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gthly. To lower the prices of the different branches
Carried on by the Members, so as to make it the in
terest of the community to employ them, in preference
to importations.
6thly. To prevent litigation between the Mem
bers, and fettle all disputes that may arise amongst
them amicably.
ythly. To regulate the admission of Members who
shall voluntarily offer thenlfelves as such, and ascer
tain what each individual is to pay on admission, and
annually into the general fund.
And lastly. That the foregoing shall form the
principal basis of the bye-laws of the Mechanicks of
the city of New-York; that party matters are to be
totally expunged, and every proper object, without
prejudice or dißinaion, to be entitled to a participa
tion of their funds and charities.
OBSERVATIONS.
It is certain, that without a law for the purpose,
no one of the foregoing laudable intentions of the
Mechanicks of the city of New-York, however inno
cent in themselves and falutaty to the community, can
be carried into effe&. Their brethren who, perhaps,
experienced ease and affluence from their honed indus
try, may be reduced by unforefeen losses or accidents,
and instead of being comfortly relieved by this insti
tution, without wounding their feelings, will have
the mortification, should it milcarry, of being sent to
the poor-house, to be supported at the general ex
pence of the publick. Indigent widows and orphans
of Brethren come under a similar description. In
ffiort, truth needs no embellishment. If What is fought
for, tends to lighten the .burthen of the publick, to
give an asylum to diftreifed individuals, and is inno
cent and expedient, no argument of ingenuity ftiould
be fuffered to defeat it; and the Mechanicks of New-
Yorii presume, the Honourable tire Legislature iriil
be of opinion they are entitled to > ncorppration in an
equal degree with others already incorporated.
Finally. How far the justice and good policy of
the Legislature may be concerned in this bulineis, is
humbly fubitiitted to their candid consideration and
wisdom.
February 12.
From the Independent Journal,
Mr. M'Lean,
ASit may be 'of use to some individual, I wish that
you would make it known through the channel or your
paper, that the Captains of bis Britannick Majesty's
Packets have inftruftions to receive on board at Fal
mouth, any fubjedts of the United States of America,
who are in indigent circumftancts, and apply to them
for a passage, and to land them in New-York, free of
all charges. They are also directed to receive on board
any British fubjett, under the famexircurnftances, and
carry them from this port to Falmouth, passage free.
Veritas:
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.
Francis Hughes, mariner, was on Saturday iaft com
mitted to gaol, by his honour the judge of the admi
ralty, being charged with piracy in running away with
the schooner Free-Mason and her cargo, the property
of Charles Travers. The account he gave of this tranf
adion, on his being examined, was in fubitance as fol
lows :
That he was Captain of the schooner Free- Mason;
in her late voyage from Philadelphia to Hispaniola : —
That Charles Travers, the owner of the vellel and car
go, was on board as supercargo: That about the 2d
of November last, being in fight of Hispaniola, he went
on shore in the boat with Travers, in order to make
enquiry refpedting the markets, and to get information ;
but having previohfly agreed with Theobald Burk,
(alias Bulh) the mate, to seize and run away with the
vessel, he took an opportunity to come Off with the boat
and leave Travers on shore : That as soon as he got
on board, he and Burk took possession of the schooner
and let fail for Providence. They landed the rest of
the crew on one of the Bahama islands, called Long-
Island, after which the vessel proved so leaky, that they
were obliged to put in at another of those islands,
called Xumi, where they unladed the cargo in oider
to come at the leak. Here they fold twenty calks of
their flour; the remainder of their cargo was re-drip
ped. They then changed their design of going to Pro
vidence, fearing, probably, that the crew they had
landed, would give information that they were pirates:
That they failed for Baltimore, where they arrived,
giving out that they were from Philadelphia, bound for
Florida, and had put in in distress, having left their bow
sprit. At Baltimore they disposed of their cargo, by
fending their dry goods to the vendue office, and felling
their flour to a merchant there : That finding himfelf
in danger of being difeovered, he received 501. oh ac
count, and taking several gold watches, part of the
goods found on board, he came to Philadelphia. He
fays he knows not what is become of Theobald Burk.
The bells in the churches of Russia form, we may
fay, no inconsiderable part of divine worship in that
country, as the length or shortness of their peals ascer
tains the greater or lesser fanftity of the day. They
are hung in belfreys detached from the church : They
do not swing like our bells, but are fixed immoveably
to the beams, are rung by a rope tied to the clapper,
and pulled sideways. Some of those bells are of a stu
pendous size; one in the tower of St. Ivan's church
weighs 3551 Ruffian poods, or 127,836 English pounds.
It has always been esteemed a meritorious aft of reli
gion to present a church with bells; and the piety of
the doner has been measured by their magnitude. Ac-
cording to this mode of estimation, Boris Godunof,
who gave a bell of 288,000 pounds, to the cathedral of
Moscow, was the most pious sovereign of Russia, un
til he was surpassed by, the Empress Anne, at whole
expence a bell was cast, weighing 432,000 pounds, and
which exceeds in bigness every bell in the known
world. Its size is enormous ; its height is nineteen
feet ; its circumference at the bottom twenty-one yards
eleven inches ; its greatest thickness twenty-three inches.
The beam to which this machine was fattened, being
accidentally burnt, the bell fell down, and a fragment
was broken off towards the bottom, which left an
aperture large enough to admit two persons abreast
without looping.
TRENTO N, March 7.
Congress have appointed the Honourable John
Adams, late Minister of the United. States of Ame
rica at the Hague, to be their Minister at the Court
of London.
We hear that Congress have ordered a removal of
the departments of war, the several departments of
treasury, and the general poft-office, to New-York,
to be held there during their feffiops.
A bill was lately or is now depending before the Le
gislature of the ftate.of New-York, for the gradual
abolition of slavery.—We feel for the honour of New-
Jersey, left die should be behind in adopting a measure
Id deplete with justice and humanity.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS assembled.
February 23, 1783.
Refilled,
'l'"'"" e q uarter mafter-gereral, commissary of
A purchases, commitfify of iffius, commissary of
forage, and all the late heads of department, or their
fuctiffors or agents, be required, without delay, to
forward to the board of treasury, or to the comptrol
ler, a lift of their respective deputies who have been
duly authorized to iflue certificates. That the heads of
departments aforehud, and each of their deputies, who
have not fettled their accounts, and all other petfons
who have iifued certificates of debts due by the United
States, loan-office certificates, and certificates of final
settlement excepted, be required forthwith to deliver
to the board of treasury, or to fbme commissioner of
accounts in the state where such perlons reside, a fair
abftra& cf all the certificates which they have issued;
^nd they shall fpeerty thole certificates for which they
have taken receipts as for cath paid; and a copy of
those abdradts shall be transmitted by the bbard of trea
sury to the several commiffoners of accounts, to whom
they may be of use tn detecting frauds;
That a copy of these resolutions be published in the
gazettes or publick news- papers of the several Rates;
and that if any perlon or perlons so required as afore
laid, shall refufe or neglea, for the space of two months
from such publication, to deliver a full and just ac
coent ^° the certificates he ^ tiy have iPheH, fc
board of treasury, or in case it is not at the time or
ganized: the comptroller shall take proper steps for
causing him or them to be prosecuted according to
law.
Refolded, That the commissioners of accounts be in-
Rrutkd, to be careful how they admit charges against
the United States, bn certificates which are not duly
supported by the authority of Congiefs, and the ac
counts of the officers who have issued them.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
Will be exposed to sale by publick vendue,
On the lit day of April next, oh the premises,
f ['HAT valuable and well improved Plantation
X whereon the fubferiber lately lived, containing
about 350 acres of land, lituate arid lying near Flem
ington, Hunterdon county, New Jersey: There is on
laid plantation a large convenient Rone dwelling-house,
a good barn, stables, wa^gon-houfes; and a number
of exceeding good new frame barracks, that will con
tain a large quantity of hay or grain, two large bear
ing orchards of good fruit, a fpriug-houfe, with a ne
ver tailing living of excellent water, within 30 yards
of the door The clear land is divided into proper
fields, with never failing springs or fti earns of water in
each field ; about 60 acres of excellent meadow, great
part of which is watered, and produces a great quan
tity of the best hay ; the land is exceeding good either
for grain or paßure—about 400 acres of wood-land,
the whole within good new fence, and in a very agree
able neighbourhood, in the heart of a healthy country,
within one mile of the river Raiitan. The conditions
of lale will be made known on the day of sale, and
an indisputable title given by
THOMAS LOWREY.
Philadelphia, February 25, 1785. gw^
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
Theist day of April next,
A PLANTATION containing 165 acres of good
land; situate in Flemington, in the townihip of
Amwell, county of Hunterdon, and state of New-Jer
sey, on which is a large dwelling-house, four rooms on
a floor, good cellars under the whole, a good barn
and stables, an excellent well of water at the door,
with two never failing springs, an orchard of 100 ap
ple-trees in perfection, another young orchard planted,
a Sufficient quantity of meadow of the best kind, and
more may be made at a small expence ; about 50 acres
of woodland, the remainder cleared and in good fence.
The terms to be made known at the time of sale.
TIMOTHY WOOD.
New-York, March 1, 1785. gw±
WHEREAS many of the general proprietors of
EaR New-Jersey, considerable for their numbers
and the shares they hold, have applied to me as Pre
sident of the Board of Proprietors, requeuing that, at
their next Rated general meeting, a dividend may be
made of rights to locate vacant land: And whereas it
has been customary before such dividend, to make pub
lick advertisement of the fame ; this is therefore to give
notice to all concerned, that the above application will
be taken under consideration at the meeting above
mentioned, which will be held at New-Bruufwick the
second Tuesday of April next ensuing.
Given under my hand this 2d day of March, 1785.
6w* JOHN STEVENS.
WHEREAS by the Deva-
Ration of the fliitifli army in December,
1776, the fubferiber loft the title deeds of a certain lot
of land, containing about three hundred and fifty or
sixty acres, situate in the townihip of Bethlehem, Hun
terdon county, Greenwich townffiip, and Sussex coun
ty, and bounded by lands of Anthony White, Esq.
Peter Smith, John Beamer, and others, which deeds
have not since been found; for remedy whereof, be
intends to apply to the Supreme Court to be held in
Trenton, on the firß Tuesday in September next, in
order to have the title of said lot or trad: assured to
him, as by law in such case made and provided ; of
which all persons concerned are desired to take notice.
DANIEL VLEET.
Bethlehem, March 1, 1785. zgw*
To be Let by the Subscriber,
A Large commodious stone house, 3 Rories high,
. with 4 rooms on the lower floor and 3 on he
second, a kitchen; and fireplace in it, a large cellar,
and a well of good water at the door ; also two good
Rabies and an horse died, a large garden, with ten ap
ple-trees, and 12 acres of upland and meadow-ground;
3 acres of meadow may be watered with a little la
bour ; situate in the township of Bethlehem, lying on
the road leading from Pitts-Town to Morris Town;
and roads leading from East-Town to New- Brunswick,
convenient to meeting and mills, and in a healthy part
of the country: It would be an extraordinary feat for
carrying on of trades of many kinds, and may be en
tered on the i6ih of April next. Said house has been
occupied as a tavern for several years past, viz. by
Cornelius Tunifon and others, and at present by Ste
phen Dunham. None need apply but such as will keep
a publick house. For terms apply to the fubferiber
near the premises. JOHN CRAWFORD.
Bethlehem, February 23, 1785. zw
To be Sold, by Publick Vendue,
On theist day of May next, at % o'clock in the after
noon, on the premises, if not disposed of before at
private sale,
q'HAT well known place of trade, in the townihip
1 of Alexandria, in the county of Hunterdon, and
Rate of New-Jersey, on the river Delaware, where
Mr. John Sherrard kept a large assortment of merchan
dize for the fubferiber near four years, and one year
and an half for himfelf, and was conducted five years
on account of Lowrey and Sherrard, during which
times large quantities of goods were disposed of. It
is a fine wheat country ; and millers are fond of sup
plying the ftorckeeper with cafli for the purchase of
wheat ch commiflion. Good granaries for grain, &c.
Any person inclining to purchase, may have their own
time for payment, with interest, giving security, if re
quired ; and, should they want a further sum for car
rying on trade, the fubferiber will furnish it, provided
he likes the person and security. Also a plantation in
Nottingham townihip, Burlington county, in the state
aforefaid, where Mr. B. Biles lately lived, containing
300 acres, with a new two Rory house and kitchen!
thereon, an old barn, a good orchard, and a large
piece of meadow now out of order; the plough-land
good, and 2 large proportion of timber-land. The
terms of sale will be easy to the purchaser, and be
known by applying to the fubferiber, or Isaac Hicks,
at the Four Lanes End, in Bucks county, Pennfylva^
nia. THOMAS RICHI.
March 2, 1785. 4w*
FOR SA L E,
Pursuant to the last will and testament of William
Shute, Esq. late of the townihip of Pilefgrove, coun
ty of Salem, and Rate of New-Jersey, deceased, and
may be entered upon immediately,
rjr 'HAT valuable plantation on which he lived, con-
I taining upwards of 260 acres, of which 160 are
cleared, some part meadow, and more may be made;
the remaining part good wood-land and swamp.-.-
There are on said plantation a frame dwelling-house,
two ftbries high, two rooms on each floor, with a good
cellar under the whole, and brick kitchen adjoining—
barn, milk-house over a never failing spring of excel
lent water, and a large apple-orchard.' The situation
of this place renders it very advantageous for farming,
railing of flock, or carrying on any publick business,
as there is one or more springs in each field, which do
not fail in the driest season ; and it is not more than
thirty miles from Coopers ferry, nine from a publick
landing, within three of Presbyterian, Anabaptist,
and Friends meeting-houses, and within one mile of
grist, saw, and fulling-mills. Any person inclining to
purchase, may know the terms, which will be made
very easy, by applying to the fubferibers, on the pre
mises. SAMUEL M. SHUTE,) r
ENOCH SHUTE, , Execute
February 21, 1,85. 4w