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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 24, of VOL. XLII.]
MONDAY, January 28, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2202.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and, that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the
New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half; after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that at the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, variegated and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and ph. sic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expenses—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the, United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charlesston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Auflin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787.
J. M.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD,
At this Printing-Office,
No. 25, Water-street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq.
Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be grown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 c.d.
To the Afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beekman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER.—From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. N. York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—c.d.
By Order of the Honorable RICHARD MORRIS, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to Moses Franks, and to all others whom it may concern, that on application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against abscinding and absent debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786, he hath issued his warrants to the sheriff of the city and county of New-York, and the sheriff of the county of Suffolk, commanding them to attach, take, seize and safely keep all the estate, as well real as personal, of the said Moses Franks, an absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof in whatever part of their bailiwicks the same can be found, with all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto. And that unless he the said Moses Franks shall appear by himself, or attorney, and discharge his debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all his estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated at the city of New-York, this twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight-seven. 41 mth. 15w
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ to me directed, issued out of the court of chancery of this state, I shall expose to sale, at Public Vendue, on the twenty-first day of January next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, on the premises, all that certain Dwelling-House, Messuage, Tenement, and Lot of Ground thereunto belonging, situate, lying and being in the city of New-York aforesaid, in Montgomery-Ward of the said city, on the north west side of Queen-street, bounded on the north east by the house and ground then or late of Charity De la Montagne, on the south west by the house and ground late of John Varnick, deceased, and on the north west by the piece of ground formerly part of the said lot, but late belonging to John Alpinwall and John Lawrence, and by them laid out for and agreed to be a public street for ever, and on the south east to Queen-street aforesaid, containing, in breadth, in front to Queen-street aforesaid, thirty feet, and in breadth in the rear about twenty-three feet and an half, and in length, on each side from Queen-street to extend one hundred and seventy-one feet, together with all and singular the appurtenances. Given under my hand, this sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. 62 mth. 6w. M. WILLET, Sheriff.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, issued out of the court of chancery will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Coffee-house, on Monday the Eleventh of February next, at twelve o'clock, all that DWELLING HOUSE, and LOT of GROUND, situate, lying, and being, in the south ward of the city of New-York, fronting north to a certain street, called White-Hall-street, and bounded north by said White-Hall-street, on the west by a lot of ground belonging to Edward Nichols, on the south, in the rear, by a lot of land belonging to James Brown, on the east by a lot belonging to Anthony Hunter, containing in breadth in front, and rear thirty feet, and in length, on each side sixty feet, to satisfy a certain mortgage made by Israel Phillips, of the city of New-York, merchant, to Joseph Nathan of the said city, merchant. M. WILLET, Sheriff. New-York, Dec. 29, 1787. 78 mth. 6w. 9
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Ryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assignee of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Ryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Ryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Assignee. 42 mth. 3w. 3m. New-York, November 15, 1787.
Masters & Owners of Vessels
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favorable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lines, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, houfeline, and marine, &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. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, IS now opened at the corner of Cortlandt and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River—where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable, New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. 62 c.d.

MISCELLANY.
MR. GREENLEAF.
Please to insert, in your impartial paper, the following extracts from a New England publication, upon the military powers granted to Congress by the proposed constitution, and oblige a great portion of your
READERS.
To the PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
THE Congress under the new constitution have the power "of organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and of governing them when in the service of the United States, giving to the separate states the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress." Let us enquire why they have assumed this great power: was it to strengthen the power which is now lodged in your hands, and relying upon you, and your ablest aid and support to the civil power in the execution of all the laws of the new Congress? Is this probable? Does the complexion of this new plan countenance such a supposition? When they unprecedently claim the power of raising and supporting armies, do they tell you for what purposes they are to be raised? How they are to be employed? How many they are to consist of, and where to be stationed? Is this power fettered with any one of these restrictions, which will shew they depend upon the militia, and not upon this infernal engine of oppression to execute their civil laws? The nature of the demand in itself contradicts such a supposition, and forces you to believe that it is for none of these causes - but rather for the purpose of consolidating and finally destroying your strength, as your respective governments are to be destroyed. They well know the impolicy of putting or keeping arms in the hands of a nervous people, at a distance from the seat of government, upon whom they mean to exercise the power suggested in that government. They have no idea of calling upon or trusting to the party aggrieved to support and enforce their own grievances (nowithstanding they may select and subject them to as strict a board as regular troops), unless they have a standing army to back and compel the execution of their orders. It is asserted by the most respectable writers upon government that a well regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered as the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen. Experience has taught them that a standing body of regular forces, whenever they can be completely introduced, are always efficacious in enforcing their edicts, however arbitrary; and slaves by profession themselves, are "nothing loath" to break down the barriers of freedom with a gout. No, my fellow-citizens, this plainly shews they do not mean to depend upon the citizens of the states alone to enforce their powers; they mean to lean upon something more substantial and summary. They have left the appointment of officers in the several states; but this appears to me an insult rather than a privilege, for what avails this right, if they at their pleasure may arm or disarm all or any part of the freemen of the United States, so that when their army is sufficiently numerous, they may put it out of the power of the freemen militia of
America to assert and defend their liberties, however they might be encroached upon by Congress. Does any, after reading this provision for a regular standing army, suppose that they intended to apply to the militia in all cases, and to pay particular attention to make them the bulwark of this continent. And would they not be equal to such an undertaking? Are they not abundantly able to give security and stability to your government as long as it is free? Are they not the only proper persons to do it? Are they not the most respectable body of yeomanry in that character upon earth? Have they not been engaged in some of the most brilliant actions in America, and more than once decided the fate of princes? In short do they not preclude the necessity of any standing army whatever, unless in case of invasion; and in that case it would be time enough to raise them, for no free government under heaven with a well disciplined militia was ever yet subdued by mercenary troops.
The advocates at the present day for a standing army in the new Congress, pretend it is necessary for the respectability of government. I defy them to produce an instance in any country, in the old or new world, where they have not finally done away the liberties of the people. Every writer upon government - Locke, Sidney, Hampden, and a list of others have uniformly asserted, that standing armies are a solecism in any government; that a nation ever supposed them, that did not resort to, rely upon, and finally become a prey to them: - No western historians have yet been hardy enough to advance principles that look a different way. What historians have asserted all the Grecian republics have verified. - They are brought up to obedience and unconditional submission. - With arms in their hands, they are taught to feel the weight of rigid discipline: - they are excluded from the enjoyments which liberty gives to its votaries, they, in consequence, hate and envy the rest of the community in which they are placed, and indulge a malignant pleasure in destroying those privileges to which they never can be admitted. - "Without a standing army (says the Marquis of Beccaria) in every society there is an effort constantly tending to confer on one part the height and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness, and this is of itself sufficient to employ the people's attention."
There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression; and the first policy of tyrants has been to annihilate all other means of national activity and defence, when they feared opposition, and to rely solely upon standing troops. - Repeated were the trials before the sovereigns of Europe dared to introduce them upon any pretext whatever; and the whole record of the transactions of mankind cannot furnish an instance (unless the proposed constitution may be called part of that record) where the motives which caused that establishment were not completely disguised. Pisistratus in Greece, and Dyonisius in Syracuse, Charles in France, and Henry in England, all cloaked their villainous intentions under an idea of raising a final body as a guard for their persons; and Spain could not succeed in the same nefarious plan, until through the influence of an ambitious priest (who have in all countries and in all ages, even at this day, encouraged and preached
up arbitrary power) they obtained it. "Caesar, who first attacked the commonwealth with mines, very soon opened his batteries." Notwithstanding all these objections to this engine of oppression, which are made by the most experienced men, and confirmed by every country where the rays of freedom ever extended; yet in America, which has hitherto been her favourite abode - in this civilized territory, where property is so valuable, and men are found with feelings that will not patiently submit to arbitrary controul - in this western region, where, my fellow-countrymen, it is confessedly proper that you should associate and dwell in society from choice and reflection, and not be kept together by force and fear, you are most readily to engraft into the component parts of your constitution a standing army, without any qualifying restraints whatever; certainly to exist somewhere in the bowels of your country in time of peace. It is very true that lawyer Wilson, member of the federal convention, and who we may suppose breathes in some measure the spirit of that body, tells you it is for the purpose of forming cantonments upon your frontiers, and for the dignity and safety of your country, as respects foreign nations. No man that loves his country could object to their being raised for the first of these causes, but for the last it cannot be necessary. God has so separated us by an extensive ocean from the rest of mankind, he hath liberally endowed us with privileges, and so abundantly authorizes us to esteem them precious, it would be impossible, while we retain our integrity, and adhere to first principles, for any nation whatever to subdue us. We have succeeded in our opposition to the most powerful people upon the globe; and the wound that America received in the struggle, where is it? As speedily had as the rack in the ocean is buried by the succeeding wave. It has scarcely stopped her progress, and our private dissensions only, at this moment, tarnish the lustre of the most illustrious nation under heaven.
You cannot help suspecting this gentleman, when he goes on to tell you, "that standing armies in time of peace have always been a topic of popular declamation, but Europe has found them necessary to maintain the appearance of strength in a season of the most profound tranquillity." This shews you his opinion, and that he, as one of the convention, was for unequivocally establishing them in time of peace; and to object to them, is a mere popular declamation. But I will not, my countrymen, I cannot believe you to be of the same sentiment. Where is the standing army in the world, that, like the musket they make use of, hath been, in time of peace, brightened and burnished for the sake of maintaining an appearance of strength, without being put to a different use, without having had a pernicious influence upon the morals, the habits, and the sentiments of society, and finally, taking a chief part in executing its laws? But some say, that there is a controul over them every two years, and that consists in the appropriation of monies for their support. Turn your attention to England, and see the popular part of this constitution, by the influence of money, by the influence of military and revenue officers, brought gravely to give their annual assent to the existence of a standing army, and for monies to support it. It has long since been an insult on the good sense of that nation.
It may not be amiss to remind you of that swarm of revenue, excise, impost, and stamp officers, continental assessors, and collectors, that your new constitution will introduce among you. They will, of themselves, be a standing army to you, and you will see them at your elections, active and industrious to secure the seats of those men who put them into office: They will be very adequate to give you a surfeit of their company, to make you tired in meddling with government, and disposed to become indifferent about the exercising of it, without the blessed assistance of any military corps.
Upon the whole, my countrymen, it appears to me, that this power as it now stands is decidedly improper and dangerous. That Congress ought to have the power of raising armies when invaded by our enemies, is certain; that they ought not to have it for any other cause, is equally so. If they did not, or do not mean to employ them in any other way, they ought in express terms to say so, in a Bill of Rights; especially in such an ill constructed government as the proposed constitution, in which the legislative, executive and judicial powers are blended in one small senate, without whose consent nothing can be done; the members of which are not appointed by the people; and who have also the power given them to re-elect themselves, or put off the election to any period.
If tyranny is at all feared, the tyranny of many is to be guarded against more than that of a single person. The Athenians found by sad experience, that 30 tyrants were thirty times worse than one. A bay aristocracy is thirty times worse than a bad monarchy, allowing each to have a standing army as unrestricted as in the proposed constitution.
If the people are not in general disposed to execute the powers of government, is time to suspect there is something wrong in that government and rather than employ a standing army, they had better have another; for in my humble opinion, it is yet much too early to set it down for a fact, that mankind cannot be governed but by force.
MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION. Summary of the arguments used in convention, on the debates respecting Biennial Elections.
[Concluded from Saturday's Paper.] THAT they may never be divested of it, I repeat that I am in favour of frequent elections. They who commend annual elections, are desired to consider, that the question is, whether biennial elections are a defect in the constitution: For it does not follow, because annual elections are safe, that biennial elections are dangerous; for both may be good. Nor is there any foundation for the fears of those, who say that if we who have been accustomed to chuse for one year only, now extend it to two, the next stride will be to five, or seven years, and the next for a term of life: for this article, with all its supposed defects, is in favour of liberty. Being inserted in the constitution, it is not subject to be repealed by law. We are sure that it is the worst of the case.
It is a fence against ambitious encroachments, too high and too strong to be passed: In this respect, we have greatly the advantage of the people of England, and of all the world. The law which limits their parliaments, is liable to be repealed.
I will not defend this article, by saying that it was a matter of compromise in the federal convention; it has my entire approbation as it stands. I think that we ought to prefer, in this article, biennial elections to annual, and my reasons for this opinion, are drawn from these sources:
From the extent of the country to be governed. The objects of their legislation. And the more perfect security of our liberty. It seems obvious, that men who are to collect in Congress from this great territory, perhaps from the bay of Fundy, or

from the banks of the Ohio, and the shore of Lake Superior, ought to have a longer term in office, than the delegates of a single state, in their own legislature. It is not by riding post to and from Congress, that a man can acquire a just knowledge of the true interests of the union. This term of election, is inapplicable to the state of a country as large as Germany, or as the Roman Empire in the zenith of its power.
If we consider the objects of their delegation, little doubt will remain. It is admitted that annual elections may be highly fit for the state legislature. Every citizen grows up with a knowledge of the local circumstances of the state. But the business of the federal government will be very different. The objects of their power are few and national. At least two years in office will be necessary to enable a man to judge of the trade and interests of states which he never saw. The time, I hope, will come, when this excellent country will furnish food (and freedom, which is better than food, which is the food of the soul) for fifty millions of happy people. Will any man say that the national business can be understood in one year?
Biennial elections appear to me, sir, an essential security to liberty. These are my reasons.
Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. We need not talk of the power of an aristocracy. The people when they lose their liberties, are cheated out of them. They nourish factions in their bosoms, which will subsist so long as abusing their honest credulity shall be the means of acquiring power. A democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption, and carry desolation in their way. The people always mean right, and if time is allowed for reflection and information, they will do right. I would not have the first wish, the momentary impulse of the public mind, become law. For it is not always the sense of the people, with whom, I admit, that all power resides. On great questions, we first hear the loud clamors of passion, artifice and faction. I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law. There is a calm review of public transactions, which is made by the citizens who have families, and children, the pledges of their fidelity. To provide for popular liberty, we must take care that measures should not be adopted without due deliberation.
The member chosen for two years, will feel some independence in his seat. The factions of the day will expire before the end of his term.
The people will be proportionally attentive to the merits of a candidate. Two years will afford opportunity to the member to deserve well of them, and they will require evidence that he has done it.
But, sir, the representatives are the grand inquisition of the union. They are by impeachment to bring great offenders to justice. One year will not suffice to detect guilt, and to pursue it to conviction. Therefore they will escape, and the balance of the two branches, will be destroyed; and the people oppressed with impunity. The senators will represent the sovereignty of the states. The representatives are to represent the people. The offices ought to bear some proportion in point of importance. This will be impossible if they are chosen for one year only.
Will the people, then, blind the eyes of their own watchmen? Will they bind the hands which are to hold the sword for their defence? Will they impair their own power, by an unreasonable jealousy of themselves?
For these reasons, I am clearly of opinion, that the article is entitled to our approbation as it stands: and as it has been demanded, why annual elections were not preferred to biennial, permit me to retort the question, and to enquire in my turn, what reason can be given why, if annual elections are good, biennial elections are not better?
[The following is inserted by desire.] From the Massachusetts Centinel. Mr. Russell, YOU are desired to inform the public from good authority, That Mr. Gerry, by giving his dissent to the proposed constitution, could have no motive for preserving an office, for he holds none under the United States, or any of them: — that he has not, as has been asserted, exchanged continental for state securities; and if he had, it would have been for his interest to have supported the new system, because thereby the states are restrained from impairing the obligation of contracts, and by a transfer of such securities, they may be recovered in the new federal court: — that he never heard in the convention a motion made, much less did he make any, "for the redemption of the
old continental money," but that he proposed the public debt should be made neither better nor worse by the new system, but stand precisely on the same ground as it now does by the articles of confederation; that had there been such a motion, he was not interested in it, as he did not then, neither does he now own the value of ten pounds in old continental money: that he never was called on for his reasons for not signing, but stated them fully in the progress of the business: his objections are principally contained in his letter to the legislature: — that he believes his colleagues men of too much honor to assert what is not truth, that his reasons in convention "were totally different from those which he has published:" — that his only motive for dissenting from the new constitution, was a firm persuasion that it would endanger the liberties of America: — that if the people are of a different opinion, they have a right to adopt it; but he was not authorised to do an act which appeared to him a surrender of their liberties: — that as a representative of a free state, he thought he was bound in honour, to vote according to his idea of her true interest, and that he should do the same in similar circumstances.
Cambridge, Jan. 3, 1788.
Society for the Relief of distressed debtors.
CHARITY and humanity are among the most necessary virtues in society; and the exercise of them, the most distinguishing characteristic of a christian, and a good citizen. Amidst the vicissitudes of life no man is exempt from calamities. The wealthy who riot in plenty to day, may by a misfortune that no prudence can prevent or elude, be numbered to-morrow among the objects of charity; and reduced to the necessity of accepting assistance from those whom they have in prosperity spurned from their tables. The laborer, who subsists on the earnings of the day, and whom one day's sickness deprives of one day's bread, is not the only person who is exposed to want, and to the necessity of sometimes living on the gratuitous provisions of a friend. It is not unfrequent to see a man step from a coach to a prison, and the possibility of such a change of circumstances, should inspire every man with a disposition to lend that assistance to his neighbour, which in himself may sometime or other want.
There are among the varieties of the human character, many individuals who appear evidently deficient in foresight, and that prudence which is necessary to make the requisite provision for futurity, and to guard against the innumerable contingencies of life. There are many good citizens, whose incessant application to labor, will not enable them to subsist themselves and their families, and at the same time, secure a small provision for their support, during a temporary failure of supplies. Such men are exposed to the accidents of disease, and want of employment—they are often reduced—and in distress they have a claim to the exercise of charity. If to people of this description we add a multitude whose indolence, intemperance, and vices of every kind, bring poverty on themselves and their families; and whose circumstances, notwithstanding their crimes, often demand some share of pity and relief; the humane disposition will find constant occasions for the exercise of the first of virtues.
In a large city like New-York, there are great numbers of persons, whose servile employments are necessary in furnishing the opulent with the conveniences and luxuries of life; who are unable to guard themselves from misfortunes, and the consequent distresses. The laws of this state having made no provision for the support of poor debtors in prison; such persons are often reduced to the alternative of starving, or subsisting on charitable donations. We pretend not to impeach the justice, or the policy of such laws, but it is obvious to every reflecting mind, that it is the duty of men, who live in society, and it is the interest of men who are liable to the same fate, to attempt to mitigate their severity, and relieve the objects of distress.
With this view, a number of gentlemen associated on the 26th of January, 1787, "For the purpose of enquiring occasionally into the circumstances of persons confined in the goal of this city, for debt, and rendering such relief as to them shall seem expedient, and unanimously agreed upon the following rules and articles.
 1st. That the society be called and known by the name of the society for the relief of distressed Debtors.  2d. That for the present, the society shall not consist of more than twenty four members.  3d. That whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the society to increase the number of members, or to fill up vacancies that may occasionally happen, the person proposed for admission, shall be nominated at a stated meeting of the society, and voted for at the next stated meeting, when a majority of the members shall be present, the votes to be taken by ballot, and the admission to be with the unanimous consent of the members present.  4th. That the society shall meet statedly on the second Friday of every month, and oftener as circumstances may require.  5th. That a president be chosen at every meeting, and that a secretary, and treasurer, be chosen annually.  6th. That a committee of three members be chosen to visit the goal; one of which, the first on the list, to go out every month, and a new one chosen to fill his place,—that this committee examine the number and condition of the persons confined in goal for debt, and furnish them with such supplies of the necessaries and comforts of life, as they may deem expedient; and draw on the treasurer from time to time, for such sums, as may be adequate for the purpose; and that they report their proceedings to the next monthly meeting of the society.  7th. That when ever the monthly committee of the society think it necessary, they shall be empowered, by giving one day's notice in writing, to call a special meeting of the society.  8th. That a book be kept by the secretary, in which the proceedings of the society shall from time to time be entered. 
9th. That it shall be the duty of every member of the society to serve in rotation on the monthly committee; and any member, refusing or omitting to give his attendance, and his delinquency being reported to the society by the other members of the committee, and his excuse not being judged satisfactory, shall be considered as having relinquished his seat in the society, and his name shall be taken from the list. Since which the society have been enabled, by the charitable contributions of sundry persons, to afford relief to 123 debtors, who were destitute of the means of subsistence, by distributing to their necessities the following articles:
 2942lb. beef and pork, 88bils. 17 qts. samp;  2826 bread, 32 cabbages,  42lb. cheese, 8 loads of woods,  244 bbls. potatoes, 6 flirts. 
To enable the society to continue the benevolent purposes of their institution, and render their attempts more extensively beneficial, donations from any quarter, will be very acceptable, and employed most advantageously in relieving objects of distress. The gentlemen appointed to receive donations, are the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Dr. Kunze, Mr. Beach, Mr. Linn, and Mr. Lawrence Embree.
Published by order of the society, JAMES COGSWELL, sec'ry. The Printers, in this city, are requested to publish the above, in their respective Papers.
American Occurrences.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 2, 1788. Yesterday a man was paraded through the streets, covered with feathers, stuck in a coat of tar, as a spectacle for the execration of others more honest than himself. This worthy went on board of a vessel, where he saw some goods so be-witching as to induce him to break, at least one of the commandments, which says, "Thou shalt not steal."
The following whimsical piece of intelligence is given as a fact: Rockford in Essex, Dec. 8. There is a court held here every Wednesday after Michaelmas Day; it commences in the morning as soon as the cocks begin to crow. The court hath neither candle, pen, ink or paper; and they only whisper to each other. They meet without any form, and are styled a lawless court , as meeting at an unlawful hour; Explanation : Camden, speaking of this same court, says, that this servile attendance was imposed upon the men of the town for having conspired to promote a disturbance in it. And it is positively affirmed that, at this day, he that owes juice or service , forfeits double his rent every hour he is missing.
Jan. 3. Should the weather prove fair, our equestrian friends may reasonably look for much sport at the ensuing races, as several very fine horses are intended to be entered.
On Tuesday evening four gentlemen that had been on a party of pleasure, nearly lost their lives at White Point, by the boat starting a plank; fortunately they were able to catch hold of a vessel's cable that lay at anchor, and by the humane exertions of the patron were brought on board.
Jan. 8. Yesterday arrived here the brig Phoebe , captain McCullough, from Phila.
Jan. 9. Yesterday the house of representatives met for dispatch of public business. After the usual preliminaries, the house adjourned.
New-York, January 28.
By private letters from Boston, of the 26th inst. we are assured, that "the proceedings of the convention, and several speeches therein made, have been erroneously and partially represented." That "the resolve, for appointing a committee to request the honorable Elbridge Gerry, Esq. to take a seat in convention, for the purpose of answering to such questions as might be asked him, was carried by a majority of two thirds."
Our information, by this letter, further states that "the opponents to the constitution have made out their list, and say, they have 201, out of 320; the supporters say, they have a majority. On the whole, there is no ascertaining facts. Many are for adjourning several months, &c. &c."
From last Monday's (E D E S's) BOSTON GAZETTE. Bribery and Corruption!!!
"THE most diabolical plan is on foot to corrupt the members of the convention, who oppose the adoption of the new constitution.—Large sums of money have been brought from a neighbouring state for that purpose, contributed by the wealthy; if so, it is not probable there may be collections for the same occurred purpose nearer home."
CENTINEL. By a gentleman lately arrived from the Western country, whose information is much to be depended on, we learn, that from the most perfect computation that could be formed there, not less than eighteen to twenty thousand emigrants have arrived in Kentucky, within the last nine months, by the different routes, of the Ohio, Wilderness, &c. One fact, perfectly well ascertained, strongly corroborates the above computation, that on the 24th of November, there passed Fort Harmer, at the mouth of the Muckingum, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six fowls, according to the accounts taken by the boards of the garrison, the commander of which uses great pains and accuracy in informing himself of the numbers that pass.
General Harmer, with the greatest part of the troops under his command, has returned from Fort Vincents on the Wabash to the Muckingum, leaving two companies at the former place. [Maryland Gazette.]
It is said that the crew of the brig Lovely Betsy were, for thirty days previous to her arrival, in the greatest distress; having neither meat, bread, fire or candle, and only rice to subsist on, until relieved, in some measure, by the pilot-boat. The mate died at sea.
The following advertisement, from the (London) Morning Herald, of April 10, 1787, is here republished with a view of carrying more extensive into execution the laudable motives of the society by whose orders it was there inserted, viz. The Guardians, or Society for the Protection of Trade against Swindlers and Sharpers.—The public are hereby cautioned against having any dealings or transactions with a person calling himself Dr. VANDERPLATZ, who lately occupied a house, No. 23, Abingdon-street, Westminster, where he obtained credit to a very considerable amount, and from whence he has lately decamped with great part of the property he had procured from several tradesmen.—He is supposed to be a native of Germany, but speaks English remarkably well; is about five feet five inches high; between forty and fifty years of age; wears a wig; is rather swarthy; sometimes uses spectacles, and dresses in the style of a foreign physician.
By order of the committee, EDWARD S. FOSS, Sec. Society's Office, Gough-square, Fleet-street, April 5, 1787.
THEATRE.
[Not performed here these eighteen years.] By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY. This EVENING, the 28th of January,
Will be revived, A TRAGEDY, CALLED, the Earl of Essex, OR THE Unhappy Favourite. To which will be added, A COMIC OPERA, CALLED The Padlock.
NOTICE!
AS it would be inconvenient, as well as very disagreeable to the subscriber, that any debts should be contracted for articles furnished for the use of his family; — He has thought proper to give this NOTICE, that his servants are always prepared to make immediate payment for any article they may be authorised to purchase for his use; and the above requests, that no person give them credit on his account, as no bills will be paid, unless it be for articles expressly ordered by him. P. S. VAN BERCKEL. New-York, Jan. 26, 1788.
PURSUANT to an order of John Wyley, Esquire, alderman, and one of the judges of the mayor's court of the city of New-York, upon the petition of Nicholas Michael, an insolvent debtor, and three-fourths in value of all his creditors: NOTICE is hereby given, by the petitioner, to all the creditors of the said Nicholas Michael, that they be and appear before the said judge, at his office, in Nassau-street, in the said city, by the 11th day of February next, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said Nicholas Michael should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said Nicholas Michael thereupon discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated this 25th day of January, 1788. 1 3t NICHOLAS MICHAEL. Petitioning creditors. Peter Morris; Paulus Friday.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY, at full Value, Or exchange for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm, SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres, a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—e.d.
Ran away, from Cape Francis, A MULATTO MAN, Named JACQUES or JAMES, A CREOLE, from Martinico,
AN excellent kitchen and pastry COOK, 26 or 27 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, middling thick; his legs are much warped, much pock-marked, a very large mouth, small eyes and snub, a large forehead and long necked; he has a kind of ring-worm on one of his arms, and has a difficulty in his speech, hammering a little—He left Cape Francois in the beginning of May last, and was supposed to have taken passage for this continent. Whoever secures said Mulatto Man, and gives intelligence, will be handsomely rewarded, and all reasonable charges paid. Enquire at No. 15, Queen-Street. 73—e.d.

POET'S CORNER.
For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER. MR. GREENLEAF, Plans to insert the following, spoken at Mr. HAR- DIE'S PUBLIC SPEAKING. The Fate of CÆSAR, By the Author of Douglass.
A sensive on my bed I lay, And mus'd the midnight hours away; My bosom glowing with those fires, Which Shakespeare's magic page inspires; The moon whose waning, scanty light, Gave dubious objects to the sight; Beneath a cloud retired her ray, And wrapt in gloom the chamber lay; Winds wav'd along the lengthen'd wall, The cricket chirr'd his thrilling call; The dead watch click'd the sick man's knell, And dogs sent forth their boding yell; Quick beat my pulse, my soul was tun'd, To sympathize with every sound; When, from the room's most darksome side, I saw a pompous image glide; Loose from him flow'd the Roman own, His brows invest with a crown; His red right arm a sceptre bore, And regal pride his aspect wore; But when his steps approach'd more near, I mark'd his features dast'd with fear; I saw beneath his purple robe, His breath with bitter anguish throb; His cruel eyes around he cast, Then rais'd his arm, and struck his breath; With aspect strange his robe he tore, And dash'd his scepter on the floor; Intent I gazed to descry, If ought substantial caught his eye; With deep amazement I then beheld, The air around with figures fill'd; Conspicuous far above the rest, The form of virtue stood confess'd; And hand in hand with her, a fair, Of haughtier mien, and fiercer air; Whose eyes flash'd with indignant flame, 'Twas liberty, the peerless dame; From their regard the tyrant turn'd, And with convulsive anguish burn'd, While freedom, with resentment red, Menace revenge upon his head; And Gayly lifting up her hand, She pointed to a distant band; My eager eye her arm pursu'd, And soon the awful presence view'd; In close divan the heroes stood, Stern yet untroubled was their wood; On each confederate visage sat, Resolve, that conquers chance or fate; Yet one there seem'd the chief of all, Pale was his cheek, his stature tall; Midst storms and tempests fit to reign, His port was honor and disdain; Frowning he bent his black eye brow, And prying look'd the tyrant through; Near him a hero more humane, Of sober air and gentle strain; With pitying look great Cæsar ey'd, And at his own firm purpose sigh'd; Then from their swords a gloom of light, I saw, and trembled at the sight; The nation fell, the tyrant dy'd, And freedom, freedom, loud was cry'd; Impatient then I join'd the scream, And starting, found 'twas all a dream.
Allize of BREAD,
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected Superfine Wheat Flour to weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, January 28. 1h. 36m. Morn.
THE UNITED STATES
IN CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787. RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, cloathiers, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the controller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.
PRIZE-MONEY,
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire, NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were old in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim.
Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Office of accounts, Marine department.
This Day PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD at this PRINTING-OFFICE [Price TEN PENCE.]
The Mother's Catechism.
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Conductor Generalis,
OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c.
To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects.
By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New Jersey.
Now adapted to these United States.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in.
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Which will be SOLD at the most reduced
Prices,
  A VARIETY of  Cotton Checks,    Mantuas and other  Spotted and plain Vel-    Gown Silks,  verets,    Sarcenets,  A variety of Gloves and    Peelongs, and  Fans,    Modes,  Linens,    Chintzes,  Sheetings, and    Printed Linens, and  Oznabrigs,    Cottons,  Marseilles Quilting,    Fancy Shawls and  Fancy Jacket Patterns,    Handkerchiefs,  A variety of Plumes    Jeans,  and Ribbands,    Jeaneets, and  Fancy Shoe Bucs and    India Dimities,  Buttons.    A quantity of Linen and   
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FLAX-SEED,
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THE American Museum,
FOR DECEMBER, 1787.
CONTAINING,
State and other public papers.
OBJECTIONS of the honorable George Ma-
son to the new constitution,
The address and reasons of dissent of the minority
of the convention of Pennsylvania,
Letter from the Hon. Richard Henry Lee, Esq. to
governor Randolph,
Dr. Franklin's final speech in the late federal con-
vention,
Resolves of the house of delegates of the common-
wealth of Virginia,
Resolves of Congress,
Resolve of the convention of Pennsylvania, rela-
tive to offering congress the jurisdiction of a place
for the seat of federal government,
Resolve of the supreme executive council of the
state of Pennsylvania,
Resolve of the house of delegates of the state of
Maryland,
Letter from the Hon. John Sevier to governor
Matthews,
from col. Robertson to governor Sevier,
from col. Bledsoe to governor Sevier,
from gen. Cooke, to gov. Matthews,
from gen. Clarke, to ditto,
from major Elholm, to major gen. Moultrie,
from the Hon. William Pierce, to don Die-
go de Gardoqui,
Reply to the preceding letter,
Votes of the members of the protestant episcopal
church in Providence,
Address of the inhabitants of Northampton, to their
delegates in convention,
Resolution of the inhabitants of Pittsburgh,
Ratification of the new constitution by Delaware,
Ditto by Pennsylvania.
Medical Essays.
Observations and remarks on the putrid malignant
fever throat,
Observations on the bite of a mad dog,
Account of a worm bred in the liver,
Letter to doctor Franklin on the same subject.
Rural Concerns.
On the culture of trees,
To make cyder,
On planting potatoes,
Receipt for preventing the flies from damaging tur-
nips,
On the culture of ginseng.
Law Information.
Law report. Watkeys against Delancey,
Law report. Norton against Birch,
Law case, respecting a captured vessel,
Law regulation.
Miscellanies.
The Federalist,
Account of an electrical eel,
Recovery of two drowned children,
Directions for the recovery of persons apparently
dead from drowning,
Admiral Pococke's receipt for pickling beef, pork,
&c.
Exemplary charity,
Extract from an oration pronounced by David Dag-
get, Esq.
Indian anecdote.
Poetry.
The newsmonger's song,
The crisis,
The retort courteous,
Poem on the prospect of seeing the fine arts flour-
ish in America,
The old Bachelor.
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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 curren-
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state into the currency of any other of the United
States; and for reducing the currencies of the
United-States into sterling, and sterling into the cur-
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lish Money into Irish, and Irish Money into Eng-
lish, according to the par of exchange between both
kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of
the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve
of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table
of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of
Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render
familiar the proper mode of counting said Money.
This Book is intended for the convenience of
Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis
Healy, Accomptant.
Price 1s. 6d. single. The usual discount
to Bookellers, and others, who may purchase by
the Hundred, Dozen, &c.
* * Also may be had of Messieurs Campbell,
Reid, Allen, Macgill, and Mills, Bookellers.
To be Sold at this PRINTING-OFFICE,
B L A N K S of all Sorts.
THE PUBLIC
ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey, to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talmadge Hall, No. 49, Cortland-Street (commonly known by the Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia General Stage Office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston Stages, to make his house the public Stage-house. Those Ladies and Gentlemen, who wish to take passages in either of those Stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the Stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed, that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment, and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed, that the subscriber has a large convenient Assembly Room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required.
CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787 51
THE PROPRIETORS of the STAGE S,
Which ply between New-York & Philadelphia,
Respectfully inform the PUBLIC, THAT, after this date, their stage will leave Paules-Hook at three o'clock in the afternoon, and proceed to Elizabeth-Town; and that in order to accommodate passengers, one stage will leave Elizabeth-Town at day-light; and another stage leaves Newark at eight o'clock, and both stages go as far towards Philadelphia as the weather and roads will permit, during the winter season. December 13th, 1787. 6
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook STAGE.
ON the 14th inst. the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules-Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules-Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with fifteen pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight.
The waggon, on its route to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules-Hook.
N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortlandt-Street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage. All letters carried free.
GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghaast, At the DISTILERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street and nearest to the Ship-Yards. October 3, 1787. 53