standard of sedition, and for Motto prostituted the word LIBERTY; the deluded colonies drank deep of the poison, until he at last became suspected. There were among the chiefs of opposition, Adamicius, Cooperensis, and Handesetius; the first of them beheld our hero as a dangerous rival, and discontinues his preci- pitation, as tending to defeat the grand project for inde- pendence; the other two were at the back of Adamicius, one a spiritual, the other a pecuniary assistant; at length, finding his consequence diminished in the North, our he- ro retired to the Southward, where we shall leave him practicing on the credulous, every incitement to ruin; happy in any sacrifice which might distract the councils of his sovereign. Here, gentle reader, let us take a useful lesson; behold a strong natural understanding, highly improved by tra- vels and studies, added to a resolute happy presence of mind. Yet did he descend to be a contemptible author of in- flammatory falsehoods, many of which are dictated by un- bounded avarice, to procure him more frequent access to the well covered tables of certain patriots, on whom Ada- micius, and some other northern republicans, had played successfully the arts of sedition. As a companion, our Hero was dangerous; as an officer, tyrannical in command, and ignorant of the discipline, which is necessary to form an army:---He was proud without politeness; a politician, without principle; a soldier, without subordination; and a man of fortune, without one generous sentiment. But it is necessary, such characters should exist, to con- vince men of the brightest talents and genius, what wret- ches they might be, were they destitute of virtue. SOUTH CAROLINA. THE Speech of His Honour WILLIAM BULL, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Ma- jesty’s said Province, to the General Assem- bly met at Charleston, on Tuesday, Janu- ary 24th, 1775. Honourable Gentlemen of his Majesty’s Council, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, I HAVE nothing in command from the King to lay be- fore you or relative to the late apprehensions of a war with the Creek Indians, but that they have made satisfaction for the outrages committed in Georgia last winter; and that peace, trade and confidence are re-esta- blished with them. As this is the usual season of the year for dispatching the public Business in General assem- bly, I recommend to you to revive and continue such of our laws as are expired, or near expiring, which has been found necessary and beneficial in preserving the good or- der and tranquility, and promoting the prosperity of the province. During the course of our sitting, I shall not fail to propose any matters, as occasion may require, which appear to me to merit your attention. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, The public faith of this province is so fundamentally engaged to maintain several branches of our establish- ments, at present supported out of the produce of the ge- neral duty fund, that I cannot admit of the lest doubt with myself of your paving the earliest and strictest at- tention to prevent a risk of any failure therein. I shall order the joint public Treasurers to lay before you the accounts of the joint public debts incurred during the last year, and desire you to make effectual Provision for the same. Honourable Gentlemen of his Majesty’s Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the assembly. A WARM sense of my duty to the King, and Zeal for the service of this, his Majesty’s Province, ever guide and animate mu actions. Happy shall I be, under such aus- picious direction, to concur with you in any measure, which, after mature deliberation, shall be thought ne- cessary to promote the welfare of this country. WILLIAM BULL. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> SOUTH-CAROLINA. Toi the Honourable WILLIAM BULL, Esq; Lieutenant- Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Ma- jesty’s said province. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the UPPER HOUSE of ASSEMBLY. May it please your Honour, WE his Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Upper House of Assembly, beg leave to return thanks to your Honour, for your speech delivered yester- day to both Houses of assembly. Fully convinced of what importance it is to this coun- try to maintain a good correspondence with the neighbou- ring Indians, we most heartily rejoice that the Satisfaction made by the Creek nation, for the outrages by them committed in Georgia, has re-established Peace, Trade and confidence with the People, and happily put an end to all apprehensions of a War with them. The prosperity of the province, and the preservation of Tranquility and good order, are objects of the high- est importance and most general concern. Your honour may rest assured, that points, so essential to the public happiness, cannot fail to excite all our diligence and zeal; and that nothing shall be wanting on our parts, to revive and continue such temporary laws as, from expe- rience, have been found beneficial or necessary for the im- portant purposes to which they relate. Actuated by the same principles of loyalty and duty to our most gracious sovereign that animate your honour, and inspired with the like zeal for the welfare of this his province, we shall be ready, upon all occasions, most heartily to concur with you in every measure that may tend to the honour of the King, and to advance the in- terest and happiness of his subjects in this province. By Order of the House, THOMAS SKOTTOWE. In the Upper House of Assembly, the 25th January 1775 The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S -ANSWER. Honourable Gentlemen, I GIVE you my hearty thanks for this address. The readiness you are pleased to express of paying attenti- on to the matters I already have or may hereafter recom- mend to you, of giving your concurrence to any measures that may tend to the honour of the King, and advance the interest and Happiness of this province, becomes loy- al subjects and good citizens, and is very acceptable to me. WILLIAM BULL. January 26, 1775. To the Honourable WILLIAM BULL, Esq; Lieute- nant-Governor and Commander in chief in and over his Majesty’s colony of South-Carolina. The Humble Address of the COMMONS HOUSE of ASSEMBLY. May it please your Honour, WE his Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Com- mons House of assembly, return your Honour our Thanks for your Speech delivered in General Assembly on Tuesday last. We are unable to express our surprise and concern at your Honour’s informing us, that you have nothing in command from the King to lay before us, especially as our agent had long ago acquainted our Speaker, that the additional instruction which has so often been complained of and remonstrated against, had been withheld in the in- structions made out to the new appointed Governor; This cruel neglect, as well of your Honour, as of this colony, we cannot but consider as an aggravation of the many oppressive acts of the present ministry; indeed it leaves little room to hope that our deliberations will be of much advantage to the colony, as all the former obstruct- tions to public Business seem to remain in full force. We are glad to hear that peace is restored between the colony of Georgia and the Creek Indians, and hope that it is established on such just and equitable terms as can a- lone insure its continuance. We assure your Houour, that we are met with the most sincere and hearty disposition to promote the public good, that we will take into immediate consideration what laws ought to be revived and continued, and shall always pay due regard to your honour’s recommendation. Your Honour may depend that the Representatives of the people are, as the always have been, disposed to </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> make the necessary provision for payment of the debts and support of the public credit, and that they will a- dopt such measures for those good purposes, as appear to them most effectual and most consistent with the interest of the colony. While duty to the King and zeal for the service of this colony guide and animate your Honour’s actions, the ut- most assistance and support of the house will be due and shall never be wanting to your Honour. By Order of the House, RAWLINS LOWENDES, Speaker. In the Commons House of Assembly, the 26th of Janu- ary, 1775. The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR”S ANSWER I RETUN you my Thanks for this Address, which assures me that you are come together with sin- cere and hearty Dispositions to promote the public Good, which I hope by your prudent Conduct will be happily attained. It is my duty to conform with punctuality to the King’s Instructions, and I confide in his Majesty’s Wisdom, that when he shall be pleased to have any Variation made in those I which with am at present instructed his Royal Pleasure will be transmitted to me by his Ministers in the most proper Time and Manner. SAVANNAH, (in GEORGIA) January 18. THIS day the General Assembly of his province met here, when his Excellency Sir JAMES WRIGHT, Baronet, Governour in chief, &c. was pleased to deliver the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz. ”Honourable Gentlemen, ”Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Commons House of Assembly. ”THIS being the first opportunity that has offered in General Assembly, I must not omit acquainting you, that in consequence of the petition of both Houses, his Ma- jesty was graciously pleased to direct that if this province should be engaged in an actual Indian War, we should have every proper succour and protection; and I was or dered to apply to the Commander in Chief of his Maje- sty’s forces in America for that purpose, who had received directions thereupon. The alarming situation of American affairs at this juncture, makes it highly necessary for me to say some- thing to you on the subject, and it is with the utmost concern that I see by every account all the colonies to the Northward of us as far as Nova-Scotia in a general fer- ment, and some of them in such a state as makes me shud- der when I think of the consequence which it is most probable will soon befall them. The unhappy disputes with the mother country are now become of the most se- rious nature, and I am much afraid te very extraordina- ry and violent measures adopted and pursued, will not only prevent a reconciliation, but may involve America in the most dreadful calamities. ”Gentlemen, I think myself very happy in having it in my power to say that this province is hitherto clear, and I much hope by your prudent conduct will remain so. Be not led away by the voices and opinions of men or o- verheated ideas; consider coolly and sensibly of the ter- rible consequences which may attend adopting resolutions and measures expressly contrary to law and hostile to the mother country, especially at so late a season, when we may almost daily expect to hear the determination of Great-Britain on the matters in dispute, and therefore I conceive can answer no purpose but that of throwing the province into confusion, and I tremble at the apprehension of what may be the resolution and declaration of the new Parliament relative to the conduct of the people in some parts of America. ”You may be advocates for liberty, so am I, but in a constitutional and legal way; you gentlemen, are legisla- tors, and let me intreat you to take care how you give a a sanction to trample upon law and government, and be assured it is an indisputable truth, that where there is no law, there can be no liberty: it is the due course of law and support of government which only can insure to you the enjoyment of your lives, your liberty, and your estates, and do not catch at the shadow and lose the substance; I exhort you not to suffer yourselves to be drawn in to in- volve this province in the distresses of those who may have offended; we are in a very different situation and on a very different footing form the other colonies; do not consider me as speaking to you merely as the King’s Go- vernour of this province; as such gentlemen, it is certain- ly my duty to support his Majesty’s just right and autho- rity, and to preserve peace and good order within my go- vernment, and to contribute as much as possible towards the prosperity and happiness of the province and people; believe me when I tell you, I am at this time actuated by further motives than show only of discharging my duty as the King’s Governour; I have lived amongst and presided over you upwards of fourteen years, and have other feel- ings; I have a real and affectionate regard for the people, and it grieves me to think that a province which I have been so long in, and which I have seem nurtured by the Crown at a vast expence to the mother country, and grow up from mere infancy, from next to nothing, to a consi- derable degree of maturity and opulence, should by the impudence and rashness of some inconsiderate people be plunged into a state of distress and ruin: We have been most happy in, I hope, avoiding Scylla, and let me in the strongest terms conjure you to steer clear of Charybdis. It is a most melancholy and disagreeable subject, and therefore I shall avoid making any observations on the re- solutions adopted by the other colonies, but hope that through your prudence and regard for the welfare and happiness of the province, of yourselves, and of your po- sterity, none will be entered into here; the strongest rea- sons operate against it, and as they must occur to every considerate person, I shall not mention any. ”Gentlemen of the Assembly, ”The very dangerous and critical situation of our af- fairs with the Creek Indians last spring, prevented your going on the necessary business of the province at that time; I therefore hope and depend that agreeable to your Address to me of the 12th of March, 1774, you will now take the several matters formerly recommended to you into consideration, and proceed thereupon with that se- rious attention they require and to which I shall only add, that in order to preserve and continue to us, peace and quietness with the Indians, it seems absolutely necessary that a law should be framed to regulate some matters re- </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> lative to the Indian trade and transactions in the Indian country, to prevent encroachments and trespasses on the lands and hunting grounds of the Indians and other irre- gularities and abuses being committed by hunters and o- ther disorderly people within the settle- ments; and therefore most earnestly recommend a revival of a bill relative to Indian affairs, which was before the House of Assembly in the year 1769, in which I am per- suaded you will find some clauses that may be most useful and salutary to the province. ”I have ordered the Treasurer to lay all the public accounts before you, and will very soon find you an esti- mate of the usual and necessary supplies since the last tax. JAMES WRIGHT.” In the UPPER HOUSE of ASSEMBLY, Jan. 18, 1775. A MESSAGE to the COMMONS HOUSE of ASSEMBLY. ”Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen, ”THIS House having taken into serious consideration those matters mentioned by his Excellency in his Speech to both Houses, respecting the present alarming state of the unhappy disputes between Great-Britain and the co- lonies, and conceiving the subject to be of the highest imp- portance to the welfare and safety of both, is therefore desirous of having a Free Conference with your House theron, in hopes of being able to fix on such a plan of conduct as may reasonably be expected will prove condu- cive to the obtaining the great point which every true friend to America hath or ought to have only in view, to wit, that of securing to its inhabitants, on a clear, solid and permanent footing, all the rights and privileges to which as British subjects, they are entitled, on the prin- ciples of the constitution. ”For, however warmly this House may and doth con- demn the violent and ill judged measures pursued by some of the other provinces, which they conceive have an evi- dent tendency to widen the breach between Great-Britain and the Colonies, and may involve all America in a scene of the utmost distress and misery; yet it is the sincere wish of this House as far as in their power, to see every obstacle removed which may interrupt a cordial and last- ing union with the mother country, or obstruct or pre- vent his Majesty’s American subjects form enjoying all the constitutional rights of British subjects, and will there- fore cheerfully join in pursuing such measures as will at once testify loyalty to our most gracious Sovereign, a firm attachment to the British constitution, and a warm and proper regard to the rights and liberties of America.” The following calculation taken from a list of the Poll Tax, for the year 1767, may give the reader an idea of the importance of the4 Island of Jamaica, to the king- dom of Great-Britain. 68,160 Hogsheads 7,029 Tierces and barrels } Sugar. 12,149 Puncheons of Rum. 10,545 Pimento, Packages } 1,947 Cotton, 5,031 Bags and Casks of Ginger. 15,328 Planks of Mahogany. 3,212 Tons of Fustic and Logwood. 190,914 Negroes. 137,773 Cattle 399 Cattle } Mills. 235 Water 44 Wind 647 Sugar Plantations. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE MADRID, Nov. 18. The places menaced by the Em- peror of Morocco on the coast of Africa , are sufficiently provided with artillery, and warlike stores for a vigorous defence; besides which, orders have been dispatched to Cadiz, and Alicant, and several others of our sea ports to send succours to Oran, Ceuta, and Melille. HAGUE, Nov. 25. Letters from Vienna advise, that the Deputies from the Council form the Swiss cantons and from Geneva, after having several conferences with Count Colorado, were presented to their Imperial Majes- ties, who gave them a most gracious reception, It is said that their commission was to desire his Imperial Ma- jesty’s protection against the plan that is formed for dis- turbing their tranquility, by invading their dominions; and to make him an offer or 20,000 men to be employed wherever he shall be pleased to direct. This offer it is said will keep his Imperial Majesty from entering too has- tily into the schemes of the Bourbons and with the as- sistance of Prussia, will be sufficient to frustrate some de- structive projects, and by that means preserve the balance of power in Europe and the peace in the North. Cadiz, Novem. 26. In consequence of orders received yesterday from court, the St. Januarius, of 70 guns, and two frigates or 36 guns each, which lay in our road, and were going to Ferrol, are ordered to sail as soon as possible for Ceuta, with troops and military stores. We have received certain advice that the Moors had laid siege to the town of Ceuta. Cadiz, Oct. 26. Some Algerine Zebecks took three of our ships the 11th instant, bound for Barcelona, one of which came from the Havannah richly laden. LONDON, DECEMBER 16, A letter from Mahon gives an account that there had been a smart engagement between a small Spanish ship and two Barbary Corsairs, within sight of the garrison and that the latter obliged the Spanish ship to take shelter under the guns of Fort St. Philip; the Spanish captain was wounded, and lost several of his men. The stocks have been rising some days past, said to be owing to a report, that it is in contemplation to lower the interest from five to four per cent. If this should be the case it is supposed to be preparatory to the lowering the rate of interest in the funds. It is computed that no more than forty-four Cardinals will assemble in the conclave at Rome; and that when these are arrived, they will forthwith proceed to the elec- tion of a Pope. Decem. 10, 1774. It is affirmed for certain, that be- fore the end of the session the motion against East India delinquents will be renewed, and perhaps with more success than formerly, on account of the demise of </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> a noble Nabob,. A public spirited officer (Gene- ral Burgoyne) has not forgot the reports of the late com- mittees of Enquiry, some sacrifices must be made to the disappointed and consequently offended justice of the na- tion. It is said that the South Sea Company intend to make application the ensuing Session, for some exclusive privy- ledges to be annexed to their Charter, towards carrying some beneficial schemes into execution. Extract if a Letter from Harwick, Nov. 28. to Anthony Todd, Esq; Secretary of the General Post-Office. We have had extreme bad weather for ten days past, hard gales from the N. to E. with much snow, and heavy squalls of wind at intervals. Our harbour is like a forest; near 340 sail of light Colliers, and others put in here, near fifty of them without anchors and cables; and many- thers have been obliged to run ashore for safety. There are about thirteen or fourteen sail on shore between Lowest- offe and Orfordness, and many have foundered in the Offing. In a few days I apprehend all the News-Papers will be full of disasters; all our Packets are on this side, but as the wind is come about to the S. W. with a shower, I believe the Dolphin, and Prince of Wales will sail to-morrow morning with three mails, so that I make no doubt they will prevent a Dutch boat coming away with two mails next Wednesday. I am, Sir. Your faithful and most obliged servant, W. STOREY. BOSTON, FEBRUARY 16. The Lively frigate of war is lately stationed at Mar- blehead, in order to harass and impress the seafaring in- habitants of that town. It is said to be by order of Ad- miral Greaves, , in consequence of the misconduct of his purser, John Williams, who had two boxes consigned him in the Ship Champion, Captain Fellows, which ar- rived there from Great Britain between the first of De- cember last, and February instant. These packages, a_ greeable to the Continental association, ought to have been re-shipped, or delivered to the committee of inspec- tion for sale, but instead hereof Williams utterly refused to comply with the association, and with some other in- ferior officers of the navy demanded the Boxes, alledging that they contained candles for Admiral Greaves. The committee, as well as the Town, thought the doings on the Continent too important to be thus treated by a common purser, and the matter was so regulated that the candles were detained, until application was made to the committee in the name of the purser, for selling the same, and the association was fully complied with. For this instance of fidelity in the committee and town, is that community, consisting of above seven thousand inhabi- tants mostly dependent on trade and navigation, thus ar- britrarily treated; which must convince the American colonies, that had they not nobly resolved to maintain and defend their rights and liberties, the most insignifi- cant officers of the crown would have been authorized and encouraged to insult them. The crew of the Lively are not suffered to land by the inhabitants of Marblehead, who seem determined to defend themselves against these unjustifiable proceedings. We learn from Barnstable, that on the 24th day of Jan- uary, ult., they had a Town meeting, to reconsider a vote at a former meeting, not to send a Delegate to the Pro- vincial Congress (at the request of a large and respectable Number of Freeholders) after choosing the Hon. James Otis, Esq; Moderator, voted, to send a Delegate to said Congress, and accordingly made choice of Daniel Davies, Esq; by 153 Votes, and only nine against him. NEW -YORK, FEBRUARYy 9. One day last week seven half-barrels of gun powder were seized by William Hubbard, Esq; at Stamford, in Connecticut, on its way from New-York to New-Haven, over land. We have just received advice, that the house of the Collector of Stamford was, the day after the seizure of the gun powder, attacked by a number of liberty lads, who took possession of the powder, and carried it off on horses to Fairfield. They were headed by one Bartram, a quondam Serjeant in the provincial service. A party from Hartford, with Col. Willys, Capt. Alcott, two of the Messir’s Bull, thirty of them in all, marched to Fair- field, these took possession of the powder, and lodged it in the loyal town of Hartford. We hear from Stamford, that an anti-congregational subscription is opened there, and that it fills very fast. We are informed from Jamaica, on Long-Island, that a few seditious people there, enemies to the peace and happiness of the province, have taken their late disap- pointment so much to heart, that they are using their up- most endeavours to persuade the people to recant from their late association; and for that purpose made no scru- ple of saying any thing to poison the minds of the sing- ners.___________Among other stories they tell me, the paper which was published, was not the same they signed: “That they have been inlisted for soldiers by an officer in disguise: :That they have obliged themselves to fight against the King: That they will be turned out of the markets, and many other ridiculous fallacies; the mere fumes of a sinking republican faction. By the last accounts from England, via Boston, we are informed, that the Light Infantry of the whole army, on the British establishment, are to be embarked for North America in the spring. Feb. 23. This day about eleven o’clock, a motion is to be made in the General assembly for the appointment of Delegates to the General Congress, at Philadelphia, in May next. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRARY 27. Extract of a letter from Montreal, Jan. 18. ”The French translation of the address to the inha- bitants of this country, which were ordered by the con- gress to be sent here, are not yet come to hand; but there has been a translation made at Quebec, and manu- script copies of it handed about among the French Bour- geois (our Printer dare not publish any thing of that nature) but they have been so little accustomed to speak or think on subjects of that kind, and are so much afraid of giving the smallest offence to government, that they will avoid taking any part in the matter. ---The Noblesse </div> <h5>Page 3</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> enter very sanguinely into the scheme of raising troops, but the Priests, we are well assured, disapprove of it. The greater part of the Noblesse reside in this district, and upwards of 50 of them are gone to Quebec, to pay their respects of the Governor, and attend a ball usually given by Government on the Queen’s birth-night. They ex- pect to come back with commissions in their pockets, but our Governor has not yet received his instructions, wheat owing to the great orders last year, is extravagant high, nothing less than 3s, 9d. (equal to 5s. 3d. Pennsylvania currency for our bushel.) We would b e glad to know whe- ther the resolves of the congress will be adhered to, in dropping connection with us unless we come into their measures. In this case, we must order shopping from Eng- land. We have never exported more than 10,000 bushels of flax-seed in a year; the small quantity exported is owing to the low price, being often at 2s. and 2s. 6d. This year it has been as high as 5s. 6d. and if before spring the people are assured of a good price, there will be 100,000 bushels raised in the province, or even more. The ship Beulah, Capt. McBussell, arrived at the Wa- tering Place, at New-York, last Thursday se’nnight, in 9 weeks from London, but has brought no late news. Capt McBussell spoke the following vessels on his passage, viz. the 17th of Jan. in lat. 27: 27. long. 52. The sloop John and Mary, Capt. Hughes, from Bristol for Casco- Bay, thirty days out; 28th, in lat. 28: 35, long. 64: 40, the ship Happy Jennet, Capt. Pettigrew. from Scot- land for South-Carolina, out 33 days; Feb. 4, in lat. 28: 18, long 71: 30, the Brig Dolphin, Capt. Hunt, from this port for Jamaica, out five days: 5th, in lat. 29, long. 61, the Schooner Bird, from Virginia for Ja- maica, who the day before lost every thing off her decks in a gale of wind; and on the 7th, in lat. 30:30, long. 72: 30, he spoke the brig Kitty, Capt. Robinson, from this place for Jamaica. Extract of a letter from New-York, Feb. 23. ”Since my last the ship Beulah, Capt. McBussell, has arrived from London full of Goods, the people here are determined the association shall not be violated, the own- ners and shippers think of sending her to Halifax; she will sail in a few days.” NORFOLK, March 8, 1775. A Young LADY’s Soliloquy, debating with herself which of her Lovers, (whose Names were, GOOD and RIGHT) She ought to fa- vour. A blest Dilemm’ awaits my Virgin choice, Since bad nor wrong, can’t hurt my nuptial Joys, Sure, RIGHT’S a thing, wise Folks will always choose. And GOOD when offered, none but fools refuse. RIGHT, is full fit, but GOOD is surely better, If RIGHT, takes place, then GOOD will end the matter. Be’t GOOD or RIGHT, ye Gods, come grant me either, Love, leads the Way, and I must fall his Martyr, Haste, then dear Youths, each can clear this Suspence. If GOOD ‘tis RIGHT, If right, then GOOD’s my chance. A Letter from the COMMITTEE of Donations of NORFOLK and PORTSMOUTH to the COMMITTEE in BOSTON. VIRGINIA, Norfolk, December 6, 1774. GENTLEMEN, WE the Committee appointed by the Inhabitants of the County and Borough of NORFOLK and Town of PORTSMOUTH, for transmitting their Donations for the Relief of the indigent Poor in your Town, inclose you the Bill of Loading accordingly, the Freight being paid here. It is with Pleasure we can inform you of the cheerful Accession of all the trading Interest of this Co- lony, to the Association of the Continental Congress, and they have all subscribed it as a Proof of their Approba- tion.-----We wish you Perseverance, Moderation, Firmness and Success in this Grand Contest, which we view as our Own, in every Respect.---Contributions for your Relief are raising throughout this Dominion, and will, we hope, be looked upon as a small Proof how much the good People of this Colony are Attached to the Cause of BOSTON and AMERICAN LIBERTY. WE are with the greatest Respect, Gentlemen, Your affectionate Brethren, EDWARD ARCHER, JOHN BOUSH, THOMAS MATTHEWS, JOHN GOODRICH, Junior. ALEX. MOSELY, A Letter from the COMMITTEE of Donations in BOS- TON, to the COMMITTEE for the County and Bo- rough of NORFOLK and TOWN of PORTSMOUTH. BOSTON, Feb. 1, 1775, GENTLEMEN, THE Committee appointed to receive and distribute the Donations made for the Relief and Employ- ment of the Sufferers by the Port Bill, have received your Letter of the 6th December last, including a Bill of Lading for seven Hundred and fifteen Bushels Corn, thirty three Barrels Pork, fifty eight Barrels Bread, and ten Barrels Flour. We are sorry to inform you that the Vessel was cast away; but being timely advised of the Disaster, by Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON RYSAM, we have, though not without considerable Expences, the good For- tune of saving the most Part of the Cargo! –The Coun- ty and Borough of NORFOLK And Town of PORTSMOUTH, who made this charitable Donation for the Sufferers a - bovementioned, have the due Acknowledgements of this Committee and their hearty Thanks with Assurance, that it shall be applied agreeable to the benevolent Design.--- The cheerful Accession proposed by the late Continental Con- gress, is an Insurance of that Zeal for and Attachment to the Cause of AMERICAN LIBERTY, in which that Colony has ever distinguished herself. This Town is suffering the severest Strokes of Ministe- rial Vengeance for their Adherence to the same virtuous Cause, and while the Sister-Colonies are testifying their Approbation of its Conduct, and so liberally Contributing for its Support. We trust the Inhabitant will Continue, to bear a Superiority over their insulting Enemies! I am in the Name of the Committee, GENTLEMEN, Your affectionate Friend, and Humble Servant, SAM ADAMS, Chairman. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> To the FREEMEN of VIRGINIA. COMMITTEE CHAMBER, March 6th, 1775. TRUSTING in your sure resentment against the eme- mies of your country, we the COMMITTEE elected by ballot for the BOROUGH of NORFOLK, hold up for your just indignation, Mr. JOHN BROWN merchant of this place.---We are fully sensible of the great caution with which public censure should be inflicted, and at all times are heartily disposed to accomplish the great design of the ASSOCIATION by the gentle methods of reason and persuasion. But an unhappy proneness to equivocation, which has so much distinguished Mr. BROWN, and for which he has in more than one instance been censured by by the voice of the people, added to the present manifest discovery of his secret and direct attempts to defeat the measures of the CONGRESS in the case now before us, and some very unjustifiable steps taken to conceal his dis- ingenuous conduct, have precluded us from the milder methods we would wish to adopt, and compelled us to give the public the following relation. On Thursday the 2d of March, this Committee were informed of the arrival of the Brig FANNY, CAPTAIN WATSON, with a number of Slaves for Mr. Brown and upon enqiry it appeared they were shipped from Jamaica as his property and on his account, that he had taken great pains to conceal their arrival from the knowledge of the Committee,---and that the shipper of the slaves Mr BROWN’S Correspondent, and the Captain of the Vessel were fully apprised of the CONTINENTAL PROHIBI- TION against the article. These circumstances induce a suspicion that Mr. BROWN had given orders for the slaves himself, which he positively denied, asserting that he had expressly forbidden his correspondents to send any, as being contrary to the ASSOCIATION; for the truth of which he appealed to his own letter-Book, the Secretary being desired at the request of Mr. Brown to attend him to inspect the orders satd to have been given, reported that he had some slight and hasty glances at letter written between the middle of December, and beginning of Ja- nuary, and was sorry to say he had seen one directed to Mr. Henderson, another to Mr. Livingston, both of the date of December, and a third to Messrs. Campbell’s of the first of January, all containing positive and particular orders for remittance to be made him in slaves, at the same time hinting the necessity of SECRECY, as it is an article, (he writes,) he could not AVOWEDLY deal in. The Se- cretary also reported that he had seen a postscript, written a few days after the determination of this Committee di- recting the return of a Slave imported from Antigua, in which postscript, Mr. BROWN writes his correspondent to send him in no more than TWO negro lads, as it would be DANGEROUS to sell them here. But his orders to his other correspondents appear to have been so positive, that they were complied with notwithstand his friend writes him that good slaves would sell to more advantage in Ja- maica than in Virginia.---From the whole of this transact- ion, therefore, we the COMMITTEE for NORFOLK BOROUGH, do give it as our UNANIMOUS opinion that the said JOHN BROWN has WILFULLY and PERVERSELY VIOLATED THE CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION, to which he had with his own hand subscribed obedience, and that agreable to the eleventh article we are bound “forthwith ”to publish the truth of the case, to the end that all foes ”to the rights of British America may be publicly known, ”and universally contemned as the enemies of American ”liberty; and that every person may henceforth break off ”all dealings with him.” (Signed) MATTHEW PHRIPP, Chairman. JAMES TAYLOR JOHN BOUSH JOHN HUTCHINGS JAMES HOLT JOHN LAWRENCE NEIL JAMIESON JOSEPH HUTCHINGS ROBERT TAYLOR THO’s NEWTON Jun. THOMAS CLAIBORNE, THOMAS RITSON SAMUEL INGLIS Extract from the minutes WILLIAM DAVIES Sec. Feb. 7, 1775. Capt. Elliot spoke the Ship Pryan from Virginia bound to Jamaica, being out ten Days, in the Long. 69 W. and Lat. 26 30 N. being all well on board. ADVERTISEMENTS. I INTEND for the WEST INDIES, soon THOMAS WISHART. Princess-Anne. Feb. 17, 1775. RUN AWAY, FROM the Subscriber, on Wednesday the 15th Inst. a Negro Fellow named Ceasar; about Five Feet Eight or Nine In- ches high; had on when he went away a Virginia Kersey Jacket and Breet- ches, stript with Yellow, and a Virginia Tow shirt.---It is imagined he is lurking about Norfolk, as he was seen there the Evening he went away.---I forwarn all persons from employing the said Negro, and I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS to any Person that will bring him to me. JOHN HANCOCK. Princess-Anne, Feb. 21, 1775. (3) 38 AS I have the misfortune of being lame, I am thereby prevented going from home, upon my usual business in such a manner as I could wish. I therefore take this method to inform the Public, that if any Person or Per- sons will furnish me with a quantity of Wheat, in the course of one Year, and will take Bread and Flour, as it is manufactur’d, I will engage that it shall be good, and will supply them with it on very easy Terms, in Propor- tion to the Price of the Wheat, I also will take in baking; for terms apply to GOODRICH BOUSH. Norfolk, Feb. 22, 1775. (3) 38 </div> <div class=""column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, the 11th of last month, a Ne- gro fellow named DANIEL; he is thick and well set, about five feet 5 or 6 inches high, has a scar under one of his eyes; a gloomy countenance and seldom looks one in the face: He is used to the Bay trade, is much addicted to gaming; it is suspected he will endeavor to pass for a free man.-----Had on when he went off, a Fearnought Jacket, a pair of old blue cloth Breetches and an oznabrig shirt: But as he is an old offender, it is pro- bable he will change his Clothes. Whoever takes up said Negro and delivers him to me or secures him so that I may get him again, if within the Colony, shall receive a Reward of Three POUND, & if taken out of it Five POUND from JOHN HAYNIE. NORTHUMBERLAND County March 4th, 1775. N.B. All Matters of vessels and Others, are forbid employing, harbouring, or carrying of said Negro at their Peril. (3) 40 The Imported HORSE, Young CARVER, Four years Old this summer, stands at the Subscribers at the Great-Bridge; Covers Mares, at 30 Shillings the Leap, or three Pounds the Season.---Good Pastur- age, (but none warranted to return if Stolen Sraed.) CARVER, was got by old CARAER, a Horse the property of his Majesty, by the famous York-Shire Lake Mare, Lady-Legs. For further Particulars, --See the Horse. CHARLES MAYLE. March 8th, 1775. (tf) 40 FOR SALE, a Tract of well timbered Land, contain- ing about four Hundred and fifty Acres, in the County of Currituck, North Carolina; Distant twenty four Miles from Norfolk, ad- joining to the Lands of Messrs. Francis Wil- liamson, and Tatem Wilson.---Credit will be given, and the Times of Payment made easy.---For further Particulars, apply at Belville, to Thomas Macknight, Esq; or at Norfolk, to JAMES PARKER. N.B. The Subscriber wants a NEGRO Mulatto Boy, used to taking Care of Hor- ses, for which he will give Ready MONEY. Norfolk, March 9, 1774. (3) 40. FOR CHARTER, The Brig ASSISTANCE, STEVEN FARISH, COMMANDER, Now lying at NORFOLK. BURTHEN about 300 Hogsheads, or 7500 Bushels---FOR TERMS, apply to Mr. THOMAS SHORE, or the Subscriber. BOLLING STARK. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4, 1775. (4) 36 RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, on Monday the twentieth of February last: ISAAC GIL- DING, an English servant Man, a House carpen- ter by trade; he is a short well made man, about five feet five, or six inches high, brown Hair, which he generally wears tyed, tho’ short. Had on when he went away, a new Bearskin coat and waistcoat, a pair of worsted Shag breetches with metal buttons. He was seen at Hamp- ton on Saturday the twenty fifth of last month, with some Tools which he carried with him. Whoever takes up the said Servant, and conveys him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have a Reward of Three POUND paid by JAMES SOUTHALL. WILLIAMSBURG March 1st, 1775. (2) 39 BARTHOLOMEW LEPETIT, dancing Ma- ster, begs Leave to Address himself to such Gentle- men and Ladies, that may be willing to encourage him in that Branch of Education; by informing them, that he has opened a SCHOOL at Mr. NICHOLAS GAU- TIERS in Church Street, and intends (should he meet with Encouragement sufficient to enable him to reside here) to continue Teaching every Saturday: Those that are inclinable to commit any young Gentlemen or Ladies to his Care, may depend on having the strictest Attention paid in every Respect, for to Qualify them in that gen- teel Accomplishment, and the Favour will be gratefully acknowledged: He proposes also opening a School at Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th March, where he has a very convenient Room for that Purpose, at Mrs. BELL’S. Having taught the FRENCH for sometime in this Country as well as in LONDON; where he studied under an able French-Master, with some little Share of Ap- plause, he doubts not but it will be sufficient to recom- mend him to such as would chuse to learn that agreeable LANGUAGE; and at the same Time desirous to be in- formed of its peculiar Niceties; whom he will take Plea- sure in waiting upon, either at Home or Abroad.---His Terms are for DANCING, 20 s. per Quarter; and two Dollars entrance.----For FRENCH, 30 s. per Quar- ter; and a Pistole entrance. Attendance three Times a Week. Norfolk, March 9, 1775. (2) 40 </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY. YE Sons of the Platter, give ear, Venter habeat Aures, they say, The praise of good eating to hear, You’ll never be out of the way, But with Knives sharp as razors, and stomachs as keen, Stand ready to cut thro’ fat and thro’ lean, Thro’ fat and thro’ lean, Stand ready to cut thro’ fat and thro’ lean. The science of eating is old, Its antiquity no man can doubt: Tho’ Adam was squeamish we’re told, Eve soon found a dainty bit out. Then with knives sharp as razors, and stomachs as keen &c. Thro’ the world from the West to the East, Whether city or country, or court, There’s none, whether layman or priest, But with pleasure confesses the sport: When with knives sharp as razors, and stomachs as keen & cc. At the sound of the good College-bell, On a gaudy the Doctors descend, With a Grace all in LATIN to tell The founder to eating a Friend. Then with knives sharp as razor, &c. At the Horn’s most untuneable notes the Judges replenish their maw. And with napkins tuck’d p to their throats, Shew good eating’s according to Law, The with knives sharp as razors, &c. At the knock at the buttery hatch, The rosy-gill’d Chaplain comes down; And my Lord himself makes such dispatch, That his gout at that sound is quite sown. Then with knives sharp as razors, &c, Neither horns, neither knockers, nor bells Hath the plow-man to give him his cue: His stomach his dinner-time tells, And he whets his care-knife on his shoe. The with edge sharp as razor, &c. The Squire makes the chace all his care, O’er the hills and thro’ vallies his course; And after a whet of fresh Air, He as hungry returns, as his horse; Then with knife sharp as razor, &amp.c. Here the Doctor, the Lawyer, Divine, The Courtier, the Tradesman, all meet; Their care and their toil is to dine; -‘Tis all- to be able to eat; Then with knives sharp as razor, &c. A Feast is an emblem of Life, Where no sooner with taste, but we’re gone; Few can say, I have play’d a good knife. Few or none, life’s so short, few or none. Then with knives sharp as razors, and stomachs as keen, Our passage let’s cut thro fat and thro’ lean; Thro’ fat and thro’ lean, Our passage let’s cut thro’ fat and thro’ lean. THE Subscriber sells by Wholesale and Retail, all Sorts of DRUGS and ME DICINES at a low Advance; for READY MONEY.---He wants a Quantity of VIRGI- NIA SNAKE ROOT well cured; for which he will give five Shillings current Money of VIRGINIA, per Pound.---He wants also a Quantity of BEES WAX, for which he will give eighteen Pence per Pound. ALEX GORDON. NORFOLK, February 28, 1775. (3) 39. SAMUEL BLEWES, FROM BIRMINGHAM- At his Shop, in Church-Street, NORFOLK. MAKES and Sells all sorts of Locks, Hinges, large Press Screws for Clothiers, &c. He has lately en- gaged able Tradesmen from LONDON, whom he employs in finishing Cheaps and Tongues for Buckles, in the most elegant, fashionable and compleat manner; in general he performs every thing belonging to the White-Smiths bus ness. The PUBLIC may be assured that what the Sub- scriber undertakes, he will be punctual in executing, and studious to give Satisfaction; and they may depend on being reasonably charged. SAMUEL BLEWES. NORFOLK March 8, 1775. 4 40 N.B. He makes Strong LOCKS for Prisons or Stores, that cannot be pick’d; from four Dollars, to five Pounds. FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the Ship CATHERINE, THOMAS PATTON Master, an Irish Ser- vant man, named JOHN KENNEDY, a- bout Twenty six years of Age, five feet 5 or 6 inches High, well Set, long Visaged, straight black Hair: Had on when he went away, a blue Jacket, drab-coloured woolen Trowsers, a checked Shirt, and Dutch Cap.---It is supposed he will attempt to pass for a free Man, as he had a discharge from some Regi- ment in England, in which he pretends he formerly served. Whoever secures him so as his Master may have him again, shall be paid the above Re- ward, on applying to NORTH & SANDYS N.B. All Masters of Vessels and Others are forbid Harbouring or carrying off said Servant at their Peril. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improve- ments thereon, lying on CRAWFORD Street, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circmu- stances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them north and South, parallel with Crawford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the Eastward thereof.---- The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Ports- mouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.----The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots.----The North LOT to con- tain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street.-------The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bring- ing and heaving down any Ship at his Wharf; provided he covers no more of the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.-----The Advantages at- tending these Lotts in point of Situation, Wa- ter, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing fur- ther on this Head would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX. LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775. (6) 37 IF JOHN FOWLER, (Son of JOHN FOWLER late of Wapping Street, LON_ DON, Sand-man) be alive, and see this Ad- vertisement, He is desired forthwith to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Commander of the Ship Betsy, now lying at Norfolk, who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to Mr. Michael Henley of Wap- ping Merchant, constituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who wiill secure his inhe- ritance for him.------Mr. Henley having been an intimate acquaintance of his late Fa- ther, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested ac- count of his death and burial, when, and where properly certified.-----All Charges and Ex- penses attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. Ross, or JOHN BOTWN, & Co. N.B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Servant, about six or seven years ago. to some part of North-America. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. WANTED to CHARTER, A Vessel, that will carry about forty Thou- sand of Lumber, to load here for Santa Croix, and two Vessels of about two Thou- sand, five Hundred Barrels each, to load Rice at Charles Town, South Carolina, or Cowes and a Market. INGLES & LONG. Norfolk, February 1, 1775. (tf) 35 WHEREAS the Partnership of CHILSHOLM and JHOLSTEAD, by mutual Consent of the Parties, will be dissolved on the 10th Day of April next: All those Persons who have any Demands against them or the Sub- scriber, are desired to apply for Payment; and those indebted, to pay off their several Balan ces immediately, or give Bond.----It is ex- pected that all Concerned, will duly regard this Notice; save themselves Expences, and me the Trouble and Inconveniency of making per- sonal Application.----This is the more necessary as I intend to leave the Colony soon, and am the only proper Person to settle the Business I have transacted. LATIMER HOLSTEAD. Norfolk, Feb, 28, 1775. (3) 39 ALL Persons indebted to the ESTATE of Mr. ROBERT STEEL deceased, late of this Place, are desired to make speedy Pay- ment; and all those who have any Demands, are requested to bring them in properly pro- vided, to DANIEL BARRAUD, Admin. Norfolk, Feb. 28, 1775. (2) 39 </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> FOR SALE. The NANCY, GEORGE WISE Master; five years old, burthen about seven thou- sand bushels.----And for Charter, a new Brigantine about 10 or 11,000 bushels burthen, for terms apply to SAMUEL KERR & Co. PORTSMOUTH 2d February, 1775. TAKEN up on Thursday the 16th in- stant, on suspicion of being a servant; one who calls himself Henry George Talbot, he brought a dark Bay Mare about thirteen hands high, no brand perceivable, a half-wore Sadle with a hog skin seat; he has likewise with him a Silver Watch. Since committed to Jail I am informed he stole the Mare and Watch. The Owner may receive the Servant and hear of the above articles by applying to ANDREW FLEMING, or to 3 38 CHARLES RUDDER Senr* RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber,* about the first Utlimo. WILLIAM NOONAN, a native of Ireland, five feet high, thick made, walks quick of a fair complexion, had a scar above one of his eyes, and the brogue much, in his dialect. Had on when he went away, a blue duffle coat; rides well. The Subscriber will give Twenty Shillings for taking him up. JOHN BAIRD. APPOXTOX February 11, 1775. (3) 38. DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Brown Sugar, one Tierce Spi- rits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cut- lery: these ought to have been delivered at COLCHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Spirits; for Mr. RI- CHARD GRAHAM at DUMFRIES.----After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sadle- ry, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, at Urbanna; which were also to have been de- livered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLS informed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. MR. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this publication, and to offer a reward of Twent- ty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or FIVE POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off.-----Boston is a- bout 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, liv- ing on Pocomoake river Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that wag; he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and cieled, her quarter deck is cove- red over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the re- ward will be paid at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchester; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE. TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. WANTED TO CHARTER. A SHIP that will carry from 150 to 200 Thousand of LUMBER to load here for JAMAICA, and from thence to proceed to the Bay of HONDURAS, to load LOGWOOD and MAHOGANY for LONDON, apply to INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (3) 39 FOR SALE about three Thousand bu- shels of WHEAT; for Terms apply to ALEX LOVE. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (tf) 39 KEYSER’S celebrated PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, are to be sold at the Printing-Office. (Printed directions for using them, may be had gratis. </div> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1775. NUMBER 41. THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICIS.---Hor. NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office; where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of News from VIRGI- NIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully received and duly inserted.--- Advertisements of a moderate Length for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after.---Price of the PAPER, 12s. 6d. per ANNUM. <div class="column"> <h6>Column 1</h6> Translation of his Catholic Majesty's Declaration of War, against the Emperor of Morocco. WHEREAS at the adjustment of peace with the King of Morocco, the renewal and fixing of the boundaries of the territory, which is annexed to my forts on the coasts of that kingdom, were settled, as also the restitution of deserters, and various other conditions, which all testify the said Prince’s recognition of the incontestible right in my Crown to those places situated in countries, which had been part of the Spanish monarchy; and although by the very act of the King of Morocco himself having complied with these stipulations, it appears, that living in peace with Christians who occupied those places in Africa, was not inconsistent with the sect which he professes: not- withstanding all this, he, doubtless not attending to all the advantages which he receives from peace and com- merce with my dominions, has written me a letter, in which, founding himself upon maxims and principles of his own sect and policy, strange and new ones entirely, compared with those received among European nations, he tells me, that he will make war against these forts, and pretends at the same time, that such a step is not to interrupt the friendship, the intercourse and commerce, betwixt our respective states, &c. as appears from the te- nor of the said letter; which, being translated from the Arabic, is literally as follows: "In the name of the merciful God, and there is no help but in the great God. "Mahomed Ben Abdalla. (L. S.) The 15th of the month of Reged, in the year 1188. "To the King of Spain. "Health to him who follows the law, and persists therein. Know ye, that we are in peace with you accor- ding to the treaties of peace made between us and you. But the Mahometans of our dominions, and of Algiers, have agreed, saying, That they will not suffer any Chri- stian whatever to be on the coasts of Mahometan coun- tries from Ceuta to Oran, and they will recover to them- selves the possessionn of them: For which reason they have requested us to attend seriously to this affair, saying, "Thou hast no excuse for remaining quiet, or consenting "that Mahometan countries should remain in the power "of Christians, at a time when God hath given thee "forces and warlike instruments, such as no one else "hath." It was not possible for us not to attend to their instances, or assist them upon this subject : And now we are desirous of taking the matter into consi- deration. If the Algerines undertake the war together with us, as they have desired to do, it is well; but if they withdraw themselves and oppose what they them- selves have desired, We will consider them as enemies, and fight in person against all, till God shall decide be- tween us and them. And this business is not against the peace which subsists between us and you: Your traders and their ships will remain as before, and will take their provisions and other things from any of our ports, as they please, conforming to the customs now observed in them, agreeably to the marine treaty between our respec- tive caravels; and your ships will receive no damage, so that your subjects will trade in all our dominions, and will travel by land and by sea with all security, and no body will hurt them, because we have established peace with you, and which we will not break, if you on your part do not: In which case you will be allowed four months, that every body may know it; and what we have said, concerning our going to the said countries, is, because we are obliged to it, and have no method of ex- cusing ourselves from it. But with respect to peace at sea we will de according to our own will. And now we give you an account of the truth of this business, that you may be advised thereof, and consider what suits you. And we have signed this letter with our own illustrious hand, that you may be assured of its certainty. Greeting, the 15th day of the month Reged, in the year 1188, (19th September, 1774.") And judging it unbecoming my Sovereignty to listen to, much less to admit, such propositions; and being be- sides informed, that the person who was charged by the King of Morocco to deliver this letter to the Governor of Ceuta for me, had declared, that, in proof of the peace being at an end, the Moors in the camp would fire a- gainst the fort with ball as soon as he had left it, which they actually did; and being informed, that the said Moors have since continued to fire against certain fisher mens boats, which were near them as usual, by which ho- stilities the Moors have broken the peace; I have resolved, upon account of these acts, and from the time they were committed, to declare, that it is to be understood, that the friendship and good harmony with the King of Mo- rocco is interrupted, all communication is to cease be- tween my subjects and his, and things to return to the state of war, by sea and land, in which they were before the treaty was settled; keeping up only the 17th article </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 2</h6> of it, in which it was stipulated, that, in case of a rupture, six months should be allowed to the individuals of both nations to retire freely to their respective countries with their goods and effects, which I order shall be kept and observed punctually with the Morocco subjects; being persuaded that that Prince will observe the same with re- spect to mine. And whereas lately, the King of Moroc- co having sent me some Spanish captives, which he had obtained from the regency at Algiers, I did order the Al- caide who brought them, that not only all the Morocco Moors, who by having been taken on board Algerine vessels were prisoners in Carthagena, should be delivered up, but also all the wounded and old Algerines who were there; I am desirous that these unhappy people should effectually have their liberty, and be conveyed to the kingdom of Morocco, as was intended, notwithstanding the new state of affairs which has arisen, being moved thereto by the pity with which I consider their fate, and because they should not be prejudiced by an event in which they have no concern; wherefore, and in conse- quence of all that has been stated, I order, that the peace between those dominions and these shall be held to be broken, and the war be renewed, and that the subjects of the King of Morocco, shall not be disturbed in their free turn to their country, with their goods and effects, for which I grant the term of six months, counting from the day of the publication of this Cedula, for such is my will. Dated at San Lorenzo el Real, October 23, 1774. I THE KING, GERONIMO DE GRIMALDI. A particular Account of FLAX SEED exported in 1775 from the ports of New-York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. N. B. The Quantity from Philadelphia was taken from the Custom House Books, 1st February. TO NEWRY, From NEW-YORK, - - Hhds. The Liberty, - - 1073 Duke of Leinster, - - 599 Robert, - - - 962 Live Gak, - - - 709 Free Mason, - - - 567 Peter, - - - - 373 ----- 4283 From PHILADELPHIA, Minerva, - - - 700 Renown, - - - 930 Recovery, - - - 213 Charlotte, - - - 562 ----- 2405 From BALTIMORE, Friendship, - - - 467 Lord Dunluce, - - - 557 ----- 1024 ----- 7712 To LONDONDERRY, From NEW-YORK, The America, - - 1451 Hannah, - - - 1007 Hill, - - - 932 Rose, - - - 910 Jupiter, - - - 710 ----- 5010 From PHILADELPHIA, The Minerva, - - 1000 Alexander, - - - 727 Mary, - - - 623 Duke of York, - - 606 George, - - - 609 Endeavour, - - - 132 ----- 3697 From BALTIMORE, The Hibernia, - - - 150 ----- 8857 TO GALWAY, From NEW-YORK, The Anne, - - - 700 Peggy, - - - 500 Julian, - - - 391 ----- 1561 TO DROGHEDA, From NEW-YORK, The Monimia. - - -----800 To DUBLIN, From NEW-YORK, The Isabella, - - 700 John, - - - 508 Galway Packet, - - 478 Mary and Susanna, - 462 Lord Camden, - - 560 Duke of Leinster, - - 916 ----- 3624 22554 </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 3</h6> Carred forward 22554 From PHILADELPHIA, The Catharine, - - 890 Matty, - - - 428 ----- 1318 From BALTIMORE, The Hope, - - - 236 ----- 1554 TO SLIGO, From NEW-YORK, The Charlotte, - - 1093 Diana, - - - - 400 ----- 1493 From PHILADELPIA, The Betsey, - - - - 542 ----- 2035 TO BELFAST, From NEW-YORK, The Jane and Isabella, - 656 James and Mary, - 321 ----- 977 From PHILADELPHIA, The Prosperity, - - - 704 ----- 1681 To CORK, From NEW-YORK, The Lord Camden, - 440 Mary and Susanna, - 218 Needham, - - - 100 ----- 758 From BALTIMORE, The Potomack, - - 200 ----- 958 TO LETTERKENNY, From PHILADELPHIA, The Hope, - - - - - 831 To COLERAIN, From NEW-YORK, The Betsey and Helen, - - - 750 To LARNE, From New York, The James and Mary, - - - 240 Total, - - - 30603 _____ Amount shipped in the Year 1775, From NEW-YORK - - 19496 From PHILADELPHIA - - 8797 From BALTIMORE, - - 1610 ----- 30603 ________ Amount shipped in the Year 1774, From NEW-YORK, - - 15400 From PHILADELPHIA, - - 12160 From BAMYIMORE, - - 2940 ----- 30500 As the interest of the North Continent of A- America may be greatly affected by the con- duct of any one Colony, and the Assembly of New-York lately refused even to consider the Proceedings of the CONTINENTAL CON- GRESS; it is thought proper, previous to remarks intended to be hereafter published, to give a list of the present Legislators of that Province, which has been lately obtain- ed from a well informed Friend. The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. CADWALLADER COLDEN, now in his eighty-eighth year, and well known for his zeal for issuing the stamped papers in 1765. The COUNCIL. Mr. Horsemanden, The chief Justice, with a salary of l. sterling per annum, out of the 'American Reve- nue in the Boston Box, and 300l. per annum allowed by the assembly, both which he receives. Mr. Watts, A merchant, and native of New-York, a- gent for the money contract, and brother in law to Briga- dier de Lancey. Mr. De Lancey, Brigadier General of the militia, and father in law to Sir William Draper, and brother to Lady Warren, whose daughter married Col. Fitzroy brother to the Duke of Grafton. Mr. Apthorp, a native of Boston, son of the late Mr. Apthorp of that town, related by his wife to Mrs. Gage, and formerly a contractor. Mr. Morris, Formerly a Lieutenant Col. in the army, came here with General Braddock, married Judge Phil- lips's daughter, and then sold out. </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> Mr. Smith, a native of New-York,---a Lawyer,--- son of Judge Smith, deceased, has a son in law in the army, is uncle to Mrs. Maturin, widow of General Gage's late Secretary, and has a brother in law at present Brigadier Major to General Gage. Mr. Wallace, A merchant from Ireland, greatly con- nected with the army. Mr. White, A merchant from England, formerly a- gent Victualler for the navy, and one of the late Agents for vending the East-India Company's Tea at the port of New-York. Mr. Axtel, a native of Jamaica, descended from Col. Axtel, who guarded the High Court of Justice, at the trial of King Charles the First. Mr. Cruger, son in law to Brigadier de Lancey, a merchant. Mr. Jauncey, Son of one of the city mentbers. Ma- ster of the Rolls. Married a daughter of Mr. Elliot, Collector of the port of New-York, brother to Sir Gil- bert Elliot, one of the Carlton house Junto. THE Present GENERAL ASSEMBLY. For the City of New-York. John Cruger the present Speaker, a merchant, uncle to the Counsellor who married Brigadier de Lancey's daughter, and to one of the present members for Bristol in parliament. James de Lancey, Nephew to Brigadier de Lancey, and brother in law to Governor Penn. James Jancey, A merchant, father to the counsellor, who married Sir Gilbert Elliot's neice. Jacob Walton, a merchant, brother in law to Mr. Cruger, the Councellor, and nephew to the Speaker. RICHMOND County. Benjamin Seaman, A Shop-keeper, Col. of the mili- tia, and judge of the county during pleasure, and father in law to the clerk of the county, who holds his office likewise during pleasure. Christopher Billop, A Farmer, who married Col. Sea- man's daughter.---Also a Col. of the militia. King's County. Simon Bærum, Clerk of the county, and one of the Delegates at the General congress. John Rappalje, Col. of the militia,---a Farmer. QUEEN's County. Zebulon Williams or Seamans, a Farmer, and captain in the militia. Daniel Kissam, a Farmer, and Justice of the Peace during pleasure. Suffolk County. Nathaniel Woodbull, a Farmer, Col. of the militia, and Judge of the Inferior court. William Nicoll, Clerk of the county---a Lawyer. WEST-CHESTER County. Isaac Wilkins, a native of Jamaica, educated under Dr. Cooper, at the New-York college, now studying Di- vinity, and intending soon to go home for Episcopal Or- ders--likewise an intimate friend of Dr. Chandler of E- lizabeth town. John Thomas, Judge of the county during pleasure. Frederick Phillips, Col. of the militia, and brother in law to Col. Morris, the Counsellor. Pierre Van Cortlandt, Col. of the militia. DUTCHESS County. Dirck Brinckerhoss, a Shop-keeper, and Col. of the militia. Leonard Van Cleck, a Shop-keeper, and Col. of the militia. ALBANY County. Peter R. Livingston, Col. of the militia, eldest son of the Proprietor of the manor of Livingston, and brother in law to Mr. Duane, one of the Delegates, and nephew to Philip Livingston, another of the Delegates ; also bro- ther in law to the Aid de Camp to Lord Piercy, now at Boston. Philip Schuyler, Col. of the militia, and first Judge of Charlotte county. Jacob H. Ten Eyeck, a Justice of the peace, and fa- ther to the sheriff of Albany county, both holding their offices during the pleasure of the Governor. Abraham Ten Brock, Col. of the militia, uncle to the Lord of the manor of Renselaerwych, and brother in law to Philip Livingston, Esq; one of the Delegates at the Congress. Jacobus Myndersle, a Farmer of Schenectady. CUMBERLAND County. Samuel Wells, Col. of the Militia, Judge of the In- ferior Court, and father in law to Mr. Gale, Clerk of that county. Crean Brush, a native of Ireland, practising the Law in Cumberland county, who sold the Clerkship of the county to Judge Well's son in law. TRYON County. Guy Johnson, Superintendent of Indian affairs, in the room of Sir William Johnson, Col. of the militia, and Judge of the Inferior court. Hendrick Frey, Col. of the militia, and a Justice of the Peace. ULSTER County. George Clinton, A Lawyer, and clerk of Ulster coun- ty. Charles de Witt, a Farmer. ORANGE County. John Coe, a Judge of the Inferior Court. Samuel Gall, a Tavern Keeper at Goshen, and Major in the militia. When the grand question was put for considering the proceedings of the congress, there appeared for taking them into consideration. Messrs. Boerum, Nicoll, Schuyler. Seamans or Williams, Van Cortland, Ten Brock, Woodhull, Livingston, Clinton. De Witt, And against taking them into consideration, Messrs. Jauncey, Billop, Philipse, De Lancey, Rappalje, Van Kleck, Walton, Kislam, Brush. Col. Seaman, Wilkins, The other Members, viz. Thomas Brinkerhoss, Ten Eyck, Myndersse, Wells, Johnson, Frey, and Coe, be- ing absent, when the question relating to the proceedings of the congress was proposed, the public must wait for some future opportunity to be informed of their senti- ments on the interesting measures of the continent, for the preservation of the Liberties of America.--- </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 2</h6> A correspondent, at the end of this list, raised the following very pertinent Queries : First, Whether the great number of crown officers; or their near relations in the Assembly, is not a proof either of our extreme negligence of our Liberties, or of the vi- gilance of government for biassing our members? Second, Whether though the highest honour is due to the integrity of so many Gentlemen, who have nobly risked their offices by their fidelity to the country, is it not nevertheless a scandal to the province, that we have as yet no place bill to exclude such from the House of as- sembly as after an election render themselves dependent upon the Crown for offices held during pleasure. Third, Whether from the arbitrary project of the late parliament for introducing a Council into the Massachu- setts-Bay, at the pleasure of the crown, it does not ap- pear to be an indispensable duty firmly to insist upon a law utterly to exclude the dangerous influence of his Ma- jesty's council, at all elections for representatives of the people. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. WARSAW, December, 29. They write from Moldavia, that the Russians are there still, but they will pass the Niester the 21st of this month, 40,000 of that army will remain in Poland, 4000 of which are to be quartered in the invirons of this city. HAMBURGH, December 16. A private Letter from Munich mentions, that a courier from Rome brought an account that Cardinal Anthony Eugenius Visconti, formerly Nuncio at the Court of Vienna is elected POPE, and that he proposed keeping the name of Eugenius. TURIN, December 14. When King George II. of Great Britain died, the Republic of Venice sent two Am- bassadors to London, to compliment King George III. and they made a public entry upon that occasion. Upon the death of the King of Spain two Ambassadors were sent and the same ceremony performed at Madrid. Upon the death of the King of Sardinia, the Republic of Venice sent but one Ambassador to Turin, and the court would not permit him to make his public entry, but complained to the Republic on one Ambassador being only sent. The Republic delayed giving any answer so long, that in the interim Louis the XV. died, and two Ambassadors were sent to Paris, who made their public entry there, and complimented Louis the XVI. The court of Turin could not but look upon these proceedings as an insult, and ac- cordingly his Sardinian Majesty ordered it to be signified to the Ambassador from Venice, that he must appear no more at Court, upon which he set off without any further ceremony for Venice.---This is looked upon as the prelude to a rupture between the two courts, and as in- tended to justify same measures at present upon the car- pet, between the King of Sardinia and his allies. LEGHORN, November 29. The rebels who forced their way through a body of troops under Colonel Du- bourg, and reached an inaccessible hold in the Pieve of Casicua, after the Colonel retired, who were joined by several other parties, to the number of 400 and immedi- ately began fresh impredations; they burnt three villages, carried off a quantity of provisions, and took a party of soldiers (35) whom they met with, prisoners; they are headed by a nephew of the famous Giaseri, who is said to be possessed of all his uncle's warlike qualities: he has just issued a proclamation, summoning every Corsican able to bear arms, to repair to him; the French keep the passes too closely guarded for this to be of any effect, those who are with him have bound themselves in the most solemn manner, to contend for their liberty to the last drop of blood. It is said that the Count de Marboeuf intends to block them up in an effectual manner which is the only way they can be subdued, as the retreat is of such a na- ture, that 100 men may beat 10,000. HAGUE, Dec. 26. Mr. M. Rossignal, Consul from this republic in Barbary, has sent advice to the States General, that the King of Morocco has haughtily refused and returned the presents their high Mightinesses sent him; at the same time complaining that they made very light of his friendship, because he knew very well they had sent more considerable presents to the little States of Al- giers, Tunis, and Tripoli, which in some degree, were de- pendent upon him; and therefore, to shew his resentment of this behaviour, he had declared war against the Re- public. "A treaty is now much talked of here, which has been kept very secret these four years. The treaty in question was concluded in 1774 between the House of Austria and the Ottoman Porte by which the latter en- gaged to pay the former 20,000 purses of piastres contain- ing 500 piastres each; which makes a sum of 10,000,000 piastres. Four thousand purses were stipulated to be paid as the treaty was signed, and the remaining fifteen thou- sand at two equal payments at four months distance, and the Porte likewise agreed to give up part of Moldavia and Wallachia, upon the confines of the grand Duchy of Transylvania and the bannat of Temeswaer. In return the House of Austria engaged to maintain a considerable army upon the frontier (as she has actually done to the great astonishment of all the world) and to recover all that the Porte should lose during the war with Russia, &c. PARIS, Dec. 16. The Royal audience, at which, by the King's order, all the Princes, Dukes and Peers at- tended, and by invitation all the Bishops of the diocese of Paris, as Honorary Counsellors, was extremely brilliant. They ratified and confirmed the registry of all the edicts passed in the bed of justice without any alteration. The pre eminence of the Grand Council was acknowledged, and likewise the obedience due from the parliament to the King's edicts. These edicts and declarations formed by the Minister are for the future to be communicated to the Attorney and Solicitor General before they are brought to be registered, in order to prevent remonstrances, which always tend to the disputing of authority, and prove as disagreeable to the King as to his subjects. “We have been upon the point of suppressing all the old ministry; but their is one that braves opposition. "Advice has been received, that three English frigates; stationed in America, have seized upon two of our mer- chant ships, laden with military stores and French manu- factures. The Captain had the precaution to throw their papers overboard before they were taken: and we flatter ourselves, that if they are able to prove that they failed </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 3</h6> before the King's Orders activated at the port they came from, they will be released. Some accounts set forth, that they are two Dutch ships under French colours; be this as it will, both the English and Dutch Ambassadors have had some talk with the ministry upon this affair, since which they have sent couriers to their respective courts. LONDON, DECEMBER 31, IT is said that a plan is now agitating in the Cabinet to conciliate matters between the Mother-country and America, by repealing the disagreeable acts, and admit- ting them to be represented by 80 members in the House of Commons. On Tuesday last a copy of the petition from the Ame- rican Congress to the King, was delivered to Lord Dart- mouth for the purpose of shewing it to the King, before it is represented to him by the agents. It contains a slate of grievances, a solicitation for the removal of evil coun- sellors, and a claim that the colonies are exempt from taxation by the British parliament. Besides the petition to the King from the American congress it is said there is one from the same body to the house of Commons. The greatest secrecy and silence is ordered to be kept on the affairs of America; and it is reported that some very disagreeable advices had within these few days been received from Boston, which have been managed with so much privacy that few or none of the contents have tran- spired to the people in office. It was yesterday reported on the Exchange, that some arms, ammunition, and field-pieces, have lately been land- ed in North-America, by a French ship. They write from Constantinople that the entry of the Austrian troops into Moldavia was the cause of much spe- culation, but the mystery of this proceeding of the court of Vienna is now unraveled, as it is known that the rea- son of it was on account of the territory which these troops occupy being ceded to the Emperor of Germany, by a late treaty concluded between that Court and the Porte. Letters from Gibraltar advise, that the Emperor of Morocco has ordered all his small corsairs into his ports in order to lay them up, and the crews are for manning some large ships which he has built; so that it is expected he will have a very powerful fleet in the Mediterranean early in the spring. Letters from Warsaw, dated Nov. 2, say, "The de- legation has at last regulated every thing regarding the Permanent Council. It is to consist of four departments, the first composed of two councellors, one Secretary, and one Copyst, is to have the charge of all the different con- cerns which come before the Marshals of the crown and Lithuania. The Second is charged with what relates to the Police, and all under departments are to bring in their reports to it. The third comprehends the military; the whole power of which is vested in the Grand General, on condition of bringing all his reports to be examined by the State. The fourth, composed of two Senators, two Councellors, one Referendary of the Crown, and one of Lithuania, is to have the care of the correspondence with Foreign powers. "It has been proposed to the Delegation to change all the cavalry, except the guards of the crown, and of the Grand General, into regiments of infantry, and to re- form the infantry which is now in use. It is said that Prince Adam Czartorinski, General of Podolia, will be appointed General of Lithuania. Dec. 30. Last night the French Secretary of embassy had a conference with Lord Rochford, on the subject of some dispatches from the court of Versailles, as had like- wise the Dutch minister. Some private and interesting intelligence was yesterday received from Gibraltar, which was immediately sent to his Majesty at St. James's. The postscript of a letter from Gibraltar says, Our Consul arrived here after being pursued by the Moors, who waited to detain him, upon account of some misun- derstanding between him and the Emperor, by whom he is said to have been shamefully treated. Last night a commission passed the Great Seal, consti- tuting and appointing Guy Carleton, Esq; Captain Ge- neral and Governor in and over the province of Quebec, with all its dependencies, with greater power than in the former commission which is superseded. Also a commission of the same kind, appointing Com- modore Shuldham, Governor of Newfoundland, thereby revoking his former commission. Private letters from Paris say, that the French hav- ing had so great a demand for teas and other goods in A- merica, they intend to send out four more ships this year than they have done for some years past, viz. two to Chi- na and two to Bengal. Orders are given for several frigates to be fitted out im- mediately at Portsmouth, to sail for America, to te sta- tione there in order to cruize along the coasts, to prevent the French sending any ammunition or arms to the Ame- ricans, it having been discovered that they have carried on that trade and taken in return wheat and other grain; by which means they have full granaries in every sea port town in France. Extract of a letter from Madrid, Dec. 10. "It is computed that we have near 500 foreigners at work in our yards, above half of whom are English and Irish; and our marine is upon so good a footing, that when the men of war upon our stocks are finished, the navy will consist of 74 ships of the line, 12 frigates, and 22 smaller vessels; which I make no doubt will enable us in a very short time to give a good account of the Bar- barians.” Extract of a letter from the Hague, Dec. 23. " Orders are given to fit out six more frigates as soon as possible to cruize in the Mediterranean; and it is assu- red that this republic will make it a common cause with Spain, to chastise the insolence of the King of Morocco." Dec. 31. They write from Cadiz, that four regiments of Spanish troops are expected there, to embark on board some men of war going to Africa, in order to attempt something against the moors, who it is said have blocked up Ceuta, with 50,000 men. There are at this time in the two Prussias 70,000: well disciplined troops; and letters from Cracow advise, that a large body of Prussian troops, with a train of artillery is now in the neighbourhood of that city. </div> <h5>Page 3</h5</h5> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 1</h6> Letters from Cadiz mention, that the fleets of the Bar- bary States are become so powerful in the Mediterranean, that the Spanish ships are often obliged to shelter at Gib- raltar and Mahon. They write from Madrid, that the greatest preparations are making it every part of that kingdom, to carry on the war with great vigour. Advice is received that the Faircloth, Captain Stamer, belonging to America, after an obstinate fight of three hours, wherein the Captain was killed, is taken by a small Spa- nish guarda costa in Glover's reef, near the Bay of Hon- duras, and carried into Campeachy, where the crew are imprisoned. GLASGOW, JANUARY 5. WE hear that his Grace the Duke of Argyle, is going to establish a manufacture of woolen cloth in the town of Inverary; the gentlemen in the county of Argyle are now at great pains in introducing a proper breed of sheep, for the improvement of their wool, an object so material to the country, and for which the Highlands of Scotland are well adapted. It were to be wished that the nobility and gentlemen of Scotland would follow the example of the patriotic Duke above mentioned, and spend their money in encouraging industry and agriculture in their native country, in place of squandering it away abroad in folly and dissipation. This laudable conduct would soon put a stop to the emigrations so frequent of late, and would also increase population, the true wealth of a coun- try, for there is no axiom truer than this, Find employ- ment, and nature will find men. BOSTON, FEBRUARY 16. We hear from Falmouth in Casco-Bay, that one day last week as four or five men belonging to the Gaspee (one of the armed cutters, on the American station) were at- tempting to go ashore in the boat, were fired at from the vessel and one of them killed; they however landed with the dead body, and a jury of inquest was summoned who brought in their verdict Wilful Murder; upon which the proper civil officers went off with intent to secure the mur- derer, but were not permitted to go on board, NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 9. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Boston; to his friend in this city; dated Feb. 1, 1775. "The day appointed by the Provincial Congress for a public thanksgiving, a number of persons in this town shewed their disapprobation thereto, by opening their shops as usual, for which they were treated in a uncivil manner, and those persons were said to be Quakers. I therefore think it my duty, as an honest, impartial, andmost un- biassed member of that community, and one who wishes nothing more ardently than that a true, fair, and candid representation of facts might appear, to assure thee, and I can of my own certain knowledge assure thee; that it is a most malicious and injurious falsehood, and no doubt, propagated by the base enemies of our invaluable consti- tutional rights and privileges, for the most vile and ma- levolent purposes---for I do well know, that the Friends in this town, did not open their shops on said thanksgiv- ing day, nor have I heard any thing unfriendly or uncivil uttered by any of the inhalzitants of this town against them, as a people, for many years; but, on the contra- ry, I do most certainly know, that they are always, and on all occasions, treated with full as much (and I think more) catholic tenderness, friendly and neighbourly kind- ness and affection, than persons of any other sect or deno- mination amongst us. We are informed by a Gentleman just arrived from South Carolina, that the cold was so great there on the 12th of this month, that the ponds were frozen an inch thick. Last Monday the Committee of Observation met. It was proposed that they should nominate Delegates to the Continental Congress, for the approbation of the city and county, but being opposed, the final resolution of the Committee was deferred until next meeting. Last week orders were received from Virginia for the purchase of as large a quantity of arms as can be procured in this city. We are informed by a Captain of a vessel who arrived a few days ago from Antigua, that Admiral Parry, with the royal squadron under his command, on that station, has received orders to sail for Boston, where this gentle- man, will be second in command, as he is a junior Vice Admiral of the flag to Admiral Greaves; the Gentleman who brought this advice, added, that he heard Admiral Parry himself declare the above destination of his Maje- sty’s ships. A Negro plot has been lately discovered at Esopus, two of the principals have been detected and confessed that their design was to convey ammunition to the Indians, and to set fire to Esopus, Marble-town and other places. By Captain Quill, who arrived here yesterday in thirty days from the Bay of Honduras, we learn that the inha- bitants of that place are about to send a donation of one hundred thousand feet of Mahogany, to be sold in Eu- rope, for the relief of the poor of Boston. On Tuesday last, between twelve and one o'clock, the new hospital at Ranelagh, a large pile of building lately e- rected and nearly finished, was discovered to be on fire; the workmen being all gone to dinner, and the rooms lumbered with combustible materials, the flames spread so fast that before any help could be called, they were got to too great a height to be suppressed, and the whole wooden part of the building, the erecting of which had been the work of many months, was, in about an hour, reduced to ashes. It is unknown by what means the accident happened, but it is supposed that the shavings might have been left too near the fire. It is hoped, however, that charity, which reared this structure, will cause another to spring from its ashes, for the relief of the distressed poor. PROVIDENCE, (Rhode Island) Feb. 4. Mr. Caleb Wheaton, who some time since was obliged to quit this town for industriously vindicating the mea- sures of the ministry, returning here from Rehoboth the beginning of this week, which place he had likewise been obliged to leave; and yesterday a number of the inhabi- tants paid him a second visit, to remind him of their request, when he thought proper: to make a precipitate </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 2</h6> flight.---So may all the enemies to America become desti- tute of a resting place for the soles of their feet. Feb. 18. A spirit for military discipline continues to reign here, and the zeal with which the inhabitants have engaged therein reflects on them the highest credit; not a day passes (Sundays excepted) but some of the compa- nies are under arms, and such whose business will not permit their attendance in the day time, repair to the Court house in the evening, to perfect themselves in the exercise and maneuvers, at which they are already very expert.---A like laudable spirit continues to prevail in the country, where most of the companies lately formed are little inferior to regular troops.---So well convinced are the people, that the complexion of the times renders a knowledge of the military art indispensably necessary. A correspondent has sent us the following: "We have certain information from Middletown, in the colony of Connecticut, that Deacon Joseph Coe, Capt. David Coe, Isaac Miller, and Elihu Stone, of that place, have freed their Negroes, five in number, being healthy, able bodies, faithful persons. It is to be hoped that an example so worthy of imitation, by being publi- shed, may have some influence on all who are now nobly preparing to avoid a state of slavery, less grievous than that of Negroes, with which this country is threatened, even at the risk of their lives, and all they hold dear on earth. It must bring conviction to all who have any just conceptions of the natural rights of men, who all come into the world on equal footing as to natural liberty; the denial of this grand truth sets up a tyrant as easily as a master of slaves, more especially must this truly christian sacrifice of self interest (falsly so called) to truth and righ- teousness, powerfully affect all who prefers to have been set free by the gospel of Christ, and yet live in the daily known sin of slave keeping.---Be it likewise published to the world, that the Rev. Mr. Benedict, of said town, with many other clergymen of Connecticut, have borne a constant testimony, both in their public and private ca- pacities, against the infamous practise of slave keeping. Greatly is it to be wished, that all preachers of christia- nity, the most pure and glorious system of morals, and philosophic truth, as well as matters of faith and myste- ries peculiar to itself, would thus fulfil the christian law of love and universal benevolence, both in word and deed. NEWPORT, Feb. 13. We are informed that there was but one Tory in all New-Shoreham, on the 30th January, at which time the sons of Liberty had a meeting and requested him to renounce his wicked principles, but he refusing, they began to enquire for some tar and fea- thers, which not being ready at hand, they took some fish gurry and made a beginning to give him a new coat; up- on which he frankly confessed he was no tory, had acted only from a spirit of opposition, and despised, and hated a real Tory as much as he did a highway-robber, or the devil, their principles and practices being exactly simi- lar, and tending to the same end, viz. That of plundering and enslaving mankind. He promised to support the li- berties of his country for the future, and was ta- ken into the favour of his townsmen. It is now determined that the ship Beulah mentioned in our last, shall return to London in two days with all her Cargo, agreeable to the Resolves of the Congress. Feb. 20. By a Gentleman just arrived from the West Indies, we are informed, that the inhabitants of the Windward Islands are warm friends to American liberty : That they much approve of the proceedings of the conti- nental Congress, and will cheerfully suffer the incovenien- cies of the non-exportation agreement, as they conceive it will have a very great tendency to engage the inhabi- tants of Great-Britain in favour of America. This harbour, and Fogland Ferry, is very narrow watched, by the Rose frigate, and the Swan sloop. A Gentleman lately from Boston, informs that the sol- diers are very sickly and die fast ; that he counted up- wards of two hundred soldiers graves, and was credibly informed that there had often been 3. 4. and 5 buried in one grave; that our brethren in that insulted town, were in high spirits, and undauntedly determined to hold out to the last extremity. NEW - LONDON, FEBRUARY 17. The other evening, two of the inhabitants of a place lately known and called by the name of Ridgefield, put up in a public house in Weathersfield, and entering in- to conversation, boldly justified the vote of said town of Ridgefield, in disapproving of the doings of the con- tinental congress; and proceeded far in supporting court doctrines of passive obedience to parliament, &c. which being taken notice of by a number of Gentlemen pre- sent, they considered it in effect as a direct breach of the association of the congress, and thereupon voted, that in their opinion it was proper that these persons should be returned the way from whence they came, under safe conduct from town to town, to the said place lately known by the said name of Ridgefield ; and that all honest and true men to their country might know and avoid them, proper persons were appointed by the meeting instantly to attend them as far as Far- mington, on their return; and there to acquaint the inhabitants of their behaviour, and leave them, to their farther transportation, as is usual, and as by law is provided, in cases of strolling idiots, lunatics, &c. A letter was accordingly wrote to the Gentlemen at Far- mington, representing their unhappy and desperate si- tuation, which was signed by the principle gentlemen present, and the unhappy men, properly escorted, set off at nine o'clock amidst the, hisses, groans, &c. of a respectable concourse of people, the populace following them out of town, beating a dead march. Not the least violence, was offered, but the whole was conducted with the utmost regularity; and the company dispersed fully resolved that as no one of those principles is supposed now to be an inhabitant of that town, it shall be their care and attention that no such shall be hereafter tolerated within it, not even for a night. ANTIGUA, January 25. WE have received the following melancholy account of a storm which happened at Madeira, by Capt. George Keys, just arrived here, and whose ship was lost in it: On the 8th of December last, the gale came on, which obliged all the shipping then in the bay to put to sea, among which a large Dutch ship bound for Surinam, </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 3</h6> was drove ashore and totally lost; also a Portuguese brig- posed to have foundered at Sea. On the 17th, being fine weather, and the wind easterly, the shipping all returned to anchor in the bay of Fonchall. It continued fair till Sunday the 18th about 3 o'clock, P.M. when a sudden and heavy squall came on from the south, and continued to blow with such unrelenting fury, as to prevent the shipping getting out, attended with thunder, lightning and rain. About midnight, six sail out of seven were dashed in pieces, their names as follow: The Aurora, Capt. George Keys, from London; ship lost, with three of his hands, the Capt. happily was ashore. The Betsy Gregg, Capt. John Griffiths, vessel lost, the Captain with the whole crew, in number fifteen, perished. The Peggy and Betsey, from Maryland, Captain Lewes, ship lost, the crew saved. A Danish ship, Capt. Bee, the vessel lost, fourteen hands, and one woman passenger perished, the Captain being a- shore his life was saved. Two Portuguese vessels, the Commanders and crews leaving them in the beginning of the gale, saved their lives, the vessels totally lost, Capt. Stewart, of the ship Dawkins; from London for Jamaica, was the only vessel that rode out the storm, having parted one cable, and the other near going, when the dreadful tempest abated. So terrible and treinendous a gale has never been known in the memory of the oldest man living in Madeira. NORFOLK, March 8. 1775. We are informed that ADIEL MILBY, Esq; one of the Burgesses for Northampton County, Eastern-Shore, attempting to get up a tree had left his gun rested on the trunk, the piece by accident went immediately off, and un- fortunately killed him on the spot. A REBUS. ONE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD. LOST LAST NIGHT. TAKE the Name of a Town on the Med Way in KENT, The first Syllable add to one Third of Intent: To these add the Part where the Senses com- bine; You'll discover the LOSS at which I repine! DOROTHY KILLDOODLE. ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. A SCHOONER, two Years old; Bur- then about twenty three hundred Bu- shels. For Terms apply to PHRIPP & BOWDOIN. Norfolk, March 15, 1775. (2) 41 AS the Subscriber intends to leave this Place soon, Those to whom he is in- debted, will be paid in such Goods as he ge- nerally makes or mends. And those who have Materials or Goods to make or mend in his Hands, are desired to send or call for them, within ten Days from the Date hereof. HENRY VANAL, Cutler. Norfolk, March 16, 1775. (3) 41 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sub- scriber forewarns all Persons from Cut- ting or Carting on her Plantation, lying on the Southern Branch; Likewise the Procession Masters from processioning the Line now made; without giving Notice to her at Hampton. JUDITH HERBERT. March 14, 1775. (3) 41 GOODS and Houshold FURNITURE For SALE THE Subscriber will leave the Colony soon, and is now selling off her stock of Goods, (cheap for ready money,) at her. Shop in Church-Street.---They consist of Women's Quilted PETTICOATS, CAMBLETS, DURANTS, CALLIMANCOES, TEMMY's, Scarlet CLOAKS, Mens and Womens STOCKINGS of various sorts, Millenary Wares, likewise many other Articles, too tedious to enumerate. Also Houshold furniture, such as Feather Beds, Blan- kets, Bed Linen. Looking Glasses, Chairs, Tables, &c. The Goods and Furniture have been lately imported from London, are fashionable, and in good condition. JANE WELLS. NORFOLK March 14, 1775 WANTED JOURNEYMEN WEAVERS. that are acquainted with any of the following Branches, viz. Weaving of Cotton Velvets, Velverets, Thicksets, Jeans, Fustians, Dimothy's, Counterpanes, Linen, Damask, Diaper, Gauze, Lawn, or Woolens : Such will meet with good encouragement by applyng to GARDINER FLEMING NORFOLK March 15, 1775 (ts) 41 N. B. The different pieces or patterns, when difficult, troublesome, or intricate; will be prepared and mounted for them. </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 1</h6> P O E T R Y. Claudian. De Raptu Proserpinæ. Book 2d. The description of PROSERPINE weeping. O'ER all the rooms a pleasant silence reigns Attentive to the nymph's melodious strains; Whilst for her mother she in vain designs A curious gift, which in its lustre shines Her greatest skill.---First with the needle's trace, She mark'd each element its proper place; Shew'd how, when all things dark confusion hid, From Chaos order rose, as nature bid Here tow'rds their centres various atoms tend, The Heavier sink, the lighter swift ascend: The æther look'd inflamed with glowing heat; Below, the waves in murmuring surges beat; There the earth hung, self balanced in its seat. Nor was one colour thro' the tapestry seen, The stars were gold, the waters flow'd in green; Gem's grac'd the coast for rocks: her thread so well She plac'd, the billows seem to foam and swell; You'd think you heard them with an echoing roar Dash the sea-weed against the founding shore, And murm'ring o'er the sands their current pour. Five zones she adds to make the work compleat, The middle raging with the dog star's heat: By too much fun, (such was her wondrous art,) The loom look'd parch,d and dry'd in every part. On either side the temperate zones appear, Where milder seasons grace the circling year. Near the web's utmost bounds you might behold The regions curst with everlasting cold: There winter reign'd in all its horrors drest, And e'en the threads a frozen hue exprest. Next hell's grim Tyrant's gloomy court she drew, And brought his hid dominions out to view: When a forbidding prodigy ensu'd: For sudden tears her beauteous cheeks bedew'd Now round the borders of the web began The waves to flow, and close the destin'd plan: When three goddesses approach'd the room, Whom the nymph seeing rose, and left her loom; Surpriz'd at guests divine, a purple red, [illegible] of modesty, her cheeks bespred; with such a blush no ivory can vie, By Lydian virgins stain'd with Tyrian dye. THE Subscriber sells by Wholesale and Retail, all Sorts of DRUGS and ME- DICINES at a low Advance; for READY MONEY.---He wants a Quantity of Virgi- nia SNAKE ROOT well cured; for which he will give five Shillings current Money of VIRGINIA, per Pound.---He wants also a Quantity of BEES WAX, for which he will give eighteen Pence per Pound. ALEX. GORDON. Norfolk, February 28, 1775. (3) 39. SAMUEL BLEWES, From BIRMINGHAM At his Shop, in Church-Street, NORFOLK. MAKES and Sells all sorts of Locks, Hinges, large Press Screws for Clothiers &c. He has lately en- gaged able Tradesmen from LONDON, whom he employs in finishing Cheaps and Tongues for Buckles, in the most elegant, fashionable and compleat manner; in general he performs every thing belonging to the White-Smiths bus- iness. The PUBLIC may be assured that what the Sub- scriber undertakes, he will be punctual in executing, and studious to give Satisfaction; and they may depend on being reasonably charged. SAMUEL BLEWES. NORFOLK March 8, 1775. 4 40 N. B. He makes Strong Locks for Prisons or Stores, that cannot be pick'd; from four Dollars, to five Pounds. Also marking Irons of any size or dimension, for bran- ding Casks &c. WHEREAS the Partnership of CHISHOLM and HOLSTEAD, by mutual Consent of the Parties, will be dissolved on the 10th Day of April next: All those Persons who have any Demands against them or the Sub- scriber, are desired to apply for Payment; and those indebted, to pay off their several Balan- ces immediately, or give Bond.---It is ex- pected that all Concerned, will duly regard this Notice; save themselves Expences, and me the Trouble and Inconveniency of making per- sonal Application.---This is the more necessary, as I intend to leave the Colony soon, and am the only proper Person to settle the Business I have transacted. LATIMER HOLSTEAD. Norfolk, Feb. 28, 1775. (3) 39 WANTED TO CHARTER. A SHIP that will carry from 150 to 200 Thousand of LUMBER to load here for JAMAICA, and from thence to proceed to the Bay of HONDURAS, to load LOGWOOD and MAHOGANY for LONDON, apply to INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (3), 39 FOR SALE about three Thousand Bus- shels of WHEAT; for Terms apply to ALEX. LOVE. Norfolk, March 1, 1775 (ts) 39 </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 2</h6> On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improve- ments thereon, lying on CRAWFORD Street, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circum- stances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them from North to South, parallel with Crawford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the Eastward thereof.----- The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Ports- mouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.-----The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots.-----The North LOT to con- tain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street.-----The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bring- ing and heaving down any Ship at his Wharf; provided he covers no more of the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.-----The Advantages at- tending these Lotts in point of Situation, Wa- ter, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing fur- ther on this Head would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX. LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775. (6) 37 IF JOHN FOWLER, (Son of John Fowler late of Wapping Street LON- DON, Sand-man) be alive, and see this Ad- vertisement, He is desired forthwith to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Commander of the Ship Betsey, now lying at Norfolk, who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to Mr. Michael Henley of Wap- ping Merchant, constituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who will secure his inhe- ritance for him.-----Mr. Henley having been an intimate acquaintance of his late Fa- ther, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested ac- count of his death and burial, when, and where, properly certified.-----All Charges and Ex- pences attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. Ross, or JOHN BROWN, & Co. N. B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Servant, about six or seven years ago, to some part of North-America. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. FOR SALE, A Tract of well timbered Land, contain- ing about four Hundred and fifty Acres, in the County of Currituck, North-Carolina; Distant twenty four Miles from Norfolk, ad- joining to the Lands of Messrs. Francis Wil- liamson, and Tatem Wilson.-----Credit will be given, and the Times of Payment made easy.-----For further Particulars, apply at Belville, to Thomas Macknight, Esq; or at Norfolk, to JAMES PARKER. N. B. The Subscriber wants a Negro or Mulatto Boy, used to taking Care of Hor- ses, for which he will give Ready MONEY. Norfolk, March 9, 1774. (3) 40. RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, the 11th of last month, a Ne- gro fellow named DANIEL; he is thick and well set, about five feet 5 or 6 inches high, has a scar under one of his eyes, a gloomy countenance; Is about 22 years of Age, and has a yellow Complexion; seldom looks one in the face: He is used to the Bay trade, is much addicted to gaming; it is suspected he will endeavour to pass for a free man.-----Had on when he went off, a Fearnought Jacket, a pair of old blue cloth Breeches and an oznabrig shirt: But as he is an old offender, it is pro- bable he will change his Clothes. Whoever takes up said Negro and delivers him to me or secures him so that I may get him again, if within the Colony, shall receive a Reward of Three POUND, & if taken out of it Five POUND from JOHN HAYNIE NORTHUMBERLAND Count March 4th, 1775. N. B. All Masters of Vessels and Others, are forbid employing, harbouring, or carrying of said Negro at their Peril. (3) 40 </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 3</h6> DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Broun Sugar, one Tierce Spi- rits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cut- lery: these ought to have been delivered at COLCHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Spirits; for Mr. Ri- CHARD GRAHAM at DUMFRIES.---After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sadle- ry, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. James Mills, at Urbanna; which were also to have been de- livered to Mr. John Mills at Colchester; Mr. JOHN Mills informed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. Mr. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this publication, and to offer a reward of Twen- ty Pounds, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or Five POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off.-----Boston is a- bout 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, liv- ing on Pocomoake river Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way: he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and cieled, her quarter deck is cove- red over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the re- ward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES MILLS at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchester; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE. TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. BARTHOLOMEW LEPETIT, Dancing MA- STER, begs Leave to Address himself to each Gentle- men and Ladies, that may be willing to encourage him in that Branch of Education; by informing them, that he has opened a SCHOOL at Mr. NICHOLAS GAU- TIERS in Church Street, and intends (should he meet with Encouragement sufficient to enable him to reside here) to continue Teaching every Saturday: Those that are inclinable to commit any young Gentlemen or Ladies to his Care, may depend on having the strictest Attention paid in every Respect, to Qualify them in that gen- teel Accomplishment, and the Favour will be gratefully acknowledged: He proposes also opening a School at Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th March, where he has a very convenient Room for that Purpose, at Mrs. BELL's. N. B. Having tanght the FRENCH for sometime in this Country as well as in LONDON, where he studied under an able French-Master, with some little Share of Ap- plause: he doubts not but it will be sufficient to recom- mend him to such as would chuse to learn that agreeable LANGUAGE, and at the same Time desirous to be in- formed of its peculiar Niceties; whom he will take plea- sure in waiting upon, either at Home or Abroad.---His< Terms are; for DANCING, 20s. per Quarter, and two Dollars entrance.-----For FRENCH, 30s. per Quar- ter, and a Pistole entrance. Attendance three Times a Week. Norfolk, March, 9, 1775. (2) 40 The Imported HORSE, Young CARVER, FOUR years old this Summer, stands at the Subscribers at the Great-Bridge; Covers Mares, at 30 Shillings the Leap, or three Pounds the Season.-----Good Pastu- rage, (but none warranted to return if Stolen or Srayed.) CARVER, was got by old CARVER, a Horse the property of his Majesty, by the famous York-Shire Lake Mare, Lady-Legs. For further Particulars,---See the Horse. CHARLES MAYLE. March 8th, 1775.(ts) 40 KEYSER'S celebrated PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, are to be sold at the Printing-Office. (Printed directions for using them, may be had gratis. For S A L E BEST Surinam Molasses; in Hogsheads, Tierces and Barrels. PHRIPP & BOWDOIN. NORFOLX March 14, 1775. TO THE PUBLIC, THE Subscriber opens his DANCING SCHOOL, at the Masons Hall on Friday, the 17th instant: He solicits the GENTLEMEN, and LADIES of NORFOLK, for their interest in tutoring their CHILDREN in that BRANCH, and may be assured that all due ATTENDANCE will be given to satisfy THEM, JOHN NEWTON COOKE. Norfolk, March 10. 1775. (3) 41. </div> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1775. NUMBER 42 UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICUS. – HOR. NORFOLK: - Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office; where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of News from VIRGI- NIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully received and duly inserted.---Advertisements of a moderate Length for 3 s. the first Week, and 2 s. each Week after---Price of the PAPER, 12 s. 6 d. per ANNUM. From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET. As the establishing of manufactories among ourselves must undoubtedly be of great advantage to the public, it is hoped that every friend to his country will endeavour to promote the following plan, to which a considerable number of gentlemen have already subscribed. PLAN of an AMERICAN MANUFACTORY. WE the subscribers, being deeply impressed with a sense of our present difficulties, and ear- nestly solicitous, as far as in our power, to support the freedom, and promote the wel- fare of our country on peaceable and constitutional prin- ciples; and well knowing how much the establishing ma- nufactories amongst ourselves would contribute thereunto, besides exciting a general and laudable spirit of industry among the poor, and putting the means of supporting themselves into the hands of many, who at present are a public expence, and also to convince the public that our country is not unfavourable to the establishing manufac- tories, DO AGREE to form ourselves into a company for the promoting of an American manufactory on the fol- lowing principles, subject to such rules and regulations as shall be hereafter agreed on. I. That the company be called THE UNITED COM- PANY OF PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS. II. That the company shall continue for three whole years, commencing on the day of the first general meeting of the subscribers. III. That a share in the company be fixed at TEN POUNDS, after payment whereof every subscriber shall be entitled to a vote in common on all occasions, and also to be elected to any office belonging to the company, and no person shall be entrusted with any office but a member thereof. IV. That we will begin with the manufacturing of woolens, cottons and linen, and carry on the same to the greatest extend and advantage our stock will admit of during the three years aforesaid, for which purpose we do agree to pay into the hands of the treasurer, who shall be hereafter chosen, one moiety or full half of each of our subscriptions, within one week after the first general meet ing of the subscribers, and the other moiety within two months after the aforesaid general meeting; all which monies paid as aforesaid, together with all the profits a- rising from the manufactory, shall be continued as com- pany stock for the space, and to the full end of three whole years, commending on the day of the first general meeting of the subscribers aforesaid. V. That a general meeting of the subscribers shall be called by written tickets within one week after two hun- red subscriptions are obtained, in order to choose by ballot, for the first years, twelve managers, a secretary and treasurer, to fix the time of the annual meeting for our future elections, and to do all other matters and things as may then be deemed necessary for the better re- gulating the affairs of the company. VI. That one third of the managers, and no more, be changed annually, on the day of the election, by their drawing lots for their going out, and on the death or departure out of the city and its districts, of any mana- ger for the space of three calendar months, the other ma- nagers may choose another in his stead, who shall be con- sidered as acting in the room of the deceased or departed manager. VII. That the managers carry on the manufactory a- greeable to the rules of the company, and shall have the whole direction thereof, and shall attend two by two in turn every day at the manufactory store, at such hours as they shall agree upon, to oversee the business, draw orders on the treasurer, and give the necessary directions. VIII. That the treasurer shall give security for the faithful discharge of this trust; and for accounting for, and delivering up to his successor in said office all such monies, books, writings and effects, as shall then be in his hands belonging to the company, at such times as the managers of a majority of them shall direct and require, which security the managers are hereby required to see duly given, executed and recorded in the office for record- ing of deeds for the county of Philadelphia, before any such treasurer, so elected, shall enter upon his said office: And the treasurer is hereby enjoined to answer no order but such as shall be signed by the two attending managers for the day, as aforesaid, which said orders shall be good vouchers to indemnify him. IX. That a state of the manufactory and of the com- pany’s accounts shall be fairly made out at the end of every six months, and kept in the manufactory store, for the inspection of the members. X. That the managers shall have power to call a gene ral meeting as often as they shall find it necessary to take the advice of the company in any affair, or to lay any proposal or matter of importance before them. XI. That after the first general meeting of the sub- <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> scribers, three weeks notice of the time and place of meeting, on one of the News-papers, shall be sufficient to call a general meeting of the company; and no rule nor regulation shall be binding on the company, but such as shall have received the approbation of a majority of the members present at a general meeting. FROM the PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST. On the PROMISES of CANDIDATES, the THANKS of Members to their ELECTORS and a VISION on the DISSOLUTION of PARLIAMENT. STULTUS ES QUI HUIC CREDAS. You are a fool for believing this voluble fellow. -MOMUS. TO see the zeal of our candidates, to hear their pro- fessions, and to read their promistory virtuous con- duct; a man, with more understanding than myself, may be inclined to believe that the new Parliament promises to be something better than the last; and Indeed there is very great room for amendment, for if ever one was more polluted, more prostituted, and more putrid at the very heart than another, the last Parliament claims a charact- ter of more infamy than ever fell to the share of the people before. For my part, I doubt the amendment; virtue is not amongst the people, and it is with them that this improve- ment must originate. What can we say, when we see bo- roughs reject virtuous men, and take the most abject, sup- ple tools of administration-fellows with only the parts to do evil, and impudence to put virtue out of counte- nance. Clerks of offices, needy dependents; fangled Se- cretaries, dupes to power; Agents to regiments, garbled to prostitution; Nabobs without sense, reason, honor, or reflections; Captains without principles, Knights without truth; Baronets without confidence; Honorables, and Right Honorables, without the least pretence to honor, truth, sense, dignity, or elocution; and still we hope great things from the new Parliament. I own, I de- spair - my hope is sunk - the dice are cast- and Eng- land is undone. But not to be serious longer - to laugh at these new motely fools is better; we may laugh them into reason - and if we succeed, it will be a great com- pliment to the risible god. The first specimen of their abilities, we are presented with in the public prints, where- in we see them exhibit their best productions; for the de- dictory address to the worthy freemen, &c. comes forth well penned like a lad’s exercise at school, only not so well written, nor quite so grammatical. But writing, every elector should pass by, as it is not the agreement between the member and his constituents; the latter on- ly engage their Parliament men to speak for them, and therefore whatever ignorance they discover in their ad- dress, is no disparagement, as it is not any part of the business of a burgess in Parliament; consequently as good writing and good sense have nothing to do in the compo- sition of these strange creatures, we may with impunity make a few remarks on their various motely addresses to the different freemen of this country. First of all, Mr. W. Dowdeswell and E. Foley speak very prettily to the freeholders of the county of Wor- cester; by begging permission humbly to entreat the fa- vour of their votes and interest, and to assure them how sensible they are of past-favours; all the obligation they feel on that account will be doubled by a repetition and a continuance of confidence. No one in the county doubts this home felt zeal; but though Mr. Dowdeswell was bold in company, as hounds are in pack, yet, when he is reduced to a non-substantive, and standeth by him- self, he confesseth himself guilty of great presumption in offering his services, as a speedy recourse to a warmer climate is absolutely necessary. Therefore, the county of Worcester hath great expectation from a member who will retreat with the sun, and not return, cum hirundine primo. Now although Mr. Plumer is a candidate for the coun- ty of Hertford, yet Lord Grimstone out plumes him in rhetorical flourishes, when he says, I am firmly resolved to adhere to the principles of my ancestors, which have ever been-repugnant to those of the Revolution - choose me, (says my Lord) I shall be always happy in shewing myself. But he does not mention whether he means at Almack’s, Whites, Boodle’s, or Mrs. Goadby’s; and therefore it is impossible to judge of his Lordship’s principles. Our good friend, Mat. Brickdale, hath a pleasing me- thod of speaking of himself to the freemen of Bristol, nor is he backward in his own praise; but as it his native city, he may be more free with his kinsmen than he could venture to be with strangers. Should your kind suffrages replace me in your service, I shall continue to act with the same honesty. Now supposing Matthew to be an honest man, it does not become him to say so of himself; and if he is not, why he assures us he shall be but as ho- nest as usual; and so far, Master Matthew, that is honest. Tom Egerton, addressing the county palatine of Lan- </div> <div> <h6>Column 3</h6> caster, vows, if again he should be the object of their choice. Now, by hoping to be the object of their choice, I should be apt to think Tom was a pretty fellow and in this he was casting a sheep’s eye at the ladies. Upper Ossery and Mr. Ongley are very clear in their address to the county of Bedford; for say they, The dis- solution of Parliament must necessarily produce a new day of election. It did not require a ghost to tell us that ! Mr. Peachy hurries his periods on to the county of Sussex, as if he meant to be angry, when he says, I did not attend at the meeting at Lewis. That is as much as to tell us he was not there; for which he is sorry, as it may be the unlucky means of losing his election. Mr. Fenwick talks to the freeholders of Westmoreland as if he meant they ought to believe him, when he strikes his pensive bosom, and cries, Here lies an upright heart! Indeed, I shall be very sorry if they do not credit a gentle- man, who takes so much pains to give so much credit to himself. ”In manners humble, in affections cold, ”In wit a spark, and tho’ not WELL not old.” Lord Bulkeley like another Phaeton, mistakes the hus- tings for the chariot of the sun, and to the good people of Angelsea declares (as if the reins and whip were given him) Ambitious of the honour, I’ll ride and drive; and if you have a mintl to save my horses, as the people did those of the two great patriots, Sir, Watkin Lewes and Mr. Meak, why draw my carriage and be d---d-! Our young George Grenville rather treats the Buck cavalierly, Being as ambitious of representingyou, as I am ignorant of your dispositions. – George, stop! How can you, my dear Georgy, be ambitious of representing a people you declare you know nothing about? Oh, the rod hath never tickled your tail, or you had never thus publicly exposed it, my dear Georgy! Here I have showed you the penmanship of those caval- leros, who solicit your votes to elect them to Parliament; and now, with your permission, I shall shew you the abi- lities of others who are already elected, and who humbly thank their constituents for the honour, glory, favour, dig nity, respect and trust, which they have conferred upon them; not that I think their gratitudes have produced a title more good sense than their solicitous addresses and dedicatory prayers. The first man (not returned) is the redoubtable Admi- ral Pudding, whom an impudent sailor presented with an halter in a pye on the Hustings, and entreated him to use it for the peace of himself, and the good of his country. No address of thanks came from his mouth; he only hung his handkerchief across his nose, which looked like a sprit- sail loosed to dry on the Barfleur’s boltsprit. Chagrined and disappointed, the gallant mariner retired to town, to lull his cares in the arms of some admiring fair one; for no sailor ever climbed the shrouds with that success as our hero ascends into the ladies favours; and when unable to arise to the top gallant bliss of his hope, he mounts in a basket to their bossoms. SIC ITUR AD ASTA –some pius Aeneas. Mess. Strutt and Nassau first come pricking o’er the plain, pleased with their success, which they gave us a small sense of --Thus The Honor you have done us, and the spirit you support our election with, demand our war- mest thanks. But here we are alarmed! We repeat, it is our resolutions to recover your lost rights, and are with gratitude for your lost rights – which is absolutely so, ac- cording to the old stroke of nominative café and verb. -- I suppose, they meant to confess obliquely, that they have bought their rights, and so they have lost them in course. Now the Lord Waltham does not shew much grief up- on his defeat; for he seems determined to be jolly, and inviteth all the defeated electors to dine with him on the first of November, to get them into heart and spirit a- gainst another rencounter. His Lordship wishes much for this convivial mark of their attention; and if I know the stretch of a stomach in Malden, I will be grilled for a kidney if there is a man among them disappoints his Lordship in that particular. – Capt. Lutrell, who haran- gued so well for the liberty of the nation at Malden be- fore, has the mortification to find, that his words made no impression on the leaden fronts of the freemen; his patriotic speech vanished into thin air, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a wreck behind---but poor Lord Waltham! We now travel to Stockbridge, and there we see the lively Captain availing himself of the opportunity of re- turning his warmest acknowledgements; he then, in a N. B. pledges himself for his Father, which is more than Lord Irnham would do for a son. My Lord’s a good Father, And Hal’s a good Brother; But the devil take one for the sake of the other. Mr. Stanley, that bur of state, who climbs into of- fice like a parrot by the beak, and talks like the bird too, only what he is taught; he, in conjunction with Mr. Fleming comes forward, and insures the inhabitants </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> of Southampton, That they will endeavour to deserve their confidence by a steady attachment to the true inte- rest of their country. What a saving clause is the word endeavour! For let them err ever so much by palpable design; they have always the good excuse at hand they did endeavour to the best of their poor abilities. After Mr. Stanley’s long ministerial attachments, how could ye, ye, sons of Southampton, trust the man again? From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. The following is an address presented to General Gage, from the Selectmen of six towns in the county of Ply- mouth, occasioned by a number of soldiers being stati- oned at Marblehead in said county, in a time of peace To his Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq; May it please your Excellency, WE his Majesty’s loyal subjects, Selectmen of the se- veral towns of Pymouth, Kingston, Duxburgh, Pembroke, Hanover and Scituate, deeply affected with a sense of the increasing dangers and calamities, which me nace one of the most promising countries upon earth with political exition, cannot but lament, that while we are endeavouring to preserve peace, and maintain the autho- rity of the laws; at a period, when the bands of govern- ment are relaxed, by violent infractions on the charter of the province, our enemies are practising every insidious stratagem, to seduce the people into acts of violence and outrage. We beg leave to address your Excellency, on a subject which excites our apprehensions extremely: And in the representation of facts, we promise to pay that sacred re- gard to truth, which had our adversaries observed, we flat- ter ourselves, it would have precluded the necessity of our addressing your excellency on this occasion. We are informed from good authority, that a number of people from Marblehead and Scituate, have made ap- plication to your Excellency, soliciting the aid of a de tachment of his Majesty’s troops, for the security and protection of themselves and properties. That their fears and intimidation were entirely groundless, that no design, or plan of molestation, was formed against them, or existed in their own imaginations; their own de- claration, and their actions, which have a more striking language, abundantly demonstrate. Several men of un- questionable veracity, residing in the town of Marblehead, have solemnly called God to witness, before one of his Majesty’s Justices of the peace, that they not only never heard of any intention to disturb the complainants; but repeatedly saw them, after they pretended to be under ap- prehensions of danger, attending to their private affairs without arms; and even after they had lodged their arms, a few miles distant from their respective houses. They frequently declared in conversation with their deponents, that they were nor apprehensive of receiving any injury in their persons or properties: and one of them, who is a minor (as many of them are) being persuaded to save his life, by adjoining himself to the petitioners, but af- terwards abandoning them by the request of his father, deposeth in the like solemn manner, that he was under no intimidation himself, nor did he ever hear any of them say that he was. It appears as evident as if written with a sun-beam, from the general tenor of the testimony, (which we are willing to lay before you Excellency, if desired) that their expressions of fear, were a fallacious pretext, dictated by the inveterate enemies of our consti- tution, to induce Your Excellency to send troops into the country, to augment the difficulties of our situation, al- ready very distressing; and what confirms this truth, (if it needs any confirmation) is the assiduity and pains which we have taken to investigate it: We have industriously and impartially scrutinized into the cause of this alarm, and cannot find that it has the least foundation in re- ality. All that we have in view in this address, is to lay be- for your Excellency a true state of facts, and to remove that opprobium, which this movement of the military reflects on this county: and as a spirit of enmity and falsehood is prevalent in the county, and as every thing which comes from a gentleman of your Excellency’s ex-alted station, naturally acquires great weight and impor- tance, we earnestly intreat your Excellency, to search in- to the grounds of every report, previous to giving your assent to it. Signed by a number of selectmen. Pembroke, February 7, 1775. At a Meeting of the COMMITTEE for the County of CRAVEN, and Town of NEWBERN, on the 4th Day of March, 1775. RESOLVED, that at this critical Juncture it becomes the Duty of this COMMITTEE to remind their Constituents, that several important Rules and Regula- tions, established by the General Congress, have now late- ly taken place; and they hereby beg Leave earnestly to exhort them, as they regard the future Welfare of them- selves and their Posterity, to remain firm and steady in the common Cause of Liberty, and that they testify the same by paying a sacred Regard to those Rules, as the only Means left, under Divine Providence, of delivering AMERICA from the cruel Hand of arbitrary Power: We, of the COMMITTEE, at the same Time observe, with inex- pressable Joy, that the People of New-York remain firm in the good Cause of Liberty, notwithstanding every Art that a corrupt Ministry, and a Set of despicable Scribblers under them, could invent and put in Practice, to create a Division of political Sentiments in that Province; and that they have lately obliged Two Ships, richly laden with BRITISH Goods, to leave their Port, and return to the place from whence they came, agreeable to the Ar- ticles of Association recommended by the General Con- gress, which all are equally bound, by every Tie of Ho- nour, mutual Faith, and personal Security, to observe and support, for the arbitrary Designs of Parliament ap_ pear no longer under Disguise ---- the Standard of its Ty- ranny is now erected in this once happy Land; and a melancholy Sample have they afforded us, of what we may expect in future from their Justice and Equity, if we submit to their Edicts already past; for she not only assumes the Right of taxing us at Pleasure, and, in short, of making Laws to bind us in all Cases whatsoever; but, to crown the Whole, she has past a Law for transporting us like Felons occasionally over Sea, to be tried, con- demned and punished, in Case we should at any Time murmur at our Hardships, or prove otherwise obnoxious to Men in Power; and to carry this most cruel Scheme </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> of Tyranny into Execution, we find the Towns of our Fellow Countrymen to the Northward infested with Armies, and their Ports and Harbours with Fleets. Be sensible, O Americans! of your Danger; let that unite you together as one Man, and cease not to implore the great Disposer of all Things to assist and crown with Success the Councils of the General Congress. R. Gogdell, Abner Nash, Richard Blackledge, Farnisold Green, John Fonveille, James Davis, Edmond Hatch, James Coor, Jacob Johnston, Jacob Blount, Joseph Leech, Alex. Gaston, William Bryan. NORTH-CAROLINA, ff. By his Excellency, JOSIAH MARTIN, Esquire, Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over said Province. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS an Advertisement is printed in the Public Newspapers, and also industriously, circu- lated about this Colony in hand-bills, dated from Per- quimans County, the 11th day of February, 1775, re- questing the counties and towns thereof to elect Delegates to represent them in Convention at the town of Newbern on Monday the 3d day of April next, and signed John Harvey, Moderator AND WHEREAS the Name and Authority of such an Officer and such Meeting is unknow to the Law and Constitution of this Country, and such an Invitation to the People may tend to ensnare the un- wary and ignorant among his Majesty’s loyal and faithful Subjects in this Province to partake in the Guilt of such unlawful Proceedings, AND WHEREAS the Assem- bly of this Province, duly elected, is the only true and lawful Representative of the People to chuse another Body of Representatives to meet at the Time and Place appointed for the Meeting of the Assembly, is to betray them into a Violation of the Constitution in a Point wherein they are most materially concerned to support it, a Contempt of that Branch of the Legislature which re- presents the People, and highly derogatory to its Power, Rights and privileges: I HAVE thought proper, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty’s Council of this Province, to issue this Proclamation, and I do here- by earnestl exhort the many good People of this Pro- vince, who have to their Honour hitherto prudently with- stood the insidious Attempt of evil-minded and designing Men, that they do on this Occasion stedfastly persevere in such loyal and dutiful Conduct, and continue to resist and treat with just Indignation all Measures so subversive of Order and Government, and so inconsistent with the Allegiance they owe to his Majesty, and that they do not subject themselves to the Restraints of tyrannical and arbitrary Committees, which as already in many Instan- ces proceeded to the Extravagance of forcing his Majesty’s Subjects, contrary to their Consciences, to submit to their unreasonable Seditious and chimerical Resolves, doing thereby the most cruel and unparalleled Violence to their Liberties, under the Pretence of relieving them from I- maginary Grievances. AND I DO further exhort all his Majesty’s Subjects in this Province, as they value their dearest Rights under the Present happy Constitution, and as they would testify their Duty and Allegiance to the best of Kings, that they forbear to meet to choose Per- sons to represent them in Convention, pursuant to the Advertisement herein before recited. AND I DO also earnestly recommend to them to renounce, disclaim, and discourage all such Meetings, Cabals and illegal Pro- ceedings, which artful and designing Men shall attempt to engage them in, which can only tend to introduce Disorder and Anarchy, to the Destruction of the real In- terests and Happiness of the People and to involve this Province in Confusion, Disgrace and Ruin. GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the said Province, at NEWBERN, the 1st Day of March Anno Dom. 1775, and in the 15th Year of his Ma- jesty’s Reign. JO MARTIN. GOD save the KING. By his Excellency’s Command, SAMUEL STRUDWICKE, Sec. LONDON, JANUARY 5. A private treaty having been entered into between the Grand Signior and the Emperor and Empress of Germa- ny, we have been favoured with the following extract and account of it: I. The Sublime Porte agrees to pay to the Imperial Court, for the expences of the preparations for war, twenty thousand purses of silver, of five hundred piastres each (thirty millions of piastres) immediately after sign- ing this convention, in the following order, viz. four thousand purses to be sent immediately to the Frontiers, and six thousand more to be sent afterwards to the same place, with all convenient speed, but with the greatest degree of secrecy. The whole sum to be afterwards paid in the same manner. But if the necessity of keeping this matter secret should cause a delay of one month, it shall be no contravention to this agreement. Farther, if the Imperial Court (as well as the respective commissaries on each side should think proper to employ two or three thousand purses to carry on certain secret views, they shall be indemnified, and the Grand Signior will indemnify them for it. II. The Sublime Porte, to testify its gratitude and ac- knowledgement to their Imperial Majesties for their gene- rous proceeding, agrees to cede to them all the province of Wallachia, and its dependencies. By another article, the Imperialists are to have a free trade throughout all the dominions of the Grand Signior. By the last article, the Imperial Court is to deliver from the hands of the Russians, either by arms or treaty all the country and fortresses taken, or that shall be taken from the Sublime Porte during the war. DONE at CONSTANTINOPLE, June. Letters from Hamburgh mention, that an order has just been issued out there, to prevent the merchants from supplying the principal State of Barbary with cannon and other warlike stores. Yesterday, in pursuance of an advertisement for a meet- </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> ing of the merchants and others concerned in the North- American trade, there was a very numerous and respect- able meeting at the King’s Arms tavern, in Cornhill, of the most eminent merchants and traders of this city, to consider of a petition to parliament on the present alarm- ing situation of affairs with respect to America; the total stoppage of all commerce to those parts; and the present decline of the trade and manufactures in this kingdom. A motion was made by Mr. Alderman Hayley, and se- conded, that Thomas Lane, Esq; an eminent North- American merchant, be placed in the chain, which was carried unanimously. After the Chairman had informed the company of the intent of the meeting, Mr. Barclay moved, that an address be prepared and presented imme- diatley to parliament, and a committee appointed to draw up the same. A more respectable meeting was scarcely ever known in the city of London, and every motion was carried unanimously, except one gentleman, who ob- served that there was no need of petitioning at present,>br>till they had information what the parliament would do, after they had taken into consideration the petition from the Congress of America to this Majesty, which petition his Majesty promised to lay before the House the earliest opportunity, and that they it would then be a proper time for the merchants to meet and to take the matter into consideration; but this was absolutely and unani- mously rejected. Yesterday morning, several chests of ordinance stores were shipped in the river for North-America. One house in the city has suffered upwards of 12,000l. loss in its trade, since the resolutions concerning the non- importation of goods took place in America; and we hear some others have suffered to a considerable amount. A letter from New-York says, “We are informed that the seat of the government of West Florida will shortly be removed from Pensacola to Brown’s Clifts, on the Misissippi a little below Point Coupee.” It is said, that in the course of the present sessions of Parliament, a petition will be presented by a body of Scotch merchants, for excluding the Dutch and other foreigners from fishing on the coasts of Orkney or Shet- land, or subjecting them to pay duty for each vessel em- ployed in the said fisheries. The New-York mail, which was to have been dispatch- ed from the General Post-Office yesterday, is detained till Saturday next, by order of Government, that it may carry out some dispatches of great importance. Three gentlemen of Scotland are expected home in the first ships from the East-Indies, who have been abroad only six years, and made fortunes of upwards of 20,000l. each. It has been remarked, that notwithstanding the people of Scotland, are only equal to one fourth part of the people of England, yet three fourths of the gentlemen who return immediately rich from the Eat-Indies are Scotchmen. John Grant, Esq; is appointed his Majesty’s Consul to the Dey of Algiers. We are informed that circular letters have been sent to all the members now at their respective country-seats to require their early attendance in parliament on the meet- ing after the recess, for the further dispatch of business, as some affairs of importance are to be taken into imme- diate consideration. The petition from the American congress to the King has been presented to his Majesty by Lord Dartmouth, and the same will be laid before the two houses of parlia- ment at their next meeting. A small squadron is ordered to be fitted out forthwith, aid to be destined to a remote part of the world; the orders and purpose of this voyage are not to be unfolded to those concerned in it, till they shall arrive in a certain latitude. The French are said to be fitting out, with all diligence, at Brest, four ships of the line and three frigates, the de- stination of which is an entire secret. Capt. Fiot, of the Tartar, arrived at Dover from Nice, the 28th ult. off Scilly, spoke with the Britannia, Ayres from New-York for London, out nine weeks, who had lost all her boats, two of the crew drowned, and sprung her foremast. An American agent is said to have had an interview with a leading person, when he insisted on the necessity of repealing the American acts; hold, said the stateman I, for my part will sooner submit to the block, than a- gree that a single clause should be repealed. Means are said to be using to keep up the spirit of par- ty against government in France, that their attention may be diverted from our disputes with the colonies by their own nearer home. Our constitutional right of levying an equitable taxa- ation in our colonies is so clearly ascertained, that we are amazed to find the spirit of sedition still continues to sub- sist. But the wonder must be greatly abated, if not remo- ved, when we observe the source from which it flows.- Its continuance is principally owing to the wicked machi- nations of faction on this side of the Atlantic, who embark every combustible they can to feed the Bostonian fire, and by transmitting such counsel as renders them no better than the accessories of treason, they find means to keep the ignorant in error, to impose on the credulous, and to embolden the licentious, thus the colonists are excited per- severe in their contumacy, and the dignity, right and in- terest of the Mother-county, is shamefully sacrificed at the shrine of a political Moloch, who is whimsically di- stinguished by the name of modern patriotism. Extract of a letter from Sheerness,<.p> ”The following humorous affair happened at this place a few days ago: A young Gentleman, who is clerk in a public office, enjoying one evening an agreeable TETE A TETE with his mistress, they were unexpectedly distur- bed by the lady’s father knocking at the door, and not thinking it prudent for him and quil-drive to have an in- terview, it was judged proper that the latter should be se- creted, and the place of his retreat was to be a tub, in which was held salt; and as he was neither in bulk or stature a Goliath, it very conveniently held him; but the old gentleman bringing home some sprats for supper, and being very particular in his mode of dressing them, under- took to go through the operation himself when unluck- kily going for some salt to the identical tub in which was our hero, and being in the dark, the inhabitant of the wooden tenement bit his finger very severely, on which the old man lustily roared out, “A rat, a rat!” and going for a candle, in order to wreak his vengeance on the author of his pain, the supposed little animal in the </div> <5>Page 3 <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> mean time made his escape, boasting, that however cun- ning the old Don might think himself, yet he was not sagacious enough at all times, “to smell a rat.” Extract of a letter from the Hague, Dec. 27. A war on the continent is, according to the present cir- cumstances, almost unavoidable; to which end the con- tinental princes actually have 1,625,000 of the best disci- plined troops in readiness; but it is certain, that Great- Britain will not be in the least connected in it; for we are informed from undoubted authority, that a new alli- ance has been treated on between Great-Britain, France, and Spain, and which was the real cause of Lord M--- trip to Paris. Of this treaty the French boast, and say it was bought at a prix d`or: the reason of which they pretend is the affairs of America, which never could have come to a serious consideration of the court of G---- B-----n, without previously obtaining the pacific determi- nations of France and Spain. It is further said. that the said treaty was finished under the guarantee of Prussia and Sardinia, and which was the cause of changing am- bassadors between the two latter courts.” Orders are sent to Ireland to take up 2000 tons of ship- ping in government service. Extract of a letter from PARIS, December 17. ”Since his present Majesty’s accession to the throne, and his appointing new Ministers, great numbers of pe- titions have arrived from all parts, form the children and grand-children of persons who were driven out of the country on account of their religion, desiring to be resto- red to the estates of their ancestors. The offers they make of bringing with them their fortunes and families, is an object of too great consequence not to be attended to by Ministers who have the good of their Country at heart; and accordingly they have consulted upon this subject withe Count de Paulmy, who was formerly sent by the Court into Provence and Languedoc, to settle the disputes between the Clergy and the Protestants, from whom an insurrection was apprehended. If the steps and regulations then proposed by Count de Paulmy had been put into execution, this kingdom would by this time, have recovered immense sums of money, and some thousands of inhabitants: but the Clergy, and the war in 1744, frustrated all these measures, and the Protes- tants were threatened with the utmost rigour of the or- dinaces. Since the last peace some Ministers have been less superstitious than their predecessors, and granted toleration, in consequence of which many families have returned. Dublin, Dec. 24. The house of John Hooks, at Tur- nings, in the county of Kildare, and five children, were burned to ashes, the 12th instant, and he, his wife, and remaining son, burned so severely, that their lives are dis- paired off; also all his goods, cows, hay, and corn were consumed; this melancholy accident was occasioned by a candle failing in some flax, of which there was a quanti- ty in the house. Kilkenny, Dec. 21 Last Friday morning, about four o`clock, a party of the White Boys came to the house of William Abraham, proctor for the parish of Ahaboes, in the Queen’s county, whom they carried off to the road between Balyconia and Lisdowny, in the county of Kil- Kenny, where they most savagely and inhumanly consul- ted about mutilating him; some proposing to cut out his tongue, pull out his eyes, and otherwise to disfigure him. At length they concluded to cut off his ears, which they accordingly did, and likewise abused him in such a man- ner, that his life is despaired of. There were not more than thirty of those rioters on this expedition, and they were observed to drop off as they came near Lisdowney, and unfrock themselves; and in the morning they very civilly sent some saddles to Darrow, which the had bor- roed in the night. NEW-YORK, MARCH 2. We have authentic advice of the 22d of last month, from Ulster-county, that on Saturday night the 18th. Mr. John Schoonmaker being in bed, overheard the following conversation between his own negro York, and a negro named Joe, belonging to Mr. Johannes Schoon- maker, viz. York. How many?----Joe. A great many. ---- York. From where?----Joe. From Keysereck, Hur- ly, and Kingston.----York. How much powder have they?----Joe. Two pounds.----York. That is not enough. they should more to get through with it, and drums enough to prevent hearing the cries. They will begin, two at your house, two at John DePuis, and in proportion more at other houses. It will be put in exe- cution between this and Wednesday night; when once begun, we must go through with it. We are to set fire to the houses, and stand by the doors and windows, to receive the people as they come out. The above (in substance) being deposed before a magi- strate, the two negroes were committed to goal; and to- gether with several other negroes, examined next day be- fore four magistrates who met for that purpose but no fur- ther discoveries could then be made- A letter from said place, names Marbletown, as well as the three above mentioned, and that the negroes were to be divided into parties, to fire the houses, cry fire, and kill the people as they came out.---The motive for this conspiracy was the recovery of their freedom. A large quantity of powder and ball was found with several ne- groes, and three are said to be advices in town, that be- sides the two negroes before mentioned,seventeen or eigh- teen more have been committed to goal. A report has likewise been current in town for a day or two past, that these negroes were to be joined by five or sic hundred Indians, but it does not appear that there is any good foundation for the report. NORFOLK, March 23. 1775. COMMITTEE CHAMBER, March 21, 1775.<.p> TO THE PUBLIC, WE the COMMITTEE for NORFOLK BOROUGH, find Ourselves under the disagreeable NECESSITY of publishing to the WORLD; the Conduct of CAPT. SAMPSON, Master of the Snow ELIZABETH, from BRISTOL.----It is not in one Instance alone, that he has discovered his OPPOSITION to the Measures adopt- ed for the Security of our RIGHTS and LIBERTIES; nor can he on any Account justify his REPEATED PRE- VARICATIONS. It is not our Business to take Notice<.p> </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> of his Passion and disrespectful BEHAVIOUR towards this COMMITTEE, nor his indifferent CONDUCT without doors. We shall confine Ourselves to the Relation of the follow ing FACTS.----On the Thirteenth Day of Februa -ry, he informed the COMMITTEE of his Arrival with a Quantity of SALT, that his Snow wanted Repairs, and as He should find it necessary to heave her down here, he demanded the Consent of the COMMITTEE, to store the SALT till the Snow could be refitted. The COMMITTEE after careful Enquiries, (some of his Answers to which we find since to be false,) did at Length consent, upon Condition the SALT should be taken on Board again as soon as possible, which Captain SAMPSON promised to do.----Thus matters rested till the Eighth of March, when this COMMITTEE was surprised with Information, that He had given Bond at the Custom-house, and was taking in Lumber without the SALT. He was sent for, and after discovering a great Degree of Heat, did at length give his repeated promise to take the SALT on Board as soon as possible, and that he would begin the next Day. More than a Week however has elapsed and he has as yet complied with no Part of His PROMISE, nor taken any of the Salt on board again, but has actually applied for Protection to the SHIP of WAR, now in this Har- bour, under whose stern the Snow lies, where it appears he intends to load with GRAIN. We the COMMITTEE, do therefore declare Captain SAMPSON a VIOLATOR of the ASSOCIATION; and on Enemy to AMERICAN LIBERTY; and we trust the Merchants, Planters, and Skippers, of Vessels, in this COLONY will make him feel their righteous indig- nation, by breaking off all Kinds of Dealing with him, and that they will in no Ways be aiding or assisting in procuring a Cargo for a MAN, who from the whole Te- nor of his late Conduct has openly set the good people of this COUNTRY at Defiance, and contributed his utmost Endeavours to destroy their most essential INTERESTS. MATTHEW PHRIPP, JAMES TAYLOR, JOHN HUTCHINGS, JOHN LAWRENCE, THOMAS RITSON, JOHN BOUSCH, ROBERT TAYLOR, THOMAS CLAIRBORNE SAMUEL INGLIS, Extract from the Minutes, WILLIAM DAVIES, Sec’ry. N. B. The other members of the COMMITTEE were out of Town at the Time of signing. The success which has attended that arduous and inte- resting undertaking the Great Canal betwixt Forth and Clyde, cannot but afford great pleasure to every one who is zealous for the improvement of his country. On Tu- esday last the water was let into it from Calder to the Stocking-field about two miles from Glasgow, where store- houses, &c. will be erected, and in a few days vessels may be conveyed from the Frith of Forth to that place. This Canal is carried by lock over lands 142 feet high- er than the Sea water mark, and now is within 3.miles of the river Clyde. Query, would not a Canal cut from the Southern or Eastern branches of Elizabeth river, to communicate with the creeks that fall into the Sounds, Inlets, or Bays of North-Carolina, (and which might be carried into exe- cution at a small expence, comparatively with the above) be productive of the most beneficial consequences to this country. Mr. Printer, Sir, By inserting the following LINES in your Paper, you will much oblige, Sir, Your humble Servant, A. B. On the First Fit of the GOUT. WELCOME thou friendly earnest of Fourscore, Promise of Health, that hast alone the Power, T`attend the Rich unenvy`d by the Poor: Thou that dost ESCULAPIUS deride, And o’er his Fally Posts in Triumph ride: Thou that art us`d t` attend the Royal Throne, And underprop the head that wears the Crown: Thou that in Privy Councils oft dost wait, And guards from drowsy Sleep the Eyes of State; Thou that upon the Bench art mounted high, And warn`st the Judges how they wead Envy: Thou that do`st oft from Pamper`d PRELATES Joe, Emphatically urge the Pains below. Thou that art always half the City’s Grace, And add’st to Solemn Noddle Solemn’s PACE: Thou that art ne`er from Velvet Slippers free, Whence comes this unsought Honour unto Me: Whence does this mighty Condescension flow, To visit my poor Tabernacle? Oh! As JOVE vouchsas`d on IDA`S Top `tis said, At poor PHILEMON’S Ede to take a Bed, Please’d with his poor but hospitable Feast, Jove bid him ask, and granted his Request; So do thou grant (for thou’rt of Race Divine. Begot on VENUS, by the God of Wine.) My humble Suit; and either give me Store, to entertain thee, or ne`er see me more. ADVERTISEMENTS. GOODS and Household FURNITURE FOR SALE THE Subscriber will leave the Colony soon, and is now selling off her stock of Goods, (cheap for ready money,) at her Shop in Church-Street.---They consist of Women’s Quilted PETTICOATS, CAMBLETS, DURANTS, CALLIMANCOES, TEMMY’S, Scarlet CLOAKS, Mens and Womens STOCKINGS of various sorts, Millenary Wares, likewise many other Articles, too tedious to enumerate. Also Household furniture, such as Feather Beds, Blan- kets, Bed Linen, Looking Glasses, Chairs, Tables, &c. The Goods and Furniture have been lately imported from London, are fashionable, and in good condition. JANE WELLS/ NORFOLK March 14, 1775 FOR SALE BEST Surinam MOLASSES in Hogsheads, Tierces and Barrels. PHRIPP & BOWDOIN. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> FOR SALE, A Tract of Land, consisting of about 280 Acres, ly- ing in St. Bride’s parish, near Mount Pleasant, and 6 Miles from the Great Bridge. The Soil is of an ex- cellent quality, and will in most Parts produce four bar- rels of corn to the thousand; also the whole Stock on the Plantation, viz. Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs, there is ground cleared to raise 200 Barrels of Corn, and still im- provable.---For particulars apply to the Subscriber at said plantation, MATTHEW RANDOLPH. Norfolk. March 23, 1775. (3) 42. FOR SALE, THE Brigantine Polly, William Irwin, Master; Rhode Island built; about Four Years old, and Four Thousand Bushels Burthen; an Inventory of the materials may be seen, and the Terms of the Sale known, by applying to LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. Norfolk, March 23, 1775. (3) 42. WANTED JOURNEYMEN Weavers, that are acquainted with any of the following Branches, viz. Weaving of Cotton Velvets, Velverets, Thicksets, Jeans, Sustians, , Dimothy’`s, Counterpanes, Linen, Damask, Diaper, Gauze, Lawn, or Woolens: Such will meet with good encouragement by applying to GARDINER FLEMING NORFOLK March 15, 1775- (tf) 41 N. B. The different pieces or patterns, when difficult, troublesome, or intricate; will be prepared and mounted for them. BRUTUS, AN IMPORTRED HORSE; WILL cover this Year at Three Pounds the Season, twenty shillings the leap, and Five Pounds Insurance. He stands from Monday to Thursday, (inclusive) in the Week at the Subscriber’s, and on Friday and Satur- day at Mr. John Hutching’s in Norfolk. Bru- tus was got by the late Duke of Cumber- land’s Horse, King Herod, upon a Lincolnshire draught Mare, was four Years old, the 5th of this Month, and is a likely Stout Horse. ANTHONY LAWSON. Princess Anne, March 16, 1775. [tf} PATRICK BEECH, At his SHOP opposite Mr. JAMIESON’s. nigh the MARKET- PLACE, NORFOLK. Begs Leave to inform the public, that he makes all Sorts of Gold, Silver, and Jewellery Work, and furnished them agreeable to the newest Fashions, and sells at the lowest Prices, for ready Money only. Those who are pleased to favour him with their Com- mands, may depend upon having their Work done in the neatest Manner, and on the shortest Notice; and their Favours will be most grate- fully acknowledged.---Commissions, from the Country will be carefully observed, and punc- tually answered. He gives the highest Prices for old Gold, Sliver, or Lace, either in Cash or Ex- change; and will be glad to take in an Ap- prentice well recommended. Norfolk March 23, 1775. (3) 42 As the Subscriber intends to leave the Co- lony soon, he must entreat the Favour, of all with whom he has had Dealings with, to discharge their Accounts, which will enable him to settle with those to whom he is indebt- ed. There is in my Hands several Accounts &c. which was sent me to receive payment off which I expect will be adjusted at the Meeting of the Merchants in April. GEORGE RAE. Norfolk, March 23, 1775. (3) 42. NOTICE ABOVE Thirty Years ago, GEORGE WATSON, a Weaver to Trade; son of GEORGE WATSON Blacksmith in Town-head of Bervie, in the shire of Kin- cardine, North-Britain: Was about 22 Years of age when he left Home and went to MARYLAND. – His Friends by different informations understood he carried on a Manu- factory at Annapolis in the Weaving Branch. If said GEORGE WATSON is yet alive, and meet or hears of this Advertisement, He will know of Something greatly to his Advantage, by applying to ROBERT BAINES in NORFOLK, or to the Publishers hereof. March 23, 1775 </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY ODE to POETRY. Sublimi feriam fidere vertice. Hor. LED by the Muse thy starry mount I climb, Which stands unhurt amidst the wrecks of time. Here ample-handed Flora lays A carpet of eternal flowr`s, In gay rotation fly the nimble days, And festive mirth lead on the dancing hours. Yet has the light`ning blaz`d around its brow, And left unsing`d the laurel’s verdant bough. Untouch’d th’ immortal bays remain, For nature fills the lofty space, The goddess here has fix’d her stable reign; ’Tis sacred all, and heav’n protects the place. From hence imagination cleaves the skies, And all creation bursts upon mine eyes. Whatever sleeps in ocean’s bed, Or floats upon the fluid air, Each humble vale, and mountain’s lordly head, I see, and bow to him who plac’d ‘em there. Oh poetry! who can thy joys proclaim! Who, but thy bard, perpetuate thy name! Ev’n I, the hindmost in thy train, Obsequious to thy distant nod, Dare in thy praise to lisp a feeble strain, Yet tremble at th’ exulting critic’s rod. Thou taught’s thy sister thy creative skill, And lo! each image quickens at her will: So potent is her sacred breath The canvas lives at her command; And shades of heroes long consign’d to death, Resurge beneath her vivifying hand. Nor does each portrait only seems to live Beneath the pow’r her pencil deigns to give. With such collective grace ‘tis fraught Such warmth the rival colours dart, That each bold figure teems with fancy’d thought And nature owns the force of mimic art. Nor les. does musick. ever-charming maid, Feel the propitious advent of thy aid. She harmonizes every sound, As words, and sentiment inspire, Make echo’s walls re-verberate around, And wakes each note that slept within her lyre. Sweet poetry! when bus’ness sets me free, Oh! let me spend a vacant hour with thee. For through thy channel’s ample maze Fair harmony devolves its tide; The smiling sun sheds inexhaulted rays, As thro” JEHOVAH’S land they holy waters glide. THE Subscriber sells by Wholesale and Retail, all Sorts of DRUGS and ME- DICINES at a low Advance; for READY MONEY.---He wants a Quantity of VIRGI- NIA SNAKE ROOT well cured; for which he will give five Shillings current Money of VIRGINIA, per Pound.---He wants also a Quantity of BEES WAX, for which he will give eighteen Pence per Pound. ALEX. GORDON. NORFOLK, February 28, 1775. (3) 39. FOR SALE, A Tract of well timbered Land, contain- ing about four Hundred and fifty Acres, in the County of Currituck, North-Carolina; Distant twenty four Miles from Norfolk, ad- joining to the Lands of Messrs. Francis Wil- liamson, and Tatem Wilson.---Credit will be given, and the Times of Payment made easy.---For further Particulars, apply at Belville, to Thomas Macknight, Esq; or at Norfolk to JAMES PARKER. N. B. The Subscriber wants a NEGRO or Mulatto Boy, used to taking Care of Hor- ses, for which he will give Ready MONEY. Norfolk, March 9, 1774. (3) 40. If JOHN FOWLER, (Son of JOHN FOWLER late of Wapping Street LON- DON. Sand-man) be alive, and see this Ad- vertisement, He is desired forthwith to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Commander of the Ship Betsey, now lying at Norfolk, who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to Mr. Michael Henley of Wap- ping Merchant, constituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who will secure his inhe- ritance for him. Mr. Henley having been an intimate acquaintance of his late Fa- ther, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested ac- count of his death and burial, when, and where, properly certified.-----All Charges and Ex- pences attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. Ross, or JOHN BROWN, & Co. N. B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Servant, about six or seven years ago, to some part of North-America. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. </div> <div> <h6>Column 2</h6> SAMUEL BLEWES, From BIRMINGHAM. At his Shop, in Church-Street, NOKFOLK* MAKES all Sells all sorts of Locks, Hinges, large Press Screws for Clothiers &c. He has lately en- gaged able Tradesmen from LONDON, whom he employs in finishing Cheaps and Tongues for Buckles, in the most elegant, fashionable and compleat manner; in general he performs every thing belonging to the White-Smiths bus- iness. The PUBLIC may be assured that what the Sub- scriber undertakes, he will; be punctual in executing, and studious to give Satisfaction; and they may depend on being reasonably charged. SAMUEL BLEWES. NORFOLK March 8, 1775. 4 40 N. B. He makes Strong LOCKS for Prisons or Stores, that cannot be pick’d; from four Dollars, to five Pounds. Also marking Irons of any size or dimension, for bran- ding of Casks &c. On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improve- ments thereon, lying on CRAWFORD Street, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circum- stances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them from North to South, parallel with Crawford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the Eastward thereof.---- The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Ports- mouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.---The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots.----The North LOT to con- tain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street.----The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bring- ing and heaving down any Ship at his Wharf ; provided he covers no more o the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.----The Advantages at- tending these Lotts in point of Situation, Wa- ter, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing fur- ther on this Head would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX. LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775. (6) 37 TO THE PUBLIC, THE Subscriber opens his DANCING SCHOOL, at the Masons Hall on Friday, the 17th instant: He solicits the GENTLEMEN, and LADIES of NORFOLK, for their Interest, in tutoring their CHILDREN in that BRANCH, and may be assured that all due ATTENDANCE will be given to satisfy THEM, JOHN NEWTON COOKE. Norfolk, March 10, 1775. (3) 41. The Imported HORSE, Young CARVER, FOUR years Old this Summer, stands at the Subscribers at the Great Bridge; Covers Mares, at 30 Shillings the Leap, or three Pounds the Season.---Good Pastu- rage(but none warranted to return if Stolen or strayed.) CARVER, was got by old CARVER, a Horse the property of his Majesty, by the famous York-Shire Lake Mare, Lady-Legs. For further Particulars, ---See the Horse. CHARLES MAYLE. March 8th, 1775. (tf) 40 FOR SALE about three Thousand Bu- shels of WHEAT; for Terms apply to ALEX. LOVE. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (tf) 39 FOR SALE. A SCHOONER, two Years old; Bur- then about twenty three hundred Bu- shels. For Terms aply to PHRIPP & BOWDOIN. Norfolk, March 15, 1775. (2) 41 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sub- scriber forewarns all Persons from Cut- ting or Carting on her Plantation, lying on the Southern Branch; Likewise the Procession Masters from processioning the Line now made; without giving Notice to her at Hampton. JUDITH HERBERT. March 14, 1775. (3) 41. </div> <div> <h6>Column 3</h6> DECEMBER 7th, 177[?] I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Brown Sugar, one Tierce Spi- rits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cut- lery: these ought to have been delivered at COLCHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Spirits; for Mr. RI- CHARD GRAHAM at DUMFRIES.---After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sadle- ry, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, at Urbana; which were also to have been de- livered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLS informed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. Mr. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this publication, and to offer a reward of Twen- ty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or FIVE POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off.----Boston is a- bout 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair is of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, liv- ing on Pocomoake river Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way: he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and ceiled, her quarter deck is cove- red over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the re- ward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES MILLS at Urbana, JOHN MILLS at Colchester; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE. TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. KEYSER’S celebrated PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, are to be sold at the Printing-Office. (Printed directions for using them, may be had gratis. For LONDON THE Ship SAMPSON, LEWIS FAR- QUHARSON Master; has good Accomo- dations for Passengers: Will sail about the first of April.----Apply to said Captain on board, or to Messrs. INGLIS & LONG NORFOLK March 17, 1775. (I) 42 AS the Subscriber intends to leave this Place soon, the Reason is, he has not materials to carry on his Business. Those to whom he is indebted, will be paid in such Goods as he generally makes or mends. And those who have Materials or Goods to make or mend in his Hands, are desired to send or call for them, within ten Days from the Date thereof. HENRY VANAL. Cutler. Norfolk, March 16, 1775. (3) 41 FIVE POUNDS REWARD RUN away from the Subscriber, the 1[?] of last month, a negro Fellow named DANIEL; about 22 Years Old, well Set, a- bout Five Feet Five or Six Inches High, of a yellow Complexion, has a small Scar under one of his Eyes, a gloomy Countenance, and seldom looks one in the Face: He is used to the Bay Trade, and as he is a great Villain, it is suspected he will change his Name, and endeavour to pass for a free man.---Had on when he went off, a Fearnought Jacket, a pair of old blue Breeches, and an Oznabrig Shirt; but as he is an old Offender, it is pro- bable he will change his Clothes.----He run away last July, and got down to Norfolk, had shipped himself as a free Man for Sea a- agin.----Whoever takes up said negro and de- livers him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, if within the Colony, shall receive a Reward of THREE POUNDS, from JOHN HAYNIE. NORTHUMBERLAND County. VIRGINIA, March16. 1775. (1) 42 N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others, are forbid employing, harbouring, or carrying off said Negro at their Peril. </div> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Virginia Gazette, or, The Norfolk Intelligencer. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspapers Description An account of the resource This collection consists of issues of The Virginia Gazette printed in 18th-century Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. None of the Norfolk issues are digitally available through the <a href="https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/DigitalLibrary/va-gazettes/">Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Virginia Gazette site</a> nor are they indexed there. Some of the Williamsburg issues are also only available on this site. Those issues have been tagged as being "unique" to this site. All issues are held by Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and are the best copy available there. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. THURSDAY, March 30, 1775. NUMBER 43. UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI EJUS AMICIS. – HOR. NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office; where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of NEWS from VIRGI- NIA, NORTH CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully received and duly inserted.----Advertisements of a moderate Length for 3 s. the first Week, and 2 s. each Week after.----Price of the PAPER, 12 s. 6 d. per Annum. <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> The Arts of Ministers, with a Speech of Lord Lucas in Parliament, in the Reign of K. Charles II. DEAR CALEB, WHENEVER the Minister of a King, aspiring to absolute monarchy, had a design of ex- tending the royal prerogative, one of the common artifices made use of, was alarming the nation with some attempt from abroad, in order to drain the subjects of their money, and make them unable resist any incroachment on their liberties. But I be- lieve, if we consult our history, it will be found that the lavish bounties of the people granted to the crown, un- der pretence of purchasing or preserving a present Peace, were more injurious to the strength and glory of England, than an hearty, though lasting war; and I presume it will be allowed, even by the sycophants of a court, that very little deference will be paid to a nation, which suffers daily, repeated insults from foreign powers, without re- venging them, or taking any notice of it farther than en- tering into tedious negotiations, and appointing com- missioners to enquire into the damages, without redressing the grievance. But lest a mercenary set of scribblers should put a bad construction on what I have said, I would not be under- stood to endeavor to make people murmur at granting the supplies really necessary for executing any designs, tending to the honour of his Majesty, and the welfare of the kingdom. Neither do I think that we ought impli- citely to believe all the assertions of a minister, but exa- mine ourselves a little into affairs, and not pay a blind obedience to his Ipse dixit. In the reign of Charles II, when the pretence before- mentioned was frequently employed to serve the court, Lord Lucas made an excellent speech in the following manner. He first of all complained, “That whereas it was the hopes of all good men, that the king would procure ease to his subjects, their burthens were more heavy than ever, whilst their strength was diminished, and so they were less able to support them.---That if the vast sums given had all been employed for the king and kingdom, it would not have so much troubled him and others; but that the nation could not, without infinite regret of heart, see so great a part of the money pounded up in the purses of a few private men, who in the time of his Majesty’s most happy restoration were worth little or nothing, but were now purchasing lands, and kept their coaches and six hor- ses, their pages and their lacqueys; while in the mean time those, who had faithfully served the King were ex- posed to penury and want, and had scarce sufficient left to buy them bread. But supposing all the money given had been employed for the use of his Majesty, and that he was not cozened, as without a doubt he was; yet ought there to be no bounds, no moderation in giving? Can it be said that his Majesty will not be able to maintain the Triple-Alliance, without a plentiful supply; and that the nation will run the hazard of being conquered? This may be a reason for giving something, but it is so far from being an argument for giving so much, that it may be clearly made out that it is the direct and ready way to be con- quered by a foreigner; and it may be the policy of the French King, by his frequent alarms of armies and fleets, to induce us to consume our treasure in vain preparations against him; and when he hath, by these means, made us poor and weak enough, he may then come and de- stroy us. It is not the giving a great deal, but the well managing the money given, that must keep us safe from our enemies. Besides, what is this but ne moriare mori; and for fear of being conquered by a Foreigner, to put ourselves in a condition almost as bad; nay, in some re- spects, a great deal worse? For when we are under the power of the victor, we know we can fall no lower, and the certainty of our miseries is in some sort a diminution of them. But in this wild way we have no certainty at all; for if you give thus much to day, you may give as much to morrow, and never leave off giving, till we have given all that ever we have away. It is therefore necessary to make some estimate of our- selves. Would his Majesty be pleased to have a quarter of our estates? For my part, he shall have it. Would he be pleased to have half? For my part, upon good occa- sions, he shall have it. But then let us have some assu- rances of the quiet environment of the remainder, and know what we have to trust to. The Commons have here sent up a bill for giving his Majesty the twentieth part of our estates, and I hear there are other bills also preparing, which together will amount to little less than three milli- ons of money, a prodigious sum! and such, that if your Lordships afford no relief, we must sink under the weight of it. I hope therefore your Lordships will set some bounds to the over-liberal humour of the Commons. If you cannot deny, or moderate a bill for money, all your great estates are wholly at their disposal, and you have nothing that you can properly call your own. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> Upon the whole matter, I must humbly propose that you would please to reduce the twelve-pence in the pound to eight-pence.” I shall make no particular application of this speech, but only deliver my opinion, that the generality of the people of England would, at any time, freely contribute a great part of their estates, to support the grandeur and interest of their country, if they could be assured that it would be employed in chastising the insolence of some neighboring nations who may endeavour to treat us like a petty province, thinking themselves secure from any reprisals, because a war may be incompatible with our cir- cumstances, and the interest of some particular person who regards his own good more than that of his country. I am, SIR, &c. The VOICE of the PEOPLE. POPE John XXIII. being asked at a certain time, what thing was farthest distant from truth, answered the opinion of the vulgar. Phocion was so strongly per- suaded of the same thing, that making a speech once in Athens, and observing that the whole assembly applauded him, he asked his friends, who stood by, wherein he had spoke amiss; it appearing to him that in the blind ap- plause of the people there was no room for just praise. I do not approve such rigorous sentiments, neither can I af- firm that the people is the direct antipode of truth. Some- times they are in the right; but then it is either by chance or the light of another understanding. A certain wise man compared the vulgar to the moon, on account of their inconstancy: There was likewise room for this com- parison, because they never shine with their own light. Was truth to be decided by the plurality of voices, we must look for sound doctrine in the Koran of Mahomet, not in the gospel of Christ; it being certain that the Ko ran has more votes on its side than the gospel. Whoever considers that there is only one way which leads to truth, and that the paths of error are infinite, will not be sur- prized as men proceed in their journey with such a scan- ty light, that the greatest part of them should lose them- selves. Even in that people which was called by the name of God’s people, so far oftentimes were the voice of God and the voice of the people from being the same, that there was not so much as the least harmony between them. Thus it happened on many occasions: but the case of their asking a king of Samuel has something particular in it. The voice of God, by the mouth of the prophet, dissuaded them from such an election. But how far was the voice of the people from chiming in with the organ of God: They insist once and again upon having a King: and what foundation do they go upon? Why upon this, That we also may be like all the nations,(1 Sam. viii.) Here two things are to be mark’d, that the voice of the people err’d; and that its being qualify’d with the autho- rity of other nations did not hinder it from doing so. I believed for some time that in one certain affair the voice of the people might be infallible, viz. in their no- tions of the qualities of men. It appeared to me that he was unquestionably wise or good, whom all the people reckoned so, and the contrary. But upon second reflec- tion I found that in this also the popular opinion is mis- taken sometimes. As Phocion once was rebuking the people of Athens with some severity, his adversary De- monsthenes, said to him: Consider that the people will kill thee if they should begin to be mad. They would kill me (answered Phocion) if they should begin to be in their right senses: by these words declaring that, in his mind the people never form to themselves a just idea of the qualifications of men. The unhappy end of the same Phocion confirmed his opinion in a great measure, since he was put to death by the furious people of Athens, as an enemy to his country, notwithstanding that he was the best man of all Greece in those days. As to what concerns virtue and vice, the one being mistaken for the other in certain individuals, the errors of different countries have been so many on this head that you meet with them at every step in history. To make one absolutely distrust the voice of the people, he needs only to reflect upon the most extravagant errors, which in affairs of religion, government, customs, and laws, have been, and still are authorized by the general consent, or which is the same thing, by the majority of different communities, bodies corporate and national synods. Ci- cero said that there was no absurdity how great soever, that had not been maintained by some Philosopher with more reason will I say, that there is no blundering con- ceit that is not warranted by one set of people or other. Governor BROWN’s Reasons for an immediate civil Go- vernment in the British Dominions, adjourning to the River Missisippi in NorthAmerica. WHOEVER is conversant with the natural History of America must be sensible form the concur- rent testimony of writers, travellers, and engineers, that </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> no country in the universe exceeds the neighborhood of the Missisippi, in fertility of soil, salubrity of climate, or convenience of situation: Both sides of this river, pre- vious to the late peace, in which the Eastern was ceded to Great Britain, went under the general name of Loui- siana; and they have been long celebrated, no less for the prodigious diversity, than the prodigious luxuriancy of their productions. They frequently yield two annual crops of Indian corn, as well as rice, and with a little cultiva- tion, would furnish grain of every kind in the most flat- tering abundance.---But their value is not confined to the fertility of the meadows, or the immensity of the cham- pain lands;---Their timber is as fine as in in the world, and the quantities of live oak, ash, mulberry, walnut, palm, cypress, and cedar, are actually astonishing±; Yet what is still more astonishing, above a million of acres are sufficiently clear on the English borders, to admit of in- stant habitation, and to answer all the purposes of a con- lony long improved.---The advantages which they offer are not remote, they are immediate; they do not call for the industry of years, like many of the senior provinces, in America, but, on the first appearance of a settler, pre- sent themselves to be enjoyed. The neighborhood of the Missisippi, besides, furnishes with the richest fruits in an infinite variety; particularly grapes, oranges, lemons, and olives in the highest perfection:---it abounds with silk, cotton, sassafrass, saffron, and rhubarb; is peculiar- ly adapted for hemp and flax; and in goodness of tobac- co even equals the Brazils:---Cochineal also, of the best Quality, is found in plenty on its banks; and indigo is at this moment, a staple commodity, which commonly yields four cuttings to the planter. In a word, whatever is rich or rare, in the most desirable climates of Europe, seems natural to such a degree on the Missisippi, that France, though she sent few or no emigrants into Loui- siana, but decayed soldiers, or the refuse of her streets, (and these very poorly supplied with the implements of husbandry) soon began to dread a rival in her colony, particularly in the cultivation of vines, from which they prohibited the Colonists under a very heavy penalty: Yet soil and situation triumphed over all political re- straints, and the adventurers, at the end of the late war, were little inferior to the most ancient Settlements of America in all the modern refinements of luxury. From the success attending the French settlers under every pos- sible disadvantage, it is evident, that an establishment on the Missisippi, favoured with the benign influence of a British government, under which freedom and property are inviolably sacred, would be productive of the hap- piest consequences, especially as some arguments may be urged in support of such a measure, which, perhaps, ne- ver before existed in a case of colonization. In the first place, contrary to the general principles of new establishments, the Mother country is neither to be drained of a subject, nor the Government to incur the minutest expencce.—To maintain these assertions, it must be observed that, since the conclusion of the late war, at least twenty thousand families, in the old English co- lonies, have removed, on account of the extending popu- lation, and the barrenness of the soil, to the back settle- ments of their respective provinces: Their emigration has been inconceivably injurious to the places which they have deserted, and must be equally injurious to the inte- rest of this kingdom; for in proportion, as choice or ne- cessity has detached these people from an intercourse with the seats of trade, they have been driven into ma- nufactures.--- Agriculture, undoubtedly, is the grand mine of American opulence; but men must sacrifice their wishes to their wants, and such articles as the back settler cannot purchase without much difficulty or much loss, he will naturally attempt to make for his own accommo- dation:---His efforts at first may be awkward, yet he will improve upon practice, and succeed at last, where he on- ly labours for convenience or utility.---The consequence is obvious:---Consuming none of her commodities, he be- comes commercially annihilated to the state, nor does the evil terminate even in such annihilation---his example in- cessantly encourages the emigrancy of others, and lays the foundation of that independency for America, which is alone to be dreaded from her maturity in manufactures, and which is big with so many dangers to the general happiness of the British empire: Was a civil government therefore, formed on the Missisippi, great numbers of these emigrants would immediately proceed to a situation so peculiarly calculated to the unbounded views of com- merce; where, from necessitous farmers, they would be- come considerable planters; where, from being worse than lost, they would speedily be recovered, and instead of hourly impairing, they would hourly add to the true prosperity of this kingdom. Yet numerous as the back ±The Spaniards now cut down as much timber as they think proper on the British side of the Missisippi, and send it away to the Havannah, for the use of their navy, without interruption. </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> settlers of the Old English provinces are known to be, they do not constitute, by any means, the only founda- tion on which England may depend for the speedy esta- blishment of a flourishing colony: On the contrary, ma- ny thousand foreign settlers in Louisiana, who have form- ed a strong interest with the Indians, will directly place themselves under the protection of the British Govern- ment*: And, added to the certainty of this valuable increase, various very opulent members of the communi- ty at home, will undertake on their own entire risque, to collect emigrants from Germany, from Italy, and diffe- rent foreign states, particularly the Greeks, and other di- stressed inhabitants on the Mediterranean, to cultivate the banks of the English Missisippi, where the luxuries of their respective countries, which now take immense sums annually in Specie from Great Britain, may be raised as in any part of Europe. *Mr. John Durade, late a settler of great eminence, on the Missisippi, now residing in Pensacola, wrote in February, 177[illegible, faded], to Governor Brown, in the following terms, ”The cruelties committed by the Spaniards, and their tyrannical yoke are circumstances which cannot fail of procuring to the English possessions from their proxi- mity, an acquisition of many industrious Families, who will be able to transport their effects thither without risque, and are acquainted with the Soil and other cir- cumstances.---Germans and Acadians are equally uneasy under their new masters, the latter are settled near Man- chack, (a part of the British territory) and would be the first to resort thither.”------Mr. Durade in the same letter to Governor Brown, expatiates upon the fertility of the country, the celebrity of the climate, and the certain advantages which the proposed settlement, would produce to Great-Britain.---He declares, that a man, his wife and five children, with two negroes, one wench, on a Farm of 18 acres, may not only subsist very well, but make an annual saving proportioned to their industry.---Hunting affords infinite assistance to the interior inhabitants, wild cattle and deer abounding beyond belief, and the rivers teeming in equal plenty with the most excellent fish.---Mr. Durade affirms, as an attested fact, that twenty negroes such as are usually employed, will yield a yearly profit of 20,000 French Livres, and deducting 3000 Pounds Eng- lish, is the very least which the planter can reasonably ex- pect from their labour, even if they are employed but eight months in the cultivations of Indigo.---Mr. Durade adds, that many planters, who began only with one negro, have now from twenty to fifty on their plantations, and requests Governor Brown, in case an English Government is erected on the Missisippi, to intercede for a grant of four thousand acres for him, together with an equal grant for a brother of his.---“Expedite the patents (says he) as soon as possible, that we may immediately establish our- selves, but if the settlement is not made we must decline the grant, as it will become useless.” [To be continued in our Next.] EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. HAGUE, December 14. THE last Letters from Petersburgh advise, that the unfortunate Pugatscheff, the chief of the Rebels, had undergone his first examination, in which he seemed very much upon the reserve, and not disposed to discover either the motive of his own conduct, or who were his abettors and accomplices. His behaviour had more the ap- pearance of enthusiasm, than of reason, because the lit- tle defence he seemed to make, he founded upon his pre- tensions to the Imperial crown. Upon the whole, it was thought he would not receive judgement till the Empress’s return from Moscow, where her Imperial Majesty, and her Ministers may probably get some further insight into the transactions of the rebellion. VIENNA, Dec. 15. The treaty which was conclud- ed between the Emperor and the Porte, June 6, 1771, and which has till now been kept the most profound se- cret, was effected in the following manner: At the inter- of Prussia at Neiss, the division of Poland was resolved upon. But as it could not have been carried into execu- tion without the consent of Russia, who (either from po- litical or honest motives) refused it, a scheme was laid, that the Emperor should march twenty or thirty regi- ments towards the provinces of Moldavia and Walachia, in order to give some threatening hints to Russia; Prince Henry of Prussia, on the other hand, was sent to Peters- burgh, to accommodate matters, whereupon that court consented to the public robbery. The Emperor in exe- cuting the above-mentioned scheme, found the best means to take advantage of the opportunity, and Old Sly-boots himself was grossly taken in. For, when the Austrian regiments marched in vast columns towards the Turkish territories, it (most naturally) alarmed the Ministry of the Porte, who instantly called Mr. Tougut, the Imperi- al Internuncio, most eagerly enquiring the intention of his Imperial Master; to which the Internuncio replied, ”That the Austrian dominions have been almost entirely ruined by the last war; and that the Emperor bound in care and duty towards his subjects, was determined to re- claim from the Porte all the provinces lost in the former wars; but as he is very pacifically inclined, he would rather settle matters as easy as possible; and further, in order that it may not prove detrimental to the Porte in the present war, he was willing to keep the treaty secret till the war was entirely over. The Porte, prudently took the hint, and ministers Plenipotentiary were appointed from both sides. VIENNA, Dec. 21. It is said that the Emperor in- tends to take a tour to France in the spring, and that six camps will then be formed in the Austrian hereditary countries. VIENNA, Dec. 24. It is reported that the court has given orders to trace a Camp near Pest, for an army of about 70 or 80,000 men, who are to encamp there in the spring; and that all the regiments quartered in Hungary had orders to hold themselves in readiness to march about the middle of April next, or the beginning of May. ROME, Dec. 17. The conclave continues to be very much divided, as to the choice of a Pope. It was hoped that the arrival of Cardinal de Solis would have caused </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> the election soon to have taken place, but it is now put off till the return of the couriers sent by the Cardinals to Vienna, Madrid, and Paris; which seems as if the Sa- cred college waited for the opinion of the above-mentioned courts with regard to the choice of a Pope. Others say that those couriers were dispatched, not merely on account of the election, but likewise on the affair of abolishing of the Jesuits, and the laying aside the differences with the court of Parma, &c. from all which affairs many difficulties a- rise, which seem to limit the power of the new Pope too much. It is, however, reported that Cardinal Pallavi cini is in a manner chosen Pope, and will be publicly de- clared as soon as the return with the approbation of the Sovereigns to whom they are sent. LONDON, DECEMBER, 26. Advices received by Saturday’s mails intimate, that a great coolness has taken place between the three parti- tioning powers, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, which it is not impossible may lead to a rupture. It is not the first time the plunderers have quarrelled about the division of the booty. However, it is somewhat to the Honour of Russia, that she sides with Poland on the present oc- casion, against the all-grasping avarice of that insatiable monster, the tyrant of Sans Souici, Frederick of Prussia Two large ships laden with arms, &c. are said to have sailed from France to America, in consequence of which orders are said to have been given for two sloops of war to go in quest of them. It is said, that a plan is now agitating in the cabinet to conciliate matters between the mother country and the Americans, by repealing the disagreeable acts, and ad- mitting them to be represented by eighty members in the House of Commons. The most authentic accounts from Paris affirm, that the French Cabinet is in the greatest confusion; that a change of the Ministry is shortly expected; and that mea- sures of a very strong and decisive nature are expected to be the consequence of such an unforeseen and unexpected change. The report of the King of Spain’s resigning the crown in favour of the prince of Austrias, the heir apparent, is not so very improbable as people may imagine; as his fa- ther acted precisely in the same manner, by calling his eldest brother to govern, and on his decease, resumed a- gain the exercise of the Kingly office. A letter from Boston, in New-England, dated Novem- ber. 5, after giving an account of the proceedings at the late congress, and other matters, the substance of which has already appeared in the papers, adds, “There seems to be no likelihood of the people here submitting to the late American acts, they continue as inflexible as ever; and I must be so free as to tell you, that this opposition is cherished and kept up by some printed papers and pri- vate letters from old England, which tend to inflame the passions of the people here.” They write from Rome, that the Emperor has notified to the holy College, that in case the Cardinals in the Conclave could not agree in their votes, in electing a head of the Holy church, he has a right to nominate one ac- cording to his pleasure, which declaration of the Empe- ror has made a great confusion among the cardinals, so that the election will be forwarded very soon. Pugatschew has been carried to Moscow, and the pro- cess against him is carrying on with so much assiduity, that, according to all appearance, he will receive the pu- nishment due to his crime, before the arrival of the court, that the rejoicings may not be delayed by the punish- ments inflicted on him, or any of his followers. The first thing that will be done relative to America, on the ensuing meeting of a certain assembly, ‘tis fail, will be to gain a Parliamentary sanction to a very extra- ordinary and extensive Commission for General Gage, which is intended to ease the Premier of the disagreeable trouble of having offenders sent over here to be examined by him, and then relieved by the sheriffs of London. <div class="”column”"> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> a very haughty speech; asserting, it was the King’s posi- tive will to register it immediately, and he must be obeyed. The Prince of Conti next stood up, and spoke very strong ly for, and in support of the constitution of parliament; he treated Monsieur in very severe terms; and added, that he did not wish any man to follow his opinion, but that every man should follow his own; and proposed that every man should put his opinion in writing, and set the example by committing his own opinion to paper. This occasioned a division; when Monsieur, the Duc d’Aiguil- lon, and eight more, were against the motion; and the Prince of Conti, and one hundred and sixty-nine, were for it. The Court was in the greatest consternation when the courier came away. Dec. 27. An evening paper positively says, that an express arrived yesterday form Spain, with an account that the King of Spain has retired from the Sovereignty, and that the Prince of Austrias has assumed the reins of government. Extract of a letter from the Vistula, Dec. 15. ”The city of Dantzick is still blocked up, by the Prussian troops. They are raising at Marienburgh, for the service of the King, one battalion of grenadiers, one regiment of hussars, and two pulks of Uhlans. Two thousand workmen are employed, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, in forming lines and erecting for- tifications along the frontiers of Samogitia. There is a number of engineers, &c. at Memel, which seem as if they would fortify that place.” Letters from Leghorn advise that the Molly, an Eng- lish vessel, had been burnt in the port of Alexandria, whether intentionally or by accident doth not appear. Advice is received, that the Bourgogne, a French man of war of 60 guns, form Brest to Martinico, laden with guns, ammunition, and other warlike stores is lost with- in a few leagues of Martinico, and all the crew perished. The Conquerant, a French man of war, was lately lost near St Domingo, and only 13 of the crew were saved out of 400. We are assured a great personage has inspected all the papers which have been received relating to the unhappy transactions at Boston, and that he has made memoran- dums on the most remarkable passages they contain. Dublin, Dec. 27. On Friday night, two gentlemen, Lieutenant F______ and Ensign C______, went to Daly’s chocolate house to play at hazard, when the Lieutenant having lost all his money, called to the Ensign to lend him part of what he had, which not being complied with, words arose, when they retired to the coffee room, drew their swords, and Mr. F------ was run through the body, just under the breast, and expired immediately. King’s Arms Tavern, Cornhill, Jan. 1775. At a meeting of the Merchants and others concerned in the American Commerce, held there this day, THOMAS LANE, Esq; was called to the Chair. It was unanimously Resolved, “That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the alarming state of this trade to North-America makes it expedient to petition Parliament for redress.” It was also Resolved, “That a Committee be appoint- ed to prepare a Petition to the House of Commons, and lay the same before a general meeting, to be held at this place this day fe’nnight.” It was also Resolved, “That the Committee consist of the following Gentlemen: For New-England Mr. Lane; Mr. Chamoion, Mr. Bromfield. For New-York, Mr. Pigon, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Sargent. For Pennsylvania, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Mil- dred, Mr. Neate. For Maryland, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Molleson, Mr. Campbell. For Virginia, Mr. Norton, Mr. Gist, Mr. Achawes. For North Carolina, Mr. Brigden, Mr. Clark, Mr. Woodrige. For South-Carolina Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Nutt, and Mr. [illegible, smeared.] To the above Gentlemen were added, Mr. Lee, Mr. Baker* It was also Resolved, “That the Committee be desired to entitle the Petition, A Petition of the Merchants, Traders, and others; concerned in the North American Commerce.” It was also Resolved, “That the Minutes of this Meet ing be inserted in the public Morning and Evening Papers, signed by the Chairman,” It was also Resolved, ”That this Meeting be adjourned to Wednesday next, at Ten o’clock in the Forenoon at this house, then to receive the Report of the Committee.” THOMAS LANE, Chairman. London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Jan. 3, 1775. At a General meeting of the West-India Merchants, the chairman produced a letter which he received, signed by several Gentlemen of the West-India Islands, of which following is a copy: SIR, LONDON, Jan. 1, 1775. The very alarming situation, in which the West-In- dia Islands are placed by the late American proceedings, induces us to apply to you, as Chairman of the Society of West-India merchants, to request that they will not come to any resolutions, as a separate body, at their next meet- ing, but that they will join with us in calling a general Meeting of Planters, and West-India Merchants, to deliberate on the steps necessary to be tak- en by us jointly on the present important crisis.” Signed, John Pennant, Charles Spooner, Thomas Sto- rer, Peake Fuller, Samuel Vaughan, George Chandler, Michael M’Nemara, John Trent, B. Edwards, Montague James, Samuel Torr James, Nath. Phillips, John Da- vies, Charles Fuller, Rofe Fuller, [illegible, faded]Vassel, John Ellis, J. Kennion, Niel Malcomb, Philip Gibbes, Thomas Walker, William Gunthorpe. To Beeston Long, Esq; Chairman of the Society of West-India Merchants, at the London Tavern. In consequence of which, it was resolved, That this Society do very cheerfully concur in opinion with the Gen tlemen planters, that we ought not to come to any reso- lutions as a separate body at this meeting; and do also readily join in calling a General Meeting of the whole Body of Planters and West-India Merchants. And having been informed tha the 18th of the pre sent month is a day recommended by the Subscribers to the above letter, proper for such a meeting, it is fur- ther resolved, That immediate notice be given in the pub lic papers, that such general meeting be called and held on the day aforesaid, at the hour of twelve, at the Lon- don Tavern, in Bishipsgate-street, then and there to de- </div> <h5>Page 3</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> liberate on the measures necessary to be taken for the pre- servervation of the general interest of the West-India Islands, in the present important crisis. JAMES ALLEN, Secretary. JAN. 14. The substance of the petition transmitted from the American congress to a Great Personage is, 1st, acknowledging in the most dutiful and respectful terms their allegiance, &c. 2d, that they might be left to the entire provision of their internal policy, such as the ap- pointment of their officers, the making their own laws, and imposing their own duties, &c. 3d, that in lieu of this they are willing in time of war, to supply his Ma- jesty with men, money, and what other assessments a British Parliament might think necessary for the general defence of the empire. There are said to be a few other conciliating articles of less consequence. It was stated in the body of the petition to be present- ed to the honourable the House of Commons, by the merchants, &amp.c. trading to North America, as read at the King’s arms on Wednesday last, that the balance due from America at present to this kingdom was little short of Two Millions. The motion for the repeal of the Boston port-bill, is to be made by Col. Barre, and will be seconded by Mr. Burke. Bishop North is translated to the See of Worcester, and Dr. Hurd succeeds his Lordship in that of Litchfield The greatest part of the military, we are told, will soon be removed from the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and the blockade by sea is to be continued, with the ad- dition of more shipping. Dec. 23. The Archbishop of Paris having received or- ders to be at Versailles on Sunday, regarding the refusal of the sacrament at St. Severin, his Majesty spoke to him in the following terms, in presence of the first President of the parliament in Paris: “The King my Grandfather exiled you several times for the troubles you occasioned in the state; I sent for you to tell you, that if you relapse I shall not exile you, but give you over to the vigour of the law.” NORFOLK, March 30. 1775. By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty’s Lieutenant and Gover- nor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same. A PROCLAMATION. VIRGINIA, to wit. WHEREAS certain Persons, stiling themselves Delegates of several of his Majesty’s Colonies in America, having presumed, without his Majesty’s Au- thority or Consent, to assemble together in Philadelphia in the Months of September and October last, have thought fit, among other unwarrantable Proceedings, to resolve that it will be necessary that another Congress should be held at the same Place on the 10th of May next, unless Redress of certain pretended Grievances be obtained before that Time, and to recommend that all the Colonies in North-America should chuse Deputies to attend such Congress, I AM COMMANDED BY THE KING, and I do accordingly issue this my Proclamation, to re- quire all Magistrates and other Officers to use their utmost Endeavours to prevent any such Appointments of Depu- ties, and to exhort all Persons whatever within this Go- vernment to desist from such an unjustifiable Proceeding, so highly displeasing to his Majesty. Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, this 28th Day of March, in the 15th Year of his Majesty’s Reign. DUNMORE. GOD save the KING. INSTRUCTIONS drawn up for the Delegates to the Convention at RICHMOND, the 20th March, from a certain County in VIRGINIA. GENTLEMEN, ALTHOUGH we are fully assured that the worthy Gentlemen, who lately represented us in general Congress, were actuated by motives not to be reprehend- ed, and in their proceedings against the designs of Parlia- ment, have recommended to us a mode of opposition, in their opinions, the most efficacious and salutary: Never- theless, as we are intitled to determine upon the propriety of any measures whereby we are bound, and upon the suc- cess of which, our political and civil interest depend; we must, after expressing all deference and respect for our honest countrymen, who have by their councils and ad- vice stood forth in our cause, beg leave to dissent from them in such points as we think exceptionable.___We desire, Gentlemen, inviolably to adhere to the civil obligation, binding us to our Sovereign and by no means to assent to any measures that may ultimately affect the faith we owe to our King, or the duty we owe to his People. We desire you neither to censure or patronize the proceedings of those people who destroyed the property of the East- India company, in the port of Boston; this we deem a breach of civil order and an invasion of private right. But as we know not what circumstances might induce, or cause impel, the perpetration of that act, ‘tis too delicate a case, too foreign, for us to meddle with. The grand principle for which we contend, are, the rights of legisla- tion, and taxation; of legislation respecting our internal police, and of taxation independent of every power on earth. These inestimable privileges we will maintain at the risque of our lives and fortunes; but, we will justify no proceedings inconsistent with our duty to our King, repugnant to the rights of individuals, or the laws of so- ciety. We are greatly alarmed at the resolution to su- spend our commercial intercourse with Great-Britain; to stop her imports must be fatal to her; but to retain from her our exports, by which alone we can be enabled to discharge the heavy debt we owe her, by which the ba- lance of trade might in a few years preponderate in our favour, by which alone we can be kept in peace, or arm- ed for war, is a measure not to be justified by the laws of morality or the rights of policy. We therefore, especially require you to procure this resolution of the Congress to be rescinded. It is a duty you owe us to obtain a proper representation of the tobacco planters in this Colony, for </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> we must deem a licence to any of the inhabitants in Ame- rica to export wheat, rice, or any other commodity, a partial exemption in their favour, and a sacrifice of our interest to a general cause, which should only be effected in equal degree with all other objects of commercial inter- course. You need not interfere with the Quebec bill; a law respecting that conquered country is without our policy and beyond our ideas. We hear daily of personal insults, and invasions upon private property, from those little democracies erected in every precinct through this extensive continent: Reduce these men we pray you, to the rank of citizens, and let them lord it over their fel- lows no longer! Pursue, Gentlemen, with prudence and fortitude, the cause of your country, and you may always depend upon the protection of your constituents. We have authority to communicate to the Public, from his Excellency Montfort Brown, Esq; Go vernor and Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Baha- ma Islands, That his Excellency being possessed of seve- ral very extensive and valuable tracts of land (as well as by grants from the crown, as by purchase) situated on the banks of the rivers Missisippi and Mobile, in West-Flori- da, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand acres and upwards (exclusive of Dauphine Island, whose situation for trade is so well known) is desirous of en- couraging all substantial planters, or others, who wish to become settlers in those parts.---The fertility of soil, sa- lubrity of climate, and most delightful situation of those tracts are so well known, that they need no fuller de- scription than that printed by his Excellency for his Ma- jesty; who has thought fit to order the intended capital on account of its rising consequence and most convenient situation, to be removed from Fort Bate, to Brown’s Clift, nearly opposite to that most beautiful and populous town, called Point Coupee, belonging to the Spaniards. For further particulars his Excellency refers the public to the said printed reasons, which may be supplied by the Printer hereof, in order that those who are inclined to remove to that nourishing Province may be well informed, and may, by application to his Excellency at New-Provi- dence, be well assured of meeting with every encourage- ment they can wish for or desire. N.B. The greatest part of the above lands are fit for immediate culture, having no more wood on them, than what will be absolutely necessary for tenantable uses, and are watered by navigable rivers, pleasing rivulets, and in- numerable springs. ADVERTISEMENTS. NORFOLK, March 13, 1775. TO BE SOLD, ONE share of the Thistle Distillery, be longing to the estate of John Gilchrist deceased; and another share belonging to the late copartnary of Campbell and Gilchrist.---- For terms apply to the subscriber. If they are not disposed of before the next meeting of the merchants at Williamsburg, they will then be set up at public sale before the Raleigh tavern Credit will be given the Purchaser, giving bond with security, to bear interest from the date. ARCHD,[Illegible creased] CAMPBELL NORFOLK, March 29, 1775* CHOCOLATE of the best quality, made and sold, wholesale and retail, by William Johnson Ryam,[Illegible, creased] at his Works oppo- site Samuel Bousin’s, Esq; who will give Cash or exchange Chocolate for Nuts. NORFOLK, 30, 1775* I INTEND to leave the Colony soon, RICHARD POOK. March 23, 1775* RUN away from the subscriber, on Tuesday the 3d, of January, 1775* a likely mulatto wench named Nan; she is very talkative and I imagine will pass for a free wench: had on when she run away a Virginia strip’d coat and jacket, a white Virginia coat, and a quilted calico ditto. I imagine she will pass by the name of Nancy Morris. Whoever takes up said wench, and secures her in any of his Majesty’s gaols shall be handsomely reward- ed by AZEL BENTHALL. BRUTUS, AN IMPORTED HORSE; WILL cover this Year at Three Pounds the Season, twenty shillings the leap, and Five Pounds Insurance. He stands from Monday to Thursday, (inclusive) in the Week at the Subscriber’s, and on Friday and Satur- day at Mr. John Hutching’s in Norfolk. Bru- tus was got by the late Duke of Cumber- land’s Horse, King Herod, upon a Lincolnshire draught Mare, was four Years old, the 5th of this Monty, and is a likely Stout Horse. ANTHONY LAWSON. Princess Anne, March 16, 1775* [tf] </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> BARTHOLOMEW LEPETIT, Dancing MAS- TER, begs Leave to Address himself to such Gentle- men and Ladies, that may be willing to encourage him in that Branch of Education; by informing them, that he has opened a SCHOOL at Mr. NICHOLAS GAU- TIERS in Church Street, and intends (should he meet with Encouragement sufficient to enable him to reside here) to continue Teaching every Saturday: Those that are inclinable to commit any young Gentlemen or Ladies to his Care, may depend on having the strictest Attention paid in every Respect, to Qualify them in that gen- te-l Accomplishment, and the Favour will be gratefully acknowledged: He proposes also opening a School at Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th March, where he has a very convenient Room for that Purpose, at Mrs. BELL’S. N.B. Having taught the FRENCH for sometime in this Country as well as in LONDON, where he studies under an able French-Master, with some little Share of Ap- plause: he doubts not but it will be sufficient to recom- mend him to such as would chuse to learn that agreeable LANGUAGE, and at the same Time desirous to be in- formed of it peculiar Niceties; whom he will take Plea- sure in waiting upon, either at Home or Abroad.---His Terms are; for DANCING, 10 s. per Quarter, and two Dollars entrance.------For FRENCH, 30 s. per Quar- ter, and a Pistole entrance. Attendance three Times a Week. Norfolk, March 9, 1775, (3) 40* NORFOLK, March 30, 1775* THE subscriber born of free parents at Calcutta in the East-Indies, came over to England about seven years ago in the ship Kent, Mills master, and having been brought to this Colony and sold as a Slave, has a suit now depending in the General Court for the recovery of his freedom, which will be tried in April next. He therefore begs any person who know him or his family would make themselves known to the Printer; the favour will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant, GEORGE HAMILTON* FOR SALE, THE Brigantine Polly, William Irwin, Master; Rhode Island built; about two Years old, and Four Thousand Bushels Burthen; an Inventory of the materials may be seen, and the Terms of the Sale known, by applying to LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. Norfolk, March 23, 1775* (3) 42* WANTED JOURNEYMEN WEAVERS, that are acquainted with any of the following Branches, viz. Weaving of Cotton Velvets, Velverets, Thicksets, Jeans, Fustians, Dimothy’s, Counterpanes, Linen, Damask. Diaper, Gauze, Lawn, or Woolens: Such will meet with good encouragement by applying to GARDINER FLEMING NORFOLK March 15, 1775* (tf) 41 N.B. The different pieces or patterns, when difficult, troublesome, or intricate; will be prepared and mounted for them. PATRICK BEECH, At his SHOP opposite Mr. JAMIESON’s, nigh the MARKET-PLACE, NORFOLK* BEGS Leave to inform the Public, that he makes all Sorts of Gold, Silver, and Jewllery Work, and furnishes them agreeable to the newest Fashions, and sells at the lowest Prices, for ready Money only. Those who are pleased to favour him with their Com- mands, may depend upon having their Work done in the neatest Manner, and on the shortest Notice; and their Favours will be most grate- fully acknowledged.---Commissions from the Country will be carefully observed, and punc- tually answered. **He gives the highest Prices for old Gold, Silver, or Lace, either in Cash or Ex- change; and will be glad to take in an Ap- prentice well recommended. Norfolk March 23, 1775* (3) 42 As the subscriber intends to leave the Colony soon, he must intreat the favour of all with whom he has had Dealings, to discharge their Accounts, which, will enable him to settle with those to whom he is indebted. There are in my hands several Accounts, &c. which were sent me to receive payment of, which I expect will be ad- justed at the meeting of Merchants in April next. GEORGE RAE* Norfolk, March 23, 1775, (3) 42 </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY. A COMMITTEE of the Belles of the town Was call’d to pass sentence upon a lampoon: For priority female contentions arose, Some pleaded their beauty, and others their clothes; Some bragg’d of their sense but more of their beaux. Rectoria swept forth their disputes to asswage, And claim’d the first place by right of her age; Then solemnly placed herself in the chair, And thus mov’d her sage chin in harangue to the fair: ”A libel you’ve heard of, good ladies, of late ”’Gainst me, and yourselves, and that wanton girl Kate. A libel in which spleen, abuse and ill-nature Speak the wit of the bard, and the sting of the satyr. An impudent fellow to tell all these lies; Od’s my life, if I knew him, I’d tear out his eyes. Pray have I any beard? ---not a hair to be seen; Yet to hear this defamer it gives me the spleen; And how formal forever my father appears, His stiffness proceeds but from gout and from years; Our family know he’s as fond and as free, As any old father can possibly be; For he kisses mamma, my sister and me. Miss Kitty, ‘tis true, not content with his kisses, More willingly chuses a lover’s caresses; But tho’ to the window so often she goes, I’ll guard the young minx from the danger of beaux; She shall ne’er be caress’d lest the giddy young creature, Should meet with the sop that scribbled the satyr: And since he has doom’d me to die an old maid, May I lead him below as apes there are led.” Kitty fain would have spoke, but Vinessa in haste, (And Vinessa you know has a tongue of the best) ”Sure never were beauties so foully bely’d, :Our resentment is just, ‘with anger reply’d; ”To secure your revenge let the talk but be mine, ”Each drawer I’m sure will promote my design, ”With deadliest poison to venom his wine.” Big with wrath and oration Belinda arose, She bridled her chin, and she knitted her brows, Resentment and passion glow’d strong in her face, She flirted her fan, then open’d the case: :Oh! did I but know this saucy poltroon, ”In defiance to beauty who wrote this lampoon, ”My coachman should flog him, my poet shou’d write, And were there occasion my nobleman fight, Nay by strength of the law I’d punish the wag, For my father has told me ‘tis scandalum mag. ”If the poet refuses, Miss Anna repl’d, ”I’ve a pretty young bauble that hangs by my side, ”Who nicely observes ev’ry mode of the town, ”Can dress up a head, or pin up a gown; ”The first at each public ball to be seen, ”Can trip Scramouch, or dance Harlequin: ”Young Freddy, you know him, who smells of pulvil, Tho’ he can’t write himself, he shall treat them that will, ”With rack-punch and claret, no cost shall be spar’d, ”But in his own way I’ll punish the bard.” I beg,” says Vinessa, “If that’s your design, ”You’ll propose my mamma, to sell him his wine.” Their judgement thus pass’d each splenetic she With a dram of good Nantz corrected her tea. M. W. THE Subscriber sells by Wholesale and Retail, all Sorts of DRUGS and ME- DICINES at a low Advance; for READY MONEY.-----He wants a Quantity of VIRGI- NIA SNAKE ROOT well cured; for which he will give five Shillings current Money of VIRGINIA, per Pound.----He wants also a Quantity of BEES WAX, for which he will give eighteen Pence per Pound. ALEX GORDON. NORFOLK, February 28, 1775. (3) 39 <pFOWLER late of Wapping Street LON- DON, Sand-man) be alive, and see this Ad- vertisement, He is desired forthwith to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Commander of the Ship Betsey, now lying at Norfolk, who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to Mr. Michael Henley of Wap- ping Merchant, constituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who will secure his inhe- ritance for him. Mr. Henley having been an intimate acquaintance of his late Fa- ther, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested ac- count of his death and burial, when, and where, properly certified.------All Charges and Ex- pences attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. ROSS, or JOHN BROWN, & Co. N. B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Servant, about six or seven years ago, to some part< of North-America. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. KEYSER’S celebrated PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, are to be sold at the Printing-Office. Printed directions for using them, may be had gratis. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Broun Sugar, one Tierce Spi- rits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cut- lery: these ought to have been delivered at COLCHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Spirits; for Mr. RI- CHARD GRAHAM at DUMFRIES.-----After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sadle- ry, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, Urbanna; which were also to have been de- livered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLS informed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. Mr.JOHN MILLS desires me to make this publication, and to offer a reward of Twen- ty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or FIVE POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off.-----Boston is a- bout 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 year of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, live- ing on Pocomoake river Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way: he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and ceiled, her quarter deck is cove red over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the re- ward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES MILLS at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchestger; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE. TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. FIVE POUNDS REWARD. RUN away from the Subscriber, the 11th of last month, a negro Fellow named DANIEL; about 22 Years Old, well Set, a- bout Five Feet Five or Six Inches High, of a yellow Complexion, has a small Scar under one of his Eyes, a gloomy Countenance, and seldom looks one in the Face: he is used to the Bay Trade, and as he is a great Villain, it is suspected he will change his Name, and endeavour to pass for a free man.-----Had on when he went off a Fearnought Jacket, a pair of old blue Breeches, and an Oznabrig Shirt; but as he is an old Offender, it is pro- bable he will change his Clothes.-----He run away last July, and got down to Norfolk, had shipped himself as a free Man for Sea; and probably he may seek for a Birth to Sea a- gain.----Whoever takes up said negro and de- livers him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, if within the Colony, shall receive a Reward of THREE POUNDS, and if taken out of it, FIVE POUNDS, from JOHN HAYNIE. NORTHUMBERLAND County, VIRGINIA, March 16, 1775. (1) 42 N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others are forbid employing, harbouring, or carrying off said negro at their Peril. For LONDON, THE Ship SAMPSON, LEWIS FAR- QUHARSON Master; has good Accomo- dations for Passengers: Will sail about the first of April.------apply to said Captain on board, or to Messrs. INGLIS & LONG NORFOLK March 17, 1775. (1) 42 AS the Subscriber intends to leave this Place soon, the Reason is, he has not materials to carry on his Business. Those to whom he is indebted, will be paid in such Goods as he generally makes or mends. And those who have Materials or Goods to make or mend in his Hands, are desired to send or call for them, within ten Days from the Date hereof. HENRY VANAL, Cutler. Norfolk, March 16, 1775. (3) 41 FOR SALE about three Thousand Bu- shels of WHEAT; for Terms apply to ALEX. LOVE. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (tf) 39 </div> <div class="column"> <h6>Column 3</h6> SAMUEL BLEWES, From BIRMINGHAM. At his Shop, in Church-Street, NORFOLK MAKES and Sells all sorts of Locks, Hinges, large Press Screws for Clothiers &c. He has lately en- gaged able Tradesmen from LONDON, whom he employs in finishing Cheaps and Tongues for Buckles, in the most elegant, fashionable and compleat manner; In general he performs every thing belonging to the White-Smiths bus- iness. The PUBLIC may be assured that what the Sub- scriber undertakes, he will be punctual in executing, and studious to give Satisfaction; and they may depend on being reasonably charged. SAMUEL BLEWES. NORFOLK March 8, 1775. 4 40 N. B. He makes Strong LOCKS for Prisons or Stores, that cannot be pick’d; from four Dollars, to five Pounds. Also making Irons of any size or dimension, for bran -ding of Casks &c. On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improve, ments thereon, lying on CRAWFORD Street, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circum- stances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them from North to South, parallel with Crawford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the Eastward thereof._____. The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Ports- mouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.------The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots._____The North LOT to con- tain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street.______The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bring- ing and heaving down any Ship at his Wharf; provided he covers no more of the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.-----The Advantage at- tending these Lotts in point of Situation, Wa- ter, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing fur- ther on this Head would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775* (6) 37 TO THE PUBLIC, THE Subscriber opens his DANCING SCHOOL, at the Masons Hall on Friday, the 17th instant: He solicits the GENTLEMEN, and LADIES of NORFOLK, for their Interest in tutoring their CHILDREN in that BRANCH, and may be assured that all due ATTENDANCE will be given to satisfy THEM, JOHN NEWTON COOKE* Norfolk, March 10* 1775* (3) 41. The Imported HORSE, Young CARVER, FOUR years Old this Summer, stands at the Subscribers at the Great Bridge; Covers Mares, at 30 shillings a Leap, or three Pounds the Season.------Good Pastu- rage, (but none warranted to return if Stolen or Strayed.) CARVER, was got by old CARVER, a Horse the property of his Majesty, by the famous York-Shire Lake Mare, Lady-Legs. For further Particulars, ---See the Horse. CHARLES MAYLE. MARCH 8th, 1775. (tf) 40 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sub- scriber forewarns all Persons from Cut- ting or Carting on her Plantation, lying on the Southern Branch; Likewise, the Procession Masters from processioning the Line now made; without giving Notice to her at Hampton. JUDITH HERBERT. March 14, 1775 (3) 41 NOTICE. ABOVE Thirty Years ago, GEORGE WATSON, a Weaver to Trade; Son of GEORGE WARSON Blacksmith in Town-head of Bervie in the shire of Kin- cardine, North-Britain: Was about 22 Years of age when he left Home and went to MARYLAND.---His Friends by different informations understood he carried on a Manu- factory at Annapolis in the Weaving Branch. If said GEORGE WATSON is yet alive, and meets or hears of this Advertisement, He will know of Something greatly to his Advantage, by applying to ROBERT BAINES in NORFOLK, or to the Publishers hereof. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> VIRGINIA GAZETTE OR, THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICUS-----HOR,1775. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, to THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16---1775. <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> OF PARTY-DIVISIONS. IT is the complaint of most men who lived any time in the world, that the present age is much dege- nerated in its morals within the memory of man. That there has been a gradual decay of public spi- rit for some years, cannot be de- nied; which owes it original, if I am not very much mistaken, to our party divisions. There is a particular maxim a- mong parties, which alone is suffi- cient to corrupt a whole nation; which is, to countenance, and protect the most infamous fellows who happen to herd amongst them. It is something shocking to see the man of hour and the knave, the man of parts and the blockhead put upon an equal foot; which is often the case amongst parties. The reason is, he that had not sense enough to distinguish right from wrong, can make a noise; nay, the less sense the more obstinacy, especially when they are playing the rogue. These are the best tools, and such are the qualities necessary for putting in execution the bad measures which the corrupt leaders of parties in- tend to carry on if tbey are uppermost. Party zeal changes the name of things; black is white, vice is virtue, a bribe in an office is called a perquisite, and the most studi- ed and concerted fraud that can enter into the head of the most thorough-paced knave, shall be voted a little negligence: He that deserves to be hanged, by all laws, human and divine, for his con- duct in private life, may, at the same time, be an angel with his party. Meandax, while he held an office in the state, is detected in a little mean fraud, however, Mendax has been always true to the troop; the chiefs of the party having met to consider how to behave with respect to Mendax, in this critical juncture, all the men of honour amongst them were for giving him up, and even joining in any pu- nishment that might be laid upon him; but a Veteran, who was grown old in all the iniquitous practices of party, and who had ac- quired authority by his experience, was quite of another opinion; Mendax, says he, has always been an active member of the cause, and what have we to do with his morals or his honour? adding, the man that is true to the troop must always be screened, let him be guilty of what he will. Thus, by the detestable politics of party, Mendax was countenanced and caressed under the infamy of a most scandalous fraud, and lived to do his country more mischief, by the corruption which he afterwards spread through it, than a famine, a plague, or a war could have done. If we look back into the history of a few years past, we shall find, that the immense estates that have been made by the numerous fraudulent projects with which this virtuous age has abounded, have been by persons who pretended to be zealous party-men, and have gone great lengths in party; nay, some have been so cunning as to shift sides, and go over to the strongest, just before they have resolved to strike some bold stroke; so that I have often thought that a strong party is the same think to a cheat, that a strong island in the West-Indies is to a pirate, a place of safety to lay up all he has stole. But I am of opinion, that if a writer should at this time expect to become popular, by running violently into all the prejudices of a party, he would meet with a reception form the public very differ- rent from what he expected. Party-prejudice is not the same thing it was. The malignity of the distemper is worn out; and it must be a singular pleasure to a man who loves his country to find those two odious distinctions of Whig and Tory, with which we used for- merly to reproach one another, used no more. All men unplaced, and unpensioned, talk and think alike. I will not say that it is prosperity that has wrought this great change; but be it as it will, it is certain that the cure of any greiv- ances that may fall upon us, can come from nothing else but this union. This is not only my opinion, it is certainly the opinion of those whose safety, next to the corruption of the times, depends up- on our divisions. When a nation is divided against itself, how great must be the Providence that must save it from sinking! When the people are broke into parties and factions, worrying and reviling one another, what a fine harvest it yields to the common enemy; If I should be asked, who is that common enemy; I shall only answer that there is a Banditti in time of peace as well as in time of war; there are free-booters who are not regularly listed on either side, and who, while both sides are engaged against each other, will certainly plun- der the nation. I will only say beware of those who are labouring to keep alive the animosities of party; it is true, they have laboured in vain; but they have not yet given up the game for lost; they are continually throwing out bones of contention, they are taking up the dying embers of party, in hopes of kindling a new flame. There is a set of men who are governed by no principles, and have no friends or followers but such as are attached to them for mercenary ends; these assume to themselves the name of a party; it is they who are for fomenting divisions, in hopes, that when the madness of party shall again seize the people, both sides will by turns fall in with them, in order to be revenged and undo each other, which will save a great deal in bribes. But it happens, that they have been so aukward in concealing their foul play, that all the world has seen through it, But though there may be no dangerous designs at present, and the whole body of the people may entertain the same opinion of the good intentions, and of the great abilities of our present mini- sters, as they really merit, yet it is not amiss to have our eyes about us. Political jealousy is inseparable from the minds of good partri- ots; it is their duty to be watchful for the public, and suspicious of the designs of men in power. This jealousy is our great security; and it cannot decay till public spirit decays. The individuals of that great body called the people, are so taken up with their several avocations, that they are not always at leisure to examine well the designs of men in power; therefore it is the </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column2</h6> duty of every private man to give the alarm, whenever he perceives any thing doing which must have a tendency to alter and impair that plan of government under which we, and our ancestors, have lived free. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. From the LONDON GAZETTE. MALAGA, OCTOBER 29. OUR Captain General hath sent orders to all the Governors of the ports castles and towers, established on the coast of Gre- nada, and also to those of the three minor presidencies in Africa (Mililli, Penon de Velez, and Aluzema) to take the most speedy and effectual measures to secure these places from any surprise on the part of the Saletine Corsairs, who will join the Algerians, and make a common cause with them. CARTHAGENA, October 29. The Algerine Corsairs have taken a Catalan vessel, on board of which were 20 passengers, men, wo- men, and children, who were going from Barcelona to Oran. BELGRADE, Nov. 7. The Russians as well as Turks conform themselves entirely to the articles of peace. Prince Dolgorucki re mains with his army near Precop, till the Turks have evacuated Cassia, after which, part of the troops will occupy the towns assigned to the Russians by treaty, and part of them the lines between the Nieper and the Don. The Port has permitted two Russian men of war to go to Smyr- na, to provide themselves with every thing they want. The di- visions of the Turkish fleet and the troops under the Admiral of the Black Sea, are returned to Constantinople. The letters from Wallachia advise, that the Turks live upon very good terms with the Russians, and buy their own corn back again. The Ottoman government have rejected some propositions made by some of the Tarter princes, as being contrary to the treaty of peace. November 8. The Grand Vizir has notified to Marshal Roman- zow, the nomination of Abdul Kerim Beglerbeg of Romelia, to be ambassador to this Court; and informed the marshal at the same time, of his having received from the Sultan the ratification of the peace. The Marshal in return immediately acquainted the Vizir, that he was ready to exchange the ratifications, and that her Imperial Majesty had appointed prince Repnin to be her ambassador at the Porte. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 8. The public tranquility is perfectly re- established throughout this empire, since General Panin’s arrival in the environs and the other different nations submitted also to her do- minion. The Court has received advice, that the Turkish Commandant Dowlet Guerai had abandoned all his conquests; and that, by or- der of the Porte, he had retired with his troops towards Oczakow. We also learn, that a great number of Russian Cossacks, who had joined the rebel Tartars, had taken the benefit of the general par- don, and returned to their colours at Bachischiserai. This important intelligence did not arrive here till Saturday last by a messenger from Marshal Romanzow, who likewise mentions that the Porte had already named Governors to all the fortress re- stored by Russia.----A Bashaw of three tails is appointed governor of Choezjim. A Russian Frigate, returning from this port to Revel, had the misfortune of being wrecked on the coast of Sweden, and great part of the crew perished. Nov. 11. The King Tartars notwithstanding Count Panins army is so near them, have lately made several excursions into the neigh- boring provinces, in one of which they have entirely destroyed a co- lony of Moravians. WARSAW, Nov. 16.. Yesterday the Diet resumed its sittings, but nothing material was done. Some members proposed to ap- point a commission to examine the business done by the Delegation. others demanded that they should fix the time when the Diet might be again prorogued, as the delegation had not yet finished all the business committed to their care. The delegation has determined that the nobles who chose to be concerned in Trade, shall not for the future lose their Noblesse. They also debated on the manner in which the permanent Council might determine the business that shall come before it; whether it should be by Vote or Ballot? Some members were of the opinion, that the importance of the matter alone ought to resolve that Ques- tion. Nov. 23. Yesterday the Delegates resumed their sittings; the affair of the imports was warmly debated, The plan of the perma- nent council was exhibited which will subsist as it is now formed.--- Almost all the articles are changed, which render it very different from the first.----There are some Poles who wish for war rather than peace, and continue to keep the people in a state of uncer- tainty by a thousand false intelligences. They have given out that the peace between Russia and the Porte is still doubtful, though we can visibly demonstrate the falsity of this assertion. The Tartars have sent a deputation to Count Romanzow, that every thing shall be executed pursuant to the treaty of peace. CADIZ, Nov. 20. We learn that an engagement has happen- ed in the Gut of Gibraltar, between three Spanish frigates and five Moorish cruisers, wherein two of the latter were funk, and the other three after losing the greatest part of their crew, were obli- ged to submit to the Spaniards. Nov. 25. According to the last letters from Ceuta, dated the 18th, the moors had not committed any hostilities since the 12th. We have, however, received advices from Mogador, da- ted the 11th, that a division of Cannoniers and Bombardiers, with two more from Safy, and St. Croix, in Barbary, were to join an army of 30,000 men, which the Emperor of Morocco had asssem- bled at Mequiner, at the head of which he was to march the 20th in all probability to lay siege to Ceuta. </div> <div class=""column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> HESSE, DARMSTADT, Niv, 22. The Hereditary Prince of Hol- stein, is daily expected here to marry the youngest daughter of the Landgrave our Sovereign. This Prince is closely allied to the Em- press of Russia who it is said in consequence of his marriage, will settle upon his bride an annuity of 50,000 Rubles per annum. LONDON, DECEMBER 10, 1774. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO THE KING. Wednesday, the SPEAKER, attended by Lord BEAU- CHAMP, and several other Members of the PRIVY COUNCIL, went in their Carriages to St. JAMER’S, to present the following ADDRESS of Thanks to his MAJESTY, for his most Gracious Speech from the Throne. Most GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, ”WE, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects of the Commons of Great-Britain in Parliament assembled, re- turn your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the Throne. ”Permit us to assure your Majesty, that we receive with the highest sense of your Majesty’s goodness the early information which you have been pleased to give us of the state of the province of the Massachusett’s Bay. ”We feel the most sincere concern, that a spirit of disobedience and resistance to the law should still unhappily prevail in that pro- vince, and that it has broke forth in fresh violences of a most crimi- nal nature, and we cannot but lament that such proceedings should have been countenanced and encouraged in any other of your Maje- sty’s colonies; and that any of your subjects should have been so far deluded and misled, as to make rash and unwarranted attempts to obstruct the commerce of your Majesty’s kingdoms by unlawful combinations. ”We beg leave to present our most dutiful thanks to your Ma- jesty, for having taken such measures as your Majesty judged most proper and effectual, for carrying into execution the laws which were passed in the last session of the late parliament, for the protec- tion and security of the commerce of your Majesty’s subjects, and for restoring and preserving peace, order, and good government, in the province of Massachusetts’s Bay. ”Your faithful Commons, animated by your Majesty’s gracious assurances, will use every means in their power to assist your Majesty in maintaining entire and inviolate the supreme authority of this let- gislature over all the dominions of your crown; being truly sensible that we should betray the trust reposed in us, and he wanting in every duty which we owe to your Majesty’s conduct in this im- portant business, and which are so essential to the dignity, safety and welfare of the British empire. ”We learn, with great satisfaction, that a treaty of peace is con- cluded between Russia and the Porte, and that by this happy event, the general tranquility is rendered complete: and we entertain a well-grounded hope that your Majesty ‘s constant endeavors to pre- vent the breaking out of fresh disturbances will be attended with success, as your Majesty continues to receive the strongest assurances from other powers, of their being equally disposed to preserve the peace. ”We assure your Majesty, that we will, with the utmost chear- fulness, grant to your Majesty every necessary supply; and that we consider ourselves bound in gratitude, as well as duty, to give every proof of our most affectionate attachment to a prince, who, during the whole course of his reign, has made the happiness of his people the objects of all his views, and the rule of all his actions.” HOUSE of COMMONS, December 8. The Speaker took the chair at three quarters after two o’clock, the first business was swearing in Henry Towness Lutterel Esqr; for Minehead. Col. Munro presented a petition complaining of an un- due election for the boroughs of Tain Dingwal &c, Lord Germaine presented a petition complaining of an un undue election for the bo- roughs of Nairne &c. and Capt. Lutterel presented a petition and complaint of an undue election for the town of Southampton, which petitions being put in to a glass, were drawn out in the dfollowing or- der. Tain, June 27. Nairn June 30. Southampton July 4. Mr. Gray moved for the order of the day for the house to go into a committee to consider of so much of an act passed in the last ses- sion of the late Parliament, as related to utensils made use of in the woolen manufactory,. The Speaker accordingly left the chair and Mr. Bootle being seated as chairman he read the motion, which was ”That so much of the act as made it felony to export the said u- tensils, should be repealed” Mr. Fuller proposed an amendment, which being made and the motion again read, Mr. Van arose and opposed the repealing it; he said we ought to be cautious particular- ly at this time how we allowed any thing to be sent to the colonies which respected our trade. He was very fully answered by Mr. </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> [torn, illegible] who observed that it was the greatest absurdity imagin- able, to hinder the exportation of any utensils made use of in trade, for if the utensils were not suffered to be exported, and the trade a- broad could not be carried on without them, the next step the manufacturer would go abroad himself, that it we prevented them from exporting wool-cards, they would export wire and make the cards abroad; if we hindered the exportation of wire, they would export iron and make the wire abroad.---Therefore he was sorry to say that the legislature of this country had been for several sessions past, making laws to drive the manufactorers from home. Mr. Van attempted to answer Mr. Sawbridge, but it was in so feeble a manner that he was taken no notice of. The question was then put, “that it is the opinion of this com- mittee that so much of an act passed in the last session as far as it relates to the exportation of utensils made use of in the woollen ma- nufacturer be repealed, which passed in the affirmative.” the house then adjourned to this day. This day comes on in the house of Commons, the state of the army accounts and which are expected to produce some very strong debates. Decemb. 9, Wednesday came on at Guildhall before Lord Mans- field and a special jury of merchants a very important cause, which arose on an issue directed by the court of chancery. The plaintiffs were Hope and Co. of Amsterdam and Hoare and Co. of London merchants. the defendants Cust and others, assig- nees of Fordyce and Co.---The words of the issue were these: ”Whether on the failure of the said Alexander Fordyce, the said Henry Neale, William James, Alexander Fordyce, and Richard Down the Bankrupts, were indebted to the plaintiffs in any and what sum of money.”-----The real questions was, whether the the house of Fordyce were privy to, or bound by a concern of money-circulation transacted between the plaintiffs and Fordyce a- lone. It was admitted or collected from the evidence that in truth and in fact, the house were not privy to this concern. It was admitted that it was a separate concern carried on by For- dyce alone, and for his separate advantage. But it was contended that Fordyce had bound the house to answer for him by a guarantee of the house, tho’ in the hand writing (body and signature) of Fordyce himself.”That such guarantees were usual, that credit was given to them in mercantile circulations; and the plaintiffs were not called upon to enquire whether the houses pledged were privy to them, that in fact the plaintiffs did rely on this guarantee; that no fraud could be imputed to them; and, that in point of law, by virtue of this guarantee they had a right on the failure of Fordyce, to recover the sum due to them from the house. Lord Mansfield explained the force of these guarantees, and laid it down, that they might be and often were effected by covin, i. e. by trick between the partner and the person with whom he dealt, to cheat the house, by drawing them into a guarantee clandestinely< that each covin, would make the guarantee void. Mr. Edmund Burke, in his speech on Monday last, on the a- mendment of the address, though it was not legisticaly argumenta- tive, was very humorously and pointedly so.—Amongst other hu- morous reflections which he made on administration, buying up the the new members, by telling them the address was nothing but a vote of compliment, he compared such a conduct to the designing dissipated humour of one, who under the shew of the most honour- able solicitations, fist squeezes his mistress’s hand, then asks her to take a turn in the Park, next to an excursion in the country, and so on step by step, till he dishonours her, and brings her in the end to that infamy and disgrace—that originally was her misfortune, becomes her shame and disgrace. December 9. Yesterday morning a bill of indictment was pre- sented to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex, at Hick’s Hall, against the Duchess of Kingston for felony, in marrying the late Duke of Kingston, at the time she was actually the wife of the Hon. Augustus Hervey, when the jury found the bill to be a true bill; in consequence of which she must appear, to take her trial at the Old Bayley as a felon, or an outlawry will issue against her. December 13. On a motion that the committee do agree that 16,000seamen should be employed in the sea service for the year 1775, including 2, 400 marines, several questions were asked Mr. Buller concerning the state of our marine forces at home, and the increase of it in North-America since last year; the Gentlemen in opposition seeming to think we were left in a defenceless state at home; but Mr. Buller in his reply endeavoured to prove the very coutrary; and that ever fort, as well as the guard-ships, had their full compliment of men. The committee agreed to the supply, and then the House broke up at five o’clock. The report from the com- mittee to be made tomorrow. December 13. Yesterday the Speaker took the chair at two o’clock. A report was made to the House, that pursuant to their address on Friday last, his Majesty had given directions to the proper officers that the several estimates, list and accounts therein menti- ned should be laid before them. Jacob Henry Swue took the oaths for his naturalization. On Wednesday next the House will resolve itself into a committee to consider of ways and means for raising the supply granted to his Majesty. In a committee of the whole House upon the supply, they came to the following resolutions. That 16,000 men be employed for the sea service for 1775, in- cluding 4282 marines, that 4L. per man per month be allowed for maintaining the said men, including the ordnance for sea service. The House also came to a resolution for allowing the importation of Indian corn, and ordered the report this day. The order of the day was now called for, for the House to resolve itself into a committee of supply to his Majesty; the Speaker accor- dingly left the chair, and Sir Charles Whitworth being seated, Mr. Buller moved “that it is the opinion of this committee that 16000 seamen including 4284 marines be granted for the year 1775. He prefaced his motion by setting forth, that Admiral Harland was dialy expected home from the East Indies, with three sail of the line, and by that means 16000 would be sufficient, which was 4000 less than last year. Mr. T. Townshend desired to know why 10000 was necessary last year and 16000 would do this, and what proportion were neces- sary to be sent to America, and what proportion left us at home. Mr. Buller attempted to solve Mr. Townshend’s questions, but cou’d not; he therefore read an extract of a letter from Admiral Amherst commander at Plymouth, informing them that they had several su- pernumerary seamen, and that their guard-ships were full, that the number of ships at America were three third rates, one fourth rate, six fifth rates, seven schooners and two armed vessels, the number of seamen 2835. Mr. Lattrel arose and said he was much surprised to hear the Honble. Gentleman mention the state of our seamen in such a man- ner, that had he been appraised of business coming on that day, he would have prepared himself to have answered him more fully, yet he was so much a judge of maritime affairs as to know it was im- possible that the ships or seamen the Honble Gentleman had men- tioned to be in America could be there for some months, for ships that were our this season were prevented by winds and weather so that they were obliged to go to the West-Indies or put back, and could not arrive in America till the spring; that he should be glad to be informed whether or not the seamen sent in a fleet to American were taken out of the guard-ships here; which consequently weak- ned our strength at home, and left us almost defenceless; and whe- ther the Admirals account of the full compliment of men did not include those drafted off to other ships, and sent to America; which might be set down as sent, but were absolutely lost as a defence to this Country. </div> <div> <h6>Column 2</h6> Col. Barre said he had been informed, that unless Admiral Har- land arrived in ten days it would be impossible for him to arrive in less than four months, therefore the number of seamen expected from his coming home was very precarious and not to be determi- ned on. Mr. Hartley next desired to know the number of ships that were on the American station before the present disturbances. Mr. Buller answered, one fourth rate, six sixth rates, seven schooners and two armed vessels, and about 1900 men. Col. Barre then desired to know what force we have at home to defend us against an attack of an enemy. Mr. Buller replied after hesitating, 5900 men in the guard ships, and 1168 men in the other ships on the British and lrish coasts. Dec. 13. Yesterday the House of Commons broke up at four o’clock, having come to the resolution on ways and means for conti- nuing the duties on malt, rum, cyder and perry, which is to be reported this day. The bill for allowing the free importation of Indian Corn, was presented and read the first time. Resolved, that this House will, as this day, resolve itself into a committee, to consider of the act to prevent the exportation to Fo- reign parts, of Utensils made use of in the Woolen manufactory; after which they adjourned to this day. Decem.16. The house of Commons broke up yesterday at 4 o’clock, having come to a resolution to order in a bill to amend the act to prevent the exportation to foreign parts, of utensils made use of in the woolen manufacture, which resolution is to be reported as this day. Agreed to the report of the amendments made to the bill for naturalizing Jacob Henry Sawe, and ordered the bill to be engrossed. The bill for allowing the free importation of Indian corn, was read a second time and ordered to be committed for this day, the resolutions of yesterday on the malt was also agreed to, and a bill ordered in. The Premier is expected at the House of Commons this day, in order to answer some patriotic interrogatories relative to the reduc- tion of seamen, from twenty to sixteen thousand at this important crisis. Since the late accident which happened to Lord N—th, several Lords of the opposition have been at court; and have been favoured with the royal smile: some folks imagined that the Minister was fallen in good earnest, Lord Temple, however has not been sent for, though his Lordship’s chairmen are said to be in constant waiting. Wednesday in the House of Lords the Earl of Hillsborough, in a very long and able speech, set forth the situation of the Colonies with the mother country, highly disapproving of the refractory spi- rit of the Americans, and hoping that with temper and unanimity such measures may be adopted, as to bring about a reconciliation. His Lordship then moved, that a humble address might be presented to his Majesty, to return his Majesty the thanks of that House for his most gracious speech from the throne. Lord Buckinghamshire seconded the motion. The Duke of Richmond got up next, and was strongly against the measures which he imagined were meant to be taken: He then moved to amend the address, which occasioned a long debate; and carried against the amendment, contents 13* not contents [illegible folded]. Then it was moved, that the motion should stand as at first proposed, contents, 46, not contents 9* A correspondent gives the following advice, but it is hope he is not serious, to a great minister. Having adopted and carried into execution, a foolish anti-commercial impolitic measure, tending to the utter ruin of our colonies, be sure not to hearken to better ad- vice, or recede one stop; but boldly plunge in at all events, the longest follies are assuredly the best, since you thereby clearly gain time to put off the disagreeable moments of reflection and repen- tance to a remote day, probably in imitation of your immediate predecessor, till after your resignation. Besides, there is in retract- ing an implicit confession of having been in the wrong; very much beneath that sort of greatness, which is above information or amend- ment. We are assured that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has not accepted of any part of this half-pay as Admiral, since his appointment to that command. Advices received from the Hague import that on the fourth inst. Sir Joseph Yorke our ambassador at the Hague, had a long confe- rence with the principle members of the states general. The subject> of this conference was not publickly known, though it is generally believed to relate to the stoppage of supplies with which the Dutch are expected to furnish the Colonies. A requisition that may be made by Great-Britain, but which will scarcely be very rigidly ob- served by the Hollanders, whilst they continue in their senses. Col. Amherst is appointed Governor of St. John’s in Newfound- land, in the room of the late Major General Bradstreet. A number of transports are sailed for Ireland, to receive on board the 22d, 49th, 55, and 63d regiments. Major General Howe and Sir William Draper, are going out as Brigadiers on the Staff. The twenty thousand pound prize drawn in the State Lottery, is shared amongst four servants of Messrs. Dod, and Co., in Milk- Street. The whole proceedings of the Continental Congress arrived in London on the 14th of December. A Letter from Paris says of the 22 November, that among other Gifts, his most Christian Majesty has just ordered a Grant of 300,00 acres of waste lands, free of all tacks for 20 years to come, to 120 families in the province of Bourdeaux, and an allowance of five years, till the lands are thoroughly cultivated; the above lands have lien waste near 200 years. They write from Gibraltar, that an armed Spanish Bark, with a few resolute men on board, ran into the harbour of Tetuan, and set fire to two large Galliots and a half Galley, belonging to the Moors, which aere burnt to the waters edge, and upwards of 100 of the crew perished. Extract of a letter form Paris, Nov. 28. ”It is determined that the Count de Guignes shall return to Eng- land with the character of Ambassador, and he is to set out very soon. The Parliament has granted him what the Chatelet refused; so that his affairs are now settled, and as he has constantly acted as Ambassador, since he left London, the King has made him a pre- sent of the amount of his appointment, for ten months, which will enable him to return to London with eclat. ”The Duke de Choiseul is returned to this city, and is very as- siduous to ingratiate himself at Versailles; but he has not yet been invited to any particular parties, though he has been at several hun- ting matches. His Partizans are cautious of paying their court to him with the same assiduity as they did at Chanteloupe, when he was in exile. ”Duke D’Aguillon has not received his recall, nor permission to return; but a limited order to come and give an account of certain Transactions during his administration, which will soon be made public. All complaints against the old ministers are to be referred to the parliament, the King being determined not to interpose his authority in the administration of public justice, which has Majesty entrusts entirely with that Tribunal.” Dec. 8. They write form Gibraltar that the Emperor of Mo- rocco has stopped all provisions being sent to that Garrison for the present, on account of his being engaged in a war with Spain, as it caused a great consumption in victualling a vast number of armed Corsairs, &c. Extract of a letter from Leghorn, Nov. 11, ”About a month ago a skirmish happened in the mountains near Ajaccio, between the French and the Malecontents, wholly in fa- vour of the latter, Colonel Dubourg being detached with a body of four hundred men in pursuit of the rebels (one hundred and fif- ty,) who had done a great deal of mischief, besides carrying off eight hundred and ninety head of cattle, had the misfortune to fall into an ambush, when he was put to the flight, with the loss of se- venty men. The malecontents then retired into one of their strong Holds, where in a few days they were blocked up by the colonel, who had received a considerable reinforcement; they held out seve- ral days with great bravery, till being very much distressed, for pro- </div> <div class=""column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> visions, they agreed to endeavour to force a passage through the French troops in the night, which they effected with the loss of only fourteen of their number, and made their way to a place of safety, which is inaccessible, in the Pieve of Ca Sinoa. The ama- zing intrepidity, courage, and perseverance, these people have al- ways shwen must make every free heart bleed to think that they have no prospect of independence.” SALEM, JANUARY 10. Our Brethren of New-Hampshire, and Rhode-Island have signa- lized themselves in a manner that does them honour: And it is with pleasure we can add, that the colony of Connecticut merit our brightest regards for their present affinity and vigilance in disci- plining their militia, which conflicts of near 30 regiments. Indeed the whole united colonies are extremely active and zealous in the common cause, all nobly exerting themselves for carrying into execution the measures agreed upon, by the continental congress.-- Except a few disappointed factious Tories, some or whom are em- ployed, most infamously employed, in vilifying the most virtuous and amiable characters in America, and particularly in traducing the worthy members of the late august Continental assembly. BOSTON, JANUARY 26. Last Monday a detachment of a hundred men, drafted from the several regiments in this town, and commanded by Major Bal- four embarked on board a vessel bound to Martinfield. This ma- noeuvre has occasioned many conjectures.---N.B. We are informed, a number of persons in that town well affected to government, ap- plied for the troops. DONATIONS received since our last. Massachusetts-Bay. From the Rev. Dr. Whitaker’s Parish at Salem 24l. 16s. 8d. From Col. Nathan Sparhawk, Rutland-district, Worchester count- ry, four Quarters of beef. From Capt. Lemuel Robinson, of Dorchester, one quarter of Beef. From a person unknown, 25 carcasses of mutton. From Wellfleet, 40l. From Eastham, South Church, 3l. 13s. 6d. Rhode-Island, From Bristol, 47l. 17s. 6d. From North-Kingston, 70 sheep. New-York. 180 barrels of flour, 9 barrels of pork, 12 firkins of butter, and 21 barrels of grain, per Capt. Barnard. 214 barrels of flour, 24 casks of bread, 22 Casks of rye meal, 5 hogsheads of Indian meal, 4 ton of iron, 2 barrels of pork, 16 firkins of butter, 1 pipe of York Brandy. NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 2. Last Thursday a motion was made in the Honourable House of Assembly, to take into consideration the proceedings of the Conti- nental Congress, which occasioned the following previous question to be first put, “whether the question upon the motion should be ”then put, upon which debates arose; and the said previous que- ”stion being accordingly put, it was carried in the negative.” Last Monday the Honourable House of Assembly unanimously agreed to a motion, to state the complaints of the colony, and or- dered a petition to his Majesty, a memorial to the House of Peers, and a representation and resmonstrance to the House of Commons, to be forwarded to England. His Majesty’s Ministers at the foreign Courts, having acquainted the principal Sovereigns of Europe with the confusions in several of his American provinces, assurances were given to the former, that no sort of assistance should on any account be afforded to them; and a vessel loaded with arms, ammunition, &app;c. for New-England, on her departure for Amsterdam, was stopped, and all her cargo landed. One of the Parliaments of France, remonstrated against the King’s order, respecting the shipping of supplies for any of the English co- lonies, but it was peremptorily over-ruled. We have great satisfaction in acquainting our readers, that ac- counts founded upon the best authority, were received by the Lord Hyde Pacquet, intimating, that our most gracious Sovereign had expressed himself greatly pleased, with the LOYALTY and TEMPE_ RATE CONDUCT, in the present conjuncture of his faithful subjects, in the province of New-York. We hear from Brook-haven, Suffolk county, that Major Benjamin Floyd found, on a strict enquiry, one hundred good men in the first company of that township, to support the King and his Go- vernment, but no officer would join him above the rank of serjeant, All the above persons signed a petition to the General Assembly that they will entirely abide by the old constitution, without any regard to the proceedings and determinations of the Continental Congress. This day will embark in the shop Sally, Capt. Bruce for Jamaica, the American Company of Comedians, under the direction of David Douglas, Esq; where they intend exerting their justly applauded talents for the entertainment of the Ladies and Gentlemen of that polite and opulent island, until the unhappy differences that subsist between the mother country and her colonies in America subside. BALTIMORE, (MARYLAND.) Jan. 20. At a meeting of the Committee of observation appointed for Bal- timore county, at the court-house in Baltimore-town, on Tuesday the 17th January, 1775.<.p> Information being made to the committee, by Mr. Benjamin Nicolson, that the Rev. Mr. William Edmiston, had publicly as- serted, “That all persons, who mustered, were guilty of treason; ”and that such of them as had taken the oath of ailegence, and ”took up arms, were guilty of perjury.” And that the said Willi- am Edmiston, had approved publicly of the Quebec bill.” The committee were of opinion, that such declarations have a tendency to defeat the measures, recommended for the preservation of America, and her liberties, and that it is their duty to take no- tice of persons guilty of such offences. Whereupon, resolved unanimously, That this committee will meet at two o’clock, P.M. and that the Rev. Mr. Edminston have notice to attend. A copy of the charge was made out by the clerk, and inclosed to Mr. Edmiston, with notice to attend. TUESDAY, two o’Clock, P.M. The committee met according to adjournment. The Rev. Mr. Edmiston attended, agreeable to the notice given him, and requesting an indulgence of two hours to prepare his ans- wer; the same was unanimously granted. The Rev. Mr. Edmiston appeared, and delivered to the Chair- man his answer in writing, as follows. ”After maturely considering the charges exhibited against me, before the committee, I observe in answer to them, that as mankind frequently differ in sentiment, and as no questions are agitated with greater warmth and intemperate zeal, than those in politics, so ex- pressions are often used, and sentiments hastily adopted, at such times, which in the cool moments of reflection, men would omit or disavow.-----That I spoke the words, mentioned in the charges, is true----that they were spoken in warmth, is equally certain.--With respect to that part of the charge, containing an accusation of per= jury, and reason upon those who had taken the oaths to the govern- ment, I would beg leave to explain myself.----What I meant, had a reference to the political opinions, which prevail, and was found conditionally, that is, they who do not apprehend a departure on the side of government, from fundamental express stipulations, could not, consistently with their oaths, arm or prepare for was; but I did not, and do not mean, to charge any person with perjury or treason, who really thinks his right are or may be so far invaded </div> <h5>Page 3</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> enter very sanguinely into the scheme of raising troops, but the Priests, we are well assured, disapprove of it. The greater part of the Noblesse reside in this district, and upwards of 50 of them are gone to Quebec, to pay their respects of the Governor, and attend a ball usually given by Government on the Queen’s birth-night. They ex- pect to come back with commissions in their pockets, but our Governor has not yet received his instructions, wheat owing to the great orders last year, is extravagant high, nothing less than 3s, 9d. (equal to 5s. 3d. Pennsylvania currency for our bushel.) We would b e glad to know whe- ther the resolves of the congress will be adhered to, in dropping connection with us unless we come into their measures. In this case, we must order shopping from Eng- land. We have never exported more than 10,000 bushels of flax-seed in a year; the small quantity exported is owing to the low price, being often at 2s. and 2s. 6d. This year it has been as high as 5s. 6d. and if before spring the people are assured of a good price, there will be 100,000 bushels raised in the province, or even more. The ship Beulah, Capt. McBussell, arrived at the Wa- tering Place, at New-York, last Thursday se’nnight, in 9 weeks from London, but has brought no late news. Capt McBussell spoke the following vessels on his passage, viz. the 17th of Jan. in lat. 27: 27. long. 52. The sloop John and Mary, Capt. Hughes, from Bristol for Casco- Bay, thirty days out; 28th, in lat. 28: 35, long. 64: 40, the ship Happy Jennet, Capt. Pettigrew. from Scot- land for South-Carolina, out 33 days; Feb. 4, in lat. 28: 18, long 71: 30, the Brig Dolphin, Capt. Hunt, from this port for Jamaica, out five days: 5th, in lat. 29, long. 61, the Schooner Bird, from Virginia for Ja- maica, who the day before lost every thing off her decks in a gale of wind; and on the 7th, in lat. 30:30, long. 72: 30, he spoke the brig Kitty, Capt. Robinson, from this place for Jamaica. Extract of a letter from New-York, Feb. 23. ”Since my last the ship Beulah, Capt. McBussell, has arrived from London full of Goods, the people here are determined the association shall not be violated, the own- ners and shippers think of sending her to Halifax; she will sail in a few days.” NORFOLK, March 8, 1775. A Young LADY’s Soliloquy, debating with herself which of her Lovers, (whose Names were, GOOD and RIGHT) She ought to fa- vour. A blest Dilemm’ awaits my Virgin choice, Since bad nor wrong, can’t hurt my nuptial Joys, Sure, RIGHT’S a thing, wise Folks will always choose. And GOOD when offered, none but fools refuse. RIGHT, is full fit, but GOOD is surely better, If RIGHT, takes place, then GOOD will end the matter. Be’t GOOD or RIGHT, ye Gods, come grant me either, Love, leads the Way, and I must fall his Martyr, Haste, then dear Youths, each can clear this Suspence. If GOOD ‘tis RIGHT, If right, then GOOD’s my chance. A Letter from the COMMITTEE of Donations of NORFOLK and PORTSMOUTH to the COMMITTEE in BOSTON. VIRGINIA, Norfolk, December 6, 1774. GENTLEMEN, WE the Committee appointed by the Inhabitants of the County and Borough of NORFOLK and Town of PORTSMOUTH, for transmitting their Donations for the Relief of the indigent Poor in your Town, inclose you the Bill of Loading accordingly, the Freight being paid here. It is with Pleasure we can inform you of the cheerful Accession of all the trading Interest of this Co- lony, to the Association of the Continental Congress, and they have all subscribed it as a Proof of their Approba- tion.-----We wish you Perseverance, Moderation, Firmness and Success in this Grand Contest, which we view as our Own, in every Respect.---Contributions for your Relief are raising throughout this Dominion, and will, we hope, be looked upon as a small Proof how much the good People of this Colony are Attached to the Cause of BOSTON and AMERICAN LIBERTY. WE are with the greatest Respect, Gentlemen, Your affectionate Brethren, EDWARD ARCHER, JOHN BOUSH, THOMAS MATTHEWS, JOHN GOODRICH, Junior. ALEX. MOSELY, A Letter from the COMMITTEE of Donations in BOS- TON, to the COMMITTEE for the County and Bo- rough of NORFOLK and TOWN of PORTSMOUTH. BOSTON, Feb. 1, 1775, GENTLEMEN, THE Committee appointed to receive and distribute the Donations made for the Relief and Employ- ment of the Sufferers by the Port Bill, have received your Letter of the 6th December last, including a Bill of Lading for seven Hundred and fifteen Bushels Corn, thirty three Barrels Pork, fifty eight Barrels Bread, and ten Barrels Flour. We are sorry to inform you that the Vessel was cast away; but being timely advised of the Disaster, by Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON RYSAM, we have, though not without considerable Expences, the good For- tune of saving the most Part of the Cargo! –The Coun- ty and Borough of NORFOLK And Town of PORTSMOUTH, who made this charitable Donation for the Sufferers a - bovementioned, have the due Acknowledgements of this Committee and their hearty Thanks with Assurance, that it shall be applied agreeable to the benevolent Design.--- The cheerful Accession proposed by the late Continental Con- gress, is an Insurance of that Zeal for and Attachment to the Cause of AMERICAN LIBERTY, in which that Colony has ever distinguished herself. This Town is suffering the severest Strokes of Ministe- rial Vengeance for their Adherence to the same virtuous Cause, and while the Sister-Colonies are testifying their Approbation of its Conduct, and so liberally Contributing for its Support. We trust the Inhabitant will Continue, to bear a Superiority over their insulting Enemies! I am in the Name of the Committee, GENTLEMEN, Your affectionate Friend, and Humble Servant, SAM ADAMS, Chairman. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> To the FREEMEN of VIRGINIA. COMMITTEE CHAMBER, March 6th, 1775. TRUSTING in your sure resentment against the eme- mies of your country, we the COMMITTEE elected by ballot for the BOROUGH of NORFOLK, hold up for your just indignation, Mr. JOHN BROWN merchant of this place.---We are fully sensible of the great caution with which public censure should be inflicted, and at all times are heartily disposed to accomplish the great design of the ASSOCIATION by the gentle methods of reason and persuasion. But an unhappy proneness to equivocation, which has so much distinguished Mr. BROWN, and for which he has in more than one instance been censured by by the voice of the people, added to the present manifest discovery of his secret and direct attempts to defeat the measures of the CONGRESS in the case now before us, and some very unjustifiable steps taken to conceal his dis- ingenuous conduct, have precluded us from the milder methods we would wish to adopt, and compelled us to give the public the following relation. On Thursday the 2d of March, this Committee were informed of the arrival of the Brig FANNY, CAPTAIN WATSON, with a number of Slaves for Mr. Brown and upon enqiry it appeared they were shipped from Jamaica as his property and on his account, that he had taken great pains to conceal their arrival from the knowledge of the Committee,---and that the shipper of the slaves Mr BROWN’S Correspondent, and the Captain of the Vessel were fully apprised of the CONTINENTAL PROHIBI- TION against the article. These circumstances induce a suspicion that Mr. BROWN had given orders for the slaves himself, which he positively denied, asserting that he had expressly forbidden his correspondents to send any, as being contrary to the ASSOCIATION; for the truth of which he appealed to his own letter-Book, the Secretary being desired at the request of Mr. Brown to attend him to inspect the orders satd to have been given, reported that he had some slight and hasty glances at letter written between the middle of December, and beginning of Ja- nuary, and was sorry to say he had seen one directed to Mr. Henderson, another to Mr. Livingston, both of the date of December, and a third to Messrs. Campbell’s of the first of January, all containing positive and particular orders for remittance to be made him in slaves, at the same time hinting the necessity of SECRECY, as it is an article, (he writes,) he could not AVOWEDLY deal in. The Se- cretary also reported that he had seen a postscript, written a few days after the determination of this Committee di- recting the return of a Slave imported from Antigua, in which postscript, Mr. BROWN writes his correspondent to send him in no more than TWO negro lads, as it would be DANGEROUS to sell them here. But his orders to his other correspondents appear to have been so positive, that they were complied with notwithstand his friend writes him that good slaves would sell to more advantage in Ja- maica than in Virginia.---From the whole of this transact- ion, therefore, we the COMMITTEE for NORFOLK BOROUGH, do give it as our UNANIMOUS opinion that the said JOHN BROWN has WILFULLY and PERVERSELY VIOLATED THE CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION, to which he had with his own hand subscribed obedience, and that agreable to the eleventh article we are bound “forthwith ”to publish the truth of the case, to the end that all foes ”to the rights of British America may be publicly known, ”and universally contemned as the enemies of American ”liberty; and that every person may henceforth break off ”all dealings with him.” (Signed) MATTHEW PHRIPP, Chairman. JAMES TAYLOR JOHN BOUSH JOHN HUTCHINGS JAMES HOLT JOHN LAWRENCE NEIL JAMIESON JOSEPH HUTCHINGS ROBERT TAYLOR THO’s NEWTON Jun. THOMAS CLAIBORNE, THOMAS RITSON SAMUEL INGLIS Extract from the minutes WILLIAM DAVIES Sec. Feb. 7, 1775. Capt. Elliot spoke the Ship Pryan from Virginia bound to Jamaica, being out ten Days, in the Long. 69 W. and Lat. 26 30 N. being all well on board. ADVERTISEMENTS. I INTEND for the WEST INDIES, soon THOMAS WISHART. Princess-Anne. Feb. 17, 1775. RUN AWAY, FROM the Subscriber, on Wednesday the 15th Inst. a Negro Fellow named Ceasar; about Five Feet Eight or Nine In- ches high; had on when he went away a Virginia Kersey Jacket and Breet- ches, stript with Yellow, and a Virginia Tow shirt.---It is imagined he is lurking about Norfolk, as he was seen there the Evening he went away.---I forwarn all persons from employing the said Negro, and I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS to any Person that will bring him to me. JOHN HANCOCK. Princess-Anne, Feb. 21, 1775. (3) 38 AS I have the misfortune of being lame, I am thereby prevented going from home, upon my usual business in such a manner as I could wish. I therefore take this method to inform the Public, that if any Person or Per- sons will furnish me with a quantity of Wheat, in the course of one Year, and will take Bread and Flour, as it is manufactur’d, I will engage that it shall be good, and will supply them with it on very easy Terms, in Propor- tion to the Price of the Wheat, I also will take in baking; for terms apply to GOODRICH BOUSH. Norfolk, Feb. 22, 1775. (3) 38 </div> <div class=""column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, the 11th of last month, a Ne- gro fellow named DANIEL; he is thick and well set, about five feet 5 or 6 inches high, has a scar under one of his eyes; a gloomy countenance and seldom looks one in the face: He is used to the Bay trade, is much addicted to gaming; it is suspected he will endeavor to pass for a free man.-----Had on when he went off, a Fearnought Jacket, a pair of old blue cloth Breetches and an oznabrig shirt: But as he is an old offender, it is pro- bable he will change his Clothes. Whoever takes up said Negro and delivers him to me or secures him so that I may get him again, if within the Colony, shall receive a Reward of Three POUND, & if taken out of it Five POUND from JOHN HAYNIE. NORTHUMBERLAND County March 4th, 1775. N.B. All Matters of vessels and Others, are forbid employing, harbouring, or carrying of said Negro at their Peril. (3) 40 The Imported HORSE, Young CARVER, Four years Old this summer, stands at the Subscribers at the Great-Bridge; Covers Mares, at 30 Shillings the Leap, or three Pounds the Season.---Good Pastur- age, (but none warranted to return if Stolen Sraed.) CARVER, was got by old CARAER, a Horse the property of his Majesty, by the famous York-Shire Lake Mare, Lady-Legs. For further Particulars, --See the Horse. CHARLES MAYLE. March 8th, 1775. (tf) 40 FOR SALE, a Tract of well timbered Land, contain- ing about four Hundred and fifty Acres, in the County of Currituck, North Carolina; Distant twenty four Miles from Norfolk, ad- joining to the Lands of Messrs. Francis Wil- liamson, and Tatem Wilson.---Credit will be given, and the Times of Payment made easy.---For further Particulars, apply at Belville, to Thomas Macknight, Esq; or at Norfolk, to JAMES PARKER. N.B. The Subscriber wants a NEGRO Mulatto Boy, used to taking Care of Hor- ses, for which he will give Ready MONEY. Norfolk, March 9, 1774. (3) 40. FOR CHARTER, The Brig ASSISTANCE, STEVEN FARISH, COMMANDER, Now lying at NORFOLK. BURTHEN about 300 Hogsheads, or 7500 Bushels---FOR TERMS, apply to Mr. THOMAS SHORE, or the Subscriber. BOLLING STARK. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4, 1775. (4) 36 RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, on Monday the twentieth of February last: ISAAC GIL- DING, an English servant Man, a House carpen- ter by trade; he is a short well made man, about five feet five, or six inches high, brown Hair, which he generally wears tyed, tho’ short. Had on when he went away, a new Bearskin coat and waistcoat, a pair of worsted Shag breetches with metal buttons. He was seen at Hamp- ton on Saturday the twenty fifth of last month, with some Tools which he carried with him. Whoever takes up the said Servant, and conveys him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have a Reward of Three POUND paid by JAMES SOUTHALL. WILLIAMSBURG March 1st, 1775. (2) 39 BARTHOLOMEW LEPETIT, dancing Ma- ster, begs Leave to Address himself to such Gentle- men and Ladies, that may be willing to encourage him in that Branch of Education; by informing them, that he has opened a SCHOOL at Mr. NICHOLAS GAU- TIERS in Church Street, and intends (should he meet with Encouragement sufficient to enable him to reside here) to continue Teaching every Saturday: Those that are inclinable to commit any young Gentlemen or Ladies to his Care, may depend on having the strictest Attention paid in every Respect, for to Qualify them in that gen- teel Accomplishment, and the Favour will be gratefully acknowledged: He proposes also opening a School at Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th March, where he has a very convenient Room for that Purpose, at Mrs. BELL’S. Having taught the FRENCH for sometime in this Country as well as in LONDON; where he studied under an able French-Master, with some little Share of Ap- plause, he doubts not but it will be sufficient to recom- mend him to such as would chuse to learn that agreeable LANGUAGE; and at the same Time desirous to be in- formed of its peculiar Niceties; whom he will take Plea- sure in waiting upon, either at Home or Abroad.---His Terms are for DANCING, 20 s. per Quarter; and two Dollars entrance.----For FRENCH, 30 s. per Quar- ter; and a Pistole entrance. Attendance three Times a Week. Norfolk, March 9, 1775. (2) 40 </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY. To CELIA. MAY Celia’s charms, my glowing pen inspire, With Spartan vigor, and Athenian fire. Let life like hers, in all its lustre shine; While Syren graces play in every line. Her powerful wit, and sentiments refin’d, With modesty and manly wisdom join’d, In all their charms appear, I must confess! Like LOCKE, or NEWTON, in a female dress. Each lovely glance, shot from her sparkling eyes, Warms like Aurora’s from the eastern skies: Whose quickening beams the little atoms move, And nature all around’s inspir’d with love. As gently gales rise from an evening breeze, And spread their whispers thro’ the murm’ring trees, So may the little winged, strolling guest Convey my sighs to Celia’s lovely breast, Tell her the pain, my tortured soul has felt, And into love, the dear Platonick melt. When Sol’s bright rays to bless the earth disdain, And Thetis sports amidst the watry main, Sleep’s downy wings hover o’er nature’s eyes, And I’m the only wretch from whom it flies! But what, alas! can I from Celia hope, Who views my follies in a misereroscope? In restless pangs I linger out the day, And fighting weep the gloomy night away; A trembling shudder thrills around my heart, Whene’er we meet; ---to think that we must part. May no unfriendly moments e’er controul The dear auspicious charmer of my soul: Each hour be peaceful, happy, and serene, A calm of life, untouch’d by guilt or pain. [Illegible]A large section of paper is torn; possibly an entire stanza of the poem. WANTED. A Quantity of Linen Rags. The best Prices will be given, by Applying at the Printing Office. As these are intended for an American Manufacture of Paper, it is to be hoped every Friend to this Country, will preserve their Rags, for so Valuable a Purpose. NORFOLK, November 3, 1774. KEYSER;S famous PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, to be sold at the Printing-Office, (printed directions for using them, may be had gratis) -----Also the late American Editions of JULIET GRENVILLE; QUINVY’s OBSERVATIONS on the Boston Port-Bill; and a Variety of the newest and most approved Books, Pamphlets and Plays. N.B. Subscriptions are taken in there for a new Book, in 2 vols.; entitled, A Voyage round the World, preformed by Capt. Cook, and Joseph Banks, Esq: F.R.S.; first published by the direction of the Lords of the Admiralty; wrote by John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. Ornamented with Cuts. Norfolk, October 7, 1774. FOR SALE. A BRIGANTINE, about 170 Tons Burthen, Exclusive of Rigging; properly calculated for the North-Carolina Trade.---For Terms apply, to Cap. WILLES COWPER, in Suffolk, or to the Subscriber. BEN BAKER. Nansemond, Dec. 20, 1774. THIS is to inform the Public, that my WIFE and I having parted from each other; by consent of both Parties.-----I will not for the future, Pay any Debts, she may contract. CHARLES JOHNSTON. Portsmouth, Jan. 17, 1775. WHEREAS by unjust Informations, and Insinuations, I was induced to believe, that Mr. THOMAS YOUNGHUS- BAND’S Negroes had destroyed my Cows, which were Two in Number; since which Time, One has returned Home alive, and the other has been seen about three and four Months af- ter the above Report, with other Cattle in the PRECOESON or the GREAT SWAMP, as Witness my Hand this 7th of December, 1774. In the County of CURRITUCK, NORTH-CAROLINA. THOMAS PARKER. BUTLER COWELL THOMAS SHERGOLD,}Witnesses. January 10, 1775. 33 TO be Hired by the Day, &c. Ciel’d FLATS, that will carry from three to five hundred Bushels.--- Lighters from sixteen to thirty Feet long. Also, Hor- ses and Chairs, by SCARBOROUGH TANKARD. Norfolk, Jan. 19, 1775. 33 </div> NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office, where Advertisements, Essays ,and Articles of News from VIRGINIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully Received, and duly Inserted. –Advertisements, of a moderate Length, for 3s. the first time, and 2s. each time after.—Price of the PAPER, 12s. 6d. per Annum. <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> BY Virtue of a Power of Attorney from the Heirs of Doctor JOHN DALGLIESH deceased, will be sold a valuable Plan- tation: Containing Two Hundred and Ten Acres, pleasantly situ- ated on Elisabeth River, about two Miles below Norfolk: For Terms, apply to the Subscriber.---Who has also a Power to dis- pose of a very valuable Water Lot in Portsmouth, belonging to Mr. WILLIA< HALL of Bermuda; and will receive Country-Pro- duce in Payment, for one half the Purchase Money. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. Norfolk, January 4, 1775. 31 THE Subscriber intends opening SCHOOL in this Place, on Monday, the 23d instant: Will take in Grammar Scholars at 25s. the Quarter, Cyphering, Writing, and Reading at 12s. 6d. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who shall Favour him with their Children may depend on his utmost Endeavours to give them Sa- tisfaction. JAMES DUDLEY. Portsmouth, January 17, 1775. (3) 34 To be sold peremptorily, to the highest Bidder, at NORFOLK County, Court-House, on Thursday the 16th Instant being Court Day, by Virtue of a Deed in Trust, from SAMUEL BRESIE, to the Subscribers. A VALUABLE Tract of Land, lying in the County and Parish of St. Bride, conveniently situated, Containing Five Hundred and Thirty-seven Acres, by an old Survey; on which is a very good Brick dwelling House, forty eight Feet by twenty, Kitchen, Barn, and Smoke-House all in good Repair; a fine young Orchard of about five hundred Trees, chiefly of the Hew’s Crab, and cleared Land for working six or eight Hands,, The soil of this land is exceeding good, and all of it lies convenient for Im- provement. Also one Tract of Land, lying in the aforesaid County and Parish; Containing two hundred Acres, (about forty of which are cleared) with a small House thereon. The above Tracts ly within eight Miles of the Great-Bridge, and will be shewn on Ap- plication by the Subscribers, or William Hall who now rents one Plantation, and by Nathaniel Butt who lives adjourning to the other.----300l. to be paid in April, and the Remainder in October. JOHN WILSON. HENRY BRESSIE. Norfolk, February 2, 1775. 35 THOSE indebted to the Store formerly kept by Mr. WILLIAM AYLES at the Great-Bridge, under the Firm of WILLIAM AYLES. &amp. Co. are re- quested to make Payment, to Mr. BENNET ARMSTRONG, who will grant Receipts, we hereby engage to make good Discounts against the Books.---As Mr. AYLES’S behaviour obliges us to take this Method; and the Debts have been long due, we hope immediate Payment will be made Mr. ARMSTRONG to oblige. ROBERT SHEDDEN & Co. ALEXANDER LOVE. PORTSMOUTH, November 28, 1774. (3) 35 FOR SALE. The NANCY, GEORGE WISE Master, five years old, burthen about seven thousand bushels. And for Charter, a new Brigantine about 10 or 11,000 bushels burthen, for terms apply to SAMUEL KERR & Co. PORTSMOUTH 2d February, 1775. DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry GOODS for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Broun Sugar, one Tierce Spirits; for Mr. RICHARD GRAHAM at DUM- FRIES.---After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he tool in a Cask of Sad- lery, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, at Ur- banna; which were also to have been delivered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLS inform- ed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. Mr. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this pub- lication, and to offer a reward of Twenty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; of Five POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off.---- Boston is about 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, living on Pocomoake ri- ver Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way: he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and ceiled, her quarter deck is covered over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the reward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES KILLS at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchester,; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> TEN POUNDS Reward. PRINCE GEORGE, November 10, 1774. RUN away from the Subscriber, a Mulatto Boy named SAM; about 16 or 17 Years old, of a very light Complexion, and will endeavour to pass for a free Boy, has gray Eyes, brown Hair, a smoothful artful Tongue, is a great Villain, but a very good Bar- ber. In the Month of June last he was put in York Jail, on Su- suspicion of having stolen some Money in Williamsburg. He made his Escape from thence and got to Norfolk, where he was put in Jail and sent to me by Water. The next day (September 20th) he made his Escape from my Overseer, and has not since been heard of. He was born in Frederick Town, Maryland, has lived in Fre- dericksburg, Norfolk, and York Town, and is well acquainted with most Parts of Virginia. He was very meanly clad, having been so long in Jail, but it is probable will procure Clothes. I will give 5l. Reward to have him committed to any of his Majesty’s Jails, if taken in the Colony of Virginia, and if out of the Colony 10l. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are hereby forewarned from carrying him out of the Country, or employing him. JOHN BLAND. N. B. It is suspected he is lurking or conceals himself in or about Norfolk, if brought there and secured, the Reward will be paid by Mr. ROBRT GILMOUR. To THE PUBLIC. NOTICE is hereby given, that the late Manager of this Office, WILLIAM DUNCAN, having dis- continued acting in that Character: and all Persons make immediate Payment to Mr. GEORGE HOLLADAY; and those who have any DEMANDS against the said Office, will render their Accounts that they may be adjusted. LOST about 2 Months ago, a small ciel’d Flat, marked on the inside of the Stern, (thus L. G.) any Person that takes her, and brings her to the Subscribers, shall have Ten Shillings Reward. LOGAN, GIKMOUR, & Co. February 2, 1775. FOR BARBADOS. THE Brig Venus, FRANCIS PEART Master: Hath very good Accommodations for Passengers, and will be ready to sail in about three Weeks.---- For Freight or Passage, apply to said Master, or JOHN LAWRENCE, & Co. Norfolk, February 1, 1775. (3) 35. RUN AWAY From the Brig INNERMAY lying at Brandon; on James river the 27th of December last, an Ap- prentice lad named William Johnston about 17 or 18 years of age five feet six inches high, swarthy com- plexioned and a little pitted with the small pox, knock- knee’d, he was born in or near Williamsburg, where it is supposed he is now harboured, he carried with him a new sailors Jacket, blue duffle breeches lined with white plaid and white metal buttons, a green cloth Ja- quet pretty much wore, a blue and white broad strip’d cloth coloured thread under Jacket, country made shoes and stockings, one or two pair of sailors trowsers, and his bed clothes. Whoever secures him so that I get him again, shall have Fifteen Shillings reward. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are fore- warned from carrying him out of the Country or me- ploying him. JAMES BELCHES. CABIN-POINT, January 3d, 1775. 35 WANTED TO CHARTER A Vessel, that will carry about forty Thousand of Lumber, to load here for Santa Croix, and two Vessels, of about two Thousand, five Hundred Barrels each, to load Rice at Charles Town, Soujth Carolina, for Cowes and a Market. INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk, February 1, 1775. (tf) 35 STOLLEN or Pillaged out of a Package of GOODS be- longing to the Subscriber, and lately imported in the Rich- mond, Capt. PATTERSON from GLASGOW, which Package with other Goods was delivered at BURWELL”S Ferry from on board the Ship to the Packet, Capt. GUTHRIE, and by him brought to Norfolk, where by Order of the County Committee it was stored, and even at my Desire lodged in the Warehouse of my Friend, from the 27th Decer. to the 23d January, when it was sold and brought in by me, a few Days afterwards, when opened, the fol- lowing Articles were found missing, viz. 4 Pieces, 3-4ths Irish Linen, cost 1.s. Sterling per Yard. 1 do. 7-8ths do. 1s. 4 d. 2 do. do. do. 1s. 8d. 2 do. Yard Wide do. 2s. 4d. 5 do. 7-8ths Check Linen 1s. 1d. 1 do. 3-4ths Red Tyke, 23 yds. 1s. 1 doz. pair plain white Thread Stockings, 33s. doz. 6 p. do. Ribbed 48s. doz. 2 do. Mens Thread, No. 10 As it is probable these Goods may be offered for Sale in or near Norfolk, I hereby offer a Reward of TEN POUNDS, to any Person who shall make such a Discovery of the Theft, as shall be sufficient to convict the Thief, provided so much value of the Goods is recovered. THOS. McCULLOUCH. Gosport, January 31, 1775. </div> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR, THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICIS, — HOR. From THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16, to THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 — 1775. (No. 38.) <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> The TESTIMONY of the people called QUAKERS, given forth by a Meeting of the Representatives of said people, in Pennsylva- nia and New-Jersey, held at Philadelphia, the 24th Day of the first Month, 1775. HAVING considered with re- al Sorrow, the unhappy con- test between the legislature of Great-Britain and the people of these colonies, and the a- nimosities consequent there- on; we have by repeated pub- lic advices and private ad- monitions, used our endea- vours to dissuade the mem- bers of our religious society from joining with the re- solutions promoted and entered into by some of the people, which as we apprehended, so we now find have increased contention, and produced great discord and confusion. The Divine Principle of grace and truth which we profess, leads all who attend to its dictates, to demean themselves as peaceable subjects, and to discountenance and avoid every measure tending to excite disaffection to the King, as supreme magistrate, or to the legal authority of his government; to which purpose many of the ate political writings and addresses to the people appearing to be calculated, we are led by a sense of du- ty to declare our entire disapprobation of them——— their spirit and temper being not only contrary to the nature and precepts of the gospel, but destructive of the peace and harmony of civil society, disqualifies men in these times of difficulty, for the wise and judi- cious consideration and promoting of such measures as would be most effectual for reconciling differences, or obtaining the redress of grievances. From our past experience of the clemency of the King and his royal ancestors, we have grounds to hope and believe, that decent and respectful addresses from those who are vested with legal authority, representing the prevailing dissatisfactions and the cause of them, would avail towards obtaining relief, ascertaing and establishing the just rights of the people and restoring the public tranquility; and we deeply lament that con- trary modes of proceeding have been pursued, which have involved the colonies in confusion; appear likely to produce violence and bloodshed; and threaten the subversion of the constitutional government, and of liberty of conscience, for the enjoyment of which, our ancestors were induced to encounter the manifold dan- gers and difficulties of crossing the seas, and of settling in the wilderness. We are therefore, incited by a sincere concern for the peace and welfare of our country, publicly to de- clare against every usurpation of power and authority, in opposition to the laws and government, and against all combinations, insurrections, conspiracies and ille- gal assemblies: and as we are restrained from them by the conscientious discharge of duty to Almighty God, ”by whom Kings reign, and Princes decree justice,” we hope through his assistance and favour, to be ena- bled to maintain our testimony against any requisitions which may be made of us inconsistent with our religi- ous principles, and the fidelity we own to the King and his government, as by law established; earnestly desir- ing the restoration of that harmony and concord which have heretofore united the people of these provinces, and been attended by the devine blessing on their la- bours. Signed in, and on behalf of the said Meeting, JAMES PEMBERTON) Clerk at this time. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated Jan. 25. ”The addresses to Governor Colden arrived here Sunday night, they were published in Dunlap’s paper the next morning (the day the Provincial congress met) this has had a great effect———such expressions of loyalty offend the ears of republicans, some of the counties (at least one) see no propriety in this conven- tion, and will not send delegates to attend it——several others have sent delegates merely to oppose mustering a militia———upon this our Committee agreed not to propose it,———so that these miserable politicians will </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> rack their brains to invent some plausible pretence for calling the province together at a season of the year so inconvenient, their transactions will consist of pious re- solves to kill no weathers, and to encourage the indu- strious farmer to make his own coat, and a hearty ap- probation of the congressional proceedings will be art- fully brought about; this and a little inflammatory matter to keep sedition alive, now almost expiring, will take up their whole time. I am not without hopes that a petition will be sent to our assembly, at their meeting next month, to res- cind their approbation of the proceedings of the con- gress———nothing but a shameful fear of popular re- sentment ever could have extorted from them such a resolve.———Your assembly is revered by all sensible men in this city, for their great prudence and undaunted resolution in first making a stand against lawless usur- pers of power, and violators of liberty, from that pe- riod I date the fall of anarchy and the commence- ment of good order. A worthy Gentleman of my acquaintaince from Maryland, of moderate sentiments, tho’ one of their late Provincial congress, informs me the Marylanders are in general mad———they are the most ignorant people that live, a moderate man dare not speak his sentiments———a person for drinking Lord North’s Health, was thrown into a fire, and had near been killed———This is the genuine spirit of patriotism which those people breath,———but although this is the vul- gar conduct, the more sensible part disclaim such viol- ences———and this Gentleman assures me, that if the King’s standard was erected there, a great part of the people would immediately repair to it from senti- ment———the rest would soon follow through timidi- ty.———In Baltimore the people muster frequently, but so fearful are these brave soldiers of the inclement air, that they shoulder their muskets under a roof only——— they have broke open the Court-house, and by a fire- side, within walls that are “ bomb-proof” they talk heroically and gallantly of what they can do,——— they have raised near the amount they resolved on, in Congress;———what they could not by intreaty they did by threats. The famous General L—— is muster- ing near Annapolis (or rather was mustering) from his proffession and boasted skill, he had one day seve- ral hundreds under his tuition, but he behaved so inso- lently, and discovered such a passionate and overbear- bearing disposition, that the 2d day he had only 70, and the 3d day only 15, a glorious declension.” ”Our congress have met thrice, they have chose a President and Secretary, but they do not know for what they are called together. One city Committee- man lays they blame on another, a second lays it on a third, a third on the fourth, &ampc. &ampc. Jammy W—— declares the country Committees are come to town, only to abuse the city Committees for calling them. Nothing can exceed their chagrin.” To the Patriotic Sons of Freedom, in the Town and Connty of BALTIMORE. Sage and respected Veterans, I Am informed, by good authority, that a number of Tories in your Place are dissatisfied with the noble and patriotic disposition which you have discove red in assembling in a Modern Constitutional manner, and making your way into the Court-house, where you could enjoy the liberty of mustering and practising the manual exercise, by a comfortable fire side, secure from the inclemency of the air: I cannot help being surpri- zed at the impudence of these enemies to their country, who must have dived further into the nature of man- kind, than you are aware of, and thereby discovered the danger of having these patriots exposed to the attraction of the sun, and a free circulation of the air, which would cause such a perspiration of their volatile martial fire, as shortly to extract it totally from the body: this has often been experienced when the whole mass of courage has been drawn to the tongue’s end, when in spite of all the Hero could say, the feet have had such a surprising an influence to wheel about the body, and carry it of danger, with the greatest pre- cipitation. I shall beg leave, with the utmost submis- sion: to offer my services, as an able and experienced mechanic: having by dint of hard study ,invented a </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> vehicle to convey a body of any weight or size, which on this occasion may be applied to an elegant building, bomb proof, sufficient to contain any number of men, with their arms and accoutrements:——The body will move in the most precise order, and at the rate of five miles an hour, without any considerable obstruction at hills and vallies?—The advantages of so happy a dis- covery at this time, need not be enumerated; I shall only observe, that the grand design of the Tories will be totally defeated; for, even suppose the martial cou rage should be totally exhaled, or any damp of spirit affect the body, by either the smell of gun-powder, or the noise, or glittering of arms, the poltroon (if any) could not escape, as I would propose the walls should encompass the whole army. I am the more earnest in offering my services at this time, as I find the Tories of this place are making such head as will be likely to prevent the sons of liberty from using fire arms, from which I expected encourage- ment at Philadelphia ! but find since the meeting of the Provincial Congress, to my sad mortification, that should I be disappointed in my expectations with you I shall not have an opportunity of displaying my genius; and the discovery may be entirely lost to posterity, as I find our neighbours to the eastward have no demand for such a machine. A letter sent (post paid) to the London Coffee-house, in Philadelphia directed for A. B. will be duly an- swered. Journal of the Proceedings of the General Assembly of NEW - YORK. M. Speaker laid before the House a Letter he had received from the Honourable CORTLANDT SKINNER, Esq; Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of NEW-JERSEY, inclosing sundry resolutions entered into by the said House; and the said resolutions bein read, are in the words following, viz. House of Assembly, January 25th. 1775. Mr. Crane and Mr. Kinsey laid before the House the proceed- ings of the continental Congress held at Philadelphia in September last ; which were read. On the question, whether the House approve of the said Proceed- ings ; it passed in the affirmative. Resolved, That this House do unanimously approve of the Proceedings of thew Congress. Resolved, That JAMES KINSEY, STEPHEN CRANE, WILLIAM LIVING- STON, JOHN DE HART, and RICHARD SMITH, Esqrs; (or any three of them) be, and they are hereby appointed to attend the Continental Congress of the Colonies intend to bne held at the City of Philadelphia in May next, or at any other time or place ; and that they report their proceedings to the next Sessions of General Assembly, instructing the said Delegates to propose and agree to e- very reasonable and constitutional Measure for the accommodation of the unhappy difference at present subsisting between our Mother Country and the Colonies, which the House most ardently wish for. Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do transmit a copy of the foregoing resoluti- ons to the Speakers of the Assemblies of New-York and Pennsyl- vania. Resolved, That the thanks of this HOuse be given to James Kinsey, Stephen Crane, William Livingston, John De Hart, and Richard Smith Esqrs; for their faithful and judicious discharge of the trust reposed in them at the late continental Congress A true Copy, JONATHAN DEARE, Clk. January 31st 1775. A motion was made by Col P. Livingstone in the words following, viz. Mr. Speaker, I Move that a day may be appointed to take the state of this co- lony into consideration, to enter into such resolutions, as the House may agree to, on their Journals; and in consequence of such resolutions, to prepare a humble, firm, dutiful and loyal Petition to our most gracious Sovereign. On the question, whether the House agreed to the said motion? it passed in the affirmative, Nemine Contradicente. And then a motion was made by Mr. De Lancey, viz. Mr. Speaker, I Move that memorial to the Lords, and Representation and Re- monstrance to the Commons of Great-Britain, may be prepared together on the petition to his Majesty. On the question, whether the House agree to the said Motion; it passed in the affirmative. nem con. Ordered, That Mr. De Lancy, Col. Schuyler, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Brinc- kerhoff, Mr. Gale, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Brush. Mr. Billop, Mr. Rapalje, Mr. Kissam, and Mr. Nicoll, or the major part of them, be a Committee to prepare a state of the Grievances of this Colony. and report the same to this House with all convenient speed after the call thereof to be had on the 7th day of February next. </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> To the Honorable< CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq; His Majesty’s Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over the Colony of New-York, and the Territories depend- ing thereon in America. The humble ADDRESS of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the said COLONY, May it please your Honour, WE, his Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Gene- ral Assembly of the Colony of New York beg Leave to re- turn your Honor our most hearty Thanks for your Speech. The Assurances your Honor has given us of cheerfully promoting whatever may be conducive to the Dignity of his Majesty’s Govern- ment, and the Happiness of the People in this Colony, merit our most grateful Acknowledgements. The Provision for the support of his Majesty’s Government, and the necessary Allowances for his Service, shall be the Objects of our Attention, together with the ordinary Business of the Session. Affected with the deepest Concern by the distressed State of the Colonies, and impressed with a due Sense of the fatal Consequences attending the unhappy Dispute between Great-Britain and his Ma- jesty American Dominions, we feel that most afflicting anxiety at this alarming Crisis. Fully convinced that the Happiness of our Constituents depends greatly on the Wisdom of our present Measures, we shall exercise the important Trust they have reposed in us with Firmness and Fidelity; AND WITH CALMNESS AND DELIBERA- TION PURSUE THE MOST PROBABLE MEANS TO OBTAIN A RE- DRESS OF OUR GRIEVANCES: And it affords us the highest Satis- faction to hear from your Honor, that our most gracious Sovereign will be attentive to the Complaints of his American Subjects, and ready, with paternal Tenderness, to grant us Relief. Anxious for the Interest and Happiness of our Country, and earnestly solicitous for the Re-establishment of Harmony with Great-Britain, we shall discountenance every Measure which may tend to increase our Di- stress; and by our Conduct shew ourselves truly desirous of a cordial and permanent Reconciliation with our parent Kingdom. The absence of our most worthy Governor in Chief, whose up- right Conduct so deservedly acquired him the Affections of the Co- lony, will, we have the strongest Reason to expect, be less sensibly felt from the wise Administration of his experienced Successor. The Confidence your Honor has been pleased to repose in our At- tachment to our happy Constitution, and our Regard for the Inte- rest and Prosperity of the British Empire, demands the Exertion of our most strenuous Efforts to co-operate with you in endeavouring to restore the Tranquility so ardently desired by all true Friends to the Mother Country, and the Colonies. By Order of the General Assembly. JOHN CRUGER, Speaker. Assembly Chamber, City of } New-York, 20th Jan. 1775. } Governor COLDEN’s reply to the Address of the House of Assembly of NEW-YORK. I Return you my most cordial thanks for this loyal and affection- ate Address. The affliction you express at the unhappy contestt between Great- Britain and his Majesty’s American Dominions,—your virtuous Re- solution to discharge your important Trust with Firmness and Deli- beration,—Your solicitude for a Re-establishment of that Harmony with our Parent Sate, which alone can diffuse Happiness and Security to the various Branches of the Empire,—and your Assurance that you would discountenance every Measure which might increase our Distress: While they hold you up as Guardians on the Whse Wisdom and Integrity your Constituents may rely on with well-grounded Confidence; cannot fail of giving me the most sincere Satisfaction. and of recommending you to general Approbation. You may be assured, Gentlemen, that to deserve the good Opi- nion and Esteem with which you are pleased to honor me, shall be my constant Study and the Object of my Ambition. CADWALLADER COLDEN. January 20th 1775. Resolved. That his Honor’s Speech be taken into further Consideration on Thursday next. January 26th, 1775. A Motion was made by Col Ten Brock, in the words following, viz. Mr. Speaker, I Move that his House take into consideration the Proceedings of the Continental Congress held in the City of Philadelphia in the months of September and October last. Whereupon Col- Philips moved, That the previous Question be first put,, whether the Question upon Col. Ten Broeck’s Motion should now be put? Upon which Debates arose ; and the said pre- vious Question being accordingly put, it was carried in the Negative, in Manner following, to wit. <table><tbody><tr><td>For the Affirmative.</td> <td>For the Negative.</td> </tr><tr><td>Col. Woodhull,</td> <td>Mr. Walton,</td> </tr><tr><td>Col. Schuyler,</td> <td>Mr. Rapalji.</td> </tr><tr><td>Mr. Clinton,</td> <td>Mr. De Lancey.</td> </tr><tr><td>Mr. Van Cortlandt,</td> <td>Mr. Bruth,</td> </tr><tr><td>Mr. De Witt,</td> <td>Mr. Jauncey,</td> </tr><tr><td>Col. P. Livingston,</td> <td>Col. Phillps,</td> </tr><tr><td>Capt.; Seaman,</td> <td>Col. Seaman,</td> </tr><tr><td>Col. Ten Broeck,</td> <td>Mr.Kissam,</td> </tr><tr><td>Mr. Nicoll,</td> <td>Mr. Wilkins,</td> </tr><tr><td>Mr. Boerum,</td> <td>Mr. Bishop,</td> </tr><tr><td></td> <td>Mr. Van Kleeck,</td> </tr></tbody></table>EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. THE inhabitants of Valachia are under great concern for the Russians leaving that country, being apprehensive that the Turks will take that opportunity, to revenge themselves upon them for their sufferings in the late war; several families are therefore go- ing to put them selves under the protection of the Russians. The last letters from Petersburgh mention, that of 3000 families are come from Valachia to seek an asylum in the dominions of the Empress of Russia. PETERSBURG, November 8. Lieut. Col. Dromsitz arrived late- ly from the Imperial army, with the agreeable account that Dewlet Gweray, the Turkish governor, has abandoned all his conquests and retired to Oczakow by order of the Porte. The same courier brought an account, that a general pardon was published throughout the Crimea and the neighbouring country for the adherents of Pugatscheff, and that numbers daily rejoin the Im- perial colours, which are placed in the middle of the grand plain of Baschisserai. GRAND CAIRO, August 25. There is a very violent religious war broke out in Persia, in the kingdom of Dagestan, between the sect of Omar and the Gauers, who worship the everlasting fire; it is but six months since it first began, and it is computed 120,000 people have been killed already; the Gauers are the most numerous, but the other party are generally victorious. LISBON, November 1. We have received advice, that the Moors have had siege to the town of Ceuta. PARIS, November 16. The Parliament of Rouen was re-esta- blished by the Duke d’Harcourt, the 12th of this month; he was received at Rouen with every demonstration of joy. HAGUE, November 23. The plan laid by the court of Spain is no longer a secret; the English cabinet knew it as soon almost as it was formed. The court of Versailles neither approved nor disap- proved of it; therefore, when Prince Masserano set out for that court, the English ministry charged Lord Stormont to acquaint the </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> Count de Vergennes with the discovery they had made, in order to preserve the pacific assurances which these three powers had reci- procally made to each other, and present that Ambassador’s meet- ing with a cold reception in England.. It was proposed that a fleet should fall from Ferrol and another from the Havannah with 4000 land forces on board; that they should join in a certain latitude, and then go together, and take possession of Pensacola, the most important colony that the English secured to themselves by the last peace, for watching the Spanish trade, from La Vera Cruz Panama, &c. The galleons which come from that country to Europe are obliged to steer their course that way in order to get a wind: Besides, the English ships stationed there have an opportunity of seeing every thing that passes. and a small fleet there in time of war may be a check to the whole Spa- nish trade in that part of the world. Stockholm, Nov. 18. The reading of the accusation brought against thirteen members of the regency of Gothland, has busied the Senate for a long time. The kIng was present, and the hear- ing was public. They are allowed 22 Days to answer the charges brought against them. There was a prodigious crowd at this extra- ordinary ceremony. The complaint of the Chancellor of Justice consists of 34 arti- cles against several persons, twelve of whom have had their Places taken from them, and are to pay the expence of the visitation and process. Councellor Sanderschoeld is only suspended from his em- ploy for a certain time. WARSAW, Nov. 12. They write from the Polish provinces that have fallen to the lot of the court of Vienna, that the Jews who were settled there, are going off in great numbers to the provinces devolved to Russia, on account of greater advantages arising to them there both in respect to trade and liberty of conscience. WARSAW, (Capital of POLAND) October 19. In the conference held last month at the King’s Palace between the three ministers and the principal members of the delegation, not only a reconcilia- tion between the party in opposition and the King took place, but it was also unanimously determined to put his Majesty in such a situation, as to enable him to support his dignity. In virtue of this arrangement, “The republic grants to his Majesty, by way of in- demnity for the loss of his revenues, 1. An annual income of five millions of Polish florins, in which will be included the million de- stined for the maintenance of his guards. Of these five millions three are assigned on the treasuries of the Starosties, and the rest will be taken from the profits of the commerce of Salt, and on the most clear revenues of the public treasury. 2. The republic enga- ges to pay the king’s debts, amounting to seven millions, which shall be discharged by bills of credit. 3. The republic grants to his Majesty the Starosties of Lanlow, Cziern, Czersk, and Chmielnik, to enjoy them under the title of Hereditary Possessions, and to transmit to his family as such. 4. His Majesty may confer, once for all, four Starosties according to his choice, with a communica- tive right. 5. Lastly, a reimbursement of this money which had been advanced by his Majesty for the republic shall be raised for him conformably to the note remitted by the Castellan Keras.” It was at the same time agreed, to enhance the fixed revenues of the republic to thirty three millions of Polish florins, and the army to thirty thousand effective men. It was also agreed, that if these important objects could not be definitively determined by the pre- sent diet, they should be referred to future diets, to be there termi- nated by a plurality of voices. BERLIN November 8th. His Prussian Majesty has issued orders for 20,000 horses to be purchased for the use of his army, the care of which he has given to General Dailwig. LONDON, DECEMBER 10, 1774. From a mercantile house at Lisbon we are favoured with advice, that a Portuguese frigate reached Lisbon on the 7th of this month, having a Moor on board, charged with an embassy from the Empe- ror of Morocco to the Court of Portugal. This extraordinary oc- currence gives rise to several conjectures; for since the expulsion of the Moors, no subject of Morocco hath set foot in Portugal, in a public character. By a ship arrived at Leghorn from Alexandria, we have advice, that the news of the peace between the Grand Signior and the Russians had been received at Cairo with the utmost joy imaginable, which the inhabitants had testified by illuminations and other kinds of rejoicings. Trade was beginning again to flourish; and the vast magazines of grain amassed there, in order to carry on the war, will now be allowed to be transported to the different parts of the Me- diterranean, where they may be in want of it. December 7. The Empress of Russia intends to make some ma- terial alterations in the military establishment in her dominions, amongst which one is that of establishing a regular and well disci- plined Militia, according to this custom of some other European na- tions, throughout her territories. By advices from India by the last arrival, many heads of the coun- try powers , as well as private merchants, encouraged by the reputa- tion of English Justice, to seek redress for the murders and rapine which has been committed by the company’s servants within these last ten years, are collecting their evidence; so that it is expected more shocking scenes will be exhibited to the world in two or three years, than have hitherto been brought to light. A correspondent says, that a law is to pass to render it high treason to assemble mobs to force the King’s Civil Officers to resign, as has been done at and near Boston, and that every individual in such mobs is to be deemed to be in a state of rebellion. December 13. It is well worth observing, that originally the grounds of American grievance existed only in our laws for the purpose of taxing the Colonies; but the moment we indulgently manifested an inclination to remove every apprehension on that subject, the seale of discontent became amazingly enlarged; our laws for the regulation of their commerce, which they formerly ac- knowledged to be reasonable, nay which they allowed to be just, are now as much reprobated as our acts to raise a revenue; and even the very reduction of their political burdens, in our granting salaries to the American Judges, is converted into an argument of tyranny against us. In short, the arrogance of America has maintained a due proportion to the forbearance of the mother-country; the for- mer has swelled in her demands, as the latter has displayed her mo- deration; till at last our dutiful children, mistaking tenderness for timidity, spurn every idea of subjection, and tell us in express terms, that they have unquestionable claims to an equal independency with ourselves. The Earls of Shannon, Westmeath and Bellamont, with John Scott and Henry Flood, Esquires, are appointed to be his Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland. On the 26th of November died Stephen Fox, Lord Holland. He has left a son, a minor; his brother Charles Fox succeeds him as Clerk of the Pells in Ireland. Doctor Johnson, Bishop of Worcester, died near Bath, in conse- quence of a fall from his horse. He is succeeded in that See by Doctor North, Bishop of Litchfield; the latter by Doctor Hird, Bishop of Bangor. Dr. Barrington, Bishop of Landaff, is translated to Bangor, and Dr. Moore, Dean of Christ Church, is consecrated Bishop of Lan- daff. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Campbell, to be Deputy Gover- nor of Fort Georg, near Inverness, vice Charles Beauclerk. Lieutenant General James Murray, to be Lieutenant Governor of Minorea. Major General James Johnston, to be Governor of Quebec. From the late promotions in Ireland it will appear how little credit can be given to patriotic professions; almost all of the oppo- sition in that oppressed country having made their terms, very few worthies excepted. Josiah Quincy, Esq; who arrived on Friday from Boston, had the next day a long conference with the Secretaries of State. </div> <div class="“Column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> Extract of a letter from Rome, Nov. 11 ”Nothing is going forward yet at the conclave, and the election of a Pope is kept back till the arrival of those cardinals who are ex- pected from abroad. ”Notwithstanding the prohibition of the Government not only Pamphlets but Satyrical Prints are daily publishing; some against particular people, others instructing the conclave in their Duty in chusing a Pope; others satyrizing in the most severe manner all the Cardinals one after another; and lastly, others, especially the Prints reflecting on the late Pope for his suppression of the Jesuits in particular, and likewise for his abolishing several societies of Monks; for his Toleration in not making use of all the thunder of the Vatican against those who were not of the Roman Cathoilc re- ligion, and many more such scurrilous Invectives on the memory of the deceased Pontiff.” Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Dec. 5. ”For some Days past we have had very stormy Weather, but particularly on Saturday and Sunday it blew a perfect Hurricane. On Saturday night and Sunday, a prodigious Sea rolled into the Harbour of Leith, the like scarce ever remembered by the oldest man there. The Shipping in the harbour, by running foul of one another, have suffered considerably. Two Greenlandmen, moored to the North Pier drove, and were obliged to be scuttled. A fine new Yacht belonging to the excise, has received so much damage as to be totally unserviceable; and numbers of ships have had their Quarters drove in, and received other considerable damage. ”During the storm, betwixt Saturday night and Sunday mor- ning, a ship belonging to Dysart, Mathew Norman Master, from Holland, was drove from her anchor off Dysart, and wrecked be- tween North Leith and Newhaven; six of the Crew were drowned, and the Cargo, which consisted mostly of apples and onions, was totally lost. Limerick, (in Ireland) November 25. A great number of Ro- man Catholics here, are disposing of their property in order to settle in Canada, to take the benefit of the act lately passed in fa- vour of the settlers in that country. CHARLESTOWN, (SOUTH-CAROLINA) In Provincial Congress, Charlestown, Monday, January 16, 1775. RESOLVED, That it is the unanimous opinion of this Con- gress,, that no Action for any Debt should be commenced in the Court of Common Pleas in this Colony, nor any such Action depending there, which was commenced since last September Re- turn, be proceeded in, without the Consent of the Committee of the Parish or District in which the Defendant resides, until it shall be otherwise determined in Provincial Congress That the said Committees respectively, or a Majority of such of them as shall meet (provided they are not less three in the Country Parishes and Districts) DO, upon Application, give permission for the bringing or proceeding on such Suits, in the following Cases, that is to say, where the Debtors refuse to renew their Obligations, or to give reasonable Security, or are justly suspected of intentions to leave the Province or to defraud their Creditors, or where there shall appear, to the Majority of such Committee, as aforesaid, any any other reasonable Cause for the granting such Permission; Which Committees shall meet and sit on the first and third Sa- turdays in every Month, at twelve o’Clock at Noon, in the Coun- try, or oftener if it shall be found necessary, for the purpose of hearing and determining on such Applications. That Seizures and Sales, upon Mortgages, shall be considered on the same Footing as Actions for Debt. That it be recommended to the Committees for each Parish and District, that they use their best Endeavours to pre- vent any Debtors removing their Effects out of the Province, with- out the Knowledge and Consent of their Creditors. That the Con- gress will indemnify the Committees for so doing. And that no Summons should be issued by any Magistrate, in small and mean Causes, without the like Consent. Resolved, That any eleven Members of the Committee for Charlestown, assembled together, be a sufficient Number to receive and determine upon Applications relative to Law Processes there. January 17. Resolved, That a strict Conformity to the Resol ves of this Congress, be recommended to the Gentlemen of the Law who practise in the Country, as well as in the Town, in Re- gard to the issuing of Writs, and proceeding on Suits and Mort- gages. A true Copy from the Journals. 18th, The Committee for Charlestown, in Obedience to the Resolves of the Provincial Congress, think it necessary to give this public Notice, That they have fixed upon every Thursday, at 10 o’Clock in the Forenoon, to meet and sit at Mr. Ramadge’s Tavern, for the Purposes aforesaid; And they request the Parties making Applications, to give their Attendance, that the Committee may be the better able to judge of the Propriety of approving or disapproving thereof. By Order of the Committee. PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary, 20. On Thursday last the Provincial Congress, which met here on Wednesday the 11th of this Month, adjourned. The Hon. Henry Middleton, Esqr; Thomas Lynch, Esq; Christopher Gads- den, Esq; John Rutledge, Esq; and Edward Rutledge Esq; the Deputies from this Province at the Congress holden in Philadelphia in September and October last, are elected Deputies from this Province to attend the Congress to be holden in the said City on the 10th day of May next. NEW-YORK, February 2. Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in the County of Litchfield, in the Colony of Connecticut, to his Friend in New-York. dated January 24. ”OUR Governor has lately called together his council, nothing however as yet, hath publicly transpired, saving, that they have appointed a day of Humiliation and prayer, on account of the present alarming sate of affairs between the mother country and her colonies.——But I have it from good authority, that letters have been received from our agent at the court of Great-Britain, advis- ing, that Mr. Penn, has cited him to answer before the King and council, in behalf of this colony, for their encroachments on the Susqehanna lands; and that the matter is now before the board of trade, and that he should shortly transmit to the Governor copies of Mr. Penn’s petition, &c. which, as soon as received, I am told our General Assembly will be convened. Some are ready to conjecture, why this intelligence is kept so very secret, may possibly be, lest, the western members of our assembly should be induced more gene- rally to attend the session, than they otherwise would o. I am likewise told, that our colony stores of ammunition are very deff- cient, and that by a law of this colony, the Governor and council are impowered at any time to supply the same, and that in conse- quence thereof they have given orders for procuring a large quanti- ty of gun-powder, lead, flints, &c. and that a vessel actually sailed a few days ago, for H____d, in order to procure the same. This cannot be supposed to be any infringement on the order of King and Council, which our Governor lately received from the secretary of state, to prevent the importation of arms, ammuniti- on, &c. as it is ordered by authority, it must be supposed to be for his Majesty’s service only.———However, when our farmers come to pay the reckoning, I believe we shall hear a more particular story about these ARCANI IMPERIL, for it is supposed, that only the costs arising from our new militia act, will amount to near fifty thousand pounds. besides the expenditure for colony stores, powder, &c. and the sending and maintaining an agent extraordinary at the court of Great-Britain, together with other incidental charges arising on the trial of the Susquehanna affair; all which will amount to a pretty round sum.” </div> <h5>Page 3</h5> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> Extract of a letter from London, Dec. 16, 1774. ” Your patriots by contending for too much, will probably lose all. In the warmth of their zeal, and under the delusion which they have been hurried into, by the encouragement of their pre- tended friends in this country, they have unveil’d pretensions and designs which must be fatal to them. They have convinced the world by their new claims, that the smallest part of the foundation of parliamentary jurisdiction cannot be impaired, without demollsh- ing the whole superstructure. ” The author of the Summary seems to have laboured to con- vince the people of England, that nothing but independence will satisfy America. The Pennsylvania Farmer, by the late instruc- tions which hold up a claim to an exemption from acts of parlia- ment, has ruined the cause, and drawn on himself the just charge of contradicting his own principles. ” I perceive by the American papers, that no artifice has been left untried, to deceive you by representations of the hostile designs of government, and heated recommendations of violent measures on your part. These should be set in their true light. They proceed from a faction here, who labour incessantly to distress administra- tion, in order to succeed to the places of their defeated rivals. With what little success they have laboured, you will gather from the King’s speech, and the answer of both Houses. Never was there a more contemptible opposition. ” Had the injury done to the East-India Company been redressed, and dutiful petitions presented by the several provincial Assemblies, a pacification would have ensued, and the unhappy disputes here been terminated in a manner advantageous to both countries. But the dignity of government will never permit it to make the first ad- vances; especially while the colonies disocver a spirit of defiance and disaffection. ” The pretences of a design in administration to injure the colo- lonies, is absurd. If America suffers, Great-Britain must suffer with it. A just subordination on the part of the colonies, is necessary for the common happiness. The superintending and me- diatorial power of one supreme legislature, is necessary to direct the operations of the grand state machine, to mutual advantage. Had administration entertained tyrannical schemes, they certainly would have rather chosen to draw supplies from America, by royal requi- sition, in the disposal of which they would be unaccountable, than by a mode, in which it will be appropriated by parliament.” Extract of another letter of the same date. ”You will observe, by the King’s speech, and the address, what are the sentiments of this kingdom. Yet I can tell you, that if America will but sue for grace, she will find his Majesty ready to receive her with all the Cordiality she can wish for; and I am more and more persuaded, that the servants of the crown, are equally well disposed, If the Resolutions of the Congress are peaceable, and to send Deputies home, all will yet end well; for it’s impos- sible that parent and child should long disagree, if they will argue together in sober reason.” Third Extract, from another Correspondent. ” The King, by his several ministers, has notified all the mari- time powers of Europe, that if any vessels belonging to them, laden with Ordinance or Military stores, shall appear upon the coast of America, they will be seized and condemned: and I am well in- formed, that all the courts have given the strongest assurances that they will not interfere.” The honourable house of Assembly of New Jersey, on the 25th of January approved of the proceedings of the Continental Congress; thanked their Delegates, and re-chose the same Gentlemen to repre- sent the province at the next Congress; instructing them to propose and agree to every reasonable and constitutional measure of accom- modation with the mother country, which the house most ardently wished for. Capt. Brass from Madeira, spoke the Peace and Plenty, Capt. M’Kenzie, from Belfast, for this port, with servants. A snow with goods was to leave Liverpool for this place, the 16th of December. WHEREAS a few people in the town of Jamaica in Queen’s County, on Long-Island, have taken upon themsesves the name of a committee, said to be chosen by a majority of the inha- bitants of the said township: We the subscribers, do think it our duty to declare, that we never gave our consent towards chusing that committee; or making any resolves: As we utterly disaprove of all unlawful meetings and all tyrannical proceedings whatsoever; and as we have always been so, it is our firm resolution to continue peaceable and faithful subjects to our present Majesty King George the Third, our most gracious Sovereign ? and we do further declare that we do not acknowledge any other representatives but the Ge- neral assembly of this province, by whose wisdom and interposition we hope to obtain the wished redress of our grievances, in a con- stitutional way. Signed by 135 Gentlemen, N. B. Ninety-one of the above subscribers are freeholders, and the others very respectable inhabitants, within the township of Ja- maica. These are the three or four people who opposed the chusing a Committee. January 28, 1775. N. B. There are not abov 150 or 160 freeholders at most in this township. NEWBERN, (NORTH-CAROLINA) Carteret County, Beaufort, Dec. 30, 1774. ON Tuesday last arrived here Capt. Henry Dickson, in the Brig Mary and Hannah, from London, with a quantity of goods, Capt. Dickson, on being informed what resolutions had been taken in America with Regard to the English Trade, very honourably sub- mitted to have the Committee called to examine into the several Cir- cumstances, and accordingly the said Committee met this Day, when Capt. Dickson made it evidently appear, that the said Goods were put up in ‘august last, and shipped on Board the said Vessel, before he knew any Thing of the Association Agreement, and that he had none of that so much detested Weed Tea, on Board, nor any other Article that is at present taxed for rasing a Revenue in America.—— Whereupon the Committee gave Capt. Dickson his Choice (in Com- pliance with the 10th Resolve of the General Congress) either to re- turn with the goods to London, or deliver them into the hands of the committee, to be disposed of as they should think proper: Whereupon Capt. Dickson chearfully consented to deliver all up into the hands of this Committee, with a stedfast resolution to a- bide by their determination.——Accordingly the committee proceeded to examine the said goods, and found the amount, as per invoice to be 1459 £, 7 s., 1d. Sterling, which was accordingly exposed to sale on board the said vessel, at public vendue, and struck off to the highest bidder, at 2806 £, 12s. Proclamation money, which the Committee will take care to apply agreeable to the above-said tenth article resolved upon by the continental congress. <table><tbody><tr><td>William Thomson,</td> <td>George Bell,</td> </tr><tr><td>Joseph Bell,</td> <td>John Easton,</td> </tr><tr><td>Lewis Welsh,</td> <td>William Borden,</td> </tr><tr><td>Enoch Ward,</td> <td></td> </tr></tbody></table>HAMPTON, Feb. 15. ENTERED INWARDS. Schooner Neptune, Jonathan Paine from Falmouth, New-Eng- land, 17000 Feet Plank, 1 Hogshead and 1 Barrel New-England with Rum, 2 Barrels Blubber, 5 do. Salmon, 10 Quintals Cod-fish 4 Pieces Oznabrigs, 1 Tierce and 3 Barrels brown Sugar, 1 Box Chocolate, 1 Barrel and 1 Trunk European Goods, 5 Pair Boots, 3 Dozen Spades, 300 lb. Cheese, 1 Barrel Mackrel, 1 Hogshead Earthen Ware, 3 Dozen Axes. </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> Ship Elisabeth, John Sampson from Bristol, with European Goods, per 4 Cockets. Schooner Squirrel, Thomas Harman from Piscataqua, with 2 Hogsheads Rum, 150 wt. Cheese, 2 Bushels Salt, 10 Quintals Cod-fish, 2 Mill-stones, and two Tierces foreign molosses. Brig Beith, John Harper from Hispaniola, with 20 Hogsheads and 26 Tierces foreign Molosses, and two Tierces foreign brown Sugar. Brig John, Hugh Kennedy from Hispaniola, with 42 Hogsheads Molosses. Ship Betsey, David Ross from London in Ballast only. Schooner Little Dann, Anthony Surtees from New-York, with 3 Boxes Chocolate, and 3 Barrels Cocoa Shells. Ship Hodge, Fazarkerly from Liverpool, with European Goods, per two Cockets. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Brig Tyger, John Hall for Falmouth, with 8250 Bushels Wheat, 4 Thousand Staves, 2 Thousand Feet Plank, 700 Handspikes. Ship Mary, James Waldren from Falmouth, with 8000 Bushels Wheat, 3000 Feet Plank, 600 Staves. Schooner Mary, Richard Robinson for Antigua, with 30 Thou- sand Staves and Heading, 6 Thousand Shingles, 1500 Bushels Corn, 100 ditto Pease. Brig Tartar, Joseph White for Antigua, with 35000 Staves and Heading, 13000 Feet Scantling, 50000 Shingles, and 50 Bar- rels Bread. Sloop Molly, John Marnox for Saint Vincents, with 662 Bu- shels of Corn, 261 do. Pease, 460 do. Oats, 8950 Staves and Head- ing, 16000 Shingles. Ship Catherine, Thomas Patton for Lisbon, with 20500 Pipe Staves. Brig Mary and Jane, Robert Garner for Antigua, with 50000 Staves and Heading. Brig Peggy, Francis Haynes for Nevis, with 4000 Bushels Corn, 300 do. Oats, 1000 Staves, 4 Barrels and 30 Half-Barrels Pork, and 1 Hogshead Hams. Schooner Ranger, Samuel Avery for Plymouth, New-England, with 1016 Bushels Corn, 40 Barrels Flour, 40 Bushels Oats, 8 do. Pease, 6 Firkins Butter, and 500 Staves. Schooner Britannia, William Paxton for Jamaica, with 30000 Shingles, 20000 Feet Plank, 20000 Staves and Heading. Sloop Susanna and Sarah, Josiah Smith for Tortola, with 27000 Staves, 4000 Heading, 6000 Hoops, 1 Tierce Hams, and some live Stock. Brig Betsey, Christopher Wilson for Cadiz, with 6550 Staves, and 770 Barrels Flour. ENTERED INWARDS, February 22. Brig Sisters, Capt. Price from Barbadoes; with 11 Hosheads of Rum. The Thomas and Elizabeth, Capt. Treney, from Hispaniola; with 40 Hhds and 30 Tierces molasses. Brig John, Capt Duncan from Hispaniola; with 20 Hhds and 142 Tierces molassses. Sloop Lucretia, Capt. Peek from New-York; with 4 cases Ge- neva, 400 Bushels Salt, 600 bunches Unions, 2 Barrels Apples, 100 Wt. Chocolate, 12 Windsor chairs, 6 Tons and 6 Ct. Bar iron, 1 Horse and Provender, and one passenger, The Sally, Capt. Prudden from Grenadoes; with 13 Hhds Rum, and 1 Tierce Brown-Sugar, and 1 barrel Cocoa. CLEARED OUTWARD, February 27. The Greyhound, Capt. Trefethen for Piscataqua; with 1600 Bushels Corn, 10 Barrels Pork, 10 Kegs Lard. The Live Oak, Capt. Pearson for St. Christophers with 2000 Staves and Heading, 5000 Feet of Plank, 4000 Hoops, 1 Barrel of Hams. The Ottley, Capt. Young for Antigua; with 2000 staves, 3000 Heading, 1000 Shingles, 4000 Hoops and 1145 Bushels Corn. The Squirrel, Capt. Harmon for Piscataqua; with 1800 Bushels of Corn, 1 pair milstones. The Dolphin, Capt. Forsyth for Lisbon, with 1866 Bushels of Wheat, 537 Barrels of Flour, 1700 staves, 1 Hhd Rum for Sea Stores. The Mary, Capt Laycraft for Nevis; with 1500 bushels Corn, 1000 do. Oats, 400 do pease, 70 barrels Flour, 39 do. Pork, 3000 Staves, 4000 Feet Plank, 2000 weight Bacon, and fifty Barrels Bread. The Peggy, Capt. Eastwood for Lisbon; with 6500 Bushels of Corn, 500 do. Pease, 1600 Barrels bread, and 50 Bushels Flour. The Nelly, Capt. M’Clarty for Jamaica; with 100,000 Feet Scantling and 90 M. Shingles. The Baltimore, Capt. Clark for London; with 1030 Barrels of Tar 90 ditto Turpentine, and 2000 Staves. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. To the PUBLISHER of the NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. SIR, Personal Detraction is incompatible with the Character of a Gentle- man, but Self- Preservation is the first Law of Nature; and GOD has given to all, even to the meanest Reptile its Weapon of De- fence. WITH regard to the charge exhibited against me in your last weeks Paper, by the Committee of this Borough, I have to beg of the Public through the channel of your Free-Press, to suspend for a little any unfavourable opinion of my conduct; which the publication of the Committee might otherwise very naturally lead them into. At the ensuing Convention I shall rely on the candour of an ho- nourable Delegate, whose humanity I trust will prompt him to ex- plain this matter fully; and I flatter myself to the entire satisfac- tion of the impartial public. ——— I am very respectfully, Sir, the publick’s and your most humble servant, ALEX. GORDON. I beg leave to subjoin Copies of two Letters to the Committee. 1. Letter to MATTHEW PHRIPP, Esq; January 23, 1775. SIR, UNDERSTANDING that you are Chairman of the Committee of this Borough, I beg leave to inform you that I have a few Medi- cines just arrived from London, in the Ship Active, Capt. Daniel Huntley.———I have here inclosed you a copy of the Invoice, and shall be ready to attend the Committee when they desire me, I am, &c. 2. Letter to the GENTLEMEN of the Committee of the Bo- rough of NORFOLK. GENTLEMEN, TO prevent mistakes or any misapprehension of facts respec- ting this affair of the Medicines I have lately imported, and which you desire to have sold at public vendue, or stored agreeable as you, tell me to the regulation of the Congress.———You know that I re- ported them to Capt. MATTHEW PHRIPP your Chairman, by letter, and that in consequence of his desire, I waited on you at Mr. WATTLINGTON’S, when I observed to you that I thought my case hard; to be obliged either to sell or to store them, having imported them on the faith of the Provincial Resolves:——Nor could I see any words in the Regulations of the Continental Congress, that either by word or implication seem’d to me to repeal the Provincial exception in favour of Medicine; and then I informed you, that I had rather store than sell them. I have accordingly stored them in a room, I hired of Mr. FARMER for the purpose, but Capt. Huntley who brought them, having informed me that he appre- hended they had got damage at Sea, I applied to the Mayor for his order for a survey of them, which I obtained, directed to </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, JOHN RAMSAY, JAMES TAYLO[torn, illegible] JAMES M’CAW or any two of them. All these Gentlemen, I wait- ed on with the order, and they in consequence thereof attended all but Mr. TAYLOR. Saw the Medicines opened and ascertained the damage, amounting to about 15 pounds sterling; this step became necessary in order to my recovering the Insurance in England. The Medicines are still in said store, where any person a judge of the matter may view them and compare them with the Invoice, (if you doubt my word) but what necessity there may be for re- moving them at my risk and charge from this store, which I have hired for 6 months for the sole purpose of keeping them remains with yourselves to determine; but whether they are removed hence or not, I must pay the rent to Mr. FARMER. I likewise informed both Mr. Davis your Secretary some days ago, and the Deputy Attorney, who spoke to me on the subject yesterday, in the street, that I had applied by letter to the Honour- able PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esq; and should be glad you would at lest let them remain where they are until his opinion of the matter which I doubt not will be in a few days———I am, &c. (Signed) ALEX. GORDON. N. B. A friend has suggested to me since the delivery of the above to the Press, that my delivering a copy of the invoice only justifies their saying, “I would not deliver them my Invoice.”——— When I waited on the Committee the first time and informed them of my inclination to store the Medicines. They said that in that case an Invoice was unnecessary, but demanded my bill of Lading, which I delivered to them. ADVERTISEMENTS. IF JOHN FOWLER, (Son of John Fowler late of Wapping Street LONDON, Sand-man) be alive, and see this Advertisement, He is desired furth- with to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Com- mander of the Ship Betsey, now lying at Norfolk, who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to to Mr. Michael Henley of Wapping Merchant, con- stituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who will secure his inheritance for him.———Mr. Henley having been an intimate acquaintance of his late Father, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested account of his death and burial, when, and where, properly certified.———All Charges and Expences attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. Ross, or JOHN BROWN, & Co. N. B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Ser vant, about six or severn years ago, to some part of North-America. NORFOLK February 23,1775. ON February 2d, instant, There was brought in- to Pepper Creek, a Schooner by two men; who left her under my care, (till as they said) they should go down to the Great-Bridge, near Norfolk to their Owner, and told me the Vessel belonged to one Mr. Pendleton there. I have heard since, that the Men were Runnaways and had stole the Vessel; this is all the information I have got respecting her, but that there are some Staves in her, and had some Shingles on board which had been bought by an Andrew Ker before the Schooner came into Pepper Creek. Her Stern is painted Blue, as also her Quarters; her Waist painted Black and has got an Oak Gun-wale on it, the Boom is painted Black at each End and Yellow in the Middle, her Boltsprit painted in the same manner; All her Sails are in bad condition except the Fore- Sail which is middling good.———Whoever said Ves sel belongs to, may have her by applying to the Sub- scriber in Gloucester County, Kingston Parish. FRANCIS JARVIS. RUNAWAY, FROM the Subcriber, on Wed- nesday the 15th Instant, a negro Fellow named Caesar; about Five Feet Eight or Nine Inches high; had on when he went away, a Virginia Kersey Jacket and Breetches, stript with Yellow, and a Virginia Tow Shirt.———It is i- magined he is lurking about Norfolk, as he was seen there the Evening he went away.———I forwarn all per- sons from employing the said Negro, and I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS to any Person that will bring him to me. JOHN HANCOCK. Princess-Anne, Feb. 21, 1775 (3) 38 FIVE DOLLARS REWARD RUN away from the Ship CATHERINE THOMAS PATTON Master, an Irish Servant- man, named JOHN KENNEDY, about Twenty six years of Age, five feet 5 or 6 inches High, well Set, long Visaged, straight black Hair: Had on when he went away, a blue Jacket, drab-coloured woolen Trowsers, a checked Shirt, and Dutch Cap.———It is supposed he will attempt to pass for a free Man, as he had a discharge from some Regiment in England, in which he pretends he formerly served. Whoever secures him so as his Master may have him again, shall be paid the above Reward, on applying to NORTH & SANDYS. N. B. All Masters of Vessels and Others are forbid Harbouring of carrying off said Servant at their Peril.. NORFOLK Febrary 23, R775. AS I have the misfortune of being lame, I am thereby prevented going from home, upon my usual business, in such a manner as I could wish. I therefore take this method to inform the Public, that if any Person or Persons will furnish me with a quantity of Wheat, in the course of one Year, and will take Bread and Flour as it is manufactur’d, I will engage that it shall be good, and will supply them with it upon very easy Terms, in Proportion to the Price of the Wheat, I also will take in baking, for terms apply to. Norfolk, Feb. 22, 1775. (3) 38 GOODRICH BOUSH. </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY. To any MINISTER or great MAN. WHETHER you lead the patriot band, Or in the class of courtiers stand, Or prudently prefer The middle course, with equal zeal To serve both King and common weal, Your grace, my lord, or sir! Know minister! whate’er you plan, Whate’er your politics, great man You must expect detraction; Though of clean hand and honest heart, Your greatness must expect to smart Beneath the rod of faction. Like blockheads, eager in dispute. The mob, that many-headed brute. All bark and ball together, For continental measures some And some cry, keep your troops at home, And some are pleas’d with neither. Lo ! a militia guards the land; Thousands applaud your saving hand, And Hail you their protector; While thousands censure and defame, And brand you with the hideous name, Of state-quack or projector. Are active vig’rous means preferr’d? Lord ! what harangues are hourly heard Of wasted blood and treasure ! Then all for enterprize and plot, And, pox o’this unmeaning Scot ! If cautious be your measure. Corruption’s influence you despise; These lift your glory to the skies, Those pluck your glory down; So, strangely diff’rent is the note Of scoundrels that have right to vote, And scoundrels that have none. Ye then who guide the car of state, Scorning the rabble’s idle prate, Proceed as ye design’d; In rugged ways, the reins and steeds Alone the skilful driver heeds, Nor stays to cut behind. RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, about the first Ultimo. WILLIAM NOONAN, a native of Ireland, five feet high, thick made, walks quick, of a fair complexion, had a scar above one of his eyes, and the brogue much in his dialect. Had on when he went away, a blue duffle coat; rides well. The Subscriber will give Twenty Shillings for taking him up. JOHN BAIRD. APPOXATOX February 11, 1775. 38 3 TAKEN up on Thursday the instant, on suspicion of being a servant; one who calls him- self Henry George Talbot, he brought a dark Bay Mare about thirteen hands high, no brand perceivable, a half-wore Sadle with a hogskin seat; he has likewise with him a Silver Watch. Since committed to Jail I am informed he stole the Mare and Watch : The Owner may receive the Servant and hear of the above articles by applying to ANDREW FLEMING, or to 3 38 CHARLES RUDDER Senr. On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improvements thereon, lying on CRAWEORD Street, in the Town of PORTS- MOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circumstances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them from North to South, parallel with Craw- ford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the East- ward thereof.———The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bound- ed by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Portsmouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.———The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots.———The North LOT to contain seventy three Feed on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street. ———The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bringing and heaving down any Ship at his Wharf; provided he covers no more of the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.———The Advantages attending these Lotts in point of Situation, Water, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing further on this Head would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX. LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775. 37 (6) I INTEND for the WEST INDIES soon FELIX COGHLAN. PORTSMOUTH February 10, 1775. 3 36 </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> WHEREAS by unjust Informations, and Insinuations, I was induced to believe, that Mr. THOMAS YOUGHUS- BAND’s Negroes had destroyed my Cows, which were Two in Number; since which Time, One has returned Home alive, and well, and the other has been seen about three and four Months af- ter the above Report, with other Cattle in the PECOWSON of the GREAT SWAMP, as Witness my Hand this 7th of December, 1774. In the County of CURRITUCK, NORTH-CAROLINA. THOMAS PARKER. BUTLER COWELL, } THOMAS SHERGOLD, } WITNESSES. January 10, 1775. (6) 32 WANTED TO CHARTER A Vessel, that will carry about forty Thousand of Lumber, to load here for Santa Croix, and two Vessels of about two Thousand, five Hundred Barrels each, to load Rice at Charles Town, South Carolina, for COWES and a Market. INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk, February 1, 1775. (tf) 35 KEYSER’S famous PILLS. FOR removing and eradication the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, to be sold at the Printing-Office, (printed directions for using them, may be had gratis) ———Also the late American Editions of JULIET GRENVILLE; QUINCY’s OBSERVATIONS on the Boston Port-Bill; and a Variety of the newest and most approved Books, Pamphlets and Plays. N. B. Subscriptions are taken in there for a new Book, in 2 vols. ; entitled, A Voyage round the World, performed by Capt. Cook, and Joseph Banks, Esq; F. R. S.; first published by the direction of the Lords of the Admiralty; wrote by John Hawkesworth, L. L. D. Ornamented with Cuts. Norfolk, October 7, 1774. WANTED. A Quantity of Linen Rags. The best Prices will be given, by Applying at the Printing-Office. As these are intended for an American Manufacture of Paper, it is to be hoped every Friend to this Country, will preserve their Rags, for so Valuable a Purpose. NORFOLK, November 3, 1774. DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Broun Sugar, one Tierce Spirits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cutlery : these ought to have been delivered at COL- CHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Spirits ; for Mr. RICHARD GRAHAM at DUM- FRIES.——After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sad- lery, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, at Ur- banna; which were also to have been delivered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLLS inform- ed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner : and went offwhile the Skipper Cotteral was on shore. Mr. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this pub- lication, and to offer a reward of Twenty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or Five POUNDS, for the Man who carried her off;—— Boston is about 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, living on Pocomoake ri- ver Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way : he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and cieled, her quarter deck is covered over with old canvass; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the reward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES MILLS at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchester; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. FOR SALE. The NANCY, GEORGE WISE Master, five years old, burthen about seven thousand bushels. And for Charter, a new Brigantine about 10 or 11,000 bushels burthen, for terms apply to SAMUEL KERR & CO. PORTSMOUTH 2d February, 1775. BY Virtue of a Power of Attorney from the Heirs of Doctor JOHN DALGLIESH deceased, will be sold a valuable Plan- tation : Containing Two Hundred and Ten Acres, pleasantly situ- ated on Elisabeth River, about two Miles below Norfolk : For Terms, apply to the Subscriber.———Who has also a Power to dis pose of a very valuable Walter Lot in Portsmouth, belonging to Mr. WILLIAM HALL of Bermuda; and will receive Country-Pro- duce in Payment, for one half the Purchase-Money. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. Norfolk, January 4, 1775. 31 INTEND for the WEST-INDIES, soon THOMAS WISHART. Princess-Anne. Feb. 17, 1775. </div> <div class="“column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> Ten Pounds Reward. PRINCE GEORGE, November 10, 1774. RUN away from the Subscriber, a Mulatto Boy named SAM, about 16 or 17 Years old, of a very light Complexion, and will endeavour to pass for a free Boy, has greay Eyes, brown Hair, a smoothful artful Tongue, is a great Villain, but a very good Bar- ber. In the Month of June last he was put in York Jail, on Su- spicion of having stolen some Money in Williamsburg. He made his Escape from thence and got to Norfolk, where he was put in Jail and sent to me by Water. The next day (September 20th) he made his Escape from my Overseer, and has not since been heard of. He was born in Frederick Town, Maryland, has lived in Fre- dericksburg, Norfolk, and York Town, and is well acquainted with most Parts of Virginia. He was very meanly clad, having been so long in Jail, but it is probable will procure Clothes. I will give 5£. Reward to have him committed to any of his Majesty’s Jails, if taken in the Colony of Virginia, and if out of the Colony 10 &pound. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are hereby forewarned from carrying him out of the Country, or employing him. JOHN BLAND. N.B. It is suspected he is lurking or conceals himself in or about Norfolk, if brought there and secured, the Reward will be paid by Mr. ROBERT GILMOUR. To the PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the last Manager of this Office, WILLIAM DUNCAN, having dis- continued acting in that Character : and all Persons indebted thereto for Books, Paper, &c. are desired to made immediate Payment to Mr. GEORGE HOLLADAY; and those who have any Demands against the said Office, will render their Accounts that they may be adjusted. LOST about 2 Months ago, a small ciel’d Flat, marked on the inside of the Stern, (thus L. G.) any Person that takes her, and brings her to the Subscribers, shal have Ten Shillings Reward.. LOGAN, GILMOUR, & Co. February 2, 1775. FOR CHARTER THE Brig ASSISTANCE, STEVEN FARISH, COMMANDER, Now lying at NORFOLK. BURTHEN about 300 Hogs- heads, or 7500 Bushels—— FOR TERMS, apply to Mr. THOMAS SHORE, or the Subsciber. BOLLING STARK. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4, 1775. (4) 36 RUN AWAY From the Brig INNERMAY lying at Brandon; on James river the 27th of December last, an Ap- prentice lad named William Johnston about 17 or 18 years of age five feet six inches high, swarthy com- plexioned and a little pitted with the small pox, knock- knee’d, he was born in or near Williamsburg, where it is supposed he is now harboured, he carried with him a new sailors Jacket, blue duffle breetches lined with white plaid and white metal buttons, a green cloth Ja- quet pretty much wore, a blue and white broad strip’d cloth coloured thread under Jacket, country made shoes and stockings, one or two pair of sailors trowsers, and his bed clothes. Whoever secures him so that I get him again, shall have Fifteen shillings reward. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are fore- warned from carrying him out of the Country or em- ploying him. JAME8 BELCHES. CABIN-POINT, January 3d, 1775. 35 STOLLEN or Pillaged out of a Package of GOODS be- longing to the Subscriber, and lately imported in the Rich mond, Capt. PATTERSON from GLASGOW, which Package with other Goods was delivered at BURWELL’S Ferry from on board the Ship to the Packet, Capt. GUTHRIE, and by him brought to Norfolk, where by Order of the Country Committee it was stored, and even at my Desire lodged in the Warehouse of my Friend, from the 27th Decer. to the 23rd January, when it was sold and bought in by me, a few Days afterwards, when opened, the fol- lowing Articles were found missing, vis.” <table><tbody><tr><td></td> <td></td> <td>cost Sterling per Yard</td> </tr><tr><td>4 Pieces,</td> <td>3-4ths Irish Linen,</td> <td>1 s.</td> </tr><tr><td>1 do.</td> <td>7-8ths do.</td> <td>1 s. 4 d.</td> </tr><tr><td>2 do.</td> <td>do. do.</td> <td>1 s. 8 d.</td> </tr><tr><td>2 do.</td> <td>Yard Wide do.</td> <td>2 s. 4 d.</td> </tr><tr><td>5 do.</td> <td>7-8ths Check Linen,</td> <td>1 s. 1 d.</td> </tr><tr><td>1 do.</td> <td>3-4ths Red Tyke, 23 yds.</td> <td>1 s.</td> </tr><tr><td>1 doz.</td> <td>pair plain white Thread Stockings,</td> <td>33 s. doz</td> </tr><tr><td>6</td> <td>p. do. Ribbed</td> <td>48 s. doz</td> </tr><tr><td>2 do.</td> <td>Mens Thread, No. 10.</td> <td></td> </tr></tbody></table> As it is probable these Goods may be offered for Sale in or near Norfolk, I hereby offer a Reward of TEN POUNDS, to any Person who shall make such a Discovery of the Theft, as shall be sufficient to convict the Thief, provided so much value of the Goods is recovered. THOS. M’CULLOCH. GOSPORT, January 31, 1775. </div> NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their Office, where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of News from VIRGINIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully Received, and duly Inserted.——Advertisements, of a moderate Length, for 3 s. the first time, and 2 s. each time after.——Price of the Paper, 12s. 6d. per Annum. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h5>Page 1</h5> THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE, OR, THE NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER. UNI AEQUUS VIRTUTI ATQUE EJUS AMICUS. -----HOR. From THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, to THURSDAY March 2-----1775. (no. 39.) <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> To his Excellency William Franklin, Esq; Cap- tain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty’s Province of New Jersey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c. WE his Majesty’s most duti- ful and loyal subjects, the council of the province of New Jersey, beg leave to re- turn your Excellency our thanks for your speech at the opening of this sessions; and to express our obligations for having given us so early an opportunity of transacting the public business, and that you have been pleased to consult our conveniency, We agree with our Excellency, that it would ar- gue not only a great want of duty to his Majesty, but of regard to the good people of this province, were we on this occasion to pass over in silence, the present a- larming transactions, which are so much the objects of public attention; and therefore beg leave to assure you, that feeling ourselves strongly influenced by a zealous attachment to the interests of Great-Britain and her Colonies, and deeply impressed with a sense of the im- portant connections they have with each other, we shall, with all sincere loyalty to our most gracious sovereign, and all due regard to the true welfare of the inhabi- tants of this province, endeavor to prevent those mis- chiefs which the present situation of affairs seems to threaten; and by our zeal for the authority of govern- ment on the one hand, and for the constitutional rights of the people on the other, aim at restoring that health of the political body, which every good subject must earnestly desire. Your Excellency may be assured, that we will exert our utmost influence, both in our public and private capacities, to restore that harmony between the parent state and his Majesty’s American Dominions, which is so essential to the happiness and prosperity of the whole empire; and earnestly looking for that happy event, we will endeavor to preserve peace and good order among the people, and a due submission to the laws. By Order of the House, Peter Kemble Speaker. COUNCIL Chamber, January 30, 1775. His EXCELLENCY’S Answer. Gentlemen, I Heartily than you for this Address Your senti ments concerning the present alarming transactions, --Your expressions of zealous attachment to the inter- rests of Great-Britain and her Colonies.—Your promises to exert your utmost influence to restore harmony be- tween them, and to preserve peace, good order, and a dutiful submission to the laws, are such as evince your loyalty to the most gracious of sovereigns, and your regard for the true welfare of the people. Their con- stitutional rights will ever be found best supported by a strict obedience to the laws and authority of govern- ment. Whenever that Barrier is broken down, anar- chy and confusion, with all their attendant evils, will most assuredly enter, and destroy all the blessings of civil society. ϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮ Mr. PRINTER, SIR Please to insert the following Letter, which appeared some time ago in the English papers, as it may serve to give some insight into the conduct and character of the British ministry at that Period, and oblige Yours &c. OBSERVATOR. To LORD NORTH. <div class="column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> ought we then to condole with your Lordship, who are placed, by the favour of your Sovereign, in the most exalted situation in the kingdom; and consequently, are looked upon as the greatest cri- minal in it? That you begin already to be considered in this light, is plain, from those cargoes of dirt and scurrility, with which the News-papers are constantly freighted; and you must expect, my Lord, that they will come laden, every day more and more, with this vile commodity. The wind of faction and party malice, is sure to set in strong against the Minister; and calumny, falsehood, and misrepresentation, are the staple articles which brings it in; it is as certain and regular as the TRADE WINDS, that follow the course of the sun, and blow invariably against that climate, which he warms, and chears, with his influence. I am happy, however, to observe, that the accusations, hitherto alledged against your Lord- ship, are too false and frivolous to notice. The appoint- ment of one of the properest men in the kingdom, to the office of a judge, and the return of a northern baronet to his duty in Parlia- ment (from which it is well known he absented himself, out of picque to the late Premier) are such absurd, and groundless matters of complaint, that it would be an affront to common sense to an- swer them. I sincerely wish every future charge against your Lord- ship may be equally foolish and frivolous – you will then continue to deride the important malice of the present desperate Faction, let them hoot, and bark, as owls, do at the moon, with unmeaning clamour, and ceaseless impertinence. Innocence my Lord is a ma- gic circle, more safe and impregnable than any recorded in days of romance and incantation: whoever keeps within That, may defy the malice of his enemies: -Their fury cannot hurt him; -every shaft which they aim at him, will fall short of the mark; and, like the javelin, thrown by the nerveless arm of Priam, ……………Tellum imbelle fine Ictu Concidet.----- But at a crisis so big with difficulty and danger as the present, in- nocence is not the only requisite; it may be sufficient to justify a man to himself, and to conciliate the silent approbation of his own conscience; but it will not command the applause of grateful citi- zens, without spirit, intrepidity, and firmness, When licentious ness overleaps the bounds of the constitution, and insolently attacks the peace of the King, and the province of the Legislature, it is high time, my Lord, to make a resolute stand, or uproar and con- fusion must be the certain, miserable consequence. The eyes of the whole nation are at present fixed upon your Lordship, in ex- pectation how you will treat the late audacious insult, which has been offered to the Throne, and the House of Commons. Let me remind you, my Lord, that there is no one instance in history, where Concessions, extorted by fear, have quieted the ravenous cra- vings of Sedition; which will still cry out, like the daughters of the horseleach, Give, Give! But there are innumerable examples to prove, that states have been overturned, and princes ruined, by timid compliances with wayward and unruly Factions. Indeed the utmost that can be expected from such weak and decisive measures, is to postpone and to palliate: and where a wound is ulcerous, palliatives are ever dangerous to the constitution, as they only skin and film it over; while, as the poet says, ---Rank Corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.-- No! the several Sinuses must be laid open, and the proud flesh re- moved, before a perfect cure can be effected. In all popular tumults, THE MANY, who are easily caught by any thing, which carries the appearance of bravery and boldness, deserve compassion: it is the movers and leaders only that merit punishment. Who these are in the present instance, every one knows: a merchant, who is more interested in the welfare of Ame- rica than of England, a flaming Republican, a Zany, and a Mad- man, are the four puppets in the hand of the Lord M_____, him- self the Archpuppet of Taycho. All the rest are little more than bare spectators called in to see the shew; who think it very fine, and set down their names to give credit to the shewman’s bill. How must we bewail the relaxation of government, when a wretch, destitute of all principle of honour and integrity whose very tone of voice proclaims the vulgarity of his soul, born to tyrannize over slaves, himself the servile slave of a discontented, factious, distem- pered lunatic, shall dare to insult he throne with menaces equally unmerited and audacious? I own I lose my good humour, when I think upon the subject, and all the splendid Bile in my nature turns black and acrid: I hope, however, to recover it; when your Lordship’s wisdom, spirit and resolution shall have baffled the vil- lainous attempts of those pests of their county, who would involve the kingdom in the worst of all calamities, the Horrors of a civil War. The present posture of affairs is too serious, and alarming, to admit of ridicule: but I trust I shall soon be enabled to laugh a- gain at the opposition, whom I now execrate, and who deserves the indignation and abhorrence of all honest men, and good citizens. O.S. ϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮϮ To the AMERICANS. FRIENDS and COUNTRYMEN, MUCH time and treasure have been spent, to accommodate the the contests between Britain and her colonies; thought the affair has been very serious, yet not one just or proper step has been taken to accomplish it. Every one, wo can see the length of his nose, must see folly of all irritating measures; such ludicrous at- tempts have, and forever will widen the breaches between Great- Britain and her colonies. The temperate, discreet colonists, have been too indolent; whilst restless spirits, by ignis fatuus. led the inconsiderate into the deep gulphs of sedition, where they lost vir- tue, loyalty, and good manners. The mode of accommodation, or opposition, (call it what you please,) adopted by the congress, was borrowed from the seditious Bostonians, who formed the plan, before the congress had a being (and was vigorously opposed, by the virtuous among themselves) by the name of a solemn league and covenant; which the seditious entered into, in the manner, and enforced by the penalties, the as- sociation is established by. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> Had the congress checked the seditious then; had they supported the loyalists, who had long, bitterly complained; had they oppos- ed the anarchy and tumultuous tyranny then prevalent; had they laid the Bostonians under firm obligations to do justice to the India Company; and to make decent acknowledgements to their sove- reign, for their violence and insults; had this been the preamble to the association, the port might have been opened, the three-penny duties and petty complaints removed, their loyalty and our liberty secured. Something like this would have laid a foundation to have built u- pon; the congress might then have merited the praise of the Bosto- nians forever, and of the colonies during good behaviour: This was the way to have entered into an accommodation; and it was so plain and obvious, that nothing but a peculiar inchantment would have led them from it: However, they joined the factions, and by that junction, the virtuous were and are persecuted, all government trampled upon, the King’s officers civil and military insulted, and his property invaded: They also wantonly adopted, “approved, recommended,” the seditious resolves of Suffolk county. This im- prudent, ill-timed conduct, threw the province into an irregular fit; out of which it is not likely to recover; confirmed the sediti- ous, and gave too much countenance to sedition in the colonies. Now, seeing we can entertain no hopes of peace with our parent state, from the mediation of the congress, let us consider the pro- vision made for the peace of the colonies. The association, which, with some, is every thing, is calculated for the meridian of a Spa- nish inquisition; it is subversive of inconsistent with, the wholesome laws of our happy constitution; it is abrogates or suspends many of them, essential to the peace and order of government; it takes the Assembly; and the execution of the laws out of the civil magistrates and juries The congress exercises the legislative, the committees, the executive powers: The injustice of the one, and the other, are self-evident: But as it is of the Bostonian manufactory, a new edi- tion, fitted to the necessities of his Majesty’s most loyal subjects, at home and abroad, will soon appear in both worlds with a pacific, patriotic address, agreable to the old, catholic, generous principles of the colony. In the mean time, we must learn the humiliating doctrine of a blind implicit faith, and of passive obedience, and non-resistance; for a committorial court of inquisition, is introduced throughout the deluded colonies; with all its horrid appendices; our lives, liner- ties, and properties are submitted to it. These inquisitors and spies, are to inspect, and watch the motions of the colonists, and to in- force a due obedience to the rules of the congress. Their power is arbitrary and unlimited, they may judge by ap- pearance, and condemn unseen and unheard; they are under no check, there is no appeal to another court, they are not accountable to any power: Willing, and unwilling, we must be willing to obey the mandates of the congress; we, though unwilling, must will all the profits of our late importations to the seditious saints at Bo- ston. The charitable congress have given a title to them; the com- mittees by, and with the authority of lawless mobs, claim them; the very least these pious saints can do, for such unheard of favours, is, to stir up sedition, and pray for the continuance of such chari- table donations. But, as the power is tyrannous, so, the punishment is horrible; they are authorized to proclaim his Majesty’s best subjects, foes to America! to pass an act of outlawry against them! to call them out of all civil society? deprive them of the benefit of law and civil commerce! For the same reason, they might have proclaimed them traitors! Foes to America! Why are the best subjects so wan- tonly abused? Are they foes to the King? no, but you want they should be. Are they foes to the laws of the empire or province? no, but the association is? Are they foes to the interest of Ameri- ca? no, but their persecutors are. Why are the best men out-law- ed, who obey the laws of God, of nature, of the province, and of the empire. Where there is no law, there can be no transgression. How will the loya; Canadians relish your insidious, insnaring, ad- resses, when they hear of a tyranny that exceeds all they had ever heard of? The Canadian act, which occasioned so much canting on the one hand, and disloyal invectives on the other, has no such hostile ap- pearance as this: This however, reminds me of a remark, that the late usurper’s finger was heavier than King, lords! and commons: He used these engines to cover and forward his rebellious pranks; and as he gained ground, he built upon them, until, at length, he and his tools passed an edict that it was high treason against the common wealth, for any person, in any case, to aid and assist the King, the Queen even not excepted! By these wicked arbitrary en- gines, the rebels were encreased there, as they have been here; and a pretext given to murder the best people in the nation, and to seize, their estates, the King not excepted! Send back, we pray you, these insidious engines of persecution and cruelty from whence they came; for you have no reason, no right, no power to use them: How familiar your ends and designs are to his, your next addition may horror inform us; Fie, fie, Americans, fie! Are these proofs of your love and gratitude, to your good King, and happy country? Are these the effects of your feign ed patriotism and liberty? You see who went before you, with all your specious pretext of patriotism and everything else; and you know how they all ended Review the tyranny, the horrors, and havock of those days, and how long they lasted, even until all things returned into the old channel again. But it is time to think of terms of accommodation of our King and his parliament; and who are proper persons to undertake this? The congress have adopted such irritating measures, as disqualify them for this pacific office; and we pray that love and duty to their King and country may induce them forever to decline that very great undertaking. After the hostile combinations entered into by the colonies, we can expect nothing of this nature; for our King cannot dispence with the rebellion of the Bostonians, without sub- mission, and proper acknowledgements: He cannot repeal the acts of parliament in a lump; nor yet declare that they have not a law- ful authority. If then, we go on, as we have begun, he must either attack us, sword in hand; or, as he is averse to shed </div> <h5>Page 2</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> human blood, he may lawfully sell his colonies to such as can, and will govern them. We cannot exist without government and we are not in a capacity to unite among ourselves, nor to govern one another. And then like the miserable Corsicans, we shall pay very deal for our past rebellion and ingratitude. It is then our duty and interest to offer terms of reconciliation to our parent state; and they ought to be reasonable ones. – Such as may be made with safety on our side; and accepted with dignity on theirs. I can think of no example, so worthy of our imitation, as the prodigal sons. Let us then arise, and jointly, by and with, the influence of our worthy representatives, go, and address our most gracious King and Parliament, saying, Fathers, we have sinned against Heaver, and before you; and we are not worthy to be called your loyal subjects. – Such filial love, duty and obedience, will assuredly meet with a kind, and welcome reception; and, be indulged with all that we can reasonably want here, or justly hope for hereafter. By America’s Real Friend. Suffolk County, (New England) Feb. 4, 1775. Form of an Association in Cortlandt’s Manor in New-York Government. When the minds of the people are agitated, some with just, and some with false ideas of their rights and privileges, when anarchy and confusion are spreading their baneful wings over this once happy and flourishing continent: At this most interesting period, it is the duty of every individual, for the good of himself and posterity, to pursue that course which conscience dictates to be right. No one, if impartial, can be at a loss for the clue of direc- tion, the object is plain to every honest, tho’ ever so illiterate ca- pacity: The loyalty we owe to the best of Kings is the grand mag- netic point, that will infallibly fix us on a solid basis. There are none amongst us (if we coolly reflect) but what will find themselves bound by the strongest ties of gratitude, to acknowledge that we have been, and still may be, the happiest people on earth, under the glorious and unparalleled constitution of Great-Britain! And if prejudice, popular declamations, and the hateful current of party faction, are not too strong for truth and matters of fact; we must allow that the grand pitch of commerce we have arrived at, the pro- gress we have made in arts and sciences; the amazing rapidity in extending, settling and improving our land estates; the magnificent appearance and flourishing condition of our towering cities; the o- pulence of the inhabitants, and every other blessing under God which we do, and still may enjoy, derived their origin from, and have their existence in the laws, the lenity, and the unlimited in- dulgence of our parent state; which has hitherto protected us, is ever able, and would be ready, if we deserve it, to defend us against all invaders of our peace and tranquility, by sending to our support the terror of the universe, the British arms!-For proof of this let us revert to the late war, when the French and savages with fire and sword, were ravaging the country; when the cries of murder and scalping were echoed from every quarter of the woods; the in- fants brains dashed out before the eyes of their afflicted parents; the parents tortured to death by the horrid and shocking barbarities of the Indians; and numbers flying from their habitations, expo- sed to famine, and every species of distress. Let us reflect on those direful calamities; Let us be grateful to the power which preserved us, which sent forth her invincible Veterans, vanquished our ene- mies, and finally reinstated us in quiet possession of our own.---- If we have a right to complain of the British acts of Parliament, we have a Governor, council, and assembly, to represent our grie- vances to the King, Lords, and Commons; we are assured that we shall be heard: We have no business with congresses and commit- tees. Such methods only serve to irritate our best friends. Let us proceed tin the direct line of our duty: We are contending with a mighty nation, of great mercy and long forbearance, ever sparing of the effusion of blood; but when roused to resentment, we may feel the weight of her indignation. ---Therefore we, the subscribers, freeholders, and inhabitants of Cortlandt’s Manor, in the county of Westchester, being actuated by no other motives than the dic- tates of conscience and common sense, are led to declare our firm and indissoluble attachment to our most gracious Sovereign George the Third, his crown and dignity; and with grateful hearts to ac- knowledge, that we are indebted to his paternal care, for the pre- servation of our lives and fortunes: And as we have ever been a happy and free people, subject only to the laws and government of Great-Britain we will pay no regard to any resolves, or restrictions, but such as are enjoined us by our constitutional Delegates, Every thing to the contrary, we deem illegal. **The above is subscribed by several hundred of the inhabitants. Proceedings of the Committee of Observation at Newark, in New Jersey. From the New-York Journal. AS the present critical situation of our nation, and especially of British America, make it highly necessary, that every public exhibition form the press, should be stripped of all false disguises, and fairly hold up to view the only alternative, viz. a tame sub- mission to a tyrannical ministry, and its consequence, abject slavery: or a brave, manly, and constitutional resistance; as the only likely means of obtaining, and enjoying liberty: Therefore, the commit- ee of observation, for the township of Newark, beg leave to pub- lish the following queries, and resolves. Query 1. Whether a press, which weekly throws out Pamph- lets, and other public pieces, replete with the most bitter invectives, scandalous and criminal reflections upon that reputable body the Continental Congress, and their Constituents; and all with a ma- nifest design to blind the eyes of the less judicious; sow the seeds of faction, and discord, and thus gratify the pernicious authors by pre- judiciing the honest unthinking against their real interest; Whether such a press is not inimical to the country, where it is, and does not forfeit its support? Query 2. Whether such a Printer, and the authors of such pieces (when known) are not according to the strict sense of the Grand Congress, those very persons, who by them, are considered such enemies to their country, that every true friends of Liberty ought to avoid them. Query 3. Whether a Printer in ---- ---- in the space of three or four years, by the profits of his press, and a moderate per cent]on KEYSER’S Pills, with a few other insignificant perquisites, can from a low ebb of fortune, if not bankruptcy, acquire such in- dependence, that he dare publicly, with an air of supercilious haughtiness proclaim himself independent of the country, and that he could live without their custom. Query 4. Whether such a man, is not a Ministerial hireling; who is endeavoring to sacrifice his country, to his own private in- terest. And whereas, it is too evident to the Committee, that the a- bove character is exactly fitted to J. R________:Therefore re- solved, That this Committee will henceforth take no more of his papers, pamphlets, or any other public performance of his press; neither will we deal with him in any other way: And we would heartily recommend, that our Constituents may take this matter into seri- ous consideration; and as far as it shall carry conviction to them, treat him with a correspondent conduct. By order of the Committee, CALEB CAMP, Chariman. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. OPPORTO, (A main town in Portugal,) Decem. 1. Since the arrival of the Morroco Ambassador at Lisbon, we learn that a proposal has been made on the part of the Moors to this Court, of entering into am alliance offensive and defensive.----The novelty of such an uncommon application has greatly embarrassed our mi- nistry.—The hostilities already commenced between the Moors and Spaniards considered, with the polite conduct and martial spirit of the present Emperor, inspire us with hope that his upright charac- ter and the favourable opinion he professes to have; of the justice and integrity of his most faithful Majesty, promises to weigh in our Councils. The difference in religion seems to have no sway in the deliberations of the Moor.---A connexion between the two Powers would not much hurt or disturb the general repose and tranquility of Europe; and in the opinion of the most sensible people here, the conclusion of such a treaty, (including commercial regulations,) would be of immense service to this Country, as well as a future safe-guard against Spanish encroachments, which we have not long ago sensibly felt at home, and have lately been threatened with abroad. We are informed that a free trade between both nations is in part the object of contemplation; if this takes place, what, what accumulated wealth will accrue to this kingdom? Beside the open trade with our settlement at Mogadore, we shall have the liberty of pervading the internal parts of this opulent empire. We hope from thence that rich sources of commerce will be discovered, that civilization, arts, and commerce; will spread through that barbarous and un- cultivated land, which cannot but be a mutual happiness, and dif- fusive blessing to both nations. Our situation regard to Morroco would render such a treaty more beneficial to our trade and security, than the protection and guaranty of any power in amity with us. Did time permit, could enumerate many of the advantages we should derive from such an alliance: We earnestly wish it may be concluded, and think we have reason to expect it will be brought to an issue, now, the philms of darkness, superstition, and bigotry, are wearing of daily. This kingdom tho’ small, is inferior to few in riches; our wor- thy Sovereign, who has effected so great a change in our religious constitution, and fee’d his subjects from ecclesiastical oppression, is now deservedly become the beloved object of his people: the greatest happiness a Monarch can enjoy. PARIS Dec. 4. All the maritime towns in France have charged their Deputies, in this city, to make remonstrances against the or- ders they have received to conform in future to the conventions which the Court of Great-Britain has obtained for the prohibition of sending foreign manufactures to their colonies. The Deputies went, upon this occasion, in a body to Mr. de Trudenne, Superin- tendant of the demand made by the court of Great-Britain, was nothing more than the execution of the treaties subsisting between the two Courts, and which his Majesty lately renewed; and there- fore, they must not expect any alteration in respect to the affair in question. HAMBURGH, Nov. 11. Letters from the Russian army advise, that Field Marshall Ceunt Romanzow, is so extremely ill, that there remains but little hopes of his recovery, the same letters give a report, that the Grand Signior was deposed. If we may credit letters from Polish Prussia, the grand affair of settling the boundaries of the dismembered part of Poland, meets with great obstruction, and the Commissaries of the Republic have declared, they have no power to grant all his Prussian Majesty is exacting. PETERSBURG, Oct, 28. They write from Moscow, that Pu- gatcheff is expected there; he keeps a profound silence, which seems to proceed from despair; but he is so strictly watched, and bound so closely in an iron cage, that he cannot possibly make any attempt on his life; he endeavored to starve himself to death, by refusing with the utmost obstinacy all aliments; but a way has been found out to make him take some nourishment against his will. Some days before that rebel was taken, he was in a dreadful situation for want of provisions, seeking his food among the roots that grow in in the fields; he had just killed his horse in order to eat him. LONDON, DECEMBER 16, 1774. House of Commons, Dec. 16. The House was this Day remarkably full, considering the occasi- on, upwards of 300 Members being present, including those in the gallery. Mr. Cooper presented the malt bill, which was read and ordered to a committee. Mr. Burke took the chair, in a commit- tee on the Indian Corn Bill, which, with the amendment, was or- dered to be reported on monday. Ordered, that the house be called over on Wednesday, the first of February next. The order of the day was now called for the house to go into a committee of supply; and Sir Charles Whitworth having taken the chair of the committee, Lord Barrington moved that 17,542 effective men be employed for the land service for the year 1775. Mr. R. Fuller rose and said, he had no motion to make, but he would be glad to know from the Lord at the head of the Tre- sury, if he had any information to lay before the house, or any measure to propose respecting America; because if he had not, he thought it the duty of parliament to interpose and call for papers, and proceed on such information, however defective, as well as they could. He added, that he looked on the measures adopted by the last parliament impolitic and impracticable; and that they could never have been prudently or effectively put in execution. Lord North confessed the very great consequence and importance of the subject, the hon. member now mentioned: said, it would require the utmost diligence and attention, as a matter of the grea- test magnitude ever debated within those walls. He could not, he said, entirely acquiesce in the condemnation of measures hastily, which had been taken up and adopted on such motives; that at the time it was impossible to fortell precisely how they might answer; but that shortness of the time and other circumstances considered, they should have a fair trial before they were reprobated, and that the wisdom and policy of them could be only finally known in the event. He concluded, By assuring the house that he had informa- tion to lay before it shortly after the holidays; and that he would so far adopt his hon. Friends ideas behind him, (Mr. Fuller,) as to propose to appoint a committee for taking the affairs of America into consideration. Mr. Crugar, as a young member, gave his opinion on the state of the colonies with great becoming diffidence; and was heard with a considerable deal of attention. He recommended conciliatory measures. Lord North, on the whole, was plausible, sententious, and af- fected great moderation. Governor Johnstone having alluded to something his lordship had said on a former occasion, relative to Great Britain never receding or relaxing, till America was at her feet; his Lordship observed that it was hardly fair to quote what a man had said seven years before, and what he had explained on the spot before he left the house; this explanation then, and now was he said, that by being at the feet of Great Britain, he meant obe- dience to the mother-country. Such as if they thought themselves aggrieved to apply by petitions and dutiful remonstrances to the Parliament or the throne. He said, he thought it the duty of e- very member, as well in the house as out of it, to interpret what might fall in the heat of debate, lor warm discussion, in the manner it was explained by the speaker: That if he had been thus candid- ly dealt with, the author of a late pamphlet, written in America, should never have asserted, that he insisted that Britain should never recede, till the laws and liberties of America were at her feet: for as he never meant the one, so he never said the other. And he </div> wished, that on the present occasion he should be understood accor- ding to his present explanation and no other. Mr. Haley was for making the Americans contribute to the ge- neral defence of the empire, by way of requisition, and read in his place one or two of the resolutions entered into by the conti- nental congress, to shew their willingness to comply with such a measure. The question was at length put on Lord Barrington’s motion, and agreed to; as were the others in course, providing for the whole of the military establishments. In the House of Commons, December 17. Mr. Sawbridge moved for a call of the House for Wednesday, February 1, with the usual formalities! and then gave notice, that he intended to make a motion for leave to bring in a bill to shorten the duration of parliament- His motion for the call of the House Lord North arrived soon after, when the Speaker left the chair, and the House went into a committee on the supply: when Lord Barrington made a motion that 17, 547 effective men, including commission and non-commission officers, be employed in the land service for the year 1775. This occasioned a long and interesting debate. Mr. Rose Fuller began by desiring to be informed what forces were employed in the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Lord Barrington, though he said the question was unusual, re- plied seven battalions, five companies, and three battalions more were on their destination, but not arrived there.-------Mr. Fuller then observed, that if so large a force was necessary there, he hoped the reason would appear by the Ministry’s laying before the House, in the course of this session of Parliament, the state of affairs in North-America. Lord North answered, that if no other member had made the motion, he certainly should, for such was the un- happy situation of that country, that the affairs of America would force themselves into Parliament; he observed that the measures he had advised the last sessions, had not been attended with the success himself, and some others more sanguine in them than in himself, had expected from them; but that when the day appointed for con- sidering them came, and he should move for a day on purpose after the holidays, he did not doubt of justifying them. Capt. Luttrell complained of the absence of the country gentlemen upon this im- portant question, and said he was sorry to find the number of sea- men reduced and not the army. Mr. Thomas Townshend wished to know, whether the forces now required for the land and sea service were all that the Ministry would require: If they thought themselves strong enough with this force, for all events, in case of no conciliation in America; if they declared this, he would join in thanking them for the reductions, but not if they meant afterwards on any pretence to ask further sup- plies and grants of Parliament, before the end of the session. Mr. Van, member for Brecon, was nearly of the same opinion, Governor Johnstone seemed to think, that we should not have a sufficient force left in the kingdom if rigorous measures were con- tinued against America, to defend us against an invasion; and said, that it would be very practicable, if ever a rising genius in France should seriously set about it; and then introduced a comparison be- tween American and Ireland; this enlarged the debate, and extended it digressively from the motion before the committee, to American affairs. Mr. Crugar, the new member for Bristol, an American by birth, in a most pathetic speech, expatiated on the fatal breach between the mother country and the colonies; he asserted the supreme au- thority of the British legislature, and maintained that it was fully acknowledged by the Americans in all commercial points, and in every other, the right of taxation excluded; he condemned the measure taken by administration; but with great tenderness added, that he did not doubt they were such as seemed best at a difficult and delicate crisis, ---humanum est errare, he applied in a home but respectful manner to the Minister, and hoped he would now see his error for severe measures might drive them into the arms of a foreign power, to avoid the cruelty of an unrelenting mother. Governor Johnstone having in the course of his speech mentioned something of a comparison between the state of America and Ire- land, Lord Clare was very warm in reply; and was followed in the same spirit by Sir William Mayne. They were both answered by Mr. Rigby and Mr. Fox, who contended generally, that, the su- preme power of the state has a right to exercise a power of legisla- tion over every part and parcel of the British empire. Extract of a letter from Madrid, Nov. 15. ”England may sleep secure in the arms of peace, for this king- dom has work enough cut out to war with the Barbarians, who are become so powerful, both by sea and land, that I believe the King of Spain will be obliged to call in the assistance of some Christian Dec. 14. The hereditary Prince of Brunswick has lately obtain- ed the post of a Field Marshal in his Prussian Majesty’s service. The late Lord Clive, in Jaghire and estate is said to have died upwards of fifty thousand pounds a year. The former, however, (which is 30,000l. per annum) has but a certain number of years to run. It is said that by a clause in his father’s will, Lord Clive will not enter into possession of his fortune until he has attained the full age of twenty five, till when 5000l. is allowed to him. The talk for building a palace to the King is again revived and the profits of the next year’s lottery are to be appropriated to that use. Indeed it has long been the amazement of all foreigners, that the King of Great Britain should be so poorly lodged as he is. Were the people of America once clearly quit of their prejudices, or rather their affection to this country, how evidently must it ap- pear to be their interest to trade with France, who take their corn, fish, staves, hoops, and every kind of produce, and in return give them cheap clothing either for winter or summer, together with wine, oil, fruit, &amp.c, &c. We are assured, from good authority, that the vast quantity of herrings caught round the Isle of Man this season, upon an average of 25. per hundred, amounts to 100,000l. BOSTON, FEBRUARY 2. Several resolves of the continental Congress are published in the London Papers. These resolves seem to stagger the military; In short the scale is likely to turn in our favour, if we continue FIRM and united. The toast of the day is, The nine protestinsh Lords Lately arrived here the Neptune schooner, Capt. Goldthwait, from Newport, Rhode-Island, with five hundred barrels of gun Powder, a donation to our poor distressed brethren in this town. In Provincial Congress at Cambridge, Feb. 7, 1775. WHEREAS it appears to this Congress, that certain persons are employed in divers kinds of work for the army, now stationed in Boston, for the purpose of carrying into execution the late acts of parliament, and in supplying them with iron for wag- ons, canvas, tent-poles; and other articles of field equipage, whereby said army may be enabled to take the field, and distress the inhabitants of this country. Therefore, Resolved, As the opinion of this Congress, and it is accordingly strongly recommended, to the inhabitants of the several Towns and Districts of the province that should any person or per- sons, presume to supply the troops now stationed at Boston, or else- where in said province, with timber, boards, spars, pickets, tent- poles, canvas, bricks, iron, waggones, carts, carriages, intrenching tools, or any materials, for making any of the carriages, or imple- ments aforesaid, with Horses or Oxen for draught, or nay other mat- terials whatever, which may enable them to annoy, or in a manner distress said inhabitants, he or they so offending shall be held in the highest detestation, and deemed inveterate enemies to America, and ought to be prevented and opposed by all reasonable means what- ever. And whereas it appears to this Congress, that large quantities of straw will be wanted by the inhabitants, of this province, in case </div> <h5>Page 3</h5> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> we should be driven to the hard necessity of taking up arms in our own defence:---Therefore Resolved, That no person or persons ought to sell or dispose of any straw, which he or they may have on hand, except to the inhabitants of this province for their own pri- vate use, or the use of the said province. And it is strongly recom- mended by this Congress to the Committees of Correspondence and Inspection in the several Towns and Districts in this province, to see that the above Resolves be strictly and faithfully adhered to, till otherwise ordered by this or some other Provincial Congress, or House of Representatives. A true Extract from the minutes, BENJAMIN LINCOLN Secretary. By a courier just arrived from Cambridge, we learn, that the Pro- vincial Congress, now sitting there, have appointed a committee to examine, into, and answer his Majesty’s most gracious Speech! And to assure him that there is not a prevailing Disposition to in- fringe the Laws, as has been maliciously and falsely represented to his Majesty. Extract of a Letter from a Gentlemen in London, to his Friend in this Town, dated December 9th, 1774. ”The King’s speech and address, it is agreed on all hands, are not designed in terrorem only, and that they speak no more than is really intended. But however determined the King’s speech shews him to be, he gives such evidence of the goodness of his heart, that upon return of the Colonies to their former state, he would no doubt receive them as tenderly and affectionately, as the father in the gospel received his younger son, upon his return home, after he had wasted his substance with riotous living.” Wednesday last the Provincial Congress met at Cambridge, when the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; was chosen President----Present 187 Members. The Provincial Congress of New Hampshire consisting of 144 De- legates, have adopted the continental Resolves; chosen John Sullivan and John Langdon, Esqrs; Delegates for the next Continental Congress, and have passes a number of Resolves. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of military Distinction in Connecticut, dated Jan. 23, 1775. ’Every body among us seems determined not to survive the Loss of their civil and religious Liberties. We have favourable Senti- ments of the Justice and Clemency of our Sovereign, but are prepa- ring against the worst. ”It is not pretended to vie with a Sister Colony in the noble Art of War; though you must allow One that has had long Ac quaintance with the Service, to assure you, that our Militia is be- come respectable. By fresh Returns from various Parts of the Go- vernment, we find that a Park of forty Pieces of Cannon may be formed in the Spring, should there be Occasion (which may God forbid) and our Army will be pretty expert at most of the Ma- noeuvers, will have in first grand Division about ten Thousand Men, that need not blush to encounter as equal Number of foreign Troops form any Quarter of the Globe,. This and some neigh- bouring Towns are preparing a Token of their Sympathy for the distressed inhabitants of Boston, which will be sent to the honourable Committee who merit highly of their Country. Extract of a Letter from New-York, dated Jan. 30. ”The enclosed will unriddle the Joy that fills the Breasts of all the Friends to Government, Decency and good Order: --Since the glorious Eleven, with Colonel Phillips at their Head, have carried the Day; two more Members are come, both of which are of the right Side; so that there is now no chance of the Assembly’s aiding or abetting the Congress. The Friends to Government plume themselves on this victory, and are now open-mouthed against the Proceedings of the Congress, and no One dares, among Gentlemen, to support them.---Worthy old Silver Locks (Lieut.. Gov. Colden) when he heard that the Assembly had acted, right, cried out ----Lord, now lettest thy Servant depart in Peace.” NEW -YORK, February 9. A Seaman belonging to one of the Vessels that was lately cast a- way at Turks-Island, having with some more of the crew got on the side of the Sloop, jumped over board in order to save some- Boards that were floating along Side, but was soon attacked by a large Shark, who at three Bites took off his Leg and part of his Thigh, notwithstanding which the poor Fellow got into the Sloop again, but died in about three hours later. The ship James, Capt. Watton, arrived at Sandy-Hook the 2d instant from Glasgow, with coals, and a few dry goods on board. ---A pilot took charge of the vessel, on the first of February, P.M; however as she did not get within Sandy-Hook, till the next day, her arrival was pronounced by the Committee, out of time to land her cargo; and the parties interested agreeing to send her to Jamai- ca, under the superintendence of Mr. Douglas, one of the freighters, she proceeded accordingly for that island, on Sunday last. By accounts form Madeira, we are informed that on the 8th of December an heavy gale of wind drove 7 or 8 sail of vessels ashore. Extract of a Letter from Kent County on Delaware. ”With regard to political matters, the people here begin to change their sentiments, concluding in their more deliberate mo- ments, that such violent measures as have been pursued, will not heal, but on the contrary widen the breach; many, who have kept their sentiments to themselves, begin to whisper their dislike of the proceedings gone into. I believe the Friendly Address and other performances of the moderate stamp, have done much good, in opening the blind eyes of many, and when people come to taste feelingly of the hardships, which a suspension of trade will occasion, they will change sides; nay, I believe, if the King’s standard was now erected, nine out of ten would repair to it. ”The people have not, till lately, considered the consequences of a civil war with so brave and powerful a nation as that of Great- Britain; the heat and rage of party had not given them leisure to reflect on the devastation and havock it would occasion, and if our rashness should bring one on, Qnere, if such reflections as these would not arise with many? I have seem this land blest with peace and plenty, under the happiest form of government in the world; every branch of business is flourishing; men secured in their liberty and property; a trade open to foreign parts of the world, which occasioned a ready sale for or produce; I have neem in possession of a wife and many children, some of whom are numbered among the slain and other far separated; I have lived in a happy harmo- nious neighborhood, where the violence of party and the appela- tions of Whig and Tory were unknown. Who could think that a three-penny duty on tea could have occasioned all these difficulties, when only a refusal to purchase the article would have kept us free. Extract of a letter from London, dated Dec. 10, 1774 SIR The ground of contest between Great-Britain and her colonies seems to be changed; you have lately taken in a larger scope of ar- gument; and your leaders sally forth resolved to demolish every instance of Parliamentary jurisdiction: Thus, you now deny what you formerly asserted as a necessary authority in Parliament, the superintendence and regulation of the trade of the whole British empire. Internal taxes were formerly the only objects of clamours; but now external impositions are in the same predicament: In short, every species of legislation, exercised by Great-Britain, is equally liable to objection, in point of right; and your warm par- tizans have only a little too soon exposed those conclusion, which intelligent men long ago perceived to be concealed under their prin- ciples. The sum total of those claims is independence on Great- Britain; for a subordination, without your being subject to the legi- slative authority of England, is a doctrine rather unintelligible. As an American, I wish my Country every blessing of freedom; but I think, we can expect more happiness, by an union with Eng- land and subordination to the supreme legislature, than by an fan- cied schemes of independent states. The superintendence and me- diation of Great Britain seems to be necessary to balance and decide the different interests of the several plantations and colonies, and to direct, command, and govern the operations and powers of each, for the benefit and defence of ALL. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> Protected by her navy and armies, we shall rise with fresh vigour and strength, and see her free and well-ballanced constitution gra- dually communicated to us. In a state of separation; on the con- trary, ages may pass, and rivers of blood be shed, before any regu- lar form of government could be adopted and fixed on a firm basis. The history of all nations confirms these observations, which have dropt from my pen before I was aware that I had plunged myself headlong into politics; ---edge-tools which a man, who intends to make the free crimes of America his country, must, I find, from your news-paper,, be cautious of meddling with. There is some- thing extremely absurd in some men’s eternally declaiming on free- dom of thought and the unalienable rights of Englishmen, when they will not permit an opponent to open his mouth on the subject in dispute, without danger of being presented with A COAT OF FEATHERS. Had moderate measures been pursued by you; had you first done justice yourselves, before you complained of injustice in others; had you petitioned, instead of threatened; stated your rights with pre- cision, instead of holding up loose claims, founded on I know not what, fluctuating ground of natural Rights: Had you discussed these matters in your legal assemblies, instead of leaving them to the de- cision of a body which the constitution is ignorant of, and whose decrees cannot be acted on, and may be contradicted with impunity, ---had a line of conduct like this been pursued, I have reason to assure you, that your petitions would have been attended to, and the present disputes terminated by a liberal and firm constitution; preserving a necessary supremacy to Parliament, and securing you in those liberties which your charters are totally silent on; or absolute- ly exclude you from. What now will be the consequence, I cannot determine. Calm- ness and temper will be preserved on this side; and acts of severi- ty, will be with the utmost reluctance, forced from the ministry. They consider your interest as their own, and therefore will be a- verse from every thing that may injure you. They would gladly forgive, if they could see any marks of contrition in the disobedi ent: But the dignity of government will never permit a parliament, which the most powerful states of Europe would dread to insult, to make advances towards a reconciliation with you, while you com- mand it by threats and menaces. Violence commenced with Boston, and the first step to a reconciliation, in Justice, ought to be a satis- faction to the honour of Great-Britain, and a redress of the inquiry done to its merchants.” The County of Fairfax, in Virginia. Col. GEORGE WASHINGTON, in the Chair. RESOLVED, that it be recommended that the sum of three shillings per poll, for the aforesaid, be paid, by and for every tithable person in this county, to the sheriff, or such other collector as may be appointed, who is to render the same to this committee, with a list of the names of such persons as shall refuse to pay the same, if any such there be. And also resolved, that such of the inhabitants of this county as are from sixteen to fifty years of age, do form themselves into com- panies of 68 men, to chuse a captain, two lieutenants, an ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, and a drummer, for each company; that they provide themselves with good firelocks, and use their ut- most endeavours to make themselves masters of the military exercise published by order of his Majesty, in 1764, and recommended by the provincial congress of the Massachusetts Bay, on the 29th of October last. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 16. Extract oi a letter from Amsterdam, Novem. 15, 1774. ”Since my last, a very extraordinary affair has happened here. A mail brig, the Master’s name Page, form Rhode-Island, or Bos- ton, was loading with cordage, junk, powder, guns, &c. of which the ministry having intelligence, a small cutter of six three pounders, and thirty hands, was dispatched from Dover, with or- ders to come directly here, and when the brig failed to sail with her and while at sea, to board her and carry her to England. The cutter arrived here the 23d or 24 of last month; the brig had a full load, and was ready to sail at that time, but the cutter’s officers coming ashore, by good fortune, came to the house where I lodged, and in a few hours I discovered their business. As this was the only vessel when in port of that kind, I was at no loss; and called that night on Mr. H-------n, to acquaint him with my suspicions, which he could not believe; but he has had sufficient proof since, for they lay looking at each other from that time to the 8th instant, when the brig made sail, the cutter got under way, which the brig observing, she came to and landed the cargo. There is certain advice that the cutters people went down to the Texel; and got all the brig’s papers form the custom house there, and also at this city.---A brig has since arrived from New- York, but the Merchants will not ship goods in any English vessel, as there is several cutters cruising off Dover, to search all English vessels that pass through the channel, for arms, &c. &c. HAMPTON, March 2. ENTERED INWARDS. Friendship, Capt Reid from Grenadoes, with Ballast only. Hannah, Capt. Wells form St. Croix, with 24 Tierces and 7 Bar- rels foreign brown Sugar, 4 Hogsheads Molosses, 2 Barrels foreign Coffee. Dorothy, Capt. Mosely from Antigua, with 4 Hogshead Rum, 16 Barrels brown Sugar. Polly, Capt. Worsely form New-York, with 2 Barrels Coffee, 1 Tierce Loaf-Sugar, 4 Boxes Candles, 3 do. Chocolate, 12 Kegs Biscuit, 40 Tons [torn, illegible]-Iron. Betsy, Capt. Bryson from Saint Eustatia, with 20 Hogsheads Molosses. Fanny, Capt. Watson from Jamaica, with Ballast, and 13 Ne- groes. Warwick, Capt. Darrel Harvey, from Turks-Islands, with 3000 Bushels Salt. CLEARED OUTWARDS. Swallow, George Burrell for Madeira, with 3500 Bushels Wheat, 800 Staves. Patty, John Barret for Barbados, with 4700 Bushels Corn, 60 Barrels Bread, 15 do. Pork, 1 Tierce-Hams, 6 Barrels Flour, 50000 Shingles, 1500 Feet Scantling, 4 Hogsheads Tobacco. Favourite, John Davis for Cadiz, with 8000 Bushels Corn, 200 do. Beans, 25 Barrels Flour, 2000 Staves. Betsy, Robert Hatton, for Barbados, with 1795 Bushels Corn, 78 do. Oats, 19 Barrels Port, 3 Tierces Hames, 84 Barrels Flour, 162 Bushels Pease, 1750 Staves and Heading, and 200000 Shingles. Abby, Jonas Herbert, for Liverpool, with 41 Hogsheads To- bacco, 300 Barrels Tar, 319 do. Turpentine, 3100 Bushels Wheat, 2000 Staves. Neptune, Elisha Hopkings for Salem, with 1650 Bushels Corn, 6 Barrels Tar, 7 Cwt. Bread, and 2 Barrels Pork. Neptune, Jonathan Paine for Falmouth in New-England; with 2000 Bushels Corn, 20 Barrels Flour, 500 lb. Bacon, 4 Firkins Butter, 7 Barrels Pork, 1 Barrel European Goods, 5 Pair Boots, 300 lb. Cheese, and 3 Dozen Spades. NORFOLK, February 23, 1775. Extract of a Letter from Bristol, dated Jan. 22, 1774, SOME of the sad effects of our unhappy differences with Ame- rica, begin to be felt already in this City; a vessel who had taken in her loading for Philadelphia, and was just ready to sail, </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> is now unloading at our Quay, on account of the detera [illegible, torn] the Congress, to the great injury of the Merchants and the [illegible, torn] tradesmen who had goods shipped on board. And it is expe [illegible, torn] the most dreadful consequences will be experienced by the differ [illegible, torn] manufacturers in the kingdom. Last Saturday, one KEATON a sail-maker, was found dead in the old-feld in this borough; one of his arms had been o- pened, (supposed by himself) and bled till he expired. An inquest was held on the body, when the Jury brought in their verdict, Lu- nacy. On Monday, Mr. ROBERT CLARK, of Madeira, Merchant, was unfortunately drowned nigh the wind-mills on Smith’s Point. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE Subscriber sells by Wholesale and Retail all Sorts of DRUGS and MEDICINES at a low Advance; for READY MONEY.-----He wants a Quantity of VIRGINIA SNAKE ROOT well cured; for which he will give five Shillings current Money of VIRGINIA, per Pound._____He wants also a Quantity of BEES WAX, for which he will give eighteen Pence per Pound. ALEX. GORDON. NORFOLK, February 28, 1775. (3) 39. FOR CHARTER, THE Brig ASSISTANCE, STEVEN FARISH, COMMANDER, Now lying at NORFOLK. BURTHEN about 300 Hogs- heads, or 7500 Bushels- For TERMS, apply to Mr. THOMAS SHOR[illegible, torn] or the Subscriber. BOLLING STARK. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4, 1775. (4) 36 RUN AWAY, FROM the Subscriber, on Wed- nesday the 15th Instant, a negoro Fellow named Caesar; about Five Feet Eight or Nine Inches high; had on when he went away, a Virginia Kersey Jacket and Breeches, stript with Yellow, and a Virginia Tow Shirt.----It is i- magined he is lurking about Norfolk, as he was seen there the Evening he want away. ---I forwarn all per- sons from employing the said Negro, and I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS to an Person that will bring him to me. JOHN HANCOCK. Princess-Anne, Feb. 21, 1775. (3) 38 AS I have the misfortune of being lame, I am thereby prevented going from home, upon my usual business, in such a manne [illegible, torn] as I could wish. I therefore take this method to inform the Public that if any Person or Persons will furnish me with a quantity of Wheat, in the course of the one Year, and will take Bread and Flour, as it is manufactur’d, I will engage that it shall be good, and will supply them with it upon very easy Terms, in Proportion to the Price of the Wheat, I also will take in baking; for terms apply to. Norfolk, Feb. 22, 1775. (3) 38 GOODRICH BOUSH. ON February 2d. instant, There was brought in- to Pepper Creek, a Schooner by two men; who left her under my care, (till as they said) they should go down to the Great-Bridge near Norfolk to their Owner, and told me the Vessel belonged to one Mr. Pendleton there. I have heard since, that the Men were Runnaways and had stole the Vessel; this is all the information I have got respecting her, but that there are some Staves in her, and had some Shingles on board which had been bought by an Andrew Ker before the Schooner came in to Pepper Creek. Her Stern is painted Blue, as also her Quarters; her Waist painted Black and has got an Oak Gun-wale on it, the Boom is painted Black at each End and Yellow in the Middle, her Boltsprit painted in the same manner; All her Sails are in bad condition except the Fore- Sail which is middling good.----Whoever said Ves- sel belongs to, may have her by applying to the Sub- scriber in Gloucester County, Kingston Parish. FRANCIS JARVIS. RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, on Monday the twentieth of February last: ISAAC GILDING, an English servant Man, a House carpenter by trade; he is a short well made man, about five feel five, or six inches high, brown Hair, which he generally wears tyed, tho’ short. Had on when he went away, a new Bearskin coat and waistcoat, a pair of worsted Shag breetches with met- tal buttons. He was seen at Hampton on Saturday the twenty fifth of last month, with some Tools which he carried with him. Whoever takes up the said Servant, and conveys him to me, or secures him so that I may get him again, shall have a Reward of Three Pound paid by JAMES SOUTHHALL. WILLIAMSBURG March 1st, 1775. (2) 39 FOR SALE, about three Thousand Bushels of WHEAT; for Terms apply to ALEX. LOVE. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (tf) 39 </div> <h5>Page 4</h5> <div class="column”"> <h6>Column 1</h6> POETRY. A FIT of the SPLEN. A constant vapour o’er the palace flies; Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise; Dreadful, as hermit’s dreams in jaunted shades. Rape of the Lock. FAREWELL, vain world, and thou its vainest part, O Lovely woman? fram’d for man’s destruction? Beauty, like nightshade to the teeming wife, If seen gives wishes restless, endless longings; If tasted, death:--too hard decree of fate, That life must be a burthen, or must end! Farewell, vain world, dwelling of ills. and fears, Full of fond hopes, false joys, and sad repentance; For tho’ sometimes repentance lights a fire, That mounting upwards darts its pointed head Up, thro’ the unopposing air, to heav’n, Yet then comes thought, consideration cold, Lame afterthought with endless scruples big, Benumb’d with fears, to damp the goodly blaze. Farewell, vain world; - - - - yet e’er I die, I’ll find Contentment’s feat, unknown to guilt, or sorrow, Haste then, for nimble death pursues me close, Methinks I hear his steps, tho’ trod in air; My fluttering soul seems like a bird entrap’d, That beats his wings against the prison walls, And fain woul’d be at liberty again:, And oft the death-watch with ill boding beats Hath warn’d me that my time wou’d soon expire; And that life’s thread, ne’er to wound up more, Wou’d by the spring of fate be quickly drawn To its full stretch.---Haste then and let me find A shelter, that may shut out noise and light, Save one dull taper, whose neglected snuff, Grown higher than the flame, shall with its bulk pr’most extinguish it; ---no noise be there, [illegible torn] that of water, ever friend to thought. Hail, gloomy shade, tho’ abode of modesty, [illegible, smudged]ord of deceit;---no glittering objects here, Dazzle the eyes: and thou, delightful silence, [illegible, folded], the great Divinity’s discourse, [illegible, folded]Angel’s language, and the Hermit’s pride, the help of waking wisdom and its food: In thee Philosophers have justly plac’d, The sov’reign good, free from the broken vows, The calumnies, reproached, and the lies, Of which the noisy, bubbling world complains. What are the falling rills, the pendant shades, [illegible, folded} he morning bowr’s, the evening collonades, [illegible, folded] soft recesses for the, uneasy mind [illegible, folded] sigh unseen into the passing wind? [illegible, folded] the struck doe, in some sequester’d part, Lies down to die, the arrow in her heart; [illegible, folded] here hid in shades, and wasting day by day, [illegible, folded] nly the bleeds, and pants her soul away. FOR SALE. The NANCY, GEORGE WISE Master, five years old, burthen about seven thousand bushels. And for Charter, new Brigantine about 10 or ft 1,000 bushels burthen, for terms apply to SAMUEL KERR & Co. PORTSMOUTH 2d February, 1775. TAKEN up on Thursday the 16th instant, on suspicion of being a servant; one who calls him- self Henry George Talbot, he brought a dark Bay Mare about thirteen hands high, no brand perceivable, a half-wore Sadle with a hogskin seat; he has likewise with him a Silver Watch. Since committed to Jail I am informed he stole the Mare and Watch: The Owner may receive the Servant and hear of the above articles by applying to ANDREW FLEMING, or to 3 38 CHARLES RUDDER Senr. On the 10th Day of April next, will be sold to the highest Bidder, our Lots and Improvements thereon, lying on CRAWFORD Street, in the Town of PORTS- MOUTH, in three following Parcels, and under these Circumstances, viz. A Street of thirty Feet wide is to run through them from North to South, parallel with Craw- ford Street, and 210 Feet or thereabouts to the East- ward thereof.----The Southerly LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bound- ed by the Creek, that divides the Towns of Portsmouth and Gosport to the South, and the middle Division to the North.-----The middle LOT to contain eighty Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the North and South Lots.-----The North LOT to contain seventy three Feet on Crawford Street, and be bounded by the middle Division and South Street. -----The PURCHASER of the middle LOT is to have the Privilege of bringing and heaving down any SHIP at his Wharf; provided he covers no more of the other two than is necessary, and not more of the one than the other.------The Advantages attending these Lotts in point of Situation, Water, and every Thing else that can recommend them are so well known, that any Thing further on this HEAD would be unnecessary. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, until the 10th, of April 1776; upon giving Bond and Security to ALEX LOVE. BENNET BROWN. NIEL JAMIESON, & Co. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15, 1775. 37 (6)</div> NORFOLK: Printed by the PROPRIETORS at their OFFICE, where Advertisements, Essays, and Articles of News from VIRGINIA, NORTH-CAROLINA, and MARYLAND, will be gratefully Received, and duly Inserted.---Advertisements, of a moderate Length for 3s. the first time, and 2s. each time after.—Price of the PAPER, 12s. 6d. per Annum. <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 2</h6> RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, about the first Ultimo. WILLIAM NOONAN, a native of Ireland, five feet high, thick made, walks quick, of a fair complexion, had a scar above one of his eyes, and the brogue much in his dialect. Had on when he went away, a blue duffle coat; rides well. The Subscriber will give Twenty Shillings for taking him up. JOHN BAIRD. APPOMATOX February 11, 1775. 38 3 DECEMBER 7th, 1774. I delivered to DANIEL COTTERAL, Skipper of a small Schooner; sundry Goods for Mr. JOHN MILLS, viz. Three Hogsheads Rum, a Barrel Brown Sugar, one Tierce Spirits, two Kegs Barley, and a bundle of Cutlery: these ought to have been delivered at COL_ CHESTER. Also two hundred Bushels Wheat, and one Tierce Sprits; for Mr. RICHARD GRAHAM at DUM- FRIES.---After the said Cotteral had taken on board the Goods above mentioned, he took in a Cask of Sad- lery, two baskets Cheese, one Cask Loaf Sugar, and some other Goods, from Mr. JAMES MILLS, at Ur- banna; which where also to have been delivered to Mr. JOHN MILLS at Colchester; Mr. JOHN MILLS inform- ed me by letter dated the 16th instant, that the said Vessel or Goods have not yet appeared there. I therefore apprehend that the said Vessel is carried off by one Isaac Boston, who was a Sailor belonging to said Schooner: and went off while the Skipper COTTERAL was on shore. Mr. JOHN MILLS desires me to make this pub- lication, and to offer a reward of Twenty POUNDS, for apprehending and securing said Vessel and Cargoe; or FIVE POUNDS, fo the Man who carried her off.----- Boston is about 43 years of age, full six feet high, wears a cut wig. His hair of a sandy colour, he had a son in the Vessel with him, about 15 or 16 years of age. He has two Brothers and a Sister, living on Pocomoke ri- ver Maryland, and it is supposed he has gone that way: he resided there lately. The Vessel has been of late sheathed and ceiled, her quarter deck is covered over with old canvas; she had no spring stay or shrouds, her frame is mulberry; the reward will be paid by applying either to Mr. JAMES MILLS at Urbanna, JOHN MILLS at Colchester; SAMUEL JONES at Cedar Point or JOHN CORRIE TAPPAHANNOCK 20th January, 1775. TEN POUNDS REWARD. PRINCE GEORGE, November 10, 1774. RUN away from the Subscriber, a Mulatto Boy named SAM, about 16 or 17 Years old, of a very light Complexion, and will endeavour to pass for a free Boy, has gray Eyes, brown Hair, a smoothful artful Tongue, is a great Villain, but a very good Bar- ber. In the Month of June last he was put in York Jail on Su- spicion of having stolen some Money in Williamsburg. He made his Escape from thence and got to Norfolk, where he was put in Jail and sent to me by Water. The next day (September 20th) he made his Escape from my Overseer, and has not since been heard of. He was born in Frederick Town, and is well acquainted with most Parts of Virginia. He was very meanly clad, having been so long in Jail, but it is probable will procure Clothes. I will give 5 l. Reward to have him committed to any of his Majesty’s Jails, if taken in the Colony of Virginia, and if out of the Colony 10 l. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are hereby forewarned from carrying him our of the Country, or employing him. JOHN BLAND N.B. It is suspected he is lurking or conceals himself in or about Norfolk, if brought there and secured, the Reward will be paid by Mr. ROBERT GILMOUR. WANTED TO CHARTER A Vessel, that will carry about forty Thousand of Lumber, to load here for Santa Croix, and two Vessels of about two Thousand, five Hundred Barrels each, to load Rice at Charles Town, South Carolina, for Cowes and a Market. INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk,, February 1, 1775. (tf) 35 RUN AWAY From the Brig INNERMAY lying at Brandon; on James river the 27th of December last, an Ap- prentice lad named William Johnston about 17 or 18 years of age five feel six inches high, swarthy com- plexioned and a little pitted with the small pox, knock- knee’d, he was born in or near Williamsburg, where it is supposed he is now harboured, he carried with him a new sailor’s Jacket, blue duffle breetches lined with quet pretty much wore, a blue and white broad strip’d cloth coloured thread under Jacket, country made shoes and stockings, one or two pair of sailors trowsers, and his bed clothes. Whoever secures him so that I get him again, shall have Fifteen Shillings reward. All Captains of Ships, or Masters of Vessels, are fore- warned from carrying him out of the Country or em- ploying him. JAMES BELCHES. CABIN-POINT, January 3d, 1775. 35 I INTEND for the WEST-INDIES, soon THOMAS WISHART. Princess-Anne. Feb. 17, 1775. </div> <div class="”column”"> <h6>Column 3</h6> IF JOHN FOWLER, (Son of JOHN FOWLER late of Wapping Street LONDON, Sand-man) be alive, and see this Advertisement, He is desired furth- with to apply, or write to Capt. David Ross, Com- mander of the Ship Betsey, now lying at Norfolk; who will thereupon inform him of matters greatly to his Advantage: Or if he will send a power of Attorney to Mr. Michael Henley of Wapping Merchant, con- stituting him Agent, or Trustee to Act for him, till he can come to England himself, and who will secure his inheritance for him. ------Mr. Henley havingbeen an intimate acquaintance of his late Father, will forward his Affairs. Any Person who can give an account of said John Fowler, so as he may be found, or wrote to; or if dead, will transmit an attested account of his death and burial, when, and where, properly certified.-----All Charges and Expenses attending the same, besides a handsome Reward will be paid by applying to Capt. ROSS, or JOHN BROWN, & Co. N.B. The above John Fowler went from England as a Ser- vant, about six or seven years ago, to some part of North-America. NORFOLK February 23, 1775. KEYSER’S famous PILLS. FOR removing and eradicating the most confirmed Venereal Disorders, to be sold at the Printing-Office, -----Also the late American Editions of JULIET GRENVILLE; QUINCY’S OBSERVATIONS on the Boston Port-Bill; and a Variety of the newest and most approved Books, Pamphlets and Plays. N.B, Subscriptions are taken in there for a new Book, in 2 vols.; entitled, A Voyage round the World, performed by Capt. Cook, and Joseph Banks, Esq; F.R. S; first published by the direction of the Lords of the Admiralty; wrote by John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. Ornamental with Cuts. Norfolk, October 7, 1774. FIVE DOLLARS REWARD RUN away from the Ship CATHERINE THOMAS PATTON Master, an Irish Servant- man, named JOHN KENNEDY, about Twenty six years of Age, five feet 5 or 6 inches High, well Set, long Visaged, straight black Hair: Had on when he went away, a blue Jacket, drab-coloured woolen Trowsers, a checked Shirt, and Dutch Cap.----It is supposed he will attempt to pass for a free Man, as he had a discharge from some Regiment in England, in which he pretends he formerly served. Whoever secures him so as his Master may have him again, shall be paid the above Reward, on applying to NORTH & SANDYS. N.B. All Masters of Vessels and Others are forbid Harbouring or carrying off said Servant at their Peril. NORFOLK February 23, 1775. TO BE SOLD BY the Subscriber for Cash only, four Negroes, viz. one man that has been bred to the Sea, two boys, has been accustomed, to wait in a Tavern, and a likely young Wench; also twenty Hogsheads of Bar- badoes Rum, for which, twelve Months Credit will be given the Purchaser, on giving Bond with appro- ved Security. J. PEARSON. Norfolk, February 14, 1775. (2) 39. WANTED on CHARTER. A SHIP that will carry from 150 to 200 Thou- sand of LUMBER to load here for JAMAICA, and from thence to proceed to the Bay of HONDURSAS, to load LOGWOOD and MAHOGANY for LONDON, apply to INGLIS & LONG. Norfolk, March 1, 1775. (3) 39 WHEREAS the Partnership of CHISHOLM and HOLSTEAD, by mutual Consent of the Parties, will be dissolved on the 10th Day of April next: All those Persons who have any Demands against them or the Subscriber, are desired to apply for Payment; and those indebted, to pay off their se- veral Balances immediately, or give Bond.----It is expected that all Concerned, will duly regard this Notice; save themselves Expences, and me the Trouble and Inconveniency of making personal Application.-- This is the more necessary, as I intend to leave the Colony soon, and am the only proper Person to settle the Business I have transacted. LATIMER HOLSTEAD. Norfolk, Feb. 28, 1775. (3) 39 ALL Persons indebted to the ESTATE of Mr. ROBERT STEEL deceased, late of this Place, are desired to make speedy Payment; and all those who have any Demands, are requested to bring them in properly proved, to DANIEL BARRAUD, Administrator. Norfolk, Feb. 28, 1775. 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