The New-York journal, and weekly register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-10-02 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUMB. 1719, of VOL. XLII.]
THURSDAY, October 2, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2368.]
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.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the City-Hall of the City of Albany, the seventh Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
PRESENT,
The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq., Chancellor.
IN CHANCERY. John Bowne, administrator with the will annexed of David Provost, deceased, complainant, vs. Benjamin Birdsell, and Mary his wife, defendants.
And a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said Benjamin Birdsell, and Mary his wife, to the said David Provost; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdsell, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been entered, in case the said process had been duly served; and an affidavit having been made to this satisfaction of the court, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdsell, is withdrawn out of this state, or could not upon due enquiry be found within the same to be served with a subpoena issuing out of this honorable court in the above cause: whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Burr, of counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdsell, appear to the said bill, on or before the sixteenth day of October next, and in default thereof, that the complainant’s said bill be taken pro confesso, as to him the said defendant, Benjamin Birdsell, to the end that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises, or such part thereof, as to this court shall appear just and right; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order, within twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in (at least) two of the public newspapers, printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successive-ly. Extract from the minutes. 62, 8w. W. COCK, Register.
Extract from an Act, supplementary to the Act, entitled, “An Act to prevent the Exportation of unmerchantable Flour, and the false Taring of Bread and Flour Casks,” passed the 7th March, 1788.
SECT. 7th. AND be it further, enacted, &c. That the standard weight of wheat brought to the city of New-York for sale, shall be sixty pounds net to the bushel; and in all cases of such sales of wheat in the said city, by the bushel, if the same shall exceed the standard weight, the buyer shall pay a proportionably greater price; and if the same shall be less than the said standard, the buyer shall pay a proportionably less price:—Provided, That this regulation shall not extend to any special contracts respecting the sales of wheat, whatever may be the weight thereof.
SECT. 10th. And be it further enacted, &c. That this act shall be in force from and after the first day of July next, &c.
Chamber of Commerce, July 1st, 1788.
RESOLVED, That the members of this chamber, from a consideration of the advantage which the agricultural, as well as commercial interest of this state may deprive from a strict adherence to the directions contained in the former part of the seventh section of the law above recited, will, in their future purchases of wheat, uniformly abide by the rules therein prescribed, and, as far as their influence extends, endeavour to convince the public of their utility, and to enforce their adoption.
By order of the Corporation of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, 61 WILLIAM LAIGHT, Secretary.
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 Raritan, 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 Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town, New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof (and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-street,
THE PRINCIPLES
OF THE Latin Grammar,
EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners, with rules and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics.
By JAMES HARDIE, A. B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
WE, the PRESIDENT and PROFESSORS of COLUMBIA COLLEGE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, that we have examined a new publication, entitled “The Principles of the Latin Grammar explained, &c.” by JAMES HARDIE, and that we find it an accurate and judicious compilation, well calculated for the instruction of youth in the rudiments of the Latin language; and such as may be useful even to those who have made considerable progress therein. We therefore recommend it to all who are intrusted with the care of education, and particularly to the teachers in the different schools of this state.
W. SAMUEL JOHNSON, President, WILLIAM COCHRAN, Professor of Languages, JOHN DANIEL GROS, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Geography, JOHN KEMP, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam,
And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191 Queen-street, opposite Beckman’s-Ship,
By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY,
A general Assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Callicoes, Ribbons, Lute-strings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store,
Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarinets. tf.
All kinds of
Public & State Certificates
BOUGHT and SOLD, At No. 27, WATER-STREET, And every kind of PAPER MONEY exchanged for SPECIE and re-exchanged: Also on Hand FOR SALE,
A LARGE Sum in Banker’s, Barber’s, and Loan Office Certificates of this State, such as will purchase Lands at the Commissioner’s sale, and pay Quit-Rents—Likewise, Final Settlements of this State; any, or all of which will be exchanged for Common Final Settlements, Loan-Office, or Picking’s Notes, and indents at a small difference.
Wanted to Purchase IMMEDIATELY.
OFFICER’s and Soldier’s Military Bounty Rights of land, both State and Continental—Also, a large Amount in Indents, Final Settlements, and Picking’s Notes, Apply at No. 196, Water-street.
The PROPRIETORS of the
New Line of STAGES,
(Owned by Cumming and Ward, at Powles-Hook, and Michael Dennison, at the George-Inn, Philadelphia.)
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their stages leave Powles-Hook every afternoon at 3 o’clock, except Saturday, and every morning at 7 o’clock; except Saturday and Sunday mornings: the four o’clock stage goes to Philadelphia in a day—the seven o’clock stage to Trenton.
We propose to ask the usual fare of Twenty-Two Shillings and Six-pence to those who choose to pay it, from a conviction that it is lower than can be well afforded.
From those who think Two Dollars a sufficient compensation, we shall cheerfully receive it, and a lower price when necessary.
Way passengers Three-pence per mile, fourteen weight baggage gratis, 150 weight the same as a passenger.
JOHN CUMMING, MATHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON. New-York, August 9, 1788. 61
Line of Eastern Stages.
THE Public are most respectfully informed, That, after great expence and fatigue, the subscriber, and company, have completed the line of STAGES from this city quite through to Bolton. The carriages, which were before heavy and uneasy, are now all hung upon coach-springs, and do not fatigue more than a common coach. The carriage from hence to Fairfield, in particular, is a new, well constructed, easy one, which will render the journey pleasurable, instead of a toil as heretofore.
Having thus completed the line, the subscriber will commence on Monday next, the 21st instant, to run the Stages from NEW-YORK to BOSTON, THREE TIMES A WEEK, and continue it until Nov. 1, from which to May 1 twice a week.
The extraordinary cost which he has been at in completing this great work, which he doubts not will be of no small public utility, as well as private advantage and convenience, he hopes will induce many to patronize him. Any business of consequence that may be wished to be transacted between these two capitals, shall be faithfully executed.
The Stages will start from the General Stage Office, in Cortlandt Street, on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday, of every week, at four o’clock, A. M. and will arrive at said place on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at eight o’clock, P. M. The days and hours of starting and arriving at Hartford and Bolton, are the same as at New-York.
The FARE is three-pence lawful money, or four-pence New-York currency, per mile; fourteen pounds of baggage is allowed gratis; one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage pays the same as a passenger, and in that proportion.
The Public’s humble servant, LEVI PEASE.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavor and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New-Market in Cherry Street.
Starch and Hair-Powder,
MANUFACTURED and SOLD by Isaac & John Stoutenburgh, At the Corner of Greenwich and Dey-Streets, North-River.
[Omitted in our last for want of room.]
MONTEGO-BAY, August 9.
THE crew of a small Spanish Schooner, which arrived here last Wednesday evening, from the coast of Cuba, mention the following circumstances, which certainly relate to the piracy of the shallop belonging to the Duckenfield Hall, Capt. Foster:
A Schooner on her passage from the Havanna to Byam on the 20th ult. saw a vessel at anchor at Santa Cruz—went along side, and found there were three men on board, who were exchanging sugar and rum with the people who lived on shore, for provisions. Upon enquiring whence they came, they said they were Americans:—being desirous to produce their papers they could show none. The mainsail was observed to be very much stained with blood, and the unsatisfactory account the people gave of themselves induced a suspicion in the minds of the Spaniards that they were upon some dishonest scheme; they therefore seized the people, took possession of the vessel, and carried both to Byam, where an inventory of the property has been taken, and the people lodged in gaol. From the circumstance of the mainsail being stained with blood, it may be apprehended, that as there were four men who mutined upon Mr. Foster, one may have been murdered by the three who are now in the prison of Byam.
SPRINGFIELD, September 17. CURIOUS EGG.
Sometime in the course of the last week, a pemature hen’s egg was found by a lad, in a barn belonging to Mr. Zenos Parsons, innholder in this town. It has the appearance of two eggs in union with each other. The parts, each of which is nearly as large as a common egg, are oval, and covered with a flexible tegument. The skin which unites them, is about half an inch in circumference, and a quarter of an inch long—has a passage through the middle of it, which serves for a communication of the whitew to the yolk. The idea of its being a double egg might no doubt be admitted, could more than one yolk be discovered: one of the parts contains the yolk, with a part of the white, which seems to surround it much in the same manner as in common eggs; but there is not the least appearance of a yolk in the other. It is, in fine, a production rarely exhibited by nature—and we fancy is not unworthy a place in the arcanum of our justly celebrated university.
NEW-YORK, September 25.
The justices of the court of Abbeville, South-Carolina, in their July term, viz. Messrs. John Bowie, Charles Goodwin, R. A. Replay, William Shaw, A. C. Jones, R. G. Harper, Patrick Cal-
houn, Andrew Pickens, Robert Anderson, William Balkin, A. Hamilton, and James Lincoln, Esquires—addressed the inhabitants who live on Noletchucky, French Board, and Houilton, in a most pathetic manner, upon the alarmed subject of the late unwarrantable attacks upon the Cherokee Indians.
In this address are enumerated a number of instances of intercepting and murdering, under pretence of authority, the poor Indians, in cool blood, even parties who were under the sacred protection of a flag. This address concludes with the following paragraphs:
“Far be it from us to imagine, that their wanton and inhuman injuries to the peaceable and faithful allies, their unmanly attack upon unarmed and unsuspecting savages, their violations of treaties, infractions of the law of nations and rights of men, and wanton outrages on the feelings of humanity, have been perpetrated by the order, with the approbation, or even knowledge of the whole people whom we now address: you feel no less warmly than we do the indignation and horror which such conduct ought to inspire in generous and noble minds; but all people have bad men among them, therefore it is highly incumbent, that the virtuous and considerate part of the community watch over the actions of the undeserving, to prevent them from involving their country in calamities, to gratify their own base and unworthy passions.
“By a strict search you may find out the persons who come within the above description, and you are bound by every tie of justice and honor, duty and found policy, to restrain such as they are from similar conduct in future: this is what the Indians themselves have done; in lately sentencing to death one of their people who was concerned in killing a white man belonging to this state.
“We therefore, being citizens of the United States with yourselves, anticipate the evil that must necessarily flow from the imprudence of passing unnoticed such misconduct in a few individuals, acting from the meanest and basest motives, and which, as far as is known to us, appears to be totally unprovoked on the part of the Cherokees, and which may tend to defeat the treaty now on foot between the Cherokees and Georgians, under the auspices of Congress; and which, from the just and peaceable disposition of the Indian Chiefs, give us reason to hope for the most happy effects.
“We flatter ourselves this letter will have its due effect, in preventing such orders for the future, as we can assure you on our parts, it proceeds from our sincere affection towards you, and a wish to restore peace and tranquility to all parties.”
On Friday, the 3d of August last, a party of armed men, consisting of 31, under the command of Capt. John Fain, left Houilton station, on Nime-nile Creek, and crossed the river Tenessee, about eight or nine miles distant, in order to gather apples in the vicinity of an Indian town called Citico, lately abandoned by the Cherokees; the Indians suffered them to pass the river unmolested, and, immediately, unperceived, took possession of the ford they had crossed, likewise another at a small distance; by this time some of our people were in the orchard, and some on the trees gathering fruit, when they were suddenly attacked by a body of the savages, on all quarters; this sudden and unexpected alarm threw them into the utmost confusion, so that every man, who did not immediately fall, endeavored to make a retreat; but the savages being in possession of the fording-places, a number took to the river, and whilst endeavoring to escape, by swimming, several were killed and wounded; the latter were pursued, and most of them fell a sacrifice to savage barbarity.
The following is a list of the unfortunate men killed and wounded:
KILLED—John Fain, Captain, Caleb Jones, Joseph Alexander, Va. Piercefield, William Lang, Jonathan Dean, John Brannon, William English, John Medlock, Robert Hutton, George Mathews, Isaac Anderson, Charles Payne, Luther Johnson, Herman Gregg, and George Bury.
WOUNDED—Elisha Haddon, John Kirk, Thomas Brown, and Bullock.
Dean Swift’s idea of an attorney was exactly as follows: “There are three sorts of persons with whom I am resolved never to dispute—an Highwayman with a pistol at my breast, a Dragoon who comes to plunder my house, and an Attorney; in each of these cases, which are much the same, the best method is to keep out of the way, and the next best is to deliver your money, surrender your house, and confests—nothing!”
The number of books that are now printed in all parts of Europe is beyond any former age, and seems to demand such an other fire as was at Alexandria; for all the knowledge that can be given by all the books that ever were printed, may be contained in a very narrow compass. They are written upon pretty much the same plan as we mix brandy and water. An old author is laid hold of, and the great aim of the modern is, to disguise and lower his spirit.
A correspondent cannot but regret the extraordinary delay in bringing forward the new constitution, at the shortest period its operation will not probably be so early as the people would wish, and necessarily to prolong the time is trifling with their feelings!! [Massachusetts Centinel]
On the 11th inst. arrived at Cape Ann, the ship John F. Williams, Esq. in 44 days from Orient. Capt. Williams says, that it was reported, a few days before he left Orient, that the Marquis de la Fayette had incurred the King’s displeasure, in consequence of his adherence to the cause of the parliament, and that the deputies from Bretagne were imprisoned in the Bastille.

MISCELLANY.
HUMANE SOCIETY.
At a Meeting of the Trustees of the Humane Society, held at Boston Sept. 1, 1788.
VOTED, That the Printers of the several newspapers in this state, be requested to publish in their respective papers, the communication made to this Society by the Rev. Dr. Lathrop, respecting the recovery of a lad, from apparent death by drowning.
GENTLEMEN,
PURSUANT to the above vote of the trustees of the Humane Society, you are requested to publish in your respective newspapers, the enclosed communication, and also to inform the public, that said trustees have in the course of the present year, granted rewards to five persons, for their signal exertions in saving that number of their fellow creatures from death by drowning, agreeably to the tenth law of the institution.
S. PARKER, Rec. Sec'y.
To the Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq. L. L. D. President of the Humane Society, in Boston.
SIR, I HAVE the pleasure to communicate to you a successful case, in which I had the satisfaction of observing the return of animation to a young person, who on Saturday last fell out of a boat and was drowned, in about twelve feet of water. A man at some distance saw him fall overboard, but at first thought he dove in, to bathe, as the day was very warm: but observing him to rise and sink two or three times, he apprehended the lad was in danger, and ran to save him; but before he could reach the place, he was sunk to the bottom. Two men dove in after him, but could not recover him. Some time was spent to obtain a boat hook, with which, after several attempts, the body was taken up.
A messenger was immediately sent for the nearest physicians, Dr. Kall, and another was sent for me. Before I arrived, the body had been rolled on a barrel, and shook with the head downward, and I was told considerable water came out of his mouth. I had the body conveyed as soon as possible to a room, at which time the physician who had been sent for, came in: without delay, we took off the wet clothes, and pursued the methods of treatment recommended by the Humane Society, for the recovery of persons apparently dead. After the means had been used about an hour, an indistinct tremour was perceived in the pulse, and the body began to acquire warmth.
The application of stuff and volatiles to the nose produced considerable agitation. In an hour and a quarter, or twenty minutes from the time when we first began to use the means, the lad was sufficiently alive to open his eyes; but the return of animation was attended with distress, and with groans which were heard in the neighbouring houses. Some time after he spoke, but seemed bewildered. Through the remainder of the day and night following, he was in great pain, thirsty and distressed for breath. In the morning the Doctor let him blood; several days afterwards he complained of a soreness in his stomach and bowels, probably owing to his being rolled and pressed hard on a barrel, when taken out of the water; a method of treatment, which it is to be wished may be wholly omitted, in all cases of this kind, as there is danger of destroying the feeble remains of life at that critical moment.*
After the hurry was over, I made more particular enquiry into the circumstances, and found the lad was between twelve and eighteen minutes under water. When taken up, the people who were present declare, there were no appearance of life. When I first saw him, the body was quite cold, the head and limbs were torpid, and hung as those of a person quite dead.
While we were carrying him to a convenient place, in order to pursue the methods recommended for recovery, there was a small groan, not unlike that of one expiring. Words cannot express the anxiety of the father, when he came into the room where we were endeavouring to recover his drowned son, much less can language describe the feelings of the parent, when he beheld the return of life.
I have, Sir, been somewhat particular, as this is the first cause in which I have been a joyful witness of the restoration of one who had, as it were, passed the gate of eternity, and had not the necessary aid been afforded, would, no doubt, before this time, have been silent in the grave. With great respect, I am, Sir, yours, and the Society's most obedient and humble servant, JOHN LATHROP.
Boston, July 27, 1788.
* The practice of rolling a subject on a barrel, and many other methods of producing a violent agitation of the body, have probably been adopted upon a mistaken notion of the admission of large quantities of water into the stomach and lungs. The fact is, that in subjects recovered from apparent death, very little or no water has been found to have entered the lungs; and as to that which is received into the stomach, it is evident that even as much as is sufficient to fill it, can never be dangerous. And therefore every measure of this kind can have no other tendency than to injure the organs and impede the restoration of the circulation.
From the CHRONICLE OF FREEDOM. [Printed at Philadelphia.]
THE case of Colonel Oswald appears to be of so extraordinary a complexion, and of so very alarming a tendency, that although a citizen of a sister state, remote from the influence or danger of illegal adjudications; yet I feel myself interested in the event of it, as I apprehend every man will, who values the life, liberty or property of his fellow subjects. And although the flame of tyranny rages now, only at a distance, it may, notwithstanding, in process of time, extend to the remotest part of the empire, if proper and seasonable checks are not opposed to its rapidity and impetuosity.
I apprehend, with the greatest deference to superior abilities on this subject, that the offence alledged to have been committed by Col. Oswald, will not justify a privation of liberty, upon legal principles; and of course that the authorities adduced to warrant the same, are totally impertinent, irrelevant, and nugatory. To support this position and carry conviction to every unprejudiced breask, it
will be necessary to state the grounds on which I found my opinion, as well as those, by which the adverse party maintain theirs.
The constitution of Pennsylvania declares, "that no man shall be prosecuted for any criminal offence, except by the judgement of his peers, or the law of the land." Agreeable to the directions of the first part of this clause, Col. Oswald should have been tried by a jury of the vicinage, and by the latter disjunctive words thereof, viz. "or the law of the land," the court justify the commitment. Let us now examine the effect and operation of the constitution, in case it could possibly admit of the construction, which the advocates of the court-party attempt to establish. Here then would be a clause in the constitution of the state, the most important to the safety of the subject that ever was framed, which in the most pointed and absolute terms contradicts itself. The first part thereof, providing, that no man shall be found guilty, "but by the verdict of a jury of his country," and the latter part virtually annihilating the same by the words, "or the law of the land." By this construction there would clearly be two concurrent jurisdictions given by the same sentence, the one written in plain, intelligible language, as the magna charta of Americans, the other a discretionary power vested in the court, by whose wisdom and prerogative, they suppose themselves meant to constitute, "the law of the land," having power to over-rule the rights and privileges so emphatically ascertained by the prior words of the constitution. So that if this construction was to have any weight in the scale of either law, or reason, the first part of the clause in the constitution, would appear as plaintiff, and the head of the chief justice, or a majority of the court, in the place of the law of the land, as defendants, competent to explain away, the plain and obvious meaning of the clause, whenever it came in contact with the gratification of their prejudice.
One, or other of these powers, should only exist at the same time, either the preceding part of the clause in the constitution should be lopped off, or the court stumbling-blocks thrown in its way should be pruned of the exuberance of ignorance and prejudice, until such time as the blocks and the constitution were found to be better reconciled to each other; by uniting in the same meaning and opinion for the ease, safety, and happiness of the subjects in general, of this extensive empire.
But again we are informed, that the crime committed by Col. Oswald was a contempt of the court, and as such punishable in a summary way, this doctrine is certainly consistent with the usage of courts in England, but it is incompatible with the genius of the Pennsylvania constitution, which expressly reserves to every party, the trial by jury. It will be necessary to shew, that there is but one way of being guilty of what is called a contempt of the court, by some act of violence or indecent expression, in the presence and hearing of the court, whilst sitting, or by refusing to obey the process of the court; this, and this only, is the offence which constitutes the crime complained of, and it is probably the same with respect to contempt offered to the house of lords and commons of Great Britain; therefore any thing that does not come within the view of the one, or that does not oppose the legal operation of the other, cannot be construed into this sort of offence. The writer recollects hundreds of cases both in the courts of common pleas and Kings bench in England, set down for trial, and have seen the subject thereof in the public prints, stated by the different parties, one of which he will mention as having made much noise, viz. The case of Captain Roach, who killed Captain Ferguson at the Cape of Good Hope, about the year 1774, who was tried for murder in London that year. The same respecting the two Perreurs, Mrs. Rud. Dr. Dodd, and in many other trials, without any opposition from the supposed power of the bench.
It has ever been considered in all free countries as the indispensable duty of the judges to maintain and support the true spirit and meaning of their laws, and to suffer no infraction upon the constitution, or fundamental principles of government; if either of these are attempted to be undermined, it will encourage others to make a breach, until the whole superstructure tumbles to its base. Thus have Greece and Rome alternately prescribed laws to the world, until by avarice, cruelty, and tyranny in the extreme, they lost their power and splendor, whilst neighbouring kingdoms, without the polish of science, or the art of war, ruled and illumined in turn, by the virtue of their people.
What must surrounding nations, and even our own states think of judges who endeavour to lap that inestimable plant they were appointed to nourish and protect? Will it not shew, that the crystal fountain of American justice is become a noxious, stagnant pond? That the guardians of life, liberty and property, are their secret assassins and depredators; and, that national honor and distributive justice, have either pinned away to death, or deigned to be linked with the slaves of the corrupt.
AMERICAN. Charleston, South-Carolina, August 10, 1788.
FRANCE.
Arret du Conseil, dated June 29. His MAJESTY'S ORDINANCE, Declaring the protest and deliberations of Parliaments and Courts, seditious and libellous.
IT having been represented to the king that several writings had been clandestinely published, and that his indulgence had been much abused by no notice having been taken of them. That besides, seditious signatures have been made use of to give them consequence;—
These and other weighty reasons have determined his wisdom to prohibit and suppress them. Those writings under the title of Resolutions, or Protests of different bodies and communities, carry with them an air of disobedience and revolt, contrary to the duty of subjects, and especially of the officers of those bodies, whom the king forbids to hold any further assembly or deliberation, and from whom alone they hold the authority of exercising their professions.
These writings are in their form, illegal; in the effect they are intended to produce, fallacious; their contents are equally reprehensible, and assume a superiority over the royal authority. Some declare the King's acts absurd in their form, despotick in their principles, tyrannical in their effects, destructive of monarchy, and the rights and capitulations of provinces.
It is his Majesty's wish to hold out to the nation its true interest, in the same manner to bring it back to its proper powers.
His goodness has delayed him hitherto from taking notice of those writings, hoping that his subjects would reflect and repent of their errors, and induce his Majesty to forget their past conduct.
His Majesty owes his own authority; he owes it to his faithful subjects; he owes it to the people at large, to prevent for the future such acts, which, made without power, out of the places of the ordinary sitting, against the express command of the King, escape the notice of a formal proceeding to annul them, by the very vice of their formation, since to annul them would be to suppose they had a regular existence; but which, spread abroad as they have been, to mislead the nation from the true intentions of his Majesty, the King being in his council, orders, that the deliberations and protests of his courts, and other assemblies, made since the publication of his law of the 8th of May last, and tending to prevent their execution and effect, are and shall remain suppressed as seditious, treasonable to the royal authority, made without power, and with a design to mislead his people; defends all persons, particularly officers of the courts, or other judges, to assist in future at such assemblies, or make such protests, on pain or forfeiture and loss of estate, commission, civil or military appointment, against all those who shall assist at, or sign them. Defends in like manner, and under the same penalties, all and every officer in the different tribunals throughout the kingdom to pay any regard to such decrees and protests, or the impressions they may have made.
His Majesty declares likewise, that he will take under his special protection, for the present and to come, all those tribunals and others of his subjects, who, submitting to such laws, stand forward to put them in execution, and holds himself to guarantee them, on every occasion, against any feeble and seditious menaces which might alarm their fidelity. Commands in the same manner all officers and commandants of provinces, to pay strict attention to the execution of the present ordinance, which shall be printed and stuck up wherever it shall be found necessary, and notified, by the express order of his Majesty, to all the grand bailiwicks and presidencies throughout the kingdom.
Made at Versailles, the 20th of June, 1788. (Signed.) BARON DE BRETEUIL.
REMONSTRANCE OF BRITTANY.
YOUR majesty will learn, with wonder, what violence, under your name, has been perpetrated against the magistrates of Brittany.
Justice is no more! Her sanctuary is prophaned. From what should be the defence of the state, we dread its oppression; the soldiery your ministers would usurp over us? The civil power is abrogated!
Sire, where is the alarm to lead us, when each political and civil claim is at once endangered? If the state is agitated for its magistrates—if each citizen rises for himself?
Disappointment sharpens sufferings, if not censure. Your Majesty's reign began auspicious under the laws, and each legal administration! A national assembly was promised. Your promise failing, all other objects fail with it! If there is any combination left to lift up France from its abyss, it is not when force is trampling upon justice!
For while the constitution writhes and languishes under its late loss, the hurt, like the violence, is felt in every part. The crown must shake when subjects tremble!
The great principle now clamoured through all France, for each natural immunity and implied political claim, Brittany uplifts a higher tone—for positive rights as immutable as religion, as sacred as an oath.
Sire, turn not away your eyes from the solemn contract with your states, when Brittany was thus by you recognized in their rights: That the administration of justice, unchanged, by their own consent, should never change, and that each edict and declaration should be confirmed by the parliament of the province.
Now, sire, from what ought to be, advert to what is; the edicts come to be registered are without our consent, as our consent would be without our deliberation!
The constitution, therefore, is no more. Instead of a proper parliament national and plenary, your substitute tribunal is at once alien, illegitimate, and incompetent—can neither know the power, nor feel for the liberties of Brittany.
Thus are these commissaries, and the troops with them, hostile to the sacred engagements of your Majesty. All, alas! must be disorder and distrust until the magistrates are restored to the law, and those laws recovered to the nation! A nation, whose entire annals are filled with so many proofs of zeal, fidelity and love! (Signed)
Les Deputes des Etats des Bretagne.
Translation of a letter written by that unfortunate Bramin NUNCOMAR, to RAJAH GOURDASS, his son, the day previous to that on which he suffered the ignominious sentence of Sir ELIJAH IMPEY.
OFFSPRING of virtue, child of connubial love, the sentiments of a son, father, and the feeling of an unhappy parent, greet thee in the evening of a well-spent life—and seek a place near thy heart in the awful approaching moment of ignominious death!
May the beams of the sun never mix with thy expiring breath, and may the crystal brightness of the moon never witness the waking sorrows of thy Zenana in a situation so distressing as that of thy father.
But the will of him who graspeth the fate of innumerable worlds in one idea, whose omnipotence is universal lustre, and whose scale of justice hangs on the pinnacle of boundless equity, must be done. He calls me from this earth; and who is he that can fathom almighty reasons for putting man's innocence to a test so severe as mine.
I sought his presence in a dream—reason was lulled to rest, fancy steered my thoughts. The gates of heaven expanded their azure opening to my view. Sir Elijah Impey and thy father entered. The complaints of an injured man were preferred at the foot of that throne where the evidence of truth is only known by instinct, where falsehood cannot enter. The angel of punishment had uplifted his sword, but the voice of mercy stopped its downward fall. "The respite which thou didst refuse to thy fellow creature shall be granted unto thee; Go back, and repent thee of thy sins, for they are great and manifold." Thus said a voice that resounded through the heavens. Sir Elijah sunk to earth, and I awakened.
"Let the religion of my forefathers, O Gour-dass, therefore direct thee. I am the innocent victim of a faction, who must silence the tongue of incontrovertible truths, to prevent the notoriety of infamous facts, and fane cannot save me from the vengeance they seek. But the High— the Omnipotent, the great God of the East, knows that my accusers are perjured, and that my judge ought to have been more merciful.
"The best of monarchs, the most humane of men, the most merciful of sovereigns, is he whose armies made conquest of our once peaceable plains. To the foot of this throne my petition was denied admittance. Had he seen it, O Gour-dass, thy father would yet live. He has a Zenana of his own, whose blooming beauties, whose ripening charms, and whose immaculate virtues are the admiration of terrestrial worlds. He would naturally think of mine. He would paint to his imagination what the loss of a fond parent must be to a numerous and adoring offspring. The heart of the King would have owned the warm blood of a father; and my family would not have lost him to whom they owed their existence.
"The time draws quickly on when the functions of life must cease, and the pulse no longer breathe a swell to the veins. The heart which now palpitates shall lose its motion; the mind which dictates, lose its mortal tenant; and this now animated body submit to the force of fire, when every sensation is lost to the heart.
"O! Ruler of the Sun and Moon! Strengthen thy servant to bear his approaching fate with firmness; and grant to his enemies that mercy which they denied to him. This is the prayer of thy father, and let his whole Zenana join therein.
"May thy days be long and happy, and may future judges, in the eastern hemisphere, have more to rejoice on, and less to repent of, than him by whose mandate thy father dies.
NUNCOMAR."
From a late LONDON PAPER.
THE BLUE AND BUFF CREED.
WHOSOEVER will belong to the party, it is requisite that he hold the following faith.
There is one great leader of the party, middling in his stature, full in his belly, and round and black in his face; another short in stature, thin in body, and pimpled on his nose and cheeks; and a third tall in stature, sallow in complexion, of bad eyes.
And yet there are not three leaders, but one leader, co-existing by duet bounty, connected by common interest, and with the same object in view.
The first is greater than the second, as to his lungs, and the second is greater than the third, as to his wit, and the third is equal to both in the length of his story.
And yet they are not three great parties, but one great party, obstinate in their pursuits, unforgiving in their tempers, soured by disappointment, and mad with revenge.
The first was minister, would be minister, and will never be content until he is again minister.
The second was secretary, would be secretary, and never will be content until he is again secretary.
The third was paymaster, would be paymaster, and never will be content until he is again paymaster.
And yet they are not minister, secretary or paymaster.
They are three outcasts from office, existing up on political hope, and expecting riches from Eastern Princesses.
The first is in possession of sense and lungs that would blow fire into iron.
The second has wit that would cut through a wall of brass.
And the third is master of words to swell a paragraph of four lines into a volume of argument.
And yet there is neither found sense, true wit, or solid argument among them.
The first is superior to the second in point of belly, and the second is inferior to the third in legs and body; and the third is superior to both in height and head.
And yet one is not superior to the other at the table of his grace: where each is co-equal in eating, and co-eternal in drinking.
This is the party faith as it is credited at the thatched house, broke's, and the king's arms, which, except a candidate believe, he cannot have any benefit thereby.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, July 18.
THE French mail of yesterday does not bring any accounts respecting an opposition to the new laws, and from our private letters we are warranted in adhering to our old opinion, that the whole of the opposition in France will end where it began, in the English newspapers. It was never to be found any where else. The French want spirit, and the English want sense. Both nations are dupes.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 30.
Dauphiny is still in commotion. Some deputies have been sent to the King of Sardinia, begging of his Majesty to guarantee the claims and privileges that province had reserved to itself in acceding by treaty to France. It is said his Sardinian Majesty has written to Lewis XVI. on this subject.
On Monday last her Majesty, accompanied by Madame, the King's daughter, by Madame de Provence, and by Mademoiselle Elizabeth, with their usual retinue, &c. paid a visit to the hospital of invalids, at seven o'clock in the morning. M. de Brienne, Secretary at War, with many officers and members of the war council, attended the Queen, who was received by the Governor of the invalids, and addressed by the Rector in a most pathetic manner.
Her Majesty ironically answered: "It was my most ardent wish to see so interesting an establishment. The affecting manner the King was received in, has very much increased that wish."
All the invalids were ranged in two ranks through which her Majesty walked, as if in procession to the chapel, amidst the acclamations of Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine! (Vivant Rex & Regina).
The emotions her Majesty felt at the sight of so many brave veterans, with the visible marks of valour upon them, can hardly be described; and after having fixed her eyes on the master-pieces of architecture and painting belonging to a dome, so richly adorned by Lewis XIV. "All this is

extremely fine (exclaimed the Queen) but the spectacle I have now before me is more glorious and interesting."
"The Queen graciously condescending to assure the Governor and others of her immediate protection for that excellent foundation, and added, 'Were it possible for me to forget it, my daughter will certainly recall it to my mind.'"
Extract of a letter from France, dated July 23. "It is very remarkable that amidst all the schemes, confusion, resistance, and Lettres de Cachet, the King of France yet retains the unimpaired love of his subjects—every one relies upon his candour and inclination to public welfare—every one laments that he is betrayed by perverse advisers—he is generally thought to be averse to tyranny. Nor is this to be wondered at when we take a retrospective view of his conduct.—When we see a young prince, idolized by this people, uniting to an excellent heart every endowment nature could bestow, stripping himself of the vain show of grandeur and pomp, and sedulously seeking, in the scattered remains of French prosperity, the means of securing to that beautiful country her lost grandeur, by reviving the inexhaustible resources which nature gave her in preference to almost every other part of the world."
American Occurrences.
KINGSTON (Jamaica) July 30.
ON Saturday morning last, about twenty seven minutes after two, the inhabitants of this town were terribly alarmed by a hulk taking fire, which was lying near Greenwich, belonging to government, as a repository for gunpowder, &c. She had on board 900 barrels, and not 2000, as mentioned in some of the other papers. No true account has yet been able to be got how this accident happened, but it is believed was through some neglected fire.
The person who had the charge of the above vessel, as well as two negroes that were likewise on board, got safe ashore. We are also credibly informed, that an affidavit is getting ready, stating the particulars, in order to be sent home in the Daffowood packet, which fails on Saturday next.
The very great explosion which the above occasioned, burst open the windows and doors of most of the houses in this town, and the people in general were in the utmost consternation until half past four, when their fears were appeased by the arrival of a wherry from Greenwich.
The late tremendous explosion was felt in Spanish-Town, and was heard at May Day Hills, in St. Elizabeth's, near sixty miles from the spot.
BOSTON, September 19.
Yesterday the following Culprits received the discipline of the whip, agreeable to their sentences passed by the late supreme judicial court, in this town.
John Robinson, 20 stripes; William Johnson, 40 stripes; Elizabeth Matthews, 24 stripes; Thomas Banagen, 20 stripes, and sat one hour on the gallows; John Harris, 30 stripes; Phillips Jones, 20 stripes; William Nelson, 64 stripes, and one hour on the gallows; Rachael Wail, 15 stripes, and one hour on the gallows; Polly Carter, 29 stripes, and sat one hour on the gallows; Mary Paine, 10 stripes; Catherine Townsend, 12 stripes; George Johnson, Nathaniel Bellon, 20 stripes each, and sat one hour on the gallows; Daniel Darby, 40 stripes; and wife, 30 stripes.
September 22.
Yesterday arrived in this port, a brig in 18 days from Antigua—Also, the Schooner Dispatch, Capt. Knight in 26 days from Aux Cayes.
Capt. Lumbard, who arrived here yesterday in 24 days from Cape-Francois informs, that letters were received there from some merchants in Port-au-Prince, giving an account of a hurricane which happened there the 16th of last month, in which fifty sail of shipping were destroyed, among which were seven American vessels; 360 seamen perished at the same time, and half of the town was destroyed, as was also the whole of St. Marks.
September 23.
The French squadron, we learn, will sail in all this week, for the West-Indies.
A series of mutual and polite attentions from the officers of the French squadron to our citizens, and from our citizens to them, has been received ever since their arrival. Foremost in these attentions has been his excellency the governor, who omitted no opportunity to render the stay of the officers here as agreeable and as happy as possible.
PROVIDENCE, September 19.
In our last we mentioned the sudden and affecting death of the amiable and accomplished Miss Sally Smith, daughter of Mr. Job Smith. On Tuesday evening a discourse, well adapted to the solemn occasion, was delivered at the Baptist meeting-house, by the rev. William Rogers, of Philadelphia, from these words of the Prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah, "Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live." 2d Kings, xx. 1. While the eloquent and persuasive preacher showed the certainty of death, and with great evangelical energy inculcated on young and old the necessity of being in constant preparation for a change so important, a numerous auditory assented to the truths delivered by the most profound attention.
"As smoke, that rises from the kindling fires, Is seen this moment, and the next expires: As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost, So vanishes our state, so pass our days: So life but opens now, and now decays: The cradle and the tomb, alst! so nigh; To live is scarce distinguish'd from to die."
New-York, October 2.
ON Tuesday last the annual inspection of the Brigade of Militia of this city and county, commanded by Brigadier-General MALCOM, took place, when it was reviewed by Major General BARON DE STEUBEN, accompanied by his honor the MAYOR. On this occasion the several corps in uniform did themselves much honor by the expertness of their manœuvres, &c.
After the review, the Baron addressed the commanding officers of the different corps in the following words:
"Permit me gentlemen, to express to you the satisfaction with which I have observed the good order and truly military appearance of the corps under your command.—Whilst the militia of New-York continue to be animated by the patriotic sentiments which have led you to these exertions, they will prove a perpetual nursery of good soldiers and virtuous citizens."
A correspondent expresses his surprize, that no mention has ever been made of the sums collected, for the benevolent purpose of relieving the distressed prisoners now in jail, at the Wall street meeting on Sunday last night. Although in deeds of charity the left hand should not know what the right hand doeth; yet, as it is known the sum was considerable, to publish it in the press would not infringe upon this excellent precept, and would gratify the feelings of many, who are religiously anxious for the comfort and relief of their distressed fellow creatures.
On Tuesday morning came to this city from Fort Schuyler, his Excellency the Governor, and William Floyd, Ezra L'Hommedieu, Richard Varick, and Samuel Jones, Esquires, Commissioners of Indian affairs, after having, at a public treaty at that place, obtained a cession to the state, of all the lands of the Onondago and Oneida nations of Indians.
The deeds of session in our next.
Tuesday the 9th inst. the honorable the legislature of the state of New-Jersey adjourned sine die.
A law has passed the house of assembly of New-Jersey at their last session, empowering commissioners to destroy the principal of all monies paid into the treasury; allowing not less than one fifth of the principal of mortgages to be paid, which is to be destroyed also; that all unappropriated monies received into the treasury, in which the interest is included, to be sunk.
The Light-house at the entrance of New-London harbour is so far repaired, that the lamps are again lit.
In general assembly of Pennsylvania, September 24, the bill entitled, "an act directing the times, places and manner of holding elections for representatives of that state in the federal government of the United States, and of appointing electors on the part of the state for the choice of a president of the United States, agreeably to the federal constitution," was read a third time, debated by paragraphs, ordered to be transcribed, and in the mean time printed for public consideration.
On the 13th ult. Congress proceeded to the election of a third commissioner to form a board, pursuant to the ordinance of the 7th May, 1787, and the ballots being taken, Mr. Abraham Baldwin was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr. Edward.
On the 16th ult. on motion of Mr. Baldwin, seconded by Mr. Williamson, Resolved, that it be, and is hereby recommended, to the several states, to pass proper laws for preventing the transportation of convicted malefactors from foreign countries into the United States.
On Monday came on the annual election for aldermen, for this city; when Peter Elting, John Lawrence, Nicholas Bayard, William W. Gilbert, Benjamin Blagden, Jeremiah Wool, and John Wylley, Esquires, were duly elected.
A Richmond paper, of September 20, says:—On Monday arrived at Hampton Road, the ship Bowmain, captain Butler, from London, after a passage of 43 days. She sailed from Hampton Roads the 27th of May; and has brought London prints to the 24th of July, which mention that the marquis de la Fayette, the Duc de Rohan Chabot, the Comte de Boisselieu, and all the Deputies of the Nobility of Brittany, have been sent to the Bastille.
Nine of the provinces of France have registered the arrests of the Most Christian King, without any opposition—the same arrests which have been so much protested against at Grenoble, &c. &c. and which have occasioned so much disturbance.
THOMAS'S SPY, printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, contains the following:—"A number of dwelling houses, shops, &c. have been broken open, and entered in the night, in different parts of this county, within a fortnight past—and from several of them pieces of plate, and other articles have been carried off. About three o'clock on Thursday morning last, the dwelling house of Mr. Simsbury in this town was entered by breaking the cellar window, by which means the villains had access to the kitchen, which they rummaged, and carried off three silver table spoons and some other articles; the front room being locked, they could not easily enter it by the door, and therefore went outside the house, and were breaking the casement by boring, when they were discovered and hastily run off. From several circumstances, it appears, that there are several of those villains lurking about, who, without doubt, are confederated together in this diabolical business. It would be greatly conducive to the safety of the inhabitants of this county, if an association was formed of two or three men in every town in the county, who, on notice given of a theft, robbery, housebreaking, horsestealing, &c. would immediately pursue the villains who commit the crime until they were overtaken and brought to justice. Such a plan would soon make this kind of gentry very scarce in this county; as it does in some parts of Connecticut where this method is adopted."
The line of robbers, it seems, is extensive. Last Thursday mention was made of robberies and insults in this city; since which a number of houses have been broken and robbed, slight of hand thefts committed, &c. Should some plan be pitched upon, in imitation of that proposed by our Worcester neighbours, perhaps the villains, or a number of them, might be detected, and the sink of common disorder discovered.
By a gentleman from Quebec we are favored with papers from that province to the 31st July, which afford the two following paragraphs only:—
"We are informed, that Dr. Samuel Stearns, formerly of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has constructed astronomical tables, from which he has calculated the geocentric longitude (from the vernal equinox) of the new planet, called, by the British astronomers, Georgium Sidus, and by some others Herschel: this gentleman supposes the place of the aphelion of this planet to be ten signs, twenty-eight degrees, thirty-six minutes, and thirty seconds from the first star of Aries; and its perihelion four signs, twenty-eight degrees, thirty-six minutes, and thirty seconds from the same point; his productions, with his other astronomical
calculations, will be published in various parts of America for the year 1789.—The Doctor has also formed an hypothesis upon the cause of Aurora Borealis; and if he is in the dark, he hopes he shall be enlightened by those who have, or may, make a greater discovery: he supposes that these phenomena are generated by aqueous, nitrous, sulphureous, bitumenous, and other exhalations; from the fumes of various kinds of waters, earths, minerals, vegetables, animals, fires, burning volcanoes, &c. which being rarefied, and charged with a sufficient quantity of the electrical fluid, become lighter than the surrounding atmosphere: hence they ascend, until they are elevated to the upper regions of the air; and being driven by the wind, from the equatorial and temperate, to the polar regions, meet with the cold, combine and stiffen to a proper consistency by reason of their humidity; and being afterwards agitated by different currents of the air, crackle and sparkle like the hairs of cats and other animals when stiffened with the cold; which corruscation (in the temperate and frigid Zones) appears in the horizon, zenith, or elsewhere, according to the position of the spectators and the elevated exhalations. As to the diversities of the colours, he supposes, they arise from the difference of the qualities of the combined particles; as those, that are of the most inflammable nature, shine with the greatest lustre."
Early on Tuesday morning last, his Excellency Lord Dorchester, Governor-General, attended by his suit, set out for Montreal, &c."
The following piece was received last Thursday, after the impression of papers was struck off. The season, and business, to which it more immediately alludes, has elapsed; but, the characters portrayed still existing, by the reiterated request of the author it is this day inserted.
For the New-York Journal, &c.
MR. GREENLEAF. THERE are particular talents which grow out of the different forms of government; intrigue and gallantry are cultivated in a polite court, where women touch the springs of government.—Men in Italy must arrive to the honors of the church by hypocrisy; in England and in America, elocution, and forensic talents, lead to distinction, and have given a lustre to the names of Sheridan and S—ds. Since a democracy of the most pure and vulgar kind, has been established in this country, it has given a spring to mental ambition, and we now hear, with astonishment, the enraptured eloquence of brokers, contractors, and chandlers, who, without the aid of the Belles Lettres , fascinate the public mind with the bewitching graces of eloquence, which the herb women of Athens would have admired.
I felt my mind, the other night, hurried from reflection by floods of eloquence; and it did not immediately recover its meditative powers. The first action of my recovered mind was, to examine the spirit of the reform, and pass censure on it. The reformer, animated by the zeal of virtuous enthusiasm, and encouraged by the buzz of popularity, which generally attends a change of administration, has made the reform too general, and indiscriminate. It proposes to cut up the old magistracy, root and branch, without any regard to those who have done well, and are able and virtuous. If the reform had been more partial, and not so indiscriminate, it would have been more politic. The friends of the worthy magistrate may now combine with the friends of the unworthy, and raise a hue and cry, that there is a Patrician conspiracy of the rich and the well born, to engross the city honors, and exclude the Plebeian interest. Wealth is at all times the object of popular envy, even if handed down by respectable ancestors; but purse proud upstarts are always the objects of popular contempt and indignation. They have, generally, with all the power of wealth, vulgar and uneducated minds; and they treat the poor always with the most insufferable insolence.
It might be objected to a partial reform, that without gentlemen composed the whole corporation no Patrician would serve. The patrician reformer, whose days and nights are vexed with his meditations for his country's good, without any motives of avarice or ambition, should have sacrificed all punctilios of delicacy, the effects of his superior education; and the feelings of family pride the unfortunate excellences of superior birth; and should have for a patrician example of humility , and fixed himself as an assistant to Mr. G—lb—rt. The cruel neglect of this worthy magistrate may blast the patrician views. If any thing gives success to this too radical reform, it will be the circumstance of its being supported by a disinterested patriot, whose political and military career was unblemished with any sordid or avaricious motives. The merchant is spotless, and seems to make any fashionable deductions from his sterling debts. The citizen is rich, and there is no merit superior to that in this city, where there is a miserable famine of genius. The Christian believes and follows the gospel of Christ, and is only puzzled with two texts of divine writ—where the young man was advised to "Leave all and follow the Lord," and where Satan tempted our Saviour upon the mount, by a promise of the location of the whole country; and he said, get thee behind me Satan .
The Well-Ward was represented by a man whose whiggism was early, active, and uniform; and this circumstance (if revolution merit is not obsolete) entitled him to delicate treatment. He possesses a strong unlettered mind, and is now improved by experience in the duties of the magistrate—His religious character is equal to the reformer, and he goes to church with as much punctuality. His profession is not dishonorable, and I dare say, a delicate conscience would prefer his unblemished mediocrity to fraudulent wealth. In this commercial city, wealth gives distinction, and the lowest profession does not disgrace. A rich upholsterer or tobacconist, if a street is to be new paved, will command attention, when an unfortunate gentleman would be neglected.
The substitute may be a man of ability; he is a stranger, and we only know, that the music of his chink, like the pipe of Orpheus, has moved bricks and stones.
There appears some division in the North Ward, and Americans should prefer an American, who is a man of education, and genteel manners.
Before we introduce any of a certain nation in office, I beg the citizens to read the North-Briton, Junius's letters, and the disgraceful reign of George the third.
CRASSUS.
Sept. 25, 1788.
ARRIVED —March, Madeira; Svevia ; Bristol; Post, Lisbon; Trewhiddle , St. Croix; Gready , Cowes; Smith , Sheerness; Holland , Hull; Morris , Turks Island; Orange , Madeira; Tatom , St. Croix; Brown , Rhode-Island; Dickson , London; Hughes , St. Croix; Jones , Halifax.
NEW AUCTION.
A PUBLIC AUCTION and COMMISSION STORE is opened by MARINUS WILLETT, No. 36, Water-street, for the reception of GOODS to be disposed of on commission, at public or private sale. Money advanced, previous to the sale, if required. The excellency of the situation, and his extensive acquaintance with country merchants and traders, induces him to flatter himself, that his sales will be advantageous to those who please to favor him with their commands.
To be disposed of at PRIVATE SALE; 20 Pancheons Antigua Rum, 40 Do. St. Croix do. 20 Do. Barbadoes do. New-York Rum, of the first quality, at all times; New-York, Oct. 1, 1788. 68 3/4
The Subscriber found in
his yard, this morning, some Wearing Apparel; the owner, proving property and paying charges, may have them by applying to
MARTIN SHAW EVANS, No. 80, Fair-Street. N. B. The House No. 80, aforesaid, to be sold. N. York, Oct. 1, 1788. 68 3/4
Lumber Inspector's Office,
No. 145, Water-Street, Where shippers of Lumber will please to apply to MICHAEL CONNOLLY, Inspector. New-York, Oct. 1, 1788. 68 4w.
EVENING SCHOOL.
MR. HARDIE, Teacher of the Greek and Latin Languages, at his house, opposite the North-Church, in Fair-Street, will, upon Monday the 29th inst. begin Evening School, where he will teach the English and Latin Languages, Navigation, Writing and Arithmetic. New-York, September 24, 1788. 67 3w.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office, in the City of New-York, on the twenty fourth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T. The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Jacob Coles, administrator, with the will annexed of Peter Totten, late of North-Castle, in the county of Westchester, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Peter Totten was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, with in this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Peter Totten as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Peter Totten, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Peter Totten, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates at the probate office, in the city of New-York, on the fourteenth day of November next, to shew cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Peter Totten died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 67 4w. PETER OGILVIE.
By Order of the Honorable Paul Michaux, Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Richmond and State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to Richard Christopher, of Nova-Scotia, in the province of New-Brunswick, an absent and non-resident debtor, and to all others whom it may concern, that upon application and due proof made to the said judge (pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786) by John Christopher, a creditor of the said Richard Christopher, he the said judge has directed all the said Richard Christopher's estate, real and personal, within said county to be seized; and that unless he shall discharge his debts within one year after the publication of this notice, all his estate, real, and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated this 10th day of Sept. 1788. 66—
At a Meeting of the Society, for the Relief of Distressed Debtors, held at the House of Mr. John Simmons, the fourth Day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. [On emergency.] JONATHAN LAWRENCE, Esquire, President for the Evening.
THE Committee of Visitation reporting, that from the great Number of Persons relieved, the Funds of the Society were totally exhausted. That there were several distressed Debtors in Prison, who had no other Subsistence; but what was derived from this Body; and that without such Aid, they must want the common Necessaries of Life. And the said Committee further reporting, that it would be necessary for the Society, to procure a quantity of Fire-Wood for the Benefit of the Prisoners the ensuing Winter; and that, were the Means in the Power of the Society, the same might be purchased at present, at a very low Rate: whereupon, on Motion, it is unanimously voted, that the Clergy in this City, be earnestly requested, to preach Charity Sermons in their respective Churches, for promoting the important and benevolent Purposes of the Society. And that Doctor Rogers, Mr. Lunn, Mr. Beach, and Dr. Kunze be a Committee for making the necessary Arrangements to carry the same into Effect.
Published by order of the Society. 65—14. W. COCK, Secretary.

POET'S CORNER.
Extract from "The APOLOGY of KINGS," a Poetical Epistle, written by the King of Prussia to his Private Secretary.
SEVERE the task, and rigid is the school, And harder than all arts, the art to rule: The king, who winds through each detail of state, Who studies to be good, as well as great; Who fills th' incumbent duties of his reign, Can only boast pre-eminence of pain. On either side imposing equal laws, Fixing determined dates to every cause; If justice over discord would prevail, And resolutely fix the wavering scale, Behold a fiend that keeps the world in awe, Chicane, with all her hundred dogs of law; Forth issuing furious from her dark abode, Spurns with contempt the legislative code. But stranger still! even to those who disagree, Receive, dismiss'd the quick decree, And with a fund of long debate supply'd, Judge from caprice the justice of their side.
A N E C D O T E.
THE elevation of sentiment that a struggle for liberty inspires, is conspicuous in the following incident. A Corsican being condemned to die for an atrocious crime, his nephew, with deep concern, addressed Paoli in the following terms:— "Sir, if you pardon my uncle, his relations will give to the state 1000 sequins, besides furnishing fifty soldiers during the siege of Furali. Let him be banished, and he never shall return." Paoli, knowing the virtue of the young man, said to him, "You are acquainted with the circumstance of that case: I will consent to a pardon, if you can say, as an honest man, that it will be just or honorable for Corsica." The young man, hiding his face, burst into tears, saying, "I would not have the honor of our country sold for a thousand sequins."
B O N M O T.
WHEN they were settling the economy of the New Church at Fredericton, it was proposed to have cellars underneath it. A member of the vestry objected to the plan, and being asked his reason, said, "He should not wish to hear the Parson preach over his liquor."
Rising and Setting of the SUN and MOON.     ☉ R. ☽ S. R & S.     Thursday, Oct. 2, 6 13 5 47 7 27   Friday, 3, 6 14 5 46 8 15   Saturday, 4, 6 45 5 45 8 53   Sunday, 5, 6 16 5 44 9 57   Monday, 6, 6 18 5 42 10 53   Tuesday, 7, 6 19 5 41 11 55   Wednesday, 8, 6 20 5 40 Morn.  
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   D. H. M.     Thursday, Oct. 2, 2, 11 37. After.   Friday, 3, 12 27.   Saturday, 4, 1 17.   Sunday, 5, 2 3.   Monday, 6, 3 49.   Tuesday, 7, 3 35.   Wednesday, 8, 4 21.  
Affix of BREAD.
As established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected Superfine Wheat Flower to weigh Two Pound Five Ounces for Six pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three pence.
For the CONVENIENCE of MERCHANTS Just Published, And to be sold at this Printing-Office,
CATALOGUE of those ARTICLES of MERCHANDIZE on which DUTIES were imposed by late acts of the legislature of this state, viz. of April 11, 1787, and March 12, 1788; which duties took place on the 1st inst.
In the arranging of this catalogue neither pains nor expense of time has been spared to render it of great utility to the Merchants, by selecting and properly distinguishing the several rates of impositions—upon GOODS imported in vessels built in the United States since April 11, 1787, and not really and bona fide wholly the property of the citizens—impressed in foreign vessels—and, in American vessels. This work would require labour, and the most intense study and attention of the best merchant, so nicely to distinguish. It is printed upon a large substantial sheet of paper, with the several kinds of duties in distinct columns, in such a manner that they can be readily consulted when passed up in a Counting-house.
As a small number of this kind of work fell, in general, the sale being confined to merchants, 2/6d. each was at first demanded; but, finding no one chose to purchase at that rate, the Printer has (least he should sink his whole labour and expence) fixed the price at One Shilling only.
N. B. A few of the supplements of the act, passed the 12th of March, to be sold at this office. Sept. 11, 1788. 65
Just Published, And to be sold at this Printing-Office, The Heidelbergh Catechism; ALSO, The Mothers Catechism.
HUTCHINS'S MAP, Of the interior Parts of AMERICA, The several GRAND DIVISIONS properly Distinguished by COLOURING, To sell at this OFFICE.
WHEREAS RICHARD BAYLIS, of Goshen, in the county of Orange and late colony of New-York, for securing the payment of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, current money of the state of New-York, with lawful interest for the same according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June, 1771, and executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake, of the city of New-York, did by indentures of lease and release, bearing date respectively the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake: All that certain piece or parcel of LAND, situate, lying and being in Goshen, in the county of Orange, known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at the south east corner of the lands conveyed by Ebenezer Holliw to Josiah Seely, then running north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of Ebenezer Holliw, to a ditch on the south side of said Holliw's meadow, thence south westerly along said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south-easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Jeremiah Coleman to the high way, then along the high way to the place of beginning; containing seven acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be granted, and released; and every part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns for ever—In which said indenture of release is contained a covenant, that in case it should so happen that the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with the interest, or any part thereof should remain due and unpaid on the 28th day of June then next ensuing the date of the said indenture of release then and in such case it should and might be lawful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to any person or persons for such sum or sums of money as might be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to retain and keep in his hands the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, and the interest that might be due thereon, together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made by virtue of the said indenture of mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity of redemption of the premises or any part thereof:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by a certain instrument in writing under his hand and seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe Gale, of the county of Orange and state of New-York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage, and all monies due and to grow due thereon, together with all the right, title, and interest of him the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mortgaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the principal sum, together with a great arrear of interest still remains due and unpaid—These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the said premises, that unless the said one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six pence, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, to be held on the premises, on the said sixth day of November next, at eleven o'clock in forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the directions of a certain act of the legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four. COE GALE.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, humbro lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, leg lines, house lines, 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.
S H R U B, Of the very best Quality, by the Hogthead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-street.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE No. 25, Water-street, The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
Just Published by M. CAREY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-Street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received)
The American Museum, For AUGUST, 1788. CONTAINING Moral Essays.
LETTER on marriage. Ascribed to the rev. John Witherspoon, president of Princeton college, Letter on education. Ascribed to ditto. Atticus, No. I. Strictures on various follies and vices, No. II. Remarks on country fairs, The Visitant, No. I. On the study of human nature, No. II. Remarks on conversation, No. III. Remarks on the fair sex—on female conversation and accomplishments, Observations on defamation. Humour.
The Old Bachelor, Extracts from "a memoir to the American Philosophical Society," The new roof. By the honorable Francis Hopkinson, Esq. Proposals for an exchange of general Burgoyne, Ascribed to his excellency William Livingston, esquire. Anecdotes. Anecdote of Dr. Franklin, of a New-England sea-captain, of general Forbes. Political Speculations.
Requisites for the preservation of good government, Observations on the constitution proposed by the late federal convention, Thoughts on the federal constitution, British state of politics, for May, 1788, Remarks on do. by a French gentleman of distinction at New-York, On British parographical puffs, Thoughts on the imprisonment of colonel Oswald. Public Papers. Circular letter from the convention of the state of New-York, Plan of the Philadelphia dispensary for the medical relief of the poor.
American Oratory. Speech of his excellency — Huntington, Esq. governor of Connecticut, of the honorable Richard Law, Esq. chief-justice of the supreme court of that state, of the honorable Oliver Wolcott, Esq. lieutenant-governor of do. of Mr. Dillaid, in the convention of South-Carolina, of Mr. Tweed, in do. of Mr. G. Livingston, in the convention of New-York, of an American quaker, on slavery. Rural Concerns.
An error pointed out in the culture of maiz, On the culture of potatoes, Observations on cheese-making, Advantages of carrots in fattening oxen, &c. On shearing lambs, Directions for making pot-ash from common ashes, — for making peal-ash from do.
Ratifications of the New Constitution. By the state of New-Jersey, — of Maryland, — of South-Carolina, — of New-Hampshire, — of Virginia, — of New-York. Amendments to the New Constitution. Proposed by the state of South-Carolina, — of New-Hampshire, — of Virginia, — of New-York.
Miscellanies. Comparison between certain French and American customs, Recommendation to establish free schools, Thoughts on the establishment of an economical association, Various anomalies in the English language, Of American recruits, Thoughts on the law prohibiting hogs to prowl the streets of Philadelphia, Biographical anecdotes of the late Anthony Benezet, Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw D. D. Statement of the various periods at which the new constitution has been ratified, Address to the printers of newspapers throughout the United States, Origin of the name of Vermont, Chronological memorandum.
On Spirituous Liquors. Observations on the evil consequences attending the use of spirituous liquors, Caution against rum, Various uses to which might be applied the money saved by declining the consumption of spirituous liquors. Inscriptions.
Inscription for a monument agreed to be erected by Congress, to perpetuate the memory of the assistance given by the king of France to the United States, Inscription of a treatise to general Washington. Papers elucidating the rise and progress of the late revolution. Letter from secretary Conway to lieutenant-governor Fauquier, Secretary Conway's circular letter to the governors in North-America, Votes of the house of representatives of Massachusetts,
Vote and agreement of the inhabitants of Wallingford, Resolutions of the sons of liberty in Wallingford, Agreement of the principal gentlemen of Philadelphia, Agreement of the principal inhabitants of New-York.
Poetry. On Dr. Franklin's shedding a tear, while signing the federal constitution, To the memory of general Lee, On the death of general Montgomery, A fair bargain, The Massachusetts convention, Hymn on the late peace, Malonic hymn, The fabric of freedom, Address to Britain and America, Union, our only hope, Song in praise of general Washington, The comforts of religion, An address, delivered by Mr. Hallam, Lampoon, by W. M. Smith, Esq. Monumental inscription, Res parva concordia crescent, A song in praise of human learning.
This Day is published, and to be Sold, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, the Corner of King & Queen-street, The Miscellaneous Works OF
PHILIP FRENEAU, Containing his Essays and additional Poems. THIS second volume of our American Author, is replete with the highest sentimental entertainment. Humour, wit, and satire, flow in copious trains.—It requires only to be read to be admired. Such gentlemen, in this city and state, as honored this vol. with their subscriptions, will be pleased to send for it as soon as convenient.
THE MESSIAH, Attempted from the GERMAN of Mr. KLOPSTOCK. To those who are acquainted with the merits of this work, little need be said to recommend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all; with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detestation and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a humble obedience to the King of Kings.
This piece of religious and moral painting has obtained Mr. Klopstock the honor of being esteemed the Milton of Germany, and is considered as having completed what that favorite son of the British muse had left unfinished.—The beauties of the Messiah equal Paradise Lost:—Paradise Regained, though far from being destitute of merit, is universally allowed to fall much below this work, and is acknowledged to be deficient in that unbounded invention, that beautiful machinery, and variety of characters, which distinguish the vigorous efforts of Mr. Klopstock's genius. The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan, and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
S E R M O N S. By the celebrated RICHARD PRICE, D. D. L. L. D. F. R. S.
The Triumphs of Temper; A Poem in six Cantos. By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughter. Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion, heridian's Rhetorical Grammar. The Charms of Melody.—A new Song Book. Tarver's Travels through the interior Parts of America. Economy of Human Life. Webster's American selection of Lessons, in reading and speaking. Webster's Institute, first and second Part. Pike's excellent system of Arithmetic. A few ets of Newton on the Prophesies. Edwards on the Affections. Do. History of Redemption, &c. &c.
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