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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 2, of VOL. XLII.]
WEDNESDAY, January 2, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2180.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—The NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and, that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated.—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
CONDITIONS. I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
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IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of its GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied, and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature; colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done, if one well-informed gentleman, in each town, would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires-Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Aulin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
Just published by M. CAREY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received) THE
American Museum,
FOR NOVEMBER, 1787.
CONTAINING, Strictures on the new Federal Constitution. OBJECTIONS to the proposed plan of federal government. By an officer of the late continental army.
 2 Answers to the preceding objections.  3 Address to the inhabitants of New-Jersey.  4 The federalist. 
Rural Concerns.
 5 Address from the Philadelphia society for promoting agriculture.  6 Chinese method of curing ginseng.  7 Tartarian ditto.  8 Instructions for the culture and use of maize, or Indian corn, as fodder for cattle. By monr. St. John de Crevecoeur.  9 Description of a plant of great utility in the improvement of poor and exhausted lands.  10 A valuable, cheap, and easily-procured winter food for cattle.  11 On raising potatoes.  12 On cotton planting.  13 Advantages of preserving parsnips by drying. By the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.  14 Receipts for preserving turnips from insects. By Philip Schuyler, Esq.  15 On the method of rearing young cattle.  16 On bee-keeping.  17 Receipt to preserve butter perfectly sweet whole year.  18 Query addressed to the lovers of cyder.  19 Letter from Mr. Decius Wadsworth to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, relative to the Hessian fly.  20 Letter on the same subject. 
Medical Essays.
 21 On the use of mercurial preparations in the scarlatina anginoza. By Dr. William Currie.  22 Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus. By Dr. Rush.  23 Letter from Dr. Thomas Bond to Dr. Fothergill, on the use of bark in scrofulous cases.  24 Relation of a cure performed by electricity. Communicated to the medical society in London, by Dr. Caldwellader Evens.  25 Receipts for the cure of a dysentery. 
Law information.
 26 Statement of a cause decided in the court of common pleas, Charleston, March 5, 1785.  27 Statement of an important and interesting cause decided in the court of king's bench, London, July 20, 1787.  28 Interesting decision of the court of common pleas, in Philadelphia, August 3, 1787.  29 Law report—Green and Pollard vs. Shaffer; Judgment pronounced, Oct. 7, 1787. 
Humour.
 30 On the use of bullers.  31 Susannah Trapes's complaint of the badness of the police.  32 On pronouncing dictionaries.  33 Plan for a wax-work legislature.  34 address to Gen. Burgoyne.  35 The old bachelor, No. I. 
State and other public Papers.
 36 Letter from the Hon. Roger Sherman and the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, Esqrs. to governor Huntington.  37 Letter from the Hon. Elbridge Gerry, one of the delegates from the state of Massachusetts in the late federal convention, containing his reasons for not signing the new constitution.  38 General Burgoyne's pompous proclamation.  39 Speech of governor Hancock, October 18, 1787. 
40 Premiums offered by the board of managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts.
 41 Resolutions of the assembly of Virginia relative to a paper currency.  42 ——— of respectable inhabitants of Berkeley county.  43 ——— of the inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia.  44 ——— of the freeholders of Frederic county, Virginia.  45 ——— of the inhabitants of Petersburgh, Virginia.  46 Memorial of the college of physicians of Philadelphia. 
Interesting Laws.
 47 Act for the receipt of tobacco in payment of taxes.  48 Act for the establishing religious freedom in Virginia.  49 Act to prevent the further importation of slaves into Virginia.  50 Act to prevent the slave trade, and to encourage the abolition of slavery in Rhode-Island. 
Resolves of Congress.
 Resolve relative to the devices and inscriptions of the federal copper coin.  ——— relative to the Indian war in Georgia.  53 ——— relative to foreign consuls.  54 ——— relative to the Hon. John Adams Esq.  55 ——— relative to the chevalier John Paul Jones.  56 ——— relative to the territorial claim of N. Carolina and Georgia.  57 ——— relative to a complaint made the Dutch minister. 
Miscellanies.
 58 An oration delivered at Peterburgh, Virginia, July 4, 1787, in commemoration of American Independence.  59 Account of the late revolution in Sweden.  60 Obs. on the means of extinguishing a fire.  61 Address to the ladies of America.]  62 On the use of tobacco and snuff.  63 Account of three volcanos in the moon By W. Herscheil.  64 Observations on the numb fish, or torporific eel. By H. C. Flagg.  65 Extract of a letter from the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, to Dr. Stiles.  66 Observations on the leech worm.  67 Letter relative to the devices and inscriptions of American medals. By Col. Humphreys.  68 Extract from an act to punish blasphemers. 
Poetry.
 69 Epistle to his excellency General Washington.  70 On the death of Col. John Laurens. By Philip Freneau.  71 Prospect of South-Carolina. By the late Dr. Ladd.  72 The man of sorrow. By William More Smith, Esq. 
The subscription for the American Museum is 18s. per annum, for two volumes, of 624 pages. This Work is also SOLD by Messrs. Berry and Rogers, Mr. Hodge, and Mr. Loudon. New-York, Dec. 17, 1787. 66— e.d.
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THE UNITED STATES
IN CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787.
RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, clothier's, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.

THE FEDERALIST, No. XXVIII. To the People of the State of New-York.
THAT there may happen cases, in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. Our own experience has corroborated the lessons taught by the examples of other nations; that emergencies arise in all societies, however constituted; that seditions and insurrections are unhappily maladies as inseparable from the body politic, as tumours and eruptions from the natural body; that the idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors, whose sagacity disdains the admonition of experimental instruction.
Should such emergencies at any time happen under the national government, there could be no remedy but force. The means to be employed must be proportioned to the extent of the mischief. If it should be a slight commotion in a small part of a state, the militia of the residue would be adequate to its suppression; and the natural presumption is, that they would be ready to do their duty. An insurrection, whatever may be its immediate cause, eventually endangers all government. Regard to the public peace, if not to the rights of the union, would engage the citizens, to whom the contagion had not communicated itself, to oppose the insurgents: And if the general government should be found in practice conducive to the prosperity and felicity of the people, it were irrational to believe that they would be disinclined to its support.
If on the contrary the insurrection should pervade a whole State, or a principal part of it, the employment of a different kind of force might become unavoidable. It appears that Massachusetts found it necessary to raise troops for repressing the disorders within that state; that Pennsylvania, from the mere apprehension of commotions among a part of her citizens, has thought proper to have recourse to the same measure. Suppose the state of New-York had been inclined to re-establish her lost jurisdiction over the inhabitants of Vermont; could she have hoped for success in such an enterprise from the efforts of the militia alone? Would she not have been compelled to raise and to maintain a more regular force for the execution of her design? If it must then be admitted that the necessity of recurring to a force different from the militia in cases of this extraordinary nature, is applicable to the state governments themselves, why should the possibility that the national government might be under a like necessity in similar extremities, be made an objection to its existence? Is it not surprising that men, who declare an attachment to the union in the abstract, should urge, as an objection to the proposed constitution, what applies with tenfold weight to the plan for which they contend; and what as far as it has any foundation in truth is an inevitable consequence of civil society upon an enlarged scale? who would not prefer that possibility to the unceasing agitations and frequent revolutions which are the continual scourges of petty republics?
Let us pursue this examination in another light. Suppose, in lieu of one general system, two or three or even four confederacies were to be formed, would not the same difficulty op-
pose itself to the operations of either of these confederacies? Would not each of them be exposed to the same casualties; and, when these happened, be obliged to have recourse to the same expedients for upholding its authority, which are objected to a government for all the states? Would the militia in this supposition be more ready or more able to support the federal authority than in the case of a general union? All candid and intelligent men must upon due consideration acknowledge that the principle of the objection is equally applicable to either of the two cases; and that whether we have one government for all the states, or different governments for different parcels of them, or even if there should be an intire separation of the states, there might sometimes be a necessity to make use of a force constituted differently from the militia to preserve the peace of the community, and to maintain the just authority of the laws against those violent invasions of them which amount to insurrections and rebellions.
Independent of all other reasonings upon the subject, it is a full answer to those who require a more peremptory provision against military establishments in time of peace, that the whole power of the proposed government is to be in the hands of the representatives of the people. This is the essential, and after all the only efficacious security for the rights and privileges of the people which is attainable in civil society*.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no source left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defence, which is paramount to all positive forms of government; and which, against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success, than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the person intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions or districts, of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defence. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition; and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements; and the military force in the possession of the usurpers, can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation, there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to ensure success to the popular resistance.
The obstacles to usurpation and the facilities of resistance increase with the increased extent of the state; provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. The natural strength of the people in a large community, in proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in a small; and of course more competent to a struggle with the attempts of the government to establish a tyranny. But in a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. Power being almost always the rival of power; the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state
* Its full efficacy will be examined hereafter.
governments; and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other, as the instrument of redress. How wise will it be in them by cherishing the union to preserve to themselves an advantage which can never be too highly prized!
It may safely be received as an axiom, in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty of the national authority. Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretences so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men as for the people at large. The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power and the confidence of the people. They can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different states; and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.
The great extent of the country is a further security. We have already experienced its utility against the attacks of a foreign power. And it would have precisely the same effect against the enterprises of ambitious rulers in the national councils. If the federal army should be able to quell the resistance of one state, the distant states would be able to make head with fresh forces. The advantages obtained in one place must be abandoned to subdue the opposition in others; and the moment the part which had been reduced to submission was left to itself its efforts would be renewed and its resistance revive.
We should recollect that the extent of the military force must at all events be regulated by the resources of the country. For a long time to come, it will not be possible to maintain a large army; and as the means of doing this increase, the population and natural strength of the community will proportionably increase. When will the time arrive, that the federal government can raise and maintain an army capable of erecting a despotism over the great body of the people of an immense empire; who are in a situation through the mediums of their state governments, to take measures for their own defence with all the celerity, regularity and system of independent nations? The apprehension may be considered as a disease, for which there can be found no cure in the resources of argument and reasoning.
PUBLIUS.
THE FEDERALIST, No. XXIX. To the People of the State of New-York.
IT has been already observed, that the federal government ought to possess the power of providing for the support of the national forces; in which proposition was intended to be included the expence of raising troops, of building and equipping fleets, and all other expences in any wise connected with military arrangements and operations. But these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of the union, in respect to revenue, must necessarily be empowered to extend; It must embrace a provision for the support of the national civil list; for the payment of the
national debts contracted, or that may be contracted; and in general for all those matters which will call for disbursements out of the national treasury. The conclusion is, that there must be interwoven in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation in one shape or another.
Money is with propriety considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power therefore to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution. From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must ensue; either the people must be subjected to continual plunder as a substitute for a more eligible mode of supplying the public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish.
In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax. The consequence is, that he permits the Bashaws or Governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and in turn squeezes out of them the sums of which he stands in need to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state. In America, from a like cause, the government of the union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay, approaching nearly to a state of annihilation. Who can doubt that the happiness of the people in both countries would be promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands, to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public might require?
The present confederation, feeble as it is, intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited power of providing for the pecuniary wants of the Union. But proceeding upon an erroneous principle, it has been done in such a manner as entirely to have frustrated the intention. Congress by the articles which compose that compact (as has been already stated) are authorised to ascertain and call for any sums of money necessary in their judgment, to the service of the United States; and their requisitions, if conformable to the rule of apportionment, are in every constitutional sense obligatory upon the states. These have no right to question the propriety of the demand; no discretion beyond that of devising the ways and means and of furnishing the sums demanded. But though this be strictly and truly the case; though the assumption of such a right be an infringement of the articles of Union; though it may seldom or never have been avowedly claimed; yet in practice it has been constantly exercised; and would continue to be so, as long as the revenues of the confederacy should remain dependent on the intermediate agency of its members. What the consequences of this system have been, is within the knowledge of every man, the least conversant in public affairs, and has been abundantly unfolded in different parts of these inquiries. It is this which has chiefly contributed to reduce us to a situation which affords ample cause, both of mortification to ourselves, and of triumph to our enemies.
What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system, which has produced it? In a change of the fallacious and de-

lusive system of quota and requisitions: What substitute can there be imagined for this ignis fatuus in finance, but that of permitting the national government to raise its own revenues by the ordinary methods of taxation, authorised in every well ordered constitution of civil government? Ingenious men may declaim with plausibility on any subject; but no human ingenuity can point out any other expedient to rescue us from the inconveniences and embarrassments naturally resulting from defective supplies of the public treasury.
(To be continued)
Foreign Intelligence.
L O N D O N, October 18—20. It is yet doubted whether the present reformation of the Stadholder can be effected without some revolution in the political system of the Republic. It is to be observed, that the Stadholder's power nearly resembles the prerogative of our King, and cannot be said to be more effective. Our King can, by his prerogatives, do many things, which, nevertheless, no wise King would attempt to do without the consent of his Parliament; an example of this offers itself in the case of giving assent to bills. There is no instance on record, since the revolution, of a king refusing his assent when a bill was brought to receive it, but there are many instances where a king has signed a bill contrary to his consent. In the case of the Stadholder, the balance of power leans very much on his side, since the forcible measures used by the duke of Brunswick, and his prerogative is strengthened greatly. It rests with him to use his power. "So as not abusing it," this only can wipe away the aspersions thrown on his character from the memories of the people, and alienate them from the patriotic French faction, which has been long aiming at the destruction of the office of Stadholder. A revolution, favoring of royalty, would be too much for the depressed spirits of the Hollanders, even in their present deserted condition.
A correspondent at Portsmouth sends us word by a letter of the 18th of the present instant, that peremptory orders had been given for the attendance of all the officers belonging to the squadron, under the command of admiral Affleck, and that they were to leave port on a destination not known there, on the 20th instant (this day) without fail. This squadron consists of five sail of the line.
General Fawcett's visit to the continent is for the purpose of taking into British pay 6000 German troops; with which number we are under treaty to furnish the King of Prussia, should hostilities be commenced against him by France.
The following is the official account of all the ships of war of the line, in commission on the 10th inst. as made out from the books and laid before the King, by the President of the Admiralty, at St. James's on Friday last:
SHIPS OF THE LINE.     Names. Guns. Commanders. Stations.     Royal Sovereign 110 J. Samber Plym.   Victory 100 Charles Hope Portf.   Impregnable 90 T. Pringle Plym.   Barfleur 90 J. Knight Portf.   Prince George 90 A. Edgar Chath.   Bedford 74 B. Mann Portf.   Colossus 74 H. C. Christian Ditto.   Edgar 74 C. Thomson Ditto.   Goliath 74 A. Dickson Ditto.   Ganges 74 Sir R. Curtis Ditto.   Elizabeth 74 J. Bourmaster Ditto.   Le Pense 74 H. Bligh Ditto.   Triumph 74 R. Oulow Ditto.   Alcide 74 B. Caldwell Ditto.   Bellona 74 G. Bowyer Ditto.   Magnificent 74 Hon. G. Berkeley Ditto.   Bombay Castle 74 R. Panhaw Ditto.   Culloden 74 Sir T. Rich, Batt. Ditto.   Carnatic 74 Hon. P. Berne Ditto.   Powerful 74 Vice Ad. T. Graves Ditto.   Cumberland 74 J. Sutherland Ditto.   Fortitude 74 A. Macbride Ditto.   Hero 74 A. J. P. Molloy Ditto.   Irresistible 74 T. Bayard Ditto.   Alfred 74 Sir A. S. Hammond Sheet   Arrogant 74 Wm. Affleck Chath.   Conqueror 74 H. Ball Ditto.   Ocean 74 C. W. Daniel Nore.   Robuste 74 Sir H. Parker Wool.   Ardent 64 Hon. W. Corn. Char.   Crown 64 P. Harwell Portf.   Standard 64 C. M. Fole Ditto.   Scipio 64 C. Chamberlain Ditto.   64 S. Lutwidge Ditto.    Ships under orders, but not commissioned. St. George 98 Plym. Sandwich 90 Chath. Hannibal 74 Plym.  Total 36 ships of the line.
The four regiments to be added to the establishment, and which are to be commanded by Sir Archibald Campbell, colonel Abercrombie, colonel Musgrave, and general March, are destined for India, where they are to remain. The measure is not adopted in consequence of the impending war, but of
the recommendation of Earl Cornwallis, who wrote home that he thought there was not a sufficient proportion of Sepoys. These regiments are accordingly to be added to the establishment, and to be raised in the following manner: The India Company are to give three guineas bounty money to each recruit, and the officers are to provide their quotas at what further sum they can, and where they please.
Colonel Abercrombie, colonel Musgrave, and colonel March, will have the rank of Brigadier-General in India.
Yesterday General Lord M c Leod was at the levee at St. James's. He came from Scotland for the purpose of offering his Majesty to raise a regiment of Highlanders for the public service immediately, and was received very graciously.
American Occurrences.
SAVANNAH, November 29. THE general election being on Tuesday next, the following resolution of the Hon. the House of Assembly at their last session is republished for the information of the electors:
Resolved, That any member of the Executive Council, or of the Legislature, or other person holding any office of honour or profit under this state, may be elected a member of the Convention.
Dec. 6. At a grand quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge in Savannah, on Saturday last, attended by the officers or deputies of Solomon's No. 1. Hiram's No. 2, Columbia No. 3, Washington No. 5, and St. John's No. 6, Lodges in this state, the following brethren were re-elected grand officers for the ensuing year:
 Rt. Wp. William Stevens, Grand Master.  James Jackson, Deputy Grand Master.  Sir G. Houstoun, Senior Grand Warden.  Thomas Elfe, Junior Grand Warden.  Wp. James Habersham, Grand Treasurer.  Samuel Stirk, Grand Secretary.  Leonard Cecil, Assistant Grand Treasurer.  Ulric Tobler, Assistant Grand Secretary.  Balthazar Shaffer, Senior Grand Deacon.  Jacob Brice, Junior Grand Deacon.  Benjamin Detard, Senior Grand Steward.  John Hiwill, Junior Grand Steward.  George Richardson, Grand Tyler.  John Hamilton, Grand Purveyor. 
Tuesday the 4th instant, at the annual election, the following gentlemen were chosen for this county for the ensuing year. Four hundred and one freeholders attended upon the occasion.
C O N V E N T I O N.
 William Stevens, Esq; 272 votes.  Col. Joseph Habersham, 251  Thomas Gibbons, sen. Esq; 124 
A S S E M B L Y.
 Joseph Clay, jun. Esq; 365 votes.  Joshua Tattall, Esq; 325  William O'Brien, Esq; 320  Col. Joseph Habersham, 295  James Habersham, Esq; 292  Afa Emanuel, Esq; 291  William Gibbons, sen. Esq; 288  William Houstoun, Esq; 269  Joseph Day, Esq; 241  Peter Devereaux, Esq; 221  Benjamin Maxwell, Esq; 208  Col. Benjamin Fishburn, 200  Gen. James Jackson, 198  Thomas Gibbons, sen. Esq; 178 
S H E R I F F.
 Samuel Elbert, Esq; 271 votes. 
C O U N T Y C L E R K.
 James Bulloch, Esq; 202 votes. 
C O R O N E R.
 David Montagu, Esq; 178 
DECEMBER 13.
ELECTIONS on Monday the 4th instant.
For Effingham County.
 Jenkin Davis, Nathan Brownson, Caleb Howell, Esqrs. Members of Convention.  Jenkin Davis, Benjamin Lanier, Nathan Brownson, Daniel Howell, Caleb Howell, John Green, Joseph Jackson, George McCall, M c Keen Green, Luke Meazel, Esqrs. Members of Assembly. 
For Burke County.
 Edward Telfair, George Walton, Henry Todd, Esqrs. Members of Convention. 
For Richmond County.
 Thomas Lewis, jun. David Emanuel, Edward Byne, Hugh Lawson, John Powell, John Morrison, John Jones, John Peter Wagon, Jacob Lewis, Isaac Perry, Esqrs. Members of Assembly.  Hon. William Few, John Wereat, James M c Neal, Esqrs. Members of Convention.  James M c Neal, Benjamin Few, Jesse Saunders, John Cobb, Solomon Ellis, William F. Booker, Charles Crawford, James M c Farland, Joel Crawford, Thomas Glascock, Esqrs. Members of Assembly. 
M c Callister, Esq. Attorney General of this state, to Miss Hannah Gibbons; daughter of Joseph Gibbons, Esq; deceased; Mr. David Fox, son of Mr. William Fox, deceased, to Miss Gould. At Nassau, New-Providence, Mr. John Wells, Printer, to Miss Morgan, formerly of North-Carolina.
New-York, January 2.
WE hear, that on new-year's eve, about 12 o'clock, the stable of Mr. Haring, near Fair-street, was entered by some daring villains, and a sleigh, with two horses, in this clandestine manner, taken off. My gentlemen horse-stealers were seen and pursued, but the rapidity of their flight proving too great for the running abilities of the pursuers, it is said they have hitherto evaded detection, and consequent infamy.
Yesterday arrived the sloop Friendship, Burnham, from Savannah; sloop Nancy and Polly, Brainbury, Cape Fear; and sloop Nancy, Newbold, from Edenton.
Entered at the Custom-House, Savannah, Dec. 6. Brig Succes, Greene, Cape Francois; schooner Savannah Packet, Dickinson, Charleston; sloop Lively, Hunt, North-Carolina; brig Nightingale, Dillingham, Rhode-Island; schooner Thomas, Godet, Charleston; schooner Carolina, Rofs, do. Cleared out.
Schooner Fame, Talcol, Middleton; sloop Nancy, Farrow, Charleston; brig Rose, Towers, Philadelphia; schooner Mary, Sangston, Baltimore; schooner Bee, M c Kirdy, do. sloop Diffatch, Carman, Charleston.
Entered December 13. Schooner Polly, Hopkins, Philadelphia; sloop Active, Bayne, New-Providence; sloop Lucy, Minot, Charleston; sloop Sufannah, Beers, Connecticut; schooner Betsey, Freare, Charleston. Cleared out.
Brig Eliza, M c Neal, New-Providence; schooner Carolina, Rofs, Charleston; sloop Spencer, Jones, Baltimore; schooner Thomas, Godet, Charleston; sloop Lucy, Minot, do. sloop Friendship, Burnham, New-York; ship Polly, Silfon, Cape Francois.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THIS DAY, At the COFFEE-HOUSE, at XII o'Clock,   WILL be SOLD, one Moiety of a SHALLOP, burthen about thirty Tons, as the now lays at the Wharf opposite the Exchange—Taken by Execution.
M c WILLETT, Sheriff. Jan. 2, 1788, 79—c.d.
F R E I G H T, W A N T E D,
 FOR a BRIG upwards of one hundred tons measurement, with an undeniable British Register and Mediterranean pass.—For either Spain, Portugal, the Straights, Western, Canary, or any of the West-India Islands.—For particulars enquire at No. 74, Water-street. New-York, Dec. 31, 1787. 78 c.d.
TO BE SOLD, On TUESDAY the eighth Day of January next, at twelve o'Clock of the same Day, at the House of ISRAEL HONEYWELL, Jun. near Dobbs Ferry, the
Farm and Tract of Land, In Philipsburg, now in the Occupation of the said ISRAEL HONEYWELL;
CONTAINING two hundred acres more or less, together with the stock and household furniture of the said Israel Honeywell, consisting of a great variety of valuable articles, which will be sold by virtue of an execution, issued at the suit of Alice Archer, against the said Israel Honeywell.
JOHN THOMAS, Sheriff. Dated the 17th of Dec. 1787. 79-85 c.d.
By Order of BENJAMIN BLAGGE, Esquire, one of the Aldermen of the City of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given, by the petitioning creditors of Coonrod Weaver, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of the said insolvent, that they appear before the said alderman, at his office in Beckman-street, in the city of New-York, by the second day of January, 1788, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and he thereupon discharged, in terms of, and pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
COONROD WEAVER. Dated the 3rd day of December, 1787. 78 80 c.d. Petitioning Creditors. Nicholas Michel, George Watts, Henry Clubman, and Frederick Slicke.
THIS DAY, IS PUBLISHED in this City, The American Magazine, For the Month of DECEMBER, CONTENTS.
 INTRODUCTION, On education,  Gen. Lincoln's letter, Letter from Jemima Loveleap,  Anecdote of the Duke of Gordon, Floretta, or the Fountains,  Advice to masons, and to husbands that have scolding wives, and wives that have peevish husbands, Life of Sir William Jones, Kt.  Principles of government and commerce, Titus Blunt, on fashion,  On bills of rights, Anecdote of a sailor,  Letter to Doctor Suiles, Letter from Philander, on marriage,  Accounting for the fortifications west of the Allegany, Dr. Dwight's valedictory address, &c.  Abridgment of Smith's History of Virginia, Mr. Pope's letter to the Bishop of Rochester,  POETRY, Letter from Guy Grumbleton,  Curiosities, London review of Dr. Adams's defence. 
VERSES on the New Year, Lydia, The Virgin's first love, The seasons moralized, On a lady's striking a fly with her fan, The rare adventures of Tom Brainlefs; shewing what his father said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; Subscriptions twenty shillings a year, ten shillings for six months advanced. ** Subscriptions are taken by Mr. Loudon, Messrs Berry and Rogers, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. S. Campbell, and Mr. T. Allen, Booksellers. 75e.d.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY. This EVENING, being the 2d of January, Will be performed,  A C O M E D Y, CALLED THE  Clandestine Marriage. To which will be added,  A C O M E D Y, In Two Acts, called,  The Guardian. BOX 3s.—PIT 6s.—GALLERY 4s. VIVAT RESPUBLICA.
Garret Rapalje, No. 2, opposite the Fly-Market, has FOR SALE sundry sorts of  DRY GOODS.
Two NEGRO BOYS about 14 years old, One WENCH, a very good COOK, can wash and iron; sold for want of employ. Twenty FARMS of good LAND on the west side of the Delaware, about 50 miles west of Elopus, Who sells GOODS on Commission. Said RAPALJE has FOR SALE a number of
Walker's Certificates.
New-York, Dec. 29, 1787. 77 c.d. Ran-away, from Cape Francois, A MULATTO MAN, Named JACQUES or JAMES, A CREOLE, from Martinico, An excellent kitchen and pastry COOK, 26 or 27 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, middling thick, his legs are much warped, much pock-marked, a very large mouth, small eyes and sunk, a large forehead and long necked; he has a kind of ring-worm on one of his arms, and has a difficulty in his speech, stammering a little.—He left Cape Francois in the beginning of May last, and was supposed to have taken passage for this continent. Whoever secures said Mulatto Man, and gives intelligence, will be handsomely rewarded, and all reasonable charges paid. Enquire at No. 15, Queen-Street. 73—c.d.
By Order of the Hon. RICHARD MORRIS, Esq; Chief Justice of the state of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors of DANIEL STRANG, of Rye, in the county of West Chester, and state of New-York, late merchant, an insolvent debtor, to show cause to the said Chief Justice, at his chamber, situate in Nassau-street, in the city of New-York, on Thursday, the third day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and the said debtor discharged, according to the form of an act of the legislature of the state, of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 19th day of April, 1786. DANIEL STRANG. Dated this 13th day of Dec. 1787. 65—c.d.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterborough hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favorable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, houseline, and marine, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expense of carriage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 d.e.
NOTICE is hereby given, by the petitioning creditors of Frederick Selick, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of the said insolvent debtor, that they do appear before me Benjamin Blagge, Esq; one of the judges of the mayor's court of the city of New-York, at his office in Beckman-street, on Thursday the 3rd day of January, 1788, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Frederick Selick, should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Frederick Selick be discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
FREDERICK SELICK. Dated this 13th day of December, 1787.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, IS now opened at the corner of Cortlandt and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River—where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable. New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. 69e.d.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Ryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assignee of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Ryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Ryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to
JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Affignee. 42 m.w.f. 3m. New-York, November 15, 1787.

POET'S CORNER.
A MAN IN LOVE.
THE man who feels the dear disease, Forgets himself, neglects to please: The crowd avoids, and seeks the groves, And much he thinks, when much he loves. Pleas'd with alternate hope and fear, Sighs in her absence, sighs when she is near. The gay, the fond, the fair, the Young, Those trifles pass unseen along; To him a pet, insipid throng. But most he flams the vain coquet, Contempts her false affected wit: The muffled found, the flowing bowl, Oppress and hurt the am'rous soul; 'Tis solitude alone can please, And give some intervals of ease: He feeds the soft distemper there, And fondly courts the distant fair: To balls the silent shade prefers, And hates all other charms but her's, When thus your absent lover can do, Molly, you may believe him true.
PHYSICAL ANECDOTE.
THE celebrated Dr. Radcliffe attending one of his most intimate friends in a dangerous illness, with an unusual strain of generosity declared he would not touch a fee. One insisted and the other was positive. At last when the cure was performed, and the physician taking his leave, "Sir," said the patient, (his friend) in this puzzle I have put every day's fee; nor must your goodness get the better of my gratitude." The doctor eyes the puzzle, counts the days in a moment, and then holding out his hand, replied, "Well, I can hold out no longer; singly I could have refused them for a twelve month; but all together, they are irresistible."
Alfize of BREAD,
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flour to weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, January 2. 19h. 34m. Aft.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE: No. 25, Water-street.
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION, CONTAINING,
A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant.
Price 1s. 6d. single. The usual discount to Booksellers, and others, who may purchase by the Hundred, Dozen, &c. ** Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, at T. GREENLEAF'S PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street.
OBSERVATION leading to a fair Examination of the Government proposed by the late CONVENTION, and to several essential and necessary Alterations.
A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.
Part of this Edition is rendered conformable to the Military establishment of this State, [The only printed Edition with such Alterations.] and the remaining Part correct Copies of the late Editions; each decorated with a half sheet copper Plate Engraving. Price Three Shillings.
Just PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD, at this Office, By the Gros, Hundred, or Dozen, HUTCHINS'S, and the UNITED-STATES' ALMANACK, For the Year of our Lord, 1788.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, from London, & and other late vessels from Great-Britain, and to be SOLD on very reasonable terms,
By Robert Hodge, No. 237, Queen-street, the corner of King-street A large and choice collection of BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkitt on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols., Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's Cart's, Enfield's, Bolton's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice of physic, Van Swieten's, commentaries, 18 vols. Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quincy's medical lexicon, Forster's, chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Besides the above, a great variety, Coasting of
History, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Phylic, Surgery, Agri-
culture, Nautical-Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
Also an excellent Assortment of STATIONARY, Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thankfully received, and carefully executed. 51
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT and SHOE MAKER, LEATHER CUTTER, AND CURRIER, Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beekman or Chapel Street,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he carries on the above branches in an extensive manner. He makes and sells the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.
   £. s. d.     Gentlemen's best boots with the best English legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 12 0   Gentlemen's best boots turned down tops, best English legs and bend-foles, 2 10 0   Gentlemen's best boots with the best York legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 8 0   Ditto best plain, ditto, York legs and bend-foles, 2 4 0   Ditto, ditto, with York legs and foles, 2 0 0   Best water boots with bend-foles, 2 0 0   Gentlemen's best calf-skin shoes with bound tops, 0 11 0   Mens strong shoes, from 8/ to 0 9 0   Ladies best silk shoes, 1 0 0   Ditto ditto, stuff ditto fatinet or calimanco, 0 10 0   Ditto ditto leather lined and bound, 0 9 0   Ditto do. do. common, 0 8 0   Boys, Girls, and childrens shoes of all kinds.  
As also, all kinds of leather, whether for shoemakers, saddlers, or harness-makers use.—English boot-legs, bend-foles as usual. He wishes to inform the public, that, as he is determined to sell on the most reasonable terms, no credit on any account will be given, except to those of his former customers.
And likewise, that no shoes will be sent to any one for trial, except they be very well known, as he has already suffered too much loss on that account. Country store-keepers, and others, will find it to their advantage to deal at the above store, as they can be supplied with upper leathers, foles, half foles, &c. by the dozen, on the most reasonable terms.
Black-ball of excellent quality for cleaning boots or shoes, wholesale and retail.
N. B. Rough leather taken in and curried on the most reasonable terms. 24—ed. 5w.
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed flour, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB ARLEY, last by Mr. NASH, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
WHITE TEETH! I. Greenwood,
SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, ENCOURAGED by the success of his practice, begs leave to acquaint the public, that he preserves the TEETH and GUMS, by removing an infectious tartar that corrupts them, and renders the natural purity of the breath offensive, this tartar acquires a solidity equal to stone, the corrosive particles destroy the enamel of the teeth, the body of it causes an inflammation in the gums, and by degrees will strip them from the roots of the teeth, and if not removed, force them out of their sockets.—He cures the scurvy in the gums, fastens the teeth, extracts, replaces, transplants, and regulates, cleans the teeth and makes them white, substitutes artificial teeth in so neat a manner as not to be perceived from the natural, without drawing the stumps, or causing the least pain; they help mastication, give a youthful air to the countenance, render pronunciation more agreeable and distinct; in a word, as there is nothing more beautiful, and of such real service as a good set of teeth, both natural and artificial are worthy the attention of every one.—His charges are low, to give every person an opportunity of being benefited by him.
Said GREENWOOD will with pleasure attend those ladies or gentlemen, who cannot conveniently wait on him, upon their sending directions.
Craigie, Wainwright, & Co. DRUGGISTS,
No. 37, Wall-Street, Corner of Hanover-Square, Have imported in the last SHIP from Europe, A General Assortment of
DRUGS, MEDICINE, and SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, which they will dispose of on very reasonable terms, for Cash, Bees-Wax, Snake-Root, Potor Pearl-Albes The following are Part of their Assortment;
   Genuine red Peruvian Bark, Glauber Salts,   Peruvian Bark, Opium,   Campbor, Spanish Flies,   Calomel, Manna,   Antimony, Aloes,   Cream of Tartar, Aqua Fortis,   Flower of Sulphur, Borax,   Tartar Emetic, Gentian Root,   Ippacuanha, Flowers of Lavender,   Jallap, Rhubarb, Flowers of Camomile   Senna, &c.  
Surgeons Instruments. Pocket Instruments, Lythotomical itto, Dissecting Knives, Cupping ditto, Crooked Needles, Lint, Teeth Instruments, Tow, Lancets, Sponge, Mortars, and Pestles, Pill Boxes, Spatulas and Bolus Phials, Knives, Iments. Gallipots, &c.
Amputating Instru- At the same place may be had, a great variety Genuine PATENT MEDICINE
Practitioners and Country Store-keepers may depend upon being well supplied at the above Store.
Medicine chests for shipping, plantations, or on works, with directions suited to the disorders of the country, are made up on the lowest terms.
ALT-PETRE, Very low, by the hundred, to be had at the above STORE. 37 e.d.
MR. HARDIE, TEACHER OF LANGUAGES, RETURNS his most grateful acknowledgment to his good friends, for their generous patronage, since he opened a public school.
At their request he wished to introduce the practice of hearing his Latin Scholars occasionally read lessons in English; but finding it difficult to attend to a variety of branches at the same time, and wishing to do all in his power to promote the progress of the young gentlemen committed to his care, he has taken, as an assistant, Mr. Martin, a gentleman educated at the university of Glasgow, who, together with himself, will industriously instruct their Scholars in the following branches, viz. Writing Arithmetic, Geography, Navigation, and the Greek, Latin, and English Languages grammatically.—Particular attention will be also paid to train up the young gentlemen to a just and graceful mode of elocution; and some time will be daily spent in teaching orthography.—Apply to the school, next door to the Methodist Church in John-street.
PRIZE-MONEY, Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire.
NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were old in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim.
Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Office of accounts, Marine department.
SHRUB, Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE, by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook STAGE.
ON the 14th inst. the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules-Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules-Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with seven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight. The waggon, on its rout to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules-Hook.
N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortland-street, New-York; from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage.—All letters carried free.
GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
THE PROPRIETORS of the STAGE,
Which ply between New-York & Philadelphia,
Respectfully inform the PUBLIC, THAT, after this date, their stage will leave Paules-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, and proceed to Elizabeth-Town; and that in order to accommodate passengers, one stage will leave Elizabeth-Town at day-light; and another stage leaves Newark at eight o'clock, and both stages go as far towards Philadelphia as the weather and roads will permit, during the winter season. December 3th, 1737. 46
Five Dollars Reward.
STOLEN, on the night of the third instant, out of the house of the subscriber, the following articles, viz. one purple silk gown, two white muslin ditto, two pair of sheets; one old suit of blue and white curtains; and sundry caps, handkerchiefs, and ruffles. The above reward will be given for the thief and goods, by GARRET RAPALJE. New-York, Oct. 10, 1787-36—m.w.f.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast,
At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market in Cherry-street and nearest to the Ship-Yards. October 3, 1787 53—m. th.
To the Afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beekman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. —From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. N.York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—e.d.
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