The New-York journal, and weekly register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-12-11 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUMB. 199, of VOL. XLII.]
THURSDAY, December 11, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2378.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN 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.
PRICE CURRENT Of the City of New-York.
  Superfine flour, 40s Madeira wine 65l   Common do. 36s to 90l per pipe   Wheat, 6s 8d per buf. Lisbon, 6s 9d per gal   Indian corn, 4s Port, 40l to 44l   Rye, 3s 4d to 3s 6d Teneriffe, 4s per gal   Oats, 1s 6d to 1s 8d Fyall, 3s 3d do   Flax-seed, 5s Jamaica Spirits, 4s 6d   Ship bread, 16s per cwt. to 4s 9d per gallon   Country refined bar- Windward Island rum 4s   iron, 30l to 4s 9d   Do. Bloomery, 24l Country do, 2s 7d   Swedes, 45l do French brandy, 5s   Russia, 30l do Holland Gin in cases, 30s   Pig-iron, 9l do Molasses, 2s   German steel, 9d per lb per barrel   Pot-ash, 47l per ton Logwood unchipped, 7l   Bees-wax, 2s 4d lb 10s per ton   French indigo, 18s do 2 inch white oak plank,   Carolina do. 6s to 9s do 1 inch do 10l 10s   Cinnamon, 24s per do 1 inch do 5l   Cloves, 14s do 2 inch white pine plank,   Mace, 7s to 8s do 3l   Nutmegs, 50s to 52s 1 and 3 inch do 6l 10s   Pimento, 2s 6d per lb 1 inch do 4l 5s   Chocolate, 1s 4d do 2 inch pitch pine, 10l   Cocoa, 70s 1 and 3 inch do 6l 10s   Cotton, 3s do 1 inch do 4l 10s   Feathers, 2s to 3s do Pitch pine scantling,   Tar, 13s per barrel 3l 10s   Pitch, 20s do Cypress 2 feet things,   Turpentine, 14s do 11 12s   Pork Connecticut, 80s Cedar 2 feet do 2l   per barrel Do 22 inch do 1l 10s   Fish beef, Do 18 inch do 1l 2s   Country do. 4s to 50s Butt white oak staves, 35l   Mackerel, 26s to 30s Pipes do do 1l   Herrings, 16s Hoghead do do 8l   Muscovado sugar 70s cwt Do do heading, 10l   Tobacco Js. River, 4d 1st barrel do staves, 4l   to 5d 3/4 lb Hoghead red oak do 6l   York, 5d Do French do 6l   Rappahannock, 3d to 4d Hoghead hoops, 4l 10s   Maryland coloured, 5 3/4 White oak square tim-   Western-shore, 3d to 4d ber, at 8d per square   Lead in pigs, 56s per cwt foot.   Do. bars, do. Beaver, 12s to 15s lb   Shot, 70s Otter per skin, 9s to 32s   Red lead, 70s Grey fox, 4s 7d   White do. 70s Marten, 4s 10d   Salt-petre hams, 8d Bear,   Spermaceti candles 3s 6d Raccoon, 3s 6d to 7s 6d   Mould do. 1s Muskat, 10d to 14d   Tallow dipt, 10 3/4 Beaver hats, 64s   Soap, 5d to 9d Castor do. 48s   Castile soap, 9d to 10d Dutch gun-powder, 7l   English cheese, 5d per lb 15s per cwt   Country do. Nail rod, 37l per ton   Butter, 8d Limbsed oil, 4s per gal   Coffee, 1s 6d Whale do. 70s to 75s   Hylon tea, 20s Spermaceti oil, 6l   Sequin do. per barrel   Bohea do. 2s 6d Shake-down hds. 3s 6d   Ginseng, 4s Spanish brown, 22s cwt   Starch Poland, 7d Do. ground in oil, 6d lb   Snuff, 2s 4d American hemp,   Loaf sugar, 15d per ton   Lump do. 13 3/4 Window-glass, 6 by 8   Allum salt, water meal. 4l 2s 6d per box   4s 6d per buf. Do. 7 by 9 5l 2s 6d   Liverpool, 2s Do. 8 by 10 6l 5s 
Saturday, December 6, 1788.
HUGH GAIN, At his Printing-Office and Book-Store, at the Bible in Hanover-Square,
Has FOR SALE, A large Assortment of Books and Stationary-Ware,
Among which are,
BIBLES, testaments, spelling-books and primers, young man's companion, schoolmaster's assistant, ready reckoner, young clerk's vade mecum, Hervey's meditation, confession of faith, common prayer books, of most sizes, whole duty of man, Nelson's feasts and festivals, Burket on the new testament, Flavel's works, Erskine's works, Mcleish's ecclesiastical history, Cruden's concordance, Willison's sacramental catechism and meditations, holy war, afflicted man's companion, gospel sonnets, Henry on prayer, Ambrose looking unto Jesus, and a great variety of other religious books.
Speculator, guardian, tattler, female, Stern's works, Pope's and Addison's works, Chesterfield's letters to his son, Cook's last voyage, in 4 vols. with maps, Foneff's voyages to new Guinea and the Moluccas.
A large assortment of new novels, Baccara on crimes and punishments. Most sorts of the classics without translations.
Paper of every size, blankbooks, pens and quills, sealing-wax and wafers, ink pots, shaving boxes, razors and strops, cork screws, seals set in gold and other metal.
Turlington's balsam, Anderson's and Kooper's pills, Nuremberg salve, Harleam oil, Ryan's incomparable worm-destroying sugar plums, and a most excellent salve for corns.
Sold at said place, Ratzard's plan of the city of New-York and its environs.
New-York, Nov. 26, 1786. 76 4w.
TO BE SOLD, That pleasant and beautiful Situation, The MORNING-STAR,
At the North Side of Staten-Island, So noted, and so much admired for the many conveniences attending it, both for pleasure and advantage.
The conspicuous prospect, the rapidity of the waters, the healthy and clear westerly breezes on the one side, and the thick southerly atmosphere, obstructed by a ridge of hills on the other side, makes it so healthy that it must induce gentlemen of fortune to purchase, who wish to lengthen out their days and enjoy all the temporal happiness this life can afford.
There are on the premises two good dwelling-houses, one fit for a store, or tavern, a good barn, stables, and other necessary out-buildings; an excellent garden, equal to any for vegetation, with docks, ferry and boats, convenient for the ferry to Bergen-Point, which has long been used and is a stage road from said point to Powles-Hook. The land is under good cultivation, and the whole can be made into meadow: there is an excellent orchard of the best grafted fruit, viz. the bow or harvest apple, the derick claucies sweet, and Rariton sweet do. the large fall pippin, the golden and New-Town do. Spitzenberg remain, red-streak, seek-no-farther, black apple, Harman's winter, maiden's blush, and reflection, &c. &c. which ripen in rotation from the early to the winter apple. There is also an excellent collection of pears, plums, cherries, &c. Oysters and fish are in great plenty near the door.
There is also fine bathing water, a smooth beech and a fine sand for a shore. Nature hath formed it so pleasant and convenient, that gentlemen and ladies of weakly habit may restore their health, and spend their days with comfort in a peaceable and agreeable neighbourhood.
It will be sold altogether, or the Morning-Star, with any number of acres, from ten to fifty, or more if required, and the residue in lots, as may best suit the purchaser or purchasers: with twenty acres of salt meadow at the mouth of Bound Creek, in Elizabeth Town, great meadow.
The conveyance to and from New-York, is so pleasant, that every necessary supply or information may be acquired, either by stage or passage boats, which ply every day.
The payments for the Morning-Star will be made easy to the purchaser.
For farther particulars enquire of Joshua Mersereau on the premises, Col. Jacob Mersereau, or Gozen Ryers, Esq. on Staten-Island, William Cock, Esq. in Wall-street, corner of New-street, New-York, or of Col. Clement Biddle, at Philadelphia.
New-York, November 27, 1788. 76-3w.
By Order of the Hon. John Stafs Hobart, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to John Freebody, of New-Port, in the state of Rhode-Island, an absent debtor, and all others whom it may concern, that on application of one of the creditors of the said John Freebody to the said justice, and in pursuance of an act of the people of the state of New-York represented in senate and assembly, entitled, "An act for the relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 27th day of April, 1786—He the said justice hath directed all the estate, real and personal, of the said John Freebody, within this state, to be seized; and that unless he, the said John Freebody, an absent debtor, as aforesaid, shall return and discharge his debts within one year after the date hereof, all his estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his debts. Dated this 21st day of October, 1788. 76—
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the nineteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Jacob Coles, administrator, with the will annexed of Peter Totten, late of North-Castle, in the county of Westchester, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Peter Totten was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Peter Totten as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Peter Totten, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Peter Totten, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates at the probate office, in the city of New-York, on the twelfth day of January next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Peter Totten died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
75 4w. PETER OGILVIE. To be Sold at this PRINTING OFFICE,
B L A N K S of different sorts,
Just Published by M. CAREY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-Street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received) The American Museum, FOR OCTOBER, 1788. CONTAINING,
Politics. REMARKS on a resolve of Congress, Reply to the above remarks, Address to the independent electors of the federal government.
Miscellanies. Letter on education, Queries and answers respecting marriage, Remarks on names, On the wants and desires of mankind, Oration on the effects of spirituous liquors upon the human body, Letter from the Hon. Charles Thomson to general Clinton, Address to the friends of religion, morality, and useful knowledge, Account of the life and character of Mr. John Pierce, Letter from Dr. Fothergill to a friend in Massachusetts.
Manufactures. Address to the friends of American manufactures, Account of the cotton mills in Great-Britain, Circular letter from the tradesmen, &c. of Boston.
Rural Concerns. On the advantage of raising hemp, Receipt for making maple sugar, —maple molasses, —maple beer, —maple wine, —maple vinegar, Cure for the measles in swine.
Philosophical Papers. Letter on the southern and northern lights, On the attraction towards the magnetic points, Conjectures concerning the causes of such attractions.
On Instructing Representatives. Thoughts on the constitution of Maryland, Address of Samuel Chase, Esq.
Rhode-Island. Address to the citizens of Rhode-Island, Address to the Rhode-Island friends of paper money, tender acts, and anti-federalism.
Humour. Some thoughts on the diseases of the mind, Extract from a memoir to the American philosophical society, Balloons not a modern invention.
Federal Constitution. Fabius's IVth letter, —Vth letter, Remarks on the new constitution.
Revolutional Paper. Letter II. from a farmer in Pennsylvania.
Poetry. Poem written in Boston, The incantation, The American militia, The complaint of Calcarilla, The bulls and the lion, Horace, lib. 1. ode xxii. imitated, Eliza ode, sacred to the memory of gen. Greene.
At a Meeting of the Society, for the Relief of Distressed Debtors, held at the House of Mr. John Simmons, the fourth Day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. [On emergency.] JONATHAN LAWRANCE, Esquire, President for the Evening.
THE Committee of Visitation reporting, that from the great Number of Persons relieved, the Funds of the Society were totally exhausted. That there were several distressed Debtors in Prison, who had no other Subsistence, but what was derived from this Body; and that without such Aid, they must want the common Necessaries of Life. And the said Committee farther reporting, that it would be necessary for the Society, to procure a quantity of Fire-Wood for the Benefit of the Prisoners the ensuing Winter; and that, were the Means in the Power of the Society, the same might be purchased at present, at a very low Rate: whereupon, on Motion, it is unanimously voted, that the Clergy in this City, be earnestly requested, to preach Charity Sermons in their respective Churches, for promoting the important and benevolent Purposes of the Society. And that Doctor Rogers, Mr. Linn, Mr. Beach, and Dr. Kunze be a Committee for making the necessary Arrangements to carry the same into Effect.
Published by order of the Society. 65—t.f. W. COCK, Secretary.
This Day was Published, And to be SOLD by the PRINTER hereof, &c. A COMPENDIUM
OF Christian Theology, By JOHN FREDERICK OSTERWALD, A celebrated Divine of Switzerland. Newly translated into English, from the Original LATIN. By the Rev. JOHN McMains. SUBSCRIBERS are requested to call for their BOOKS.
By Order of the Honorable Paul Micheau, Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Richmond and State of New-York: NOTICE is hereby given to Richard Christopher, of Nova-Scotia, in the province of New-Brunswick, an absent and non resident debtor, and to all others whom it may concern, that upon application and due proof made to the said judge (pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786) by John Christopher, a creditor of the said Richard Christopher, he the said judge has directed all the said Richard Christopher's estate, real and personal, within said county to be seized; and that unless he shall discharge his debts within one year after the publication of this notice, all his estate, real, and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated this 10th day of Sept. 1788. 66—
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street,
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE Latin Grammar,
EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners, with rules and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics.
By JAMES HARDIE, A. B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
WE, the PRESIDENT and PROFESSORS of COLUMBIA COLLEGE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, that we have examined a new publication, entitled "The Principles of the Latin Grammar explained, &c." by JAMES HARDIE, and that we find it an accurate and judicious compilation, well calculated for the instruction of youth in the rudiments of the Latin language; and such as may be useful even to those who have made considerable progress therein. We therefore recommend it to all who are intrusted with the care of education, and particularly to the teachers in the different schools of this state.
W. SAMUEL JOHNSON, President, WILLIAM COCHRAN, Professor of Lang. JOHN DANIEL GROB, Professor of (Moral Philosophy and Geography), JOHN KEMP, Professor of Mathematics and (Natural Philosophy).
For the CONVENIENCE of MERCHANTS, Just Published, And to be sold at this Printing-Office, A CATALOGUE of those ARTICLES of MERCHANDIZE on which DUTIES were imposed by late acts of the legislature of this state, viz. of April 11, 1787, and March 12, 1783; which duties took place on the 1st inst.
In the arranging of this catalogue neither pains nor expense of time has been spared to render it of great utility to the Merchants, by selecting and properly distinguishing the several rates of impositions—upon GOODS imported in vessels built in the United States since April 11, 1787, and not really and bona fide wholly the property of the citizens—imported in foreign vessels—and, in American vessels. This work would require labour, and the most intense study and attention of the best merchant, so nicely to distinguish. It is printed upon a large substantial sheet of paper, with the several kinds of duties in distinct columns, in such a manner that they can be readily consulted when passed up in a Counting-house.
As a small number of this kind of work fell, in general, the sale being confined to merchants, 2s/6d. each was at first demanded; but, finding no one chose to purchase at that rate, the Printer has (least he should sink his whole labour and expence) fixed the price at One Shilling only.
N. B. A few of the supplements of the act, passed the 12th of March, to be sold at this office.
All kinds of Public & State Certificates
BOUGHT and SOLD, At No. 27, WATER-STREET, And every kind of PAPER MONEY, exchanged for SPECIE and re-exchanged: Also on Hand FOR SALE,
A LARGE Sum in Bancker's, Barber's, and Loan Office Certificates of this State, such as will purchase Lands at the Commissioner's sale, and pay Quit-Rents—Likewise, Final Settlements of this State; any, or all of which will be exchanged for Common Final Settlements, Loan-Office, or Pickering's Notes, and indents at a small difference.
Just Published, At Thomas Greenleaf's Printing-Office, No. 25, Water Street. A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States;

MISCELLANY.
CENTINEL, No. XXIV.
To the PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
THIS number was appropriated to the investigation of that article of the last report of a committee of Congress, which informs of a deficiency of nineteen millions of livres specie, in the monies entrusted to our commissioners in France, the principal of whom was the honorable Benjamin Franklin, the sanction of whose name has given such weight and success to the new constitution; but I shall be obliged to postpone the discussion of this subject in order to notice Mr. Morris's answer, published this morning, to my last number.
Mr. Morris, presuming upon the strength and continuance of those prejudices which his ingenuity and address had so successfully raised, and which for many years had blinded the public to his real principles and conduct, and enabled him to prosecute his schemes of profit and aggrandizement to an immense extent, without detection or jealousy; has now the effrontery to treat the serious, well-founded charges of the Centinel, and a report of a committee of Congress, with supercilious contempt, and to suppose that his unsupported assertions in a matter where he is so deeply interested, will be implicitly believed by that public, whose property, to the amount of millions, he was entrusted with above eleven years ago, and for which he has not yet accounted.
Mr. Morris says, "On the repeated slanders of my enemies, so far as they can effect myself, I look down with silent contempt; but as I have been lately honored with a high trust in the federal government, and as an attempt is made to wound the federal cause by attacks on my reputation and the conduct of those who appointed me to a seat in the senate, my attachment to that cause, and my respect for my fellow-citizens, lead me to inform them, that I have lately been at New-York for the purpose of bringing forward a settlement of my accounts with the United States, and they are now in a train of investigation; and that I shall do every thing in my power to obtain a final settlement of them before the meeting of Congress under the new constitution."
Is it slander to call upon a public officer to account for the disposition of millions of public money entrusted to him above eleven years ago? Or is it slander to denounce such a man a public defaulter? Can any reasonable or honest obstacle have so long delayed the settlement of his account, especially when we consider the abilities and accuracy of this man in accounts, and his precevering diligence and assiduity to business? Is it now probable that he really means to render his accounts, when we advert to the unsuccessful exertions of a series of the greatest men in Congress to compel him to account, and who, for more than eleven years, have been baffled in all their virtuous and patriotic attempts by the predominant influence and the machinations of this man and his minions? What have become of the labours of Manheim, where Mr. Morris retired at a gloomy and doubtful crisis of public affairs, under the avowed pretences of preparing those very accounts for settlement? Where is the man besides Mr. Morris, who can thus act and preserve any character or confidence, or who, with so serious and weighty a charge against him, would continue to be preferred to the highest honors and trusts of his country, with the power of screening past delinquencies, and the opportunity of further speculations; or who would be supported and justified by so numerous and powerful a party?
As an instance of Mr. Morris's dangerous influence, and also of his reluctance to have his accounts, even as superintendent of finance, investigated, it may be observed, that the public spirited men in Congress on the 21st of June, 1785, procured, with great difficulty against the strenuous opposition and low subterfuges of Mr. Morris's friends and minions, a resolution of that honorable body to this effect, that three commissioners be appointed to examine the receipts and expenditures of the superintendent of finance; but this resolution was the only consequence of this virtuous effort, for Mr. Morris has been able to prevent any commissioners being appointed in pursuance of this resolution entered into about three years since. It is true that very lately the disinterested part of Congress, strengthened by the attacks made by the Centinel and others upon the great public defaulters, and the consequent clamour of the people, have, against the secret inclination of a majority of Congress obtained resolutions and appointments of officers to compel the public defaulters to account and restore the public monies, but the efficacy of these resolutions and appointments entirely depends on the complexion of the Congress under the new constitution; for if the great public defaulters and their minions be elected, it would be ridiculous to suppose that they would countenance a scrutiny into the conduct of themselves and patrons, Mr. Morris, sensible that if he can carry his creatures, who are proposed as representatives in the new Congress, he may laugh at, and really contemn any future attempts to call him to account, has, therefore, at the eve of the approaching decisive election, promised to settle and account for the immense sums of public money that he received, above eleven years ago, and even assures that he has been at New-York lately on this business and that his accounts are in a train of investigation. But like the Manheim investigation, promised as seriously eight or nine years ago, the present will prove to have no other existence than as the deception of the moment, and this train will be found delusive and without end.
My fellow-citizens, suffer not yourselves to be thus continually imposed on by a man whose whole career in public life has been so marked by delinquencies in money concerns; but make choice of such men to represent you as will secure your liberties and property. And as you are now well acquainted with the principles and views of Mr. Morris, you are enabled to form a proper opinion of Messrs. Fitzsimons, Clymer, &c. who for ten years past have been the devoted instruments and partisans of Mr. Morris and participators in his numerous speculations.
CENTINEL.
Philadelphia, November 22d, 1788.
From the INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER.
Mr. OSWALD, You are requested to transcribe from the Federal Gazette of Wednesday last, the piece signed George Clymer. Perhaps it may be considered, not only as a specimen of that gentleman's superior talents and ability in composition, but as an incontestible proof of his being well qualified to move in the legislative sphere of an extensive continent. PHILO-CENTINEL.
November 27.
"Mr. BROWN THE Centinel says, that I have shared in Mr. Morris's speculations: such speculations might be very innocent, for though Mr. Morris may have calculated well for himself, I have never heard that any of his schemes were of a nature to injure the public; some of them doubtless have had a contrary effect.
"Now it happens that in the whole course of my life I have never had any joint concern, commercial or otherwise, with that gentleman, except in the purchase of some lottery tickets, a few tracts of land in the western country, and in the relief given during the war to the distressed inhabitants of Pownalborough, at the earnest solicitation of the delegates of Massachusetts, without profit, but at every risk of loss.
"Never having intimacy or friendship with any of the persons supposed to conduct that paper, none of them ought to pretend to the least knowledge of my affairs, this charge then rests upon no authority but the audacity of the Centinel, and is a forgery in his usual way, thrown out to take its chance against the federal ticket on the election ground.
"GEORGE CLYMER."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Senate, November 19, 1788.
RESOLVED, That the commonwealth be divided into eight districts for the purpose of choosing eight persons to represent the people thereof in the Congress of the United States, each district to choose one representative, who shall be an inhabitant of such district, and that the districts be as follows, viz.
 The county of Suffolk, be one district.  The county of Essex, one district.  The county of Middlesex, one district.  The counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, one district.  The counties of Plymouth and Barnstable, one district.  The counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln, one district.  The counties of Bristol, Duke's County and Nantucket, one district.  The county of Worcester, one district. 
And be it further resolved, That the selectmen of the respective towns and districts in the several districts before described, shall in manner as the law directs for calling town-meetings, cause the inhabitants thereof, duly qualified to vote for representatives to the general court of this commonwealth, to assemble on Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, to give in their votes, for their respective representatives, to the selectmen, who shall preside at such meeting: and the selectmen or the major part of them, shall in open town-meeting, sort and count the votes, and form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person, against his name, and shall make a public declaration thereof in the said meeting, and shall in the presence of the inhabitants, seal up copies of the said list, and transmit the same to the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, on or before the first Monday of January next: and the clerk of each town and district, shall make and fairly transcribe, in the records thereof, the list aforesaid; and the secretary shall lay the same before his Excellency the Governor and the council. And in case of an election for any district by a majority of all the votes returned, his Excellency the Governor is hereby requested forthwith to transmit to the person so chosen, a certificate thereof. And in case no person shall have a majority of votes, the Governor is hereby requested, to cause precepts to issue, accompanied with a certificate of the names of the two persons who had the greatest number of votes in the first return, to the selectmen of the several towns and districts within the district for which no person shall have been chosen as aforesaid, to assemble the inhabitants of their respective towns and districts, qualified as aforesaid, on a day in such precept to be appointed to give in their votes for a representative, and the like proceedings shall be had thereon, as are therein before directed; and the selectmen shall make return thereof, in manner as aforesaid, to the secretary's office, on or before a day in such precept to be prescribed. And the secretary shall lay the same before the Governor and council; and in case any person shall have a majority as aforesaid, the Governor is requested forthwith to transmit to the person so chosen, a certificate thereof: and in case no person shall have a majority of votes, the Governor is requested to issue like precepts as often as the cause may require.
And be it further resolved, That when the inhabitants of the several towns and districts qualified as aforesaid, shall be assembled on the said 18 day of December next, they shall also give in their votes for two persons, who shall be inhabitants of the district in which such town or district may be, as candidates for an elector of the president and vice-president of the United States; and a list of the votes so given as aforesaid, shall by the selectmen of the several towns and districts, or the major part of them, be transmitted to the secretary's office, on or before the first Monday in January next. And on the Wednesday next following, the general court then in session, shall examine the said returns, and from the two who shall be found to have the greatest number of votes in each district, the members of the two houses, assembled in one room, shall by joint ballot elect one who shall be the elector for the district to which he belongs; and in case it should so happen, that more than two persons voted for as electors, should have an equality of votes among the highest voted for, then the members of the two houses as aforesaid, shall out of such number choose the elector. And if in any case the aforesaid returns from a district, shall not be received at the secretary's office, on or before the first Monday in January next, the members of the two houses of the legislature shall, on the first Wednesday of January next, appoint some person, being an inhabitant of such district, or an elector of the president and vice-president.
And be it further resolved, That the members of the two houses of the general court, shall in
manner as aforesaid, appoint at large, two electors for the president, not voted for by the districts as aforesaid.
And be it further resolved, That the said electors be, and they are hereby directed, to meet on the first Wednesday of February next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the State-House in Boston, for the purpose of voting by ballot, for two persons, for president and vice-president of the United States, agreeably to the constitution of the said United States: and that for their travel and attendance, they shall receive the same compensation as members of the senate are entitled to.
Sent down for concurrence.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, jun. president.
In the house of representatives, Nov. 20 1788.
Read and concurred.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, speaker,
Approved, JOHN HANCOCK.
A true copy—attest, JOHN AVERY, jun. secretary.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
Extract from the journal of the house of delegates, of October 30, 1788.
WHEREAS the convention of delegates of the people of this commonwealth, did ratify a constitution or form of government for the United States, referred to them for their consideration, and did also declare, that sundry amendments to exceptional parts of the same ought to be adopted; And whereas the subject matter of the amendments agreed to by the said convention, involves all the great essential and unalienable rights, liberties and privileges of freemen; many of which, if not cancelled are rendered insecure under the said constitution, until the same shall be altered and amended.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, That for quieting the minds of the good citizens of this commonwealth, and securing their dearest rights and liberties, and preventing those disorders, which must arise under a government not founded in the confidence of the people, application be made to the Congress of the United States, so soon as they shall assemble under the said constitution, to call a convention for proposing amendments to the same, according to the mode therein directed.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, That a committee ought to be appointed to draw up and report to this house a proper instrument of writing, expressing the sense of the general assembly, and pointing out the reasons which induce them to urge their application thus early for the calling the aforesaid convention of the states.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, That the said committee ought to be instructed to prepare the draft of a letter in answer to one received from his Excellency George Clinton, Esq., president of the convention of New-York, and a circular letter on the aforesaid subject, to the other states in the union, expressive of the wish of the general assembly of this commonwealth, that they may join in an application to the new Congress, to appoint a convention of the states so soon as the Congress shall assemble under the new constitution.
And the said resolutions being severally again read, a motion was made, and the question being put to amend the same, by striking out from the word "Whereas," in the first line to the end, and inserting in lieu thereof, the following words:
"WHEREAS the delegates appointed to represent the good people of this commonwealth in the late convention, held in the month of June last, did, by their act of the 25th of the same month, assent to, and ratify the constitution recommended on the 17th day of September, 1787, by the federal convention for the government of the United States, declaring themselves (with a solemn appeal to the searcher of hearts for the purity of their intentions) under the conviction "that," whatsoever imperfections might exist in the constitution, ought rather to be examined in the mode prescribed therein, than to bring the union into danger by a delay, which a hope of obtaining amendments, previous to the ratification; And whereas in pursuance of the said declaration, the said convention did, by their subsequent act of the 27th of June aforesaid, agree to such amendments to the said constitution of government for the United States, as were by them deemed necessary to be recommended to the consideration of the Congress, which shall first assemble under the said constitution, to be acted upon according to the mode prescribed in the fifth article thereof, at the same time enjoining it upon their representatives in Congress, to exert all their influence and use all reasonable and legal methods, to obtain a ratification of the foregoing alterations, and provisions in the manner provided by the fifth article of the said constitution; and in all congressional laws to be passed in the mean time, to conform to the spirit of those amendments, as far as the said constitution would admit:
"Resolved therefore, That it is the opinion of this committee, That an application ought to be made, in the name and on the behalf of the legislature of this commonwealth, to the Congress of the United States, so soon as they shall assemble under the said constitution, to pass an act recommending to the legislatures of the several states, the ratification of a bill of rights, and of certain articles of amendments proposed by the convention of this state, for the adoption of the United States, and that until the said act shall be raised in pursuance of the fifth article of the said constitution of government of the United States, Congress do confirm their ordinances to the true spirit of the said bill of rights and articles of amendment.
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, That the executive ought to be instructed to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution to the Congress of the United States, so soon as they shall assemble, and to the legislatures and executive authorities of each state in the union."
And then the main question being put that the house do agree with the committee of the whole house, in the said resolutions.
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Foreign Intelligence.
VIENNA, September 8.
WE are assured that the Turks have entered Transylvania in force, are marching towards Cronstadt, driving the Imperial line of troops before them, and are taking such a position as will enable them to avoid a general action, which seems to be more and more their intention.
We have accounts that a detachment of five hundred horse, sent to reconnoitre by General Romanzon, was cut to pieces near Jassy.
DRESDEN, Sept. 26.
A treaty has been proposed between this court and that of Berlin, for forming jointly, in case of fresh troubles in Europe, an army of 100,000 men, whereof each power is to furnish its moiety. This army to be at the disposal of either of the powers, as circumstances may require for their own defence, or to assist their allies. This is a new thing in this part of Europe.
LONDON, October 3.
Letters from Paris, of the 15th inst. say, that advices, dated the 12th, had been received there from Ghent, stating that on the morning of that day upwards of 1500 horse and infantry had marched, with their full complement of arms and baggage, for Oudenarde. The cause ascribed for this sudden and unexpected movement is, an insurrection in several of the villages bordering upon that city, the inhabitants of which are to a man in arms, with a view to resist the levying of certain late taxes, which they seem to think literally imposed upon them. In number the mutineers are said to be not less than 9000 strong.
October 4.
An instance of desperate resolution was given by a person of rank in the Prince of Nassau's fleet. Before the engagement took place between the Turks and Russians, Capt. Von der Osten Sacken, a gentleman of a noble and distinguished family in Livonia, was sent by the Prince of Nassau in a small quick sailing vessel to reconnoitre the Ottoman fleet. The Turkish frigates gave chase to him, and gained fast upon him. When he found he could not escape, he made all his crew, which was not numerous, get into his long-boat, and told them to assure the Prince, in his name, that this vessel should not fall into the hands of the enemy, and that he was resolved to sell his life dearly. He was soon after overtaken by one of the frigates, and boarded: no one being seen upon deck, the Turks were much surprised, and went in great numbers on board the prize, which was laving along side of the frigate. Capt. Von der Osten Sacken set fire to his magazine, and blew himself and all the Turks into the air. The frigate was greatly shattered by the explosion, and took fire, so that in a short time it shared the fate of the prize. Some of the hands, who were not destroyed by the blowing up of the prize, jumped overboard when they found their own ship must blow up. These being picked up by a Russian vessel, told all they knew of this dreadful affair.
The Empress having been informed of this action, in which the Captain had devoted himself, made a grant to his father of an estate worth 3000 rubles a year; the father having died very soon after, her Majesty granted the inheritance of the estate to the family: she also presented the brother of the gallant Captain with a cornetcy in her own regiment of horse guards.
October 11.
The King of Prussia has, through the medium of his ambassador at Warsaw, signified to the King and permanent council of Poland, that if the present augmentation of their forces is intended to be employed against the Turks, he shall immediately find himself compelled to oppose such a proceeding.
The King of Spain, old as he is, is again in such recovered health and strength, that he is returned not only to public business, but to his favorite diversion of shooting.
The exportation of corn, prohibited by the French King is in extent indefinite—no day is mentioned for its duration.
By private dispatches from Holland, which arrived late last night, we have the following intelligence:—
Affairs in the North are taking a new turn, and the consequence may be lamentably serious to all Europe. What Holland was last year, Sweden is at present—a state of confusion and rebellion, engendered and supported by the intrigues of the French court, and the prevalence of Russian politics. The Burghers at Stockholm are arming themselves, under the pretence of internal safety in the absence of the troops, but more certainly for the purpose of attempting a revolution. The officers of the army in Finland, independent of their sovereign, sent a deputation to the Empress of Russia, making proposals for a truce in that quarter, until they shall have concerted measures for subjugating their King, or for reducing him to the necessity of abandoning the war, which they alledge was rashly and unjustly commenced on his part. They declare, that the King, by his late measures, has broken the compact between sovereign and subject, and therefore they hold it their duty to concert measures for the safety of the state. When the King of Sweden heard of the disaffection of his troops in Finland, and the propositions of his officers to the Empress for a cessation of hostilities, his Majesty fainted away, and was with difficulty aroused to a sense of his alarmed situation. Thus circumstanced, there is no doubt of the Empress's acquiescence, nor of her endeavors to fan the flames of discord. She has already communicated her terms of pacification with Sweden, the tenor of which is, to grant a general amnesty for what is past; only on condition, however, that the Swedish government shall accede to the general confederacy which has so long been forming between France, Spain, Germany, Russia, and Denmark.
Yesterday orders were sent to Plymouth, for two houses of rendezvous to be immediately opened for the entering seamen into his Majesty's service.
The Captain Pacha, commanding the Swedish fleet, in one of the late engagements with the Russians, having perceived the Captain of one of his largest vessels somewhat dilatory in approaching the enemy, he caused him to be instantly hanged up at the main-yard, where he continued a spectacle to both armies during the contest.
BLANCHARD'S ASCENSION.
On the 27th of September at three o'clock, Blanchard ascended at Berlin, attached to his balloon, in the presence of his Majesty, the Royal Family, and many of the foreign Princes. A building was erected, which encompassed the balloon; but when it was ready to ascend, half of it was pulled down, to give the spectators a better view. Blanchard saluted his Majesty, just as he quitted the earth, with a white flag, on which was displayed the Royal Black Eagle. He went over the river Spree, and very quickly disappeared.

American Occurrences.
BASSATERRE, October 29.
Extract of a letter from St. Eustatius, to a gentleman here, October 22.
By authentic accounts from Martinique we are informed, that Count Damas demanded a free gift of the council, of two millions livres for the use of government: that body being composed of planters, laid it entirely on the commercial people, whom they selected in different classes; the first, consisting of four, to pay 25 Joes each, the second, of which there was a large number, 20 Joes each; and the most inconsiderable shop-keepers, at 10 Joes each. Every store was shut up; but 300 men with fixed bayonets brought them to reason, and the free gift was paid at the point of the bayonet."—This is a law maius past justice!
PHILADELPHIA, November 29.
We are authorised to assure the public, that since the publication of the Centinel, in which general Mifflin's name was mentioned as a public defaulter, his accounts have been examined, settled, and entered in the treasury books at New-York.
That the accounts of his deputy, Mr. Anthony Butler, through whose hands the principal part of the money passed, have been also examined, settled, and entered as above.
Any person who wishes for particular information on the subject, may obtain it from Jonathan Burrall, Esq. commissioner of accounts at New-York.
New-York, December 11.
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS.
The public are cautioned to beware of counterfeit Spanish milled Dollars of the year 1786, they are so well executed that it requires attention to distinguish them. On being thrown on a table they found rather sharper than the good ones—they have not the least appearance of being counterfeit, except you rub them on a smooth board, and then with a wet finger go over the place so rubbed, when they look a little brassy—on being cut with a knife, or engraver, they appear like silver, and will bear considerable hammering before they crack.
The exportation of RUM and SPIRITS from the British West-India islands to the United States of North America, is prohibited by a late order from the British government; a vessel that was loaded with RUM about the latter end of September last, bound to this port, was obliged to return.
We learn that the inhabitants of Charlestown (Massachusetts) at a late Parish meeting, unanimously agreed to invite to the pastoral charge of them, the Rev. Jedediah Morse.
From Philadelphia we learn that the managers of the Theatre, have been prosecuted for performing on the stage in violation of the law.
Governor Nugent, of the British island of St. Christopher's has given permission for the free importation of lumber into that island, from the United States, until the 8th inst.
A few days ago, a curious and uncommon BIRD was killed at Saratoga, and sent, as a rarity, to Albany. The distance from the tip of one wing to the other, when both were extended, was nine feet and two inches; the mouth was large enough to contain, with ease, the head of a boy of ten years of age, and the throat so capacious as to admit the foot or leg of a man, boot and all. Doubts were entertained, at first, what it was, but it is now decided to be the large Pelican of the sea coast; as, upon examination, we are told (by Dr. Mitchell) that it agrees to the character of the Pelicanus Aquilus of Linnaeus, and the Onocrotalus of Brisson.
Lately was killed by Mr. Robert Haswell, of the Norman's-Kill (six miles west of Albany) a Mad Wolf. It had twice entered the barn-yard of Mr. Haswell, and bit a valuable mare of his, which is since dead, and committed much mischief in that settlement and its vicinity.
A letter from Fort Harmar, of Nov. 3, says:— "The treaty at last is in a fair way to commence, unexpectedly too.—I believe, the Indians have been so very long in holding council among themselves, but they are now coming in.—We have the governor, commissioners, and Captain Hutchinson with us."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Bermuda, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated 3d of November, 1788.
"We have a change of governors, our former one is called home on business so important, that he has taken his passage at this season of the year. Our late one has orders to garrison the island, in the strongest manner possible, not one place is omitted a fortification that is any ways necessary, but for what reason I cannot tell. We have a great quantity of military stores lately arrived, and a greater supply expected, with a number of troops, and three guard ships of 40 guns each."
The following is assigned at the real object of the naval preparations of Spain. A private letter from Algiers says, that the Emperor of Morocco is preparing to attack the Dey with all his land forces, and that he is to be assisted by a Spanish and a French Squadron. The latter was met by some merchantmen, sailing up the Mediterranean, to the number of fifteen ships of war, two or three being of the line, and the rest frigates.
The Spaniards, who have been long goaded by the Algerines, and have several times attempted to exterminate them, have probably judged the present a favorable occasion, the grand signior not being in a condition to succour his vassals.
A letter from a gentleman in London, dated August 27, says:— "The Americans have surprised the world more in adopting the new government than in any of their former achievements, the true Britons are severely mortified; the mercantile interest are well enough pleased; and the patriots in France as well as Holland sincerely rejoice with us. The American character is much higher now than it was two years ago."
POST-OFFICE, Philadelphia, 5th Dec. 1788.
** This is to inform the Merchants and others, that the Southern Mail supposed to have been robbed on the 22d of November, between Wilmington and E. Kent, was found in the woods near the place, unopened—And upon examination it appears that there is nothing lost.
The general court of Massachusetts, is prorogued, to the last day of this month.
Next Sabbath afternoon, there will be a CHARTER SERMON preached in the Brick Church, and a collection made for the benefit of the Poor.
SHIP NEWS.
On the 23d ult. arrived at New-Castle (in the Delaware) with passengers from Londonderry, after a passage of eight weeks, the brig Cunningham, Robert Cunningham, master.
Capt. M'Neal, in the sloop United States, has arrived here in 4 days from Wilmington (N. C.) but brings no papers.
The sloop Rover, Capt. Jackson, is safe arrived at Martinico.
The Sincerity, Capt. White, from this place to Baltimore, met with a great deal of bad weather and damaged her cargo.
The Schooner Lady, Dorchester, Capt. Donnel, from Jamaiaca, is lost near Ocracoke, in North Carolina.
Two large ships are fitting at Providence for the India trade.
ARRIVED —Usher, Newcastle; Tinker, Newburn; Zeni, New Orleans; Cunningham, Londonderry; Whitefield, Alexandria; Moirill, Carthagene; Eliot, Charlestown; M'Neal, Wilmington (N. C.)
FOR THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN, No. 2.
WHEN men divide in sentiments on a political question, it frequently happens that they really pursue the same end by different means, or (if this is not the case) that they possess to have the same object in view, though they follow different courses to attain it. In the first case the two opposing parties will ultimately unite when they come to understand each others views and designs, unless in the progress of the controversy passion gains the ascendancy of reason, or an attachment to a party supplies the place of a regard to the public good. In the latter case it generally falls out that the possessions of one party, or possibly of both, appear to have been adopted merely as a blind to conceal their real designs—When a favorite point is gained the clock is cast off, and their true end is avowed.
Men of integrity, and who act from principle, ought to be on their guard, to take care that they do not suffer themselves to be seduced by party spirit in the room of a regard for the public good—It is extremely natural for mankind to wish to gain victory to the party to which they unite—Men may, and often do, take a side from a conviction that it is right; they advocate a cause in the first instance, because they are convinced truth and the public good is on its side—But it is not uncommon, that when parties run high, in the course of the controversy, they abandon the principles upon which they set out, and adhere to their party in the pursuit of measures which they reprobated as much as their opponents. What serves as a mean to promote this is, that in almost all parties, there are individuals, and frequently the leaders of the party who have in view something different from what they profess—They pretend one thing, but aim at another—They commence with fair and plausible professions, and under these form their party. In the course of the contests the passions of their adherents get inflamed prejudices are excited, and taking advantage of these, they carry their party with them to an object, which at first a great part with them would have rejected as much as their opponents.—The truth of these remarks might be confirmed by instances adduced from the history of the greatest revolutions that have happened in the world—The annals of the English history record a notable one in the case of Cromwell. No period of the world produced men of greater abilities, or more disinterested patriots than those who were concerned in effecting that revolution. Charles the first was a tyrant—The opposition made to him was justifiable upon every principle of justice and right reason. It was right to deprive him of that sovereign power, which he received to exercise for the benefit of the people, but which he employed for his own interest and their injury—But the leaders who were concerned in effecting this, after accomplishing it by the power of the people, instead of establishing a free government, partly by force, and partly by fraud, they set up one more tyrannical than that from which they had been delivered. It cannot be doubted, but that Cromwell, and a number of others who were attached to him, were influenced by as bad principles as those of Charles—they were enemies to equal liberty, though they did not like Charles for a master and a tyrant, they sought to be masters and tyrants themselves. Many very honest men were either seduced to favor his scheme, persuaded to acquiesce in it, or deterred from fear of his power from opposing it.
The present condition of our own country, ought to excite our apprehensions, and let us upon our guard, lest similar events should take place among us—No revolution ever took place, that could more truly be said to be for the people, than the one which we have seen in this country—Power was in great measure opposed to it through the whole union.—It originated in the purest whig principles—was supported on the broad basis of the equal rights of mankind—and the form of government which were agreed to, recognized these principles, and the administration has moved upon them. In the progress of the general government, it has appeared to the conviction of almost every man, that the powers under the confederation were not adequate to the management of the general concerns of the union. A very general concurrence of sentiment therefore took place to revise the system—For this purpose a convention of the states by their delegates assembled, and the result of their deliberations was not merely an extension of the powers, but a change of the form of government, this has been submitted to all the states, and acceded to by eleven of them. The officers are now choosing, and the system will soon be in operation. An entire revolution is about taking place without war or bloodshed. In the discussion of this great question there has been a great division of sentiments with regard to the merits of the plan proposed—It has been urged by those who were opposed to it, that the great principles of the revolution has been two little attended to in its formation—that it embraces objects not necessary to be committed to the care of a general government—that sufficient checks are not placed in it to restrain the rulers from an abuse of power—that it will
annihilate the state governments on whom we must depend for the preservation of our liberties; and, that it will operate to deprive the people of those rights, which they have so dearly earned—On the other side, it has been said, that these apprehensions are imaginary—that although there are imperfections in the plan, yet, on the whole, it is a well balanced government, and that sufficient security is afforded against every abuse by committing the power of electing their rulers to the people. To this it is replied, that very little safety will be derived from the right of the people to elect—For that this power will be rather nominal than real—that the number of representatives will be so small, and so great a number concerned in chusing them, that the influence of a few will always predominate.—It is not my design to investigate this subject, as to repeat all that has been said upon it—It is not necessary for my purpose—It has been the general opinion in this state, of both parties, if we may judge from their professions that there are defects in the plan—the same sentiment has prevailed throughout the union. And hence it is, that the most prevailing arguments that the advocates for the system have used, have been drawn, not from its merits, but from the expediency of adopting it, considering the critical situation in which the country was. The language has been, if we must have a government adopt this, and we will cordially unite in making amendments. No inducement whatever would have prevailed upon the convention of this state to have ratified the constitution, had they not had confidence that a general union would have prevailed to submit it to the revision of another general convention. It is manifest from the proceedings of the conventions of many of the other states, that the same motives influenced them. In our own state, almost every sober thinking man declared, without reserve, their wishes to have the system revised—But what is the present language of many of the leading men who advocated the adoption of the constitution. Do they now urge the necessity and propriety of another convention? Nothing is further from their present pursuit. They now lay, it is wise and proper to give the government a trial. The goodness or badness of the scheme will be proved from experiment—If it should prove defective on a trial of ten or twenty years, then we shall be better able to amend it—But if it be true that the liberties of the people are not well secured under it, in twenty years it may, and probably will be too late to secure them. What are we to think of men who hold this language after they have pledged themselves to unite in procuring another convention? Can we refrain from suspecting that they are unfriendly to equal liberty, that they have in view a system of government which they dare not avow, and which they mean to fix over the people of this country by insinuable degrees, and without their perceiving it until it is accomplished? It is time for every disinterested man and real friend to his country to open his eyes, and act with decision.
All who were sincere in declaring that they wished for a re-consideration and amendments to the system will do so, and will give their voices decidedly in favor of such men to represent them as will firmly pursue the plan recommended by the convention of this state. A variety of unanswerable arguments, beside the defects in the constitution itself, point this out as the wise, prudent, and patriotic line of conduct which ought to be pursued.
A FEDERAL REPUBLICAN.
From the NEW-YORK PACKET.
SIR, COL. UDNEY HAY having lost most of his vouchers in support of his charges against the state, as state agent, in a fire which consumed his dwelling house in March, 1783—and the propriety and integrity of his transactions in that office being thereby rendered liable to suspicion: in justice to the public (who ought as far as possible to be acquainted with the conduct of all their servants) as well as to that gentleman, I request you to publish the following extract from a certificate given by the gentlemen appointed by the legislature to assist me in the settlement of Mr. Hay's accounts, the sentiments contained therein meeting my hearty concurrence. PETER T. CORTENUS, State Auditor.
Mr. PRINTER,
WE do farther certify, that during a long and most accurate investigation made by us at sundry times into Mr. Hay's accounts and conduct while in the service of the state, he gave unequivocal proofs of his candour and uprightness, by his ready answers to every question we asked relative to any part of his business, exhibited convincing evidences of his integrity, activity, and affiduity as an officer of the state, and fully proved to our satisfaction, that by an intermixture of zeal and prudence in the management of various matters committed to his charge by the legislature, the state has reaped very consequential advantages."
W. DENNING, HENRY REMSEN, COMFORT SANDS,
New-York, November 21, 1788.
Several pieces, articles of intelligence, &c. omitted for want of room.
A PUBLIC AUCTION AND COMMISSION STORE
IS OPENED By MARINUS WILLETT, No. 36, Water-Street,
FOR the reception of GOODS to be disposed of on commission, at Public or Private SALE. Money advanced, previous to the sale, if required. The excellency of the situation, and his extensive acquaintance with country merchants and traders, induces him to flatter himself, that his sales will be advantageous to those who please to favor him with their commands.
To be disposed of at PRIVATE SALE, 20 Puncheons Antigua Rum, 40 Do. St. Croix do. 20 Do. Barbadoes do. New-York Rum, of the first quality, at all times. New-York, Oct. 1, 1788. 68 t.f.
At a quarterly meeting of the society for the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have or may be liberated, held at the Coffee-House, on Thursday evening, the 20th of November, 1788.
ON MOTION, Resolved unanimously, That the members of this society will not encourage any Vendue Master who shall sell any Slave or Slaves at Public Sale hereafter, but will give their business only to such as shall uniformly refrain from a practice so disgraceful and so shocking to humanity.
Resolved, That the secretary cause the above to be published in the Newspapers of this city.
True Copy from the minutes,
JOHN KEESE, Secretary.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the tenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Jacob Everson, surviving executor of the last will and testament of Nicholas Everson, late of South-Amboy, in the county of Middlesex, and state of East New-Jersey, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth that the said Nicholas Everson was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, within this state, that the petitioner hath made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Nicholas Everson as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Nicholas Everson, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Nicholas Everson, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates at the probate office, in the city of New-York, on the fifth day of February next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Nicholas Everson died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
78 4w. PETER OGILVIE.
New Line of STAGES, (Owned by Cumming and Ward, at Powles-Hook, and Michael Dennison, at the George Inn, Philadelphia)
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their stages leave Powles Hook every afternoon at 3 o'clock, (Saturdays excepted) and proceed from thence to Elizabeth Town that evening, by the way of Newark, from whence they start for Philadelphia at 3 o'clock the following morning, and proceed to Philadelphia in one day as long as the weather and roads will permit, after which they will perform the journey in two days.
The fare for passengers from Powles Hook to Philadelphia is Four Spanish Milled Dollars, and for way passengers Four Pence a mile, fourteen pound weight of baggage will be allowed every passenger free, and 150 weight of baggage will be the same as the fare of a passenger.—Paper money will be received at the current exchange. The morning stage will be omitted at present—The stage will start from Philadelphia every morning at 3 o'clock (Sunday excepted.)
JOHN CUMMING, MATHIA WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON.
New-York, Dec. 10, 1788. 78 t.f.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the City of New-York, on the third Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Hophri Smith, executor of the last will and testament of David Smith, late of Smith's Clove, in Orange county, deceased, hath, by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth that the said David Smith, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said David Smith, as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said David Smith, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said David Smith, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the twenty-sixth day of January next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said David Smith, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
77 7w. PETER OGILVIE.

POET'S CORNER.
THE GROG DRINKER. GOOD GOD! Is this my ancient friend I cry'd? He hung his head, roll'd up his eyes and sigh'd. How alter'd from the man that once I know, To whims of fashion, like the needle, true. Pride of the gay, and leader of the ton, The soul of pleasure's circle long he shone; 'Till draughts insidious from the sparkling bowl, Destr oy'd the finer feelings of his soul! By slow, but sure degrees, the poison spread, Casio'd the man, and left the beast instead— Ah! had you seen him in his shabby dress, You would have felt what language can't express, Slipshod, in shoes, both destitute of soles, And coat dust coloured stockings, full of holes; A pair of greasy breeches—knees quite bare— With scarce a button medley to spare; An old black rusty waistcoat, and his shirt, Was, what remain'd, a perfect patch of dirt; His coat—which his great grand sire wore when young, In rags and tatters on his shoulders hung. Upon his head, a rusty felt he wore, Which his short matted locks, scarce cover'd o'er. These form'd the wardrobe of my once gay friend These are the fruits which love of Grog attend; Nay worse than these, for reason thus dethron'd, Such wretches are by all mankind disown'd; Disease and infamy their woes increase, 'Till death, in pity, gives them a release.
DROLLERY.
A N Irishman enquiring for one he wanted, at the place of his lodgings, was told by the landlady below, that if he went up two pair of stairs backward he would find him. Teague, mistaking the woman, imagined the word backward, by which he meant the situation of the room, denoted the manner in which he was to go to it; and accordingly thither he mounted, with his back-side foremost, cursing his friend bitterly when he had laboured to the top, for living in a place that could not become at without a man's taking such a plaguy deal of pains, and turning his face behind him.
ANECDOTE.
A FAMILY lately advertised for a Wet Nurse. Among various young women who offered themselves for the place, was an innocent girl, who appeared to be about sixteen years of age. Struck with her youth and simple appearance, the lady expressed much astonishment that she should be qualified for a wet nurse's place. "Madam (said the girl) I never was a Wet Nurse yet, but I think I could soon learn to be one."
To the Editor of the General Evening Post.
SIR, LOOKING over the Samson Aconites of Milton, this morning, for a particular passage, I was intensely detained by the following lines relating to his undutiful wife:—
"But who is this? What thing of sea or land? Female of sex, it seems, That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Come this way sailing, Like a stately ship, With all her bray'ry on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers flying, Courted by all the winds that hold them play." The repetition of these lines gave birth to the subsequent list of certain characters in the female world, which I have taken the liberty to dress in the naval file.    The love-sick melting maiden,  A tender,    The rude romping hoyden,  A buss, or A crack.    The severe fairish,  A cutter.    The gay coquette,  A cock boat.    The painted lady,  A pink.    The frigid old maid,  A show.    The black beauty,  A collyer.    The woman of easy virtue,  A pleasure barge.    The solitary unsocial fair one,  A canoe.    The Wapping landlady,  A hulk.    The abandoned prostitute.  A fire ship.    If any of your numerous correspondents can make additions to this list in the same line, I hope they will communicate them to the public through the channel of your paper.
I am, Sir, yours, &c. KIT CRUISER.
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