The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-04-05 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 81, of VOL. XLII.]
S A T U R D A Y, April 5, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2261.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D 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 so to those who nobly conceived—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 favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half: after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that 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, variegated and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce; manufactures and agriculture; exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature; colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History.  N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spottwood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spottwood 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 gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Aullin, 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.
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)
THE American Museum, For FEBRUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Rural Concerns.
MEMOIR on the distillation of perismons, by Mr. Isaac Barram, Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp: communicated in the American philosophical society, by Edmund Ansell, Laws of Pennsylvania society for promoting agriculture, Premiums proposed by said society. Moral essays.
On contentment, On confidence, On the importance of a good character considered only with respect to interest, On the folly of being anxiously curious to enquire what is said of us in our absence, On the pleasures of reflection. Characters. Character of an old maid, of a pedantic school-master. Humour.
Consolation for the old bachelor, Lecture upon eyes, Lecture upon noses, Instructions for fine ladies, Instructions for fine gentlemen, Speech of a standing member, by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq. Natural History. Description of the white mountains of New-Hampshire, Description of the grotto at Swatara, by the rev. Peter Miller. Miscellaneous.
Letter concerning chimneys; containing some directions to prevent them from smoking, by Dr. Rulston. Petition of the people called Quakers, of New-England, Ethelgar, a Saxon poem; Account of the order of procession in Boston, solemnization of the ratification of the new constitution, Report of the managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures, Directions on this reading of history. Politics.
Oration on the anniversary of American independence. By the hon. chancellor Livingston, Letter from the hon. Robert Yates, and John Lansing, Esqrs. to his excellency Gov. Clinton, stating their reasons for not subscribing to the new constitution. Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the state of Massachusetts, Form of do. by Georgia, A view of the principles, operation, and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania. Natural Philosophy.
Conjectures concerning wind and water-spouts tornadoes, and hurricanes, by Dr. John Perkins of Boston, Observations on the growth of trees downwards. Poetry. The sea-faring bachelor, by Mr. Philip Freneau, The seasons moralized, by do. The Brandywine, The grey mare the better horse, Evil company, The dying Indian, by Mr. Philip Freneau, Answer to a riddle, To a man of lively, but unequal spirits in conversation.
The printer returns his most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of New-York, for the liberal encouragement and patronage with which they have honored this publication. Every exertion shall be made to merit a continuance of their favor. ** The delay of the present number, has been wholly occasioned by the negligence of the stage driver at Newark.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and 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 grown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeeded admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of 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. 99 e.d.
To be SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE pleasant and valuable FARM whereon the subscriber now lives, about three miles from Flushing town, on the public road leading to the plains, containing about 200 acres of cleared and wood Land, and 16 acres of good salt Meadow. On said Farm is a good Dwelling House and Barn, two good Barracks, corn Crib, a Court Yard and Garden in neat pale fence, with a good bearing orchard and other improvements, is remarkably well watered, and within a few rods of a grist mill. If not sold by the 21st day of April next, it will on that day be sold at Public Vendue. The conditions may be known by applying to the subscriber on the premises. LAMBERT MOORE. March 21, 1788. 48-c. d. t. 21 a.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 199 Water-street, opposite the Coffee-House, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants Natural, and Substitutes ARTIFICIAL TEETH; And attends abroad upon sending directions.

[Concluded from Yesterday's paper.]
IT is presumed the great body of the people unite in sentiment with the writer of these observations, who most devoutly prays, that public credit may rear her declining head, and remunerative justice pervade the land; nor is there a doubt, if a free government is continued, that time and industry will enable both the public and private debtor to liquidate their arrearages in the most equitable manner. They wish to see the Confederated States bound together by the most indissoluble union, but without renouncing their several sovereignties and independence, and becoming tributaries to a consolidated fabric of aristocratic tyranny. They wish to see government established, and peaceably holding the reins with honour, energy, and dignity; but they wish for no federal city, whose "cloud-capt towers" may screen the state culprit from the hand of justice; while its exclusive jurisdiction may protect the riot of armies encamped within its limits. They deprecate discord and civil convulsions, but they are not yet generally prepared, with the ungrateful Israelites, to ask a King, nor are their spirits sufficiently broken to yield the best of their olive grounds to his servants, and to see their sons appointed to run before his chariots. It has been observed, by a zealous advocate for the new system, that most governments are the result of fraud or violence, and this with a view to recommend its acceptance; but has not almost every step towards its fabrication been fraudulent in the extreme? Did not the prohibition, strictly enjoined by the general Convention, that no member should make any communication to his constituents, or to gentlemen of consideration and abilities in the other States, bear evident marks of fraudulent designs? This circumstance is regretted in strong terms by Mr. Martin, a member from Maryland, who acknowledges "he had no idea that all the wisdom, integrity, and virtue of the States was contained in that Convention, and that he wished to have corresponded with gentlemen of eminent political character abroad, and give their sentiments due weight." He adds, "so extremely solicitous were they, that their proceedings should not transpire, that the members were prohibited from taking copies of their resolutions, or extracts from the journals, without express permission, by vote." And the hurry with which it has been urged to the acceptance of the people, without giving time, by adjournments, for better information and more unanimity, has a deceptive appearance; and if finally driven to resistance, as the only alternative between that and servitude, till in the confusion of discord, the reins should be seized by the violence of some enterprising genius, that may sweep down the last barrier of liberty, it must be added to the score of criminality with which the fraudulent usurpation at Philadelphia may be chargeable. Heaven avert such a tremendous scene! and let us still hope a more happy termination of the present ferment:—may the people be calm, and wait a legal redress; may the mad transport of some of our infatuated capitals subside; and every influential character through the States, make the most prudent exertions for a new general Convention, who may vest adequate powers in Congress for all national purposes, without annihilating the individual governments, and drawing blood from every pore by taxes, impositions, and illegal restrictions. This step might again re-establish the Union, restore tranquility to the ruffled mind of the inhabitants, and save America from distresses dreadful even in contemplation. "The great art of governing is to lay aside all prejudices and attachments to particular opinions, classes, or individual characters; to consult the spirit of the people; to give way to it; and, in so doing, to give it a turn capable of inspiring those sentiments which may induce them to relish a change which an alteration of circumstances may hereafter make necessary." The education of the advocates for monarchy should have taught them, and their memory should have suggested, that "monarchy is a species of government fit only for a people too much corrupted by luxury, avarice, and a passion for pleasure, to have any love for their country, and whose vices the fear of punishment alone is able to restrain; but by no means calculated for a nation that is poor, and at the same time tenacious of their liberty—animated with a disgust of tyranny—and inspired with the generous feelings of patriotism and liberty, and at the same time, like the ancient Spartans, have been hardened by temperance and manly exertions, and equally despising the fatigues of the field, and the fear of enemies;"—and while they change their ground they should recollect, that Aristocracy is still a more formidable foe to public virtue, and the prosperity of a nation—that under such a government her patriots become mercenaries—her soldiers cowards, and the people slaves. Though several State Conventions have assented to, and ratified, yet the voice of the people appears at present strong against the adoption of the Constitution. By the chicanery, intrigue, and false colouring of those who plume themselves more on their education and abilities, than their political, patriotic, or private virtues—by the imbecility of some, and the duplicity of others, a majority of the Convention of Massachusetts have been flattered with the ideas of amendments when it will be too late to complain—While several very worthy characters, too timid for their situation, magnified the hopeless alternative between the dissolution of the bands of all government, and receiving the proffered system in toto, after long endeavouring to reconcile it to their consciences, swallowed the indigestible pacea, and, in a kind of sudden desperation, lent their signature to the dereliction of the honourable station they held in the Union, and have broken over the solemn compact by which they were bound to support their own excellent constitution, till the period of revision. Yet Virginia, equally large and respectable, and who have done honour to themselves by their vigorous exertions from the first dawn of independence, have not yet acted upon the question; they have wisely taken time to consider, before they introduce innovations of a most dangerous nature. Her inhabitants are brave, her burghers are free, and they have a Governor who dares to think for himself, and to speak his opinion (without first pouring libations on the altar of popularity) though it should militate with some of the most accomplished and illustrious characters.
Maryland, who has no local interest to lead her to adopt, will doubtless reject the system. I hope the same characters still live, and that the same spirit which dictated to them a wise and cautious care against sudden revolutions in government, and made them the last State that acceded to the independence of America, will lead them to support what they so deliberately claimed. Georgia, apprehensive of a war with the Savages, has acceded, in order to insure protection. Pennsylvania has struggled through much in the same manner as the Massachusetts, against the manly feelings and masterly reasonings of a very respectable part of the Convention: They have adopted the system, and seen some of its authors burnt in effigy—their towns thrown into riot and confusion, and the minds of the people agitated by apprehension and discord.
New-Jersey and Delaware have united in the measure from the locality of their situation, and the selfish motives which too generally govern mankind. The Federal City and the seat of government will naturally attract the intercourse of strangers, the youth of enterprise, and the wealth of the nation to the central States.
Connecticut has pushed it through with the precipitation of her neighbour, with few dissentient voices; but more from irritation and resentment to a sister State, perhaps partiality to herself in her commercial regulations, than from a comprehensive view of the system as a regard to the welfare of all. But New-York has motives that will undoubtedly lead her to a rejection, without being afraid to appeal to the understanding of mankind to justify the grounds of their refusal to adopt a Constitution, that even the framers dare not risk to the hazard of revision, amendment, or reconsideration, lest the whole superstructure should be demolished by more skilful and discreet architects. I know not what part the Carolinas will take; but I hope their determinations will comport with the dignity and freedom of this country; their decisions will have great weight in the scale. But equally important are the small States of New-Hampshire and Rhode-Island:—New-York, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and these two lesser States, may yet support the liberties of the continent. If they refuse a ratification, or postpone their proceedings till the spirits of the community have time to cool, there is little doubt but the wise measures of another Federal Convention will be adopted, when the members would have the advantage of viewing at large, through the medium of truth, the objections that have been made from various quarters; such a measure might be attended with the most salutary effects, and prevent the dread consequences of civil feuds. But even if some of those large states should hastily accede, yet we have frequently seen, in the story of revolution, relief spring from a quarter least expected.
Though the virtues of a Cato could not save Rome, nor the abilities of a Padilla defend the citizens of Castile from falling under the yoke of Charles, yet a Tell once suddenly rose from a little obscure city, and boldly rescued the liberties of his country. Every age has its Brutus and its Decii, as well as its Cæsars and Sejani. The happiness of mankind depends much on the modes of government and the virtues of the governors; and America may yet produce characters who have genius and capacity sufficient to form the manners and correct the morals of the people, and virtue enough to lead their country to freedom. Since her dismemberment from the British empire, America has, in many instances, resembled the conduct of a childless, vigorous, luxurious youth, prematurely emancipated from the authority of a parent, but without the experience necessary to direct him to act with dignity or discretion. Thus we have seen her break the shackles of foreign dominion, and all the blessings of peace restored on the most honourable terms. She acquired the liberty of framing her own laws, choosing her own magistrates, and adopting manners and modes of government the most favourable to the freedom and happiness of society. But how little have we availed ourselves of these superior advantages: The glorious fabric of liberty, successfully reared with so much labour and assiduity, totters to the foundation, and may be blown away, as the bubble of fancy, by the rude breath of military combinations, and the politicians of yesterday.
It is true this country lately armed in opposition to regal despotism—impoverished by the expences of a long war, and unable immediately to fulfil their public or private engagements, have appeared in some instances with a boldness of spirit that seemed to set at defiance all authority, government, or order, on the one hand, while on the other, there has been not only a secret wish, but an open avowal of the necessity of drawing the reins of government much too taught, not only for republicanism, but for a wise and limited monarchy. But the character of this people is not averse to a degree of subordination: the truth of this appears from the easy restoration of tranquility, after a dangerous insurrection in one of the states; this also evinces the little necessity of a complete revolution of government throughout the Union. But it is a republican principle, that the majority should rule; and if a spirit of moderation could be cultivated on both sides, till the voice of the people at large could be fairly heard, it should be held sacred: And if, on such a scrutiny, the proposed constitution should appear repugnant to their character and wishes—if they, in the language of a late elegant pen, should acknowledge that "no confusion, in my mind, is more terrible to them, than the stern disciplinarian regularity and vaunted police of arbitrary governments, where every heart is depraved by fear, where mankind dare not assume their natural characters, where the free spirit must crouch to the slave in office, where genius must repress her effusions, or, like the Egyptian worshippers, offer them in sacrifice to the calves in power, and where the human mind, always in shackles, shrinks from every generous effort." Who would then have the effrontery to say, it ought not to be thrown out with indignation, however some respectable names have appeared to support it. But if after all, on a dispassionate and fair discussion, the people generally give their voice for a voluntary dereliction of their privileges, let every individual, who chooses the active scenes of life, strive to support the peace and unanimity of his country, though every other blessing may expire; and while the statesman is plodding for power, and the courtier practising the arts of dissimulation without check; while the rapacious are growing rich by oppression, and fortune throwing her gifts into the lap of fools, let the sublimer characters, the
philosophic lovers of freedom, who have wept over her exit, retire to the calm shades of contemplation; there they may look down with pity on the inconsistency of human nature, the revolutions of states, the rise of kingdoms, and the fall of empires.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Of the State of New-York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, March 5, 1788.
ONE gentleman had supposed that the narrows was a proper place to erect fortifications; he believed that all military men would declare, that no fortifications that could be erected there, would have any command of the river, and that there was no place so proper as the grounds in question. Every object of fortification should, be considered as a general charge on the whole, and it was the duty of the state to provide for the defence of the whole. When on a late occasion, the state was in danger, he asked if the county of Orange alone was called on to build the forts on the river? Were they not a general charge? It was a part of the social duty that every member should be protected, and every member owed his services to ensure the protection. He had been out of the house during the greater part of this debate; he could not therefore take up all the arguments that had been offered. One further observation he would make, that it would be better for the state to preserve these lands for the purpose for which they had been heretofore preserved and were so well calculated, than by a sale to involve itself in disputes, and deprive one part of the community of those rights which they were entitled to, by one of the first principles of government.
Mr. Schoonmaker said, that by the arguments of the gentlemen, it seemed as if the ground of disputation was considerably changed. It was now, whether the state has any authority there or not? If he understood the bounds of the corporation, they were only from high to low water mark. It appeared to him necessary that these bounds should be ascertained; if the lands there are of no value, and difficult to be come at, then the state had better have nothing to do with them; if otherwise, they ought to be sold, as the money was wanted. The observations with respect to these grounds having been reserved for fortifications, had not much weight with him, for they were not situated for defence. He thought it would be most expedient to have an enquiry made, and to know what lands belong to the state. Respecting the amazing expences of law suits, he did not know that the corporation of New-York was more able to support them than the state, or would be so willing to go into them. They would have equal considerations of prudence; the legislature ought not to be frightened about these things.
On motion the committee then rose without coming to any decision, and asked for leave to sit again.
Thursday, March 6.
Col. Thomas, of Westchester, attending in the house, was qualified and admitted to his seat.
The bill for compelling the payment of the taxes heretofore laid for building a gaol and court house in Dutchess county, was read a third time and passed the house.
Mr. Brooks moved for leave and brought in a bill to prevent frauds by bills of sale in the counties therein mentioned; which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
A message was received from the senate, agreeing to the amendments of the house to the bill for removing Pitt's statue.
The bill to establish the salary of the chancellor and judges, was read a second time and committed.
Went into committee on the bill to prevent frauds by sales of land purchased from the Indians without the authority of this state.
Mr. Lewis in the chair.
After some time spent thereon, the committee rose and reported their progress.
Went into a committee on the king's county road bill.
Mr. Winn in the chair.
Mr. Doughty moved to have the bill rejected. He was opposed by Mr. Sands and Mr. Jones, who proposed that the decision of the bill should be postponed until the next session, and in the mean time, that the petition and the said bill, should be published for the consideration of the inhabitants of King's county.
Mr. Doughty persisting in his motion, for rejecting the bill.
A division was called for.
Affirmative.—Messrs. Carman, Doughty, Wyckoff, Baker, De Witt, Gilbert, Webster, Savage, Schoonmaker, Hedges, Low, Wisner, Clinton, Drake, Clarke, Lockwood, Veeder, Thomas. 18.
Negative. Messrs. Jones, Dongan, Winant, Taulman, Nevin, J. Smith, Sylvester, Patterson, Strang, Speaker, Van Orden, Frey, Arent, Powers, Bruyn, Bloom, Benson, Osborn, Sands, Sickles, Verplanck, Younglove, Brooks, Thomson, Lewis, N. Smith. 26.
The following resolution, was then agreed to.
That it is the opinion of the committee, that the bill be postponed until the next meeting of the legislature; and that the said bill, and the petition of Jacob Sharpe and others, inhabitants of King's county, praying that 200l. be raised by tax in said county, for the purpose of mending the roads mentioned in the said petition; and the report of the committee to whom the said petition was referred—be published in one of the newspapers printed in the city of New-York, to the end that the inhabitants of the said county of King's may have notice thereof.
The committee then rose, and reported accordingly; when the house agreed to the same.
Mr. Winn moved for leave and brought in a bill, to enable the commissioners of forfeitures, together with Goldbrow Banyar, and the representatives of Peter Remsen, deceased, to make valid certain conveyances; which was read a first time, and ordered a second reading.
[To be continue.]

American Occurrences.
KINGSTON (Jamaica) Feb. 23. RECENT accounts from Frederick-town, New-Brunswick, speak of the rising prosperity of that infant colony. By the assistance of government, and the unremitted industry of the settlers, such a change has been produced since 1784 on the face of the country, which before was wild and uninhabited, as gives the fairest prospect of the future importance of that settlement. It is to be observed however, that the people labour extremely hard, and none more so than the officers of the provincial corps, who in general understand something of farming. Frederick-town is situated 90 miles inland, on the river St. John, which falls into the Bay of Fundy, near the 45th degree of north latitude.
March 1. We are informed, as a fact, that a solution of gum guaiacum has lately been administered, with wonderful effect, in that desperate malady the leprosy of Coco Bay. A negro woman, the property of a lady in Liguanea, who had, for upwards of ten years, laboured under that dreadful disorder, the effects of which had been so violent as to deprive her of all her toes, was, by taking the solution for three months only, perfectly cured, and now actually undergoes the labour of a plantation, in common with the rest of the negroes.
The master of the packet informs, that during his stay at St. Kitts, there was a great mortality with a putrid sore throat prevailing at that place.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the Trooper, Captain Browne, dated Cork, January 10.
"After a long and dangerous passage of 14 weeks, we arrived here, having encountered several severe and heavy gales, one of which continued six days: we shipped a sea, that carried away all our quarter boards, seven bags of cotton, and every thing on the vessel's decks but the boat; we were then obliged to throw overboard, 50 bags of cotton, 25 jars of balsam, 3 casks of piemanto, several tons of Nicaragua wood, and a large table, all our spare masts, the caboose, and in short every thing we could get at, as every moment expected the ship would sink. The axes were kept three days on deck, expecting we should be under the necessity of cutting away the masts. We reached here in great distress, having been a long time on allowance of a point of water per day, and three pounds of bread a week, with an ounce of meat. Coming into this port, we had not more than three gallons of water, and 3 pounds of bread on board: the water being part of what we obtained from a brig that had also suffered in the same gale, and spared us 25 gallons and some salt fish: without which, we should have inevitably starved, having nothing but sugar on board. A brig that sailed from Jamaica, the same day we did, is arrived at Kinsale, which lost 4 men, through hunger, and five others are since dead, the Captain only remaining. We fell in with two ships under jury-masts, and several wrecks."
HALIFAX, March 11.
Last Friday the long expected mail arrived from Canada, with dispatches from his Excellency Lord Dorchester: the mail was closed on Saturday morning, and the Packet sailed about two o'clock.
New-York, April 5.
YESTERDAY arrived the sloop Sally, Lacey, Shelburne; schooner Edward, Smith, ditto; brig Resolution, Poff, Madeira, in 71 days; sloop Ares, Rawson, Nantucket.
The ship Jersey, Capt. Pierce, was safe arrived in Lisbon, after a passage of 35 days.
By the Schooner Sally, captain Bidder, who arrived here yesterday from Halifax, we are favored with papers to the 11th of March, which, however, contain nothing of consequence.
We learn from Halifax, that there is very little business transacted there—that people in general are poor, and distressed, and that they could not live in the city were it not for the navy and army, in which is centered all the brilliancy of Nova-Scotia. The true Britains, and the cowardly Refugees from the States, are at variance as usual—a kind of variance that is naturally suggested on contrasting the two characters.—Upon the same principles the old settlers hold forth this necessary distinction, detecting, and holding in the utmost contempt, the conduct of those traitors to their country who have newly settled among them.—It was from this source issued the late rancorous disputes in the election of the members for Halifax.
The Schooner Eagle, captain Jackways, who sailed from this port some time since, had not arrived at Halifax on the 13th of March.
On Monday, the 24th of March, departed this life, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, the reverend THOMAS JONES, in the 87th year of his age. The Thursday following his remains were interred in the Baptist burial ground at Tredyffrin,
attended by a large and respectable course of people, on which occasion a pathetic discourse was delivered from Matthew 24. 44. by the reverend JOHN BOOGS, of New-Castle county. This truly venerable man and father in the Gospel ministry, having discharged with fidelity and reputation the several duties both of private and public life through such a long series of years, and sustaining with christian patience and becoming resignation the affliction of a very tedious illness, finally rested from his labours, in confident assurance of a blissful immortality, discovering to the last that he partook of those divine consolations, which are but seldom experienced to such an high degree, even by those who sleep in Jesus.—"Do we demand a test,
A test at once, infallible, and short, Of real Greatness? that man greatly lives, Who, When he dies, with joy boeathes out his soul to God."
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. To the GENERAL of the MILITIA.
THE militia is on the decline, and will be soon contemptible, if the multitudes are not collected with decision and energy. Delinquents are ingenious in framing excuses to avoid the dult of the parade, and the paltry fines.
A gentleman, with athletic points of body, but with a womanish loftiness of soul, did not blush to excuse himself, by saying, that his wife was breeding! I am acquainted with the theory of generation, and cannot conceive the excuse sufficient only on the last stage of travail. I with a board of officers was called at Heyers, and that some of the most eminent men midwives were consulted to determine what stage of gestation the excuse should be allowed. GAMBADO.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. MR. GREENLEAF.
THE following List of Candidates is proposed to the Electors of this city for the Convention. viz.
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Rob. R. Livingston, Isaac Roosevelt, Richard Morris, Richard Harrison, John Sloos Hobart, Nicholas Low, James Duane.
And the following for Members of Assembly,
Nicholas Low, Nicholas Hoffman, Gualian Verplank, Isaac Gouverneur, Comfort Sands, Alexander McComb, Brock Livingston, William Gilbert, John Walls.
SENATORS.
Isaac Roosevelt, Paul Micheau, Ezra L'Hommedieu.
"Come Panegyric to our sires and swains, Reveal our future bliss in flowing brains; And tell each simple rough laborious fool, The well Born and the rich alone shall rule."
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. MR. GREENLEAF.
Please to publish in your paper the following list of CANDIDATES for CONVENTION, and members of ASSEMBLY, and oblige a number of your CUSTOMERS.
Assemblymen. Convention. Gualian Verplank, John Jay, Alexander McComb, Robert R. Livingston, David Brooks, James Duane, Wm. Maxwell, John Sloos Hobart, Comfort Sands, John Laurence, Samuel Kerr, Daniel McCormick, Isaac Stoutenburgh, Alexander Hamilton, William Dennning, Morgan Lewis, Marinus Willett, William Constable.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. MR. GREENLEAF.
THE following gentlemen are recommended to the citizens of New-York, for members of Convention and of Assembly, by A CITIZEN.
FOR ASSEMBLY.
Isaac Stoutenburgh, White Matlack, David Brooks, Henry Rutgers, Marinus Willett, Morgan Lewis, Melancton Smith, William Malcolm, William Maxwell.
FOR CONVENTION.
Governor Clinton, Robert Troup, John Jay, John Laurence, John Sloos Hobart, Marinus Willett, Isaac Stoutenburgh, Morgan Lewis, Gabriel W. Ludlow.
For SENATORS.
David Gelfon, Ezra L'Hommedieu, Stephen Ward.
Arrived at Halifax March 4, brig Chester, Bell, Lunenburg; schooner Sydney, Wilson, Boston; sloop Nancy, Cuthbertson, Jamaica.
Cleared, brig Fame, Wilson, Virginia. Arrived at Halifax March 11, sloop Sally, Lacey, Shelburne.
Cleared, Schooner Nancy, Hiltz, Boston, Polly, Coleman, Whaling, Swallow, Harnish, Boston, sloop Sally, Bydder, New-York.
WANTS EMPLOY,
A PERSON who can be well recommended, as a STORE or SHOP-KEEPER, either of English or West-India Goods—Enquire of the PRINTER.
N. B. Whether the Store or Shop be in this or any other City, or in the Country, there would be no objection.
New-York, April 4, 1788. 61—e.d.
To be SOLD Cheap, At PRIVATE SALE,
A FARM,
THE place which WILLIAM PROVOST formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a stone DWELLING-HOUSE, two story high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry Cellar and a Dwelling-Room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large Kitchen adjoining: Also, a Poultry-House and a new Barn; in the rear of the Dwelling-House is a beautiful Green, ornamented with Fruit-Trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial Dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extraordinary Spring and well at the dwelling house, from which the meadow may be watered: There is also a Garden with a variety of the best Fruit-Trees: On the lot on the opposite side on the road stands a commodious Store, commanding the trade of the back country; also a young Orchard of good Fruit-Trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are Wood-Land; the Land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the Land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a Country Seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different Lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser: For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS, in Maiden-Lane, No 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same.
The conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person who to view the place, apply to D. LEFFERTS, he will send a Person with him. New-York, April 1, 1788. 58—t. th. & I.
CITY TAVERN.
THE Subscriber having taken the CITY TAVERN in Broad-Way, for the ensuing year, proposes accomodating it as well for the reception of the various societies and clubs that may be formed in this city, as private companies and gentlemen. His long attention to that business, and the general approbation he has met with in that branch, he flatters himself will recommend him to their custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged. As it will be some time in May before he can be prepared, public notice will be given previous thereto.
EDWARD BARDIN,
New-York, March 31, 1788. 56—e.o.d. Mr.
N. B. Spacious Stables for about thirty Horses to be let—Enquire of
Mr. GEORGE STANTON, John-street.
NOTICE is hereby given
to all persons indebted to the estate of the late Mr. JOHN HOLT, deceased, of this city, Printer, to make payment of the same to James M. Hughes, Esq. attorney at law in the said city, on or before the first day of May next; otherwise the demands and accounts of that estate against them will be put in suit:—And all persons who have any demands against that estate, are requested to leave them in the hands of the same gentleman for adjustment.
E. OSWALD,
Surviving Administrator.
New-York, March 27, 1788. 58 2w.e.o.d.
NOTICE is hereby given
to all persons indebted to the estate of the late Mrs. ELIZABETH HOLT, of this city, deceased, to make payment of the same to James M. Hughes, Esq. attorney at law, in the said city, on or before the first day of May next; otherwise the demands and accounts of that estate against them will be put in suit:—And all persons who have any demands against that estate, are requested to leave them in the hands of the same gentleman for adjustment.
E. OSWALD,
Administrator, with the annexed Will. New-York, March 27, 1788. 58 2w.e.o.d.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourie, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Enquire at No. 20, Queen-street.
JACOB REED, jun.
Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and SPECIE;
And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law.—All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction.
MELANCTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER.
THEATRE.
By the Old AMERICAN COMPANY. Mrs. Henry's Night.
On MONDAY Evening, the 7th of April,
Will be presented,
A COMEDY,
called
More Ways than One.
To which will be added, A serious PASTORAL in TWO ACTS, (Never performed) adapted to the Stage, by a CITIZEN of the UNITED STATES, CALLED
The CONVENTION,
OR
The Columbian Father.
With New Scenery Incidental to the Piece.
IN ACT 1st.
A Procession of the THIRTEEN STATES,
From the TEMPLE of LIBERTY.
The Doors will be opened at Half after Five, and the Curtain drawn up precisely at a Quarter after six o'Clock.
** Box 8s.—Pit 6s.—Gallery 4s.
VIVAT REPUBLICA.
THIS DAY is Published,
By the PRINTER hereof,
Which will be Sold at the PRINTING OFFICE,
No. 25, Water-street.
The IMPOST LAW,
OR
An ACT supplementary to and for the Amendment of the Act, entitled, "An Act imposing
"Duties on Goods and Merchandise
"imported into this State, and to relieve
"Persons who have been aggrieved thereby,"
Passed the 11th of March, 1788.
As the Acts and Laws of the State, those which respect IMPOSTS and EXCISES in particular, are interesting and necessary to every Merchant and Trader, the Printer has published this Act, in an Octavo Form, exprsly for their Convenience. It will be sold at the low Price of NINE-PENCE.
New-York, April 4, 1788. 60—
Just Published,
Enlarged, Improved, and Embellished with a
COPPER-PLATE,
And to be SOLD, by S. and J. Loudon, Messrs.
Berry & Rogers, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Reid, Mr.
S. Campbell, Mr. T. Allen, and Mr. T. Greenleaf.
The American Magazine,
For MARCH, 1788.
CONTAINING,
EXPLANATION of the plate, Biographical memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, Original letters, Conclusion of Dr. Mitchell's account of the insect, Government.—The practice of instructing representatives absurd and contrary to the true principles of liberty, Education.—The practice of employing low and vicious Characters in schools reprobated. Life, travels, and adventures of Captain John Smith, General description of New-York, The adventure of the inn, Extract from the memoir of the Abbe de Commerell, on the culture, use, and advantages of the disette, or scarcity root,
Anecdote of Doctor Magrath, Mathematical love letter, Letter from Eliza, An address to the ladies, Dr. Stiles's letter to the editor, Anecdotes, The London review of a work, entitled, an academy for grown horsemen, by Geoffry Gambado, Esq. The life and amusements of Isaac Bickerstaff, junior, Instructions of a Mexican mother to her daughter, Military establishment of the Anglo Saxons, Medical case, Review of new publications, The Federalist, Debates of the Pennsylvania convention, Advice to youth, by Sul-
ly.
POETRY.
Extract from Barlow's vision of Columbus, To the author of the conquest of Canaan, To a lady on the approach of spring, To Sylvia, with a repeating watch, A requieff,
In praise of coffee.—A long, A blackamore maid to a fair boy, The boy's answer, Foreign intelligence,—American intelligence, Marriages and deaths.
Debates in the late Massachusetts Convention.
Just Published at BOSTON,
And to be SOLD at the PRINTING OFFICE,
No. 25, Water-street, New-York,
THE Volume of DEBATES,
RESOLUTIONS, and other PROCEEDINGS of the late Hon. Massachusetts Convention,
with the Yeas and Nays, on the Question of Ratification. To which is prefixed, the CONSTITUTION reported by the late Federal Convention.
Price SIX Shillings.
THIS Volume contains 220
pages, of which about 50 have not been published in the papers—the whole is regularly arranged, and carefully corrected. It is unnecessary to say anything in commendation of these Debates—they are generally known to be highly interesting—and the able manner in which the principles of the proposed Constitution are elucidated, must render them worthy the perusal of every American, who has the welfare of his country at heart.
The highest Price given for
R A G S.

POET'S CORNER.
T IS the wish of my heart in a tavern to lie, My exit to make o'er a full flowing bowl, That the angels may ling, when they meet me on high, "Ye Gods! be propitious on this jolly foul." Wine alone can revive the dim lamp of the mind; When mirth'd with nectar our thoughts seem divine; What rays more enchanting, what delights more refin'd, Than those Bacchus inspires, o'er cups of pure wine. From birth, each displays a distinguishing feature; I've surely been form'd of a well mirth'd clay; When empty, I am weak—a poor dastardly creature, I'd sooner meet death than b at thirst for a day. With rich wine, when repenish'd, how sublime is my soul! By hunger pursued, I invoke her in vain— To bless a starv'd wretch, she'll still firmly refuse, But when mellow, I woo her, the favo's my strain. Whilst the thirst of my soul unsated remain; With raptures prophetic, I ne'er can be tir'd, Let the gay God of wine fix his seat in my brain, Then cherish'd by Phebus, my songs seems inspir'd.
Singular Motive of an Assassin. F ERDINAND, King of Spain, accompanying a solemn procession in the city of Barcelona, a Spaniard found means to get among the lords that surrounded the prince, & with a dagger aimed a blow at his neck, which would have been fatal, if it had not been turned off by a great chain of gold which the king wore. The assassin was immediately seized, and afterwards put to the most cruel torments, to induce him to discover his accomplices. All, however, was in effectual: "My accomplices," said he, "are my passions; my motive, the extreme aversion with which his ugliness has inspired me. I detest him so much, that, were I now at liberty, I would repeat the attempt. Such an ugly prince was never formed to govern Spaniards."
Affix of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weight Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, April 5. 8h. 36m. Morn.
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 Jees, French and 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 currencies 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 currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, 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 Haley, Accomptant.
Price 1s. 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, Bookseller.
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—e.d.
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
F A R M S.
TO BE SOLD, At PUBLIC AUCTION,
On FRIDAY the 18th Day of April next, At XII o'Clock, at the Merchant's COFFEE HOUSE in the City of NEW-YORK,
The Mills and Farm,
A T Paramus, in Bergen county, state of New Jersey, now in the occupation of Jacob Bumper, and late the residence of Col. James Marc Prevost. The farm contains about two hundred and ninety acres of land mostly of superior quality, of which about one hundred acres are wood. There are two orchards of well chosen apples, and an abundance of choice, and rare fruit of other kinds, a spacious and very convenient dwelling house, large barn and mill-house. The mills are well situate on a lively and never failing stream which runs about three quarters of a mile through the farm, affording several mill seats not to be equalled in that part of the country. The land is otherwise beautifully watered by a variety of springs, and is capable of the most elegant and fanciful as well as profitable improvement at a very small expence. The situation is also particularly advantageous for trade, being at the intersection of two great roads. The most unquestionable title will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
The Creditors of Charles
Williams, deceased, and all others interested in his estate, are requested to take notice, that the surplus of the money which may arise from this sale, after paying the purchase money due from the said Charles Williams, will be applied to the satisfaction of his other debts. New-York, March 12, 1788 47.c.d.tod.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Provost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river over the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of alms, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence. The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS, in maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same. The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser. If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
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 Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—e.d.
A Few COPIES of the Conductor Generalis, To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant situated F A R M, BETWEEN Rack Pond and Fresh Creek, adjoining the sea, at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, in the state of N. Jersey, containing one hundred and fifty acres. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and a good title will be given. For further particulars enquire of PETER OGILVIE, at No. 6, Crown-street. New-York, Feb. 13, 1788. 17
New-York, Elizabeth-Town, and Philadelphia New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By strict attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to meet their favors of the public.
The stage will leave Paules-Hook, every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Elizabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge town in Rarway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 14wt of baggage; and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile.
One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile. No racing allowed in this line. JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARLES BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLIN.
The NEW LINE of STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniencies arise both to the respectable public and themselves from inattention to business; in future they are determined to use every endeavor to serve the public, and with encouragement only in proportion to their exertions and attention to their business. From the date hereof the fare will be from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook, three Spanish milled dollars, and all way passengers four pence per mile, 150lb. of baggage to be the same as a passenger; Printers papers and letters will be conveyed gratis; convenient portmanteaus are provided for that purpose. The Stages leave Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock, P. M. every day for Philadelphia, except Saturday. JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, MICHAEL DENNISTON, N. B. Papers, Letters, &c. to be sent to Christopher Beekman's, Cortlandt Street, where the Stage Office is kept. 29 c d February 19, 1788.
Masters & Owners of Vessels, Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, 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.
AT THE TANNERY, Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufactory, and procure them a run of custom—for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price. Cath, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD. N. B. A Currier, Master of his business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 c.d
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 Notes 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.
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THE Commissioners, appointed by law to appraise, and finally to ascertain the advantages and disadvantages which may arise to the proprietors of lots, contiguous to, or taken away in whole, or in part, to widen and extend Greenwich-street, will meet on Thursday the 27th inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Common Council Chamber in the City-Hall, in order to proceed upon the business entrusted to them.—And all claimants, and others interested, are hereby notified and requested to attend personally, or by their representative, with a state of their claim in writing.
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