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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 60, of VOL. XLIII.
WEDNESDAY, March 12, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2240.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and, that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS. As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which he following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONCLUSION.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, a d type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half: after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant, THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotwood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotwood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside,
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires-Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787.
J. M.
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. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of 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 succeed 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, turkies, 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. 93 c.d.
S H 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.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received)
THE American Museum,
For JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Miscellanies.
ORATION in commemoration of American Independence.
Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw's. New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.
Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.
Method of making steel.
Letter on marriage, Antifederal arguments,
Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee. Satire,
On musical pretenders, Recipe for an insolvent debtor,
Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural Concerns. Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.
Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland.
Thoughts on the culture of hemp, Method of breaking fleeces to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of silk. Law Information.
Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston, Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand,
State and other Public papers. Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Trumbull,
Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut, Letter to governor Randolph,
Letter from do. Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,
Address of the grand jury of Edenton, Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county
Report of the deputies of Northampton county, Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston,
Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,
Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,
Answer to the preceding notice. Natural History.
Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,
Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opossum. Medical Tracks.
Letter on the fore throat distemper, Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi. Select Poetry.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.
Monitorial epistle, addressed to a young lady, A riddle.
Foreign Intelligence, American do. TO BE SOLD,
For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or 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 Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town.
New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE,
By Charles Tillinghast,
At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street, near to the big-Yards.

M I S C E L L A N Y.
DEBATES IN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION. FRIDAY, Jan. 25. A. M.
[Continued.]
HON. Mr. Smith. Mr. president, I am a plain man, and get my living by the plough. I am not used to speak in public, but I beg your leave to say a few words to my brother plough-joggers in this house. I have lived in a part of the country where I have known the worth of good government by the want of it. There was a black cloud that rose in the east last winter, and spread over the west. [Here Mr. Wedgery interrupted. Mr. president, I wish to know what the gentleman means by the east.] I mean, sir, the country of Bristol; the cloud rose there and burst upon us, and produced a dreadful effect. It brought on a state of anarchy, and that leads to tyranny. I say it brought anarchy. People that used to live peaceably with, and were before good neighbours, got distracted and took up arms against government. [Here Mr. Kingsley called to order, and asked what had the history of last winter to do with the constitution? Several gentlemen, and among the rest the hon. Mr. Adams, said the gentleman was in order—let him go on in his own way.] I am a going, Mr. president, and you my brother farmers, to show what were the effects of anarchy, that you may see the reasons why I wish for good government. People, I say, took up arms, and then if you went to speak to them, you had the musket of death presented to your breast. They would rob you of your property, threaten to burn your houses; oblige you to be on your guard night and day; alarms spread from town to town; families were broke up; and the tender mother would cry, O my son is among them! What shall I do for my child! Some were taken captive, children taken out of their schools and carried away. Then we should hear of an action, and the poor prisoners were set in the front, to be killed by their own friends. How dreadful, how distressing was this! Our distress was so great that we should have been glad to catch at any thing that looked like a government for protection. Had any person, that was able to protect us, come and set up his standard we should all have flocked to it, even if it had been a monarch, and that monarch might have proved a tyrant; so that you see that anarchy leads to tyranny, and better have one tyrant than so many at once.
Now, Mr. president, when I saw this constitution, I found that it was a cure for these disorders. It was just such a thing as we wanted. I got a copy of it and read it over and over. I had been a member of the convention to form our own state constitution, and had learnt something of the checks and balances of power, and I found them all here. I did not go to any lawyer, to ask his opinion, we have no lawyer in our town, and we do well enough without. I formed my own opinion, and was pleased with this constitution. My honourable old daddy there (pointing to Mr. Singletary) will not think that I expect to be a Congress-man, and swallow up the liberties of the people. I never had any post, nor do I want one, and before I am done you will think that I do not deserve one. But I do not think the worse of the constitution because lawyers, and men of learning and
monied men, are fond of it. I do not suspect that they want to get into Congress and abuse their power. I am not of such a jealous make; they that are honest men themselves are not apt to suspect other people. I do not know why our constituents have not as good a right to be as jealous of us, as we seem to be of the Congress, and I think those gentlemen who are so very suspicious, that as soon as a man gets into power he turns rogue, had better look at home.
We are by this constitution allowed to send ten members to Congress. Have we not more than that number fit to go? I dare say if we pick out ten, we shall have another ten left, and I hope ten times ten, and will not these be a check upon those that go? Will they go to Congress and abuse their power and do mischief, when they know that they must return and look the other ten in the face, and be called to account for their conduct? Some gentlemen think that our liberty and property is not safe in the hands of monied men, and men of learning, I am not of that mind.
Brother farmers, let us suppose a case now—suppose you had a farm of 50 acres, and your title was disputed, and there was a farm of 5000 acres joined to you that belonged to a man of learning, and his title was involved in the same difficulty; would not you be glad to have him for your friend, rather than to stand alone in the dispute? Well, the case is the same, these lawyers, these monied men, these men of learning, are all embarked in the same cause with us, and we must all swim or sink together; and shall we throw the constitution over-board, because it does not please us alike? Suppose two or three of you had been at the pains to break up a piece of rough land, and sow it with wheat—would you let it lay waste, because you could not agree what sort of a fence to make? Would it not be better to put up a fence that did no please every one's fancy rather than not fence it at all, or keep disputing about it, until the wild beast came in and devoured it. Some gentlemen say, do not be in a hurry—take time to consider, and do not take a leap in the dark. I say take things in time—gather fruit when it is ripe. There is a time to sow and a time to reap; we sowed our seed when we sent men to the federal convention, now is the harvest, now is the time to reap the fruit of our labour, and if we do not do it now I am afraid we shall never have another opportunity.
Mr. Parsons considered the several charges of ambiguity which gentlemen had laid to the constitution; and with a great deal of accuracy, stated this obvious meaning of the clauses thus supposed to be ambiguous. He concluded his explanation, by saying, that no compositions which men can pen, could be formed, but what would be l'able to the same change. (Adjourned.)
[To be continued.]
Mr. MARTIN's Speech to the Assembly of Maryland.
[Continued from Friday.]
BY the next paragraph, the general government is to have a power of suspending the habeas corpus act, in cases of rebellion or invasion.
As the state governments have a power of suspending the habeas corpus act, in those cases, it was said there could be no good reason for giving such a power to the general government, since whenever the state which is invaded or in which an insurrection takes place, finds its safety requires it, it will make use of
that power, and it was urged, that if we gave this power to the general government, it would be an engine of oppression in its hands, since whenever a state should oppose its views, however arbitrary and unconstitutional, and refuse submission to them, the general government may declare it to be an act of rebellion, and suspending the habeas corpus act, may seize upon the persons of those advocates of freedom, who have had virtue and resolution enough to excite the opposition, and may imprison them during its pleasure in the remotest part of the union, so that a citizen of Georgia might be bastiled in the furthest part of New-Hampshire; or a citizen of New-Hampshire in the furthest extreme to the south, cut off from their family, their friends, and their every connection; these considerations induced me, sir, to give my negative also to this clause.
In this same section there is a provision that no preference shall be given to the ports of one state over another, and that vessels bound to or from one state shall not be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. This provision, as well as that which relates to the uniformity of impost duties and excises, was introduced, sir, by the delegation of this state. Without such a provision it would have been in the power of the general government to have compelled all ships sailing into or out of the Chesapeake, to clear and enter at Norfolk or some port in Virginia; a legislation which would be extremely injurious to our commerce, but which would if considered merely as to the interest of the union, perhaps not be thought unreasonable, since it would render the collection of the revenue arising from commerce more certain and less expensive.
But, sir, as the system is now reported, the general government have power to establish what ports they please in each state, and to ascertain at what ports in every state, ships shall clear and enter in such state, a power which may be so used as to destroy the effect of that provision, since by it may be established a port in such a place as shall be so inconvenient to the state as to render it more eligible for their shipping to clear and enter in another than in their own state, suppose, for instance, the general government should determine that all ships which cleared or entered in Maryland, should clear and enter at George-Town, on Powtomack, it would oblige all the ships which failed from or were bound to, any other part of Maryland, to clear or enter in some port of Virginia. To prevent such a use of the power which the general government now has of limiting the number of ports in a state, and fixing the place or places where they shall be, we endeavoured to obtain a provision that the general government should only, in the first instance, have authority to ascertain the number of ports proper to be established in each state, and transmit information thereof to the several states, the legislatures of which, respectively, should have the power to fix the places where those ports should be, according to their idea of what would be most advantageous to the commerce of their state, and most for the ease and convenience of their citizens; and that the general government should not interfere in the establishment of the places, unless the legislature of the state should neglect or refuse so to do; but we could not obtain this alteration.
By the tenth section, every state is prohibited from emitting bills of credit; as it was reported by the committee of detail, the states were only prohibited from omitting them without the consent of Congress; but the convention was so smitten with the paper money dread, that they insisted the publication should be absolute. It was my opinion, sir, that the states ought not to be totally deprived of the right to emit bills of credit, and that as we had not given an authority to the general government for that purpose, it was the more necessary to retain it in the states; I considered that this state, and some others, have formerly received great benefit from paper emissions, and that if public and private credit should once more be restored, such emissions may hereafter be equally advantageous; and further, that it is impossible to foresee that events may not take place which shall render paper money of absolute necessity; and it was my opinion, if this power was not to be exercised by a state without the permission of the general government, it ought to be satisfactory even to those who were the most haunted by the apprehensions of paper money; I therefore thought it my duty to vote against this part of the system.
The same section also puts it out of the power of the states, to make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, or to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
I considered, sir, that there might be times of such great public calamities and distress, and of such extreme scarcity of specie as should render it the duty of a government for the preservation of even the most valuable part of its citizens in some measure to interfere in their favour, by passing laws totally or partially stopping the courts of justice; or authorising the debtor to pay by instalments, or by delivering up his property to his creditors at a reasonable and honest valuation. The times have been such as to render regulations of this kind necessary in most, or all of the states, to prevent the wealthy creditor and the monied man from totally destroying the poor, though even industrious debtor. Such times may again arrive. I therefore voted against depriving the state of this power, a power which I am decided they ought to possess, but which I admit ought only to be exercised on very important and urgent occasions. I apprehend, sir, the principle cause of complaint among the people at large is, the public and private debt with which they are oppressed, and which, in the present scarcity of cash, threatens them with destruction, unless they can obtain so much indulgence in point of time that by industry and frugality, they may extricate themselves.
This government proposed, I apprehend so far from removing will greatly encrease those complaints, since grasping in its all-powerful hand the citizens of the respective states, it will by the imposition of the variety of taxes, imposts, stamps, excises, and other duties, squeeze from them the little they may acquire, the hard earnings of their industry, as you would squeeze the juice from an orange, till not a drop more can be extracted, and then let loose upon them, their private creditors, to whose mercy it consigns them, by whom their property is to be seized upon and sold in this scarcity of specie at a sheriff's sale; where nothing but ready cash can be received for a tenth part of its value, and themselves and

their families to be confined to indigence and distress, without their governments having power to give them a moment's indulgence, however necessary it might be, and however desirous to grant them aid.
[To be continued.]
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
Of the State of New-York.
POUCHKEEPSIE, February 15, 1788.
[Continued.]
MR. Jones had already, he said, in the course of this business, declared his sentiments; and so much had been said on the subject, that he thought it unnecessary to enlarge. He did not suppose the committee had any doubts. With respect to what was to be done, he had no doubts. He could not suppose it would be justifiable in the legislature to make, or to receive any propositions from those people; the lease was of itself void, and the lessors had therefore no claim on the state. Whole lands was it they purchased? Were they not within the jurisdiction of this state, and was not the right of purchase, by the constitution, vested in the government? He asked, if in any way recognizing this lease, would not be an infringement of the contract between this state and Massachusetts? He did not even suppose it would be proper for this state to enter into any negotiations with the Indians, without the concurrence of that state. With respect to the general satisfaction expressed by the Indians, and the fairness with which they had been dealt, as represented by Mr. Kirkland, he remarked, that there was great reason to believe, that the transactions did not altogether accord with the representation. He was persuaded in his own mind, that the Indians had been imposed upon, and that they had been treating with the lessors under an impression, that they were commissioners on behalf of the state. If this was the case, the Indians would certainly say so on enquiry; and he was led to this supposition, because they had always been used to treat with this state, as a nation. Individuals had never attempted under the former government, to treat with the Indians in their national capacity. The terms of the lease, he said, was also a gross imposition on them; they would never be able to collect rent. In the present day, if they could bring their action at law, it might be recovered, though as a nation they cannot sue; but when the lessors come to be settled, and to be able to contend with them, it would be impossible; there would be such an infinite variety of persons to look to for it, and their only remedy would be a recourse to arms. Ought we then, said he, upon any considerations, to do any thing that will have a tendency to confirm these transactions? He was free to declare, that, let the consequence be what it would, the leases should be declared void, and that such efficacious measures should be adopted as would be a warning to others. With respect to the proper measures to be taken, he wished a committee might be appointed to bring them forward.
Mr. Sylvester did not hesitate to declare, that the leases was void; this he thought the committee might now determine, with respect to the other measures to be adopted, he wished they might not be precipitate; and that they might be such, as to show, that they had been agreed to without fear or a hope of reward.
Mr. Jones then moved, that a question should be taken, whether the leases were void, or not? If that was the sentiments of the committee, then other propositions would have to be brought in, grounded on that determination.
Mr. Beason supposed there would be no doubt in the minds of the committee, on this subject; they would certainly declare, that the leases were void. But he did not see, to what end it would be to determine on it immediately. As to bringing forward propositions, any gentleman might do it; he would do it himself, if he knew what was the most eligible. There was a difficulty in his mind; for although the legislature should declare the leases void, yet the Indians may think themselves bound in good faith and conscience, so far as never to make any sales to the state: they might say, "Your declaration can never relieve us from the duty of performing a contract solemnly entered into by us." He only stated this, because it would be proper to go into this business with prudence. However, if it was supposed proper to take a question, he hoped it might be informally.
Mr. Jones would, he said, be very well satisfied to postpone the question if there would be any use in it, or if there was any uncertainty in deciding. If the committee proceeded on the ground that they could not invalidate the lease as to the Indians, they had better give up the question. He wished, however, that some measures might be adopted, that would have a tendency to prevent an Indian war; which, if the state was not very circumspect, the present business would in the end bring on.
New-York, March 12.
ON Monday arrived the sloop Polly, Finch, from Edenton, North-Carolina; and Yesterday the sloop New-York Packet, Fairbank, from Rhode-Island.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman who distinguished himself in the late American revolution, now at Post St. Vincent, to his friend in Baltimore, dated Nov. 29, 1787.
"The emigration to the country on this side of the mountains is constantly increasing, and in all likelihood will continue to encrease till the present causes cease to operate. The industrious enterprising citizen, who happened to be in debt at the close of the late ruinous war, must inevitably sacrifice his property to the fine feelings of his creditor. This is the effect of the appreciation of money, and ought to be as carefully guarded against as depreciation, because its effects are more ruinous and detrimental to the community. The civil lists of the United States are, at this time, an instance of the most destructive policy, while great part of the community are bowed down with the weight of taxes, the officers of our government are wallowing in luxury and idleness, this is called supporting the dignity of office! A wise and virtuous people would rather acquire dignity by the practice of virtue."
"When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Pittsburg last month, I promised that you should hear from me by the first opportunity—I have
now complied with my promise. I have been at this place only three weeks, but have been very industrious in obtaining all the knowledge I could procure respecting the navigation of the rivers, fertility of the soil, and regularity of the climate; and I am now so well satisfied with regard to these particulars, that I have concluded to sit down in this neighbourhood. I am willing to let the rich enjoy the lands on the east side of the mountains. I envy them not their wealth, being convinced that the inhabitants of the western country will enjoy their liberty and independence, when the people on your side of the mountains are governed by aristocratical factions and petty despots. I wish not to dictate you, but be assured that my advice to all my friends is, to leave those governments where oppression is necessary to maintain the dignity of office. Let the rich and their dependants support their own governments, and enjoy all the advantages arising therefrom."
In Pennsylvania assembly, March 3, on the second reading of the report of the committee on that part of the message from council which respects the resolution of Congress of the 21st of March last,
Resolved, That his excellency the President, and the supreme executive council, be informed, that this house having by their committee carefully examined into the subject matter of that part of the said message which recommends to the notice of this house the resolution of Congress, passed March 21, 1787, and suggests the propriety of passing a declaratory act, to answer the end intended by the said resolution, they cannot find that there is any act or acts, or any part or parts of any act or acts, passed by the legislature of Pennsylvania, now in force, which are repugnant to the treaty of peace between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, or to any articles thereof, or that at all tend to restrain, limit, or in any manner impede, retard or counteract the operation and execution thereof, or to explain the same.
On Thursday last died, at Philadelphia, Mrs. ELIZABETH H. HOLT, relict of the late Mr. JOHN HOLT, Printer, in this city.
[Particulars respecting this melancholy Event in To-morrow's Register.]
AN ADDRESS, "to Mr. C—e, G—e, R—e, N—e, Esqrs. and Capt. W—e, at G—e h—e n—e," shall be inserted to-morrow, agreeably to the request of its author. A NOMINATION for CANDIDATES, to a seat in the ensuing CONVENTION, by "A FREE-MAN," shall also appear in the Weekly Register.
MR. GREENLEAF, I OBSERVE in your paper of this day a paragraph, mentioning the progress of ARTS in America, and containing an encomium upon some of the ARTISTS. Permit me to add to the list the names of others, who, though less known, merit the notice and encouragement of their countrymen.
Mr. BENJAMIN DEARBORN, of Portsmouth (N. H.) invented a fire engine, on a small scale, capable of being fixed to a pump, and so designed as to be acted upon by the same force which raises the water in the pump, and throwing the water to the height of common houses. The invention is ingenious, although it cannot be useful, except in particular cases. See memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, p. 520. The same gentleman has constructed a Printing Press, so as to perform the whole impression of a sheet at a single pull. The newspaper at Exeter is printed in this manner.
The Reverend Mr. PRINCE of Salem, has made great improvements in the model of the air-pump. See memoirs of American Academy, page 497.
Mr. BENJAMIN HANKS of Litchfield, is distinguished for his genius in mechanical improvements. Several articles in the construction of his wind-clocks discover great ingenuity and a clear knowledge of the principles of mechanism.
Mr. WRIGHT, of this city, son of the celebrated Mrs. Wright, so distinguished for her skill in working figures in wax, stands high in the list of portrait painters. I do not recollect to have seen a more exact delineation of features, a more precise expression of character, or more elegant drapery in any American paintings, then in some of this gentleman's portraits.
Mr. PAYNE's model of a bridge, which I have seen in miniature, constructed and supported entirely by the right angles of the timber, and which may be extended to any length, in which the timber will bear its own weight, discovers the inventor to be as well acquainted with geometrical principles, as with those of COMMON SENSE. New-York, March 11.
EXTRACTS from the journals of a Convention begun and held for the district of Kentucky, at Danville, in the county of Mercer, on the 17th day of Sept. 1787.
RESOLVED by the representatives of the good people of the district of Kentucky, in Convention assembled, that it is expedient for, and the will of the same, that the said district be erected into a separate and independent state, on the terms and conditions specified in the two acts of assembly, one entitled "an act concerning the erecting of the district of Kentucky into an independent state;" the other entitled "an act making further provision for the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED, That this Convention do fix the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, to be the time on which the authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and of its laws over the district of Kentucky, shall cease and determine for ever, under the exceptions specified in the act, entitled "an act concerning the erecting of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED, That an address to the Congress of the United States of America, be prepared, stating the leading reasons for which the Convention have judged a separation of this district from the state of Virginia to be expedient, and requesting that the district may be admitted into the federal union, agreeable to an act of the general assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided.
WHEREAS this Convention hath adjudged it expedient that this district should be separated from the state of Virginia, and erected into an independent state, and hath determined that the authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and
of her laws over this district, shall cease and for ever determine on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight—And to the end that no period of anarchy may arise to the good people of the proposed state:
RESOLVED, As the opinion of this Convention, that a convention shall be elected with full power and authority to frame and establish a fundamental constitution of government, for the proposed state, and to declare what laws shall be in force therein, until the same be abrogated or altered by the legislative authority, acting under the constitution so to be framed and established.
RESOLVED, That in the month of April next, on the respective court days of the counties within the said district, and at the respective places of holding courts therein, representatives, to continue in appointment until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, to compose the said Convention, shall be elected within the said district, by the free male inhabitants of each county in the like manner as the delegates to the general assembly have been elected, in the proportions following; in the county of Jefferson shall be elected five representatives; in the county of Nelson five representatives; in the county of Fayette five representatives; in the county of Bourbon five representatives; in the county of Lincoln five representatives; in the county of Madison five representatives; and the county of Mercer five representatives. That full opportunity may be given to the good people of exercising their right of suffrage on an occasion so interesting to them, each of the officers so holding the elections, shall continue the same from day to day, for five days including the first day, and shall cause these resolutions to be read, immediately preceding the opening of the election at the door of the courthouse, or other convenient place; and that Mr. Bradford be requested to publish the same in his Kentucky Gazette, six weeks successively, immediately preceding the time of holding the said elections. Each of the said officers shall deliver to each person, duly elected a representative, a certificate of his election. The said convention shall be held at Danville, on the fourth Monday in July next, and as soon as eighteen members have convened, they shall and may proceed to the choice of a president, and other proper officers, and settling proper rules of proceedings; to consider, and by a majority of votes, establish a fundamental constitution of government, for the proposed state, and declare what laws shall be in force therein, until they are abrogated or altered by the legislative authority, acting under the constitution so to be framed and established.
RESOLVED, That three members of the said convention assembled, shall be a sufficient number to adjourn from day to day, and issue writs for supplying vacancies which may happen from deaths, resignations, or refusals to act.
RESOLVED, That in case there shall be no sheriff within the respective counties of the district of Kentucky, at the time the several elections are directed to be held for the election of the said members of convention, that any two acting magistrates, who may be present on the day for holding the said elections, be appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct the said election, and to make returns in the same manner as the sheriffs are directed to do.
A true copy from the minutes, THOMAS TODD, C. C.
THEATRE.
The Public are respectfully informed, there will not be any Performance until the EASTER MONDAY, when the Performer's Nights will commence.
HALLAM & HENRY.
New-York, March 11, 1788.
WILLIAM-STREET ACADEMY.
Late under the Care of the Rev. Mr. STANFORD.
JAMES MANNING, A.B. (Nephew to Dr. MANNING, President of Rhode I. College) respectfully informs the public, that he has engaged in that seminary, and will continue to teach those branches of literature usually taught in colleges; also, the requisite branches for fitting young gentlemen for college or business, in which particular attention will be paid to reading, writing, and speaking the English language.
Those gentlemen who will favor him with the tuition of their youth, may depend on his assiduity and care.
N.B. The public will please to observe, that the situation of this academy is retired and airy for the summer season.
New-York, Feb. 27, 1788. 40—w.f.
THE Commissioners, appointed by law to appraise, and finally to ascertain the advantages and disadvantages which may arise to the proprietors of lots, contiguous to, or taken away in whole, or in part, to widen and extend Greenwich-street, will meet on Thursday the 27th inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Common Council Chamber in the City-Hall, in order to proceed upon the business entrusted to them. And all claimants, and others interested, are hereby notified and requested to attend personally, or by their representative, with a state of their claims in writing.
By Order of the Commissioners, HENRY REMSEN, Chairman. New-York, March 7, 1788. 40 w.f.
Twenty Pounds Reward. WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.
To the PUBLIC. John M'Pherfon,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, WILL LECTURE on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY every Tuesday and Saturday, at the Coffee-House at half past six o'Clock in the Evening.
TICKETS to be had at his House, No. 21, George Street, for the Season, at Half a Guinea, and Tickets for a single Night at Half a Dollar—The last mentioned Tickets are also sold by Mrs. Bradford, at the Coffee-House.
He also Lectures on MORAL PHILOSOPHY at his own House every Monday and Thursday Evening, at the same Hour.
N. B. The who please to attend his MORAL LECTURE are to pay what they please when the Lecture is over, and before they leave the room. New-York, March 11, 1788. 39
TO BE SOLD, That pleasantly situated House and Lot of Ground, NEARLY opposite Old Trinity Church-Yard, the corner of French Church-Street, and Broad Way, now in the occupation of the Honorable Board of Treasury, and rents for 100l. per annum.—For further particulars enquire of Col. Isaac Stoughton, corner of Dyer-Street, North River, or Elias Nefson, No. 8, Burling-ship.—Also, TWO LOTS adjoining each other on the corner of Verlatenberg Hill and New Street. New-York, March 10, 1788. 38 6t. 2w.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law.—All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction. MELANTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER. New-York, March 11, 1788. 39 e.d.
Just Published, The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For February, 1788. Price TWO SHILLINGS. CONTENTS.
A Bridgement of the Education—Mode of it laws of nature in examined, French and English, The contract, Vindication of the preference women are supposed to have for men of inferior talents, Medical questions, Government—Mr. Jefferson's arguments in favor of an unalterable constitution, considered, Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, describing the remains of fortifications at Musk-ingum; with remarks on the Indian barrows, and the striking analogy between certain customs of the Indians and ancient Britons, Continuation of Smith's history of Virginia, A Hibernian's requies, Law questions.
POETRY. On the departure of a young gentleman who failed for England sometime since, Lines written by a youth on the death of Mr. Marrriages, S—of Sharon, Deaths.
New-York, Printed by Samuel Loudon, And Sold by Messrs. S. and R. Campbell, Mr. S. Loudon, Messrs. Berry and Rogers, Mr. T. Allen, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. T. Greenleaf, Mr. F. Childs, Mr. J. Reid.—Mr. J. Hastings, at Boston.—Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford.—Mr. J. Beers, at New-Haven.—Mr. A. Stoddard, at Hudson.—Messrs. W. Falconer and Co. at Albany.—Messrs. Young and McCulloch, at Philadelphia, Mrs. A. Timothy, at Charleston.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Enquire at No. 20, Queen-Street.
JACOB REED, jun. Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and SPECIE; And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds.
TO BE SOLD, AT PRIVATE SALE, A LOT of LAND. SITUATE on City Island, Westchester county, about 20 miles up the East River from New-York.
The above Lot contains eight acres of land, and is well situated for a garden spot, for the supply of this city with vegetables, or tavern for the watermen.
On this lot is a small tenement, with one chimney only, and a never failing spring of fresh water. The excellence of this spot is so universally known, to require any particular description.
It was formerly the property of Mr. Gilead Hunt, who, by a deed of gift, conveyed it to Mrs. JEMIMA PELL (widow of the late Joseph Pell, of the Manor of Pelham) by whom a good title will be given.—Enquire at No. 25, Water-Street.

POET'S CORNER.
DISAPPOINTMENT. WHAT form tremendous, bursting from a cloud, Presents itself to my dislemper'd view? My tear-or-ficken'd mind, tho' once so proud, Shrinks from the light,-- nor dares its hopes renew. For, clad in all his terrors, well I know The gloomy fiend, fell disappointment's hour, His pale face haggard with successive woe; I feel, I feel his foul-distressing power. Fond visionary hope I long caress'd; Pleas'd with her bright deceptive meteor fires; Yet she, who oft has warm'd my youthful breast, At his abhor'd approach, reluctantly retires; Leaves me alone the weight of life to bear, A prey to disappointment and despair. BOTH WELL.
Affize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, March 11. 1h. 14m. Aft.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Pro- vost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinsack, and extends from the ri- ver up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE , two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty- four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quan- tity of ashes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, com- manding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclo- sed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS , in Maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same.
The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
CONTAINING, A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the curren- cies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the cur- rencies of the said states. Rules for reducing Eng- lish Money into Irish, and Irish Money into Eng- lish, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy , Accomptant.
Just published, and to be sold at this Office, Baron Steuben's Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.
A YOUNG married woman with a good breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to nurse. Enquire at No. 30 Little- George-street. 29 c.d. 10
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Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of allice, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects. By JAMES PARKER , Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey,
Now adapted to these United States. By one of the J U D G E S .
The whole alphabetically digested under the se- veral titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in.
At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of
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Consisting of HISTORY. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
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Among which are, ELEGANT folio fa- mily bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkit on the new testa- ment, Brown's self- interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of di- vinity, Whitby's com- mentary, Blair's Carr's, Erkin's, Boston's, Willison's, Atebury- ry's, &c. sermon's, Neilson's festivals, Cul- len's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice o- physic, Van Swieten's commata- ries, 18 vols: Boerha- ave's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamil- ton's midwifery, Leacon on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quin- cey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemis- try, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Entick's latin Diction- aries, Davidson's Virgil and Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eu- tropius, Eralmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guth- rie's and Salmon's ge- ographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashe's, Dyke's, Bar- ley's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictiona- ries, Benner's christian orato- ry, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's mensurer.
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Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Jour- nals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thank- fully received, and carefully executed. 51
AT THE TANNER Y,
Near the Fresh-Water Pond,
MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER- LEATHER , tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits; for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manu- factories, and procure them a run of custom for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price. Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD.
N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 c.d.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed,
THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cord- age of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mul- berry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea- Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to mer- it 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 lin, deep sea lines, band 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. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnán and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel M'Cor- mick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Sa- muel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mar- iners on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the is- land of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a ves- sel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New- York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Burke, and John Donnán, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchan- dize so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hog- heads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spi- rits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, 1 bale of cot- ton wool, marked B, three other bales of cotton wool, marked H. C. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks where- of, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quan- tity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers print- ed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnán, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander M'Kenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel M'Corrnick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on be- half of Hyem Cohen, of the Island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of sal- vage: and whereas William Cock, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arisen by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of Wil- iam M'Kenney and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defected vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were gene- rally supposed by themselves and others then pre- sent, to have been a brigantine; and it further ap- pears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defected vessel was a stout vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-irons round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public monition and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and mer- chandise, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this mo- nition and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM , Marshal. 36 3m
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant situate
F A R M,
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FOR SALE, At the STORE of
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