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TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGATUR. Virg.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1787.
[Nº 756.]
New-York RUM,
OF excellent flavour, and good proof,—for Sale by Charles Tillinghast, at the Distillery near the New-market, in Cherry-street, and nearest 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 opposite the New-market, in Cherry-street. October 3. 38
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 furs have been transported from this State, for that single article.
N. B. They also make Drawing, Writing and Binding Vellums. 44
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.
ALSO, Choice Faval Wines four years old, Madeira, Lisbon, Teneriffe, & Malaga, } WINES. Liverpool Crockery Ware, twenty quarter casks old SHERRY WINE, to be sold cheap for cash. August 14. 23
FOR SALE,
By Nicholas Hoffman and Son,
No. 12, Little Dock-street; Parcel excellent dryed Hides, A few casks of Linseed Oil, 80 pieces Ruffia Duck, blue mark, 6 by 8 and 7 by 9 Window Glass. 13
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
FOR SALE,
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, cycled and plastered, with two kitchens, a small Grift 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. Duyckinck, 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 land 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
BLANKS,
Sold at this Office.
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 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; bounded 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-Living 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 fides, ways, paths, passages, easements, profits, commodities, 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 indenture 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 Bryant, of the city of New-York, Doctor of physic, 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. 2 27 6m
TO BE SOLD,
IN this city, for the paper currency of the State of New-Jersey, a two Story Dwelling House and Store House, with a large Water Lot, conveniently situated for trade, formerly the property of Rebecca Forman, deceased.—Any person inclining to purchase, may have a description of the premises, and know the price by applying to the subscribers, or Captain John Guest.
J. VAN EMBURGH, Executor. AMY TAYLOR, Executrix. New-Brunswick, Nov. 19, 1787. 52 6
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 calicoes; black, blue, green and cloth coloured moreens, and tabbareens; 1-2 ell cloth col. green, plumb col. and pink col. camblets; blue and pink col. callimancoes; green and blue durants and tammies; black and blue antaloons; fine bordered linen and cambric handkerchiefs: black modes and periams; long lawns; German linens, dowlas and oznabrigs; cotton flamme and checks, flowered drawboys, plain mullins, britannias, cafmieres, 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, bobbin, filleting tapes, sewing silk, quality and shoe bindings, Harlem oil, tea kettles, frying pans, Holland powder, &c. &c. 47
Benjamin Halsted,
GOLD and SILVER-SMITH, RESPECTFULLY acknowledges the favours of his friends and customers, and hereby informs them and the public in general, that he carries on his business as usual, at No. 18, Maiden-lane, where all orders will be duly acknowledged and faithfully executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. He sells silver tea spoons for one shilling per doz. 4 17 or tf
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
(PRICE 1s. 6d.) ARTICLES of Association, by the name of the OHIO COMPANY. To which is added, Extracts from the letters of Mons. St. John de Creve Coeur, his Most Christian Majesty's Consul for New-York, &c. &c.—giving an elegant description of that truly fertile country; perhaps exceeded by none on this globe.
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 purposes 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
PUBLIC 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 mortgages 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 running from the land of Jacobus Lefferts, 35 feet and 2 inches, in front to land now or late of George Follott, thence running northeasterly along the said land now or late of the said George Follott, 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 appurtenances 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 premises, 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 hundred 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.
NOTICE is hereby given to David Greame, George Jackson, Arthur Forrest, 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, executors of James Crawford, deceased; Hutchinson Mure, Robert Mure, and Richard Atkinson, joint partners, John Duvall, William Robertson, Neal Ward, Mary Sleach, Lucy Sleach, William Berry, Peter Hafenclever and Charles Croffes, late partners with Andrew Seaton (who is become bankrupt) under the file 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 Hafenclever 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 relief 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 Company 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
To be SOLD,
A Very valuable Lot of Ground with a convenient house on the same, situated in William-street, No. 57, containing in front 26 feet, and in rear 20 feet, and in length on each side 70 feet. For further particulars enquire of Thomas Longley on the premises. 46
M'Vickar and Hill,
No. 210, Water-street, have imported in the ship Flora, from Liverpool, to be sold on low terms; SEVEN-eight, 4-4, 11-8 cotton checks, cotton and romal handkerchiefs; a general assortment of Irish linens, velveteens, corduroys, bed-hunts and ticks, wild bore camblets—a good assortment of felt and castor hats, farcenets and black satin florentines, modes, black silk handkerchiefs, &c. And on board said vessel, a quantity of fine Liverpool Salt.
N. B. Having erected a complete set of Flaxseed Works, they intend to receive seed to clean, and will thank their friends for their interest in that business. 46
Theodosius Fowler & Co.
At their Office, No. 164, Water-Street, Buy, sell and negotiate all kinds of Continental, Connecticut and New-York Securities. 97
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, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Friday the fourth day of April next, will be sold at the merchants coffee-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 northwest 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 south 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 northwest 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 mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and 63 acres & 20 rods of land or thereabouts, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances 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 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 therein 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
JOHN BANKS, MERCHANT-TAYLOR,
HAS Imported in the Hibernia, Captain Tew, from London, a few European Goods in his way; a few pieces of superfine cloths first quality, Dark blue, Black, Raven's grey, Bottle green, Garnet, Dark brown, London brown, Bohemia ditto, Mulberry, Cinnamon, White cloth, and other colours not mentioned, Buff and white Cashmere, Silk florentine, White silk serge duroy, Gold and silver basket and spangled buttons, French campain basket buttons, to match every colour, Cotton and worsted fatinets, A few winter vest patterns, Silver epaulets, 40
With sundry other articles too tedious to mention. Ladies and Gentlemen who please to favour him with their custom, may depend on being served in the neatest manner, and with the greatest punctuality.
HOGS BRISTLES.
WANTED 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 MANUFACTORY, 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 stock from England. The farmers, by being careful 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 ANANIAS COOPER, & Co. 43 2m
To the PUBLIC.
THE Co-partnership of Matthew Rhodes, Timothy Rhodes, John Hebblethwaite and Samuel 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 requested 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 Wilson, 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

The FEDERALIST, No. 17.
To the People of the State of New-York.
An objection of a nature different from that which has been stated and answered, in my last address, may perhaps be likewise urged against the principle of legislation for the individual citizens of America. It may be said, that it would tend to render the government of the Union too powerful, and to enable it to absorb in itself those residuary authorities, which it might be judged proper to leave with the States for local purposes. Allowing the utmost latitude to the love of power, which any reasonable man can require, I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government, could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to hold out slender allurements to ambition. Commerce, finance, negotiation and war seem to comprehend all the objects, which have charms for minds governed by that passion; and all the powers necessary to these objects ought in the first instance to be lodged in the national depositary. The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things in short which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction. It is therefore improbable that there should exist a disposition in the Federal Councils to usurp the powers with which they are connected; because the attempt to exercise those powers would be as troublesome as it would be nugatory; and the possession of them, for that reason, would contribute nothing to the dignity, to the importance, or to the splendor of the national government.
But let it be admitted for argument sake, that mere wantonness and lust of domination would be sufficient to beget that disposition, still it may be safely affirmed, that the sense of the constituent body of the national representatives, or in other words of the people of the several States, would contoul the indulgence of so extravagant an appetite. It will always be far more easy for the State governments to encroach upon the national authorities, than for the national government to encroach upon the State authorities. The proof of this proposition turns upon the greater degree of influence, which the State governments, if they administer their affairs with uprightness and prudence, will generally possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us, that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all Federal Constitutions; and that too much pains cannot be taken in their organization, to give them all the force which is compatible with the principles of liberty.
The superiority of influence in favor of the particular governments would result partly from the diffusive construction of the national government; but chiefly from the nature of the objects to which the attention of the State administrations would be directed.
It is a known fact in human nature, that its affections are commonly weak in proportion to the distance or diffusiveness of the object. Upon the same principle that a man is more attached to his family than to his neighbourhood, to his neighbourhood than to the community at large, the people of each State would be apt to feel a stronger bias towards their local governments than towards the government of the Union; unless the force of that principle should be destroyed by a much better administration of the latter.
This strong propensity of the human heart would find powerful auxiliaries in the objects of State regulation.
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations, and which will form so many rivulets of influence running through every part of the society, cannot be particularised without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.
There is one transcendent advantage belonging to the province of the State governments, which alone suffices to place the matter in a clear and satisfactory light—I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice. This of all others is the most powerful, most universal and most attractive source of popular obedience and attachment. It is that, which—being the immediate and visible guardian of life and property—having its benefits and its terrors in constant activity before the public eye—regulating all those personal interests and familiar concerns to which the sensibility of individuals is more immediately awake—contributes more than any other circumstance to impressing upon the minds of the people, affection, esteem and reverence towards the government. This great cement of society which will diffuse itself almost wholly through the channels of the particular governments, independent of all other causes of influence, would ensure them so decided an empire over their respective citizens, as to render them at all times a complete counterpoise, and not unfrequently dangerous rivals to the power of the Union.
The operations of the national government on the other hand, falling less immediately under the observation of the mass of the citizens, the benefits derived from it will chiefly be perceived and attended to by speculative men. Relating to more general interests, they will be less apt to come home to the feelings of the people; and, in proportion, less likely to inspire a habitual sense of obligation and an active sentiment of attachment.
The reasoning on this head has been abundantly exemplified by the experience of all Federal Constitutions, with which we are acquainted, and of all others, which have borne the least analogy to them. Though the ancient feudal systems were not strictly speaking confederacies, yet they partook of the nature of that species of association. There was a common head, chieftain, or sovereign, whose authority extended over the whole nation; and a number of subordinate vassals, or feudatories, who had large portions of land allotted to them, and numerous trains of inferior vassals or retainers, who occupied and cultivated that land upon the tenure of fealty or obedience to the persons of whom they held it. Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign within his particular demesnes. The consequences of this situation were a continual oppo-
sition to the authority of the sovereign, and frequent wars between the great Barons, or chief feudatories themselves. The power of the head of the nation was commonly too weak either to preserve the public peace or to protect the people against the oppressions of their immediate Lords. This period of European affairs is emphatically stiled by historians the times of feudal anarchy.
When the sovereign happened to be a man of vigorous and warlike temper and of superior abilities, he would acquire a personal weight and influence, which answered for the time the purposes of a more regular authority. But in general the power of the Barons triumphed over that of the Prince; and in many instances his dominion was entirely thrown off, and the great fiefs were erected into independent principalities or States. In those instances in which the monarch finally prevailed over his vassals, his success was chiefly owing to the tyranny of those vassals over their dependents. The Barons, or nobles, equally the enemies of the sovereign and the oppressors of the common people, were dreaded and detested by both, till mutual danger and mutual interest effected an Union between them fatal to the power of the aristocracy. Had the nobles, by a conduct of clemency and justice, preserved the fidelity and devotion of their retainers and followers, the contests between them and the Prince must almost always have ended in their favor, and in the abridgement or subversion of the royal authority.
This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or conjecture. Among other illustrations of its truth which might be cited Scotland will furnish a cogent example. The spirit of clanish which was at an early day introduced into that kingdom, uniting the nobles and their dependents by ties equivalent to those of kindred, rendered the aristocracy a constant overmatch for the power of the monarch; till the incorporation with England subdued its fierce and ungovernable spirit, and reduced it within those rules of subordination, which a more rational and a more energetic system of civil policy had previously established in the latter kingdom.
The separate governments in a confederacy may aptly be compared with the feudal baronies; with this advantage in their favor, that from the reasons already explained, they will generally possess the confidence and good will of the people; and with so important a support will be able effectually to oppose all encroachments of the national government. It will be well if they are not able to counteract its legitimate and necessary authority. The points of similitude consist in the rivalry of power, applicable to both, and in the CONCENTRATION of large portions of the strength of community into particular DEPOSITS, in one case at the disposal of individuals, in the other case at the disposal of political bodies.
A concise review of the events that have attended confederate governments will further illustrate this important doctrine; an inattention to which has been the great source of our political mistakes, and has given our jealousy a direction to the wrong side. This review shall form the subject of some ensuing papers.
PUBLIUS.
The FEDERALIST, No. 18.
To the People of the State of New-York.
AMONG the confederacies of antiquity, the most considerable was that of the Grecian Republics associated under the Amphictyonic Council. From the best accounts transmitted of this celebrated institution, it bore a very instructive analogy to the present confederation of the American States.
The members retained the character of independent and sovereign States, and had equal votes in the federal council. This council had a general authority to propose and resolve whatever it judged necessary for the common welfare of Greece—to declare and carry on war—to decide in the last resort all controversies between the members—to fine the aggressing party—to employ the whole force of the confederacy against the disobedient—to admit new members. The Amphictyons were the guardians of religion, and of the immense riches belonging to the Temple of Delphos, where they had the right of jurisdiction in controversies between the inhabitants and those who came to consult the oracle. As a further provision for the efficacy of the federal powers, they took an oath mutually to defend and protect the united cities, to punish the violators of this oath, and to inflict vengeance on sacrilegious despoilers of the Temple.
In theory and upon paper, this apparatus of powers, seems amply sufficient for all general purposes. In several material instances, they exceed the powers enumerated in the articles of confederation. The Amphictyons had in their hands the superintendence of the times, one of the principal engines by which government was then maintained; they had declared authority to use exertion against refractory cities, and were bound by oath to exert this authority on the necessary occasions.
Very different nevertheless was the experiment from the theory. The powers, like those of the present Congress, were administered by deputies appointed wholly by the cities in their political capacities; and exercised over them in the same capacities. Hence the weakness, the disorders, and finally the destruction of the confederacy. The more powerful members instead of being kept in awe and subordination, tyrannized successively over all the rest. Athens, as we learn from Demosthenes, was the arbiter of Greece 73 years. The Lacedemonians next governed it 29 years; at a subsequent period, after the battle of Leuctra, the Thebans had their turn of domination.
It happened but too often, according to Plutarch, that the deputies of the strongest cities, awed and corrupted those of the weaker, and that judgment went in favor of the most powerful party.
Even in the midst of defensive and dangerous wars with Persia and Macedon, the members never acted in concert, and were more or fewer of them, eternally the dupes, or the hirelings of the common enemy. The intervals of foreign war, were filled up by domestic vicissitudes, convulsions and carnage.
After the conclusion of the war with Xerxes, it appears that the Lacedemonians, required that a number of the cities should be turned out of the confederacy for the unfaithful part they had acted. The Athenians finding that the Lacedemonians would lose fewer partizans by such a measure than themselves; and would become masters of the public deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt. This piece of history proves at once the inefficiency of the union; the ambition and
jealousy of its most powerful members, and the dependent and degraded condition of the rest. The smaller members, though entitled by the theory of their system, to revolve in equal pride and majesty around the common center, had become in fact, satellites of the orbs of primary magnitude.
Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the necessity of a closer Union, and would have availed themselves of the peace which followed their success against the Persian arms, to establish such a reformation. Instead of this obvious policy, Athens and Sparta, inflated with the victories and the glory they had acquired, became first rivals and then enemies; and did each other infinitely more mischief, than they had suffered from Xerxes. Their mutual jealousies, fears, hatreds and injuries ended in the celebrated Peloponnesian war; which itself ended in the ruin and slavery of the Athenians, who had begun it.
As a weak government, when not at war, is ever agitated by internal dissensions; so these never fail to bring on fresh calamities from abroad. The Phocians having ploughed up some consecrated ground belonging to the temple of Apollo, the Amphictyonic Council, according to the superstition of the age, imposed a fine on the sacrilegious offenders. The Phocians being abetted by Athens and Sparta, refused to submit to the decree. The Thebans, with others of the cities, undertook to maintain the authority of the Amphictyons, and to avenge the violated God. The latter being the weaker party, invited the assistance of Philip of Macedon, who had secretly fostered the contest. Philip gladly seized the opportunity of executing the designs he had long planned against the liberties of Greece. By his intrigues and bribes he won over to his interests the popular leaders of several cities; by their influence and votes, gained admission into the Amphictyonic council; and by his arts and his arms, made himself master of the confederacy.
Such were the consequences of the fallacious principle, on which this interesting establishment was founded. Had Greece, says a judicious observer on her fate, been united by a stricter confederation, and persevered in her Union, she would never have worn the chains of Macedon; and might have proved a barrier to the vast projects of Rome.
The Achaean league, as it is called, was another society of Grecian republics, which supplies us with valuable instruction.
The Union here was far more intimate, and its organization much wiser, than in the preceding instance. It will accordingly appear, that though not exempt from a similar catastrophe, it by no means equally deserved it.
The cities composing this league, retained their municipal jurisdiction, appointed their own officers, and enjoyed a perfect equality. The Senate in which they were represented, had the sole and exclusive right of peace and war, of sending and receiving Ambassadors—of entering into treaties and alliances—of appointing a Chief Magistrate or Pretor, as he was called, who commanded their armies; and who with the advice and consent of ten of the Senators, not only administered the government in the recess of the Senate, but had a great share in its deliberations, when assembled. According to the primitive constitution, there were two Pretors associated in the administration; but on trial, a single one was preferred.
It appears that the cities had all the same laws and customs, the same weights and measures, and the same money. But how far this effect proceeded from the authority of the Federal Council, is left in uncertainty. It is said only, that the cities were in a manner compelled to receive the same laws and usages. When Lacedemon was brought into the league by Philopœmen, it was attended with an abolition of the institutions and laws of Lycurgus, and an adoption of those of the Achæans. The Amphictyonic confederacies of which she had been a member, left her in the full exercise of her government and her legislation. This circumstance alone proves a very material difference in the genius of the two systems.
It is much to be regretted that such imperfect monuments remain of this curious political fabric. Could its interior structure and regular operation be ascertained, it is probable that more light would be thrown by it on the science of federal government, than by any of the like experiments with which we are acquainted.
One important fact seems to be witnessed by all the historians who take notice of Achaean affairs. It is, that as well after the renovation of the league by Aretus, as before its dissolution by the arts of Macedon, there was infinitely more of moderation and justice in the administration of its government, and less of violence and sedition in the people, than were to be found in any of the cities exercising singly all the prerogatives of sovereignty. The Abbe Mably, in his observations on Greece, says that the popular government, which was so tempestuous elsewhere, caused no disorders in the members of the Achaean republic, because it was there tempered by the general authority and laws of the confederacy.
We are not to conclude too hastily, however, that faction did not in a certain degree agitate the particular cities; much less, that a due subordination and harmony reigned in the general system. The contrary is sufficiently displayed in the vicissitudes and fate of the republic.
Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achæans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure on the theatre of Greece. When the former became a victim to Macedon, the latter was spared by the policy of Philip and Alexander. Under the successors of these Princes, however, a different policy prevailed. The arts of division were practiced among the Achæans: Each city was seduced into a separate interest; the Union was dissolved. Some of the cities fell under the tyranny of Macedonian garrisons; others under that of usurpers springing out of their own confusions. Shame and oppression ere long awakened their love of liberty. A few cities re-united. Their example was followed by others, as opportunities were found of cutting off their tyrants. The league soon embraced almost the whole Peloponnesus. Macedon saw its progress; but was hindered by internal dissensions from stopping it. All Greece caught the enthusiasm, and seemed ready to unite in one confederacy; when the jealousy and envy in Sparta and Athens, of the rising glory of the Achæans, threw a fatal damp on the enterprise. The dread of the Macedonian power induced the league to court the alliance of the Kings of Egypt and Syria; who, as successors of Alexander, were rivals of the King of Macedon.
This policy was defeated by Cleomenes, King of Sparta, who was led by his ambition to make an unprovoked attack on his neighbours the Achæans; and who as an enemy to Macedon, had interest enough with the Egyptian and Syrian Princes, to effect a breach of their engagements with the league. The Achæans were now reduced to the dilemma of submitting to Cleomenes, or of supplicating the aid of Macedon, its former oppressor. The latter expedient was adopted. The contest of the Greeks always afforded a pleasing opportunity to that powerful neighbour, of intermeddling in their affairs. A Macedonian army quickly appeared: Cleomenes was vanquished. The Achæans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally, is but another name for a master. All that their most abject compliances could obtain from him, was a toleration of the exercise of their laws. Philip, who was now on the throne of Macedon, soon provoked, by his tyrannies, fresh combinations among the Greeks. The Achæans, though weakened by internal dissensions, and by the revolt of Messene one of its members, being joined by the Etolians and Athenians, erected the standard of opposition. Finding themselves, though thus supported, unequal to the undertaking, they once more had recourse to the dangerous expedient of introducing the succour of foreign arms. The Romans to whom the invitation was made, eagerly embraced it. Philip was conquered: Macedon subdued. A new crisis ensued to the league. Dissensions broke out among its members. These the Romans fostered. Callicrates and other popular leaders, became mercenary instruments for inveigling their countrymen. The more effectually to nourish discord and disorder, the Romans had, to the astonishment of those who confided in their sincerity, already proclaimed universal liberty throughout Greece. With the same insidious views, they now seduced the members from the league, by representing to their pride, the violation it committed on their sovereignty. By these arts, this Union, the last hope of Greece, the last hope of antient liberty, was torn into pieces; and such imbecility and distraction introduced, that the arms of Rome found little difficulty in completing the ruin which their arts had commenced. The Achæans were cut to pieces; and Achaia loaded with chains, under which it is groaning at this hour.
I have thought it not superfluous to give the outlines of this important portion of history; both because it teaches more than one lesson; and because, as a supplement to the outlines of the Achaean constitution, it emphatically illustrates the tendency of federal bodies, rather to anarchy among the members, than to tyranny in the head.
PUBLIUS.
* This was but another name more specious for the independence of the members on the federal head.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
L O N D O N, September 1.
Extract of a letter from Madras, to a gentleman in Edinburgh, dated Feb. 26, 1787.
“Sir Archibald Campbell, our Governor, has just concluded a permanent treaty, consisting of nineteen articles, with the nabob of Arcot, by which are finally adjusted and arranged his quota of contribution towards the annual public expence of the peace establishment of the Carnatic. Till now his share was fixed at 100,000. sterling, per annum; but our Governor, with much labour and address, has got his Highness to pay in future, 360,000. per annum, to the company's revenues here. In this treaty a line is also drawn and ascertained, that establishes the annual payments to the nabob's creditors, and which will clear off the whole of his debts, (about 1,800,000.) in about eleven years. His revenue is about 2,000,000. sterling, one of the greatest in Asia, were his debts paid.
“This wise adjustment of the nabob's debts, and his being placed on a solid footing, in his own management & collection of the rents and revenues of his own country, cuts up by the roots every prospect in future of designing European peculators.”
UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Nevis, to his Friend in Baltimore, dated the 5th inst.
“There is now the greatest probability of an immediate war. By the latest accounts from England, a fleet of 18 sail of the line, under the command of Admirals Pigot, Barrington, and Edwards, were cruising in the English channel, and also that ten more line of battle ships were fitting out with the greatest dispatch, which occasioned as hot a press for seamen as took place at any period of the last war.
“A frigate is arrived at Antigua, in 21 days from England with dispatches to the different Governors and commanders of that station, but nothing hath, as yet, transpired, although our politicians are of opinion, that their contents are of a very serious nature.
“We are also informed, that the press was so hot in the river Thames, that 2000 seamen were impressed in one night; that no British subject is admitted to land at Martinico—and that the Governor of Dominica hath ordered all foreigners to leave the island within ten days, unless they take the oath of allegiance to his Britannic Majesty.”
ALBANY, November 29.
Last Lord's day morning, the Reverend JOHN BASSETT was, by a commission of the Reverend Dutch Synod, publicly ordained Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church in this city. The solemnities of the day were introduced by the Rev. Dr. Westerlo, senior Minister of the said Church, by a sermon from 2 Cor. vi. 1, 2. In the afternoon, Mr. Basset delivered his introductory discourse, from 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2. and the whole was closed in the evening, by the Reverend Dirick Romeyne, of Schenectady, with a sermon—Psalm cxxix.
Last week arrived in this city (but from whence we have not been able to learn) a person with six hundred pounds Counterfeit paper money: Soon after his arrival lodgings were bespoken for him in our City-Hall, where it is probable he will remain until the July term of the Supreme Court,

New-York, December 7.
This country is perhaps much more deeply interested in the event of the war between the French and the British nations...
Accounts respecting a French and English war, are various, but all tend to prove it inevitable. A London Gazette states, that 48 Admirals have been promoted...
Proposals are published in the Alexandria Journal, for printing by subscription, "The CONTRAST," a Comedy...
On Saturday Evening last, at the close of the poll at Morris-Town, the following gentlemen were declared duly elected to serve as members for the county of Morris...
William Woodhull, John Jacob Faesch, and William Windes, Esquires.
Extract of a letter from Halifax, dated Nov. 20. "This day the packet from England arrived—authentic news, by her is, that a WAR between Great-Britain and France has broke out..."
Arrivals since our Last. Schooner Charlotte, Donald, Wilmington, N. C. Sloop Adventure, Allen, Norfolk. Dolphin, Carpenter, Savannah.
The Trustees of Columbia College, in the city of New-York, are hereby notified to meet at the Hall of the said College, on Thursday the 13th inst. at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.
ROBERT HARPUR, Clerk.
A GENTLEMAN LATELY arrived from Ireland, bred in Trinity College, Dublin, experienced some years in the education of youth...
Any gentleman who may favor him with his commands, by addressing a few lines to G. H. S. at the Printer's of the Daily Advertiser...
N. B. He will engage to fit any boy of approved abilities for any college in less than four years, and can have many to certify he has already done it.
Anderson's Scotts Pills.
A Fresh supply just received, and to be sold at the Book-store of S. Loudon, No. 5, Water-street.
Just Published and to be Sold at the Book-Store of S. LOUDON,
An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth...
TURKS ISLAND SALT, Soa Leather, and Muscovado Sugar in barrels...
WANTED, A QUANTITY of best Petersburg clean hemp, Bohemian tea, Molasses, Burr flour, York-rum...
WANTED, CONNECTICUT Loan-Office, Final Settlement Notes and Interest Certificates of the State of New-York.
That valuable Brewery and Malt-House, lately in the possession of Samuel Atlee, situated on the banks of Hudson's river...
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD, RUN away on the 28th of last month, in a small white bottom skiff, a Yellow Man Slave, named Tom...
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the fifth day of December...
WHEREAS Daniel Ter Bofs and John Lyster, Administrators of Christian Genshimer, with his will annexed, late of Rombout Precinct...
By order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Esquire, Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Christian Valkenburgh, an insolvent debtor, to appear before the said Chief Justice...
BLANK BOOKS, LEDGERS, journals, waste books, invoice books, letter books, well bound and lettered...
PROPOSALS, For Printing in this City,
The American Magazine.
THIS work will be executed on a plan as extensive as that of any English Magazine. It will consist principally of original essays in prose and verse...
The work will be done on good paper and types. Each number will consist of 72 pages, and be ready for subscribers on the first day of every month.
The price will be, for a single Magazine, a quarter dollar; for a yearly subscription two dollars and a half.
The subscribers will be at their option, either to advance, on the delivery of the first number, twenty shillings for the year...
The first number will appear on the first of January 1788.
The editor of this work has no flattering promises to make, to raise the expectations of the public and prepare them for disappointment.
Communications for the American Magazine, addressed to the Editor, and lodged at the Post-Office, free of expence...
NOAH WEBSTER. New-York, Dec. 5, 1787.
An ACADEMY
IS opened in Upper Salem, in the county of Westchester, and State of New-York, under the immediate inspection of Mr. Amzi Lewis...
The situation is pleasant and healthy. Decent lodgings for students may be had in the neighbourhood...
Those gentlemen who send their children to this academy, may depend on their being treated with paternal tenderness...
As an institution of this kind has been much needed in this part of the country; it is hoped our design will meet with early encouragement...
By ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. Upper Salem, December 4, 1787.
N. B. A neat set of globes have been procured for the benefit of students in geography and astronomy.
Imported in the ship Governor Clinton, Captain Christopher Miller, lately arrived from St. Petersburg in Russia, and for sale.
By Samuel Franklin & Co. No. 183, Queen-street.
A QUANTITY of the best Petersburg clean hemp, Russia & ravens duck, 7-8, 4-4 & 9-8 Russia sheetings...
They have likewise for sale, a quantity of the best London bottled porter, in hampers of 2 1/2 dozen each...
TO BE SOLD,
A HOUSE and LOT, No. 11, Little Dock-street, being a capital stand for business, on which is a good dwelling-house...
N. B. One half of the purchase money to be paid down, and the other at no limited time, just as it may suit the purchaser.
PURSUANT to the directions contained in the law of this State, passed the 22d day of April, 1785; it is hereby certified, that William Hamilton, Auctioneer...
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber, on the night of the 14th inst. a BAY GELDING, six years old, better than 15 hands high...
SOLOMON ELTINGE. Ulster County, Hurley Precinct, November 22, 1787.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold, at HERTTELL and WOODWARD'S Flaxseed-store, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY...
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...
N. B. The above lands will be disposed of at private sale, by applying at No. 22, Broad-street, or to Mr. Anthony Bolton...
JUST IMPORTED,
In the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, from London, and other late vessels from Great Britain, and to be Sold on very reasonable terms...
ROBERT HODGE,
No. 237, the corner of King and Queen-streets, A large and choice collection of
BOOKS;
among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each; Burkit on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible...
Besides the above, a great variety, consisting of History, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Phyic, Surgery...
STATIONARY,
Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes...
** Commissions from the Country thankfully received, and carefully executed.
By order of the Honorable Zephaniah Platt, Esq. first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for Dutchess county; Notice is hereby given to JOEL HARVEY of Sharon...
DODD'S
No. 66, Queen-Street, Musical Instrument Manufactory, from LONDON.
ORGANS, harpsichords and forte-pianoes, spinnets, forte-piano and common guitars, finished in the newest taste.
He has just imported a large assortment of fine toned violins and strings from London, which will be sold very cheap...
Violins, clarionets and hout-boys, flutes and a good assortment of fifes, fiekado-pastorals, pitch-pipes, tuning forks, hammers and ruling pens...
William Guest,
C U R R I E R, No. 13, Ferry-street, HAS now on hand, Boot Legs, an assortment of Upper Leather...
Sole Leather—Also, takes in leather to curry, from the country, and is determined to use his utmost endeavours to give satisfaction to his employers...

CITY OF NEW-YORK, ss. 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. 2½oz. for three pence.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 10th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord, 1787. PRESENT, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Dirck Lefferts, Complainant.
vs. Abel Jennings, George Wakeman, Daniel Campbell and others, Defendants.
FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Dirck Lefferts, plaintiff, mortgagee, against Abel Jennings, George Wakeman, Daniel Campbell and others, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the defendants Abel Jennings and George Wakeman, to the said Dirck Lefferts, whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said Abel Jennings and George Wakeman, have not entered their appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this Court, the same ought to have been entered, in case the said process had been duly served, and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendants, Abel Jennings & George Wakeman, have withdrawn themselves 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. Ogilvie, of counsel for the complainant, that the said Abel Jennings and George Wakeman, appear to the said bill, on the eleventh day of April next; and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far as it concerns them the said Abel Jennings and George Wakeman, to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said 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, within 20 days from the date hereof, be inserted in at least, two of the public news-papers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes. 1 42 8 W. COCK, Register.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 10th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord, 1787. PRESENT, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Dirck Lefferts, Complainant.
vs. Stephen Tuttle and Philip Van Ranselaer, Defendants.
FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Dirck Lefferts, mortgagee, against Stephen Tuttle and Philip Van Ranselaer, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, Stephen Tuttle, to the said Dirck Lefferts, whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said Stephen Tuttle hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this Court, the same ought to have been entered in case the said process had been duly served on him the said Stephen Tuttle, and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendant, Stephen Tuttle, 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 said bill of complaint in this cause: Wherefore, it is ordered, upon motion of Mr. Ogilvie, of counsel for the complainant, that the said Stephen Tuttle, appear to the said bill, on the eleventh day of April next, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far as it concerns him the said Stephen Tuttle, to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said 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, within 20 days from the date hereof, be inserted in at least, two of the public news-papers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes. 1 42 8 W. COCK, Register.
By order of the Hon. Ebenezer Purdy, Esq. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for Westchester County, in the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given by the Petitioning Creditors of Dibury Park, an insolvent debtor, to all his creditors, to their cause if any they have, to the said Judge at his house in Upper Salem, in the county aforesaid, at 12 o'clock, on Monday the 3d day of December next ensuing, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and the said debtor discharged according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, 'an act for the relief of insolvent debtors,' passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated the 19th day of Nov. 1787. 1 52 3
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 10th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord, 1787. PRESENT,
The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery.
Dirck Lefferts & Gerard G. Beekman, Complainants.
vs. James Attle, Defendant.
FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Dirck Lefferts and Gerard G. Beekman, mortgagees, against James Attle, mortgagor, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, James Attle, to the said Dirck Lefferts and Gerard G. Beekman; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said James Attle hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this Court the same ought to have been entered 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, James Attle, hath withdrawn 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. Ogilvie, of counsel for the complainants, that the said James Attle, appear to the said bill, on the eleventh day of April next, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far as it concerns him the said James Attle, to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said 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, within 20 days from the date hereof, be inserted in at least, two of the public news-papers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes. 1 42 8 W. COCK, Register.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 10th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord, 1787. PRESENT,
The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery.
Dirck Lefferts & Gerard G. Beekman, Complainants.
vs. Andrew Liddle & Jonathan Filer, Defendants.
FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Dirck Lefferts and Gerard G. Beekman, complainants, mortgagees, against the defendants, Andrew Liddle and Jonathan Filer, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said Andrew Liddle, to the said Dirck Lefferts and Gerard G. Beekman, whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant, Andrew Liddle, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this Court, the same ought to have been entered in case the said process had been duly served on him, the said Andrew Liddle, and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendant, Andrew Liddle, hath 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. Ogilvie, of counsel for the complainants, that the said Andrew Liddle, appear to the said bill, on the eleventh day of April next, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far as it concerns him the said Andrew Liddle, to the end, that a decree may be made for the sale of the said 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, within 20 days from the date hereof, be inserted in at least, two of the public news-papers, printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes. 1 42 8 W. COCK, Register.
PRIZE-MONEY, Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esq.
NOTICE is hereby given to those Officers and Men of the Frigate Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the Prizes taken by the squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were sold in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim. Benjamin Walker, Commissioner.
Office of Accounts, Marine Department, New-York, Nov. 1, 1787
The several Printers throughout the United States, are requested to insert the above for the information of such of their citizens, as may have claims.
Wants Employment, a young Man, Who is perfectly acquainted with the business of a Counting-House , and can be well recommended —Enquire of the Printers. 44
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
vs. Sundry Goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREAS Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Matthew Pergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mariners, on board of the brigantine Port Roseway, have filed a libel in the said Court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the island of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north, or thereabouts, they discovered and went to a vessel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New-York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks and numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, 1 other hoghead of sugar, marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. 1 hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed with a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, one bale of cotton wool, marked B. three other bales of cotton wool, marked HOC. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the newspapers printed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of August, 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander McKenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said Court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: And whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf of Hyem Cohen, of the island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said Court, to the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of salvage: And whereas, William Cock, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and on behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said Court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arisen by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William McKenzie and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the deserted vessel out of which the said goods were saved, was generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open Court, that the said deserted vessel was a stout vessel, (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-irons round it, that she had black sides and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast, as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck.—Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said Court, public motion and notice is hereby given to all persons interested or claiming to be interested in the said goods, wares and merchandise, so saved or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said Court for the same, within one year and a day from the day of the date of this motion and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the State of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the Court of Admiralty, 39 13 JOHN GRAHAM, Marshal.
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, blankets, baizes, flannels, tammies, durants, wild-bores, camblets, lafings, fatinets, ribbons, gauzes, modes, satins, lutestrings, armozenes, taffeties, black persians, florentines, sewing silk, twift, hosicery, gloves, &c. &c. September 11, 1787. 32
JOHN GLOVER, No. 49, Broad-way,
HAS imported in the Hudson, from Dublin, a variety of low priced yard wide and 7-8 Irish linens, sheetings and printed handkerchiefs, which he will sell on the lowest terms. Also, a general assortment of dry goods as usual. 32
WHEREAS the Co-partnership of the House of Henry Arnold Coster, Bohl Bohlen, Hato Joachim Coster and Herman Gerard Hanumacher, established in this city, under the firm of BROTHERS, COSTER & Co. was, on the 20th day of October last, dissolved by mutual consent; all persons having any demands against the House, are requested to furnish their accounts immediately, and those who are indebted to them, will be pleased to make payment to Henry Arnold Coster, one of the said House, on or before the 31st day of December, or their accounts will, without distinction, be put in the hands of an Attorney; he being fully authorised to settle the same.
N. B. The business, under the firm of Brothers, Coster and Co. will in future, be carried on by Henry Arnold Coster and C. L. Cammann. New-York, Sept. 28, 1787. 38
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1787.
PRESENT, The Hon. Peter Ogilvie, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Stephen Haught, administrator of John Sherwood, late of Coxhacker, in the county of Albany, yeoman, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said Judge, that the said John Sherwood, was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this State; that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said John Sherwood, as far as he had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of his said intestate was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, 'an act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;' and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said Judge the account in the said petition mentioned: Hereupon it is ordered by the said Judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said John Sherwood, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 19th day of January next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said John Sherwood died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 1 54 4 PETER OGILVIE.
ALL Persons whatever are hereby forbid to trust my Wife, or any one, on my account, without my special Order in Writing: As I will not pay any Debts, otherwise contracted, from the Date hereof. Witness my Hand, this 29th Day of November, 1787. JACOB MOORE. 1 54 3
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 Seth Williams, now or late of Rhode-Island, and to all others whom it may concern; that on application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of this State of New-York entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786: He hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the city and county of New-York, commanding him to attach, seize, take and safely keep all the estate as well real as personal, of the said Seth Williams, an absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof, in whatever part of his bailiwick the same can be found, with all evidences, books of account, vouchers and papers relating thereto: And that unless he, the said Seth Williams shall return and discharge his debts within twelve months 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 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 75
To be SOLD at Public Auction, At the Mercants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, on Wednesday the twelfth day of December next;—two undivided thirtieth parts of a tract of land containing thirty thousand acres, and the usual allowance for high ways, granted to John Rapalie and others, and situated between the Cockquago branch of Delaware and the Sulquehanna, in the county of Montgomery.
Also, one undivided fifteenth part of two tracts of land containing together fifteen thousand acres, granted to Walter Franklin and others, situated in Butler's purchase.
Also, lots number three and four, in a tract granted to Richard Loudon and others, known by the name of NETTLEFIELD , situated on the south side of the Mohawk river, in the county of Montgomery. The lots contain four thousand acres and the usual allowance for high ways, and have been subdivided by an actual survey into lots of two hundred acres each, or thereabouts.
The whole is part of the real estate of John Bowles, and sold under his will by order of his executrix, who will make known the conditions of sale at the time and place above specified. Purchasers wishing to be satisfied as to the title, or any other circumstances respecting the lands, may apply at No. 59, Maiden-Lane. November 1, 1787. 1 46 6