The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-02-22 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 44, of VOL. XLII.]
FRIDAY, February 22, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2224.]
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 to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly-purchased freedom and independence of America, a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, uninjured, 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 discussion 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.
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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.
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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, variegated 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. Snotwood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Snotwood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr. [blank], [blank], [blank].
* 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 town, on which they respectively rest.
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, Esq. Haven, with their names subscribed, and the place of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for his kind assistance. JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers in the United States feel disposed to favor the 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 selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, 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 buffaloes, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, 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 e.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market, Cherry-Street, and nearest to the ship-Yards.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLIN,
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's. 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. Satire,
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 potatoes in Hungary and Poland,
Thoughts on the culture of hemp,
Method of breaking fleers to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of flax.
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 Bolton,
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 negroe girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,
Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opossum.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the sore throat distemper,
Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi,
Selected Poetry.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.
Mentory 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 thirty 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—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 this Powder will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, 5.

M I S C E L L A N Y.
D E B A T E S I N MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION. [Mr. Symmes. Continued from Wednesday's paper.] TUESDAY, January 22. P. M. The 8th sect. of article 1, still under consideration.
AT present Congress have no power to lay taxes, &c. nor even to compel a compliance with their requisitions. May we not suppose, that the members of the great convention, had severely felt the impotency of Congress, while they were in it, and therefore were rather too keenly set for an effectual increase of power? that the difficulties they had encountered, in obtaining decent requisitions, had wrought in them a degree of impatience, which prompted them to demand the purse-strings of the nation, as if we were insolvent, and the proposed Congress were to compound with our creditors? Wherefore, sir, can this great, I had almost said, this demand, have originated? Will it be said, that it is but a consistent & necessary part of the general system? I shall not deny these gentlemen the praise of inventing a system completely consistent with itself, and pretty free from contradiction, but I would ask (I shall expect to be answered) how a system can be necessary for us, of which this is a consistent and necessary part?
But, sir, to the paragraph in hand, Congress &c.
Here, sir (however kindly Congress may be pleased to deal with us) is a very good and valid conveyance of all the property in the United States, to certain uses indeed, but those uses capable of any construction the trustees may think proper to make. This body is not amenable to any tribunal, and therefore this Congress can do no wrong. It will not be denied that they may tax us to any extent, but some gentlemen are fond of arguing that this body never will do any thing but what is for the common good. Let us consider that matter.
Faction, sir, is the vehicle of all transgressions in public bodies, and when gentlemen know this so well, I am rather surprised to hear them so sanguine in this respect. The prevalent faction is the body; these gentlemen, therefore, must mean that the prevalent faction will always be right, and that the true patriots will always outnumber the men of less and selfish principles. From this it would follow, that no public measure was ever wrong, because it must have been passed by the majority, and so, I grant no power ever was, or will be abused. In short, we know that all governments have degenerated, and consequently have abused the powers reposed in them, and why we should imagine better of the proposed Congress than of myriads of public bodies who have gone before them, I cannot at present conceive.
Sir, we ought (I speak it with submission) to confide, that what we now grant from certain motives well grounded at present, will be exacted of posterity as a prerogative, when we are not alive, to testify the tacit conditions of the grant—that the wisdom of this age will then be pleaded by those in power, and that the cession we are now about to make will be actually clothed with the venerable habit of ancestral sanction.
Therefore, sir, I humbly presume we ought not to take advantage of our situation in point of time, so as to bind posterity to be obedient to
laws they may possibly disapprove, nor expose them to a rebellion which at that period will very probably end only in their further subjugation.
The paragraph in question is an absolute decree of the people. The Congress shall have power—it does not say that they shall exercise it—but our necessities say they must, and the experience of ages say, that they will, and finally, when the expenses of the nation, by their ambition, are grown enormous, that they will oppose and subject. For, sir, they may lay taxes, duties, imposts and excises! One would suppose that the convention, sir, were not at all afraid to multiply words when any thing was to be got by it. By another clause, all imposts, and duties on exports and imports, wherever laid, go into the federal chest; so that Congress may not only lay imposts and excises, but all imposts and duties that are laid on imports and exports, by any state, shall be a part of the national revenue; and besides, Congress may lay an impost on the produce and manufactures of the country, which are consumed at home. And all these shall be equal through the states. Here, sir, I raise two objections, 1st. that Congress should have this power. It is a universal, unbounded permission, and as such I think, no free people ought ever to consent to it, especially in so important a matter as that of property. I will not descend, sir, to an abuse of this future Congress, until it exists, nor then, until it misbehaves, nor then, unless I dare. But I think, that some certain revenue amply adequate to all necessary purposes, upon a peace establishment, but certain and definite, would have been better, and the collection of it might have been guaranteed by every state to every other. We should then have known to what we were about to subscribe, and should have cheerfully granted it. But now, we may indeed grant, but who can cheerfully grant he knows not what?
Again, sir, I object to the equality of these duties through the states. It matters not with me, in the present argument, which of them will suffer by this proportion. Some probably will, as the consumption of dutied articles will not, if we may judge from experience, be uniform in all.
But, say some, with whom I have conversed, it was for this reason that taxes were provided, that by their assistance the defect of duties in some states ought to be supplied. Now then, let us suppose that the duties are so laid, that if every state paid in proportion, to that which paid most, the duties alone would supply a frugal treasury. Some states will pay but half their proportion, and some will scarcely pay any thing. But those in general who pay the least duty, viz. the inland states, are least of all able to pay a land tax, and therefore I do not see but this tax would operate most against those who are least able to pay it.
I humbly submit it, sir, whether if each state had its proportion of some certain gross sum assigned, according to its number, and a power was given to Congress to collect the same, in case of default in the state, this would not have been a fairer constitution. For, sir, I also disapprove of the power to collect, which is here vested in Congress; it is a power, sir, to burden us with a standing army of ravenous collectors; harpies perhaps from another state, but who, however, were never known to have bowels for any purpose, but to fatten on the life-
blood of the people. In one age or two this will be the case, and when the Congress shall become tyrannical, these vultures, their servants, will be the tyrants of the village, by whose presence, all freedom of speech and action will be taken away.
Sir, I shall be told, that these are imaginary evils—but I hold to this maxim, that power was never given (of this kind especially) but it was exercised, nor ever exercised but it was finally abused. We must not be amused with handsome probabilities, but we must be assured that we are in no danger, and that this Congress could not distress us, if they were ever so much disposed.
To pay the debts, &c. These words, sir, I confess, are an ornament to the page: And very musical words—but they are too general to be understood as any kind of limitation of the power of Congress, and nor very easy to be understood at all. When Congress have the purse, they are not confined to rigid economy, and the word debts here is not confined to debts already contracted, or indeed, if it were, the term "general welfare" might be applied to any expenditure whatever. Or if it could not, who shall dare to gainsay the proceedings of this body at a future day, when according to the course of nature it shall be too firmly fixed in the saddle, to be overthrown by anything but a general insurrection, an event not to be expected considering the extent of this continent, and if it were to be expected, a sufficient reason in itself for rejecting this or any constitution that would tend to produce it.
This clause, sir, is the very sinews of the constitution. And I hope the universality of it may be singular; but it may be easily seen that it tends to produce in time, as universal powers in every other respect. As the poverty of individuals prevent luxury, so the poverty of public bodies, whether sole or aggregate, prevents tyranny. A nation cannot, perhaps, do a more politic thing than to supply the purse of its sovereign with that parsimony, which results from a sense of the labour it costs, and so to compel him to comply with the genius of his people, and to conform to their situation, whether he will or not. How different will be our conduct, if we give the entire disposal of our property to a body, as yet almost unknown in theory, in practice quite, heterogeneous in its composition, and whose maxims are yet entirely unknown.
Sir, I wish the gentlemen, who so ably advocate this instrument, would enlarge upon this formidable clause, and I most sincerely wish that the effect of their reasoning may be my conviction. For, sir, I will not dishonor my constituents by supposing that they expect me to resist that which is irresistible, the force of reason. No, sir, my constituents ardently wish for a firm, efficient, continental government, but fear the operation of this which is now proposed. Let them be convinced that their fears are groundless, and I venture to declare in their name, that no one in the commonwealth, will sooner approve the form, or be better subjects under it.
[To be continued.]
Mr. MARTIN's Speech to the Assembly of Maryland.
[Continued from Wednesday's paper.]
To prove this, and that the senate as constituted could not be a security for the protection and preservation of the state government, and that the senators could not be
justly considered the representatives of the states as states, it was observed, that upon just principles of representation, the representative ought to speak the sentiments of his constituents, and ought to vote in the same manner that his constituents would do (as far as he can judge) provided his constituents were acting in person, and had the same knowledge and information with himself; and therefore that the representative ought to be dependent on his constituents, and answerable to them; that the connexion between the representative and presented, ought to be as near and as close as possible; according to these principles, Mr. Speaker, in this state, it is provided by its constitution, that the representatives of Congress shall be chosen annually, shall be paid by the state, and shall be subject to recall even within the year; so cannot our constitution guarded against an abuse of the trust reposed in our representatives in the federal government; whereas by the third and sixth sections of the first article of this new system, the senators are to be chosen for six years, instead of being chosen annually; instead of being paid by their states who send them, they, in conjunction with the other branch, are to pay themselves out of the treasury of the United States; and are not liable to be recalled during the period for which they are chosen? Thus, sir, for six years the senators are rendered totally and absolutely independent of their states, of whom they ought to be the representatives, without any bond or tie between them; during that time they may join in measures ruinous and destructive to their states even such as should totally annihilate their state governments, and their states cannot recall them, nor exercise any controul over them. Another consideration, Mr. Speaker, it was thought ought to have great weight to prove that the smaller states can depend on the senate for the preservation of their rights, either against large and ambitious states, or against an ambitious aspiring President. The senate, sir, is so constituted, that they are not only to compose one branch of the legislature; but by the second section of the second article, they are to compose a privy council for the President; hence it will be necessary that they should be, in a great measure, a permanent body, constantly residing at the seat of government. Seventy years is estimated for the life of a man; it can hardly be supposed that a senator, especially, from the states remote from the seat of empire, will accept of an appointment which must estrange him for six years from his state, without giving up to a great degree his prospects in his own state. If he has a family, he will take his family with him to the place where the government shall be fixed, that will become his home, and there as every reason to expect that his future views and prospects will centre in the favors and emoluments either of the general government, or of the government of that state where the seat of empire is established:—In either case he is lost to his own state. If he places his future prospects in the favors and emoluments of the general government, he will become the dependent and creature of the president, as the system enables a senator to be appointed to offices, and without the nomination of the president, no appointment can take place; as such, he will favor the wishes of the president, and concur in his measures, who, if he has no ambitious views of his own to gratify

may be too favorable to the ambitious views of the large states, who will have an undue share in his original appointment, and on whom he will be more dependent afterwards than on the states which are smaller. If the sena or places his future prospects on that state where the seat of empire is fixed; from that time he will be in every question wherein its particular interest may be concerned the representative of that state, not of his own.
But even this provision apparently for the security of the state governments, inadequate as it is, is entirely left at the mercy of the general government, for by the fourth section of the first article, it is expressly provided, that the Congress shall have power to make and alter all regulations concerning the time and manner of holding elections for senators; a provision expressly looking forward to, and I have no doubt designed for the utter extinction and abolition of all state governments; nor will this be doubted by any person, when I inform you that some of the warm advocates and patrons of the system in convention, strenuously opposed the choice of the senators by the state legislatures, insisting that the state governments ought not to be introduced in any manner so as to be component parts of or instruments for carrying into execution the general government; nay, so far were the friends of the system from pretending that they meant it or considered it as a federal system, that on the question being proposed, "that a union of the states, merely federal, ought to be the sole object of the exercise of the powers vested in the convention; it was negatived by a majority of the members, and it was resolved, "that a national government ought to be formed;" afterwards the word, 'national' was struck out by them, because they thought the word might tend to alarm; and although, now, they who advocate the system, pretend to call themselves federalists; in convention the distinction was just the reverse; those who opposed the system, were then considered and stiled the federal party, those who advocated it, the antifederal.
[To be continued.]
An Address of Thanks from a Number of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Carlisle, to the Minority of the late State Convention, in general, and the Representatives of Cumberland County, in particular.
Gentlemen,
WE return you our hearty thanks for the magnanimous and spirited opposition which you made in the late state convention, to that instrument of oppression, injustice and tyranny, which was then the subject of your deliberations, viz. The proposed constitution for the United States.
We assure you, that your conduct meets with our most cordial approbation, and fully answers the expectation we formed of you when we voted you to represent us. Although we did not tie up your hands, by dictating to you how to behave, or what side to take, nor did we preclude you from investigating its properties or discussing its principles in the most ample manner, according to the dictates of your own enlightened understanding, by extorting from you, previous to your election, or afterwards, any promises or engagements to vote for or against the proposed plan; this would have been treating you like machines or tools, and for such a purpose as this parrots and magpies trained to prattle, would have answered the purpose much better than freemen. Nevertheless, gentlemen, the measures you have taken have fully justified the confidence we reposed in you, and comes up to our most sanguine wishes.
We, gentlemen, with you, deprecate the impending ruin, and deplore the unhappy fate of our dear country and innocent posterity, should this engine of slavery ever be established. We sincerely grieve to see the people of this state plunge themselves into the jaws of destruction, and sacrifice their dearest interests to gratify the ambition of a
few selfish despots. Yet we sorrow not, at those who have no hope: we are happy to find that a formidable opposition is made to it in some of our sister states. We rejoice in the expectation of your cogent arguments and spirited protests being disseminated through America, and rousing multitudes from their supine lethargy, and opening the eyes of others who are blinded with prejudice, and misled by artful men; we comfort ourselves with the hope that your example will animate such citizens of our own state, whose generous souls recoil at the idea of slavery, and who have not yet degenerated so far from their original principles as to be content to live in fetters, to oppose it. We hope it is not yet too late, although the chains are making, they are not yet rivetted on, & their constitution is not yet, "the supreme law of the land," and we flatter ourselves it never will. When liberty was the grand question, America combated an infinitely more formidable power than the partisans of the proposed constitution; when her rights and privileges were invaded by one of the most puissant monarchs on earth, she bravely resisted the attack, and laughed at the shaking of their spear; she despised their menaces, and returned their threats with redoubled vengeance on their own heads: Will her brave freeborn yeomen, then, tamely submit to be circumvented or cajoled out of their freedom and invaluable rights by a few petty domestic tyrants? No, we are persuaded they never will.
It is, gentlemen, with the most agreeable surprise that we behold a very few country farmers and mechanics, nonplus the great rabbies and doctors of the schools, who no doubt summoned in all the rhetoric, logic, and sophistry they were capable of on this occasion—We rejoice to see scholastic learning and erudition fly before simple reason, plain truth, and common sense. But though you defeated them in argument, they exceeded you in numbers; however, should the worst happen (which heaven avert) this will be your consolation, that in the time of danger you exerted every effort to prevent the calamity; you exonerated your consciences by a faithful discharge of your duty: your names will descend to posterity with admiration and esteem, when those of your opponents will be loaded with infamy and execration. It will be said, these were the Demosthenes, the Brutus, the Catos of America, when your antagonists will be classed with the vilest tyrants that ever disgraced human nature. This will be a sufficient compensation for all the outrage and insult you have received from the senseless ignorant rabble in Philadelphia, and the harsh rude treatment given you by such of the aristocratical junta as were members of the convention: so that your reward is sure, suppose this constitution should even be adopted universally, which we are persuaded will never be. The late glorious revolution is too recent in the memory of American freemen, to suffer this. It may occasion a small conflict, but the cause of liberty is worth contending for, and we firmly believe there are yet numbers who will account it their highest honour to unite with you in the glorious struggle. That the same spirit which actuated you from the first appearance of this baneful instrument, may predominate in the breast of every brave American, is, gentlemen, the most ardent desire of your inexorable adherents.
Signed by order of the meeting. WILLIAM BROWN, in the chair. GEORGE LOGUE, Clerk.
American Occurrences.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8.
Extract of a letter from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, to a gentleman in this city, dated January 29, 1788.
"We are all in an uproar in Maryland; the federal agents, have taken the alarm, since the substance of the honorable Mr. Martin's examination before the assembly, appeared in Mr. Hayes's papers. This gentleman at the instance of a great number of his constituents, was called upon to declare his objections in the public prints, to the new federal government, in order to enable them to form some opinion of the merits or demerits, ascribed to it, as well by its numerous advocates, as opponents. I should be glad to have your ideas, whether Mr. Martin, as one of the delegates to the late convention, had acted a becoming part, by complying with the requisition of his constituents, and that in a matter of such infinite importance to the present, if not to future generations. If Mr. Martin refused the reiterated applications made to him on this occasion, they might naturally suppose that his objections were ill grounded and futile; or otherwise, that he sacrificed the public welfare to some private and interested considerations, highly incompatible with the dignity of a delegate to the honorable general convention of the United States. The federal hacks here say, that he was not justifiable in holding any opinion that militated against their measures; because influence and the power of making proselytes is on their side; ergo, right or wrong, the current of faction must bear down all that comes before it; and a fig for the feeble efforts of the law born peasantry, who ought not to be allowed even the privilege of a groan, whilst they wear the galling fetters of the great, unless in the silent and solitary shade of wretchedness, and obscurity.
The federal hacks affect, that whoever dares to utter a syllable in disapprobation of their cause, is from that instant to be publicly charged as inimical to his country; and as they have the advantage of every press, from New-Hampshire to Georgia, to circulate their calumnies, the unfortunate objects of their rancour, in that extent of country, can only resort to two or three, at most, who have spirit and independence enough to publish in vindication of these devoted victims to power and tyranny. This circumstance accounts fully for the unanimity that prevails throughout the whole continent, in adopting the new federal government, for wherever there is a printing press, there you will find some federal hacks, or company of hacks, who claim an absolute dominion over Mr. Type, as if unlimited monarchy had already been established in this wretched country. The post-offices are all under the influence of these sons of power, so much so that a paper printed at New-York cannot find its way to Philadelphia, Baltimore, or any of the other states; neither can the papers of the Southward proceed an inch farther than the office they are put in it, unless they should happen to contain the most fulsome eulogiums, on Franky's New Roof, which is to accommodate him and all the office hunters on the continent. The minority whom I shall call every man in the community, from whom a fair, open and candid enquiry is withheld, either by direct or indirect means, and who have no views of lucrative offices under the federal government; I say, fir, that the minority, these real disinterested patriots should assiduously exhort each other, to exert every nerve for the good of their country and posterity; and not suffer one tenth part of their fellow subjects, with the help of their expediting, gaping minions, to enslave all the rest. But these salutary admonitions, I fear, cannot impede the evil in its rapid progress, unless the federal bandage can be removed from the people's eyes. For it is the peculiar property of the bandage to keep every thing from their sight, which would enable them to judge for themselves, especially at this critical important juncture.
It is plain to see, that those who have had the art to blindfold them, will have the constitutional legal privilege of judging for them forever after, with respect to life, liberty and property: These being trifling matters not worthy the people's consideration, and of course, not fit to be entrusted to them, who neither know their value nor use.—When these rights and privileges get into other hands, their meaning will be fully explained, not by precept, but most assuredly by woeful example, and those who helped to cut the rod, should never in prudence or justice, complain of the smart it may create."
New-York, February 22,
THE ship Grace—Armour, arrived at Amsterdam, the 12th December last. The George, Robe, Africa; and Ber, Manlove, Liverpool, are arrived at Montego-Bay.
From St. Mary's we are informed, that on the 6th December last, a party of Indians came down on the main (Georgia) in the county of Cawden, and carried off two women, three children and a negro man.—A party from Cumberland island went in pursuit of them, but before they could arrive, the Savages had made off.
"On the 17th of January an alarm was given at the island of a party having come down to the same place, and that they had murdered a Mr. Taylor and Mr. Fordyce, and carried off about twenty head of cattle.
Accounts from Nassau, New Providence, of Jan. 19, say:—The sloop Betsey, Grant, from this port for the coast of Florida, was lo d on Mufquito Bar the 25th October last; of sixteen persons on board, only four escaped. Among the unfortunate persons drowned were Mr. John Caide, his wife and two children.
"On the 3d instant, Capt. Thomas Thomson, in the sloop Sally, beating up from the southwest point Heneaga for Watering Bay, saw a white flag hoisted on the shore; he immediately hoisted out his yawl and went to the place, where he found 23 women and 53 men and boys in a most distressed situation. They informed him they had been passengers on board the brig Chance, commanded by John Stafford, from Dunlany in Ireland, bound for Charleston and Baltimore in North America; that after being three months out, and having been for six weeks on short allowance, they were landed on that desert island in the evening of the 30th of December; that the Captain, previous to his putting them on shore, informed them that the island was Trinidad, in which there were 3 towns and many settlements, and that they might easily get from thence to any part of America: that on their being landed, and finding neither inhabitants nor settlements, they determined to return on board, but on approaching the boat, a musket was fired at them, which killed one of their number. They also mentioned that 32 persons had died on the passage. Capt. Thompson arrived here on Sunday with 56 of these unfortunate people: 20 of them were landing on Long Island.
Moralists may declaim against the Slave trade of Guinea;—but let any reasonable being, read the treaty between the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, and Great-Britain, relative to the lives and limbs of the Landgrave's subjects,—and if they will not vote that both traffics are equally black 'tis odd!
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th 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.
TO BE SOLD, AN EXCELLENT FORTE-PIANNO,
Imported from London the last Summer. Enquire of PHILIP JACOBS. No. 20, next door but one to the City Tavern, Broad-Way.—Feb. 19, 1788. 16 c.d.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY, THIS EVENING, being the 22d of FEBRUARY Will be performed,
A TRAGEDY, CALLED HAMLET, Prince of DENMARK.
With alterations by the late D. GARRICK, Esq. never performed in America.
To which will be added (for this night only,) A Pantomime ENTERTAINMENT, in Grotesque Characters, called, the
GENI: Or, Harlequin's Vagaries.
To which will be introduced, A Series of Moving Transparencyes after the manner of Mr. LOUINERBERG's Ediphuscon.
The whole will conclude with a grand display of EMBLEMATICAL TRANSPARENT SCENERY. BOX 8s.—PIT 6s.—GALLERY 4s.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST EXCISES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Enquire at No. 20. Queen-street.
JACOB REED, jun. Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and SPECIE;
And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds. New-York, Feb. 21, 1788. 24 c.d.
To be SOLD CHEAP,
At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place, which William Provost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (blind built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial deck, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS, in maiden-lane, No. 21, New York, who will give a good title for the same.
The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
New-York, Feb. 5, 1788. 22-m.w.f. 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 Vande, an insolvent debtor, that they appear at the office of the said alderman in Beckman-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 Vande 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 VANDE.
Dated New-York, Feb. 14, 1788. 18 & 24 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 Beckman-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
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. 74, Water-street. 14 c.d.

POETRY CORNER.  Highland of New-York. By a SOLDIER, in 1782. On a group of adamantine hills, Circumjacent, dreary vales! Where their fix'd source, th' ethereal cascades seek the lowly vales. What and? while romantic heads, Beav'd, presumptive to the skies, The rising eye, the prospect fades, And the tall tower of fancy dies. When the storm your wilts afford, The needful violence we feel; The sunny glades have warm'd the ford, And kindling kindness feel. Thus, the nymph of rural line From th' obtunding breath, Five faculties refine, And the virtues in her breath. When who drink' the lapping lakes, The pure source of wealth and war, The tide the thirty meadow flakes, The edied current from afar. Of the flexible wave Marble mountains of thy shore, The fearful pliance of thy love, To all the plaintive roar. Sweet fields, wood' the fair, While his pleading passions wore— His softened foul could spare, To gaze her beauteous heart the more. To forget, ye generous ones! Oft my drooping soul refesh'd, Shielded me from scorching suns, And oft my wintry wants repel'd. My memory shall recount, Future years, these providential scenes, Amidst a rising mount, And round, regard the gracious means.
Price of BREAD. Published December 5, 1787. Selected Superior Wheat Flower, 10 Pounds Five Cents for six-pence. Flour to weight One Pound Twelve Ounces for three-pence.
GH WATER. February 22. 10h. 5m. Att.
FOR SALE, At the STORE of  Barnt Deklyn, near the FLY-MARKET the following
GOODS, to be SOLD at the most reduced Prices, to wit: VARIETY of Cotton Checks, and other Spotted and plain Vel- vets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznaburgs, Marcellus Quilting, Fancy Jacket Patterns, A variety of Plumes and Ribbands, Fancy Shoe Buckles and Buttons. A Variety of other Articles, determined to SELL low, for Jersey (or the Bill) New-York, or Penn- PAPER MONEY.
ISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
American Calculator, or House COMPANION, CONTAINING, ascertainment of the value of sundry in gold, as regulated by the Chamber in this city, and shewing at one view, the several currencies of New-York, and Great-Britain. A Collection giving, at one view, the amount of any (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and Half Joes, French and English as they pass through the United States Guinea, as they pass in England and for the ready reducing the curren- ted-flats, from the currency of one currency of any other of the United for reducing the currencies of the to sterling, and sterling into the cur- ted flats. Rules for reducing Eng- Irish, and Irish Money into Eng- to the par of exchange between both five different tables of the coins of of America, agreeable to a resolve the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table a Table of Dimes, a Table of of Mills; calculated to render the former mode of counting said Money. is intended for the convenience of in the United States, by Francis 1st. 6d. single. The usual discount and others, who may purchase by Dozen, &c. may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 227, Queen-Street, and 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. By order of one of the JUDGES. The whole alphabetically digested under the se- veral 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.
At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of  BOOKS, Consisting of HISTORY. Surgery, Divinity, Agriculture, Law, Nautical Books, Philosophy, Dictionaries, Mathematics, Architecture, Biography, Novels, Geography, Miscellanies, Poetry, Plays, &c. &c. Physic,
A L S O, A number of very valuable  BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio fa- mily bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkitt on the new testa- ment, Brown's self- interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warder's system of di- vinity, Whitby's com- mentary, Blair's Carr's, Estlin's, Boston's, Wilton's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cul- len's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice o- phyic, Van Swieten's, commata- ries, 18 vols, Boerha- ave's aphorisms, 6 vols, Smellie, and Hamil- ton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols, Quin- cey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemis- try, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's, Cole's, and Entick's latin onaries, Davidson's Virgil and Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eu- tropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guth- rie's and Salmon's ge- ographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ash's, Dyke's, Bal- ley's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictiona- ries, Bennett's christian orato- ry, Scott on election, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's mensuration.
Also an excellent Assortment of  STATIONARY. Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Jour- nals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thank- ingly received, and carefully executed. 51—
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cord- age of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mul- berry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea- Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, bambro lin, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker. N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer. New York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 e.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, assignee 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 pre- sent their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Assignee. 42 m.w.f. gm. New-York, November 15, 1787.
Just imported in the Jean, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell, No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of  BOOKS,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an ac- count of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Rustic; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Mil- cellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Me- moirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edin- burgh Dispensary; 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. SPEDAUER'S PRACTICAL OBSERVA- TIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.
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 medi- cal commentaries, with the recommendation of se- veral eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edi- tion 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 sin- cere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books on Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he sells at, will insure a further continuance of their favors The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scots  MAGAZINES.
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 Tal- mage Hall, No. 49, Cortland-street (commonly known by the Bolton, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the pro- prietors of the Albany and Boston stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these 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 en- tertainment; 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.
STAGE.
Morris-Town and Paul's-Hook. ON the 14th instant the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tues- day and Friday, from his house in Morris Town, to Paul's Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon general- ly arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paul's 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 an expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with seven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight. The waggon, on its route to Paul's Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the pas- sengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paul's 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 Cortland-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.
SHRUB, Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Bar- rel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by  Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cher ry-street.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel M'Cor- mick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cook for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Sa- muel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mari- ners on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the is- land of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a ves- sel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New- York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Burke, and John Donnan, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchan- dize so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hog- heads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spi- rits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, 1 bale of cot- ton wool, marked B. three other bales of cotton wool, marked H. C. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks where- of, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quan- tity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers print- ed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander M'Kenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel M'Corrnick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on be- half of Hyem Cohen, of the Island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of sal- vage: and whereas William Cook, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arisen by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of Wil- liam M'Kenney and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defaced ves- sel out of which the said goods were saved, were gene- rally supposed by themselves and others then pre- sent, to have been a brigantine; and it further ap- pears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defaced vessel was a float vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard- round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public monition and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and mer- chandize, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this mo- nition and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM, Marshal. 36 3m
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