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TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
T U E S D A Y, N O V E M B E R 13, 1787.
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JUST PUBLISHED, And to be Sold by the Printers hereof, The Columbian Almanack,
AND E P H E M E R I S Of the Motion of the Sun and Moon; the true Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Setting, and Southing of the Moon, For the YEAR of our LORD,
1788: Being Bissextile, or Leap-Year, and the twelfth of American Independence. Calculated for the Meridian of the Middle States, particularly New-York.
Containing also, The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Judg- ment of the Weather, Rising and Setting of the Planets, Length of Days and Nights, Courts, Roads, &c. Together with useful Tables, and Pieces of Instruction and En- tertainment, &c. &c.
By ANDREW BEERS, PHILOM. Purchasers can have the above Almanack with, or without, the FOEDERAL CONSTITU- TUTION annexed.
Also, may be had at the above place, The NEW-YORK
Pocket Almanack,
For the Year of our LORD
1788:
Containing every thing necessary, and many things convenient in an ALMANACK.
HOGS BRISTLES.
W ANTED by the Subscribers a quantity of Hogs Bristles, for which two shillings per pound will be given, provided they are dressed clean; those in the rough, one shilling and three pence per do. the subscribers having erected a BRUSH MANUFAC- TORY , at No. 4. Peck-slip, where they propose carrying on the brush-making business, in all its various branches. Store-keepers and others may be furnished on as low terms as any imported, to which they hope the preference will be given them, as the work is equally good, if not better. They will warrant their work not to fail till worn out by use, and flatter themselves with an expectation of getting a sufficient supply of this country bristles, that they may not be under the necessity of importing their flock from England. The farmers, by being care- ful in the season of killing, may save sufficient to supply them in this business. Country store-keepers would be the most proper persons to collect them. Those who will please to undertake the collecting them, will meet with a ready sale, and be a means of promoting a very useful branch of business which may be carried on in this State, and put a stop to the importing that commodity. The least favor will be gratefully acknowledged by
43 2m ANANIAS COOPER, & Co. Just imported in the Jeanie, Capt. Martin, from Glasgow,
By SAMUEL CAMPBELL, No. 44, Hanover-square, corner of the Old-slip, A large assortment of B O O K S,
Among which are, THE present State of Nova-Scotia, with an ac- count of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Arspaña, or the Wanderer, 2 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruffian; Millar on Insuran- ces; Alexander's history of Women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Me- moirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edin- burgh 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, considera- bly enlarged.
(Price four shillings in boards) These travels are at this time more read, parti- cularly in Britain, France, Germany, and Holland, than any production that has appeared for some years. Upwards of ten thousand copies were sold in London in less than three months. The Baron's adventures at Gibraltar are not published in the French and Dutch editions, but are given in full length in this impression.
DR. SWEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE ; describing the va- rious symptoms, and method of cure in every dif- ferent stage. The third edition, corrected, (price only five shillings.)
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the ac- count of it given by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medi- cal commentaries, with the recommendation of se- veral eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the Editor to present the public with an American edi- tion of the work, printed correctly from the last Lon- don edit. and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
October 6, 1787. 39
New-York RUM,
OF excellent flavour and good proof,—for Sale by Charles Tillinghast, at the Dif- tillery near the New-market, in Cherry-street, and nearest the Ship-yards.
S H R U B,
OF the very best quality, by the hoghead, barrel, or smaller quantity,—for Sale by Charles Tillinghast, at his house nearly oppo- site the New-market, in Cherry-street.
October 3. 38
To the PUBLIC.
THE Co-partnership of Matthew Rhodes, Ti- mothey Rhodes, John Hebblethwaite and Sa- mel Hopkins , by the firm of Samuel Hopkins and Company , hath been this day dissolved by mutual consent;—if there are any demands against the co- partnership, it is requested that they be produced to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, at No. 31, Queen-street, in the city of New-York, for payment;—and all persons indebted to it, are re- quested to pay the amount that they owe in six months from this date, to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, otherwise their accounts must be placed in the hands of an attorney.
New-York, September 25, 1787.
The said Samuel Hopkins has imported in the ship Willon, Capt. Thompson, from Liverpool, A quantity of low-priced
Woollens, Sattinets and Florentines, which he will dispose of on advantageous terms to the purchaser, for cash or short credit. 36
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the Ge- neral Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, en- titled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortga- ged estates;" that on Friday the fourth day of April next, will be sold at the merchants cof- fee-house in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all that certain farm or tract of land, which Joseph Harris, late of Dutchess county, formerly possessed, lying within the said county of Dutchess, in the patent commonly known by the name of the Nine-Partners, being bounded as follows; beginning at a black oak tree, it being the northeast corner of Job Meeks's farm, the north- west corner of Jeremiah Conklen's farm, and the southeast corner of the said Joseph Harris's farm, from thence the line runs north thirteen degrees, west to the farm now or late in the occupation of Richard Gray, being the fourth line of the Little Nine-Partners, from thence the line runs west on the south line of the said Little Nine-Partners, to the northwest corner of said farm, and the north- west corner of Amenia Precinct, from thence south thirteen degrees east to a walnut sapling, it being the northwest corner of the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mention- ed bounds; containing eight hundred and 63 acres & 20 rods of land or thereabouts, with the build- ings, rights, members, hereditaments and appur- tenances to the same belonging or in any wise apper- taining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof; which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty- first and twenty-second days of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds (with a power of sale there- in contained) from Brinton Paine of Dutchess county, Esq. to Augustus Van Cortlandt. Deeds of conveyance after the sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT. Sept. the 24th 1787. 2 35 6m
THOMAS MAULE, No. 40, Hanover-Square, HAS received by the America , from London, and the Ann and Susan , from Liverpool, a variety of FALL GOODS,
Which he will sell on very reasonable Terms, viz. COATINGS , plains, broad-cloths, ferges, blan- kets, baizes, flannels, tammies, durants, wild- bores, camblets, lalings, fatinets, ribbons, gauzes, modes, fatins, lutestrungs, armozenes, tafaties, black persians, florentines, sewing silk, twill, hofier- ry, gloves, &c. &c. September 11, 1787. 22
JOHN SIEMON, No. 76, William-street, next door to Mr. Samuel Gilford's, Manufactures, and has for sale, a large and gene- ral assortment of MUFFS and TIPPETS , consi- sting of
MARTIN , and martin throat, real, and mock ermine; American and Russia squirrel; real black jennet; red fox; Russia hair, and ground squirrel.
LIKewise, A complete assortment of furr trimmings and edgings for ladies cloaks, riding dresses, &c. cloak linings, great-coats, lined with furr, for gentlemen, caps, gloves, &c. &c.
The above articles he is now selling on the most reasonable terms, for cash or short credit. Directions will be given how to preserve the furr during the summer season. October 23, 1787. 44
N OTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for secur- ing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774; that on the sixth day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of all that certain messuage or dwelling house and lot of ground, situated and being in the north ward of the city of New-York, on the northerly side of a certain street called and known by the name of Little Queen-street; bound- ed southerly in front on said street, easterly on the house and ground now or late of Thomas Marston, northerly in the rear on the ground now or late of John Livingston and others, and westerly on the New-Dutch Church yard; the said dwelling house and lot of ground, containing in breadth in front and rear, twenty-three feet and an half, and in length, on each side, ninety-six feet, together with the houses, edifices and buildings thereon erected and being, and all gardens, yards, wells, back sides, ways, paths, passages, easements, profits, commo- dities, advantages, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said dwelling house and lot of ground belonging, or in any wise appertaining,— which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five (with a power to sell therein contained) from William Bry- ant, of the city of New-York, Doctor of physics, to Alexander Leslie, late of the city of New-York aforesaid peruke maker, assigned to the subscribers, who will thereupon execute deeds of conveyance to the purchaser, pursuant to the power in the said mortgage and the act aforesaid.
WILLIAM DAVIS, JAMES STRACHAN, JAMES MACKENZIE,
By their Attorney, Charles Smith.
N OTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for secur- ing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774. That on Tuesday the 4th day of December next- ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the fore- noon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auc- tion upon the premises, the fee simple of a Lot of Ground in a certain indenture of mortgage, made between Stephen Sayre, of the city of New-York, in the State of New-York, Esq. of the one part, and Peter Stuyvesant of the same city, Esq. of the other part, described as follows, to wit:— All that certain lot of ground situated in the north ward of the said city of New-York, being distin- guished as lot No. 7, in a partition made on the 3d day of January, in the year of Lord, 1718, be- tween Abraham De Peyster and Samuel Bayard, and is bounded as follows, to wit; southwesterly in front by Wall-street, southeasterly by lot No. 6, formerly occupied by Lewis Pintard, northeasterly in the rear by ground formerly occupied by James Nevens, and northwesterly by lot No. 8, former- ly the property and in the possession of Nicholas Bayard, and contains in breadth, in front and in the rear, 25 feet, and in length on each side 122 feet, being the lot of ground granted to Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, by two deeds, the one executed by John Cruger, Philip Livingston and nine others, on the 6th of February 1773, and the other by Philip V. Cortlandt, on the 15th day of April 1762, to- gether with all and singular the buildings, passages, lights, easements and all other privileges, profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and appur- tenances to the said lot of ground and premises, or any part thereof belonging or in any wise ap- pertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises by indenture of lease and release, bearing date 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1783, and 1st day of Janua- ry, 1784, (with a power to sell therein contained) from the said Stephen Sayre to the said Peter Stuy- vesant; and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by P. STUYVESANT. New-York, May 22, 1787. 2 700 6m
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
For which the highest price in CASH will be given, £7,000 in Bancker's Notes £10,000, or any smaller sums, in Pierce's final settlement certificates.
The highest prices in cash given, as usual, for all other kinds of public securities, at No. 40, Wall- street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 5
Jacob Foster,
B EGS leave to inform his friends and the pub- lic in general, that he has removed from Roo- velt-street, No. 21, to Cherry-street, No. 22, where he continues carrying on the NAILING MANUFACTORY , in all its various branch- es, from a tack to a twelve inch spike; where city and country merchants, shopkeepers, ship and boat builders, joiners and house carpenters can be sup- plied on short notice with any quantity.
LIKewise,
Bar iron and nail rods for sale.
Wanted, a few Journeyman Nailers. Apply as above.
Furthermore, he would inform the merchants, who would wish to contract for any ship work or smith work to send abroad, that he will contract with them on reasonable terms for the same. Please to apply as aforesaid. 19
BROTHERS, COSTER, & Co.
Have for sale at their store, No. 8, Duke-street, and just imported in the Columbia and the Grace, from Amsterdam,
BOHEA TEA , fresh, and of a superior quality; Soucong ditto; pepper in bales; best Holland duck; Russia and Raven's ditto; Russia sheeting; Tickenburg linen; Osnaburg ditto; Holland and Silesia sheeting; Platilljees and Britannies; brown Hollands, dowlas and Holland bedticks; cambrics; black laces and silk hair-ribbons; a neat assortment of calicoes; black Barcelona, romals, cotton, and linen handkerchiefs; checks and Holland stripes; hats, writing-paper and flates; looking-glasses; frying-pans and Dutch iron pots; Dutch tea-kettles and bras kettles; best claret in small cases for family use; Linseed oil and paints; Holland Geneva in pipes, in large and small cases, and jugs; Dutch hatchels or flax-combs, &c. &c. 43
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and General Assembly of the late colony now State of New- York, passed the 19th day of March 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mort- gages and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," that on the eleventh day of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Merchant's Coffee-house, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all those two certain messuages or tenements and lot of land, situated, lying and being in the city of New-York, on the northeast side of Fly-market-street, and run- ning from the land of Jacobus Lefferts, 35 feet and 2 inches, in front to land now or late of George Folliott; thence running northeasterly along the said land now or late of the said George Folliott, 73 feet and 1 inch; thence southeasterly along the land of Richard Norwood, 6 feet and 8 inches; thence northeasterly along the land of the said Richard Norwood, 13 feet and 4 inches, to Fletcher- street; thence southeasterly on the said Fletcher- street, 31 feet and 1 inch, and thence southeasterly on the land of the said Jacobus Lefferts, 86 feet and 2 inches to the place of beginning, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and ap- purtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining. And the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premi- ses, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the second and third days of November, which was in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty-five, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds and the interest thereof, with a power of sale therein contained, from John Byrne, of the city of New-York, merchant, to John Glover of the said city merchant. Deeds of conveyance for the said premises, after the sale will be executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by JOHN GLOVER. New-York, September 10, 1787. 2 31
By order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
N OTICE is hereby given to David Gream, George Jackson, Arthur Forrester, Richard Willis, the Rev. Thomas Dampier, John Elwes, and Richard Willis aforesaid, in trust for Mary the wife of William Croffes, John Elwes in his own right, Patrick Crawford and Gilbert Meason, ex- ecutors of James Crawford, deceased; Hutchinson Mure, Robert Mure, and Richard Atkinson, joint partners, John Duvall, William Robertson, Neal Ward, Mary Sleach, Lucy Sleach, William Ber- ry, Peter Hafenclever and Charles Croffes, late partners with Andrew Seaton (who is become bank- rupt) under the title or firm of Hafenclever, Seaton and Croffes; also the said Andrew Seaton, the said William Robertson, Miles Nightengale, and the said Richard Willis, as assignees of the estate and effects of the said Andrew Seaton, under the said commission of bankruptcy, and the said Peter Ha- fenclever in his own right, now or late associated in a company generally known by the name, firm and description of the American Iron Company, or the Ringwood Company, absent debtors, and to all others whom it doth or may concern; that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to a statute of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for re- lief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786, he the said Chief Justice hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the county of Westchester, commanding him to attach, seize, take, and safely keep, all the estate as well real as personal of the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company, composed of the said several persons as aforesaid, absent debtors of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof in whatever part of his bailiwick they can be found with all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto: And that unless they the said several persons composing the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Com- pany as aforesaid, shall return and discharge their debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all their estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of their creditors.—Dated at the city of New-York, the tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 2 31
FLAX-SEED,
S TORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold, at HERTTELL and WOODWARD's Flaxseed-store, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 43

The FEDERALIST, No 5.
To the People of the State of New-York.
QUEEN ANN, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the Union then forming between England and Scotland, which merit our attention. I shall present the public with one or two extracts from it. "An entire and perfect Union will be the solid foundation of lasting peace: It will secure your religion, liberty and property, remove the animosities among yourselves, and the jealousies and differences between our two kingdoms. It must increase your strength, riches and trade: and by this union the whole island, being joined in affection and free from all apprehensions of different interest, will be enabled to resist all its enemies." "We most earnestly recommend to you calmness and unanimity in this great and weighty affair, that the union may be brought to a happy conclusion, being the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness; and disappoint the designs of our and your enemies, who will doubtless, on this occasion, use their utmost endeavours to prevent or delay this Union."
It was remarked in the preceding paper, that weakness and divisions at home, would invite dangers from abroad, and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than Union, strength and good government within ourselves. This subject is copious and cannot easily be exhausted.
The history of Great Britain is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us many useful lessons. We may profit by their experience, without paying the price which it cost them. Altho' it seems obvious to common sense, that the people of such an island, should be but one nation, yet we find that they were for ages divided into three, and that those three were almost constantly embroiled in quarrels and wars with one another. Notwithstanding their true interest, with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and practices of those nations, their mutual jealousies were perpetually kept enflamed, and for a long series of years they were far more inconvenient and troublesome, than they were useful and assisting to each other.
Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not the same thing happen? Would not similar jealousies arise; and be in like manner cherished? Instead of their being "joined in affection and free from all apprehension of different interest," envy and jealousy would soon extinguish confidence and affection, and the partial interests of each confederacy, instead of the general interests of all America, would be the only objects of their policy and pursuits. Hence like most other bordering nations, they would always be either involved in disputes and war; or live in the constant apprehension of them.
The most sanguine advocates for three or four confederacies, cannot reasonably suppose that they would long remain exactly on an equal footing in point of strength, even if it was possible to form them so at first; but admitting that to be practicable, yet what human contrivance can secure the continuance of such equality. Independent of those local circumstances which tend to beget and increase power in one part, and to impede its progress in another, we must advert to the effects of that superior policy and good management which would probably distinguish the government of one above the rest, and by which their relative equality and strength and consideration, would be destroyed. For it cannot be presumed that the same degree of found policy, prudence and foresight, would uniformly be observed by each of those confederacies, for a long succession of years.
Whenever, and from whatever causes, it might happen; and happen it would, that any one of these nations or confederacies should rise on the scale of political importance much above the degree of their neighbours, that moment would those neighbours behold her with envy and with fear. Both those passions would lead them to countenance, if not to promote, whatever might promise to diminish her importance; and would also restrain them from measures calculated to advance, or even to secure her prosperity. Much time would not be necessary to enable her to discern these unfriendly dispositions—She would soon begin, not only to lose confidence in her neighbours, but also to feel a disposition equally unfavourable to them: Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed, than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
The North is generally the region of strength, and many local circumstances render it probable, that the most northern of the proposed confederacies would, at a period not very distant, be unquestionably more formidable than any of the others. No sooner would this become evident, than the Northern Hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more southern parts of America, which it formerly did in the southern parts of Europe: Nor does it appear to be a rash conjecture, that its young swarms might often be tempted to gather honey in the more blooming fields and milder air of their luxurious and more delicate neighbours.
They who well consider the history of similar divisions and confederacies, will find abundant reason to apprehend, that those in contemplation would in no other sense be neighbours, than as they would be borderers; that they would neither love nor trust one another, but on the contrary would be a prey to discord, jealousy and mutual injuries; in short that they would place us exactly in the situation which some nations doubtless wish to see us, viz. formidable only to each other.
From these considerations it appears that those gentlemen are greatly mistaken, who suppose that alliances offensive and defensive might be formed between these confederacies, and would produce that combination and union of wills, of arms, and of resources, which would be necessary to put and keep them in a formidable state of defence against foreign enemies.
When did the independent States into which Britain and Spain were formerly divided, combine in such alliances, or unite their forces against a foreign enemy? The proposed confederacies will be distinct nations . Each of them would have its commerce
with foreigners to regulate by distinct treaties; and as their productions and commodities are different, and proper for different markets, so would those treaties be essentially different. Different commercial concerns must create different interests, and of course different degrees of political attachment to, and connection with different foreign nations. Hence it might and probably would happen, that the foreign nation with whom the Southern confederacy might be at war, would be the one, with whom the Northern confederacy would be the most desirous of preserving peace and friendship. An alliance so contrary to their immediate interest would not therefore be easy to form, nor if formed, would it be observed and fulfilled with perfect good faith.
Nay it is far more probable that in America, as in Europe, neighbouring nations, acting under the impulse of opposite interest, and unfriendly passions, would frequently be found taking different sides. Considering our distance from Europe, it would be more natural for these confederacies to apprehend danger from one another, than from distant nations, and therefore that each of them should be more desirous to guard against the others, by the aid of foreign alliances, than to guard against foreign dangers by alliances between themselves. And here let us not forget how much more easy it is to receive foreign fleets into our ports, and foreign armies into our country, than it is to persuade or compel them to depart—How many conquests did the Romans and others make in the characters of allies, and what innovations did they under the fame character introduce into the governments of those whom they pretended to protect.
Let candid men judge then, whether the division of America into any given number of independent sovereignties would tend to secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations.
PUBLIUS.
From the Virginia Independent Chronicle .
To the FREEMEN of VIRGINIA.
[Concluded from our last.]
IN Art. I. Sect. 8. of the proposed Federal Constitution, it is said, 'Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises.'—Are you then, Virginians, about to abandon your country to the depredations of excisemen, and the pressure of excise laws? Did it ever enter the mind of any one of you, that you could live to see the day, that any other government, but the General Assembly of Virginia, should have power of direct taxation in this State? How few of you ever expected to see excise laws, those instruments of tyranny, in force in your country? But who could imagine, that any man but a Virginian, were they found to be necessary, would ever have a voice towards enacting them? That any tribunal, but the courts of Virginia, would be allowed to take cognizance of disputes between her citizens and their tax gatherers and excise men? And that, if ever it should be found necessary to curtail this land with these hateful excisemen, any one, but a fellow citizen, should be intrusted with that office?
For my part, I cannot discover the necessity there was of allowing Congress to subject us to excise laws, unless, that considering the extensiveness of the single republic into which this constitution would collect all the others, and the well known difficulty of governing large republics with harmony and ease, it was thought expedient to bit our mouths with massive curbs, to break us bridled with excise laws, and managed by excisemen, into an uniform, sober peace, and thus, gradually, tame the troublesome mettle of the freeman. This necessity could not, surely, arise from the desire of furnishing Congress with a sufficient revenue, to enable it to exercise the prerogatives, which every friend to America would wish to see vested in it; as it would, by unanimous consent, have the management of the impost, it could increase it to any amount, and this would fall sufficiently uniform on every one, according to his ability; or, were this not found sufficient could not the deficiency be made up by requisitions to the States? Could it not have been made an article of the Federal Constitution, that, if any of them refused their quota, Congress may be allowed to make it up by an increase of the impost, on that particular State so refusing. This would, surely, be a sufficient security to Congress, that their requisitions would be punctually complied with.
In any dispute between you and the revenue officers and excisemen of Congress, it is true, that it is provided, the trial shall be, in the first instance, within the State, though before a federal tribunal: It is said in par. 3. sect. 2. art. 3. 'The trial of all crimes except in cases of impeachments shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the crime shall be committed;' but what does this avail, when an appeal will lie against you to the Supreme Federal Court. In the paragraph preceding the one just now quoted, it is said, 'In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned,* the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.' But where is this Supreme Court to sit? Will it not be, where Congress shall fix its residence? Thither then you will be carried for trial. Who are to be your jury? Is there any provision made, that you shall have a Venire from your county, or even from your State, as they please to call it? No! you are to be tried within the territory of Congress, and Congress itself is to be a party, you are to be deprived of the benefit of a jury from your vicinage, that boast and birthright of a freeman.
Should it not, at least, have been provided, that those revenue officers and excisemen, against whom free governments have, always, justly entertained a jealousy, should be citizens of the State? Was it inadmissible, that they should be endowed with the bowls of fellow citizens? Are we not to expect, that New-England will now send us revenue officers, instead of onions and apples? When you observe, that the few places, already, under Congress in this State are in the hands of strangers, you will own, that my suspicion is not without some foundation, and if the first cause of it be required, those, who have served in Congress, can tell you, that, the New-England delegates to that assembly have always stood by each other, and have formed a firm phalanx, which the southern delegates have not; that, on the contrary, the manoeuvres of the former
* See the Federal Constitution.
have been commonly engaged, with success, in dividing the latter, against each other. The force of names and of habits is well known, tho' Scotland and England go now under the general name of Great Britain, the distinction of Scotchman and Englishman still subsists, and how often has the latter complained, that, that northern hive was continually swarming its hungry instruments of undue prerogative over his country.
The ingenious Lord Shaftsbury has said, that a wheel within a wheel was an absurdity in politics; but where was this ever so manifest, as in this Federal Constitution. The phantom of sovereignty, which is left the State, enables it to legislate in many instances, and lay taxes; to have its tax gatherers and excisemen too. Unhappy situation where the natural jealousy, and the pride inherent in two separate governments, presiding over the same people, will induce them to vie in the race of taxation to snatch the prize, the spoils of the citizen, that is to glut the vanity of their respective consequence! He, who has meditated on man, and the secret springs, which move him, must expect this. Unhappy situation where two rival excisemen battle at your doors for precedence in seizing these spoils!—In the name of God look well before you leap, consider, that the question is, whether you would rather be a sovereign or a sharer in sovereignty: Whether, as only a few from their abilities and consequence can expect to be delegated, in rotation, to Congress, you are about to lay the foundation of a dangerous aristocracy. Whether, it is, not more likely that the blaze of LIBERTY will be kept alive among us, when watched on thirteen separate altars, than when re-united into one, be it ever so resplendent. Consider, whether you are willing to see the State of Virginia dwindle into the insignificance of a town corporate: And as the Mayor, Court of Aldermen and Common Council in this make bylaws for its own government, you are satisfied with a Governor, Senate and Assembly, which will have the same authority, as the United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican FORM of government. Consider that if you pass the Federal Constitution in toto , you subject yourselves to the doors of your houses, those impenetrable castles of freemen, fly open before the magic wand of an exciseman, and that, if you should resent and punish the intolence of office, the daring brutality of the publican , perhaps offered to the wife of thy bosom, you will be dragged for trial before a distant tribunal, and there, perhaps, condemned without enjoying the benefit of a jury from your vicinage, your unalienable birthright as a freeman.
October 10, 1787.
CATO UTICENSIS.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
L O N D O N. September 5.
In the history of France, there are repeated instances of fortitude in the King's officers to resist the royal commands, when they have been deemed to be incompatible with the interest of the nation. So early as the reign of Louis the Eleventh, contemporary with our Edward the Fourth, A. D. 1470 John Romanus, the King's advocate, refused to give his consent to an edict, for setting aside the pragmatic sanction, which edict was issued at the importunity of Pope Paul the II. and the King promised that the Parliament should ratify it. The advocate for his resistance was threatened to be turned out—upon which he nobly replied, that "the King had freely bestowed that office upon him, and he would discharge it faithfully, as long as the King thought fit to continue him in it, and should be ready to lay it down whenever it pleased his Majesty; but he would suffer all things, rather than do any thing against his conscience, or the King's honor, and the good of the kingdom."—The advocate accordingly lost his place.
UNITED STATES.
B O S T O N, November 5.
The following Letter, containing the objections of the Hon. Elbridge Gerry, Esq. against his signing the National Constitution, was read before our readers for their serious perusal.
New-York, 18th October, 1787.
Gentlemen, I HAVE the honor to inclose, pursuant to my commission, the constitution proposed by the Federal Convention.
To this system I gave my dissent, and shall submit my objections to the Honorable Legislature. It was painful for me, on a subject of such national importance, to differ from the respectable members who signed the constitution: But conceiving as I did, that the liberties of America were not secured by the system, it was my duty to oppose it.—
My principal objections to the plan, are, that there is no adequate provision for a representation of the people—that they have no security for the right of election—that some of the powers of the Legislature are ambiguous, and others indefinite and dangerous—that the executive is blended with and will have an undue influence over the Legislature—that the judicial department will be oppressive—that treaties of the highest importance may be formed by the President with the advice of two thirds of a quorum of the Senate—and that the system is without the security of a bill of rights. These are objections which are not local, but apply equally to all the States.
As the Convention was called for 'the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions as shall render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the union,' I did not conceive that these powers extend to the formation of the plan proposed, but the Convention being of a different opinion, I acquiesced in it, being fully convinced that to preserve the union, an efficient government was indispensably necessary; and that it would be difficult to make proper amendments to the articles of confederation.
The constitution proposed has few, if any federal features, but is rather a system of national government: Nevertheless, in many respects I think it has great merit, and by proper amendments, may be adapted to the 'exigencies of government, and preservation of liberty.'
The question on this plan involves others of the highest importance—1st. Whether there shall be a dissolution of the federal government? 2dly. Whether the several State governments shall be so altered, as in effect to be dissolved? and 3dly. Whether in lieu of the federal and State governments, the national constitution now proposed shall be substituted without amendment? Never perhaps were a people called on to decide a question of greater magnitude—should the citizens of America adopt the plan as it now stands, their liberties may be lost: Or should they reject it altogether, anarchy may ensue. It is evident therefore, that they should not be precipitate in their decisions; that the subject should be well understood, left they should refuse to support the government, after having basely accepted it.
If those who are in favor of the constitution, as well as those who are against it, should preserve moderation, their discussions may afford much information & finally direct to an happy issue.
It may be urged by some that an implicit confidence should be placed in the Convention: But, however respectable the members may be who signed the constitution, it must be admitted, that a free people are the proper guardians of their rights and liberties—that the greatest men may err—and that their errors are sometimes, of the greatest magnitude.
Others may suppose, that the constitution may be safely adopted, because therein provision is made to amend it: But cannot this object be better attained before a ratification, than after it? And should a free people adopt a form of government, under conviction that it wants amendment?
And some may conceive, that if the plan is not accepted by the people, they will not unite in another: But surely whilst they have the power to amend, they are not under the necessity of rejecting it.
I have been detained here longer than I expected, but shall leave this place in a day or two for Massachusetts, and on my arrival shall submit the reasons (if required by the Legislature) on which my objections are grounded.
I shall only add, that as the welfare of the union requires a better constitution than the confederation, I shall think it my duty as a citizen of Massachusetts, to support that which shall be finally adopted, sincerely hoping it will secure the liberty and happiness of America.
I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, with the highest respect for the Honorable Legislature and yourselves, your most obedient and very humble servant. E. GERRY.
The Hon. Samuel Adams, Esq. President of the Senate; and The Hon. James Warren, Esq. Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.
CHARLESTON, (S.C.) October 1.
An anonymous correspondent sent us the following paragraph:
By a gentleman from Kentucky, we are confidently assured, that deputies have been lately chosen by the different settlements on the western waters, to meet in grand general Convention at Nashville, on the 22d day of November next. The object of this unexpected Council, is to arrange and ratify, articles of confederation, and temporary union between the citizens of these settlements as allies to the State of Franklin. Their intention is to adopt such expedients as will prove most effectual to open the navigation of the Mississippi to the confederates, as well as to a certain maritime nation, secretly engaged in the project, and to lot such proportions of troops and supplies to each establishment as may be found necessary to recover the invaded territory of the Natches. Although the number of the western troops destined for this expedition, is not ascertained, we can so far assert that they are to act on land in co-operation with a fleet in the Gulph of Mexico.
New-York, November 13.
On Sunday sailed the ship Grace , Capt. Armor, for Amsterdam. In her went passengers, the Chevalier John Paul Jones, and Mr. Jarvis, contractor for supplying the United States with copper coin.
On Sunday next the 18th inst. a Charity Sermon will be preached, and a collection made in the forenoon, at St. George's Chapel, for the benefit of the Charity-School, in this city: And on Sunday the 25th, another will be preached at St. Paul's Chapel, for the same purpose. An anthem adapted to the occasion, will be sung by the scholars.
A gentleman in Philadelphia, equally venerable for his age and wisdom, declared a few days ago, that if he had seen no other reasons to admire or adopt the proposed constitution of the United States, than the weakness and fallhood of the objections that have been made to it, they would alone determine his judgment in favor of its excellence, and induce him to promote its establishment in every State in the union. Penn. Gaz.
Saturday arrived the ship Sally , Capt. Greenaway, in 51 days from Bristol. An English paper of the 24th September, received by this ship, mentions that there had been a hot press in London, and that 1500 seamen had been taken in one day.
Extract of a letter from Augusta, in Georgia, October 15.
"It is now two weeks this day since my arrival here, at which time only 30 members of the Assembly attended. There being a great necessity for forming a house ten days further were allowed for collecting, and those who had been here some time, were permitted to return home during that period. This is the day on which they were to return; but as they come in very slow, we begin to fear we shall not be able to form a house—if we do not by the 18th, we shall give up all hope, and return to Savannah. Our lower country members are tardy, and our upper ones are generally engaged in defending their families and property on the frontiers. Should we fail in making a house, I know not what will be the consequence.—It now appears absolutely necessary that an army of at least 2000 men be raised against the savages, who are numerous on our frontier counties, and in force round and near the forts and stations in which the inhabitants have taken shelter; they have killed in all 51 white and black. The ground on which Gen. Clark fought first, has been since examined, and 28 dead Indians found; his loss was 6 killed and 12 wounded. We have now on our frontiers a sufficient force to act on the defensive, and cover the

settlements from the depredations of the savages. In case the Legislature does not meet, the executive will declare the State in alarm, when martial law will in some measure take place. Much confusion and destruction of property may be then expected.
The General Assembly of the State of Delaware have appointed the third Monday of the present month for the election of delegates to a Convention for considering the proposed plan of government for the United States—the said Convention to meet on the Monday following the election.
Five States have agreed to the appointment of Conventions for the above purpose, viz. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
A letter from Scilly, dated August 9, says, 'Came in here the Swallow, Captain Crosby, from Maryland, for a market, under jury-masts, and the loss of her rudder, in a gale of wind the 4th inst. and had four men struck dead on the deck by lightning, which lasted for six hours. She likewise had her shrouds scorched in such a manner, that they were obliged to lie to until they could have them repaired, and springing a leak at the same time, were obliged to throw 20 hogheads of tobacco overboard.'
There have been two families (except one of each) killed a few days ago in this county. They lived on the head waters of Wheeling, about 23 or 24 miles from this place. Unless some steps are taken to put us in a state of defence, we shall probably be soon a frontier.
One of the unhappy families was of the name of M'Intosh, the other that of Davis. Your friend Ryerson slept in the house of one of the deceased the very night before the murder happened.
A private letter from Leyden, in Holland, of August 28, informs us, 'that the States-General yield to the resolutions of the States of Holland, and propose to enter communicatively upon the business of stopping the troubles in the republic. The States of Holland will settle their differences without the interference of France, while disagreeable to the opposite party; but they refuse peremptorily the mediation of England, and despise the threats of Prussia. When the abolishment of the Stadtholdership and his offices, by the States-General, is agreed to, they will settle with them, all other differences, while the patriots among the nation, the offspring of the Batavians, now the true Netherlanders, never subdued, and always unshaken in the cause of liberty, grow too powerful for a base and self-interested set of traitors. The States-General dare no longer oppose them.'
Other letters positively mention, that the States of Holland peremptorily refused to give any other satisfaction, as her last answer to the Baron de Thulemeyer, Minister of the King of Prussia, which was, that the Princess of Orange, the wife of the Stadtholder, was detained by their particular orders, in her route to the Hague, for the safety of the community; and even instead of punishment, they commend their commissioners for their punctuality in fulfilling the high commands of their sovereign, to prevent commotions among the inhabitants, which may prove of dreadful consequences at the conjuncture of this time. They declare at the same time, that not the threats of foreign powers, nor even any resolutions of the States-General, are able to make the least alterations in their last resolutions for the security of the liberty of their province, and, if possible, of the Seven United Provinces. They are plentifully supported by their fellow citizens with money, arms, and every thing necessary to withstand the enemies of their country outward, and the secret wiles of traitors inward, while they only rely upon the blessings of Heaven, the justness of their cause, and the renowned bravery of their free countrymen.
A small work has lately appeared in Germany, under the title of 'JOSEPH GEBETHUX' (the Emperor's Prayer-book) from which the following is extracted.
"O Thou eternal, incomprehensible Being, who art the fountain of mercy, and the source of love; Thy sun lights equally the Christian and the Atheist; Thy showers equally nourish the fields of the believers and the infidels; the seed of virtue is found even in the heart of the impious and the heretic. From Thee I learn, therefore, that diversity of opinion does not prevent Thee from being a beneficent Father to all mankind. Shall I then, Thy feeble creature, be less indulgent? Shall I not permit my subjects to adore Thee in whatever manner they please? Shall I persecute those who differ from me in point of thinking? Shall I spread my religion with the point of my sword? O Thou, whose mighty power and ineffable love embrace the universe, grant that such erroneous principles may never harbour in my breast! I will try to be like Thee as far as human efforts can approach infinite perfection; I will be as indulgent as Thou to all men whose tenets differ from mine, and all unnatural compulsions in point of conscience shall be banished forever from my kingdom. Where is the religion that does not instruct us to love virtue, and to detest vice? Let all religions, therefore, be tolerated. Let all mankind, pay their worship to Thee, Thou eternal Being! in the manner they think best. Does an error in judgment deserve expulsion from society! And is force the proper way to win the heart, or bring the swerving mind to a true sense of religion? Let the shameful chains of religious tyranny be parted asunder, and the sweet bonds of fraternal amity unite all my subjects forever. I am sensible that many difficulties will occur to me in this bold attempt, and that most of them will be thrown in my way by those very persons who style themselves Thy Ministers; but may Thy almighty power never forsake me! O thou eternal and incomprehensible Being! fortify my holy resolutions with Thy love, that I may surmount every obstacle; and let that law of our Divine Master, which inculcates charity and patience, be always impressed upon my heart. Amen."
Arrivals since our Last.
Ship Sally, Jannay, Bristol. Brig Elizabeth, Owen, Norfolk. Schooner Union, Whitlock, Liverpool. Sloop Betsey, Morris, St. Croix. Smith, Turks-Island. Sally, Lacy, Shelburne. Bermuda. Charles, White, Norfolk. Polly, Bartlet, Newbern, N.C. Sea Flower, Edenton.
F O R S A L E. On advantageous terms for Cash, or in exchange for a House in New-York:
A Valuable FARM of well improved Land, containing about 130 acres, situated about four miles from Morristown. The farm speaks for itself, on seeing it, will immediately give satisfaction to the Farmer, the Gentleman or Trader, for its prospect: The soil, roads, water, may challenge any for its size—for the many advantages attending it—for raising any kind of produce, or for trade, or a gentleman's seat: Has on it a two story House, cieled and plastered, with two kitchens, a small Grist and Saw-mill, two out-houses for families, a barn and fowl house, an excellent well of water, springs, a constant running stream of pure water, for washing or bleaching, two orchards, meadows, woods, &c.—Will give every satisfaction to the industrious. For particulars apply to G. Deychinch, No. 23, at the corner of King and Smith-streets, New-York.
Also, A Commodious Dwelling-House, in Morristown, suitable for a gentleman or merchant, a two story house with wings annexed to it, extends near 100 feet front, a large well fenced court-yard in front, and an out-house for a small family, a barn, a well, all in good order; gardens and a small grass-field, with a few fruit-trees. The house or stand is situated in the centre of Morristown—a dry road in the worst of times in the wet season. The whole to be sold on the same terms as above-mentioned.
N. B. The above dwelling-house being empty at present, will be let at a moderate rent to a careful family. 49
PURSUANT to an order made by the Hon. John Sloss Hobart, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature, for the State of New-York; upon the petition of Abraham Mesier, an insolvent debtor, in conjunction with so many of his creditors as have debts due and owing unto them by the said Abraham Mesier, amounting to at least three fourths of all the money owing by him: Notice is hereby given, by the said petitioner, to all his creditors, that they be and appear before the said Judge, at his office in Crown-street, in the city of New-York, by Thursday the 22d day of November inst. to shew cause if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Abraham Mesier should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Abraham Mesier discharged pursuant to the direction of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, 'An act for the relief of insolvent debtors,' passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated this 8th day of November, 1787. 49 3 ABRAHAM MESIER.
WESTCHESTER, N. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that, by virtue of a writ to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery for this State, I shall expose to sale at PUBLIC VENDUE, on the seventh day of January next, at two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, at the dwelling-house of John Mandeville, innkeeper, at Peek's-Kill, in the said county of Westchester, a certain farm or parcel of land with the appurtenances, and which, in the mortgage of the same, from William Baily to Philip Schuyler, is described as follows, that is to say: All that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the manor of Cortlandt and county of Westchester, being part of river lot, number eight, and begins by a maple tree standing on the west side of the post road, by a mud bridge to the southward of Van Tassel's house; from thence west forty chains to the upper part of a creek, commonly known by the Indian name of Managh; then down along the said creek, as it now runs, to a ditch; from thence along said ditch, about south fifty-three degrees east, to a stake with stones on the upland, it being Francis Lent's northerly bounds of his meadow; thence down along the upland and meadow to a stake standing four chains to the northward of the mouth of the said creek Managh; from said stake north seventy-seven degrees east seven chains; then south fifteen degrees west seven chains and twenty links to a marked tree; then south fifty-one degrees west two chains and fifty links to Hudson's River; then down along the said river about seven chains to a stake with stones; then south sixty-five degrees east about eight chains to Francis Lent's south-west corner; then north fifty degrees east ninety chains to Francis Lent's north-west corner; then about north eleven degrees west to the place where it first begun; containing two hundred and sixty-five acres, two roods, in all. Given under my hand the nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. 1 49 7 JOHN THOMAS, Sheriff.
The following CERTIFICATES WILL be sold for CASH, or LANDED PROPERTY in the city of New-York: 11,000 dollars Continental Loan-Office certificates, mostly of the State of New-York. 1000 dollars in facilities. 17,000 dollars in continental bills of the first and second emission. 500. Pennsylvania State certificates, drawing interest payable at six months, at six per cent. per annum. Direct a line for A. B. to be left at the Printing-Office. If the offer suits, the holder may then be known. October 18. 49
Four Pounds Reward. L O S T, ON Wednesday the 7th inst. in New-York or between Brooklyn-ferry and Jamaica, a number of BILLS of the present paper money, wrapped up in a piece of paper, upon which was a direction to Smith Ramage of Dublin; they consisted of ten of four pounds, two of two pounds, and four pounds fifteen shillings in twenty and five shilling bills. Whoever will deliver the said bills to Capt. Henry Dawson at Brooklyn, Edward Bardin at Jamaica, or to Samuel Loudon, No. 5, Water-street, shall receive the above reward. 48
RUN-away from the subscriber, an APPRENTICE BOY named David Danilson, about seventeen years of age. Any person who will apprehend him, and bring him to his master shall receive TEN DOLLARS Reward. 48 NOAH GARDINER.
The sale of Gearrys, Champion and Co's GOODS will commence again THIS DAY, and consist of the following articles, viz.
Womens shoes, sewing silks, ostrich feathers, jewellery, fadlery, men and womens gloves of various kinds, an assortment of pewter, plated, pinch-back and other shoe buckles, printed callicoos worsted stockings, &c.
Robert Bowne, John Murray, John Murray, jun. } Trustees.
At the TANNERY,
Near the Fresh Water Pond,
MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent foal and upper leather, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He purposed to supply country dealers on terms that will enable them to make large profits for city consumption; such as will establish the shoe manufactory 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 calf skins, taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD.
N. B. A Currier, master of his business, is wanted immediately. Apply as above. 48
To be Sold at Private Sale, TWO FLOUR-BOLTS and BOXES, constructed to be moved in an easy manner, a fine one, and a coarse one for cornell, warranted good, fitting for a Bolter or Miller, also a scale and weights and a number of bags; the reason of sale is, the Subscriber being suited with a place in the country, declines carrying on business in town. Also, to be LET cheap to a good tenant, from now till May next, and immediate possession given, a two story HOUSE, with six rooms besides the kitchen, a cellar under the whole, and a good bake-oven, suitable for a man of that business or any other, and in a pleasant situation for a gentleman. Enquire of the subscriber on the premises in Dyes-street, four doors from Colonel Stoughtenburgh's. DANIEL GREEN. November 5, 1787. 48 6
D O D D S's
Musical Instrument Manufactory, from LONDON. ORGANS, harpsichords and forte-pianos, spinnets, forte-piano and common guittars, finished in the newest taste. After trial of any of those instruments, if they should not be approved of, they may be exchanged by paying the usual hire for the time. He has just imported a large assortment of fine toned violins and strings from London, which will be sold very cheap, great allowance will be made to dealers in those articles. Violins, clarionets and haut-bois, flutes and a good assortment of fifes, fickedo-pastorals, pitch-pipes, tuning forks, hammers and ruling pens, books of instruction, blank books and ruled paper. Also, a few of the newest and most favorite songs, set to music—These and other articles may be had as good and as cheap as in London—Instruments taken in exchange; and any gentleman or lady may be supplied with any quantity of strings for the above instruments, by describing the note or number without being at the expence of whole sets; likewise every other article pertaining to the above instruments. Instruments repaired and kept in tune. 48
JOHN HUNT,
No. 22, Great-Dock-Street,
INTENDING to decline his present mode of business; that he may do it with greater facility, purposes to dispose of his store of GOODS, by retail as well as at wholesale, extremely cheap, for cash or for good notes payable in the city; they consist principally of the following articles, viz.
A variety of double purple callicoos; black, blue, green and cloth coloured moreens, and tabbareens; 1-2 ell cloth col. green, plum col. and pink col. camblets; blue and pink col. callimancoes; green and blue durants and tamies; black and blue antaloons; fine bordered linen and cambric handkerchiefs: black modes and persians; long lawns; German linens, dowlas and oznabrigs, cotton damoise and checks, flowered drawboys, plain mullins, britannias, calimeres, womens purple and other col. lamb gloves and mitts, womens cotton hose, men and youths thread do, white and brown buckram and glazed linens; fools cap and quarto post and common writing paper, Holland quills, ivory combs, Scotch stitching, coloured and darning thread; shirt buttons, Dutch lace, bobbins, filleting tapes, sewing silk, quality and shoe bindings, Harlem oil, tea kettles, frying pans, Holland powder, &c. &c. 47
To be Sold at Public Auction, On Monday the 10th December, at the Merchants Coffee-House,
THREE-QUARTERS of a valuable tract of land, containing two thousand acres, known by the name of Blundell's patent, being in Hebron, Washington county, formerly the county of Albany. The above tract is divided in lots of two hundred acres each, one of which is under lease, and many of the others are under considerable improvement, the particulars of which will be made known at the time of sale. At the same time will be sold, three quarters of one quarter of an undivided patent of four thousand acres of land, granted to Alexander Colden, William Willet, Stephen Delancey, and Christopher Blundell, each one quarter. This patent lies on both sides of the Mohawk-River, above Burnetsfield, very valuable land, and worthy the attention of gentlemen who would wish to erect mills, &c. The whole of the lands subject to a quit-rent of two shillings and six-pence sterling the hundred acres per annum. N. B. The above lands will be disposed of at private sale, by applying at No. 24, Broad-street, or to Mr. Anthony Bolton, Broad-Way. An indisputable title will be given to the purchaser, by the heirs of the late Mr. Christopher Blundell. 43
BLANK BOOKS.
LEDGERS, journals, waste books, invoice books, letter books, well bound and lettered; imperial, royal, medium or fool's cap paper. Also, receipt books, memorandum books, pocket books, and a great variety of stationary, amongst which are several thousand
Best HOLLAND QUILLS,
which will be sold at moderate prices, by S. LOUDON.
New-York Air Furnace.
PETER T. CURTENIUS, & Co.
HAVE repaired the New-York Air Furnace, and have procured the best workmen, together with the necessary apparatus to carry on the Manufactory of cast iron in the completest and best manner.
Castings made in an Air Furnace, are allowed by all who are acquainted with the nature of Foundries, to be better than what is made in a Blast Furnace; because, in an Air Furnace the ware is made out of the softest and best pig metal, and by its being melted a second time, the scoria, or dross, is expelled, and nothing but the pure metal remains. In a Blast Furnace, the castings are made out of the first smelting of the crude ore, and are more or less mixed with dross, which subjects the ware to be rough and spungy, and often full of cold shuts: The difference, in short, is nearly the same as that between refined and bloomery iron. The ware they have made is allowed, by good judges to be as light, as smooth and as good as any imported from Europe. This consideration alone, of the ware being as good as the foreign, is a sufficient inducement for an American, to give the preference to the manufactures of his own country; but a more powerful argument for the purchaser to give it a preference is, that it can be afforded (and will be sold) cheaper than the imported ware, all foreign castings being subject to a duty of six per cent. on importation.
The WARE, manufactured at this FURNACE, consists of the following Articles, viz.
POTS and kettles of various sizes, from one to fifteen gallons, Tea kettles, Pye pans, Skillets, Griddles, Pot-ash kettles and Coolers, Whaling kettles, Boilers for tallow-chandlers and sugar-works, Stoves for sugar-bakers, Mill-cafes, Cast bars for sugar-works and distilleries, Rollers and shears for flitting-mills, Hearth and jamb plates, cast agreeable to any pattern that may be sent; Close stoves for work-shops, Franklin stoves neatly decorated with carved work, Bathstove-grates elegantly ornamented with carvings, Chimney-backs, Ships caboues of the new construction, with bake ovens in them, in which the same fire that roasts and boils the meat, bakes the bread, Mill rounds and Gudgeons, Saw-mill cranks, Calcining plates for making pearl-ashes, Cast iron screws for fulling and paper-mills, Fullers plates cast to any size that may be wanted, Sash-weights, Forge-hammers and Anvils, Plow-plates, Half hundreds, Quarters, Fourteen and seven pound weights, Cart, waggon, coach, phæton, chair and tulkey boxes, &c. &c.
N. B. Persons who want any backs or other ware, call agreeable to particular patterns, will please to send their patterns and orders to the FURNACE, near Mr. Atlee's Brewery, or leave them at the house of Peter T. Curtenius, No. 48, Great Dock-street, near the Exchange. New-York, October 13, 1787. 43
HILL and OGDEN,
No. 41, Great Dock-street, have just imported by the Grace, from Amsterdam, and for sale on very reasonable terms, for cash, notes at short payments, pot-ashes, flax-seed, bar iron, wheat or flour, an assortment of the following articles, viz.
TICKLENBURGS, oznabrugs, German dowlas, Russia diaper, platillas, Britannias, cotton and linen checks, sheetings of excellent quality, white flammish linen, German stripes and checks, lawns, calicoes, writing paper, &c. They have likewise for sale, coatings, Yorkshire cloths, calimancoes, durants, flannels, Irish linens, &c.
Also, Improved Franklin STOVES, cast in the Air-furnace at Newark, which, besides being exceedingly neat, are constructed to give more heat into the room, a remedy for smoky chimneys, and more secure from fire than any other. Also, pot-ash kettles, forge hammers and anvils refined from bog ore, pig metal, and approved by many years experience.
N. B. Orders are received by them for every kind of hollow ware and iron castings, made at said Air-furnace, and will be executed with dispatch and superior neatness. 47
Gouverneur, Kemble & Co.
Have imported and now for Sale at their Store No 26, Front-street, either for cash, short credit, or in barter for country produce, on the most reasonable terms, viz.
Muscovado sugar in hds. and barrels, Windward island rum & Jamaica spirits, Old French Brandy in pipes & quarter casks, Old sherry wine ditto, Teneriffe wine ditto, Holland gin in pipes and cases of high proof, Black pepper in bales, from 100 to 400 lbs. A quantity of Spanish salted dryed hides, Lisbon salt, Linseed oil in casks, An assortment of cordage and cables. Holland duck, Russia duck, Ravens duck, Russia sheetings, Russia drilling, Oznabrugs, Ticklenburghs, Writing-paper, Dutch copper tea-kettles London porter in hampers and casks. 47
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Monday the 17th of December next, at the house of William Seton, No. 12, Hanover-square, a division will be made of the money which shall come to our hands as assignees of the estate of Isaac Gouverneur, junior, as surviving partner of the house of Curfon and Gouverneur. All the creditors of the said house of Curfon and Gouverneur, are requested to meet on Monday the 10th day of December next, at the house of William Seton aforesaid, to examine and ascertain the debts due to them respectively, according to the intent and meaning of the act, entitled, 'An act for the relief of insolvent debtors,' passed the 13th April, 1786.
WILLIAM SETON, JOHN LAWRENCE, } Ass

CITY OF NEW-YORK, &c. A SSIZE of bread as established the 24th October, 1787.—A loaf of fine wheat flour to weigh 2lb. 5oz. for six pence: A loaf of like flour to weigh 1lb. 2 1/2oz. for three pence.
From and after the 24th of November next, an affize will take place, that all bread baked in this city for sale, of wheat flour, be of superfine inspect- ed flour.
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 4th of April, 1786; notice is hereby given, that we Robert Bowne, John Murray, and John Murray, jun. have been duly appointed trustees for all the creditors of Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut, Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, now or late of Basinghall-street in London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, Henry Champion of Norwich, in the State of Connecticut aforesaid, Eneas Gearey, late of the city of New-York, merchants, and partners in trade, absent debtors; and we do, pursuant to the directions of the said act, hereby require all persons who are indebted to the said Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearey, by the tenth day of November next ensuing the date hereof, to pay all such sum or sums of money, or other debt, duty or thing which they owe to the said absent debtors; and deliver all effects of such absent debtors, which he, she or they may have in his, her or their hands, power or custody, unto to the said trustees; and all the creditors of the said Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearey, by the first day of May next, to deliver to us the said trustees, or any one or more of us, their respective accounts and demands against the said absent debtors. Given under our hands the 13th day of October, 1787.
ROBERT BOWNE, JOHN MURRAY, JOHN MURRAY, jun. } Trustees.
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to John Antill, late of the city of New-York in the State of New-York, Esq. an absent debtor, and to all others whom it may concern, that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the Legislature, entitled, 'An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors,' passed the 4th day of April, 1786, by a creditor of the said John Antill; he the said Chief Justice, has directed all his the said John Antill's estate real and personal within this State 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 at the city of New-York, this 19th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1787. I 43 6
At a Court of Chancery held at the Chancellor's Chambers in the city of New-York, the ninth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T The Hon. Robert R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Lawrence Hewlett, James Willett and Leonard Lawrence, Executors of the last will and testament of John Willett, deceased, Complainants.
John Van Lew, Defendant. FORASMUCH as it appears to this Honorable Court, that a bill has been filed therein, by Lawrence Hewlett, James Willett, and Leonard Lawrence, Executors of the last will and testament of John Willett, deceased, mortgagee, against the Defendant, John Van Lew, mortgagor, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, John Van Lew, to the said John Willett—whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned, and that the said defendant, John Van Lew, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been done, in case the said process had been duly served—and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this court, that the said defendant, John Van Lew, has withdrawn himself out of this State, and cannot, upon due enquiry, be found within the same, so as to be served with the said process, which issued on the filing of the bill of complaint in this cause. Wherefore it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Bogert, of counsel for the Complainants, that the said John Van Lew appear to the said bill in three months from the date hereof; and in default thereof, that the Complainants said bill be taken pro confesso, to the end that a decree may be made for a sale of the said mortgaged premises, or such part thereof as to this court shall appear just and right.—And it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be inserted in at least two of the public newspapers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes, I 47 8 W. COCK, Register.
JUST ARRIVED, An assortment of WRITING-PAPER, Amongst which are 80 reams post or letter paper, folio and quarto, gilt, plain & mourning. Also, a large assortment of Holland dressed quills, large and common, will be sold on very moderate terms for cash, by the thousand or smaller quantity, by S. LOUDON, No. 5, Water-street. N. B. An elegant set of Voltaire's Works, 39 volumes, to be sold at the same place.
A L S O, Just come to hand, the Political, European, Ladies and Country Magazines, for May, June, and July. Likewise the American Museum and the Columbian Magazines.
PASTE-BOARD Sold by the Printers.
PEREMPTORILY to be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 14th of November next, between 11 and 12 o'clock, that very valuable LOT OF GROUND , at the foot of Cortlandt-street, joining the corner of Peter Mester's, late the property of Cornelia Norwood , deceased, containing in breadth, front and rear, 25 feet, length 170 feet.—ALSO, on Thursday, at the same hour, a valuable lot in Ferry-street, belonging to the said estate, adjoining the distillery of Capt. Rose, containing in front and rear 25 feet, and in length 120 feet.
THE creditors of the above estate (if any there should be) are requested to bring in their demands to the subscriber, before the 1st of May next, as he then intends to make a final settlement of the estate. RICHARD NORWOOD, acting executor.
NOTICE is hereby given according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, 'An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;' passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774:—That on the 24th day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction upon the premises, the fee simple of all the one equal fourth part of all that certain messuage and Lot of Ground situate lying and being in Montgomery-ward, in the city of New-York, on the northeasterly side of the slip commonly called Beekman's-slip, and bounded on the front to the street or pier that runs along the said northeasterly side of Beekman's-slip aforesaid, and contains in front 46 feet 3 inches, and bounded on the southerly side by the ground now or late belonging to James Jauncey, and containing in length on that side, 36 feet 3 inches, and in the rear by the lot of ground now or late belonging to George Peterson, and containing in length in the rear, 36 feet, then bounded northerly 19 feet 6 inches on the kitchen or building lately belonging to Catharine Beekman, then bounded northeasterly by the said kitchen, 10 feet 9 inches, & bounded northerly by the gangway lying between the house hereby granted and released and the house or northerly side thereof lately belonging to the said Catharine Beekman as aforesaid, to the front of the said lot, together with all & singular the privileges, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the same premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the 9th and 10th days of December, in the year of our Lord 1784, with a power to sell therein contained, from James William Payne, of the county of Dutchess and State of New-York, to the subscribers Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart and Alexander Stewart, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart, Alexander Stewart.
New-York, Sept. 21, 1787. I 33
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, 'An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates:'—That on Saturday the 23d day of February next, will be Sold at the Merchants Coffee-House in the city of New-York, between the hours of eleven in the morning, and one in the afternoon of the same day, by public auction, to the highest bidder or bidders; ALL that certain piece or parcel of Land, situate lying & being in the outward of the city of New-York, being the one equal half of lots number 1242 to 1249 inclusive, as the same are described in a certain map or chart of the estate late the property of James Delancey, Esq. made by Evert Bancker, bounded southerly by Pump-street, westerly by Sixth-street, northerly by lot number 1250, and easterly by the other equal half of the said hereby described lots, sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, to Peter Ogilvie: And also, a term of nineteen years from the 27th day of October last, of and in all that certain lot, piece or parcel of ground, situate lying and being in Montgomery Ward, in the said city of New-York, on the north side of Cherry-street, bounded southerly by said Cherry-street, westerly by land now or late of Jane Hamilton, northerly by the lands of the heirs of Albert Herring, deceased, and easterly by land of Jeremiah Leaming, containing in breadth in front and rear, 16 feet 8 inches, and in length on each side, 100 feet, subject to an annual ground rent of 20l. in Spanish milled dollars, at eight shillings per dollar, or the value thereof in gold, payable half yearly; which premises and term were mortgaged by John Keating and Ann his wife, to Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, by indenture bearing date the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, to secure the payment of three hundred and forty-two pounds three shillings and four pence, principal, with lawful interest from the twenty-sixth day of February, 1785, and are to be sold by virtue of a power for that purpose, contained in the said indenture.—The conditions will be made known at the day and place of sale. Dated 20th August, 1787. I 25 6m
Wm. Backhouse & Co. No. 15, Duke-street, have FOR SALE, RED Port Wine, shipped by the Royal Port Company, the quality of whose wines, experience has shown to be superior to any imported into America. A L S O, Choice Faya Wines four years old, Madeira, Lisbon, Teneriffe, & } WINES. Malaga, Liverpool Crockery Ware, twenty quarter casks old SHERRY WINE, to be sold cheap for cash. August 14. 23
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, 1774, entitled, 'An Act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates; that on Friday the fourth day of January next, will be sold on the premises to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all the three Tracts of Land, now in the possession of Andrew Miller, lying in the township of Brook-Haven, in Suffolk county, on Nassau-island, and bounded as follows: One tract, on the north by lands belonging to John Woodhull, Esq. on the west by lands belonging to Timothy and Ebenezer Miller, on the east by the south road, and on the south by the sheep pasture lots.—Also, one other tract, bounded, on the north by the wading river road, on the west by lands lately belonging to the late Solomon Davis, and on the east by lands belonging to Philip Rod, and southwardly by the country road, containing about 2 hundred and fifty acres more or less.—Also, one other piece or parcel of land, already mortgaged to Phillip Rod, bounded, southerly by the road, and eastwardly by lands belonging to John Woodhull, westerly by lands belonging to Ebenezer Miller, northwardly by the bank on the found, containing about forty acres be the same more or less, with the buildings thereon, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-ninth and thirtieth days of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, for securing the payment of two hundred and thirteen pounds, twelve shillings (with a power of sale therein contained) from the said Andrew Miller, to William Floyd. Deeds of conveyance after sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Wm. FLOYD. June 30, 1787. I 11 6m
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the late Colony, now State of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, 'An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates.' That on the second day of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at public auction, at the merchants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, all that certain dwelling house and lot of land, now in the tenure and occupation of Peter Kemble, situated lying and being, on the west side of Smith-street, in the city of New-York aforesaid, bounded on the east by said Smith-street, on the north by the house and lot of ground formerly of Charles Lodowick, but now of the heirs or devisees of the late David Clarkson, deceased, and by another lot of ground belonging to the reformed Dutch Church, in the said city of New-York, on the south by a house and ground, late of the widow Bend, but at present in the occupation of John Oothoudt, and on the west by land now or late belonging to the heirs of the late Alderman Gautier; together also, with all that certain piece or parcel of land, being westerly and in the rear of a lot of land, formerly owned by the said widow Bend, which said lot is in breadth, in front and rear twenty-two feet, in length on the southwesterly side, sixty-one feet and one inch, on the northeasterly side, fifty-nine feet eleven inches; which said lot was mortgaged on the 29th day of March, 1781, by Grove Bend to the subscriber, to secure the payment of one thousand pounds, with lawful interest, on the 29th day of March, then next ensuing. The conditions of sale will be made known on the day of the vendue. Dated this 27th day of July, 1787. I 19 6m JOHN LEAKE.
TO BE SOLD, A PHÆTON, ENTIRELY new, with Harness complete, finished in the neatest manner. Apply to the Printers. 38 8
FOR SALE, By Nicholas Hoffman and Son, No. 12, Little Dock-street; A Parcel excellent dried Hides, A few casks of Linseed Oil, 80 pieces Ruffia Duck, blue mark, 6 by 8 and 7 by 9 Window Glafs. 13
TO BE SOLD, THE STILL-HOUSE, BELONGING to Edward Burling and Company, in Ferry-street, with all the utensils belonging to it; and the lot of ground whereon it stands, being sixty feet fronting Ferry-street, and one hundred and eighty-three feet deep. Any person inclining to purchase the stills and worms, &c. separate from the building and lot, may know the terms by applying at No. 15, Beekman-street. October, 22. I 43 4
Public Securities. CASH and the highest price given for all kinds of PUBLIC SECURITIES. PARTICULARLY Final Settlement Certificates, Facilities, Nourse's, Pickering's, Bancker's and Barber's NOTES. Apply at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 2 700 6m
To be Sold, at Private Sale, By the Subscriber, an undivided moiety or half part of seven thousand three hundred and seventy-three acres of LAND , being part of lots No. 6 and 12, in the subdivision of lot No. 35—the general division of the tract of land in Ulster County, called the Great or Hardenburgh Patent. Lot No. 35 is a valuable tract of Land, situated at the Fork of Delaware-river, having Poughkeepsie-river on the the south-east and the main or northernmost branch of Delaware, on the west and southwest sides thereof.—The land is of very excellent quality, and an indisputable title will be given by Gerard G. Beekman, jun. Acting executor of the last will and testament of Samuel Van Horne, deceased. New-York, Sept. 6, 1787. 35
Public Auction, if not Sold before at Private Sale,
At the Coffee-house, at twelve o'clock, on Tuesday the first day of February 1788, to be entered upon the first day of May next;
THE pleasantly situated House and Land of the late Ludwyk Bumper, deceased, in the township of Brooklyn, opposite to the city of New-York. As it is so well known to many gentlemen, it needs no further recommendation. For further particulars, enquire of Jacob and Charles Doughty, at Brooklyn, and John Anderson, in New-York, executors, who will give a good executors deed, as the above estate is clear of incumbrance.
Also, to be Sold at Public Auction, on the premises, if not sold at private sale before, on Wednesday the second day of February 1788, two Tenements and eight Lots of Ground in New-York, in Chapel-street,—to be entered on the first day of May 1788. For further particulars enquire as above.
Also, to be Sold at Private Sale, four Lots of Land, lot No. 14, 959 acres, No. 8, 1227, No. 3, 5996, No. 13, 3571 acres, in Hardenburgh's patent, in Ulster County, either in whole lots or in lots of two hundred acres, as will best suit the purchaser.
All persons that have any demands against the above estate, are requested to bring in their accounts to Charles Doughty properly attested, in order to receive payment, by the first of January next; and all those that are indebted to the above estate, are requested to pay their debts, by the first day of May next, or their accounts will be put into the hands of Attorney. Jacob Sharpe, Charles Doughty, John Anderson, } Executors to the above estate.
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FOR SALE, By Robert Johnston, No. 14, Water-Street, in the house formerly occupied by Col. Samuel Ogden; a large and general assortment of IRON CASTINGS , among which are the following, viz.
IRON hollow ware of all sizes, potash kettles cast with bottom down, clock and window weights, griddles, tea kettles large and small, bake pans, do. cart, waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes, 56, 28, 14 and 7lb. weights, finished with rings; mortars and pestles, sad irons, Franklin stoves large and small, Rittenhouse do. ten and six plate do. close stoves with pipes, Sharp's new invented stove grates, Canada stoves close cast for large rooms, cabooses for ships of different patterns, fire places with jambs complete, back plates of every dimension, Hibernia, Mount Hope, New Mine, Andover pig metal; gudgeons and mill irons, refined and blooming bar iron, nail and spike rods, iron hoops, horse shoes, sheet iron, 20d. 12d. 10d. & 8d. nails, Crowley's and blistered steel.—Cash or country produce will be taken in payment, and large allowance made to those who buy to sell again.
All orders for wrought or cast iron, will be duly attended to, and forwarded agreeable to pattern at the shortest notice. 41
Robert Bowne, At his Store, No. 39, Queen-Street, has for Sale BOLTING CLOTHS , a complete assortment of very fine and warranted, of superior quality; he has just received a large assortment of coarse goods suitable for the season, consisting of broad and narrow cloths, plain and twilled coatings, frizes, blue and red long shag duffils, fearnoughts, half thicks, kerseys, German ferges, kendall cottons, long ells, broad and narrow baizes, spotted swanskins, rose and striped blankets, flannels, satinets and lastings, shallons and rattinees, durants and tammies, moreens and calamincos, common and wild bore, cambelts, tassies, modes and farcenets, black silk handkerchiefs, check linens, &c. &c. HE HAS LIKEWISE FOR SALE, French burr mill stones, a few pipes best old Madeira wine, Payall wines, Jamaica spirits, a few bags of coffee, Geneva in quarter casks, Holland powder, dry hides, indigo, pipes in boxes, earthen ware, a few barrels pickled beef and pork. Also, best superfine flour and ship bread of the first quality, may at any time, be had by applying as above. 33
FOR SALE, on Reasonable Terms By Edmund Prior, No. 195, Queen-street, A FEW bales low priced Broad Cloths, mostly blue; ALSO, A few hogheads of very good Philadelphia made Snuff, and a quantity of Spermaceti Candles. 45
Parchment Manufactory. WEST and BULGER, WISH to inform the citizens of New-York, that they have erected a Parchment Manufactory No. 5, Frankfort-street, near the Brick Presbyterian Church, where the gentlemen of the law, and stationers, can be supplied on the lowest terms, and engaged as good as any imported—They have for the greater convenience of their friends, appointed Mr. Frederick Jay, corner of Wall and Queen-streets, to sell for them on commission. They also flatter themselves that the above gentlemen will give them all the encouragement worthy the undertaking, it being the first ever established in this city; and it is a well known fact that vast sums have been transported from this State, for that single article. N. B. They also make Drawing, Writing and Binding Vellums. 44
JOHN BLEECKER, At his OFFICE, No. 198, Queen-Street, BUTS and SELLS BANCKER'S, Barber's, Burrall's, Pierce's Nourse's, Denning's, Walker's, Fox's, Loan-Office, Interest, &c. &c. &c. CERTIFICATES. 28