The Virginia Gazette

A Gentleman of an enterprising Genius in the Fortune-hunting Way, well known at all publick Places, is at last, through Mistake, married, we hear, to a Lady as enterprising as himself. This fair One appeared frequently this Winter at the Opera and Play-houses, dressed extremely brilliant, had a vast Change of superb Jewels, which she disposed, in the Decoration of her Person, to the highest Advantage, and had also a very respectable Acquaintance with her own Sex in the fashionable World; all which rendered her so irresistible to the industrious Gentleman that he pursued her incessantly, and after a close Siege of six Weeks she condescended to give him her Hand. During the Courtship, to the connubial Moment, he never once inquired into her Fortune; her Connexions put her above Inquiry. But in less than a Fortnight he found his Way to her Casket, and privately taking away some of the Diamonds, went to a Jeweller to dispose of them, when, to his horrid Confusion, he was informed they were false Stones; upon which he went home, replaced the imagined Treasure, and, without giving a single Hint to his Bride, decamped that Night, and has not been since heard of.