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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 5, of VOL. XLII.]
S A T U R D A Y, January 5, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2183.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
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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.
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The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America 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.
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Aud every humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF. New-York, November 12, 1787.
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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, caves, &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, bookellers, 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 town, 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.
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The FEDERALIST, No. XXX. To the CITIZENS of the State of NEW-YORK.  IN disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths or first principles upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. These contain an internal evidence, which, antecedent to all reflection or combination, command the assent of the mind. Where it produces not this effect, it must proceed either from some defect or disorder in the organs of perception, or from the influence of some strong interest, or passion, or prejudice. Of this nature are the maxims in geometry, that "The whole is greater than its part; that things equal to the same are equal to one another; that two straight lines cannot enclose a space; and that all right angles are equal to each other." Of the same nature are these other maxims in ethics and politics, that there cannot be an effect without a cause; that the means ought to be proportioned to the end; that every power ought to be commensurate with its object, that there ought to be no limitation of a power destined to effect a purpose, which is itself incapable of limitation. And there are other truths in the two latter sciences, which if they cannot pretend to rank in the class of axioms, are yet such direct inferences, from them, and so obvious in themselves, and so agreeable to the natural and unsophisticated dictates of common sense, that they challenge the assent of a sound and unbiased mind, with a degree of force and conviction almost equally irresistible.
The objects of geometrical enquiry are so entirely abstracted from those pursuits which stir up and put in motion the unruly passions of the human heart, that mankind without difficulty adopt not only the more simple theorems of the science, but even those abstruse paradoxes, which however they may appear susceptible of demonstration, are at variance with the natural conceptions which the mind, without the aid of philosophy, would be led to entertain upon the subject. The infinite invisibility of matter, or in other words, the infinite divisibility of a finite thing, extending even to the minutest atom, is a point agreed among geometricians; though not less incomprehensible to common sense, than any of those mysteries in religion, against which the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously levelled.
But in the sciences of morals and politics men are found far less tractable. To a certain degree it is right and useful, that this should be the case. Caution and investigation are a necessary armour against error and imposition. But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness or disingenuity. Though it cannot be pretended that the principles of moral and political knowledge have in general the same degree of certainty with those of the mathematics; yet they have much better claims in this respect, than to judge from the conduct of men in particular situations, we should be disposed to allow them. The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Men upon too many occasions do not give their own understandings fair play; but yielding to some untoward bias they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.
How else could it happen (if we admit the objectors to be sincere in their opposition) that positions so clear as those which manifest the necessity of
a general power of taxation in the government of the union, should have to encounter any adversaries among men of discernment? Though these positions have been elsewhere fully stated, they will perhaps not be improperly recapitulated in this place as introductory to an examination of what may have been offered by way of objection to them.—They are in substance as follows:
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other controul, but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.
As the duties of superintending the national defence, and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence, involve a provision for casualties and dangers, to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
As revenue is the essential engine by which the means of answering the national exigencies must be procured, the power of procuring that article in its full extent, must necessarily be comprehended in that of providing for those exigencies.
As theory and practice conspire to prove, that the power of procuring revenue is unavailing, when exercised over the states in their collective capacities, the federal government must of necessity be invested with an unqualified power of taxation in the ordinary modes.
Did not experience evince the contrary, it would be natural to conclude, that the propriety of a general power of taxation in the national government might safely be permitted to rest on the evidence of these propositions, unassisted by any additional arguments or illustrations. But we find in fact, that the antagonists of the proposed constitution, so far from acquiescing in their justness or truth, seem to make their principal and most zealous effort against this part of the plan. It may therefore be satisfactory to analyze the arguments with which they combat it.
Those of them, which have been most labored with that view, seem in substance to amount to this: "It is not true, because the exigencies of the union may not be susceptible of limitation, that its power of laying taxes ought to be unconfined. Revenue is as requisite to the purposes of the local administrations as to those of the union; and the former are at least of equal importance with the latter to the happiness of the people. It is therefore as necessary, that the state governments should be able to command the means of supplying their wants, as that the national government should possess the like faculty, in respect to the wants of the union. But an indefinite power of taxation in the latter might, and probably would in time deprive the former of the means of providing for their own necessities; and would subject them entirely to the mercy of the national legislature. As the laws of the union are to become the supreme law of the land; as it is to have power to pass all laws that may be necessary for carrying into execution, the authorities with which it is proposed to vest it, the national government might at any time abolish the taxes imposed for state objects, upon the pretence of an interference with its own. It might alledge a necessity of doing this in order to give efficacy to the national revenues;
and thus all the resources of taxation might by degrees, become the subjects of federal monopoly, to the entire exclusion and destruction of the state governments."
This mode of reasoning appears sometimes to turn upon the supposition of usurpation in the national government; at other times it seems to be designed only as a deduction from the constitutional operation of its intended powers. It is only in the latter light, that it can be admitted to have any pretensions to fairness. The moment we launch into conjectures about the usurpations of the federal government, we get into an unfathomable abyss, and fairly put ourselves out of the reach of all reasoning. Imagination may range at pleasure, until it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not on which side to turn to extricate itself from the perplexities into which it has so rashly adventured. Whatever may be the limits or modifications of the powers of the union, it is easy to imagine an endless train of possible dangers; and by indulging an excess of jealousy and timidity, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute scepticism and irresolution. I repeat here what I have observed in substance in another place, that all observations founded upon the danger of usurpation, ought to be referred to the composition and structure of the government, not to the nature or extent of its powers. The state governments, by their original constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty. In what does our security consist against usurpations from that quarter; doubtless in the manner of their formation and in a due dependence of those who are to administer them upon the people. If the proposed construction of the federal government, be found, upon an impartial examination of it, to be such as to afford, to a proper extent, the same species of security, all apprehensions on the score of usurpation ought to be discarded.
It should not be forgotten, that a disposition in the state governments to encroach upon the rights of the union, is quite as probable, as a disposition in the union to encroach upon the rights of the state governments. What side would be likely to prevail in such a conflict, must depend on the means which the contending parties could employ towards insuring success. As in republics, strength is always on the side of the people; and as there are weighty reasons to induce a belief, that the state governments will commonly possess most influence over them, the natural conclusion is, that such contests will be most apt to end to the disadvantage of the union; and that there is greater probability of encroachments by the members upon the federal head, than by the federal head upon the members. But it is evident, that all conjectures of this kind, must be extremely vague and fallible, and that by far the safest course to lay them altogether aside, and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the constitution. Every thing beyond this, must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the state governments. Upon this ground, which is evidently the true one, it will not be difficult to obviate the objections which have been made to an indefinite power of taxation in the United States.
P U B L I U S.
From the (Boston) Independent Chronicle.
To the P U B L I C.
MR. WILSON observes, in his late celebrated speech, "that after a lapse of six thousand years, America has now presented the first instance of a people assembled to weigh deliberately, and calmly, and to decide leisurely, and peaceably, on a form of government, by which they shall bind themselves and their posterity." Has he not here suggested the strongest reason that can be urged, for postponing the adoption of the new system? If the assertion is true, is it prudent for this extensive continent implicitly to accept, and rapidly and irrevocably adopt, the propositions of thirty or forty men some of whom were infants, when the principles of the late revolution animated the patriots of this country to a noble resistance, and led them to bear the bold arm to shake the sceptre of foreign dominion: And as Mr. Wilson himself observes, "Government is a science as yet in infancy; and with all its various modifications, has been the result of force, fraud or accident." May not these gentlemen be considered as yet in their pupilage, with regard to the origin, the end, and the most perfect mode of civil government? It is also well known, that some of the late convention were the professed advocates of the British system; that others stood suspended in equilibrio, uncertain on which side to declare, until the scale of fortune balanced in favour of America; that the political manoeuvres of some of them have always sunk in the vortex of private interest, and that the immense wealth of others has set them above all principle. These classes selected, a correspondent would enquire, how many of the disinterested worthies who ventured every thing for the support of the rights of their country, and the liberties of mankind, will be left to adorn that assembly, who have ambitiously and daringly presumed (without any commission for that purpose) to annihilate the sovereignties of the thirteen United States, to establish a DRACONIAN CODE, and to bind posterity by their secret councils. It may perhaps be replied, that one third part of the body were of this generous description. Let us candidly grant it and examine their conduct; several of them left the assembly in disgust before the decision of the question. Others expressly reprobated the proceedings of a conclave, where it has been ridiculously asserted all the wisdom of America was concentrated, and a Randolph, Mason, and Gerry, had the firmness to avow their dissent, to support their opinions in the Legislatures of their several states, and submit them to the observation of the world. It is true indeed that the ancient Doctor, who has been always republican in principle and conduct, doubted, trembled, hesitated, wept, and signed: while the illustrious President, not called upon to decide, or necessitated to give his opinion, kept the chair, but undoubtedly painfully agitated for the fate of a country he had heroically lent his arm to defend. All the powers of eloquence are exerted to catch the ear, and the utmost pathos of expression employed to warm the imagination, in Mr. Wilson's insidious speech; but as it will doubtless be the subject of critical discussion by those who have leisure to examine both its principles and its tendency, I will but cursorily observe, that he discovers no less dexterity and address in his oratorical explanation of the system, than he acknowledges was necessary to reconcile the jarring interests that opposed it—and finally, to prevail with several whose objections were insurmountable, to lend their signature to an instrument for which he is obliged to ransack the annals of ancient and modern story to find a name. But he acknowledges that neither Rome, nor Britain, nor Switzerland, or Holland, bear much resemblance to the newly fabricated federal republic. And that he cannot find a precedent any where for the heterogeneous monster, unless it may be admitted in the Lycian league or the Amphyctyonic Council. It is here natural for every one acquainted with ancient history to turn their thoughts to the miserable fate of the Lycians. They were a sober, and virtuous people, who maintained their independence, and their freedom, for several centuries; and supported their own simple institutions, under twenty-three distinct sovereignties, until the reign of Leomintian, when they fell under the Roman yoke, with other cities of Greece, while the tyrant alledged the same excuse for his encroachment, that we hear hackneyed in the streets of our capitals, for subjugating the Americans to the arms of power, because they were no longer capable of enjoying their liberties. Nor is Mr. Wilson more fortunate in calling our attention to the ruin of the Amphyctyonic union. Every one will recollect that the Locrians (a people bearing a strong resemblance to a party in America) had crept in

among them, and that an ambitious Phil- ip had his emissaries in the body, who by political intrigue, and well-timed plausible speeches, enabled him, by the aid of a standing army, to set himself at the head of the Grecian states; to annihilate their constitutions, and to degrade them to the most abject submission, to the will of a des- potic tyrant. The application and the semblance is left for the consideration of every lover of his country.
America has fought for her liberties; she has purchased them by the most costly sacrifices; she embarked in the enterprize with a spirit that gained her the applauses of mankind; and procured her emancipa- tion from tyranny by the blood of her he- roes, and her friends. And shall her honor, her character, her freedom, be sported away by the duplicity, and the intrigues of those, who never participated in her sufferings? Or by the machinations of such as have no pole star for their guide, but the mad ambition of a mind ready to sacrifice the finest feelings of humanity for its gratification? Forbid it heaven! and may the people awake from a kind of apathy which seems to pervade them, be- fore they are aroused by the thunder of arms, or the insolence of dragooning par- ties, to arrest from the peasant, and the mechanic, the last farthing of their hard earnings, to support the splendid fabric of Mr. Wilson's Federal Republic . What an infamous term! But this people are too wise to be long deceived by the ex- ortion, or misapplication of words. Let the youth of America, who are yet ignor- ant of the characters, and the causes that occasioned the dismemberment of the Uni- ted States from the crown of Britain, read for themselves the many excellent pub- lications, on the origin of government, and the rights of human nature, that appear- ed between the year 1763, 1775. And in- stead of indulging a rapturous admiration for the modern superficial speechifiers in favor of an American monarchy, let them examine the principles of the late glorious revolution, and see how far they comport with the opinions in vogue. And before they embrace the chains of servitude, let them scrutinize their own hearts, and in- quire, if their pride and their independen- cy of spirit, will suffer them to lick the hand of a despotic master. And may the delegates for the ensuing convention con- sider well the importance of their decision. They will be applauded by the admiring world for making a stand at this critical conjuncture; or they will be execrated by all posterity for co-operating with the ambitious and intriguing spirits, who wish, for the sake of their own advancement, to manacle a free and independent people, who have made the most astonishing and successful exertions to support their own rights, and to establish their rank among the nations. And when they shall have time to look around and be convinced, even Mr. Wilson acknowledges, "they will then spurn at every attempt to shackle them with despotic power."
Let them call for the name of the auda- cious man, who dared to say to his asso- ciates, in the late convention, "that unless they hurried the constitution through be- fore the people had time for consideration, there was no probability that it would ever be adopted." And let him be stigma- tized with the odium that is due to the base betrayer of the rights of his country, and not absurdly trusted, though he may art- fully have obtained an election, to decide a second time on a question in which he is so manfully interested.
It is obvious that there is not the smallest propriety that any of the members of that body, who have held out a system for the people to judge of, should themselves set in any of the state conventions, and have a voice to inforce their own alarm- ing proceedings.
Let the old patriots come forward, and instead of secretly wrapping up their opin- ions within their own breasts, let them lift up the voice like a trumpet, and shew this people their folly, and the trembling Co- lumbia, her impending danger. Let none of them fear the arbitrary frown of either Otho, Galba, or Vitellius, nor the fate of HELVIDIUS PRISCUS.
American Occurrences.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29. A late quarterly examination, held at Mr. Poor's academy for the instruction of young la- dies, the visitors who were present, received the fullest satisfaction. In the various branches of reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, and geography, a proficiency and readiness were ex- hibited, every way equal to their expectations, and which they think, entitle the academy to whatever credit and encouragement it may receive from their public approbation. VISITORS. —Rev. James Sprout, D. D. Rev. Caspus Weisberg, D. D. Rev. John Andrews, D. D. Rev. Ashbel Green, A. M. Rev. Jacob
Cohen, A. M. Benjamin West, A. M. & F. A. A. Principal of the Academy of the Protestant Epis- copal Church of Philadelphia; Rev. Robert Black- well, A. M. William Coates, Esq. Rev. William Rogers, A. M. Dr. William Smith, M. B. Rev. Joseph Pilmore, A. M. Dr. William W. Smith, M. B.
What has become of the paper money? asks a correspondent, who remembers when it was slan- dered and rejected by every body. It now appears for what reason it was depreciated; and the wrong box of many a man who formerly reprobated it, could a tale unfold whose lightest word would found of speculation.
It is no matter of surprise, says a corres- pondent, that the sentiments even of the zealous inhabitants of Philadelphia should have undergone so general and material a change concerning the new plan of government, as, since any investigation was allowed, the pa- pers have daily contained publications replete with sound argument and plain reasoning in support of the important objections made to it, and aided by an able public discussion in Convention; when, on the other hand, the open field of argument has been deserted and given up, by the advocates of it, ever since the publication of Mr. Wilson's speech (which was so ill-treated) and they have re- tired to the bulk, from which they fire at men, not at measures; and content them- selves with great names, declamation, per- sonalities, deceptive paragraphs, and extracts of letters from one another in the different states.
By a gentleman of veracity and informa- tion, who arrived in this city yesterday from New-York, we are assured, that there is not the smallest probability of the new constituti- on being adopted in that state. He says that the Address and Dissent of the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania has done great execution there, but the last numbers of Publius have done still more; as that writer's attempts to prove the expediency of supporting a standing army in time of peace have been so futile, that even the friends of the new plan are offended with them. His barefaced assertions, that our existence as a nation depends upon our keeping up a large military, to defend us on the north from the British, on the west from the Indians, on the south from the Spaniards, and on the Atlan- tic side from the invasions of a maritime enemy, have alarmed the people exceedingly. The common talk is, Well, what do you think of being surrounded with a standing army?
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Washington Court-House, near Holstein, Virginia, to his friend in this city.
"Here I expected to be happily removed from the din of politics, but, even in these remote wilds, the people are deeply engaged in that science. The new Constitution is the subject of universal discussion. A general dissatisfaction with the proceedings of the late convention prevail here. So much dis- appointed in their expectations are the peo- ple, that they think it more eligible to revert to the tyranny of Britain than bow the neck to domestic tyrants."
A correspondent informs us, that from the general temper of the farmers, and the com- plexion of the assembly, it is almost certain, that we will have another convention, in a legal constitutional manner, called in this state, for amending the proposed constitution, and annexing a bill of rights thereto: we may expect a power of petitions will be laid before the assembly (at their sitting next month) for this purpose. What a pleasure, adds he, must it give to every friend to order and good government, that we have so easy a method of accommodating such an important business to the satisfaction of all classes of citizens, and thereby prevent much disorders, confusion and anarchy.
New-York, January 5.
The following address will give our readers some idea of the late embarrassed situation of the French government—it will also shew the attachment of the French people to their sovereign.
[TRANSLATED.] SPEECH of Mr. NICOLAY, first President of the CHAMBRE DES COMPTES of Paris, to the KING, in the ASSEMBLY of NOTABLES. SIRE,
T he Chambre des Comptes unites, through my voice, with the sentiments of this august as- sembly; the recent accents of its grief would have been heard, but its hope is revived in seeing your Majesty informing yourself of the wants of your people, and suffering truth to approach the throne: To dissemble our misfortunes would be to weaken the glory of removing them: Your Majesty has just measured the abyss: Your heart has shuddered at it: Your courage and our love shall soon fill up its depth.
The rival powers of France—all Europe have heard of our disasters; let us hasten to tell them that your Majesty has set about to obliterate them; let us hasten to shew them the unbounded power of a Monarch over a free and generous nation.
Since you govern, Sire, public manners, and those destructive abuses, which have hurled the state to the brink of ruin, at this day unveiled and already done away in opinion, shall no longer bear your looks; your wisdom will remove them, as the shades of the night vanish before the light of the day.
Laws are the safe-guards of empires—so France is safe under the auspices of its legislation: But there is a kind of stability which is peculiar to it, and makes its happiness—that is, the mutual love of the sovereign and people.
As the first potentate of the universe, your sub- jects, Sire, will be proud to tell you, as Pliny for- merly did that emperor who was the delight of mankind, and the model of our Kings, "You can- not live without the nation—nor the nation without you."
The Notables, returned to their fellow-citizens, proud of their Master, having pleaded the interest of your glory in pleading for the country, shall have many comforts to offer, while they announce the concessions they have made.
They shall say, that immutable probity has inde- libly engraved on the heart of your Majesty the ob- ligation of reforms, and the will to effect them; they shall assure your subjects that the new sub- sidies, the hard necessity of which fills you with re- gret, shall end with the wants.
They shall represent the emulation for public good glowing in all hearts; and your royal family solicitous to give the first examples of patriotism.
They shall say, that our Queen, so worthy of reigning over Frenchmen, has just discovered all that ought to be expected from the King's confort, and the Dauphin's mother.
They shall proclaim the so long wished for days of oeconomy—the restoration of order—the equal distribution of public offices, all the sources of prosperity shall be re-established, and better direct- ed; and the grateful nation shall see in that re-ge- neration the dawn of the happiest reign of monarchy.
May the Assembly of Notables, Sire, be the for our sovereign, that precious sentiment which distinguishes us as much from other nations, as your race is elevated above the other Kings of the uni- verse, encircle and extend still more!—May these words of a celebrated author (Montesquieu) forever remain imprinted in our hearts—"I give thanks to the Gods for having given me birth in the age, and under the government in which I live—and I thank them that they would have me obey those whom they made me love."
May these heart-felt expressions pass from mouth to mouth!—May they become a national chorus! and be prophetic of your Majesty's reign.
The Legislature of Maryland, on the 27th ult. passed a law, repealing all acts in force in that state, which are repugnant to the treaty of peace between the United States and Great-Britain.—As all the states have now complied with the recommendation of Congress, in passing laws similar to the above, the English government must invent some new ex- cuse for refusing to deliver up our WESTERN POSTS—or we may well complain of punica fides Britannia .
Accounts from Newbern, N. C. of October 17, say:—Monday last one of the sheriff's deputies, having levied an execution on a sloop at Bay river, was prevailed upon by the owner to suffer her to be brought up to town, so that she might fetch a better price; he accordingly put a couple of men on board, armed with firelocks. As the sloop was coming up, the crew begged the two musketeers to help them in hoisting the sails, they unsuspect- ingly laid down their arms, which the owner seized immediately, and proceeded down to the found, where he put the two men into their canoe, and took leave of them.
A Philadelphia paper of last Saturday, says:— On Saturday last about 10 o'clock at night, as Capt. Kelly and Mrs. Tingey were passing the vacant lot in Front, near South-street, they were assaulted by four men, who demanded their money, with threats of instant death, if any attempts were made to escape, or alarm the neighbourhood. Capt. Kelly, declaring, that he had earned his mo- ney with too much difficulty to give it to such villains, was instantly knocked down, and one of the gang, leading Mrs. Tingey some distance from Capt. Kelly, held a knife at her throat, but assured her that she should not be injured unless she made a noise. Capt. Kelly, recovering from the blow he had received, made such a bold resi- stance, that the man who watched Mrs. Tingey, observing his three companions almost routed, flew to their assistance and gave the lady an opportunity to seek for shelter in an adjoining house. As soon as they perceived Mrs. Tingey's escape, the vil- lains again knocked Capt. Kelly down, and made off, but in the scuffle dropt the Captain's watch which they had with great difficulty forced from him. These men did not appear to be very ex- pert in their iniquitous trade, they spoke with con- siderable agitation, and, though all armed with bayonets or knives, they made no further use of them, notwithstanding the courageous opposition they met, than to give Capt. Kelly a slight cut on the hand, and another on the arm.
On the 18th ult. the general assembly of Ma- ryland adjourned to the second Monday in May next.
Naval-Office, Baltimore, December 25. Inward Entries. Sloop Experiment, H. Vesey, and sloop Matty, J. S. Jones, from Turk's-Iland; schooner Bethiha, N. Nickerson, and schooner Dil- patch, L. Jones, Boston.
Cleared outwards. Brig Greyhound, T. Max- field, and schooner Hannah, B. Buel, for Charle- ston; ship Triumph, J. Dillon, Liverpool; schoo- ner Sally, B. Olmstead, New-York; sloop Little John, J. Watson, Jamaica; schooner Favouite Lass, D. Martin, Barbadoes; schooner Rachel, J. Bull, Dublin; ship Pitt, J. McNeale, Cadiz; brig Meribah, J. Cunningham, Teneriffe.
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 assist- ant 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—c.d.
By Order of the Honorable JOSEPH CANE; Esq. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Dutchess:
NOTICE is her by given to all the creditors of Jesse Brokway, an insolvent deb- tor, that they appear at the house of Capt. Ben- jamin Titas, innholder, in South East precinct, in Dutchess county aforesaid, on Monday the seventh day of January next, at ten o'clock A. M. to shew reason, why an assignment of the said insol- vent's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, according to the form of an act, en- titled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
JESSE BROKWAY. Petitioning Creditors. Joseph Archer, David Comstock, James de Fifth, Nathaniel de Laven. Dated the 18th Dec. 1787. 82 24
TWO JOURNEYMEN PRIN- TERS —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 requi- site: their Pay shall be good as the Season will ad- mit of. The one must apply by Tuesday next, and the other within three Weeks. Enquire at this Office. January 3, 1788. 83—c.d.
F R E I G H T,
W A N T E D, FOR a BRIG upwards of one hundred tons mea- surement, with an un- British Register and American ranean pass.—To either Spain, Portugal, the Straights, Western, C. Mary, or any of the West-India Islands.—To a particu- lar enquire at No. 74, Water-street. New-York, Dec. 31, 1787. 78 c.d.
T O B E S O L D, On Tuesday the eighth Day of January next, at twelve o'Clock of the same Day, at the House of ISRAEL HONEYWELL, Jun. near a Dobbs Ferry, the
Farm and Tract of Land, In Philipsburg, now in the Occupancy of the said ISRAEL HONEYWELL;
CONTAINING two hundred acres more or less, together with the stock and household furniture of the said Israel Honey- well, consisting of a great variety of valuable arti- cles, 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 Decr. 1787. 70 85 c.d.
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-worm 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 re- warded, and all reasonable charges paid. Enquire at No. 15, Queen-Street. 73—c.d.
Garret Rapalje, No. 2, opposite the Fly-Market, has FOR SALE, sundry sorts of
DRY GOODS.
Two NEGRO BOYS about 14 years old, One WENCH, a very good COOK, can wash and iron; for a want of employ. Twenty FARMS of good LAND on the west side of the Delaware, about 50 miles west of Elopus, Who sells GOODS on Commission. Said RAPALJE has FOR SALE a number of
Walker's Certificates.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cord- age of all sizes, made of Peterboro' hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mul- berry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea- Water Pump, on such 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 carriage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 68 d.c. By order of BENJAMIN BLAGOE, Esquire, one of the aldermen of the city of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Johnston, an insolvent debtor, that they appear at the office of the said alderman, in Beckman-street, by the 9th day of January instant, at 10 o'clock, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said John Johnston should not be made for the be- nefit of all his creditors, and he be thereupon dis- charged, 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 JOHNSTON. Dated New-York, the 2d day of January, 1788.
The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For December, 1787, Just Published in this City, Sold at this Office, price Two Shillings.

POET'S CORNER.
CONSCIENCE.
Will downy beds, or aromatic flowers, Sequel'd shades, or aramantine bowers, Blunt the keen anguish of a troubled breast, When guilty thoughts the flattered soul invest? Not all the riches of wide India's shore, Arabia's sweets, or Afric's golden shore, Can heal a wounded soul, nor ease the smart By vice inflicted on a guilty heart: Nature and Art their charms in vain bestow; 'Tis innocence alone true peace can know. Why flirts Lylander thus, at every noise? Where are his transports fled, his home-felt joys? Wherefore, in vain, her notes does music pour? Or Fortune all her gifting favours show? Stung with remorse, the plunderer dreads the weight Of rigorous Justice, and avenging fate; For this he starts, if gentle zephyrs shake The pat'ring leaves, or tremble in the brake. The rolling peasant's breast no cares annoy, His life is labour, and his labour joy; His guiltless bosom knows not to relent, Rich in his homely fare and sweet content; In his lone humble cot the treasure lies, Which neither wealth can buy, nor pomp supplies. Grant then, thou power divine, whose single nod Can make the trembling world confess its God, That guilt my honest heart may never stain, Nor pungent conscience dart 'sticking pain: Turn me, O turn me from the path impure, In thee I trust; thy aid alone is sure.
ROYAL ANECDOTE.
The Prussians were proud of their great Frederick, as they always styled him.—They spoke of him with the utmost freedom; and at the same time that they criticised severely some of his rations, they gave him the highest eulogiums. He was told that some one had spoken ill of him. He asked if that person had 100,000 men? He was answered, no. "Very well," said the king, "I can do nothing—if he had 100,000 men, I would declare war against him."
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 5. 6h. 47m. 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 and 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 soles, 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 fattinet 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, fadlers, or harness-makers use,—English boot-legs, bend soles 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, soles, half soles, &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 federalist. 
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 maize, or Indian corn, as fodder for cattle. By Mons. 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 Quare 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. Ruh.  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. Caldwellaller 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 Sufannah Trap'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. I. 
State and other public Papers.
 36 Letter from the Hon. Roger Sherman and the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, 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 Fredericksburg county, Virginia.  45 ——— of the inhabitants of Petersburg, 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. 
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 58 An oration delivered at Petersburg, 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. 
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