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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 6, of VOL. XLII.]
MONDAY, January 7, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2184.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct; therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and, that their papers, will of consequence be delivered—or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated.—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUESTION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF. New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half; after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied and interlocking, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History.  N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done, if one well-informed gentleman, in each town, would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentleman might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance. JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant. Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ to me directed, issued out of the court of chancery of this state, I shall expose to sale, at Public Vendue, on the twenty-first day of January next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, on the premises, all that certain Dwelling-House, Mezzanine, and Lot of Ground thereunto belonging, situated, lying and being in the city of New-York aforesaid, in Montgomery-Ward of the said city, on the north west side of Queen-street, bounded on the north east by the house and ground then or late of Charity De la Montagne, on the south west by the house and ground late of John Varrick, deceased, and on the north west by the piece of ground formerly part of the said lot, but late belonging to John Aspinwall and John Lawrence, and by them laid out for and agreed to be a public street for ever, and on the south east to Queen-street aforesaid, containing, in breadth, in front to Queen-street aforesaid, thirty feet, and in breadth in the rear about twenty-three feet and an half, and in length, on each side from Queen-street to extend one hundred and seventy-one feet, together with all and singular the appurtenances. Given under my hand, this sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. 60 m. 6w. M. WILLET, Sheriff.
By virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued out of the court of chancery, will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Coffee-house, on Monday the tenth day of February next at twelve o'clock, all that DWELLING-HOUSE, and LOT OF GROUND, situated, lying, and being, in the south ward of the city of New-York, fronting north to a certain street, called White-Hall-street, and bounded north by said White-Hall-street, on the west by a lot of ground belonging to Edward Nichols, on the south, in the rear, by a lot of land belonging to James Brown, on the east by a lot belonging to Anthony Hunter, containing in breadth in front, and rear thirty feet, and in length, on each side sixty feet, to satisfy a certain mortgage made by Israel Phillips, of the city of New-York, merchant, to Joseph Nathan of the said city, merchant. M. WILLET, Sheriff. New-York, Dec. 29, 1787, 78 m. 6w. 5
THE UNITED STATES
In CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787. RESOLVED , That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, cloathiers, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.
PRIZE-MONEY
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire, NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were old in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim. Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Office of accounts, Marine department.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Bryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assignee of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Bryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Bryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, 42 m.w.f. gm. Assignee. New-York, November 15, 1787.
Just imported in the Jean, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell,
No. 44, Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large Assortment of BOOKS,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruffian; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED , CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns, voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDALIAR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different case. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit. and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY, in particular, pocket-books, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he sells at, will insure a further continuance of their favors The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scotch
MAGAZINES.
MR. HARDIE,
TEACHER OF LANGUAGES, RETURNS his most grateful acknowledgment to his good friends, for their generous patronage, since he opened a public school.
At their request he wished to introduce the practice of hearing his Latin Scholars occasionally read lessons in English; but finding it difficult to attend to a variety of branches at the same time, and wishing to do all in his power to promote the progress of the young gentlemen committed to his care, he has taken, as an assistant, Mr. Martin, a gentleman educated at the university of Glasgow, who, together with himself, will industriously instruct their Scholars in the following branches, viz. Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Navigation, and the Greek, Latin, and English Languages grammatically.—Particular attention will be also paid to train up the young gentlemen to a just and graceful mode of elocution; and some time will be daily spent in teaching orthography.—Apply to the school, next door to the Methodist Church in John-street.
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,   Sarcenets, A variety of Gloves and   Peelongs, and Fans,   Modos, Linens,   Chintzes, Sheerings, and   Printed Linens, and Oznaburgs,   Cottons, Marseilles Quilting,   Fancy Shawls and Fancy Jacket Patterns,   Handkerchiefs, A variety of Plumes   Jeans, and Ribbands,   Jeannets, and Fancy Shoe Buckles 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.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, Is now opened at the corner of Cortlandt and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River — where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable. New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. G. M.

MISCELLANY.
CENTINEL, No. VII.
From the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL (Printed at Philadelphia.) FRIENDS, and FELLOW CITIZENS.
THE admiring world lately beheld the son of liberty risen to me idian splendor in this western hemisphere, whose cheering rays began to dispel the glooms of even transatlantic despotism; the patriot's mind, enraptured with the glowing scene, fondly anticipated an universal and eternal day to the orb of freedom; but the horizon is already darkened, and the glooms of slavery threaten to fix their empire. How unsearchable are the blessings of this life! Scarcely have four years elapsed since these United States, rescued from the domination of foreign despotism by the unexampled heroism and perseverance of its citizens, at such great expence of blood and treasure, when they are about to fall a prey to the machinations of a profligate junta at home, who, seizing the favourable moment, when the temporary and extraordinary difficulties of the people have thrown them off their guard, and lulled that jealousy of power so essential to the preservation of freedom, have been too successful in the sacrilegious attempt; however, I am confident that this formidable conspiracy will end in the confusion and infamy of its authors; that, if necessary, the avenging sword of an abused people will humble these aspiring despots to the dust, and that their fate, like that of Charles the First of England, will deter such attempts in future, and prove the confirmation of the liberties of America until time shall be no more.
One would imagine, by the insolent conduct of those harpies of power, they had already triumphed over the liberties of the people; that the chains were rivetted, and tyranny established. They tell us all further opposition will be in vain, as this state has passed the Rubicon. Do they imagine the freemen of Pennsylvania will be thus trampled out of their liberties; that they will submit without a struggle? They must indeed be inebriated with the lust of dominion, to indulge such chimerical ideas. Will the act of one sixth of the people, and this too, founded on deception and surprise, bind the community. Is it thus that the altar of liberty, so recently crimsoned with the blood of our worthies, is to be prostrated, and despotism reared on its ruins? Certainly not. The solemn mummery that has been acting in the name of the people of Pennsylvania will be treated with the deserved contempt; it has served indeed to expose the principles of the men concerned, and to draw a line of discrimination between the real and affected patriots.
Impressed with an high opinion of the understanding and spirit of my fellow citizens, I have in no stage of this business entertained a doubt of its eventual defeat; the momentary delusion, arising from an unreserved confidence placed in some of the characters whose names sanctioned this scheme of power, did not discourage me: I foresaw that this blind admiration would discover its native deformity.
Already the enlightened pen of patriotism, aided by an able public discussion, has dispelled the mist of deception, and the great body of the people are awakened to a due sense of the danger, and are determined to assert their liberty, if necessary, by the sword; but this means need not be resorted to, for who are their enemies? A junta, composed
of the lo dly and high minded gentry, of the profligate and the needy office hunters; of men, principally, who, in the late war, skulked from the common danger. Would such characters dare to face the majesty of a free people? No—All the conflict would be between the offended justice and generosity of the people, whether these sacrilegious invaders of their dearest rights should suffer the merited punishment, or escape with an infamous contempt.
However, as additional powers are necessary to Congress, the people will no doubt see the expediency of calling a convention for this purpose as soon as may be, by applying to their representatives in assembly, at their next session, to appoint a suitable day for the election of such convention.
CENTINEL.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27, 1787.
CENTINEL, No. VIII.
To the PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens,
UNDER the benign influence of liberty, this country, so recently a rugged wilderness, and the abode of savages and wild beasts, has attained to a degree of improvement and greatness, in less than two ages, of which history furnishes no parallel; it is here that human nature may be viewed in all its glory, man assumes the station designed him by the creation, a happy equality and independency pervades the community; it is here the human mind, untrammelled by the restraints of arbitrary power, expands every faculty: as the field to fame and riches is open to all, it stimulates universal exertion, and exhibits a lively picture of emulation, industry and happiness. The unfortunate and oppressed of all nations fly to this grand asylum, where liberty is ever protected and industry crowned with success.
But as it is by comparison only, that men estimate the value of any good, they are not sensible of the worth of these blessings they enjoy until they are deprived of them; hence, from ignorance of the horrors of slavery, nations that have been in possession of that rarest of blessings, liberty, have so easily parted with it:—when groaning under the yoke of tyranny, what perils would they not encounter, what consideration would they not give to regain the inestimable jewel they had lost; but the jealousy of despotism guards every avenue to freedom, and confirms its empire at the expence of the devoted people, whose property is made instrumental to their misery; for the rapacious hand of power seizes upon every thing, despair presently succeeds, and every noble faculty of the mind being depressed, and all motive to industry and exertion being removed, the people are adapted to the nature of the government, and drag out a listless existence.
If ever America should be enslaved it will be from this cause, that they are not sensible of their peculiar felicity, that they are not aware of the value of the heavenly boon committed to their care and protection; and if the present conspiracy fails, as I have no doubt will be the case, it will be the triumph of reason and philosophy, as these United States have never felt the iron hand of power, or experienced the wretchedness of slavery.
The conspirators against our liberties have presumed too much on the maxim, That nations do not take the alarm, until they feel oppression. The enlightened citizens of America have, on two memorable occasions, convinced the tyrants of Europe, that they are endowed with the faculty of foresight, that they will sedulously guard against the first introduction of tyranny, however speciously glossed over, or whatever appearance it may assume: it was not the mere amount of the duty on stamps, or tea, that America opposed; they were considered as signals of approaching despotism, as precedents whereon the superstructure of arbitrary sway was to be reared.
Notwithstanding such illustrious evidence of the good sense and spirit of the people of these United States, and contrary to all former experience of mankind, which demonstrates, that it is only by gradual and imperceptible degrees that nations have hitherto been enslaved, except in case of conquest by the sword; the authors of the present conspiracy are attempting to seize upon absolute power at one grasp; impatient of dominion, they have adopted a decisive line of conduct, which if successful would obliterate every trace of liberty. I congratulate my fellow-citizens, that the insatiable confidence of their enemies has so blinded their ambition, that their de-
feat must be certain and easy; if imitating the refined policy of successful despots, they had attacked the citadel of liberty by sap, and gradually undermined its outworks, they would have stood a fairer chance of effecting their design; but in this enlightened age thus rashly to attempt to carry the fortresses by storm is folly indeed. They have even exposed some of their batteries prematurely, and thereby unfolded every latent view; for the unlimited power of taxation would alone have been amply sufficient for every purpose; by a proper application of this, the will and pleasure of the rulers would of course have become the supreme law of the land; therefore there was no use in portraying the ultimate object, by superadding the form to the reality of supremacy in the following clauses, viz. that which empowers the new Congress to make all laws that may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution any of their powers by virtue of which every possible law will be constitutional, as they are to be the sole judges of the propriety of such laws; that which ordains that their acts shall be the supreme law of the land, any thing in the laws or constitution of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; that which gives Congress the absolute control over the time and mode of its appointment and election, whereby, independent of any other means, they may establish hereditary despotism; that which authorizes them to keep on foot at all times a standing army; and that which subjects the militia to absolute command. And to accelerate the subjugation of the people, trial by jury in civil cases, and the liberty of the press, are abolished.
So flagrant, so audacious a conspiracy against the liberties of a free people is without precedent; mankind, in the darkest ages, have never been so insulted—even then tyrants found it necessary to pay some respect to the habits and feelings of the people; and nothing but the name of a Washington could have occasioned a moment's hesitation about the nature of the new plan, or saved its authors from the execration and vengeance of the people, which eventually will prove an aggravation of their treason, for America will resent the imposition practised upon the unsuspicious zeal of her illustrious deliverer, and vindicate her character from the aspersions of these enemies of her happiness and fame.
The advocates of this plan have artfully attempted to veil over the true nature and principles of it with the names of those respectable characters that by consummate cunning and address they have prevailed upon to sign it; and what ought to convince the people of the deception and excite their apprehensions, is, that with every advantage which education, the science of government, and of law, the knowledge of history, and superior talents and endowments furnish the authors and advocates of this plan, they have, from its publication, exerted all their power and influence to prevent all discussion of the subject, and when this could not be prevented, they have constantly avoided the ground of argument, and recurred to, declamation, sophistry, and personal abuse, but principally relied upon the magic of names. Would this have been their conduct, if their cause had been a good one? No, they would have invited investigation, and convinced the understandings of the people.
But such policy indicates great ignorance of the good sense and spirit of the people; for if the sanction of every convention throughout the union was obtained by the means these men are practising, yet their triumph would be momentary, the favorite object would still elude their grasp, for a government founded on fraud and deception could not be maintained without an army sufficiently powerful to compel submission, which the well-born of America could not speedily accomplish. However, the complexion of several of the more considerable states does not promise even this point of success. The Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, and New-Hampshire, have, by their wisdom in taking a longer time to deliberate, in all probability saved themselves from the disgrace of becoming the dupes of this gilded bait, as experience will evince that it need only be properly examined to be execrated and repulsed.
The merchant, immersed in schemes of wealth, seldom extends his view beyond the immediate object of gain; he blindly pursues his seeming interest, and sees not the latent mischief; therefore it is, that he is the last to take the alarm when public liberty is threatened. This may account for the infatuation of some of our merchants, who, elated with the imaginary prospect of an improved commerce under the new government, overlook all danger: they do not consider that commerce is the handmaid of liberty, a plant of free
growth that withers under the hand of despotism, that every concern of individuals will be sacrificed to the gratification of the men in power, who will institute injurious monopolies and shackle commerce with every device of avarice; and that property of every species will be held at the will and pleasure of rulers.
If the nature of the case did not give birth to these well founded apprehensions, the principles and characters of the authors and advocates of the measure ought. View the monopolising spirit of the principal of them. See him converting a Bank instituted for the common benefit to his own and creatures emolument, and by the aid thereof controuling the credit of the state, and dictating the measures of government.—View the vassalage of our merchants, the thralldom of the city of Philadelphia, and the extinction of that spirit of independency in most of its citizens so essential to freedom. View this Colossus attempting the grasp to commerce of America and meeting with a sudden repulse; in the midst of his immense career, receiving a shock that threatens his very existence. View the desperate fortunes of many of his co-adjutors and dependants, particularly the bankrupt situation of the principal instrument under the great man in promoting the new government, whose superlative arrogance, ambition, and rapacity, would need the spoils of thousands to gratify. View his towering aspect, he would have no bounds of compassion for the oppressed, he would overlook all their sufferings. Recollect the strenuous and unremitted exertions of these men for years past to destroy our admirable constitution, whose object is, to secure equal liberty and advantages to all, and the great obstacle in the way of their ambitious schemes, and then answer, Whether these apprehensions are chimerical; whether such characters will be less ambitious, less avaricious, more moderate, when the privileges, property, and every concern of the people of the United States shall be at their mercy, when they shall be in possession of absolute sway.
CENTINEL.
Phil. Dec. 29 1787.
From the CHRONICLE of FREEDOM.
Mr. OSWALD, Please to insert the following in your paper, and oblige A Constant Reader. From the NEW-HAVEN GAZETTE, of Dec. 13, 1787.
ADVERTISEMENT. BROKE into the state of Connecticut on the evening of the 12th ult. a large overgrown creature, marked and branded CENTINEL. She appears to be of Pennsylvania extraction, and was lately in the keeping of J L, Esq. of New-York, from whence she escaped to this state—She is well pampered for market, and at first was thought to be of great value, but upon more minute examination she is found to be a deception—Cock's head and tail at first sight, but is soon discovered to be lame in her fore feet. Nine hundred pounds (her late master's salary under the present constitution) written in small letters on her left hip, the hip which eminent farmers conjecture will soon be put out of joint. She has a large blaze in her forehead, in which is written in capitals, FRIENDS, COUNTRYMEN and FELLOW CITIZENS. She was considerably galled and fretted before she left Pennsylvania, by the lash of Mr. Wilson, which caused her to quit the place of her nativity. She is well enough spread for the people of this state, and they do not with her to be spread any more, and therefore, if her original proprietor, or her late protector, will take her away and pay charges, no questions will be asked; if not before the first Thursday in January next, she will be re-shipped for New-York to pay duties, as we are determined not to winter her.
[The advocates of the new system of government must be very much exhausted in point of argument indeed, when they have recourse to such wretched abuse as is contained in the above advertisement. Unfortunately for this horrid scribbler, the gentleman, at whom he has levelled his scurrility and low ribaldry, is held in the highest estimation by his fellow-citizens for his honor, integrity and unshaken attachment to the cause of liberty—And the name of the patriotic LAMB of New-York, "will be sweet in the mouths" of a grateful and applauding country—when those of his infamous political adversaries,—the upstarts and mushrooms of an hour,—the totes and major tiffanies—the time-serving tools, the Phocians and Publifex of our day,—"will stink in the very nostrils of posterity."]
From the BOSTON GAZETTE.
Messrs. PRINTERS, Please to insert the following and you will oblige a customer.
AFTER the proposed federal constitution takes place, suppose you or some other patriotic printer, should publish a piece, in which some proceedings of the continental legislature were freely commented upon; and the attorney-general should be ordered to prosecute the printer for a libel; in that case, I take it, as the United States are a party, the continental court will have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, of course in that court the printer would be tried, and condemned without a jury, and by the judges appointed by one of the parties, viz. the United States; I desire some candid friend to the constitution would inform me whether this would not be the case?

Again, suppose the continental legislature should pass an act appointing in every state a person, whose duty it should be to examine all pieces, previous to their being published in the news papers, and directing that no printer, on penalty of £500, should publish any pieces, unless they had been previously approved by said licensor; I say in case such an act should be passed, would it not be the supreme law of the land; any thing in the constitution, or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding? Some friends to the new constitution would oblige me, and several others, by giving a candid answer to these enquiries. C. O.
American Occurrences.
E X E T E R, December 15.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Congress to his friend in this town, dated 27th November, 1787. THE account you saw in the news papers respecting the sale of western lands must have been erroneous. There were about one hundred and twenty thousand acres of the first surveys that went off at the average price of about one dollar per acre; and what has been contracted for at two thirds of a dollar per acre, will amount to near seven million dollars, to be paid at different periods. There are still great tracts of land belonging to the United States in the western country; but how long the rage for purchasing will continue, or what proportion of the domestic debt will be absorbed in this way, is very uncertain. The states have a right to look to North Carolina and Virginia, for large concessions of territory, and should they comply, there will be land enough, if they can find purchasers, to sink the whole. But as this depends on the nature of our government and various circumstances, it is difficult to foresee what will take place.
B O S T O N, December 28.
By the brig Hope, Capt. Page, arrived at Cape-Cod, in 48 days from the Orient, in France, we have received advices which enable us to assure our readers, that all differences between the courts of France and England are happily accommodated. Thus those two rival powers, contrary to the expectations of many on this side the Atlantic, have consented, jointly, to sacrifice their differences on the altar of reconciliation. We have, however, to sympathize with the God of LIBERTY, for the loss of a once favorite branch from the towering plant of FREEDOM, lopped off by the blasting hand of a Prussian despot. But it is our earnest prayer,
That tyranny's dark cloud may soon decay; And freedom brighten in unsadening day; The extensive world with one consent combine To pay their homage at great concord's shrine.
A flaming anti-federal pamphlet, from a correspondent, is soon to make its appearance in this metropolis, and is also to be circulated throughout the state, in order to prejudice the minds of the people against the proposed plan of federal government. This pamphlet will no doubt contain the quintessence of all the fallacies, absurdities, and improbabilities with which the productions of the scribbling sons of anarchy and anti-federalism abound. Adam, it is said, is to mount the nag on which he some years since rode about the country to distribute votes for chief magistrate, and proceed southward, with a grocer or two of the aforementioned pamphlets; and a considerable quantity it is also said is to be forwarded to the quendam librarian and his brother in iniquity, whose emissaries are to proceed westward, for the purpose of distributing the poison of anti-federalism, and the hydrophobia of sedition. It is hoped that the good people of Massachusetts will deliberately consider and judge for themselves, and not pin their faith upon the opinions of men who are labouring with unwearied zeal to effect the prostration of all law and government in the dust.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Salem, to his friend in this town, Dec. 26.
The new constitution meets with general approbation in this town; almost every person of property and honesty wishes for the adoption of it. There are some few, however, whose characters as honest men and good citizens, is thoroughly established, who are rather in opposition to it. This I much wonder at; but candour obliges me to judge favourably of their motives, because they have ever been decided friends to the welfare and happiness of their country. I however hope that time will effect a change of their sentiments; and I think I have some foundation for my hopes; For truth and reason's brightened rays combin'd Will force conviction on the candid mind.
I think, my friend, that it can be demonstrated to the conception of every rational mind, that the new constitution is nobly calculated to support and defend those inestimable rights for which the citizens of America
so long toiled and bled. I need not, however, delineate its beauties to you, as you are already fully sensible of them.
There is one thing which gives me not a little pain, and it is this. The Hon. S. A. ADAMS, I hear, is in OPPOSITION to the plan of federal government. Although he may act from motives truly patriotic in this affair, you know the caprice of human nature is such, that mankind never put the most favourable construction upon the conduct of each other; and if a man does ninety-nine good actions and neglects the hundredth, he often comes under the goading lash of censure. I may perhaps be mistaken, but it is really my opinion, that M. Adams's opposition to the federal constitution will, in the eyes of America, fully the brightness of those laurels which have so long encircled the brow of that venerable statesman.
You ask me, whether I suppose that there will be much opposition made to the new constitution, in our state convention. I answer, I hope not. For before the federalism of a HANCOCK, a BOWDOIN, a DANA, a KING, and many other illustrious characters, who are members of the convention, anti-federalism must droop, and recoil in silent shame. I think we have every thing to hope, and little to fear.
HARTFORD, December 31.
We have the satisfaction of informing the public, that in consequence of a vote of the first society in this city, preparations are making for warming the meeting house with stoves! and other ways rendering it convenient for the reception of the Hon. Convention! who are to meet here this week. In case the attempts which are making should be successful, and the Hon. Convention should judge proper to deliberate in public, we have no doubt but the people will derive much useful information from a full and open discussion of the principles of the new system of government, by the very worthy and patriotic characters who will compose that respectable assembly.
New-York, January 7.
OF WAR AND PEACE.
A LETTER from a gentleman in Gottenburgh (Sweden) to a gentleman in Boston, dated Nov. 4, 1787, says: "Since, writing, every ounce of hemp in town is bought up for the English, so that no supplies of that article will be at market before next July."
"Our letters just arrived from Germany, breathe nothing but war between the King of Prussia and the Emperor, and the same between France, England and Holland."
By the brig Hope, Capt. Page, arrived at Cape-Cod, in 48 days from the Orient, in France, we have received advices which enable us to inform our readers, that all differences between the courts of France and England are happily accommodated. How far credence is to be given to the various accounts received from Europe, we cannot positively determine. One vessel brings an account that PEACE is re-established—another that WAR is unavoidable. We wait with impatience for the confirmation of one or the other of these accounts. The paragraph a few weeks since inserted, mentioning, that the British West India islands are opened to our trade, is said to be contradicted by a letter from London, dated Oct. 3, in the following paragraph, "We are assured on the part of government, that orders are sending to the governors of our islands, to use their own discretion in admitting articles from the foreign islands under present circumstances."
A correspondent, having observed the attempt of the pretentious luminous writer upon the new constitution, to explain the meaning of its several abstract parts, by MATHEMATICAL demonstration, and his endeavours to prove its right angular construction, begs leave to propose, since he has failed in this mode, that he next have recourse to CONIC SECTIONS, by which he will be enabled, with greater facility, to discover the mazy windings of his favorite system.
BY private accounts from Boston, we learn, that almost all the staunch republicans of Massachusetts, those begetters and supporters of the late revolution, who are lovers of the community at large, and defenders of their freedom and independence, consequently detesters of every tyrannical junta, and their abettors, are decidedly opposed to the proposed constitution in its present form; among these are, that father of patriots SAMUEL ADAMS, and a number of the other members of the ever memorable COMMITTEE of CORRESPONDENTS, of 1774, 5, and 6.
The day after to-morrow the convention of Massachusetts is to convene at the Reverend Mr. Thatchers meeting-house, in Boston.
We learn, that this morning were to set out for Poughkeepsie, to take their seats in the house of assembly, David Brooks, Nicholas Bayard, Julian Verplank, Nicholas Low, and Comfort Sands, Esquires; who, with Richard Varick, Richard Harrison, Daniel Neuen, and Evert Bancker, Esqs. (said to be gone on) compose the seat for the city and county of New-York, in that hon. house for the present session.
Yesterday arrived the sloop Sally, Captain Young, from Edenton; and Schooner Friendship, Smith, Baltimore. The sloop Friendship, Captain Smith, from Edenton is arrived at Sag Harbour.
NAVAL OFFICE, Port of Boston.
ENTERED.
Brig Josephina, Brav, Bayonne; brig Baltimore, Smith, Baltimore; Schooner Success, Wilson, Halifax.
CLEARED OUT.
Ship Jane, Blake, West-Indies; brig Polly, Cary, Alicante; brig Lyra, LeVicompte, Barbadoes; Schooner Fancy, Turner, N. Carolina; Schooner Betty, Brav, West-Indies; galliot, James and George, Clarke, Antigua.
The following MEMORIAL is left at the Coffee-House, and has been already signed by a number of the principal Merchants of this City. The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, Merchants of the City and State of New-York, Most respectfully represents,
THAT your Memorialists most gratefully acknowledge the peculiar attention which the Legislature has bestowed upon the Import Laws of the state, and the wise provisions which are thereby made, for the encouragement of commerce, the interest of the citizens, and the security and convenience of all concerned; and therefore with reluctance they now solicit the further interposition of your Honorable Body upon that subject, but being persuaded that the Legislature are always disposed to listen to the reasonable applications of their constituents, and to afford relief in such cases which in their wisdom appears expedient. Your Memorialists most respectfully represent, that by the 9th enacting clause of the law, entitled, "An act imposing duties on goods and merchandise imported into this state," passed the 11th of April, 1787, it is declared, "That if any master or person, having the command or charge of any vessel which shall come into this state after the first day of August next, shall land, or put on shore, or unload any part of the cargo of such vessel within this state, before report and manifest have been made and delivered as aforesaid, or upon exhibiting such manifest shall omit to mention therein any of the bales, chests, casks, trunks, cases, boxes, or other packages or goods or merchandise, on board of such ship or vessel, all such goods or merchandise so landed, put on shore, unloaded, or omitted, together with such vessel, her tackle, apparel and furniture shall be forfeited to the people of the state of New-York, providing at the same time such a remedy, where, in the opinion of a jury, no fraud was intended, as appeared most competent when the act was under consideration."
Upon this clause your Memorialists observe, that notwithstanding the liberal intentions of the Legislature, it is found by experience, that the process for relief being expensive and tedious, does not afford that protection and encouragement to the commerce of the state which your memorialists flatter themselves was the object of the law; instances have already occurred, where innocent individuals have been involved in suits with government in cases where they had no control over the master of the ship, for whose error or neglect of duty, their property is made responsible: and it may be apprehended, that such influences will frequently happen, as, notwithstanding the greatest accuracy and care of a master, it is almost impossible to receive and discharge the number of packages, of which many cargoes consist, with that precision which the law requires; and the case of strangers is attended with additional circumstances of hardship. The difficulty of obtaining such security as the law prescribes, upon a claim of property, and the time, which by the practice of courts is necessary to a decision, is almost equally fatal to them as immediate and total forfeiture. And your memorialists do also represent, that the second enacting clause of the same act declares, "that all goods and merchandise which shall be imported, or brought into this state after the said first day of August next, in any ship or vessel not built within any of the United States, shall be subject to the following additional duties, that is to say, on all the herein before enumerated articles, other than those subject to a duty ad valorem, at and after the rate of one fourth part of the duties in and by this act imposed on such articles respectively, and on all goods and merchandise subject to a duty ad valorem, the further sum of two pounds ten shillings per centum ad valorem, to be computed on the prime cost." Which clause, in the opinion of your memorialists, is wise and salutary in its general tendency to encourage the ship-building of these United States: yet they find that several of their fellow citizens are aggrieved in their property, by the act making no provision for such foreign built vessels as were at that time the bona fide property of citizens of the state, whereby innocent individuals are involved in the peculiar inconvenience and hardship of being considered as Americans abroad, and Aliens at home.
Your Memorialists therefore most respectfully request, that your honourable body will be pleased to take these subjects under consideration, and make such further regulations and provisions in the premises, as in your wisdom shall appear most proper for the encouragement of commerce and the prosperity of the state; and as in duty bound they will ever pray.
JACOBUS VAN BOTTOMLESS'S Experimental Lecture PROPOSALS, upon SURGERY, CHEMISTRY, &c. are of two personal Nature for admission into the New-York Journal, &c.
The Editor's Daily Receipts for Communications, from his numerous and very attentive Correspondents, for the six ensuing Days, are so crowded, that he shall not have it in his Power to gratify them, all nor any one of them in particular, on either side of the GREAT LAKE NEW-CONSTITUTION. He shall, however, STRIVE; some Bread and some Cheese, says the Epicure, relish best, and should a little Mustard and Vinegar, be intermixed, our Readers in general would not disapprove.
WANTED.
TWO JOURNEYMEN PRINTERS—one of whom, at least, must be a single Man, who can subject himself to the Customs of a second Table in bachelor's Hall; both must be steady Printers, willing to work at all Seasons requisite: their Pay shall be as good as the Season will admit of. The one must apply by Tuesday next, and the other within three Weeks. Enquire at this Office. January 5, 1788. 83—e.d.
FREIGHT,
WANTED,
FOR A BRIG upwards of one hundred tons measurement, with an undeniable British Register and Mediterranean pass. For either Spain, Portugal, the Streights, Western, Canary, or any of the West-India Islands. For particulars enquire at No. 74, Water-street. New-York, Dec. 31, 1787. 78 e.d.
NOTICE is hereby given, by Solomon Goodale, of the city of New-York, an insolvent debtor, and by all the petitioning creditors of the said Solomon Goodale, to all the creditors of the said Solomon Goodale, to show cause, if any they have, before John Wyley, Esquire, one of the aldermen of the city and county of New-York, and one of the judges of the court of common pleas of the city and county of New-York, commonly called the mayor's court, by Friday the eleventh day of January next, why an assignment of the estate of the said Solomon Goodale should not be made, and the said Solomon Goodale discharged, pursuant to the directions of a certain act of the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th of April, 1786. New-York, Jan. 7, 1788. 84 88 e.d.
To be LET, until May Day, And entered on immediately, ONE half of the Dwelling House, in Cherry-street, No. 7. This house is made convenient for two families. For terms enquire at said house—where may be had GENTLE BOARDING and LODGINGS, or either, for two or three gentlemen. New-York, January 7, 1788. 84—e.d.
Wants Employment,
A YOUNG Gentleman, who is versed in the FRENCH and ENGLISH LANGUAGES and MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS, in either of these branches he would be glad to engage. Having already officiated as teacher of the above languages, and been fortunate enough to give satisfaction, he would prefer that mode of living in future, either in a private family or as an assistant in some school—but if he fails in this, being perfectly acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING, he would accept of a place in a store, for a longer or shorter time, as may best suit the employer. New-York, January 3, 1788. 81—e.d.
TO BE SOLD,
On Tuesday the eighth Day of January next, at twelve o'Clock of the same Day, at the House of ISRAEL HONEYWELL, Jun. near Dobbs Ferry, the
Farm and Tract of Land, In Philipsburg, now in the Occupation of the said ISRAEL HONEYWELL;
CONTAINING two hundred acres more or less, together with the flock and household furniture of the said Israel Honeywell, consisting of a great variety of valuable articles, which will be sold by virtue of an execution, issued at the suit of Alice Archer, against the said Israel Honeywell.
JOHN THOMAS, Sheriff. Dated the 17th of Dec. 1787. 79 85 e.d.
Ten Dollars Reward.
Ran-away, from Cape Francois, A MULATTO MAN, Named JACQUES or JAMES, A CREOLE, from Martinico,
AN excellent kitchen and pastry COOK, 26 or 27 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, middling thick, his legs are much warped, much pock-marked, a very large mouth, small eyes and funk, a large forehead and long necked; he has a kind of ring-worn on one of his arms, and has a difficulty in his speech, stammering a little—He left Cape Francois in the beginning of May last, and was supposed to have taken passage for this continent. Whoever secures said Mulatto Man, and gives intelligence, will be handsomely rewarded, and all reasonable charges paid. Enquire at No. 15, Queen-Street. 73—e.d.
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 favorable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would with to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, houseline, 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. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 d.e.
I. Greenwood,
SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 499, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants and substitutes.
Artificial Teeth.
Attends abroad upon sending Direction
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Mooney, an insolvent debtor, that they show cause before John Wyley, Esq. at his office in Nassau-street, by the eleventh day of January instant, why an assignment of the estate of the said John Mooney should not be made and he discharged, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
JOHN MOONEY. Dated this 3d day of January, 1788. 80 91.
The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For December, 1787, Just Published in this City, Sold at this Office, price Two Shillings.

POET'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. MR. GREENLEAF, By inserting the following you will much oblige JUVENTUS.
ODE TO WINTER.
WHEN stormy WINTER from the frozen north, Burns on his icy chariot, issues forth, The blasted groves their verdant pride resign, And waters, hardened into chrysal, shine: Sharp blows the rigour, of the piercing winds, And the broad floods, as with a breath-plite binds: Even the proud seas, forget in tides to roll, Beneath the freezeings of the northern pole; There waves on waves in mountains rise, And alps of ice invade the wounding ikies; While gulps below, and slippery valleys lie, And with a dreadful brightness pains the eye; But if warm winds, a warmer air restore, And foter breezes bring a genial shower; The genial shower revives the cheerful plain, And the huge hills flow down into the main.
PERSIAN APOLOGUE.
Nourishvan the Just, being but Prince of Chozaran, and subject of King of Kings, loved pleasure and lived with splendor; his riches were bounteously dispensed far and near. The most excellent fingers, the most skillful musicians, came to entreat his audience made them opulent. When he at length sat upon the throne of the world, they flocked from all parts of the earth. He heard them with pleasure; but paid them with far less liberty than when he was a subject Prince. One of the musicians dared to complain. May Heaven, said he, be propitious to Nourishvan. Empire have enlarged his wealth, and contracted his mind. Ye Kings, write the answer of the Just in letters of gold; and, while ye read it every day after your morning devotions, again bend the knee adoration, for the Deity spoke by his mouth! Nourishvan said, "Formerly I gave my own money; now I give that of my people."
Affix of BREAD,
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flour to weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, January 7. 8h. 17m. Morn.
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT and SHOE MAKER, LEATHER CUTTER, AND CURRIER, Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beekman 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 an sells the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.
   £. s. d.     Gentlemen's best boots with the best English legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 12 0   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 fatinet or calimanco, 0 10 0   Ditto ditto leather lined and bound, 0 9 0   Ditto do. do. common, 0 8 0   Boys, Girls, and childrens shoes of all kinds.  
As also, all kinds of leather, whether for shoe-makers, tanners, 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 be 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-ball of excellent quality for cleaning boots or shoes, wholesale and retail.
N. B. Rough leather taken in and curried on the most reasonable terms. 24—ed. 5w.
To be SOLD, at this OFFICE, HUTCHINS's and the UNITED STATES' ALMANACK, For the Year of our Lord, 1788.
Just published by M. CAREY, 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 NOVEMBER, 1787.
CONTAINING,
Strictures on the new Federal Constitution.
OBJECTIONS to the proposed plan of federal government. By an officer of the late continental army.
 2 Answers to the preceding objections.  3 Address to the inhabitants of New-Jersey.  4 The federarist. 
Rural Concerns.
 5 Address from the Philadelphia society for promoting agriculture.  6 Chinese method of curing ginseng.  7 Tartarian ditto.  8 Instructions for the culture and use of maiz, or Indian corn, as fodder for cattle. By monf. St. John de Crevecoeur.  9 Description of a plant of great utility in the improvement of poor and exhausted lands.  10 A valuable, cheap, and easily-procured winter food for cattle.  11 On raising potatoes.  12 On cotton planting.  13 Advantages of preserving parsnips by drying. By the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.  14 Receipts for preserving turnips from insects. By Philip Schuyler, Esq.  15 On the method of rearing young cattle.  16 On bee-keeping.  17 Receipt to preserve butter perfectly sweet whole year.  18 Query addressed to the lovers of cyder.  19 Letter from Mr. Decius Wadsworth to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, relative to the Hessian fly.  20 Letter on the same subject. 
Medical Essays.
 21 On the use of mercurial preparations in the scarlatina anginoso. By Dr. William Currie.  22 Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus. By Dr. Ruff.  23 Letter from Dr. Thomas Bond to Dr. Fothergill, on the use of bark in scrofulous cases.  24 Relation of a cure performed by electricity. Communicated to the medical society in London, by Dr. Caldwellader Evens.  25 Receipts for the cure of a dysentery. 
Law information.
 26 Statement of a cause decided in the court of common pleas, Charleston, March 5, 1785.  27 Statement of an important and interesting cause decided in the court of king's bench, London, July 20, 1787.  28 Interesting decision of the court of common pleas, in Philadelphia, August 3, 1787.  29 Law report—Green and Pollard vs. Shaffer. Judgment pronounced, Oct. 7, 1787. 
Humour.
 30 On the use of butlers.  31 Suannah Tapes's complaint of the badness of the police.  32 On pronouncing dictionaries.  33 Plan for a wax-work legislature.  34 address to Gen. Burgoyne.  35 The old bachelor, No. 1. 
State and other public Papers.
 36 Letter from the Hon. Roger Sherman and the Hon. Oliver Elsworth, Esq's. to governor Huntington.  37 Letter from the Hon. Elbridge Gerry, one of the delegates from the state of Massachusetts in the late federal convention, containing his reasons for not signing the new constitution.  38 General Burgoyne's pompous proclamation.  39 Speech of governor Hancock, October 18, 1787.  40 Premiums offered by the board of managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts.  41 Resolutions of the assembly of Virginia relative to a paper currency.  42 ———— of respectable inhabitants of Berkeley county.  43 ———— of the inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia.  44 ———— of the freeholders of Frederic county, Virginia.  45 ———— of the inhabitants of Peterburgh, Virginia.  46 Memorial of the college of physicians of Philadelphia. 
Interesting Laws.
 47 Act for the receipt of tobacco in payment of taxes.  48 Act for the establishing religious freedom in Virginia.  49 Act to prevent the further importation of slaves into Virginia.  50 Act to prevent the slave trade, and to encourage the abolition of slavery in Rhode-Island. 
Resolves of Congress.
 Resolve relative to the devices and inscriptions of the federal copper coin.  —— relative to the Indian war in Georgia.  53 ——— relative to foreign consuls.  54 ——— relative to the Hon. John Adams Esq.  55 ——— relative to the chevalier John Paul Jones.  56 ——— relative to the territorial claim of N. Carolina and Georgia.  57 ——— relative to a complaint made the Dutch minister. 
Miscellanies.
 58 An oration delivered at Peterburgh, Virginia, July 4, 1787, in commemoration of American Independence. 
 59 Account of the late revolution in Sweden.  60 Obs. on the means of extinguishing a fire.  61 Address to the ladies of America.  62 On the use of tobacco and snuff.  63 Account of three volcanos in the moon By W. Herschell.  64 Observations on the numb fish, or torporific eel. By H. C. Flagg.  65 Extract of a letter from the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, to Dr. Stiles.  66 Observations on the leech worm.  67 Letter relative to the devices and inscriptions of American medals. By Col. Humphreys.  68 Extract from an act to punish blasphemers. 
Poetry.
 69 Epistle to his excellency General Washington.  70 On the death of Col. John Laurens. By Philip Freneau.  71 Prospect of South-Carolina. By the late Dr. Ladd.  72 The man of sorrow. By William More Smith, Esq. 
The subscription for the American Museum is 18s. per annum, for two volumes, of 624 pages. This Work is also SOLD by Messieurs Berry and Rogers, Mr. Hodge, and Mr. Loudon. New-York, Dec. 17, 1787. 66—e.d.
THIS DAY, Is PUBLISHED in this City, The American Magazine,
For the Month of DECEMBER.
CONTENTS.
 INTRODUCTION, On education,  Gen. Lincoln's letter on the ingrafting of trees,  Anecdote of the Duke of Gordon,  Advice to masons, and to husbands that have scolding wives, and wives that have peevish husbands,  Principles of government and commerce.  On bills of rights,  Letter to Doctor Stiles, accounting for the fortifications west of the Allegany,  Abridgment of Smith's History of Virginia,  Letter from Jemima Loveclap,  Floretta, or the Fountains,  Life of Sir William Jones, Kt.  Titus Blunt, on fashion,  Anecdote of a failor,  Letter from Philander, on marriage,  Dr. Dwight's valedictory address, &c.  Mr. Pope's letter to the Bishop of Rochester,  Letter from Guy Grumbletone,  Curiosities,  London review of Dr. Adams's defence. 
P O E T R Y.
 VERSES on the New Year,  Lydia,  The Virgin's first love,  The seasons moralized,  On a lady's striking a fly with her fan,  The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; shewing what his father said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there;  Subscriptions twenty shillings a year, ten shillings for six months advanced.  ** Subscriptions are taken by Mr. Loudon, Messrs Berry and Rogers, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. S. Campbell, Mr. T. Allen, Booksellers, and by the Printer hereof. 
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The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
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A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant.
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Garret Rapalje,
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