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I Ife rlnp to any fcrd condoft, bat to a very laudable rasxim i'ely adopted, of equally rewarding all the NobiU'y ar.d Gentry in rotation, with pcouons, places, revefGons, kc. we hear, that ihnrtlv the time will be limited for the cwununnce of each wliich be the beft fcheme ever yet adopted, to tjufet all parties as they will be fore of being rewarded inlucceflion. Extrad tf it Itittr from an Englifh Gtntlman at Amfter dam, Jo hhfritnelin London, dated Dumbtr 18 It is the general opinion of our politicians ere that a frefh war in the empi'e will foon be kindled. The difpoution of the King of Proflia, they fay. may eaiily be discovered and whether the pretext be unanimity in the Diet of Poland, or any other feeming foreign caofe, the ordering his officers immediately to join their refpec "life corpv and other internal evince that fuch an event is exptfted at Berlin.

Whatever may be the pretence, we doubt not but the ciufe may be traced to the ancient bone of contention, Zilifia. It is however to be hoped that as England can derive no advantage mim iti i.rir nnflVffion of that DrovinCe. cither by Auftria or Brandenburg, we (hall have prudence enough not to intermeddle in a quarrel which fhould no way intereli us. If we arc not convinced the balance of power Is a phantom which we have been puifuing for upwards of century, we fhould at leaft be convinced that the national debt it hath created nally exifit, and mull necef farily be increafed whenever we renew the chuce. The Princefi of Brunfwick's vifit to Wooburn, it is (aid, meani fotnething more than mere Chriftmas entertainment.

A writer of tome eminence was lately applied to by a creat man, for the affiftanceof his pen, and promifed a lucrative office, in cafe his productions were attended withfuccefs: Give me. the place firft, my Lord (fays the author) for it is juft I fhould entertain a doubt of your honour, fince you entertain a doubt of my abilities. It ii reported that the Eaft India Company are no ways Intimidated by fome late proceedings, for making them repay any fums of money in confe cjuence of their fucced On the contrary, they are determined to keep their own, at ill events i and that they will not part with any papers, tic. on my account. Private letters from the Hague mention that a loan was negotiating there for uo millions of guilders, by the Minifter ol a certain Power.

A few nights ago Gentleman (fuppofed to be in pofleffion of rood of the Court fecreu)' being at a certain coffee houfe, not far from St. James's, off red to lay a wager, of two hundred to one hundred pound), that a certain patriot Nobleman would not remain three weeks longer in office; and at the fame time offered to Uy another wager, of five hundred pounds to twen'y. that the fame Nobleman would be obliged to refign before the expiration of three months at furtheftj but he could not find any Gen man who durit venture to take him up. Dtc. 30.

Yefterd.iy his Excellency the Pruflian Am baffadour had a conference with Secretary Conway, on the fubjed of fome important defpatchea from the Court of Berlin. According to a letter from Vienna, a mifundcrftand Jng has happened, on account of the inveftiture to be S'ven by tne Emperour for fome countries belonging to eKing of Pruffia in Germany, as Electorand Soveieign feveral principalities there. Among the feveral amendment! intended to be made to the mirriage aft, we hear there is one whereby huf bandi will be aothorifed to prohibit their wives from i contracting debt! without their knowledge or confent, by entering futh prohibition into a publick regitler, to be kept for that purpofe, and publick for fearching. At prefent their is no fuch law, wheteby many indubious tltdefmen are mined, from the extravagance of the wife, uotwithftanding their advertifing not to trult them. This method pracTifed in Scotland, and feveral other nations.

y. I. Expreflea. ire frequently palling between our Court and that of Stockholm, which makes it cojeftured that fomething of importance is on the carpet. I WHITEHALL, Dec.

30. The King has been leafed to appoint Colonel John MompelTon to be Lieu tenant Governour of the Ifle of Wight, in the room of Lieutenant General John Stanwix, deceafed. NEWCASTLE, Dtc. 6. On Saturday night Jaft a collier was attacked on the Shield road by two footpads.

One them robbed him of five milling, being the whole and the Urged futn he had faved fince he drew breath knt nnnn Kii reorefentine the dillreiTcd situation if his family, the other generoufly gave him a (hilling, as he. imagined. After the collier had got home, and to'd his cafe to his wile, flic aficed him if he had faved nothing Tit, fmajh tbtir bonei, thy gavt tnt aHUiKg again and then throwing it upon the table, the wife eagerly hatched it up, and was moil agreeably furprifed to find they had by miftakc returned him a guinea inllead of a (hilling. NE LONDON, March d. About fix weeks ago the wife of Mr.

William C7, ef Windham, in this colony, was delivered of three liv 'Ing children, two boys and a girl, two of which arc ftill alive. And about ten o'clock 00 Friday morning lad the wife of Mr. Silas Flint, of the fame town, wasfafely delivered of four perfect chi'dren, all girls. The parents of them being of indifferent circumllaoces. a collection was immediately made by fome charitable Gentlemen for the (upport of the children however, they are all fince dead.

Two of them died the evening after they were bote, and the oiher two the next day in the forenoon. I I and I A it this method acknowledge the receipt of the letter Ky a.ifcrting it, with my remarks rt 1 mm ict limine. to thepartietancemcd, by the Leg.flat.ve Body ot hi colony twho it leems arc to he tniuWed with it) you g.ve it a place in your paper, and oblige Your humble fervant, nrv FitEDERiCKSBuac, ROGER DIXON. March 16, 1767. Mr.

ROGER DIXON, I aR The inhabitants of this town being much prejudiced by the mill which your brother, the Reverend JJir Uixon, has erefted here, and as you manage his affairs this way, you are defired to take notice that there will be a petit.on prefented to the AfTtmbly by the inhabitants in order have the faid mill DES IROVED, for the reafons tbe.em fct forth. Your humble fcrvants, FALMOUTH, DEKAR THOMPSON. Fr767 "GAVIN LAWSON." 'i think it neceffary to acquaint the publick that Dekar Thomson and Gavin Lawfon Hre fors now refiding Falmouth, one of them from Whitehaven, tne otlr from Scotland, andconrequen lytranuentpenon or families, and know little about the ufe of mills vet Ufiy un Wit. in thi mmp fl the inhabitants ot a whole town, without legartHng the country adacent, to vivt Mt notice that they want to DESTROY my BROTHER'S 1 PROPERTY, without a recompense and fuch a part of it as is not only neceffary to fvibf.lt a family of about thirty Negroes, which my brother has then on the Ipot, but serves 1 to fuin.lh the town and country round about with meal. I vfry wtu remember that direftly after my brother had completed that mill, ataverycorifiderableexpenle, the inhabitants expreued their approbation, in the molt grateful and latisfaftory terms, for being fo well accommodated with a mill, at their own doors.

I am ignorant of what is contained in the petition to be exhibited to the Affcmbly, and of the bcrfotts who complain, except from the above notice wherein I (not my bietberj am generally informed that the town is greatly piejudiced by his mill, but am left to guefs in what manner. However, I own I have been told that the complaint is that in the lum mer feafon, in dry wether, the powd is ftagnated and fome 1 but I believe tLere is little foundation for luch a complaint, as the pond is, very fmall, and but few houfel near it or affiled by it, and I am peifuaded the conveniences anhng from luch a mill muft overbalance any inconvenience that can le cornj.lained of. Laft fummer and fall were very dry, and in general very ficV.lv through the whole country even the mountain and foreft fettlenients did not efcape the fever and ague, which hardly ever had that diftemper among them before and I do not know that Falmouth was remarkably fickly. It is true one John Briggs of that town was in a bad ftate of health, and I hear attributes it to the mill pond. This man was formerly a tenant of my brother's, and afterwards brcame a pin chafer of his lot and houfes and this after the mill was completed, and after having expreffed an entire fatisfailion in having it fo convenient to him.

My brother, I am fatisfied, if there was any foundation for a complaint againlt his mill pond as a nufance, would, on a private application, readily and clieeritlly remove tne came; wmcn is eafily to be done, by fixing a trough at the bottom of his dam. with a 2atc. that in drv weather the itream might con tiuue running its natural courle, and at other times, when the mill could grind, the gate might be hoillcd, and the water could never be ftagnated. Therefore, 1 fee no juft caufe for the inhabitants complaint, and mult imoute it altogether to malice, or fome fmifter defln. What fife can provoke a fet of people to attempt the DESTRUCTION of fo valuable and ufeful a part of a man's property I would be more chari table in my opinion of them, if I could but lome late inflances, which I am forry to trouble the publick with, convince me that ill will is at the bottom and yet I believe I could acquit fome among the inh.bitants finely to be free from the accufation, yet fuffer themfelve collectively to join in the moft injurioui fchemes, Which (a I have hinted) is incumbent on me to explain, by giving an inftance or two of their oppreffive behaviour.

Tne inhabitants, that is to fay a few merchants refiding in Falmouth, who had the honour to be chofen trullee for the town, were fucce sful enough to gain a law in their favour, by furpiife, in a late Affcmbly, much to the prejudice of my brother, who was not heard on the occafion. The cafe was this 1 My brother owns a piece of ground wjiich joins the main Itreet of Falmouth, between the river and the ureetj a'nd confequently had a fiont on that ftreet for feven or eight lots in width, which made it very valuable; the new truftees took it into their heads that the main Itreet was laid off originally too wide, and that it would be neceffary to fplit it in two, and It II that th it adjoined my brothci's ground in lots, and cut him off from having a front on the rlrt ct. This my brother to, as doing him a tmnifdt piece of injufticej but propofed that if they would tike his ground into the bounds the town and annex what belonged to him to the lets that they propofed taking out of the llreet, and allow the whole to lie fold together, and give him a reafonahle proportion of the money, he would confent to it, which he expect would have been fo provided bv the law. But behold inltcad of that, a law palled (I muft fay by furprifc, becaui'e I think ih; Lcgilhtuie, after knowing the true Itateof the cafe, caul I not aff ntto it) to enable the trullees to fell a part of the llrtet, by which means my brother lott his whole front on the main itreet," which was purchaftd and held under the faith of a law which had eft.iblilhed his bounds on that llrcet; and therefore his ground is now rendered of very little value, which was before of great value. My father, under whole will my brother claims, purchafed a tract of near a thouland acres which furrounds the town of Falmouth, and with it the publ ck tobacc warc houfes and ferry but as the ferry was in the late ol.

Carter's hands of Cleve, who let it out, with an ordinary he had in town, and was of little value when mv father wenr to England, he did not conteft the poK'Hion, thoue he always claimed the right, under his deed from Mrs. Todd, efpecially as the ferry keeper under Gd. Carter's tenant had always directions to let any of my father's family, ovcif.ers, or people, pals ferry free, for fear of drawing the right into dilpirc. And it was thus held until Col. Carter died, when his heir declared that he had no right to the ferry whereon the merchants at Falmouth, under the name of ttuftces, took poffetJiou of the Ferry, and fixed a heufe ard bnt there my hroil.ei.

coir.pl.nned yf, and told t'itm lu 1, iut redru's. This gave heGtUmcn uinbrkgt Iretu now itfolved to do In a tvit tr injury. Lot1 1. 0f that pacifiek temper, contention isf iliiagru atk to that raiher than have diiputes with the woild, either 1,1 z. piibljck or, a private capacity, he would choole (was it 1 the fake of iiis pofteiiiy, who'e iighf he oUi.nt toj rthiv.) to leave all injuries done him tJ the grand ilayjl itM Since I have rmniioned the teny, i think I ouht to darup other's right to it, as I have accuicd otiicis it from him.

In tlie firft place, he has a deed Lt i t)C original proprietor; in the next'place, the law iu every frry to the owner of the landing wheie the feiry is kept, uhich at Falmouth is inconieltably his, as ulej fomai.y years istt; ind the mod convenient place to lahd is on l.is iund. Even it the right was doubtful, there are ninny for jiving my hroiher a title to if, Viz. i.e is pionii of the 'and round the town, through which many roads arc cut that ead to tht feny his plantations are liable tu the luiiic, 0r of travellers he is propi ietcr tJ tiic puldick wareiibufes, ard a large and onU gratis contnbutoi 10 the town wharf) and noptifon, befides himfelr, has any ground on the river wheie the ferry is ufuafly kept. Notwitmtanding his right is fo dear, the ferry is wielted trom hi.n, and lie has rot as yet fubmitted the matter to his Peers One realon, I believe, becaufe he lives 120 miles from the place; and another, the ferry rendered ot little value, by a told being made above the terry, and a iod cut through his lar.d there alfoj which he fubmits to, in hepes ixperitnce will li.ow its utility to the publick, which I heard tUdare, in this cafe, be had raiher piefer than his own inteieft, and ihr.t ihe publick' wa welcome to the road, and itoncs to nuke the ford (though it hiirt the ferry, and although his conltnt not alked) provided it wasfafe and prailicible to have a ord kept up but he conctives, as I do, that it is dangerous and im practicable, as one life has already bten lu(t (hue, and many others endangered. He, as well as mylelf would Ic glad to fee a good bridge there, and would contribute "liandJomely towards it.

I hope the Legifla ure will be fully fa how caufeleflymy brotlierisirjiiied, in wlnt will come befoie them, by the DESTRUC TIVE petition with which he is threatened by Dekar Thompfon and Gavin Lawfon, in th ir letter to ROGER DIXON. P. S. If my zeal in my brother's caufe (which I publifli without his knowledge) is too warm, or appears too paitial, I hope it may not be imputed to him, or caufe him to be looked on with an unfavourable eye by ny perfon what ocver and Ihopealfo that I may be exculed for troubling the puMick with a matter that does not concern them, except to fee an injurious attempt expofed, which I am provoked to do, on receiving fo extraordinary a letter. R.

D. Cleared from the Upper Dijirift of James River. March 15. Induftry, William Copeland Larimer, for Madeira, with 183S bufhels of corn, i8z burnt Is of peafe, ioj barrels of flower, 4 barrels of lard, 1 barrel of bees wax, 8000 thingles, and 3000 feet of plank. jcttfenirntfl VPHE fuhferiber would RRT, for a term of years, two PLANTATIONS, which he holds in tight of his wife, within a mile or two cf the city of WiUlamjbur, and adjoining the Capitol bridgej whereon are all convenient houfes, and from 15 to 10 hands have ufually been worked.

There is 1000 acres of land belonging to thefe places, 100. or more of which is firm hard marfh, fupporting a numerous ftock of cattle winter and fuir. mer; 'and about 10 or acrrt of fwamp, already cleared and ditched, which might at a fmall expenfe be impioved into a valuable meadow. Theconveniency of this land, and advantages icfulting from plantations fo contiguous to a ready market, are too obvious to render defciiption neceffary. A valu able GRIST MILL juft rebuilt, and fitted with two pair of Hones, adjoinltg the above land, and not thiee miles frcrn town, may alfo be rented.

Poffeflion of the whole may be had next Fall, on terms known ot Mr. Jcfepb Faltntine, living on the piemifes, or ot the fubferiber in Fairfax. Any perfon, or perlbns, inclinable to rent the above plantations, are defied to apply foon, as the fubferiber would be glad to know tL fpring whether the hands now at woik thereon are to be moved or not, that he may provide accord nor, ui GEORGE WASHINGTON. Blandford, March 23, 1767. I INTEND leaving the colony in a few weeks.

RAMSA.Y HANNAY. APRIL irfp ALL perfons who have any connexions A with me are hereby to take notice that they are to I brought to an immediate conclufion, as I am refolved to leaK the colony with the utmost expedition. no tTc TH AT proper attendance will be given at ToJff warthoufe on the ao'h inftant, to receive pay ment of thole bond taken lalt QBtbcr for the falc pca Richard Todd's Negroes tlierrtcre perfons that pahjli upon fix months credit are defird to ni'et and take in tn bonds the day ami pbee aforefaid, or they nay depend upu: their being immediately fued, as no indulgence wnjiejivw. CHESTERFIELD March aj, i77 "II7HEREAS I uTcd a bond, or note 0f hand, ou tv mcrlhs ago, to a certain UtUta. Coakky, in Ncrfoli, Ur cuiient money, tended he h.il yd wvu I went to discharge i is to foivw.

1 11 an ion fro.r, taking an afhffient ot it, I have areicipt ill full againfi the kmc i MARGARET HATCHER..