The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-07-26 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 179, of VOL. XLII.]
S A T U R D A Y, July 26, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2358.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED 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.
HARTFORD, April 28.
PROPOSALS, For Publishing, by Subscription, A COMPENDIUM
OF Christian Theology.
By JOHN FREDERICK OSTERWALD, A celebrated Divine of Switzerland.
Newly translated into English, from the Original
LATIN.
By the Rev. JOHN McMains.
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C O N T E N T S.
1. CONCERNING the nature of the Gospel Ministry.
2. The qualifications of a minister of the word of God.
3. Preparation and vocation to the ministry.
4. The Method of Theological study.
5. A general idea of theology.
6. The constituent parts of theology.
Section I. Of Christian Theology.
Concerning the Sacred Scripture.
Chap. 1. Concerning the books which constitute S. S.
2. The attributes of S. S.
3. The use of S. S.
Section II. Concerning God.
Chap. 1. Concerning the existence of God.
2. The attributes of God.
3. The holy trinity.
The first Part of Theology.
Concerning the Time which preceded the Advent of Christ.
Chap. 1. Concerning the creation.
2. Providence.
3. Sin.
4. Decrees.
5. The Antediluvian world.
6. The calling of Abraham.
7. The law of Moses.
8. The prophets.
9. The various state of the Jews.
10. The state of other nations.
The latter Part of Theology.
Concerning the Time subsequent to the Advent of Christ.
Section I. Chap. 1. Concerning John the Baptist.
Section II. Concerning Jesus Christ.
Chap. 1. That Jesus is the Messiah.
2. Concerning the person of Christ.
3. His threefold office.
4. His twofold state.
Section III. Concerning the Constitution of the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning the mission of the Holy Spirit.
2. The Preaching of the apostles.
3. The destruction of the Jews.
4. The calling of the Gentiles.
Section IV. Concerning the Doctrine which is preached in the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning faith.
2. Repentance.
3. Good works.
4. Promises and threatenings.
5. Justification.
6. Sanctification.
Section V. Concerning the Church.
Chap. 1. What we are to understand by the Church.
2. Church government.
3. Discipline.
4. The various state of the church.
Section VI. Concerning the Assistance to Salvation.
Chap. 1. Concerning internal assistance.
2. External assistance.
3. Sacraments.
4. Baptism.
5. The holy Supper.
Section VII. Concerning a future World.
Chap. 1. Concerning the state of man after death.
2. The end of the world.
3. The resurrection.
4. The last judgment.
5. Life Eternal.
6. Death External.
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Leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late convention, and to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
The former letters, published under the signature of the Federal Farmer, have undergone several impressions in the different states, and several thousands of them have been sold. They are admitted, by candid men of both parties, to be written with a spirit of moderation and candour.
A number of principles are laid down in them, highly interesting to the people of America, which ought to be more fully illustrated, than the bounds which the author set to himself, in the former letters, would permit.
The design of these additional letters, is, more fully to explain and enforce the positions laid down in the former. The author does not aim to foment the passions; his appeal is to the reason of his readers. He wishes every man to examine for himself, and form his own opinion on the merits of the question.
There are very few dispassionate men, who do not wish to see amendments made to this system. The great drift of these additional letters, is, to point out what these amendments ought to be, and to adduce arguments to support them.
It is a matter of small importance, whether these amendments precede or succeed the adoption of the constitution, so that they be made.
It is hoped, therefore, that gentlemen who are sincere in declaring that they will for amendments, will unite in turning their attention to the subject, that they may be prepared to accede to such as are proper. To those who are thus disposed, this publication is recommended.
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Relative to the Proceedings of the
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Lately held at PHILADELPHIA,
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Attorney-General of Maryland, and one of the
Delegates in the said Convention.
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A L E T T E R
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An ADDRESS
To the Citizens of the UNITED STATES;
And some REMARKS
Relative to
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By ROBERT HODGE,
No. 123, Queen-Street, and at
This PRINTING-OFFICE,
An Address to the people of the state
of New-York; shewing the necessity
of making AMENDMENTS to the constitution
proposed for the United States, previous to its adoption."
To which is added, by way of postscript,
some STRICTURES on a pamphlet, lately
published, entitled, "An address to the
people of the state of New-York, on the
subject of the proposed constitution, &c.
By a PLEBEIAN.
WHEREAS RICHARD BAYLIS, of
Goshen, in the county of Orange and late colony of New-York, for securing the payment of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, current money of the state of New-York, with lawful interest for the same according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June, 1771, and executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake, of the city of New-York, did by indentures of lease and release, bearing date respectively the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake: All that certain piece or parcel of LAND, situate, lying and being in Goshen, in the county of Orange, known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at the south east corner of the lands conveyed by Ebenezer Holly to Josiah Seely, then running north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of Ebenezer Holly, to a ditch on the south side of said Holly's meadow, thence south westerly along said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south-easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Jeremiah Coleman to the high way, then along the high way to the place of beginning; containing seven acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be granted, and released; and every part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversion, remainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns for ever. In which said indenture of release is contained a covenant, that in case it should happen that the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with the interest, or any part thereof should remain due and unpaid on the 24th day of June then next ensuing the date of the said indenture of release then and in such case it should and might be lawful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to any person or persons for such sum or sums of money as might be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to retain and keep in his hands the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, and the interest that might be due thereon, together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made by virtue of the said indenture of mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity of redemption of the premises or any part thereof:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by a certain instrument in writing under his hand and seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe Gale, of the county of Orange and state of New-York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage, and all monies due and to grow due thereon, together with all the right, title, and interest of him the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mortgaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the principal sum, together with a great arrear of interest still remains due and unpaid—These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the said premises, that unless the said one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six pence, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, to be held on the premises, on the said sixth day of November next, at eleven o'clock in forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the directions of a certain 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 nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four. COE GALE.
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The American Calculator, or
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CONTAINING,
A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States. A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into Sterling, and Sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money.
THE PROPRIETORS of the New-York and Philadelphia
NEW LINE
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STAGES.
Owned by Cumming & Ward, at Newark, and by Michael Dennison, in Philadelphia, RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their Stages leave Powles-Hook every afternoon (except Saturday) at 4, on their route for Philadelphia, proceed by Newark to Elizabeth Town that evening—Leave Elizabeth Town, and Michael Dennison's, George Inn, Philadelphia, at three o'clock every morning, except Sunday, and drive to Philadelphia and Powles-Hook that day.
On Monday the 21st of April an extra Stage will start for the accommodation of select parties, and those gentlemen and ladies who wish to indulge themselves in the morning, or who fear the bad effects of the early air. This stage will leave Powles-Hook at seven o'clock, and Philadelphia at eight o'clock every morning (except Saturday and Sunday) and proceed with the same speed as the early stage.
The expence of the stage to each passenger will be Three Spanish Milled Dollars from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and Four-pence per mile for all way passengers. One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same as a passenger—Fourteen weight of baggage gratis.
The expedition, lowness of fare, and certainty of arrival, must convince the public, that this route is preferable to the Amboy, as the journey is performed in half the time.
Letters, Newspapers, &c. left at the New-York, Albany, and Philadelphia stage office, kept by Christopher Beekman, in Courtland-street, New-York, and with Mr. Michael Dennison, at the George Inn, corner of Arch and Second-street, Philadelphia, will be safely conveyed gratis.
JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON.
April 11, 1788. 67 ad.
New-York, Elizabeth Town, and Philadelphia
New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By strict attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit the favors of the public.
The stage will leave Powles-Hook, every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Elizabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge-town in Raraway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 14 wt of baggage; and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile.
One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile.
❖ No racing allowed in this line.
JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARL BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLINE.
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 Petersburg 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 lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
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 RUM
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By Charles Tillinghast,
At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market in Cherry Street.

Foreign Intelligence.
[By the ship Hannibal Capt. Cunningham, arrived at Philadelphia from Ireland, were received the following advices.]
PARIS, May 19.
THE Chatelet, or court of justice of Paris, after sitting almost thirty six hours, have unanimously agreed to the following arrest:
This court, deeply affected on seeing repeated acts of authority against the different seats of magistracy of this kingdom, the seat of justice invested by armed troops, the liberty of suffrages wantonly violated by arresting and committing magistrates, who could not be personally responsible for deliberations, essentially distinct in themselves. Magistracy itself debased and all order overthrown, under a monarch who has declared, that he never would reign but according to the tenor of the law, and whose beneficent intentions are the sure pledges of the happiness of his subjects; considering that the edicts and declarations reported by his majesty's attorney, have not been deliberated upon by parliament, who have a certain undoubted right, acknowledged by the monarch himself, to address their remonstrances to him (a right they cannot possibly make use of at present on account of the forced suspension of their functions) the court declare unanimously that they cannot, and ought not to proceed to the reading, publishing, and registering the said edicts, declarations, and orders. They allude to the arrest in the late Bed of Justice.
The king's officers of justice, after having perused the above arrest, having adhered to the contents of it.
Some deputies were sent to Versailles from the parliament of Brittany with remonstrances, &c. and they received the following answer from his majesty:
"I will not withdraw my edicts, the law being general for the kingdom. If some objects should be found contrary to the rights, franchises, and liberties of the provinces, I will receive the representations of the states of Brittany, and pay proper regard to those that shall appear well founded to me. If the number of forty-eight Judges is not sufficient it may be increased. All new imposts that shall be registered by my plenary court, shall not be levied in Brittany, without the previous assent of the states, and the lawful registering of the parliament. All laws regarding particularly the province of Brittany, shall all be registered by its own parliament as heretofore."
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 20.
The first division of the Turkish fleet, consisting of 12 sail of the line, six packet boats, and 30 gun boats, sailed from the port of this capital the 6th of this month, for the Black Sea; the second will soon follow; the third is destined for the use of the army.
VIENNA, May 10.
In the subsequent accounts received from Prince Lichtenstein, of the late attempt to storm Dubiean, he bestows great commendations on the bravery and ardour of the Austrian troops, declaring that had not Major General Schlau, on whom the command of that detachment devolved, upon Major General Khun's being wounded, been mortally wounded himself, he would certainly have forced his way into the town.
In the general action, which followed this unsuccessful attempt, the Turks advanced so near the bayonets of the Austrians as to be able to reach them with their spears. Neither side seemed inclined to give way, till the arrival of Major Schuchirich, with a squadron of the Kinsky light-horse, when the Turks were totally routed.
The loss of the Austrians in these actions amounted to two lieutenant colonels, one captain, 117 non-commissioned officers and privates, and 67 horses killed; and three lieutenant colonels, two captains, four lieutenants, 391 non commissioned officers and privates, and 67 horses, wounded. Ten privates were missing, and two pieces of cannon were taken by the Turks during the attack.
The loss of the Turks is computed at upwards of 900 men killed, and the Austrians took one Turkish standard.
Advices from lieutenant general Fabricius, who commands the army in Transylvania, mention that on the 20th, 26th and 27th of April, several bodies of Turks, amounting together to 2500 men, attacked different parties of the Austrian troops, posted in the neighbourhood of Terzbourg, but finding they could gain no advantage, they retreated, leaving 46 men slightly wounded.
Frequent skirmishes also happen between the Austrian volunteers posted at Croaks, in the Bannet, and the Turks, in one of which the former lately made 12 prisoners, and took a standard.
May 14. The letters from Semlin of the 7th instant, give no certain information of the Austrian army having passed the Save; nor has any account been yet received here of the siege of Belgrade having been commenced.
Four squadrons of the Waldeck dragoons marched from hence on the 6th instant, to reinforce the army under the command of Prince Lichtenstein: and this morning one of the seven battalions of Infantry, designed for the same army, also began its march.
American Occurrences.
NASSAU, June 2.
A meeting of the merchants & traders of this place, on Wednesday last, it was agreed, that after the first day of August next, they will keep their books in pounds, shillings and pence, instead of pieces of eight and rials, agreeable to the currency established by the legislature in their last session—and that they will continue the old par of exchange with Great-Britain, viz. three shillings and six-pence sterling the pieces of eight, or six shillings currency, i. e. 171 3 7 currency for 100 sterling.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, Jamaica, 13th of May 1788.
"Our political serments are now pretty well over, and I think likely to continue so, during General Clark's administration. Our last general election gave the people an opportunity of returning many members who were highly deserving of seats in the assembly, and who have done much for the establishment of our insular credit, which was certainly in a rapid decline. Our crops this season are in general plentiful, and I have great hopes that another year will witness the prosperity of Jamaica in its zenith."
"You will observe by our papers, that we have taken the alarm at the proceedings of the hair brained zealots at home respecting the slave trade. For some time at first, we were rather panic struck at the uncommon appearance of this phenomenon; but having received from the first impression, a spirit of resentment against our illiberal calumniators is become so general, that it will not be easily allayed. I hope, and pray, that parliament will not do any thing farther this session, than receive the petitions, as I know nothing they could do in the present stage of the business, that would not be attended with a bad effect."
June 28.
The sloops Active, Fisher, Polly and Fanny, Logan; and John Coakly, arrived here on Sunday the 22d inst. with wrecked goods, consisting of coffee, sugar, cotton, indigo and dye woods; saved from four wrecked vessels, found deserted on the Hogfies, Henegua, and French Keys.
BOSTON, July 19.
Wednesday last, being the anniversary of commencement, at the university in Cambridge, about ten o'clock in the forenoon his excellency the governor, his honor the lieutenant-governor, several members of the honorable council and senate, the hon. Mr. Bowdoin, hon. John Adams, esq. late ambassador from the United States to the court of Great-Britain, and a number of other gentlemen of distinction, arrived at Harvard-Hall, having been accompanied on their tour from Boston, by the deputy-sheriff of the county of Suffolk (the high sheriff by indisposition being unable to attend) and the independent company of horse-guards, under lieutenant Gibbs. They were received by the fellows of the corporation, professors and tutors, and conducted to the philosophy room, where the board of overseers met. The business necessary to be done previous to the solemnities of the day, was here transacted; and about 12 o'clock they went in usual procession to the meeting-house, where the reverend the President of the university, agreeably to usual custom, began the duties of the day by a prayer suitable to the occasion; after which the following exercises were performed by the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
A salutatory Oration, by John Philips. An English Poem on the present prospect of America, by Oliver Dodge.
A forensick disputation upon this question—"Whether the balance would be in favour of our existence, were there no state but the present." By Daniel Sanders and Amos Tappan.
A conference in Greek, "upon the evil effects of avarice and of prodigality on society." By James Gardner and Charles Jackson.
A forensick disputation upon this question—"Whether a republic is more secure of its liberties, where the officers in the higher branches of government are elected for several years, than when they are elected
annually." By Adam Gordon and Abner Lincoln.
A conference in English on this question, "Whether a large emigration from Europe into the United States would upon the whole be for the real advantage of the states." By Thomas Adams and Joseph Cabot.
An English Oration, by Benjamin Abbot. Several of the young gentlemen, who were to have exhibited on this occasion, were prevented by sickness; and the usual syllogistic disputations were dispensed with.
The president then informed his excellency the governor, that the exhibitions of the forenoon were finished, upon which his excellency was pleased to make the following elegant address to the president:
Reverend and learned Sir,
I CANNOT refrain expressing the high satisfaction, and exalted delight, I possess on the present occasion.
The evidence of genius and learning, this day exhibited by the young gentlemen who are now proceeding from hence into the world, under the great and well-improved advantages of an university education, irresistibly carries my best wishes with them. I anticipate, with great pleasure, those future years, which will present them highly ranked amongst the ornaments and supporters of their country.
When we contemplate the pious and patriotic origin, as well as the vast advantage of this college; when we see the sons of Harvard, with those who have mediately drawn measures of useful learning from this source, deep in the councils of state, erecting and supporting a new, prosperous and powerful confederated republic, improving the wealth and guiding the force of nations; when we see them respected in palaces abroad, and triumphing over cruel invaders at home; when we see, by the learning here acquired, religion stripped of that delusive and superstitious garb, which ignorance and superstition had wrapt her in:—and exhibited, in that simple and unaffected dress, in which alone she can honor the deity, and bless mankind; we cannot but deeply revere our ancestors, and rejoice in the fair inheritance they have transmitted us.
I am obliged on this happy occasion, to indulge myself to be carried on the wings of imagination, to the time fast approaching, when such attention will be paid to this seminary, that new colleges will be here erected, the useful professorships encouraged and sufficiently endowed, while the domes shall be thronged by youths, thirsty for science, & our country enriched by profound erudition, be acknowledged by the world as the principal seat of the muses.
From your learning and known ability, respectable Sir, your fellow citizens have formed the most sanguine expectations, that while you hold the station you now fill with so much dignity, you will annually send forth men formed to guide the cabinet, direct the arms, and extend the commerce of their country; and those also, who by their precepts and example, will honor our holy religion, and lay a foundation for the practice of the purest morals and patriotism, and thus perpetually transmit public and private happiness from one generation to another.
The gentlemen then returned, in procession, to the hall, where a dinner was provided for their entertainment, and in the afternoon they again proceeded to the meeting-house, and the following exhibitions completed the business of the day.
An English Oration on the advantages of religion in civil society. By the rev. Henry Ware.
The following young gentlemen were then admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Benjamin Abbot, Solomon Adams, Thomas Adams, Thomas Bancroft, Oliver Barron, Stephen Baxter, Joseph Bringham, Joseph Cabot, George Caryl, Edward Clark, Oliver Dodge, James Gardner, Adam Gordon, William Hill, Charles Jackson, Jacob Kimball, Abner Lincoln, John Phillips, James Prescott, Daniel Clarke Sanders, William Sawyer, Amos Tappan, John Dexter Treadwell, Charles Turner, Nathan Underwood, Samuel West, Robert Wyer.
And the degree of Master of Arts, was conferred on the following gentlemen.
John Allyn, Charles Coffin, Thomas Crafts, Ebenezer Dawes, Samuel Darly, Amasa Dingley, Samuel Emerson, Thaddeus Fiske, John Fleet, David Gurney, Jacob Haven, Nathan Hayward, Theodore Lincoln, William Mackay, Amasa Paine, Ebenezer Putnam, Mirrick Rice, John Miller Russell, Henry Ware, Hilborn Whitman.
A. B. 1779, Andrew Bowers.
A. B. 1783,
Azor Andrews.
A. B. 1784,
Moses Warren.
A. B. 1774,
Cornelius Waters, Mr. Dartmouth ad eundem.
After which the degree of Bachelor of Physic was conferred on George Holmes Hall, A. M. and John Fleet, A. M.
Those gentlemen having completed the prescribed term of medical study, and having attended two courses of lectures in Anatomy and surgery, two courses in the theory and practice of physic, & two courses in chymis-
try and the materia medica, under the professions of the respective branches at the university, were on the 8th instant admitted to a public examination in anatomy and surgery, theory and practice of physic, chymistry, and the materia medica, at the philosophy chamber, before the governors of the university, such members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and other gentlemen as chose to attend. The examination completed, agreeable to the articles of the medical institution, a dissertation on the cataract, by Mr. George H. Hall, containing a history of the disease, and an enquiry into its nature, with an account of experiments made on the eye, for investigating its cause and cure, was publicly read in the chapel; and another, on the Cephalalgia, by Mr. John Fleet, with an attempt to prove it not barely a symptom of other affections, but frequently a primary and original disease, and an enquiry into its cause and cure; these subjects having been previously assigned them by the president and medical professors of the university, having obtained an unanimous approbation as well qualified for pursuing the business of physic and surgery, they were this day admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Physic, with the ceremonies usual on such occasions; and they are now in the line for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Physic, to which, on compliance with the conditions of the institution, they will at the expiration of seven years be entitled.
The degree of Doctor of Laws, was conferred on Granville Sharp, esquire, of London.
A valedictory Oration, spoken by Mr. John Allyn. A concluding prayer, by the president.
WORCESTER, July 17.
His Excellency the Governor, at the recommendation of the general assembly, has issued a brief, to be read in the several religious societies in this commonwealth, for a contribution, to carry into effect the benevolent purposes mentioned in the following petition of the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians, &c.
To the Honorable the Senate, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"THE Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others, in North-America, beg leave to shew, that one design of our venerable Fathers in emigrating to this land, was professedly to extend the knowledge of our Glorious Redeemer among the Savage Natives: that this design was expressed and enjoined under both the charters granted by the parent state to this colony, and is, in the opinion of the Society, necessary and suitable at all times to be pursued by a people who profess christianity."
"That the end for which this Society was instituted by the legislature, was to attend to this important circumstance, and prove to the European world, who are at a great expence in pursuing this object among us, that we were not inattentive to it. It is the desire, the design, and the ambition of the Society, to pursue the ends and purposes for which they were incorporated."
"The want of funds alone prevents them from exerting themselves in propagating the Gospel among the Indians, and extending the means of Christian knowledge among those of the inhabitants of this land who are now destitute of them."
"They humbly request your honors to recommend to his Excellency the Governor to issue a brief, to be read in all the churches of this commonwealth, requesting the aid of all piously disposed persons, in carrying on this truly benevolent design, and asking their contributions, in pecunie, public securities, or any other property, to enable the society to send the knowledge of our glorious Redeemer, among those who are now perishing for lack of vision, and to extend the means of instruction to our fellow citizens in the eastern and other parts of the state, who are now destitute of them."
"The Society are not insensible of the difficulties and embarrassments of the present day, and they are sorry to ask the aid of their fellow citizens at a time so distressing, but they cannot be easy to remain any longer inactive from pursuing the great objects of their appointment. The collections upon this occasion will be free, and they do not wish them to be so large as to cause distress to any. A mite thrown into the treasury of the Society by every individual in the state, would amount to a large sum, and would enable them to publish the glad tidings of great joy among those who are now sitting in darkness and in the region of the shadow of death."
"Your honors will pardon the Society for addressing you on this occasion, and requesting this favor at your hands; they can scarcely suppose, however, an apology to be necessary for applying to Christian rulers upon a subject which relates so immediately to the honor of the author and finisher of our faith. Your honors will be pleased to observe, that the Society are not asking a favor for themselves, but are supplicating for those, who now suffer in their best interest: they are beseeching your honors to pursue a design of which our venerable fathers have lost sight, and to do what may be highly acceptable to that Being, upon

whom the welfare of States and Empires essentially depends.
"They take the liberty to observe, that the peace and harmony which prevailed in general between the Indians bordering on the northern states of the union, and the citizens thereof, during the late war, may in a good measure be attributed to the exertions of the Missionaries who were supported among them: and that perhaps it may not now be an object of less political consequence, to continue and encourage their exertions, as the British are practising every art to induce the Indians to retire from among us, into the more interior parts of the continent, that they may secure to themselves exclusively the benefits of the fur trade, and their alliance in any future rupture."
"The Society cannot doubt the attention of the honorable court to a subject so important; they hope for a compliance with their request, and as in duty bound shall overpray."
"In the name and by order of the Society, "FRANCIS DANA, "EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH, "PETER THATCHER."
PHILADELPHIA, July 23. We hear from Biberry, in Philadelphia county, that a reputable farmer, who gave out that he would give sixpence a day to his reapers in lieu of rum or whisky, engaged to many hands by the offer, that they cut down his whole crop of wheat, which consisted of thirty-six acres, in one day last week. They drank nothing but homemade beer & cider, passed the day in harmony, and all went home perfectly satisfied with themselves and their employer.
A tradesman in this city complained two years ago to an iron merchant, that he could not pay his rent. The merchant asked him how much rum he used in his family in a day. Upon his answering this question, the merchant immediately shewed him that his rum in a year came to more money than his house-rent. The calculation so shocked the tradesman, that he determined from that day to buy and drink no more spirits of any kind. In the course of the ensuing year he paid his rent, and bought a suit of cloths out of the savings of his temperance. He is now in a thriving way, respected and trusted by all who know him.
Extract of a letter from West-Marlborough, Chester county, about 35 miles from this city, dated 20th Seventh month.
On the 6th instant, the following very affecting scene happened: About the time of two thunder-gulls meeting there arose a whirl-wind about a mile south-west of us, and continued a north-east course about three miles; how much farther I have not yet heard: It blew down all the fences it came across, and carried rails 8 or 10 perches; pulled indian corn and flax up by the roots; twisted off or blew down peach trees and apple trees, and stripped some of their fruit; also tore the timber up in a wonderful manner; the tops of some large hickory trees were twisted off and carried a great distance. It came across my dwelling-house, and shook it so that I expected it would not have stood; afterwards took the roof off a dwelling-house, carried some of it above thirty perches, and carried some bed-cloths out of the house, blew down one barn and stable, and unroofed several out-houses: Indeed it is wonderful to see what havoc is made, and neither man nor beast hurt by it. Many people who saw it at a distance, say it appeared red; for my part I saw nothing of it till it came to the house, and then it was soon over."
New-York, July 26.
LAST evening the following very interesting intelligence was received from Poughkeepsie, in a letter from a respectable member of the honorable Convention, dated at Poughkeepsie, July 23.
"I have not hitherto written to you, because my mind has been too much agitated, and I had nothing to communicate that I thought could give you pleasure. The case is now altered, and affairs have taken a complexion of a most pleasing nature. A motion was carried this morning in the committee for striking out the conditional part of the proposed ratification, and merely inserting our confidence in the forbearance of Congress, to exert certain powers until the proposed amendments should receive a consideration. The motion was carried by 31 against 20. The whole southern district (except Mr. Treadwell) four of the Dutchess county members, and Mr. Williams, of Washington, voted in the affirmative. The Governor, Judge Yates, and Mr. Lansing were in the minority."
"I now flatter myself that all things will go well, at least we shall obtain the substance of what we are aiming at."
Accounts from Baltimore, of July 18, say:—On Wednesday last, at the criminal court of and for this county, Patrick Cassidy, Samuel Wilson, John Webb, and Thomas Wat-
son, having been convicted of felony, and of returning from exile contrary to the condition of their respective pardons for criminal crimes, received sentence of death—John Allen also received sentence of death for Burglary.—The same day 27 men and 8 women were sentenced to hard labour, for robbery and other crimes.
Extract of a letter from Poughkeepsie, dated July 22.
"On Saturday the Convention determined on the question being called to take the first proposition of Melancton Smith's into consideration:—They then went into a review of the declaratory part or the Bill of Rights. Mr. Jay and Mr. Hamilton made some objections, if I recollect aright, to the wording of the several political maxims, and contended that some of them were not expressed with precision and accuracy, although they were truths to which they readily yielded their assent. There was then an informal committee appointed consisting of Mr. Duane and Mr. Harrison on one side, and Mr. M. Smith and Judge Yates on the other, to correct the language of that part of the proposition, so that the ideas might be fully and clearly understood."
"Yesterday the convention proceeded in the consideration of the first proposition, and spent the whole day in discussing the several amendments; they waved for the present the question whether any of them should be conditional or not. The one which prohibits the Congress from calling out the militia of one state into another for more than six weeks without the consent of its legislature, occasioned a good deal of debate. Mr. Hamilton insisted that the restriction was an impolitic one—that if the states intended to guard as much as possible against standing armies under the new government, they ought to yield it the command of the militia in the most unqualified terms—that to apprehend danger from a militia, while the states appointed all the officers, was quite a novel idea, and the offspring of the most unenlightened and distempered jealousy; that the experience of the late war had demonstrated the great utility of the militia on special occasions; and on the other hand, the improper remissness and indolence of the state legislatures, in sending their militia to the assistance of their neighbours, until the war had approached to their own doors; Virginia was adduced as an instance of this; that the direction of the forces and strength of the community ought to be placed with confidence and without limitation in the hands of that body which was to provide for the common defence."
"Mr. Jay enforced the same ideas, and further contended, that the dictates of economy were against the amendment; for that on many occasions the government, contemplating their full and entire direction of the militia, would avoid the raising or the increase of their standing forces, to the degree that the national emergencies might otherwise require; and that the dictates of safety were against it: for as he and Mr. Hamilton, I think, both observed, the surest way to force government into the necessity of maintaining armies, was by fettering their authority over the militia."
"Mr. N. Lawrence rose and observed, that decency to their constituents required that the amendment should be recommended, for that the danger apprehended in giving the full command of the militia to Congress, had been a source of much uneasiness to their constituents. Mr. Hamilton, in reply, only observed, that the most effectual way to secure amendments, was by recommending such only as were valuable, and could be advocated on sober investigation—at all events we never ought to recommend a bad one."
"This amendment was carried by all the anties on one side, and all the federalists on the other."
"The next amendment was restricting Congress from laying excises and direct taxes without a previous requisition."
"Mr. Jones moved an amendment to the first part, that no excise, except on ardent spirits, be laid by Congress—this was carried, and also the other part respecting direct taxes: The yeas and nays being called on both of them, as well as on most of the amendments discussed."
"There was some debate on the amendment restricting Congress from laying excises.—It was demonstrated that the restriction was directly against the interest of this state, and in favor of the manufacturing states—that this state would not be a manufacturing state for a long series of years, and until we had a surplus of hands after all our waste land was occupied and cultivated—that some other states, as Pennsylvania and Connecticut, would speedily be great manufacturing states, and as they would continue to import less as they increased in their manufactures, the importing states on whom the impost in the first instance fell, and who would be the chief consumers, would continue to increase in the weight of the public burthen. In reply to this reasoning, it was observed by Mr. Smith, that we could hereafter amend this part of the Constitution when the manufactures of this country should be so considerable as to become a productive source of revenue. But Mr. Hamilton observed, that 3/4ths of the states must concur in amendments, and the manufacturing states would not be likely after this period to consent to alterations in order to increase their own burthens—that the clause they now proposed to introduce, if adopted, would probably be fixed permanently to the direct and palpable injury of our own state. However, all this reasoning would not do—the amendments considered yesterday were all carried by the entire voice of the opposition."
"Mr. Treadwell was against those amendments too, he said, as well as the federalists, but upon a different principle—he considered them as still containing most unwarrantable donations of power, and that the arm of Congress ought to be further tied down under the new Constitution."
"Judge Wynkoop made some efforts yesterday to discuss the amendments and expose the fallacy of the arguments urged against them—he spoke so low and so thick, that I lost the greater part of his reasoning. The singular idea which he advanced relative to taxation was, that direct taxes, and not excises and imposts, &c. were the most equitable tax—that it was the most eligible one too, for it would be apportioned upon the rich and poor, according to their circumstances."
"To-day the convention have been also upon the consideration of the amendments—most all of them were carried, and very little debate, on any of them. The amendment for giving the president a council in the appointment to offices, was rejected by a great majority; only four voted for it. Several of the opposition, and among the rest Mr. M. Smith, voted against the amendment for requiring two-thirds of Congress to concur in declaring war.—However it was carried."
PERCY-CASTLE INTELLIGENCE, July 24, 1788.
Yesterday being the epocha of the best constitution ever formed upon earth, to promote the happiness of the inhabitants of this great and rising empire, a number of the unfortunate citizens confined here, assembled together with heart-felt joy, to celebrate the same; which they did with the utmost cheerfulness, harmony and conviviality; and after dinner drank the following toasts.
 1. The majority of the people of America.  2. The Ten States who have adopted the Constitution.  3. The Congress.  4. The fair daughters of Columbia.  5. General Washington.  6. The King and Queen of France.  7. May agriculture and manufactures flourish in America.  8. Trade and Navigation.  9. May virtue flourish and vice decay.  10. May the places of public worship be regularly filled, and all prisons be empty.  11. May the United Wisdom of America form laws to relieve all honest men from prison.  12. The gentlemen whose beneficence hath induced them to remember the oppressed.  13. The DAY.  N. B. There were thirteen in each company.
Arrivals at New-York. Ship George, Boudinot, Madeira Snow Dathen, Pollis, Port-au-prince Sloop Paragon, Tristlingham, Antigua The ship George, Capt. Boudinot, from Madeira, left London about the 29th May.
Oswald's Philadelphia Marine List, July 18.
Ship Hannibal, Cunningham, Londonderry Nostra Signora del Carman, Beunneck (Cadiz) Sloop Friendship, Daggett, Boston Lark, Burrows, St. Thomas Diligent, Smith, New-York Sally and Polly, Ingham, St. Kitts Industry, Hubbert, N. Carolina Brig Minerva, King, St. Croix Hector, Baker, Port-au-Prince Mercury, Barnes, Lisbon Schooner Frederickburgh Packet, Burrows, (Frederickburgh) Nancy, Shieve, Norfolk
Brig Two Friends, Gerard, Marseilles Elizabeth, Stephens, Banarie Thebe, Drinker, Charleston Sloop Friendship, Daggett, Boston Henriette, Newton, N. Providence Harriot, Coulton, Charleston Schooner Dolphin, Miller, N. Carolina Ship Kendrik, Clark, Lisbon
July 21. Sloop Betty, Brooks, New-York
FELL PARKER, At his Commission Warehouse, No. 259, Wapping, New Stairs, London.
BEGS leave to inform the Merchants and Planters in New-York, that he receives all sorts of FOREIGN MERCHANDIZE to sell on Commission. Those Gentlemen who are not engaged with AGENTS in London, he offers his Services to receive the CONSIGNMENTS of their Goods on Commission; they may depend the utmost attention will be paid to their Interest.—He Ships also, at London,
Cask and Bottled BEER, Likewise all sorts of Country ALE and BEER.
Any Person, in New-York, desirous of being supplied, on remitting the Money first to FELL PARKER, their Orders will be shipped of the first Quality.
TAKE NOTICE.
TAKEN up a few days since, a RUN AWAY NEGRO, who calls himself BILL, about five feet nine inches high, well made, thick lips, and a very great impediment in his speech. He says he belongs to Mr. DANIEL SOREN, of East-Chester, and was persuaded to run away by a Mullatto fellow belonging to Mr. Nchemiah Marshall of said place.—Said Negro is now in confinement in Gohen goal.—Any person, proving his property, and paying charges, can have him by applying to the subscriber, at Wallkill, in the county of Ulster.
JOSEPH ARCHER. Ulster County, July 19, 1788. 57.
Wanted to Purchase IMMEDIATELY, OFFICER's and Soldier's Military Bounty Rights of Land, both State and Continental—Also, a large Amount in Indents, Final Settlements, and Pickering's Notes, Apply at No. 195, Water-street. New-York, June 25, 1788. 20-c.d.
Line of Eastern Stages. THE Public are most respectfully informed, That, after great expense and fatigue, the subscriber, and company, have completed the line of STAGES from this city quite through to Boston. The carriages, which were before heavy and uneasy, are now all hung upon coach-springs, and do not fatigue more than a common coach. The carriage from here to Fairfield, in particular, is a new, well constructed, easy one, which will render the journey pleasurable, instead of a toil as heretofore.
Having thus completed the line, the subscriber will commence on Monday next, the first instant, to run the Stages from New-York to Boston, THREE TIMES A WEEK, and continue it until Nov. 1, from which to May 1 twice a week.
The extraordinary cost which he has been at in completing this great work, which he doubts not will be of no small public utility, as well as private advantage and convenience, he hopes will induce many to patronize him. Any business of consequence that may be wished to be transferred between these two capitals, shall be faithfully executed.
The Stages will start from the General Stage Office, in Cortlandt Street, on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday, of every week, at four o'clock, A. M. and will arrive at said place on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at eight o'clock, P. M. The days and hours of starting and arriving at Hartford and Boston, are the same as at New-York.
The FARE is three-pence lawful money, or four-pence New-York currency, per mile; fourteen pounds of baggage is allowed gratis; one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage pays the same as a passenger, and in that proportion.
The Public's humble servant, LEVI PEASE. New-York, July 18, 1788. N. B. This being a public affair, Mr. Pease queries, Whether their would be any impropriety in his requesting the several Printers to publish the above, gratis.
All kinds of Public & State Certificates, BOUGHT and SOLD, At No. 27, WATER-STREET, And every kind of PAPER MONEY exchanged for SPECIE and re-exchanged: Also on Hand FOR SALE,
A LARGE Sum in Bancker's, Barber's, and Loan Office Certificates of this State, such as will purchase Lands at the Commissioner's sale, and pay Quit-Rents—Likewise, Final Settlements of this State; any, or all of which will be exchanged for Common Final Settlements, Loan Office, or Pickering's Notes, and indents at a small difference.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam, And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191, Queen-street, opposite Beekman's-Slip, By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY,
A general Assortment of DRY GOODS, Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Calicoes, Ribbons, Lutestrings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store, Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfats. f.
FRANCIS DURAND, No. 15, QUEEN-STREET, Has FOR SALE, imported in the French Packets,
The following ARTICLES, viz, CAMBRICKS, and Superfine French Broad Lawns, Cloths, Searlet, Blue, Umbrells of different sizes, &c. &c. Lyon's quilted Satins, Thread Laces and Edgings, Men's black and white Black Silk Laces, Silk Hose, White and coloured Women's white do. Women's Kid Gloves, Black Modes, yard wide Chintzes, &c. best assorted Ribbons,
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 Woodbridge 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 seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with 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 Bidon, merchant, New-York, or Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99-c.d.

POET'S CORNER.
A PARODY ON HAMLET. Addressed to the MACARONIES.
Y OU look, my son, in a distemper'd sort, As if you were before your mind—quite mad. Your follies now are ended—These fribles, Coxcombs, Puffies, Macaronies, Beaux, As I foretold you, are all empty beings, Empty as wind, and melted into air; And like the basless fabric of a vapour, The high-fly caps, the gorgeous tambour vests, Rouge Almond-paste, nay the great club itself, Yea, lice, which it inherits shall dissolve; Pomatum, powder, eau de luce and pins, False-hair and wool, hips, hoops, and high-heel'd shoes.— Shall like this unsubstantial coxcomb wither, Nor leave one curl behind.—These are such stuff, As fools and dreams are made on; whose little lives Are rounded with a sleep, And like the gauzy butterflies of noon, Spread their thin wings and die in evenings chill.
CURIIOUS EPITAPHS.
H ERE lies GEORGE KNOX, late provost of Dundee, Here lies GEORGE KNOX, and here lies he. Hallelujah Hallelujah.
H ERE lies PETER SLEE, best of Irish commanders, Who died at Antigua, fighting in Flanders.
This Day is Published, Embellished with a Plan of the High Court of Par- liament, for the TRIAL of WARREN HASTINGS, Esquire,
The American Magazine. For JUNE, 1788.
CONTAINING, S OLYMA and OSSMIN. Directions for making Pot-Ash. Description of the River Mississippi, by Thomas Hutchins, Esq. Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King of Spain.
Anecdote of a Nun. On Vocal Music. History of the Origin of the two Houses of the British Parliament. Life and Amusements of Isaac Bickerstaffe, jan. Letter 7, from Frederick to Felicia. Account of Edward Gibbon, Esq. An Account of Warren Hastings, Esq. Some Account of Mr. Burke. Some Account of Mr. Sheridan. Explanation of a Passage of Scripture. Thoughts on Marriage. Translation of an Original Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth. Letter 4th, from a Gentleman to his Friend. A Memorial and Remonstrance to the General Assembly of Virginia. Letter to a young Gentleman on his Marriage, by Mrs. Thale, now Mrs. Plozzi. Reduction of a luxated Os Brachii. Genuine Letter from a Lady. Answer to the Enquiries of Candidus in our last, by Vindex. On the Petrifactions near Claverack. Trial of Mr. Hastings, continued. Review of New Publications.
Poetry.
Advice from the Tombs. A Hymn, sung at the public Exhibition in the Greenfield School. Lines addressed to a Lady, on her embarking to visit a Friend. A Rebus. Intelligence. New-York, Printed by S. and J. LOUDON, And Sold by Messrs. S. and R. Campbell, Mr. S. Loudon, Messrs. Berry and Rogers, Mr. T. Allen, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. T. Greenleaf, Mr. F. Childs, Mr. J. Ried.—Mr. S. Hall, at Bos- ton.—Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford. —Mr. I. Beers, at New-Haven.—Mr. A. Siod- dard, at Hudson.—Messrs. W. Falconer, and Co. at Albany.—Messrs. Young and M'Cal- loch, at Philadelphia. Mrs. A. Timothy, at Char- leston.
Mrs. WATERS,
H AS removed to Peck-Slip, No. 1, where she continues the business of washing Silk Stockings, and other nice articles, in the usual manner, in which branch she has al- ways given satisfaction.
CELLER to let.
A LARGE convenient Celler, situate in Water-Street, near the Coffee- House, may be hired from this date to 1st of May next.—Enquire of the Printer.
S H R U B.
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Bar- rel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-Street.
B L A N K S, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
Just published by M. CARY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-Street, New-York, (By whom subscriptions are received)
American Museum, For JUNE, 1788.
CONTAINING, Papers elucidating the rise and progress of the American revolution.
C IRCULAR letter from the speaker of the house of representatives of Massachussetts- bay.
Declaration of the rights of the colonists of Amer- ica. Address to the king of England. Memorial to the house of lords.
Poetry.
The battle between Swaran and Cuchullin. The happy man.
Miscellanies.
Remarks on the different ideas of mankind, with respect to the term "business." Laws made in the dominion of New-Haven. Letter from lord Montague to general Moultrie. Reply to ditto.
Physical papers.
Essay upon the unusual productions of animals. Some account of a horse with a living snake in his eye. The true nature and cause of the tails of comets. Account of the aurora borealis. Conjectures on the causes of the earthquakes of New-England. General reflections on earthquakes.
Political squibs.
Peter Prejudice's complaint of his taylor. The wheel-barrow-men's objections to the new constitution.
On punishment of crimes.
Considerations on the late law of Pennsylvania, for mitigating the severity of the penal code of that state. Observations on the management of the female convicts in the work-house, Philadelphia. Remarks on the propriety of employing convicts in clearing the navigation of obstructed rivers. Observations on the striking advantages of senten- cing convicts to hard labour and solitude.
Rural concerns.
Observations on silk worms. Letters on the culture of Tartary oats, Letter on the advantage of introducing the use of small-beer generally into the country. Account of the palma christi.
Satiricals.
Ne sutor ultra crepidam. Speech on the learned languages. Answer to the preceding speech. The old bachelor.
Political speculations.
Address to the convention of Virginia. Remarks on the proposed system of federal govern- ment. Address to the people of the state of New-York.
Public papers.
Charge of the mayor of New-York to the grand jury. Petition of the quakers of New-England to the as- sembly of Rhode-Island.
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street,
PRINCIPLES OF THE Latin Grammar,
EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners, with rules and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics.
By JAMES HARDIE, A. B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
WE, the PRESIDENT and PROFESSORS of COLUMBIA COLLEGE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, that we have ex- amined a new publication, entitled " The Principles of the Latin Grammar explained, &c. " by JAMES HARDIE, and that we find it an accurate and judicious compilation, well calculated for the in- struction of youth in the rudiments of the Latin language; and such as may be useful even to those who have made considerable progress therein. We therefore recommend it to all who are intrusted with the care of education, and particularly to the teachers in the different schools of this state.
W. SAMUEL JOHNSON, President, WILLIAM COCHRAN, Professor of Lan- guages, JOHN DANIEL GROS, Professor of (Moral Philosophy and Geography), JOHN KEMP, Professor of Mathematics and (Natural Philosophy).
Just Published, At Thomas Greenleaf's
Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-Street. A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations
FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States
American Printed Books.
This Day is published, and to be Sold, By  ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, the Corner of King & Queen-Street, The Miscellaneous Works
OF PHILIP FRENEAU.
Containing his Essays and additional Poems.
THIS second volume of our Ame- rican Author, is replete with the highest sentimental entertainment. Humour, wit, and sa- tire, flow in copious strains.—It requires only to be read to be admired.
Such gentlemen, in this city and state, as honored this vol. with their subscriptions, will be pleased to send for it as soon as convenient.
THE MESSIAH,
Attempted from the GERMAN of MR. KLOPSTOCK.
TO those who are acquainted with the merits of this work, little need be said to recommend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all; with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detesta- tion and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a hum- ble obedience to the King of Kings.
This piece of religious and moral painting has obtained Mr. Klopstock the honor of being esteem- ed the Milton of Germany, and is considered as having completed what that favorite son of the British muse had left unfinished.—The beauties of the Messiah equal Paradise Lost:—Paradise Re- gained, though far from being destitute of merit is universally allowed to fall much below this work, and is acknowledged to be deficient in that un- bounded invention, that beautiful machinery, and variety of characters, which distinguish the rigorous efforts of Mr. Klopstock's genius.
The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan, and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
S E R M O N S.
By the celebrated RICHARD PRICE, D. D. L. L. D. F. R. S.
The Triumphs of Temper;
A Poem in six Cantos. By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughter. Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion. Sheridan's Rhetorical Grammar. The Charms of Melody.—A new Song Book. Tarver's Travels through the interior Parts of America. Economy of Human Life. Webster's American Selection of Lessons, in read- ing and speaking. Webster's Institute, first and second Part. Pike's excellent System of Arithmatic. A few Sets of Newton on the Prophecies. Edwards on the Affections. Do. History of Redemption, &c. &c.
Also, JUST IMPORTED, A number of very valuable BOOKS,
Consisting of HISTORY. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, &c. Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
Also an excellent Assortment of STATIONARY.
Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Books, Buckles, Message Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thank- fully received, and carefully executed. 505— New-York, May 26, 1788.
Philadelphia, June 2, 1788.
To the PUBLIC.
AS the time limited for compleat- ing the execution of my scheme for the sel- ling some of my houses and landed interest termi- nates the 25th of July next, I take the liberty to request those gentlemen who have honored and aided me in the disposal of my tickets, to forward the unengaged tickets, by the safest means possible, so that they may reach me on or before the period above alluded to:—to which end, circular letters will be forwarded to each by the first opportunity. I here return my most sincere acknowledgement for the countenance given my plan, from gentlemen in most parts of the continent. And though ar- duous and difficult as the undertaking appeared in its commencement, it gives me the most pleasing satisfaction to add, that it now promises to gratify my most earnest expectations. 20 3W THOMAS PROCTOR.
The PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK,
By the Grace of God Free and Independent To the Sheriff of Queen's County, Greeting: W HEREAS by our writ we have late- ly commanded you, that you should cause Thomas Van Wyck, late of Oyster-Bay, in Queen's county and state of New-York, yeoman, to be demanded from county court to county court, until, according to the law and custom of our state he should be outlawed if he should not appear and if he should appear then that you should take him and cause him to be safely kept, so that you might have his body before our justices of our supreme court of judicature, at the City Hall, of the city of Albany, on the last Tuesday of July next, to answer unto William Loines, of a plea, that he render unto him the said William Loines two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine pounds nineteen shillings and eight-pence, current money of New-York, which he owes him and unjustly detains, as he saith: therefore we command you, by virtue of the statute in such case made and provided, that you cause the said Thomas Van Wyck to be proclaimed upon three seve al days, according to the form of the same statute (one of the same proclamations to be made in your open county court, and one other of the same procla- mations at the general sessions of the peace in those parts where the said Thomas Van Wyck inhabits, and one other of the same proclamations at or near the most usual door of the church of the town wherein he inhabits) that he render himself unto you, so that you may have his body before our justices of our supreme court of judicature, at the City-Hall of the city of Albany at the day afore- said, to answer the said William Loines of the plea aforesaid, and have you then there this writ. Witness Richard Morris, Esq. chief justice at the City-Hall of the city of New-York, the eighteenth day of April, in the twelfth year of our indepen- dence. M'KESSON.
Remaining on Hand,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, includ- ing 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 here- of, 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, Penn- sylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, compre- hending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Chero- kee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The cli- mate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegeta- ble, 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 Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Pa- trick Kennedy's Journal upon 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 hogheads 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 nu- merous, 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 mode- rate 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, teas, 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 hither- to 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 suc- ceed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in dif- ferent 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, Cat- fish, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, natural meadows, are both numerous and exten- sive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffaloes, 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, eve- ry thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be had, or may, with little pains, be produced here.
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