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and aj my firft fpec'imen of proof thereof, accept of the following quotation from Burton' collecliofl, and which was taken from Caufin's Hoh Coxrt, torn. t. Eginardus (fays he) fecrttary ftate to Charlemagne, Emperour of Germany, and King of Fiance having placed his aneftions much higher than his condition, madr love to one of Charlemagne's daughters who feting this man of Kinwe fulrif. and a orar fnitikY. Ai ffAA him anI that fo next day no impreflion might be feen of his footing.

It fell out that Charlemagne watched at his ftudy that night, and hearing a noife opened a window, and perceived this pretty prank, at which he could not tell whether to be angry or to laugh. The next day, in a great afTembly of Lords, and in the prefence of his daughter and Eginardus, he aiked what punifhment that fervant might feero worthy of who made ufe ot a King's daughter as of a mule, and caufed himfelf to be carried on her fhoulders in the midft of winter, through night, fnow, and all the fharpnefs" of the feafon. Every one condemned that infolent man to ocath. The Piincefs and Secretary changed colour, thinking nothing remained jor tnem dui 10 dc ncaa aiive dui ine rmperour looking a Secretary with a fmooth brow, faid, Eginardus, hadft loved the Princefs mv daughter, thou ouehteft to have come I father, the difpofer of her liberty thou art worthy of death, I give thee two lives at this prefent; take the fair porterefs in I am, Sec. Sir Lawrence Dvmdas, Bart.

a ms il a plays the mon neoie and pnnceiy generonty an example ot wmcn kind would be very hard to be found among modern fathers, cither of Royal or any lei's noble degree, 0 JQ, County of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Bart. Stilling, Thomas Dundas, Efqj Roxburgh, the Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliot. Dunbar, Lieut. Col.

Patrick Warrander. Lanerk, Captain Lockhart Rofs. The burghs of Haddington, The Hon. Captain John Maitland. The burghs of Wig ton, New Galway, Stranraer, and Whithortie, Augulhis Selwyn, Efqj The burghs of Dumfries, Farquhar, Lochmaben, Annan, and Kirkcudbright, William Uouglals, lqj The burghs of Tain, Kiikwall, Wick, Dornack, and Dingwall, the Hon.

Col. Alexander Mackey. Fifefhire, Col. John Scott. Haddingtonfhire, Sir George Suftie, Barf.

Peeblesmire, Right Hon. Lord Advocate. Perthfhire, General Graeme. Airfhiie, Archibald Montgomery, Ef Aberdeenfhire, Lord Adam Gordon, Bamffhire, Farl of Fife. Renfrewshire, William M'Dowal, Efa; Rofsfhire, Right Hon.

James Smart Mackenzie. Anftiuther, c. Sir John Anftruther. jjunuermung, auiiois, c. xicui.

v.ui. jiucs miiiciiuuti, Dundee, William Pultney, Efqj Dvfart, Kirkaldie, J. Towniend Ofwald, Efqi Glafgow, Lord Frederick Campbell. Kincardinfhire, Col. Ricart Hepburn.

Dunbarton county, Archibald Edmonftone, Efqj Rbthfay, Alexander Muir, Eiq; WILLIAMSBURG, July 14. Extfatl efti Utter frm Bofton, dated "June i TTTEare now in the greateft contunon imaginable. on board 1 lhadows end I know not. but imagine there wju be Dioomnea bctorc it is u. uamA k.r over.

You cannot think how we are treated by thefe Bafhaws, our coaltersj nay our fiftiing and nleafure boats are difturbed, threatened, and fired at, men preffed in a time of profound peace in a manner never praftifed in the heat of war. In fhort they are doing all in their power to irritate the people, and provoke them to fome refolute meafures which may lei ve as a pretence to rivet a landing army upon us." His MajehYs fhip Magdalen, Captain Calder, is failed from Norfolk for Bofton, having received orders for that purpofe. We have certain intelligence that there is a pirate on the coaft of Porto Rico, in the Well Indies) a Bermuda built brigantine, called the Kouli Khan, mounted with 16 carriage guns, 14 fwivels, and two cohorns, commanded by one Laurcncine, who has under him 3 men of different nations, and generally fails vnder Englifh colours. She has taken feveral vefftls, particularly a brig from St. Euftatia, a floop belonging to Cui acoa, a floop and fchooner belonging to Jamaica, and a floop called the Sue cefs from Antigua.

Lait I uelday afternoon we had here a very hard rain, with US UB LIS HE t)t THE him free accel's to her, to laugh and fport in her chamber on the 7 444 r4r A 1 tV 1 rvenings. It happened on a winter's night that Eginardus, ever 11 Clllllcl A.lIlldIlciCK haftening his approaches, and being negligent in his returns, a Inow had taiien wnicn troubled them both tor when he thought to go forth he feared to be known by his feet, and the Lady was unwilling that fuch prints of fteps ihould be found at her door. They being much perplexed, love, which taketh the diadem of. jnajtlly from Queens, made her do an ail for her lover very tilual tor tne daugnter 01 one ot the greateit men upon earth. Sha look the Gentleman upon her moulders, and carried him all thr length of the court to his chamber, he never letting foot to ground, For the year of our Lord God 1769., Containing, befides what Is ufual, fioctor Tis sot's treatment and cure of the following diforders, Burns, Wounds, Bruifes, Ulcers, Frozen Limbs, Ruptures, Boils, Whitlows, Thorns, piercing into die (km or rlefh, Warts, and Corns; approved remedies for many other diforders, fome choice and uleful receipts, entertaining obfervations for each month, and other pieces of amofement.

Alio North Carolina court days. marriage, fear God, and love one another." Tltwfe lovers thought mt they were in an inftant drawn out of the depth of hell, to enjoy in tbe Uruliant, Captain KobertlOn, irOtll the greateft happinefs in the world. The aftion of the Princefs is London hnv imbnrted iht fnllnnrincr fubiea to two conftruaions, becaufe the impulfive caufe might be Ve 00e importca WejOUQIL Wg either a generouslove or tear ot lhame, but that ot hertather oil VJ 1 0 or tbe UjC Of OCHOOLS, VIZ A I ft. I 1 I UDDIMAN's Rudiments Grammar. Clark's Introduaion, and his tranflations of Cordery, Erafmus, Eutropius, Saluft, Juftin, Ovid, NepQS, and Efop.

Mair's Introduction. Tyro's Diclionary (a very ufeful book for voun? ftudents and hi tranfl.ninn nt Saln(K ArroPi Nrno. A of Members Of Parliament that haVt Vocablarv. Profodia Cona.ued. Lilly's and Ward's if I 1 1 I 1 1 KI.IIIIIIMIf V.IIII1UI lIHIVVUCSt dill UH.UI Wlt" been elecled for Scotland.

roms Orationcs, Saluft, Juttin, Cornrlius Nepos, Juvenal, and Florus, Horace Minellii. Maittaire's Ovid. Pearce'i 0 onginus. Irapp riaelectiones. luliy Oflices.

Schiivelii Lex con. Greek Grammar. Greek Sententix. Clark's and Maittaire's Homer. Boyer's Dictionary and Grammar.

Pa meia, Aiemoirs ot Madam rompadour, and the Vhineie spy, in French. Johnfon's and Dyche's Dictionaries, Spelling Books, Horn Books, Pfalters, Bibles, Teftaments, and a variety pretty oooks tor children. Alfa the following BOOKS, vix. diately, and to return in a few month's. of fereulon Attronomy and Lectures.

Lunn Euclid. Lhe felden's Anatomy. Diclionarium Rufticum. Farrier's Dictionary. Hook's Roman Hiftory, 9 Vols.

Harte's Guftavus Adol hhus, Vols. Yorirks Sermons, 4 VoIs. pinck'e's Devotions. The Brent, the Bullfinch, and Warbler's Delight, choice collections of Englilh fongs. Church Bibles and Prayer Books, alfo neat Pocket Bibles and Prayer Books.

PURDIE DIXON. Norfolk, July 5, 1768, CommifTioners morning have fent their baggage SOLD at Vendue, in York town, for the Romney, a 56 gun fhip, frightened at their own 7 F.wfrv thinor feemt to tend todiforder. Where it will VCnm! WOW'U. ilfiVt MHrt nhf To be "LET on CHARTER, to any part of Europe, Who has for SALE NEIL JAMIESON. Borkadcs, Aitkun, St.

Kitt and "Jamaica RUM, mufcovad SUGAR, PIMENTA, GINGER, and MOLOSSES alfo few calks of the fined particular Madeira WINE, London marker? do. Nnv York and Virginia quality do. and a few calks of fine Mddiira MALMSEY do. alio' a few hhds. of Cunlnvhame' thunder and lightning, which in leverai parts ot tne country biKOMLrUbbK; on reafonable terms, for cam or credit round we hear was preceded by a violent norm, that threw down barns, fences, tec.

and did confiderable injury to the fields of corn. Mr. Edward Power's houfe on Queen's creek was fhuck with the lightning, the chimney thrown down, fome of the rafters fplit to pieces, and a Negro woman up flairs killed on the fpot. One of the chimnies of Mr. Tiiomas Sclatefs houfe in York county was likewife llruck by the lightning, and thrown down, and a dofet door nigh the chimney burft open, but pro ridentially none of the family were hurt.

Two Negroes belonging to a neighbour of Mr. Sclater's were ftruck down, and a dog killed dole by them. Some cattle were kiiled at a plantation near this city. Mr. Curie's houfe near Hsr.ipton was ftruck fome days before, and hiinfclf almott killed and the houfe of Ryland Randolph, Efq; in Henrico, was ftruck.

the 6th infhnt, by which part of the chimney was thrown down, the roof (battered, the windows broken, and other damage done, but no erfon hurt. In fhort, by accounts from difftrtnt parts of the country, there has been much damage done lately by lightning. Entered in the upper dijlricl of James river. iuLY o. Thomas, George Biin, from the lower diltiicl, in aft.

Cleared. July it. America, Robert Paik, for Greenock, with 553 h'uii, of tobacco 1 band of joo llavei, and 330 hooj. 1 3V To be SOLD, putfuant to the ivill of Samuel Hipkins Geixtleman, deceafed, on twelve months credit the zJl of this infant (July) at publick vendue, and to be entered 'on at Chrijhnas, r2S A TRACT of LAND in j. I A EJfex county, whereon the faid 1 It a 1 1 fnrm erUi liut.

rnnfiinmer alvtnf Ann T. nn which are feveral valuable improved meadows (he land in general level, Mid in good order for crapping has on it as good apple and peach orchards as any in the colony, beftdes a great variety of bther valuable fruit trees, and eveiy other convenience necellary to be on a plantation to make it complete. Alio will he Ibid at the fame time and place, and on the fame terms, a piece of leafed land, lying in Caroline county, within rhilejs of the other, containing alnnit 1 50 acres has on it all convenient houfes, for cropping, is ficfh, and in good order. Like wife will be fold, at the fame time and place, and on the fame tonus, a large rtock of horfes, cattle, hogs, and flieep, and a variety of honfehold and kitchen furniture among which are many valuable bed, plate, Bond, with approved fecu rity, will be required by LE ROY SAMUEL To be SOLD on reafonable terms, by the fubferiber BETWEEN eight and nine hundred acres of LAND, lying in Prime Edivard county, whereon is a good dwelling houfe, with two rooms below, all other convenient honfes for cropping, and ground cleared fufRcient to work fix hands. Any pcrfon inclinable to puvchafe mty be fhown the lame by applyihg to Mr.

John Leigh, who lives oh the pre miles. One half of the pin chafe money to be paid down, and the remainder in twelve months, ZACHARIAS LEIGH. II DAVID GREEN HILL. To be 0 LD at publick fale tit Lancarter court houfe, on Thurfday tht lift of this infant (July) vetng court daft TWO gold watches for a Gentleman and Lady, fundry fets oi buckles, earrings, necklaces, a Lady's riding drtfs, and Gentjemeni wearing apparel, confifting of feveral fuits of clothes, hats, wigs, Hocking, and fundry other things too tedious to mention, the property of a Gentleman in Britain. JOHN GORDON.

N. B. At the faine time will be fold a neat pod chariot, with, harnefs for two horfes. Robert Gilbert Boot and Shoemaker, fcfr. HEREBY acquaints the publick that he has opened fhoo near the Capitol in WilliattJburgt whert he intends carrying on his bufinefs in all its branches, ttx, fhoo or channel, calf orbiickfkin boots, jockey do.

and fplatterdafhes, mens plain, Hitched, lining, and wood heeled, Inoes and pumps, I INTEND for GREAT BRITAIN campaign, fingle, foMt, or turned channel mrm nnKinrn pAXT flipp" blue or red turkey, cork loles, and galloches JOHN HENDERoON. leather, ftuir, filk, and braided fhoel and pumps, flippers, NORFOLK, July 6, 1768. HP fubferibers take this method to inform the publick that they continue to difpofe of goods on commiffion, both at publick and private fate i they alfo return thanks to thofe Gentlemen who have favoured them with their commands, and hope for a continuance of their commiflions. N. B.

UILCHK1ST (Sf TAYLOR, 1 i tv, 1 1 womcna womct cork cot folcs, galloches, and clogs. As he imports the whole of hii materials from Great Britain where punctual payments arc required, he propdfes fupplying Ladies and Gentlemen with any of the above articles on tfie tnoft reafonable terms, for ready money. Thofe who yieafe to favour him with their cuftom may depend pn tnur work ocing ipceauy executed, in tne genteeieit ana newciiaaiwoTis, and in lucn a manner as ne nopes win meri a cojrtinuance of their favours. 1 Tames GacHRlst intends for Great Britain immt rrr Ac' publick that he has rented CafAMjick fertyi on Gmcefler fule, with the ferrymen and boats, which are as good as any in. the colony and as there is a good new boat that will carry nine as I I 1 1 ft I jiorics, and awe nanus, on tne other ude, and one or two boats iivmvpi niw huiw vh Vlitvi liubl a.J vim VI in UUfllSl it I it 1 1 .1 r.

re. I A. a iS rT txtt xto rniLL 01 iiinjhi5, am and BWiOSNABRUGS. Thev will 11 Vi i pacxagc, or in imaii parcels, as tiuil belt luit the 1 THOMAS 11 wanieu, irom mis nuc, or petuaugers, ror toot pauengers, 1, tl (jermli hope travellers will always choofe to lave riding iS miles round he fold by th Vto Williamfburg as it is that at leaft from moft parts of GhuceftiT by iviy 11 1,141 lean uwin uiuii or sjioHcrjifr pur chafer LILLY. Jfytod Mi.Ulcfex, and all the lower parts of the Northern than crofj at York orU'tli Paint ferries.

JOHN GUTTERY. N. B. No credit can be given, as I atn obliged to pay avast, miwiiuii j9 is: lini'. ito court day, for ready Money, rr, Nuk, tht A SHIP of three hundred and fifty hhds.

A 7' 9r 7 I cr thenbouu. Apply to tb. fubfeiber, in Nokfolk. SI IALL lc3Ve the ln few WCekS. A WILLIAM MALUN loTi? be SOLD at publick vendue, next York LARGE quantity of mufcovado fugar, in nogmeatis, tierces, ani naritis.Dy tne can or altogether as tne purcnaier or purchasers mall think nt.

wnoumocrtana, July ftfo be hQLt) for cafi, at Cumberland court INTEND to leave the colony foon. A hovfe, on Monday the of July, JAMES M'CALL. rjWELVE likely Virginia bom To be 0 at publick auclioh, for ready A AV money only, at the water fide in York tpn Jv John Tykr Marfial of the i( S0LU at Ri wwlam mrt.houf Court oj Admiralty, on Tuefday the yth CS tembcr oj thu mjlant (July) Jor tbe bmju oj Iq hmiJ and tJ "i a. "ta fuhacc0 lnu, near joo acres low grounds, rTiJir i i ei i iii iaiib, aiiLiiorSj caDies, ai ether mattmU, belonging to the fnow Charlei, of London, lately wrccktd on the Hajtern Short alfo great part of her cargo, conhlling of woollens, linens, ironwaie, of all forts, faved out of the faid wreck. All peifons concerned in the icmaindcr of thecarofofaved, and not eril'ured, aredefued to attend theie to adjuit and pay their proportion of the falvage of the faid goods, and to take their goods, otheuile fuch goods will be fold according to law.

WILLIAM WATERMAN. iour to none in th colony, as is the hieh hnd. The Iaa land lie en the noith fide of the fouth fork of Pamunkey river, in. the county of Hanover, about it miles from Page' and hloekoi warehouiei, ana is part ot a tract formerly advertied or fale by efuhfetiber, therefuie think it iiftdlefs todefceud topanlvutars. Any pcrfon inclinable to purchafc may know the temis by applying to Mtff.

Carter Braxton and William Aylttt in King Wdliam county, or to Bartholomew Dandridge, Efm and th f'lbfcriber in Ne Kent county. Twelve months credit ill be allowed the puichaftr, on giving Und and good fecurity. JOHN AYLETT. 1 2H.