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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 96, of VOL. XLII.]
WEDNESDAY, April 23, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2276.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
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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 wa- ter near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Raritan, about one mile from the farm.
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M I S C E L L A N Y.
C A L E D O N I A,
(Continued from yesterday's paper.)
B UT was it fair in the English, thus to oblige the Scots to make this private purchase for their behoof with the greatest part of the Equivalent, so justly provided to the people of Scotland in general, for the heavy burden of English debt that was, by the Union, imposed on them? And was not the dissolution of this company, instead of an advantage to the Scots, the most valuable concession they could now make in favor of their southern neighbours, after having already resigned every mark of freedom and independency? I will take upon me to affirm, that this resignation of their liberty, of trading to India, was more than an equal compensation for the privilege conferred on the Scots, by the union, of trading to the English settlements in North-America and the West-Indies. As for the remainder of the money, so improperly called an Equivalent, it is notorious, that it was most scandalously misapplied and embezzled. And it has been repeatedly asserted without contradiction, that it was employed to fulfil the private engagements, previously entered into between our ministry and particular members of the Scots parliament, for obtaining their influence in support of the union.
In the next place, an ease of about 50,000l. a year, in the article of land tax, was granted to the Scots by the union. This, no doubt, is a real and unambiguous concession on the part of our English friends. -- But when it is considered that notwithstanding the poverty of our country, with which you are continually upbraiding us, we pay at this moment the full proportion of every tax leviable in England, certainly this trifling ease cannot be accounted to great a favor; nay, by your own confession, it is highly reasonable; even rating it at its highest value, it would seem to be hardly an equal consideration for that extraordinary proportion, without taking into the account any other of the grievances under which the people of Scotland are known to labour. We hold this ease however, trifling as it is, at the mercy of the British parliament, in which you, our countrymen of England, possess a majority of seven hundred and eleven voices.
I come now to consider what is generally accounted, both by English and Scots, the most valuable privilege of all conferred by the union on the latter; namely, Liberty of Commerce. This was the grand argument with which the promoters of the union answered all the objections moved against the treaty at that time. Those worthy patriots endeavoured to persuade the Scots, that the notions of independency and national honor, for the maintenance of which their forefathers had been so prodigal of their blood, were merely chimerical; that by resigning them, they transferred, from their own to their neighbours shoulders, an unnecessary and troublesome load; and, that instead of those ideal substances, they should in consequence of the liberty of commerce, with which they were to be indulged, shortly possess solid treasures of gold and silver.
Here it is proper once more to recall the reader's attention to the terms of alliance proposed by Edward III. as already mentioned, where he will find this so much boasted liberty of commerce offered the Scots by that wise and powerful prince, after he had, to all appear-
ance, reduced them to the last extremity, in as ample manner as it is granted by the treaty of union; and that without requiring any other sacrifice from the Scots in return, than their consent to a federal union, by which "the name, title and dignity of the kingdom of Scotland, were to be honorably and inviolably preserved—The parliament of Scotland was to be holden within the bounds of Scotland. No Scotsman was to be called out of Scotland to be tried by any judicatory whatever. No taxes were to be imposed upon the Scots but such as had been exacted by the best of the Scots kings; and all dignities and places of profit were to be conferred on none but Scotsmen;" yet at a time when Scotland was in circumstances every way the reverse of those under which it labored in the time of Edward III. even in its most prosperous days, every disadvantage, from which Edward offered to relieve us, was readily submitted to, and the honor and independency of our kingdom, which even the ambitious Edward respected, and expressed his willingness to secure were shamefully surrendered. What a humiliating contrast between the conduct of the servile unioners, and their magnanimous forefathers! — But the cause of this difference is sufficiently apparent; the leading men among the Scots, in the days Ed. III. were uniformly actuated by such patriotic sentiments, as in all ages and nations have produced the most glorious and heroic actions: they preferred, therefore, the honor and independency of their country to all the allurements of luxury and wealth. Unhappily for this country, many of their offspring were so degenerated, as to be no longer proof against these temptations. Hence they basely preferred their own private interest to the glory and welfare of their country.
But let us proceed to enquire, whether this liberty of commerce be of so great consequence as it has been represented, and whether our riches have really increased in proportion to the mighty professions of the union-makers. The first step taken, respecting our commerce, was, as already noticed, the total suppression of our greatest commercial company, that which traded to Africa and the East Indies, that it might not interfere with the English East India company, which, in consequence of great government encouragement, was then in a very flourishing situation. To accomplish this national purpose, a great part of the equivalent was most unjustly applied: so that the Scots were not only obliged, as already noticed, to surrender a privilege fully equal, in my opinion, to every commercial advantage conferred on them by the union, but even to purchase this privilege from the private parties, in whom it was then invested, with their own money, although the benefit of it was wholly to redound to their neighbours of England. — In the next place, the price of labor was considerably advanced, in consequence of the many taxes imposed on the most common necessaries of life, and our trade was burdened with various customs and restrictions. These taxes and customs had been rendered necessary in England by the expence of government, but had never been before heard of in Scotland. Now, for my part, I cannot conceive, how the commerce of Scotland could possibly be advanced by these two measures, unless it can be shewn that commerce, like the camomile, the more it is oppressed, the more luxuriant it grows. But to come more directly to the point:
By the liberty of commerce granted to the Scots by the union, no more could be meant than liberty to trade, under the restrictions already mentioned, to the English colonies, and to England itself; for our commerce with the other European states, with the Levant, and with the Spanish, French, and Dutch plantations, could not be by the treaty of union, enlarged, but indeed might be, and I believe was, restrained. Now, it is well known that, at the time of the union, the English settlements, were upon the whole, rather burdensome than beneficial to the mother country; and it is equally well known, that the state of prosperity at which they are now arrived, is almost entirely owing to the treaty of union; since in all probability, without the assistance of Scotland, they neither could have been so quickly conquered and peopled, nor so effectually defended during the course of the two last wars, but more particularly the last one, when the preservation of North-America, and the conquests made both there and in the East and West-Indies were almost wholly effected by Scottish troops.
The commercial advantages therefore, derived to the Scots from the plantations, are, properly speaking, the fruits of their own labours, and extremely dear bought too, considering the multitude of lives they have cost us. These advantages, however, are far from being so considerable as they are commonly imagined. I will not pretend to determine what the annual amount of them may exactly be; but it is certain, that the American trade is almost exclusively confined to the corner about Glasgow: and we may judge pretty certainly of the wealth thence diffused into the rest of Scotland from this circumstance, that two private banks, established in Glasgow, not only employ all the cash to be found in that country, but are continually draining, with the utmost industry, from every other quarter of Scotland, the small quantity of specie still left among us, and yet, after all, find it difficult to answer the daily demands of their trifling circulation.
But it is likely, that in case the union had never taken place, and our neighbours of England had never found it necessary to confer the privilege of a free trade upon us, in consideration of the efficacious assistance we could have afforded them in planting and defending their colonies, as well as protecting their country at home; it is likely, I say, that they must have taken from us every commodity we at this moment furnish to the colonies: or if they had not taken these commodities off our hands, it is next to certain, the French and Spaniard would, and that even at a higher rate than we presently sell them for in America. In every view therefore, the profit derived to us from our commerce with the colonies, inconsiderable as this profit is, can with no propriety be placed to the account of the union.
But I will go a step further, and venture to assert, that the intercourse with the English settlements, opened to us by the union, so far from being an advantage, has proved the greatest misfortune that could have befallen us; for it has not only diverted our attention from a more certain and profitable trade, which it was in our power to have carried on with the other European states, and with the Levant, but it has, for the three-fold purposes of conquering, peopling, and defending them, draining our country of so many of its most useful inhabitants, as an exclusive privilege of their commerce for a thousand years could in no degree compensate. And what valuable commodities have these plantations yielded us in return? — Instead of filling our country with the vast riches we were made to expect, they have brought us nothing but a few baneful articles of luxury.
But, perhaps, you may imagine, my countrymen, that the profit of our trade with England is more than sufficient singly to counter-balance all the disadvantages brought on us by the treaty of union. But so far is this from being the case, that I will undertake to demonstrate, that our trade with England is itself the greatest of all these disadvantages. A direct and irrefragable proof of this, is the course of exchange between South and North-Britain: which, notwithstanding the contiguity of the two countries, runs so much against the Scots, that, for these last six years, London bills have, at a medium, sold in Edinburgh for the extravagant premium of two per cent.
[To be continued.]
I N F O R M A T I O N,
For the benefit of such vessels as may be destined for Newbury Port, or otherwise fall into Ipswich Bay.
T WO light-houses have been lately erected on the north end of Plumb-Island, at the entrance of Merrimack River, which are kept constantly lighted from sun-set to sun-rise.
When any vessel shall fall into this bay, or shall be forced in by distress of weather, and shall make these lights, she may run safely in, over Newbury bar, observing the proper time of tide, and taking care to keep the two lights in one, until she gets within twice her length of the shore; than directing her course by the beach, where is bold wa-
ter, she may proceed until a breast of the western light-house, where is good and safe there is good anchorage in twelve fathoms of water anchoring in three fathoms of water.
A vessel passing near aboard the rocks off Cape-Ann, called the Salvages, and steering N. W. about five leagues, will come up with the bar in about ten fathoms of water about half a league short of the bar.
The light-houses now bear due east and west of each other, and are so constructed as to be moveable; and care will be taken in case the bar shifts to place them in such a situation as that the foregoing direction will always be a good guide to strangers.
The marine society and other gentlemen of Newbury-Port, in the course of the last summer, caused to be erected upon Plumb-Island three small houses for the reception of such unfortunate mariners as may be cast on shore there. They are situated near the beach, about three miles asunder, and high poles erected on them. In each of them are deposited fire-works and proper fuel for speedily kindling a fire. — It is hoped that no person will make a wanton use of these means of preservation, so humanely provided for the most distressed of our fellow-men.
Strangers who may be driven upon Plumb-Island, or the sandy beaches of Salisbury, or Hampton, are earnestly cautioned to continue on board their vessel, if possible, until the tide shall leave them, when they can safely proceed on shore in search of the above mentioned houses. — The number of instances of fatal miscarriage, which have attended those who have too suddenly forsaken their vessel, which has afterwards been found safe and dry, and the almost constant safety of those who have continued on board, are a serious confirmation of the propriety of this advice.
N. B. There are seven feet of water on the shoal part of the bar at low-water, and at half-tide better than eleven feet.
Newbury-Port, April 2, 1788.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE.
A C U R I O S I T Y.
To the Printer of the Independent Gazetteer, Philadelphia. Richmond, March 21, 1788.
SIR,
F ROM some of your Gazettes which have lately reached me, and particularly from one of the 13th instant, I find that I am charged as a public defaulter to a very considerable amount. This assertion is made to support a charge against the federal constitution, which those writers say is calculated to screen defaulters from justice. Without pretending to enquire whether the constitution be, in this respect, misunderstood or misrepresented, I readily agree, that if, on fair investigation, that fault shall really appear, an amendment ought to be made.
I stand charged in a two fold capacity: first as a chairman of committees of congress, and secondly as superintendent of the finances. But it so happens, that in neither of those capacities did I ever touch one shilling of the public money. At an early period of the revolution, I contracted with the committees to import arms, ammunition and cloathing, and was employed to export American produce, and make remittances, on account of the United States, for the purpose of lodging funds in Europe. To effect these objects I received considerable sums of money. The business has been performed, but the accounts are not yet settled. Among the various causes which have hitherto delayed the settlement, I shall only mention here, that I have not yet been able to obtain the required vouchers for delivery of articles in distant parts of America, nor the duplicates of some accounts and other needful papers which were lost at sea during the war. It was my intention to have gone in person to New-York, where alone (since the removal of Congress) this business can be finally adjusted; but circumstances unexpectedly obliged me to come to this country. I therefore employed a gentleman to proceed on the settlement of those accounts, but during the investigation obstacles arose which he was not sufficiently acquainted with the transactions to remove; and as some of the deficient vouchers are to be obtained in this state and South-Carolina, he came on hither and is now in pursuit of them. I have indeed been less solicitous on this subject than otherwise I should have been, from the conviction that there is a balance in my favor; so that no charge could justly lie against my reputation. Nor could my interest suffer by the delay; for the date of a certificate to be received for the balance was immaterial.
As superintendent of the finances I have no accounts to settle. As I never received any of the public money, none of it can be in my hands. It was received in, and paid from the public treasury on my warrants. The party to whom it was paid was accountable; and the accounts were all in the treasury office, open (during my administration) to the inspection of every American citizen. The only point of responsibility, therefore, in which I can possibly stand, is for the propriety of issues to others by my authority.

It is true, that I caused a statement of the receipts and expenditures to be made and printed, but this was not by any means intended for a settlement with Congress, but to be transmitted by them (if they should think proper) to the several states; for I have ever been of opinion that the people ought to know how much of their money goes into the public treasury, and for what purposes it is issued. Perhaps some persons may remember, that in conformity to this opinion I caused the receipts (even during the war) to be published (monthly) in the Gazettes; and the expenditures, as I have already mentioned, were open to public inspection. This mode of conduct was reprehended by some, and perhaps justly. My fellow citizens will judge whether it looks like the concealment of a public defaulter. As to the suggestion that the United States in Congress were influenced by me to neglect the duty of calling me to account, I shall not attempt to refute it. Every man who feels for the dignity of America, must revolt at such an insult to her representatives.
Before I conclude, I think it necessary to apologize for having written this letter, to all who may take the trouble of reading it. A newspaper is certainly an improper place for stating and settling public accounts, especially those which are already before the proper tribunal. But I thought it in some sort a duty to take notice of charges which, if not controverted, might have influenced weak minds to oppose the constitution. This was at least the ostensible reason for bringing me forward on the present occasion, with what decency or propriety it has been done, I leave to the reflection of the authors: their exultation on my "losses and crosses" is characteristic. To every pleasure which can arise from the gratifications of such passions they are heartily welcome; and the more so, as I hope and expect the enjoyment will be of short duration. ROBERT MORRIS.
From the (N. C.) WILMINGTON CENTINEL. Messrs. BOWEN & HOWARD,
WHO can dislike the new government that considers the glory we shall gain by it? Let us then adopt it directly. Then shall we Carolinians soon hear of the grandeur of our government at Vortex-Ville; how 1000 cannon were fired on the president's birth; how there was a grand procession, and a levee, a ball and an illumination; how an ambassador arrived, and was conveyed to his residence with proper pomp, between two ranks of federal soldiers—how he was mightily diverted with their brilliant appearance, and how he was visited by the great officers of state, and was entertained by the minister of finance at a dinner of 100 crowns. GLORIOUS hearing! And I hope we shall see it soon too; and we may flatter ourselves that we shall see the deputy financier with his deputies for each county and district; the commanders of the federal forts and federal lands in this state, and the federal commander in chief of the militia, all come among us in their grand coaches and grand coats. GLORIOUS rays of the glorious luminary that will speedily enlighten our country!
Can there be an American so sordid, as to hesitate at sacrificing his dirty cash to glory, especially for glory so certain as this? THOMAS TINSEL.
American Occurrences.
WILMINGTON (N. C.) April 9. The following gentlemen are chosen to represent the undermentioned counties, in the state convention, viz.
HALIFAX. Col. Branch, Wiley Jones, Egbert Haywood, W. Wotten, and John Jones, Esqrs. Col. Davie for the town. Tarborough. Feldred Gray, William Fort, Robert Diggs, Elisha Battle, and Bithel Bell, Esqrs.
Pitt. Dr. Robert Williams, Sterling Dupre, John Moye, Arthur Ferbush, and William Blount, Esqrs.
Wayne. Col. Moran, Andrew Bais, Richard M'Kinney, William Taylor, and James Handley, Esqrs.
Edenton. James Iredell. Chowan. Charles Johnson, Michael Payne, Stephen Cabarras, Nathaniel Allen and Edmund Blount, Esqrs.
Perquimons. His excellency gov. Johnson, General Skinner, John Skinner, Thomas Harvey, and Joshua Skinner.
Pasquotank. Edward Evergin, John Lane, Enoch Relfe, Thomas Reading, and Devotion Davis.
Bertie. John Johnson, W. J. Dawson, W. Gray, Oliver, and D. Turner.
Tyrall. Josiah Collins, Simon Spruill, Spruill, and Thomas Stewart, Esqrs.
It is reported that Dobbs county have made no choice of representatives to the state Convention, owing to a party, which, at the close of the election, finding the candidates which they had nominated, not likely to be chosen, destroyed the box which contained the votes.
PHILADELPHIA, April 17, 1788. IN COUNCIL,
Philadelphia, April 14th, 1788.
Upon the application of the honorable Charles Hellstedt, Esq. Swedish consul, requesting that council would be pleased to direct the publication of a letter which he has received from one of his Swedish Majesty's Principal secretaries of state, informing him of the strict neutrality, which his Swedish Majesty has thought proper to adopt, at this time, when a war is kindling between the courts of Russia and the Ottoman Port—and directing him to make the same known to all Swedish subjects who may be within his department, and to forbid them to take any part directly, or indirectly, in any enterprises against merchants vessels of the two empires.
Ordered, That the said letter be published.
Extract from the minutes, CHARLES BIDDLE secretary. TRANSLATION. Stockholm, the 9th November, 1787. SIR,
THE war now kindling between Russia and the Ottoman Port, will probably excite a desire amongst particular people, to arm corsairs, or to be interested in arguments against merchant vessels of the two empires, and the king, not willing to grant his protection to enterprises, founded on hopes of an illicit gain, and contrary to the neutrality his majesty has thought proper to adopt, has commanded me to inform you of these, his sentiments, and by these authorities you, sir, to forbid all Swedish subjects, who may be under your department, to take any part, directly or indirectly, in such enterprises, either by selling their vessels to be employed in piracy against the subjects of Russia or those of the Port, or chartering them for that purpose, or to enrol themselves on board vessels in that employment—In order to do your duty in this regard, it is the king's will, that you make the above, his orders, known to all it may concern, conformably to the strictest principles of neutrality.
Jo. G. OXENSTIERNA. Charles Hellstedt, His Swedish Majesty's Consul, Philadelphia.
Time, that discoverer of all solid truths, will show, that the new constitution will never be received by the union as a government. The state of New-Hampshire are becoming more averse to it: the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in their answer to President Hancock's speech, have reproached it in the strongest terms, so it is probable it will be reconsidered by that state: Rhode-Island have rejected it: New-York will crush it at least by two-thirds; five-sixths of the people of Pennsylvania are determined not to receive a system of tyranny adopted illegally by the other sixth, under the influence of a mob: Maryland will, if they do not reject it immediately, adjourn the decision to June or July; Virginia rejects it, and so of North-Carolina; So the Carolina is doubtful, but it is probable they will not differ with her sister states to the southward. Notwithstanding the people have been so much deceived and kept in the dark by the mock federalists, still providence will enable them to rise superior to all the wicked arts practised to enslave their liberties.
A paragraph having appeared in most of the papers, stating the very favorable reception of the constitution in North Carolina, as given by Mr. Blount: a correspondent observes that that gentleman did once entertain sentiments very different from those which now appear to pervade the majority of his countrymen. So far was he himself from approving the constitution proposed, that it was with great reluctance and considerable hesitation he consented to give it his name in the general convention.—An incontrovertible fact.
The ship Jay, Captain Randall, which sailed last winter from New-York, bound to Canton, had arrived at Madeira.
New-York, April 23.
YESTERDAY arrived here, the sloop Pagan, Trimingham, from Barbadoes; schooner Dolphin, Hamilton, from Savannah, and sloop John, Willis, from Turks-Illand.
Extract of a letter from New-Providence dated March 27.
"These Islands, since the peace, have been in a continual broil, by a violent and rancorous dispute between the old inhabitants and the American refugees, the latter conceiving themselves entitled to the greatest share in the affairs of government, and every other indulgence, to the total exclusion of their more honest fellow subjects. As soon as lord Dunmore arrived, they, in a tumultuous manner, and in terms far from polite, addressed, or rather required of him, immediately to dissolve
the house of Assembly, because some of the old inhabitants were members of the legislature, and setting forth that their respectable corps were not sufficiently represented, not forgetting to remind his lordship of their unshaken loyalty during the American contest, and the great sacrifice of property they made in support of the royal cause;—his lordship has thoroughly investigated this affair; and the malignity and turbulent spirit of these fugitives appearing fully to his lordship, he has refused to comply with their unreasonable requisitions; and to all their long addresses and elaborate harrangues both in and out of the legislature, he has given them the following laconic answer, "I do not think it expedient for his Majesty's service to dissolve the present house of assembly."
Extract from the Alexandria paper of April 8. "A correspondent has favored us with the following list, which he assures is correct, of the delegates from the several counties, on adding up of which appears as follows, federal 38, anti-federal 25, divided 20." Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Alexandria, of the 8th instan, to a gentleman in Annapolis.
"I have the pleasure to inform you, that on the close of the elections in this state for delegates to convention, there is a considerable majority of federal members, and among these, characters of the first influence, both in point of popularity and abilities, such as Madison, Pendleton, Wythe, Innes, Marshall, Nichols, &c. so that there is little doubt of the adoption of the constitution."
Nicholas Carroll and Alexander Contee Hanlon, Esqrs. are elected delegates to represent Annapolis in the ensuing convention.
DIED,—Last Saturday se'nnight, at Lancaster, Mr. ANTHONY STEEMER, jun. Printer, of that place, in the 24th year of his age.
In yesterday's paper our readers are requested to correct as follows: In the 25th line from top of the 1st col. p. 2 1 , for pharos, read pharos; and in the 4th col. of the same page, 3 lines from bottom, for town, read to any.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam,
And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 161 Queen-street, opposite Beckman's-Ship, By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY,
A general Affortment of DRY GOODS, Consisting of the following ARTICLES, viz. CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Callicoes, Ribbons, Lutestrings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store, Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfets.
THE PROPRIETORS of the New-York and Philadelphia NEW LINE
***** **STAGE AND FOUR HORSES.** ***** STAGES.
Owned by Cumming & Ward, at Newark, and by Michael Dennison, in Philadelphia, RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their Stages leave Powles- Hook every afternoon (except Saturday) at 4, on their route for Philadelphia, proceed by Newark to Elizabeth Town that evening—Leave Elizabeth Town, and Michael Dennison, George Inn, Phil- adelphia, at three o'clock every morning, except Sunday, and drive to Philadelphia and Powles Hook that day.
On Monday the 21st of April an extra Stage will start for the accommodation of select parties, and those gentlemen and ladies who wish to indulge themselves in the morning, or who fear the bad effects of the early air. This stage will leave Pow- les Hook at seven o'clock, and Philadelphia at eight o'clock every morning (except Saturday and Sun- day) and proceed with the same speed as the early stage.
The expence of the stage to each passenger will be Three Spanish Milled Dollars from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and Four-pence per mile for all way passengers. One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same as a passenger—Fourteen weight of bag- gage gratis.
The expedition, lowness of fare, and certainty of arrival, must convince the public, that this route is preferable to the Amboy, as the journey is per- formed in half the time.
Letters, Newspapers, &c. left at the New- York, Albany, and Philadelphia stage office, kept by Christopher Beckman, in Courtlandt-street, New- York, and with Mr. Michael Dennison, at the George Inn, corner of Arch and Second-street, Philadelphia, will be safely conveyed gratis.
JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS. MICHAEL DENNISON, April 11, 1788. 67 c.d.
THEATRE.
By the Old AMERICAN COMPANY: Mr. Henry's Night. On THURSDAY Evening, the 24th of April, Will be presented, A Dramatic Piece (never performed in America.)
CALLED A School for Soldiers; OR The Deserter.
IN ACT the First, A GRAND MILITARY PROCESSION of the DESERTER. End of the PLAY A COMIC INTERLUDE,
CALLED TRUE BLUE; OR The Sailors Festival.
To conclude with a View of the BATTERY in New-York, and the Vessel passing and saluting.
To which will be added (by desire) the COMIC OPERA of ROSINA;
OR The REAPERS. The whole will conclude with the Procession of The Thirteen States;
TO The Temple of Liberty.
For St. THOMAS. To SAIL in ten Days, The SCHOONER, POLLY, ADAM TODD, Master.
FOR freight or passage apply to SMITH and WYCKOFF, or to the Master on Board at Constable, Rucker, and Co's Wharf New-York, April 16, 1788. 71—c.d.
William-Street.
To be Let and entered upon by the 1st May, THE House opposite the North- Church, at present occupied by Mr. Joseph King; it's stand is good for any kind of business, but it would particularly suit a person in the SHOE LINE, as it has been for some years past successfully occupied as such.—For particulars apply to Richard Davis, Great George-street, corner of Robinson-street. 73
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FI- NAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, tho' signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACIL- TIES—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 re- specting the Public Funds.
Published this Day, And to be SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE,
No. 123, Queen-Street, and at THIS PRINTING-OFFICE. An Address to the people of the state of New-York; shewing the necessity of making AMENDMENTS to the constitution proposed for the United States; pre- vious to its ADOPTION."
To which is added, by way of postscript, some STRICTURES on a pamphlet, lately published, entitled, "An address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the proposed constitution, &c." By a PLEBEIAN.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, By the PRINTER hereof, Which will be Sold at the PRINTING-OFFICE No. 25, Water-street.
The IMPOST LAW,
OR An ACT supplementary to and for the Amend- ment of the Act, entitled, "An Act imposing Duties on Goods and Merchandise imported into this State, and to relieve Persons who have been aggrieved thereby," Passed the 11th of March, 1788.
As the Acts and Laws of the State, Which respect IMPOSTS and EXCISES in particular, are interesting and necessary to every Merchant and Trader, the Printer has pu- blished this Act, in an Octavo Form, expressly for their Convenience. It will be sold at the low Price of NINE-PENCE.
Wants Employ, A PERSON who can be well re- commended, as a STORE or SHOP-KEEPER, either of English or West-India Goods—Enquire of the PRINTER.
N. B. Whether the Store or Shop be in this or any other City, or in the Country, there would be no objection.

POET'S CORNER.
SINCERITY.
"SINCERITY, what are thy views? No more my breast attend: By thee, alas! we often lose, But seldom gain a friend. No more with dangerous zeal, presume To warn whom you esteem; Be wise, or, I foresee your doom, Impatient you'll seem. A thousand ills from thee I've found; A thousand more I fear: In worlds like this should you abound? What business have you here? But, if you still must haunt my breast, To defects we'll repair; Or seek the mansions of the blest; They know your value there."
A N E C D O T E.
A NOTORIOUS offender, who was lately committed to Newgate for having committed a highway robbery, attended with many circumstances of cruelty, thought his apartment was haunted with ghosts; and declared he had seen several spirits stalking along the room the preceding night. One of the persons to whom he communicated this piece of intelligence, happened to be an Hibernian, and made the following very curious reply. "Devil burn me now, but you must be a bl—fl'd liar, for how can any spirits dare to make their appearance in Newgate, when there is an act of parliament to prevent their going into any prison at all, at all."
Affize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Whear Flower, weight 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, April 23. 12h. on Mon.
CITY TAVERN.
THE Subscriber having take the CITY TAVERN in Broad-Way, for the ensuing year, propoles accomodating it as well for the reception of the various societies and clubs, that may be formed in this city, as private companies and gentlemen. His long attention to that business, and the general approbation he has met with in that branch, he flatters himself will recommend him to their custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged. As it will be some time in May before he can be prepared, public notice will be given previous thereto.
EDWARD BARDIN,
N. B. Spacious Stables for about thirty Horses to be let—Enquire of Mr. GEORGE STANTON, John-street.
FOR SALE,
At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn, No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET, the following G O O D S, Which will be SOLD at the most reduced
Prices, to wit. A VARIETY of Mantuas and other Gown Silks, Sarcenets, Peelongs, and Modes, Chintzes, Printed Linens, and Cottons, Fancy Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Jeans, Jeanetts, and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen and
Cotton Checks, Spotted and plain Velvets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznabrigs, Marceilles Quilting, Fancy Jacket Patterns, A variety of Plumes and Ribbands, Fancy Shoe Buckes and Buttons. With a Variety of other Articles, Which he is determined to SELL low, for Jersey (upon the face of the Bill) New-York , or Pennsylvania PAPER MONEY.
THE PUBLI
ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmage Hall, No. 49, Cortland-street (commonly known by the Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment; and accommodate gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Ever attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed that the subscriber has a large convenient assembly room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required.
CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN.
New-York, Nov. 12, 1787 51—th.
A Few C P I S of the Conductor Generalis, To be SOLD At this PRINTING OFFICE.
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 copies 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. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, book sellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr. 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.
* 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, at which they respectively reside.
with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebt 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 out 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 Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and 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 succeeded admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffaloes, 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. 99 e.d.
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 too 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 PELI (widow of the late Joseph Peli, of the Manor of Pelham) by whom a good title will be given.—Enquire at No. 25 Water street.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Provost 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 Hackinback, and extends from the river 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 quantity 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, commanding 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 enclosed 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.
New-York, Elizabeth Town, and Philadelphia
New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By first attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit their favors of the public.
The stage will leave Paules-Hook, every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Elizabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge town in Raway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 14wt of baggage; and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile.
One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile.
No racing allowed in this line. JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARLES BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLIN.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left-hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer.
S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghaft, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
To the afflicted with WORMS. LATELY received from the western country, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32— e.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
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