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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 22, of VOL. XLII.]
FRIDAY, January 25, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2200.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENS'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper. The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly 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 favours 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.
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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, varied, and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotwood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotwood 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, Mellis, Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, 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 here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt 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 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, turkeys, 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 e.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—e.d.
Just published by M. CAREY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD, By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received)
THE American Museum,
FOR DECEMBER, 1787.
CONTAINING, State and other public papers.
OBJECTIONS of the honorable George Mason 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 convention, Resolves of the house of delegates of the commonwealth of Virginia, Resolves of Congress, Resolve of the convention of Pennsylvania, relative 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 Diego 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 fore 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 turnips, 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 Dageret, Esq. Indian anecdote.
Poetry.
The newsmonger's song, The crisis, The retort courteous, Poem on the prospect of seeing the fine arts flourish in America, The old Bachelor.
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, hand lead lines, log lines, houseline, 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 carriage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 e.d.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, IS now opened at the corner of Corlandt 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. 63e.d.
To be Sold at this PRINTING-OFFICE, BLANKS of all Sorts.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
IN CONVENTION, January 4.
[Concluded from Wednesday's Paper.]
THIS is a new event in the history of mankind. Heretofore, most governments have been formed by tyrants, and imposed on mankind by force. Never before did a people in time of peace and tranquility, meet together by their representatives, and with calm deliberation, frame for themselves a system of government. This noble attempt does honour to our country. While I express my sentiments in favor of this constitution, I candidly believe that the gentlemen who oppose it, are actuated by principles of regard to the public welfare. If we will exercise mutual candor for each other, and sincerely endeavour to maintain our liberties, we may long continue to be a free and happy people.
Governor Wolcott. Mr. President, I do not expect to throw any new light upon a subject which has been so fully discussed. Yet I cannot content myself without giving my opinion more explicitly than by a silent vote. It is generally agreed, that the present confederation is inadequate to the exigencies of our national affairs. We must therefore adopt this plan of government or some other, or risk the consequences of disunion. As the present articles of confederation are inadequate, we ought to consider whether this constitution is as good as can be agreed on by so many different states, or whether it be a dangerous system; whether it secures the liberties of the people, or whether its tendency be unfavourable to the rights of a free people. I have given it all the consideration in my power; I have a considerable time since made up my mind upon it, and I think it my duty to give my voice in favour of adopting it. It is founded upon the election of the people.—If it varies from the former system, or if it is to be altered hereafter, it must be with the consent of the people.—This is all the security in favour of liberty, which can be expected. Mankind may become corrupt, and give up the cause of freedom; but I believe that love of liberty which prevails among the people of this country, will prevent such a direful calamity.
This constitution effectually secures the states in their several rights. It must secure them for its own sake, for they are the pillars which uphold the general system. The senate, a constituent branch of the general legislature, without whose assent no public act can be made, are appointed by the states, and will secure the rights of the several states. The other branch of the legislature, the representatives, are to be elected by the people at large. They will therefore be the guardians of the rights of the great body of the citizens. So well guarded is this constitution throughout, that it seems impossible, that the rights either of the states or of the people should be destroyed.
I do not see the necessity of such a test as some gentlemen wish for. The constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to him is a full acknowledgment of his being and providence. An acknowledgement of these great truths is all that the gentlemen contend for. For myself, I should be content either with or without this clause in the constitution, which excludes test laws. Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to add a clause which secures us from the possibility of such oppression. I shall only add, that I give my assent to this constitution; and am happy to see states in a fair way to adopt a system which will protect their rights and promote their welfare.
Mr. Law. Mr. President, the important subject before us has been examined so particularly, that I do not expect to add any thing new. As we have been a long time poring upon the defective parts of this constitution, I think it will not be amiss to pay some attention to its excellencies. There is one clause in it which provides a remedy for whatever defects it may have. The clause to which I refer, is that which provides that, whenever two thirds of Congress, or a convention to be called at the instance of two thirds of the states, shall propose amendments, and they be agreed to by three fourths of the states, such amendments shall be valid as part of the constitution. This is an easy and
peaceable way of amending any parts of the constitution which may be found inconvenient in practice.
As this is a most important question, as it concerns not only present but future generations, we ought to consider it upon its real merits, without suffering our minds to be misled, by examples of other nations, whose circumstances are very different from ours. Some have been led into a mistake by comparing a part of this constitution with that of Great-Britain. But this is very different from theirs. Our president is not a king, nor is our senate a house of lords. They do not claim an independent hereditary authority. But the whole is elective; all are dependent upon the people. The president, the senate, the representatives, are all creatures of the people. Therefore the people will be secure from oppression; though I admit, that, if our president and senate possessed an independent hereditary authority, the democratical branch would be too weak for the others.
Some suppose that the general government which extends over the whole, will annihilate the state governments. But we ought to consider that this general government rests upon the state governments for its support. It is like a vast and magnificent bridge built upon thirteen strong and stately pillars: now the rulers, those who occupy the bridge, cannot be so beside themselves as to knock away the pillars which support the whole fabric. But some say, a free government like this has not energy enough to prevade a country of such vast extent. We are not satisfied with this assertion; we want to try the experiment. A free system of government now presents itself for our acceptance: we shall be wanting to ourselves, if, instead of adopting it, we wait for the arm of tyranny to impose upon us a system of despotism. The finger of providence is evidently to be seen in the political affairs of this country. The old articles of confederation were once the best that we should have been willing to adopt. We have been led on by imperceptible degrees to see that they are defective; and now, if it be the design of providence to make us a great and happy people, I believe, that he who turns the hearts of the children of men, as the rivers of water are turned, will induce the people of the United States to accept of a constitution, which is so well calculated to promote their national welfare.
Several other gentlemen likewise offered their sentiments upon this important question; and after every thing which any member had to offer upon the subject had been heard with that candour and attention, which was becoming in an assembly, convened to decide upon the fate of an empire, the question was put upon the motion of general Parsons; upon which the yeas and nays being called for, were as follows. [See this paper of 19th inst.]
THE FEDERALIST, No. XXXVII.
To the PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK.
IT is not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to an assembly of men; but has been performed by some individual citizen of pre eminent wisdom and approved integrity. Minos, we learn, was the primitive founder of the government of Crete; as Zaleucus was of that of the Locrians. Theseus first, and after him Draco & Solon, instituted the government of Athens. Lycurgus was the Lawgiver of Sparta. The foundation of the original government of Rome was laid by Romulus; and the work completed by two of his elective successors, Numa, and Tullus Hostilius. On the abolition of Royalty, the Consular administration was substituted by Brutus, who stepped forward with a project for such a reform, which he alledged had been prepared by Tullus Hostilius, and to which his address obtained the assent and ratification of the senate and people. This remark is applicable to confederate governments also. Amphityon, we are told, was the author of that which bore his name. The Achaean League received its first birth from Achæus, and its second from Aratus. What degree of agency these reputed Lawgivers might have in their respective
establishments, or how far they might be cloathed with the legitimate authority of the people, cannot in every instance be ascertained. In some, however, the proceeding was strictly regular. Draco appears to have been entrusted by the people of Athens, with indefinite powers to reform its government and laws. And Solon, according to Plutarch, was in a manner compelled by the universal suffrage of his fellow citizens, to take upon him the sole and absolute power of new modelling the constitution. The proceedings under Lycurgus were less regular; but as far as the advocates for a regular reform could prevail, they all turned their eyes towards the single efforts of that celebrated patriot and sage, instead of seeking to bring about a revolution, by the intervention of a deliberative body of citizens. Whence could it have proceeded that a people, jealous as the Greeks were of their liberty, should so far abandon the rules of caution, as to place their destiny in the hands of a single citizen? Whence could it have proceeded, that the Athenians, a people who would not suffer an army to be commanded by fewer than ten Generals, and who required no other proof of danger to their liberties than the illustrious merit of a fellow citizen should consider one illustrious citizen as a more eligible depository of the fortunes of themselves and their posterity, than a select body of citizens, from whose common deliberations more wisdom, as well as more safety, might have been expected? These questions cannot be fully answered without supposing that the fears of discord and disunion among a number of counsellors, exceeded the apprehension of treachery or incapacity in a single individual. History informs us likewise of the difficulties with which these celebrated reformers had to contend; as well as of the expedients which they were obliged to employ, in order to carry their reforms into effect. Solon, who seems to have indulged a more temporising policy, confessed that he had not given to his countrymen the government best suited to their happiness, but most tolerable to their prejudices. And Lycurgus, more true to his object, was under the necessity of mixing a portion of violence, with the authority of superstition; and of securing his final success, by a voluntary renunciation, first of his country, and then of his life. If these lessons teach us, on one hand, to admire the improvement made by America on the ancient mode of preparing and establishing regular plans of government; they serve not less on the other, to admonish us of the hazards and difficulties incident to such experiments and of the great imprudence of unnecessarily multiplying them.
Is it an unreasonable conjecture that the errors which may be contained in the plan of the convention are such as have resulted rather from the defect of antecedent experience on this complicated and difficult subject, that from a want of accuracy or care in the investigation of it; and consequently such as will not be ascertained until an actual trial shall have pointed them out? This conjecture is rendered probable not only by many considerations of a general nature, but by the particular case of the articles of confederation. It is observable that among the numerous objections and amendments suggested by the several states, when these articles were submitted for their ratification, not one is found which alludes to the great and radical error, which on actual trial has
discovered itself. And if we except the observations which New-Jersey was led to make rather by her local situation than by her peculiar foresight, it may be questioned whether a single suggestion was of sufficient moment to justify a revision of the system.
There is abundant reason, nevertheless, to suppose that, immaterial as these objections were, they would have been adhered to with a very dangerous inflexibility in some states, had not a zeal for their opinions and supposed interests, been stifled by the more powerful sentiment of self-preservation. One state, we may remember, persisted for several years in refusing her concurrence, altho' the enemy remained the whole period at our gates, or rather in the very bowels of our country. Nor was her pliancy in the end effected by a less motive than the fear of being chargeable with protracting the public calamities, and endangering the event of the contest. Every candid reader will make the proper reflection, on these important facts.
A patient who finds his disorder daily growing worse; and that an efficacious remedy can no longer be delayed without extreme danger; after coolly revolving his situation, and the characters of different physicians, selects and calls in each of them as he judges most capable of administering relief, and best entitled to his confidence. The physicians attend; the case of the patient is carefully examined; a consultation is held; they are unanimously agreed that the symptoms are critical, but that the case, with proper and timely relief, is so far from being desperate, that it may be made to issue in an improvement of his constitution. They are equally erroneous in prescribing the remedy by which this happy effect is to be produced. The prescription is no sooner made known however, than a number of persons interpose, and without denying the reality or danger of the disorder, assure the patient that the prescription will be poison to his constitution, and forbid him under pain of certain death to make use of it. Might not the patient reasonably demand, before he ventured to follow this advice, that the authors of it should at least agree among themselves, on some other remedy to be substituted? And if he found them differing as much from one another, as from his first counsellors, would he not act prudently, in trying the experiment unanimously recommended by the latter, rather than in hearkening to those who could neither deny the necessity of a speedy remedy, nor agree in proposing one?
Such a patient, and in such a situation, is America at this moment. She has been sensible of her malady. She has obtained a regular and unanimous advice, from men of her own deliberate choice. And she is warned by others against following this advice, under pain of the most fatal consequences. Do the monitors deny the reality of her danger? No. Do they deny the necessity of some speedy and powerful remedy? No. Are they agreed, are any two of them agreed in their objections to the remedy proposed, or in the proper one to be substituted? Let them speak for themselves. This one tells us that the proposed constitution ought to be rejected, because it is not a confederation of the states, but a government over individuals. Another admits that it ought to be a government over individuals, to a certain extent, but by no means to the extent proposed. A third does not object to the government over

individuals, or to the extent proposed, but to the want of a bill of rights. A fourth concurs in the absolute necessity of a bill of rights, but contends that it ought to be declaratory not of the personal rights of individuals, but of the rights reserved to the states in their political capacity. A fifth is of opinion that a bill of rights of any sort would be superfluous and misplaced, and that, the plan would be unexceptionable, but for the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election. An objector in a large state exclaims loudly against the unreasonable equality of representation in the senate. An objector in a small state is equally loud against the dangerous inequality in the house of representatives. From this quarter we are alarmed with the amazing expence from the number of persons who are to administer the new government. From another quarter, and sometimes from the same quarter, on another occasion, the cry is that the Congress will be but the shadow of a representation, and that the government would be far less objectionable, if the number and the expence were doubled. A patriot in a state that does not import or export, discerns insuperable objections against the power of direct taxation. The patriotic adversary in a state of great exports & imports, is not less dissatisfied that the whole burden of taxes may be thrown on consumption. This politician discovers in the constitution a direct and irresistible tendency to monarchy. That is, equally sure, it will end in aristocracy. Another is puzzled to say which of these shapes it will ultimately assume, but sees clearly it must be one or other of them. Whilst a fourth is not wanting, who with no less confidence affirms, that the constitution is so far from having a bias toward either of these dangers, that the weight on that side will not be sufficient to keep it upright and firm against its opposite propensities. With another class of adversaries to the constitution, the language is, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments are intermixed in such a manner as to contradict all the ideas of regular government, and all the requisite precautions in favor of liberty. Whilst this objection circulates in vague and general expressions, there are not a few who lend their sanction to it. Let each one come forward with his particular explanation, and scarce any two are exactly agreed on the subject. In the eyes of one the junction of the senate with the president in the responsible function of appointing to offices, instead of vesting this executive power in the executive alone, is the vicious part of the organization. To another, the exclusion of the house of representatives, whose numbers alone could be a due security against corruption and partiality in the exercise of such a power, is equally obnoxious. With another, the admission of the president into any share of a power which must ever be a dangerous engine in the hands of the executive magistrate, is an unpardonable violation of the maxims of republican jealousy.
[To be Continued.]
From a Portsmouth (N. H.) paper of the 8th inst. A PERSON from Berwick (Massachusetts) called on a merchant in Portsmouth (New Hampshire) some time last week, and requested the favor of being credited for a small quantity of goods. The merchant had partly agreed to let him have the goods; they were particularized; and the person having other business, retired for a little while. In the interim, the mer-
chant received information, from a gentleman of undoubted veracity, that the person wishing to be credited, was an antifederalist in grain—that he had been made choice of by the town of Berwick to represent them in convention (to be holden at Boston) in order to oppose its adoption, &c.—This information entirely altered our merchant's determination (being a genuine federalist) and he now resolved not to credit a person professing principles so repugnant to the general good of the people. In a short time the antifederalist came, and requested to have his goods—but, instead of delivering him his goods, the merchant proposed the following questions:
Mercht.—Are you going to the convention, at Boston?
Antifed.—Yes, fir.
Mercht.—Well, fir, I hope you are going to give your influence in support of the new constitution?
Antifed.—No, fir, I am going to oppose its adoption.
Mercht.—Well, fir, if these are your principles, I have no goods for you—no honest man will approve the adoption of the new constitution—and, to be plain with you, I will neither credit you, nor any other person professing the same principles.
The antifederalist, upon this, made some short reply, that he was not going to sell his country, &c. and marched off. Whether he was lucky enough to obtain credit elsewhere, we are not able to say; but from the rustiness of his hat and cardinal, we apprehend the contrary.
Several antifederal characters from the eastern parts of Massachusetts, passed through this town yesterday, on their way to join the convention to be holden at Boston this week, for the purpose of ratifying or rejecting the new constitution; they appeared to be "heavy laden" with their instructions of opposition—but we hope our federal brethren will be prepared for them. Some of these characters are little indeed; but they have paws—and it is conjectured, that some of them have ingenuity enough to let these paws rise or fall according as the intellectual sparks of genuine antifederalism operate within. Their oratorial powers are not great—and the essence of their opposition is all centre in that lofty word, — N. Y.
American Occurrences.
NEWPORT (R. I.) January 10.
A town meeting specially convened at Little-Compton, in this state, on the 1st of January inst. for the purpose of considering the new federal constitution, it was voted that a committee be appointed to draw up instructions for their deputies in general assembly, who reported accordingly instructions to Capt. George Simmons, and Nathaniel Sikes, Esq. their deputies, of which the following is an extract:
"That being deeply impressed with a sense of the extreme need we stand in of a well organized and energetick national government; and viewing the new federal constitution as a plan of government well adapted to the present critical situation of our national affairs, we do therefore enjoin it on you, as your positive instructions, that you and each of you do use your utmost endeavours, at the next session of the general assembly of this state, to have an act passed recommending it to the several towns in this state, to choose delegates as soon as may be, for the purpose of adopting or rejecting the new federal constitution, agreeably to the requisition of the honourable the continental convention: and these our positive instructions, gentlemen, you must not fail to execute, on pain of procuring our highest displeasure. Which report was accepted and passed, as the instructions of the town of Little-Compton to their deputies in the general assembly."
H U D S O N, Jan. 17. On Saturday last the court of sessions and common pleas, holden in and for the county of Columbia, in the town of Claverack, adjourned until the second Tuesday in May next. No civil causes were tried, owing to the intense cold weather. In the sessions much business was executed, particularly by the grand jury, who, with great dispatch and uncommon patience, attended the public business offered, which kept them until 11 o'clock, P. M. when they were discharged by the court. The grand jury, after they were dismissed by their foreman, presented an address to the justices of the sessions, purporting their unanimous approbation of the new federal constitution, and that they had taken this opportunity, while convened on public business, to make known their sentiments to their fellow citizens.
POUGHKEEPSIE, January 22. Tuesday last, the honourable inferior court of common pleas for Dutchess county, was held at this place; and the usual trials being over, they adjourned on Saturday morning, when they gave the honourable members of the legislature, who were officers of the several courts of this state, then attending, an invitation to dine at Capt. Hendrickson's tavern, where a dinner, suited to the occasion, was accordingly provided; and which gave general satisfaction to the several gentlemen present.
We are happy to say, that during the sitting of the grand jury, they found but one bill of indictment—a flattering prelude that our country is in a mending way.
The weather, while the term lasted last Saturday, was so very cold, that as fast as the rain fell, it froze; by which means it gathered to thick on the limbs of trees, that it is supposed hundreds have fallen by the weight of ice on them. Many near this place have nothing but the bodies left, the limbs having broke off, not being able to bear the immense weight of ice.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.
NOTES from Correspondents.
A correspondent observes, that if the men who call themselves Federalists, have any pretensions to that epithet, or any real regard for their country, they will immediately drop all proceedings in favour of the proposed constitution, and use their endeavours to have a new Federal Convention called immediately, either to amend the old articles of confederation, or to frame a more popular and free constitution than the present one. This is the only way they have left to shew their patriotism, if they have any; for, should they persist in attempting to force it on the people, the peace of the country must inevitably be destroyed; for which let these men answer the consequences. As for the opposition creating, should nine states come into the measure, it is a mere finess: to suppose that freemen should tamely give up their liberties, is a thing, chimerical altogether. The very supposition is a most egregious insult to the understanding of a freeman. So that the only rational and safe path to be pursued, by the well to do, is to tack about, and join the real friends of liberty, otherwise their portions may fall a forfeiture to their own domineering insolence; and become the expiration of their conspiracy against the liberties of their country.
The conduct of Congress, or the post master-general, in stopping the free circulation of the newspapers, at this critical juncture, is very alarming. From what this extraordinary measure has originated, we do not pretend to say; but certainly the freemen of America will never suffer such a barefaced violation of their liberties to pass with impunity. This is a stretch of arbitrary power, that even Britain never attempted before the revolution. By this manoeuvre, all communication is cut off between the states; so that the despots may assemble an army and subjugate the freemen in one state, before their friends in another hear of it.
New-York, January 25.
THE Dashwood Packet, from this port, is arrived at Falmouth, with the October mail.
The weather has been very blustering, on our coast, for several weeks past; several vessels bound to this port, from Europe and the West-Indies, are blown off to sea. A vessel, supposed to be a ship, has been seen in a distressed condition, having lost her main and mizen masts.
Yesterday arrived the brig Eliza Jane, Love, from Kingston and Rhode-Island; also, the brig Brownlow, Capt. M c MacKin, in ten weeks from Dublin.
Arrived at New-London—Sch. —, Paddock, from Gaudaloupe, 50 days. In foundings, spoke the snow Robert, Woodham, from St. Vincents, bound to that port, laying too in a gale; also saw the number of 15 or 20 sail, brigs, schooners, and sloops, beating on the coast. Rainy weather on the coast for 15 days steady.
The following are the inter-lining BILLS alluded to under the Halifax head in yesterday's Paper.
A BILL entitled an act in amendment of an act, for establishing a public market at the market place in Halifax, and for regulating the same.
A bill entitled an act for the more effectually carrying into execution the provisions of an act made in the sixth year of his present majesty's reign, entitled an act to prevent the multiplicity of law-suits.
A bill entitled an act in amendment of an act made in the twenty-first year of his majesty's reign, entitled an act in addition to an act made in the tenth year of his present majesty's reign, entitled an act for establishing the toll to be taken at the several grist mills in this province.
A bill entitled an act in amendment of an act passed in the first year of the reign of his present majesty, entitled an act for repairing and mending highways, roads, bridges, streets, &c.
A bill entitled an act for regulating and maintaining a light-house at the entrance of the harbour of Shelburne.
A bill entitled an act in addition to an amendment of an act made in the fifth year of his present majesty's reign, entitled an act for regulating servants.
A bill entitled an act for the relief of Robert Appleby, an insolvent debtor.
A bill entitled an act to raise a sum of money to repair the public roads leading from Halifax to Windsor, and to cause the proprietors of lands on each side in said road to settle the same more expeditiously.
A bill entitled an act for continuing in force the several acts therein after mentioned.
A bill entitled an act to enable Winkworth Tonge, of Windsor, in the county of Hants, Esq. to dispose of certain parts of his estate by lottery.
A bill entitled an act for regulating the manner of issuing process of execution from the inferior courts of common pleas, and for the several counties in this province, and also for altering the form of a summons heretofore used.
A bill entitled an act in further addition to an act passed in the second year of his majesty's reign, entitled an act for appointing fire-wards and punishing thefts and disorders at the time of fire.
A bill entitled an act for the establishment of fees, as regulated by the Lieutenant Governor and council, at the request of the house of assembly.
A bill entitled an act for enabling commissioners to make sale of the public building therein named for public uses; and to erect on the lower parade in the town of Halifax, a commodious building, and also to provide or build a common gaol.
A bill entitled an act for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year 1788, and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of general assembly.
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 town-ship, 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. 59—c.d.
NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors of David C. Franks, an insolvent debtor, that they appear before John Willey, Esq. Alderman, and one of the Judges of the Mayor's Court of the city of New-York, at his office in Nassau-street, on Monday the 28th instant, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of said David C. Franks should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said David C. Franks 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.
DAVID C. FRANKS.
Dated 22d of Jan. 1788. c. d. 98. g. t.
Ten Dollars Reward.
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 funk, 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; flammering 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—c.d.
ALL Persons having demands against the estate of Mr. Abraham Hoffworth, late of this city, deceased, are desired to present their accounts properly attested to the Publisher—and all persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make payment without delay.
JACOB POZER, Administrator. New-York, Jan. 18, 1788. 95

POET'S CORNER.
The BACHELOR'S DELIBERATION. Initiated from the Soliloquy of HAMLET.
MY anxious mind is torn with doubtful strife, While hopes and fears alternate vex my life. Whether 'twere best to act the foist's part, And bar fond love, all entrance to the heart: Or with some fair, in wedlock's sacred bands, Our hearts united, join our willing hands: Happy a while, the pleasing scene may seem, But will not time evince 'tis but a dream? The dread of what succeeds, suspends our late, Lest venturing rashly, we repent too late, Who would a state of celibacy chuse? And the sweet joys of intercourse refuse? Sustain the unnumber'd jeers and taunts of wit, Or to a sad unoffic'd life submit? When he himself might calm each throbbing pain, And charm all ills, with Hymen's golden chain; Who would in single sheets groan out the night, Stranger alike to rest and soft delight? But that the mind some future ills deplore, And makes us fear, to tread th' advent'rous shore, Where solemn death alone can give release, From troubles free us, and restore our peace. This rather makes us bear the plagues we know, Than rashly venture on new scenes of woe; Reflection thus, makes cowards of us all, And dread of cares unseen, our minds appall. Changes and discord, jealousy and strife, Illi which all centre in the name of wife: These to avoid, a single life we chuse, By prudence ungd to shun the marriage noose.
MORAL TALE.
WHEN I was young, I instructed the Grecian fables, by a musing them with my sprightly tales; these ingenious, sensible, and delicate peo- ple never liked the naked truth; it was with suc- cess I made use of allegorical fable, to make them receive lessons of reason; but now I have no long- er imagination to compose, and but a little me- mory left to recall to the minds of the new Greci- an fables, in this important moment, the fable of the limbs and the stomach—they complained between themselves that they took so much pains to serve and satisfy an insignificant being, who, without doubt, would end by ruining and annihilating them entirely; they, of a common accord refused to give him any succours. From this time the poor stomach became weak and debilitated; all the limbs soon fell in his the same situation and became languid.— Corrected by these severe experience, they with firm- ness and zeal afforded necessary food: the stomach soon re-established itself, and the limbs became strong and vigorous. A S O P.
Affix 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 25. 11h. 48m. A/M.
Just imported in the Jeane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by Samuel Campbell,
No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of B O O K S,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an ac- count of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Mils Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Rustic; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Mil- cellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sulby's Me- mairs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edin- burgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED, CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
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N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medi- cal commentaries, with the recommendation of se- veral eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edi- tion of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit, and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY in particular, pocket-books, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
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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.
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FOR SALE, At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn, No. 39, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET the following G O O D S,
Which will be SOLD at the most reduced Prices, to wit. A VARIETY of Mantuas and other Gown Silks, Saracens, Peelongs, and Modes, Chintzes, Printed Linens, and Cottons, Fancy Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Jeans, Jeanetts, and India Dimities, A quantity of Linen and Cotton Checks, Spotted and plain Velverets, A variety of Gloves and Fans, Linens, Sheetings, and Oznabrigs, Marceilles Quilting, Fancy Jacket Patterns, A variety of Plumes and Ribbands, Fancy Shoe Buckles and Buttons. With a Variety of other Articles, Which he is determined to SELL low, for Jersey (upon the face of the Bill) New-York, or Penn- ylvania PAPER MONEY.
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-feed store, lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—e.d.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION,
CONTAINING, A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view, their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half 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. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy , Accomptant.
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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 comptroller 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.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST, No. 199, Water-street, opposite the Coffee-house, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS, Transplants and substitutes Artificial Teeth. Attends abroad upon sending Directions.
TO BE LET, By Moses Gomez,
A VACANT LOT, for one or a term of years, in Hage-street; 45 feet in length, and 21 feet; six inches in front, and 19 feet in the rear.
A L S O, A VACANT LOT, in Ferry-street, seven or five feet wide, and one hundred feet long. It faces Cliff and Chapple-streets. The said Lot will be let, either whole or in two separate Lots, as best suits the applicant. MOSES GOMEZ.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, at T. 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.
This Day PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD at this PRINTING-OFFICE [Price TEN PENCE.]
The Mother's Catechism. THIS Catechism is designed for the First, and should be taught to infants as an introduction to those Catechisms which are not so easily understood. It is universally recommended by Divines.
OBSERVATIONS, leading to a fair Examination of the Government proposed by the late CONVENTION, and so several essential and necessary Alterations.
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 Bolton, 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—th.
The PROPRIETORS of the S T A G E 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
S T A G E. 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 eleven 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 Cortland-street, New-York, from whence they shall be safely conveyed to the stage. All letters carried free. GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
AT THE TANNERY, Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes, for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits; for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe-Manufactories, and procure them a run of custom for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price. Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD. N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40—w
Wants Employment,
A YOUNG Gentleman, who is versed in the FRENCH and ENGLISH LANGUAGES & MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS. In either of these branches he would be glad to engage. Having already officiated as teacher of the above languages, and been fortunate enough to give satisfaction, he would prefer that mode of living in future, either in a private family or as an assistant in some school—but if he fails in this, being perfectly acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING, he would accept of a place in a store, for a longer or shorter time, as may best suit the employer.
A PERSON, perfectly acquainted with MERCHANTS ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—e.d.
FOR the Encouragement of the PAPER MANUFACTURES in America, the Printer hereof pays CASH, and the highest price, for LINNEN, and COTTEN and LINNEN, RAGS.
—LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE. For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window. SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed EVERY DAY, at Six, and ONCE a Week, at Two, Dollars per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED. ** PRINTING, in all its Variety, performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.