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The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
NUMB. 12, of VOL. XLI.]
THURSDAY, March 22, 1787.
[Total NUMB. 2107.]
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
[Paragraphs omitted several times for want of room.]
SAVANNAH, March 1. The brig Friendship, Andrews, from Guernsey for this state, put into Nassau, New Providence, the 31st of January last, in distress.
The ship Charlotte, Crosskill, is arrived in this river from New Providence.
PHILADELPHIA, March 7. Last Wednesday evening, in the Hall of the University, the ANNUAL ORATION was delivered before The American Philosophical Society, by the Rev. Dr. SAMUEL SMITH, Vice-President of the College of New-Jersey, on "The causes of the diversity of figure and complexion in the human species."
The subject was managed with uncommon ingenuity, erudition and elegance. The Supreme Executive Council, the Assembly of the state, the Trustees of the University, the Magistrates, Clergy, Physicians, and a very great number of the principal people of this city, were present on the occasion. The profound attention given by so large and venerable an audience, and the excellent order in which the whole business was conducted, did honor to the society, and placed in a very respectable point of view—the general Philosophic taste of Pennsylvania.
BOSTON, March 5. A Resolve has passed the General Court for commitment to bail, such of the Rebels now in confinement, and who were not apprehended on state Warrants, whose liberty shall not be thought dangerous to the public safety, on their procuring sufficient sureties of their appearance at the supreme judicial Court next to be held in the county to which they severally belong.
The drawing of the Land Lottery, which by an act of the Legislature was to have commenced in this town on Wednesday next, is by a Resolve of the General Court, postponed until the third Wednesday of June next.
NEWHAVEN, March 7. On Wednesday and Thursday last, failed from this port, for different parts of the West-Indies, three brigs, five sloops and two Schooners, all belonging to this port; having on board 302 horses and oxen.
NEW-YORK, March 15. "Though all governments have the same general end, says Montesquieu, which is that of preservation, yet each has another particular object. Increase of dominion was the object of Rome—war, that of Sparta—religion, that of the Jewish laws—commerce, that of Marseilles—public tranquility, that of the laws of China—navigation, that of the laws of Rhodes—natural liberty that of the policy of the savages.—In general, the pleasures of the prince, that of despotic states; that of monarchies, the prince's and the kingdom's glory—the independence of individuals is the end aimed at by the laws of Poland, and from thence results the oppression of the whole."
Treating of Democracies, he says: "It is true, that in democracies the people seem to act as they please; but political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom.—In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and not in being constrained to do what we ought not to will.—We must have continually in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit; and, if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power."
It has been observed by numbers of the spectators, says our correspondent PUEB, that many interesting passages have been omitted in the representations of our modern plays. The managers have an indisputable privilege to prune the luxuriances, but not to lop off the beauties of a performance. By curtailing too much they deprive the public of great part of their amusement, and instruction: decency, perhaps, and a strict adherence to the rules of propriety, may in some instances indispensably require it, but they should be tender of such a privilege, and not consult their own convenience in preference to that of the audience, least they break the connection of events and render the exhibition imperfect and obscure.
Accounts from Madrid, of Nov. 24, say:—The American negotiators are returned from Morocco, perfectly satisfied with their reception at that Court, and the success of their mission, having obtained every thing they could wish for from the Moorish Emperor. What is best, and hardly to be credited at that mercenary Court is, it cost little or nothing to the American states; their Minister, by a stroke of policy, which is set down for an instance of wonderful dexterity, civilly declined accepting of any present in return from the Imperial Court.
We hear a very valuable copper mine has been broke up near Woodbridge in New-Jersey; and those who have examined the ore do not scruple to assert it is equal if not superior in richness to any that has yet been discovered on this continent, or elsewhere. There are at present a considerable number of persons working in it.
Governor Moultrie of South-Carolina, in his late speech, has exhibited a genuine spirit of patriotism. He particularly solicited the attention of the legislature to that important object—The appointment of delegates to be held in May next, at Philadelphia.
Colonel Humphreys of Connecticut, with a detachment of 150 of his regiment, are doing duty at Springfield, as a guard to the federal arsenal.
** THE Public are cautioned to beware of Counterfeit Four Pound Bills of the late emission of this State—they are printed with a smaller type than the genuine ones, and the whole appears dull, the left wing of the eagle is larger in the forged bills, and the paper rather darker colour. The small capitals, FOUR POUNDS, in the body of the bill, appear remarkably small in the counterfeits.
WILL BE SOLD, On the Premises, on Tuesday the third Day of April next, at twelve o'Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day, All that certain Stone Messuage or Dwelling-House, No. 46,
TENEMENTS, No. 45, and No. 47, and Lot, Piece, or Parcel of GROUND on which they now stand;
SITUATE , lying, and being on the south side of Queen-street, near the corner of Beckman-Slip, being a part of the estate of Walter Quackenbos, late of the city of New-York, deceased; containing in breadth, in front, 32 feet 9 inches, and in the rear 30 feet 4 inches; in length, on the north east side, 84 feet 9 inches, and on the south west side 83 feet: in the yard there is a stone well of good water, and a convenient bake-house. The excellence of this situation, for any kind of business, is too well known to need any encomium.
If application should be made before the third day of April next, the premises may be sold at private sale, and the payment in the new emission, rendered easy to the purchaser. Enquire of the subscriber, on the premises, or of John F. Roorbach, No. 30, Maiden-Lane.
GARRET QUACKENBOS, Acting Executor.
N. B. The deeds will be executed immediately after the sale, and possession given on the first day of May next. 6—8
NEW-JERSEY, Sussex County, ss. To the Creditors of JOHN ONEIL, an Insolvent Debtor, confined in the said County;
NOTICE is hereby given them, that the court of common pleas, in and for the said county, have appointed Monday the second day of April next, for the said creditors to shew cause, if any they have, before the judges of said court, at the house of Timothy Symms, Esquire, in Newtown, in the said county of Sussex, at the hour of two, in the afternoon; why an assignment of the said insolvent's estate shall not be made for the benefit of his creditors, and he be discharged from his confinement, pursuant to the act of the legislature in such case made and provided. 6—8
JOHN ONEIL.
Suffex Goal, Feb. 14, 1787. By Order of the Hon. RICHARD MORRIS, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the People of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of HENRY SHRUPP, of the city of New-York, an insolvent debtor, to shew cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his chamber, in Nassau-street, in the city of New-York, on Thursday the 29th day of March, inst. 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 said state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated this 6th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. HENRY SHRUPP.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twenty-second Day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Benjamin Tripp, administrator of James Tripp, late of North-Castle, in the county of Westchester, trader, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said James Tripp, 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 James Tripp, 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 Benjamin Tripp, 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 James Tripp, do appear before him, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the tenth day of April next, to shew cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said James Tripp died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 4—7
THOMAS TREDWELL.
State of New-York, ss.
WHEREAS all the real estate of which Ann Giraud, late of the city of New-York, deceased, widow, died seized, has been sold by an order of the judge of Probates of this state, for the payment of her debts,—All persons who have any demands against the estate of the said Ann Giraud, are hereby notified and desired to produce the same to the said judge at the Probate-office, in the city of New-York, on or before the first day of June next, when and where a final settlement and distribution of the said estate will be made.—Given under my hand, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
THOMAS TREDWELL.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the third Day of March, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS James Lawrence, administrator of Charles Jandine, late of the county of Richmond, gentleman, deceased, with his will annexed, hath by his petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Charles Jandine, 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 Charles Jandine, as far as he had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of his said testator 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 James Lawrence, 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 Charles Jandine, do appear before him at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the seventeenth day of April next, to shew cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Charles Jandine died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 5—8
THOMAS TREDWELL.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twenty-sixth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Johan Daniel Gros, and Catharine Paris, executors of Isaac Paris, late of Stone Arabia, in the county of Montgomery, Esq. deceased, have by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Isaac Paris, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners have made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Isaac Paris, as far as they had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of their said testator 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 Johan Daniel Gros, one of the said executors, 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 Isaac Paris, do appear before him at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the twelfth day of April next, to shew cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Isaac Paris died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 5—8
THOMAS TREDWELL.
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT and SHOE MAKER,
AND LEATHER CUTTER, Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beckman or Chapel Street,
SELLS all sorts of Boots and Shoes at the following prices:
    L.  S.  d.      Mens best boots, town-made, warranted,  2  8  0    Common ditto, ditto, ditto,  2  4  0    Mens shoes, best sort, ditto, ditto,  0  12  0    Ditto shoes, strong ditto, from 8f.  0  9  0    Womens fatinet, or callimanco shoes,  0  11  0    Ditto, leather ditto,  0  8  0    Boys, girls, and childrens shoes of all sorts.       English boot-legs, bend-foals, and country leather of all sorts, cheap for cash.       Black-ball of excellent quality for cleaning of boots and shoes, wholesale and retail.        † A quantity of mens strong shoes, fit for country store-keepers, or the southern trade, and will be exchanged for tanned leather, or raw hides. ** Wanted, North-American BANK-BILLS.
This Day is PUBLISHED, (Price Four Shillings.)
And to be sold by F. Childs, Printer; Betty and Rogers, No. 35, Hanover-Square; Robert Hodge, Maiden-Lane, and Samuel Campbell, Hanover-Square:—
The Buds of Beauty, Or PARNASSIAN SPRIG.
BEING a collection of Original Poems, upon various subjects.—By AUGUSTUS CHATERTON, Esquire.
"This performance is sent abroad with the hope of meeting approbation, and saving an idle hour from some pursuist less worthy than its perusal— with this view it is resigned to the liberal, and to the man of taste."
To be DISPOSED of at PUBLIC SALE,
The following well improved
FARMS, BEING part of the subscriber's
lands in the county of Hunterdon, and state of New-Jersey, viz. in the townships of ALEXANDRIA.
   Lots. Acres. Lots. Acres.     No. 78. 235. No. 74. 103.   92. 226. 109. 273.   88. 111. 103. 325.   89. 213 8-10. 104. 174 7-10.   150. 241 5-10. 115. 208.   75. 274. 112. 192.  
BETHLEHEM.
   Lots. Acres. Lots. Acres.     No. 116. 238. No. 134. 256.   124. 226. 135. 138.   130. 149. 136. 291.   132. 247. 137. 181.   133. 190.  
LEBANON.
   Lots. Acres. Lots. Acres.     No. 6. 189 8-10. No. 11. 202.   8. 244. 12. 274.   9. 236.  
TEWKSBURY.
   Lots. Acres. Lots. Acres.     No. 20. 178 7-10. No. 41. 380.   21. 179. 42. 257.   19. 385. 45. 185.   24. 275 4-10. 46. 220 6-10.   28. 93. 49. 140.   39. 187. 61. 238.   40. 230. 150. 119.  
The above farms are situated in a pleasant country, thickly inhabited, about thirty-five miles from Trenton, and about thirty from New-Brunswick, improved with houses, barns, orchards, meadow-ground, &c. The soil in general excellent for wheat and all kinds of summer grain; plentifully watered by never failing streams. The air uncommonly pure and healthy. A number of Grist-mills at convenient distances. The title clear and indisputable.
The terms of sale are as follows:—One third part of the purchase money to be paid on or before the fourth day of April next, when the possession of the premises, and a good and sufficient deed, with an absolute warrantee, will be given by the subscriber, on the purchaser's executing bonds, and a mortgage, if required, on the premises, for the remaining two third parts, to be paid in two equal annual payments without interest.
Interest will be allowed on money advanced before the payments become due.
The Sales of the Lots in the Township of ALEXANDRIA, to commence on Monday the twenty-sixth day of March next, at the house of Mr. Elisha Bird, and to be continued there the next day.
In the Township of BETHLEHEM, on Wednesday the 28th, at the house of Mr. Henry Compton.
In the Township of LEBANON, on Thursday the twenty-ninth, at the house of Mr. Peter Appger.
In the Township of TEWKSBURY, on Friday the thirtieth, at the house of Mr. Arthur Henry; and on Saturday the thirty-first, at the house of Mr. Aaron Dennis.
Farther information respecting any of the above FARMS may be had by calling on the subscriber, at his house in the said township of Lebanon; where he will be ready to treat with any person inclining to purchase at private sale.
† The Paper Money of the state of New-York, as well as that of New-Jersey, will be received in payment.
JOHN STEVENS.
February 19, 1787.
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To COVER, the ensuing Season, At King's Bridge, Westchester County, THE noted strong and powerful dark bay HORSE
SAINT GEORGE.
He is fifteen hands high; was got by General Carleton's famous imported horse. Bred by the Duke of Bolton; got by his famous horse Sterling, one of the handsomest horses ever yet foaled, and a very high formed racer. Saint George was out of General Carleton's black Betz, allowed by the best judges to be the handsomest and best saddle mare ever bred in the province of Canada.
The scarcity of money, and the owner's desire to improve this famous breed of horses, are inducements to be as reasonable in his charges as possible—THREE DOLLARS for the season, cash paid as soon as the Mare takes the Horse; Four Dollars if paid within six months after the Mare takes the Horse, in money or any kind of grain delivered at King's Bridge, at cash price; Five Dollars if not paid within nine months; Six Dollars if not paid within twelve months.
Good pasturing will be provided for the reception of Mares, and the greatest attention given. MASON WATTLES. New-York, March 8, 1787. 5—
ALL Persons who are indebted to the Subscriber, either on BOOK, or NEWS-PAPER Accounts, are earnestly solicited to make Payment by the FIRST OF MAY ensuing.
ELIZABETH HOLT.
New-York, Feb. 15, 1786.

MISCELLANY.
HOUSE of ASSEMBLY.
Friday, March 9, A. M.
THE house met pursuant to adjournment. The bill for relief against absconding and absent debtors was read a third time and passed into a law.
The bill for making process more effectual against mortgagors who abscond and cannot be found, was read a third time and passed into a law.
The bill for appointing trustees to sell the estate of Hendrick Remsen, deceased, for certain purposes mentioned in the said bill, was read a third time and passed into a law.
The bill giving John Fitch the exclusive privilege of constructing and navigating steam boats, for the term of 14 years, was read a third time and passed into a law.
A message was also received from the senate, by the hon. Mr. Hopkins, returning the divorce bill.
In a committee of the whole on the TAX BILL, Mr. Doughty in the chair.
TAXES proposed to levy by this BILL.
On every log house, with two rooms, in which there is a stove, or fire place, 2s. for each room.
On every other dwelling-house, which contains two rooms, as aforesaid, 2s. on each room; if three rooms, 3s. on each room; if four rooms, 4s. on each room; if five rooms, 5s. on each room; if six rooms, 6s. on each floor; and on each room in the garret or kitchen, with fire-places, 2s. on each room.
On every papered room, 5s. if the fire-place is tile, 2s. more; if common stone, 2s. if marble, or American product, 5s. foreign marble, 12s. if the cornice of the room is stucco-work, 10s. if the ceiling is stucco, 20s. with a proviso that no house is to pay for having the cornice and ceiling both stucco.
On every mahogany stair-case, 20s. shops and stores, being part of a dwelling-house, to be deemed taxable rooms.
No house to pay any part of this tax, unless tenanted or occupied by the owner.
Every store-house to pay six pence on the pound on the annual rent of the same.
MILLS. Every grist-mill to pay 10s. for every pair of stones employed in the mill.
Every saw-mill, 20s. for every saw employed in the mill, not exceeding three; and for every saw, more than three, 1s. on each saw.
THEATRE. Every play-house to pay 4s. for each night of performance.
CARRIAGES. Every coach 5s. every chariot 3s. all other pleasurable carriages 2s. and every other two-wheeled carriage, 10s.
TAVERN-LENCES. In the city of New-York, over and above what is paid to the corporation, for every licence to keep an inn, or tavern, 5s.
For every licence to sell wine, 3s.
For every licence to sell malt liquor, 2s.
In the cities of Albany, Lansingburgh, Hudson, and all towns where there is a court-house, and within one mile of the same, for every licence to keep an inn or tavern, 4s.
For every licence to sell wine, 2s.
For every licence to sell malt liquor, 1s.
All other parts of the state, for every licence to keep an inn or tavern, 3s. 10s.
For every licence to sell wine, 2s.
For every licence to sell malt liquor, 1s.
SERVANTS. On every male servant, 10s.—Provided that no mechanic, day labourer, or men employed in agriculture, shall be deemed taxable.
MARRIAGE LICENCES. On every marriage licence, forty shillings.
LAND-TAX. On every acre of meadow, arable or pasture land, two pence per acre.
On every hundred acres of wood land, one shilling per hundred acres.
Mr. Purdy said that this bill had already taken up a great deal of time: It was a matter of doubt, whether the house would adopt the bill or not; he hoped the house would not, and that a determination might take place immediately; he therefore moved that that part of the bill, imposing a tax on lands and buildings, be rejected.
Mr. Harper differed very much in opinion with that gentleman; he thought it an extraordinary motion, that a bill should be rejected because it was not entirely perfect. If the gentleman had objections, why were they not pointed out? The bill could easily be amended. He considered this bill as the best of any that had ever been projected in the house, he thought the operation of it would be equal. He was in hopes the committee would not agree to this motion. Mr. Jones thought the committee had better proceed with the bill, when the first clause was read, any gentleman might then move for a rejection of the clause.
Mr. Purdy thought Mr. Jones mistook the motion, he did not with the whole bill to be rejected, it was only certain parts of it. The other parts of the bill could be amended. Mr. Brooks thought that to reject that part of the bill proposed, would be to reject the whole of the bill. He wished to know why the gentleman had not made his motion before, it would then have been proper, and much time could have been saved; he thought the committee ought to go through with the bill.
Mr. Purdy said it was out of order to say whether his question should be put or not. He had waited with patience in hopes that the bill, or such parts of it as were exceptional, might have been made agreeable before any thing farther was done; he wished it determined whether the bill should be rejected, that the house might adopt some other mode of taxation in case this was not agreed to.
Col. Hamilton said that much time had been already spent in the discussion of this bill. He perceived there now was objection, why were they not made before. The bill he believed was perfectly understood by the committee, he wished therefore that a serious question might be taken; if it was to be rejected he wished it to be done at once, the session was far advanced, and if this system was rejected, some other must be adopted. He wished that gentlemen who did not like the bill would offer a better one to the committee. He declared if that part of the bill was rejected, he should move to reject the whole. If this was done, the committee must then go to the old way of quoting the counties. The committee, he was convinced, would not agree to reject part of the law
affecting the country, and not that part which respects the cities—they could never agree to commit so great an act of injustice.
Mr. Purdy had made this motion for the purpose of deciding on the bill, at least on the material parts of it. There was some part of it he supposed feasible, that was the excise. Some other parts perhaps he should agree to.
Mr. Harper did not think the question ought to be put on the gentleman's motion. If he would move to reject the whole bill, it would be proper.
Mr. Taylor confessed that it was with pain he saw a motion made for rejecting at this stage of the bill. He was convinced that no part of the bill respecting the northern counties should be rejected, because, if the remainder of the bill passed it would injure the lower part of the state. He was convinced, if this was done, no gentleman in favour of such a plan could lay his hand on his heart, and say he had done wrong. This system was introduced for the equal benefit of all, if it was yet imperfect, as he believed it was, could it not be amended. He asked if the gentleman who opposed the bill, could propose any better one; he believed not. This was a subject, he said, that had been fully discussed, the bill had given much trouble, and a great deal of time had been spent in the consideration of it; and shall we now, said he, because there are yet some exceptional parts, reject the whole? I hope not. Are we not convinced that there can be no perfection; had we not better try the operation of this bill. We know it cannot be worse than the old system; that is generally allowed to be unjust. A new one certainly then is proper. If we reject said he, that part moved for, I shall be for rejecting the whole. The gentlemen should consider that the northern counties of this state, in a little time, will be the majority, and if the taxes are to be laid by so uncertain and unequal a method as quotas, every member would feel, a bias in favour of his own country; great inequality and injustice must ensue. It should therefore be the policy of those who may be injured (meaning the southern counties) to adopt a system which shall prevent it.
Mr. Batchelder wished to be informed what this bill would produce to the state; he had been informed only 40,000.
Col. Hamilton said, that he calculated the bill to produce 80,000. but as some articles had been rated lower than he expected, he supposed it would produce, in its present form, about 70,000. per annum.
Mr. Purdy said he was extremely sorry that he was obliged to differ in sentiment with the hon. gentleman who had last spoke. The gentlemen who had brought forward this bill, he believed, were disinterested and had no sinister views; in their situation they can hardly be reconciled with any gentlemen who may oppose them, it was not to be wondered then if they advocated the bill, for this reason, were the bill any way tolerable, rather than want a mode, he believed he should be disposed to agree. There was some parts of it, however, as it stood, that his conscience forbid him to agree to. The ostensible reason assigned for the committee to agree is, that the old mode of quoting is a bad one. This is no reason why we should agree to another bad one. The gentlemen suppose this will introduce an equality in taxation among the citizens, but he believed it would have a contrary effect. The mode he did not conceive just, and he hoped it would not be agreed to. He insisted that in some counties it may produce an equality, but it would not in all. He believed that there would be great inequality between the city and county of New-York, and the other counties of the state. It would be exceedingly hard for a man in the country to pay as high tax per acre, on 500 or a 1000 acres of land, as was paid on a small lot near New-York, which might be worth five or six times the money that the farm would sell for. In the country a house is taxed at the same rate as a house in the city of New-York, that is worth more than a house and farm in the country. Taxes when quoted on a county, might not be perfectly just, but among the citizens of that county they were apportioned with equality, and no man was displeased when he saw that he had no more to pay than his neighbours. We tax every thing as high in the country as the city of New-York. The merchant has no tax on his goods in his store or his ships at sea; but to this, he knew, the risque would be objected. But had there not a tax been laid on mills, was there not a risque in mills; were they not liable to be lost by water? this he knew often was the case. The present plan to be adopted by the bill was not a just or equal plan, in another instance, should a man pay the same tax on his lands thirty or forty miles from the rivers or from any market, he believed that this bill would find few advocates in the country. People were already much dissatisfied, and was it not for a few friends to the law, who always spoke in favor of it, it would be impossible for the officers of government to execute it. This bill might destroy every hope of this assistance from the friends to government. this should be attended to, and the legislature be careful when they made laws, not to give any cause for uneasiness, or to create discontent among the people. He confessed that he thought the plan of the bill might be productive of these consequences. He believed, he said, that the old mode, although confessedly a bad one, would be preferable to the one proposed.
Col. Hamilton said, this subject had been so fully discussed, that he did not think it was proper to follow the gentleman (Mr. Purdy) in his objections. He was convinced that he was mistaken with respect to any disproportion between the cities and the counties. He asked if the citizens did not pay as much for every thing as any in the country.
He asked on whom did the tax on carriages, on servants, on marble chimney pieces, stucco, and papered rooms, fall; where were the houses that in general would pay for six rooms. Did not the merchant pay a duty on his ships, and many other things of which people in the country pay nothing. In regard to what had been said of the old mode of quoting; he would only remark one singular influence of its inequality. The last year there was a tax of 10,000. laid on the city of New-York, of which he was assessed to pay 13l. The present year a tax of 12,000. he was assessed only 7l.
Mr. Purdy said, the gentleman seems to justify this bill on this principle, that he paid a larger part of the tax than I do; I readily grant that I shall not pay so large a tax as I formerly did.
Mr. Brooks. I will make one remark; he (Mr. Purdy) objects against the bill, because the cities
and counties are not as he thinks upon an equal footing. If he will make it appear, we can amend the bill, let any gentlemen make the attempt and shew where the inequality exists, we ought to do justice as far as is in our power, and I believe every gentleman of the committee will readily agree.
On the question, will the house agree to strike out the clauses of the bill imposing a tax on lands and buildings,
For the AFFIRMATIVE,
Messrs. Clark, Parker, Jones, Strang, Fry, Savage, Martin, Lockwood, Purdy Schenck, Tallman, C. Smith, Patterson, Hedges, Townsend, Havens, De Witt, Bachelor, N. Smith, Tierce, Olburn, Lundington, Brinckerhoff, and Tomkins. 24.
For the NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Vrooman, C. Livingston, Malcom, Speaker, Hamilton, Bayard, Ray, Bancker, Denning, Brooks, Harper, Wyckoff, E. Clark, Paine, Crane, Griffin, Jas. Livingston, Throne, Frost, Sickles, Dubois, Cooper, Dongan, Snyder, Taylor, Glenn, and Bronck. 27.
The bill having been amended so as to lay a tax of 1s. per foot on the front of all wharves in the city of New-York, and 6d per foot on all the wharves in the ports of Sag-Harbour, and Hudson, the committee rose and reported.
When the question being put, will the house agree to the report of the committee? Mr. Jones rose and observed, that it appeared to him, to be the proper time now to decide whether the house would adopt the bill or not? It was necessary for him to give reasons for bringing this question forward. This bill being now before the house it could be determined whether the report of the committee should be agreed to or not; as another bill must be brought forward, if the house object to the one before them. It was now, that the question be finally decided; for his part he should vote against the report, this being the first place where it was in order to do the same. The bill certainly destroys, all equality in taxation. There is the same unequal plan to exist among individuals that there was formerly between the counties. He was of opinion that the people of the state were not in a situation to receive any thing that was novel or might even appear unjust, he did not think that experiments were eligible at the present moment. He would not say any thing more, only that the good sense of the house would determine whether to adopt the report or not.
On the question to agree to the report of the committee, there appeared, for the Affirmative, 23, and for the Negative, 28.
Mr. Jones then moved that the bill be recommitted, which was accordingly done.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
Saturday, March 10, A. M.
The house met pursuant to adjournment, when three bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed.—Also read and committed, go odd petitions; a report of the attorney-general, and one memorial.
Mr. Lockwood, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Col. David Pearson and others, reported that in the opinion of the committee, the auditors with a committee to be appointed for that purpose, should make enquiry into the circumstances and report the same to the house.
The report was agreed to.
Col. Hamilton from the committee to whom was referred the letter from the Hon. John Jay Esq. Secretary of the United States for Foreign Affairs, respecting the trespass law, which declares that no military order shall be given in plea for any trespass committed during the late war, reported that in the opinion of the committee that part of the trespass law should be repealed, and a bill brought in for that purpose. The report was agreed to.
Col. Hamilton moved for leave and brought in said bill which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
Mr. Glenn from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Charles John Evans, and others, reported, that in the opinion of the committee, the prayer of the petition should be granted, and a bill brought in for that purpose.
The house agreed to the report, when Mr. Glenn moved for leave and brought in said bill, which was read a first time and ordered a second reading.
Mr. Sickles, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Thomas and John Jones, reported, that in the opinion of the committee, the 42d and 43d section of the act for the sale of confiscated estates, passed the 12th May, 1783, the petitioners can have the relief they pray for; that a clause be added to some proper bill to provide for the payment of the interest on all such certificates as the treasurer may issue in consequence thereof.
Several objections were made to this report, in consequence of which it was taken back by the committee, in order to be amended.
Mr. E. Clark, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Esse Jobe and S. Fleming; reported that in the opinion of the committee, a bill ought to be brought in for their relief.
The house agreed to the report,
When Mr. Clark brought in said bill, which was read the first time and ordered a second reading.
Mr. Bronck from the committee to whom was referred the petition of James Montgomery, reported, that in the opinion of the committee, it would be improper for the house to grant the prayer of his petition. Which report was agreed to.
Mr. Taylor, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Samuel Stringer, reported, that the prayer of the petition ought to be granted, and a clause added to some proper bill for that purpose, which report the house agreed to.
Mr. C. Smith, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Hezekiah Conklin, reported, that in the opinion of the committee, the prayer of the petition ought not to be granted; the house adopted the report.
Mr. Lockwood applied for leave of absence, and the house indulged him in his request.
On motion of Mr. Harper, the house went into a committee of the whole on the bill for the more speedy trial and effectual punishment of person guilty of offences less than grand larceny.
Mr. Tallman in the chair.
After some time spent thereon, the committee rose and reported that they had gone through the same and made some amendments.
Ordered to be engrossed. Adjourned.
Sketches of Col. Hamilton's speech, on his bill "for recommending to Congress to admit into the union the assumed state of Vermont," shall appear in course.
MR. GREENLEAF,
OBSERVED a piece in your paper of Thursday last, signed an American, also an answer to it, with the same signature, in Mr. Child's Daily Advertiser of the 18th Instant.
Major B***** is charged with an offence, which I suppose to be the result of ill-nature and abuse; for how is it possible, Mr. Printer, that a British officer should be guilty of inhumanity?—No Sir, this gentleman has always acted up to the character of a man of honor, who feared to do an action that would reflect on true politeness. Numbers can witness that his conduct was such, while in the army, that not a single instance of barbarity, cruelty or indecency, can be brought against him. How then dare any one accuse him, or even say, he is a spy!
For my part, I am inclined to think, the gentleman in question came here merely on a jaunt of pleasure, to visit the ladies, see his honor Sir John —, dance at the assemblies, and get acquainted with the first men of our nation. This no doubt is the business on which the Major came, and I am sorry any American could harbor a thought to his disadvantage. It is very hard that a man must be called to an account for particular indiscretions which happened in the course of the war, "at a time too when civilities were not in vogue in this city." No, no, Mr. Printer, all must now be forgotten,—murder, desolation, cruelty, barbarity, &c. should be buried in oblivion: we ought to take each other by the hand, and forget and forgive what has passed.
What ill-tempers must those people have, who, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, have the presumption to find fault with a "red coat," more especially as none but gentlemen wear that majestic, venerable colour.
But I have said enough on this subject, therefore will conclude with the following observation.—If we with the American Republic to become respectable abroad, we must never mention the name of a Brittain but with fear and veneration. Be sure to use them with that consequence which their dignity and honor deserve.—Cares our enemies; love and adore them, although they heartily wish and endeavour our destruction; invite all to come and live among us (not excepting the mighty chief justice of Canada) and, aided by their wise councils, once more pay obedience to his Britannic majesty. OBSERVATOR.
New-York, March 19th, 1787.
For the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.
We find FIT SUBJECTS for our PROSE at HOME! ANGLICANA.
To the High and Mighty Potentate, PROBUS Probuscis, Man Mountain, Sovereign of Brobdingnagia. SIRE, and DREAD LIEGE.
SUFFER one, who dare not look upon thy majesty's large face, to crawl, with reverential awe and trembling, up to the foot of thy most mighty throne; and there implore thy majesty, like a thing, to graciously extend, as whims thou wert wont to do, thy small toe-nail—where I, a while, may royal shelter find; and whence I will beseech, berate, ay, and bedevil too (for Queen Mab unto one prayer her royal ear hath lent) that self fame emmit, American, who did, presumptuously, your royal self-emage.
First then, American, thou base, obscure, and dirt-bediling thing, come forth—come forth, I lay, 'tis Garagantua calls, but with no friendly voice; step forth until you with foul courtesie I so bemoan, that of thy little self thou'lt with wert less.
Hear then, thou smallest speck, with trembling hear.—Hath not our Mountain Men, been crept upon by thy less than dwarfish race? what was't thy mighty chief, forsooth unto our Mountain Mans hundreds chief, our Asgallatia did'nt, and for what? for trampling on your dirt-hills, and crushing for our sport your pitmires vile!—and hath not our royal clemency to you and yours extended wide, as well in London, as in Scotia's land? hath not the story of our nobles suffering oft, been in Coffee-houses told (to your great chiefs disgrace) of mowing up a Mountain Man in a camp's vile durance, as unto you can by our magazines be frutified?—nor have you then, nor glare of thanks, nor gratitude for favors shewn, that thus dare babble forth foul deeds done on your crawling pigmy race, by royal Mountain Men under our authority of majesty divine?—What tho' alike had shar'd, thy dirt raised line, the fate of him whose fall by our crush you now bemoan? wer'nt not enough that we had donut? and now must our royal Mountain Men, when on your emmit hills a while they come to sport with you, be with foul cries thus set upon? to your disgrace and infamy be it said, that demonstration strong, of hospitality, nor civility distinguished by us unto you and yours been shewn, nor can it move you more than pitmires move.—But hold—my rage will run too far; an exclamation now shall end. "O wicked! wicked! world! what unweighed language hath this foulish American drawn from my Mountain Men's behaviour—I'll exhibit a bill in parliament for trampling small such knaves—how shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I'll be, sure as his guts are of soft pudding, made! GARAGANTUA.
American Occurrences.
SHELBURNE, March 1.
WE are informed from Yarmouth, that they have caught salmon there during this whole winter, in great plenty. The mode they pursue is to lay the net in deep water, just below a rapid, where it does not freeze. One person at the Tucket-river, has put up several barrels caught in this manner, most of them weighing from eighteen to twenty-five pounds. And at Argyle they have had lobsters the whole winter long in great plenty. Why shall not the rivers Roseway and Jordon, abounding in these fish, and convenient places for the catching of them, afford them at this season?
Since our last failed for Halifax, the schooner Succes, Capt. Wardell.
March 8. On Thursday last put into Green-Harbour, at the entrance of our river, the brig Mary, Capt. Ferguson, owned by Mr. H. Austen of Jamaica, and bound from thence to Halifax; she had been forty-nine days out, five of them entangled in the ice off Halifax harbour, and not being able to get in there, and being in immediate want of water, the rats having occasioned the loss of a puncheon, was obliged to make for this port. She failed again on Friday afternoon for Halifax.

BOSTON, March 9. The following was received by last Saturday's MAIL.
New-York, 4th March, 1787.
SIR,
MR. WILLIAMS, of Pittsfield, arrived in this city on the evening of the 2d inst. with a dispatch from Gen. Lincoln, representing to the Governor of this state the countenance and support which had been afforded, to the fugitives from Massachusetts, by the people inhabiting a district within this jurisdiction, and adjacent to the county of Berkshire, and giving information of the incursions made from this state into that county on the 26th ult.—As your Excellency will undoubtedly have received official information of this event before this reaches you, we forbear the communication of any particulars on that subject.—The intelligence received from Gen. Lincoln was by the Governor laid before the legislature yesterday morning; and it is with real satisfaction that we now have the honor to inclose to your Excellency, a resolution which they adopted, in consequence thereof.
“Governor Clinton left this city early this morning, and will, in the most effectual and expeditious manner co-operate with Gen. Lincoln, in apprehending and securing such of the rebels as shall be found in this state.”
“With perfect respect,
“We have the honor to be
“Your Excellency's obedient
“And very humble servant,
“RUFUS KING,”
“NATHAN DANE.”
His Excellency Governor BOWDOIN.
New-York, March 22.
The following important articles from Vermont, were yesterday communicated by a friend to the press.
ON Saturday February 17th there appeared in the towns of Battleborough and Marlborough, in Vermont, a troop of horse, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and broke into the house of Giles Day, of Marlborough, in search of one Luke Day of West-Springfield; on their return, they were asked by some of the inhabitants, by what authority they entered this state in such a manner. Captain Buffington, their commander, answered, he had licence from governor Chittenden.
Extract from the Journals of the General Assembly, now sitting in this town.
Feb. 17. A letter from Major R. Tyler, aide-camp to general Lincoln, was read and committed.
Feb. 18. A letter from governor Bowdoin, dated February 10, 1787, inclosing sundry papers, and a letter from general Lincoln, was read and referred to the committee on Major Tyler's letter. The committee on governor Bowdoin's, general Lincoln's and Major Tyler's letters, reported a form of a proclamation for apprehending Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler, and Eli Parsons, and delivering them to the authority of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and forbidding the citizens of this state to aid or abet the rebels of that government. Whereupon it was resolved, that his excellency the governor be, and hereby is requested to issue his proclamation contained in the foregoing report, and that he take effectual measures that the same be immediately promulgated throughout every part of this state.
[The above passed in the affirmative, and governor Chittenden issued his proclamation accordingly, which is as follows.]
By his Excellency THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esq. Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Vermont, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by their act of the fourth of February instant, declared, that a horrid and wicked rebellion did exist in said Commonwealth, and that DANIEL SHAYS of Pelham, and LUKE DAY of West-Springfield, in the county of Hampshire, ADAM WHEELER, of Hubbardston, in the county of Worcester, and Eli Parsons, of Adams, in the county of Berkshire, the principal aiders and abettors of said Rebellion, and there being great reason to fear that some of the citizens of this state, who dwell near to and joining the said commonwealth, may incautiously and unadvisedly give aid to the promoters and abettors of the said rebellion, and thereby violate the duty they owe to law and good government,
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of council, and at the request of the general assembly, to issue this proclamation, strictly commanding and enjoining it upon all the citizens of this state, not to harbour, entertain or conceal the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons. And I do hereby require all and every the justices of the Peace within this state to issue their warrants when required to apprehend and convey the aforesaid persons, or either of them, to the commonwealth of Massachusetts, there to be delivered to some civil or military officer, authorised to receive them.
And all the citizens of this state are absolutely and most solemnly forbidden to take arms in support of, or to engage in the service, or contribute to the relief of the abettors and promoters of the said rebellion, by furnishing them with arms, ammunition, or otherwise, as they will answer it at their peril.
Given under my Hand, in Council, at Bennington, this 27th day of February, A. D. 1787, and the eleventh Year of the independence of the state.
THOMAS CHITTENDEN.
By his Excellency's command,
JOSEPH FAY, Secretary.
GOD save the PEOPLE.
This is a true copy of the Letter of Royall Tyler, Esq. Aid to the hon. Major General Lincoln, addressed (in Vermont)
To his excellency the Governor, the honorable Council, and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled:
“IN pursuance of my instructions, which I had the honor to exhibit yesterday to his excellency and the council—a copy of which was left with the secretary—I do now, in behalf of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, request your aid to apprehend those rebels who have wantonly and wickedly dis-
turbed the peace of our government, and now daringly insult the dignity of yours by seeking an alliance among you to obviously inconsistent with its true interest and honor.
“As I have the highest confidence in your excellency and honors good disposition, I have also no doubt that you will, in your wisdom, adopt measures the best calculated to effect the design of my mission. I beg, however, to suggest to your excellency and honors, that a proclamation might be immediately issued, cloathing his excellency governor Bowdoin's proclamation with the authority of this government, and that our state or magistrates warrants, issued especially to apprehend our rebels, or their abettors, might be rendered coercive upon the citizens of Vermont.
“The persons whom we seek your aid to apprehend, are not merely rebels against the wholesome laws and good government of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, but, under the influence of the most pernicious principles which ever blackened the human heart, are the common professed enemies of civil society; good men in all countries will set their faces against them, and that government which seeks to dispense the great blessings of protection to the persons and properties of its citizens, and to become respectable among the nations of the earth, will find the surest basis of its permanency and dignity, in discountenancing, in the most decisive manner, such flagrant violators of social compact.
“Upon the interest, the honor, of this government we rely for aid in bringing our rebellious subjects to justice, and upon your excellency and honors wisdom in rendering that aid effectual.
“ROYALL TYLER.”
Vermont, February 16, 1787.”
In the House of Assembly on Tuesday last, it was resolved, that the sum of 50,000. be raised for the service of the present year; not by a specific tax, but by quota.
A bill was likewise brought in, for the sale of the Fort and Battery, and other lands belonging to the state of New-York.
On the 24th ultimo, his Excellency THOMAS PINCKNEY, Esq. governor elect of South-Carolina, was proclaimed with the usual ceremonies of procession, military-parade, and collation.
Saturday, the 10th instant, his excellency governor Bowdoin was pleased to adjourn the general assembly of that commonwealth to the Tuesday, next preceding the last Wednesday in May next; after signing his assent to near forty acts.
On the 10th instant it was resolved in the house of representatives of Massachusetts, That the several persons that have been, or may hereafter be, chosen for the present year, as select-men, assessors, town-treasurer, constables, and collectors, in the several towns, districts and plantations of this commonwealth, be, and they hereby are, required, before the town clerk, or before some justice of the peace, to take and subscribe the oath of allegiance, as prescribed in the constitution of this commonwealth: no act of either of the officers aforesaid shall, after one month from the passing of this resolve, be esteemed valid in law, until they have taken and subscribed the oath aforesaid.—In this act a penalty is annexed for those who refuse to comply.
On the 9th instant, the said house of representatives passed a bill, curtailing the governor's salary from 1,000. to 800. per annum. This bill, being sent up to his excellency; he was pleased to dispatch a message, with his negative to the bill, in effect, by recurring the honorable legislature to the article of the constitution, respecting the governor's salary—thus giving it as his opinion, in as delicate a manner as the subject required, that the bill was unconstitutional.
The 12th day of April next, is appointed by the authority of the state of New-Hampshire, to be observed as a day of Fasting and Prayer throughout that state.
The state of Pennsylvania, by proclamation, has offered, for the apprehending of Daniel Shays, and securing him, the reward of one hundred and fifty pounds lawful money of the state of Massachusetts, and one hundred pounds lawful money of that state; and for apprehending Luke Day, Adam Wheeler, and Eli Parsons, and securing them, the reward (respectively) of one hundred pounds lawful money of Massachusetts, and fifty pounds lawful money of that state. By this proclamation, all judges, justices, sheriffs, and constables are strictly enjoined and required to make diligent search and enquiry after, and to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend and secure them, their aiders, abettors, and comforters, and every of them, so that they may be dealt with according to law.
At a meeting of voters of Anne-Arundel county, on Elk-Ridge; state of Maryland, on Saturday the 10th day of March 1787. Voted unanimously, that an emission of paper money, in the opinion of this meeting, is necessary—that some mode ought to be adopted for the relief of debtors—that the inhabitants of this state, have an indubitable right to instruct either, or both branches of the legislature, on any subject they may think proper, &c.
On Friday, the 16th instant, the bill for incorporating the subscribers to the bank of North-America, was elaborately discussed in the house of assembly of Pennsylvania (the house much crowded) and, after many questions and divisions, a final conclusion, for the present, was taken, to restore the charter of the bank, by a majority of four.
The following is the measurement actually taken of a COW, which belonged to Jacob Hiltzheimer, Esq. and was lately sold for two hundred and eighty silver dollars, at the market in Philadelphia, viz.
In height, on the rump, 15 hands, 3 inches, 1-4; on the back, over the loins, 15, 2, 3-8; on the shoulders, 15, 1, 1-2. In length, from the nose to the tail extended, 15 feet, 2 inches; from the nose to the ridge of the horns, 2, 1, 1-2; from the forehead to the rump, 8, 6; in girth, round the body, behind the fore legs, 8, 1, 1-2; at the naval, 9, 0, 1-2; across the hips, in a straight line, 2, 6, 1-4; from the ground to the dew-lap, 1, 6.
A correspondent, who was at the theatre last evening observes, that great disturbances took place on the appearance of Bagatelle in the Poor Soldier. As this character is introduced on the English stage, and evidently intended to represent in a despicable point of view the GALLIC NATION —it must sensibly wound the feelings of every grateful American, whose CAUSE, in the hour of distress, they so gallantly espoused: And can never be pleasing, unless to an English audience—the determined, un ‘natural’ enemies of the United States.
This extraordinary COW weighed—the fore-quarters, 654lb. the hind quarters, 571lb. the hide, 111lb. head and heart, 49lb. (the guts were not weighed) whole weight, exclusive of guts, 1655lb.
The same gentleman has also raised a STEER whose dimensions and weight far exceeded that of the above mentioned cow.
England has always been famous for raising of beefs: upon the annals of that country we find, that an OX, that weighed 1568lb. (87lb. less than this American COW) was conceived almost a phenomenon. Comments upon this subject are very dispensable, we having had such reiterated proofs, that American farmers can raise as good beef as the English, if they please.
With sorrow we announce the sudden death of ALEXANDER CLINTON, Esq. eldest son of General James Clinton, and nephew to his Excellency the Governor of this state.—This young gentleman, on Thursday last, as he was passing in a petriager to Bull's Ferry, about seven miles up the North-river (in company with two of his brothers, and several other gentlemen) unfortunately fell overboard: He swam for a few minutes on the surface of the water, during which time, he, with admirable composure told the gentlemen on board, that he could take care of himself till they could put about and take him up. Notwithstanding their most strenuous efforts, added to those of the boatmen, the vessel unhappily missed stays three several times, and ere they could arrive at the fatal spot, the unfortunate youth waved his hand, we suppose as a signal of his departure from the confines of time, and then sinking beneath the stream, vanished from their sight. The impressions which this melancholy catastrophe made upon the minds of his brothers and friends, who were the sad witnesses of it, is impossible to describe; their hearts were too big for utterance.—Thus, at so early period of life, as his 23d. year, this promising and valuable young man was hurried from the stage of time, to the inexpressible grief of his relatives and numerous friends.
It is no vain eulogium, nay, justice to his memory requires us, to say—that his courteous, pleasant and affable deportment, had gained him the universal esteem of his young friends and acquaintances, and by his accomplished manners, education, and respectful behaviour, he had obtained the good opinion of those of riper and graver years.
Before we close this distressing scene, shall only add, that he likewise bore a patriotic character—At a very early age he entered into the service of his country, and served as a Lieutenant in the Artillery of the late American army; and, at the time of his decease, he bore the commission of Captain-Lieutenant in the Artillery of this city. He also served reputedly in the capacities of private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, and Secretary to the Hon. Council of Revision. His chief delight appeared to consist in the character of a soldier; for which, his natural and acquired accomplishments seemed peculiarly to have designed him.—But, Death has buried with him, in a watry tomb, all his fair prospects and enjoyments.
Capt. Lee, from L'Orient, arrived in Boston the 10th, after a tedious passage of 70 days.
A letter-writer from St. Johns, New-Brunswick, to a friend in this city, says:—“We are so pleased and impinguished by our present situation, under the energetic, bewitching, British government, that my heart dilates with joy every time I recollect my new residence. Our greatest evil is, that until Jund there is no appearance of verdure, or any thing that proclaims the gentle reign of Flora or Pomona, until very late in the summer.”
By LAST EVENING'S EASTERN MAIL, was received the following particulars.
Two letters of governor Chittenden, of Vermont, to governor Bowdoin, in reply to his of the 10th and 24th February, are emphatically expressive of his zealous desire to co-operate with the Massachusetts authority, for the apprehension of the rebels of that commonwealth.
His Excellency Governor HUNTINGTON, of Connecticut, has also, issued his Proclamation for apprehending the proscribed rebels of Massachusetts, &c.
Captain Hammond, in 7 weeks from London, is arrived at Boston.
BOSTON, March 14. Last Sunday evening, his excellency the governor received the following dispatches, dated PITTSFIELD, March 9, 1787.
Dear Sir, I HAVE the pleasure to inform your excellency, that, in consequence of the inclosed resolve, of the state of New-York, his excellency governor Clinton commenced his journey for New-Lebanon, on the 4th instant. On the 7th I met him there; he took lodgings with us at Pittsfield that night; the next morning I accompanied him to New-Concord, where, were assembled a number of his principal officers, both civil and military, in a masterly, spirited and animated manner he stated their duty respectively, and urged to a faithful and punctual discharge of it. His sentiments, I think, were perfectly just, and many of them may be read in his general orders.
Prior to his Excellency's arrival, the insurgents were dispersing; the approach encased their alarm, and there does not now remain in that state any considerable bodies of them. The civil officers are directed to call on the militia of that state, or on our officers, for such militia force as they may need in apprehending or dispersing the insurgents.
The state of New-York are perfectly disposed to serve us, and no person is better qualified, or better inclined, to execute their friendly intentions than his Excellency their governor. The insurgents are making their way into Vermont. I hope that state will adopt such a system, as shall prevent any ill consequences to us from the insurgents finding an asylum within their borders. I have the honour of being dear Sir, with the highest esteem, your Excellency's most obedient servant,
B. LINCOLN.
His Excellency Governor BOWDOIN.
On Saturday last the general court, appointed the honorable Samuel Phillips, jun. Esq. the honorable Benjamin Lincoln, Esq. and Samuel A. Otis, Esq. commissioners to proceed into the western counties, for the purpose of granting pardon to persons concerned in the rebellion, who may apply for the same, other than the leaders, or such as have fired upon the good citizens of this commonwealth, or acted as a council of war, &c.
Shays and ten more (his officers) are taken up by the British garrison at St. John's and confined until Sir Guy Charlton's pleasure is known respecting them. Gen. Lincoln has sent an expires to Sir Guy on the subject.
FIVE different Pieces are received upon the topic of Major B.—as they are all expressive of the same ideas of those inserted in this paper on that unnatural subject, the several authors will doubtless excuse our omitting them.—The poetical LAMENTATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, under the signature of A YOUTH, shall be duly noticed.
CINCINNATI.
THE Members of the New York
State Society of the CINCINNATI, are requested to attend a General Meeting of the Society, agreeable to their Resolve at the last Annual Meeting, on Tuesday the 27th of March, at the Coffee-House, at five o'Clock, P. M.
By Order of the PRESIDENT, ROBERT PEMBERTON, Secretary. February 26, 1787.
THEATRE.
To-Morrow Evening, March 23d.
Will be performed, A TRAGEDY, called, JANE SHORE.
To which will be added Never performed in America, A FARCE, called, the WIDOW'S VOW. BOX 8/—PITT 6/—GALLERY 4/. VIVAT RES PUBLICA.
THE SUBSCRIBER, having been duly appointed assignee, in trust for all the creditors of Jonas Rogers, at present of Huntington, Suffolk county, and state of New-York, an insolvent debtor, Doth hereby, pursuant to the direction of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, “An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within this state,” passed the 17th day of April, 1784, require all the creditors aforesaid, to produce to him their several securities, or accounts, against the said insolvent, by the 3d day of July next, that a dividend may be made of the monies and effects which may come to his hands, in the manner directed in and by the act aforesaid. ISAAC YOUNGS.
Dated this 20th day of March, 1787. 7—19
Garden-Seeds of all sorts.
Just imported from London and Amsterdam, and for sale in Water-street, No. 18, near the Coffee-House,
A FRESH assortment of GARDEN SEEDS; with a great variety of choice flowers bulbous; roots, and seeds of flowers: several shrubs and seeds, the natural growth of South-Carolina. ALSO, a small consignment of very elegant austriches feathers, and Italian flowers, suitable for the ladies; with a few boxes of hard pomatum.
If these seeds and flowers are not disposed of on or before the 15th day of April next, they will be sent to Philadelphia. They are warranted for the best sort that are imported. New-York, March 21, 1787. 7—10
To be SOLD, at PRIVATE SALE, SECOND-HAND
Household Furniture.
ANY person who may have occasion for such furniture is requested to apply to PETER LANDAIS, at Mr. Arch's, Roosevelt-street, next to the pump, and directly opposite Batavia-lane, from the hour of 9, A.M. until noon, of every day, from the date hereof, to the 31st of the month.
New-York, March 22, 1787. 7—8
Left with the Subscriber,
By Capt. CREATMAN, from Providence, about the 15th November, 1786,
A SMALL BOX, supposed to contain cloathing, directed to Mr. John Taylor, at John Sheppard's, No. 11, Moore-street, New-York.—The owner, on proving property, and paying charges, may receive it by making application to the third door from the corner, on Crane Wharf. ASHER COOK. New-York, March 22, 1787. 7—10
TO BE SOLD,
On Reasonable Terms, A VERY elegant DWELLING-HOUSE, pleasantly situated, in a central town of the state of Connecticut.—ALSO, six acres of very valuable LAND adjoining. Enquire at this Printing-Office. New-York, March 22, 1787. 7—
HOUSES to LET
MOSES GOMEZ,
No. 203, WATER-STREET, has the following Houses to LET,
Belonging to the Estate of MATTHIAS GOMEZ, deceased, viz.
THAT elegant HOUSE No. 27, Queen-street, in which Messieurs Roberts and George Service now reside.
TO LET,
The following HOUSES belonging to the Subscriber. THE House No. 28, Hanover-Square, in which Mr. John Hiern now resides.
The House No. 30, Queen-street, occupied by Mr. Solomon Townsend.
ALSO TO LET,
A VACANT LOT, for one or a term of years, in Hage-street; 45 feet in length, and 21 feet six inches in front, and 19 feet in the rear.—As also, either the whole of my STORE, No. 31, Front-street or the two upper floors; being very fit for a Ball-Maker. MOSES GOMEZ.

POET'S CORNER.
The GENIUS of AMERICA.
A SONG, to the Tune of  The watry God great Neptune lay,  In dalliance soft and amorous play,  On Amphytrite's breast, &c. &c.
WHERE Spirits dwell and shadowy forms, On Andes' cliffs mid blak'ning storms, With livid lightnings curl'd, The awful Genius of our clime, In thunder rais'd his voice sublime, And hush'd the list'ning world. In lonely waves and wastes of earth, A mighty empire claim'd its birth, And Heav'n asserts the claim; The fails that hang in yon dim sky, Proclaim'd the pionis'd ara nigh, Which wakes a world to fame. Hail ye first bounding ships that roam, Blue tumbling billows topp'd with foam, That keel ne'er plough'd before! Here Suns perform their useless round, Here rove the naked tribes embrown'd Who feed on living gore. To midnight orgies, off'rings dire, The human sacrifice in fire, A heavenly light succeeds: But, lo! what horrors intervene, The toils severe, the carnag'd scene, And more than mortal deeds! Ye FATHERS, spread your fame afar! 'Tis yours to still the sounds of war, And bid the slaughter cease, The peopling hamlets wide extend, The harvst spring, the spires ascend, Mid grateful songs of peace; Shall fled to fled, and man to man, With discord thud'ring in the van, Again destroy the bliss? Enough my mystick words reveal, The rest the shades of night conceal, In fate's profound abyss.
A N E C D O T E.
Y A N K E Y W I T. DURING the late war, while an officer in the Continental army was on a visit to his mother, who lived in Massachusetts-Bay, and kept an ordinary, a soldier one morning stepped in and called for a breakfast. The old lady, who was not often accosted of astonishing liberality, did not fatigue herself very much in exhibiting nick nacks; but placing a remnant of ham, and a crust of bread upon the table, telling the soldier he might fall to as soon as he pleased, left the room. The poor veteran, after demolishing every particle of flesh, and gristle that was on the bone, and scraping it as white as a pipe-stem, made a shift to accomplish his breakfast; and was fumbling for his old leather pocket-book as the prelude to departure, when the officer, who was a noted humourist, asked him what he thought picking the bone he had been engaged with, was worth? The soldier replied, he supposed a shilling. "Take it my lad," said the officer, clapping a shilling in his hand. "Considering the difficulties you had to encounter you had to encounter I do not think you are immoderate in your demand." The soldier stared—but finding the officer peremp. y. wished him a thousand benedictions and marched off, whistling Yankee-doodle in its most elevated key. Soon after he was gone, the good old lady re-entering the room; her son asked her what she thought picking that bone was worth which the soldier had left? "Why really son," said she, "considering the nation hardness of the times, and the bundation of taxes we must pay, I think it was worth eighteen-pence as well as one farthing." "Huzza mother," cried he, then I have made a flaming bargain this morning, for I paid him but a shilling."
PRICE CURRENT
AT NEW-YORK.    By the B U S H E L,   WHEAT, - - - - - 8/.   Rye, - - - - - 4/6.   Oats, - - - - - 2/6.   Indian Corn, - - - - - 4/4.   Albany Peas, - - - - - 6/.   Fine Salt, - - - - - 1/6.   Packing ditto, - - - - - 3/.   Rock ditto, - - - - - 3/ 3/4.   By the B A R R E L,   Fine Flour, - - - - - 45/.   Common ditto, - - - - - 40/.   Bur. Middlings, - - - - - 40/.   Beef, - - - - - 60/ 80/.   Pork, - - - - - 85/ 100/.   By the H U N D R E D,   Indian Meal, - - - - - 12/.   Rye ditto, - - - - - 15/ 17/.   Rice, - - - - - 27/ 28/.   Ship Bread, - - - - - 21/.   Muscovado Sugar, - - - - - 56/ 66/.   By the P O U N D,   Loaf Sugar, - - - - - 1/2 1/3.   Havanna ditto, - - - - - 10d. 11d.   Hyson Tea, - - - - - 9/6 10/.   Souchong ditto, - - - - - 6/ 8/.   Bohea ditto, - - - - - 2/11.   Hams, - - - - - 11d.   Butter, - - - - - 1/2.   Tallow, - - - - - 10d.   Coffee, - - - - - 18d. 19d.   By the G A L L O N,   West-India Rum, - - - - - 3/10 4/2.   Spirits, - - - - - 4/6 5/.   Molasses, - - - - - 1/10. 
Affize of BREAD.
A Wheaten Loaf of fine Flour, to weigh Two Pounds Four Ounces, for SIX-PENCE.—A Loaf of like Flour to weigh One Pound Four Ounces, for Four Coppers.
Flying Machine.
THE proprietors of the New Line of Stages respectfully inform the public, that after the 25th day of December, they will start in the following order, viz. Two waggons will start from Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock P. M. every afternoon, during the winter season, Saturdays excepted. One will proceed by Newark, and one by Bergen-Point, to Major Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point. One waggon will start every morning, Saturday and Sunday excepted, from Newark, at 6 o'clock, and one from Major Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, at seven o'clock, for Philadelphia, stopping ten minutes at Bridge-Town for the convenience of the inhabitants of that place. Two waggons will start from the house of Michael Dennison, at the sign of the George , in Philadelphia, every morning, Saturday and Sunday excepted, at 6 o'clock, for New-York. The proprietors having thus situated themselves, in order to accommodate the public on the different routes, by Newark and Elizabeth-Town Point, and Messrs. Ryerston and Twingley , being prepared to co-operate with our line, to convey the passengers who choose to pass by water to and from New-York and Elizabeth-Town Point, they flatter themselves those Gentlemen and Ladies , who favor them with their custom, will be fully satisfied with their accommodations; and as two Carriages will start every day, extra conveyance in future will cease. The public will please to attend, that the stages will start exactly at the hours proposed, and all delays for passengers will be inadmissible. ICHABOD GRUMMAN, MATHIAS WARD, JOHN CUMMING, DANIEL MARSH, THOMAS EGBERT, WILLIAM JONES, DAVID HAMMILTON, FRANCIS WITT, CHARLES BESSONET, MICHAEL DENNISON. New-York, Dec. 23, 1786. 95—
To be Sold, at Private Sale,
THE House No. 21, Greenwich-street, opposite the Air Furnace , near the North-River, with the lease of the two Lots whereon said house is built, of which forty-six years are unexpired. The above House is a noted stand for a tavern; containing three rooms on each floor; stabling for horses; subject to forty shillings each lot per year ground rent. The House rents for 35 pounds per annum.—For further particulars, enquire of Mr. JONAS UTT, on the premises, or the Printer hereof. New-York, Feb. 12, 1787. 2—
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that on application made to me, Richard Varick , Esq. recorder of the city of New-York, by a creditor of John Magoffin , of Hunterdon county in the state of New-Jersey, a debtor residing without this state, I have in pursuance of the act, entitled, " An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors ," passed the 4th of April, 1786, directed all the estate real and personal of the said John Magoffin , within this state, to be seized, and that unless the said John Magoffin does discharge his debts within one year from the date hereof, all his estates real and personal so seized will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors.—Given under my hand this 11th day of September, 1786. 81— RICHARD VARICK.
Mr. RUSPINI, SURGEON DENTIST,
FINDING his engagements abroad in the morning are attended with very great inconvenience, begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that for the future he means to attend at his rooms, No. 42, Hanover-Square , from seven o'clock in the morning till twelve o'clock at noon, where he may be consulted upon all complaints incident to the Teeth and Gums, and the most effectual method of preserving them in a healthy and beautiful state to extreme old age, and the remainder of the day he will attend his patients abroad. N. B. Ruspini's Dentifrice, Powder, and Tincture to be had at his rooms, No. 42, Hanover-Square , and of Messieurs Berry and Roger , No. 35, Hanover-Square . Also, Ruspini's most extraordinary Styptic Solution, which has been found so efficacious in all kinds of Hæmorrhages to be had at the above places. Jan. 25, 1787.
TO BE SOLD, And POSSESSION given immediately, A twelve years Lease of
THAT very convenient HOUSE, No. 2, in WATER-STREET , being one of the best Stands for Business in this City. The House is convenient for a Family.—For Terms apply to the Subscriber, on the Premises. 2101— JACOB HALLET.
A LARGE quantity of excellent WRAPPING PAPER, to be sold by the printer hereof; superior in quality to, and cheaper than the common brown fort.
WHEREAS Gilbert Ash , of the city of New-York, in North America, joiner, and Mary his wife (for the securing the payment of Thirteen Hundred and Seventy-five Spanish Milled Dollars, at four shillings and six-pence sterling each dollar, or the value thereof in gold or silver, with six per cent. interest for the same, according to the condition of a certain bond bearing date the fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and executed by the said Gilbert Ash , to Daniel Underhill , of the township of Oytter-Bay, in Queen's county, on Long-Island) did, by indenture of mortgage, bearing date the said fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, mortgage to the said Daniel Underhill , "all that certain lot or parcel of land situate, lying, and being within the city of New-York, in Montgomery - Ward , fronting King George's-street , now called William-street , to the westward, and Frankford-street to the northward, containing in breadth, at the north end on Frankford-street , twenty-nine feet four inches, at the fourth end twenty-three feet ten inches, and in length, on the said King George's-street , now called William-street , one hundred feet, and the same length on the easterly side more or less, bounded westward by King George's-street , now called William-street , northward by Frankford-street , eastward by lot number eleven, formerly belonging to Mr. Ryders , but now to David Prevost , and southerly by land of James Van Varck , which said lot, in a plan thereof, is called Number Ten, together also with three dwelling houses, and all the edifices thereon, and advantages to the same then or thereafter belonging, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits of the said premises, with the appurtenances, and all the estate, right, title, interest, dower, claim, and demand, of them the said Gilbert Ash , and Mary his wife:"
And whereas it was covenanted and agreed, that in case it should so happen, that the said of thirteen hundred and seventy-five Spanish milled dollars, with six per cent. interest for the same, should remain due and unpaid in the whole or in part at the time, and in manner and form in the said mortgage specified, that then, and from thenceforth, it should and might be lawful to and for the said Daniel Underhill , his heirs and assigns, to expose the said lot of land, hereditaments, and premises, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, to sale at public auction, vendue, or outcry, and to dispose of the same to the best advantage, pursuant to the act or acts of assembly of the colony of New-York, theretofore made and published, and to give good and sufficient deeds and conveyances in the law to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, and out of the monies arising from the sale thereof, to retain and keep in his or their hands the aforesaid sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-five Spanish milled dollars, or so much thereof as should remain due and unpaid, with the interest for the same, at the rate of six per cent. together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus monies, if any there should be, unto the said Gilbert Ash , and Mary his wife, their executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales, so to be made, were thereby declared to be a full bar and preclusion to any estate or interest which he the said Gilbert Ash , and Mary his wife, their heirs, administrators, or assigns, might have or claim in the premises, or any part of the same, and, to the equity of redemption thereof, as in and by the said indenture of mortgage reference thereunto being had, may more fully and at large appear.
And whereas the whole of the said principal, together with all the interest thereon, is now due and owing to the said Daniel Underhill —These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the premises, that unless the said thirteen hundred and seventy-five Spanish milled dollars, together with all the interest due, and to grow due thereon, is paid off and discharged, on or before Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of June next, ensuing the date of this notification—all and singular the mortgaged premises aforesaid, will be sold by the said Daniel Underhill , on Tuesday the said twenty-sixth day of June next, ensuing the date hereof, as aforesaid, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon of the same day, at the Merchants Coffee-house in the city of New-York, pursuant to the covenant and agreement in the said indenture of mortgage contained; and also in pursuance of the directions contained in an act of the legislature of the late colony, now state of New-York, entitled, " An act for the more effectual registry of Mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates ," passed the 19th of March, 1774. Dated this 20th day of December, 1786. DANIEL UNDERHILL. 94—19 6 m.
N O T I C E.
THE subscriber, administrator, debonon of the goods, chattels, and credits of Joseph Mico , some time deceased, and formerly of the city of London, merchant, requests the respective debtors to the estate of the said Joseph Mico , to make settlement with the subscriber with all expedition, in order to prevent the commencement of legal prosecutions against them. W. COCK, Attorney at Law, No. 66, Wall-street. New-York, Jan. 11, 1787. 98—
THE Partnership of BROOME and PLATT , is this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons indebted to them under that firm, or to either of them, or to the late partnership of SAMUEL BROOME and Co. are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, or to Daniel Phoenix , Esquire, merchant, No. 32, Water-Street , New-York, who is empowered to receive debts and give discharges. SAMUEL BROOME, JEREMIAH PLATT. New-Haven, State of Connecticut, Nov. 18, 1786. 91—
The PROPRIETORS of the
Old Line of Stages,
BEG leave to inform the public, that they propose, from the eighth instant, to start their stages from Powles-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, every day during the winter season, Saturdays excepted;—to proceed, by the way of Newark, to Mr. Samuel Smith's at Elizabeth-Town the same evening; to set out from thence the next morning at six o'clock for Philadelphia, where they meet the Baltimore stages , and exchange passengers at Mr. J. Thompson's , at the Indian-Queen , in Fourth-street ; from thence passengers may proceed to Savannah , in Georgia , in the same line of stages. As this is the old and most extensive line of stages, careful drivers and good attendance, they trust, will continue the friendship of their old customers, and induce those ladies and gentlemen, who have occasion to travel in stages, to favor them with their custom.—The stage-office is kept in New-York, at the Powles-Hook ferry-house , sign of the ferry-boat , where seats may be engaged, and all baggage from Philadelphia, on freight, will be left at the stage-office, for the convenience of the public.—Those ladies and gentlemen, who wish to take seats, in this line, at Elizabeth-Town , will please to apply at Mr. Smith's tavern , where a stage-office is kept for that purpose.—The price of a passenger is a low as any other stage, from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia , and baggage as usual. John Mersecau, Joseph Smith, William Hight, Joseph Davis, John Gulick, Gershom Johnson. Robert Stockton, New-York, January 13, 1787. 98—
Ulster County, ss.
By DIRICK WYNKOOP, Esq. first Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Ulster.
WHEREAS on application and due proof made before me, by Edward Wittaker , of Kingston , in the county of Ulster ; it has appeared, that John A. D'Lamater , of Twafis Kill , in the county aforesaid, was indebted to the said Edward , in the sum of sixty-five pounds or upwards, over and above all discounts; and that the said John A. D'Lamater , is either departed the state or concealed himself within it, with intent and design to defraud him the said Edward , and other creditors of their just dues, or to avoid being arrested by the ordinary process of law. I have directed all the estate, real and personal of the said John A. D'Lamater , within the county of Ulster , to be seized; and unless he the said John A. D'Lamater , shall return and discharge his debts within three months after the date of this publication, all his estate, real and personal, within this county, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors, agreeable to the act for that purpose made and provided. Jan. 18th, 1787. 98 110
To the PUBLIC.
MAJOR PENDLETON'S business calling him to the Southward, the STAGE-OFFICE is removed to HALL'S No. 49 , Cortlandt-street , leading from Oswago-Market to Powles-Hook ferry , being the first brick house on the left hand from Broad-Way —where may be had GENTEELED BOARDING and LODGING . The Boston and Albany STAGES will start on Monday and Thursday mornings, precisely at five o'clock; those who wish to take seats are requested to apply the evening previous to starting, and leave all extra baggage.
A HACKNEY
will always be ready to convey Ladies and Gentlemen to any part of the town they may please to direct. 4—
Public Notice is hereby given,
THAT by virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued out of the court of chancery to me directed, will be sold at twelve o'clock on Friday the sixth day of April next, at public vendue, at the Coffee-house , all that certain LOT of GROUND,
situate, lying, and being in the city of New-York, on the north side of Bridge-street , bounded on the north and east by ground of Nicholas Roosevelt , on the south by the aforesaid street , and on the west by the ground of Job Myers .
A particular plan of the Lot, and the conditions of sale, will be exhibited at the time of the sale. M. WILLET, Sheriff. New-York, Feb. 27, 1787. 4—9
NEW-YORK State Certificates,
Pierce's Final Settlements, Loan-Office Certificates, and every kind of Public Paper, BOUGHT and SOLD, by ISAAC GUION, At GUION, CARTHY, and Co's Store , No 164, WATER-STREET , Every Transaction in the Commission and Brokerage Business done with Secrecy, Punctuality, and Precision. FOR SALE,
A considerable Sum in FINAL SETTLEMENTS, and some NEW-EMISSION of this STATE.—Apply as above.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE— For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window. SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed but ONCE a WEEK, at only TWO DOLLARS per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED. ** PRINTING, in all its Variety; performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.