The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-06-10 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 217, of VOL. XLII.]
TUESDAY, June 10, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2317.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
HARTFORD, April 28.
PROPOSALS, For Publishing, by Subscription, A COMPENDIUM OF Christian Theology.
By JOHN FREDERICK OSTERWALD, A celebrated Divine of Switzerland, Newly translated into English, from the Original LATIN.
By the Rev. JOHN McMANS.
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C O N T E N T S.
 1. CONCERNING the nature of the Gospel Ministry.  2. The qualifications of a minister of the word of God.  3. Preparation and vocation to the ministry.  4. The Method of Theological study.  5. A general idea of theology.  6. The constituent parts of theology.  Section I. Of Christian Theology. Concerning the Sacred Scripture.
Chap. 1. Concerning the books which constitute S. S.  2. The attributes of S. S.  3. The use of S. S.  Section II. Concerning God.
Chap. 1. Concerning the existence of God.  2. The attributes of God.  3. The holy trinity.  The first Part of Theology. Concerning the Time which preceded the Advent of Christ.
Chap. 1. Concerning the creation.  2. Providence.  3. Sin.  4. Decrees.  5. The Antediluvian world.  6. The calling of Abraham.  7. The law of Moses.  8. The prophets.  9. The various state of the Jews.  10. The state of other nations.  The latter Part of Theology. Concerning the Time subsequent to the Advent of Christ.
Section I. Chap. I. Concerning John the Baptist.
Section II. Concerning Jesus Christ. Chap. 1. That Jesus is the Messiah.  2. Concerning the person of Christ.  3. His threefold office.  4. His twofold state. 
Section III. Concerning the Constitution of the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning the mission of the Holy Spirit.  2. The Preaching of the apostles.  3. The destruction of the Jews.  4. The calling of the Gentiles. 
Section IV. Concerning the Doctrine which is preached in the Church.
Chap. 1. Concerning faith.  2. Repentance.  3. Good works.  4. Promises and threatenings.  5. Justification.  6. Sanctification. 
Section V. Concerning the Church.
Chap. 1. What we are to understand by the Church.  2. Church government.  3. Discipline.  4. The various state of the church. 
Section VI. Concerning the Assistance to Salvation.
Chap. 1. Concerning internal assistance.  2. External assistance.  3. Sacraments.  4. Baptism.  5. The holy Supper. 
Section VII. Concerning a future World.
Chap. 1. Concerning the state of man after death.  2. The end of the world.  3. The resurrection.  4. The last judgment.  5. Life Eternal.  6. Death External. 
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Just Published,
And to be sold by R. Hodge, T. Allen, S. Cambell, J. Reid, and S. Loudon, booksellers, and by the printer hereof,
AN ADDITIONAL NUMBER OF LETTERS FROM THE FEDERAL FARMER TO THE REPUBLICAN,
Leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late convention, and to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
The former letters, published under the signature of the Federal Farmer, have undergone several impressions in the different states, and several thousands of them have been sold. They are admitted, by candid men of both parties, to be written with a spirit of moderation and candour.
A number of principles are laid down in them, highly interesting to the people of America, which ought to be more fully illustrated, than the bounds which the author set to himself, in the former letters, would permit.
The design of these additional letters, is, more fully to explain and enforce the positions laid down in the former. The author does not aim to foment the passions; his appeal is to the reason of his readers. He wishes every man to examine for himself, and form his own opinion on the merits of the question.
There are very few dispassionate men, who do not wish to see amendments made to this system. The great drift of these additional letters, is, to point out what these amendments ought to be, and to adduce arguments to support them.
It is a matter of small importance, whether these amendments precede or succeed the adoption of the constitution, so that they be made.
It is hoped, therefore, that gentlemen who are sincere in declaring that they wish for amendments, will unite in turning their attention to the subject, that they may be prepared to accede to such as are proper.—To those who are thus disposed, this publication is recommended.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD
By Thomas Greenleaf, At No. 25, Water-street, The Genuine Information, Relative to the Proceedings of the General Convention, Lately held at PHILADELPHIA, By LUTHER MARTIN, Esquire, Attorney-General of Maryland, and one of the Delegates in the said Convention.
Together with A LETTER To the Honorable Thomas C. Deye, Speaker of the House of Delegates;
An ADDRESS To the Citizens of the UNITED STATES; And some REMARKS Relative to
A STANDING ARMY, AND A BILL OF RIGHTS.
Nullius additus jurare in Verba Magistri. —Horace This excellent Performance ought, for the solid and serious Truths it contains, like the Bible and the Letters of Junius, to be in the Hands of every real Friend to American Liberty—In the Language of the sacred Law, "Teach them diligently unto thy Children—talk of them when thou sittest in thine House—and when thou walkest by the Way." Impresses it on their tender Minds, as the first Article of their political Creed, That there is no Government safe with a Standing Army, and there is no Government that is not safe without one. April 23, 1788. 77 c.d. New-York, May 8, 1788. 89—m.tb.&c.
JUST PUBLISHED, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 123, Queen-Street, and at
This PRINTING-OFFICE, An Address to the people of the state of New-York; shewing the necessity of making AMENDMENTS to the constitution proposed for the United States, previous to its ADOPTION."
To which is added, by way of postscript, some STRICTURES on a pamphlet, lately published, entitled, "An address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the proposed constitution, &c."
By a PLEBEIAN.
WHEREAS RICHARD BAYLIS, of Goshen, in the county of Orange and late colony of New-York, for securing the payment of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, current money of the state of New-York, with lawful interest for the same according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June, 1771, and executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake, of the city of New-York, did by indentures of lease and release, bearing date respectively the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake: All that certain piece or parcel of LAND, situate, lying and being in Goshen, in the county of Orange, known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at the south east corner of the lands conveyed by Ebenezer Holly to Jossah Seely, then running north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of Ebenezer Holly, to a ditch on the south side of said Holly's meadow, thence south westerly along said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south-easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Jeremiah Coleman to the high way, then along the high way to the place of beginning; containing seven acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be granted, and released; and every part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns for ever—In which said indenture of release is contained a covenant, that in case it should so happen that the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with the interest, or any part thereof should remain due and unpaid on the 24th day of June then next ensuing, the date of the said indenture of release then and in such case it should and might be lawful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to any person or persons for such sum or sums of money as might be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to retain and keep in his hands the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, and the interest that might be due thereon, together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made by virtue of the said indenture of mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity of redemption of the premises or any part thereof:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by a certain instrument in writing under his hand and seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe Gale, of the county of Orange and state of New-York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage, and all monies due and to grow due thereon, together with all the right, title, and interest of him the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mortgaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the principal sum, together with a great arrear of interest still remains due and unpaid—These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the said premises, that unless the said one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six pence, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, to be held on the premises, on the said sixth day of November next, at eleven o'clock in forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the directions of a certain act of the legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four. COE GALE.
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The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
CONTAINING, A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, 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.
The PROPRIETORS of the New-York and Philadelphia
NEW LINE ***** *STAGE AND FOUR HORSES.* ***** STAGES,
Owned by Cumming & Ward, at Newark, and by Michael Dennison, in Philadelphia, RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their Stages leave Powles- Hook every afternoon (except Saturday) at 4 on their route for Philadelphia, proceed by Newark to Elizabeth Town that evening—Leave Elizabeth Town, and Michael Dennison's, George Inn, Phi- ladelphia, at three o'clock every morning, except Sunday, and drive to Philadelphia and Powles Hook that day.
On Monday the 21st of April an extra Stage will start for the accommodation of select parties, and those gentlemen and ladies who wish to indulge themselves in the morning, or who fear the bad effects of the early air. This stage will leave Pow- les Hook at seven o'clock, and Philadelphia at eight o'clock every morning (except Saturday and Sun- day) and proceed with the same speed as the early stage.
The expence of the stage to each passenger will be Three Spanish Milled Dollars from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and Four-pence per mile for all way passengers. One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same as a passenger—Fourteen weight of bag- gage gratis.
The expedition, lowness of fare, and certainty of arrival, must convince the public, that this route is preferable to the Amboy, as the journey is per- formed in half the time.
Letters, Newspapers, &c. left at the New- York, Albany, and Philadelphia stage office, kept by Christopher Beckman, in Courtlandt-street, New- York, and with Mr. Michael Dennison, at the George Inn, corner of Arch and Second-street, Philadelphia, will be safely conveyed gratis.
JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON.
April 11, 1788. 67. e.d. 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 their attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit the favors of the public.
The stage will leave Powles-Hook, every after- noon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Eliza- beth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Eliza- beth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge- town in Raraway, 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, CHARL BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLINE.
Just Published, At Thomas Greenleaf's Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-Street. A new, complete, and correct Edition of Baron Steuben's Regulations
FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.
SHRUB, Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Bar- rel, or smaller Quantity, FOR SALE by Charles Tillinghast, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market in Cherry-Street.
Wants Employment. A PERSON who can be useful in keeping a Store, or can be of service in making out, and settling accounts, weighing, delivering, &c. As he is in immediate want of some kind of bus- iness, he would accept of almost any employ. He is furnished with good credentials of recommen- da.—Enquire of the Printer.

MISCELLANY.
Anno vicefimo octavo GEORGEII III. REGIS.
An act to continue the laws now in force for regulating the trade between the subjects of his majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the United States of America, so far as the same shall relate to trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the countries belonging to the said United States.
WHEREAS an act made in the twenty-third year of the reign of his present majesty (intitled, "an act for preventing certain instruments from being required from ships belonging to the United States of America; and to give to his majesty, for a limited time, certain powers for the better carrying on trade and commerce between the subjects of his majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the said United States) which said act has been continued, by several subsequent acts, until the fifth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: And whereas by an act made in the twenty-fourth year of his present majesty's reign (intitled, "an act to extend the powers of an act, made in the twenty-third year of his present majesty, for giving his majesty certain powers for the better carrying on trade and commerce between the subjects of his majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the United States of America, to the trade and commerce of this kingdom with the British colonies and plantations in America, with respect to certain articles therein mentioned) the powers given by the said recited act were extended to the trade and intercourse between this kingdom and the British colonies and plantations in America, so far as the same might relate to iron, hemp, and sail-cloth, and other articles of the produce of any place bordering on the Baltic, which might be exported from this kingdom; which said last mentioned act has also, by several subsequent acts, been continued until the fifth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: And whereas it is expedient that the said act of the twenty-third year of his present majesty's reign, so far only as the same extends to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the people and territories belonging to the United States of America; and also that the said act of the twenty-fourth year of his present majesty's reign should be further continued; may it therefore please your majesty, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said act of the twenty-third year of his present majesty's reign, so far only as the same extends to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the people and territories belonging to the United States of America; and that the said act, made in the twenty-fourth year of his present majesty's reign, and all the matters and things therein contained, shall continue and be in force until the first day of April 1789.
II. And be it further enacted, That if any iron, hemp, sail cloth, or other articles of the produce of any place bordering on the Baltic, which may be lawfully exported from this kingdom, shall be exported from hence in any other manner than such as is or shall be allowed by any law now in force, or which shall hereafter be in force, or by
order of his majesty in council; or if any goods or commodities whatever shall be imported from any of the territories of the United States of America, into any of the ports of this kingdom; other than such as by any law now in force, or which shall hereafter be in force, or by virtue of this present act, or by order of his majesty in council, now are, or hereafter shall be permitted to be imported; or if any goods or commodities shall be imported from the United States of America into any of the ports of this kingdom, in any other manner whatever, than such as is or shall be allowed by any law now in force, or which shall hereafter be in force, or by order of his majesty's council, the same shall be forfeited, together with the ship or vessel in which such goods or commodities shall respectively be exported or imported, and all the guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel belonging thereto.
III. And be it further enacted, That every forfeiture incurred by virtue of this act, shall and may be sued for, prosecuted and recovered, by such and the like ways, means and methods, and the produce thereof disposed of, paid and applied in such and the like manner, and to such and the like uses and purposes, as any forfeiture incurred by any law, respecting the revenue of customs may now be sued for, prosecuted and recovered in the places, where respectively the offence shall be committed; and that the produce thereof shall be disposed of, paid and applied in like manner, in the said places respectively; any law, custom or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding.
IV. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the fifth day of April, 1789, and no longer.
GLORY, a Scrap.
YE favored of Heaven—while the wanton spring pours upon you all her blooming honors, let not Glory seduce you, with her delusive blaze, to pass in perils and dangers the delicious season, this prime of life! Wisdom points out to you the road to pleasure: Nature beckons to you to follow her in that smooth and flowery path! Will you shut your ears to their commanding voice, will you harden your hearts to their soft allurements?—Oh! deluded mortals!—Thus to lose your youth, thus to throw away so invaluable a blessing!—Contemplate well your recompence! Consider that Glory which so allures your proud hearts, and seduces you with your own praises—It is an echo—a dream—nay the shadow of a dream, which is dissipated by every wind, and lost by every contrary breath of the ignorant and ill-judging multitude—You fear not, that even death itself will ravish it from you: But behold, while you are yet alive, calumny bereaves you of it, ignorance neglects it, nature enjoys it not, fancy alone, renouncing every pleasure, receives this airy recompence, empty and unstable.
DEMOCCRITUS.
From the VERMONT JOURNAL. Messrs. Printers, The following is said to be a genuine copy of a letter from Mr. Woolston, of London, to General Ethan Allen—you will oblige a friend by giving it a place in your useful paper.
To ETHAN ALLEN, Esquire.
SIR, I HAVE been informed by gentlemen of your acquaintance, that you take a singular pride in being an Original in your late performance. That you disdain the notion of having borrowed any of your bright ideas (as contained in your book) from Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Herbert, or any of the former deistical writers. Whether that is the case or not, I confess is quite immaterial to me. But what I feel myself peculiarly interested in, is to inform you, that your publication has been read by some gentlemen in this country, and supposed to be a republication of a book written in London in 1693, by Mr. Charles Blount, and which was plainly intended to propagate infidelity. It had a pompous title, The Oracle of Reason, and was published after Mr. Blount's unhappy end, by his friend Mr. Charle
Gildon, who ushered it into the world by a preface in defence of self-murder, which Mr. Blount had been guilty of to get rid of the uneasiness that tormented him for having shamefully mispent his time in writing such impious nonsense. It is apprehended, from your great exertions in publishing this book, that you have really adopted the sentiments and principles of the author, without being acquainted with the tragical effect they had upon him. To prevent a similar fate this information is sent you, that by a speedy renunciation of those wild and vicious principles, you may avoid the rock on which your predecessor split. And in order to effect this desirable purpose, I shall send you one word of advice.
To know all that can be obtained by our utmost diligence and sagacity, to search into the hidden causes of things, to examine the truth and reality of our knowledge, is an ambition worthy of a rational soul. But all kinds of laudable ambition grow to be vicious and despicable, when, instead of pursuing the real good, which is the true object, they seek only to make a show and appearance of it.
Thus it is, that ambition for virtue, produces hypocrisy; ambition for courage, empty boastings and unreasonable relents; and, by the same rule, ambition for learning and knowledge, produces pedantry and paradoxes: for he who would desire to appear to know more than other men, is ready to contradict the reason and sense of all men; for the same cause that he who is desirous of being thought to have more courage than others, is ready to quarrel with every man he meets. And this is a temptation to which many daily sacrifice the innocence and integrity of their minds, whilst they mean little else by the singularity of their opinion, than to recommend themselves to the world as persons of more than ordinary discernment.
This sort of vanity it is, which has furnished the world with scepticks in every science, and in religion above all others. Other sciences are the attainment of but a small part of mankind; and to triumph over their errors is at best but a limited glory: whereas religion being the general persuasion of the world, to conquer in this cause looks like universal monarchy, and seems to be the very empire of wisdom and knowledge rising out of the ruins of universal ignorance and superstition. And thus it comes to pass, that weak and vain men often make profession of greater infidelity than in truth they are guilty of, and are content to give the lie to their own reason, as well as that of all mankind, rather than to lose the credit of differing from the rest of the world.
Consider this case well, and judge of it from your own experience and observation. If the instances which meet you every day do not bear witness to the truth of what I say, believe me not: but if they do, let the folly of others teach you so much wisdom, as not to give up your reason and understanding, your hopes here and hereafter, to a senseless unprofitable vanity.
Try your own heart by this rule, and if ever you have offended against the majesty of heaven by endeavouring to expose his sacred truths, ask yourself this serious question, whether you did not betray your religion in compliment to yourself, to gain the credit of being a very discerning man, or to set forth your own abilities? If you did, remember before it is too late, that for these things your offended God will call you into judgment.
WOOLSTON.
London, Jan. 4, 1788.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, April 12.
ORDERS have been given by the French minister at war, for the immediate formation of three camps, to consist of twenty thousand men each. This is from Paris, and may be relied upon.
The following is an extract of a letter from Gibraltar, March 13 — "The vessels belonging to commodore Cosby's squadron, which has made a general review of what is a going on in the African ports, have returned with an account that they were everywhere equipping ships of force. At Tunis, the Bey has finished nine ships for the particular service of the Porte; three of them are frigates of considerable force. The Dey of Algiers is also decidedly against the enemies of the Ottoman faith, and besides others, has two ships of 50 guns each, almost new, rigged and manned in the compleatest manner. The Emperor of Morocco, who about two years since sent away the Russian Consul from Tetuan, has made no declaration, but his intentions are every way apparent. The Moors will be a valuable acquisition, as they reckon thirty men of war, of which four or five are fit for laying a long side any of the Muscovite ships of 60 guns. We expect, in a few months, sufficient news in this part to furnish out a long letter every post. Till when adieu."
"P. S. The commodore in the Trusty, of 50 guns, is still absent from us on a cruise."
American Occurrences.
NASSAU, May 3.
THE inhabitants of this town have been much alarmed by a vessel from Jamaica, having on board Negroes infected with the small pox—Measures, and we trust they are effectual ones, have been taken to prevent the infection from spreading—Lest these should prove abortive, it is earnestly recommended by a medical correspondent to parents and others having the charge of children, to adopt the precautions of preventing their being exposed to heat of the sun, and being particularly attentive to their diet; every species of animal and other gross food being highly prejudicial in such cases.
For the two last months, these islands have experienced a most severe draught. The planters are now anxiously looking for rain, and we heartily join them in the wish, that the next moon may be a watery one.
The ship St. Claire, from Port-au-Prince, in St. Domingo, for Nantz in Old France, with a cargo of coffee & sugar, ran ashore in the night of the 19th instant, on the Yumeta Rock, five leagues, to the southward of Lorig-Island. Next day the schooner Lion of this port, bound from hence to Lorig-Island, fell in with her, took off the crew, saved part of the cargo and rigging, and landed them here last Thursday.
BALTIMORE, June 3.
On the 1st instant the beautiful little ship Federalist (the same the merchants used in the late procession) completely rigged and highly ornamented, sailed for Mount Vernon. Capt. Barney has the honor to present her to the illustrious Farmer, who owns that spot, as an offering from the merchants, expressive of their veneration of his services and federalism.
A certain Davenport, one of the perpetrators of the late horrid murder of the hapless captain John de Corle, was apprehended a few days ago, and lodged in Talbot county gaol. This wretch and his bloody associates, have, we hear, confessed their guilt.
A correspondent observes, on the amendments reported to the South-Carolina convention, that there is only one of them, and part of another, which correspond with the amendments offered by the Maryland opposition.
HARTFORD, June 2.
Last Thursday the honourable general assembly of this state finished their session.
The following acts were passed during the session, viz.
An act for altering the times for holding the county courts in the county of New-Haven, to the third Tuesday in March and second Tuesday in November annually.
An act for encouraging manufactures in this state.
An act for regulating goals and goalers; impairing the courts in certain cases to direct prisoners to be kept in close confinement.
An act for regulating the collection of rates or taxes, so far as respects the sale of land for taxes.
An act providing for the relief of disabled officers, soldiers and seamen.
An act for annexing the town of Brookfield to Fairfield county.
An act for instituting and defining the office of comptroller of public accounts.
An act granting a tax of three pence on the pound, payable the first of January, 1789, on the list for the year 1787.
An act directing the sum of forty shillings on each the land pounds on the list, to be paid out of the civil list taxes for the use of schools.
A bill directing the treasurer not to discount interest on Morris's notes.
An act limiting the commissions of judges and justices to the 20th of June annually.
The hon. Richard Law, Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, William Pitkin, and Oliver Ellsworth, esquires,
Are appointed judges of the superior court for the ensuing year.
Oliver Wolcott, jun. Esq. is appointed comptroller of accounts for this state.
Hartland (West-Mountain) May 27. "Yesterday afternoon, five o'clock, Mr. Lemuel Prisbie, of Berkhamsted, formerly of Branford, one of seven men at work in the woods felling trees, was struck by a falling tree, his body crushed and much bruised, the bones of his neck, shoulders, and back, broken in pieces, and he instantly died, aged about 34 years. He was a man of an amiable disposition and character—has left a distressed widow and four small children."
New-York, June 10.
YESTERDAY arrived a sloop Countess of Galvez, from St. Augustine, in eight days.
A morning London paper, late in April, has the following intelligence. By a gentleman just arrived from Liepzig, we are informed, that it was generally reported and

believed, that a revolution had happened in Russia, and that the Empress was dethroned. Capt. Savage, of the Rodney, arrived at Liverpool from Dominica, took on board the crew of the Betley, Driggs, from Tortola to New-York; had been out 50 days, 14 of which they had been without provisions or water. The crew consisted of eight people, six of whom were sick or lame, and all of them exhausted to the last extremity.
The General Assembly of the State of Delaware met at Dover on Tuesday last.
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, March 3.
"The Venetian resident has not been at the meetings of the foreign ministers for some days past, but has shut himself up in his own hotel. This is thought to look ominous, and as if that republic had a design to break with the Ottoman Porte. His sublime Highness will not, however, easily draw upon himself a new war; but if there should be any thing amiss, it may probably be settled by negotiation."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Savannah, to his friend in this city, dated the 14th of May, 1788.
"You request my opinion on the real cause of our present disturbances with the Indians. I give it you with pleasure, as I find you are generally in error on that subject."
"The Creek Indians are settled along our western frontiers between this state and Florida, amounting perhaps in the whole to five or six thousand men. The supply of this nation with goods and the monopoly of their furs and peltry, formed a very profitable branch of the commerce of this state before the revolution, and since it has been almost exclusively in the hands of the citizens of this state. There has been a house lately established at St. Mark's in Florida, supported and furnished by the refugees in the Bahama Islands, for the sole purpose of engrossing the Indian trade. The same Alexander McGillivray, whom you see so often mentioned, is taken in as one of the partners, and being the son of an Indian woman of good family in one of their towns, he has been able to gain some adherents to assist him in his design."
"His constant business for these three years past, has been to involve this state in a war with the Indians, to effectually break up all communication on this quarter, and thus secure the whole Indian trade in their own hands."
"It is in the power of a few individuals, active as they are in mischief, to keep so extensive a frontier as ours constantly in alarm, and unless speedily checked or explained by treaty, their barbarities will soon involve a whole settlement in war."
"We have several times quieted them by treaties and presents, but it has now been of so long continuance, and so many murders have been committed, the passions of so many on both sides are irritated to such a degree, that I fear it is now only to be suppressed by force."
"The pretended disputes between us and the Indians respecting territory, is a mere delusion. The boundary line of our frontier counties, as established in 1783, immediately on our entering into treaty with them at the close of the late war, gave them a very general satisfaction, and was never complained of in any of their different talks or treaties, till within these two years McGillivray and his party have found it necessary to have recourse to it. That this is the case you may be convinced from the tenor of their publications in the Bahama Gazettes. Last year they laid claim only to the lands lying between the Oconee river and the Ogechee; which would be allowing in their greater good-nature, our state to be in breadth from east to west between twenty and thirty miles."
"This year their claim is entirely new and in another part. They now challenge the tract of country on the sea-board, lying between us and Florida, from the Altamaha to St. Mary's River, including the counties of Glynn and Camden, which were laid out, and principally patented, in the time of Sir James Wright, our former Governor, before the revolution, and recited by name, as you will see in the constitution of this state, in 1777."
"I am sensible it is impossible entirely to prevent individuals from encroaching, and surveying lands beyond the Indian line. This is always very provoking to the Indians, and has been prevented as far as possible."
"I am confident there has not been an individual whole survey has been confirmed, or who has been allowed to settle himself beyond the boundary line as established by law, that the Indian nation in general has been well satisfied with the establishment of that line, and that the present disturbances among them, arise from entirely a different cause."
On Saturday fortnight, died, in Burlington, much lamented, William Pyne, Esquire, late of Exeter, in England. His funeral was attended by a number of respectable inhabitants.—From this gentleman's extensive knowledge in agriculture he may be considered as a loss to the community.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS assembled, May 8, 1788.
ON a report of the board of treasury, to whom was referred a motion, of Mr. Carrington.
Resolved, That Congress proceed to the election of two commissioners for settling the accounts of the five great departments, to continue in office one year.
Ordered, That the commissioners of accounts for the quarter-masters, commissary's, hospital, marine and cloathing departments, with the appropriation of the board of treasury, commence suits in behalf of the United States, against all persons in any of the said departments, who stand chargeable with public monies, computed from the present date; and that this order be published in the several states for the period above mentioned.
Resolved, That the said commissioners be directed to continue their unremitting attention to the final adjustment of all accounts which have arisen in the said departments, and to the recovery of all sums for which suits may be commenced; and that at the termination of their commission, they deposit with the register of the treasury all the books and papers of their respective offices, together with a general abstract of the sums due from individuals, in order that immediate measures may be adopted for the recovery of the same.
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec.
AMINIATURE PAINTER,
Lately arrived from FRANCE, Presents his RESPECTS to his Friends, and the Public in general, —And INFORMS them— That he DRAWS THE MOST STRIKING LIKENESSES OF LADIES and GENTLEMEN, At the LOWEST PRICE, And engages the Painting to be equal to any in Europe.
SHOULD the Likenesses not be approved of, after drawing, they will be taken back. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who will please to honor him with their commands, will be so kind as to enquire at Mrs. DAVIS's, No. 42, Hanover-Square, opposite Mr. Peter Goclet's.
PETER HENRI.
Ladies in the City will be waited on if desired.
New-York, June 9. 17—ed.
TO BE SOLD, At Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-House, on Monday the 16th inst. between the hours of twelve and one o'clock.
A LOT OF GROUND, SITUATE near Newburg, in the County of Ulster, bounded easterly by the North-River, southerly by lands of the Widow Leonard, westerly by the Lands of James M c Marster's, and northerly by the Lands of Capt. Joseph Pierson, containing about five acres and an half.
New-York, June 9. 17—ed.
The PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK,
By the Grace of God Free and Independent
To the Sheriff of Queen's County, Greeting:
WHEREAS by our writ we have lately commanded you, that you should cause Thomas Van Wyck, late of Oyster-Bay, in Queen's county and state of New-York, yeoman, to be demanded from county court to county court, until, according to the law and custom of our state, he should be outlawed if he should not appear, and if he should appear then that you should take him and cause him to be safely kept, so that you might have his body before our justices of our supreme court of judicature, at the City Hall of the city of Albany, on the last Tuesday of July next, to answer unto William Loines, of a plea, that he render unto him the said William Loines, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine pounds nineteen shillings and eight-pence, current money of New-York, which he owes him and unjustly detains, as he saith: therefore we command you, by virtue of the statute in such case made and provided, that you cause the said Thomas Van Wyck to be proclaimed upon three several days, according to the form of the same statute (one of the same proclamations to be made in your open county court, and one other of the same proclamations at the general sessions of the peace in those parts where the said Thomas Van Wyck inhabits, and one other of the same proclamations at or near the most usual door of the church of the town wherein he inhabits) that he render himself unto you, so that you may have his body before our justices of our supreme court of judicature, at the City-Hall of the city of Albany at the day aforesaid, to answer the said William Loines of the plea aforesaid, and have you then there this writ. Witness Richard Morris, Esq. chief justice at the City-Hall of the city of New-York, the eighteenth day of April, in the twelfth year of our independence.
M c KESSON.
DIVINE MUSIC.
On WEDNESDAY, the 11th Inst.
Will be performed, At the GERMAN CHURCH, In Nassau-Street, New-York.
For the RELIEF of the GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH in the City of ALBANY
I. GRAND OVERTURE, by Martiny. II. Anthem from the 134th Psalm. III. Jonah, an Oratorio, composed by S. Felfeld. IV. Sinfonia. V. Anthem from sundry Scriptures. VI. Sinfonia finale.
To prevent disorder, care will be taken that only such a number of Tickets will be sold as to accommodate the auditory with seats. The door to be opened at three o'clock, and the performance to begin precisely half after four, after which no person can be admitted.
TICKETS, at Five SHILLINGS each, to be had at the MANAGERS, viz. The Reverend Doctor Kunze, The Reverend Mr. Gros, John Meyer, Partition-Street, Henry Will, No. 3, Water-Street, George Gilfert, No. 64, Nassau-Street. Printed BILLS, containing the particulars, will be given with the Tickets.
New-York, June 6th, 1788. 14—sted
Advertisement.
STOLEN from the subscriber, on the night of the 6th inst. a forrel ball faced Horse about 14 hands high; natural to a single footed trot, about 7 years old, about one half of his mane cut off on the near side, 3 white feet. It is supposed he is carried by the thief into the Jerseys. Whoever will take up said thief and horse, so that the thief may be brought to justice, and the horse returned to the subscriber, shall receive Five Dollars reward, and all reasonable charges, and for the Horse, Three Dollars, and all reasonable charges. It is supposed said horse is stole by one Caleb Ferris, who hath been guilty of such crimes, and it is said he is in the Jerseys.
BARBARAH FALMER. Greenwich, Fairfield county, state of (Connecticut, May 12th, 1788. 15 3w 1th
Starch and Hair-Powder,
MANUFACTURED and SOLD by Isaac & John Stoutenburgh, At the corner of Greenwich and Dey Streets, North-River.
TO LET,
Two convenient ROOMS, For the Summer Season, IN an elegant HOUSE, and pleasant Situation; at Gravesend, King's County.—Enquire of the PRINTER, or at Dr Smith's, living in said House. May 6 1788. 300 t.1th.&f. 3w.
Wants a Place,
A WET NURSE, who can be well recommended, and who would go into a family. Enquire of the printer. New-York, June 6, 1788. 14—e.d.
TO BE SOLD The SCHOONER DOLPHIN,
NOW lying at EYERES's Wharf, near to Ackley's ship-yard.—Said vessel is not quite two years old, about seventy tons burthen—a very fast sailor, and well built. Has just been hove down, and might be sent to sea at a small expence. For terms of sale apply on board. New-York, June 2, 1788. 11—e.d.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam, And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191 Queen-street, opposite Beekman's-Ship,
By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY, A general Assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Calicoes, Ribbons, Lutestrings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store,
Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfnets. t.f James M. Hughes, Has removed his
OFFICE
From No. 24, Golden-Hill, to Water-street, near the Coffee-House, No. 197.
Rooms to Let,
EITHER furnished or unfurnished; one of which is a lower front room very convenient for a Lawyer's Office, or a Doctor's shop.
A STABLE & CELLAR,
Enquire of the Printer. New-York, June 6, 1788. 14—e.d.
American Printed Books,
This Day is published, and to be Sold,
By ROBERT HODGE,
No. 237, the Corner of King & Queen-street, The Miscellaneous Works
OF PHILIP FRENEAU.
Containing his Essays and additional Poems. THIS second volume of our American Author, is replete with the highest sentimental entertainment. Humour, wit, and satire, flow in copious strains.—It requires only to be read to be admired.
Such gentlemen, in this city and state, as honored this vol. with their subscriptions, will be pleased to send for it as soon as convenient.
THE MESSIAH,
Attempted from the GERMAN of Mr. KLOPSTOCK.
To those who are acquainted with the merits of this work, little need be said to becommmend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all; with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detestation and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a humble obedience to the King of Kings.
This piece of religious and moral painting has obtained Mr. Klopstock the honor of being esteemed the Milton of Germany, and is considered as having completed what favorite son of the British muse had left unfinished.—The beauties of the Messiah equal Paradise Lost:—Paradise Regained, though far from being destitute of merits is universally allowed to fall much below this work, and is acknowledged to be deficient in that unbounded invention, that beautiful machinery, and variety of characters, which distinguish the rigorous efforts of Mr. Klopstock's genius.
The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan, and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
SERMONS,
By the celebrated RICHARD PRICE, D. D. L. L. D. F. R. S.
The Triumphs of Temper;
A Poem in six Cantos. By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughter. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion. Sheridan's Rhetorical Grammar. The Charms of Melody.—A new Song Book. Carver's Travels through the interior Parts of America.
Economy of Human Life. Webster's American Selection of Lessons, in reading and speaking. Webster's Institute; first and second Part. Pike's excellent System of Arithmatic. A few Sets of Newton on the Prophesies: Edwards on the Affections. Do. History of Redemption, &c. &c.
Also, JUST IMPORTED, A number of very valuable BOOKS,
Consisting of HISTORY, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Phyic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. &c.
Also an excellent Assortment of STATIONARY.
Genuine Writing Paper of different sizes and prices, Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes, Receipt Books, Bonnet and Cards, &c. &c. Commissions from the country are thankfully received, and carefully executed. 505— New-York, May 26, 1788.
FRANCIS DURAND,
No. 15, QUEEN-STREET, Has FOR SALE, imported in the French Packets,
The following ARTICLES, viz. CAMBRICKS, and Superfine French Broad Lawns, Cloths, Searlet, Blue, Umbrellas of different sizes, &c. &c. Lyon's quilted Sattins, Thread Laces and Edgings, Men's black and white Black Silk Laces, silk Hose, White and coloured Women's white do. Women's Kid Gloves Black Modes, yard wide Chintzes, &c. best assorted Ribbons,
A quantity of Russia Duck,
TO BE SOLD BY Solomon Townshend, Who has removed from Corner of Burling-Slip, a few doors towards the Fly-Market, the opposite side of the way, at No. 211, in Queen-Street.
A L S O,
Pig and Bar Iron, Blistered and Crowley's Steel, Anchors, Pot-ash Kettles of superior quality, A few barrels of Carriers Oyl and Babbler,

POET'S CORNER.
On the USE of WINE,
W E curse not wine: the vile excels we blame; More fruitfull, than th' accumulated boorl, Of pain and misery. For the subtle draught Foster and surer twells the vital tide; And with more active poison, than the floods Of grosser crudity convey, pervades The far remote meandie s of our frame. Ah! fly deceiver! branded o'er and o'er, Yet still believ'd! executing o'er the wretch Of sober vows! Mean time, I would not always dread the bowl, Nor ev'ry trespass Mnn. The feverish strife, Rous'd by the rare debauch, subdues, expels The loitering crudities that barthen life; And, like a torrent full and rapid, clears Th' obstructed tubes. Besides, this reflexes world Is full of chances, which, by habit's power, To learn to bear is easier than to shun. Ah! when ambition, meagre love of gold, O! sacred country, calls, with mellowing wine, To moisten well the thirsty suffrages; Say, how, unseason'd to the midnight frays Of Comus and his rout, with thou contend With Cæsars, long to hardy deeds enur'd? Then learn to revel; but by flow degrees. By flow degrees the liberal arts are won, And Hercules grew strong. But when you smooth The brows of care, indulge your festive vein In cups by well-inform'd experience found The least your bane; and only with your friends. There are sweet follies; frailties to be seen By friends alone, and men of generous minds.
Just imported in the last Vessels from London and Dublin, and to be SOLD, By HUGH GAIN, At his Printing-Office and Book-Store, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square.
  B ACON's Abridgement, Burrow's, Wilson's, Cowper's, Strang's, Atkyn's, Brown's, Douglass's, & Blackstone's Reports, Crown Circuit Companion, Hale's Pleas of the Crown, Buller's Nisi Prius, Burrow's Settlement Cafes, Clerks Instructor, Law of Awards, Running of Execution,  Vernon's Cafes, T. Raymond's Reports, Boot's built at Law, Digest of Cafes, Register of Common Pleas, Trial's per pais, Law of Bills, Practice in King's Bench and Common Pleas, Office of Sheriff, Hind's Practice in Chancery, Jacob's Law Dictionary, Sullivan's Law Lectures, Lex Mercatoria, Westcott on Insurance,  
Also the following BOOKS.   Young's and Cole's Dictionary, Clarke's Ovid, Corderii, Erasmus and Introduction, Mair's Cæsar, and Introduction, Selectæ Profanis, and Veteri, Beza's Testament, Rudiman's Rudiments, Davidson's Virgil, Smart's Horace, Virgil Delphini, Horace Delphini, Cornelius Nepos, Cæsar's Commentaries, Mair's Sallust, Lilly's & Rigg's Grammar, Schrevelius Lexicon, Westminster Greek Grammar, Lueder's Greek and Latin Testament, Homer's Iliad, Heard's Horace, Murphy's Lucian, Johnson's Entick's, Bailey's, Dyche's, & Fenning's Dictionary, Boye's French Dictionary, Perrin's French Grammar, Lowth's Grammar, Elegant Quarto Bibles with Cuts, & without common Prayers, Week's Preparation, Blank Books of every size, The very best sort of Writing Paper, Pens and Quills,  Hume's England, Cook's Voyages, 3 vols. with Cuts, Smith's Wealth of Nations, Beattie on Truth, Hutchinson's Philosophy, Goldsmith's History of Greece and Rome, abridged, Cox's Travels, Survey of the State of Europe, Elegant Extracts, Scot on Elocution, Emma Corbet, Gabriel O'Callaghan, Essay on Old Maids, Charlot's Letters, Romance of real Life, Fair Syrian, Emma Melcomb, Curse of Sentiment, Lucinda Olborne, Olivia, Platonic Guardian, Miss Greville, Captain and Miss Rivers, Zoraida, Spa. 18th Memoir, Perplexities of Love, Orlando, Village of Martinisdale, William of Normandy, Victim of Fancy, Joseph, Louisa, Lamly House, Errors of Innocence, Appearance against them   STATI ONARY.   Sealing Wax and Wafers, Red and black Ink-Powder, Sand and Sand Boxes.  
Said Gaine has just published, the best Edition of the Universal Spelling Book, that ever appeared in America or Europe, containing more spelling, and a great variety of matter, not to be found in any other spelling-book whatever. May 6. 88—m.th.4w.
Just Published, And to be Sold at the Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street, The Heidelbergh Catechism, A L S O, The Mothers Catechism.
Just published by M. CARY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (By whom subscriptions are received)
American Museum, FOR MAY, 1788. CONTAINING
Papers elucidating the rise and progress of the American revolution.
 R ESOLUTIONS entered into by the house of burgesses of Virginia, relative to the stamp act, May 29, 1765.  Resolutions agreed to by the house of assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, relative to the stamp act—Sept. 21, 1765.  Address of the house of delegates of the province of Maryland to the governor thereof.  Governor's answer.  Resolutions agreed to by the lower house of assembly, in the province of Maryland, Sept. 28, 1765.  Queries proposed by the chief justice of the supreme court held at Perth Amboy, to the lawyers of said court, relative to the stamp act, Sept. 20, 1765.  Extract from instructions of the inhabitants of the town of Plymouth, to Thomas Forster, their representative in the general assembly of Massachusetts bay, October 21, 1765.  The American Crisis, No. 1. 
Speeches and messages of governors of several states.
 Message of governor Sullivan to the general court of New Hampshire.  Speech of governor Clinton to both houses of the legislature of New-York.  Message from the president and the supreme executive council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the general assembly of said state.  Speech of governor Hancock to the legislature of the state of Massachusetts.  Speech of governor Huntington to the legislature of the state of Connecticut. 
Papers respecting the late private transactions with the Oneida Indians.
 Petition of John Livingston and Caleb Benson, to the legislature of New-York.  Another petition from the same to the same.  Proclamation by gov. Clinton.  Talk of the Oneida nations, lately received by the legislature of New-York. 
Papers respecting negro slavery.
 Petition intended to be presented to the continental convention, by the Philadelphia society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage.  Petition of a number of blacks to the legislature of Massachusetts.  Letter to the treasurer of the London society for promoting the abolition of the slave trade, from the rev. Boucher Nicholls. 
Political speculations.
 Address to the citizens of the united states.  Address to the people of Maryland, from the dissenting members of the late convention of that state.  Address to the freemen of South Carolina, on the proposed federal constitution. Said to have been written by Dr. Ramsay.  Letter from Dr. Rush to Dr. Ramsay, on the same subject.  Address to the members of the convention of Virginia, ascribed to Tench Coxe, esq.  Remarks on the conduct of Spain, with respect to the navigation of the river Mississippi.  Remarks on ship-building in America.  Observations on the probable effects of the late arret of the French court, respecting the intercourse with America.  Extract from a pamphlet, entitled "The true interest of the United States considered."  Speech delivered by a clergyman in the state of Massachusetts, on the fourth of January, 1787, relative to the late insurrection.  Thoughts on crimes and punishments. 
Miscellaneous.
 Description of a most effectual method of securing buildings from fire. Invented by Charles lord viscount Mahon.  On the retreat of swallows.  Population of the United States.  Comparative view of the extent of the United States, &c.  On the danger of introducing epidemical disorders, through want of proper precautions.  Petition of Daniel Shays and Eli Parsons, to the general court of Massachusetts.  Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the convention of Maryland.  Circular letter, directed to the different courts in the western country.  Letter from captain John Sullivan, late of the continental army, to the Spanish minister at New-York.  Letter from the same to governor Pinckney.  Premiums offered by the society for political inquiries. 
Rural concerns.
 Method of destroying caterpillars upon trees.  Hint on the management of sheep.  On the use of mud as a manure.  On the culture of carrots.  Advantages of the use of oxen in draft, &c. 
Poetry.
 Mount Vernon. By Colonel Humphreys.  The shield of Achilles. By the late Dr. Ladd. 
Intelligence.
 Foreign.  Domestic. 
Just Published, Enlarged, and Improved, 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 MAY, 1788.
CONTAINING, LETTERS to and from the late Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.
 Original Letters between Frederick and Felicia.  Solyma and Olfmia, an Oriental Tale.  Education—Importance of Female Education, with a brief sketch of a plan—The utility of educating young men at home, and of travelling in their native country.  A Hawk and Kite, very remarkable.  An extraordinary Mad Woman.  Account of an Egg laid by a Cock.  On Negro Slavery.  Man and Wife.  Letter 3d from a Gentleman to his Friend.  The Force of Sympathy.  A remarkable Parrot.  A new Discovery of the cause of an accelerated Motion of the Moon, observed by late Astronomers.  The Simile.  Letter 4th from Belzebub.  Receipt to make perpetual Eeast or Barm.  The Owan Outang, a distinct species of Animals.  The Adventure of the Inn concluded.  Sketch of a momentary Scene from nature.  A Dissertation read before the Philosophical society of New-York.  Remarks on writing and reading, read before the Philological society.  An Instance of extraordinary Memory.  The natural History of the Tea Tree, with an Inquiry into the medicinal Effects of that popular Plant.  The death of Major Andre.  A summa y Account of the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq.  Account of the Funeral of William the Conqueror.  Directions given by Richard 2d about his Funeral.  Ancient Epitaphs.  Curious Extracts from Ancient Records.  Queries proposed by Candidus, on some apparent contradictions in scripture.  The Fairy's Ring. 
Review of new publications.
 Letters from the Federal Farmer to a Republican.  Remarks on the proposed plan of a Federal Government, by Aristides.  The Federalist, vol. 2.  On the Cultivation of Aloes.  Anecdote of Marshall Dorfling. 
P O E T R Y.
 To Young Gentlemen.  An Address to the Deity.  Sovereign Love.  Intelligence.  Marriages and Deaths. 
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.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such 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 lines, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Ropemaker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer,
B L A N K S, To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
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, Sioio, 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 on 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 heads 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 show, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffaloes, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, Turkey, 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.
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