The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-03-07 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 56, of VOL. XLII.]
FRIDAY, March 7, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2236.]
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, herewith 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 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 REQUESTION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which he 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.
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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, 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. Aiken, 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, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Meffis, Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Eiquires-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,
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 here, 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, Sioio, 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, Tu-kies, 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.
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.
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)
American Museum,
FOR JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Miscellaneous.
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.
On musical p etende s,
Recipe for an insolvent debtor,
Directions to conduct a new whist quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural concerns.
Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.
Method of making potash in Hungary and Poland,
Thoughts on the culture of hemp,
Method of breaking fleeces to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of silk
Law information,
Law case—Court of common pleas, Chaleston,
Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand,
State and other Public paper
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 four trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opoponax.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the fore throat distemper,
Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inextinguishable dissolvent for human calculi.
Selected 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.
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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 Wood ridge town-
ship, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey,
within a quarter of a mile of the main road from
Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles dis-
tant from the latter, and three and a half from
Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and
twenty 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.
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New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market, Cherry Street, nearest to the Ship-Yard.

MISCELLANY.
Mr. MARTIN's Speech to the Assembly of Maryland.
[Continued from Saturday.]
A COMMITTEE of one member from each state was chosen by ballot, to take this part of the system under their consideration, and to endeavor to agree upon some report which should reconcile those states; to this committee also was referred the following proposition, which had been reported by the committee of detail, to wit, "No navigation act shall be passed without the assent of two-thirds of the members present in each house;" a proposition which the staple and commercial states were solicitous to retain lest their commerce should be placed too much under the power of the eastern states, but which these last states were as anxious to reject. This committee, of which also I had the honor to be a member, met and took under their consideration on the subjects committed to them; I found the eastern states, notwithstanding their aversion to slavery, were very willing to indulge the southern states at least with a temporary liberty to prosecute the slave trade, provided the southern states would in their turn gratify them by laying no restriction on navigation acts: and after a very little time, the committee by a great majority, agreed to a report, by which the general government was to be prohibited from preventing the importation of slaves for a limited time, and the restrictive clause relative to navigation acts was to be omitted.
The report was adopted by a majority of the convention, but not without considerable opposition; It was said, that we had but just assumed a place among independent nations, in consequence of our opposition to the attempts of Great-Britain to enslave us—that this opposition was grounded upon the preservation of those rights, to which God and Nature had entitled us, not in particular, but in common with all the rest of mankind—That we had appealed to the Supreme Being for his assistance as the God of freedom, who could not but approve our efforts to preserve the rights which he had thus imparted to his creatures—that now, when we scarcely had risen from our knees from supplicating his aid and protection—in forming our government over a free people, a government formed pretendedly on the principles of liberty and for its preservation—in that government to have a provision, not only putting it out of its power to restrain and prevent the slave trade, but even encouraging that most infamous traffic, by giving the states power and influence in the union, in proportion as they cruelly and wantonly sport the rights of their fellow creatures, ought to be considered as a solemn mockery of, and an insult to, that God whose protection we had then implored, and could not fail to hold us up in detestation, and render us contemptible to every true friend of liberty in the world. It was said it ought to be considered that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by national punishments, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national sanction and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him, who is equal Lord of all, and who views with equal eye, the poor African slave and his American master?
It was urged that by this system, we were giving the general government full and absolute power to regulate commerce, under which general power it would have a right to restrain, or totally prohibit the slave trade—it must appear to the world absurd and disgraceful to the last degree, that we should except from the exercise of that power, the only branch of commerce, which is unjustifiable in its nature, and contrary to the rights of mankind. That on the contrary, we ought rather to prohibit expressly in our constitution the further importation of slaves; and to authorise the general government from time to time, to make such regulations as should be tho' most advantageous for the gradual abolition of slavery, and emancipation of the slaves which are already in the states.
That slavery is inconsistent with the genius of republicanism, and has a tendency to destroy those principles on which it is supported, as it lessens the sense of the equal right of mankind, and habituates us to tyranny and oppression. It was further urged, that by this system of government, every state is to be protected both from foreign invasion and from domestic insurrections, that from this consideration it was of the utmost importance it should have a power to refrain the importation of slaves, since in proportion as the number of slaves were increased in any state, in the same proportion the state is weakened and exposed to foreign invasion or domestic insurrection, and by so much the less will it be able to protect itself against either; and therefore will by so much the more, want aid from, and be a burthen to the union. It was further said, that as in this system we were giving the general government a power under the idea of a national character, or national interest, to regulate even our weights and measures, and have prohibited all possibility of emitting paper money, and passing instalment laws, &c. It must appear most extraordinary, that we should prohibit the government from interfering with the slave trade, than which nothing could so materially affect both our national honor and interest. These reasons influenced me both on the committee and in convention, most decidedly to oppose and vote against the clause, as it now makes a part of the system.
You will perceive, fir, not only that the general government is prohibited from interfering in the slave trade before the year eighteen hundred and eight, but that there is no provision in the constitution that it shall afterwards be prohibited, nor any security that such prohibition will ever take place, and I think there is great reason to believe, that if the importation of slaves is permitted until the year eighteen hundred and eight, it will not be prohibited afterwards. At this time we do not generally hold this commerce in so great abhorrence as we have done. When our own liberties were at stake, we warmly felt for the common rights of men. The danger being thought to be past, which threatened ourselves, we are daily growing more insensible to those rights. In those states who have restrained or prohibited the importation of slaves, it is only done by legislative acts which may be repealed. When those states find that they must in their national character and connection suffer in the disgrace, and share in the inconveniences attendant upon that detestable and iniquitous traffic, they may be desirous also to share in the benefits
arising from it, and the odium attending it will be greatly effaced by the sanction which is given to it in the general government.
[To be continued.]
DEBATES IN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION. WEDNESDAY, January 23, P.M.
Mr. PARSON's Speech concluded.
BUT, fir, people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation; without being driven to an appeal to arms. An act of usurpation is not obligatory, it is no law, and any man may be justified in his resistance. Let him be considered as a criminal by the general government, yet only his own fellow citizens can convict him; they are his jury, and if they pronounce him innocent, not all the powers of Congress can hurt him; and innocent they certainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law he resisted was an act of usurpation.
P. M.
As soon as the convention met this afternoon, Mr. Nason, in a short speech introduced a motion to this effect: "That this convention, so far reconsider their former vote to discuss the constitution by paragraphs as to leave the subject at large open for consideration." This motion met with a warm opposition from several parts of the house.
Mr. Wales said, that the time which had been spent in the discussion, had been well spent; and that he was much surprised to see gentlemen wishing thus to hurry the matter.
Mr. Wedgery said, that necessity compelled them to hurry.
Mr. Dalton. Mr. president, we have been but six or seven days in the discussion of the constitution. Sir, has not paragraph after paragraph been considered and explained? Has not great light been thrown on the articles we have considered. For my part, I profess to have received much light on them. We are now discussing the powers of Congress. Sir, shall we pass that over? Shall we pass over the article of the judiciary power, without examination; I hope, fir, it will be particularly inquired into. I am sorry to hear gentlemen alledge that they have been a long time from home; and that the want of money necessitates them to wish for an early decision. Sir, have not the general court provided for the payment of the members of this convention? and the treasurer, I am informed, is collecting money to comply with that provision. There are many parts which ought to be explained; I hope we shall attend to them with deliberation; and that for the sake of saving a little money, we may not pass over the constitution without well considering it.
Judge Sumner wished the motion might be withdrawn.
Mr. Nason said, he would withdraw his motion for the present; but mentioned his intention of again making it at ten o'clock to-morrow morning.
THURSDAY, Jan. 24, A. M.
Mr. Nason renewed his motion for "re-considering a former vote to discuss the constitution by paragraphs, so that the whole might be taken up."
The hon. Mr. Adams said he was one of those who had had difficulties and doubts respecting some parts of the proposed constitution. He had, he said, for several weeks after the publication of it, laid by all the writings, in the public papers, on the subject, in order to be enabled leisurely to consider them. He had, he said, still some difficulties on his mind; but that he had chosen rather
to be an auditor, than an objector, and he had particular reasons therefor: as this was the case with him, and as others, he believed, were in a similar situation, he was desirous to have a full investigation of the subject; that thereby such may be confirmed, either in favour, or against the constitution; and was therefore against the motion. We ought not, he said, to be stingy of our time, or the public money, when so important an object demanded them: but the public expect that we will not. He was sorry, he said, for gentlemen's necessities; but he would rather support the gentlemen, who were thus necessitated, or lend them money, to do it, than they should hurry so great a subject. He therefore, hoped that the question would be put, and that we should proceed as we began.
Hon. Mr. Pitts said it was impossible to consider the whole until the parts had been examined; our constituents, said he, have a right to demand of us the reasons which shall influence us to vote as we shall do; he must, he said, therefore, oppose the motion.
The hon. Mr. King, Col. Smith, and several other gentlemen, spoke against the motion.
Mr. Wedgery opposed the motion's being winked out of sight; he wished, he said, the question might be put, that the sense of the convention respecting it might be taken.
Gen. Thompson said, it was not essential how the matter was considered, but he wished to have the whole subject at large open to discussion, so that every body might speak to it. A member, says he, gets up and speaks, but he is called to order, as not confining himself to the particular paragraph under debate, and this puts him out. In his opinion, he said, the constitution, and the reasons which induced gentlemen to frame it, ought to have been sent to the several towns, to be considered by them. My town, says he, considered it seven hours, and after this, there was not one in favour of it. If this had been done, we should have known the minds of the people on it; and should we dare, he asked, to act different from the sense of the people? It is strange, he said, that a system, which its planners say is so plain, that he that runs may read it, should want so much explanation.
[The question being generally called for, the motion was put, and negatived without a return of the house. The endeavors of gentlemen to hush to silence a small buzz of congratulation, among a few citizens in the gallery, being mistaken by some of the members, for a hiss, created a momentary agitation in the convention; which, however, after a short conversation, subsided.]
[To be continued.]
American Occurrences.
BOSTON, February 28.
Yesterday, agreeably to Proclamation, the Honorable General Court of this Commonwealth, convened at the State-House, in this Town—and a Quorum of both Branches being assembled, a Joint Committee was appointed to wait on his Excellency the Governor, to inform him, that they were ready to receive Communications, &c. Accordingly, at 5 o'clock, his Excellency met both Branches, convened in the Representative's Chamber, and delivered the following
S P E E C H.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives; THE letters which I have received in the recess, the secretary will lay before you, they are not of such importance, as to claim any particular notice from me at this time.
The adjournment of the general court, for the space of one week, became necessary, in order to give the members, who were also members of the late convention, an opportunity of returning home before the meeting of the legislature. I could have wished that the proclamation of adjournment had been of an earlier date, but the session of the con-

vention, by the importance of the business before that body, was protracted beyond what was expected. I flatter myself that this will be satisfactory, as well to those of you gentlemen, who, having not heard of the adjournment, have been some days waiting in town as to those who may be apprehensive that the business of the present session will demand a longer time, than can be conveniently afforded at this season of the year.
I have nothing of more importance, at this time, to recommend to your deliberation, than the lands of the commonwealth. It is scarcely necessary to remark that this state, from its particular situation, as well as from the noble ardor of its citizens in defence of their liberties and independence, has accumulated a very heavy debt; the interest of which arises to ninety thousand pounds annually; this consideration alone, gentlemen, should induce us by every possible exertion consistent with the peace of the commonwealth, to diminish the principal. In order to this, the great quantities of unappropriated territory both in the eastern part of the government, as well as in the immense tract lately ceded to us by the state of New-York, afford ample resources, if wisely and expeditiously improved by that spirit of unanimity and discernment which I flatter myself will always distinguish your conduct, when the interest of the people is so deeply and essentially engaged in the result of your deliberations.
I am sorry that my duty urges me to mention to you the necessity of a small tax, but the treasury is so far exhausted, that the government must cease its progress unless a tax is granted.
Since the last session, Luke Day, one of those persons of whose arrest a bounty was offered in consequence of an act of the legislature, has been taken by some of the citizens of New-Hampshire, to whom one hundred pounds has been paid, upon their delivering him into the custody of the Sheriff of the county of Suffolk. Could the late unhappy commotions be thrown into oblivion, consistently with the honor of government, and the safety of the people, I persuade myself it would give satisfaction.
In the beginning of your last session, I laid before you the constitution and frame of government for the United States of America, agreed upon by the late General convention, and transmitted to me by Congress. As the system was to be submitted by the people, and to be decided upon by their delegates in convention, I forebore to make any remarks upon it. The convention which you appointed to deliberate upon that important subject, have concluded their session, after having adopted and ratified the proposed plan; according to their resolution, a copy whereof, I have directed the Secretary to lay before you.
The obvious embezzlement of the confederation of the United States, has too long given pain to our friends, and pleasure to our enemies; but the forming a new system of government, for so numerous a people, of very different views, and habits, spread upon such a vast extent of territory, containing such a great variety of soils, and under such extremes of climate, was a task, which nothing less than the dreadful apprehension of losing our national existence, could have compelled the people to undertake.
We can be known to the world, only under the appellation of the United States: if we are robbed of the idea of our union, we immediately become separate nations, independent of each other, and less liable to depredations of foreign powers, than to wars and bloody contentions amongst ourselves. To pretend to exist as a nation without possessing those powers of coercive, which are necessarily incident to the national character, would prove a fatal solecism in politics. The objects of the proposed constitution, are, defence against external enemies, and the promotion of tranquility and happiness amongst the states. Whether it is well calculated for those important purposes, has been the subject of extensive and learned discussion in the convention which you appointed. I believe there was never a body of men assembled, with greater purity of intention, or with higher zeal for the public interest. And although, when the momentous question was decided, there was a greater division than some expected, yet there appeared a candour, and a spirit of conciliation, in the minority which did them great honor, and afforded an happy presage of unanimity amongst the people at large. Though so many of the members of the late convention could not feel themselves convinced that they ought to vote for the ratification of this system, yet their opposition was conducted with a candid and manly firmness, and with such marks of integrity and real regard to the public interest, as did them the highest honor, and leaves no reason to suppose that the peace and good order of the government is not their object.
The amendments proposed by the convention, are intended to obtain a constitutional security of the principles to which they refer themselves, and must meet with the wishes of all the states. I feel myself assured, that they will very early become a part of the constitution, and when they shall be added to the proposed plan, I shall consider it the most perfect system of government, as to the objects it embraces, that has been known amongst mankind.
Gentlemen, As that being, in whose hands is the government of all the nations of the earth, and who putteth down one, and raiseth up another according to his sovereign pleasure, has given to the people of these states, a rich and an extensive country; has in a marvellous manner, given them a name and a standing among the nations of the world; has blest them with external peace, and internal tranquility; I hope and pray, that the gratitude of their hearts may be expressed by a proper use of those inestimable blessings, by the greatest exertions of patriotism, by forming and supporting institutions for cultivating human understanding, and for the greatest progress of the arts and sciences, by establishing laws for the support of piety, religion and morality, as well as for punishing vice and wickedness, and by exhibiting on the great theatre of the world, those social, public and private virtues, which give more dignity to a people, possessing their own sovereignty, than crowns and diadems afford to foreign princes.
Every matter of a public nature, which may occur worthy of your notice, shall be communicated by message, and in every concern tending to promote the public welfare, I shall be happy to concur with you, and be ready at all times to give every possible dispatch to the business that may come before you.
JOHN HANCOCK. Council-Chamber, February 27, 1788.
New-York, March 7.
THE Albany Gazette of February 27, contains the following:—A publication in the Federal Herald under the signature of A Citizen, having for some days attracted the notice of the public by its extreme violence and singular scurrility, Mr. John Lansing, jun. who was one of the subjects of its animadversions, requested the printers to discover the author, and was by them informed, that it was Mr. GEORGE METCALF, a young Englishman, who has resided during great part of the late war in Canada, and for some time in this city.
However unfortunately a difference in sentiment on a great national question, may agitate and divide the people of this state, Mr. Lansing trusts that the good sense of his fellow citizens will readily distinguish between a manly discussion of political subjects, and the vile arts of private traduction.
Mr. Lansing has given directions to institute a prosecution against Mr. Metcalf, which will afford him an opportunity of giving any instances of Mr. Lansing's depravity, in his justification in evidence. If Mr. Metcalf cannot do this, he may at least, on some future occasion, be taught a proper discrimination between a wanton excursion into the flowery fields of invention and a strict adherence to truth.
On the Saturday following, remarks upon the above, were inserted in the Albany Journal.
Messrs. Printers, HAVING read a paragraph in the last Albany Gazette, which Mr. Webster informed me, was written by John Lansing, Jun. Esq. setting forth that I am the author of a publication in the Federal Herald, under the signature of A Citizen, that I am an Englishman, and resided during great part of the late war in Canada, and for some time in this city. I am, in justice to myself, obliged to add a few additional facts, to take off that impression which this publication must evidently tend to make on the public; that I am a foreigner and an alien, and consequently unentitled to the privileges of a citizen, or to make any strictures upon the administration of government—I acknowledge myself an Englishman by birth, a circumstance I am rather proud than ashamed of, it has not been unusual for Englishmen to be warm for the welfare of America, and with the foremost in its cause.—But that I am a citizen of America is an incontrovertible fact; under a law of this state I claim that privilege—from the Journals of the assembly, this fact may be ascertained, and also, from the records of the mayor's court of the city of Albany, where I have since taken the oaths of allegiance and abjuration. That I have been an inhabitant of this state upwards of four years, is also a well known fact. But I presume Mr. Lansing was unacquainted with these facts, or he, otherwise, would not have placed them in so partial a point of view. Mr. Lansing, I think, cannot be ignorant that my father and family (except myself) have resided in this state upwards of twenty years, with respectibility and esteem; and, have ever been known to have had a sincere attachment to the cause of America; and for that attachment to have sustained the loss of a great deal of property, besides much distress and severity; and that the family was detained in Canada, by order of the British governor, till the peace; and that my residence there for two years, was in consequence of that circumstance, and the impracticability of a communication, rendered wholly involuntary.
I know not what Mr. Lansing means by the vile arts of traduction or the flowery fields of invention. I am conscious of having trod on no other ground than the plain road of patriotism, impartiality and truth. But I am perfectly satisfied with the tribunal to which Mr. Lansing has made an appeal, sensible that every necessary investigation will be made, and a fair and impartial decision given.
I am, &c. G. METCALF.
Yesterday sailed from this port, for Falmouth, his Britannia Majesty's packet, the Speedy, Robert Cotsworth, commander, with the New-York MARCA mail, which was closed the preceding evening. Cleared at the Customs.
On Tuesday, brig H avannah, Suter, Newry. On Wednesday, brig Enterprize, Palmer, South-Sea, and yesterday ship St. James, Collins, Newry.
The following is an authentic statement of the presents given by the king of Prussia to those of his officers who served in Holland.
  2 Lieut Generals 2000 * Crowns.   A Major General 1500   A Colonel 1000   Lieut. Colonel 800   A Major 600   A Captain 500   Other Officers 50   EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTS. 
  To Lieut. Gen. Compte de Lotum 6000 Crowns.   My General Compte de Kalkreuth 4000   To Col. Pfau 1000   To Major de Goetz 1000   and the order of merit.   To Captain de Malsenbach, the same.   To Captain Eckenbrachee of the Artillery, the rank of nobility, and the order of merit.   To Major Gelhaar of the Artillery, the order of merit.   To Lieut. de Halmelberg 1500 Crowns   To Lieut. de Ciawow 500   * A crown is two florins; a Berlin florin is 1s. 6d. a Flanders florin is 1s. 6d. 
SAGACITY and FORTITUDE in an Animal. IN the year 1779, a number of gentlemen set out on a party to dislodge a drove of foxes from their haunt where they had been shut up about 14 days, in the upper part of Westchester county. After digging some time, the dogs made their way into the burrough and brought out a fox apparently dead. They worried him a while, when one of the party observed, that the fox had been starved to death. An old huntsman, who was better acquainted with them, answered—he only feigns to be dead, and took the fox across his knee and broke one of his legs. The fox lay with his tongue out, and eyes shut, nor did he struggle in the least with the pain. The huntsman then gave him a toss down the hill, but he had no sooner touched the ground, than he was for making his escape, and was not caught but with some trouble, and laour of the hounds.
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE,
A LOT of LAND,
SITUATE on City Island, Westchester county, about 20 miles up the East-River from New-York.
The above Lot contains eight acres of land, and is well situated for a garden spot, for the supply of this city with vegetables, or tavern for the watermen.
On this lot is a small tenement, with one chimney only, and a never failing spring of fresh water. The excellence of this spot is too universally known, to require any particular description.
It was formerly the property of Mr. Gilead Hunt, who, by a deed of gift, conveyed it to Mrs. JEMIMA PELL (widow of the late Joseph Pell, of the Manor of Pelham) by whom a good title will be given.—Enquire at No. 25, Water-street. New-York, March 5, 1788. 35
Just Published, The AMERICAN MAGAZINE,
For February, 1788. Price TWO SHILLINGS.
CONTENTS.
 Abridgement of the Education—Mode of it  laws of nature in examined, French and English,  Vindication of the preference women are supposed to have for men of inferior talents.  Medical questions.  Government—Mr. Jefferson's arguments in favor of an unalterable constitution, considered.  Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, describing the remains of fortifications at Musk-ingum; with remarks on the Indian barrows, and the striking analogy between certain customs of the Indians and ancient Britons.  Continuation of Smith's history of Virginia,  The contrast, Letter III, from Belzebul  The force of habit, or the regularity of the city Philadelphia vindicated in opposition to a common place opinion, Peter Pickpenny's art of pushing into business, Curious extracts from ancient records,  Anecdote, Dr. Mitchell's account of the insect which destroys the wheat,  Letter from Juvenis, Narrative of the escape of the Counts Valois de la Motte from the Bastille,  A Hibernian's request, Law questions. 
POETRY.
 On the departure of a young gentleman who failed for England sometime since,  The decline of wit, On the recovery of an only child from the small pox,  Lines written by a youth, on the death of Mr. Sharon, Marriages, Deaths. 
New-York, Printed by Samuel Loudon, And Sold by Messrs. S. and R. Campbell, Mr. S. Loudon, Messrs. Berry and Rogers, Mr. T. Allen, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. T. Greenleaf, Mr. F. Childs, Mr. J. Reid.—Mr. J. Hastings, at Boston.—Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford.—Mr. J. Beers, at New-Haven.—Mr. A. Stoddard, at Hudson.—Messrs. W. Falconer and Co. at Albany.—Messrs. Young and McCulloch, at Philadelphia, Mrs. A. Timothy, at Charleston. New-York, March 3, 1788. 33
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Pro-
vost 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 (being 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 dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of alhes, 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 alhes; 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 case to the Purchaser. If any person wants to view the place; apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Obadiah Wright, an insolvent debtor, that they appear before Jordan Seaman, Esq. one of the justices in and for the township of Oyster-bay, at the house of Daniel Burr, at Norwith, in said township, on Friday the seventh day of March, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Obadiah Wright shall not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Obadiah Wright discharged, pursuant to the direction of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the thirteenth day of April, 1786.
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POET'S CORNER.
The BLACKBIRDS. An ELEGY. SPRING had return'd, and nature smil'd, Verdure had crown'd each wood and vale, All was compos'd, serene, and mild, And notes of pleasure swell'd the gale. 'Twas then a blackbird and its mate In a syringa built their nest, The patient hen assiduous sat With trembling wing and heaving breast. Two chirpers soon reward their care, The pledges of their mutual love, The pleasing task the parents share, And range for food the blooming grove. Returning through a shrubby mead, The gentle pair, with angrish saw Their little ones expiring, bleed Beneath a wanton tyrant's paw. In vain they feebly flutter'd round, In vain they pour'd a plaintive lay, Deaf to the sweet pathetic sound, The plund'rer still retain'd her prey. "Whither, ah, whither, shall we fly? "Life has no value now," they sung; "We'll melt the murd'rer's heart and die, "With wings stretch'd fondly o'er our young."
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State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, 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 Donnand and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, 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 Donnand, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Beecker, 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. 109, one other hoghead of sugar marked W.B. 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 W.B. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked W.B. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked W.B. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, 1 bale of cotton 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 broke 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 Donnand, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander McKencie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on be- half of Hyem Cohen, of the Island of Jamaica, has 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 Cock, 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, has also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies ariser by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of Wil- iam McKenney 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 defected vessel 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 defected vessel was a stout vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-iron 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- chandise, 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
TO BE SOLD,
At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant situated
F A R M,
BETWEEN Rack Pond and Fresh
Creek, adjoining the sea, at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, in the state of N. Jersey, con- taining one hundred and fifty acres. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and a good title will be given. For further particulars enquire of PETER OGILVIE, at No. 6, Crown-street. New-York, Feb. 13, 1788. 17
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 Boston, 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. 19, 1787. 51—th.
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 Cotton Checks, Mantuas and other Spotted and plain Vel- Gown Silks, verets, Saracens, A variety of Gloves and Peelongs, and Fans, Modes, Linens, Chinzes, Sheetings, and Printed Linens, and Oznabrigs, Cottons, Marcellies Quilting, Fancy Shawls and Fancy Jacket Patterns, Handkerchiefs, A variety of Plumes Jeans, and Ribbands, Jeanetts, Fancy Shoe Buckes and India Dimities, Buttons. A quantity of Linen and
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.
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 showing at one view their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, showing, 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 curren- cies 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 cur- rencies of the said states. Rules for reducing Eng- lish Money into Irish, and Irish Money into Eng- lish, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolu- tion 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.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and
Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed floor lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nath. between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
L ATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beekman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing W O R M P O W D E R. 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. 38—e.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquaint-
ed with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New York, October 25, 1787. 38—e.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE.
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