The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-02-29 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 50, of VOL. XLII.]
FRIDAY, February 29, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2230.]
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.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, heretofore 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 REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the
New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, a d type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
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Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History.  N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandra; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires-Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance. JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant. Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD,
At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-Street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British Army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY. THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of wheat are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be grown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeeded admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York. Jan. 17, 1788. 63 e.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market, Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book Seller, in Queen-Street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received)
American Museum,
FOR JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING,
Miscellanies.
 ORATION in commemoration of American Independence.  Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw's.  New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.  Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.  Method of making steel.  Letter on marriage, Antifederal arguments.  Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee. 
Salire,
 On musical pretenders,  Recipe for an insolvent debtor,  Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice. 
Kural Gazerus.
 Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.  Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland,  Thoughts on the culture of hemp,  Method of breaking fleers to the draft in a few days,  On the culture of silk. 
Law information,
 Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,  Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand, 
State and other Public papers.
 Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Turnbull,  Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,  Letter to governor Randolph,  Letter from do.  Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,  Address of the grand jury of Edenton,  Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county  R-port of the deputies of Northampton county,  Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston,  Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,  Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,  Answer to the preceding notice. 
Natural History.
 Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,  Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,  Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.  Some account of the opossum. 
Medical Tracts.
 Letter on the sore throat distemper,  Letter on the digitalis purpurea,  An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi. 
Select Poetry.
 A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.  Monitor's epistle, addressed to a young lady,  A riddle. 
Foreign Intelligence. American do.
TO BE SOLD For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or barters 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 Port 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. 09—e.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS. LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-Street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 22—e.d.

MISCELLANY.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
Mr. GRIFFIN is desired to give a place to the following stanzas on his Smoot's poem, printed in his papers of Saturday, Monday and Tuesday last, by AN OLD CUSTOMER.
[Concluded from Wednesday.]
Line 21, 25, 26.
"But sweets domestic shall his paths defend, &c."
—And all the arts that minister to life
Expel for ever party feuds and strife."
FLOW-baking, brewing, weaving, cloth, or manufacturing of hats, &c. &c. can put a final stop to party quarrels, if it remain with the author of the prospect to explain to his readers. In no country are the arts a minister to life more attended to than in Great-Britain, yet no where does party spirit run to a higher degree of licentiousness. The same remark will hold good of Pennsylvania, the greatest manufacturing state on the continent of America.
Line 32.
"Thy pen has consecrate in death-els lay."
His consecrate is a defective form of the verb in the preterite tense. Consecrated was the word in request; but grammar as well as sense, it seems, must again submit to metre.
Line 53.
"But here combine together, to display,"
Combine together is tautological. The poet, after this, goes on to express his satisfaction at the glorious prospects in view, such as the emancipating the negroes, expelling foxes, &c. drinks success to the new constitution: wishes it may bind us with a death-els chain, and lead us in sweet array, and then, what? why,
Line 83.
"So shall the universe applaud our fame."
A country may be applauded for its fertility, the bravery of its inhabitants, and upon many other accounts, but how our fame is to be applauded, is not easy to apprehend: for what is fame but another name for applause?
But all this is nothing in comparison to the tests we are to expect from our females, who, according to the tenor of the poem, are, in a term-times
"To charm to soften, captivate and please."
I am much mistaken if women in general have not been possessed of these prerogatives in all past ages. But the female world is also to have an exclusive privilege to paint, write poetry, and cut a share in many other notable particulars, for instance:
Line 89, &c.
To them belongs the pencil and the lyre,
The taste to fashion, and the soul to inspire,
The face to cheer, the thoughtless to restrain,
To urge the timid, and to check the vain, &c.
To guide the passions, and to conquer hearts,
To lead and elevate the soul From low pursuits, and from desires uneven
To peace, to joy, to harmony, and heaven."
Which last jobb has long been claimed as an undoubted prerogative of the clergy, but, possibly, may hereafter occasion some serious disputati n between the gown and the petticoat.
The poet afterwards address-
himself very pathetically to the people of the United States at large:
Line 99, &c.
"Oh then, neglect not music to acquire,
"So form'd to cherish the celestial fire," &c.
That is, after we have settled new states, invtd over em grants, built schools, and co ecess, expell-ed serpents, and perf rmed a thousand other great and vyerd m-tters, let us, gent emen of America, apply ourselves wholly to the ban-viol, the harp, ficher, and the German flute!" When we have once acquired MUSIC, the poet tells us for our comfort, that we cannot be much at a loss for a livelihood. According to him, it will not only be meat, drink, rthing, lodging, and cloathing to us, but also, will cherish the hope of a mghty ex-pire. In good faith, reader, from this author's account of man's, music is the best receipt for an empty stomach that you could hit upon in a long summer's day. Again,
Line 113, &c.
"Still in your cottage give to music place,
"And let it check the tear that falls the face."
That is as much as to say, after the widow, and the orphan, or the worn out soldier have been cheated by certain mercantile speculators, out of their last six pence, strike up a merry note, boys, upon the violin, and all is well again! In that case,
Line 111.
"How sweet the warblings of the tuneful line."
But if all this should be insufficient to convince falling people they are not hungry, then there is another remedy equal, at least, to a double dose of laudunum, or a decoction of asa fcedida,
Line 115, &c.
Oh, think how fleeting life, its woe not long!
Then calm their throbbings with a chearful song.
So death shall bear your patient minds away
To realms of endless bliss, of endless day!
Now, is not this a decent christian method of getting rid of these poor music fed wretches! Verily, I am of opinion the author penned this poem under the benign influence of a full belly. Possibly, too, the latter part of it may have been meant as nothing more than a poetical advertisement of the writer, who, as being a merchant, may still have upon hand an assortment of flutes, fifes and haut buys "to be sold cheap, wholesale and retail, for hard cash or short credit."
Such is the poem on the prospect of seeing the fine arts flourish in America—the best lines in it are borrowed from other authors and put off under a thin disguise; a custom that is no less common than illiberal, and which is not the least fault observable in Barlow's vision of Columbus. Neither can the prospect &c. do much honor to the good sense of the writer, who after taking a survey of the rise of arts and empire in this country, thinks proper to include his poem with seriously advising us to advance to the summit of human happiness and perfection by learning to sing psalms, or play on the violin, the Dutch flute, or the Jews harp.
Near three years have now elapsed since Mr. Morris publicly declared it to be his settled opinion, after mature deliberation on the subject, that America had not then "produced any thing worth mentioning in the line of poetry." How far the late
performance of Mr. Swanwick, one of his present partners in mercantile business, may have altered his opinion in this matter, it is possible some future speech in the Pennsylvania house of assembly may more fully discover.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Of the State of New-York.
POOCHKEESIE, February 12, 1788.
[Mr. Sylvester's Speech Continued]
IN regard to any religious denominations who may have scruples of conscience respecting that day; as to himself, he had no objections to excuse them from the penalty of the law, provided they did not interrupt the public worship of others; manifold he said, were the actions of his life, that he regretted, and would recall if possible; but he never yet had reason to repent at the observance of the Sabbath, tho' he had never kept that day as duly as he ought to have done. He had collected some sentiments from the writings of the primitive fathers, who lived in the three first centuries of the church, and other great writers, who considered this matter as well in a political as religious sense; and they, as well as his own breast, informed him that it was a profanation of the Lord's day, and a breach of the law of it, to neglect and omit the proper duty and business of that day, which is the immediate service of the worship of our God.
That the eternal God is to be solemnly and religiously adored by the children of men, and that we are bound by acts of piety and devotion, to give unto him the glory due unto his name, and pay our homage to him, none will question, who really believe that there is a God, infinitely perfect and blessed, and the fountain of all being and blessedness.
But, besides the morning and evening sacrifices, which the duty of every day requires, the wisdom of God, for the preserving and securing of divine worship in the world, hath instituted and appointed a particular time for the special solemnities of it, which is "one day in seven,"
Now, said he, this instrumental part of religion (for he would call it so) though it be not equally necessary with the essentials of it, the love of God, and faith in Christ; yet it was undoubtedly necessary, so much so, that revealed religion, and with it all religion, would in all probability, have been lost and forgotten, long e'er this, if it had not been kept up by the observation of Sabbaths.
The profanation of God's Sabbath, which he is very jealous for the honor of, is a sin that very justly brings judgments on the land. It is a sin, that kindles fires in the gates of Jerusalem. Jer. 17, 27. A sin, that brings yet more wrath upon Israel. Num. 13, 17, 18. and therefore, all that with well to the public peace, and those especially, who are entrusted with the preservation of it, and concerned in interest as well as duty, to take care of the due sanctification of the Sabbath, so that, whatever guilt of this kind, particular persons may contract, it may not become national.
It appears by the light of nature, that there must be some such days observed: If God is to be worshiped by us, solemnly, and in concert, there must be some fixed and stated times for the doing of it; the designation of which, is necessary, both to preserve the thing itself, and to put a solemnity upon it.
The Gentiles had days set apart to the honor of their Gods, which they spent accordingly, in rest, from worldly labor, and by the solemnities of their religion, looking upon those as peculiar days, distinguished from, and dignified above other days.—Doth not even nature teach men thus to own God, the Lord of time, and to constitute opportunities for the public, solemn worship of him? Now, if all people will thus walk in the name of their God, should not we walk in the like manner, in the name of the Lord our God?
By the old testament, it appears, that one day in seven should be thus religiously observed. It is plain, that a sabbath was instituted from the beginning; it was a positive institution in Paradise, as marriage was; the former, as necessary to the preserving of the church, and sacred fellowship, as the latter, to the support of families and human fellowship. When the scripture saith expressly, that God rested on the seventh day, and that he blessed and sanctified it, because he so rested. To suppose, that Sabbaths were not kept in the Patriarchal age, because no mention is made of them in the history of that age, is absurd, since we have a record of the institution of the Sabbath in the beginning, and an account of the religious observance of a Sabbath before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai.
The first word of the fourth command, "Remember the Sabbath day," plainly shews, that it was the revival of an old commandment, which had been forgotten, viz. That one day in seven should be sanctified to God: It is the solemn declaration of an ancient institution, and is of perpetual obligation, that the seventh day, not the seventh from the creation, which, in the revolution of so many ages, we cannot be infallibly certain of, but the seventh day, after six days worldly labor, is the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and is to be sanctified. And tho' God rested the seventh day from the creation; yet, in the fourth commandment, it is not said he blessed the seventh day; but he blessed the Sabbath day; or a sabbath day, in that proportion of time, and sanctified it: And this part of the blessing of Abraham's seed, comes upon the Gentiles through faith.
It is evident to all, who read the New Testament without prejudice, that the first day of the week should be observed and sanctified as a Christian Sabbath.
That a weekly sabbath is to be religiously observed in the christian church, we not only find no repeal of the fourth commandment, in the new testament, nor any reason for the repeal of it, but on the contrary, we find it expounded by our saviour, and vindicated from the corrupt glosses of the scribes and pharisees, who, as in other things, they where prophane ly loose, so in this, they were superstitiously strict. Several occasions christ took, to shew, that works of necessity and mercy, are no violation of the sabbath rest. Had the law of the fourth commandment been to expire presently, our saviour would not have been so careful to explain it, but it is plain, he designed to settle a point, which would afterwards be of use to his church, and to teach us, that our christian sabbath, tho' it is under the doctrine of the fourth commandment, yet it is not under the arbitrary injunction of the jewish Elders.
Our saviour has likewise told us, that the sabbath was made for all men, and not for the Jews only, and that he himself was Lord of the sabbath.

each day: That it should be in a special manner his day, and devoted to him. He likewise supposed the continuance of a Sabbath, to be religiously observed by his disciples, at the very time of the destruction of Jerusalem, which put a final period to all the peculiarities of the Jewish economy, that he bids them pray, that their flight might not be in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day. And the apostle speaks of a Sabbath, or day of rest, which believers have now under the Gospel, like that day of rest, which God instituted, when he had finished the work of creation.
It is likewise evident, that the day which the christian church has in all ages observed, and doth still observe, which is commonly reckoned the first day of the week, is the day which is the will of Christ we should observe as our christian Sabbath. It is plain that the apostles and first christians did religiously observe the first day of the week, as the day of their solemn assemblies for divine worship, and that with a regard to the resurrection of Jesus Christ; this day was called the Lord's Day.
It was on the first day of the first week of time, that the blessed Spirit moved upon the face of the waters to produce a world; a world of beauty and plenty, out of a confusion and emptiness; and it was upon the first day of another week that he descended on the apostles, and aided them to produce a church; justly, therefore, is the first day of the week consecrated to the honor of that divine person, to whom we owe both our being, and our new being, in order to our well being.
Mr. Benson said he was not contending against the observance of the Lord's day: what he wanted, was equal liberty, and an adherence to the constitution.
[To be Continued.]
American Occurrences.
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) February 14.
THE convention yesterday consisted of between 90 and 100 members, and finding it inconvenient to sit in the court-house, adjourned to the Rev. Mr. Mansfield's meeting-house, in Exeter.
BOSTON, February 12.
Yesterday, being the birth-day of the illustrious WASHINGTON, the children and youth of the different grammar and writing schools, above three hundred in number, collected at the school-house, in Court-street, where they formed, and then marched into State-street. Being arrived opposite the coffee-house, this host of juvenile politicians and statesmen gave three loud and hearty cheers, as an acknowledgment of their respect to the supporter and favourer of their country's rights and liberties.
The following are the toasts, which were drunk at the Senate Chamber and Representatives Room, on the ratification of the Federal Constitution, by the members of the Convention, and other gentlemen, who were present.
1. His Excellency the President and Convention of Massachusetts.
2. The President and Members of the late Continental Convention.
3. The States that have adopted the Federal Constitution.
4. A speedy accession to the Union by those States who are yet to deliberate upon the proposed Constitution.
5. May the same Candour and Liberality, which has so conspicuously distinguished the Minority of Massachusetts, prevail through every State in the Union.
6. May the United States of America be as distinguished for their increase in Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures, as they are for their Attachment to Justice and the Liberties of Mankind.
7. The great and magnanimous Ally of the United States of America—His Most Christian Majesty.
8. The United Netherlands.
9. May the United States of America be the Asylum of every distressed Son of Liberty throughout the World.
10. May the Flag of American Commerce be displayed in every Quarter of the Globe.
11. May the Landholders of America soon experience the happy Effects intended by the proposed Constitution.
12. May the Nations of the World, who would be our Rivals in Trade, soon find their Disappointment in the Energy of our Councils.
13. May Peace, Liberty, and Safety, be the perpetual Birthright of an American.
New-York, February 29.
YESTERDAY failed from this port, for Canton, in China, the ship Jenny, William Thompson, Esq. commander.
A letter from Paris, dated Nov. 21, says, "Baron de Breteuil presented his majesty's letter to the duke of Orleans, on Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock. It contained these orders:
"I have reason to be dissatisfied with your conduct; I order you to retire to Villers Cotteriez (one of the duke of Orleans' seats, about 15 leagues from Paris) where you shall receive no company except that of your own family. I order you to depart immediately. You shall lie at Reims (about four leagues from Paris) where, for this night, you shall see none of your family, nor any person belonging to your house."
"The duke, who expected to receive this order from his majesty, on account of his free speech in the house, had his post-chaise with four stout English horses at the door; and when the baron told him that he was to accompany him, and made a motion as if he wanted to enter the chaise after his highness: "No," says the prince, "I obey the king's orders, and you shall follow me, since you are desired to see me at the place of my destination for this night." The postillions drove like devils, and the four leagues were run in a l'Anglois. The poor baron had two of his horses killed, in attempting to keep in sight of the prince's chaise."
Extract of a letter from London, dated Dec. 5, "I have this day received a letter from the consul at Algiers, sent me from the secretary of state, informing that Zaccheus Coffin, who was taken in his passage from Dunkirk to Philadelphia, by an Algerine cruiser, died at Algiers the 2d of last month, of a decay of his lungs. It appears by the account received, that he was taken as good care of as could be expected in that country. Perhaps some information of this should be made public as the consul has been improperly treated in some of your papers, when I have good reason to conclude he has been kind to such Americans as have had the misfortune to fall into their hands." An extract of a letter from John Williams, Esq. at Poughkeepsie, to his friends in Washington county, dated 29th January, 1788.
"The new constitution is not yet taken up, various are the opinions upon this subject; if I can have my opinion carried it will be this, let it come to the people without either recommending or disapprobation; let the people judge for themselves; if the majority is for it, let it be adopted; if they are against it, let it be rejected, as all powers are, or ought to be, in the people; they, and they only, have the right to say, whether the form of government shall be altered. For my own part, I must confess, under the present situation of affairs, something must be done, but whether the present system is the best, will be the question. The powers given to the president are very great. The creditors may be so altered as to destroy the liberty of the people. The direct taxation, to be collected by officers of Congress, are powers which cannot be granted agreeably to our present constitution, nor will it be very convenient for Congress officers, and our state collectors, to be collecting both at one time, and as Congress may lay a poll tax, how will that agree with us. I need not tell you the influence of it. If the new constitution is adopted, Congress will have the impost and excise; this latter may be laid heavy on taverns and spirits, so that the emoluments from taverns, which are now converted to the use of the poor, must go to Congress; and what is worse, all the duties arising from any duties or excise, are to be appropriated to the use of Congress."
"You will also observe that senators are for six years, and that small states have an equal number with large states, so that the advantage of having property in a marine state, will be reduced to an equal value with the property where there is no navigation. If this is not taking our liberty, it is certainly diminishing our property, which is equal to it. What has kept the taxes so low in this state—the reason is obvious, impost duties. This is a privilege providence hath endowed us with; our landed property will ever sell according to the convenience of it; the lighter the tax, the higher the land, the higher the market, the greater profits arising from our produce. Our impost and advantages be taken from us, shall we not be obliged to lay as heavy taxes as Connecticut, Boston, &c. what has kept us from those burdens but the privileges, which we must lose if the present proposed constitution is adopted."
MR. GREENLEAF,
Please to insert the following in your useful Paper, and oblige, A SUBSCRIBER.
AT a meeting of a number of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Kingston, on Thursday the 14th of February, 1788, JOHN ADDISON, Esq. in the chair, the question was put, after much debate, "whether they approved of the proposed constitution for the United States," when it was unanimously disapproved of.
Resolved, That Johannes Snyder, Dirk Wynkoop, and John Addison, Esquires, be a committee to meet in a general county committee of the different towns, and precincts, of the county of Ulster, to deliberate on the above constitution, and also to nominate and agree upon proper delegates for the ensuing STATE CONVENTION.
Resolved, That Dirk Wynkoop, and John Addison, Esquires, be held up, in county committee, as the choice of the people of the town of Kingston, for delegates in the said convention.
The above-mentioned committee, consisting of Johannes Snyder, Dirk Wynkoop, and John Addison, Esquires, thereupon sent a circular letter to the justices and supervisors of the counties, informing them of the aforesaid resolutions, and requesting, that their respective towns would choose committees, to meet a general county committee, on the 25th day of February, 1788, for the purpose mentioned in the resolutions of the town of Kingston; which letter was concluded with the following patriotic and spirited remark: "in a business of such importance to the liberty and property of a free and independent people, we trust that a spirit of alacrity, firmness, and unanimity, will mark the conduct and deliberations of the county of Ulster."
IN STATE CONVENTION, New-Hampshire, February 14, 1788.
AFTER choosing the president and secretary, hon. judge Livermore rose, and after a short speech introduced a motion, "that the convention do now proceed to the consideration of the proposed constitution, by paragraphs."
This motion was objected to by the hon. Mr. Pickering, who thought it most expedient for the convention to take a review of the old constitution, point out its defects, and the necessity of having a new one adopted, preparatory to any other proceeding. He was seconded by the hon. judge Bartlet, who was of the same opinion.
Hon. judge Livermore, in answer to the hon. Mr. Pickering, said, he thought the defects of the old constitution would naturally be made to appear as the convention debated upon the new; that it was the most consistent way of proceeding, and he wished the question might be put.
The question was then put, whether the convention would proceed to the consideration of the proposed constitution, by paragraphs? when it passed in the affirmative.
The convention then proceeded to the consideration of biennial elections, when Mr. Atherton (from Amherst) rose, and informed the convention, that he had many weighty objections to the paragraph in debate, and proceeded to enumerate them. [These objections, we are informed, were much the same as those mentioned by the opposition in the Massachusetts convention.]
He was answered by judge Livermore, Mr. Langdon, Mr. Pickering, Rev. Dr. Langdon, and Rev. Mr. Thurston; who severally spoke in favor of the paragraph as it stood.
It was observed by Mr. Atherton, that the right of recalling the representatives ought to be vested in the state legislatures, &c.
He was answered by the Rev. Mr. Thurston, who observed, that the representatives were chosen by, and dependent on, the people, and was the right of recalling them vested in the state legislatures, they might improve it to the subversion of the rights of the people, by recalling them, one by one, and entirely destroying the representation of the people, and leaving the whole business to be transferred by the senate (who only represent the sovereignty of the people) in which case, the balance of power would be destroyed. The paragraph, therefore, as it stood, met with his hearty approbation.
From the MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL. [The following is the form of the Ordinance by which THE PEOPLE, altered the name of the avenue called Long Lane, to FEDERAL STREET—And which we have obtained from the records, to gratify the curious. It is verbatim as read by the Chairman of the Committee that day, in the Proceed.]
To all Persons unto whom these PRESENTS shall come—GREETING.
BE IT KNOWN—That upon this eighth day of the month of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, and in the twelfth year of the Independence of the United States of America, WE THE PEOPLE, in GRAND PROCESSION moving, have ordained, resolved and declared, and by these Presents, DO ordain, resolve and declare, That for, and in consideration, that the Federal Constitution was by the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Assented to, Ratified, fully Confirmed and Adopted, in the Meeting house, situated and being in the avenue leading from Milk Street to Purchase Street, and commonly called Long Lane, the said avenue, BE, and it hereby IS, denominated, appellatized and christened.
FEDERAL-STREET: And we the PEOPLE aforesaid, do enjoin that all our loving fathers, friends and fellow citizens, observe, duly adhere, and attend to, this our ordinance, resolution or declaration, as they wish to promote justice, preserve our friendship, insure domestic tranquility, and provide for the diffusion of federal sentiments.
GIVEN under our auspices, this eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, of American Sovereignty the twelfth, and the fifth year of our real, political, federal existence.
THE PEOPLE. GOD speed the Constitution.
To be SOLD CHEAP.
At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Probst formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the State of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackensack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (behind built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees, on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS, in maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same.
The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
THEATRE.
BY THE OLD AMERICAN COMPANY. THIS EVENING, the 29th of FEBRUARY. Will be performed,
A COMEDY, CALLED THE Beaux Stratagem.
To which will be added A FARCE, IN TWO ACTS, Written by the Author of the FOUR SOLDIERS, and never performed in America, CALLED
Tony Lumpkin in To... OR THE Mistakes of a DAY
Being a Sequel to SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, or the MISTAKES OF A NIGHT. With New SCENERY incidental to the FARCE. BOX 8s.—PIT 6s.—GALLERY 4s. VIVAT RES PUBLICA.
The NEW LINE OF
STAGE THE Proprietors of the
Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniences arise both to the respectable themselves from inattention to business, as they are determined to use every endearment to the public, and with encouragement only in proportion to their exertions and attention to their business.
From the date hereof of the fare will be from New-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to New-Hook, three Shillings milled dollars, way passengers four pence per mile, regularly paid to the same as a passenger; Passengers and letters will be conveyed and delivered at convenient places as provided for at other purposes.
The Stages leave New-Hook at 2 o'clock M. every day for Philadelphia, except Sunday.
JOHN CUMMING, MATTHEW WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN CULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, MICHAEL DENN, N. B. Parent, Editors, &c. to Christopher Beckman, Captain Street, where Stage Office is held. February 19, 1788.
W A N T E D
As early as possible, A PERSON who is really understands the GARDENING BUSINESS at the same time can do other work related to a FARM—As it will be required of him to the country, for this purpose it is wished that he may be an honest, active, and a decent person, and that other need apply.
A person of this character, who would reside in the country, will meet with every encouragement making early application at No. 67, Wall Street, New-York, Feb. 27, 1788.
Government Securities
CASH, and a generous portion given for such as are constantly in NAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN OFFICE, Ligonier, N. Jersey, and INTEREST PAID TILTS—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Enquire at No. 20, Queen-Street.
JACOB REED, j.
Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges Paper Currency of this State and SPECIE;
And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds. New-York, Feb. 21, 1788.
A YOUNG married woman, a good breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to nurse—Enquire at No. 24 George-Street.
TO BE SOLD
An EXCELLENT
FORTH-PIANN
Imported from London the 1st Summer
Enquire of PHILIP JACO
No. 22, next door but one to the City
Road-Way—Feb. 12, 1788.
Twenty Pounds Reward
WHEREAS the door of
the church, in this city, was broken open on the night of Saturday, the 6th inst. by some person, or persons unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction the party or parties guilty thereof.
Just Published,
And to be Sold at this PRINTING-OFFICE,
Baron Steuben's Regulations
FOR THE
Order and Discipline
OF THE
Troops of the United States.

POET'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
Mr. GREENLEAF. The admittance of the following in your poetical department, will greatly oblige a friend to the author. G. R.
HOW could such an angel delight To torment the heart of poor B. And bless him a whole Sunday night, At the feet of the dear lovely C. Could I ever be taught to believe So much mischief had lurk'd in her eyes; With a heart that cou'd ever deceive, Surpass my greatest surprise. When I sat on the bow of the boat, With the dear lovely maid in my arms, Then my joys like the vessel afloat, And my heart then quite free from alarms. At C— my mind was impress'd, With a passion I ne'er felt before; Then vainly I thought myself blest, Not thinking my joys were near O'er. But, alas! when the morning app'ar'd, And the breeze gently pressing the sails, Then the sight of the N—w C— I fear'd, More than landmen fear desperate gales. The thought that I soon must depart, Distracted and harrow'd my mind; I then felt the loss of my heart— Yet, I thought the possessor was kind.
Affize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, February 29. 3h. 9m. Morn. Just imported in the Jeane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell,
No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of
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. SPEDAIUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings 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 Scots MAGAZINES.
PRIZE-MONEY.
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the Squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were sold in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, on 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.
A Few COPIES of the Conductor Generalis, To be SOLD, At this PRINTING OFFICE.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street, and the other BOOKSELLERS,
Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and officers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burr's Justice, and several other books on those subjects. By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey,
Now adapted to these United States. By one of the JUDGES. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in.
At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of
BOOKS,
Consisting of HISTORY, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellany, Plays, &c. &c.
A L S O, A number of very valuable BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Barkut on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice ophyic, Van Swieten's, commataries, 18 vols, Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols, Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Lecke on the diseases of women, 2 vols, Quincy's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Enrick's latin Dictionaries, Davidson's Virgil and Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eutropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra, Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmon's geographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashe's, Dyke's, Balley's, Scott's, Perry's, and Enrick's dictionaries, Bennet's christian oratory, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's measurer.
STATIONARY.
Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Wrapping Paper, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, Slates, Lead and slate Pencils, Penknives, elegant Shoe-Buckles, Message Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thankfully received, and carefully executed. 51—
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterborough hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand 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, hembo lin, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Bryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assigner of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Bryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Bryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, m.w.f. 42 3m. Assignee. New-York, November 15, 1787.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, 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 20 minutes north or thereabouts, 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 Donnan, 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. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, 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, a 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 Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Neilsett, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Sweeney Wilson and Alexander McKensie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on 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 McKenney and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defected vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were 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 Sweeney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defected vessel was a stout vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-iron round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public notice 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 motion 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. 35 g.m.
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 PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. A. J. C. (Elober 25, 1787. 38—e. d.
THE PUBLIC
ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmadge Hall, No. 49, Cortland-street (commonly known by the Bolton, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Bolton stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment; and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favor him with their custom.
N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed that the subscriber has a large convenient assembly room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required.
CHRISTOPHER BECKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. 51—th.
STAGE.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook.
ON the 14th instant the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with seven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight.
The waggon, on its route to Paules Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules Hook.
N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortland-street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage. All letters carried free.
GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
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.
Table with two columns: A VARIETY of Mantuas and other Gown Silks, Sarcenets, Peelongs, and Modes, Chintzes, Printed Linens, and Cottons, Fancy Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Jeans, Jeanetts, and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen and Cotton Checks, Spotted and plain Velvets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznabrigs, Marceilles Quilting, Fancy Jacket Patterns, A variety of Plumes and Ribbands, Fancy Shoe Buckles and Buttons.
With a Variety of other Articles. Which he is determined to SELL low, for JEFF (upon the face of the Bill) New-York, or Penn. sylvania PAPER MONEY.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION, CONTAINING,
A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city; and 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.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE— For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window. SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed EVERY DAY, at Six, and ONCE a Week, at Two Dollars, per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED. * * PRINTING, in all its Variety, Performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.