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TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
T U E S D A Y, O C T O B E R 16, 1787.
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ASSIZE OF BREAD.
A Wheaten Loaf, of fine Flour to weigh 2lb. 10oz. for six pence: a loaf of Rye Flour to weigh 1lb. 12oz. for three pence.
H I G H - W A T E R.
Monday 40 Min. after 4 Friday 50 Min. after 3 Tuesday 24 Min. after 1 Saturday 34 Min. after 4 Wednesday 18 Min. after 2 Sunday 22 Min. after 5 Thursday 6 Min. after 3
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Wheat per bushel, 6f. 9d. West-India Rum, 3f. 9d. Beef, per barrel, 6of. 6d. Indian Corn, 4f. at 4f. 6d. Muscovado Sugar, 59f. at 65f. od. Pork, 100f. 64f. od. Flour, common 40f. superf. 44f. per b. Single refined do. 1f. 2d. Fine Salt, 2f. 0a. Brown Bread, 2of. od. Molasses, 1f. 11d. at 2f. Rock Salt, 7f. to 8f. 6d.
Jacob Foffer,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from Roosevelt-street, No. 21, to Cherry-street, No. 22, where he continues carrying on the NAILING MANUFACTORY, in all its various branches, from a tack to a twelve inch spike; where city and country merchants, shopkeepers, ship and boat builders, joiners and house carpenters can be supplied on short notice with any quantity.
LIKEWISE,
Bar iron and nail rods for sale.
Wanted, a few Journeyman Nailers. Apply as above.
Furthermore, he would inform the merchants, who would wish to contract for any ship work or finish work to send abroad, that he will contract with them on reasonable terms for the same. Please to apply as aforesaid. 19
Just imported in the Betsey, Mesnard, from London, and now opening for sale at No. 208, Water-street, on terms unusually favorable:
A very neat assortment of two purple flormont stripe, and fancy calicoes, fine olive and copper furnitures, all of the newest patterns, 5-4 light two olive and purple shawls, cotton and printed linen handkerchiefs, romals, black silk hinges, modes, tassies, armozecens, fatin florontines of the first quality, men and womens silk hose, coloured ribbons, sewing silks, a beautiful assortment of lute-trings, and a variety of other articles suitable to the season. 33 tm
A. L. BLECKER.
MRS. BRYCE,
Milliner and Mantua Maker, from Glasgow.
RESPECTFULLY informs her friends in general, and the ladies in particular, that having carried on an extensive business in Britain; - she has now opened store at No. 4. opposite the middle of the Oswego-market; where all orders received in the various branches of millinery and mantua making, will be executed with neatness and dispatch. And as it is her highest ambition to merit the approbation of her employers, so she hopes to receive (though a stranger) a part of that public favor and patronage, which so eminently distinguishes the citizens of this city.
N. B. All orders from the ladies in the country, will be carefully attended to as above. 33
Governeur & Kemble,
Have imported and now for Sale at their Store No 26, Front-street,
Muscovado sugar in hds. Geneva in casks, and barrels, An assortment of cordage and cables. Windward island rum & Jamaica spirits, Holland duck, Old sherry wine in pipes and quarter casks, Russia duck, Ravens duck, Old Brandy in ditto, ditto, Russia sheetings, Russia drilling, Lisbon salt, Oznabrigs, Black pepper in bales, from 100 to 400 lbs. Ticklenburghs, Plainish linen, A quantity of Spanish Writing-paper, Salted dried hides, Dutch copper tea-kettles, Linseed oil in casks, Robin in barrels. 13
Robert Bowne,
At his Store, No. 39, Queen-Street, has for Sale, BOLTING CLOTHS, a complete assortment of very fine and warranted, of superior quality, he has just received a large assortment of coarse goods suitable for the season, consisting of broad and narrow cloths, plain and twilled coating, frizes, blue and red long shag duvills, feannoughs, half thick, kerseys, German ferges, kendall cottons, long els, broad and narrow beavers, spotted swanskins, rose and striped blankets, flannels, fatinets and laflings, shallons and rattinets, durants and tammies, moreens and calimancoes, common and wild bore, camblets, tassies, modes and farcenets, black silk handkerchiefs, check linens, &c. &c.
HE HAS LIKEWISE FOR SALE, French burr mill stones, a few pipes best old Madeira wine, Payall wines, Jamaica spirits, a few bags of coffee, Geneva in quarter casks, Holland powder, dry hides, indigo, pipes in boxes, earthen ware, a few barrels pickled beef and pork. Also, best superfine flour and ship bread of the first quality, may at any time, be had by applying as above. 33
JOHN BLECKER,
At his OFFICE, No. 198, Queen-Street, BUTTS and SELLERS
BANKERS'S, Barber's, Burrall's, Pierce's, Nourte's, Denning's, Walker's, Fox's, Loan-Office, Interest, &c. &c. &c. CERTIFICATES. 28
FOR SALE,
By Nicholas Hoffman and Son,
No. 12, Little Dock-street; Parcel excellent dried Hides, A few casks of Linseed Oil, 30 pieces Russia Duck, blue mark, 4 by 8 and 7 by 9 Window Glass. 13
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and General Assembly of the late colony now State of New-York, passed the 19th day of March 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," that on the eleventh day of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Merchant's Coffee-house, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all those two certain messuages or tenements and lot of land, situated, lying and being in the city of New-York, on the northeast side of Fly-market-street, and running from the land of Jacobus Lefferts, 35 feet and 2 inches, in front to land now or late of George Folliott, thence running northeasterly along the said land now or late of the said George Folliott, 73 feet and 1 inch; thence southeasterly along the land of Richard Norwood, 6 feet and 8 inches; thence northeasterly along the land of the said Richard Norwood, 13 feet and 4 inches, to Fletcher-street; thence southeasterly on the said Fletcher-street, 31 feet and 1 inch, and thence southeasterly on the land of the said Jacobus Lefferts, 86 feet and 2 inches to the place of beginning, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining. And the reversion and reversionary, remainder and remainders thereof, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the second and third days of November, which was in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds and the interest thereof, with a power of sale therein contained, from John Byrne, of the city of New-York, merchant, to John Glover of the said city merchant. Deeds of conveyance for the said premises, after the sale will be executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by
JOHN GLOVER.
New-York, September 10, 1787. 2 31
By order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to David Greame, George Jackson, Arthur Forrest, Richard Willis, the Rev. Thomas Dampier, John Elwes, and Richard Willis aforesaid, in trust for Mary the wife of William Croffes, John Elwes in his own right, Patrick Crawford and Gilbert Meason, executors of James Crawford, deceased; Hutchinson Mure, Robert Mure, and Richard Atkinson, joint partners, John Duvall, William Robertson, Neal Ward, Mary Sleach, Lucy Sleach, William Berry, Peter Hafenelever and Charles Croffes, late partners with Andrew Seaton (who is become bankrupt) under the file or firm of Hafenelever, Seaton and Croffes; also the said Andrew Seaton, the said William Robertson, Miles Nightingale, and the said Richard Willis, as assignees of the estate and effects of the said Andrew Seaton, under the said commission of bankruptcy, and the said Peter Hafenelever in his own right, now or late associated in a company generally known by the name, firm and description of the American Iron Company, or the Ringwood Company, absent debtors, and to all others whom it doth or may concern; that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to a statute of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1736, he the said Chief Justice hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the county of Westchester, commanding him to attach, seize, take, and safely keep, all the estate as well real as personal of the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company, composed of the said several persons as aforesaid, absent debtors of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof in whatever part of his bailiwick they can be found with all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto: And that unless they the said several persons composing the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company as aforesaid, shall return and discharge their debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all their estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of their creditors. Dated at the city of New-York, the tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 2 31
Benjamin Halsted,
GOLD and SILVER-SMITH,
RESPECTFULLY acknowledges the favours of his friends and customers, and hereby informs them and the public in general, that he carries on his business as usual, at No. 18, Maiden-lane, where all orders will be duly acknowledged and faithfully executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. He sells silver tea spoons for one shilling per doz. 4 19 or ti
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
For which the highest price in CASH will be given, £7,000 in Bancker's Notes £10,000, or any smaller sums, in Pierce's final settlement certificates.
The highest prices in cash given, as usual, for all other kinds of public securities, at No. 40. Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 5
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774. That on Tuesday the 4th day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of a Lot of Ground in a certain indenture of mortgage, made between Stephen Sayre, of the city of New-York, in the State of New-York, Esq. of the one part, and Peter Stuyvesant of the same city, Esq. of the other part, described as follows, to wit: All that certain lot of ground situated in the north ward of the said city of New-York, being distinguished as lot No. 7, in a partition made on the 3d day of January, in the year of Lord, 1718, between Abraham De Peyster and Samuel Bayard, and is bounded as follows, to wit: southwesterly in front by Wall-street, southeasterly by lot No. 6, formerly occupied by Lewis Pintard, northeasterly in the rear by ground formerly occupied by James Nevens, and northwesterly by lot No. 8, formerly the property and in the possession of Nicholas Bayard, and contains in breadth, in front and in the rear 25 feet, and in length on each side 122 feet, being the lot of ground granted to Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, by two deeds, the one executed by John Cruger, Philip Livingston and nine others, on the 6th of February 1773, and the other by Philip V. Cortlandt, on the 15th day of April 1762, together with all and singular the buildings, passages, lights, easements and all other privileges, profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said lot of ground and premises, or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises by indenture of lease and release, bearing date 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1781, and 1st day of January, 1782, (with a power to sell therein contained) from the said Stephen Sayre to the said Peter Stuyvesant; and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by
P. STUYVESANT.
New-York, May 22, 1787. 2 700 6m
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774; that on the sixth day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of all that certain messuage or dwelling house and lot of ground, situated and being in the north ward of the city of New-York, on the northerly side of a certain street called and known by the name of Little Queen-street; bounded southerly in front on said street, easterly on the house and ground now or late of Thomas Marlow, northerly in the rear on the ground now or late of John Livingston and others, and westerly on the New-Dutch Church yard; the said dwelling house and lot of ground, containing in breadth in front and rear, twenty-three feet and an half, and in length, on each side, ninety-six feet, together with the houses, edifices and buildings thereon erected and being, and all gardens, yards, wells, back sides, ways, paths, passages, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said dwelling house and lot of ground belonging, or in any wise appertaining, which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty second days of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five (with a power to sell therein contained) from William Bryant, of the city of New-York, Doctor of phyic, to Alexander Leslie, late of the city of New-York aforesaid peruke maker, assigned to the subscribers, who will thereupon execute deeds of conveyance to the purchaser, pursuant to the power in the said mortgage and the act aforesaid.
WILLIAM DAVIS,
JAMES STRACHAN,
JAMES MACKENZIE,
By their Attorney, Charles Smith. 2 27 6m
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
On Thursday the first day of November next; THAT convenient large two story brick HOUSE, No. 55, King-street, now in possession of Mrs. Miller - having a large cellar, two convenient rooms on a floor, back building, gang-way, cistern, a pump of good water in the yard. The house is well known to many in this city, for its fitted for business and other conveniencies. A good title will be given for the purchaser, by James Lawrence, administrator to the estate of Charles Jandin, deceased. 35
JACOB ASTOR,
No. 81, Queen-street, two doors from the Friends Meeting-house;
HAS just received from London, an elegant assortment of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, such as Piano-Forces of the best kind, Violins of all sorts, Banfoons, Clarinets, Haut-Boys, German Flutes, &c. which are to be sold on very reasonable terms. 13
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Friday the fourth day of April next, will be sold at the merchants coffee-house in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all that certain farm or tract of land, which Joseph Harris, late of Dutchess county, formerly possessed, lying within the said county of Dutchess, in the patent commonly known by the name of the Nine-Partners, being bounded as follows; beginning at a black oak tree, it being the northeast corner of Job Meeks's farm, the northwest corner of Jeremiah Conklen's farm, and the southeast corner of the said Joseph Harris's farm, from thence the line runs north thirteen degrees, Richard Gray, being the fourth line of the Little Nine-Partners, from thence the line runs west on the fourth line of the said Little Nine-Partners, to the northwest corner of said farm, and the northwest corner of Amenia Precinct, from thence south thirteen degrees east to a walnut sapling, it being the northwest corner of the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and 63 acres & 20 rods of land or thereabouts, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversionary, remainder and remainders thereof; which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds (with a power of sale therein contained) from Brinton Paine of Dutchess county, Esq. to Augustus Van Cortlandt. Deeds of conveyance after the sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by
AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT.
Sept. the 24th 1787. 2 35 6m
Frederick Augustus Meyer,
BORN in the Village Groezingen, near Durlach, belonging to the Jurisdiction of the said Durlach, is desired by his brother, as likewise by the Sovereign Prince of Buden, to come to Europe; the said Prince having offered to defray his expenses, and even if desired, the expenses of going back to America. He is notified by this, that in no other manner he can come to his property there; the time for his appearance is limited by the Prince, to the month of May or June, in the year 1788, after which term his property is forfeited. 40 2
JOHN BANKS,
MERCHANT-TAYLOR,
HAS imported in the Hibernia, Captain Tew, from London, a few European Goods in his way; a few pieces of superfine cloths first quality, Dark blue, White silk serge duroy, Black, Gold and silver basket and spangled buttons, Raven's grey, Bottle green, Newell fashionable plain Garnet, and gilt coat and vest buttons, London brown, French campain basket and drabs, Dark brown, buttons, to match every colour, B. hea ditto, Mulberry, Cotton and worsted satinets, Cinnamon, White cloths, A few summer vest patterns, Buff and white Cafimeres, Gold and silver epaulets, Silk florentine, White chappei needles, With sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
Ladies and Gentlemen who please to favour him with their custom, may depend on being served in the neatest manner, and with the greatest punctuality. 40
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Garmond, an insolvent debtor, that they show cause, if any they have, before Benjamin Blagge, Esq. one of the Judges of the Mayor's Court, of the city of New-York, by the 25th of this present month, October, at his office in Beckman-street, why an assignment of the estate of John Garmond should not be made, and he discharged, pursuant to a law of the State of New-York, entitled, "an Act for the relief of insolvent debtors, passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated this eleventh day of October, 1787. 40 3
JOHN GARMOND.
ELTING and VARICK,
HAVE for sale at their store, No. 20, Little Dock-street, a quantity of the very best flat and square assorted Sweets Bar Iron, a general assortment of ironmongery, cutlery, sadlery, buttons, buckles, bristol pipes, &c. A few cloths, muilins, calicoes, handkerchiefs, &c. Elopous millstones and others of any denomination, procured at a short notice.
11 ur, flaxseed, pot and pearl ashes will be received in payment for the above articles, and for debts due, and new credit given to those that prove punctual. Au. ult 29. 23 2m

From the Independent Gazetteer.
On thead"&gt;On the Federal Government. No. 3.
(Continued from No. 739 of this paper.)
IN pursuing the consideration of the new Federal Constitution, it remains now to examine the nature and powers of the House of Representatives—the immediate delegates of the people.
Each member of this truly popular assembly will be chosen by about six thousand Electors, by the poor as well as the rich. No decayed and venal borough will have an unjust share in their determinations—no old Sarum will send thither a representative by the voice of a single elector—as we shall have no royal minitries to purchase votes, to we shall have no votes for sale. For the suffrages of six thousand enlightened and independent Freemen are above all price—When the encreasing population of the country shall render the body too large at the rate of one member for every thirty thousand persons, they will be returned at the greater rate of one for every forty or fifty thousand, which will render the electors still more incorruptible. For this regulation is only designed to prevent a smaller number than thirty thousand from having a representative. Thus we see a provision follows, that no State shall have less than one member; for if a new and greater number should hereafter be fixed on, which shall exceed the whole of the inhabitants of any State, such State, without this wholesome provision, would lose its voice in the House of representatives—a circumstance which the constitution renders impossible.
The people of England, whose House of Commons is filled with military and civil officers and pensioners, say their liberties would be perfectly secured by Triennial Parliaments. With us no placemen can sit among the representatives of the people, and two years are the constitutional term of their existence. Here again, lest wealth, powerful connexions, or even the unwarranted trust an unmeriting, unqualified or inexperienced youth, the wisdom of the Convention has propoed an absolute incapacity till the age of twenty-five. At twenty-one a young man is made the guardian of his own interests, but he cannot for a few years more be entrusted with the affairs of the nation. He must be an inhabitant of the State that elects him, that he may be intimately acquainted with their particular circumstances—The house of representatives is not, as the senate, to have a president chosen for them from without their body, but are to elect their speaker from their own number—They will also appoint all their other officers. In great state cases, they will be the grand inquest of the nation, for they possess the sole and uncontrolable power of impeachment. They are neither to wait the call nor abide the prorogations and dissolutions of a perverse or ambitious prince, for they are to meet at least once in every year, and sit on adjournments to be agreed on between themselves and the other servants of the people. Should they differ in opinion, the President who is a temporary fellow servant, and not their hereditary master, has a mediatorial power to adjust it for them, but cannot prevent their constitutional meeting within the year. They can compel the attendance of their members, that their public duty may not be evaded in times of difficulty or danger—The vote of each representative can be always known, as well as the proceedings of the house, that so the people may be acquainted with the conduct of those in whom they repose so important a trust. As was observed of the senators, they cannot make new offices for themselves, nor increase, for their own benefit, the emoluments of old ones, by which the people will be exempted from needless additions to the public expences on such sordid and mercenary principles—They are not to be restrained from the firm and plain language, which becomes the independent representatives of freemen, for there is to be a perfect liberty of speech. Without their consent no monies can be obtained, no armies raised, no navies provided. They alone can originate bills for drawing forth the revenues of the union, and they will have a negative upon every legislative act of the other house—So far, in short, as the sphere of federal jurisdiction extends, they will be controulable only by the people, and in contentions with the other branch, so far as they shall be right, they must ever finally prevail.
Such, my countrymen, are some of the cautionary provisions of the frame of government your faithful convention have submitted to your consideration—such the
* This is the case with that British borough.
foundations of peace, liberty and safety, which have been laid by their unwearied labors—They have guarded you against all servants but those “whom choice and common good ordain,” against all masters “save preserving Heaven.”
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
H A G U E, Aug. 7.
Last Saturday the corps of armed citizens of the province of Holland, presented a declaration to their noble and great Mightinesses, by which they require the Hereditary Prince Stadholder to be suspended from all his charges, and to be banished from the Province of Holland, and not to suffer the Princess of Orange and her children to enter the said province, as long as the troubles subsist, insisting that justice is sufficient to prevent tumults; and if that authority shall be found insufficient, they will take care of it themselves, &c. This declaration has been rendered comminatory.
Aug. 9. A Memorial presented to their Noble and Great Highnesses the Lords States of Holland and West Friesland, by his Excellency the Baron Thulemeyer, Envoy Extraordinary of his Prussian Majesty.
“Noble, Great, and Mighty Lords, The underwritten Envoy Extraordinary of his Prussian Majesty has sent to the King his master the resolution which your Noble and Great Mightinesses have remitted him, in answer to his memorial of the 10th of July, concerning the outrage committed on the august Sifter of the Monarch.
“It was with the utmost astonishment his Majesty learned that, instead of satisfying his just demand by the offer of a satisfaction suitable to the insult, you have supported an evasive answer by weak arguments. His Majesty will admit that the pretended ignorance of the motive, which conducted her Royal Highness to the Hague, and the apprehension of a popular commotion, can never excuse the conduct of the commission sitting at Woerden. Such a suspicion publicly announced is a new offence. The word of the Princess, her solemn declaration, that her journey to the Hague was with the most salutary views, such as to reconcile their minds, and to procure a means of reconciliation, ought to have been a full conviction to the Deputies of your Noble and Great Highnesses. If the people, penetrated with gratitude for the illustrious House of the founders of their liberty and of the Belgic Independence, should have been misled; if the appearance of the august Consort of the Stadholder had produced any demonstration of joy, so as to disturb the public tranquillity, the means of defending the residence of a Sovereign free from all dangers, apparently exaggerated, was ever in the power of yourselves: besides, the care with which her Royal Highness prevented the proofs of an imprudent zeal, in concealing from the public her intended arrival, was a fresh cause for the gratitude of government.
“It is at the Hague, Noble, Great and Mighty Lords, it is at the place where every citizen ought to enjoy that full liberty established by the wisdom of your ancestors, that a resolution is taken, to refuse the sister of a great Monarch, and the Consort of a Prince who enjoys the greatest dignities of your State, admission into Holland.
“The King will not employ himself in looking into the lawfulness of the right of resistance which the commission of Woerden attribute to itself upon this occasion. His Majesty will rather fix his attention on the manner it has been put in execution. The equipage of her Royal Highness was surrounded by soldiers, and her train was more like that of a prisoner of state than of a great Princess, respectable for her illustrious birth, her noble qualities, her virtue, and for her sentiments, which she always dedicated to the good of the republic. Scarcely had her Royal Highness got to Schoonhoven, when guards were placed to every avenue of the house, and an officer even set in her apartment with a drawn sword. Such shameful proceedings have made a deep impression in the mind of the King my master, who looks on the injury as done to himself. It is by the express orders of that Monarch that the underwritten again demands from your Noble and Great Highnesses an immediate and proper satisfaction for the insult; and his Majesty moreover enjoins me to inform you, that he will always insist on this satisfaction, and that he will not be content with the discussion of actions, with vague excuses, nor any further delay.
“The King does not forget the regard due to the republic of the United Provinces, and to the illustrious assembly of the States-General, which represent the Sovereign of the State; his Majesty is pleased to applaud with gratitude and sensibility the visible disavowal their High Mightinesses have manifested with regard to the measures adopted in Holland concerning the affair which has given occasion to the present memorial. The testimonies of friendship which the King and his august predecessors have always shown to the republic of the United Provinces on many interesting and critical occasions authorise his Majesty to expect a just return of regard and satisfaction for the insult in question, which the underwritten is charged again to notify to you. It is from your prudence, Noble and Great Lords, and from the renewal of your further deliberations on this subject, that the King expects an immediate and satisfactory answer.
(Signed) DE THULEMEYER.
Hague, August 6, 1787.
August 14. The following Memorial was presented to the States General by Sir James Harris, Envoy Extraordinary from his Britannic Majesty:
“High and Mighty Lords, The King, animated with the truest and most sincere sentiments of friendship for your High Mightinesses, cannot without extreme pain see the continuation of the unfortunate troubles which subsist in the republic of the United Provinces; and which by their continuation threaten the most grievous consequences.
“The memorials which the underwritten Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary has presented to your High Mightinesses since he had the honor to reside here, have shown that the King his master, as a good friend and neighbour of the Republic, has never ceased desiring to see peace re-established; and his Majesty will be always disposed to co-operate on his part, in such manner as your High Mightinesses may judge proper.
“His Majesty having observed, that the States of the Provinces of Zealand and Friesland have declared their disposition to ask the mediation of some neighbouring powers (in case that your High Mightinesses judge such intervention necessary) and that of Zealand has called to mind, on this occasion, the repeated assurances which the King has given of his friendship for the United Provinces: The underwritten has express orders to assure your High Mightinesses that his Majesty has constantly strongly at heart the re-establishment of the tranquillity of the Republic, the preservation of the true constitution, and the maintenance of the just rights and privileges of all its members. His Majesty feels the greatest satisfaction in having reason to think that the internal means, furnished by the constitution itself, have power sufficient to accomplish so salutary an object. But at the same time, if your High Mightinesses are decided, that it is necessary to recur to a foreign mediation, and to invite his Majesty; then, in natural consequence of his affection and of his good will for the Republic, the King will be eager to prove to your High Mightinesses, his sincere desire to employ all the care that may depend on his Majesty to bring the negotiation to a happy, solid and permanent issue.
JAMES HARRIS.
August 19. Yesterday we received an account that the auxiliary camp at Woerden had struck their tents, and were marching down by the Rhine.—In the evening we received further accounts that they were pursuing their march, apparently towards the Hague, upon which ten men per company were ordered to be under arms, and a detachment sent to Hoornbrug, with strict orders not to let any armed men pass, and to repulse force by force.
This morning the council committee assembled, and resolved to cause the militia to encamp round the Hague, and to leave the detachment at Hoornbrug, with orders to let the auxiliaries pass but not towards the Hague.
A considerable part of the garrison, both horse and foot, are encamped in the mall, and several detachments posted on the road. All these precautions clearly show the general ferment that prevails. The Magistracy have been assembled & the Burgher Captains have requested to have their different corps under arms, and they were accordingly all ordered to be ready at a moment's warning, and furnished with a good number of rounds of ball cartridges. Various are the reports spread, upon these circumstances, and the populace seem quite ripe for the commission of excesses.
We learn that General Vander Dussen, Governor of Bois-le-Duc, sent a letter to the Council of State, informing them, that for some days past many French soldiers, in troops of ten or twelve, furnished with passports from M. d'Esterhazy, General of the French artillery, and furloughs, to go into a foreign country for a year, have passed through that place in their way to Gorinchem.—Upon this four provinces have resolved not to receive the above men; at the same time four provinces resolved to put a stop to the enlisting of men for the province of Holland, and to give notice to that province to cease enlisting, as being a concern which only regards the generality.
The following is copied verbatim from an old Shrewsbury paper. It is worthy of the Dublin Journal.
“Lost, where it was dropt yesterday afternoon, between nine and ten o'clock, betwixt Atcham and this town, an empty poke with a cheese in it. The poke was marked L. D. but the letters are worn out. Any person or persons having found the same, shall be handsomely rewarded for returning them to the owner.
“N. B. The man who lost it never missed it till it was gone.”
August 10. The States of Holland, in full assembly at the Hague, published an edict the 30th ult. strictly forbidding, as surveyor of Holland, all persons whatever from quitting the province, or going into other States with their effects, under pretence of flying for safety, the States being themselves of sufficient ability to protect their subjects; adding thereto, that in time of public disaster it was the duty of every good citizen to continue at home, and add his endeavors to the defence of his country.
Various private accounts inform us, that the city of Utrecht was invested by the Stadholder's army on the evening of the 3d inst. whereby that city is closely blockaded. The foreign prints are silent upon this head—the strongest confirmation of this important event is, that the Utrecht mail, which was to have arrived as usual with the other Dutch mails, has not arrived—from this we may judge, that the place is totally inclosed with the Stadholder's troops, and that all egress and ingress is obstructed in consequence.
It was reported yesterday, that the van of the Prussian army, consisting of 20,000 men, had entered Holland, and the remainder of the Prussian army was following as fast as possible, with the determined resolution of replacing the Stadholder in all his former rights, privileges, and immunities; that the most sensible and intelligent had little doubt but peace and tranquillity would soon be restored, without farther bloodshed; but that at present the utmost confusion prevails.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Sept. 1.
Yesterday morning about one o'clock there was a most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning accompanied with violent gusts of wind from the S. E. and heavy rains: The pitchy darkness of the morning added horror to the scene, yet, although many persons were filled with the most acute apprehensions, we have the satisfaction to remark that no accounts are received of any damage being sustained.
In the eye of reason and philosophy, remarks a correspondent, such elemental commotions as those of yesterday, will be looked upon rather as benefits than evils, without them our atmosphere might retain a load of pestilential vapours which would render life a burthen scarcely to be borne; yet, so truly horrid is the appearance, that we are tempted to exclaim, “Mercy sweet Heaven.” The good man may indeed sit secure amid the storms of fate, but to the Usurer, to the enemy of his species, we will cry
“Tremble thou wretch That hast within thee undiscover'd crimes! Hide that bloody hand, ——— Thou perjur'd villain, holy hypocrite, That drink'st the widow's tears; high now and cry These dreadful summoners grace!
Sept. 8. The Spanish brig which arrived last Saturday from Leguira, on the Spanish Main, was overtaken by a gale of wind during her passage to this island, which obliged the Captain to throw upwards of forty horses and mules overboard to lighten the vessel.
On Wednesday last the brig Mississippi, Antonio Dulargue, from the Mississippi, put into this port in distress. Captain Dulargue was 45 days at sea, and during that period, had to encounter very stormy and tempestuous weather.
The brig James, Taylor, for Liverpool, which failed from Port-Royal last Monday morning, sprung a very dangerous leak in a very few hours after she left that harbour, which, notwithstanding every exertion of the Captain and crew, gained on them in such a degree as to endanger not only the loss of the cargo, but the lives of every person on board, and obliged the Captain to run the vessel ashore in Old Harbour bay, the first port which afforded him a prospect of safety. Fortunately no lives were lost, but the cargo, consisting chiefly of sugar, ginger and cotton, is entirely destroyed, and the vessel most probably be unfit ever to proceed to sea again.
A certain attorney being indebted to a Jew in the sum of seven shillings and six pence, a summons was obtained by the Jew, which not being complied with, a distress warrant was granted, and a levy made on three mahogany chairs. The attorney reprieved the chairs, and the Israelite defended the action. This cause came on at the court of Common Pleas on Wednesday, when it terminated in favor of the Jew, whose demand, we understand, will amount to about eight pounds for damages and costs.
BASSETERRE, August 10. The following is extracted from a late Dominica Paper.
S T O R M.
Early on Friday morning last, a sudden squall from the south west, and at last due west, attended with lightning and thunder, was felt severely in Roseau, and the island in general. The shipping in the road, so far as we can learn, have received considerable damage, but we have heard of no other than the following:
The ship John, Captain Woodville, belonging to Liverpool, last from Africa, is on shore at Morne Daniel.
The Lovely Nancy, belonging to Septimus Nibbs, Esq. under the fort.
The sloop John, belonging to Stephen Beves, Esq. drove on shore opposite the market.
Mr. Tilsen's Little Ben is bilged at Charlotte Ville.
The schooner Fairy, aground, but not got off.
Mr. Barry's sloop on shore at Woodbridge's Bay, a wreck.
Mr. Batte's flat with ten hogheads of sugar, and Mr. Barclay's flat of thirteen hogheads of ditto are both on shore.
A French schooner, laden with sugar, entirely lost in Woodbridge's Bay, and two French sloops.
The petticoat Margaret and Judith, and several small boats, &c. are also on shore in Roseau Bay.
The storm began at two, and abated at half past four o'clock.
Report says the storm was also severely felt at Martinico, where upwards of twenty vessels were lost.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, Oct. 9.
Sunday arrived the brig Bolton Packet, Captain Edward Davis, in 42 days from London. By this brig we have received English papers as late as the 10th of August.
Same day a ship from Demarara, said to be British property, anchored in our port.
Captain Scott, in the ship Neptune, for this port, left the Downs in company with Captain Davis, but soon after parted in a gale of wind.
Upwards of an hundred sail of vessels, for different parts of the world, left the Downs at the same time.
Captain Cushing, of the brig Favourite, arrived in the Thames, from this port, the day Captain Davis failed.
The Tristram, Captain Warner, from Rhode-Island, arrived at London the latter end of July.
NEWPORT, October 4.
A correspondent informs that we are in a falling state.—That our credit is falling—our commerce is falling, and both of them have almost fallen through:—That our General Assembly not long since fell through—our Superior Court lately fell through, and that if they, whose duty it is to uphold and support the State, don't hold by the other States, even the State itself will fall through, and great will be the fall thereof.—It will fall to rise no more.
The author of the lively piece in the Providence Gazette of Sept. 29—occasioned by the consecration of a new church in New-London by Bishop Seabury, is desired to inform the public what he meant by the following expressions in said piece:—“Whilst those concerned in sacred things take heed to themselves and their doctrines, enter not into the labours of others, do not attempt to insult each other by assuming new titles, or borrowing plumes from others.”—What ministers are they who have entered into the labours of others, have insultingly assumed new titles, or borrowed others plumes?—Such insinuations do not tend to promote a conederation against vice and irreligion.
New-York, October 16.
An individual, who never has been, nor has any ambition at present to be honored by marks of public distinction, has sent the following:
“Should the citizens of America ratify the proceedings of the Convention, the happy event will form an epocha more peculiar in its nature, more felicitating in its consequence, and more interesting to the philosophic mind, than ever the political history of man has displayed. Where is the country in which the principles of civil liberty and jurisprudence are so well understood as in this? and where has ever such an assembly of men been deputed for such a purpose?—To see an assemblage of characters, most

of them illustrious for their integrity, patriotism & abilities, representing many sovereign States; framing a system of government for the whole, in the midst of a profound peace; unembarrassed by any unfavourable circumstances abroad, uninfluenced by any selfish motives at home; but making the most generous concessions to each other for the common welfare, and directing their deliberations with the most perfect unanimity—To see a constitution of government thus formed, and fraught with wisdom, economy and foresight, adapted to the political habits of their constituents, to the state of society and civilization, to the peculiar circumstances of their country, and to those enlightened sentiments of freedom and toleration, so dear to all good men—And, finally, to see this constitution ratified and adopted by several millions of people, inhabiting an extensive country, not from any coercion, but from mere principles of propriety, wisdom and policy—These are objects too great and too glorious to be viewed with common admiration and delight: the idea alone is animating to every bosom susceptible of the emotions of patriotism or philanthropy: the attempt alone reflects a dignity upon human nature, and the execution secures freedom and public happiness to remote posterity.
This great event will disclose the meaning of those many astonishing providences which gave timely aid to American arms in the just struggle for independence. From this it will appear, that these were not intended to usher in, upon this recent theatre of cultivated humanity, the horrors of domestic jarring; but to establish, upon the firmest basis, union, freedom and tranquility. The prerogative of the great guardian of nations, to educe good from evil, will become illustrious. Our reproach abroad, and disarrangement at home, will but shew us, in contrast, the magnitude of our change. The light of prosperity will but shine the brighter, as just bursting from the dissipated clouds of injustice, avarice and ambition.
Let us then be of one heart, and of one mind. Let us seize the golden opportunity to secure a stable government, and to become a respectable nation. Let us be open, decided and resolute in a good cause. Let us render our situation worthy the ashes of our slaughtered brethren, and our own sufferings. Let us remember our emblem, the twisted serpent, and its emphatical motto, Unite, or Die! —This was once written in blood; but it is as emphatical now as then.—A house divided against itself cannot stand. Our national existence depends as much as ever upon our union; and its consolidation most assuredly involves our prosperity, felicity and safety.
The following remarks are handed by a correspondent as being very serious difficulties in the way of the new confederation, notwithstanding the pains which have been taken to prove, that it could not contain any thing wrong—
“A confederation, for purposes merely national, would undoubtedly be exceedingly beneficial to these States. Every one should, however, be indulged in a free, but decent examination of every proposed form.
“In general, public business would go on smoothly when the mode of doing it is conformable to the habits of the people, and when employment is found for their activity. Let us upon these principles review the newly proposed Federal Constitution.
“The several States are to be represented by a small number of persons, who, during the long period for which they are to be chosen, will be invested with almost every branch of legislative authority, and will generally reside without the States represented by them.
“Their authority will extend not only to the foreign commerce but to the internal economy of the States. They are to keep up armies within the States at all times, and to have the sole power of calling the militia into service, excepting the case of foreign invasion. The States therefore lose the right of compelling the obedience of their own subjects.
“No State will be able to pay its debts otherwise than by a dry tax; imposts and excises being applied wholly to continental purposes. The several States are not allowed to certify their own debts, even without making their bills a tender.
“Titles of land in many cases are to be tried by a continental court. This gives the national government unequal authority in different States, and creates different interests. Some States will lose their whole jurisdiction over real estates; and the large State of Vermont will be excluded from the union.
“These are great difficulties and ought to be well weighed before the system is adopted, which will forever put it out of our power to remedy them, otherwise than by force of arms. Our people are every day coalescing under a wise and moderate, but firm, government. Let us not hastily divide them.
“Thanks are due to the gentlemen who have come so near the truth in a matter of such importance to us all. But it will probably be found necessary to have this system carefully revised and corrected, before it will be perfect, and be likely to promote the happiness of any State in the union; as it does not at present conform to their established habits.”
A set of gentlemen lately travelling in the interior parts of South Carolina, were, benighted in a in such a storm as if the jarring elements had combined for their destruction—even hope was nearly extinguished; but when despair had almost risen to the summit, they beheld that foul cheering light to forlorn travellers—a light. To it they repaired, with jocund hopes of finding an asylum from the storm. When they came to the place, it was a little cottage, half uncovered; around a little fire were crouched the landlord, his wife and four children, and whilst the pealing thunder roared portentous over their heads, and through each open place the teeming rain descended, the host unconcernedly thrummed a tune on a little kit, the strings of which were half broken. Our travellers were so astonished at this sight, that they forgot their wretched plight in admiration. Good God! exclaimed one, what can possibly be the reason that you do not thatch your house? Why, because it rains. Well, but, says another, why do you not cover it in fair weather? Because, Sir, then you know (still playing on) you know then there will be no occasion.
It is with a noble and patriotic pride that America boasts of her Barlows , her Dwights , her Trumbulls , & her Humpbrey s, the poetic luminaries of Connecticut. She also boasts of her Washington s, her Adams s, and her Dickens ons, in politics—her Franklins , her Wintbrops , and her Rittenhouse s, in philosophy—her Jefferson s, in natural history—and her Ramseys , in political history—all American original literary characters.—Let the learned of our country, like them,
no longer shine in borrowed beams, but in their own native lustre, independent and uncontrouled by that servile imitation which led the Abbe Raynal to suppose the human mind depressed in America; and we may convince Europe that the Abbe was mistaken, and that America can be as independent in the achievements of genius in all kinds of literature, as she is in politics—Let us encourage literary genius wherever we find it.—Let us think for ourselves, and make our own books in all the sciences—Nothing will serve more to accomplish an object so desirable, and so honorable to our country, than patronizing American publications in general, and especially those independent essays in literature which really have merit.
We are happy to inform the public, that SAMUEL W. JOHNSON, L. L. D. has accepted of the Presidency of Columbia College, to which he was some time ago unanimously elected.
Extract of a letter from Rossau (Dominica) dated August 29, 1787.
“This morning, about 4 o'clock, came on a severe gale from the N. W. attended with thunder, lightning and heavy rain, and blew with uncommon fury, till about half past five; when it abated for a short time, but about 6 came round to the S. W. and raged with additional violence till past 7. The melancholy effects of this storm are but too visible in our streets, and on the coast, to need our description. For the information of those further removed from the scene of destruction (and we almost dread to hear the accounts from the country) we shall observe that scarce a street in town but what exhibits several marks of its fury: Some houses totally destroyed, others unroofed; & from the want of lumber & vessels to send for it to the neighbouring islands, the persons and properties of many of the inhabitants must for some time remain exposed to the weather, at this unfavourable season, when the rains are heavy and frequent.
“The ship Canton , which escaped the last gale, lies stranded on the beach, near the river; the brig Henry and Eliza , which suffered so severely, and rode out the storm of the 23d, was forced from her anchors and dismasted; we have, however, since learned that she fetched Prince Rupert's bay: The brig Queen Charlotte , got out to sea, and has since returned to port with the loss of her foremast.
“The garrison on Bruce's Hill felt the storm with inconceivable severity; and perhaps none but those who were in it can form an idea of the horrors of the scene. Nothing could withstand the fury of the gale, and one block house stripped of its covering with another almost down, and the magazine, constitutes the whole of the remaining buildings. We are happy to find that there is yet no account of any lives being lost; though some of the officers and several of the men are severely wounded. Of the former number are Capt. Matterton , and Lieut. Gore ; the latter so violently as to be for a long time speechless; and is still in a very dangerous situation. The long range of officer's barracks gave way early; a part of the wreck of which struck Captain Breneron's horse, and killed him; having broke his back and otherwise shockingly bruised him, as did the scattered fragments several other horses on the hill.
“The left of the head-quarters was tore off, and carried to some distance whilst M. Campbell was in it; who was with difficulty extricated from the ruins; when to the honor of the feelings of that gentleman, his first care was with the most tender solicitude to seek for, and relieve a faithful grenadier, who had stood by, and assisted him through the whole of the scene of devastation and distress; which he fortunately effected. The hill now exhibits the most melancholy scene of desolation: It is indeed one of those objects well calculated to awaken the sensualist from the stupor of self-gratification, to contemplate, and share in the misfortunes of his fellow-mortals; and he must be possessed of a breast of a texture somewhat approximating unto marble or adamant, who could survey such a scene of havoc and devastation unmoved. At such a fight, the bosom of sensibility will feast in the luxury of participation of woes not immediately its own; and the conduits of sympathy will yield the tribute of a tear.”
Arrivals since our Last.
Ship Grace , Armour , Amsterdam . Brig Marquis de Bancefonce , Squires , Teneriffe . Sloop John and Jane , Johnston , Shelburne . Sloop Delight , Lorette , Halifax .
For the New-York Packet.
A Few Thoughts by a friend to the UNITED STATES.
GREAT as the burdens of Britain are, and numerous and heavy as her taxes are, yet there is not the hundredth part of the complaints that there are in America: Herewith a few of them are handed you, these are only part of the whole. Suffice it to say, that Britain's debt is about 250 millions sterling, the interest of which is about ten millions sterling, and that the other expences of government, including the million to the King, the numerous pensioners, &c. amount to near ten millions more, which is about fifty shillings a head, raised upon every individual in Great-Britain. The Americans are too well, and they know it not. A short abstract published in your papers now & then of the British taxes, would convince them how easily they are taxed. The newspapers seem more and more to be filled with the dismal situation of your affairs, and particularly of the weakness and impotency of Congress. It is thought you can never become wealthy and independent, as long as you want manufactures; the produce of land however rich, is not able to maintain a numerous body of people without their manufacture some articles, and it will be impossible for you to do so, unless you load the importations from Europe with higher duties. It will be improper to attempt to manufacture in the extent it is carried on in any of the European States; I only mean, that a few of the bulky articles for which the country is most fitted should be manufactured, & similar importations from Europe loaded with higher duties; it will be some hundred years, before the Americans can ever expect to manufacture in the extent that Britain does at present. In Britain, we expect from the flourishing state of our manufactures, that we will draw most of the money of Europe and American into our Island. If any
State in America was able to make some articles, and such as leather and shoes for instance, they ought to increase the duty on that article if imported; their Assembly ought at the same time, to grant a bounty on the exportation of their own manufactures, and a premium also to the person that makes the greatest quantity of them for home consumption. In this manner every article ought to be encouraged.
Edinburgh, July 30, 1787.
*** The Sale of the Lands belonging to the estate of the late Lieutenant-Governor Colden, advertised for some time in this paper, is postponed for a fortnight. In the mean time, any person inclining to make a purchase of any part of those lands, may apply to Mr. Colden, No. 73, King-street.
New-York, Oct. 10, 1787.
Five Dollars Reward,
RUN away from the Subscriber, an Apprentice Boy, named Wm. Hellem Ireland, 19 years of age, about 5 feet 5 inches; had on when he went away, a short brown jacket and blue under waistcoat, also, brown fulian overalls. Whoever will bring the said boy to his master, will receive the above reward. NICH. PITTS.
October 16.
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FOR SALE,
By Robert Johnston,
No. 14, Water-Street , in the house formerly occupied by Col. Samuel Ogden ; a large and general assortment of IRON CASTINGS , among which are the following, viz.
IRON hollow ware of all sizes, potash kettles cast with bottom down, clock and window weights, griddles, tea kettles large and small, lake pans, do. cart, waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes, 56, 28, 14 and 7lb. weights, finished with rings; mortars and pestles, sad irons, Franklin stoves large and small, Rittenhouse do. ten and six plate do. close stoves with pipes, Sharp's new invented stove grates, Canada stoves close cast for large rooms, caboose for ships of different patterns, fire places with jambs compleat, back plates of every dimension, Hibernia, Mount Hope, New Mine, Andover pig metal; gudgeons and mill irons, refined and blooming bar iron, nail and spike rods, iron hoops, horse shoes, sheet iron, 20d. 12d. rod. & 8d. nails, Crowley's and blistered steel.—Cash or country produce will be taken in payment, and large allowance made to those who buy to sell again.
All orders for wrought or cast iron, will be duly attended to, and forwarded agreeable to pattern at the shortest notice. 41
PURSUANT to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, “An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors,” passed the 4th of April, 1786; notice is hereby given, that we Robert Bowne , John Murray , and John Murray, jun. have been duly appointed trustees for all the creditors of Ebenezer Gearey , the elder, of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut, Ebenezer Gearey , the younger, now or late of Basinghall-street in London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, Henry Champion of Norwich, in the State of Connecticut aforesaid, Eneas Gearey , late of the city of New-York, merchants, and partners in trade, absent debtors; and we do, pursuant to the directions of the said act, hereby require all persons who are indebted to the said Ebenezer Gearey , the elder, Ebenezer Gearey , the younger, Henry Champion , and Eneas Gearey , by the tenth day of November next ensuing the date hereof, to pay all such sum or sums of money, or other debt, duty or thing which they owe to the said absent debtors; and deliver all effects of such absent debtors, which he, she or they may have in his, her or their hands, power or custody, unto us the said trustees; and all the creditors of the said Ebenezer Gearey , the elder, Ebenezer Gearey , the younger, Henry Champion , and Eneas Gearey , by the first day of May next, to deliver to us the said trustees, or any one or more of us, their respective accounts and demands against the said absent debtors. Given under our hands the 13th day of October, 1787.
ROBERT BOWNE, JOHN MURRAY, JOHN MURRAY, jun. } Trustees.
PURSUANT to an order of the Orphans Court, for the county of Morris, there will be sold by way of public vendue, on Wednesday the 31st day of October next, at 3 o'clock P. M. at the house of Benjamin Freeman , in Morris-town —ALL that valuable FARM, late the property of George Phillips , deceased, whereon the said deceased lately lived; and also, about 31 acres of Land adjoining the said farm, on the road that leads from Mr. Kemble's to Chatham . Jonas Phillips, Silas Gadiel, } Adminrs.
September 25, 1787. N. B. The above is that noted excellent farm that Alexander Robertson possessed during the war. 41
JOSEPH DONEGANY, FROM PHILADELPHIA,
BEGS leave to inform the public that he has took a shop in Smith-street , No. 54. where he intends carrying on the business of THERMOMETER AND BAROMETER MAKING, in all its various branches during his stay in this city, which he expects will be for two or three months at the longest, as he intends to return to Philadelphia, where he carries on the above branch of business.
Said Donegany makes and sells Hydrostatical Glass Bubbles for proving spirits, most accurately adjusted; also Hydrometers for the same purpose. He has also for sale, a great variety of glasses as well for useful as entertaining experiments.
October 15.
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TO BE SOLD,
A PHAETON, ENTIRELY new, with Harness complete, finished in the neatest manner.—Apply to the Printers. 38 8
CONSTANT COOPER,
Post-Rider from Morris-Town to New-York, RETURNS his most sincere thanks to the gentlemen his employers, and the public in general, for their past favors, and hopes to merit a continuance of them by a steady and faithful discharge of his duty.—The better to enable him to perform the business, he desires that all letters or other commands may be left at the store of Mr. Israel Canfield , in Morris-Town , every Tuesday evening; and those from the Furnaces, or elsewhere, to be left at Mr. Bernard Smith's , or Col. Benjamin Thompson's stores in Rockaway , by 12 o'clock on every Tuesday as aforesaid.—All dispatches in New-York for the country, it is desired may be left at Mr. Hugh Gaine's , Hanover-square , or at Capt. Ezekiel Crane's , near Paulus-hook ferry , at or before nine o'clock every Thursday morning, as he precisely at that hour leaves the city.
In his route he will call at Mr. Gray's store, Hanover ; Capt. William Ely's , Canoe-brook ; and Mr. Joseph Brown's store, in Newark ; where all letters deposited will be received, and carefully delivered by him.
He begs leave also to assure the gentlemen, that the business has hitherto been of no real advantage to him, which he doubts not but most of them are very sensible of. As a trifling additional encouragement, he expects in future an allowance of one shilling per pound on all extra weights; and such as are not subscribers will be pleased to pay eight pence on each letter, at the receipt of the same, and a punctual delivery may be depended on. If money should be entrusted, he expects the gentlemen who commit their business to his charge, will not object to paying the small sum of a penny-half-penny per pound on the delivery.
Morris-Town, Sept. 18, 1787.
40 2
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be Sold by the Printers hereof, The Columbian Almanack,
AND EPHEMERIS
Of the Motion of the Sun and Moon; the true Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; the Rising, Setting, and Southing of the Moon,
For the YEAR of our LORD,
1788:
Being Bissextile, or Leap-Year, and the twelfth of American Independence.
Calculated for the Meridian of the Middle States, particularly New-York.
Containing also,
The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Judgment of the Weather, Rising and Setting of the Planets, Length of Days and Nights, Courts, Roads, &c. Together with useful Tables, and Pieces of Instruction and Entertainment, &c. &c.
By ANDREW BEERS, PHILOM.
Just imported in the Jeane , Capt. Martin , from Glasgow ,
By SAMUEL CAMPBELL,
No. 44, Hanover-square , corner of the Old-ship,
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. Mils Grenville , anew novel, 3 vol. Araspas, or the Wanderer , 2 vol. Maria, or the Generous Rustic ; Millar on Insurance ; 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.
(Price four shillings in boards)
These travels are at this time more read, particularly in Britain , France , Germany , and Holland , than any production that has appeared for some years. Upwards of ten thousand copies were sold in London in less than three months. The Baron's adventures at Gibraltar are not published in the French and Dutch editions, but are given in full length in this impression.
DR. SWEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different stage. The third edition, corrected, (price only five shillings.)
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it given 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.
October 6, 1787.
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New-York RUM,
OF excellent flavour and good proof,—for Sale by Charles Tillinghast , at the Distillery near the New-market, in Cherry-street , and nearest the Ship-yards.
SH R U B,
OF the very best quality, by the hoghead, barrel, or smaller quantity,—for Sale by Charles Tillinghast , at his house nearly opposite the New-market, in Cherry-street .
October 3.
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POET'S CORNER.
HORACE, Book II. Ode III.
IMITATED.
Æquam memento rebus in arduis.
OF FRIEND, amid this transient scene Of intermingled joy and wo,
Whether involv'd in thought you sit, And pensive muse the hours away; Or, 'midst the flow of wine and wit, At ease indulge the festal day;
Within your favourite bower reclin'd, Around where freshest odours breathe, Where varied shades aloft are twin'd, And limpid waters purr beneath;
Here be the sparkling goblet crown'd, The liberal board with garlands dress'd: Be short liv'd roses scatter'd round, While fate permits you to be bles't.
Too soon your villa's stately pride, And all the useless wealth you spare, Your spreading lawns, and meadows wide, Shall go to glut some unknown heir.
All mortal born, alike our doom: The prince, the peasant and the slave, Alike all journey to the tomb: In dust all mingle in the grave.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates:" That on Saturday the 23d day of February next, will be Sold at the Merchants Coffee-House in the city of New-York, between the hours of eleven in the morning, and one in the afternoon of the same day, by public auction, to the highest bidder or bidders; ALL that certain piece or parcel of Land, situate lying & being in the outward of the city of New-York, being the one equal half of lots number 1242 to 1249 inclusive, as the same are described in a certain map or chart of the estate late the property of James Delancey, Esq. made by Evert Bancker, bounded southerly by Pump-street, westerly by Sixth-street, northerly by lot number 1250, and easterly by the other equal half of the said hereby described lots, sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, to Peter Ogilvie: And also, a term of nineteen years from the 27th day of October last, of and in all that certain lot, piece or parcel of ground, situate lying and being in Montgomery Ward, in the said city of New-York, on the north side of Cherry-street, bounded southerly by said Cherry-street, westerly by land now or late of Jane Hamilton, northerly by the lands of the heirs of Albert Herring, deceased, and easterly by land of Jeremiah Leaming, containing in breadth in front and rear, 16 feet 8 inches, and in length on each side, 100 feet, subject to an annual ground rent of 20l. in Spanish milled dollars, at eight shillings per dollar, or the value thereof in gold, payable half yearly; which premises and term were mortgaged by John Keating and Ann his wife, to Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, by indenture bearing date the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, to secure the payment of three hundred and forty-two pounds three shillings and four pence, principal, with lawful interest from the twenty-sixth day of February, 1785, and are to be sold by virtue of a power for that purpose, contained in the said indenture.—The conditions will be made known at the day and place of sale. Dated 26th August, 1787. I 25 6m
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, 1774, entitled, "An Act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Friday the fourth day of January next, will be sold on the premises to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all the three Tracts of Land, now in the possession of Andrew Miller, lying in the township of Brook-Haven, in Suffolk county, on Nassau island, and bounded as follows: One tract, on the north by lands belonging to John Woodhull, Esq. on the west by lands belonging to Timothy and Ebenezer Miller, on the east by the fourth road, and on the south by the sheep pasture lots.—Also, one other tract, bounded, on the north by the wading river road, on the west by lands lately belonging to the late Solomon Davis, and on the east by lands belonging to Philip Rod, and southwardly by the country road, containing about a hundred and fifty acres more or less.—Also, one other piece or parcel of land, already mortgaged to Phillip Rod, bounde, southerly by the road, and eastwardly by lands belonging to John Woodhull, westerly by lands belonging to Ebenezer Miller, northwardly by the bank on the sound, containing about forty acres be the same more or less, with the buildings thereon, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-ninth and thirtieth days of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, for securing the payment of two hundred and thirteen pounds, twelve shillings (with a power of sale therein contained) from the said Andrew Miller, to William Floyd. Deeds of conveyance after sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Wm. FLOYD. June 30, 1787. I 11 6m
NOTICE is hereby given according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony, now State of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 19th day of March 1774; That on Monday the 8th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction, the Lands described in a certain indenture of mortgage, executed by Jonathan Fish and Elizabeth his wife, now both deceased, to Thomas Candell, deceased, dated the 3d day of September 1770, as follows, to wit: ALL and singular the Lands, meadows and premises devised to him by his father Samuel Fish, jun. lately deceased, to wit: ALL the cleared land and meadow which he formerly and latterly bought of John Renne, with all the buildings, erections, fences and improvements thereon; also, the north-easterly half part of wood-land which he bought of John Renne, deeming and estimating all on the south side of the fence there standing on the north side of the said wood-land, as wood-land; notwithstanding a small parcel thereof between the fence and the woods is cleared, with the liberty to pass and repass through the other part of his land thereto, and from the easterly or north-easterly half so devised to him, his heirs and assigns to cart his wood or otherwise—he also gave and devised to his son Jonathan Fish, his heirs and assigns for ever, all the homestead lands, buildings and improvements which he formerly bought of Capt. Nathaniel Lawrence, since deceased, as the same was then included within fence, be the same in quantity more or less;—and also, four acres of salt-meadow, which he lately purchased of the Widow Langdon, lying near Flushing creek, in New-Town aforesaid;—also, about forty acres of upland which he lately bought of John White, adjoining to the land of Jonathan Furman and Samuel Waldron, jun.—and also, one equal third part of his right in Juniper-swamp, and the land he bought of Nathaniel Lawrence, is bounded northerly on the road that leads from New-Town to Jamaica, westerly by land belonging to Samuel and Richard Fish, & southerly by wood-land belonging to Samuel Fish, and easterly by Samuel Renne, and the said land or meadow he bought of John Renne as aforesaid, is bounded northerly by the road that leads from New-Town to Fish's mill, westerly by the common burying place, and a piece of fresh meadow belonging to Richard Fish, southerly by a creek and easterly by meadow belonging to William Betts; and the land he bought of John White is bounded as follows, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the limits of New-Town, containing by estimation forty acres, be the same more or less, and is butted and bounded as follows:—north-easterly by a high-way leading from New-Town to South, north-easterly by a high way that leads to Fresh Pond so called, south-easterly by the same road which extends to the Hills so called, and south-westwardly by land of Jonathan Morrell (the third) & Thomas Morrell, jun. which sale will be made on the premises, part of which is now in the occupation of Jonathan Underhill and Cornelius Hyatt, and proper deeds of conveyances will be executed by the Subscriber, to which the heir at law will be a party. MARY CANDELL, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of THOMAS CANDELL, deceased. I 34 6m March 29, 1787.
NOTICE is hereby given according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774:—That on the 25th day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction upon the premises, the fee simple of all the one equal fourth part of all that certain messuage and Lot of Ground situate lying and being in Montgomery-ward, in the city of New-York, on the northeasterly side of the slip commonly called Beckman's-slip, and bounded on the front to the street or pier that runs along the said northeasterly side of Beckman's slip aforesaid, and contains in front 46 feet 3 inches, and bounded on the southerly side by the ground now or late belonging to James Jauncey, and containing in length on that side, 36 feet 3 inches, and in the rear by the lot of ground now or late belonging to George Peterson, and containing in length in the rear, 36 feet, then bounded northerly 19 feet 6 inches on the kitchen or building lately belonging to Catharine Beckman, then bounded northeasterly by the said kitchen, 10 feet 9 inches, & bounded northerly by the gangway lying between the house hereby granted and released and the house or northerly side thereof lately belonging to the said Catharine Beckman as aforesaid, to the front of the said lot, together with all & singular the privileges, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the same premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the 9th and 10th days of December, in the year of our Lord 1784, with a power to sell therein contained, from James William Payne, of the county of Dutchess and State of New-York, to the subscribers Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart and Alexander Stewart, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart, Alexander Stewart. New-York, Sept. 21, 1787. I 33
To be SOLD, THAT elegant new three story Brick HOUSE, No. 217, Water-street, fronting the Old-slip; it is completely finished from the cellar to the garret, a very fit stand for a merchant; it is now in the possession of Mr. Walter Buchanan.—Also, the two story house adjoining, No. 6, fronting the Old-slip, fit for a small family or store. These two houses will be sold together or separate, as may suit the purchaser, and the terms of payment made easy. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, at No. 68, Maiden-lane. ABM. P. LOTT. 23
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers, pursuant to an act, entitled, "An act for the speedy sale of the unappropriated LANDS within this State, and for the purposes therein mentioned," passed the 5th day of May, 1786, intend to apply to the Commissioners of the Land-office, for a grant, of the lands under the water of Hudson's river, at Rhinebeck precinct, in the county of Dutchess from the east bank of the said river to the channel thereof, and to include the lands in front and opposite to our several and respective lots. Dated at Red-Hook, the 9th day of September, 1787. Jacob Bogardus, John Reade, Nicholas Hoffman, jun. Anthony Hoffman. I 33 6
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the late Colony, now State of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates." That on the second day of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at public auction, at the Merchants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, all that certain dwelling house and lot of land, now in the tenure and occupation of Peter Kemble, situated lying and being, on the west side of Smith-street, in the city of New-York aforesaid, bounded on the east by said Smith-street, on the north by the house and lot of ground formerly of Charles Lodowick, but now of the heirs or devisees of the late David Clarkson, deceased, and by another lot of ground belonging to the reformed Dutch Church, in the said city of New-York, on the south by a house and ground, late of the widow Bend, but at present in the occupation of John Oothoudt, and on the west by land now or late belonging to the heirs of the late Alderman Gaultier; together also, with all that certain piece or parcel of land, being westerly and in the rear of a lot of land, formerly owned by the said widow Bend, which said lot is in breadth, in front and rear twenty-two feet, in length on the southwesterly side, sixty-one feet and one inch, on the northeasterly side, fifty-nine feet eleven inches; which said lot was mortgaged on the 29th day of March, 1781, by Grove Bend to the subscriber, to secure the payment of one thousand pounds, with lawful interest, on the 29th day of March, then next ensuing. The conditions of sale will be made known on the day of the vendue. Dated this 27th day of July, 1787. I 19 6m JOHN LEAKE.
Notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Matthias Woodruff, Jedediah Rogers, Ezekiel Gillam, Naval Heath and Nathaniel Salmon, insolvent debtors, now confined in the gaol of the county of Morris; that they be and appear before two or more of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the said county of Morris, at the Court-house in Morristown, in said county on Tuesday the 23d day of October next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, and shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the aforesaid insolvents estate should not be made, by them respectively, for the benefit of their creditors, and they be discharged from their confinement, &c. MATTHIAS WOODRUFF, JEDEDIAH ROGERS, EZEKIEL GILLAM, NAVAL HEATH, NATHANIEL SALMON. Dated Morris-Town, September 27, 1787. I 36 5
ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of BENJAMIN FOWLER, late of the Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New-York, farmer, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts for settlement, by the 25th day of December next; and all those indebted to the said estate, by bond note or book debt, are requested to make payment to the subscribers by the above mentioned time, as all accounts without distinction, unsettled at that time, will be put into the hands of an attorney. VINCENT FOWLER, } Executors. DENNIS POST, ISAAC VERMILLYA } Yonkers, September 22, 1787. 36 4
Advertisement. STOLEN out of the pasture of the Subscriber, on the night of the 13th inst. a likely chestnut coloured MARE, about seven years old, 14 hands high, lofty carriage, trots and canters very handsomely, a white strip in the face, light coloured hind feet and hoof before. Whoever takes up said mare and thief, so that he may be brought to justice, and the mare returned to the subscriber, shall receive Twenty Dollars for their trouble, from Hamilton M Collister, Living at Salem, formerly White Creek. Sept. 14, 1787. N.B. Said mare was formerly owned by Mr. George Reab, of Albany. 36 3
THOMAS MAULE, No. 40, Hanover-Square, HAS received by the America, from London, and the Ann and Susan, from Liverpool, a variety of FALL GOODS, Which he will sell on very reasonable Terms, viz. COATINGS, plains, broad-cloths, ferges, blankets, baizes, flannels, tamies, durants, wild-bores, camblets, lallings, fatinets, ribbons, gauzes, modes, suttins, lutestrings, armozenes, tassaties, black persians, florentines, sewing silk, twill, hosiery, gloves, &c. &c. September 11, 1787. 32
JOHN GLOVER, No. 49, Broad-way, HAS imported in the Hudson, from Dublin, a variety of low priced yard wide and 7-8 Irish linens, sheetings and printed handkerchiefs, which he will sell on the lowest terms. Also, a general assortment of dry goods as usual. 32
For AMSTERDAM, The Ship COLUMBIA, Chr. Chr. Vulpius, Master, Who will sail in about 14 days, the cargo being mostly engaged.—For freight or passage, apply to Brothers, Cofter and Co. No. 8, Duke-street;
Who have for Sale, just Imported, BEST Russia Duck, Looking Glasses, Holland do. Writing Paper & Slates, Ravens Duck, Frying Pans and Dutch Ticklenburg Linen, Iron Pots, Osnaburg do. Tea Kettles and Brass Holland Sheeting, Kettles, Platilles & Bretanjes, Lintseed Oil & Paints, Brown Hollandois, Black Pepper, Dowlas & Silefia Sheet- ing, Teas, An assortment of Cord- age, Holland Bed tick, Tapes and Cambric, Holland Geneva in Cotton & Linen Hand- pipes, in large and kercchiefs, small cafes and jugs, Black Laces, with many other articles. Silk Hair Ribbons and Hats, 38
WHEREAS the Co-partnership of the House of Henry Arnold Cofter, Bohl Bohlen, Hato Joachim Cofter and Herman Gerard Hanumacher, established in this city, under the firm of BROTHERS, COSTER & Co. was, on the 20th day of October last, dissolved by mutual consent; all persons having any demands against the House, are requested to furnish their accounts immediately, and those who are indebted to them, will be pleased to make payment to Henry Arnold Cofter, one of the said House, on or before the 31st day of December, or their accounts will, without distinction, be put in the hands of an Attorney; he being fully authorised to settle the same. N.B. The business, under the firm of Brothers, Cofter and Co. will in future, be carried on by Henry Arnold Cofter and C. L. Cammann. New-York, Sept. 28, 1787. 38
Mutual Assurance Company. For insuring HOUSES from LOSS by FIRE in New-York.
WHEREAS the insuring of houses and other buildings from loss by fire, has been found of great and public utility wherever it has been practiced; and although societies, have been instituted in different places, yet none have hitherto been formed in this city for that laudable and beneficent purpose.
A number of respectable citizens, as well for their own mutual security as for the common security and advantage of their neighbours and fellow-citizens, with the view of promoting the insurance of houses and other buildings from loss by fire, upon the most equal terms, and without any views of private or separate gain or interest, have established a company by the name of The Mutual Assurance Company, For Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire in New York.
The utility of an institution in its purpose so laudable, cannot fail to attract the notice of every citizen being of so great importance to the security of property and the happiness of families, that it is presumed that no person of prudence will be found to neglect it. The office is now opened at No. 57, King-street, where such persons as incline to insure their houses and other buildings, may, on application, receive every necessary information. JOHN PINTARD, Secretary. June 15, 1787. 8
To the PUBLIC. The Co-partnership of Matthew Rhodes, Timothy Rhodes, John Hebblethwaite and Samuel Hopkins, by the firm of Samuel Hopkins and Company, hath been this day dissolved by mutual consent;—if there are any demands against the co-partnership, it is requested that they be produced to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, at No. 31, Queen-street, in the city of New-York, for payment;—and all persons indebted to it, are requested to pay the amount that they owe in six months from this date, to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, otherwise their accounts must be placed in the hands of an attorney. New-York, September 25, 1787.
The said Samuel Hopkins has imported in the ship Wilson, Capt. Thompson, from Liverpool, A quantity of low-priced Woollens, Sattinets and Florentines, which he will dispose of on advantageous terms to the purchaser, for cash or short credit. 36
Wm. Backhouse & Co. No. 15, Duke-street, have FOR SALE, RED Port Wine, shipped by the Royal Port Company, the quality of whose wines, experience has shewn to be superior to any imported into America.
ALSO, Choice Faya! Wines four years old, Madeira, Lisbon, Teneriffe, & } WINES. Malaga, Liverpool Crockery Ware, twenty quarter casks old SHERRY WINE, to be sold cheap for cash. August 14. 28