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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 17, of VOL. XLIII.]
SATURDAY, January 19, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2195.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, heretofore subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—The NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and, that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated.—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
CONDITIONS. I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half: after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE EDITOR returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copies speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town, would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentleman might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. William son Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787.
J. M.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's, Chambers, in the City of New-York, the fourth Day of January in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
PRESENT, The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Chancellor.
John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, Complainant, vs. Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, Defendant. FORASMUCH as it appears to this court, that a bill has been filed therein by John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, against Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said John Rutter; whereupon process of subpoena to appear, and answer, has been duly issued and returned; and that the said Thomas Rutter has 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 premises had been duly served, and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this court, that the said Thomas Rutter (as the deponent was informed) had left New-Town, in Queen's county, upwards of six months ago, and that the said Thomas Rutter, was (as the deponent was informed and verily believed) in or near the state of New-York, but had no permanent place of residence, so that the said deponent was unable to serve him 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. Lawrance, of counsel for the complainant, that the said Thomas Rutter appear to the said bill, on or before the seventh day of March now next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, 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 twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in, at least, two of the public newspapers printed in the state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes, 89—8w. f. W. COCK, Register.
NOTICE is her by given, that on the twelfth day of February next, application will be made to the honourable the legislature of the state of New-York, for an act to vest the real estate of Philippe Du Perron, deceased, late an officer in the English service (situate in the county of Washington) in trustees, for the payment of the debts of the said Philippe Du Perron, in equal proportions.
New-York, January 11, 1788. 86—f.
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A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant.
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THE American Museum,
FOR DECEMBER, 1787. CONTAINING, State and other public papers.
OBJECTONS of the honorable George Mason to the new constitution, The address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Letter from the Hon. Richard Henry Lee, Esq. to governor Randolph, Dr. Franklin's final speech in the late federal convention, Resolves of the house of delegates of the commonwealth of Virginia, Resolves of Congress, Resolves of the convention of Pennsylvania, relative to offering congress the jurisdiction of a place for the seat of federal government, Resolves of the supreme executive council of the state of Pennsylvania, Resolves of the house of delegates of the state of Maryland, Letter from the Hon. John Sevier to governor Matthews, — from col. Robertson to governor Sevier, — from col. Bledsoe to governor Sevier, — from gen. Cooke, to gov. Matthews, — from gen. Clarke, to ditto, — from major Elholm, to major gen. Moultrie, — from the Hon. William Pierce, to don Diego de Gardoqui, Reply to the preceding letter, Votes of the members of the protestant episcopal church in Providence, Address of the inhabitants of Northampton, to their delegates in convention, Resolution of the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Ratification of the new constitution by Delaware, Ditto by Pennsylvania.
Medical Essays.
Observations and remarks on the putrid malignant sore throat, Observations on the bite of a mad dog, Account of a worm bred in the liver, Letter to doctor Franklin on the same subject.
Rural Concerns.
On the culture of trees, To make cyder, On planting potatoes, Receipt for preventing the flies from damaging turnips, On the culture of ginseng.
Law Information.
Law report. Watkeys against Delancey, Law report. Norton against Birch, Law case, respecting a captured vessel, Law regulation.
Miscellanies.
The Federalist, Account of an electrical eel, Recovery of two drowned children, Directions for the recovery of persons apparently dead from drowning, Admiral Pococke's receipt for pickling beef, pork, &c. Exemplary charity, Extract from an oration pronounced by David Dogget, Esq. Indian anecdote.
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The newsmonger's song, The crisis, The retort courteous, Poem on the prospect of seeing the fine arts flourish in America, The old Bachelor.
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MISCELLANY.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
Of the State of New-York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, January 11, 1788.
[Continued.]
MR. James Livingston, from the committee of the whole house on the governor's speech, reported, that they had the same under consideration, and requested leave to sit again, which was granted.
It was then, on motion, ordered, that the governor's speech be printed;—and that Mr. Sylvester, Mr. Benson, and Mr. Jones, be a committee to prepare an answer to the same.
On motion, Mr. Low, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Schoonmaker, were appointed a committee, to meet with a committee of the senate, and devise some means of remedy for the evil arising from the counterfeiting the paper money of this state. [The committee on the part of the senate, are Mr. Vanderbilt, and Mr. Haring.]
Adjourned until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning.
Saturday Jan. 12, 1788.
The house met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr. Francis Lewis, of Queen's county, appearing in the house, was qualified and admitted to his seat.
A petition of Mary Elmdorff, of Kingston, in Ulster county, praying permission to pay certain taxes in certificates, was read and referred to Messrs. Dongan, John Smith, and Strang.
A petition from Joseph Pearson, of New-York, praying leave to locate a certain lot in said city, which he supposes to be the property of the state, was read; and,
On motion, referred to the attorney general, who is to make enquiry, whether the same, or any more lots in the said city, are the property of the state, and to report accordingly.
A petition from Samuel Brown, and others, respecting lands granted them by this State, in or near the Massachusetts line, and which have, since the running of the said line, fallen within the commonwealth of Massachusetts—was read, and referred to Mr. Jones, Gen. Cantine and Gen. Clinton.
A memorial of Gilbert J. Livingston, and Andrew White, officers in the troops of this state, during the late war, praying for deprivation of pay, was referred to the auditor to make report on the same.
A petition from a number of people from the townships of Newton and Chemung, on the Tioga River, praying leave to locate certain lands, was read and referred, to Gen. Clinton, Mr. Gansevoort, Mr. Verplank, Mr. P. Cantine, and Mr. Osborn.
The bill to regulate the re-packaging of beef and pork;
The bill to regulate the culling of staves and heading;
The bill to naturalize Robert Edmundston;
The bill to enable grantees of reversions to take advantage of the conditions to be performed by lessees;
The bill to compel joint tenants, and tenants in common, to make partition, and for the more easy partition of lands in copartnership, joint tenancy, and tenants in common;
The bill concerning amendments and jeofails;
The bill to relieve cities and towns from such charges as may arise from
bastard children born within the same;
The bill concerning apprentices and servants; and
The bill for the limitation of actions and suits at law, were severally read a second time and committed.
The house went into a committee on the bill to prevent delays in the general session of the peace, and abuses in issuing out writs of certiorari.
Gen. Clinton in the chair.
The said bill having been read by paragraphs, and agreed to, the committee rose and reported the same, when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
In concurrence with a resolution of the senate, appointing Mr. Haring and Mr. Vanderbilt a committee, to deposit in the secretary's office, the reports, and maps made by the commissioners for settling the boundary lines, Mr. Tillotson, Mr. Verplank, and Mr. Jones, were appointed by the house, for the same purpose.
[To be Continued.]
THE FEDERALIST, No. XXXVI. To the PEOPLE of the STATE of New-York.
IN reviewing the defects of the existing confederation, shewing that they cannot be supplied by a government of less energy than that before the public, several of the most important principles of the latter fell of course under consideration. But as the ultimate object of these papers is to determine clearly and fully the merits of this constitution, and the expediency of adopting it, our plan cannot be completed without taking a more critical and thorough survey of the work of the convention; without examining it no all its sides; comparing it in all its parts, and calculating its probable effects. That this remaining task may be executed under impressions conducive to a just and fair result, some reflections must in this place be indulged, which candor previously suggests. It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.—To those who have been led by experience to attend to this consideration, it could not appear surprising, that the act of the convention recommends so many important changes and innovations, which may be viewed in so many lights and relations, and which touches the springs of so many passions and interests, should find or excite dispositions unfriendly both on one side, and on the other, to a fair discussion and accurate judgment of its merits. In some, it has been too evident from their publications, that they have scanned the proposed constitution, not only with a predisposition to censure, but with a predetermination to condemn: as the language held by others, betrays an opposite predetermination or bias, which must render their opinions also of little moment in the question. In placing however, these different characters on a level, with respect to the weight of their opinions, I will not to insinuate, that there may not be a material difference in the purity of their intentions. It is but just to remark, in favor of the latter description, that as our situation is universally admitted to be peculiarly critical, and to require indispensibly, that something should be done for our relief, the predetermined patron of what has been actually done, may have taken his bias from the weight of these considerations, as well as from considerations of a sinister nature. The predetermined adversary, on the other hand, can have been governed by no venial motive whatever. The intentions of the first may be upright, as they may on the contrary be culpable. The views of the last cannot be upright, and must be culpable. But the truth is, that these papers are not addressed to persons falling under either of these characters. They solicit the attention of those only, who add to sincere zeal for the happiness of their country, a temper favorable to a just estimate of the means of promoting it.
Persons of this character will proceed to an examination of the plan submitted by the convention, not only without a disposition to find or to magnify faults; but will see the propriety of reflecting, that a faultless plan was not to be expected. No-
will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind, that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in rejudging the fallible opinions of others.
With equal readiness will it be perceived, that besides these inducements to candor, many allowances ought to be made for the difficulties inherent in the very nature of the undertaking referred to the convention.
The novelty of the undertaking immediately strikes us. It has been shewn, in the course of these papers, that the existing confederation is founded on principles which are fallacious; that we must consequently change the first foundation, and with it, the superstructure resting upon it. It has been shewn, that the other confederacies, which could be consulted as precedents, have been vitiated by the same erroneous principles, and can therefore furnish no other light than that of beacons, which give warning of the course to be shunned, without pointing out that which ought to be pursued. The most that the convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention, a very important one must have lain, in combining the requisite stability and energy in government with the inviolable attention due to liberty, and to the republican form. Without substantially accomplishing this part of their undertaking, they would have very imperfectly fulfilled the object of their appointment, or the expectation of the public: yet, that it could not be easily accomplished, will be denied by no one, who is unwilling to betray his ignorance of the subject. Energy in government is essential to that security against external and internal danger, and to that prompt and salutary execution of the laws, which enter into the very definition of good government. Stability in government is essential to national character, and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society. An irregular and mutable legislation is not more an evil in itself, than it is odious to the people; and it may be pronounced with assurance, that people of this country, enlightened as they are, with regard to the nature, and interested, as the great body of them are, in the effects of good government, will never be satisfied, until some remedy be applied to the vicissitudes and uncertainties, which characterize the state administrations. On comparing, however, these valuable ingredients with the vital principles of liberty, we must perceive at once, the difficulty of mingling them together in their due proportions. The genius of republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only, that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those intrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires, that the hands, in which power is lodged, should continue for a length of time the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of elections, and a frequent change of measures, from a frequent change of men; whilst energy in government requires, not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand. How far the convention may have succeeded in this part of their work, will better appear on a more accurate view of it. From the cursory view, here taken, it must clearly appear to have been an arduous part.
Not less arduous must have been the task of marking the proper line of partition, between the authority of the general, and that of the state governments. Every man will be sensible of this difficulty, in proportion as he has been accustomed to contemplate and discriminate objects, extensive and complicated in their nature. The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical philosophers. Sense, perception, judgement, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades, and minute gradations, that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy. The boundaries between the great kingdoms of nature, and still more, between the various
provinces, and lesser portions into which they are subdivided, afford another illustration of the same important truth. The most sagacious and laborious naturalists have never yet succeeded, in tracing, with certainty, the line which separates the district of vegetable life from the neighbouring region of unorganized matters, or which marks the termination of the former, and the commencement of the animal empire. A still greater obscurity lies in the distinctive characters, by which the objects in each of these great departments of nature, have been arranged and assorted. When we pass from the works of nature, in which all the delineations are perfectly accurate, and appear to be otherwise only from the imperfection of the eye which surveys them, to the institutions of man, in which the absurdity, arises as well from the object itself, as from the organ by which it is contemplated; we must perceive the necessity of moderating still farther our expectations and hopes from the efforts of human sagacity. Experience has instructed us, that no skill in the science of Government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches. Questions daily occur in the course of practice, which prove the obscurity which reigns in these subjects, and which puzzle the greatest adepts in political science. The experience of ages, with the continued and combined labours of the most enlightened legislators and jurists, have been equally unsuccessful in delineating the several objects and limits of different codes of laws and different tribunals of justice. The precise extent of the common law, and the statute law, the maritime law, the ecclesiastical law, the law of corporations, and other laws and customs, remain still to be clearly and finally established in Great-Britain, where accuracy in subjects has been more industriously pursued than in any other part of the world. The jurisdiction of her several courts, general and local, of law, of equity, of admiralty, &c. is not less a source of frequent and intricate discussion, sufficiently denoting the indeterminate limits by which they are respectively circumscribed. All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications. Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other, adds a fresh embarrassment. The use of words is to express ideas. Perspicuity therefore requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriated to them. But no language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many, equivocally denoting different ideas. Hence it must happen, that however accurately objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated. Here then are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions; indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity. The convention, in delineating the boundary between the federal and state jurisdictions, must have experienced the full effect of them all.
To the difficulties already mentioned, may be added the interfering pretensions of the larger and smaller states. We cannot err in supposing that the former would contend for a participation in the government, fully proportioned to their superior wealth and importance; and that the latter would not be less tenacious of the equality at present enjoyed by them. We may well suppose, that neither side would entirely yield to the other, and consequently that the struggle could be terminated only by compromise. It is extremely probable also, that after the ratio of representation had been adjusted, this very compromise must have produced a fresh struggle between the same parties, to give such a turn to the organization of the government, and to the distribution of its powers, as

would encrease the importance of the branches, in forming which they had respectively obtained the greatest share of influence. There are features in the constitution which warrant each of these suppositions; and as far as either of them is well founded it shews, that the convention must have been compelled to sacrifice theoretical propriety to the force of extraneous considerations.
Nor could it have been the large and small states only which would marshal themselves in opposition to each other on various points. Other combinations, resulting from a difference of local position and policy, must have created additional difficulties. As every state may be divided into different districts, and its citizens into different classes, which give birth to contending interests, and local jealousies; so the different parts of the United States are distinguished from each other, by a variety of circumstances, which produce a like effect on a large scale. And although this variety of interests, for reasons sufficiently explained in a former paper, may have a salutary influence on the administration of the government when formed, yet every one must be sensible of the contrary influence which must have been experienced in the task of forming it.
Would it be wonderful, if under the pressure of all these difficulties, the Convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry, which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a constitution planned in his closet or in his imagination? The real wonder is, that so many difficulties should have been surmounted; and surmounted with an unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candour to reflect on this circumstance, without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the most pious reflection not to perceive in it, a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and so signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of revolution. We had occasion, in a former paper, to take notice of the repeated trials which have been unsuccessfully made in the United Netherlands, for reforming the baneful and notorious vices of their Constitution. The history of almost all the great councils and consultations, held among mankind for reconciling their discordant opinions, alluaging their mutual jealousies, and adjusting their respective interests, is a history of factions, contentions and disappointments; and may be classed among the most dark and degrading pictures which display the infirmities and depravities of the human character. If, in a few scattered instances, a brighter aspect is presented, they serve only as exceptions to admonish us of the general truth; and by their lustre to darken the gloom of the adverse prospect to which they are contrasted. In revolving the causes from which these exceptions result, and applying them to the particular instance before us, we are necessarily led to two important conclusions. The first is, that the Convention must have enjoyed, in a very singular degree, an exemption from the pestilential influence of party animosities—the diseases most incident to deliberative bodies, and most apt to contaminate their proceedings. The second conclusion is, that all the deputations composing the Convention, were either satisfactorily accommodated by the final act, or were induced to accede to it, by a deep conviction of the necessity of sacrificing private opinions and partial interests, to the public good, and by a despair of seeing this necessity diminished by delays or by new experiments.
PUBLIUS.
American Occurrences.
MIDDLETOWN, January 14. LAST Wednesday the convention of this state ratified the new federal constitution, by a great majority. The yeas and nays being called for, were as follows:
   YEAS. NAYS.     Col. Wadsworth, Hon. E. Dyer,   Col. Root, Col. Elderkin,   Col. Lee, Mr. Smith,   Gen. Hart, Mr. H. Dow,   Mr. Peck, Mr. Seth Paine,   Mr. Pitkin, Mr. Witter,   Hon. E. Wolcott, Capt. Cleveland,   Capt. John Watson, Mr. How,   Mr. Treadwell, Col. Danielson,   Maj. Judd, Col. Williams,   Capt. Moseley, Capt. Bradford,   Capt. Goodrich, Capt. Dunlap,   Capt. Curtis, Maj. Learned,   Capt. Barns, Mr. Campbell,   Hon. Mr. Mitchell, Mr. B. Dow,   Col. Cheffer, Hon. O. Wolcott,   Hon. Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Strong, secretary,   Gen. Newberry, Mr. Hawley,   Hon. Mr. Sherman, Col. Burrill,   Mr. Edwards, Mr. Hale,   Mr. Beach, Mr. Miles,   Capt. Daniel Holbrook, Mr. Hall,   Capt. J. Holbrook, Capt. Burnham,   Mr. Buckingham, Mr. Wilder,   Mr. Mallet, Mr. Prindle,   Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Hubbell,   Capt. Welton, Col. A. Hin,   Hon. Mr. Law, Col. Canfield,   Mr. Learned, Mr. Everitt,   Gov. Huntington, Mr. Fitch,   Gen. Huntington, Col. Porter,   Capt. Huntington, Col. Hinman,   Rev. Mr. Robbins, Gen. Skeldon,   Mr. Foot, Maj. Curtis,   Mr. Hild, Capt. Whittelsey,   Mr. Woodbridge, Mr. Brinsmaid,   Capt. Billings, Capt. Fenn,   Rev. Mr. Lee, Col. Smith,   Gov. Griswold, president, Mr. McCune,   Mr. Noyes, Mr. Sherman,   Mr. Raymond, Mr. Orton,   Capt. Halley, Mr. Miller,   Mr. Coit, Gen. Parsons,   Maj. Phelps, Mr. White,   Mr. Miner, Mr. Goodrich,   Hon. Mr. Sturges, Gen. Throop,   Mr. Burr, Col. Chapman,   Mr. Whittelsey, Capt. Higgins,   Mr. White, Mr. Baint,   Mr. Mead, Mr. Morgan,  
   Col. Fitch, Capt. Lane,   Col. Beardsey, Maj. Hart,   Capt. Potter, Capt. Shipman,   Gen. Chandler, Mr. Welch,   Mr. Beach, Col. Chapman,   Maj. Rogers, Mr. Warner,   Mr. Sanford, Mr. Carver,   Mr. Heron, Capt. Riply,   Col. Bradley, Mr. Root,   Mr. Dawley, Mr. Phelps,   Mr. Davenport, Mr. J. Foot,   Maj. Davenport, Capt. Sessions,   Hon. Dr. Johnson, Mr. Holt,   Mr. Mills, Mr. Crocker. 128  
   Mr. Perkins, Mr. Southworth,   Mr. Holcomb, Capt. Atwood,   Mr. King, Mr. Randall,   Mr. Todd, Mr. Colton,   Col. Phelps, Mr. Stephen Paine,   Mr. Humphry, Mr. Perrin,   Mr. Hoadly, Mr. J. Wilder,   Col. Gould, Mr. Patterson,   Mr. Brooks, Col. Wilton,   Gen. Wadsworth, Mr. Goodman,   Capt. Hall, Mr. A. Humphry,   Gen. Ward, Mr. H. Humphry,   Col. Elliott, Mr. Coleman,   Mr. Davenport, Mr. Gillet,   Mr. Basset, Mr. Enos,   Col. Hall, Mr. Nash,   Mr. Whiting, Mr. Ingham,   Capt. Osborn, Mr. Merriam,   Mr. Newton, Mr. Pomeroy,   M. Carpenter, Mr. Pease. 40  
"On the morning of the 6th inst. the body of Thomas Tucker, an old countryman, who has of late years resided in Killingworth, was found dead in the highway, in said town. A jury of inquest was forthwith summoned, and sworn according to law; they brought in their verdict, That they judged him disordered either in mind or body, and being unable to travel, and thin clothed, perished with the cold."
New-York, January 19.
YESTERDAY P'Aigrette, French Frigate, and the Spanish Packet, Galvez-Town, came up to this city. The frigate saluted the city as she passed, which was returned from the Battery by a detachment of Col. Bauman's corps of artillery; and at about three o'clock the passengers of distinction, viz. the Count de Rosiere, and Marchioness de Brehon, mentioned yesterday to have arrived in her, debarked, and came on shore at the ferry-ways, under a salute from the frigate, and a cheering welcome of three buzzas from a large body of people who had collected on the wharves. This frigate mounts forty guns on one deck, and is completely manned and equipped for war, having not been disarmed, with the rest of the fleet, she being under sailing orders.
Capt. Maxwell, from St. Thomas, who arrived here on Tuesday last, spoke with the schooner Sally, from St. Croix, out eighteen days, in lat. 33. long. 72. bound for Georgia, Nathaniel Searman, jun. master, belonging to Calico-Bay, who, they say, before Capt. Maxwell spoke them, buried his brother and one of the crew, and expected that two others would die that day with the fever—There were only two men remaining on board who were able to do duty, when Capt. Maxwell left them, the Capt. himself being sick. Capt. Maxwell proposed to take the Captain and crew on board his vessel, but Capt. Searman was determined to pursue, in hopes of being able to reach Georgia.
Extract of a letter of a late date, from the illustrious president of the late federal convention, to his friend in Frederickburg, Virginia, extracted from Mr. Green's Virginia Herald.
"I thank you for your kind congratulation on my safe return from the convention, and am pleased that the proceedings of it have met your approbation.—My decided opinion of the matter is, that there is no alternative between the adoption of it and anarchy. If one state (however important it may conceive itself to be) or a minority of them, should suppose they can dictate a Constitution to the union (unless they have the power of applying the ultima ratio to good effect) they will find themselves deceived. All the opposition to it, that I have yet seen, is, I must confess, addressed more to the passions than to reason; and clear I am, if another federal convention is attempted, that the sentiments of the members will be more discordant, or less accommodating, than the last. In fine, they will agree upon no general plan. General Government is now suspended by a thread; I might go further, and say, it is really at an end; and what will be the consequence of a fruitless attempt to amend the one which is offered, before it is tried, or of the delay from the attempt, does not, in my judgment, need the gift of prophecy to predict."
I am not a blind admirer, for I saw the imperfections of the constitution I aided in the birth of, before it was handed to the public; but I am fully persuaded it is the best that can be obtained at this time; that it is free from many of the imperfections with which it is charged; and that it, or disunion, is before us to choose from. If the first is our election, when the defects of it are experienced, a constitutional door is opened for amendments, and may be adopted in a peaceable manner, without tumult or disorder."
We hear from Canaan, in Connecticut, that, on the 20th of December last, Samuel
Butler, aged 45 years, had his left leg amputated a little below the articulation of the knee. Dr. D. Stoddard (after consultation with Messrs. Austin and Wheeler) performed the amputation, and secured six arteries with needle ligature, in a manner that would have done credit to a much older practitioner. Mr. Butler had been diseased 32 years, in his thigh, leg and foot. At the age of 13 years, he wounded the crural artery and nerve which accompanies it, with a sharp pointed Penknife, in consequence of which an aneurysm soon appeared, and has been gradually increasing ever since, so that now it is, in length and circumference, as large as a quart cup. The tendons and muscles soon contracted and formed an ankylosis, or stiff joint, in the knee. The foot grew bigger and bigger, until it was, 7 times its natural size, resembling a tea kettle, being round and clumped, having no appearance of a foot except the toe nails. Nature had formed a partial separation between the diseased foot and the sounder part of the leg, three inches above the ankle joint, in which place he (the night before the operation) accidentally fell down and broke both bones of the leg, so that they came through the skin and stuck into the ground. On examination of the bones of the leg and foot, the tibia and fibula were grown together 4 inches above the ankle joint. The tarsus and metatarsus bones were all carious and rotten. The uncommon bigness of the thigh and foot appears to be owing to the preternatural distention of the cellular membrane.
We are also informed, that John Tucker, of Anchorage, in the manor of Livingston, who had his thigh amputated, some time since, a little above the knee, has since had great part of the remaining bones of the thigh extracted at different times, with the forceps, by Messrs. Cooper and Stoddard. He is gaining health fast, and will, undoubtedly, get well.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Charles Penny, an insolvent debtor, that they shew cause, if any they have, before Benjamin Blagge, Esq. at his office in Beekman-street, by the twenty-third day of January inst. why an assignment of the estate of the said Charles Penny should not be made, and he be discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
CHARLES P. PENNY. Dated this 16th day of Jan. 1788. 95 6 Petitioning Creditors. John Holden, John Penny, Richard Kipp, jun.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of James Hopkins, an insolvent debtor, that they shew cause, if any they have, before Benjamin Blagge, Esq. at his office in Beekman-street, by the 24th day of January inst. at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the same day, why an assignment of the estate of the said James Hopkins should not be made, and he be discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
Dated the 17th day of January, 1788. 95 7
ALL Persons having demands against the estate of Mr. Abraham Houfworth, late of this city, deceased, are desired to present their accounts properly attested to the subscriber—and all persons indebted to the said estate, are requested to made payment without delay.
JACOB POZER, Administrator. New-York, Jan. 18, 1788. 95 81
By Order of the Honorable Stephen Ward, Esq. first Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Westchester:
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Maurice Smith, an insolvent debtor, to appear before the said judge, at the house of Jesse Hawley, innkeeper, in the town of Bedford, in the said county of Westchester, on Wednesday the thirtieth day of January instant, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and he be discharged, according to the form of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
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THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 64

POET'S CORNER.
THE CONTEST OF THE SEASONS, OR, WINTER TRIUMPHANT. SPRING, Summer and Autumn had once a dispute, Which season among them was most in repute. Spring brag'd of her nightingales singing all night, And her lambkins that skip'd about loon as 'twas light. Old Summer grew warm, and said, 'twas enough, That too often he had heard such common-place stuff: That, to him, the bright sun, all in splendor arising, Was an object by far more sublime and surprising. All your pleasures, quoth Autumn, are nothing to mine; My fruits are ambrosia, and nectar my wine. 'Twas thus that these three were by turns holding forth, When rough Winter thus roar'd from the bleak frosty north: Not one of you thinks Winter merits reward, Or that Winter amusements are worthy regard. You, Spring, brag of nightingales giving delight, Han't ladders, like them, that can warble all night? You talk, too, of lambkins, that prettily skip it; Don't my mules, at T—'s as merrily trip it? Then good Summer, your sun never shines but he scorchest: 'Tis not so with my chandeliers, flambeaux and torches: Nay, they're better than sunshine, as some fages say, For they light us by night as well as by day. For you, Autumn, your time on high flavours you waste, As if you alone monopoliz'd taste. Alas! in a ribband of mine, or a feather, There's more taste than in all your fine fruits put together. Add to this, I've ridottos, plays, operas, drums, And assemblies quite private, where all the world comes. I've fine ladies that bring me the bon ton from France, And gentlemen grown, that are learning to dance. All time with the gay, but the Winter, is lost, As a Dutchman is never alive, but in frost. Besides, my dear seasons, I'd have you remember, We're now got as far as the month of December: That you, Spring and Summer, are both ran away: That you, Autumn, won't venture much longer to stay, You can't then but own, if you hearken to reason, No amusements but mine, are at present, in season. Dec. 1, 1786.
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THE UNITED STATES
IN CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787. RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, clothier's, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the controller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.
PRIZE-MONEY,
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire, NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates 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 old 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 RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILERY, near the New-Market Cherry-street and nearest to the Ship-Yards. October 3, 1787. 53—m. th.
Craigie, Wainwright, & Co. DRUGGISTS,
No. 37, Wall-Street, Corner of Hanover-Square, Have imported in the last SHIPS from Europe, A General Assortment of
DRUGS, MEDICINE, and SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, which they will dispose of on very reasonable terms, for Cash, Bees-Wax, Snake-Root, Pot or Pearl-Alhes.
The following are Part of their Assortment; Genuine red Peruvian Bark, Peruvian Bark, Camphor, Calomel, Antimony, Cream of Tartar, Flower of Sulphur, Tartar Emetic, Ipecauanha, Jalap, Rhubarb, Glauber Salts, Opium, Spanish Flies, Manna, Aloes, Aqua Fortis, Borax, Gentian Root, Flowers of Lavender, Flowers of Camomile, Senna, &c.
Surgeons Instruments
Pocket Instruments, Diffusing Knives, Crooked Needles, Teeth Instruments, Lancets, Mortars, and Pestles, Spatulas and Bolus Knives, [ments. Amputating Instru- Lythotomical itto, Cupping ditto, Lint, Tow, Sponge, Pill-Boxes, Phials, Gallipots, &c.
At the same place may be had, a great variety Genuine PATENT MEDICINE.
Practitioners and Country Store-keepers may depend upon being well supplied at the above Store. Medicine chests for shipping, plantations, of iron works, with directions suited to the disorders of the country, are made up on the lowest terms.
SALT-PETRE,
Very low, by the hundred, to be had at the above STORE. 37 e.d.
SHRUB,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE, by Charles Tillinghaft,
At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Bryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Bryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Bryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Affignee. 42 m.w.f. 3m. New-York, November 15, 1787.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants and substitutes Artificial Teeth. Attends abroad upon sending Directions.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, at T. GREENLEAF'S PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street, A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations
FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.
Part of this Edition is rendered conformable to the Military establishment of this State, [The only printed Edition with such Alterations.] and the remaining Part correct Copies of the late Editions; each decorated with a half sheet Copper Plate Engraving. Price Three Shillings.
To be SOLD, at this OFFICE, HUTCHINS's and the UNITED STATES' ALMANACK, For the Year of our Lord, 1788. A L S O,
OBSERVATIONS, leading to a fair Examination of the Government proposed by the late CONVENTION, and to several, essential and necessary Alterations.
Wants Employment,
A YOUNG Gentleman, who is versed in the FRENCH and ENGLISH LANGUAGES & MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS. In either of these branches he would be glad to engage. Having already officiated as teacher of the above languages, and been fortunate enough to give satisfaction, he would prefer that mode of living in future, either in a private family or as an assistant in some school—but if he fails in this, being perfectly acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING, he would accept of a place in a store, for a longer or shorter time, as may best suit the employer. New-York, January 3, 1788. 81—e.d.
STAGE.
THE subscriber informs the public, and his friends in particular, that he now runs the STAGE from this to RYE, which Mr. HALL formerly ran. This stage starts from Mr. C. BEEKMAN's, No. 49, Cortlandt-street, on Mondays, and Thursdays, at five o'clock in the morning, and returns on Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at six o'clock in the evening.—As the subscriber has furnished himself with a very convenient new Waggon, and good Horses, for the purpose, he flatters himself, that he shall be able to give those Gentlemen and Ladies, who please to favor him with their custom, universal satisfaction. N. B. The subscriber likewise keeps a very genteel COACH, with a good pair of HORSES, To LET; likewise, Horses and Chais, and Saddle Horses. Any order, left with Mr. Beckman, or at his stable, in Cortlandt-street, will be immediately attended to, by the public's most humble servant, OBADIAH WRIGHT. Good STABLING for HORSES. New-York, Nov. 27, 1787. th.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook STAGE.
ON the 14th inst. the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules-Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules-Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition. The FARE for a passenger, with eleven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight. The waggon, on its route to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules-Hook. N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortlandt-street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage.—All letters carried free. GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
THE PUBLIC ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey, to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmadge Hall, No. 49, Cortlandt-street (commonly known by the Boiton, Albany, and Philadelphia General Stage Office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston Stages, to make his house the public Stage-house. Those Ladies and Gentlemen, who wish to take passages in either of those Stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the Stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed, that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment, and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom. N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed, that the subscriber has a large convenient Assembly Room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required. CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787 51—th.
THE PROPRIETORS of the STAGES,
Which ply between New-York & Philadelphia, Respectfully inform the PUBLIC, THAT, after this date, their stage will leave Paules-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, and proceed to Elizabeth-Town; and that in order to accommodate passengers, one stage will leave Elizabeth-Town at day-light; and another stage leaves Newark at eight o'clock, and both stages go as far towards Philadelphia as the weather and roads will permit, during the winter season. December 19th, 1787. 6
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD's Flax-seed store, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB EARLY, last by Mr. Nath, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
To the Afflicted with WORMS. LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. —From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. N. York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—e.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—e.d.
—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 EVERY DAY, at Six, and ONCE a Week, at Two, Dollars per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED. ** PRINTING, in all its Variety, performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.