Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-07-07 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 11, of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1792.
[Whole No. 333.]
BANK of the UNITED STATES,
July 2d, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, That there will be paid at the Bank, after the 10th instant, to the Stockholders, or their representatives duly authorized, the following sums, being the dividend declared from the commencement of the institution to the first instant, viz.
For each share completed in the month of March, Twelve Dollars.
For each share completed in the month of April Ten Dollars, Sixty-seven Cents.
For each share completed in the month of May, Nine Dollars, Thirty-three Cents.
For each half-share, Eight Dollars. By order of the President and Directors, (2 w.) JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of EDWARD MANKIN, an insolvent debtor, confined in the gaol of the county of Salem, in the state of New-Jersey, that the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for said county, on application to them made, have appointed the twenty-eighth day of July next for the said Creditors to appear before any two or more of said Judges, at the town of Salem, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and he be discharged from confinement, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, passed the 24th of November last, for the relief of insolvent debtors then confined. Salem, June 25, 1792. (*31)
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD (PRICE 10/) By HAZARD and ADDOMS, At the corner of Third & Chestnut Streets,
HISTORY OF New-Hampshire,
Vol. III. Containing a geographical description of the State—with sketches of its natural history, productions, improvements, and present state of society and manners, laws and government.
By JEREMY BELKNAP, A. M.
This volume compleats the history, and is peculiarly interesting.—Subscribers are desired to call for their books.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber in February last, a NEGRO LAD, named PHIL, about 20 years of age; had on when he went away, a round jacket, a pair homespun breeches, and a tow shirt; the fellow has a yellowish complexion, his height about five feet six or seven inches, very square made; has a mark along side of his nose, and one of his incisors has been burnt, which causes the sinews to draw.
Whoever takes up said Negro, and secures him in any jail, so that I may get him again, shall receive the above reward, and have all reasonable charges paid. ROBERT PEARCE. Head Sassafras, June 16, 1792. (*epim)
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Kent County, and State of Maryland, on Sunday the 27th May last, a NEGRO MAN, named HARK; about 40 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, has a scar over one of his eye-brows, and when talking, hangs his head on one side, and looks up—had on and took with him the following cloaths, viz. a fearnought coat, a black and white kersey coat, cut round, a white kersey jacket and breeches, two pair of yarn flockings, the one pair lately footed, and the other not, two ozanburgh shirts, each pieced on one side, two pair of tow-linen trowers, one pair patched with new tow-linen down the fore parts, and an old felt hat.
Whoever takes up said Negro, if out of this State, and secures him in gaol, shall receive FOURTEEN DOLLARS reward—and if taken within this State, and secured as aforesaid, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS reward; and if brought home, reasonable expenses will be paid by PEREGRINE LETHBURY. Chester-Town, June 4, 1791. (ep 8w)
WM. CLELAND, BOSTON,
Transacts business in the Funds of the United States;
BANK STOCK, BILLS of EXCHANGE, &c.
Orders from New-York, Philadelphia, or any other part of the Union, will be attended to with DILIGENCE and PUNCTUALITY. June 1. (epim & rowzm)
ADVERTISEMENT.
I DO hereby give notice to all persons, not to credit any person or persons whatever on my account, otherwise in my name, or on my credit, without special order from under my hand authorizing the same, as I am determined not to pay any debt or debts contracted without such order being produced.
THOMAS JONES.
Frederick-Town, June 5, 1792. (ep4w)
** Advertisements of one square, or less, will be published in this paper once for 50 Cents, and each subsequent insertion at 20 Cents.
A CONSTITUTION OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
[CONCLUDED.]
ARTICLE X.
Sec. 2. THE general assembly and the supreme courts shall within five years, hold their sessions at the place so pitched upon by the said commissioners; and the seat of government so fixed, shall continue until it shall be changed by two thirds of both branches of the legislature. The commissioners, before they proceed to act, shall take an oath or make affirmation that they will discharge the trust reposed in them, in such manner, as in their judgment shall be most beneficial to the state at large.
ARTICLE XI.
Sec. 1. That the citizens of this state may have an opportunity to amend or change this constitution in a peaceable manner, if, to them it shall seem expedient; the persons qualified to vote for representatives, shall, at the general election to be held in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, vote also, by ballot, for or against a convention, as they shall severally chuse to do; and if thereupon it shall appear that a majority of all the citizens in the state voting for representatives, have voted for a convention, the general assembly shall direct that a similar ballot shall be taken the next year; and if thereupon it shall also appear that a majority of all the citizens of the state, voting for representatives have voted for a convention, the general assembly shall at their next session, call a convention, to consist of as many members as there shall be in the house of representatives, to be chosen in the same manner, at the same places and at the same time that representatives are, by the citizens entitled to vote for representatives, and to meet within three months after the said election, for the purpose of re-adopting, amending or changing this constitution. If it shall appear upon the ballot of either year, that a majority of the citizens voting for representatives is not in favor of a convention being called, it shall not be done until two thirds of both branches of the legislature shall deem it expedient.
ARTICLE XII.
That the general great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established; we declare,
Sec. 1. That all men, when they form a social compact, are equal, and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services.
Sec. 2. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness. For the advancement of these ends, they have at all times an unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government, in such manner as they may think proper.
Sec. 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given by law, to any religious societies or modes of worship.
Sec. 4. That the civil rights, privileges or capacities of any citizen shall in no wise be diminished or enlarged on account of his religion.
Sec. 5. That all elections shall be free and equal.
Sec. 6. That trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and that the right thereof remain inviolate.
Sec. 7. That printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Sec. 8. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Sec. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable seizures and searches; and that no warrant to search any place or to seize any persons or things, shall issue without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.
Sec. 10. That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused hath a right to be heard by himself and his counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to meet the witnesses face to face, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour; and in prosecutions by indictment or information, a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the vicinage; that he cannot be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor can he be deprived of his life, liberty or property, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Sec. 11. That no person shall for any indictable offence be proceeded against criminally by information; except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service, in time of war or public danger, or by leave of the court for oppression or misdemeanor in office.
Sec. 12. No person shall, for the same offence, be twice put in jeopardy of his life or limb, nor shall any man's property be taken or applied to public use without the consent of his representatives, and without just compensation being previously made to him.
Sec. 13. That all courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by the due course of law; and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.
Sec. 14. That no power of suspending laws shall be exercised, unless by the legislature or its authority.
Sec. 15. That excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishments inflicted.
Sec. 16. That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences when the proof is evident or presumption great; and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.
Sec. 17. That the person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 18. That no ex post facto law, nor any law impairing contracts shall be made.
Sec. 19. That no person shall be attained of treason or felony by the legislature.
Sec. 20. That no attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during the life of the offender, forfeiture of estate to the Commonwealth.
Sec. 21. The estates of such persons as shall destroy their own lives, shall descend or vest as in case of natural death, and if any person shall be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof.
Sec. 22. That the citizens have a right in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address or remonstrance.
Sec. 23. That the rights of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.
Sec. 24. That no standing army shall in time of peace, be kept up without the consent of the legislature, and the military shall in all cases and at all times be in strict subordination to the civil power.
Sec. 25. That no soldier shall in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Sec. 26. That the legislature shall not grant any title of nobility or hereditary distinction, nor create any office the appointment to which shall be for a longer term than during good behavior.
Sec. 27. That emigration from the State shall not be prohibited.
Sec. 28. To guard against transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, WE DECLARE, that every thing in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and that all laws contrary thereto or contrary to this constitution shall be void.
SCHEDULE.
That no inconvenience may arise from the establishing the government of this State, and in order to carry the same into complete operation, it is hereby declared and ordained,
Sec. 1. THAT all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims and contracts, as well of individuals as of bodies corporate, shall continue as if the said government had not been established.
Sec. 2. That all officers civil and military now in commission under the State of Virginia, shall continue to hold and exercise their offices until the 10th day of August next and no longer.
Sec. 3. That until the first enumeration shall be made as directed by the sixth section of the first article of this constitution, the county of Jefferson, shall be entitled to elect three Representatives; the county of Lincoln four Representatives; the county of Fayette nine Representatives; the county of Nelson six Representatives; the county of Mercer four Representatives; the county of Madison three Representatives; the county of Bourbon five Representatives; the county of Woodford, four Representatives; and the county of Mason, two Representatives.
Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall meet at Lexington on the 4th day of June next.
Sec. 5. All returns herein directed to be made to the Secretary, shall, previous to his appointment, be made to the clerk of the supreme court for the district of Kentucky.
Sec. 6. Until a Seal shall be procured for the State, the Governor shall be at liberty to use his private seal.
Sec. 7. The oaths of office herein directed to be taken, may be administered by any Justice of the Peace, until the Legislature shall otherwise direct.
Sec. 8. All bonds given by any officer within the district of Kentucky, payable to the Governor of Virginia, may be prosecuted in the name of the Governor of Kentucky.
Sec. 9. All offences against the laws of Virginia, which have been committed within the present district of Kentucky, or which may be committed within the same before the first day of June next, shall be cognizable in the courts of this State in the same manner that they would be, if they were committed within this State, after the said first day of June.
Sec. 10. At the elections herein directed to be held in May next, the Sheriff of each county, or in case of his absence, one of his deputies shall preside, and if they neglect or refuse to act, the said elections shall be held by any one of the justices of the peace for the county where such refusal or neglect shall happen: each officer holding such election having first taken an oath before a justice of the peace to conduct the said election with impartiality, shall have power to administer to any person offering to vote at such election, the following oath or affirmation, "I do swear (or affirm) that I am qualified to vote for Representatives in the county of agreeably to the constitution formed for the State of Kentucky," and such officer shall have a right to refuse to receive the vote of any person who shall refuse to take the said oath or make affirmation when tendered to him. And the said elections shall be held at the several places appointed for holding courts in the different counties.
Sec. 11. The government of the commonwealth of Kentucky, shall commence on the first day of June next.
DONE in convention at Danville, the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the sixteenth.
BY ORDER OF THE CONVENTION. SAMUEL M'DOWELL, P. C. Attest. THOMAS TODD, C. C.
FROM THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL.
Mess. PRINTERS, By inserting the following observations in your useful Journal, you will oblige one of your old customers, and do an essential service to the public.
NOTWITHSTANDING the many and frequent cautions given the public, with respect to the dangerous nature of copper; I have rarely observed any precautions given concerning the poisonous nature of lead, which is to be avoided more cautiously, as its poison though perhaps slower in its effects, may yet prove as fatal, or even more certainly so than that from the copper.
Lead enters various compositions, and forms many of the utensils in common use; and in this country the health of its inhabitants is much more exposed from the deleterious quality of the lead, than from that of copper.
A small quantity of lead received into the habit, is capable of producing spasms and convulsions, tremors and palsies, it interrupts the secretions, retards circulation, and injures the nerves.
So virulent is the poison of this metal, that it is said that where the ore is washed and smelted, it proves fatal to dogs, cats, and fowls, which are kept near the works—every kind of beast feeding upon the grass over which the steam of the smelting ore passes, live but a short time.—The workmen and those who dig the ore, are short lived, and most commonly die paralytic—those who work the oxyd or calx of this mineral are so subject to the colic, that the disease is known by the name of the painter's colic.
The potter also who is familiar with the preparations of lead in his glazings, rarely fails of carrying visible marks of it in his countenance, and of the complaints of its deleterious effects.
Only three grains of lead to the gallon of new rum which a regiment of soldiers made free use of, produced a most terrible complaint of the colic, of which a greater part were down at the same time.
Some by a practice of sitting with their feet on sheet lead, which was laid before the fire, have been affected with the palsy in the legs.
Preparations of lead in oil, and other solutions of lead applied to large surfaces denuded, or even to so small a part as the nipples, when excoriated, have been known to produce acute pains at the stomach, colic, loss of appetite, flatulence and depression in the nurse, and in the child put to suck, (without proper precaution) violent gripes, and even convulsions; but more frequently are these effects produced, by the use of the sugar or salt of lead, for the cure of thrush or sore mouths in infants.
Many have experienced pernicious effects from only working on oil cloths made with drying oil, prepared with lead. And I have repeatedly known fatal effects produced by lodging in a confined room, newly painted with lead-en pigments.
Printers have some times become paralytic by handling their types, which consist of a portion of lead.
The vintners or wine sellers, in order to render their harsh wines vendible have recourse to a horrid diabolical practice, and frequently soften and sweeten them with some preparation of lead; so strong is their passion for gain, that they are lost to all the feelings of humanity, and prepare a fatal poison, of which there can be no mistrust in those who are to endure the fatal effects.
If the observations on the nature of lead upon the human constitution are well founded, (which I believe cannot be confuted as they depend on facts)—then it concerns every individual to take the caution, as all perhaps are more or less conversant with some or other of the saturnine preparations, many of them unthought of and never suspected. I write unto you nurse, that while you are consulting the

diversion and amusement of your little innocents, you may not introduce a fatal poison into their habits, by putting some painted poisonous toy into their hands, which have some lead or other poisonous paint upon them and only covered with a slight varnish, which is soon rubbed and washed off in their mouths, and so much poison introduced into their habits, as to become a source of a long train of evils if not eventually fatal.
I write unto you honest retailers, to be attentive and ever jealous of your pewter measures, many of which have a great share of lead in their composition, and if acid liquors are permitted to remain any time in them they will be strongly impregnated with the poisonous salts of this mineral, and rendered extremely dangerous to those who drink the liquors.
I write unto you cooks, that you be careful of your pewter vessels or copper tinned there-with, that you do not suffer your sharp or poignant sauces to be prepared or stand in those vessels.
I write unto you pye and pastry makers that you not only disuse pewter but that you be aware of your common courter earthen, whose glazing is of lead and easily corroded.
I write unto you painters, that ye be cautious of the poison, on the use of which your subsistence so much depends, that you abstain from that too common practice (from a mistaken idea) of taking by way of antidote, a double allowance of spirituous liquors; for one devil is not cast out by another, else is Satan's kingdom divided.
Therefore be admonished while working your lead to use spirits sparingly if at all, and instead of your usual nips, take half a jill of sweet oil, which will be found a great preservative to health.
Now I write unto you limners, and those who use the pewter paints, that ye may take the above precautions, and in particular that while you are studying your devices, you do not hold your pencil in your mouths, nor as it is too customary to clean it with your mouths.
I write unto you who have devoted yourselves martyrs to Sir Richard, that ye may look well to it, that old Saturn by an untimely stroke of his sharp scythe, does not rob Sir Richard of his sacrifice.
To you bacchanalians, that the god you serve may not be dishonored, nor robbed of the glory which would be shortly due to him were it not for the interposition of this rapacious mineral.
Lastly, I write unto you vintners, wine sellers, who make use of this poison to disguise the acid of your wine, that you may consider the justice of your damnation, how inevitable! how aggravated! for it swiftly comes from that Hand, which is termed the avenger of blood, and lingereth not. ANTI-SATURNUS.
* It has been observed that the colic has been less frequent in this country since the introduction of earthen instead of pewter plates; but perhaps the introduction of iron tea kettles, instead of the copper, lined with pewter, may be considered as salutary a change in this respect.
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
AN EXTRACT.
MR. FRENEAU,
As a subscriber and well-wisher to the National Gazette, I take the liberty of advising you against employing much of your paper in replying to the court paragraphs, which appear in the Gazette of the United States. There needs no second Daniel to interpret for that paper. A paragraph in favor of the excise can easily be traced to a gentleman who holds a post under that virtuous system in Baltimore. The eulogiums on the same system, in the Pittsburgh Gazette, bespeak their author in every line; the essays in favor of perpetual debt flow from the brokers and their friends—the disgusting adulatory inuendo is applied to the administration, not to the constitution; for these are different things, as times go."
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
IT has long been the opinion of many persons, friends to liberty and the equal rights of election and representation—that the NATIONAL GAZETTE so called, is a paper established by a junta for electioneering purposes—and to subvert those systems, which though in their infancy, have tranquilized this country, and produced a most astonishing change in its prospects and situation.
The National Gazette of the 4th instant—a day that ought to be sacred to union, harmony and pleasure, appears to justify the observation, that benefits conferred on some minds strengthen their obduracy.
"As sol's blest beams turn vinegar more sour."
I have read the several columns of that paper and cannot find one idea honorable to the people of the United States, favorable to its government, or to the persons administering the same: On the other hand between five and six columns are filled with abuse of the government; while the people are represented as the weak heedless dupes of a few, who have tricked them out of their property
and liberties by persuading them to adopt the constitution of the United States.—All this however is but a dust raised to cover the advance of the main design, which is nothing less than to oust from the government almost every man now in the administration.—I have attempted a dissection of the principal parts of this extraordinary publication of the 4th July—and it is at your service:
WHEREAS the government of the United States in the first dawn of its existence, say the writers in the National Gazette, has diverged from its republican principles, and in its maiden acts has explained away all the limitations of the constitution; and "precedents and phrases" have been "shuffled in without being advertised to by candid or weak people, the duped part of the majority," though anticipated and discerned by us, the then dormant, but penetrating guardians of liberty—And whereas "the public mind in a heedless and unsettled state," (1.) while we were either not in the country, or were otherwise better employed, "let the press" hold up to view the advantages of peace, liberty and safety under the auspices of a firm republican government, established by the people themselves; without any attempts on our (2.) part that were successful, to persuade them that there was no necessity for any union, justice or harmony in the states—And whereas the debt incurred for the general defence ought to have been annihilated at the cessation of hostilities and the declaration of peace; instead of which, the government of the United States, agreeable to the constitution, but contrary to our advice, opinion, or judgment in the case, has contumaciously, and in defiance of every principle of our creed, funded said debt on terms advantageous to the holders thereof, and to the government, but without one farthing's immediate benefit to us, who never owned a shilling of it, and who never did, or ever can, or will stake a doit on the issue of any contest whatever, for the public good—And whereas the Congress of the United States, consisting of the House of Representatives, chosen by the people, and the Senate, with the President of the United States, chosen also by the people, have passed "an act making provision for the debt of the United States," in such a manner as "to let the whole be such a mystery, that a few only can understand it; and have let all possible opportunities and information fall in the way of these few, to clinch their advantages over the many," that is, the people. (3.)—And whereas "the members of the legislative body," chosen as above, by the people, are deep gamblers, and can "alternately speculate and legislate, and legislate and speculate, and sell and buy and buy and sell," till by such arts they have "speculated the property of their constituents into their own hands," which, like arms taken from an enemy, they will turn against their constituents—And whereas a debt thus constituted and applied will contribute to the ends which these gamblers, tricksters and speculators (4) have in view, viz.
1st. The possessors, the "favorite few" whether within or without the government, will go through thick and thin to support it in all its usurpations and oppressions. (5.)
2d. Their money will give them consequence and influence even a-
mong those who have been tricked out of it (6.)
3d. An hereditary aristocracy will be ready prepared against a proper occasion,
4th, Great taxes will ensue, numerous offices, oppression, resistance, a STANDING ARMY, &c. &c.
And whereas some facts respecting the excise have been published in various parts of the United States, and facts being a mildew to our insinuations and representations—it becomes necessary to list these facts by sagacious suggestions respecting their origin; though the devil who has often deceived us (7.) knows that we know nothing about it; and whereas the people of the State of Pennsylvania in contempt of many wholesome exhortations formerly given by us, and our connections, on the superior excellency of a government constituted with one branch only, have seen proper to new model their constitution upon the plan of the national government and many other things have done, which we must disapprove—and have left others undone, which we fondly anticipated would have been done—particularly at their last session have omitted to disturb the union, by not encouraging resistance to the laws of the United States; and at this moment encourage the "apes of British" nobility by not carrying the law against horse racing into execution, while at the same time an excise is collected in the State: And whereas the National Bank is a machine that gives facility to trade and commerce; affords a general accommodation to the public, in the payment of the revenue, and in a thousand ways conduces to the interests of the people, while at the same time it promotes that of the men immediately concerned in it, and in this way is an instance of the wisdom of the government—and whereas the United States benefiting by this institution, are subject, as a stockholder, to a proportion of the charges and expences attending the same—and though it is an independent corporation, yet members of Congress being chosen by the stockholders directors of the institution, is a direct violation of the constitution of the United States—And whereas "all this corrupt speculation and avaricious jobbing have polluted the infant character of our government, and is a mortifying circumstance to [us] its real steady republican friends; and as the conduct of those whose integrity and fidelity have yielded to the allurements of dishonorable gain is the more unpardonable and odious, when compared with the purity, the disinterestedness and the magnanimity of the example at the head of the government. (8.) And as much is to be hoped from a pruning and lopping off of rotten branches from the tree of government—for though we hate it both "root and branch," yet we find it is prudent sometimes to say that we will "carefully spare the tree itself;" (9.) And whereas the people of this country are in great danger of enjoying too much peace, tranquility and civil freedom, of singing a requiem to their former forrows, and of "sleeping too soundly at the sleeping hour"—And whereas "since the glorious and honorable peace of 1783, (10.) artifice and deception has effected one revolution in favor of the FEW, (11.) another revolution must and will be brought about in favor of the PEOPLE:"—Now therefore to effect this valuable and important purpose; to support and maintain our proper characters, and to prove the truth of that ancient record, which says that the sons of Anarch will never cease from troubling, Know ye, That as the people of this country, injured and oppressed by a distant government over which they had no controul, once as-
sociated, combined and formed committees of correspondence for the laudable purpose of counteracting the designs of distant enemies—So now, we propose that the people should form societies in every county of the United States, upon similar principles, for the purpose of "preventing abuses of power, & silent (12.) encroachments upon the liberties of the people," made under the administration of that government which the people themselves have adopted, established and confirmed—thus to arm the people against the people. Societies thus formed "for instructing the people (13.) in their natural and political rights, would deserve the title of FRIENDS TO THE PEOPLE!" We do not propose that these societies should be selected by the people, by a deliberate choice; that they should be confined to any particular objects, be under the direction of any particular rules or principles, take any oath, or be under any obligation to observe the laws or the constitution—Such bodies we find are not to be trusted, &c. CRITO.
(12.) Silent encroachments! for about nine months past we have constantly been told of the open and daring attacks upon the liberties of the people!
(13.) That is according to the creed of the junta—No, rather let the foundation of freedom and virtue, be laid in the education of the rising generation—this will enable the people to discern between those who are their real friends, and those who seek only their own private aggrandizement.
BOSTON, June 28.
FRENCH WAR.
English papers as late as 30th April [received by Capt. Norton from Liverpool] mention, that the declaration of war against the King of Hungary and Bohemia, was formally proclaimed throughout Paris, on the 21st, amidst the greatest concourse of people ever seen on such an occasion—That the Russian fleet would pass the sound in a few days, and rendezvous either in the Downs or at Torbay; but none of the British ports were expected to be open for their reception—That the French commerce was likely to suffer in the contest, as privateers from various States would rendezvous at Ostend, and sailing under Brabant colours, would pick up the merchant ships of France—but that great preparations were making in France, for the immediate capture of that place.
Every recent letter from Spain brings some new instance of the growing spirit of revolt in that country.—It first manifested itself in Catalonia, where the hardy disposition of the natives is proverbial. Castille and Aragon have followed the example, and if the recitals which have reached us be well founded, Despotism and the Inquisition have both seen their day.
Last Saturday was brought into this town, by Benj. Joslyn, esq. of New-Braintree, a Calf of eleven months old, weighing, alive, 840 pounds.
ALBANY, June 21.
The following is the CHARGE of the Hon. Judge COOPER, to the Grand Jury of the county of Otsego, at the opening of the Court of Common Pleas for that county, on the 19th instant.
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, LONG custom, as well as the statute laws of our state, renders it necessary that, before you leave the bar for the purpose of taking upon you the important charge of correcting the errors of the country, you should receive from the court every information relative to your duty, that the bench may be possessed of—as well personal as official—to serve as way-marks to your deliberate proceedings. But, gentlemen, as you are brought forward from the several parts of the county, much more is reasonably to be expected from your own knowledge of right and wrong, and careful enquiry after the honor and true interest of the country, than what possibly can be given you in charge by the court—Therefore shall only say, that it is our duty to charge you to enquire after, and your duty to present, every species of private lottery. Gentlemen, we charge you to have a careful eye over disorderly taverns and every breach of the peace. I lament with you, at the truly discouraging prospect, occasioned by the
(1.) There are no greater contemners of the people, than those who under a pretence of alarming them on account of the dangers which threaten their liberties, are constantly reproaching them with their ignorance of what concerns their peace and freedom—while at the same time they never devise or propose any practicable modes of enlightening them—save a reprobation of the clergy, and an abuse of all the systems of education extant, and of those parts of the Union where the most ample means of instruction are enjoyed.
(2.) It cannot be said with truth that the constitution has been unattended to by its enemies, one moment since its promulgation—the partisans who commenced their attacks on it before its adoption, have since been constantly, as they now are keeping up a random fire at the system, the government, and its administration.
(3.) By the many, in the junta file, is always to be understood the people,—another immaculate compliment on the people and on the men whom they have repeatedly honored with their suffrages.
(4.) These epithets are justifiable in the National Gazette—the they are there in point!
(5.) The public creditors are here represented as persons of less understanding than the fool in the fable of the goose which laid a golden egg.
(6.) This is consonant to human nature—the people according to these writers, have so little understanding as not to be able to distinguish their friends from their enemies—nay, take the latter for the former.
(7.) "The devil was a liar from the beginning."
(8.) This is evidently teeth outwards, a meer salvo—its consistency with the general tenor of the National Gazette of the 4th of July, is too obvious to escape notice!
(9.) Partisans who talk about another revolution, "spare the tree!"
(10.) This is undoubtedly a slip of the pen.
(11.) It is here they let the cat out of the bag.

flagrant violation of your public right—when the free and fair suffrages of near twelve hundred freeholders have fallen a sacrifice to party rage—contrary to the mild language of our laws, which never convict upon a less evidence than is required to acquit—contrary to the given opinion of the great and learned law characters of the state, have your honest endeavors for a favorite administration been frustrated.—But, gentlemen, as you are mostly from the eastern states, and have been educated with high notions of liberty, let me request and charge you, that you shew forth your esteem for civil government by quietly submitting to your fate.
And further, gentlemen, as divers malicious reflections have been cast on my character, as making use of undue influence at the late election, I submit to your enquiry, my conduct therein.
The seriousness of the oath you have taken, together with your natural inclination to support and maintain the civil laws, renders it unnecessary for the court to charge you further on the occasion.
A report has been for some days in circulation (but wants confirmation) that the hon. E. Clarke, lieut. gov. of his Britannic majesty's province of Lower Canada, is appointed governor of the island of Jamaica—that lieut. gov. Simcoe succeeds Mr. Clarke in the government of Lower Canada—and that Mr. John Johnson is appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, and succeeds Mr. Simcoe in that government.
The person who has been in confinement in the goal in this city, for several months past, on a charge of counterfeiting the bank bills of New York, and who has been indicted in several of the counties of this state, for that offence—was, at the late circuit court, taken to Saratoga, and from thence to Washington, to answer to indictments in those counties—but not brought to trial in either, on account of a deficiency in the panel of jurors in the former, and the want of the evidences in the latter—has made his escape from the sheriff of Washington.
LANSINGBURGH, June 30.
At ten o'clock this morning arrived here, attended by an escort of respectable inhabitants of this place, the hon. John Jay, esq. chief-justice of the United States. On this happy occasion every citizen feeling a becoming zeal to express his good wishes to the man of their choice, appointed a committee on their behalf, who waited on his honor at Platt's inn, and presented him the following address.
To JOHN JAY, Esq. Chief Justice of the United States.
SIR, WE beg leave to address you in the simple style of freemen; and in the name of the citizens of Lansingburgh, to congratulate you on your arrival in our infant settlement.
Fully impressed with a sense of your patriotism, we embrace this opportunity of expressing our gratitude for your unwearied exertions through the struggles of an oppressive war, and your eminent services as a statesman and minister at home and abroad.
Our respect for your character in the dignified office of Chief Justice of the United States, and our regard for your person as a man possessing the confidence of the people, give us the most lively hopes of shortly embracing you as the chief-magistrate of this state. Nor can we refrain on this occasion from expressing our sincere regret and resentment at the prostitution of those principles of virtue, patriotism and duty which has been displayed by a majority of the canvassing committee, in the wanton violation of our most sacred and inestimable privileges, in arbitrarily disfranchising whole towns and counties of their suffrages.
It was, perhaps, little contemplated that the constitution of this state, which you had so great a share in framing, should, in the first instance, to your prejudice, be in so flagrant a manner violated.
However desirous we may be of seeing you fill the office of governor of this state, we only wish it from the free suffrages of a majority of the electors: that majority you have, and though abuse of power may for a time deprive you and the citizens of their right, we trust the sacred flame of liberty is not so far extinguished in the bosoms of Americans, as tamely to submit to wear the shackles of slavery, without, at least, a struggle to shake them off.
With the highest respect we are your devoted friends and very humble servants,
C. LANSING, D. LANE, C. SELDEN, J. DOLF, J. E. DICKINSON, } Committee.
To which he made REPLY.
To the Gentlemen of the Committee.
GENTLEMEN,
PERMIT me to request the favor of you to present to my fellow citizens of Lansingburgh, my warm and sincere acknowledgments for the honor they have done me on this occasion; and to assure you, gentlemen, that the manner in which you have conveyed their sentiments, add to the satisfaction which they inspire. Their approbation encreases the pleasure with which I reflect on my endeavours to serve the cause of liberty and my country; that cause in which their ardor and their firmness have been distinguished.
The various bounties of heaven to the people of this state have afforded them abundant reason for gratitude, harmony and content; and every event is to be regretted, that tends to introduce discord and complaint. Circumstanced as I am in relation to the one you mention, I find myself restrained by considerations of delicacy from particular remarks. The citizens of the state know the value of their rights; and it is to be expected, as well as sincerely to be wished, that their efforts to assert and maintain them, will on every occasion, be marked by temper and moderation, as well as by constancy and zeal.
In whatever station or situation I may be placed, my attachment to my country will remain unabated; and I shall always be happy in opportunities of my respect and best wishes for the citizens of Lansingburgh.
JOHN JAY.
Mr. Jay left town at five o'clock, suitably attended to the ferry at Troy.
NEW-YORK, July 3.
Last Lord's day, between three and four o'clock P.M. we were visited with a severe squall of wind, accompanied with some rain.
Mr. Wade, ship-carpenter's, boat, which contained himself, wife, brother, two children, and a young man, were overset opposite to Yellow-Hook, a few miles from the city, and all were drowned except the young man, who clung to the boat.
Also, another boat, with three men and two boys, was overset and all drowned.
Also we learn that a sloop, containing sixteen or eighteen person were all drowned in consequence of this tremendous gult.
Tis reported that several other boats were overset, and persons lost, the truth of which we cannot avouch. Much damage has been done to houses, orchards, &c.
It is indeed a melancholy reflection, when we consider the number of persons drowned in taking their pleasures on the Sabbath. Every year, since the peace commenced, produced some awful warning of the like kind. Boats are crowded with people going to different quarters on that sacred day, for their pleasures. May these be a warning to irreligious triflers! A stranger, viewing our streets, our public walks, roads, boats, &c. near the city, might be apt to interrogate, Have they no magistrates in New-York? Tell it not in Gath!
The Portrait of Mr. Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, painted for the citizens of New-York by Mr. Trumbull, has been received, and for the present, placed in the City Hall. It must afford much pleasure to the gentlemen who promoted this undertaking, to know, that this elegant specimen of Mr. Trumbull's abilities, is reckoned one of the finest productions of his pencil.
Philadelphia, July 7.
Wednesday, being the anniversary of the political birth-day of our country, was ushered in with every demonstration of joy due to the occasion, which gave freedom to a world—Congratulations, becoming freemen governed by equal laws, were expressed with a cordiality, which freemen only can feel—Bells and cannon but feebly proclaimed the sentiments of citizens, who, conscious of the advantages which result from political and religious liberty, revere the return of that day, on which they emerged from the horrors of servitude to the blessings of INDEPENDENCE. Among the offerings at the Altar of Freedom—we beheld with sincere satisfaction the homage paid by all orders of men to the Military Defender, and Civil Guardian of his country.
Congratulations were offered to the President of the United States by the foreign Ministers—the officers of the militia, and many respectable citizens.
The Society of the Cincinnati, headed by their President and Vice-President (the Governor and Chief Justice of the state) went in procession to pay their respects to the President of the United States.
An entertainment in honor of the day, was given at Oellers's Hotel, by the Cincinnati, to which the Heads of Departments and Foreign Ministers were invited, who favored the Society with their company.
After dinner a number of patriotic toasts were given.
At the meeting of the Cincinnati, the following gentlemen were chosen officers for the ensuing year:
His Excellency General Mifflin, President; the Honorable Thomas M c Kean, Vice-President; Major M c Connell, Treasurer; Captain Patton,
Assistant Treasurer; Captain Howell, Secretary; Captain Ball, Assistant Secretary.
Representatives to the general meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, in May next.
Col. Murray; Major Mackpherson; Major M c Connell; General Moylan, and General Stewart.
Standing Committee.
General Harmar; Col. North; Captain Wigton; Major Sprot; Col. Johnston; General Stewart; the Hon. Robert Morris.
The Pittsburgh Gazette, of June 30, says—A party of Major M c Cully's levies killed an Indian a few days ago on Pine creek, up the Allegheny river.
There has been no depredations committed on the frontiers of this State and Virginia this some time past.
Monday 25th ult. arrived at Carlisle from Philadelphia, on their way Westward, between 200 and 300 Troops, under the command of Major Joseph Ashton.
Recent accounts from the Territory of the United States, South-West of the Ohio, inform us that Governor Blount has lately been among the Indians in that quarter, and held public and private talks with the Chiefs and Warriors, who unanimously expressed great contrition for the depredations committed since the treaty of Holston, and their firm resolution to prevent any in future.
A few days only, previous to the above conference, several of the people were tomahawked and scalped.
The weather proving unfavorable Wednesday for displaying the FIRE WORKS at Oellers's—The exhibition has been postponed, to the 14th of July, the Anniversary of the French Revolution; on which day it is expected there will be a general rejoicing in every part of the United States.
Fed. Gaz.
His Excellency Josiah Bartlett, Esq. is chosen President of the State of New-Hampshire.
Letters of the 20th ult. received from Cape-Francois, inform, that since the publication of a proclamation made by the Governor, respecting the people of colour and free negroes, many of them have returned to the camps commanded by M. de Rouvray and M. de Fontanges.
Preparations were making for a general attack on the revolted slaves.
M. de Blanchelande had visited the West cordon, and had gone to St. Mare.
The Governor, by the proclamation above mentioned, in strong language, calls upon the white inhabitants, people of colour and free negroes to recollect, that certain information has been received from France, that the Assembly had passed a decree on their political state, which decree was sanctioned by the King on the 5th of April. That the Colonial Assembly having received a copy of it, through their commissioners, had wisely expressed their respect for it, and determined to abide by the decision. He hopes that the people of colour and free negroes will equally respect the decision of the mother country; and urges them all to put a stop to their divisions, and unite in the common cause.
The University of Glasgow it is said has subscribed, and actually transmitted to the National Assembly, the sum of two thousand pounds sterling.
On Sunday last a boy bathing in a brick pond near this city, suddenly disappeared, having sunk in a deep hole, from whence, with difficulty he was taken out; it is supposed that he must have lain in the water 20 minutes. After 3 hours persevering exertions in the use of proper means, he was restored, and is now well.
On Monday, the 2d inst. in pursuance of public notice, a meeting of the Subscribers for opening a Canal and Water Communication, between the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill, was held at the State House, for the purpose of electing a President, Managers, Treasurer and Secretary, and passing such Bye-Laws as were considered immediately necessary for the regulation of the Corporation, when the Rev. Dr. Smith, was chosen Chairman of the meeting; William Barton and Charles Heatly, Judges of the Election, and Peter Baynton and William Moore Smith, Tellers. On casting up the votes it appeared that the following gentlemen were duly elected.
President. Robert Morris.
Managers.
David Rittenhouse, Cadwallader Evans, jun. Samuel Powell, Richard Peters, William Bingham, William Smith, D.D. John Nicholson, George Clymer, Francis Johnson, A. J. Dallas, Walter Stewart, Benj. R. Morgan. Treasurer. Tench Francis. Secretary. Wm. Moore Smith.
Philadelphia, 3d July, 1792.
SIR, THE Paper which I have honor to transmit herewith to your Excellency, shews the number of Barrels of Flour, shipped for exportation at this port, in the months of April, May and June last.
With the greatest respect, I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient, and Humble Servant, JAMES READ.
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Governor of Pennsylvania.
State of the Shipments of Flour, at the Port of Philadelphia, in the months of April, May and June, 1792.
{ BARRELS OF } { FLOUR. } { BARRELS OF } { MIDDLING. } Shipped in April, 52,779 600 May, 52,771 415 June, 57,794 493
whole am't. 161,344 | 1418 Barrels.
Philadelphia, 3d July, 1792.
JAMES READ, INSPECTOR. His Excellency GOVERNOR MIFFLIN.
By the arrival of a vessel at New-York, from Lisbon, information is received that Dr. Willis has pronounced the Queen of Portugal incurable, and in consequence has taken his departure for London.
EXTRACT.
"Of the genius of children for particular studies, so much is said in general, and so very few instances of it appear, that a prudent person will not be very apt to suspect that his children will exhibit the symptoms of it which are denied to the bulk of mankind. There are, no doubt, occasionally some gigantic minds which, applying to a particular study, outstrip their competitors in the race; but, unless we believe in innate ideas, how can we expect that the mind should be determined to any particular train of thinking, till ideas have been infused into it by some extraneous circumstances which direct and determine its decision. Whoever expects a child's genius to unfold itself so completely, that it seems almost predestinated to a particular pursuit, will, I fear, but ill consult his own or his children's comfort."
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
Schooner Nancy, George, Jamaica Adive, Luke, Virginia Nancy, Black, do. Sloop Resolution, Rhodes, Charlesflm New-York Packet, Bailey, New-York
PRICE OF STOCKS.
6 per Cents, 21 3/4 3 per Cents, 12 5/8 Deferred, 13 1/2 3/4 shares Bank U. S. 45 per cent. prem.
SECURITIES.
SOLDIERS, Mariners, and militia men's pay, lands, and claims on the public.
SHARES, in the Banks, in the Canals, and Turnpike Road.
CERTIFICATES, granted by the public, and the old and late paper monies,
NOTES of hand, bills, bonds, and mortgages, with or without deposits,
BOUGHT, sold, or negotiated, at No. 2, in Fourth-street below Market-street, by
FRANCIS WHITE,
Who transacts business in the public offices for country people and others, by virtue of a power of attorney, or by personal application.
PHILADELPHIA. (18w6w)
24 Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY the 30th March last, a NEGRO WOMAN, by the name of CHLOE. She is five feet two and a half inches high; quick spoken; upper tooth open; no eye-brows at all; is about 30 years old, but looks much younger. She is well stowed with cloaths, long gowns, jackets, &c. She is now passing for a free woman, I understand, and has changed her name—Whoever takes her up, so that the owner gets her, shall receive the above reward; and if brought home, all other reasonable expences, from the subscriber.
JOHN PUZEY.
Somerset County, near Princess-Ann, Maryland, June 22d, 1792. (*18w4w)
GENERAL POST-OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, July 7, 1792.
FOR the information of Merchants and the Masters or Commanders of vessels, are published the following extracts from the Law for establishing Post-Offices and Post-Roads within the United States.
In section 10, it is enacted that there shall be charged "for every letter or packet brought into the United States, or carried from one port therein to another by sea, in any private ship or vessel, four cents, if delivered at the place where the same shall arrive; and if directed to be delivered at any other place, with the addition of the like postage, as other letters are made subject to the payment of by this act."
In section 12, "That no ship or vessel, arriving at any port within the United States, where a post-office is established, shall be permitted to report, make entry or break bulk, till the master or commander shall have delivered to the postmaster, all letters directed to any person or persons within the United States, which, under his care or within his power, shall be brought in such ship or vessel, other than such as are directed to the owner or consignee: but when a vessel shall be bound to another port, than that, at which she may enter, the letters belonging to, or to be delivered at the said port of delivery, shall not be delivered to the postmaster at the port of entry. And it shall be the duty of the collector or other officer of the port, empowered to receive entries of ships or vessels, to require from every master or commander of such ship or vessel, an oath or affirmation, purporting that he has delivered all such letters, except as aforesaid."
In section 13, "That the postmaster to whom such letters may be delivered, shall pay to the master, commander, or other person delivering the same, except the commanders of foreign packets, two cents for every such letter or packet; and shall obtain from the person delivering the same, a certificate specifying the number of letters and packets, with the name of the ship or vessel, and the place from whence the last failed; which certificate, together with a receipt for the money, shall be with his quarterly accounts, transmitted to the Postmaster-General, who shall credit the amount thereof to the postmaster forwarding the same."
For general information, the 14th section is published, "And be it further enacted, That if any person, other than the Postmaster-General, or his deputies, or persons by them employed, shall take up, receive, order, dispatch, convey, carry or deliver any letter or letters, packet or packets, other than newspapers, for hire or reward, or shall be concerned in fitting up any foot or horse post, waggon or other carriage, by or in which any letter or packet shall be carried for hire, on any established post-road, or any packet, or other vessel or boat, or any conveyance whatever, whereby the revenue of the general post-office may be injured, every person, so offending, shall forfeit, for every such offence, the sum of two hundred dollars. Provided, That it shall and may be lawful for every person to send letters or packets by special messenger."

FROM THE GEORGIA GAZETTE.
THE ESSAY EST.
"And catch the manners living as they rise." PORP.
IT has often been remarked by travellers who have visited this country, that the Americans are less national than any other people; which observation is undoubtedly pretty generally true. There seems to be a natural propensity in almost every human being to think more favorably of himself than of his neighbor; of ascribing to himself virtues and qualities the possession of which he is unwilling to allow to others; and of detracting from them excellencies in which he is notoriously deficient, and to which he can never hope to aspire by any subsequent exertions. This inclination predominates in the mind in proportion as the causes of it are more or less powerful, more or less numerous. It reaches not only to individuals and private societies, but extends its influence to States and nations. Thus we frequently see a foreigner so strongly prejudiced in favor of his country, from which perhaps he was transported for crimes that are a disgrace to humanity, redden with anger at a supposed aspersion against his countrymen, by whom he had been treated with the greatest contempt, which he very justly merited. That the Americans are exempt from national prejudice is far from being the truth. The inhabitants of almost every State in America are distinguished by some particularities, either of speech or behavior, peculiar to themselves. The most apparent national distinctions appear to exist between the natives of the New-England States and the inhabitants of all the others, from their frequently stigmatizing each other with the satirical appellations of Cracker, Yankee, Lovers of Pork and Molasses, bad Pronouncers of their own Tongue, and many other such like elegant epithets. "Particular instances ought not to justify general conclusions." Therefore that behavior which characterizes a few in any State ought not to be indiscriminately attributed to all, nor stamp their national character. To judge of a whole people by a few individuals argues want of experience, an unacquaintance with men and manners, and a mind clouded with prejudice and absorbed in ignorance. "There are good as well as bad in all societies." If a parallel were drawn between the northern and southern States, by balancing the advantages and disadvantages on both sides with regard to the use of cant words and phrases, the scale might preponderate in favor of the former, for there the greatest attention is paid to learning, which is conspicuous in the number and diversity of excellent literary institutions established in every part.
The conversation of many of my fellow-citizens, at certain seasons especially, turns entirely on the meetings and exploits (past, present, or to come) of the Sons of St. Patrick, St. Andrew, or St. George. I could wish to observe to those who have been born in countries under the supposed patronage of any of the aforesaid Right Worshipful Personages, but have left them to take their final residence in America, that it would better become them to acknowledge their new father St. Tammany, who is a father to them by the same rule that "a friend in need is a friend indeed," and who is so far from the strictness of their former patrons that he has never attempted to enforce any other rule than that "every man shall do as he pleases." But, if there is any excuse for the natives of Europe, what are we to think of those who, as well as their fathers and grandfathers before them, were born in this country, and yet have searched their pedigrees to find out which of the European Saints they belong to! There is Christopher Bogherty, a pretty equal mixture of German and Irish, but perceiving that the Germans seldom frolic for their Saint, and indeed hardly know his name, he, in the dialect of his mother's family, swears he will join the Sons of St. Patrick, for he has been drunk with them more as two times areazy. And my neighbor Jonathan Gregor, descended on both sides from the first settlers of New-England, is determined to join the Sons of St. Andrew; for, "odds fwamp it, as sure as snakes, it must be tarnation clever fun;" though the mixture in honest Jonathan's blood is such as would puzzle a good jockey, with all his knowledge of quarters, eighths, sixteenths, and thirty-seconds, to ascertain what proportion of it is Scottish. But enough—The countries of Europe were all peopled by emigrants, and as we are now a nation, let us not be ashamed of our name, nor the station we have taken—"Where liberty is there should be our country;" but if, unwilling to acknowledge the country that gives us bread, we ought not, in pursuit of our origin, to stop in Europe, but proceed to Asia, whence we are descended from a pair who might have continued in the enjoyment of a paradise, had they known how to prize it, when there.
TO BE SOLD BY THE EDITOR,
A TABLE for receiving and paying Gold at the Bank of the United States, showing the Value of Gold in Dollars and Cents, from One to a Thousand Pennyweights—according to the Act of Congress, ascertaining the Standard and Value of Gold.
A LOTTERY,
To raise the sum of £. 750 for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
S C H E M E.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, Dollars is, 2000. Rows show prize amounts (1, 2, 5, 10, 30, 90, 1675) and their corresponding dollar values.
1814 Prizes. 16000
3520 Blanks.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent.
The drawing will positively commence on the second Monday in July, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
JOHN PARKER, PETER KEENON, ANTHONY W. WHITE, Managers.
N. B. Those prizes which are not demanded within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as a generous donation to the Church.
** Adventurers in the above Lottery have a chance of more than 3 per cent. per month for their money. To accommodate all those who may be disposed to purchase Tickets, letters directed to P. KEENON, Manager, and Postmaster, at New-Brunswick, and enclosing good bills, will be attended to, and Tickets forwarded on receipt of such letters.
New-Brunswick, April 20, 1792.
BOOKS,
PRINTED AND SOLD BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to December 1791, in ten vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, sixteen dollars.
2. Ladies' Pocket Library, containing Miss More's Essays, Gregory's Legacy, Lady Pennington's Advice, Marchioness of Lambert's Advice, Swift's Letter to a newly married Lady, Mrs. Chapone on command of Temper, More's Fables for the Ladies, Price 6/6.
3. Smith's History of New-York, from its first settlement to the year 1732. To which is annexed, a description of the country, with a short account of the inhabitants, their religious and political state, and the constitution of the courts of justice. Price a dollar and a quarter.
4. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L. L. D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen—Price three-fourths of a dollar.
5. Beauties of Poetry, British and American, containing select productions of the most eminent British and American poets—Price four-fifths of a dollar.
6. Blair's Sermons, containing the whole of the three volumes of the British edition, in two—Price two dollars.
7. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions. Price four-fifths of a dollar.
8. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce—Price, on very fine paper, 5/8ths of a dollar.
9. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar.
10. M'Fingal, an epic poem, a new edition in 12mo.—Price three-eighths of a dollar.
11. American Jest Book, in two parts, with two very neat engravings—Price, bound, three-fifths of a dollar.
12. Garden of the Soul, by Bishop Chaloner—Price, bound in calf and lettered, three quarters of a dollar—plain, half a dollar.
13. The Doway Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/3—plain, six dollars.
14. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum—Price a quarter dollar.
15. Think well on't, or reflections for every day of the month. Price a quarter dollar.
16. Christian Economy, translated from a Greek manuscript, found in the island of Patmos, where St. John wrote the Apocalypse—Price a fifth of a dollar.
17. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar.
18. Poems by Col. Humphreys—Price a third of a dollar.
19. Select Poems, chiefly American—Price a sixth of a dollar.
Said CAREY has for sale, a large assortment of Books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries, or to sell again.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on Monday the 6th current, a NEGRO MAN named ROBIN, is 55 years of age, stout made, and bred a farmer; one of his thumbs much swelled; is 5 feet 6 inches high; had on when he went away a big purple coloured cloth coat, a short linen coat, a pair of fustian breeches, a ruffled shirt, an old beaver hat, with shoes, stockings and buckles, all good. Also, a young NEGRO BOY named SAM, is 19 years of age, stout and well made, 5 feet 9 inches high, much marked with the small-pox; had on when he went away, a big blue coat, a brown short coat, overalls of a mixed cloth, full of stockings, a new wool hat, new shoes and buckles. Whoever will secure said Negroes in any gaol, or bring them to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Morris-Town, April 27, 1792.
TICKETS in the NEW-BRUNSWICK LOTTERY, are to be had at the following places, viz.—Samuel Cooper's Ferry; at Burlington, of R. Pierion, Esq. Bordentown, of Mr. John Van Emburgh; Mount Holly, of J. Read, Esq. Trenton, of John Singer, Esq. Amboy, of James Parker, Esq. Elizabeth, Town, of R. Gray; Powles-Hook, of Col. Smith and Judge Hunt; Cranbury, of William Throckmorton Spotswood; and of the Managers in Brunswick.
American Lead Manufactory.
STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WAREHOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-Street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed the number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the cost of imported.
They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception.
For further particulars enquire of Messrs. MOSES AUSTIN & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above. Philadelphia, December 3, 1791.
Stock Brokers Office,
No. 45, Great Dock-Street, New-York, THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE AND SALE OF STOCKS ON COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to.
May 2. LEONARD BLEECKER. (t.l.)
Bank of the United States,
RESOLVED, That the specie proportion of the third payment due on the first Monday of July next, on each share of the Bank of the United States, may be made at the Bank, or at any of the offices of discount and deposit; and that transfers of public debt on account of such payment, may be made on the books of the Treasury of the United States, or in the office of any of the Commissioners of Loans in any of the States, certificates of which transfers to be deposited in the office in which the specie proportion of such payment shall be made.
Resolved, That the transfer books be closed fourteen days previous to the first days of July and January of each year. By Order, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
April 27, 1792.
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE, At any time between this date and the first day of July ensuing,
A very valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and bounded on the East by the river Delaware, 17 miles above Philadelphia; containing 203 acres, 40 whereof is first rate Timothy Meadow, which may be watered in a dry time; 25 acres, a rich low bottom, may be made very good meadow at an easy expence. The upland lays in the lap of about 50 acres of rich out marsh, from which (by an easy ascent to the cleared fields) 130 acres of excellent upland meadow may be made, at a moderate expence; 30 acres of woodland. A never failing stream of water runs through this tract, on which is a seat for a mill, and in which is good sport with the net and hook; plenty of rabbits and small game; and on the flats, abundance of wild ducks in the season. A good mansion-house, garden, and necessary out-buildings; an orchard of the best kinds of apple, pear, peach and cherry trees, bearing; a crop of wheat and rye in the ground, and a spring crop putting in. Apply to PETER LE BARBIER DU PLESSIS, Esq. No. 86, Chestnut-Street, Philadelphia; Mr. HUMPHREY WATERMAN, at the Washington, on the Bristol road; or to Doctor TOWN, at Neshannoy Ferry, Bucks County. The purchaser, paying one third of the price down, may have a term of years to pay the residue, paying interest. May 5. (cp.uf.)
NEW TEAS.
IMPERIAL HYSON and SOUCHONG, Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at No. 19, Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
JONES & BURROUGHS, STOCK-BROKERS,
STATE-STREET, BOSTON, BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction. Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch. Boston, March, 1792. (t.awgm)
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A SYSTEM for the DISCIPLINE of the ARTILLERY in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA;
OR, THE YOUNG ARTILLERIST'S POCKET COMPANION. IN THREE PARTS.
Part 1. CONTAINING the duty and practice of light field artillery.
Part 2. Containing the theory and practice of heavy artillery: to which will be added, an extract of a Treatise on the origin and principle of Courts-Martial, wrote by an experienced Officer in the line, and who did duty as Judge-Advocate in America.
Part 3. Laboratory duty; containing a great variety of directions for composition, and the method of making artificial fire-works, and the formation of ammunition for the different kinds of ordnance.
By WILLIAM STEVENS, Esq.
An Officer in the American Artillery through the whole of the late revolution, and since in the Militia.
CONDITIONS.
This work to be printed on good paper with a handsome type, neatly bound and lettered, in three pocket volumes, containing upwards of one thousand pages; illustrated with a great variety of explanatory plates, executed by able artists.
The price to subscribers, One Dollar each volume—to non-subscribers, One French Crown each volume: and those who subscribe for six sets, shall have a seventh gratis.
This work shall be published as soon as five hundred copies are subscribed for.
Subscription papers will be lodged with the principal Printers Bookellers in the United States of America.