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Ipeßationa they entertain that your
administration will, by the ble fling of
Almighty God, be glorious to your
feif, and happy for your country.
Permit us to add, that we Shall do
all in our power to make your refi.
dence in this state agreeable; and at
all times be ready to afford you our
united aid and fopport.
Gentlemen,
THE affectionate congratulations
of so refpedable a public body
as the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the state of Newyork, on
my election to the Presidency of the
United States, fill my breast with the
tnoft pleating sensations.
In the fortitude and perseverance of
the citizens of this state, even amide
the calamities and dangers with which
they were surrounded in the late war,
I found a resource, which it always
gave me pleasure to acknowledge in
the strongest and most grateful terms.
I may also be permitted to add, the
fitisfadion I experienced in retiring
rto enjoyments of domestic life, wa^
greatly enhanced by reflexion that
their public virtue had been finally
- crowned with complete success,
lam now truly hap,y that my mo
lives, for le afluming the arduous do.
ties of a public station, have met with
your approbation. And at the fame,
time I entreat you will be performed
that nothing could be better calculate
ted to encourage me to hope for pros
perity in the execution of the dutie
of my office, than the assurance you
have given of the favourable fenti
ments and expectations of the free
men of your state.
I request, gentlemen, that you will
accept my best thanks for your police
intimation, that you will do every
thing in your power to make my re
sidence in your state agreeable; as
well as for your patriotic promise of
being always ready to afford your uni
ted aid and fopport.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The PR ESIDENT war pleased to make
the following Anfaer :
To the Senate and Affemkly of the state
of Newyork.
Albany, July 15, 1789.
PiereVan Cortlandt, Prefdent.
A very fad difafler, we are told,
happened a short time since, in Pitts.
ton :— A Mr. Agen (a man between
60 and 70 years old) was the owner
of a'Mad Bull—the surliness of this
Jbeaft was often noticed by Mr.Agen's
neighbors; who apprehended danger
from him,& advjfed the owner to have
him killed—Mr. Agen declined—but
at the expence df his own life : He
having occasion toenter the inclofare
where the bull and other cattle were
feeding was attacked by him—Armed
with a stout walking stick Mr.Agen
made every resistance—but in vain=
the ball bore too hard tipon him— He
attempted to escape to the fence, and
had slmoft gained it but was overta.
ken,thrown down, and bored through
the heart— He instantly expired !
A government founded upon right
principles in order effe&ually to guard
the rights of an enlightened people,
should be strong in its conftruftion, &
energetick in its opperation : Those
amendments therefore which shall
have a tendency to lessen the force of
cur national government are to be
deprecated.
The fubje& of amendments to the
Constitution is very delicate in its na
ture,and dangerous in the experiment.
So long as it remains as it is, the peo
ple will have a definate idea of the
inftrument,and it will be considered as
the great Charter of their privileges
—but if it should fuffer such alterati
ons as will place the whole, or its va
rious parts, in a conftru&ive point es
Gvlian Verplanck, Speaker,
In behalf of the Assembly,
In behalf of the Senate,
However sanguine, many may be,
for Regal Titles ; yet, a correspond
ent is of opinion, that "Illustri
ous" is the one; which ought to be
bellowed on the name of our Wor
thy PRESIDENT.
The workmen of the Glats Works
in this town, began blowing a few
days since—and, it is said, have pro
duced as good ware, &c.,s any ever
made.
While the foil of America is pro
pitious to the produ.aion of genius,
Europe appears no less propitious to
is growth and maturity. Poets,
Painters and Mechanicks seek in the
Id world those rewards which cannot
be bellowed on them in the new. Our
Weft, Copley, Brown, Trumbull, &c.
seem to have taken up their abode in
those climes—where the ingenious and
benevolent Mrs. Wright breathed her
UG. The inventor of the Quadrant,
Godfrey, tho' he loft the credit of the
invention, was there handsomely re.
warded—and within a few weeks past,
the indefatigable and ingenious Pope,
improver on the Planetarium or Orre
ry-one of which he lately finifbed—
fet out for London, in order, by ob
servation or encouragement, to extend
the sphere of his inventive genius —
and while benefiting himfelf, add ho
nour to the country that encourages,
and co the land in which he was born.
light, the benefit of a conftbufon so
to be found only in that infinity of
precedents which are scattered through
an innumerable multitude of mufry
folios.
For several nights last p^ft, a num
ber of Scores, &c. in this town have
been brooken open, and articles stolen
therefrom—and others attempted.
On Thursday 11 culprits received
the difciplire of the port in this town.
Ihe person obtained by the High
Sheriff to infli& the punishment—
from fympathecic feeling for his bro
ther culprits, was very tender in deal
^g^t his Crokes, and not adding
weigh) to them, although repeatedly
ordered—the Sheriff, to, his honour,
took the whip from his hand, by an
Application of it to his ihoulders drove
Him from thfr Cage—and with the af
hhance of h)s deputies, infiided the
punishment of the law on all the cul
prits, The citizens who were assem
bled, complimented the Sheriff with
three cheers for the manly, determin
ed manner in which he executed his
duty ./
A knot of villains have of late been
apprehended at Providence,on suspi
cion being concerned in making and
uttering counterfeit dollars. A dollar
die, engraved for ttriking falfe money
of the date of 1789,was found in their
possession. Counterfeit French Crowns
bearing date ofiyyo and doubleloons
or 15 dollar pieces in gold, have also
been deteded there.
JW-xate, and to lend Members to the
States General. Gallant Nation—
the sentimentalist will exclaim—thy
liberality and patriotism deserve to be
nurtured and proteded bytheGoddefs
of Liberty.
"On Thursday laft,the New-Meet
ing House in Marblehead was opened
The solemnity was introduced by an
anthem suitable to the solemn occasi
on. An excellent ferm^n was preached
by the Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of this
town, from Hagai ii, 9, The glory
of this latter house shall be greater
than of the former, faith the Lord of
hosts; and in this place will I give
peace. The assembly was refpe&able
attentive and devout."
A London paper informs, that the
Ladies of*France have been permitted
Jeans -nd Fustians, manufaaured at
Worcester, which on examination,
will be found equal, if not fuperiour
to European, are to be fold in Borton,
very cheap.
Maffacbufetts.
BOSTON, AVGUST 10.
SALEM, august 11.
We are happy in announcing the
appointment of the Hon. JOHN
PICKERING, Es<Qto that important
and dignified office of Chief Justice
of this State. The fuperiour abilities
and unshaken integrity of this gen
tleman—his disinterestedness and love
of juliice— must render his appoint
ment truly pleasing to the citizens of
New. Hampshire, in whose confidence
he so largely shares.
On Thursday last, His Excellency
President S ULLI V A N, with the
members of the Hon. Council, met
in the Senate chamber in this town,
and when the Oath prescribed by a
late All of Congress, was administer
ed to his Excellency by one of the
Council ; after which the members of
the Council took the fame.
The officers, civil and judicial,
throughout this state, are taking the
above oath.
Last Thursday evening Mr. James
Lyford, of this town, was unfortu
nately drowned. The circumstance
of this melancholy affair is a little re
markable^ Mr, Lyford went into
the water to bathe, at Powel's Point,
and after fwimifg across the chan,
nel, he immediately funk and drown
ed in lets than three feet water. -He
was an honeft,induftrious young man,
and a worthy member of society.
Several hundred sugar kettles, it is
said, are now making in New-Jersey,
for the use of the New-England set
tlers on the Susquehanna and_Dela.
ware.
The Pacha es Scutari, having coL
lean considerable force, marched a.
gainft the Pacha who had received or
ders from- the Porte to fight him; and
the Montenegrins rifingagaift him,
he was put between two fires, and so
completely routed, that he left 5000
men dead upon the field, and only
saved himfelf by precipitate flight
It is but justice, in cur account of
the Piracy on board the sloop lately
carried into Portland, in addition to
the testimony of Hanson; who declar
ed that Mr. Jackson, one of the pr
foners, was not in the least acceffary
to the murder, to fay, that we are
credibly informed, thac Mr. Jackson
pointedly reprobated the conduct of
the crew immediately on knowing it ;
but was forced by them, to avoid a
similar fate with the Captain, with
which he was threatned to take the
command of the sloop, which he in
tended to bring into Boston, and to
have delivered the guilty up to juf
ice ; —That ignorance cf the laws,
and fearful least the partiality of the
people where the sloop firtt entered
in favour of the crew,might give him
up to their vengeance,in case of a dis
covery, were the reasons for his not
divulging the murder there ; Mr.
Jackson, we are told, was absent from
the vessel, for the purpose of entering
her & when she was seized at Cape-
Porpus, and erne to Portland by land
—where he surrendered himfelf up.
Thus much we have thought proper
to fay,that theinnocent may not fuffer
in the publick mind in common with
the guilty. Mr. Jackson belongs to a
refpedable family,has ever sustained a
good character—andferved his coun
try in the late war with much fi
dclity. (Mcff.Centinel.)
A most outrageous tumult, fays a
late European paper, hes happened at
Barcelona, in Spain, in confcquence
of the high price of bread. Qn the
firft of April, a very numerous mob
began to set fire to the town maga
zines, where the corn is deposited.
Having finifned, here they burnt two
houses belonging co the principal
corn-dealers, besides feme others.
DlED]—Jart. 17, at Grand Cairo,
(Egypt) Mr. John Ledyard, of Can
neaicut. This celebrated traveller was
with Cap. Cook, in bis lift buoyage,
and publifad an account theroh and oj
Cook's death at Owyhee. Having been
EXETER, august :8.
Portsmouth; august 8.
Newbamjfoire.
'difappAntea in his offer tovift unknown
countries, which besadf to the Em,rtfs,
he traveled to Kamchatka, hat was font
out of the country by order of the Em
press \fßuffia, He applied, on bis re
turn, to the Englifoßojal African com.
pany, to make a journey through Africa,
hitherto not travelled —and under the
auspices of this Company he arrived at
Cairo, where just as be was prepared to
continue his rout —be fontfeed his earthly
career—and went to '' that undifeover
ed country, from whose bourne no
traveller returns,"
At Hollis, in this State, Mrs. Lydia
Ulrich, widow, aged 105 ; Simon Pierce,
aged 82, he died inf antaneoufl, at work
in his yard ; Mrs. Sarah Kemp, widow,
aged 90 ; Mrs. Lovejoy, aged 70. At
Strathamfofeph Hoyt.E/q. agea ^2. At
Hebron (Connecticut) Mrs. Anna Phelps,
She bad had 13 Children and \\\ grand
children, most of whom are living. At
Charlton, Mr, Nathaniel M'lntire, aged
47 and Mr. Ebenezer M Intire, aged 60.
At Princeton, Mfs Elizabeth Clarke,
late of BoJion. At Portjmouth, Mr,
Richard Cotter, 4: Bo,:sn. Mrs. Mar
garet Griffin, aged 85 ; Mfs Paw,
Lamfon, aged 18 At LitHe-C abridge,
Mrs. Maria Durant, wife oj Cornelius
Durant, Esq.
In this town—Miss Peggy Web
ster-aged 23.
WHEREAS an unhappy dispute
has for a long time fubfitted
between the inhabitants of the town
of Hopkinton, with regard to placing
their Meeting.Houfe—and in conse
quence thereof the Meeting-House in
said town was lately consumed by fire;
—Ahd whereas 1 did accuse Captain
Stephen Harriman, of beihg the
means and indigator of burning said
Houfe —which charge I allow to be
very incautious and without any
foundation: And I do hereby declare
to the world, that I had no detign to
represent said Harriman as being the
author of the atrocious deed, any fur
ther than being at the head of the
party who were endeavouring to re
move said Meeting H use,
JOHN MOORE,
Hopkinton^ August 17, 1789,
FROM me the fubferiber, on the
9th day of August inst. a fervanc
boy, named Nathaniel Weft, about 18
years old-had on when he went away
a dark brown homespun coat and jac
ket, brown trowfers, new (hoes and
new felt-hat—Whoever will take up
said runaway, and bring him to the
fubfriber,. clear of expence, Ihall re-'
ceive Fiur Confers retard.
^ ALL persons are forbid harbor
ing or trusting said runaway as they
would avoid the penalty of the law.
FROM me the fubferiber, an ap
prentice bof, named JEREMI
AH KENESTON, about 17 years
old ; had cn when he went away, aa
olive coloured Coat and Breeches and
Chintz Waistcoat. Whoever will take
up said runaway and convey him to
his master, shall have ONE PENNY
reward, and no charges paid.
O ALL persons are ferbid harbor
ing or trotting him on my account as
they would avoid the penalty of the
law.' SAMUEL PIPER.
LOUDON, JULY 21, 1789.
Poplih, August, 13, 1789.
^, The person who firft
oublifhed a NEws-Papeß/ in this
place in the years 1776 and 1777,
(is now in town, and proposes tar
rying a few months longer,) for a
large number of which papers, with
advertisements, brinks, blanks, &c. he
never received any payment, He would
be much obliged to his old friends,
(if he has any) to make payment.
Apply to this Office.
RAN AWAY,
RAN AWAY,
fc, Take Notice.
BILE DUDLEY LYFORD.