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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUB. 35, of VOL. XLII.]
TUESDAY, February 12, 1788.
[Total NUB. 2215.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
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 to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which 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, 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. Atkin, or W. Spotwood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotwood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the, United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentleman might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, or which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires-Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq.
Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 e.d.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, IS now opened at the corner of Cortland and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River—where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable. New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. 63e.d.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received)
American Museum,
For JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING,
Miscellanies.
 oration in commemoration of American Independence, Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw, New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap,  Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.  Method of making steel,  Letter on marriage,  Antifederal arguments,  Letter to the Hon. R. H. Lee.  Satire.  On musical pretenders,  Recipe for an insolvent debtor,  Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice,  Rural Concerns.  Notes on farming—by the Hon. C. T. Esq.  Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland,  Thoughts on the culture of hemp,  Mode of breaking fleeces to the draft in a few days,  On the culture of silk.  Law Information.  Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,  Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand,  State and other Public Papers.  Valedictory address of his Excellency Governor Trumbull,  Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,  Letter to Governor Randolph,  Letter from do.  Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,  Address of the grand jury of Edenton,  Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county  Report of the deputies of Northampton county,  Resolutions of the tradesmen of Bolton,  Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,  Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,  Answer to the preceding notice. 
Natural History.
 Observations on a comet lately discovered.—By David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy.—By Dr. Morgan,  Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables.—By Gen. Lincoln,  Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year,  Some account of the opoponax.  Medical Tracts.  Letter on the sore throat distemper,  Letter on the digitalis purpurea,  An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi.  Select Poetry.  A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.  Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady,  A riddle.  Foreign Intelligence, American. do.
TO BE SOLD,
 For JERSEY MONEY, at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price, 
A Valuable Farm, SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres, a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence. On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be OLD, A new, complete, and corrected Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.

MISCELLANY.
DEBATES IN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION.
[Continued from Yesterday's paper.]
FRIDAY, Jan. 19. A. M.
The 31st par. of the 2d sect. of art. 1, still under consideration.
Mr. Gerry's answer to Mr. Fuller's question was read; the purport is that Georgia had increased in its numbers by migration, and if it was not then, would soon be, intitled to the proportion assigned her.]
Hon. Mr. King. It so happened that I was both of the convention and Congress at the same time, and if I recollect right, the answer of Mr. G. does not materially vary. In 1783, Congress required the states to make a return of the houses and lands surveyed but one state only complied therewith, New-Hampshire. Massachusetts did not. Congress consulted no rule; it was resolved that the several states should be taxed according to their ability, and if it appeared any state had paid more than her quota, it should be passed to the credit of that state, with lawful interest.
Mr. Dalton said he had obtained a great deal by the new constitution. By the confederation each state had an equal vote. Georgia is now content with three eighths of the voice of Massachusetts.
Colonel Jones (Bristol) objected to the length of time. If men continue in office four or six years, they would forget their dependence on the people, and be loth to leave their places; men elevated so high in power, they would fall heavy when they came down.
Mr. Ames observed, that an objection was made against the constitution, because the senators are to be chosen for six years. It has been said, that they will be removed too far from the controul of the people, and that, to keep them in proper dependence, they should be chosen annually. It is necessary to premise that no argument against the new plan has made a deeper impression than this, that it will produce a consolidation of the states. This is an effect which all good men will deprecate. For it is obvious, that, if the state powers are to be destroyed, the representation is too small. The trust in that case would be too great to be confided to so few persons. The objects of legislation would be so multiplied and complicated, that the government would be unwieldy and impracticable. The state governments are essential parts of the system, and the defence of this article is drawn from its tendency to their preservation. The senators represent the sovereignty of the states; in the other house, individuals are represented. The senate may not originate bills. It need not be said, that they are principally to direct the affairs of war and treaties. They are the quality of ambassadors of the states, and it will not be denied that some permanency in their office is necessary to a discharge of their duty: now, if they were chosen yearly how could they perform their trust? If they would be brought by that means more immediately under the influence of the people, then they will represent the state legislatures less, and become the representatives of individuals. This belongs to the other house. The absurdity of this, and repugnancy to the federal principles of the constitution, will appear more fully, by supposing that they are to be chosen by the people at large. If there is any force in the objection to this article, this would be proper. But whom in that case
would they represent? Not the legislatures of the states; but the people. This would totally obliterate the federal features of the constitution. What would become of the state government, and on whom would devolve the duty of defending them against the encroachments of the federal government? a consolidation of the states would ensue, which, it is conceded, would subvert the new constitution, and against which this very article, so much condemned, is our best security. Too much provision cannot be made against a consolidation. The state governments represent the wishes and feelings and local interests of the people. They are the safeguard and ornament of the constitution; they will protract the period of our liberties; they will afford a shelter against the abuse of power, and will be the natural avengers of our violated rights.
A very effectual check upon the power of the senate is provided. A third part is to retire from office every two years. By this means, while the senators are seated for six years, they are admonished of their responsibility to the state legislatures. If one third new members are introduced, who feel the sentiments of states, they will awe that third, whose term will be near expiring. This article seems to be an excellence of the constitution, and affords just ground to believe that it will be in practice as in theory, a federal republic.
From the CHRONICLE OF FREEDOM, of January 23, 1788. [Printed at Philadelphia.]
CENTINEL, No. XIII.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Fellow Citizens,
THE conspirators are putting your good sense, patriotism and spirit to the severest test. So bold a game of deception, so decisive a stroke for despotic power, was never before attempted among enlightened freemen. Can there be apathy so indifferent as not to be roused into indignation, or prejudice so blind, as not to yield to the glaring evidence of such a flagitious conspiracy against the public liberties! The audacious and high-handed measures practiced to suppress information, and intimidate discussion, would, in any other circumstances than the present, have kindled a flame fatal to such daring invaders of our dearest privileges.
The conspirators having been severely galled and checked in their career by the artillery of freedom, have made more vigorous and successful efforts to silence her batteries, while falsehood with all her delusions is making new and greater exertions in favour of ambition. On the one hand, every avenue to information is as far as possible cut off, the usual communication between the states through the medium of the press, is in a great measure destroyed by a new arrangement at the Post-Office, scarcely a newspaper is suffered to pass* by this conveyance, and the arguments of a Findley, a Whitehill and a Smilie, that bright constellation of patriots, are suppressed, a spurious publication substituted; and on the other hand the select committee are assiduously employed in manufacturing deception in all its enlivening colours, and having an adequate fund at their command, they are deluging the country with their productions. The only newspaper that circulates extensively, out of the city is kept running over with deceptive inventions. Doctor Puff, the paragraphist, has scarcely slept since his appointment, having received orders to work double tides; beneath his creative pen, thousands of correspondents rise into view, who all, harmonize in their sentiments and information about the new constitution; but the chief reliance is on James the Caledonian, who can to appearance destroy all distinction between liberty and despotism, and make the latter pass for the former, who can bewilder truth in all the mazes of sophistry, and render the plainest propositions problematical; he,ameleon-like, can vary his appearance at pleasure, and assume any character for the purposes of deception. In the guise of a Conciliator, in the Independent Gazetteer, he professes great candor and moderation, admits some of the principal objections to the new constitution to be well founded, and insidiously proposes a method to remove them, which is to consider the first Congress under the new constitution as a convention, competent to supply all defects in the system of government. This is truly a discovery that does honour to his invention. What a legislative declaration or law a basis upon which to rest our dearest liberties. Does he suppose the people have so little penetration as not to see thro' so flimsy a delusion, that such a security would amount to no more than the will and pleasure of their rulers, who might repeal their fundamental sanction whenever ambition stimulated? In the feigned character of a freeman, he combats the weighty arguments of the minority of the late convention, by a mere play upon words, carefully avoiding the real merits of the question; and we moreover trace him in a variety of miscellaneous productions in every shape and form; he occasionally assists Doctor Puff in the fabrication of extracts of letters, paragraphs, correspondents, &c. &c.
So gifted, and with such a claim of merit from his extraordinary and unwearied exertions in the
* For the truth of this charge, I appeal to the printers.
cause of despotism, who so suitable or deserving of the office of chief justice of the United States. How congenial would such a post be to the principles and disposition of James I! Here he would be both judge and jury, sovereign arbiter in law and equity. In this capacity he may satiate his vengeance on patriotism for the opposition given to his projects of dominion: here he may gratify his superlative arrogance and contempt of mankind, by trampling upon his fellow creatures with impunity: here he may give the finishing stroke to liberty, and silence the offensive complaints of violated justice and innocence, by adding the sanction of his office to the rapacity of power and the wantonness of oppression; there will be no intervening jury to shield the innocent, or procure redress to the injured.
Fellow-citizens, although the conspirators and their abettors are not sufficiently numerous to endanger our liberties by an open and forcible attack on them, yet when the characters of which they are composed, and the methods they are practising, are considered, it ought to occasion the most serious alarm, and stimulate to an immediate, vigorous and united exertion of the patriotic part of the community, for the security of their rights and privileges. Societies ought to be instituted in every county, and a reciprocity of sentiments and information maintained between such societies, whereby the patriots throughout Pennsylvania, being mutually enlightened and invigorated, would from an invincible bulwark of liberty, and by unity of council, and exertion might the better procure and secure to themselves and to unborn ages the blessings of a good federal, energetic government. Nothing but such a system of conduct can frustrate the machinations of an ambitious junto, who, versed in machiavelian arts, can varnish over with the semblance of freedom the most despotic instrument of government ever projected, who can not only veil over their own ambitious purposes, but raise an outcry against the real patriots for interested views, when they are advocating the cause of liberty and of their country, by opposing a scheme of arbitrary power and office-making, who can give the appearance of economy to the introduction of a numerous and permanent standing army, and the institution of lucrative needless offices, to provide for the swarms of gaping, almost famished expectants, who have been campaigning ten years without success against our inextinguishable state constitution, as a reward for their persevering toils, but particularly for their zeal on the present occasion, and also as a phalanx of tyranny; and who, notwithstanding the testimony of uniform experience evinces the necessity of restrictions on those intrusted with power, and a due dependence of the deputy on the constituent being maintained, to ensure the public welfare; who, notwithstanding the fact that liberty has ever met from the remissness of the people and the persevering nature of ambition, who, ever on the watch, grasps at every avenue to supremacy. I say, notwithstanding such evidence before them of the folly of mankind, so often duped by similar arts, the conspirators have had the address to inculcate the opinion that forms of government are no security for the public liberties, that the administration is every thing, that although there would be no responsibility under the new constitution, no restriction on the powers of the government, whose will and pleasure would be literally the law of land, yet that we should be perfectly safe and happy, that as our rulers would be made of the same corrupt materials as ourselves, they certainly could not abuse the trust reposed in them, but would be the most self-denying order of beings ever created; with your purses at their absolute disposal, and your liberties at their discretion, they would be proof against the charms of money, and the allurements of power; however, if such Utopian ideas should prove chimerical, and the people should find the yoke too heavy, they might at pleasure alleviate or even throw it off. In short, the conspirators have displayed so much ingenuity on this occasion, that if it had not been for the patriotism and firmness of some of the printers, which gave an opportunity to enlightened truth to come forward, and by her invincible powers to detect the sophistry, and expose the fallacy of such impositions, liberty must have been overcome by the wiles of ambition, and this land of freemen have become the miserable abode of slaves.
CENTINEL.
Philadelphia, January 26, 1788.
From the (Boston) AMERICAN HERALD.
WE have been frequently advertised in the public papers, that general Washington, when he set his hand to the proposed constitution, uttered these words—"This is, perhaps, the last time the Americans will have an opportunity, coolly, to set down, and agree upon a form of government." The mode of expression from a soldier, from a man, who, besides the Cincinnati, could call out many followers; from a man who stands, in the public eye, the sole candidate for chief ruler of all the states: from such a one, it was as void of prudence as it was of foundation. This has alarmed many patriots, and given pain to many of his friends; but they all feel a respectful delicacy towards that great man, and have therefore been silent, while they might have observed, that, as the motion made by Virginia for a general convention, was so readily agreed to by all the states; and that as the people were so very zealous for a good federal government, though this plan, which was aided in its birth by that great man, should fail, the people could again set themselves down coolly, to make another. The mode of expression might have been animadverted upon. The last time they would have an opportunity!—From whom do they receive this opportunity, but from Heaven?—And who shall withhold the boon?
Had not this letter appeared in the papers, fully explanatory of his ideas, still the regard all feel for him, might have constrained a decent silence. In this letter he says, "My decided opinion is, That there is no alternative between the adoption of it (that is the proposed constitution) and anarchy." One would suppose it very strange, that a convention of fifty members, however respectable, should have such an opinion of their own sagacity, that when they had performed a task which they took upon themselves, they supposed that three millions of people could not amend it, or with an alteration! And that unless this identical system, with every letter and figure should be adopted, all government would be at an end, "Old Chaos would come
back again, and nothing but anarchy ensue!"—No new convention, no new set of men can ever agree again! Why? Because miracles have ceased.
But he goes on, "If one state, however important it may conceive itself to be, or a minority of them, should suppose, that they can dictate a constitution to the union, unless they have the power of applying the ultimo ratio, to good effect, they will find themselves deceived." One expression more ought to be attended to, in order to find the general's meaning: "General government is now suspended by a thread; I might go further, and say, it is really at an end." The proposed constitution, is by the recommendation of the convention, to be in force when nine states shall ratify it; if seven or eight out of thirteen agree to it, yet the old confederation remains until the people agree upon another. But General Washington tells us, that the general government is at an end already, and that unless the new plan is adopted, anarchy and confusion takes place, and that a minority, unless they can apply the ultimo ratio with good effect, will find themselves deceived. I do by no means wish to put an uncaused construction upon this letter, but I cannot resist the conclusion, that the general has declared, that this constitution shall be supported by the ultimo ratio, that is—by force.
What is a tyranny, but a government forced by the stronger upon the weaker?—How imprudent then must the general be to make these declarations! Does our soil produce no more Washington's? Is there none left who would oppose the attempt to establish a government by force?—Can we not call from the fields, the counters, the bar, and mechanics' shops, any more generals? Is our soil exhausted? And does any one suppose that the Americans, like the Romans, will submit to an army, merely because they have conquered a foreign enemy?
The truth is, that we cannot exist without a general government, and that great thanks are due to the convention for the plan they offer; but should the body of the people, or even a majority of the states, wish for alterations, before they ratify the work, surely they may be obtained without bloodshed, without the ULTIMO RATIO. And the majority with usual American candour, will yield to their brethren.
AN AMERICAN.
Proceedings of the SENATE,
Of the State of New-York. POUGHKEEPSIE, Friday, January 1, 1788.
MR. YATES said he had no objections to letting it go to the people, but he wished to go to them properly, he wanted a little to consider about it, as he had mentioned before he wished the business to be properly stated; the people should know the delegates went beyond their powers, and it would be right to give a comparison of their proceedings with the powers under which they acted. The people should be told that they had not amended, but made a new system. He did not think it was necessary for the gentleman to work himself into a passion, and make a noise about tyrants, &c. Should we not, said he, go into a committee and read all the papers, on which this business is founded: and if we find them faulty, ought we not to say so to our constituents; this is my opinion. It may be that gentlemen have made up their minds. Sir, there is not a step towards this business that I ever agreed to; nor is there a sentence in it that I ever will agree to. Sir, said he, I would be for rejecting it altogether; and I would consider it as a piece of blank paper, only that the other states have let it go to the people; he would therefore consent that it should go to them as a mere matter of expediency.
Mr. Duane, was very unhappy that his file and manner of expression, should draw on him the censure of so able a judge and master of eloquence, as that learned gentleman; for the future, he should pattern after him. But he would confess that he felt interested. What was it that was proposed by committing or delaying it? Was it to throw any light on the subject? What mighty discovery could the senate make? He had a great respect for the house, but he did not suppose, that all the wisdom of the state was collected there; and if a fair part was to be acted, it ought to go to the people, uninfluenced. It was they who should decide whether the convention had exceeded their powers or not. Let what ever decision on its merits take place here, the people will not abide by it. He was ready to maintain and to prove, that the convention had not exceeded their powers. But, sir, said he, this is not a question to be decided here; every man has a right to judge for himself; people out of doors are as well informed as we are; they are not hoodwinked; do they want us to open their eyes by the miracle of our wisdom? This subject has been canvassed with diligence, by all ranks of Americans; the papers have abounded with the most clear and important discussions; and there is no resolution, no new thing that the senate can hand them. Taking up the objections of the hon. gentleman, would take up time, and produce discussion of the merits of the constitution. But for this point he was prepared, and flattered himself, that he could give satisfactory and proper answers to any objections the hon. member could make.
Gen. Floyd thought that the question for committing the resolution should be determined.
A division was then made on the motion of Mr. Yates:
For committing. Mr. Yates, Mr. Swartwout, Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Williams, Mr. Parks, Mr. Russell.
Against it. Mr. Townsend, Mr. Haring, Mr. Peter Schuyler, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Van Nels, Mr. L'Hommedieu, Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Philip Schuyler, Mr. Duane, Mr. Floyd, Mr. Morris, and Mr. Lawrence.
Mr. Williams then made a motion for postponing the question on the resolution, but that it should be gone through by paragraphs without any question.
Mr. Haring observed, that whenever a matter of importance came before the senate it was not usual to postpone it; with respect to himself he declared, he was not prepared to vote. It would be immaterial whether it was decided that day or three days afterwards.
Mr. Yates moved for a postponement. Mr. L'Hommedieu thought, if there were any objections to the resolutions, they ought to be

made known in the first stage of the business. To what purpose would it be to postpone the resolution, unless the objections were first known?
Mr. Williams wished the motion for postponement might be waved, until the resolution had been gone through.
Mr. Duane said, that gentlemen gave as a reason for postponing, that they had not made up their minds. If there was any information they wanted, the only way was to go into the consideration of the resolutions by paragraphs, and to hear what could be advanced in support of them.
Mr. Williams thought it would be right to go into the consideration, that the house might have an opportunity of hearing the remarks of the honorable member who was going away.
Mr. Yates did not think that so much could have been said in this stage of the resolution: he only wanted time to consider of it; he would agree to postpone the matter until the honorable gentleman could return again. It seems, says he, by the resolution, that the election is to be on the same day as the general election. Will not this create confusion?
Mr. L'Hommedieu said it would be proper to consider this objection, when this resolution was properly taken up.
Mr. Morris thought it strange that a gentleman should want to postpone it who had declared his mind made up on the subject. For what does he want time? If he had any new propositions to make, why are they not now brought forward?
Mr. Yates replied, that he only wanted the constitution to go properly to the people.
Mr. Lawrence could see no reason for postponing this business without an examination; would it not be better to hear what could be said? Certainly much information might be acquired from a discussion. He supposed that the gentleman who was for postponing it, as he had said he was willing to wait some time, no doubt would willingly postpone it for ever. He believed there was no gentleman present who wanted to precipitate this business. If, after going into the consideration of the resolutions, and examining them fairly, any member should say that he could conscientiously vote, he should have no objection to give him further time. Therefore he thought the house had better consider it by paragraphs.
Mr. Humphrey said, it was proposed to go into the resolutions by paragraphs; if this was done, they must either be agreed to or rejected. There was no amendment to be made. There must another resolution then originate. Perhaps if time was taken, reasons might be given why it should be agreed to, and he might not vote against it. He was not prepared to vote.
Mr. Duane said it was true that the resolutions could not be amended; and that they must either be agreed to or rejected; but it could be taken up by sentences, and if any gentleman had objections, they might be answered.
Mr. Hopkins wished to have all the resolutions read before this was taken up.
General Schuyler thought the house had better debate it, and then the question for postponing might be put.
It was then agreed to go through the resolutions before this question was put.
The resolutions, &c. appointing delegates to the general convention were then read.
Mr. Yates said that this resolution appointed the convention for the sole and express purpose of revising the confederation. He had a book at home which contained some resolutions, he should fetch it with him the next time he came to the senate. Our constituents, said he, ought to know this, that they may have all the information necessary for their decision. With respect to the new scheme he would consider it as a blank, and send it out not as a matter of right, but as an expedient. If those who were authorized to do one thing, and then did a contrary one, the latter was no ways binding.
Gen. Schuyler said the gentleman's observations contained no information; every one knew the resolutions on which the convention had been called. They had been published in all the papers on the continent.
Mr. Duane wished the gentleman would bring forward all the information he had, and make all his objections. He flattered himself he could remove them. He had no objection to go on as broad a scale as he pleased.
Mr. Yates looked upon a discussion of the constitution untimely after the resolution was gone through; he should move to have it postponed.
Mr. Duane wished the gentleman to remember, that he had time now to bring forward his books, &c., that no excuse might afterwards be made for delaying it.
Mr. Yates said he was obliged to the gentleman; he was very good.
Mr. Duane hoped always to be good to him.
The house proceeded in the resolutions; on coming to that part where all free males above 21 years are admitted to vote.
Mr. Williams asked for information, whether any citizen of a neighbouring state who should be 24 hours in this state, would not be entitled to a vote?
Mr. Lawrence thought that part of the resolution was proper, as the constitution proposed would affect all the free citizens of the state; the legislature should not therefore deprive any man from a representation. Under the constitution of the state he believed a six months residence, entitled a man to citizenship. Now to adhere strictly to this, might deprive a number of persons from being represented on a matter of the utmost importance to them. A man may have very lately come into the state; and should he not have a right of electing in a case so important? It ought to be extended on the broadest basis. It would be impossible to enumerate the inconveniences that might arise, if this was to be defined. People who are passing through the state will not be considered as persons entitled to vote. But a man, being a citizen of another state, and just coming into this, as his place of future residence; it would be a hard case to deprive him of his vote. No objection to this could arise, if we went on a broad basis.
Mr. Williams did not wish it to be understood, that he would deprive any man of his right of voting.
Mr. Duane said, it was well understood what was meant by a citizen. He must by some means be attached to the state. No man coming from one state to another, would be immediately considered as a citizen, nor entitled to a vote. No difficulties, therefore, could arise on this head.
Mr. Williams said, the constitution of the state declared who were to be considered citizens in voting for members of the legislature; in the present case, he thought it was a matter that ought to be explained; however, he was easily satisfied. He only wished the business to go to the people with all the necessary information.
Mr. L'Hommedieu remarked, that the intention of the resolutions before the house was, that it should go uninfluenced to the people; and all the information necessary for them would go with it.
Mr. Williams said, a person of influence on the borders of the state might hire 100 men to come into the state to work for him; could they not give him one hundred votes?
Mr. Duane asked if there must not be some evidence of citizenship? The inspectors could not take any man's vote without some knowledge of him. He must be a person under such circumstances, as will appear to them an evidence of citizenship. A person who comes from another state to stay in this state will be such. He thought it had better be left to the inspectors, than for the legislature, on an occasion like this, to interfere.
Mr. Williams was not tenacious about it. There would be danger of a thing of this kind in that part of the country he came from.
With respect to the day of election, Mr. Williams then objected; as being inconvenient, and likely to produce confusion.
Mr. L'Hommedieu thought it would be the best time that could be proposed; as the people would be together on that day, whereby the time, trouble and expense of a second meeting might be saved.
Mr. Williams agreed, if it could be done on the same day, that it would save expense; but would it not create confusion?
Mr. Duane said, it seemed to be an occasion that required a full meeting of the Electors; and there were pretty good reasons, he believed, why they ought both to be on the same day, as every gentleman, on reflection, would make this observation—that, in all probability, if one election was well attended, the people, being wearied with the first, would be inattentive to the second; but if the resolution had specified different days, he would not move to have them both on one, though he believed it would give more ease to the people.
[To be continued.]
American Occurrences.
BOSTON, January 28. From Correspondents.
THE promulgation of Dr. Rulh's inspired system, has brought forth almost all the abilities of this state. The Hon. Mr. Adams, by persevering in his scepticism, may possibly damn his well deserved fame, acquired in a long course of patriotism. But although he opposes the immediate hand of heaven, we cannot but admire the consistency of his character, in adhering to his old principle of republicanism. Nothing, surely, but the hand of God, could so completely have changed the tone of the pious and enlightened clergy of this commonwealth, who were formerly so vehement in their addresses, in favour of the liberties of mankind, on very different principles from those on which the divine code before us was founded. It is notorious (says a Correspondent) that the Federalists, as they pleased to call themselves, are ashamed of a cause, in favor of which, they have discovered so much insolence; and to support which they can use no arguments but those which are destructive of every principle of republicanism.
ALEXANDRIA, January 24.
We hear there are several vessels in the river stopped from coming up by the ice.—Yesterday the ice opposite this town began to move, so that we may soon expect the navigation will be opened again.
RICHMOND, January 24.
The river for many miles below the falls has been closely blocked up with ice for near a fortnight, but do not hear of any damage being sustained by the vessels laying in the river.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8.
The weather, for a few days past, has been intensely cold: on Monday, the wind at W. S. W. with snow squalls, shifted in the evening at W. N. W. and blew very fresh all night; at 10 o'clock A.M. of Tuesday, Farenheit's thermometer was as low as 10 below 0; and at 11 o'clock A.M. to 12 below 0. Thermometers, exposed to the night air on the west side of this city, were from 6 to 8 below 0. On the 5th instant it was colder at noon, by 5 or 6 than any weather we have had for this thirty years past. The Barometer, during this cold weather, was at 30 inches 5 tenths.
Tuesday morning last, as four men belonging to the upper ferry were crossing the Delaware from Cooper's with a wherry, the weight of the boat broke the ice, and a young negro man falling in, was immediately carried under the ice by the tide, so that no exertions could be made to save him.
The brig Elizabeth, captain William Allen, of this port, is arrived at Washington, North-Carolina, after a passage of eight weeks from St. Thomas's—six of which he was on our coast.
Last week a fine horse was instantaneously killed in Third street, near Vine street, by the sudden meeting of two sleighs. The tongue of the adverse sleigh pierced the horse's chest, and entering a considerable way into his body, put an immediate end to the existence of the noble animal.
Tuesday last, the Mercury in Farenheit's thermometer, stood at 4 1-2 deg. below 0, in the shade.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Carlisle to his friend in this city, dated January 2
Though I am decidedly against the new constitution as it stands, yet I was not in the disagreeable hubbub which lately happened here; nor am I at all a friend to violent measures, and wish from my heart nothing of the kind had happened, as it raises animosity betwixt the parties. This town is now divided into two distinct parties, federalists and antifederalists, and almost the whole county of Cumberland is of the last description.
New-York, February 12.
YESTERDAY, after a tedious passage of 78 days, arrived in this port, his Britannic majesty's packet Grantham, — George, esq. commander.
By the packet, London papers were received, but none later than the 8th November, the material contents of which have already been communicated. Some extracts, however, will be given in a future paper.
The ship Mary, Wilcox, arrived at Dover the 10th of November.
Capt. John Harris, in a coasting sloop from New-London to this port, was sunk by the ice at Frog's point, on the 21st ult.
Extract of a letter from New-Haven, February 6. 1788.
Yesterday at eight o'clock in the morning the mercury in the College thermometer, of Farenheit's construction, had descended to four degrees below cypher. The cold increased till the mercury fell to six degrees below 0 at ten o'clock, there it was stationary, and then rose to four below 0 at eleven. It did not reach cypher until two, P.M. and at half after three it had ascended to two degrees above 0, which was the highest altitude of the day. At four it began to descend, and came down again to cypher by sunset. At 9 o'clock in the evening, it was 2 1-2 below 0. At sunrise this morning it was 3 3-4 below.
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PURSUANT to an order of John Wylley, Esq. alderman, and one of the judges of the mayor's court, in and for the city and county of New-York, upon the petition of Christopher Duychinck, an insolvent debtor, and three fourths in value of all his creditors: NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors, to all the creditors of the said Christopher Duychinck, that they do appear before the said judge, at his office in Nassau-street, in the said city, by the fifteenth day of February inst. to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Christopher Duychinck should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Christopher Duychinck thereupon discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. CHRISTOPHER DUYCHINCK. Dated the 9th day of Feb. 1788. 15 t.w.
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NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioners, to all the creditors of Daniel Birdfall, jun. and William Birdfall, insolvent debtors, to appear before the said judge, at his chambers in Crown-street, on Monday the twenty-fifth day of February inst. to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Daniel Birdfall, jun. and William Birdfall should not be made, and they be discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. DANIEL BIRDFALL, Jun. WILLIAM BIRDFALL. Dated this 11th day of February. 1788. 15. c.d.
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By order of Jordan Seaman, Esq. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by Obadiah Wright, and his petitioning creditors, to the creditors of him the said Obadiah Wright, that they appear before me, Daniel Burr, at Norwich, in Queen's county, on Long-Island, the seventeenth day of February next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, and shew cause, if any they have, why the said Obadiah Wright should not be discharged agreeable to an act, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. OBADIAH WRIGHT. Dated Norwich, the 9th Feb. 1788. 14 b.
By Order of the Hon. JOHN SLOSS HOBART, Esq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to Blair M'Clenachan, late of the city of Philadelphia, and state of Pennsylvania, merchant, an absent debtor, and to all others whom it may concern, that on application to the said judge made by a creditor of the said Blair M'Clenachan, an absent debtor as aforesaid; he the said judge, by virtue and in pursuance of the act of the people of the state of New-York, represented in senate and assembly, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th day of April, 1786 hath directed all the estate, real and personal, of the said Blair M'Clenachan, an absent debtor, within this state, to be seized, and that unless the said Blair M'Clenachan, an absent debtor, as aforesaid, shall return, and discharge his debts within one year after the date hereof, all his estates, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. New-York, Jan. 28, 1788. 3-e.d.
Tuesday, 29th January, 1788. An advertisement having appeared in this day's paper, in which Mr. Blair M'Clenachan is mentioned as late of the city of Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania, and as an absent debtor: This notice is given to the person who published that advertisement, and to every person concerned, that Mr. M'Clenachan not only was, but still is a merchant, a man of property, and an inhabitant of Philadelphia, the only part of America in which he ever resided; and any person having just claims upon him, may have a legal remedy, by an application there. The author of this notice gives it principally to remove any groundless suspicions or ideas, which the advertisement may occasion, concerning a worthy citizen of the United States, whose person and property have often been risked in their service. 19-e. d.
By Order of Joseph Crane, jun. Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Dutchess:
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of William Dan, Isaac Secor, jun. and Ephraim Beach Hubbard, insolvent debtors, to appear before the said justice, on Thursday the twenty-eighth day of February next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling house of Capt. Benjamin Titus, in South-east precinct, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of all the estates of the said William Dan, Isaac Secor, jun. and Ephraim Beach Hubbard, should not be made, for the benefit of all their creditors, and they discharged, pursuant to a law of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. WILLIAM DAN, EPHRAIM B. HUBBARD, ISAAC SECOR, junior. Dated the 29th of January, 1788. 19.
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NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Jeremiah Mead, jun. an insolvent debtor, that they shew cause, if any they have, before the said alderman, at his office, situate in Nassau-street, in the city of New-York, by the fourteenth inst. 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 the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. JEREMIAH MEAD, jun. Dated Feb. 6. 1788. 11 gt.
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Among which are, ELEGANT folio fa- mily bibles, with near 200 cuts in each, Burkit on the new tes- tament, Brown's self- interpreting bible, 2 vols., Cruden's concordance, Warden's system of di- vinity, Whitby's com- mentary, Blair's Sermons, Erskine's, Bolton's, Willison's, Atterbu- ry's, &c. sermons, Neilson's festivals, Cul- len's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's, practice o- phyic, Van Swieten's, commata- ries, 18 vols. Boerhaaa- ve's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamil- ton's midwifery, Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quin- cey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's, chemis- try, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's Cole's, and Entick's latin onaries, Davidson's Virgil an Horace, Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eu- tropius, Erasmus, an introduction, Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid, Hammond's algebra Stone's Euclid, Love's surveying, Guth- rie's and Salmon's ge- ographical grammars, Johnson's, Sheridan's, Albee's, Dyke's, Bas- ley's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictiona- ries, Bennet's christian orato- ry, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's mensurer.
Also an excellent Assortment of STATIONARY.
Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Jour- nals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thank- fully received, and carefully executed. 51
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of John Cassen, an insolvent debtor, that they shew cause, if any they have, be- fore the said alderman, at his office, situate in Nassau-street, in the city of New-York, by the 11th instant, 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 the state of New- York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insol- vent debtors," passed the 13th of April, 1786.
JOHN CASTEN.
Petitioning Creditors. James Craven; Frederick Heermann; James B. Porter, by his attorney Gylberk Van new Kuik. Dated Feb'y 2d, 1788. 8 10. c.d.
PRIZE-MONEY,
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire, NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the squadron under the com- mand of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were old in France, and that the shares will be paid to he respective claimants, or their legal representa- tives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim.
Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Office of accounts, Marine department.
A FEW copies of that much cele- brated work of the late Rev. Dr. CHAUN- CY, of Boston, "On the Fall, and its consequen- ces," to be had at this Printing-Office.
WHEREAS Nicholas Bayard, Esq.
of the city of New-York, by his certain in- denture of lease, under his hand and seal, duly exe- cuted, bearing date the sixteenth day of Septem- ber, in the ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for the consideration therein mentioned, did demise and to farm let unto John Cassing, all those three LOTS OF GROUND, No. 279, 280, and 281, situate in the outward, at the corner of Moll-street, and Bayard-street, to have and to hold the said three Lots unto the said John Cassing, for and dur- ing and until the end and term of twenty-one years from thence next ensuing: and whereas the said John Cassing had erected on said three Lots of Ground a dwelling house; and whereas the said John Cassing, on the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty- five, by indenture of mortgage, did convey unto John Egberts, of the city of New-York, house, carpenter, all the before mentioned Lots, No. 279, 280, and 281, with the buildings thereon erected to hold for and during the residue and remainder of the said term of twenty-one years then to come, and, unexpired, to secure the payment of fifty pounds, with the lawful interest:—NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of an act of the governor, council, and general assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty- four, entitled, "An act for the more effectual re- gistering of mortgages, and for securing the purchases of mortgaged estates,"—the residue and remainder of the term of years yet to come, and unexpired, of, and in the said three Lots of Ground, with the buildings thereon erected, will be SOLD at PUB- LIC VENDUE, to the highest bidder, on the pre- mises, on the twenty-fifth day of February next.— The sale to begin at twelve o'clock. The condi- tion of sale will be made known at the time of the vendue, and a deed executed to the purchaser or purchasers, subject to the proviso, in the said act, in favor of other mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in equity, prior to the said sale.
JOHN EGBERT.
New-York, August 23, 1787. t. th. 6m.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cord- age of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mul- berry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea- Water Pump, on such 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, which rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house line, and marine, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
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 Mantuas and other Gown Silks, Saracens, 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 Vel- verets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznabrigs, Marseilles 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 Penn- sylvania PAPER MONEY.
To the Afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beekman-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.
New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—c.d.
FLAX-SEED,
STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD Flax-seed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nalh, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—c.d.
SHRUB,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Bar- rel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE, by Charles Tillinghaft, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
STAGE.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook
ON the 14th inst. the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tues- day 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 un- til the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with eleven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight.
The waggon, on its rout to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the pas- sengers 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 Cortland-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.
THE PUBLIC
ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED,
THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey, to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmadge Hall, No. 49, Cortland Street, (common- ly known by the Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia General Stage Office) and has agreed with the pro- prietors of the Albany and Boston Stages, to make his house the public Stage-House. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to take passages in either of those 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 en- tertainment, and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their cus- tom.
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 win- ter season, or longer if required.
CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN.
New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. 51—th.
JUST PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
CONTAINING, A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, Freuchand English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the curren- cies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into sterling, and sterling into the cur- rencies of the said states. Rules for reducing Eng- lish Money into Irish, and Irish Money into Eng- lish, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. A Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money.
This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant.
Price 1f. 6d. single. The usual discount to Booksellers, and others, who may purchase by the Hundred, Dozen, &c.
** Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell, Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Booksellers.
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, quar- termasters, clothiers, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the ac- counts 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 com- ptroller of the treasury of the United States, with- in one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowance.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market, Cherry-Street, and near to the ship-Yards.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE.— For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window. SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed EVERY DAY, at Six, and ONCE a Week, at Two Dollars, per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED.
PRINTING, in all its Variety, performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.