The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-06-02 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 1210, of VOL. XLII.]
MONDAY, June 2, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2310.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
HARTFORD, April 28.
PROPOSALS,
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OF
Christian Theology.
By JOHN FREDERICK OSTERWALD,
A celebrated Divine of Switzerland.
Newly translated into English, from the Original
LATIN.
By the Rev. JOHN M'MAINS.
C O N T E N T S.
1. CONCERNING the nature of the Gospel Ministry.
2. The qualifications of a minister of the word of God.
3. Preparation and vocation to the ministry.
4. The Method of Theological study.
5. A general idea of theology.
6. The constituent parts of theology.
Section I. Of Christian Theology.
Concerning the Sacred Scripture.
Chap. 1. Concerning the books which constitute S. S.
2. The attributes of S. S.
3. The use of S. S.
Section II. Concerning God.
Chap. 1. Concerning the existence of God.
2. The attributes of God.
3. The holy trinity.
The first Part of Theology.
Concerning the Time which preceded the Advent of Christ.
Chap. 1. Concerning the creation.
2. Providence.
3. Sin.
4. Decrees.
5. The Antediluvian world.
6. The calling of Abraham.
7. The law of Moses.
8. The prophets.
9. The various state of the Jews.
10. The state of other nations.
The latter Part of Theology.
Concerning the Time subsequent to the Advent of Christ.
Section I. Chap. I. Concerning John the Baptist.
Section II. Concerning Jesus Christ.
Chap. 1. That Jesus is the Messiah.
2. Concerning the person of Christ.
3. His threefold office.
4. His twofold state.
Section III. Concerning the Constitution of the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning the mission of the Holy Spirit.
2. The preaching of the apostles.
3. The destruction of the Jews.
4. The calling of the Gentiles.
Section IV. Concerning the Doctrine which is preached in the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning faith.
2. Repentance.
3. Good works.
4. Promises and threatenings.
5. Justification.
6. Sanctification.
Section V. Concerning the Church.
Chap. 1. What we are to understand by the Church.
2. Church government.
3. Discipline.
4. The various state of the church.
Section VI. Concerning the Assistance to Salvation.
Chap. 1. Concerning internal assistance.
2. External assistance.
3. Sacraments.
4. Baptism.
5. The holy Supper.
Section VII. Concerning a future World.
Chap. 1. Concerning the state of man after death.
2. The end of the world.
3. The resurrection.
4. The last judgment.
5. Life Eternal.
6. Death External.
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Leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late convention, and to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
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The design of these additional letters, is, more fully to explain and enforce the positions laid down in the former. The author does not aim to foment the passions; his appeal is to the reason of his readers. He wishes every man to examine for himself, and form his own opinion on the merits of the question.
There are very few dispassionate men, who do not wish to see amendments made to this system. The great drift of these additional letters, is, to point out what these amendments ought to be, and to adduce arguments to support them.
It is a matter of small importance, whether these amendments precede or succeed the adoption of the constitution, so that they be made.
It is hoped, therefore, that gentlemen who are sincere in declaring that they wish for amendments, will unite in turning their attention to the subject, that they may be prepared to accede to such as are proper.—To those who are thus disposed, this publication is recommended.
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An Address to the people of the state
of New-York; shewing the necessity
of making AMENDMENTS to the constitution
proposed for the United States, pre-
vious to its ADOPTION."
To which is added, by way of postscript,
some strictures on a pamphlet, lately
published, entitled, "An address to the
people of the state of New-York, on the
subject of the proposed constitution, &c.
By a PLEBEIAN.
WHEREAS RICHARD BAYLIS, of
Goshen, in the county of Orange and late
colony of New-York, for security the payment of
one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings
and six-pence, current money of the state of New-
York, with lawful interest for the same, according to
the condition of a certain bond or obligation bear-
ing date the twenty fifth day of June, 1771, and
executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake,
of the city of New-York, did by indentures of
lease and release, bearing date respectively the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the
said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake:
All that certain piece or parcel of LAND, situate,
lying and being in Goshen, in the county of Orange,
known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at
the south east corner of the lands conveyed by
Ebenezer Holly to Josiah Seely, then running
north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of
Ebenezer Holly, to a ditch on the south side of
said Holly's meadow, thence south westerly along
said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south-
easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Je-
remiah Coleman to the high way, then along the
high way to the place of beginning; containing seven
acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of
land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be
granted, and released; and every part and par-
cel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, re-
mainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John
Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use
and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and
assigns for ever.—In which said indenture of re-
lease is contained a covenant, that in case it should
so happen that the said sum of one hundred and
fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with
the interest, or any part thereof should remain due
and unpaid on the 24th day of June then next
ensuing, the date of the said indenture of release
then and in such case it should and might be law-
ful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns
to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby
granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or
otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to
any person or persons for such sum or sums of money
as might be reasonably had for the same, and
out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to re-
tain and keep in his hands the said sum of one
hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and
six-pence, and the interest that might be due there-
on, together with the costs and charges of such
sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there
should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his execu-
tors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales
to be made by virtue of the said indenture of
mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to
be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law
and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis,
his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all
claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity
of redemption of the premises or any part there-
of:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by
a certain instrument in writing under his hand and
seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day
of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-
six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe
Gale, of the county of Orange and state of New-
York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage,
and all monies due and to grow due thereon, toge-
ther with all the right, title, and interest of him
the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mort-
gaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the
principal sum, together with a great arrear of in-
terest still remains due and unpaid—These are
therefore to give notice to all persons interested in
the said premises, that unless the said one hun-
dred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six
pence, together with the interest due and to grow
due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the
sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged
premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE,
to be held on the premises, on the said sixth
day of November next, at eleven o'clock in
forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the direc-
tions of a certain 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
nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hun-
dred and seventy-four.
COE GALE.
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MISCELLANY.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
"It is reason improved by experience that alone can demonstrate to nations the interest they have to be just, humane, and faithful to their promises."
[Extracted from Mr. Helvetius.]
That a knowledge of truth is always useful.
MAN always follows his interest. — It is a known fact that whether we talk or not, the conduct of man will be always the same. The publication of this truth is not therefore prejudicial. But of what utility can it be? Of the greatest.
Being once assured that man always acts in conformity to his interest the legislature may assign so many punishments to vice, and so many rewards to virtue, that every individual will find it his interest to be virtuous.
Does the legislature know that man, anxious for his preservation, exposes himself with aversion to danger? It may annex so much infamy to cowardice, and so much honor to courage, that the soldier on the day of battle will find it more his interest to fight than fly.
Suppose a man, directed solely by caprice, should dissipate his fortune and leave his children in indigence; what remedy is there for this evil? the contempt with which he ought to be treated. When man and the crimes he may commit are made known to other men, they will create laws proper to suppress those crimes*, and will at last come to connect public and private interest so closely, that men will be necessitated to virtue.
In every science, they say, a writer ought to teach out and publish the truth. Must the science of morality be an exception? what is the object of ethics? the happiness of the majority. In this respect every new truth is, as I have said, a new mean of motivating the condition of the people. Is the desire of their happiness a crime? Such an opinion cannot be maintained but by the fool void of humanity, and the knave interested in the calamities of the public.
In morality it is the truth alone that should be taught. But may we in no case substitute useful errors? There are none such; as I shall hereafter demonstrate.
Religion itself does not make a people happy. The modern Romans are a proof of this. Interest is our sole motive. Men sometimes appear to sacrifice, but never really sacrifice their happiness to that of others. The waers never remount to their source, nor man against the rapid current of his interest. He that should attempt it would be a fool. Such fools are moreover too few to have any influence on the bulk of society. If it be only required to make virtuous citizens, what need is there to have recourse to impossible and supernatural methods?
Make good laws, they alone will naturally direct the people, in the pursuit of the public advantage†. It is not the vices of intemperance and improbity, that make a people miserable, but the imperfection and consequently the stupidity of their laws. It is of little consequence that men be vicious; it is enough that they be intelligent. An awful and salutary fear will keep them within the bounds of their duty. Thieves have laws among themselves, and
* The legislature in making laws, supposes all men to be wicked, because it would have them all equally subject to those laws.
† By following the irresistible propensity they have to their private advantage.
few of them violate those laws, because they inspect and suspect each other. Laws do all. If some God say the philosophers of Siam, on this subject, were really to descend from heaven to instruct mankind in the science of morality, he would give them a good legislation, and that legislation would necessitate them to virtue. In morals as in physics, it is always in great and in simple methods, that the divinity operates.
It results from this chapter, that truth, often odious to the powerful and unjust, is always useful to the public.
Pleasure's soothing syren song
Lures to death her giddy throng.
PLEASURE is a phantom which perpetually eludes the vigilance of its pursuers — of the various plans which its giddy votaries form to circumvent and detain the nimble deity, not one has ever proved competent to the design — the mortifying idea still recurs with reiterated force, when our most sanguine wishes have been gratified, that pleasure is an illusive, unsubstantial good — by pleasure here, we understand animal gratification. It is degrading though just, to say of too many of our species, that the sublime pursuits of intellectual enjoyment, constitute but a very small proportion of their exertions. Stinted in their ideas, and intimately connected with sabbular objects, but few burst the narrow limits of sense, and claim alliance with their high original — Hence the majority of those who call themselves rational beings, calculate their views upon no sublimer a scale than that "of the beast that perish," with this difference, that their superior talents for investigation, lead them to refinements in sensuality. The meer man of pleasure lives to little or no purpose; an act of benevolence is a casualty to him, while the tenor of his conduct is a perpetual warfare with the finer feelings of the soul — His conduct is detestable, his example pernicious, and reproach, remorse and misery, finish his career.
FLORA is a young gentleman, just setting out in life — born to handsome expectations, the maddening mazes of pleasure allure his fancy and captivate his heart — Possessing an handsome figure, external accomplishments claim a principal part of his attentions, and to excel in adorning his pretty person, comprehends the circle of his acquirements. Florio is to be pitied — unfortunately for him, he was neglected at this critical period, when the mind is susceptible of those impressions of virtue which the syren pleasure cannot eradicate — bred in a round of dissipation, and sucking in the poisonous infection, his intellects are crouded with such sentiments as exclude the admission of the superior attainments of knowledge, benevolence and philanthropy — What are Florio's prospects in the world? What consolatory reflections have the parents in Florio? — Alas! their wealth will serve but to exhibit their negligence in the education of their darling son, in a more conspicuous point of light, while it renders him a more striking object of infamy. O Education! how great is thy transforming influence! It was well said by one of the ancients, "that children are more indebted to those who give them a GOOD EDUCATION, than to those who were the means of their natural existence."
THE DESCRIPTION —
By a Resident in the Island.
JAMAICA is the dunghill of the universe, the refuse of the whole creation, the clippings of the elements, a shameless pile of
rubbish, confusedly jumbled into an emblem of chaos, neglected by Omnipotence when he formed the world into its admirable order. The nursery of Heaven's judgments, where the malignant seeds of all pestilence were first gathered and scattered through the regions of the earth, to punish mankind for their offences. The place where Pandora filled her box, where Vulcan forged Jove's thunderbolts, and that Phaeton, by his rash misguidance of the sun, scorched into a cinder; the receptacle of vagabonds, the sanctuary of bankrupts, and the reservoir for the purges of our prisons; as sickly as an hospital, as dangerous as the plague, as hot as tophet, as wicked as satan; subject to tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.
The chief of their provision is sea turtle, or toad in a shell, stewed in its own gravy; its lean is as white as a sick woman, its fat of a disgusting colour; and is excellent good to put a stranger into the diarrhoea, and work out part of those ill humours it infallibly creates. The belly is called callipee, the back callipatch, and it is served up to the table in its own shell instead of a platter. They have guavas, hickeries, and crabs: the first being an amphibious serpent shaped like a lizard, but black and larger: the last a land tortoise, which needs no description, being as numerous as frogs in England, and burrough in the ground like rabbits: so that the whole island may be justly called a crab-warren. They are fatted near the palisadoes, where they will make a skeleton of a corpse in as little time as a tanner will flay a bullock. They have beef without fat, lean mutton without gravy, and fowls as dry and as tough as a steak from the hanches of a superannuated cart horse.
Milk is so plenty, you may buy it for fifteen pence a quart; but cream is so very scarce, that a firkin of butter of their own making would be so costly a jewel, that the richest man in the island would be unable to purchase it. They value themselves greatly upon the sweetness of their pork, which is indeed lucious, but as flabby as a boiled cabbage, and ought to be forbid in all hot countries, as among the Jews, for the prevention of the leprosy, scurvy, and other distempers, of which it is a great occasion.
There is very little veal, and that lean; for in England you may nurse four children much cheaper than you can one calf in Jamaica. They have coarse teal, almost as big as English ducks, and Muscovy ducks as big as geese; but as for their geese, they may be all swans, for I never saw one in the island.
There are sundry sorts of fish under English names, without scales, and of a serpent-tide complexion; they eat as dry as a shad, and much stronger than stale herrings, or old ling, with oiled butter to the sauce, as rank as goose-grease, improved with the palatable relish of a stinking anchovy.
They make a rare soup they call pepper-pot: it is an excellent breakfast for a salamander, or a good preparation for a mount bank's agent, who eats fire on one day, that he may get better victuals the next: three spoonfuls so inflamed my mouth, that had I devoured a peck of horse radish, and drank after it a gallon of brandy and gun-powder, Dives like, I could not have been more importunate for a drop of water to cool my tongue.
They greatly abound in a beautiful fruit called a culhue, not unlike an apple, but longer; it is soft and very juicy, but so great an acid, and of a nature so restringent, that by eating of one, it drew up my mouth like a miser's purse, and made my palate as rough and tongue as sore, as if I had been gargling my mouth with allum water.
Of water melons and musk melons they have plenty; the former is of as cold a quality as a cucumber, and will dissolve in your mouth like ice in a hot frying-pan, being as pleasant to the taste, and I believe as wholesome to the eater, as a cup of rock water to a man in a hectick fever. The latter are large and lucious, but much too watery to be good.
Cocoa-nuts and physic nuts are in great esteem among the inhabitants; the former they reckon meat, drink and cloth; but the eatable part is secured by so strong a magazine, that it requires a lusty carpenter, well armed with ax and hand-saw, to hew a passage to the Kernel, and when he has done, it will not recompence his labour — The latter is as big as a filbeard, but if you venture to taste, it is of ill consequence: their shell is black, and jappaned by nature, exceeding art; the kernel white, and extremely pleasant to the palate, but of such powerful operation, that, by taking two, my sides were swept as clean as any of the black fraternity make a chimney.
They have oranges, lemons, limes, & several other fruits, as sharp and crabbed as themselves, not given them as a blessing but a curse; for eating so many sour things, generates a corroding slime in the bowels, and is one great occasion of that fatal and intolerable distemper, the dry belly-ach: which a fortnight or three weeks time, takes away the use of their limbs, that they are forced to be led about by negroes: a man under this distemper, may be said to be the scutcheon of the island: the complexion of the patient being the field bearing OR, charged with the emblems of destruction, PROPSE, supported
by two d---s, TABLE, and death the crest agent. Many other fruits there are, that are neither worth eating, or describing; some that are never tasted but in a drowth, and others in a famine.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, March 30. GOVERNMENT having fully assumed the power of controuling India affairs we have now only to hope for merciful ministers, who may forbear directing the military force with which they are armed, independent of parliament, to the entire subversion of our few remaining privileges!
The cry against Mr. Fox's India bill, was, that it bestowed the patronage of the company on administration for attempting this, Messrs. Pitt and Dundas accused him of wanting to create a fourth estate unknown to the constitution. Mr. Pitt's bill is now proved by Messrs. Bonanquet, Baring, and his other particular friends at the India-house, to have actually done that which he ascribed to Mr. Fox, but which was constantly denied by that gentleman's friends — at least this general difference between the two bills must be admitted on all hands, that Lord Fitzwilliam and Mr. Fox's board, in their most minute actions are answerable to parliament; Mr. Henry Dundas and Mr. Pitt's board for their most important ones are only accountable to themselves.
On Friday last was executed at Lincoln, Wilson, for the wilful murder of William Malon. About twelve o'clock, the solemn procession began, the prisoner walking from the castle to the gallows; when they arrived at the tree, some time was spent in prayer, after which the culprit ascended the steps without any signs of fear; the executioner (who was but a boy) found some difficulty in putting the rope about his neck, owing to Wilson being very tall. After the cap had been drawn over his face, the unfortunate man through it up again, declaring he had something to say to the spectators; upon which silence being demanded, he addressed himself nearly in the following words:
"Friends,
"I think you are all strangers to me; I am as innocent as the child unborn; and I with the person that did the murder may be the next that suffers on this gallows.
"I look upon this to be one of the happiest moments of my life, for in a few minutes I shall be in heaven. I think I see it open to receive me; and I call God to be witness to my innocence. Had I been guilty, I should have been as ready to have confessed it, as I am now to declare my innocence.
"Many a one has been taken off by accident unprepared, but I am happy in being prepared. I never swore an oath but once in my life, and I was very uneasy for it."
It is reported that the French king has broken the legion he permitted the Bishop of Liege to raise, partly on account of the representations made to him by the officers he has reformed in his own army, and partly to punish the Right Reverend Colonel, who, instead of applying the money granted by his majesty for the regiment since the 1st of last January, has put it in his clerical pocket, and left Providence to provide recruits.
One of the numerous and reverend nephews of this pious Bishop having been guilty of some tricks, in concert with a lady of easy virtue, has been compelled to make over the income of one of his ecclesiastical preferments at Maestricht, in order to satisfy his creditors; from him he expected plenary indulgence at the instant they forced him to make this surrender of his ill-acquired benefice.
Extract of a letter from Swansea.
"Saturday night at ten o'clock (March 8.) sixteen colliers being at work in the colliery belonging to Smith and co. at Lamsamlet, near this town, in stopping up some bays that the explosion of foul air had torn to pieces, last August, suffered a dreadful explosion, which killed thirteen of them: the other three having been a little out of the way, in attending the horses in the stable under ground; they immediately ascended the pit, and related what they apprehended of the fate of their companions.
"Next morning twelve men ventured down, to make up some bays which this fresh explosion had thrown down, and which it was necessary to make up to prevent the foul air pervading the rest of the work; these men came up to that part where they found four of the dead men, but were then too weak by work, and too much affected by the bad air, to bring them away.
"Monday morning thirty more men went down, and staying down seven hours, before any intelligence was heard of them, their relations began to be apprehensive of their fate; but at two in the afternoon they began to bring up the dead men, to the number of twelve, one of the unfortunate victims being too far within the foul air of the

work to be discovered. The next day the body of the thirteenth was taken up. By this accident nine women have been made widows, and sixty-one children orphans."
New-York, June 2.
ON Friday arrived brig Bom Tefus, Oporto: And Saturday, brig Sally, McKenny, Bonavista; Schooner Hope, Nicks, New-Providence; sloop Brothers, Walton, Digby.
RETURNS since our last. MEMBERS OF CONVENTION, Albany County, ANTI-FEDERAL.
John Younglove, 4807 Votes. John Lansing, jun. 3048. Cornelius Van Dyck, 3033. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 3022. John Thompson, 3006. John Duncan, 2990. Henry K. Van Rensselaer, 2911.
FEDERAL CANDIDATES do. unsuccessful. Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1953 Votes. Leonard Gansevoort, 1888. Richard Sill, 1877. Hezekiah Van Orden, 1871. John Kirickerbacker, jun. 1868. Isaac Vrooman, 1851.
MEMBERS OF CONVENTION, Dutchess County, ANTI-FEDERAL.
Zephaniah Platt, Melancton Smith, Jacobus Swartwout, John De Witt, Gilbert Livingston, Ezra Thompson, Jonathan Akins.
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY, do.
Isaac Bloom, Gilbert Livingston, John De Witt, Jonathan Akins, Matthew Patterson, Jacob Griffiths, Samuel A. Barker.
MEMBERS OF CONVENTION, Suffolk County, ANTI-FEDERAL.
Thomas Treadwell, Jonathan N. Havens, John Smith, David Hedges, and Henry Scudder, Esquires.
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY, do.
Jonathan N. Havens, John Smith, David Hedges, Henry Scudder, and Nathaniel Gardiner, Esquires.
We are informed, that Jesse Woodhull, John Haring, Henry Wisner, sen. and John Wood, Esquires, ANTI-FEDERAL, are elected MEMBERS OF CONVENTION for Orange County.
We also learn, that in Westchester County, the FEDERAL TICKET was carried.
From the Charleston CITY GAZETTE, of May 22.
Yesterday General Sumter made a motion in the Convention, that the house postpone the farther consideration of the new constitution until the 20th day of October next.
A most animated debate ensued on the motion, which was opposed by Gen. Gadsden, Col. Laurens, Chancellor Matthews, Judge Heyward, Mr. Pringle, Mr. E. Rutledge, Mr. C. Pinckney, Mr. Bee, Col. Reed, Mr. Kaities, and Mr. Hunter.
For the motion, General Sumter, Judge Pendleton, Judge Burke, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Lowry, Mr. Gudworth, Col. Taylor, Col. Lacy, Col. Waters, Mr. Bowman.
On the question being put on the motion, the yeas and nays were called for, when there appeared to be, Ayes 89—Nays 135—Majority 46.
Gen. Gadsden moved an adjournment until to-morrow nine o'clock, then to take up the question for ratifying the new constitution.
Mr. E. Rutledge proposed that a committee should be appointed to consider what recommendations for alterations were necessary to be proposed. He was supported by Mr. Pringle, who declared, that he thought a few points were liable to objections.
When the numbers were declared, the spectators in the gallery and behind the bar, testified their satisfaction by loud marks of applause, which occasioned an order for the house being cleared.
Judge Pendleton made a handsome excuse for the intemperate conduct of the spectators, which he considered as arising from a patriotic fervor in those persons who considered a point to be carried, was for the benefit of their country. The honest judge praised the conduct of Massachusetts state, where although the constitution passed by a small majority, yet after the decision, both parties united, an example which he hoped we should follow, and join in the bands of brotherly friendship.
A Gentleman, who came passenger with Capt. Bird informs, that the final question
was to be taken on the constitution the day he left Charleston (May 22.) The next arrival from that place will no doubt bring us a confirmation of the federalism of South-Carolina.
Argument in defence of those persons who charitably protect slaves that have escaped from their masters—Though the Jews were permitted by the law of Moses (on account of the hardness of their hearts) to keep slaves, yet no inherent right of service can be implied from this permission; because, whenever the slave escaped, he was esteemed free; and it was absolutely unlawful for any man (who believed the word of God) to deliver him up again to his master (see Deut. xxiii. 15 and 16). "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant who is escaped from his master unto thee; he shall dwell with thee, among you, in that place which he shall choose" (that is manifestly as a free-man) "in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best. Thou shalt not oppress him." This is manifestly a moral law, which must be ever binding as the will of God, because the benevolent intention of it is apparent, and must ever remain the same; for which reason I conclude, that an action of trover cannot lie for a slave; and that no man can lawfully be prosecuted for protecting a Negro, or any other slave whatever, that has "escaped from his master," because that would be punishing a man for doing his indispensable duty according to the laws of God; and if any law, custom or precedent should be alleged to the contrary, it must necessarily be rejected as null and void, because it is a maxim of the common law of England, that "the inferior law must give place to the superior—man's laws to God's laws;" (Attorney General Noyes's maxims, p. 19.) And the learned author of the Doctor and Student asserts, that even statute law ought to be accounted null and void, if it is set forth contrary to the laws of God. "Etiam aliquod statutum esse editum contra eos, nullius vigoris in legibus Angliæ censei debet," &c. cap. 6.
Note. As the foregoing argument has a tendency to promote the cause of humanity, by encouraging a mild and just treatment of slaves, whereby they may be induced to stay with and faithfully serve their masters; and is not intended to encourage slaves, so treated, to escape from their masters; the Printers in the United States are desired to publish the same in their several newspapers.
AS BLACK and PINK (says a correspondent) are the fashionable contralt, the lovers of taste in dress must be delighted, when viewing the PINK tucker encircling the SATIN bosom of the African Venuses, who frequently parade our streets.
The following curious hand-bill is copied from one lately distributed in a large market town in England, by a travelling teacher of the Occult Sciences, &c.
"Dr. BAMBOUZIE, the unborn Doctor and Rosycrucian of the 17th Century, informs his friends and the honourable public at large, That he continues to resolve all manner of lawful questions in Astrology and Palmistry—gives young persons every satisfaction relative to their sweethearts—married ladies are informed when their husbands are with their kept mistresses—widows are acquainted how many future spouses they will have, &c.—gentlemen are informed of the success of running horses, cocks, &c. with the true art of managing their ladies so as to prevent cuckoldom. All questions relating to thefts, wagers, journeys, preferments, and many others, too tedious to particularise in a hand-bill, resolved, a shilling each question.—Beware of impostors!
"N. B. Has an infallible scheme to raise the DEVIL, which he can communicate to any young virgin not exceeding twenty years of age; can instruct any disappointed lover to poison his sweet heart by only talking to her."
On Thursday evening was married, by the Rev. Mr. Moore, Mr. ABRAHAM BREVOORT, merchant, of this city, to the amiable Miss NANCY DEVORE.
By the UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS assembled, May 8, 1788.
ON a report of the board of treasury, to whom was referred a motion, of Mr. Carrington.
Resolved, That Congress proceed to the election of two commissioners for settling the accounts of the five great departments, to continue in office one year.
Ordered, That the commissioners of accounts for the quarter-masters, commissary's, hospital, marine and cloathing departments, with the appropriation of the board of treasury, commence suits in behalf of the United States, against all persons in any of the said departments, who stand chargeable with public monies, computed from the present date; and that this order be published in the several states for the period above mentioned.
Resolved, That the said commissioners be directed to continue their unremitting attention to the final adjustment of all accounts which have arisen in the said departments, and to the recovery of all sums for which suits may be commenced; and
that at the termination of their commission they deposit with the register of the treasury all the books and papers of their respective offices, together with a general abstract of the sums due from individuals, in order that immediate measures may be adopted for the recovery of the same. CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec.
James M. Hughes, Has removed his OFFICE From No. 24, Golden-Hill, to Water-street, near the Coffee-House, No 197.
A quantity of Russia Duck, TO BE SOLD BY Solomon Townshend, Who has removed from Corner of Burling-Slip, a few doors towards the Fly-Market, the opposite side of the way, at No. 211, in Queen-Street.
A L S O, Pig and Bar Iron, Blistered and Crowley's Steel, Anchors, Pot-ash Kettles of superior quality, A few barrels of Curriers Oyl and Blubber, To be sold low for cash.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE, from Amsterdam, And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191 Queen-street, opposite Beekman's-Slip, By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY.
A general Assortment of DRY GOODS, Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Callicoes, Ribbons, Luteftrings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store, Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfnets. t.f
American Printed Books. This Day is published, and to be Sold, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, the Corner of King & Queen-street, The Miscellaneous Works
OF PHILIP FRENEAU. Containing his Essays and additional Poems. THIS second volume of our American Author, is replete with the highest sentimental entertainment. Humour, wit, and satire, flow in copious strains.—It requires only to be read to be admired.
Such gentlemen, in this city and state, as honored this vol. with their subscriptions, will be pleased to send for it as soon as convenient. THE MESSIAH, Attempted from the GERMAN of Mr. KLOPSTOCK.
TO those who are acquainted with the merits of this work, little need be said to recommend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all; with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detestation and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a humble obedience to the King of Kings.
This piece of religious and moral painting has obtained Mr. Klopstock the honor of being esteemed the Milton of Germany, and is considered as having completed what that favorite son of the British muse had left unfinished.—The beauties of the Messiah equal Paradise Lost:—Paradise Regained, though far from being destitute of merit, is universally allowed to fall much below this work; and is acknowledged to be deficient in that unbounded invention, that beautiful machinery, and variety of characters, which distinguish the rigorous efforts of Mr. Klopstock's genius.
The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan, and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
S E R M O N S. By the celebrated RICHARD PRICE, D. D. L. L. D. F. R. S. The Triumphs of Temper;
A Poem in six Cantos. By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughter. r. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion. Sheridan's Rhetorical Grammar. The Charms of Melody.—A new Song Book. Carver's Travels through the interior Parts of America.
Economy of Human Life. Webster's American Selection of Lessons, in reading and speaking. Webster's Institute, first and second Part. Pike's excellent System of Arithmetic. A few Sets of Newton on the Prophecies. Edwards on the Affections. Do. History of Redemption, &c. &c.
THEATRE.
Positively the LAST NIGHT. —For the Benefit of— Messrs. Biddle & M c Pherson. THIS EVENING, being June 2, Will be presented, A COMIC OPERA, CALLED, The MAID of the MILL. To which will be added, A F A R C E, (Never performed here) CALLED, The MUSICAN LADY. The whole will conclude with TRUE BLUE; OR THE SAILOR'S FESTIVAL. A view of the Battery in New-York, and the Vessels passing and saluting.
FRANCIS DURAND, No. 15, QUEEN-STREET, Has FOR SALE, imported in the French Packets, The following ARTICLES, viz. CAMBRICKS, and Superfine French Broad Lawn, Searlet, Blue, &c. &c. Umbrellas of different sizes, Thread Laces and Edgings, Lyon's quilted Sattins, Black Silk Laces, Men's black and white Silk Hose, White and coloured Women's white do. Women's Kid Gloves Black Modes, yard wide Chintzes, &c. best assorted Ribbons.
Mrs. WATERS HAS removed to Peck-Slip, No. 1, where she continues the business of washing Silk Stockings, and other nice articles, in the usual manner, in which branch she has always given satisfaction.
TO LET, Two convenient ROOMS, For the Summer Season, IN an elegant HOUSE, and pleasant Situation; at Gravesend, King's County.—Enquire of the PRINTER, or at Dr Smith's, living in said House. May 20 1788. 300 t.f. & 3w.
Just Published, And to be Sold at the Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, The Heidelbergh Catechism, A L S O, The Mothers Catechism.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199 Water-street, opposite the Coffee-House, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants Natural, and Substitutes ARTIFICIAL TEETH. And attends abroad upon sending directions
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street, and the other BOOKSELLERS, Conductor Generalis.
This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Haley, Accompanist.
Price 1f. 6d. single. The usual discount to Booksellers, and others, who may purchase by the Hundred, Dozen, &c. ** Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers. By order of the honourable Richard Morris, Esquire, chief justice of the supreme court of this state of New-York.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, by the petitioning creditors of Josiah Hazard, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of the said Josiah Hazard, that they show cause, if any they have, before the said honorable Richard Morris, Esq. at his chamber situated the corner of King and Nassau street, city of New-York, by Saturday the 14th day of June next, why an assignment of the estate of the said Josiah Hazard should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and he thereupon discharged, agreeable to a law of this state, entitled, "An act for giving relief in cases of insolvency," passed the 21st day of March, 1788. JOSIAH HAZARD. Dated the 3d day of May, 1788. ed. 6i. Petitioning Creditors of JOSIAH HAZARD.
WILLIAM HAZARD. ABIGAIL SPICER, FERDINAND LELLA. A CELLER to let.
A LARGE convenient Celler, situated in Water-Street, near the Coffee-House, may be hired from this date to the 1st of May next.—Enquire of the Printer. New-York, May 16, 1788. 97—e. d.

O E T'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
C A T A S T R O P H E.
To glad the day with jollity and mirth, To wake the foul to scenes of feigned war, The late train'd soldiers bear their banners forth, And think of naught but their pleasures mar.
II. Arrang'd, in uniform, they take the field; Surrounding sexies gaze the martial fight— To mark our worthies straight the sword they veild, And then opposing, join in mutual fight.
III. The mimic thunder spreads aloud its roar, A close engagement suddenly ensues— Now from each line redoubled small arms pour, While on the hillocks, all the city views.
IV. To seem as earnest—yet to be in play— To rend the air with cannon's awful sound, And meet no danger, makes each person gay, And, hearts secure, with pleasing thoughts rebound.
V. But unexpected, if some hapless man Fall on the spot, where all he deem'd was safe; From sympathetic tears what mortal can Sternly refrain, and not be touch'd with grief?
VI. Such was the fate (alas! how flow my tears!) Of T I M O N, youth of virtue's sacred fire; With gallant mind, abhorring all his fears, He nobly in his office did expire.
VII. In pleasing hopes he joins the merry throng, And smiles, unconscious of his timeless end; Assumes his post, continues it as long, As long! as fates the fixt decree suspend!
VIII. While standing at the muzzle of the gun, The gun impatient flarts its sudden death— He falls—he groans—the near physicians run To afford relief—but ah! he yields his breath. May 31. T R I S T I S.
Just published by M. CARY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (By whom subscriptions are received) T H E
American Museum,
For APRIL, 1788. CONTAINING Philosophical Papers
O B S E R V A T I O N S and conjectures on the earthquakes of New-England, Historical account of the earthquakes of New-England, Observations and remarks on ditto, Theory of water spouts: by Andrew Oliver, of Salem in Massachusetts, A sketch of the climate, water, and soil of South-Carolina: by Lionel Chalmers, M. D. of South-Carolina.
American Oratory.
Speech of Oliver Elsworth, Esq. in the convention of Connecticut, Another speech of the same gentleman, Speech of the Rev. Mr. Shute in the convention of Massachusetts, Speech of Mr. Symmes, in ditto, —of Mr. Thacher, in ditto, —of Mr. Barrel, —of the Rev. Mr. Stillman, —of Mr. Ames.
Politics.
Resolves proposed to the federal convention, by Mr. Patterson, of New-Jersey, Curious remarks on the federal constitution, Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania.
State Papers.
Letter from Mr. Lambert to Mr. Jefferson, Arrest of the court of Versailles, for the encouragement of the commerce of France with the United States of America.
Law Information.
Statement of an interesting case determined in the supreme court, at Newbern, relative to confiscated property.
Rural Concerns.
Hint to the farmers of Pennsylvania, On the use of plaster of Paris, On the use of drift sand as manure, On the use of pulverised bones as manure, Method of preventing the destruction of apple trees by canker worms, On the preparation and advantages of sumach berries.
Miscellanies.
Meditations on a tea pot, An oration in praise of ignorance, Address to the inhabitants of the United States.
Poems by the late Dr. Ladd.
Address to Amanda, Sonnet—addressed to the naiades of Ashley river, Elegy sacred to the manes of Philander, Fragment of an epistle to a friend.
Intelligence.
Foreign, American.
B L A N K S,
To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
Just imported in the last Vessels from London and Dublin, and to be SOLD, By HUGH GAIN, At his Printing-Office and Book-Store, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square.
BACON'S Abridgement, Burrow's, Wilson's, Cowper's, Strang's, Atkyn's, Brown's, Douglas's, & Blackstone's Reports, Crown Circuit Companion, Hale's Pleas of the Crown, Buller's Nisi Prius, Burrow's Settlement Cases, Clerks Instructor, Law of Awards, Running of Execution, Vernon's Cases, T. Raymond's Reports, Boot's Suit at Law, Digett of Cales, Register of Common Pleas, Trial's per pais, Law of Bills, Practice in King's Bench and Common Pleas, Office of Sheriff, Hind's Practice in Chancery, Jacob's Law Dictionary, Sullivan's Law Lectures, Lex Mercatoria, Wellcott on Insurance,
Also the following BOOKS.
Young's and Cole's Dictionary, Clarke's Ovid, Corderii, Erasmus and Introduction, Mair's Cæsar, and Introduction, Selectæ Profanis, and Veteri, Beza's Testament, Rudiman's Rudiments, Davidson's Virgil, Smart's Horace, Virgil Delphini, Horace Delphini, Cornelius Nepos, Cæsar's Commentaries, Mair's Sallust, Lilly's & Rigg's Grammar, Schrevelius Lexicon, Westminster Greek Grammar, Lueden's Greek and Latin Testament, Homer's Iliad, Heard's Horace, Murphy's Lucian, Johnson's, Entick's, Bailey's, Dyches, & Fenning's Dictionary, Boyer's French Dictionary, Perrin's French Grammar, Lowth's Grammar, Elegant Quarto Bibles with Cuts, & without common Prayers, Week's Preparation, New Duty of Man, Trimmer's Sacred History, Ambrose looking to Jesus, Blair's Sermons, Four Fold State, Doddridge's Rite and Progress, Gospel Sonnets, Bunyan's Holy War, Henry on Prayer, Afflicted Man's Companion, Drelincourt on Death, Covenant of Grace, Sherlock on Death, Thomas A Kempis, Can's and White's Sermons, Cruden's Concordance, Confession of Faith, Gardiner's Life, Nelson's Devotions, Modern Europe, History of Voltaire by Monk, Sir Richard Steele's Correspondence, Life of Tarot, Life of Johnson, Swinburne's Travels, Carver's Travels, Robertson's America, Guthrie's History of the World, Sheridan's Life of Swift, Hume's England, Cook's Voyages, 3 vols. with Cuts, Smith's Wealth of Nations, Beattie on Truth, Hutchinson's Philosophy, Goldsmith's History of Greece and Rome, abridged, Cox's Travels, Survey of the State of Europe, Elegant Extracts, Scott on Elocution, Emma Court et, Gabriel Oatcraft, Essay on Old Maids, Charlott's Letters, Romance of real Life, Fair Syrian, Emma Melcomb, Curse of Sentiment, Lucinda Osborne, Olivia, Platonic Guardian, Miss Greville, Captain and Miss Rivers, Zoraida, Spanish Memoir, Perplexities of Love, Orlando, Village of Martinisdale, William of Normandy, Victim of Fancy, Joseph, Louisa, Lumly House, Errors of Innocence, Appearance is against them, Carolina of Litchfield, Platonic Marriage, Recels, Unfortunate Union, Lady Guzman, Dangerous Connections Two Mentors, Fool of Quality, Tom Jones, Roderick Random, Widow's Vow, Female Stability, Gamaster, Fortunate Country Maid, Clarissa Harlow, Fanny, Elfrida, Juvenile Indiscretions, Charles Grandison, Henrietta, Count de Polan, Sweetish Countess, Burton Wood, George Bateman, Memoirs of Sophia Raddely, Bellamy's Memoirs, Rambler, Tattler, Guardian, Mirror, Spectator, Jewish Spy, Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, &c.
STATIONARY.
Blank Books of every size, The very best sort of Writing Paper, Pens and Quills, Scaling Wax and Wafers, Red and black Ink-Powder, Sand and Sand Boxes.
Said Gaine has just published, the best Edition of the Universal Spelling Book, that ever appeared in America or Europe, containing more spelling, and a great variety of matter, not to be found in any other spelling-book whatever. May 6. 88—m.th.4w.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE,
By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
Just Published, Enlarged, and Improved, And to be SOLD, by S. and J. Loudon, Messrs. Berry & Rogers, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Reid, Mr. S. Campbell, Mr. T. Allen, and Mr. T. Greenleaf,
The American Magazine,
For APRIL, 1788. CONTAINING, ORIGINAL LETTERS, The life and amusements of Isaac Bickerstaff, junior, continued, Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, concluded, Some account of the Scarcity Root, concluded,
A letter from Dr. Stiles, The Adventure of the Inn, continued, Answers to the Law Questions in the Magazine for February, Letter from Dr. Mitchell to Mr. Post, A Series of Original Letters, Original Letter from an Officer in the late Army to his Brother, Education—the importance of accommodating the mode of it to the Form of Government, Essay on Snuff-taking, by Earl Stanhope, Account of Sophia Hoffman, the infant Musician,
An account of a patriotic Society of Ladies established in Spain, Lucubration on Beards, Letters, Origin of the Romance called Robinson Crusoe, Importance of Time, Medical Case of a wounded Nerve, All Men have their Bones, A Tribute of Senility, Extracts from ancient Records, A Sentimental Fragment, A true Story, Affected Sensibility, Narrative of the loss of the Rebecca Sloop at White-Haven, Nov. 5, 1787, Curious Extracts from an old Manuscript, Alphonzo, The English Critical Review of Mr. Barlow's Vision of Columbus, AMERICAN REVIEW. Federalist, continued, An address to the People of New-York, Another address to the same, A new and complete System of Arithmetic, by Nicholas Pike, A. M.
POETRY.
Alexis, Fragment of a Poem written by a Madman on Madness, Lines by a Lady of fifteen, Happinefs to be found in the Mind only, From a Gentleman to a Lady, who had presented him a Cake-heart, Ode to Spring, Epitaph on the late Boyle Godfrey.
American Intelligence, European Intelligence, Marriages and Deaths.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. fine dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeeded admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, Tuckies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 99 e.d.
New invented Patent Composition FAN-LIGHTS.
ARCHER & NEWMAN,
Painters, Plumbers, and Glaziers, At No. 199, Water-Street, opposite the Coffee-House,
PRESENT their most respectful compliments to their friends, and the public in general, and acquaint them, that House, Sigs, Ship Painting, and Plumbing are done in the neatest manner, and at their reduced prices; Mahogany Graining to its perfection, with Marble, &c. Likewise, Distemper or Water Colouring, agreeable to the Italian mode, on Ceiling, Wall, or any other Work, new or old, in any colour, and warranted to stand equal to oil.—Also, makes the New invented Patent Composition Fan Lights, neatly ornamented, more elegant and durable than any yet offered in this country, and at a moderate price.
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