The New-York journal, and weekly register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1787-04-26 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE! Thompson's Liberty.
NUMB. 17, of VOL. XLI.]
THURSDAY, April 26, 1787.
[Total NUMB. 2112.]
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
Paragraphs omitted last Week for want of Room.
L O N D O N, March 5—9. THE following extraordinary circumstance lately happened at Axminster:—The child of a gentle family, about three years old, was dangerously ill of the measles which were very ripe in the town: his death was hourly expected, as one had died just before. A very near relation of the family, an intelligent person, paid great attention to these circumstances, and being informed that the second child was dead, he would be satisfied of the same, by seeing it himself, and having received from all the attendants an assurance that the child was certainly dead, and convinced thereof himself, he insisted on trying an experiment, and ordered a vessel of cold water, in which the child being fully immersed, it was afterwards wrapped completely in flannels, and so put to bed, where, being finally attended to, after some hours a violent perspiration took place, and soon after life was very apparent, and the child is now perfectly recovered.— British Journal.
The enemies of the present Administration, eager to say any thing that would bring an odium on them, took particular pains to prove that Mr. Hastings would be supported, right or wrong, by the Ministry. They are obliged, however, to confess, that this report had no foundation but in wilful misrepresentation. The Ministry, almost to a man, have not only voted, but spoken against Mr. Hastings's conduct in every article, when it appeared to deserve reprehension.
The Divan at Constantinople have published an account, that news has been received from the Captain Pacha in Egypt, with advice, that two Pachas at the head of 20000 men had rallied on the rebel beys; whom they defeated and obliged to leave all their baggage and camp equipage, having run to the town of Gerge in Upper Egypt;—It is said at Constantinople, that the Basha Seyde is appointed to succeed the Captain Pacha in the chief command, and is going to Alexandria (where the Turkish fleet lay on the 30th of November) to take the command.
PHILADELPHIA, April 10. A traveller now in this town informs us, that the common furs of Siberia (a part of the Russian empire) surpass, in beauty and goodness, all those of other countries; such are those of Zibelines, killed in the spring or summer; those of the grey-squirrel, whose thick and glossy hair nearly resembles the slate colour; those of the Inatias, or Pestry, which are called white-foxes; and lastly, those of the hares, whose skin grows softer and thicker in winter, and acquires the whiteness of the snow. One single skin of Maitre Zibeline, killed in winter, is worth 150 Dutch florins, if it is thick of hair, and of a brown glossy colour.—The ermines, which are scarce bigger than the moles of our fields, cost from 35 to 40 florins per hundred. One otter skin, which is called beaver of Kamchatka, sells to the Chinese for 140 to 150 florins, sometimes even 250. The skin of the fox, if of a fine black, will bring 2000, and even 2050.—The blue foxes are still dearer.
From these calculations, founded in historical facts, we can only infer, that the American has not entered on the confines of the fur-trade, of principal importance.—The regions of this country, yet scarcely explored, can supply these luxuries, of elevated rank and power, in greater abundance and of a texture equally delicate and enervating.
Let us then establish some federal power, adequate to the protection of our bold and industrious trader, in every latitude of the great continent, from whence he can collect a species of exports, hitherto monopolized by wild Siberians.
A gentleman, who arrived on Monday from Kentucky, has favored us with the following intelligence, viz. that some prisoners having been taken by the inhabitants from the Indians in the month of October last, among which was a Iquaw and a Frenchman, the two latter were sent out with proposals for an exchange of prisoners; in consequence of which, Noamohouoh a chief of the Shawonee nation, attended at the mouth of Limestone, on the 4th of March last, and delivered the following speech.
My Brothers, I am very glad you are willing to exchange prisoners, and agreeable to your request by the Iquaw and Frenchman, have sent in three of yours, and hope that you will give up two for Mr. Clark's son, and one a piece for the others, agreeable to your own proposals.—I have been sent here by Captain Johnny, the head chief of the Shawonee nation, to represent him to you, as it was out of his power to come until such time as he could collect the whole of the prisoners; which he will do and be at Limestone within one month of the date hereof—and for fear your people should be uneasy, have sent me with the above mentioned prisoners as a confirmation of our intentions.
He further says, that the Delawares, Mingoes, and Wiandots, have wanted them to go up the Big River to make peace with the white people, but we refused, and will not have any concern with them, as we think this is the place to exchange prisoners and settle our peace, and hope you will not pay any attention to other nations talk, for we mean to be at peace.
NOAMOHOUOH, Chief of the Shawonee nation.
N E W - Y O R K, April 10.
Extract of a letter from Charleston, South-Carolina. The assembly of this state have passed a law prohibiting the importation of slaves, by sea or land, for three years. This information I have from a member of the senate, who says the act is this day completed."
A letter from Cork says, a large ship is lost on the coast, and all on board perished.—Some casks of flaxseed and flaves have been driven on shore;—the casks are marked New-York.
Curious Flowers, Bulbous Roots, and Seeds.
For SALE, in WATER-STREET, No. 18, Opposite the COFFEE-HOUSE, An extensive variety and large assortment of choice FLOWERS,
 ROOTS and Seeds, such as Hyacinths, Double Jonquils, Polyanthus, Narcissus, Tulips, Ten sorts of double Tube-roses, A great variety of double Ranunculus, and Anemones, Jessamins & Carnations, Pinks of all colours, And a variety of Rose  Bulbous, Among which are the double Mols Rose, Double yellow Rose, Frankfort purple Rose, Double red monthly Rose, Ditto white monthly Rose, &c.  With a great number of other curious bulbous Plants, Seeds & Shrubs of Flowers too tedious to enumerate. 
Also Fresh GARDEN SEEDS,
Just Imported in the last Vessels from LONDON and AMSTERDAM, viz.
 EARLY Colliflower, Late Colliflower, Early Yorkshire Cabbage, Early Sugar Loaf, and Late Sugar Loaf, Savoy, two sorts, Lettuce, six sorts, Endive, white curled, and green Endive, Solid stalked Celery, Artichokes, Beets, three sorts, Carrots, three sorts, Dutch Asparagus.  Ditto large Gravenend Asparagus, Radishes, four sorts, Onions, red, do. white, Early Dutch Turnips, Ditto late, Cucumber, four sorts, Leeks, two sorts, Double Parsley, Chervil, Sorrel, Pepper Grass, Salsify, Scorzonera, and Luzern Grass. 
As Mr. GROWELL and Co. Florists, intend going back to their store in Philadelphia, they will now sell the remains of the Flowers, Roots, and Seeds, very cheap, also a small consignment of Ostrich Feathers and Flowers, which they will exchange for some other goods; all those bulbous Roots of Flowers will be sent to Philadelphia, if not sold in a few days. Catalogues to be had gratis. March 29, 1787. 11—12
Four Dollars Reward.
Ran-away from the Subscriber, On the 13th day of April instant,
AN apprentice lad, named BILL DAVERN, about 5 feet 8 inches high; fair complexion; long black hair. Had on a short blue coat, dark blue lining; check flannel shirt; fustian overalls, and jacket; and old Manchester breeches. He is a shop joiner, and house carpenter, by trade, and went off with one Bathuel Parker, a fellow who pretends to be crazy.
All masters of vessels are forbid to carry off said apprentice, on penalty of the law. Whoever will secure said apprentice in goal, and give notice thereof, or return him to the subscriber, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid, by JOHN PLATT. Norwalk, April 14, 1787. 11—13
By Order of the Honorable John Sloss Hobart, Esq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature, of the People of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors of Benjamin Halstead, of the city of New-York, an insolvent debtor, to all his creditors, to them cause to the said judge, at his chambers in Crown-street, in the city of New-York, by Tuesday the 24th inst. why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and the said debtor discharged, according to the form of an act of the legislature of the said state, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th April, 1786. Dated this fourteenth day of April, in the third year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. BENJAMIN HALSTEAD. Petitioning Creditors, John Halstead, William Neilson, Matthias Halstead, Atty. for Joseph Browning.
Wanted, to hire, immediately, Two sober Steady MEN, To superintend a Linseed Oil Manufactory.
TWO persons, perfect masters of that business, and of good characters, may meet with encouragement by applying to the subscriber, at No. 41, Hanover-square. Who has for SALE, Excellent Linseed Oil, in casks of 30 gallon each. Oil of Thelkatomia Nuts, in bottles. Excellent Cyder, in barrels, &c. &c. GEORGE MILLER. New-York, April 19, 1787. 11—13
To be SOLD at this PRINTING-OFFICE, M A P S Of the interior Parts of NORTH-AMERICA, Including the LANDS intended for the NEW STATES. By THOMAS HUTHINS, Esq. GEOGRAPHER GENERAL to the UNITED-STATES OF AMERICA. (Price Five Dollars.)
Albany Stages.
THE proprietors of the Albany line of Stages will commence performing the tour in two days on Monday the 16th of April instant.—A carriage will move from Hall's tavern, near the Oswego Market, New-York, and Lewis's in Albany, every Monday and Thursday mornings, precisely at 4 o'clock, and return on Tuesdays and Fridays following: at the same time the price of a passenger will be reduced from fourpence to three-pence per mile—150 weight of baggage the same as a passenger.
The public will please to take notice, that the proprietors will not be answerable for the loss of any baggage whatever. April 8th, 1787. 11—
FOR BOSTON, THE SLOOP SALLY, JAMES VANCE, Master, Who will sail on or before the 26th inst.
FOR Freight or Passage enquire of the Master on Board, or at the Store of JAMES WATSON, Esq. on the Crane Wharf.
FOR SALE, On Board said Sloop SALLY, a few Barrels of PICKLED FISH. New-York, April 11, 1787. 10—12
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the seventh Day of April, in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Ezra L'Hommiedieu, administrator of James M'Cluer, late of Southold, in the county of Suffolk, trader, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said James M'Cluer, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said James M'Cluer, as far as he had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of his said intestate 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 James M'Cluer, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the twenty-third day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said James M'Cluer died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 10—13 THOMAS TREDWELL.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the seventh Day of April, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Jonas Wicks, administrator of Nathan Hains, late of Southold, in the county of Suffolk, cordwainer, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Nathan Hains, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Nathan Hains, as far as he had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of his said intestate 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 Nathan Hains, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the twenty-third day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Nathan Hains died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 10—13 THOMAS TREDWELL.
THE SUBSCRIBER, having been duly appointed assignee, in trust for all the creditors of Jonas Rogers, at present of Huntington, Suffolk county, and state of New-York, an insolvent debtor, doth hereby, pursuant to the direction of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within this state," passed the 17th day of April, 1784, require all the creditors aforesaid, to produce to him their several securities, or accounts, against the said insolvent, by the 3d day of July next, that a dividend may be made of the monies and effects which may come to his hands, in the manner directed in and by the act aforesaid. ISAAC YOUNG. Dated this 20th day of March, 1787. 7—19
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, agreeable to the act of the legislature of the late colony, now state of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," that on the 16th day of October next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold, at public vendue, at the house of Johannes Tack, inn-keeper, at Marbletown, in the county of Ulster, the fee simple of all that certain tract or parcel of land and premises, situate and lying on the west side of the Rondout or Coxenkill, in the township of Marbletown and county, aforesaid, and now or late in the possession of Frederick Schoonmaker, and sundry other persons tenants under him: beginning at a certain fall on the said kill or creek, where a small Brook empties into the same, being the place of beginning of a certain lot of eight acres of land, which the said Frederick Schoonmaker purchased of the trustees, of the township of Marbletown; thence along the said last mentioned lot north easterly to the lands of Hendrick Kosak, thence along the north westerly bounds of the last mentioned lands, north easterly to the lands of Jacob Snyder, thence along the last mentioned lands westerly to the lands of Isaac Smith, thence along the last mentioned land southerly to the lands of the widow Peter Nelly Sammons, thence along the last mentioned lands to the said Rondout or Coxenkill; thence down the said kill to the place of beginning; containing by estimation four hundred and forty acres of land, be the same more or less; which tracts or parcel of lands with the appurtenances were by indenture of lease and release, dated the 8th and 9th days of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, mortgaged by Fredrick Schoonmaker, of the township of Marbletown, in the county of Ulster, to Richard Oliver and Stephen Nottingham, both of the township and county aforesaid, for the payment of five hundred and fifty-five pounds, current money of New-York, in silver and gold, at the rate of eight shillings for a Spanish milled dollar, with lawful interest for the same, on or before the eighth day of March next ensuing the date of the said indenture or release of mortgage. The conditions of sale will be made public on the day of the vendue, and good and sufficient deeds executed to the purchaser of the same, by RICHARD OLIVER, and STEPHEN NOTTINGHAM. Marbletown, March 29, 1787. 9—24
FOR SALE,
That Valuable Plantation, Situate near the Great Plains, on Nassau Island, late the Seat of Judge LUDLOW.
THIS place contains near four hundred acres of land, on which there is an elegant two story dwelling-house, and every other building necessary and useful either for a farmer or gentleman; a great variety of fruit-trees in their maturity, &c. &c.
The place is so well known, and so highly recommended itself to those who know it, that a detail of its excellencies is needless; neither can it add to the salubrity and beautifulness of its situation. Its capital improvements, and its contiguity to the city of New-York, and town of Jamaica, greatly augment its real value, and, at the same time, render it one of the most delightful and valuable places in the state.
The terms of sale may be known by applying to URIAH MITCHELL, Esq. near the premises, or to the subscriber, at Goshen, Orange county, by whom an indisputable title will be given. ISRAEL WELLS. April 5, 1787. 9—21
HOUSES to LET.
MOSES GOMEZ, No. 203, WATER-STREET, has the following Houses to LET, Belonging to the Estate of MATTHIAS GOMEZ, deceased, viz.
THAT elegant HOUSE No. 27, Queen-street, in which Messieurs Roberts and George Service now reside.
TO BE SOLD. TWO large COPPER STILLs—One containing 1200, and the other 600 gallons, with worms complete for the same.
TO LET.
A VACANT LOT, for one or a term of years, in Hage-street; 45 feet in length, and 21 feet six inches in front, and 19 feet in the rear—As also, either the whole of my STORE, No. 21, Front-street or the two upper floors; being very fit for a Sail-Maker. MOSES GOMEZ.
Just received from PHILADELPHIA, Price 3 Dollars, and sold at this Office, The Lyric Works of Horace, Translated into English Verse:
To which are added, A Number of Original Poems.
THIS Translation of the Odes, Epodes, and secular Poems of Horace, is the first Work of that Nature ever attempted in America.—The five Books, together with every particular Ode and Epode, are addressed to many distinguished, civil and military Characters among us.
** The above Work is the Production of a young Gentleman, a Native of America, and late an Officer of Rank in the American Army. 3—

MISCELLANY.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
FRIDAY, April 6, 1787.
WENT into a committee on the supply bill. Mr. Clark chairman.
Governor's salary fixed at 1500l.
On the clause for fixing the chancellor's salary, Mr. Hamilton moved that it be 600l. on which a division was called.
For the Affirmative 22. Negative 29.
Mr. Denning then moved for 550l. which also was negatived; 28 to 23.
It was then moved to be filled up with 500l. which was agreed to.
The judges of the supreme court were allowed each 500l. per annum.
The wages of the members of the assembly was then considered. On the question of Mr. Harper to allow 16 shillings per day, it was negatived; 43 to 8.
Mr. Speaker moved to fill up the blank with 10s.
Mr. Armstrong moved for 12s.
Col. Dubois moved for 14s.
A division was called on 14s.
For the Affirmative. Messieurs Bancker, Harper, Parker, E. Clark, Paine, Gordon, Fry, Crane, Savage, Martin, Griffin, Purdy, James Livingston, Thorn, Frost, Patterson, Dubois, Cooper, Bacheler, N. Smith, Cantine, Powers, Tierce, Osborn, and Ludenton. 25.
For the Negative. C. Livingston, Malcom, Speaker, Hamilton, Bayard, Ray, Denning, Brooks, Doughty, Jones, Wyckoff, Strang, Lockwood, Rockwell, Schenck, C. Smith, Armstrong, Sickles, Townsend, D'Witt, I. Smith, Tayler, Glenn, Thomas, Bronck, Tomkins. 26.
Mr. Paine then gave notice that he should move for a reconsideration of this question.
And, Mr. Harper gave notice that he should move to have reconsidered the question for sixteen shillings.
John McKesson, and A. B. Bancker, clerks of the senate and assembly, each 30s. per day.
State treasurer was allowed 500l.
State auditor 400l.
Members of Congress, 24s. per day.
Members of the council of appointed, 16s. per day, whilst employed in the recess of the legislature.
Secretary of the state, 30l. as secretary of the state; 40l. as secretary to the land office, and 1/6. for every 120 words recording of laws, &c.
The committee then rose and reported the progress.
Went into a committee on the university bill. Mr. Glenn chairman.
The clause for giving the regents power of incorporation, and which had been rejected, was now reconsidered on the motion of Mr. Hamilton.
Question was then taken from the committee to adopt the clause.
For the Affirmative. Messieurs C. Livingston, Speaker, Hamilton, Bancker, Denning, Brooks, Doughty, Jones, Wyckoff, E. Clark, Strang, Gordon, Crane, Savage, Thorn, Schenck, Frost, C. Smith, Armstrong, Sickles, Cooper, Cantine, Powers, I. Smith, Tayler, Osborn, and Tomkins. 27.
For the Negative. Messieurs Ray, Harper, Parker, Paine, Griffin, Lockwood, Rockwell, Purdy, Patterson, D'Witt, Bacheler, and N. Smith. 12.
On motion of Mr. Tayler, the number of regents were increased from 15 to 21.
The committee then appointed Stephen Van Rensselaer, Andrew King, John Lansing, junior, Andrew Nugent, William Lynn, and Jonathan C. Tomkins.
Committee then rose and reported the bill.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
Saturday, April 7. The house met pursuant to adjournment.
The bill concerning the wharves, slips and streets of New-York, was read a third time, and ordered to be enacted.
The bill concerning the Massachusetts line, was also read a third time, and agreed to.
And also, the bill concerning the estate of the late Jonathan Fowler, of Westchester.
Several petitions were read and committed, among which was, a petition from a number of people, respecting lands they had purchased in Kingland, was read, and the house resolved that the prayer ought not be granted.
Mr. Denning, from the committee, who was directed to examine the state of accounts between this state and the United States, reported, that the committee had found at the auditor's office, that the same were in forwardness, though it would be impossible to render the same before the next session of the legislature.
Mr. Tompkins, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of John Elither, reported, that the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Mr. Sickles, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Johannes Knickarbacke, reported, that the prayer of the petition appears just, but that it would be proper to refer the same to the next assembly.
Mr. Sickles, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Burnfides and others, reported, that the prayer thereof ought to be granted.
Mr. Fry reported from the committee on the petition of James Forsyth, that the prayer thereof should be granted.
Adjourned until the afternoon.
EODEM DIE, 3 o'clock, P. M.
Mr. Smith, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of the commissioners of forfeitures for the middle district, reported, that the prayer thereof should be granted, but the house negatived this report.
Mr. Bancker, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Peter Webbers, reported, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
Mr. E. Clark, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of George Stanton, reported, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
Mr. Crane, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of David Osgood, and others, reported, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
Mr. Tompkins, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Dominick Lynch, reported, that the prayer should be granted.
Mr. Paine, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of David Carroll Franks, reported, that his petition to the legislature was un-
necessary, as a law was in existence, by which he could obtain the advantages prayed for.
Mr. I. Smith, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Simeon Newell, and Gideon Crowell, reported, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
The house adopted the clause, first making the relief general to all persons in similar circumstances.
Mr. Schenck, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Rapelje, reported, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
Mr. E. Clark, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Matthew Dubois, and others, reported, that the same should be referred to the United States in Congress, for a settlement.
Mr. Tayler, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of William Hawxburft, reported, that the sitting-mills to be erected by him should be exempted from taxes for twenty years.
Went into a committee on the supply bill.
The question for allowing 16s. was on motion of Mr. Harper, reconsidered, and again lost.
On motion of Mr. Paine, for reconsidering the question for allowing the members 14s. per day, the question for reconsidering having been agreed to, the question was put on the same and agreed to, as follows.
For the Affirmative. Messieurs Bancker, Harper, Parker, E. Clark, Paine, Gordon, Fry, Crane, Savage, Martin, Griffin, Purdy, James Livingston, Patterson, Dubois, Cooper, Bacheler, N. Smith, Snyder, Powers, Tierce, Osborn, and Ludenton, 23.
For the Negative. Messieurs Speaker, Denning, Brooks, Doughty, Jones, Lockwood, Rockwell, Schenck, Armstrong, Sickles, Townsend, D'Witt, Cantine, I. Smith, Tayler, Glenn, Thomas, Bronck, Tomkins. 19.
On motion of Mr. I. Livingston, the mileage of the members is to be 30 miles for a day's pay.
The collector of New-York, was allowed 1500l. per annum.
The collector of Sagg-Harbour, 50l. per annum.
The committee rose and reported the progress. The house then went into a committee, on the bill concerning Richard Penn Hicks, &c. after some time spent thereon, the committee rose.
Adjourned until Monday morning.
Monday, April 9. The house met pursuant to adjournment.
Read the third time, and passed the bill for improving the navigation of Hudson's River, near Albany.
Read the second time and committed the bill for the relief of persons who paid money to the treasurer, by order of the council of safety.
The house went into a committee on the supply bill.
A committee was appointed to examine the treasurer's account of expenditures for the last year.
After some time spent on the supply bill, and a clause being added to allow the Governor ninety-two pounds for his expenses, on the insurgent business.
The committee rose and reported the progress.
The senate returned the fee bill with amendments.
One of which was in favor of the Judges, by striking out the paragraph which directs the clerks of the courts to tax the bills of costs, instead of the judges.
Mr. Hamilton moved that the house concur: there was a very cogent reason to do so now, as the house had determined not to raise their salaries, and it would be improper to take away any benefits from them.
Mr. Tayler was of the same opinion.
For concurring, 26. Negative, 19.
The senate having added a clause which would permit attorneys to act as counsellors; on the question to agree to the same,
For the Negative, 35. Affirmative, 12.
Adjourned until the afternoon.
Three o'clock, P. M.
Went into a committee on the supply bill.
Allowed to the surveyor general, 400l. per annum. To Gen. Clinton, while employed running the line between this state and Pennsylvania, 31s. per day, exclusive of expence.
Allowed to the surveyor general, 40l. as an extra allowance for his services in running the boundary line between this state and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Jones moved for a resolution which would direct the treasurer to pay the wages of members of assembly to the counties they represented, in which particular provision should be made for the same.
Mr. Harper opposed it, he thought the motion might be in order for a future period.
A division was called for.
For the Affirmative. Messieurs C. Livingston, Speaker, Bancker, Doughty, Jones, Wyckoff, Thorn, Schenck, Frost, C. Smith, Townsend, I. Smith, Tayler, Osborn, Bronck, and Tomkins.
For the Negative. Messieurs Hamilton, Denning, Harper, Parker, E. Clark, Strang, Paine, Gordon, Crane, Savage, Griffin, Lockwood, Rockwell, James Livingston, Patterson, Armstrong, Sickles, Dubois, Cooper, D'Witt, Bacheler, N. Smith, and Powers.
The committee rose and reported the progress.
The house went into a committee on the insolvent bill. Mr. Rockwell chairman.
After some time spent thereon, the committee rose and reported the progress.
The bill concerning copper coin, was read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
Tuesday, April 10. The house met pursuant to adjournment.
Went into a committee on the supply bill.
The question for making each county pay their own members, was again moved and lost, 37 to 17.
The Speaker having received a note from the regents of the university, inviting the house to attend at the anniversary commencement of Columbia College, to be held this day at 11 o'clock, The house adjourned until 3 o'clock P. M. in order to comply with this invitation.
EODEM DIE 3 o'clock, P. M.
Went into a committee on the supply bill.
On motion, the sum allowed to pay the interest on certificates, payable in May next, was fixed at fifty thousand pounds.
On motion, Resolved, That David Brooks, William Malcom, William Denning, Evert Bancker, Samuel Jones, and R. C. Livingston, be a committee on the part of the assembly to examine the votes returned for senators at the next election.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
Wednesday, April 11. The house met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr. Paine, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of the creditors of Jacob Mordecai, reported, that the assertions in the same appearing to be true, and it is the opinion of the committee the prayer thereof should be granted.
Mr. Hamilton opposed this report, he said, he should have no objection to a bill being introduced, but he gave notice that he should oppose the very principles of any bill, that should bear a retrospective appearance.
A bill was then moved for and brought in respecting usury, which was read the first time and ordered a second reading.
A letter from the treasurer was read, stating some difficulties with respect to certificates receivable for specie for taxes.
The house went into a committee on the supply bill.
The clause respecting an allowance to Mr. Mason, for depreciation of pay, as a chaplain in the late army, was re-considered and expunged.
The committee voted 150l. to Major Moody, the commissary of military stores, for the purpose of collecting and preserving the fame.
After some time spent on this bill, the committee rose and reported the progress.
On motion of Mr. Hamilton, the house went into a committee on the Vermont bill. Mr. Clark in the chair.
The boundary was fixed in conformity to former resolutions of Congress, and the agreement with these people, called the twenty mile line.
This boundary was proposed by Col. Hamilton. Mr. Denning was opposed to this clause of the bill; and indeed to the bill totally.
There was much similarity of debate, as when the first enacting clause was agreed to.
On the question, a division was called.
For the Affirmative, 31. Negative, 16.
The bill having been gone through, the committee rose and reported the same.
Mr. Harper then made a motion to reject the bill.
On the question for rejecting,
For the Negative, 27. Affirmative, 19.
A petition from Lawrence Olyvia, and others, respecting the British refusing to let them settle the lands, granted by this state, was read and referred to Messieurs Dongan, Tomkins, Denning.
The university bill was returned from the senate.
It was agreed, informally, to strike out of the regents, the names of John Lansing, junior, and Andrew Nugent.
The name of the honorable Major-General Frederick William Baron de Steuben, was then inserted among the regents; and the Reverend Abraham Beach among the trustees.
Adjourned until the afternoon.
EODEM DIE, 3 o'clock P. M.
A message was received from the council of revision, that they had passed the impost bill; the Oneida purchase bill; the tax bill, and the bill for erecting the township of Woodstock.
The house went into a committee on the supply bill.
Mr. Speaker moved for the reconsideration of the allowance to General James Clinton, while employed in running the Pennsylvania line; the clause as it stood allowed 32s. per day.
Mr. Speaker moved that he be allowed 40s.
On the question for 40s.
Negative 33. Affirmative 8.
The committee rose and reported, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
[To be Continued.]
During the Session of the Hon. the Legislature, the following Acts were passed, viz.
AN ACT—concerning the rights of the citizens of this State.—For taking away and abolishing all right and claim of purveyance within this State.—For preventing delays by essoins and protections of or abolishing trials or issues by wager of law.—For recovery of damages in writs of affize and real actions.—That the solemn affirmations and declarations of the people called Quakers shall be accepted instead of an oath.—Concerning dower.—Concerning justice of the Peace.—For preventing waste.—For declaring what process may be issued in certain personal actions, and for regulating outlawries.—To reduce the laws concerning costs into one statute.—For regulating elections.—For declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason, and regulating trials in cases of treason and misprision of treason.—Concerning murder.—Concerning appeals of felony.—For preventing rapes and forcibly taking of women.—For the punishment of the vice of buggery.—For the better apprehending of felons.—Touching the bailment of persons.—For the better securing the liberty of the citizens of this State and for prevention of imprisonments.—Concerning the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace.—For settling intestates estates, proving wills and granting letters of administration.—For dividing the district of the Manor of Livingston, in Columbia county, and for annexing the manor of Fox-hall to the town of Kingston in Ulster county.—An Act to alter the place of holding elections in Caghnawaga district, in the county of Montgomery.—For preventing usury.—For the more orderly holding of town meetings.—An Act authorizing the Sheriff of Queen's county to remove his prisoners from the goal of the city and county of New-York, and the Sheriff of Dutchess county to remove his prisoners from the goal in Ulster county.—To remit certain penalties, fines and amerciaments.—For the relief of persons holding and possessing State agents certificates.—For the further direction of the Commissioner of forfeitures for the Eastern District.—Concerning Counsellors, Attorneys, Solicitors, Advocates and Proctors of the several courts in this State.—Concerning Executors and Administrators.—To prevent encroachments of the Courts of Admiralty.—Concerning wrecks of the sea, giving relief to merchants and others who are robbed, or whose goods are lost on sea.—Concerning Sheriffs and the service and return of process.—Concerning Coroners.—For prevention of vexatious and opprobrious by arrest.—For the more easy pleading in certain suits.—Concerning tenures.—Concerning uses.—To reduce the laws concerning wills into one statute.—Concerning fines and recoveries of lands and tenements.—For the prevention of frauds.—For preventing and avoiding alienations by tenants for
life and recoveries by collusion.—For giving further remedy and regulating the process of proceedings in affizes and other actions.—To amend the charter of the corporation for the relief of widows and children of Clergymen in the communion of the Church of England in America.—An Act for the relief of Arthur Noble and others.—To regulate the elections of Charter Officers in the city of New-York.—To confirm the proofs, and acknowledgements, and registers of certain deeds, conveyances and writings therein mentioned.—For the relief of Abraham Lot.—For the relief of Frederick Weifenfels.—For raising a further sum of money to complete a court-house and goal in Dutchess county.—To complete the running a certain line of jurisdiction, therein mentioned, between this State and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.—To amend an Act, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors."—For making process in Courts of Equity effectual against mortgagors who abscond and cannot be served therewith, and who refuse to appear.—For the relief of Garret Rapalje.—For granting and securing to John Fitch, the sole right and advantage of making and employing, for a limited time, a steam boat, by him lately invented.—For making lands and tenements, liable to be sold upon execution for debt, and for the more easy discovery of judgments and the better security and relief of purchasers and creditors.—For the more effectual preservation of the public wells and pumps in the city of New-York.—For the more effectual extinguishing of fire in the city of New-York.—Concerning the estate of Hendrick Remsen.—For the better regulating the public roads in the city and county of New-York.—For the more easy assessment and collection of taxes in the city and county of New-York.—For altering the charter rights of the city of Albany.—For the relief of persons who were in excise during the late war, in respect to the payment of certain arrears of taxes.—For the speedy trial and punishment of such persons as shall commit any offences under the degree of grand larceny.—For the more effectual punishment of criminals in the cities of New-York, Albany, Hudson and the township of Schenectady.—An act giving further powers to assignees of the estates of insolvent debtors.
[The remaining titles next week.]
The following CIRCULAR LETTER has been transmitted by the UNITED STATES, In CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, to the GOVERNORS of the respective States.
SIR, OUR Secretary for foreign affairs has transmitted to you copies of a letter to him from our minister at the court of London, of the 4th day of March, 1786, and of the papers mentioned to have been inclosed in it.
We have deliberately and dispassionately examined and considered the several facts and matters urged by Britain as infractions of the treaty of peace on the part of America, and we regret that in some of the states too little attention appears to have been paid to the public faith pledged by that treaty.
Not only the obvious dictates of religion, morality and national honor, but also the first principles of good policy, demand a candid and punctual compliance with engagements constitutionally and fairly made.
Our national constitution, having committed to us the management of the national concerns with foreign states and powers, it is our duty to take care, that all the rights which they ought to enjoy within our jurisdiction by the laws of nations and the faith of treaties, remain inviolate, and it is also our duty to provide, that the essential interests and peace of the whole confederacy, be not impaired or endangered by deviations from the line of public faith, into which any of its members may, from whatever cause, be unadvisedly drawn.
Let it be remembered, that the thirteen independent sovereign states have, by express delegation of power, formed and vested in us a general, though limited sovereignty, for the general and national purposes specified in the confederation. In this sovereignty they cannot severally participate (except by their delegates) nor with it have concurrent jurisdiction; for the ninth article of the confederation most expressly conveys to us the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on war and peace, and of entering into treaties and alliances, &c.
When therefore the treaty is constitutionally made, ratified and published by us, it immediately becomes binding on the whole nation, and super-added to the laws of the land, without the intervention or fiat of state legislatures. Treaties derive their obligation from being compacts between the sovereign of this and the sovereign of another nation; whereas laws or statutes derive their force from being acts of a legislature competent to the passing of them. Hence it is clear, that treaties must be implicitly received and observed by every member of the nation; for as state legislatures are not competent to the making of such compacts, or treaties, so neither are they competent, in that capacity, authoritatively to decide on, or ascertain the construction and sense of them. When doubts arise, respecting the construction of state laws, it is not unusual, nor improper, for the state legislatures, by explanatory or declaratory acts, to remove those doubts: but the case between laws and compacts, or treaties, is, in this, widely different; for when doubts arise respecting the sense and meaning of a treaty, they are so far from being cognizable by a state legislature, that the United States, in Congress assembled, have no authority to settle and determine them: for as the legislature only, which constitutionally passes a law, has power to revise and amend it, so the sovereigns only, who are parties to the treaties, have power, by mutual consent and posterior articles, to correct or explain it.
In cases between individuals, all doubts respecting the meaning of a treaty, like all doubts respecting the meaning of a law, are, in the first instance, mere judicial questions, and are to be heard and decided in the courts of justice, having cognizance of the causes in which they arise, and whose duty it is to determine them according to the rules and maxims established by the laws of nations for the interpretation of treaties. From these principles it follows of necessary consequence, that no individual state has a right, by legislative acts, to decide, and point out the sense in which their particular citizens and courts shall understand this or that article of a treaty.

It is evident that a contrary doctrine would not only militate against the common and established maxims and ideas, relative to this subject, but would prove no less ludicrous in practice, than it is in theory; for in that case, the same article of the same treaty might, by law, be made to mean one thing in New-Hampshire, another thing in New-York, and neither the one nor the other of them in Georgia.
How far such legislative acts would be valid and obligatory, even within the limits of the state passing them, is a question which we hope never to have occasion to discuss. Certain, however, it is, that such acts cannot bind either of the contracting sovereigns, and consequently cannot be obligatory on their respective nations.
But if treaties, and every article in them, be (as they are and ought to be) binding on the whole nation; if individual states have no right to accept some articles and reject others; and if the impropriety of state acts to interpret and decide the sense and construction of them be apparent; still more manifest must be the impropriety of state acts to controul, delay or modify the operation and execution of these national compacts.
When it is considered, that the several states, assembled by their delegates in Congress, have express power to form treaties, surely the treaties so formed are not afterwards to be subject to such alterations as this or that legislature may think expedient to make, and that too without the consent of either of the parties to it,—that is, in the present case, without the consent of all the United States, who, collectively, are parties to this treaty on the one side, and his Britannic majesty on the other. Were the Legislatures to possess, and to exercise such power, we should soon be involved as a nation, in anarchy and confusion at home, and in disputes which would probably terminate in hostilities and war with the nations with whom we may have formed treaties. Instances would then be frequent of treaties fully executed in one state, and only partly executed in another; and of the same article being executed in one manner in one state, and in a different manner, or not at all, in another state. History furnishes no precedent of such liberties taken with treaties under form of law in any nation.
Contracts between nations, like contracts between individuals, should be faithfully executed, even though the sword in the one case, and the law in the other, did not compel it. Honest nations, like honest men, require no constraint to do justice; and though impunity and the necessity of affairs may sometimes afford temptations to pare down contracts to the measure of convenience, yet it is never done but at the expence of that esteem, and confidence, and credit which are of infinitely more worth than all the momentary advantages which such expedients can extort.
But although contracting nations cannot, like individuals, avail themselves of courts of justice to compel performance of contracts: yet an appeal to heaven and to arms is always in their power, and often in their inclination.
But it is their duty to take care that they never lead their people to make and support such appeals, unless the sincerity and propriety of their conduct affords them good reason to rely with confidence on the justice and protection of heaven.
Thus much we think it useful to observe in order to explain the principles on which we have unanimously come to the following resolutions, viz.
“Resolved, That the legislatures of the several states cannot of right pass any act or acts for interpreting, explaining or construing a national treaty, or any part or clause of it; nor for restraining, limiting, or in any manner impeding, retarding or counteracting the operation and execution of the same; for that, on being constitutionally made, ratified and published, they become, in virtue of the confederation, part of the law of the land, and are not only independent of the will and power of such legislatures, but also binding and obligatory on them.”
As the treaty of peace, so far as it respects the matters and things provided for in it, is a law to the United States which cannot by all or any of them be altered or changed, all state acts establishing provisions relative to the same objects, which are incompatible with it, must in every point of view be improper; such acts do nevertheless exist; but we do not think it necessary either to enumerate them particularly, or to make them severally the subjects of discussion. It appears to us sufficient to observe and insist, that the treaty ought to have free course in its operation and execution, and that all obstacles, interposed by state acts be removed. We mean to act with the most scrupulous regard to justice and candour towards Great-Britain, and with an equal degree of delicacy, moderation and decision towards the states who have given occasion to these discussions.
For these reasons we have, in general terms, “Resolved, That all such acts, or parts of acts, as may be now existing in any of the states, repugnant to the treaty of peace, ought to be forthwith repealed; as well to prevent their continuing to be regarded as violations of that treaty, as to avoid the disagreeable necessity there might otherwise be of raising and discussing questions touching their validity and obligation.”
Although this resolution applies strictly only to such of the states as have passed the exceptional act, alluded to, yet, to obviate all future disputes and questions, as well as to remove those which now exist, we think it best that every state without exception, should pass a law on the subject. We have therefore “Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to make such repeal rather by describing or reciting the said acts; and for that purpose to pass an act declaring, in general terms, that all such acts, and parts of acts, repugnant to the treaty of peace between the United States and his Britannic majesty, or any article thereof, shall be and hereby are repealed; and that the courts of law and equity, in all cases and questions cognizable by them respectively, and arising from, or touching the said treaty, shall decide and adjudge according to the true intent and meaning of the same: any thing in the said acts or parts of acts to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.”
Such laws would answer every purpose, and be easily formed. The more they were of the like tenor throughout the states the better, they might each recite,
Whereas certain laws or statutes made and passed in some of the United States, are regarded and complained of as repugnant to the treaty of peace
with Great-Britain, by reason whereof not only the good faith of the United States, pledged by that treaty, has been drawn into question, but their essential interests under that treaty greatly affected. And whereas justice to Great-Britain, as well as regard to the honor and interests of the United States, require, that the said treaty be faithfully executed, and that all obstacles thereto, and particularly such as do or may be continued to proceed from the laws of this state, be effectually removed.
Therefore, Be it enacted by and with the authority of the state, that such of the acts or parts of acts of the legislature of this state, as are repugnant to the treaty of peace between the United States and his Britannic majesty, or any article thereof, shall be, and hereby are repealed. And further, that the courts of law and equity within this state, be, and they hereby are directed and required, in all cases and questions cognizable by them respectively, and arising from or touching the said treaty, to decide and adjudge according to the tenor, true intent and meaning of the same, any thing in said acts or parts of acts, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Such a general law, would, we think, be preferable to one that should minutely enumerate the acts and clauses intended to be repealed: because omissions might accidentally be made in the enumeration, or questions might arise, and perhaps not be satisfactorily determined, respecting particular acts or clauses, about which contrary opinions may be entertained. By repealing in general terms all acts and clauses repugnant to the treaty, the business will be turned over to its proper departments, viz. the judicial; and the courts of law will find no difficulty in deciding whether any particular act or clause is or is not contrary to the treaty. Besides, when it is considered that the judges in general, are men of character and learning, and feel, as well as know the obligations of office, and the value of reputation, and there is no reason to doubt that their conduct and judgment relative to these, as well as other judicial matters, will be wise and upright.
Be pleased, Sir, to lay this letter before the legislature of your state without delay. We flatter ourselves they will concur with us in opinion, that candour and justice are as necessary to true policy as they are to sound morality, and that the most honorable way of delivering ourselves from the embarrassment of mistakes, is fairly to correct and amend them. It certainly is time that all doubts respecting the public faith be removed, and that all questions and differences between us and Great-Britain be amicably and finally settled. The states are informed of the reasons why his Britannic majesty still continues to occupy the frontier posts which by the treaty he agreed to evacuate; and we have the strongest assurances, that an exact compliance with the treaty on our part, shall be followed by a punctilious performance of it on the part of Great-Britain.
It is important that the several legislatures should, as soon as possible, take these matters into consideration; and we request the favor of you to transmit to us an authenticated copy of such acts, and proceedings of the legislature of your state, as may take place on the subject, and in pursuance of this letter.
By order of Congress, (Signed) ARTHUR St. CLAIR, President. New-York, April 26.
THE several notifications, that have lately appeared in the papers, declaring aversion to the very nomination for assembly-men, has created mirth to one, and given grounds for serious reflection to another class of inhabitants. A correspondent—who is no less astonished at the removal of the seat of government 60 miles from every public office, and means of prompt intelligence, than every other disinterested person—hopes, that the motives for their declining are not, as is intimated by many, circumcribed by the pitiable bounds of self-interest. He wishes not to be ideological , but enquires—what could cause a desire for an absolute change, not only in the seat of government, but in the administration, likewise?
A correspondent observes,—that it was with infinite satisfaction he discovered a disposition of friendship and patriotic love extended to all ranks of people. at many of the pale loblies , on Tuesday last!—Here might have been recognized that genuine meekness and docility which SPURRED ON the American heroes to the field and conquest!—Here no one, who was not CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED, dare presume to throw in his mighty mite for the advancement of anti-republicans to posts of dignity and government! this must have been the case, but—no QUESTIONS were asked for conscience sake!—it is affrontive to ask a gentleman—PRAY SIR, HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE?—Our correspondent further adds, that he is much disappointed at the lethargical indifference that pervades the city and country on so important a business.
By late arrivals from Shelburne, and Halifax, Nova-Scotia, we are favored with papers to the 12th, and 14th instants. By the Shelburne papers we learn, that the Schooner Lorence , Capt. Miller, has arrived there from Jamaica, where he left the brig Hibernia , M c Ivers, who was to sail for Shelburne the next day, with a number of passengers. The Halifax papers contain nothing of a very interesting nature. The tedious accounts of the Massachusetts rebellion crowded them at the gloomy hour, and feasted the loyal reader—but, when victory and conquest was declared on the side of justice, those dear anticipators of American anarchy were no longer pleased to read the dry, uninteresting contents.
We learn, that his Royal Highness, PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Commander of the British ship Pegasus , on his arrival at Montserrat, February the 15th, was congratulated in a file that added new graces to his illustrious personage, and that reflected the highest honors upon the inhabitants of that island. He was royally distinguished by addresses from the council, the house of assembly, and the merchants, which addresses were respectfully and formally replied to by the Prince.
Lieutenant Governor PARR, of Nova-Scotia, had added a further limited time of six weeks , from the 8th of this inst. April, to that which has expired, permitting British subjects , in British built ships , or vessels, navigated by Britons , to import live stock and vegetables of the various kinds that are necessary to sustain ANIMAL life , from the United States of America .
Yesterday arrived in this city, his Excellency JOHN HANCOCK, Esquire, and his LADY, together with Mr. and Mrs. JEFFRY (late Miss Hayley) on their way to Philadelphia.
Captain Cushing arrived at Boston on the 26th inst. in 54 days from London, bringing papers only to January 27.
We learn from Turks-Island, that no permission is given to American vessels, nor are they admitted to load salt there at any rate.
The death of the treasury of the commonwealth of Massachusetts (Mr. Ivers) has occasioned his excellency the governor to call the general court together to choose another person to fill that important office; no business can be transacted at the treasury until after a new choice.
It is said, that Shays, Day, Parsons, and Wheeler are now at St. John's, in Canada, but receive no encouragement from that government.
It is said, that the British are fortifying their posts in Canada, and that they are raising their sunken vessels in the Lake, in order to repair and fit for use; the reason is said to be, that they expect to be molested by the troops of these states some time this summer; but at present they have nothing to fear.
By private letters from Boston we are assured, that there will be a very considerable change in the senatorial branch of the government of that commonwealth, which may not triflingly effect the general system of their politics.
The following are the names and places of residence, of the rebels, who lately had sentence of death passed upon them in Berkshire county, viz.—Samuel Rust, Pittsfield, Enoch Taylor, late at Egremont, Joseph Williams, New-Malborough, Aaron Knapp, West Stockbridge, Peter Wilcox, Lee, and Nathaniel Austin, jun. Sheffield.
In the course of the first week of this month two vessels sailed from Newbury-Port, Massachusetts, for China.
The Fee Bill, which has taken up much of the attention and time of the legislature, was on Saturday, returned to the assembly, with an objection by the council of revision—the assembly resolved that the bill should pass, notwithstanding the objection of the council.—It was then sent to the senate, where, in consequence of the objection of the council, it was resolved that the said bill do not pass into a law.
Mr. Van Orreo has transferred at the bank (it is said) the sum of 471,000. on account of the Land-Grave of Hesse, so much being due for Hessian soldiers, lost in the American war, at 301. a man.
The Honorable the Legislature of this state adjourned on Saturday last, to meet at the town of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess county, on the first Monday in January next, unless sooner convened by proclamation of his Excellency the Governor.
Yesterday the Julia, Capt. Latham, arrived here in 10 days from Charleston, South-Carolina. By this vessel we are informed, that the house of assembly of that state have adjourned, having passed about 40 acts, &c.—That a previous to adjournment, a committee was appointed to transact every important business during the recess.
On Sunday last arrived in this port the sloop Experiment, Capt. Stewart Dean, after a passage of four months and twelve days from Canton, in China.
The Experiment, on her arrival, saluted the city by a discharge of thirteen rounds; at the discharge of the last round, one of the crew was unfortunately wounded, by the match being applied before he had fully charged the piece—but, we are assured, that he will soon be recovered, and that, happily, without the loss of limbs.
By this vessel we are informed of the death of that truly respectable citizen, Col. ISAAC SEARS, of this city, occasioned by a fever he caught at Batavia; of which he died at Canton, a short time after his arrival there.—The fond expecting family of the deceased, perhaps but a few days since happy in anticipating the speedy and joyful return of their affectioned head, from a hazardous, but laudable undertaking, have now to bemoan their loss.—A sad reverse.
The ship Empress of China, Capt. Green, from this port, was to sail from Canton, a few days after the Experiment—the ship Canton, Capt. Truxton, from Philadelphia, was lying at the same place, and was expected to sail in six or eight weeks—and the ship Grand Turk, from Rhode-Island, had arrived some time before Capt. Dean's departure.
The ship Hope, Captain M c Gee, from New-York, with a fleet of 59 ships, of different nations, were lying at Wampoo, among whom the greatest harmony subsisted.
Several ELECTIONEERING PERFORMANCES, both in Prose and Verse—An ORIGINAL ANECDOTE, &c. &c. are received, and have given Place, this Week, to Matters of more GENERAL Public Concern.
MR. GREENLEAF, Although the ELECTION will be commenced before this can appear, yet it may afford entertainment. Your's, &c. A CORRESPONDENT.
To the ELECTORS of NEW-YORK. ELECTORS attend,—pray deliver your Votes, Beware of those Lists that are made by Turn-Coats;
Base Tories we call them,—a pitiful Crew, Who every vile Measure and Plan will pursue.
Permit me to hold up, for Consideration, Nine Persons to serve in the next Legislation; They're Men who Mechanics have fix'd for their Choice,
So choose one and all with an audible Voice. William Denning and Goforth, with Willet and Brooks
(You may know these are Whigs by observing their Looks) Evert Bancker, John Broome, Thomas Hazard and Ray,
Are the ones you should choose at the next voting Day.
Another is wanting for this worthy Station, Let Gilbert then meet with your kind Approbation; Elect none but Freemen,—reject every Tory, For Traitors should never be honor'd with Glory.
Let Merchants, Mechanics, good Whigs all agree,
To put in such Men as are Honest and Free; Now join Hand in Hand, in Defence of our Laws, And unite in support of Fair Liberty's Cause.
A PATRIOT. New-York, April 23, 1787.
MARRIED,—On Saturday the 21st inst. by the Rev. Alexander Macwhorter, at the seat of his Excellency Governor Livingston, near Elizabeth-Town, MATTHEW RIDLEY, Esq. of Maryland, to Miss CATHERINE LIVINGSTON, daughter of his Excellency.
In Charleston, South-Carolina, Captain THOMAS HUNT, to Miss HANNAH NOTT.
THEATRE.
To-Morrow Evening, April 27th.
Will be performed, A COMEDY, called The Beaux Stratagem;
To which will be added, a New PANTOMME Entertainment (for the last time)
CALLED, the Magician of the Cave, OR, Harlequin's Frolick.
NEW SCENERY, &c. &c. BOX 8/—PITT 6/—GALLERY 4/—VIVAT RESPUB-LICA.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the nineteenth Day of April, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
PRESENT, The Honorable THOMAS TREDWELL, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, administrator of Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, late of Orange Town, in the county of Orange, carpenter, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, as far as he had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of his said intestate 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 Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, 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 Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the twentieth day of June next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate, whereof the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt died seized should not be sold; as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
THOMAS TREDWELL.
The SUBSCRIBER most respectfully informs the PUBLIC and his particular FRIENDS, That he has procured
An Elegant Coach,
And four excellent HORSES, With a careful Driver, to run, every Day in the Week, from this City to his House at KING'S BRIDGE.
THIS COACH will start from Hall's, No. 49, Cortlandt-street, precisely at 5 o'clock, A. M. and return to the city the same evening.—Passengers, by leaving a note at Hall's, purporting their desire, the preceding evening, will be taken up from any part of the city, and set down where they shall please to direct.—Every attention will be paid to render the excursion of the company, whether Ladies or Gentlemen, pleasant and agreeable. The price for each Passenger will be only Four Pence per mile.
The subscriber flatters himself, from the consideration of the pleasantness of the road, salubrity of the air, and beautifulness of his situation, commanding a full view of the bridge and Harlem river (which makes the island) that parties will frequently be induced to make this delightful excursion, and favor him with their commands.
M. WATTLES, Proprietor of the Line of Stages. New-York, April 23, 1787.
THE PROPRIETORS of the STAGES, Which ply between New York and Philadelphia, Inform the PUBLIC.
THAT on the first day of May next they will start one line of stages, from Powles-Hook every afternoon at 4 o'clock, and proceed to Elizabeth-Town, from whence they will start every morning (Sundays excepted) at four o'clock—and from Philadelphia, every morning (Sundays excepted) at three o'clock.
The Mail Line will start from Powles-Hook and Philadelphia, every morning (Sundays excepted) precisely at nine o'clock.—No delay, after the hours appointed, can be admitted.
The Stages start from Michael Dennison's, corner of Arch and Second-streets, Philadelphia. New-York, April 25, 1787.
FOR SALE, The BRIGANTINE
Little Sally, About three years old, a well built vessel, a prime sailer, well found, and fit for sea; lying at Farmer's wharf.—For terms apply at No. 92, Water-street. New-York, April 25, 1787.
WRITING PAPER, BY the Quire, Ream, or larger Quality, to be SOLD, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street.

POET'S CORNER.
REPUTATION.
To travel far as the wide world extends, Seeking for objects that deserv'd their care, Vigilant, with two selected friends, Talent refin'd, and Reputation fair.  As they went on, in their intended round, Talent first spoke, "My gentle comrades, say, Where each of you may probably be found, Should accident divide us on the way."  "If torn (she added) from my lov'd allies, A friendly patronage I hope to find, Where the fine arts from cultivation rise, And the sweet muse hath harmoniz'd mankind."  Says Virtue, "Did Sincerity appear, Or meek-ey'd Charity among the great; Could I find courtiers from corruption clear, 'Tis among these I'd seek for my retreat."  "Could I find patriots, for the public weal Assiduous, and without their selfish views; Could I find priests of undismembled zeal, 'Tis among those my residence I'd choose."  "In glittering domes let luxury reside; I must be found in some sequester'd cell, Far from the paths of avarice or pride, Where home-bred happiness delights to dwell."  "Ye may be trac'd, my gentle friend, 'tis true, But who (says Reputation) can explore My flipp'ry steps?—Keep, keep me in your view, If I'm once lost, you'll never find me more."
THE SQUANDERER.
SPENDTHRIFT and a fool, Tom Rake, Whose last green acre lay at stake, Attacks a man, of modest note, With—"Sir, your father had this coat."  The man reply'd, "Tis very true, And I've my father's land—HAVE YOU?"
ANECDOTES.
GARRICK and HOGARTH did not always agree. The latter entreated his friend David at one time to sit for his own picture, with which Garrick complied; but, while the painter was proceeding with his task, he mischievously altered his face with a gradual change, so as to render the portrait perfectly unlike. Hogarth blamed the unlucky effort of his art, and began a second time, but with the same success. After swearing a little, he began a third time, and did not discover the trick until after three or four repetitions. He then got into a violent passion, and would have thrown his pallet, pencils, and pound brushes at Garrick's head, if the wag had not made his escape from the variegated storm of colours that pursued him.
WILLIAM WHISTON dined with Lady JEKYLL, who, because she was sister to Lord Sommers, thought she must know more than other women. She asked him, "Why God Almighty made women out of the rib?"—Whiston scratched his head and said, "Indeed, madam, I do not know, except that the rib is the most crooked part of the body."
PRICE CURRENT AT NEW-YORK.
By the B U S H E L,    WHEAT, - - - - - 7/3.   Rye, - - - - - 4/5.   Oats, - - - - - 2/6.   Indian Corn, - - - - - 4/.   Albany Peas, - - - - - 6/.   Fine Salt, - - - - - 1/6.   Packing ditto, - - - - - 3/.   Rock ditto, - - - - - 3/ 3/4.   By the B A R R E L,    Fine Flour, - - - - - 42/.   Common ditto, - - - - - 38/.   Bur. Middlings, - - - - - 40/.   Beef, - - - - - 60/ 80/.   Pork, - - - - - 85/ 102/.   By the H U N D R E D,    Indian Meal, - - - - - 12/.   Rye ditto, - - - - - 15/ 17/.   Rice, - - - - - 30/ 32/.   Ship Bread, - - - - - 20/.   Muscovado Sugar, - - - - - 55/ 66/.   By the P O U N D,    Loaf Sugar, - - - - - 1/2 1/3.   Havanna ditto, - - - - - 12d.   Hylon Tea, - - - - - 9/6 10/.   Souhong ditto, - - - - - 6/ 8/.   Bohea ditto, - - - - - 2/11.   Hams, - - - - - 9d.   Butter, - - - - - 11d.   Tallow, - - - - - 10d.   Coffee, - - - - - 16d.   By the G A L I O N,    West-India Rum, - - - - - 3/10 4/2.   Spirits, - - - - - 4/6.   Molasses, - - - - - 1/10. 
HIGH WATER.
  Thursday, April 26. 4 42. Afternoon.   Friday, - - - - - 27. 5 30.   Saturday, - - - - - 28. 6 18.   Sunday, - - - - - 29. 7 6.   Monday, - - - - - 30. 7 54.   Tuesday, May 1. 8 26.   Wednesday, - - - - - 2. 9 10. 
Affize of BREAD.
A Wheaten Loaf of fine Flour, to weigh Two Pounds Four Ounces, for SIX-PENCE.—A Loaf of like Flour to weigh One Pound Four Ounces, for Four Coppers.
Flying Machine.
THE proprietors of the New Line of Stages respectfully inform the public, that after the 25th day of December, they will start in the following order, viz.
Two waggons will start from Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock P. M. every afternoon, during the winter season, Saturdays excepted. One will proceed by Newark, and one by Bergen-Point, to Major Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point. One waggon will start every morning, Saturday and Sunday excepted, from Newark, at 6 o'clock, and one from Major Crane's, at Elizabeth-Town Point, at seven o'clock, for Philadelphia, stopping ten minutes at Bridge-Town for the convenience of the inhabitants of that place.
Two waggons will start from the house of Michael Dennison, at the sign of the George , in Philadelphia, every morning, Saturday and Sunday excepted, at 6 o'clock, for New-York.
The proprietors having thus situated themselves, in order to accommodate the public on the different routes, by Newark and Elizabeth-Town Point, and Messrs. Ryerson and Twisley, being prepared to co-operate with our line, to convey the passengers who choose to pass by water to and from New-York and Elizabeth-Town Point, they flatter themselves those Gentlemen and Ladies , who favor them with their custom, will be fully satisfied with their accommodations; and as two Carriages will start every day, extra conveyance in future will cease.
The public will please to attend, that the stages will start exactly at the hours proposed, and all delays for passengers will be inadmissible.
ICHABOD GRUMMAN, MATHIAS WARD, JOHN CUMMING, DANIEL MARSH, THOMAS EGBERT, WILLIAM JONES, DAVID HAMMITTON, FRANCIS WITT, CHARLES BESSONET, MICHAEL DENNISON.
New-York, Dec. 23, 1786. 95—
Mr. RUSPINI,
SURGEON DENTIST,
FINDING his engagements abroad in the morning are attended with very great inconvenience, begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that for the future he means to attend at his rooms, No. 42, Hanover-Square , from seven o'clock in the morning till twelve o'clock at noon, where he may be consulted upon all complaints incident to the Teeth and Gums, and the most effectual method of preserving them in a healthy and beautiful state to extreme old age, and the remainder of the day he will attend his patients abroad.
N. B. Ruspini's Dentifrice, Powder, and Tincture to be had at his rooms, No. 42, Hanover-Square , and of Messieurs Berry and Roger, No. 35, Hanover-Square .
Also, Ruspini's most extraordinary Styptic Solution, which has been found so efficacious in all kinds of Hæmorrhages to be had at the above places. Jan. 25, 1787.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given,
that on application made to me, Richard Varick , Esq. recorder of the city of New-York, by a creditor of John Magoffin , of Hunterdon county in the state of New-Jersey, a debtor residing without this state, I have in pursuance of the act, entitled, " An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors ," passed the 4th of April, 1786, directed all the estate real and personal of the said John Magoffin , within this state, to be seized, and that unless the said John Magoffin does discharge his debts within one year from the date hereof, all his estates real and personal so seized will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors.—Given under my hand this 11th day of September, 1786.
81— RICHARD VARICK.
To COVER, the ensuing Season,
At King's Bridge, Westchester County,
THE noted strong and powerful dark bay HORSE
SAINT GEORGE.
He is fifteen hands high; was got by General Carleton's famous imported horse. Bred by the Duke of Bolton; got by his famous horse Steiling, one of the handsomest horses ever yet foaled, and a very high formed racer. Saint George was out of General Carleton's black Betz, allowed by the best judges to be the handsomest and best saddle mare ever bred in the province of Canada.
The scarcity of money, and the owner's desire to improve this famous breed of Horses, are inducements to be as reasonable in his charges as possible—THREE DOLLARS for the season, cash paid as soon as the Mare takes the Horse; Four Dollars if paid within six months after the Mare takes the Horse, in money or any kind of grain delivered at King's Bridge, at cash price; Five Dollars if not paid within nine months; Six Dollars if not paid within twelve months.
Good pasturing will be provided for the reception of Mares, and the greatest attention given. MASON WATTLES.
New-York, March 8, 1787. 5—
WHEREAS PAUL LENZS, of Harlem Township, in the County of New-York, gardner, and Elizabeth his wife (for the securing the payment of one hundred pounds, in Spanish milled dollars, at four shillings and six-pence sterling each dollar, or the value thereof in gold or silver, with lawful interest for the same, according to the condition of a certain bond bearing date the sixteenth day of April, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and executed by the said Paul Lenzs, to John Smith, of the city New-York, baker) did, by indenture of mortgage, bearing date the said sixteenth day of April, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, mortgage to the said John Smith, all that certain messuage, dwelling-house, and three several house lots, tract or parcel of land, contiguous to, and adjoining each other; situate, lying and being in the town of Harlem aforesaid, and heretofore purchased by the said Paul Lenzs, from John Livingston; bounded as follows, easterly and northerly by the land late of Abraham Myer, deceased; southerly by the high-way, and westerly by the land of Peter Waldron, deceased; containing by estimation five acres and a quarters be it more or less; together with all and singular the houses, out-houses, kitchens, stables, buildings, fences, waters, water courses, trees, woods, under-woods, easements, profits, emoluments, privileges, advantages, and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuage or dwelling-house, and three house lots, tract or parcel of land and premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, profits and profits thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof; and also all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, both in law and equity of them the said Paul Lenzs, and Elizabeth his wife, of, in and to all and singular the said messuage or dwelling-house and three house lots, tract or parcel of land and premises, or any part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances; and whereas in and by the said indenture of mortgage it was covenanted and agreed, that in case it should so happen, that the said sum of one hundred pounds, with the lawful interest for the same, or any part thereof, should remain due and unpaid at the time above mentioned, that then and from thenceforth it should and may be lawful to and for the said John Smith, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, to expose the said messuage or dwelling-house, three house lots, tract, piece or parcel of ground and premises to sale at public auction, vendue, or outcry, and to dispose the same to the best advantage, and to give good and sufficient conveyances in the law to the purchaser, or purchasers thereof, their heirs and assigns for ever; and out of the monies arising from the sale thereof, to retain and keep in their hands the said sum of one hundred pounds, or so much thereof as shall remain due and unpaid, with the lawful interest thereof; and also the costs of such sale, rendering the overplus, if any be, unto the said Paul Lenzs, his executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made, should be and were thereby declared to be a full barr and preclusion to any estate or interest which the said Paul Lenzs, or Elizabeth his wife, their heirs or assigns may have or claim to the said premises, or any part thereof; as in and by the said indenture of mortgage, reference thereto being had, may more fully and at large appear; and whereas part of the said principal and interest is now due and owing to the said John Smith; these are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the premises, that unless the whole of the said one hundred pounds, together with all the interest due, and to grow due thereon, is paid off and discharged on or before Tuesday the third day of October, next ensuing the date of this notification; all and singular the mortgaged premises aforesaid, will be sold by the said John Smith, on Tuesday the said third day of October, next ensuing the date hereof, as aforesaid, at eleven of the clock, in the forenoon of the same day, at the merchants Coffee-house in the city of New-York, pursuant to the directions contained in an act of the legislature of the late colony, now state of New-York, entitled, " An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates ," passed the nineteenth of March, 1774.
Dated this 29th day of March, 1787.
8— JOHN SMITH.
THOMAS SMITH,
BOOT and SHOE MAKER,
AND
LEATHER CUTTER,
Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beekman, or Chapel Street,
SELLS all sorts of Boots and Shoes
at the following prices:
   £. s. d.     Mens belt boots, town-made, warranted, 2 8 0   Common ditto, ditto, ditto, 2 4 0   Mens shoes, best sort, ditto, ditto, 0 12 0   Ditto shoes, strong ditto, from 3/. 0 9 0   Womens fatine, or callimanco shoes, 0 11 0   Ditto, leather ditto, 0 8 0   Boys, girls, and childrens shoes of all sorts.   English boot-legs, bend-foals, and country leather of all sorts, cheap for cash.   Black-ball of excellent quality for cleaning of boots and shoes, wholesale and retail.   A quantity of mens strong shoes, fit for country store-keepers, or the southern trade, and will be exchanged for tanned leather, or raw hides.   ** Wanted, North-American BANK-BILLS.  
ALL Persons who are indebted to the Subscriber, either on BOOK, or NEWS-PAPER Accounts, are earnestly solicited to make Payment by the FIRST OF MAY ensuing. ELIZABETH HOLT.
New-York, Feb. 15, 1786.
The PROPRIETORS of the Old Line of Stages, BEG leave to inform the public,
that they propose, from the eighth instant, to start their stages from Powles-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, every day during the winter season, Saturdays excepted;—to proceed, by the way of Newark, to Mr. Samuel Smith's at Elizabeth-Town the same evening; to set out from thence the next morning at six o'clock for Philadelphia, where they meet the Baltimore stages, and exchange passengers at Mr. J. Thompson's, at the Indian-Queen , in Fourth-street; from thence passengers may proceed to Savannah, in Georgia, in the same line of stages.
As this is the old and most extensive line of stages, careful drivers and good attendance, they trust, will continue the friendship of their old customers, and induce those ladies and gentlemen, who have occasion to travel in stages, to favor them with their custom.—The stage-office is kept in New-York, at the Powles-Hook ferry-house, sign of the ferry-boat, where seats may be engaged, and all baggage from Philadelphia, on freight, will be left at the stage-office, for the convenience of the public.—Those ladies and gentlemen, who wish to take seats, in this line, at Elizabeth-Town, will please to apply at Mr. Smith's tavern, where a stage-office is kept for that purpose.—The price of a passenger is as low as any other stage, from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and baggage as usual.
John Mersereau, Joseph Smith, William Flight, Joseph Davis, John Gulick, Gershom Johnson. Robert Stockton,
New-York, January 13, 1787. 98—
To be Sold, at Private Sale,
THE House No. 21, Greenwich-street, opposite the Air Furnace , near the North-River, with the lease of the two Lots whereon said house is built, of which for forty-six years are unexpired.
The above House is a noted stand for a tavern; containing three rooms on each floor; stabling for horses; subject to forty shillings each lo. per year ground rent.
The House rents for 35 pounds per annum.—For further particulars, enquire of Mr. JONAS UTT, on the premises, or the Printer hereof. New-York, Feb. 19, 1787. 2—
To the PUBLIC.
MAJOR PENDLETON'S
business calling him to the Southward, the STAGE-OFFICE is removed to HALL's No. 49, Cortlandt-street, leading from Oswego-Market to Powles-Hook ferry, being the first brick house on the left hand from Broad-Way—where may be had GENTLE BOARDING and LODGING. The Boston and Albany STAGES will start on Monday and Thursday mornings, precisely at five o'clock; those who wish to take seats are requested to apply the evening previous to starting, and leave all extra baggage.
A HACKNEY
will always be ready to convey Ladies and Gentlemen to any part of the town they may please to direct. 4—
N O T I C E.
THE subscriber, administrator, debonon of the goods, chattels, and credits of Joseph Mico, some time deceased, and formerly of the city of London, merchant, requests the respective debtors to the estate of the said Joseph Mico, to make settlement with the subscriber with all expedition, in order to prevent the commencement of legal prosecutions against them.
W. COCK, Attorney at Law, No. 66, Wall-street. New-York, Jan. 11, 1787. 98—
THE Partnership of BROOME and PLATT,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons indebted to them under that firm, or to either of them, or to the late partnership of SAMUEL BROOME and Co. are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, or to Daniel Phoenix, Esquire, merchant, No. 32, Water-Street, New-York, who is empowered to receive debts and give discharges. SAMUEL BROOME, JEREMIAH PLATT.
New-Haven, State of Connecticut, Nov. 18, 1786. 91—
NEW-YORK State Certificates,
Pierce's Final Settlements, Loan-Office Certificates, and every kind of Public Paper, BOUGHT and SOLD, by
ISAAC GUION,
At GUION, CARTHY, and Co's Store, No 164, WATER-STREET, Every Transaction in the Commission and Brokerage Business done with Secrecy, Punctuality, and Precision.
FOR SALE,
A considerable Sum in FINAL SETTLEMENTS, and some NEW-EMISSION of this STATE.—Apply as above.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE—
For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed but ONCE a WEEK, at only TWO DOLLARS per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED.
* * PRINTING, in all its Variety, performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.