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(European Travel. 91
OVER mountains, rivers, vallies.
Here are we return’d to Calais,
After all their taunts and malice.
Entering Case the gates of Calais.
Wh Ie confin’d, our Caprain dallies,
Waiti ig for a wind at Cala : %
Wand’ring muse prepare fame Tallies,
To divert the hours at Calais.
Turkilh Chips, Venetian gal Hes,
Have we seen since last at Calais ;
But though Hogarth, rogue who rallies,
Ridicules the French at Ca’a s,
We who’ve walk’d o’er many a palace.
Well content return to Calais ;
For (hiking honestly the tallies,
There’s little choice ’twixt them and Calais.
Its Companion, at the SHIP INN, Dover, appa
rently by the fame hand
HE whom fair winds have wafted over,
First hails h : s native land at Dover,
And doubts not but he fnall difeover
Pleasure in every pa-h round Dover;
Envies the happv crowns that hover
About old Shakeipeare’s Cliff at Dover,
Nor once refleCL that each young rover
Feels just the fame, return’d to D ver ;
Hoping, though poor, to live in clover.
Once fdiely pah’d the S raits of Dover;
But he alone his country’s lover,
Who absent long, comes home to Dover,
A id can, by fair experience, prove her
The best he has seen since latt at Dever.
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WHEREAS process hath been ifiued out of
the Supreme Court of Judicature of the
State of New-York, again# JOSEPH PURDY,
and NATHANIEL PURDY, in an action of
trespass, at the suit of LEWIS MORRIS, and
declaration has been filed in the said action in the
Clerk’s Office of the said Court, in pursuance of
two Afis of the People of the State of New-York,
the one entitled, “ An Aft for granting a more
effeftual relief in cases of certain TreipafTes,”
pafled the 17th March, 1783 ; the other, enti
tled, “ An Aft to amend an Aft entitled, an Aft
for relief again# ab.cond ng and absent Debtors,
and to extend the remedy of the Aft, entitled, an
Aft for granting a more efteftual relief in cases of
certain TrefpHTes, and for other purposes therein
mentioned,” patted May 4, 1784. PUBLIC
NOTICE is hereby given to the above-named
Defendants, that uniefs they (hall enter their ap
pearance within fix months from the date of this
publication, that interlocutory judgment will be
entered again# them pursuant to the laid aft.
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PUBLIC NO LICE is hereby given, pursuant
to an Aft of the Governor, the Council, and
Genera! Aflembly of the late Colony of New-
York, entitled, “ An Aft for tne more effeftual
“ Regiftr.y ot Mortgages, and for securing the
“ Purchalers of M rigaged Estates,” patted the
19th day of March, 1774 —That on Wednesday
the fifth day of September next, at twelve o’clock
in the forenoon ot the fame day, will be fold on
the prenufes, to the highest bi-Jer or bidders,
at Public Auft on, all that certain Houle, Ground
and Prenufes, situate, lying and oeing intheEa#
Ward of the laid City, upon the nor h-weft fide
of, and fronting Q^een-Street; being the north
easterly House and Lot of the two Hou'es and
Lots of Ground situated as aforeiaid, deviled by
Hendiick Rutger, formerly of the said City,
Brewer, to Catharine, Ann and Mary, his daugh
ters, and which upon a division fell to the (hart
of the said Mary ; and which Ho.ife and Lot o<
Land is bounded in front by Queen-Street afo. e
faid, north easterly by the House and Groum
lateot J. cubus Quick, north-westerly b) Rutger-
Street, and iouth-wcilerly by the l .oufeand Lor
that fell, in the said pa tition, to the Ihare of the
said Catharine; and is divided therefrom by a
line running from Qjeen-Street afbrefaid, fir#
north thirty-one and an halt degrees, weft one
hundred and fifty-nine feet; then north thirty
nine degrees, w ft seventy-one feet and two
inches, to R itger-Srreet aforefaid.—The said
House, Mefiuage, Tenementand Lot, hereby in
tended to be advertised for Sale, contains, in
front on Qje. n Street aforefaid, twenty-one feet
ten inches and an half; on the north-eafierly fide,
along the ground of the said Jacobus Quick, two
hundred and thirty-four feet and two inches ;
and on Ratgei-S reet aforefaid, twenty-one feet
and two inches ; and along the aforefaid line
which divides the laid two Houles and Lots cf
Ground of the said Mary and Catharine; the
whole length from Street to Street, two hundred
and thirty feet and two inches.—Which said
House and Lot cf Ground hereby intended to be
described, with ail and Angular the appurte
nances, were, in due form of law, mortgaged on
the i6thdayof September, 1785. by Stephen
M'Crea, ofthefaid City, Phyfician.and Mary his
wife, to me the Subscriber, for securing to me the
re-payment of Eleven Handled and Thirty-One
Pounds Ten Shillings, current money of this
State, with Lawful Intere# for the fame. A
go d and Efficient Title will be given for the
Premises aforefaid, by
At a (3««rt of Chaacery KeU at the Oky-Hallof
the City of New-York, the Twenty-Seventh
Day of March, in the Year of our Lord, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven.
PRESENT,
The Honourable ROBERT R LIVINGSTON,
Esquire, Chancellor.
fofeph Nathan, Complainant,
v. s. >ln Chancery.
Israel Phillips, Defendant, j
fJ'ORASMUt-H as it appears to this Court,
£/ that a Bill hath been filed therein, by Joseph
Nathan, Mortgagee, a ainft Israel Phillips,
Mortgagor, to obtain a Decree for the fa e of
certain Premises therein mentioned to have been
Mortgaged by the said Defendant, Israel Phillips,
to the Complainant, the said jofeph Nathan,
whereupon proccis of Subpoena to appear and
anlwer hath been duly issued and returned. And
th it the said Israel Phillips has not caused his ap
pearance to be entered in this fait, as according
to the rules of this Court the fame ought to have
been entered, in case the said process had been
duty served ; and an a'ffiJ vit having been made
to the fatisfaftion of this Court, that the said
Defeudant, li'rael Phillips, has withdrawn him
lelf out of this State, and that he could not, upon
diligent enquiry made by the Deponent, be found
within the lame, so as to be served with the laid
process, which issued on the filing of the Bill of
Complaint.
It is therefore Ordered, on motion of Mr. Law
rence, on behalf ot Mr. Popham, of Counsel tor
the Complainant, that th -said Defendant, Israel
Phillips, appear to the laid Bill, on or before the
twenty-leventh day cf June next ensuing, and in
default thereof, that the Complainant’s laid Bill
be taken pro confeffo, to the end that a Decree may
be made ior a sale oi the laid Premises in the Bill
afbrefaid mentioned, or fetch parr thereof as t.
this Court fhali appear just and right.
And it is farther Ordered, That a Copy o'
this Order be inserted in (at least) two of the
oublic News-pap. rs printeu in the Sta^e of New-
York, tor t ’C ipuce of eight weeks fuccelfivtly.
hxtiud irom t..e Minutes,
W. C O C K, Regiftei.
E.qairc, c naacejoi.
"Joseph Natbun, Complainant, 7 I T appearing
v. s. > £ to this Court,
Israel Phillips, Defendant. J 'hat the Ordei
in this Caute, made on the Twentj-Seventh day
of March Lil paA, had been irregula ly pubhfhed.
Ordered, on motion of Mr. Troup, on behalf of
Mr. Popham, that the laid Order be republilhed
m two of the public News-papers of this State,
for eight week successively, according to the laid
Order herein firft above mentioned ; and that rhe
laid Defendant appear to rhe said B.U on or be
fore the Fist enth day of October next,
Extrad from the Minutes,
89 2tn. W COC K, Register.
The Honorable ROBERT R L: V;NGSTON.
At 2 Court of Chancery held at the Chancellor’s
Chambers, m the City of New Yoik, the
F fteeotn Day o' A. gnft, in the Year of Our
Lord, One T. oauad Seven Haaired inu
Eighty-Seven.
PRESENT,
JAMES RIVINGTON.
H.vj-Yark t $ I March t 1787. 40 6. m.
A SCHOOL for Young Ladies
I SOpened at No. 57, Queen-sfreer-where
ing e wmbr' o "'^ T “"S‘k READ.
lN<r, ARI ING, and ORTHOGRAPHY -
allo, every kind of ufeful NEEDLE WORK' ’
Parucuhr Attention will be paid to th . it ^7
..... xor i eruts apply as above.
• 3
By order of the Honourable Richard Morris
Esquire, Chief lattice of the Supreme Court
of Judicature of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to Moses Fr’anks
and to all others whom it may concern’
that on application and due proof made to the
laid Cnief Justice, pursuant to an Aft of the Le
giflatere of the State of New-York, entitled'
“ An Aft for relief again# abfeonding and abfm*
Dabtors,” patted the fourth day of April, i 7 Bs
he hath issued his warrants to the Sheriffof the
City and County of New-York, and the Sheriff
of the County of Suffolk, commanding them to
attach, take.feize, and fafelv keep all the Estate
as well real as personal of the said Moses Frank.’
ue absent debtor, of what kind or nature foever*
and every or any part or parcel thereof, in what’
ever part of their bailiwick, the fame can be
found, wah all evidences, books of accounts
vouchers, and papers relating thereto. And thai
uniefs he the said Moses Franks ffiall appear by
himfelf, or Attorney, and difeharge his debt,
within twelve months after the publication of thi.
notice, all his Estate, real and personal, will b®
fold for the payment and fatisfaftion of his Cre
ditors. Dated at the City of New-York
twcty-Bnb day of February. i„ thc f
Lord, one thouiand seven hundred and eiph^
ieven.
39 w-t.f.
BEGS leave to return his sincere Thanks to
his Friends and the Puu.ic in general, and
informs them, that he has entered very exten
ii ely into the manufacturing part of the above
.ranches of Business, superior to any imported
md equally as Cheap. He has on hand a. very
-urge and extensive Assortment of all kinds oi
Tin, Copper, Brass, and Pewter Ware, which
he intends felling on very low Terms for Calh.
Copper and Brass Utensils mended and tinned
’• ith pure Grain Tin.
The highest Price given for old Copper, Braft
and Pewter.
For Gentlemen^
IN that airy and commodiout House,
No. 51, corner of Wall and Smith-
Street.—Likewise, Horses Hand at
Livery. 62
By order of JOHN SLOSS -HOBART, Esq.
one of the Justices of the Supreme Court cf
Judicature, for the State of New-York :
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that o»
the application of JOHN OOTHOUT, of
the Cirv of New Yoik, Merchant, a Creditor of
JOHN DUMONT, late ofthe fame City, Mer
chant,_ a Debtor reftding without this State, he
hath, in pursuance of the Aft, entitled, “ A*
Aft for r.lief again# abfcunding and absent
Debtor?,” patted the 4th of April, 1786 di
refted all the Estate, real and personal, of the
said John Dumont, within this State, to be
.eized; and that uniefs the said John Dumont
loes his debts within one year from the date
hereof, all his Estate, real and personal, so seized
will be fold fur the payment and fatisfaftion of
ms Creditors. Given at New-York, this nine
teenth day of April, 1787.
Chriftofher Lewis Lente,
At his Store, No. 39, Hanover-Square,
HAS for SALE, a very large assortment of
Groceries, Confectionaries, Wines & other
bottled Liquors, &c. which were all purchased
for ready Money, and will difpofc of them on
very reasonable Terms. He is determined not
to fell any thing out of his Store but for Cash be
ing paid on delivery of the Goods, having con
siderable Sums of out-standing debts, which puts
it out of his power to give Credit auy longer.-—
All Orders from the Country will be punctually
attended to, but no goods will be sent unless the
Calh or Produce is at the fame time sent.
F O R SALE,
At th« READY-MONEY STORE, No. 3,;
Hanover-Sq are,
CHAMPAIGNE, Burgundy, Madeira, Claret’
Port, Hock, Constantia, Cyprus, Syracufe r
Stomatical, Liibon, Fyal, and Tweriff#
Wines, in calks and bottles,
Arrack and Coniac Brandy,
Geneva in cases and half ankers,
A great variety of rich German, French and
Italian Liqueurs, &c.
London bottled Porter in calks &small packages.
Fine Hyfon, Souchong, Green and Bohea Tea,
Coffee, Chocolate and Sugar-Candy,
Double and Single Lump Sugar,
Mufcovado, ditto -— ■ ith a large and general
assortment of GROCERIES, too tedioustj
enumerate.
Considerable abatement will be made to
who purchase by the Quantity.
Furnifoed Rooms to Let,
Thomas Thomas,
TINMAN, COPPERSMITH, and
BRASS FOUNDER,
No. 206, opposite
Burling-Slip,