The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-03-27 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUmb. 73, of VOL. XLII.]
THURSDAY, March 27, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2253.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twelfth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Annatie Van Benthuylen, administratrix, John Van Benthuylen, and Henry Lyle, administrators of Abraham Van Benthuylen, late of Rhinebeck precinct, in the county of Dutchess, deceased, have, by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Abraham Van Benthuylen, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners have made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Abraham Van Benthuylen, as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Abraham Van Benthuylen, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates," and the said petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Abraham Van Benthuylen, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the ninth day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Abraham Van Benthuylen died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
41 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 12th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Samuel B. Webb, administrator of Richard Banker late of the said city merchant deceased, with his will annexed, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Richard Banker, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner hath made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Richard Banker as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Richard Banker, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates," and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Richard Banker, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the ninth day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Richard Banker died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
41 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the state of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the City of New-York, on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS George Fowler, and Patience his wife, which said Patience is executrix of Garret Miller, late of Cornwall precinct, in the county of Orange, yeoman, deceased, have, by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Garret Miller was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners have made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Garret Miller, as far as they had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Garret Miller was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates," and the said petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Garret Miller, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates, at the probate office, in the city of New-York on the fourteenth day of April next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Garret Miller died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
29 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
A Few COPIES of the
Conductor Generalis,
To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
At a court of Probate of the state of New-York, held, at the Probate-office in the city of New-York, on the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Hon. PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS William Howland, administrator of Israel Howland, late of Pawling's Precinct in Dutchess county, farmer, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Israel Howland, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Israel Howland as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of his said intestate was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors, against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned. Hereupon it is ordered by the said judge that all persons interested in the estate of the said Israel Howland, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates at the Probate-office in the city of New-York, on the seventh day of April next to show cause if any they have why so much of the real estate whereof the said Israel Howland, died, seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
23 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twentieth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Robert Walker of Pawling's Precinct, in Dutchess county, carpenter, and Mary his wife, late Mary Briggs, (which said Mary is executrix of Prince Briggs late of Dutchess county, and late of New-York, deceased) have by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Prince Briggs was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Prince Briggs as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said testator was insufficient to pay his debts and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act "entitled an act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators and for proving wills respecting real estates." And the said petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned. Hereupon it is ordered by the said judge that all persons interested in the estate of the said Prince Briggs do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates at the Probate-office, in the city of New-York, on the seventh day of April next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Prince Briggs, died, seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
23 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the state of New-York, held at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Johan Daniel Gros and Catharine Paris, executor of Isaac Paris, late of Stone Arabia, in the county of Montgomery, esquire, deceased, have by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Isaac was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Isaac Paris as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Isaac Paris was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates," and the said petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Isaac Paris, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the thirty-first day of March next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Isaac Paris died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
PETER OGILVIE.
I. Greenwood,
SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199 Water-street, opposite the Coffee-House, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants Natural, and Substitutes ARTIFICIAL TEETH. And attends abroad upon sending directions
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, according to an act of the Governor Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages and securing the purchaser of mortgaged estates," that on the twenty-eighth day of July next ensuing, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Coffee-House, to the highest bidder, all that certain LOT OF GROUND, situate, northerly, and being in the city of New-York, in the Dock-Ward of the same, with incumbrance of a mortgage in the Loan-Office, for two hundred and eighty pounds, or thereabouts, and contains in breadth, in front and rear, twenty-five feet four and an half inches, in length, on each side, about ninety-one feet, and is bounded southerly, in front by the dock, westerly, by ground of Mary Ten Eyck, northerly, in the rear by ground now or late the property of John Lambert, and easterly, by ground of the heirs of Peter Delancey, with the appurtenances, which said premises were, by indenture, bearing date the fifteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven—mortgaged by Charles Duvée, of the county of New-York, to Thomas Bowne, Daniel Bowne, and Samuel Osgood, of New-York, for securing the payment of five hundred and thirty-six pounds eleven shillings and seven-pence, with lawful interest for the same.
The conditions will be made known on the day of sale by subscribers.
THOMA BOWNE, DANIEL BOWNE, SAMUEL OSGOOD, New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99 1b. 6m
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chamber, in the City of New-York, the eleventh Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T,
The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGTON, Esq. Chancellor.
Stephen Skinner, } FORAMUCH as it appears to this court, that William Gray, and a bill hath been filed therein against William Gray, and William Deane, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said William Gray, to the said Stephen Skinner; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned, and that the said William Gray, hath not entered his appearance in this cause, as according to the rules on this court the same ought to have been entered, if case the said process had been duly served; and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this court, that on first search and diligent enquiry in the county of Westchester, and elsewhere, the defendant William Gray, cannot be found to be served with the said process, by which the said William Gray was directed to appear in this honorable court, on the twelfth day of October last past, at the suit of the said Stephen Skinner, and which said subpoena issued on the filing of the bill of complaint in this cause; wherefore it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Troup, of counsel, for the complainant, that the said William Gray appear to the said bill, on or before the nineteenth day of February now next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far forth as it in any wise concerns the said defendant, the said William Gray; to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises, or such part thereof as to this court shall appear just and right; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order, within twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in, at least, two of the public newspapers printed in the state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes. 99 8w. th. W. COCK, Register.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chamber, in the City of New-York, the eleventh Day of January, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T,
The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGTON, Esq. Chancellor.
Stephen Skinner, } MR. TROUP, of counsel, for the complainant, suggesting to the court, that the order of the eleventh day of December now last past, had not been inserted within twenty days from the date thereof, in two of the public newspapers printed in this state, as according to the said rule the same ought to have been done; wherefore, on motion of Mr. Troup, the honorable the chancellor orders, and directs, that the said order stand renewed, giving the said defendant time to appear on or before the nineteenth day of March now next ensuing.
Extract from the minutes. 99 8w. th. W. COCK, Register.
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, containing 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. 12, 1788.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, according to an act of the Governor Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on the sixth day of June next ensuing, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the house of DAVID DAN, in Bedford, Westchester county, and state of New-York, to the highest bidder; all that certain Farm, Tract, pieces, or parcel of Land, lying and being in Bedford, and bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at the house of Benjamin Hayes, where he now lives, running westerly as it winds round Hayes's land, and northerly to the high way, thence westerly along the high way until it comes to Lewis M'Donald's land, thence southerly until it comes to David Dan's land, thence easterly and northerly along said Dan's land until it comes to the high way or Town's land by the burying ground, thence by the high way westerly until it comes to Benjamin Hayes's land, thence by Hayes's land as it winds to the place of beginning; also one other piece of Land, lying on the north side of the high way, beginning at the Court-house, thence westerly by the high way until it comes to Lewis M'Donald's land, thence northerly and westerly as it winds to Abraham Canfield's land, thence northerly and westerly by Abraham Canfield's land as it winds to the high way, thence northerly by the high way to Abraham Canfield's and, thence east by said land, until it comes to the land of the late Stephen Holmes, deceased, thence southerly and westerly until it comes to the parsonage lands, thence near the same course until it comes to James M'Donald's land, thence westerly and southerly winding round M'Donald's land to the place of beginning; containing in the whole eighty acres, more or less, with the appurtenances which said premises were by indenture bearing date the 10th day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six; mortgaged by Jonathan Platt, of Bedford, Westchester county and state of New-York, to Daniel Bowne, of New-York, for securing the payment of eight hundred pounds with lawful interest for the same.
The conditions will be made known on the day of sale, by the subscriber, DANIEL BOWNE. 45 1b. 6m.
WHEREAS David Peck is possessed of three certain Notes of Hand, given to him by Jonathan Platt, and the subscriber bearing date the twentieth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, one of the said notes for the sum of thirty pounds, on demand, one other of the said notes for one hundred pounds, payable on the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and the other of the said notes, for the sum of one hundred and seventy pounds, payable on the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; all which said three notes were deposited in his hands, upon conditions of their delivery of them by a certain day, which is past; and whereas the conditions have not been complied with, and the said David Peck, retaining the same, has refused the redelivery of them, and has offered them for sale, this may serve to notify all persons, that the payment of the said notes will be refused, and prosecutions commenced for the redelivery of them.
BENONI PLATT. Jan. 24, 1788. 99 1b. 4w.
This day is PUBLISHED, By HUGH GAINF, At the BIBLE, in HANOVER-SQUARE,
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.
Compiled chiefly from Burns' justice, and several other books on those subjects.
By JAMES PARKER.
Late one of the justices of the peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America. By a GENTLEMAN of the LAW.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
To which are added, (Above what is in any other edition of this work) The act called the TEN POUND ACT, and the MILITIA LAW of the state of New-York.
Masters & Owners of Vessels,
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such 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, hambro lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marine, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer.

MISCELLANY.
NEW EXCISE LAW.
An act to lay a duty of excise on strong liquors, and for the better regulating of Inns and Taverns. Passed the 1st day of March, 1788. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York represented in the senate and assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for the person administering the government of this state for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of the council of appointment, from time to time, to constitute and appoint such person in the city of New-York, as they shall think proper, to be the commissioner for collecting the duty of excise, of and from the several retailers of strong and spirituous liquors, in the city and county of New-York.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the following persons shall be commissioners for collecting the duty of excise of and from the several retailers of strong and spirituous liquors within the several other cities and counties in this state: that is to say, in and for the city of Albany, the mayor of the said city for the time being; and in and for the city of Hudson, the mayor, recorder, aldermen, and commonality of the said city; and in and for the several towns and places in the respective counties in this state, the supervisor of, and any two justices of the peace, resident within the same respective towns or places; or in case there shall not be two justices, or in case of the absence of the justices residing in any such town or place, then such neighbouring justice or justices as the supervisor of such town or place shall notify, and associate with him for that purpose. Provided, that no permit shall be granted, except in either of the said cities of Albany or Hudson, unless three commissioners shall be present at the granting thereof.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of excise, appointed or to be appointed by virtue of this act, annually, by writing under their respective hands and seals, to grant to the several persons who shall reside in the respective cities, towns or places, for which they are or shall be appointed a commissioner or commissioners as aforesaid, who shall apply for the same, permits to retail strong or spirituous liquors under five gallons; which said respective permits shall continue in force from the time of granting the same, until the first day of March next ensuing the date of such permit, and no longer.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of excise to be appointed in the city and county of New-York, by virtue of this act, to determine and ascertain the sum which each respective person applying for a permit as aforesaid, shall pay for the same, not being less than forty shillings, nor more than twenty pounds, as a duty of excise, which sum shall be paid to him by the person applying, before the permit shall be issued, as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of excise appointed in the several other cities, towns, and places in this state, by virtue of this act, to determine, and ascertain the sum which each respective person, in their respective cities, towns, and places, applying for a permit as aforesaid, shall pay for the same, not being less than forty shillings, nor more than twelve pounds, as a duty of excise; which, together with the sum of six shillings, as a fee to the respective commissioners for granting such permit, shall be paid to him or them by the person applying for a permit, as aforesaid, before the permit shall be issued as aforesaid.
And further, the said commissioners are hereby respectively required to keep an account of the persons to whom permits shall be granted, and of the sums by each of the said persons paid for a permit, and to file the same with the clerk of such city, town or place, on or before the first day of March in every year; and shall from time to time without delay, pay the monies so to be by them received for the duty of excise, to the overseers of the poor of the respective cities, towns and places, for which they are commissioners as aforesaid, to be applied to the relief of the poor thereof.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That instead of the fees herein before allowed, the commissioner of excise for the city and county of New-York, for the time being, shall be entitled for his services, to a salary, at and after the rate of sixty pounds per annum; which it shall be lawful for him to retain out of the monies
which shall come into his hands from the day of excise aforesaid; and the residue thereof, he shall, from time to time, and without delay, pay to the treasurer or Chamberlain of the said city, for the time being, to be applied and disposed of (except as to eight hundred pounds for the time herein after mentioned) for and towards the payment of the contingent charges of the said city, in such manner as the mayor, aldermen and commonality of the said city, in common council convened by warrant under the hand of the mayor or recorder of the said city presiding in such common council, shall from time to time direct and appoint. And further, that the said commissioner shall keep an account of the persons to whom permits shall be granted, in the said city and county, and of the sums by each of the said persons paid for a permit, and file the same with the treasurer or Chamberlain of the said city, for the time being, on or before the last day of February in every year.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the treasurer or Chamberlain, of the city of New-York, shall, out of the monies to arise from the excise, to be raised in the city and county of New-York, on or before the first Tuesday of February in every year, for and during the term of four years, from and after the first day of February last, pay to the treasurer, for the time being, of the society of the hospital in the city of New-York, in America, at and after the rate of eight hundred pounds and no more, for the better support of the hospital erected in the said city, for poor and indigent persons.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners appointed or to be appointed by virtue of this act, to grant permits to retail strong or spirituous liquors, shall not grant permits to any person or persons to retail strong or spirituous liquors, for the purpose of keeping an inn or tavern at the place, at which such permit is applied for, is necessary for the accommodation of travellers, and that the person applying for such a permit, is of good moral character. And that in every such permit, to be granted for the purpose of keeping an inn or tavern shall be expressed, that it appears necessary to the commissioners, that a public inn or tavern be kept at such place, and that the person to whom such permit is granted, is of good moral character as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall sell by retail, any strong or spirituous liquors, to be drunk in his or her house, out-house, yard, or garden, unless such person shall appear before a justice of the peace of the county in which he or she shall reside, and enter into a recognizance to the people of the state of New-York in the sum of fifty pounds, conditioned that he or she will not, during the time that he or she shall keep an inn or tavern, keep a disorderly inn or tavern, or suffer or permit any cock-fighting, gaming, or playing with cards or dice, or keep any billiard table, or other gaming table or shuffle board, within the inn or tavern, by him or her to be kept, or within any out-house, yard, or garden belonging thereunto; which recognizance so to be taken, shall be lodged by the person or persons before whom the same shall be taken, with the clerk of the respective cities or counties where the same shall be taken; and if any person shall be convicted of an offence against this act, it shall be lawful for the courts of general session of the peace, in the respective cities and counties in this state, to suppress the permit and licence of such respective offenders. But that no person who shall be permitted or licensed to retail strong liquors, not to be drunk in his or her house, but carried elsewhere, shall be obliged to enter into recognizance aforesaid, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall sell by retail, any strong or spirituous liquors without having such permit as aforesaid, and if any person shall sell any strong or spirituous liquors, to be drunk in his or her house, out-house, yard, or garden, without having entered into such recognizance as aforesaid; every person who shall be guilty of either of the offences aforesaid, shall for each offence forfeit the sum of ten pounds.
Provided always, That no person or persons shall be subject to be sued or prosecuted by virtue of this act, for selling mead, mead wine, cherry wine, or cyder, to be by him, her or them made, and which shall not be drunk in his, her, or their house, out-house, yard or garden.
Provided also, And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all licences to retail strong and spirituous liquors within the cities of New-York, Albany, and Hudson, shall be granted in the manner directed and prescribed in and by the charters granted to the said cities respectively, and the recognizances to be entered into by retailers, shall be taken before the mayor for the time being, of each respective city, or in case of his sickness or absence before the recorder thereof; any thing in this act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
And the more effectually to prevent every species of gaming, or incident thereunto, in public inns and taverns;
Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be deemed an offence against
the people of this state, for any person who shall keep a public inn or tavern, to permit or suffer any cock-fighting, playing with cards, or dice, or keep any billiard table or other gaming table, or shuffle-board, within his or her house, or within any out-house, yard, or garden, belonging thereto, or therein to permit any kind of gaming by lot or chance; and that as well the courts of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, as the courts of general sessions of the peace, in the several counties within this state, shall have cognizance of offences against this act, and shall and may punish offenders convicted thereof, by fine and imprisonment or either, at the discretion of the court in which any such conviction shall be had.
[To be continued.]
The following are the Titles of the ACTS passed by the House of Assembly at Poughkeepsie, in the late Session.
 1. An act to naturalize Robert Edmiston.  2. An act to prevent delays of proceedings at the general session of the peace, and abuses in serving out writs of certiorari.  3. An act to avoid unnecessary delays of execution.  4. An act for giving farther remedy by action of account.  5. An act to prevent abuses and delays in actions of replevin.  6. An act to prevent forcible entries and detainers.  7. An act to enable grantees of reversions to take advantage of the conditions to be performed by lessees.  8. An act to compel joint tenants and tenants in common to make partition, and for the more easy obtaining partition of lands in coparcenary.  9. An act to redress disorders by common informers, and to prevent malicious information.  10. An act for the more effectual discovery of the death of persons beyond sea, or absenting themselves, upon whose lives estates do depend.  11. An act for rendering the proceedings on writs of mandamus, and information in the nature of quo warranto more speedy and effectual.  12. An act concerning idiots, lunatics, and infant trustees.  13. An act for ascertaining the measure of land.  14. An act for the relief of cities and towns from such charges as may arise from bastard children within the same.  15. An act concerning apprentices and servants.  16. An act for apprehending and punishing disorderly persons; objected to, and passed notwithstanding.  17. An act against buying and selling of offices.  18. An act for preventing perjury, and for compelling the attendance of witnesses.  19. An act for preventing and punishing champerty and maintenance.  20. An act for the prevention and punishment of extortion.  21. An act for preventing and punishing forgery and counterfeiting.  22. An act making it felony in such who shall levy any fine, suffer any recovery, or acknowledge any deed, recognizance, bail, or judgment in the name of another, not being privy and consenting thereto.  23. An act to prevent stealing and avoiding records.  24. An act declaring it to be felony in servants to embezzle their master's goods.  25. An act to restrain all persons from marrying until their former wives and former husbands be dead.  26. An act to prevent malicious maiming and wounding.  27. An act concerning prisoners breaking prison.  28. An act to repeal an act, entitled, "an act to prevent the destruction of fish in the county of Suffolk."  29. An act requiring all persons holding offices or places under the government of this state, to take the oath therein mentioned.  30. An act to repeal an act, entitled, "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors."  31. An act to take out of circulation the bills of credit emitted by law, and to emit others as a substitute.  32. An act to prevent excessive and deceitful gaming.  33. An act for giving relief on promissory notes.  34. An act for preventing any inconveniences that may happen by privilege.  35. An act for punishing treasons and felonies, and for the better regulating the proceedings in cases of felony.  36. An act concerning distresses, and for the better security and more easy recovery of rents and renewal of leases, and to prevent frauds by tenants.  37. An act concerning amendments and jea-fails.  38. An act concerning courts of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery.  39. An act to continue the acts for the appointment of an auditor, and the settlement of the public accounts of this state.  40. An act in the form of the act recommended by the resolution of the United States in Congress assembled, of the twenty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, to be passed by the several states, relative to the treaty of peace between the United States and the king of Great-Britain.  41. An act concerning slaves.  42. An act for suppressing immorality.  43. An act for directing the manner of proving deeds and conveyances to be recorded.  44. An act to prevent frauds by mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates.  45. An act for the limitation of criminal prosecutions, and of actions and suits at law.  46. An act for the amendment of the law, and the better advancement of justice.  47. An act for appointing commissioners to hold treaties with the Indians within this state.  48. An act to lay a duty of excise on strong liquors, and for the better regulating of inns and taverns.  49. An act to regulate the repacking of beef and pork for exportation. 
 50. An act to regulate the culling of slaves and heading.  51. An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "an act to prevent the exportation of unmerchantable flour, and the false tareing of bread and flour casks."  52. An act to regulate the exportation of flaxseed and lumber.  53. An act to regulate the exportation of butter and hogs lard.  54. An act granting a bounty on hemp to be raised within this state.  55. An act supplementary to, and to amend an act, entitled, "an act to vest the estate of Richard Maitland, deceased, in trustees, for the payment of his debts."  56. An act to empower justices of the peace residing in that part of the township of Schenectady therein mentioned, to establish and regulate a night watch, and for other purposes therein mentioned.  57. An act for the relief of Benjamin Micheau, late treasurer of the county of Richmond.  58. An act for dividing this state into counties.  59. An act for dividing the counties of this state into towns.  60. An act for defraying the public and necessary charge in the respective counties of this state.  61. An act for the better settlement and relief of the poor.  62. An act for the relief of William Chase.  63. An act making such alterations in the act for incorporating religious societies, as to render the same more convenient to the reformed protestant Dutch congregations.  64. An act authorising the corporation of the city of New-York, to remove the statue therein mentioned.  65. An act to raise a further sum of money to finish the court house and gaol in Westchester county, and for other purposes therein mentioned.  66. An act to enable the mayor, aldermen, and commonality of the city of Albany in common council convened, to order the raising monies by tax, for the purposes therein mentioned.  67. An act for building a gaol and repairing the court-house in the city and county of Albany.  68. An act for the more effectual collection of taxes in the city and county of New-York.  69. An act to enable the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of the city of New-York, to order the raising monies, by tax, for the maintenance of the poor, and for defraying the other contingent expenses arising in the city and county of New-York.  70. An act to enable the corporation of Trinity church to assume the name therein mentioned.  71. An act to repeal the acts therein mentioned.  72. An act supplementary to and for the amendment of the act, entitled, "an act imposing duty on goods and merchandise imported into this state, and to relieve persons who have been aggrieved thereby."  73. An act to prevent firing the woods.  74. An act for raising a further sum of money for completing the court-house and gaol in the county of Columbia.  75. An act to enable David Richard Floyd to add the name of Jones to his surname.  76. An act to punish infractions of that article of the constitution of this state, prohibiting purchases of lands from the Indians, without the authority and consent of the legislature; and more effectually to provide against intrusions on the unappropriated lands of this state.  77. An act to prevent the destruction of deer.  78. An act for the better extinguishing fires in the city of Albany.  79. An act for the better extinguishing fires in the town of Brooklyn, in King's county.  80. An act for the payment of monies still due for completing the court-house and gaol in the county of Dutchess.  81. An act for the relief of Francis Upton.  82. An act for the more effectual collection of the arrears of taxes heretofore made receivable in public securities.  83. An act to prevent the storing of gun powder within certain parts of the city of New-York.  84. An act vesting the estate of Sarah Anne Delaplaine in the trustees therein mentioned.  85. An act to prolong the collection of taxes therein mentioned.  86. An act to extend the powers of the commissioners of the land office to the cases therein mentioned, and for other purposes. Objected to, and passed notwithstanding.  87. An act for raising monies by tax.  88. An act relative to the forfeited estates.  89. An act to prevent breaking and defacing mile-stones and public monuments.  90. An act to naturalize the persons therein named.  91. An act for the payment of the salaries of the officers of government, and other contingent charges.  92. An act for giving relief in cases of insolvency.  93. An act to empower the commissioners of forfeitures for the western district of this state to convey the lands therein mentioned to the present possessors.  94. An act for the relief of the creditors of William Van Derlacht and for other purposes therein mentioned.  95. An act for directing the settlement of the public accounts, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 
American Occurrences.
BOSTON, March 13. The following petition of DANIEL SHAYS and ELI PARSONS, was on Monday last, read and committed in the House of Representatives. To the honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled: May it please your Honors, YOUR Petitioners, penetrated by the melancholy sense of their late errors, and anxious once more to return to the bosom of their country, and enjoy again the blessings of peace, under the mild operation of the laws—humbly beg leave to supplicate the mercy of the Legislature in their favour. If the most unfeigned penitence, confirmed by an experience of the misfortunes to which they have been personally exposed, in the course of their unhappy opposition to government, may be allow-

ed to operate, they certainly have this to plead in expiation of their past conduct.
Your petitioners do not mean to multiply assurances, but they beg leave boldly to refer to their future behaviour, as the best evidence of their sincerity; and they firmly trust, that no person will hereafter exceed them, in the practice of such virtues, as are characteristic of the best citizens.
They have indeed been deluded, but they beg the hon. Court to believe that their hearts are still warmed with every sentiment of respect, reverence and attachment to the rights and liberties of the people, and to the laws and constitution of the government.
Your petitioners, may it please your honors, do not presume to offer any thing in their justification, fully sensible, as they now are (though they may with to extenuate) that no arguments can be adduced to excuse their conduct; they feel, they feel, and they freely acknowledge, they have long felt the effects of their own temerity. They have unfortunately adopted a mode of procedure, which they are fully sensible, cannot be justified: they will never cease to remember with regret, their not having trusted for relief to the wisdom and integrity of the ruling power.
But when they thus freely acknowledge their errors, they pray the hon. Legislature to believe, that these have proceeded from a misapprehension of facts—from a failure of judgment, and from a too precipitate resentment; but by no means from an abandoned principle. They have been obliged to seek an asylum, far from their friends and connections, in a state of exile from their country. — Yet whatever may have been suggested to the contrary, they have never combined with the concealed enemies of America, if such there be, to subvert its liberty, and to destroy its independence. No! May it please your honors, however criminal they may have been in other respects, they cannot be justly reproached with this enormity.
If it be thought necessary, that an example of their sufferings should be continued, to prevent similar disorders to those they have so rashly occasioned in this Commonwealth; your petitioners would hope, that this end is already attained, as they conceive, in the estimate of their distresses, there is scarcely an inconvenience or misfortune to which they have not already been exposed: But if these circumstances do not plead in their favour, they pray the hon. Court would remember, that they have friends, wives and children, who are innocent, but who, with your petitioners, will be ever bound by new ties of gratitude and affection, to the government, by their pardon.
Your petitioners, may it please your honors, in thus asking to be restored to the rights and liberties they have lost, and to the peace and protection of the Commonwealth, are not influenced by the fear of further punishment; but in their reinstatement in the possession of such invaluable blessings, they wish to have an opportunity of proving to the world, the sincerity of their reformation; and of adding another happy instance to those which have been already so conspicuous from the clemency of this hon. Court.
DANIEL SHAYS, ELI PARSONS.
Last Saturday the legislature took into consideration the petition of the three eastern counties, praying to be set off a separate state—when the petition was committed to the hon. Messrs. Dury, Mitchell, and Varnum, of the senate; and Mr. Holmes, Mr. Bowdoin, Col. Groot, and Mr. Bishop, on the part of the house.
WORCESTER, March 17.
We are happy to hear that the people of this commonwealth appear to be united in opinion whom to choose for governor the ensuing year, and that it is his Excellency governor Hancock, our present worthy chief magistrate. We could wish they were as well united in one gentleman for lieutenant governor, but are assured several will be voted for—general Lincoln and general Warren are much talked of, and the probability at present is, that one or the other of those gentlemen will be chosen.
PHILADELPHIA, March 19.
The perfect conduct of the well born in Maryland, observes a correspondent, is something like what we might expect from them, in case their scheme of power and office-making was adopted. These lordlings are selling to one another at public sale for a long, all the mortgaged freeholds of the people who have been reduced by the distress of the times, heavy taxes, &c. One of the most wealthy of these chaps (who was a member of the federal convention) took out good writs at one time, and had them executed in the most rigorous manner. They are taking these steps, it is said, to exclude the people from the right of suffrage, as none but freeholders are entitled to vote in that state.
Carlisle, March 5.
Dear Sir—You are no stranger to the fracas which happened here on the 26th and 27th of December last, between the federalists who would rejoice and the antifederalist who would not let them rejoice, on the adoption of the new constitution. A number of oaths were sworn by the former against the latter before John Agnew Esq. This ultimately issued in a warrant from some of the justices of the supreme court for securing 20 persons who had either refused to rejoice, or suffer others to do it.—By virtue of this warrant seven persons were confined to the gaol of Carlisle. There they remained for a few days, when 150 respectable citizens, all armed, approached the gaol of the town, halted and deputed five of their number to apply for the relief of their fellow-citizens, then in the prison of the county of Cumberland. They were politely received, and the prisoners liberated, by the sheriff, with the following—I don't know what to call it; but here it is:
“Be it known, that I Charles Leeper, Esq. Sheriff of Cumberland county, do hereby discharge from their imprisonment in the gaol of this county of Cumberland, the following persons, viz. James Wallace, William Patrin, Thomas Dickson, Samuel Greer, Bartholomew White, Joseph Young, Joseph Steel.”
CHARLES LEEPER, Sheriff.
The citizens then marched off with the greatest decorum, and “offered violence to no man.”
FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE.
In consequence of the outrageous behavior of the mock-federal faction of the country of Hunt-
ingdon, in publicly tearing the petitions of the inhabitants of the county, which they had signed to the assembly, against the proposed constitution; a number of people of the town of Standing Stone collected, and conducted, upon the backs of old scabby ponies, the EFFIGIES of the principals of the junto, viz. John Cannon, Esq. member of Council and president of the court, and Benjamin Elliot, Esq. a member of convention of that county. The effigies passing near the door of the court, his honour Mr. Cannon, who was then sitting on the bench, thinking his dignity wounded, ordered the officers of the court to assist his partisans in apprehending the effigy-men, which they effected in part (as they were not numerous) and a number of persons were thrown into gaol. Immediately the county took the alarm, assembled and liberated the sons of liberty, so unjustly confined; who passed down the gaol steps, under loud huzzas and repeated acclamations of joy from a large concourse of people; who soon after retired from the town declaring their intention to duck the junto if they repeated their insults.
New-York, March 27.
ON Saturday last the Legislature adjourned, to meet at Albany the first Tuesday of January next; and
On Monday evening arrived in town from Poughkeepsie, his Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Speaker of the Assembly, and many Members of the Legislature.
Extract of a letter from a member of the Philosophical Society, and one of those who, by appointment, observed the last Transit of Venus at the Capes of Delaware, to his friend who has attempted an Essay on the improvement of navigation.
“Having considered the plan for finding the longitude, I have to remark, first, the difficulty that will necessarily occur in making persons, who have but little taste for mathematical or philosophical disquisitions, comprehend thy plan, unless brought into the most simple form—but will make it expedient to retrench it of every part but what relates to the situation of the magnetic poles, and their distance from the poles of the world, the time of their revolution, the place of the lines of no variation, with their longitude from London, or the observatory at Greenwich, as far back as the date of the earliest observation of the magnetic variation may require, whereby thy rules for computing the variation at the times that observations have been made at any place antecedent to the present time, may readily be brought to the test, for which purpose I would recommend that a formula, whereby the problem (of finding the variation, the longitude being given) may be solved, be laid down in a precise and intelligible manner, with a few examples in a neat and play way; then a table may be given of the place of the magnetic poles for some years to come, with rules for finding the longitude from the variation, the variation in the latter case being given, and the longitude required; this being performed, observations, if any from the general system laid down, should be noted with candor, and the whole modestly expressed.”
“But do not neglect to take notice of the different positions of the North and South Magnetic Poles, with respect to the poles of the earth, which will probably have some influence on thy general rules, that may require correction, which probably may be effected.”
“But by no means attempt to support any hypothesis, with respect to the Mode whereby the Magnetic Fluid acts or is influenced. It is sufficient for thy purpose to be acquainted with certain indisputable facts, viz. that there is such a cause as magnetism, which influences the needle, and gives it polarity, which is found, at different times and places, to vary, and from a long series of observations, it appears probable, that it is governed by certain immutable laws, which are reducible to a system, which may be useful to give a solution of that difficult and desirable problem of finding the longitude at sea, with less difficulty, and fewer requisites, than any other plan heretofore suggested. It was a favourite scheme of Doctor Halley, but for want of laying down the lines which the compass directed to in the several places he observed at, on a globe, in a mechanical manner, with a flexible ruler, or a thread, he failed of finding the situation of the magnetic poles, and lost the satisfaction which modern times affords, of having a simple, easy, and certain way of finding the longitude at sea, with no additional instruments to those in common use, and by rules as intelligible to the common sailor, as are those for finding the latitude.”
ARRIVALS at Philadelphia.
March 11. Sloop Friendship; Dagget, Boston; sloop F. Packet, Justice, Frederickburgh. March 12. Brig Eliza and Jane, Love, Kingston; schooner Union, Ingersol, Salem; brig Convention, Jones, London. March 13. Ship Andrew, Shewel, Havre de Grace. March 14. Brig Hope, Stone, Martinique; schooner Betsy, Holliday, Richmond; sloop Molly, Gamble, St. Croix. March 15. Sloop Speedwell, Collet, Massachusetts; schooner Trial, Vanniman, St. Thomas's; brig Betsy, Kirby, Barbadoes; sloop Nancy, Decatur, Demarara. March 17. Sloop Delaware, King, West-Indies; schooner Nancy, Quarles, Virginia. March 19. Sloop Philadelphia Packet, Albertson, New-York; sloop Harry, Vanlief, St. Thomas's; brig Loyall Ann, Mackay, Jamaica; schooner William, Davison, St. Martins; ship Francisco, Power, St. Ubes; brig Edward, Thompson, New-York, Elizabeth, Allen, Demarara; schooner Rebecca, Ryan, North-Carolina; ship Charleston, Allibone, Charleston; sloop New-York Packet, Bayley, New-York; brig Polly, Bunker, St. Martins; schooner —, Foulke, Curacoa; ship Molly, Knitt, New-York; ship Hamburg, Bray, Liverpool; ship —, Pitt, Lisbon; schooner Alexandria, Stewart, Wilmington.
B L A N K S
To be had at this Office.
Cohoes, Orange County, March 15, 1788.
MR. GREENLEAF, I LATELY published a piece in Mr. Child's paper, respecting a translation that happened at the town of Montgomery, in Ulster county, to which piece I affixed the signature of A Friend to Truth , but upon cool reflection, I have had such compunction and remorse of conscience, that I am constrained to publish the following confession, viz.
I do confess that I have frequently wronged the truth and represented matters and facts differently from their true light, and that I have a very great propensity to do so at all times. That I abused my country by endeavouring to pass for an American Colonel when in Europe, having never been more than a Lieutenant. That I still keep up the deception (at least endeavours to) by wearing honorary badges when I go abroad, which I am not entitled to, according to the modern mode of military dress. That I acted a very foolish part lately by challenging to a duel the sergeant-major mentioned in my former publication. Were I to enumerate the many (and to me now enumerable) deceptions and misrepresentations I have been guilty of, a volumn would not contain them: However I cannot forbear to mention the one that is the occasion of my penitence, which at present appears to me to be of the deepest dye, as I have greatly aggravated the matter by publishing it in such false colours in the public papers, and vilifying the characters therein mentioned. But, Mr. Punter, my compunction is in some small degree alleviated in this last and greatest deceit by having a partner in guilt, because I did not fabricate the whole of it myself, for I received part of the materials which composed the publication from a young Academist who is aspiring after military honor as well as myself, and (who bye the bye corrected my piece) upon whose information I was then willing to rely, but to my sorrow I have found the deceiver hath been deceived, and therefore am compelled to subscribe myself
* Two Appaulets. A PENITENT.
At a court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate office in the City of New-York, on the twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honourable PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Abigail Hawley, Executrix of the last will and testament of John Hawley, late of Salem, in the county of Westchester, in the late province, now state of New-York, deceased, hath by her petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said John Hawley, was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said John Hawley, as far as she had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said John Hawley, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, “An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;” and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said John Hawley, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the twenty third day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said John Hawley, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
PETER OGILVIE.
ALL Persons having any demands against Elizabeth and G. Bond, whose accounts have not yet been delivered in, agreeable to law, are hereby informed, that a second dividend of the said insolvents estate will be made on the tenth day of June next, and that all accounts, which shall not be delivered by that day will be thereafter excluded, as it will be a final settlement of all monies then in the assignees hands.
March 26th, 1788. 53. th. 6w.
TO BE SOLD, At PUBLIC AUCTION, On FRIDAY the 18th Day of April next, At XII o'Clock, at the Merchant's COFFEE HOUSE in the City of NEW-YORK,
The Mills and Farm,
AT Paramus, in Bergen county, state of New Jersey, now in the occupation of Jacob Bumper, and late the residence of Col. James Marc Prevoost. The farm contains about two hundred and ninety acres of land mostly of superior quality, of which about one hundred acres are wood. There are two orchards of well ch. f n apples, and an abundance of choice, and rare fruit of other kinds, a spacious and very convenient dwelling house, large barn and mill-house. The mills are well situated on a lively and never failing stream which runs about three quarters of a mile through the farm, affording several mill seats not to be equalled in that part of the country. The land is otherwise beautifully watered by a variety of springs, and is capable of the most elegant and fanciful as well as profitable improvement at a very small expence. The situation is also particularly advantageous for trade, being at the intersection of two great roads. The most unquestionable title will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
The Creditors of Charles
Williams, deceased, and all others interested in his estate, are requested to take notice, that the surplus of the money which may arise from this sale, after paying the purchase money due from the said Charles Williams, will be applied to the satisfaction of his other debts. New-York, March 12, 1788 47. c.d. 10d.
New-York, Elizabeth-Town, and Philadelphia New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By strict attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit the favors of the public.
The stage will leave Pauls-Hook, every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Elizabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge-town in Raway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 14wt of baggage, and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile.
One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile. No racing allowed in this line.
JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARLES BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLIN.
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof, and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen Street,
PRINCIPLES OF THE
Latin Grammar, EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners; with Notes and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics. By JAMES HARDIE, A. B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
WE, the PRESIDENT and PROFESSORS of COLUMBIA COLLEGE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, that we have examined a new publication, entitled “The principles of the Latin Grammar explained, &c. by JAMES HARDIE,” and that we find it an accurate and judicious compilation, well calculated for the instruction of youth in the rudiments of the Latin language; and such as may be useful even to those who have made considerable progress therein. We therefore recommend it to all who are intrusted with the care of education, and particularly to the teachers in the different schools of this state.
W. SAMUEL JOHNSON, President, WILLIAM COCKRAN, Professor of Lan-
guage, JOHN DANIEL GROS, Professor of (Moral Philosophy and Geography), JOHN KEMP, Professor of Mathematics and (Natural Philosophy).
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE pleasant and valuable FARM whereon the subscriber now lives, about three miles from Flushing town, on the public road leading to the plains, containing about 200 acres of cleared and wood land, and 16 acres of good salt Meadow. On said Farm is a good Dwelling House and Barn, two good Barracks, corn Crib, a Court Yard and Garden in neat pale fence, with a good bearing orchard and other improvements, is remarkably well watered, and within a few rods of a grist mill. If not sold by the 21st day of April next, it will on that day be sold at Public Vendue. The conditions may be known by applying to the subscriber on the premises.
LAMBERT MOORE. March 21, 1788. 48. c. d. t. 21. 27
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law. All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction. MELANCTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER.
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 FACILITIES—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.
W A N T E D.
FOR the use of the Alms-House of New York, 300 cords of OAK WOOD. Any person wishing to contract to supply the same, is requested to send his proposals to the subscribers, by the 25th of April next.
JACOB SEAMAN, ELIJAH COCK.
New-York, March 21, 1788. th. 4w.
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.

POET'S CORNER.
The LADY'S RESOLVE: Written extempore on a Window. WHILST thirst of praise, and vain desire of fame, In every age, is every woman's aim; With courtship pleas'd of lilly toasters proud Food of a train, and happy in a crowd; On each poor fool bestowing some kind glance, Each conquest owing to some loose advance; While vain coquets affect to be pursu'd, And think they're virtuous, if not grossly lewd; Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide; In part she is to blame that has been try'd. He comes too near that comes to be deny'd.
A New England ANECDOTE. A GENTLEMAN in the state of Connecticut, regularly attended public worship on the Lord's day with all his family: on the sabbath evening he always catechised his children and servants on the principles of religion, and what they heard the minister deliver from the pulpit. He had a negro man who never could remember a note of the sermon, though otherwise smart. At last his master peremptorily told him, he would on Monday morning, tie him up and flog him. Next sabbath evening, when interrogated, he had forgotten all: on Monday morning his master executes his threat so far, as to tie him up. The fellow then cried out, O master spare me, for I remember something the minister said. What is it, said the master. The fellow replied, "This much may suffice at this time." His master was so pleased with his wit that he forgave him.
Assize of BREAD. As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weight Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence. HIGH WATER. This Day, March 27. 1h. 14m. Morn.
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT and SHOE MAKER, LEATHER CUTTER, AND CURRIER, 'Queen-street, No. 179, corner of Beckman or Chapel street,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he carries on the above branches in an extensive manner. He makes and sells the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.
 Gentlemen's best boots with the best English legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 18  Gentlemen's best boots turned down tops, best English legs and bend-foles, 2 10 0  Gentlemen's best boots with the best York legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 8 0  Ditto best-plain, ditto, York legs and bend-foles, 2 4 0  Ditto ditto, with York legs and foles, 2 0 0  Best water boots with bend foles, 2 0 0  Gentlemen's best calf-skin shoes with bound tops, 0 11 0  Mens strong shoes from 8/ to 0 9 0  Ladies best silk shoes, 1 0 0  Ditto ditto, stuff ditto fatineis or calimanco, 0 10 0  Ditto ditto, leather lined and bound, 0 9 0  Ditto do. do. common, 0 8 0  Boys, Girles, and childrens shoes of all kind. 
As also, all kinds of leather whether for shoe makers, saddlers, or harness makers use.—English boot-legs, bend-foles as usual.
He wishes to inform the public, that as he is determined to sell on the most reasonable terms, no credit on any account will be given, except to those of his former customers.
And likewise, that no shoes will sent to any one for trial except they be very well known, as he has already suffered too much loss on that account. Country store keepers, and others, will find it to their advantage to deal at the above store, as they can be supplied with upper leathers, foles, half foles, &c. by the dozen, on the most reasonable terms.
Black-balls of an excellent quality for cleaning boots or shoes, wholesale and retail. N. B. Rough leather taken in and curried on the most reasonable terms. 24—e.d.
S H R U B, Of the very best Quality, by the Hogthead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
A YOUNG married woman with a good breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to nurse.—Enquire at No. 30 Little George-street. 29 e.d. 10
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received) THE American Museum,
FOR FEBRUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Rural Concerns.
MEMOIR on the distillation of perismons, by Mr. Isaac Bartram. Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp: communicated in the American philosophical society, by Edmund Attili. Laws of Pennsylvania society for promoting agriculture, Premiums proposed by said society.
Moral essays. On contentment, On confidence, On the importance of a good character considered only with respect to interest, On the folly of being anxiously curious to enquire what is said of us in our absence, On the pleasures of reflection.
Characters. Character of an old maid, —of a pedantic school-master
Humour. Consolation for the old bachelor, Lecture upon eyes, Lecture upon noses, Instructions for fine ladies, Instructions for fine gentlemen, Speech of a flanding member, by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq.
Natural History. Description of the white mountains of New-Hampshire, Description of the grotto at Swatara, by the rev. Peter Miller.
Miscellanies. Letter concerning chimnies; containing some directions to prevent them from smoking, by Dr. Rushton. Petition of the people called Quakers, of New-England, Ethelgar, a Saxon poem, Account of the order of procession in Boston, solemnization of the ratification of the new constitution, Report of the managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures, Directions on this reading of history.
Politics. Oration on the anniversary of American independence. By the hon. chancellor Livingston, Letter from the hon. Robert Yates, and John Lansing, Esqrs. to his excellency Gov. Clinton, stating their reasons for not subscribing to the new constitution. Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the state of Massachusetts, Form of do. by Georgia, A view of the principles, operation, and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania.
Natural Philosophy. Conjectures concerning wind and water-spouts, tornados, and hurricanes, by Dr. John Perkins of Boston, Observations on the growth of trees downwards.
Poetry. The sea-faring bachelor, by Mr. Philip Freneau, The seasons moralized, by do. The Brandywine, The grey mare the better horse, Evil company, The dying Indian, by Mr. Philip Freneau, Answer to a riddle, To a man of lively, but unequal spirits in conversation.
The printer returns his most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of New-York, for the liberal encouragement and patronage with which they have honored this publication. Every exertion shall be made to merit a continuance of their favor.
** The delay of the present number, has been wholly occasioned by the negligence of the stage driver at Newark.
FOR SALE, At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn, No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET, the following GOODS, Which will be SOLD at the most reduced Prices, to wit.
 A VARIETY of Cotton Checks, Mantuas and other Spotted and plain Velvets, Gown Silks, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Sarcenets, Linens, Peelongs, and Sheetings, and Modes, Sheetings, and Chintzes, Oznabrigs, Printed Linens, and Marceilles Quilting, Cottons, Fancy Jacket Patterns, Fancy Shawls and A variety of Plumes and Handkerchiefs, and Ribbands, Jeans, Fancy Shoe Bucs 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 Pennsylvania PAPER MONEY.
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 Donnann and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel M'Corrick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREAS Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mariners 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 island 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 there about, they discovered, and went to a vessel 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 Bourke, and John Donnann, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 183, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, 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 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 broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers printed 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 Donnann, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nelbitt, 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'Corrick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf 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 salvage: 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, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arising by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William 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 deserted vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said deserted vessel was a stout vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-irons 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 merchandise, 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 monition 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
AT THE TANNERY, Near the Fresh-Water Pond,
MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufactory, and procure them a run of custom for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price.
Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD. N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 e.d.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, 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.
Just Published, For February, 1788.
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE, Price TWO SHILLINGS.
CONTENTS.
 A Bridgement of the Education—Mode of it laws of nature in examined, French and English, The contrast, 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, Anecdote, describing the remains of fortification 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, Law questions.  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, Dr. Mitchell's account of the insect which destroys the wheat, Letter from Juvenis, Narrative of the escape of the Countess Valois de la Motte from the Bastille, A Hibernian's request. 
P O E T R Y.
 The decline of wit, On the recovery of an only child from the young gentleman who had failed for England sometime since, Small pox, Lines written by a youth on the death of Mr. Marriages, S— of Sharon, Death, 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 Bolton.—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. 
The NEW LINE of STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniences arise both to the respectable public and themselves from inattention to business; in future they are determined to use every endeavor to serve the public, and with encouragement only in proportion to their exertions and attention to their business.
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M. B. Papers, Letters, &c. to be sent to Christopher Beckman's, Cortlandt Street, where the Stage Office is kept. 29 e.d February 19, 1788.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—e.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANTS' ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—e.d.
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