The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-02-15 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 33, of VOL. XLIII.]
FRIDAY, February 15, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2218.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E’EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson’s Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto 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 so 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 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 REQUESTATION, 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 copie 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 gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, on which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, 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.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are falling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy’s Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and 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 c.d.
MARSHALL’S
Porter and Oyster-House, Is now opened at the corner of Cortlandt and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River—where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable. New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. 6c.d.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received)
THE American Museum,
For JANUARY, 1788.
CONTAINING, Miscellanies.
ORATION in commemoration of American Independence, Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw, New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.
Method of making steel, Letter on marriage, Antifederal arguments, Letter to the Hon. R. H. Lee.
Saïre.
On musical pretenders, Recipe for an insolvent debtor, Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural Concerns.
Notes on farming—by the Hon. C. T. Esq. Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland, Thoughts on the culture of hemp, Mode of breaking fleers to the draft in a few days, On the culture of silk.
Law Information.
Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston, Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand, State and other Public Papers.
Valedictory address of his Excellency Governor Trumbull, Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut, Letter to Governor Randolph, Letter from do.
Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan, Address of the grand jury of Edenton, Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county, Report of the deputies of Northampton county, Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston, Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut.
Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin, Answer to the preceding notice.
Natural History.
Observations on a comet lately discovered.—By David Rittenhouse, Esq. Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy.—By Dr. Morgan, Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables.—By Gen. Lincoln, Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year, Some account of the opoponax.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the sore throat distemper, Letter on the digitalis purpurea, An inestimable dissonant for human calculi.
Select Poetry.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year’s day, 1788. Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady, A riddle.
Foreign Intelligence, American, do.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY, at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price.
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New Jersey within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres, a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber. The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Raritan, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON’S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
Just Published, and to be SOLD, A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben’s Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.

From the CHRONICLE of FREEDOM, of January 23, 1788. [Printed at Philadelphia.]
CENTINEL, No. XIV.
To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA.
Fellow Citizens,
IT was further insisted, that even if it was possible to effect a total abolition of the state governments at this time, and to establish one general government over the people of America, it could not long subsist, but in a little time would again be broken into a variety of governments of a smaller extent, similar in some manner to the present situation of this continent; the principal difference in all probability would be, that the government, so established, being affected by some violent convulsion, might not be formed on principles so favorable to liberty, as those of our present state governments. That this ought to be an important consideration to such of the states who had excellent governments, which was the case with Maryland and most others, whatever it might be to persons who disapproving of their particular state government, would be willing to hazard every thing to overturn and destroy it. These reasons, sir, influenced me to vote against two branches in the legislature, and against every part of the system which was repugnant to the principles of a federal government; nor was there a single argument urged, or reason assigned, which to my mind was satisfactory, to prove that a good government on federal principles was unattainable, the whole of their argument, only proving, that none of us controverted, that our federal government as originally formed, was defective and wanted amendment. However a majority of the convention hastily and inconsiderately, without condescending to make a fair trial, in their great wisdom, decided that a kind of government which a Montesquieu and a Price have declared the best calculated of any to preserve internal liberty, and to enjoy internal strength and security, and the only one by which a large continent can be connected and united consistent with the principles of liberty, was totally impracticable, and they acted accordingly."
After such information, what are we to think of the declarations of Mr. Wilson, who assured our state convention, that it was neither the intention of the authors of the new constitution, nor its tendency to establish a consolidated or national government, founded upon the destructions of the state governments; that such could not have been the design of the general convention he said was certain, because the testimony of experience, the opinions of the most celebrated writers, and the nature of the cause demonstrated in the clearest manner, that so extensive a territory as these United States includes, could not be governed by any other mode than a confederacy of republics, consistent with the principles of freedom, and that their own conviction was, that nothing short of the supremacy of despotism could connect and bind together this country under one government? Has any one a doubt now remaining of the guilt of the conspirators?
The O—rs of the P—t O—ce, fearful of the consequences of their conduct, are taking measures to invalidate the charges made against them. As this is a matter of the
highest importance to the public, it will be necessary to state the charge and the evidence. In two of my former numbers, I asserted that the patriotic newspapers of this city and that of New-York miscarried in their passage, whilst the vehicles of despotism, meaning those newspapers, in favor of the new constitution, passed as usual; and it was particularly asserted that the patriotic essays of Brutus, Cincinnatus, Cato, &c. published at New-York, were withheld during the greatest part of the time that our state convention sat; and in a late number, I further asserted that since the late arrangement at the P—t O—ce, scarcely a newspaper was suffered to pass by the usual conveyance, and for the truth of this last charge I appealed to the printers; however I understand this last is not denied or controverted. When the dependence of the P—t O—ce is considered, the injury they may sustain by incurring the displeasure of these O—rs, and when to this is added that of the complexion of the printers in respect to the new constitution, that most of them are zealous in promoting its advancement, it can scarcely be expected that they would volunteer it against the P—t O—rs, or refuse their names to a certificate exculpating the O—rs; accordingly we find that most of the printers have signed a certificate that the newspapers arrived as usual prior to the first of January, when the new arrangement took place; however, the printer of the Freeman's Journal when applied to, had the spirit to refuse his name to the establishment of a falsehood, and upon being called upon to specify the missing papers, particularly during the sitting of the state convention, he pointed out and offered to give a list of a considerable number, infancing no less than seven successive Greenleaf's patriotic New-York papers, besides others occasionally withheld from him; Colonel Oswald was out of town when his family was applied to, or I have no doubt he would have observed a similar conduct. But there is a fact that will invalidate any certificate that can be procured on this occasion, and is alone demonstrative of the suppression of the patriotic newspapers. The opponents to the new constitution in this state were anxious to avail themselves of the well written essays of New-York patriots, such as Brutus, Cincinnatus, Cato, &c. and with that view were attentive to have them republished here as soon as they came to hand, and especially during the sitting of our state convention, when they would have been the most useful to the cause of liberty by operating on the members of that convention; a recurrence of the papers in this city at their period, will shew a great chasm in these republications owing to the miscarriage of Mr. Greenleaf's New-York papers; agreeable to my assertions it will appear, that for the greatest part of the time that our state convention sat, scarcely any of the numbers of Brutus, Cincinnatus, Cato, &c. were republished in this city; the fifth number of Cincinnatus, that contained very material information about the finances of the union, which strikes at some of the principal arguments in favor of the new constitution, which was published at New-York, the 20th November, was not republished here until the 15th December following, two or three days after the convention rose, and so of the most of the other numbers of this and other signatures; so great was the desire of the opponents here to
republish them, that the fourth number of Cincinnatus was republished so lately as in Mr. Bailey's paper, which with other missing numbers were procured by private hands from New-York, and in two or three instances, irregular numbers were republished. The new arrangement at the P—t O—ce, novel in its nature, and peculiarly injurious by the suppression of information at this great crisis of public affairs, is a circumstance highly presumptive of the truth of the other charge.
CENTINEL.
DEBATES IN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION, [Concluded from last Tuesday's Paper.]
SATURDAY, Jan. 19, P. M.
The 3d par. of the 2d sect. of art. 1, still under consideration.
THE 3d sect. respecting the construction of the senate, under debate.
Colonel Jones said, his objection still remained, that senators chosen for so long a time will forget their duty to their constituents. We cannot, says he, recall them. The choice of representatives was too long, the senate was much worse; it is, says he, a bad precedent, and is unconstitutional.
Mr. King said, as the senate preserved the equality of the states, their appointment is equal. To the objection to this branch, that it is chosen for too long a period, he observed, if the principle of classing them is considered, although it appears long, it will not be found so long as it appears. One class is to serve two years, another four, and another six years, the average therefore is four years. The senators, said Mr. K., will have a powerful check, in those men who wish for their seats, who will watch their whole conduct in the general government; and will give the alarm in case of misbehavior. And the state legislature, if they find their delegates erring, can and will instruct them; will not it be a check? when they hear the voice of the people solemnly dictating to them their duty, they will be bold men indeed to act contrary to it. They will not be instructions sent them in a private letter, which they can put in their pockets; they will be public instructions, which all the country will see, and they will be hardy men indeed to violate them. The honourable gentleman said, the power to controul the senate, is as great as ever was enjoyed in any government; and that they will be found not to be chosen for too long a time. They are, says he, to assist the executive in the designation and appointment of officers; and they ought to have time to mature their judgments; if for a shorter period, how can they be acquainted with the rights and interests of nations, so as to form advantageous treaties? To understand these rights, is the business of education: their business being naturally different, and more extensive than the other branch, they ought to have different qualifications; and their duration is not too long for a right discharge of their duty.
Dr. Taylor said he hoped the honourable gentleman did not mean to deceive us, by saying, that the senate are not to be chosen for six years; for they are really to be chosen for six years: and as to the idea of classing, he did not know who, when chosen for that time, would go out at a shorter. He remarked on Mr. King's idea of checks, and observed that such indeed were in the articles of confederation, which provides for delegates being chosen annually, for rotation, and the right of recalling.
But in this, they are to be chosen for six years; but a shadow of rotation provided for, and no power to recall; and concluded by saying, that if they are once chosen, they are chosen forever.
The honourable Mr. Strong, mentioned the difficulty which attended the construction of the senate in the convention; and that a committee, consisting of one delegate from each state, was chosen to consider the subject, who reported as it now stands; and that Mr. Gerry was on the committee, from Massachusetts.
[Mr. Gerry rose and informed the president, that he was then preparing a letter on the subject in debate; which would set the matter in its true light, and which he wished to communicate; this occasioned considerable conversation, which lasted until the convention adjourned.]
MONDAY, Jan. 21st.
4th sect. considered in its order.
Mr. Ames rose to answer several objections. He would forbear if possible to go over the ground which had been already well trodden. The fourth section had been, he said, well discussed, and he did not mean to offer any formal argument, or new observations upon it. It had been said the power of regulating elections was given to Congress. He asked if a motion was brought forward in Congress, on that particular, subjecting the states to any inconvenience, whether it was probable such a motion could obtain? It had been also said, that our federal legislature, would endeavour to perpetuate themselves in office, and that the love of power was predominant. Mr. Ames asked how the gentlemen prevailed on themselves to trust the state legislature. He thought it was from a degree of confidence, that was placed in them. At present we trust Congress with power, nay we trust the representatives of Rhode-Island and Georgia; he thought it was better to trust a general government than a foreign state. Mr. A. acknowledged he came with doubts of the fourth sect. Had his objections remained, he would have been obliged to vote against the constitution; but now he thought if all the constitution was as clear as this sect. it would meet with little opposition.
Judge Dana. This sect. Mr. President, has been subject to much dispute and difficulty. I did not come here, determined to vote for every paragraph of this constitution. I supposed this clause dangerous, it is amply discussed; and I am now convinced, that this paragraph is much better as it stands, than with the amendment, which is that Congress be restricted in the appointing of "time, place, &c." unless when the state legislatures refuse to make them. I have altered my opinion on this point; these are my reasons: It is apparent the intention of the convention was to set Congress on a different ground: that a party should proceed directly from the people, and not from their substitutes the legislatures: Therefore the legislature ought not to controul the elections. The legislature of Rhode-Island has lately formed a plan, to alter their representation to corporations, which ought to be by numbers. Look at Great-Britain, where the injustice of this mode is apparent; Eight tenths of the people there, have no voice in the elections. A borough of but two or three cottages, has a right to send two representatives to parliament, while Birmingham, a large and populous manufacturing town lately sprung up, cannot send one. The legislature of Rhode-Island are a-

adopting this plan, in order to deprive the towns of Newport and Providence of their weight; and that thereby the legislature may have a power to counteract the will of the majority of the people.
[To be continued.]
To the Hon. THOMAS COCKLY DEYE, Speaker of the House of Delegates.
SIR, I FLATTER myself the subject of this letter will be a sufficient apology for thus publicly addressing it to you, and through you to the other members of the house of delegates. It cannot yet have escaped your or their recollection, that when called upon as a servant of a free state to render an account of those transactions in which I had had a share in consequence of the trust reposed in me by that state, among other things, I informed them, "that some time in July, the hon. Mr. Yates and Mr. Lansing of New-York, left the convention—that they had uniformly opposed the system, and that I believe despairing of getting a proper one brought forward, or of rendering any real service, they returned no more."—You cannot, sir, have forgot, for the incident was too remarkable not to have made some impression, that upon my giving this information, the zeal of one of my hon. colleagues, in favor of a system which I thought it my duty to oppose, impelled him to interrupt me, and in a manner which I am confident his zeal alone prevented him from being convinced was not the most delicate, to insinuate pretty strongly that the statement which I had given of the conduct of those gentlemen and their motives for not returning was not candid.
Those hon. members have officially given information on this subject by a joint letter to his excellency Governor Clinton—it is published.—Indulge me, sir, in giving an extract from it, that it may stand contrasted in the same page with the information I gave, and may convict me of the want of candor of which I was charged, if the charge was just—if it will not do that, then let it silence my accusers.
"Thus circumstanced, under these impressions, to have hesitated would have been to be culpable—We therefore gave the principles of the constitution, which has received the sanction of a majority of the convention, our decided and unreserved dissent. We were not present at the completion of the new constitution, but before we left the convention, its principles were so well established as to convince us, that no alteration was to be expected to conform it to our ideas of expediency and safety. A persuasion that our further attendance would be fruitless and unavailing rendered us less solicitous to return."
These, sir, are their words—On these I shall make no comment.—I will not to wound the feelings of any person, I only wish to convince.
I have the honor to remain,
With the utmost respect, Your very obedient servant, LUTHER MARTIN.
Baltimore, Jan. 27, 1788.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY Of the State of New-York.
POUCHKEepsie, February 4, 1788. [Continued.]
THE house met pursuant to adjournment.
A petition from Caleb Gardiner and thirteen others, concerning lands they had purchased of the Indians, was read and referred to the same committee, as the petition of Roger Pollock.
A petition from B. B. Benson, and John W. Watkins, concerning Harlem commons, was read and referred to Mr. Benson, Mr. Verplank and Mr. Gilbert.
The bill to take the paper money out of circulation, and issue new money, was read a third time and passed the house.
The bill for defraying the public and necessary charges of the respective counties, was read a second time and committed.
The house went into a committee on the bill to repeal the act for the relief of insolvent debtors: Mr. Dougherty in the chair.
The committee went through the bill and agreed to the same: when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The house went into a committee on the bill for dividing the state into counties:
Mr. Powers in the chair. The committee made some progress in the business, when they rose and asked for leave to sit again.
Then the house adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, February 5, 1788.
The house met, pursuant to adjournment.
A petition from a number of Mohawk Indians, concerning their lands, was read and referred to Messrs. Benson, Brooks and Savage.
A petition from William Sely, of Orange county, stating, that he purchased cattle for the army, during the war, for which the public have given him in certificates; and that the people from whom he had purchased the said cattle were now suing him, and demanding payment in money; and praying relief from the legislature—was read and referred to Mr. Tompkins, Mr. Bloom, and Mr. Van Ingen.
The bill to repeal the insolvent act, was read a third time, and passed the house.
A message was received from the senate, with amendments to the bill for restraining all persons from marrying, &c. The bill, as sent to them from the house, prohibited all persons from marrying till their husbands or wives had been seven years absent; the senate proposed to make it four years. This was non-concurred by the assembly; and both houses at length agreed to make it five years.
The house went again into a committee on the bill for dividing the state into counties:
Mr. Powers, chairman.
The committee, in proceeding in the bill, took up the petitions from the inhabitants of Washington county, living near Lake Champlain, praying for the erection of a new county in that part of the state, whereupon it was agreed to erect a new county by the name of Clinton, and that the said county should be divided into towns, one by the name of Crown-Point, and the other by the name of Plattsburgh: that Plattsburgh be the county town, and
that a court should be opened there in September next; and that, till the further order of the legislature, there be two terms held in the said county, one in September, and the other in March in each year: the inhabitants of the said county of Clinton to vote for members of the legislature as a part of the county of Washington, till the first Census shall be taken.
The committee having gone through the bill, rose and reported the same; when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
[Continued.]
New-York, February 15.
THE interesting intelligence of the ratification of the constitution by the convention of Massachusetts, having been received in this city the evening before last, a number of gentlemen, who are advocates for that general system, assembled at the Coffee-House, and celebrated. On this occasion, a number of guns were fired, and two flags were exhibited from the roof of the coffee-house, one with the letters, "New Constitution, September 17th, 1787," and the other with a pine-tree, and the words, "Boston, February 6, 1788," painted.
We are happy to assure the public, that no accident took place, in the course of this business. A correspondent who has seen the amendments* which accompany the ratification of the new constitution, by the state of Massachusetts, is highly pleased to find, that they are so materially altered from those first proposed by Governor Hancock, and flatters himself, that it is the wish of every honest and disinterested citizen of this state, that the convention may, when the new constitution is fairly and fully discussed, propose the same, and further amendments, if judged proper, to accompany their ratification; and that the constitution should not take place, unless those amendments were agreed to by the first Congress under the new government.
* The amendments, as altered and ratified, referred to by our correspondent, will be inserted tomorrow.
We are assured, by a gentleman from London, that in the month of June last, 15,000 criminals were taken out of the prison in that city, and transported to populate the inclement and barren wiles of Botany Bay; and that, in the month of September following, 25,000 others were transported in like manner, the prisons still remaining crowded! Thus has that hydra monster, VICE, enlarged its sphere of domination in that country, since the conclusion of the late peace: and it is conjectured, as soon as the present band of unfortunates, lately forced from their peaceful habitations, to serve in the army and navy, are again thrown from their MASTER's immediate pay and protection, for want of bread, will, dictated by the great law of self-preservation, incur like penalties, and be, like them, doomed to perpetual banishment and slavery.
Arrived in this port on Wednesday last, the brig Dolphin, Folger, from Port a Prince; and yesterday, the sloop Milford, Thomson, St. Croix; sloop Lark, Bérers, St. Thomas; brig Peru, Paddock, Port a Prince.
Cleared yesterday at the custom-house. Sloop Catharine, McCann, Gaudaloupe; snow Anna Maria, Lewis, Dublin; sloop Lucretia, Leacraft, N. Carolina; sloop New-York and Philadelphia Packet, Bird, Charleston; schooner Sally, Marshall, St. Croix.
A Boston paper of last Saturday, is received, in which is contained the conclusion of the debates of the convention of that commonwealth upon the federal constitution. [This will be given in course.] finally ratifying it, and the mode of celebrating the event in that town, order of procession, &c. which last reflects brilliant rays, from the mirror of ingenuity, upon the heads of those who concerted the plan. This paper affords the annexed list, which is inserted for the satisfaction of many.
The yeas and nays on the question for ratifying the federal constitution, in the convention of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Wednesday last, were as follows.
YEAS.
His Excellency John Hancock, Esq. President. Hon. James Bowdoin, Hon. Samuel Adams, Hon. William Phillips, Hon. Caleb Davis, Charles Jarvis, Esq. John Coffin Jones, Esq. John Winthrop, Esq. Thomas Dawes, jun. Esq. Rev. Samuel Stillman, Thomas Russell, Esq. Christopher Gore, Esq. Hon. William Heath, Hon. Increase Sumner, Esq. James Bowdoin, jun. Esq. Ebenezer D. Wales, Esq. Rev. Nathaniel Robbins, Hon. Richard Cranch, Rev. Anthony Wibird, Hon. Cotton Tufts, Hon. Benjamin Lincoln, Rev. Daniel Shute, Rev. Joseph Jackson, Rev. Thomas Thacher, Esq. John B. D. Esq. Col. William M'Intosh, Capt. John Baxter, jun. Hon. Elijah Dumbarton, Mr. Thomas Mann, Mr. George Payson, Hon. J. Fisher, Mr. Thomas Jones, Rev. Phillips Payson, Mr. Ebenezer Warren, Richard Mansaing, Esq. Edward Pulling, Esq. Mr. William Gray, jun. Mr. Francis Cabot, Hon. Michael Farley, J. Choate, Esq. Daniel Noyes, Esq. Col. Jonathan Cogswell, Hon. Tristram Dalton, Esq. Enoch Sawyer, Esq. E. March, Esq. Hon. Rufus King, Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf, Theophilus Parsons, Esq. Hon. Jonathan Titcomb, Hon. G. Cabot, Mr. Joseph Wood, Capt. Israel Thorndike, Isaac Mansfield, Esq. Jonathan Glover, Esq. Hon. Azor Orne, John Glover, Esq. Daniel Rogers, Esq. John Low, Esq. Capt. W. Pearson, John Carmes, Esq. Capt. John Burnham, Mr. William Symmes, jun. Bailey Bartlett, Esq. Capt. Nathaniel Marsh, Mr. Israel Clark, Dr. Samuel Nye, Mr. Enoch Jackman, Capt. Benjamin Lurvey, Mr. Willis Patten, Daniel Thurston, Esq. Mr. Jacob Herrick, Mr. Simeon Miller, Hon. Francis Dana, Stephen Dana, Esq. Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, Hon. Joseph Hofner, Hon. A. Fuller, Capt. Lawson Buckminster, Benjamin Brown, Esq. Daniel Whitney, Esq. Capt. Asahel Wheeler, Capt. Benjamin Blaney, Capt. Abraham Bigelow, Major-General J. Brooks, Dr. Charles Whittman, Leonard Williams, Esq. Hon. J. B. Varnum, Esq. Hon. J. Pitts, Esq. Hon. E. Brooks, Esq. William Pynchon, Esq. Hon. Caleb Strong, Mr. Benjamin Sheldon, Capt. Lem. Pomeroy, Brig. Gen. Elisha Porter, Hon. Noah Goodman, Hon. J. Hallings, John Ingersoll, Esq. Mr. Ebenezer Jones, Abner
Morgan, Esq. Capt. David Shepard, Mr. Jesse Reed, Nahum Eager, Esq. Col. Benjamin Bonny, Major Thomas J. Douglass, Mr. Aaron Fisher, Mr. Edmund Lazell, Capt. Thompson Maxwell, Mr. Elisha Colton, Joshua Thomas, Esq. Mr. Thomas Davis, John Davis, Hon. William Cushing, Hon. Nathan Cushing, Hon. Charles Turner, Hon. George Partridge, Rev. William Shaw, Daniel Howard, Esq. Mr. Hezekiah Hooper, captain Elisha Mitchel, Mr. Daniel Howard, jun. Rev. Isaac Backus, Isaac Thomas, Esq. captain John Turner, Mr. Josiah Smith, William Sevier jun. Esq. Hon. Joseph Cushing, Rev. Samuel Niles, Mr. Freeman Waterman, col. Israel Fearing, Shearjashab Bourn, Esq. David Thatcher, Esq. captain Nathan Howes, Hon. Solomon Freeman, captain Kimball Clark, Rev. Levi Whitman, captain Joseph Palmer, James Williams, Esq. Hon. Elisha May, captain Moses Wilmuth, colonel Sylvester Richmond, Hon. William Baylies, Hon. Thomas Durfee, Israel Washburn Esq. Hon. Walter Spooner, Rev. Samuel Webb, Mr. William Almy, Nathaniel Barrell, Esq. Rev. Moses Hemmenway, Hon. Nathaniel Wells, Thomas Cutts, Esq. Jacob Bradbury, Esq. captain John Low, Mr. William Mayhew, Mr. Cornelius Dushman, Hon. John Sprague, captain Seth Newton, Hon. Samuel Baker, Major David Wilder, Mr. Matthew Patrick, Mr. Josiah Goddard, captain Epm. Wilder, John K. Smith, Esq. Mr. John Fox, captain Joseph M'Leion, David Mitchell, Esq. Samuel Merrill, Esq. William Thompson, Esq. captain John Dunlap, captain Isaac Snow, Mr. Joshua Dyer, Rev. Samuel Perley, Thomas Rice, Esq. Mr. David Sylvester, Mr. Nathaniel Wyman, Mr. David Gilmore, William M'Cobb, Esq. Capt. Samuel Grant, Moses Davis, Esq. David Fales, Esq. Dummer Sewall, Esq. John Ashby, jun. Esq. Hon. Elijah Dwight, Hon. T. Sedgwick, Hon. Jonathan Smith, Hon. T. Skinner, Mr. Elisha Carpenter, Capt. D. Taylor. 187.
NAY S.
Capt. Jedediah Southworth, Mr. Nathan Comstock, Mr. Benjamin Randall, Mr. M. Richardson jun. Rev. Noah Alden, Hon. Israel Hutchinson, Capt. Peter Osgood, jun. Dr. Thomas Kittredge, Capt. Thomas Mignill, Hon. Aaron Wood, Capt. Ebenezer Carlton, Dr. Marshall Spring, Capt. Timothy Winn, Mr. William Flint, Mr. Peter Emerson, Mr. Jonas Morie, Major Benjamin Sawin, William Thompson, Esq. Major John Minot, Capt. Gilbert Deneh, Mr. Jonathan Kaep, Col. Benjamin Ely, Capt. John Williston, Capt. Phil. Stebbins, Mr. Daniel Cooly, Mr. Benjamin Eastman, Mr. Josiah Allis, Mr. William Bodman, Mr. Samuel Field, Mr. Moses Balsem, Mr. Robert Wilson, Capt. Conser Arms, Mr. Malachi Maynard, Capt. Zachaeus Crocker, Mr. Severance, Capt. Asa Fisk, Mr. Phineas Merrick, Mr. Adam Clark, Capt. Nathaniel Whitcomb, Mr. Timothy Blair, Mr. Aaron Merrick, Mr. John Hamilton, Mr. Clark Cooley, Mr. John Chamberlain, Mr. Julius Dwight, Mr. Samuel Eddy, Mr. Isaac Pepper, Capt. John Goldsbury, Capt. Agrippa Wells, Mr. Ephraim Williams, Mr. Asa Powers, Capt. Silas Fowler, Mr. John Jennings, Mr. Jonathan Hubbard, Mr. Benjamin Thomas, Mr. Isaac Soul, Mr. Nathaniel Hammond, Mr. Abraham Holmes, Capt. Francis Shurcliff, Mr. Elijah Biscoe, jun. Dr. Thomas Smith, Mr. Thomas Nye, Col. Nathaniel Leonard, Mr. Aaron Pratt, Capt. Phaniel Bishop, Maj. Frederick Drown, William Winfor, Esq. Mr. Christopher Mason, Mr. Christopher Mason, Mr. David Brown, Hon. Holder Siocum, Mr. Melatiah Hathaway, Hon. Abraham White, Captain Ebenezer Tiddell, Capt. John Pratt, Capt. Elsas Preble, Mr. Mark Adams, Mr. James Neal, Capt. Elijah Thayer, Dr. Nathaniel Low, Mr. Richard Foxwell Cutts, Mr. Thomas M. Wentworth, Major Nathaniel Nelson, Mr. Moses Ames, Mr. Jeremiah Emery, Rev. Pelatiah Tingley, Mr. David Bigelow, Edward Thompson, Esq. Dr. Benjamin Morse, Jof. Sheple, Esq. Mr. Oba. Saxe, Mr. Daniel Fisk, Capt. Daniel Adams, Capt. John Webster, Capt. Sta. Chamberlain, Mr. Asa Parlin, Capt. J. Harden, Mr. Newman Scarlet, Mr. Samuel Reed, Mr. Benjamin Adams, Major Hezekiah Broad, Capt. Jonathan Green, Mr. Phineas Gleason, Mr. Daniel Forbes, Mr. N. Jenks, Capt. Jeremiah Learned, Mr. Caleb Curtis, Mr. Ezra M'Intier, Mr. David Harwood, Hon. Amos Singletary, Col. Samuel Denny, Mr. James Hathaway, Mr. Asaph Sherman, Mr. Abraham Smith, Capt. Jonathan Ballard, Capt. John Black, Capt. John Woods, Capt. Benjamin Jolly, Capt. Stephen Maynard, Mr. Arte Brigham, Capt. Isaac Harrington, captain John Fuller, Mr. Daniel Putnam, Pr. Samuel Willard, Joseph Whitney, Esq. Mr. Jonathan Day, captain Thomas M. Baker, captain Timothy Parker, Major Martin Kinsey, Rev. Joseph Davis, Hon. John T. for, Dr. Joseph Wood, Jonathan Groot, Esq. Mr. Samuel Peckham, John Frye, Esq. Mr. Stephen Holden, captain Joel Fletcher, Mr. Timothy Fuller, Mr. Jacob Willard, Mr. Moses Hale, captain Josiah Wood, Mr. Joseph Stone, Mr. David Stearns, Mr. Jonas Temple, Daniel Riley, Esq. Mr. S. Longfellow, jun. Mr. William Wedgery, captain David Murray, Hon. Samuel Thompson, Mr. Jonah Crosby, Mr. Zachaeus Beal, William Jones, Esq. captain James Car, Mr. Joshua Bean, Mr. Valentine Rathbun, Mr. Comstock Betts, Mr. Lemuel Collins, captain Jeremiah Pierce, Ephraim Fitch, Esq. Major Thomas Lusk, Mr. John Hurlbert, captain Ezekiel Herrick, Mr. Joshua Lawton, Mr. Timothy Mason, Ebenezer Peirce, Esq. Mr. David Vaughan, Capt. Jesse Bradley, Mr. Zenos Noble, Mr. John Picket, jun. 168.
LOST.
On Tuesday last, between the Hours of eleven and three,
Seven Four Pound Bills,
Wrapped up in a Piece of white Paper:
THEY are among the numbers following, viz. 208, 1474, 1857, 3313, 908, 5502, 1802, 177, 3013, 2102, 4143, 4126. Any person who may have found the said BILLS, or either of them, or whoever may detect them in negotiation, and will give such information as will eventually recover said money to the rightful owner, shall receive one half of the sum with thanks.—Enquire of the PRINTER. New-York, Feb. 14, 1788. 18 c.d. gt.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY. THIS EVENING, being the 15th of FEBRUARY, Will be performed, A COMEDY, CALLED THE TEMPEST, OR Inchanted Castle, With new Scenery, shower of FIRE, &c. To conclude with a Grand Masque OF Neptune and Amphitrite, AND A FARCE, CALLED THE G H O S T.
By Order of Benjamin Blagge, Esq. one of the Aldermen of the City of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Abraham Vandle, an insolvent debtor, that they appear at the office of the said alderman in Beekman-street, by the twenty-second inst. at ten o'clock, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Abraham Vandle should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and he be thereupon discharged, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
ABRAHAM VANDLE.
Dated New-York, Feb. 14, 1788. 18 & 24.
By Order of the Hon. Ebenezer Purdy, Esq. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Westchester:
NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors of Gilbert Dean, an insolvent debtor, that they shew cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his house in Upper Salem, on Monday the eighteenth day of February, 1788, at twelve o'clock, why an assignment of the said insolvent's estate should not be made, and he discharged, according to the form of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
GILBERT DEAN.
Dated the 3d day of February, 1788. 18.c.d.3t.
By Order of Benjamin Blagge, Esq. one of the Aldermen of the City of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Clark, an insolvent debtor, that they appear at the office of the said alderman, in Beekman-street, by the twenty-second inst. at ten o'clock, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said John Clark, should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and he be thereupon discharged, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
JOHN CLARK.
Dated New-York, Feb. 14, 1788. 18 & 24.
PURSUANT to an order of John
Wylley, Esq. alderman, and one of the judges of the mayor's court, in and for the city and county of New-York, upon the petition of Christopher Duychinck, an insolvent debtor, and three fourths in value of all his creditors:—NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors, to all the creditors of the said Christopher Duychinck, that they do appear before the said judge, at his office in Nassau-street, in the said city, by the fifteenth day of February inst. to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Christopher Duychinck should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Christopher Duychinck thereupon discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
CHRISTOPHER DUYCHINCK.
Dated the 9th day of Feb. 1788. 15 t.w.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 6th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.
New-York, January 30th, 1788. 5. c. d.
Wanted to CHARTER,
By the MONTH,
For Four Months Certain
A VESSEL,
FROM eighty to one
hundred and twenty tons
measurement.—For particulars apply to
W. WOOD,
No. 73, Water-street. 14 c.d.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will
be given for 20,000 dollars, of such as are
generally called Final settlements, and those
signed by J. Nourse.—Enquire at No. 20, Queen-
street. JACOB REED, jun.
New-York, Feb. 8, 1788. 16 c.d.
TO BE SOLD,
An EXCELLENT
FORTE-PIANNO,
Imported from London the last Summer.
Enquire of PHILIP JACOBS,
No. 20, next door to the City Tavern,
Broad-Way.—Feb. 12, 1788. 18 c.d.

POET'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
THE STUDENT'S MORNING PRAYER. NURSE me (sweet faly in thy encircled arms, Still nourish me on contemplation's charms; Teach me to shun dull milky ignorance, And walk in sunshine beauteous paths of sense. January 5. I. M. A.
VALENTINE to a LADY. WELL, I have it at last, and that too pretty deep, I wonder if ever again I can sleep; Did ever a fellow on earth act so stupid, To play with my Fanny, and never see Cupid; The cunning young youth took me in by surprize, And aimed her shafts from her languishing eyes; Ho! ho! I have I caught you then archly he said, Yes, yes, he has so, but don't let him upaid; For sure Sally will ease' as the caused the smart: And with love's precious balsam pour safe on my heart.
ANSWER. De'il take your assurance, I told you before, I d'like you; and therefore wright to me no more.
BON MOT.
A FACETIOUS Gentleman going one day to Clark's, in London, to buy a black pudding, the girl of the shop wrapped it up in a sheet of printed music—"I see says he, "my dear, you have set my pudding to music—egad, I'll go home and play upon it immediately."
Affix of BREAD,
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, February 15. 3h. 38m. Aft.
Just imported in the Jeane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by Samuel Campbell,
No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of B O O K S,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Mils Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruffic; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED, CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings fewed.
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit, and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY in particular, pocket-books, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he fell at, will insure a further continuance of their favors The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scots MAGAZINES.
S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity,
FOR SALE, by Charles Tillinghast,
At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
To be sold at this Office, OBSERVATIONS, leading to a fair Examination of the Government proposed by the late CONVENTION, and to several essential and necessary Alterations.
A Few COPIES of the Conductor Generalis,
To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE,
No. 237, Queen-Street, nd the other BOOKSELLERS,
Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects. By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey,
Now adapted to these United States.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in. 94
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Consisting of HISTORY, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, &c. Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
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Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkit on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's practice o phyic, Van Swieten's, commata-ries, 18 vols. Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quincy's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemis-try, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Entick's latin onaries, Davidson's Virgil an Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eutropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmond's geographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashes', Dyke's, Bafley's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictiona-ries, Bennet's christian oratory, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's measurer.
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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 sold in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim.
Benjamin Walker, Commissioner.
Office of accounts, Marine department. 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, cloathiers, 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 allowance.
A FEW copies of that much celebrated work of the late Rev. Dr. CHAUN CY, of Boston, "On the Fall, and its consequences," to be had at this Printing-Office
FOR SALE, At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn,
No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET, the following
G O O D S,
Which will be SOLD at the most reduced
Prices, to wit. A VARIETY of Mantuas and other Gown Silks, Sarcenets, Peelongs, and Modes, Chintzes, Printed Linens, and Cottons, Fancy Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Jeans, Jeanetts, and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen and Cotton Checks, Spotted and plain Velverets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznabrigs, Marceilles Quilting, Fancy Jacket Patterns, A variety of Plumes and Ribbands, Fancy Shoe Bucs and Buttons.
With a Variety of other Articles, Which he is determined to SELL low, for Jersey (upon the face of the Bill) New-York , or Penn-Sylvania PAPER MONEY.
AT THE TANNERY,
Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes, for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufacturers, and procure them a run of custom—for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price.
Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken is exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD. N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40—ed
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favorable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, boufeline, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expense of carriage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
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, assigner 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. gm. New-York, November 15, 1787.
PURSUANT to an order made by the hon. John Sloss Hobart, Esq. one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of New-York: NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of William Vander Loch, an insolvent debtor, to appear before the said judge at his chambers in Crown-street in the city of New-York, by Tuesday the nineteenth day of February inst. to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and the said debtor discharged, according to the form of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. WILLIAM VANDER LOCHT. Dated the 5th of Feb. 1788. 10 w.th.f.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, TRANSPLANTS NATURAL, and SUBSTITUTES Artificial Teeth. Attends abroad upon sending Directions.
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. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—e. d.
The AMERICAN MAGAZINE For January 1788, Sold at this Office, price Two Shillings
S T A G E.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook 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 Courtland-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, Courtland Street, (commonly known by the Boston, 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.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
CONTAINING, A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States. A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant. Price 1f. 6d. single. The usual discount to Booksellers, and others, who may purchase by the Hundred, Dozen, &c. ** Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Clean'd, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD Flax-seed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nafh, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 83—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. —e. d. 32
—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.