The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-02-27 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 47, of VOL. XLIII.]
WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2228.]
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, a d type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
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III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
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 very 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 his 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, variegated 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 hillown. 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, caves, &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, Esq., 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 Austin, 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.
Remainin on Hand, And TO BE SOLD,
At this Printing-Office,
No. 25, Water-Street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq.
Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. Some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten bushels of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here.
New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 c.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market, erry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yard.
Just published by M. CARY, 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 JANUARY, 1788.
CONTAINING, Miscellanies.
ORATION in commemoration of American Independence.
Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw's.
New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap,
Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.
Method of making steel.
Letter on marriage,
Antifederal arguments,
Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee.
Salire,
On musical pretenders,
Recipe for an insolvent debtor,
Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural Concerns.
Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.
Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland,
Thoughts on the culture of hemp,
Method of breaking fleers to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of silk.
Law Information,
Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,
Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand.
State and other Public papers.
Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Trumbull,
Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,
Letter to governor Randolph,
Letter from do.
Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,
Address of the grand jury of Edenton,
Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county
Report of the deputies of Northampton county,
Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston,
Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,
Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,
Answer to the preceding notice.
Natural History.
Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Account of a motley coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,
Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opoponax.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the fore throat distemper,
Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi.
Select Poetry.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.
Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady,
A riddle.
Foreign Intelligence, American do.
TO BE SOLD
For JERSEY MONEY at full Value,
Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or
bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS,
At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Wood ridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town.
New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of this Powder will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons.
New-York, Sept. 18, 1787. 39—c.d.

Mr. MARTIN's Speech to the Assembly of Maryland.
[Continued from Yesterday's paper.]
WE then proposed to have the power inserted in express words, lest disputes hereafter might arise on the subject, and that the meaning might be understood by all who were to be affected by it: but to this it was objected, because it was said that the word stamp would probably sound odiously in the ears of many of the inhabitants and be a cause of objection. By the power of imposing stamp duties the Congress will have a right to declare that no wills, deeds, or other instruments of writing, shall be good and valid, without being stamped; that without being reduced to writing and being stamped, no bargain, sale, transfer of property, or contract of any kind or nature whatsoever shall be binding; and also that no exemplifications of records, depositions, or probates of any kind shall be received in evidence, unless they have the same stamped; they may likewise oblige all proceedings of a judicial nature to be stamped to give them effect; those stamp duties may be imposed to any amount they please and under the pretence of securing the collection of these duties, and to prevent the laws which imposed them from being evaded, the Congress may bring the decision of all questions relating to the conveyance, disposition and rights of property, & every question relating to contracts between man & man into the courts of the general government. Their inferior courts in the first instance, and the superior court by appeal. By the power to lay and collect imposts, they may impose duties on any or every article of commerce imported into these states to what amount they please. By the power to lay excises, a power very odious in its nature, since it authorises officers to go into your houses, your kitchens, your cellars, and to examine into your private concerns, the Congress may impose duties on every article of use or consumption, or the food that we eat, on the liquors we drink, on the clothes we wear, on the glass which enlighten our houses, or the hearths necessary for our warmth and comfort. By the power to lay and collect taxes, they may proceed to direct taxation on every individual either by a capitation tax on their heads, or an assessment on their property. By this part of the section therefore, the government has a power to lay what duties they please on goods imported, to lay what duties they please afterwards on whatever we use or consume, to impose stamp duties to what amount they please, and in whatever cases they please, afterwards to impose on the people direct taxes, by capitation tax, or by assessment to what amount they please, and thus to squeeze them at every vein as long as they have a drop of blood, without any controul, limitation, or restraint, while all the officers for collecting these taxes, stamp duties, imposts and excises, are to be appointed by the general government, under its direction, not accountable to the states; nor is there even a security that they shall be citizens of the respective states, in which they are to exercise their offices; at the same time the construction of every law imposing any and all these taxes and duties, and directing the collection of them, and every question arising thereon, and on the conduct of the officers appointed to execute these
laws, and to collect these taxes and duties so various in their kinds, are taken away from the courts of justice, of the different states, and confined to the courts of the general government, there to be heard and determined by judges holding their offices under the appointment, not of the state, but of the general government.
Many of the members, and myself in the number, thought that the states were much better judges of the circumstances of their citizens, and what sum of money could be collected from them by direct taxation, and of the manner in which it could be raised, with the greatest ease and convenience to their citizens, than the general government could be; and that the gen. government ought not in any case to have the power of laying direct taxes, but in that of the delinquency of a state. Agreeable to this sentiment, I brought in a proposition on which a vote of the convention was taken. The proposition was as follows: "And wherever the legislature of the United States shall find it necessary that revenue should be raised by direct taxation, having apportioned the same by the above rule, requisitions shall be made of the respective states to pay into the continental treasury their respective quotas within a time in the said requisition to be specified, and in case of any of the states failing to comply with such requisition, then and then only, to have power to devise and pass acts directing the mode and authorising the collection of the same." Had this proposition been acceded to, the dangerous and oppressive power in the general government of imposing direct taxes on the inhabitants, which it now enjoys in all cases, would have been only vested in it in case of the non-compliance of a state, as a punishment for its delinquency, and would have ceased that moment that the state complied with the requisition. But the proposition was rejected by a majority, consistent with their aim and desire of increasing the power of the general government as far as possible, and destroying the powers and influence of the states; and though there is a provision that all duties imposts, and excises shall be uniform, that is, to be laid to the same amount on the same articles in each state, yet this will not prevent Congress from having it in their power to cause them to fall very unequal and much heavier on some states than on others, because these duties may be laid on articles but little or not at all used in some states, and of absolute necessity for the use and consumption of others, in which case the first would pay little or no part of the revenue arising therefrom, while the whole or nearly the whole of it would be paid by the last, to wit, the states which use and consume the articles on which the imposts and excises are laid.
By our original articles of confederation, the Congress have a power to borrow money and emit bills of credit on the credit of the United States; agreeable to which was the report on this system as made by the committee of detail. When we came to this part of the report a motion was made to strike out the words "to emit bills of credit;" again the motion we urged, that it would be improper to deprive the Congress of that power; that it would be a novelty unprecedented to establish a government which should not have such authority; that it was impossible to look forward into futurity so far as to decide that events might not happen that should render the exercise of
such a power absolutely necessary; and that we doubted whether if a war should take place it would be possible for this country to defend itself without having recourse to paper credit, in which case there would be a necessity of becoming a prey to our enemies, or violating the constitution of our government; and that considering the administration of the government would be principally in the hands of the wealthy there could be little reason to fear an abuse of the power by an unnecessary or injurious exercise of it. But, sir, a majority of the convention, being wise beyond every possible event, and being willing to risk any political evil rather than admit the idea of a paper emission, in any possible event, refused to trust this authority to a government, to which they were lavishing the most unlimited powers of taxation, and to the mercy of which they were willing blindly to trust the liberty and prosperity of the citizens of every state in the union; and they erased that clause from the system. Among other powers given to this government in the eighth sect. it has that of appointing tribunals inferior to the supreme court; to this power there was an opposition. It was urged that there was no occasion for inferior courts of the general government to be appointed in the different states, and that such ought not to be admitted; that the different state judiciaries in the respective states would be competent to, and sufficient for, the cognizance in the first instance of all cases that should arise under the laws of the general government, which being by this system made the supreme law of the states, would be binding on the different state judiciaries; that by giving an appeal to the supreme court of the United States, the general government would have a sufficient check over their decisions, and security for the enforcing of their laws: that to have inferior courts appointed under the authority of Congress in the different states would eventually absorb and swallow up the state judiciaries, by drawing all business from them to the courts of the general government, which the extensive and undefined powers, legislative and judicial, of which it is possessed, would easily enable it to do; that it would unduly and dangerously increase the weight and influence of Congress in the several states, be productive of a prodigious number of officers, and be attended with an enormous additional and unnecessary expence; that the judiciaries of the respective states not having power to decide upon the laws of the general government, but the determination of the laws being confined to the judiciaries appointed under the authority of Congress in the first instance, as well as on appeal, here would be a necessity for judges or magistrates of the general government, and those to a considerable number, in each county of every state; that there would be a necessity for courts to be holden by them in each county and that these courts would stand in need of all their proper offices, such as sheriffs, clerks, and other commissioned, under the authority of the general government; in fine, that the administration of justice, as it will relate to the laws of the general government, would require in each state all the magistrates, courts, officers and expence, which is now found necessary in the respective states for the administration of justice as it relates to the laws of the state governments. But here again we were overruled by
a majority, who assuming it as a principle that the general government and the state government (as long as they should exist) would be at perpetual variance and enmity, and that their interests would constantly be opposed to each other, insisted for that reason that the state judges being citizens of their respective states, and holding their commission under them, ought not, though acting on oath, to be entrusted in the administration of the laws of the general government.
By the eighth sect. of the first art. the Congress have also a power given them to raise and support armies without any limitation as to numbers, and without any restriction in time of peace. Thus, sir, this plan of government, instead of guarding against a standing army, that engine of arbitrary power, which has so often and so successfully been used for the subversion of freedom, has in its formation given it an express and constitutional sanction and hath provided for its introduction; nor could this be prevented. I took the sense of the convention on a proposition, by which the Congress should not have power, in time of peace, to keep embodied more than a certain number of regular troops; that number to be ascertained by what should be considered a respectable peace establishment; this proposition was rejected by a majority, it being their determination that the power of Congress to keep up a standing army, even in peace should only be restrained by their will and pleasure.
This sect. proceeds further to give a power to the Congress to provide for calling forth the militia, to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. As to giving such a power there was no objection; but it was thought by some, that this power ought to be given with certain restrictions; it was thought that not more than a certain part of the militia, of any one state, ought to be obliged to march out of the same, or be employed out of the same, at any one time without the consent of the legislature of such state; this amendment I endeavoured to obtain; but it met with the same fate, which attended almost every attempt to limit the powers given to the general government, and constitutionally to guard against their abuse, it was not adopted. As it now stands, the Congress will have the power if they please, to march the whole militia of Maryland to the remotest part of the union, and keep them in service as long as they think proper, without being in any respect dependent upon the government of Maryland for this unlimited exercise of power over its citizens; all of whom, from the lowest to the greatest, may, during such service be subjected to military law, and tied up and whipped at the halbert like the meanest of slaves.
[To be Continued.]
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. Mr. GREENLEAF is desired to give a place to the following strictures on Mr. Swanwick's poem, printed in his papers of Saturday, Monday and Tuesday last, by AN OLD CUSTOMER.
ABOUT 40 or 45 years ago (being then in Europe) I remember the junior gentlemen about Gray's Inn and Westminster-hall, to have been almost universally employed in laying plans how to clamber into the garrets of the muses in London, at a time when Coke upon Littleton, or some other staunch and venerable author of the long robe, demanded their most serious, as well as by far less hazardous attention, in the more elegant and less elevated apartments of the temple. In our day and country, this same itch of rhyming seems, in many instances, to have transferred itself, with no less inveteracy, into the counting-houses of Philadelphia.
If great merchants, like some great wits, are not, commonly, nearly allied to madness, I am inclined to suspect they cannot be far removed from a certain degree of folly, when they attempt to put off

such productions as the above mentioned poem, upon the public, for fine sense, original matter, and good poetry. Let us, however, briefly review the performance, in the spirit of candour and good humour.
The poem opens upon us, with an earnest wish, that the time may speedily arrive in America, "When arts and manners shall adorn the waste." Who does not perceive that there is a manifest impropriety in any one's wishing for what is actually possessed? To be explicit: the savages on the western boundaries of the United States, have, undoubtedly, at this very moment, both their manners and arts; at least, such as are peculiar to their own tribes; so that this part of the author's wish is fairly anticipated. It is easy to see, however, that he meant to say, elegant or polished manners, and the arts of civilized life. But either of these, when expressed, would have hurt the measure of the line; and it is a standing rule, with some writers of poetry, always to sacrifice the sense to the measure, whenever they happen to come in opposition.
Line 3, 4. "When woods deserted, or where Indians rove, Shall form the poet's, or the statesman's grove." Considering the very dull demand for poets, and the article called poetry, in America, it is really doing the craft too great an honor, to particularize them in the same line with statesmen, none of whom, in our age, are such fools as to trouble themselves with making verses, as was the case with lord Oxford and some others, in the reign of queen Anne. That, indeed, was a fortunate era for writers of poetry; and, by the way, had it not been for their knack of rhyming, I am convinced, Addison never would have risen to be appointed British secretary of state, nor Mat. Prior been sent on an embassy to Paris. As to the two groves, mentioned in the above distich, that of the poet might be the more romantic of the two, and in the summer season would doubtless have several other advantages by no means despicable; but I am nevertheless of opinion, most people would give the preference to that of the statesman, for several solid reasons, and which the discerning reader may easily guess at.
Line 5, 6. When streams that roll'd for years their course along Unknown to fame, to melody or song, Shall flow mellifluous—
In the language of poetry, to be unknown to long is the same thing as being unknown to fame: thus Thomson, in his hymn on the seasons; "Should fate command me to the utmost verge of this green earth, to distant barbarous climes, rivers unknown to long," &c.
So that the above is mere tautology, as well as the mellifluous flow in the next line.
Line 11. "Commerce shall then her numerous fails unfold." That is, by fair construction, "when arts and manners have adorn'd the waste in times to come, then commerce shall her numerous fails unfold." A person wholly unacquainted with the actual state of American commerce, might imagine from hence, that we had not, at this time, a single ship in our ports.
We will, however, do the poet the justice to suppose, that he hereby intends none other than good sound American bottoms; for as to the folding and unfolding (alias furling or unfurling) of British fails, the author will allow, that, all things considered, we have already had enough of it.
Line 13, 14. The foreign emigrant repose once more Upon a civilized, a tranquil shore.
A foreign emigrant presupposes another class of beings called domestic emigrants.
The foreign emigrant, however, is only to find repose amongst us; and this again, it seems, is restricted to such of that description as have already made one voyage to America, and not finding matters to their liking, had packed up their alls, and returned to Europe in disgust.
Line 15, 16, &c. "Where, chang'd the scene from what the bard foretold,
His new abode shall far excel the old; There no tornadoes shall his rest invade Nor makes insidious lurk within the shade."
An invitation to industrious foreigners to come over and settle amongst us, by suggesting to them the ideas of equitable laws, a vigorous effective government, an extended commerce, and the like, is certainly proper enough; but I am vexed, when I see strangers encouraged to become citizens of the United States, from so childish a motive as that in some future time, nobody knows when, there will be little or no danger of themselves being bitten by rattlesnakes and alligators, or of their houses being torn to pieces by whirlwinds and thunder gulls. A great compliment is paid in the above lines to Dr. Goldsmith (as being a foreigner) who in his deserted village, most feelingly laments the miseries to which the British emigrants to Georgia, would be exposed from serpents and whirlwinds, upon their arrival at the banks of the Altamahaw. There is another enemy, however, to be found in the climate of Georgia, which ought to have been enumerated. I am fully of a certain author's opinion, that in the common course of things, laziness will at all times do more real mischief in these parts, than any other of the reptiles Mr. Swanwick or Goldsmith have mentioned. We would advise the Europeans, nevertheless, to be cautious how they come over (upon the prospects held forth in this poem) to settle themselves and families in America, under the delusive idea, either that there are or will be no snakes amongst us. They may rely upon it, we shall always have these reptiles in America, at least, till another St. Patrick appears to exercise the country, and rid us of the nuisance. [To be concluded on Friday.]
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Of the State of New-York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, February 12, 1788. [Continued.]
ON motion of Mr. Thompson, the house went into a committee on the bill for granting a bounty on hemp.
Mr. Jones doubted the propriety of this bill; it appeared to him, that there would be the same reason for giving a bounty on flax, wool, &c.—He did not believe that it had caused a single ton more to be raised than if there had been no bounty. He also objected to the manner in which the bounty was to be paid, to wit, out of the treasury. He was willing, however, that all the
tax that could be collected from imported hemp should be appropriated as a bounty. In order to go more fully into the business, he wished the committee to rise, that the members might have some time for consideration.
The committee accordingly rose and reported the progress.
A message was received from the senate, with a bill for concurrence, for the relief of Charles Moore, which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
Mr. Sands moved for leave and brought in a bill to regulate the exportation of butter and hog's lard; which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
The bill concerning distresses, and for the more easy recovery and security of rents; and to prevent frauds by tenants, was read a third time, and passed the house.
Mr. Verplank, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of John Ramsay and others, praying to be paid for a number of cannon taken from them in the commencement of the late war, reported that the prayer thereof ought to be granted, and a clause added to some proper bill for that purpose.
Mr. Jones thought it would be wrong to agree to this report, but wished the committee to take it back, giving them leave to bring forward a bill or clause, when a proper bill came before the house. He remarked on the circumstances of the petition, that the facts were well known, but the state ought not to pay for those cannon, merely because they removed them from New-York, and kept them out of the hands of the enemy; and that they were then for the use of the United States; and that some of them were sent to the state of Connecticut.
When the house were in a committee on the bill, for the suppression of immorality; after reading the first clause of the bill, which is to prevent any servile labour, drunkenness, or any kind of sports on the Sabbath day;
Mr. Benson moved, that the 38th article of the constitution should be read; which being done, he moved that the said clause be rejected. (Mr. Douglass seconded the motion.) Mr. Benson's reason for this motion were, that he thought the legislature had no power to pass the bill, as it was repugnant to the constitution; and that it was in itself manifestly improper; as the same principle that would establish any particular day for the worship of the Deity, might also describe the mode; and this would lead to intolerance and persecution. If there were any of our citizens who neglected that part of their duty, he thought that government ought not to interfere in it, as they were responsible only to the Deity. He observed, that the first law for establishing a particular day of the week as a day of worship, had originated in the days of James I. that this law had been adopted by the colony, which, if it had not been virtually repealed by the constitution, would now be in force. By the constitution, not only all religion was tolerated, but every religious sect placed in a perfect equality: the consequence thereof for passing the clause would not only be a violation of the rights of others, but of the constitution: to illustrate this proposition, he laid, a Jew, to be consistent with himself, is obliged to keep holy the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday; and to prohibit him from working on a Sunday, would be taxing him one sixth part of his time. This was no equal liberty, one of the boasted blessings of our government. He stated, that in the year 1781, at Albany, a bill had been brought forward, similar to the one now before the committee; but which, on the very ground of its being against the constitution, was not carried through the legislature. If any men from religious motives were advocates for this bill, they mistook themselves; the great author of our religion required no human laws to support it.
Mr. Sylvester said, that the bill appeared to him to be as important as any that had ever been before the house. He did not think the arguments of Mr. Benson were by any means conclusive. He believed it would be difficult for him, by the most forced implication to shew, that the clause in question, was contradictory to the constitution; and with respect to the people of different religious denominations, they were not compelled to worship on that day.
As this was a subject on which he had great anxiety, he would attempt to shew that it would be an exceeding proper bill, and that the house would do well to pass it. He wished his abilities were more adequately to so sublime a subject; it would be more masterly handled by the clergy, whose study and profession would enable them to expatiate upon topics of this sort: but as there were no men of that order in the house, he hoped it might not be presumption in him to use his feeble efforts in attempting to support so good a law. He then spoke of the constitution. He said it was only intended to give liberty of conscience to all religious denominations; but if by legal or equitable interpretation, it would bear a construction so as to repeal the old Sunday law; he thought it would be one good reason for a new constitution.
If there was no pious inducements for the committee to pass this law, he hoped, as they had been particularly tenacious of every ancient custom, they would not be regardless of a custom (observing the Sabbath) that had been in use in this country from time immemorial, and confirmed by a law of the late colony; especially as no inconvenience or oppression had been complained of, in consequence of that law, nor had any abuses been committed by the persons entrusted with its execution. He asked why the legislature of this state and of this country, as well as all courts of justice, omitted doing business on that day, and why it was called the Lord's day and not a law day. Why should we, said he, pretend to be so much wiser than our ancestors by abolishing this good custom, this reasonable service due to the Deity. Sabbath-breaking is an offence against God and religion, hitherto punished by the municipal laws of this as well as other countries. In opposition to the notorious indecency and scandal of permitting any secular business to be publicly transacted on that day, in a country professing Christianity, and the corruption of morals that usually follows its profanation. The keeping one day in seven holy, as a time of relaxation and refreshment, as well as for public worship, is of admirable service to a state, considered merely as a civil institution. It humanizes, by the help of conversation and society, the manners of the lower
classes of mankind; which otherwise degenerate into a sordid ferocity, and savage selfishness of spirit; it enables the industrious workman to pursue his occupation in the ensuing week with health and cheerfulness; it imprints on the minds of the people that sense of their duty to God, so necessary to make them good citizens; but which would be worn out and defaced by an unremitted continuance of labour, without any stated times of recalling them to the worship of their maker.
[To be continued.] New-York, February 27,
YESTERDAY his Excellency Count de Bouquet, plenipotentiary from his most Christian Majesty to the United States of America, was received in Congress-Hall, with all the ceremonies usual on such occasions. The peculiar ceremonies, and addresses which were had in consequence will be given in the Weekly Register to-morrow.
Monday arrived in this port, the sloop Ranger, Renfrew, from St. John's; and yesterday the schooner Edward, in 18 days from Shelburne.
By the Edward, yesterday arrived from Shelburne, Nova-Scotia, papers were received to the 8th instant.
The house of assembly of that province has passed an act for erecting, in the town of Halifax, a new set of public buildings, an for the sale of the old ones. They have also passed a bill for the amendment of their militia laws. A committee of the house have also recommended it, as indispensably necessary, that a public school be established in a central part of the province, for the encouragement of literature and la belle lettres, and for the promotion of the christian religion.
That an exemplary clergyman of the established church, well skilled in classical learning, divinity, moral philosophy, and the belles lettres, be provided and placed at the head of the said school, and as an encouragement for such an one, so qualified, to accept of the employments, that a sum, not less than 200l. sterling per annum be allowed him.
They also recommend, that a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, be likewise provided for the said school; with an allowance of 100l. sterling per annum, and that the right Reverend the bishop of Nova-Scotia, be requested to endeavor to procure two gentlemen of the above qualifications, for those purposes.
The committee conceive that the neighbourhood of Windsor, will be the properest place for this school, and recommend, that a commodious house should be hired there for that purpose; until upon experience of the propriety of the situation, the province shall find it expedient to erect a more suitable building, or to enlarge their plan of education.
The committee in deliberating upon this subject, having duly considered and lamented the wretched state of literature in this province, and having been unavoidably led to contrast it with the state of literature in the neighbouring republics, beg leave earnestly to recommend to the consideration of the house, whether it would not be proper, as soon as it can be found practicable, to erect a college or university in this province, to prevent as early as may be, the youth of this country (now panting after knowledge) from rushing into the various seminaries, already established in the United States of America, by which means their attachment to their native country may be in danger of being weakened, and principles imbibed unfriendly to the British constitution.
Having been debated. Resolved, That a sum not exceeding 400l. be granted for the purpose of hiring a proper house in the neighbourhood of Windsor, for an academy, and also for paying the salary of the president and professor for one year.
Resolved, That his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, the Right Reverend the Bishop of Nova-Scotia, the president of his Majesty's council, and the speaker of the house of assembly, be desired to take upon them the government and general management of said academy, and that the speaker be requested to communicate to his Excellency and Bishop the Wishes of the House.
NAVAL-OFFICE, Port of BOSTON, February 18.
Entered. Brig William, Pike, l'Orient; schooner Gilman, Grant, Hispaniola; schooner Sydney, Wilson, Halifax; sloop Betsey, Huntriss, Portsmouth.
Cleared. Sloop Sally, Hopkins, Lisbon; ship Nancy, Cook, Ireland; brig Penelope, Taylor, West-Indies; sloop Jennett, Delano, Demerara.
From the MARYLAND JOURNAL, &c. Res parva concordia crescent. SALL.
As o'er Columbia's peaceful plains, Concordia wav'd her golden chains, The patriot virtues on her wait, And link'd in love, consolidate. Each fordid foul skulks from her fight, And jarring interests unite.
The sister states resolve to rear A temple to the Goddess fair, Which elevated o'er the land, A splendid monument might stand; Informing all posterior times, That those thirteen united climes, In sacred faith, and mutual trust, Had form'd an Union firm and just: Whole lawful, delegated head, Affords each friend a sheltering shade; And fills each foe with awful dread.
Yet much disputed was the plan On which this edifice should stand; Whether by the Doric order grac'd, Or, in the simple Tuscan taste; Whether in the fam'd Corinthian style, Or like the ancient Gothic pile. Those various orders to unite, Most voted for the Composite, As that whose ornament and strength Defy'd old Time's decaying length; And spread its splendid prospects far Through smiling peace, or horrid war. A Mason there, whose art was shewn, In undertaking Plans unknown, Said, from his skill in architecture, Should he be chose the chief projector, He'd so cement the mighty mass, As ev'ry fabric to surpass, Which either Greek or Roman art, Had e'er produced in any part;
That concord there should live alone, Nor other mansion ever own.
All such important, high pretensions, Weigh well, ye ensuing state conventions! Which should you find, or just, or wise, Smooth'd o'er by no deceitful guise; But wholesome, virtuous, and true, From you they claim attention due. But selfish should they prove, or vain, Subverting concord's sacred fane, Diffusing anarchy and strife, Those baneful pests of social life; Reject the whole impious band, Ere discord curse the guilty land. Bladensburgh, February 1, 1788.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY, THIS EVENING, the 27th of FEBRUARY,
Will be performed, A COMEDY,
Called the HEIRESS. Written by GENERAL BURGOYNE. [Never performed but once in America.]
To which will be added A FARCE,
Called the The MADCAP,
OR THE Sailor's Courtship.
BOX 8s.—PIT 6s.—GALLERY 4s. VIVAT RES PUBLICA.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Enquire at No. 20, Queen-street. JACOB REED, jun.
Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and SPECIE;
And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds. New-York, Feb. 21, 1788. 24 c.d.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Provost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (beind built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of alhes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with alhes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS, in maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the fame.
The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him. New-York, Feb. 5, 1788. oe—m.w.f.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.
TO BE SOLD, An EXCELLENT FORTE-PIANNO,
Imported from London the last Summer. Enquire of PHILIP JACOBS, No. 20, next door but one to the City Tavern, Broad-Way.—Feb. 19, 1788. 16 c.d.
Just Published, And to be Sold at this PRINTING-OFFICE, Baron Steuben's Regulations
FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.

POET'S CORNER.
VERSE
To the honorable Miss ****, who gave the author a note for his poetical subject.
[Written by the late Dr. GLOVER, when a boy of fourteen years of age.]
LOVELY muses come along; Laura bids; begin the song, All your soft assistance lend, And a gentle boy befriend; Tell me sweetly how to sing, How to rise on lyric wing; Only let me please the maid, Ne'er again I'll ask your aid.
Come, ye muses! can ye stray? Won't ye then my call obey? Won't ye teach me to compose, Little verses on a rose? Ah! how cold and how unkind Are ye all, to stay behind. Thce, O Laura, I'll compare To this emblem of the fair; In this flower, O Laura, see, Beauty in epitome:
Affixe of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, 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, February 27, 1b. 39m. Morn.
PRIZE-MONEY,
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire
NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bonhomme 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 sold in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, on 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.
AT THE TANNERY,
Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes, for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufacturers, and procure them a run of custom—for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price.
Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD.
N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40—ed
A Few COPIES of the Conductor Generalis, To be SOLD. At this PRINTING OFFICE.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street, and the other BOOKSELLERS,
Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects. By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey,
Now adapted to these United States. By one of the J U D G E S.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in.
At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of
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Consisting of HISTORY, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
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Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkit on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whittby's commentary, Blair's Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's practice ophyic, Van Swieten's, commataries, 18 vols, Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols, Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols, Quincey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Entick's latin Dictionaries, Davidson's Virgil and Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eutropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammon's algebra, Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmon's geographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashes, Dyke's, Bailey's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictionaries, Bennet's christian oratory, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's measurer.
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. Wrapping Paper, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, Slates, Lead and slate Pencils, Penknives, elegant Shoe Buckles, Message Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thankfully received, and carefully executed. 51—
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 Peterburg 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 favourable 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 lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, 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 expence of cartage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Bryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assigner of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Bryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Bryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Assignee. 42 m.w.f. 3m. New-York, November 15, 1787.
Just imported in the Jeane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell,
No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of BOOKS,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruffian; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED, CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns, voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit. and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY in particular, pocket-knives, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he sells at, will insure a further continuance of their favors. The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scots
MAGAZINES.
THE PUBLIC Are RESPECTFULLY INFORMED,
THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmadge Hall, No. 49, Cortland-street (commonly known by the Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment; and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed that the subscriber has a large convenient assembly room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required. CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. 51—th.
STAGE.
Morris-Town and Paul's-Hook. ON the 14th instant the subscriber
began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris Town, to Paul's Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paul's 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 route to Paul's 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 Paul's 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.
SHRUB.
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghaft, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
vs. Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cook for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mariners on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the island of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a vessel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New-York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Bourke, and John Donnan, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, one bale of cotton wool, marked B. three other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers printed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Sweeney Wilson and Alexander M'Kenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf of Hyem Cohen, of the island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of salvage: and whereas William Cook, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arising by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William M'Kenzie and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defected vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Sweeney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defected vessel was a float vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-irons round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public mention and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and merchandise, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this notification and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM, Marshal. 36 3m
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