The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-01-04 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 4, of VOL. XXII.]
FRIDAY, January 4, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2182.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC.
THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—The NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must even in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, into the
New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half; after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, talcades, &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, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done, if one well-informed gentleman, in each town, would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentleman might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires. Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
FOR SALE, At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn, No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET the following
GOODS, Which will be SOLD at the most reduced Prices, to wit.
A VARIETY of Cotton Checks, Mantuas and other Spotted and plain Velvets, Sarcenets, A variety of Gloves and Peclongs, and Fans, Modes, Linens, Chintzes, Sheetings, and Printed Linens, and Oznabrigs, Cottons, Marseilles Quilting, Fancy Shawls and Fancy Jacket Patterns, Handkerchiefs, A variety of Plumes, Jeans, and Ribbands, Jeanets, and Fancy Shoe Buckles and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen 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 UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787. RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, clothiers, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.
MR. HARDIE, TEACHER OF LANGUAGES, RETURNS his most grateful acknowledgment to his good friends, for their generous patronage, since he opened a public school.
At their request he wished to introduce the practice of hearing his Latin Scholars occasionally read lessons in English; but finding it difficult to attend to a variety of branches at the same time, and wishing to do all in his power to promote the progress of the young gentlemen committed to his care, he has taken, as an assistant, Mr. Martin, a gentleman educated at the university of Glasgow, who, together with himself, will industriously instruct their Scholars in the following branches, viz. Writing Arithmetic, Geography, Navigation, and the Creek, Latin, and English Languages grammatically.—Particular attention will be also paid to train up the young gentlemen to a just and graceful mode of elocution; and some time will be daily spent in teaching orthography.—Apply to the school, next door to the Methodist Church in John-street.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook STAGE.
ON the 14th inst. the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules-Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules-Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with fifteen pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight.
The waggon, on its route to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules-Hook.
N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortlandt-street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage.—All letters carried free.
GEORGE OHARA.
Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Montgomery, Capt. Buayan, from London, and other late vessels from Great-Britain, and to be SOLD on very reasonable terms,
By Robert Hodge, No. 237, Queen-street, the corner of King-street, A large and choice collection of BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkit on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols, Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice of physic, Van Swieten's, commentaries, 18 vols, Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols, Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols, Quinney's medical lexicon, Pourfour's, chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Besides the above, a great variety, Consisting of
History, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Miscellanies, Plays, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, &c. &c.
Also an excellent Assortment of STATIONARY, Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thankfully received, and carefully executed. 51
Just imported in the Jean, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell, No. 44, Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large Assortment of BOOKS;
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Miss Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruslic Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sulley's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED,
CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns, voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit. and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY, in particular, pocket-books, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he sells at, will insure a further continuance of their favors. The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scotch
MAGAZINES.
A FEW copies of that much celebrated work of the late Rev. Dr. CHATCY, of Boston, "On the Fall," and its consequences, to be had at this Printing-Office.

"So thick the drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd." MILTON.
MR. GREENLEAF,
HAVING, in my preceding numbers, effectually crushed the little utopian dabbler, and knocked the gigantic Brutus in the head, my intention was to have made some other antipederal hero the subject of my present animadversions: but finding so many dunces have clubbed their heads, with every degree of virulence, fermented by insanity, in order to check my career, I shall, as a necessary prelude, first endeavour to explain the propriety of some of the comparisons already drawn, and the sense which (with your permission) I intend to make in my future productions; by which, however eccentric I may appear, I hope I shall avoid the imputation of falling into absurdity.
When a man closes up the superior parts of his understanding against the admission of truth and reason, and opens the inferior parts to falsehood and folly, he certainly divests himself of the nature of a man, and acquires the nature of a beast, whose likeness he assumes, not in imagination only, but in reality; for he may become a fox in cunning, a wolf in fierceness, a leopard in treachery, a tiger in savageness, a crocodile, a serpent, an owl or a bat, as to the respective natures and properties of those animals. The consequence of such a transformation is, that he will see confusedly, act crazily, think oddly, reason strangely, and conclude falsely; for although even the smallest insects are endowed with organs of sense and motion, and consequently with fibres and vessels, and likewise with a heart and lungs, with their several arteries and veins, with bowels also and brains formed of the purest substances in nature, and with that vital principle whereby each part is distinctly acted upon and enlivened, yet their perceptions, thoughts and conclusions never rise above the sphere of nature; but in all things they behold confusion without form or order. Since this is the case, can I be justly blamed for holding up an animal in likeness to a man that perfectly answers its description?
I am not fond of raking up the ashes of the dead; but Cato's lunatick squire Democritus will not, it seems, easily part with me. We have tossed the ball so long from hand to hand that he seems miserable without me; I shall therefore, in addition to what I have heretofore observed, remark, that plagiarism can derive its existence from nothing but the most consummate ignorance, impudence and ambition. To stand up in defence of what is conceived to be just is certainly the duty of every man; but then every man should confine himself within his proper sphere. The strongest heart is not the necessary concomitant of the sincerest heart; so that even admitting Cato was as much concerned for the welfare of his country as he pretended to be, he was inexcusable in commencing political writer under his manifest deficiencies.
The intention of the piece signed an Observer, in your paper of yesterday, is as obvious as the author's method is unfair and shabby. I can only assure you, upon my honour, that the scurrilous performance under that signature never came from the pen of the
EXAMINER.
January 2, 1788.
To the CITIZENS of the State of NEW-YORK.
[Continued from Wednesday last.]
THE more intelligent adversaries of the new constitution admit the force of this reasoning; but they qualify their admission by a distinction between what they call internal and external taxation. The former they would reserve to the state governments; the latter, which they explain into commercial imposts, or rather duties on imported articles, they declare themselves willing to concede to the federal head. This distinction, however, would violate that fundamental maxim of good sense and sound policy, which dictates, that every power ought to be proportionate to its objects; and would still leave the general government in a kind of tutelage to the state governments, inconsistent with every idea of vigor or efficiency. Who can pretend that commercial imposts are or would be alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the union? Taking into the account the existing debt, foreign and domestic, upon any plan of extinguishment, which a man moderately impressed with the importance of public justice and public credit could approve, in addition to the establishments, which all parties will acknowledge to be necessary, we could not reasonably flatter ourselves, that this resource alone, upon the most improved scale, would even suffice for its present necessities. Its future necessities admit not of calculation or limitation; and upon the principle, more than once adverted, the power of making provision for them as they arise, ought to be equally unconfined. I believe it may be regarded as a position, warranted by the history of mankind, that in the usual progress of things the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
To say that deficiencies may be provided for by requisitions upon the states, is on the one hand, to acknowledge that this system cannot be depended upon; and on the other hand to depend upon it for every thing beyond a certain limit. Those who have carefully attended to its vices and deformities as they have been exhibited by experience, or delineated in the course of these papers, must feel an invincible repugnancy to trusting the national interests, in any degree, to its operation. Its inevitable tendency, whenever it is brought into activity, must be to enfeeble the union and sow the seeds of discord and contention between the federal head and its members, and between the members themselves. Can it be expected that the deficiencies would be better supplied in this mode, than the total wants of the union have heretofore been supplied, in the same mode? It ought to be recollected, that if less will be required from the states, they will have proportionably less means to answer the demand. If the opinions of those who contend for the distinction which has been mentioned, were to be received as evidence of truth, one would be led to conclude, that there was some known point in the economy of national affairs, at which it would be safe to stop, and say, thus far the ends of public happiness will be promoted by supplying the wants of government, and all beyond this is unworthy of our care or anxiety. How is it possible that a government, half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfil the purposes of its institution—can provide for the security—advance the prosperity—or support
the reputation of the commonwealth? How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad? How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients, temporising, impotent, disgraceful? How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?
Let us attend to what would be the effects of this situation in the very first war, in which we should happen to be engaged. We will presume, for arguments sake, that the revenue arising from the impost duties answers the purposes of a provision for the public debt, and of a peace establishment for the union. Thus circumstanced, a war breaks out. What would be the probable conduct of the government in such an emergency? Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions; unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defence of the state? It is not easy to see how a step of this kind could be avoided; and if it should be taken, it is evident that it would prove the destruction, of public credit at the very moment that it was become essential to the public safety. To imagine that at such a crisis credit might be dispensed with, would be the extreme of infatuation. In the modern system of war, nations the most wealthy are obliged to have recourse to large loans. A country so little opulent as ours, must feel this necessity in a much stronger degree. But who would lend to a government that prefaced its overtures for borrowing by an act which demonstrated that no reliance could be placed on the steadiness of its measures for paying? The loans it might be able to procure, would be as limited in their extent as burdensome in their conditions. They would be made upon the same principles that usurers commonly lend to bankrupt and fraudulent debtors, with a sparing hand, and at enormous premiums.
It may perhaps be imagined, that from the scantiness of the resources of the country, the necessity of diverting the established funds in the case supposed, would exist, though the national government should possess an unrestrained power of taxation. But two considerations will serve to quiet all apprehension on this head; one is, that we are sure the resources of the community, in their full extent, will be brought into activity for the benefit of the union; the other is, that whatever deficiencies there may be, can without difficulty be supplied by loans.
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow, as far as its necessities might require. Foreigners, as well as the citizens of America, could then reasonably repose confidence in its engagements; but to depend upon a government, that must itself depend upon thirteen other governments for the means of fulfilling its contracts, when once its situation is clearly understood, would require a degree of credulity not often to be met with in the pecuniary transactions of mankind, and little reconcilable with the usual sharp-sightedness of avarice.
Reflections of this kind, may have trifling weight with men, who hope to see realized in America, the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age; but to those who believe we are likely to experience a common portion of the vicissitudes and calamities which have fallen to the lot of other nations, they must appear entitled to serious attention. Such men must behold the actual situation of their country with painful solicitude, and deprecate the evils which ambition or revenge might, with too much facility, inflict upon it.
PUBLIUS.
From the CHRONICLE of FREEDOM. CENTINEL, No. VI. TO THE PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA.
"Man is the glory, jest, and riddle of the world." POPE.
INCREDIBLE transition! the people, who, seven years ago, deemed every earthly good, every other consideration, as worthless, when placed in competition with liberty, that heaven-born blessing, that zest of all others; the people, who, actuated by this noble ardor of patriotism, rose superior to every weakness of humanity, and shone with such dazzling lustre amidst the greatest difficulties; who, emulous of eclipsing each other in the glorious assertion of the dignity of human nature, courted every danger, and were ever ready, when necessary, to lay down their lives at the altar of liberty: I say, the people who exhibited a spectacle, that commanded the admiration, and drew the plaudits of the most distant nations, are now reversing the picture, are now lost to every noble principle, are about to sacrifice that inestimable jewel liberty, to the genius of despotism. A golden phantom held out to them, by the crafty and aspiring despots among themselves, is alluring them into the fangs of arbitrary power; and so great is their infatuation, that it seems as if nothing short of the reality of misery, necessarily attendant on slavery, will rouse them from their false confidence, or convince them of the direful deception; but then, alas! it will be too late, the chains of despotism will be fast rivetted, and all escape precluded.
For years past, the harpies of power have been industriously inculcating the idea, that all our difficulties proceed from the impotency of Congress, and have at length succeeded to give to this sentiment almost universal currency & belief; the devaluations, losses, and burthens, occasioned by the late war; the excessive importations of foreign merchandise & luxuries, which have drained the country of its specie and involved it in debt, are all overlooked, and the inadequacy of the powers of the present confederation is erroneously supposed to be the only cause of our difficulties; hence persons of every description are revelling in the anticipation of the halcyon days, consequent on the establishment of the new constitution. What gross deception and fatal delusion! Although very considerable benefit might be derived from strengthening the hands of congress, so as to enable them to regulate commerce, and counteract the adverse restrictions of other nations, which would meet with the concurrence of all persons; yet this benefit is accompanied in the new constitution with the scourge of despotic power, that will tender the citizens of America tenants at will of every species of property, of every enjoyment, and make them the mere drudges of government. The gilded bait conceals corrosives that will eat up their whole substance.
Since the late able discussion, all are now sensible of great defects in the new constitution, are sensible that power is thereby granted without limitation or restriction; yet such is the impatience of the people to reap the golden harvest of regulated commerce, that they will not take time to secure their liberty and happiness, nor even to secure the benefit of the expected wealth; but are weakly trusting their every concern to the discretionary disposal of their future rulers: are content to risk every abuse of power, because they are promised a good administration, because moderation and self-denial are the characteristic features of men in possession of absolute sway. What egregious folly! What superlative ignorance of the nature of power does such conduct discover!
History exhibits this melancholy truth, that slavery has been the lot of nearly the whole of mankind in all ages, and that the very small portion who have enjoyed the blessings of liberty, have soon been reduced to the common level of slavery and misery. The cause of this general vassalage may be traced to a principle of human nature, which is more powerful and operative than all the others combined; it is that lust of dominion that is inherent in every mind, in a greater or less degree; this is so universal and ever active a passion as to influence all our ancestors; the different situation and qualifications of men only modifies and varies the complexion and operation of it.
For this darling pre-eminence and superiority, the merchant, already possessed of a competency, adventures his all in the pursuit of greater wealth; it is for this, that men of all descriptions, after having amassed fortunes, still persevere in the toils of labour; in short, this is the great principle of exertion in the votaries of riches, learning, and fame.
In a savage state, pre-eminence is the result of bodily strength and intrepidity, which compels submission from all such as have the misfortune to be less able; therefore the great end of civil government is, to protect the weak from the oppression of the powerful, to put every man upon the level of equal liberty; but here again the same lust of dominion by different means frustrates almost always this salutary intention. In a polished state of society, wealth, talents, address and intrigue are the qualities that attain superiority in the great sphere of government.
The most striking illustration of the prevalence of this lust of dominion is, that the most strenuous assertors of liberty in all ages, after successfully triumphing over tyranny, have themselves become

tyrants, when the unscrupulous confidence of an admiring people have entrusted them with unchecked power: rare are the instances of self-denial, or consistency of conduct in the votaries of liberty, when they have become possessed of the reins of authority; it has been the peculiar felicity of this country, that her great deliverer did not prove a Cromwell nor a Monk.
Compare the declarations of the most zealous assertors of religious liberty, whilst under the lash of persecution, with their conduct when in power; you will find that even the benevolence and humility inculcated in the gospels, prove no restraint upon this love of domination. The mutual contentions of the several sects of religion in England some ages since, are sufficient evidence of this truth.
The annals of mankind demonstrate the precarious tenure of privileges and property dependent upon the will and pleasure of rulers; these illustrate the fatal danger of relying upon the moderation and self-denial of men exposed to the temptations that the Congress under the new constitution will be. The lust of power or dominion is of that nature, as seeks to overcome every obstacle, and does not remit its exertions, whilst any object of conquest remains, nothing short of the plenitude of dominion, will satisfy this cursed demon: Therefore, liberty is only to be preserved by a due responsibility in the government, and by the constant attention of the people; whenever that responsibility has been lessened, or this attention remitted, in the same degree has arbitrary sway prevailed.
The celebrated Montesquieu has warned mankind of the danger of an implicit reliance on rulers; he says, that "a perpetual jealousy respecting liberty, is absolutely requisite in all free states," and again, "that slavery is ever preceded by sleep."
I shall conclude this number with an extract from a speech delivered by Lord George Digby , afterwards Earl of Bristol , in the English parliament, on the triennial bill in the year 1641, viz. "It hath been a maxim among the wisest legislators that whoever means to settle good laws, must proceed in them, with a sinister opinion of all mankind; and who-soever is not wicked, it is for want only of the opportunity. It is that opportunity of being ill, Mr. Speaker, that we must take away, if ever we mean to be happy, which can never be done, but by the frequency of parliaments."
"No state can wisely be confident of any public minister's continuing good, longer than the rod is held over him."
"Let me appeal to all those that were present in this house at the agitation of the petition of rights : and let them tell themselves truly of whose promotion to the management of public affairs do they think the generality would, at that time, have had better hopes, than of Mr. Noy , and Sir Thomas Wentworth ; both having been at that time and in that business, as I have heard, most keen and active patriots, and the latter of them, to the eternal aggravation of his infamous treachery to the commonwealth be it spoken, the first mover, and insister, to have this clause added to the petition of rights , viz."
"That for the comfort and safety of his subjects, his majesty would be pleased to declare his will and pleasure, that all his ministers should serve him according to the laws and statutes of the realm."
"And yet, Mr. Speaker, to whom now can all the inundations upon our liberties , under pretence of law, and the late ship-wreck at once of all our property, be attributed more than to Noy , and all those other mischiefs whereby this monarchy hath been brought almost to the brink of destruction, so much to any as to that grand apostate to the commonwealth, the new lieutenant of Ireland, Sir Thomas Wentworth ? Let every man but consider those men as once they were."
British Liberties, page 184 and 185. CENTINEL. Philadelphia, December 22, 1787.
Foreign Intelligence.
[By the Sophia , from Londonderry .] LONDON, October 23.
A UTHENTIC information was received on Saturday last from Holland —the affairs of that distracted republic are not likely to be so speedily restored to tranquility as it was generally expected. When M. de Thulemeyer , the Prussian Ambassador at the Hague, first delivered the memorial that contained the intimation of that monarch's intended interference in the concerns of the States, nothing was said or written upon the subject, as to the motives for his conduct, beyond the mere wish to obtain reparation to the Princess of Orange for the insult she had received; since the surrender of Amsterdam, however, a different language has been held.
On a suggestion being thrown out to the Duke of Brunswick , since the capitulation of that place, that it would tend to restore quiet, if the Prussian army were to retire from the city, M. de Thulemeyer sent a regular official intimation to the magistrates, that it was the determination of his master not to quit Amsterdam until every farthing of the expence he had incurred in consequence of his preparations was fully paid; at the same time rating the amount of this expenditure upon a most enormous scale.
This has thrown the Council of Amsterdam into the utmost consternation. They cannot order the payment of the money, without regular authority from the States, and by their refusal, are exposed to the daily hazard of the plunder of the soldiery.—On their declining to advance the sum demanded, M. de Thulemeyer informed them, he should publish a manifesto, declaratory of the purposes and resolutions of his master. On the interposition, however, of the Princess of Orange, this violent measure was suspended till the ministers of the court of London should have been consulted. Accordingly a Council was held yesterday in the evening; and two extraordinary messengers were dispatched, one to the King of Prussia, at Berlin, and another to Sir J. Harris , at the Hague.
The melancholy alternatives, which this unforeseen conduct on the part of the King of Prussia, presents to the States, are these: If that Monarch perseveres in his determination to enforce his demand, the city of Amsterdam will be exposed (to speak most leniently) to the horrors of a military contribution; the cause of the House of Orange will be rendered unpopular; and the hostile faction be encouraged and countenanced in soliciting the immediate interference of the court of France, to rescue them from so unexpected an exaction. If, on the other hand, he fails in getting the money, which he evidently wants at present, and acquiesces in the non-payment, he will probably withdraw his troops not only from Amsterdam, but from the territories of the States entirely, and leave the contending parties to fight it out as well as they can. In that case, it is not apparent that any one thing he has yet done will have much operation in composing the unhappy dissensions of the republic.
American Occurrences.
BOSTON, December 27. A GENTLEMAN who arrived in town lately from Georgia, assures us, that two days before he left that state, WAR was formally declared against the Indians, and that every thing was in the greatest agitation possible.
A correspondent observes, that all accounts make it apparent, that the state convention which is to meet in this town next month, will consist of upwards of 400 members; it is therefore time to think of a place for the accommodation of this body as it is certain that the representatives' chamber will not hold so large a number—a meeting-house will be the most suitable place, and as the Rev. Mr. Thatcher's is the only one that has stoves (and it is in the centre of the town) that would be the most eligible—would it not then discover a federal disposition, if that church was to make a voluntary offer of it, to the convention, as early as possible, after its meeting, and make previous arrangements for its accommodation?
PROVIDENCE, December 22. The ship General Washington , Capt. Jonathan Donnison , of this port, bound for the East-Indies, fell down the river on Wednesday: her cargo will be completed in a few days, when she will proceed to sea. Col. Samuel Ward goes supercargo.
On Monday last Robert Clan , a seaman, fell from a boat in the river, near Fox-point , and was drowned. His body was taken up and interred on Wednesday.
POUGHKEEPSIE, Jan. 2. Christmas day, two fellows, Mosh and another, confined in the gaol of this place for passing counterfeit paper money, formed a plan to murder Capt. Dodge , the gaoler, and make their escape. This infernal design was accidentally discovered by their disclosing their intention to one of the other prisoners, who made it known but a few minutes before the time which in all probability would have put an end to the existence of the gaoler, the fellows having each prepared themselves with hickory clubs.
Last week, at the Oblong in this county, two horses ran away with a slay with two or three men in it. One of the men, whose name was Balding , in trying to save himself by falling out of the slay, unfortunately broke his neck, and died instantly.
New-York, January 4.
Y ESTERDAY arrived the brig James , Capt. Haight , in 35 days from St. Augustine. It is said, that a considerable part of the freight of the above vessel (owned by Messrs. Lynch and Stoughton , merchants, of this city) is SPANISH MILLED DOLLARS.
Also, arrived yesterday the sloop Nancy , Price, from Philadelphia.
A brig, name unknown, took a pilot yesterday without the Hook: she will doubtless be up this day.
Capt. Ewing , who arrived here on Wednesday, from Londonderry , spoke the snow Robert , from St. Vincents, bound to New-London, in lat. 38, and lon. 68; also the brig Hector , from this port, bound to Dublin, in lon. 71.
The SALEM MERCURY , of December 25, says, On Thursday last, the brig Patty , Captain Phippen , arrived here from Cadiz : She sailed the 27th of October, at which time no accounts had been received there of the King of Spain's death—we therefore conclude the Irish account of that event, in our last, must be premature.
The accounts by Capt. Phippen do not favour so strongly of war, as those from other parts of Europe—War was indeed talked of at Cadiz , but not immediately expected.
By a London Price Current, of October 5, it appears, that insurance from London to America, was raised to ten guineas per cent. on account of an expected war.
We have an instance of the increased population of the state of Franklin , in an account, which mentions, that on an intimation of a number of Indians being in the vicinity, Gov. Sawyer , in two days and one night, raised and marched 1400 men.
Before the surrender of Amsterdam, water was sold an English shilling a quart.
A merchant in Cadiz writes to his correspondent here,—"Should war break out—which God forbid!—it will be fortunate for the American flag."
The following is the exact number of horses and cattle cleared out at the naval-office, Middletown , Connecticut, since the first of March last, for the West-India islands:
Horses, 1454. Oxen, 700. Cows, 23. Total, 2177.
A few days ago (says a London paper of Sept. 14) arrived in town, Mr. Paine , the celebrated author of Common Sense .
An infallible Cure for a SPRAIN . Stupe the sprain with hot brandy and vinegar, then spread honey upon a strip of brown paper, and roll it about the sprain; renew it night and morning. It generally cures in a day or two.
D. Coleman's (Boston) Marine List. Saturday, Dec. 22. Wind N. N. W. Sailed brig Hope , Burroughs , for Isle of Bourbon ; brig Washington , Hatch , Surinam ; ship Maffachusetts , Collins , Isle France .
Sunday, Dec. 23. Wind E. N. E. with a severe storm of snow and rain. Arrived, brig Josephine , Ble , from Isle of Rhe , France, in 105 days.
A few Copies of the ADDRESS and REASONS of DISSENT of the MINORITY of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, to their Constituents—to be Sold at this Office.
Garret Rapalje, No. 2, opposite the Fly-Market, has FOR SALE, sundry sorts of DRY GOODS.
Two NEGRO BOYS about 14 years old, One WENCH, a very good COOK, can wash and iron; sold for want of employ.
Twenty FARMS of good LAND on the west side of the Delaware, about 50 miles west of Elsopus , Who sells GOODS on Commission.
Said RAPALJE has FOR SALE a number of Walker's Certificates.
New-York, Dec. 29, 1787. 77 c.d.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY. This EVENING, being the 4th of January, Will be performed, A COMEDY, CALLED THE Clandestine Marriage. To which will be added, High Life below Stairs. BOX 8s.—PIT 6s.—GALLERY 4s. VIVAT RES PUBLICA.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants and substitutes Artificial Teeth. Attends abroad upon sending Directions.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Mooney , an insolvent debtor, that they shall cause before John Wiley , Esq. at his office in Nassau-street, by the eleventh day of January instant, why an assignment of the estate of the said John Mooney should not be made and be discharged, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
JOHN MOONEY. Dated this 3d day of January, 1788. 89 c.d.
The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For December, 1787, Just Published in this City, Sold at this Office, price Two Shillings.
Wants Employment, A YOUNG Gentleman, who is versed in the FRENCH and ENGLISH LANGUAGES and MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS. In either of these branches he would be glad to engage. Having already officiated as teacher of the above languages, and been fortunate enough to give satisfaction, he would prefer that mode of living in future, either in a private family or as an assistant in some school—but if he fails in this, being perfectly acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING, he would accept of a place in a store, for a longer or shorter time, as may best suit the employer. New-York, January 3, 1788. 81—c.d.
FREIGHT, WANTED, FOR a BRIG upwards of one hundred tons measurement, with an undeniable British Register and Mediterranean pass.—For either Spain, Portugal, the Streights, Western, Canary, or any of the West-India Islands.—For particulars enquire at No. 74, Water-street. New-York, Dec. 31, 1787. 78 c.d.
TO BE SOLD, On TUESDAY the eighth Day of January next, at twelve o'Clock of the same Day, at the House of ISRAEL HONEYWELL , Jun. near Dobbs Ferry , the
Farm and Tract of Land, In Philipsburg , now in the Occupation of the said ISRAEL HONEYWELL ; CONTAINING two hundred acres more or less, together with the flock and household furniture of the said Israel Honeywell , consisting of a great variety of valuable articles, which will be sold by virtue of an execution, issued at the suit of Alice Archer , against the said Israel Honeywell .
JOHN THOMAS , Sheriff. Dated the 17th of Dec. 1787. 79 85 c.d.
Ten Dollars Reward.
Ran away, from Cape Francois , a MULATTO MAN, Named JACQUES or JAMES , a CREOLE, from Martinico ,
AN excellent kitchen and pastry COOK, 26 or 27 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, middling thick, his legs are much warped, much pock-marked, a very large mouth, small eyes and funk, a large forehead and long necked; he has a kind of ring-worm on one of his arms, and has a difficulty in his speech, stammering a little—He left Cape Francois in the beginning of May last, and was supposed to have taken passage for this continent. Whoever secures said Mulatto Man , and gives intelligence, will be handsomely rewarded, and all reasonable charges paid. Enquire at No. 15, Queen-Street . 73—c.d.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk , at the head of Mulberry-street , the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump , on such favorable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, houseline, and marine, &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 carriage to the buyers. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 d.c.

POET'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. The APPLE-TREE to the four SEASONS. TO SPRING.
HAIL lovely SPRING, in you I'm grandly died, My Branches flourish, and my Blossom's blest; My extended Boughs, a soft melodious Seat, The feathered Convoy's blooming sweet Retreat. TO SUMMER.
IN you sweet season, is my Blossom flown, My tender Bud, to verdur's fully grown, My Fruit is far advanc'd, for Autumn's mow * And Ripefess is display'd from Bough to Bough. TO AUTUMN.
AH! Autumn, now of Beauties I'm divest, Rob'd of the Garment of my tow'ring Brest, And when bright Sol, has scarcely Power to warm, You leave me naked to to burn the Storm. TO WINTER.
NOW harsh Winter blow thy impetuous Wind, Sift to the Blast my uncloth'd Top you'll find, Dust to the roaring, intemperate of thy sting, As one asleep, I'll waken in the Spring. J. M. A.
* Tho' this word is not applicable, yet I take a Poet's Liberty to substitute it for Store.
A N E C D O T E.
THE constitution of Pennsylvania, makes a year's residence in the state, and payment of taxes, the sole requisites to qualify a man for an elector.
At an election, when parties were violent, each warmly canvassing for suffrages, a Captain of a ship, then lying at the wharf, took his seamen to a mag- istrate, paid a tax for each, and procured a certi- ficate of the payment—Then putting such tickets or votes in their hands, as he pleased, led them to the state house, where they all lodged their votes.
On the return of the ship, the next voyage, just before she arrived in Delaware Bay, she was sur- rounded with a vast multitude of Porpoises, pur- suing a westerly course with the ship. "See here," says one of the sailors, to his ship-mate, what a "merry company we have." "Yes d—n 'em" replies Jack, "they are driving to Philadelphia, I believe, to pay taxes and vote for Assemblymen." The captain, who was then walking on the quarter- deck, heard the farcical wag, and smiled, but said not a word.
Affize of BREAD,
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flour to weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, January 4. 1h. 22m. Aft.
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT and SHOE MAKER, LEATHER CUTTER, AND CURRIER, Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beekman or Chapel Street,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he carries on the above branches in an extensive manner. He makes an sell the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.
   £. s. d.     Gentlemen's best boots with the best English legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 12 0   Gentlemen's best boots turned down tops, best English legs and bend-foles, 2 10 0   Gentlemen's best boots with the best York legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 8 0   Ditto best plain, ditto, York legs and bend-foles, 2 4 0   Ditto, ditto, with York legs and foles, 2 0 0   Best water boots with bend-foles, 2 0 0   Gentlemen's best calf-skin shoes with bound tops, 0 11 0   Mens strong shoes, from 8/ to 0 9 0   Ladies best silk shoes, 1 0 0   Ditto ditto, stuff ditto fatinet or cali- mance, 0 10 0   Ditto ditto leather lined and bound, 0 9 0   Ditto do. do. common, 0 8 0   Boys, Girls, and childrens shoes of all kinds.  
As also, all kinds of leather, whether for shoe- makers, saddlers, or harness-makers use.—English boot-legs, bend-foles as usual.
He wishes to inform the public, that, as he is determined to sell on the most reasonable terms, no credit on any account will be given, except to those of his former customers.
And likewise, that no shoes will be sent to any one for trial, except they be very well known, as he has already suffered too much loss on that account. Country store-keepers, and others, will find it to their advantage to deal at the above store, as they can be supplied with upper leathers, foles, half foles, &c. by the dozen, on the most reasonable terms.
Black-ball of excellent quality for cleaning boots or shoes, wholesale and retail.
N. B. Bough leather taken in and curried on the most reasonable terms. 24— ed. gw.
Just published by M. CAREY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received)
THE American Museum, FOR NOVEMBER, 1787.
CONTAINING, Strictures on the new Federal Constitution.
OBJECTIONS to the proposed plan of fe- deral government. By an officer of the late continental army.
 2 Answers to the preceding objections.  3 Address to the inhabitants of New-Jersey.  4 The federalist. 
Rural Concerns.
 5 Address from the Philadelphia society for pro- moting agriculture.  6 Chinese method of curing ginseng.  7 Tatarian ditto.  8 Instructions for the culture and use of maize, or Indian corn, as fodder for cattle. By Mons. St. John de Crevecoeur.  9 Description of a plant of great utility in the improvement of poor and exhausted lands.  10 A valuable, cheap, and easily-procured win- ter food for cattle.  11 On raising potatoes.  12 On cotton planting.  13 Advantages of preserving parsnips by drying. By the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.  14 Receipts for preserving turnips from insects. By Philip Schuyler, Esq.  15 On the method of rearing young cattle.  16 On bee-keeping.  17 Receipt to preserve butter perfectly sweet whole year.  18 Query addressed to the lovers of cyder.  19 Letter from Mr. Decius Wadsworth to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, relative to the Hessian fly.  20 Letter on the same subject. 
Medical Essays.
 21 On the use of mercurial preparations in the scartina anginoso. By Dr. William Currie.  22 Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus. By Dr. Ruth.  23 Letter from Dr. Thomas Bond to Dr. Fo- thersgill, on the use of bark in scrofulous cases.  24 Relation of a cure performed by electricity. Communicated to the medical society in London, by Dr. Caldwell and Evans.  25 Receipts for the cure of a dysentery. 
Law information.
 26 Statement of a cause decided in the court of common pleas, Charleston, March 5, 1785.  27 Statement of an important and interesting cause decided in the court of king's bench, London, July 20, 1787.  28 Interesting decision of the court of common pleas, in Philadelphia, August 9, 1787.  29 Law report—Green and Pollard vs. Shaffer. Judgment pronounced, Oct. 7, 1787. 
Humour.
 30 On the use of butlers.  31 Sufannah Trap's complaint of the badness of the police.  32 On pronouncing dictionaries.  33 Plan for a wax-work legislature.  34 address to Gen. Burgoyne.  35 The old bachelor, No. I. 
State and other public Papers.
 36 Letter from the Hon. Roger Sherman and the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, Esq's. to governor Huntington.  37 Letter from the Hon. Elbridge Gerry, one of the delegates from the state of Massachusetts in the late federal convention, containing his reasons for not signing the new constitution.  38 General Burgoyne's pompous proclamation.  39 Speech of governor Hancock, October 18, 1787.  40 Premiums offered by the board of managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts.  41 Resolutions of the assembly of Virginia rela- tive to a paper currency.  42 ——— of respectable inhabitants of Berke- ley county.  43 ——— of the inhabitants of Fredericksburg, Virginia.  44 ——— of the freeholders of Frederic county, Virginia.  45 ——— of the inhabitants of Petersburg, Virginia.  46 Memorial of the college of physicians of Phi- ladelphia. 
Interesting Laws.
 47 Act for the receipt of tobacco in payment of taxes.  48 Act for the establishing religious freedom in Virginia.  49 Act to prevent the further importation of slaves into Virginia.  50 Act to prevent the slave trade, and to en- courage the abolition of slavery in Rhode-Island. 
Resolves of Congress.
 Resolve relative to the relative to the devices and inscrip- tions of the federal copper coin.  —— relative to the Indian war in Geor- gia.  53 ——— relative to foreign consuls.  54 ——— relative to the Hon. John Adams Esq.  55 ——— relative to the chevalier John Paul Jones.  56 ——— relative to the territorial claim of N. Carolina and Georgia.  57 ——— relative to a complaint made the Dutch minister. 
Miscellanies.
 58 An oration delivered at Petersburg, Virgi- nia, July 4, 1787, in commemoration of American Independence. 
 59 Account of the late revolution in Sweden.  60 Obs. on the means of extinguishing a fire.  61 Address to the ladies of America.  62 On the use of tobacco and snuff.  63 Account of three volcanos in the moon By W. Herschell.  64 Observations on the numb fish, or torporific eel. By H. C. Flagg.  65 Extract of a letter from the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, to Dr. Stiles.  66 Observations on the leech worm.  67 Letter relative to the devices and inscriptions of American medals. By Col. Humphreys.  68 Extract from an act to punish blasphemers. 
Poetry.
 69 Epistle to his excellency General Washing- ton.  70 On the death of Col. John Laurens. By Philip Freneau.  71 Prospect of South-Carolina. By the late Dr. Ladd.  72 The man of sorrow. By William More Smith, Esq.  The subscription for the American Museum is 18s. per annum, for two volumes, of 624 pages. This Work is also SOLD by Messieurs Berry and Rogers, Mr. Hodge, and Mr. Loudon. New-York, Dec. 17, 1787. 66— e.d.
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CONTENTS.
 INTRODUCTION, On education,  Gen. Lincoln's letter from Jemima Loveleap,  On the ingrafting of trees, Floretta, or the Foun- tains,  Anecdote of the Duke of Gordon, Life of Sir William Jones, Kt.  Advice to masons, and Titus Blunt, on fashion,  to husbands that have Anecdote of a sailor,  scolding wives, and Letter from Philander,  wives that have pec- on marriage,  with husbands, Dr. Dwight's valedic- tory address, &c.  Principles of govern- Mr. Pope's letter to the ment and commerce. Bishop of Rochester,  On bills of rights, Letter from Guy Grum- blestone,  Letter to Doctor Stiles, Curiosities,  accounting for the for- London review of Dr. tifications west of the Adams's defence.  Allegany,  Abridgment of Smith's History of Virginia, 
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Respectfully inform the PUBLIC, THAT, after this date, their stage will leave Paulus-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, and proceed to Elizabeth-Town; and that in order to accommodate passengers, one stage will leave Elizabeth-Town at day-light; and another stage leaves Newark at eight o'clock, and both stages go as far towards Philadelphia as the weather and roads will permit, during the winter season. December 13th, 1787. 46
PURSUANT to an order of the honorable John Sloss Hobert, Esq. one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of New-York:—NOTICE is hereby given, by the petitioners to all the creditors of Jonathan Douglass, an insolvent debtor, that they their cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his chamber, situate in Crown-street, in the city of New-York, by Monday the fourteenth day of Janu- ary next, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said debtor discharged, pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 18th day of April, 1786.
JONATHAN DOUGLAS. Dated this 22d day of Dec. 1787. 74 3t. Petitioning Creditors, David Noble, Samuel Beech, by their attorney James Reed, William Grindling.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILERY, near the New-Market in Cherry-street and nearest to the Ship-Yards. October 3, 1787 53— m. th.
S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Bar- rel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE, by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
Five Dollars Reward.
STOLEN, on the night of the third instant, out of the house of the subscriber, the following articles, viz. one purple silk gown, two white muslin ditto, two pair of sheets; one old suit of blue and white curtains; and sundry caps, handkerchiefs, and ruffles. The above reward will be given for the thief and goods, by GARRET RAPALJE. New-York, Oct. 10, 1787. 95— m.w.f.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD's Flax-seed store, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38— e.d.
To the Afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, 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. N. York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32— e.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquaint- ed with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts, inquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38— e.d.
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