The daily advertiser (New York [N.Y.]), 1787-12-04 00:00:00

The Daily Advertiser.
[VOL. III.]
NEW-YORK: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1787.
[No. 869.]
JERSEY MONEY.
A VALUABLE consignment of MANCHESTER GOODS to be sold wholesale, on very reasonable terms, for which Jersey Money will be taken in payment, by JAMES RENWICK, No. 92, William-street, opposite Maiden-lane.
N. B. The highest Price given for POT and PEARL ASHES. Nov. 19. 1787.
JUST ARRIVED
To HUGH SMITH, No. 22, WALL-STREET, A general and complete assortment of 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4 Low-priced IRISH LINEN, which he will dispose of on reasonable terms for cash. Sept. 15.
Sixty Pipes of MADEIRA,
In pipes, hogsheads and quarter-casks, of superior quality, to be landed this day at Crugar's-wharf, and to be sold by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. 22d Aug. 1787.
FOR SALE BY
JOHN DEWINT,
Maiden-lane, No. 36, A FEW hds. New-York Rum; ditto St. Croix Rum; a few cases gin; a parcel sugar in hds. writing paper, common and post; sundry articles of Dry Goods; a few boxes hylon and tions tea; 4 barrels gum of lignum vitae; and 2 pot-ash kettles, but have been a short time in use. Nov. 17.
BOURBON COFFEE,
JUST arrived in the Sloop Betsey, Capt. Williams, now landing at Brownejohn's Wharf, and to be sold by LUDLOW and GOOLD. Nov. 23.
SALT-PETRE.
A few hundred weight may be had very low of EFFINGHAM LAWRENCE, No. 237, Queen-street, facing the Fly-market. Also a large and general assortment of Genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Surgical Instruments, &c. for which Cash, Ginseng, Beeswax, Snake-root, Porcupine-Quills, &c. will be taken in payment. MEDICINE CHESTS complete, with directions. Orange Peas for Issues. N. B. An APPRENTICE wanted. Oct. 12.
GEORGE POLLOCK,
Has received by the Hudson from Dublin, and the Anne and Susannah from Liverpool, A general and complete assortment of 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4 Low-priced IRISH LINEN, which he will sell on very moderate terms, at his STORE, No. 28, Water-street. POT ASHES and FLAXSEED received in payment. Sept. 13.
JUST IMPORTED,
In the ship MERCURY, Captain Grant, TENERIFFE WINES Of a very superior quality, which will be disposed of by the quantity or single Pipe, by JOHN C. SHAW, at his Store opposite Van Zandt's wharf. Oct. 12.
GEORGE BARNEWALL & Co.
No. 205, WATER-STREET, near the Coffee-house, HAVE just imported, in the ship Providence from London, an assortment of IRISH LINENS, SHEETINGS, DOWLAS and THREADS, Low and high priced; which they will sell, on reasonable terms, for cash or short credit. They have also on hand, a variety of PAPER HANGINGS, with felloon and other borders; and Rod, and other sized NAILS. July 7.
LINTSEED OIL.
A QUANTITY of excellent country made Oil, in good casks, to be sold at No. 35, Little Dock-street, by STORM and SICKELS. 29th Aug. 1787.
ALL Persons having demands against the estate of the late ARCHIBALD GAMBLE, of this city, merchant, deceased, are requested to bring in their claims properly attested, for settlement; and all persons indebted to the said estate by bond, note or book debt, are requested to make payment as soon as possible, to the subscriber, who is legally empowered for settling the same.
MATTHEW WETZELL, at No. 16, Wall-street.
Who has for Sale,---yard wide IRISH LINENS in small cases, well assorted; DOWLAS and CARD-WIRE. Nov. 29. 2w.
PORT WINE,
Of a superior quality to any ever imported to this place, LANDING this day at Crugar's wharf, out of the Brig St. Justine Villa Nova, from Oporto, for Sale by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. June 15th.
LOT MERKEL,
No. 33, Hanover-Square, nearly opposite the Bank, Manufactures and has for sale a complete and general assortment
MUFFS and TIPPETS, of
MARTIN and Martin Throat, Swan's Down and real Ermine, Russia and Siberia Squirrel, American Ground Squirrel, Russia Hare and Red Fox, Real Black Jennet, belt forts, Mock Sable and Mock Ermine. Likewise a large and general assortment of Fur Trimming and Edgings, for Ladies Cloaks, Coats and Habits, Ladies Cloak Linings, Gentlemen's Great Coats lined with Furr, Furr Gloves, &c. &c. *The above articles he is now selling on the most reasonable Terms for Cash only. N. B. Orders from the Country executed in the best manner. October 11, 1787.
MANCHESTER GOODS.
Imported in the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, and for Sale on very reasonable terms,
By DANIEL TUCKER, & Co.
No. 202, Water-street, for Cash or Country Produce only.
7-8, 4-4, and 4-4, 3-8, Cotton Checks, Striped Checks, Dyed Pillows, Black and Olive Velveteens, low priced; Checked Handkerchiefs, Malabars; Copperplate Furniture Cottons, Black Silk Handkerchiefs, Cotton Thickets, Men's and Women's Beaver Gloves, Romall Handkerchiefs, Fancy Printed Do. 1-2 Dozen cases of Hats, low priced, and well assorted. Dec. 1. tf.
To be landed this day at Crugar's wharf from on board the Portuguese Schooner, N. S. da Carmo, Captain Olivera, some pipes of choice PORT WINE, and a parcel of SALT; to be sold by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. Nov. 12, 1787.
George and Robert Lewis, & Co.
No. 233, Queen-street,
In addition to the Goods received by the Betsey and Willon, are now opening for Sale by the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, viz. 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, Dowlas and Sheetings, 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 fashionable Shawls, Printed Linens and Cottons, 7-8, 9-8, fancy and China Calicoes, Furniture ditto, A general assortment of cotton and linen Handkerchiefs, Leno, Lawn, and Black Silk, ditto. Bandanno and Romall ditto, 7-8 and 11-8, plain, corded, striped and checked Lawns, Rich fashionable Waist-coat shapes, Striped and gold-barred Tulian Waistcoating, Florentines and Satins, An assortment of Hosiery, Table Cloths, Cloung-Dispers, &c. &c. &c. Which they are determined to dispose of at their usual low prices for Cash, Notes at a short date, and shipping produce. New-York, Nov. 21, 1787.
FAYAL WINES,
OF A VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY, JUST imported from Fayal in the Sloop Crippie, Giles Hollister, master, and for sale on reasonable terms by
LE ROY & BAYARD,
No. 194, WATER-STREET; Who have likewise still on hand, LINTSEED OIL, in Casks, Dutch; OSNABURGHES; FLEMISH SHEETINGS; CARDWIRE; PEPPER in bales. 27th July. tf.
BROTHERS, COSTER and Co.
Have for sale at their Store No. 8, Duke-street, Just Imported in the COLUMBIA and the GRACE, from Amsterdam;
BOHEA TEA, fresh, and of a superior quality, Suchong ditto, Pepper in Bales, best Holland Duck, Russia do. Raven's Duck, Russia Sheetings, Ticklenburgh Linen, Osnaburgh do. Holland Silesia Sheetings, Plaillies and Bretagnes, Brown Hollandos, Dowlas and Holland Bed-tick, Cambricks, black Laces, and silk Hair Ribbons, a neat assortment of Calicoes, black Barcelona, Romall, cotton and linen Handkerchiefs, Checks and Holland Stripes, Hats, Writing Paper and Slates, Looking Glasses, Frying Pans and Dutch Iron Pots, Dutch Tea Kettles and Brass Kettles, best Clare in small cases for family use; Linseed Oil and Palms, Holland Geneva, in pipes, in large and small cases and jugs; Dutch Hachels or Flax Combs, &c. &c. 23 Oct. 1787.
HILL and OGDEN,
No. 41, Great-Dock-street, have just imported by the Grace, from Amsterdam, and for sale on very reasonable terms, for Cash, Notes at short Payment, Pot-ashes, Flax-seed, Bar-Iron, Wheat or Flour, an assortment of the following articles, viz.
TICKLENBURGS, osnaburghs, German dowlas, Russia diaper, plaillies, Britain dowlas, cotton and linen checks, sheetings of excellent quality, white Flemish linen, German stripes and checks, lawns, calicoes, writing paper, &c. They have likewise for sale, coatings, Yorkshire cloth, calimancoes, durants, flannels, Irish linens, &c.
Also, IMPROVED FRANKLIN STOVES, cast in the Air-Furnace, at Newark, which, besides being exceedingly neat, are constructed to give more heat into the room, a remedy for smoky chimneys, and more secure from fire than any other. Also, Pot-ash Kettles, large hammers and anvils refined from dog-rose, pig-metal, and approved by many years experience.
N. B. Orders are received by them for every kind of hollow-ware and iron-castings, made at said Air-Furnace, and will be executed with dispatch and superior neatness. Oct. 31. tf.
RUSSIA HEMP.
A Quantity just imported in the ship WILLIAM, Capt. Whippy, from Hamburg, and for sale on reasonable terms, at No. 20, Peck-Slip, by Murray, Mumford and Bowen,
Who have also for SALE, 250 quintals excellent DRY COD-FISH, one half of which is scrawled hogheads; a few barrels BEEF in good order; Red-wood, a quantity of Molasses, 20 boxes Spermaceti Candles, Raisins in casks, strained Spermaceti Oil, ground Ginger in barrels, St. Croix Rum and Sugar, York Rum, Hylon Tea, Russia Duck, rod. Nails, Zanz Currens, Holland Powder, a quantity of Sheet Cask, pickled Cod-Fish and Herring, 50 pieces Ravens Duck, 20 barrels Pearl Ashes, Salt Petre, Boston Mackerel, 3000 Dollars in New-York Final Settlement Notes. Wanted immediately one hundred thousand barrel Staves. 15th Sept. 1787.
SADLER and BAILIE,
No. 215, Water-street, Are now landing at the Old-Slip, from on board the Minerva, from Ireland and Teneriffe, which they will sell for Cash, Notes at a short date, Pot and Pearl Ashes, Barrel Staves or Flax-seed;
TENERIFFE WINE, in pipes, hogsheads, and quarter casks. Red Port Wine in pipes and quarter casks.
Irish Linens 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4 wide, Dowlas 7-8 & 3-4 wide, Sheetings 9-8 & 5-4 wide, Brown Linens of different widths and qualities, Printed Linens, China Patterns for gowns, Bed-Tick 7-8, 3-4 and 13-15 width, Towelling and Diaper, from 3 to 10 quarters wide, *The fine Linens have been laid in from the last July market. Black Everlasting, Corduroys and Thickets, Velveteens, Jeans and Jeanets, Ribbons, Batteens and Coatings, Cambricks, Leather Shoes and Boots, Stuff Shoes, Blankets and Rugs, Muslin Weymouth Gowns for ladies, in patterns, Silk and linen Handkerchiefs, Men and women's Gloves, Manchester Cotton Checks 7-8, 4-4 & 11-8 wide, A variety of Hard Ware, Indigo, &c. tf.
WILLIAM USTICK, jun.
No. 33, Queen-street;
HAS just received by the SALLY and other late vessels from Bristol, a general assortment of
IRONMONGERY and CUTLERY; Among which are---Nails, Glass, Paints, Sheet Iron, Sheet Lead, blistered and Crawley Steel, Anvils, Vices and Beck Irons, brass Kettles, iron Pots and Kettles, Frying Pans, Spades and Shovels, Shovel and Tong, Bellow, Warming Pans, brats and iron Candlesticks, hard and soft Waile Irons, men and boys Scates, long handle hair Brooms, Brushes of all kinds, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack-knives, Shears and Scissors, wire and spring Moule and Rat Traps, Jacks, Claws, Bads, and Screws of all sizes, Locks and Hinges of every kind, Carpenters, Coopers and Joiners Tools, &c. &c.
He has also for sale Pickled Mackerel, Salmon and Herrings, which he will dispose of on reasonable terms, for Cash; also Nails of all sizes, manufactured in this city, and equal to any imported. New-York, Nov. 15, 1787.
To be LET, on reasonable Terms,
A CENTRAL furnished ROOM, near the Coffee-House, very suitable for a single gentleman, or a small family. For particulars enquire at No. 19, Water-street. N. B. BOARDING may be had if required, and a Front Cellar. Nov. 17. tf.
For SALE by WALTER NICHOLS,
No. 4, Beckman-Slip, London particular Madeira in pipes and hds.
Lisbon in quarter casks, Choice Corsica in pipes & hds. Cayenne Cotton by bale, 50 Barrels kiln dried Indian Meal, A quantity excellent Bend Seal-Leather, &c. &c. Nov. 15, 1787.
JAMES SAIDLER
Insurance Broker, No. 33, Water-street, two doors from the corner of King-street, BUYS and sells on Commission, all kinds of Public Securities, Goods and Produce, as usual.
He has also imported in the Willon, from Liverpool, the America, from London, and last vessels from Europe, a neat assortment of GOODS, consisting of fine brown, mint, blue drab, and copper-coloured Broad Cloths, Coatings, Duffles and Blankets, Flannels and Baizes, 3-4, 7-8, 4-4 and 11-8 wide cotton Checks, printed Cottons, China Patterns, Ribbons, Lawns, Lawn Handkerchiefs and Aprons, Satins and Moles, cotton and silk Handkerchiefs, Sewing Silks and Twill, fine and coarse Hats, Moireens, Durants, Tammies, Callimancoes and Camblets, Table Cloths and Diapers, Writing Paper, and an assortment of HARD WARE, &c. which he will sell on reasonable terms, for Cash, Country Produce, or public Securities.---Also, six pair of elegant brass mounted Fire Dogs, and a few barrels pickled Mackerel and Cod-Fish, in excellent order. Apply as above. N. B. Purchasers of any appropriated and confiscated lands, can be supplied with certificates on the most reasonable terms.
FOR SALE,
A very valuable LOT OF GROUND, situated upon the East River, near the Ship-Yards, bounded by the river upon the South, and by Water-street upon the North, containing 93 feet 4 inches, front and rear, 123 feet upon the West, and 123 feet upon the East sides. A small Plan of the ground is left with the printer, who will direct where to apply. tf. Aug. 24.
STOLEN,
FROM the subscriber, living at North-Castle, on the 26th of Sept. ult. a BLACK HORSE, seven years old last spring, pretty well set, fourteen hands and an half high, a natural trotter, has a scar on his buttock partly on the near side, some white hairs in his forehead, a kind of mark round his nose, where it has been galled with the halter when he was a colt. Whoever secures said Horse, for that the owner may have him, shall receive Five Dollars Reward, and Ten Dollars for the Thief, from 4th Oct. 1787. tf. DAVID LANE.
ATTWOOD and TRONSON,
Have for sale, at their Store, No. 11, Great-Dock-street,
A general assortment of Swedes and American Bar IRON,
CONSISTING of Axe Iron, Cart Tire, Waggon, Chair and Sleigh Tire, mill Irons, and Iron of uncommon square; Steel of all kinds, English faggot the much esteemed blistered L.O. American blistered and Tub Steel, Anvils of all sizes, Hack Irons, Vices, &c. &c. A variety of Castings and other articles, which they will sell low for cash, or country produce.
All orders for cast Iron, or wrought Iron for mill work, &c. will be duly received, and executed with dispatch.
*Bar Iron or any other article, received and sold on commission.
A quantity of Albany Pease for sale. Oct. 9th, 1787. tf.
20Hhds. of St. Croix SUGAR
FOR SALE, by JOZE ROIZ SILVA, at the Old-Slip, New-York, Nov. 3, 1787.
Wanted Immediately,
A NURSE to attend on a single Gentleman who is sick. She must perfectly understand making Soups, Paie, &c. Enquire of the Printer. Nov. 29. tf.
To be had at LOT MERKEL's Store,
No. 33, Hanover-Square, nearly opposite the Bank, TOBACCO for SMOOKING; KITTFOOT of the first quality; ditto of an inferior or ditto; large roll tobacco, fit for manufacturers; segars, genuine Macuba (nuff); ditto rapped of different qualities; gentlemen's gloves, buckskin and beaver, of the first quality. At the above Store the highest price is given for SHIPPING FURS. June 13. f.
To be sold,
By GEORGE DOUGLASS,
At No. 14, Fly-Market, FIFTY boxes Castile Soap, kiln dried Indian meal, 1000lb. new hops, Quebec patent essence of Spruce, Goshen and Jersey butter, in firkins, salt-pea-tred hams, molasses in hds. sugar in barrels, brandy in pipes, Geneva in cases, refined bar iron, neatly drawn, Franklin Stoves, eight plate do. Philadelphia make. N. B. Two Dutch Pans for cleaning iron pian coin, wheat, &c. to be sold or hired. N. 10. tf.
FRANCIS PANS,
No. 51, Broad-street,
Has received by the Montgomery, collected by the other late arrivals, and has remaining on hand of his former stock, the following general assortment in the FANCY, MILLENNERY, and DRY GOOD Line,
CHINA and satin ribbons, a great variety different widths and colors; plain net, craps, foulé, silk spotted and striped, black and white gauzes; fancy colored cane bars, yellow and black Leghorn do. per dozen or quantity; black and white skein and ribbon wires; wire frames for the latest fashion bonnets; mock point laces; black silk ditto, and edgings; white thread laces and edgings; black fat tins and modes; cluthings, white and colored fat nets; chintzes and calicoes; furniture 60 per plate do. linens and checks; morsees, callimancoes and stuff; silk thread, cotton, and worsted hole; pink, blue, green, and dove colored silk quilts; mullin and cotton shawls; silk, linen, and cotton handkerchiefs; corded dimities, mullinet and chintz trimmings; plain and sprig'd lawns; plain and striped mullins; lawn and mullin handkerchiefs; fine and common cambrics; black patent net lace; nankeens; umbrellas, artificial flowers, feathers, flannels, baizes, and striped wildbores; sewing silks, threads, &c. &c. all which will be sold on the very lowest terms, for immediate payment. He returns his sincere thanks to the public in general for their past custom, and solicits a continuance. The Millinery Business will still continue to be carried on in the most extensive manner, with the utmost exertions to give satisfaction; and to enable him to sell off the large stock of gauzes, ribbons, &c. remaining on hand, every article in that line will be charged at the lowest terms possible. Nov. 23. tf.
SHALER and SEBOR
No. 27 Queen-street, have for sale,
A QUANTITY of plated ware, consisting of can-dishicks, branches, tea caddies, snuff-pans, egg cups, goblets, coffee pots and Millineers, black table cakes, with knives, forks, and spoons complete, court Rands, paper bottle Rands, japanned bread-trays, caddies and snuff-pans, place warmers, brass chafing dishes, coffee ewes, feel-smuffers; ladles, brass rings, cloak pins, sleeve buttons, brass table hinges, guns and gun locks, China tea cups, chimney tiles, sets of house bushes, tea mallets, any razor cases, silver watches, elegant steel and gilt watch chains, trinkets, shirt pins, buckles, rings, paste, shoe, knee, and stock buckles and sleeve buttons, fine Irish sheeting, fine dyed jeans, Marseilles quilting, silk shaggs, black craps, white and black gauzes, mulliners, mullins, seeruckies, habasies; hencrofts, barnegoes, romalls, corded dimity, and a box of assorted bouting cloth, with a variety of other articles which will be disposed of for cash or shipping produce, at a price much below the Sterling cost.
At same place may be had, Madeira, Teneriffe and Malaga wine, by the pipe or quarter cask, Champs-paine of an excellent quality, by the case or dozen, Ripped duff blank ts, a variety of hard ware, a large assortment of Irish linens, 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4, received by the Montgomery, are now opening, and will be sold together with the above goods on the lowest terms. New-York, November 23, 1787.
FOR SALE BY
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
No. 14, Water-street, in the house lately occupied by Colonel Samuel Ogden,
A Large and general assortment of IRON CASTINGS, among which are the following, viz.
Iron hollow ware of all sizes, Pot-ashes kettles, cast with bottom down, Clock and window weights, griddles large and small, Tea-kettles large and small, bake-pans do. do. Cais, waggons, coach and chair boxes, 56, 28, 14 and 7lb. weights with rings, Mortars and pestles, sad irons, Franklin Stoves, large and small, Rittenhouse do. do. Ten and six-plate do. do. close stoves with pipes, Sharp's new inverted stove grates, Canada stoves for large rooms, Patent cabooles for ships, with one and two boilers; grates and oven.
Fire places with jam be complete, Back plates of every dimension, Hibernia, Mount Hope, New Mine and Andover pig metal.
Gudgeons and mill irons, Refined and Bloomery bar iron, spike iron, sheetop Nail rods of all sizes, Iron hoops for hides, and bbls. horse shoes, 2d. 12d. 1d. and 8d. nails, 7 inch, 6 inch and 5 inch spikes, Crowley and blistered steel.
The above articles will be sold for cash and country produce, at the lowest prices; and a large allowance made to those who buy to sell again.
All orders for wrought or cast iron will be duly attended to a d. forward, agreeable to pattern, at a reasonable notice. Oct. 29.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 27.
Friday last the Honorable Jeremiah Toombs Chase, James Brice, John Davison, John K. Irey, and Benjamin Harrison, Esquires, were chosen Executive Counsellors for this State.
The same day, John Gassaway, Esq. was elected Register of Wills for Ann Arundel County, in the Room of Thomas Gassaway, Esq. deceased.
On Saturday last his Excellency the Governor gave a grand entertainment to both branches of the Legislature, at Mr. George Mann's, where great elegance, urbanity, and good humour were displayed.
New-York, Dec. 4.
The Hudson Gazette of the 29th ult. mentions the departure of the following vessels from that port:—Brig Friendship, Paddock, Cork; do. Revolution, Jenkins, Dublin; do. Peru, Paddock, Port-au-Prince; do. Desire, Folger, do.
It is in agitation in Vermont, to publish a geographical and topographical account of that State. By WILLIAM BLODGET.
A paragraph of a letter from Baltimore, of Nov. 22d. says,—“The Company of Comedians will soon leave us, and intend to pass the winter in your city. Monsieur Bag and Tail has been illuminated with divine grace, and has quit the theatrical boards, and has mounted the ecclesiastical tub. He preaches the doctrine of Salvation, by fear and trembling, with great acceptance, and his ministration, through the aid of the Divine Spirit has been very much blessed, and there has been a considerable ingathering of converts. It appeared a little strange that the managers of these ecclesiastical strollers would engage this Bagatelle for solemn and serious casts.—The following text reconciles it to my mind:—“It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe.” I imagine he was introduced through the interest of some sister, as he is very expert at a button-hole .”
MARRIED last Saturday evening, Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia, to Mrs. TIEBOUT, widow of — Tiebout, Esq. deceased, of this city.
For the Daily Advertiser.
Nothing, says a correspondent, can equal the meanness of the Anti-Federal junto in America, but the low arts of our enemies during the war. Like them the Anti-Federal men are circulating hand-bills, fraught with sophistry, declamation and falsehoods, to delude the people and excite jealousies. A few days ago a packet was sent from New-York to Connecticut, enclosed and addressed to a very respectable gentleman, with an anonymous letter, requesting him to circulate the hand-bills among the people. The hand-bills contained Anti-federal essays. The gentleman determined at first to commit them to the flames, as they deserved; but reflecting that the people are above the influence of such despicable arts, he sent them into the country. What a poor cause is that which its advocates are ashamed to avow and support, but by the dirty arts that would have disgraced the enemies of liberty, during the struggle for Independence! But such stratagems are useless in Connecticut. Every man has taken his side, and almost every man of information, on the side of the Constitution. On the other side are ranged a few weak people and the friends of Shays.
Continuation of intelligence received by the Jenny, from Cork, and the Lord Hyde Packet, from Falmouth.
LONDON, Oct. 4.
A gentleman who yesterday arrived in town from Paris informs us, that the general opinion there is, that war is inevitable. and that the different war departments are preparing accordingly.
The French Cabinet, according to every report from the Continent, is in the utmost perplexity, their resolutions daily wavering. In the course of last week no less than six expresss were dispatched to Brest, and at the same time others to Toulon and Havre de Grace.
It is certain that at Brest and Toulon every exertion is making for the equipment of ships of war, and the same regulations as in time of war.
At Rochfort they are casting great guns, and forming magazines of naval stores; a number of fresh hands are employed in the rope-walks, and the officers of marine, there have orders to recruit the marine guards with the utmost dispatch.
Oct. 6. The Hague Gazette which came yesterday with the mail from Holland, says, that on the 21st of September, the town of Haerlem surrendered; and that news had just arrived of the capture of Nieu Sluis, with 700 men in garrison.
The Duke of Brunswick having refused any terms short of the entire submission of the city of Amsterdam, was the reason that the advanced guards of the city were attacked on Monday morning by the Prussian troops; the engagement continued for several
hours, and the Prussian were repulsed in three places, and made their retreat, which occasioned some disorder; but when the mail came away, the Duke was going against Amsterdam, in full force with all his artillery, and it is supposed is now in possession of that city.
The aim of the Duke of Brunswick, in his first skirmish, was to possess himself of a sluice, the power over which would enable the Amsterdammers to lay the country under water. The Duke effected his purpose by stratagem, but lost five officers, and 100 men.
A Correspondent at Amsterdam writes in a Postscript dated at seven o'clock on Monday evening, “That Amsterdam had not then surrendered, but that they were still in treaty, and hoped to effect good terms.” Fresh water was so scarce when the letter came away, that they gave after the rate of an English shilling for a quart bottle of it. The communication between Amsterdam and Haerlem was then cut off by the Prussians.
The places where the Prussian troops were repulsed at Amsterdam on the 1st instant, were Ouderkerk and Amstelveen.
Some conferences took place a few days before, between the Duke of Brunswick and the Burghers of Amsterdam, by which the latter hoped to obtain an honorable capitulation; but the Duke declared, that he would accept no other terms than the entire submission of the town of Amsterdam, in addition to the other articles contained in the last memorial of the Prussian Envoy. That he affirmed to be his ultimatum.
After being foiled in this attempt, the Burgomasters sent a messenger to the Duke, to request that he would not make an attack upon the town, till the return of an express, which they had expedited to the Stadtholder, soliciting some relaxation in his demands. What has since taken place, shews how little regard was shewn by the Duke to this requisition.
Such are the representations of the foreign papers; but subsequent accounts give us room to believe, that at this time Amsterdam is in possession of the Prussian army. The terms of capitulation are said to consist in the preservation of private property, and the re-establishment of the Stadtholder in all his rights and dignities.
We are assured that France is extremely angry with the Dutch of their party, for precipitating measures, and forcing the Prussians (as it were) to march onward into Holland. To this impolitic conduct of the Patriots they ascribed the success of the Stadtholder.
[In our Paper of the 13th ult. we published the Hon. Mr. Gerry's Objections to signing the New Constitution, we think it reasonable to lay before our readers the subsequent Address, presented to that Gentleman through the channel of the Massachusetts Centinel.]
To the Hon. E. GERRY, Esquire.
YOUR objections to the new Constitution have at last made their appearance before the public: They have been read before the Senate, commented on by the House, and admired by fools and insurgents: This being the case, you will not be surprized at being informed that they are justly despised by the wise and patriotic, as solely calculated to create disturbances in the community, and prevent the best formed Government from being established that ever was offered to a nation.
Your objections are ushered into the General Court, in a manner that naturally excites the curious to enquire after your motive, and leaves no reason to doubt that a certain obstinacy peculiar to ambitious minds when disappointed, was not the least. You begin by saying, “you have the honor to inclose, pursuant to your commission, the Constitution proposed by the Federal Convention.”—What a singular idea, for one of four commissioners to express in your circumstances! Did you not know that the Congress, whose business it was, had transmitted the doings of the Convention to the General Court? Surely you did—why then did you take this trouble? It could not be to give them any information, because you must have known, being a member of Congress, that the same had been sent to them, by Congress, in conformity to the resolve of the Convention—neither could it be necessary to transmit a copy of the Constitution merely to inform the General Court, that you had not set your name thereto—for this they must have known by the copy forwarded them by the Congress. The question again returns—what was your motive for this extraordinary officiousness? I answer, partly obstinacy—as before hinted—and a pretext to introduce your darling objections, pursuant to your commission . Pray were you solely commissioned to this important business of forming a Constitution? By this mode of expression, I am naturally led to conclude that all power was given to you; and that no other person had, or could have, any hand in the important affair. Like the fly upon the axis—you cry out, “what a dust we raise,”
As there were three others joined with you in the commission, it is very singular indeed that you should take upon yourself to write to the General Court in the manner you have—but you, undoubtedly, had a point to carry—you knew, perhaps, there were many in the General Court, who would oppose every thing that looked like a stable Government; and that they might break up their session before you could get before them in person,—Therefore the only way to inform them of your desire to take a part with them in putting a stop to the Constitution being received, was to introduce yourself to the General Court by letter, containing the Constitution, with your objections. If this had not been your design, why had you not been still? It is time enough to make your defence when you are accused, or called upon for that purpose. The man who steps forth, and begins to excuse himself, unasked, before the public, and before any charge is brought against him, does all in his power to publish his guilt.—The General Court, nor either of the branches, ever demanded the reasons why you did not set your name to the Constitution. They and thousands of others, saw your name was not to the doings of the Convention, but they troubled themselves no further about it. They knew there were but three of their commissioners present, when the Constitution was completed, and that two of them had subscribed it—with this they were satisfied.
However, it is best you should have wrote as you did; for it began to be reported about, that you had objections to make against the Constitution; and many of the weak, as well as the designing, began to imagine they must be important ones indeed—and though they could not discover any themselves, they took it for granted the Constitution was a bad and dangerous one; but yet depended solely upon your ingenuity to furnish them with arguments against it.—The weak and less informed, feared dreadful things were concealed, while the designing hugged themselves in the idea of having some pretence of opposing a Constitution, which, if established, must inevitably restore public credit, national dignity and importance.—But since you have disembogued what lay heavy in your stomach, and cast your budget before the world, the honest find they have nothing to fear, and insurgents but little to hope. For your objections, when weighed in the scales of reason and judgment, are found lighter than a feather; and discover little talents, equal only to skim the surface but unable to penetrate, the substance.—They are too general to give information, or direct to a better system—and, to answer them, nothing more is necessary than barely to deny them.
Your first objection, is “that there is no adequate provision for a representation.” This is directly false—for every thirty thousand is entitled to send a representative. You say that some of the powers of the legislature are ambiguous, and others indefinite and dangerous—as this is a general assertion, without any application, it is enough, for the present purpose, to oppose it, by saying, the powers of the legislature are clear and intelligible, certainly defined, and guarded from every probability of danger; and leave it to you to point out some one instance, at least, of ambiguity, indefiniteness or danger.—But as you have not done this I conclude that you cannot—and had it been in your power to have pointed out wherein the executive is blended with, or can have an undue influence over the legislature, there can be no doubt but you would most readily have put your pen upon these places in the Constitution and thereby have directed your readers to them. Simply to say a thing is bad, is not reasoning, but an endeavour to impose one man's judgment upon the minds of others. But in this respect, if people are to form their judgments by the opinions of others, and the old proverb be true, that in the multitude of council there is safety, your letter will not have its desired effect, since your judgment upon the Constitution stands alone opposed to the judgment of thirty-nine gentlemen, whose characters, as to patriotism and knowledge, and consequently the probability of being right, are individually your equals.
The judicial department will be oppressive—Thirty nine persons, every way your equal, say the judicial department will not be oppressive. It is not in your power to shew that there is any more probability that the judicial power under this proposed Constitution will be oppressive, than that the judicial power under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will become oppressive and cruel—if there be any weight in your objection, it goes equally against the government of this state—and yet we find no reason to complain of our Constitution on this account—we find the courts of justices properly arranged: And it never has been once suggested that the Constitution is bad—it is possible, I confess, that the Congress may so dispose of the Courts, as to make great inconveniences and expence to the subject—but if a Con-
stitution of government must be rejected because it contains possible inconveniences, it may truly be answered that it will forever be impossible to establish any government at all—because you, nor any other person, can project a Constitution that will exclude all possible inconveniences or injuries to the subject.—And I submit it to your better sense, to say—whether the objection which lays with equal force against every form of government, ought not to lose all weight in the minds of reasonable beings, whose very nature compels them to act upon probability.
You say the Constitution has few, if any federal features, but is rather a national government—Pray, sir, be so good as to inform me, why you enter into this distinction, and of what consequence it is to the great body of the people, whether the Constitution proposed, be a national, or Federal one—provided it is calculated to produce the greatest possible good to the greatest number of the people? The good, or happiness of the people is acknowledged by all republicans to be the sole end of government: And, in my opinion, the only question the people ought to have in view, is, whether the Constitution proposed to their consideration, will, according to the degree of probability which wise and rational beings ought to act upon in the affairs of the greatest consequence, produce this effect. Yours, A. B.
The FEDERALIST, No. XV.
To the People of the State of New-York
IN the course of the preceding papers, I have endeavored, my Fellow Citizens, to place before you in a clear and convincing light, the importance of Union to your political safety and happiness. I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together to be severed or dissolved by ambition or by avarice, by jealousy or by misrepresentation. In the sequel of the inquiry, through which I propose to accompany you, the truths intended to be inculcated will receive further confirmation from facts and arguments hitherto unnoticed. If the road, over which you will still have to pass, should in some places appear to you tedious or irksome, you will recollect, that you are in quest of information on a subject the most momentous which can engage the attention of a free people: that the field through which you have to travel is in itself spacious, and that the difficulties of the journey have been unnecessarily increased by the mazes with which sophistry has beset the way. It will be my aim to remove the obstacles to your progress in as compendious a manner, as it can be done, without sacrificing utility to dispatch.
In pursuance of the plan, which I have laid down, for the discussion of the subject, the point next in order to be examined is the “insufficiency of the present confederation to the preservation of the Union.” It may perhaps be asked, what need is there of reasoning or proof to illustrate a position, which is not either controverted or doubted; to which the understandings and feelings of all classes of men assent; and which in substance is admitted by the opponents as well as by the friends of the New Constitution?—It must in truth be acknowledged that however these may differ in other respects, they in general appear to harmonize in this sentiment at least, that there are material imperfections in our national system, and that something is necessary to be done to rescue us from impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are no longer objects of speculation. They have forced themselves upon the sensibility of the people at large, and have at length extorted from those, whose mistaken policy has had the principal share in precipitating the extremity, at which we are arrived, a reluctant confession of the reality of those defects in the scheme of our Federal Government, which have been long pointed out and regretted by the intelligent friends of the Union.
We may indeed with propriety be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely any thing that can wound the pride, or degrade the character of an independent nation, which we do not experience. Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men? These are the subjects of constant and unblushing violation. Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril, for the preservation of our political existence? These remain without any proper or satisfactory provision for their discharge. Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power, which by express stipulations ought long since to have been surrendered? These are still retained, to the prejudice of our interests not less than of our rights. Are we in a condition to resent, or to repel the aggression?
We have neither troops nor treasury nor

Government.* Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity? The just imputations on our own faith, in respect to the same treaty, ought first to be removed. Are we entitled by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi? Spain excludes us from it. Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger? We seem to have abandoned its cause as desperate and irretrievable. Is commerce of importance to national wealth? Ours is at the lowest point of declension. Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard against foreign encroachments? The imbecility of our Government even forbids them to treat with us? Our Ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land a symptom of national distress? The price of improved lands in most parts of the country is much lower than can be accounted for by the quantity of waste land at market, and can only be fully explained by that want of private and public confidence, which are so alarmingly prevalent among all ranks and which have a direct tendency to depreciate property of every kind. Is private credit the friend and patron of industry? That most useful kind which relates to borrowing and lending is reduced within the narrowest limits, and this still more from an opinion of insecurity than from the scarcity of money. To shorten an enumeration of particulars which can afford neither pleasure nor instruction it may in general be demanded, what indication is there of national disorder, poverty and insignificance that could befall a community so peculiarly blessed with natural advantages as we are, which does not form a part of the dark catalogue of our public misfortunes?
This is a melancholy situation, to which we have been brought by those very maxims and councils, which would now deter us from adopting the proposed Constitution; and which not content with having conducted us to the brink of a precipice, seem resolved to plunge us into the abyss, that awaits us below. Here, my countrymen, impelled by every motive that ought to influence an enlightened people, let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquility, our dignity, our reputation. Let us at last break the fatal charm which has too long seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.
It is true, as has been before observed, that facts too stubborn to be resisted, have produced a species of general assent to the abstract proposition that there exist material defects in our national system; but the usefulness of the concession, on the part of the old adversaries of Federal measures, is destroyed by a strenuous opposition to a remedy, upon the only principles, that can give it a chance of success. While they admit that the Government of the United States is destitute of energy; they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy: They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable—at an augmentation of Federal authority without a diminution of State authority—at sovereignty in the Union, and complete Independence in the Members. They still in fine seem to cherish with blind devotion the political monster of an imperium in imperio . This renders a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation necessary, in order to shew, that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building which cannot be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric.
The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation, is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of which they consist. Though this principle does not run through all the powers delegated to the Union; yet it pervades and governs those, on which the efficacy of the rest depends. Except as to the rule of apportionment, the United States have an indifferent discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America. The consequence of this is, that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionally binding on the members of the Union, yet in practice they are mere accommodations, which the States observe or disregard at their option.
It is a singular instance of the capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new Constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old; and which is in itself evidently incompatible with the idea of Government; a principle in short, which if it is executed at all, must substitute the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword to the mild influence of the Magistracy.
* I mean for the Union.
[To be concluded to-morrow.]
EXTRACTS from LLOYD'S LIST.
Sept. Arrived---from New-York. 17. At Dover. Lord Middleton, Hewgil. 20. At Liverpool. Betsey and Amy, Watt. At Bristol. Mercury, 27. At Gravesend. Clermont, Nicholson. 21. At Dublin. Susannah, Dury. 29. At Milford. Baltic, John. Oct. 2. At Falmouth. Grantham, 24 days. 3. At Portsmouth. Providence, Coffin. Sailed---for New-York. Sept. 28. The Sally, Armstrong, from New-York to Liverpool, is on shore near Duncannon Spit, but is expected to be got off.
ARRIVED.
At this Port. Ship Princess Royal, Dawes, Teneriffe. Brig Gov. Clinton, Phenix, Wilmington. Schooner Chatham, Chinny, Port-au-Prince. Sloop Ranger, Warner, ditto. Mary, Duffy, St. John's (N.B.) Fanny, Conklin, Demarara. Capt. Conklin, on Sunday last, was run down by the Lydia, Thomas, from Cape-Francois, and received considerable damage in her hull. The Lydia was 26 days out, bound for this port.
** The Republican Soldier, omitted for want of room, will appear to-morrow.
SHEDDEN, PATRICK and Co.
No. 206, Water-street; HAVE just imported in the Brig Apollo, Capt. Tyrie, from St. Petersburg, unlading at Hal-let's wharf, a cargo of Russia GOODS, of the best quality, which they will dispose of on reasonable terms, viz. Clean Petersburg Hemp; Bar Iron assorted, Russia Sail Cloth, Raven's Duck, Russia Sheeting, Cordage, A few casks Tallow. They have also for Sale, Old Jamaica Spirits, crop 1783, Muscovado Sugar, London particular Madeira, Old Mountain Malaga, vintage 1782 and 1783, A few casks and jars Raisins. Black Pepper, Bohea Tea, Black Barcelona Handkerchiefs. An Assortment of IRONMONGERY, viz. Nails, Beads and Tacks, Carpenter's and Broad Axes, Narrow and grubbing do. Narrow Hoes and Hawk-Bills. Dec. 4. tf
TO BE SOLD By GEORGE DOUGLASS,
No. 14, Fly-Market; ONE hundred barrels Philadelphia superfine Flour, 150 do. do. common do. 50 half barrels do. do. 3000 lb. Cayenne and Hispaniola Cotton, 8 cwt. Hop; 100 barrels Port-wine, Pork in barrels, Bar Iron, Old Jamaica Spirits in hds. Dec. 4. tf
WANTED, A Person to attend a Mill,
WHO is capable of making superfine and common Flour, and can be well recommended for honesty and sobriety. Enquire at No. 35, Little Dock-street. Dec. 4. 5t.
FOR SALE, A NEGRO WENCH,
ABOUT 27 years of age. For Particulars en-quire of the Printer. Dec. 4. 2w.
For BRISTOL,
The new British Ship S A L L Y, GEORGE GREENAWAY, Master, WILL sail the 9th inst. For Passage apply to the master on board, at Franklin's wharf, or to Murray and Sanfom, No. 184, Queen street. December 4. 5t.
For Charleston,
The SLOOP COMMERCE, GILES HOLLISTER, Master, BURTHEN about 75 tons, has ve-ry good accommodations for Passengers. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board at Kortwright's wharf, or to Gardiner, Wilson, and Co., No. 157, Water-street. Dec. 4. 6t.
For Charter,
The American BRIG APOLLO, JAMES TYRIE, Master, LYING at Hallet's wharf, bur-then about 180 tons, or 1,800 barrels; staunch, well found, well accommodated, and of an easy draught of water. Apply to SHED- DEN, PATRICK, and Co. No. 206, Water-street.
For Baltimore,
The SCHOONER P E G G Y, JOHN DADDY, Master, LYING at Cruger's wharf, will sail in a few days. Apply as above.
For SALE,
The Hull of the new BRIG J O H N, LYING at Murray's wharf, bur-then about 130 tons, a strong well built vessel, of an easy draught of water. Ap- ply as above, or to NICHOLAS LOW, Esq. No. 216, Water-street. Dec. 4. tf.
SALES at AUCTION,
By Frederick Jay, THIS DAY, XI o'clock opposite the Coffee-House, 2 pipes Port Wine, 50 doz. London Porter, 20 boxes Chocolate, 16 jars Raisins, 12 boxes Figs, 2 Cases French Cordials, 10 kegs Olives, and a parcel of HOUS- HOLD FURNITURE, &c. &c.
TO-MORROW, at X o'clock, At No. 244, Queen-street, A large assortment of DRY GOODS, Including fifty pieces of Broad Cloths, which will be sold without reserve.
At I o'clock at the Coffee-House, THOSE three valuable and pleasantly si- tuated LOTS OF GROUND, in the Bowry-Lane, containing upwards of seven acres each, only two miles and a half from the city. On one of the Lots are two con- venient and well finished houses, one of them a two story house, and lately occupi- ed by William Seton, Esq.
SALES AT AUCTION,
THIS DAY, XI o'clock, at No. 83, Broadway, (Being the property of Mrs. Livingston,) The remainder of Household Furniture; And a quantity of elegant Plate.
TO-MORROW, At my Auction-Room, No. 14, Hanover- square, An assortment of DRY GOODS. And a parcel of mens wearing apparel. JAMES BARCLAY.
By PUBLIC AUCTION,
On THURSDAY, At TWELVE o'clock precisely, At Mr. Bradford's house, opposite the Old-slip, will peremptorily be sold, The SCHOONER BURTHEN 45 tons, or there- abouts, at which place she now lies. Inventory to be seen at the time of sale, or at my of- fice, No. 21, Wall-street. JAMES INGLIS.
N.B. To make it more convenient to such as may incline to purchase her, any kind of country pro- duce will be taken in payment at the highest market price.
SALES at AUCTION.
TO-MORROW, X o'clock, At the Auction Room, No. 239, Queen-street, Will commence the Sale of A large assortment of Watches and Jewellery;
And will be peremptorily sold, they be- ing the property of a person deceased: They consist of the following enumerated articles, and many others too tedious to mention:-- Silver Watches; Stone Shoe, Knee, and Stock Buckles; Gold Rings; Garnet and Pearl Ditto; Watch Seals and Strings; Gold Brooches; Gold and Silver Sleeve But- tons; Locket Brooches; Pearl Stock Buck- les; Silver Shoe and Knee Buckles; Stone Sleeve Buttons, set in Silver; Watch Trim- mings of all sorts; Plated Salts and Crew- its; Silver Teas Spoons; Tortoise-shell Tooth-pick Case; fine Scissors, with Sil- ver cases; Pencil-Cases, with glasses; Smelling Bottles; Ladies' Pocket-Books, &c. M C FARRAN and DUNLAP.
New-York, December 3, 1787. LAST this afternoon, six SILVER TEA-SPOONS, and a SILVER SUGAR TONGS: the spoons marked with the letters J.C.G. the tongs engraved and marked with the same letters. Whoever has found the same, or can give information where they may be got, at this Printing-Office, shall be handsomely rewarded. All Silver Smiths and others are requested to stop the same if offered for sale. 3t.
ANY Person having demands on the estate of JAMES YOULE, deceased, are requested to call on the subscriber for payment. And all those who are indebted to said estate are hereby requested to call and discharge their accounts before the first day of January next, or may expect their accounts will be put in the hands of an attorney, for recovery of the same, without distinction; as a settlement of that estate must be made at the time above mentioned. JOHN YOULE, Administrator. Nov. 14. tf. No. 64, Beekman-Slip.
Who has just opened a fresh and general assort- ment of Hardware, Ironmongery, and Cutlery, Which he will dispose of very reasonable by whole- sale or retail.
The Chevalier Godernaux's Powder.
MR HARDY, Surgeon of his Most Christian Majesty's Ship the Courier de l'Europe, being appointed agent to vend the celebrated Powder of the Chevalier Godernaux, begs leave to acquaint the public, that he has brought over a large quan- tity of the said Powder, which will be sold at Eight Dollars the Packet, containing ten doses. A packet is generally found sufficient for the cure of most disorders.
For further information apply to Mr Hardy, sur- geon on board the said Packet. N.B. Said Powder is a sovereign remedy for the Venereal Disease, as likewise the measles, small- pox. Dec. 1. 3t.
SALES at AUCTION,
THIS DAY, At the Coffee-House at XII o'clock, 4 pipes Port, } WINE. 16 casks Lisbon }
TO-MORROW, At the Auction-Room, No. 208, Water-street, A very large and valuable assortment of DRY GOODS, Consisting of Woolens, Irish Linens, Checks, Diapers, Callicoes, Chintzes, Fan- cy Cotton, Printed Linen, and Silk Hand- kerchiefs, Mullins, Lawns, Gauzes, and a great variety of other articles.
On MONDAY, the 10th of December, At the Merchants' Coffee House, IN pursuance of an order of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, according to the Act, entitled, "An Act for the partition of lands," passed the 16th March 1785, a DWELLING-HOUSE and LOT OF GROUND, situate and being at the South-East corner of Pearl- street and White-hall-street; and also a DWELLING- HOUSE and LOT OF GROUND, situate and being in White-hall-street aforesaid, adjoining the lot of Tho- mas Randall, Esq. Oct. 20. tf. JOHN READE, JAMES A. STEWART, } Commissioners. JOSEPH HALLETT, } A. L. BLEECKER.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THIS DAY, At the Auction-Room, No. 37, Great Dock-street, A variety of DRY GOODS, Amongst which are-- Broad Cloths and Coatings, Corduroys, Callicoes, Chintzes, Irish Linens, Hair Ribbons, &c. &c. Also, a parcel of HARDWARE. ISAAC MOSES.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
By Hugh Smith, THIS DAY, X o'clock, At No. 22, Wall-street, A general and seasonable assortment of DRY GOODS.
To the Curious. To be seen at Mr. Stevens's Livery Stables, Wall-street, near Pitt's Statue, TWO CAMELS,
MALE and female; lately imported from Ara- bia. These stupendous animals are most deserving the attention of the curious, being the greatest natural curiosities ever exhibited to the pub- lic on this continent. They are 18 hands high, have necks three feet eight inches long, a large hump upon their back, and another under their breast, in the form of a pectoral, on which they sup- port themselves when lying down; they have four joints in their hind legs, and they will travel twelve or fourteen days without drinking, and carry a bur- then of fifteen hundred weight; they are remarkably harmless and docile, and will lie down and rise at command. Price of admittance one shilling for gentlemen and ladies, and six-pence for children.
To be Sold at Auction,
On Monday the 17th day of December inst. At the Merchants Coffee-House, between XI and I o'clock, Ten LOTS OF GROUND, Belonging to the estate of Anthony A. Ru- gers, deceased, lying to the Southward of the Hospital; 6 of which are on the South side of BARLEY-STREET, and four on the East side of CHURCH-STREET. A map thereof may be seen, previous to the day of sale, by applying to Lewis Ogden, No. 41 Great-Dock-street.
One third part of the purchase money, to be paid on the delivering of the deeds, and the residue within six months thereafter; for payment whereof, a bond with satisfactory security, or mortgage on the premises will be required. LEONARD LISPENARD, } Executors. LEWIS OGDEN, New-York, December 3d, 1787.
IMPORTED
Per the last Ships from London and Amsterdam, and to be SOLD at the Store of URIAH HENDRICKS,
No. 43, Hanover-square, cheap for cash or pro- duce, the following Goods, viz. BEST bend leather, in fides; boot legs and vamps; Morocco leather, sheet copper, for sheathing or stills, with bottoms, cocks and rivets, complete folder and borax, London pewter, Russia, Ravens, and Hollands duck; ozanburghs, fine white and brown Russia sheetings; diapers and towelling; an assortment of best Holland bowling cloths; brass kettles in nests; brass candlesticks, Bath metal ditto. N.B. He will take in payment for any of the above goods, or give cash for, old gold and silver copper or brass. Nov. 29. 4t.
WANTED,
A WET NURSE, with a good Breast of Milk; that can be well recommended, to take the care of a Child to nurse. Enquire of the Printer. Nov. 30. 18m. 3w
Excellent French Brandy,
HYSON and GREEN TEAS, for Sale by JOHN DELAFIELD, No. 293, Water-street. Nov. 28. 10t.
ALBANY BOILING PEAS,
Round and Split, warranted good. For Sale by Zacharias Sickels, Oct. 16. 26w No. 7, New-street.

For LONDON,
The SHIP Generous Friends , EDWARD GRAY, master, BURTHEN 350 tons, a British ship, with a Mediterranean Pass, will sail on or before the 15th Decem-ber, one half of her cargo being ready to go on board, and will take the other on low terms. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board, at Jno. Franklin's wharf, or Wm. NIELSON, No. 40, Great Dock-street. Nov. 26.
For LONDON.
The Ship Montgomery , James Bunyan, Master, Has good accommodations for passengers, and will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to the Master on board, at Hallett's wharf, or to William Seton and Co. No. 12, Hanover-square. Nov. 27.
For CHARLESTON, South-Carolina.
The Sloop PEGGY , WILLIAM ELLIOTT, Master, Lying at Koytwright's wharf, having good accommodations for passengers, and will sail in a few days. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or to JOHN JACKSON, 78, Water-street. Nov. 6.
For LONDONDERRY.
The Ship HUDSON , ROBERT FOLGER, Master, Now lying at Lupton's wharf, has the greatest part of her cargo engaged, and will sail in 15 days. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or Messrs. MURRAY, MUMFORDS and BOWEN. Nov. 6, 1787.
For CURACOA,
The remarkable fast Sailing Schooner DELIGHT , The New-York and Curacoa Packet, RICHARD COCKRAN, Master, NOW lying at Brownjohn's wharf. For Freight or Passage apply to the master on board, or at No. 38, Maiden-lane. N.B. Said Packet has good accommodations for passengers, and will positively sail on or before the 7th day of December next. For Sale on board said Packet, 200 of the best Barcelona Hides. Nov. 30.
Best AMERICAN BOTTLED PORTER
To be SOLD at No. 64, Nassau Street. GEORGE GILFORD. Etw
FOR SALE
By JAMES DEAS , No. 216, Queen-street. A quantity of FAT fall MACKAREL, SALMON , in barrels and half barrels; SCALE FISH, SHAD , and seven barrels pickled BASS . Nov. 30.
G. VERPLANCK
HAS FOR SALE, at No. 41, WALL-STREET, on very reasonable terms for CASH, CAMBRICKS , white Platelas, Ivory Combs, Pistol Powder, Pepper, Geneva in Cales, Holland Duck, Raven's do. Russia Sheetings, Calicoes and Tapes, Dutch Mill Saws, &c. &c. Also, about fifteen tons of Andover PIG-IRON , very cheap. 9th Aug. 1787.
To be Sold at Private Sale,
The Farm, Grift and Saw-Mills, whereon the Subscriber now lives, known by the name of Squire's Point, about 37 miles from New-Brunswick, 40 miles from Trenton, 14 from Easttown, in a fine wheat country. The Farm contains 164 acres of good land, on which there is a very genteel house, with four rooms on a floor, a large barn with several small dwelling-houses; the Grift-Mill has two run of stones, in excellent order, and the Saw-Mill almost new, on a never-failing stream of water; also a Negro Man, a compleat miller; likewise three Farms, containing 200 acres each, about two miles from the Mills. For further particulars, enquire of Mr. John Ramsay, Mr. Alexander Stewart, Mr. Hay Stevenson, in New-York, or to the owner on the premises. JOHN RAPALJE. Squire's-Point, Sept. 24th, 1787.
THOMAS BURLING,
CABINET and CHAIR-MAKER, At the Sign of the Chair, near the Chapel, in Beekman-street, formerly Chapel-street, ACKNOWLEDGES the many favors received from his friends and the public, and would wish to inform them that he has opened a Warehouse of MAHOGANY and other FURNITURE, on a more extensive plan than heretofore; and for the convenience of strangers and others, who may resort to, or reside in this city, he means to keep an assortment where they may be supplied on the shortest notice; for it must hurt the feelings of every citizen to observe the daily importations strangers are liable to in purchasing new furniture at these public vendues. He served his time with Samuel Prince, a conspicuous character in his way, and esteemed one of the best workmen in this city; and as he has laid in a stock of the best Mahogany and other Wood, and means to employ the best hands, and sell his work at the lowest rate good work sells at, he flatters himself with being able to give satisfaction to his customers. Bed Chairs for the sick having been much wanted in this city, said Burling has provided some to let. Nov. 19.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
On TUESDAY , the 18th December, (if not Sold before at private Sale.) TWO LOTS OF GROUND , IN Little Dock-street, joining to Josiah Shippey, and nearly opposite to Nicholas Hoffman's. FREDERICK JAY.
To be Let until the first of May, THAT pleasantly situated HOUSE, No. 13, corner of Beekman and William-street; For particulars, apply at the premises. if Oct. 27.
FLAX-SEED,
Stored, cleaned purchased and sold, at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S FLAX-SEED STORE, lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Sarly, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. if Oct. 22.
CABLES of any length, and CORDAGE
of all sizes, made of Peterboro' Hemp, first quality, To be had at the Subscriber's Rope-walk, or at his Store, between Fly-market Stairs and Burling-ship, on the very lowest terms. Cables spliced with the addition of any length required; Cables or Cordage of any size reduced into yarn, and made into Rope to any dimensions, at a very small expence, by HEZEKIAH IVERS, Rope-Maker. July 25th, 1787.
TOBACCO and SNUFF,
Of the best quality and flavor, to be had by Peter and George Lorillard , At their Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory, No. 4, Chatham-street, above the New Goal; PIGTAIL, plug, and cut Tobacco, kitesfoot and common smoking; also leaf Tobacco, by the hogshead or smaller quantity. Maccuba Snuff at 8/ per bottle, Macaboy Snuff at 4/ per bottle, Straitsburgh, Brazil and scented Rappee Snuff at 2/ per bottle, scented Rappee in leads, at 1/9 lb. Rappee not scented, at 1/5 lb. Manufactured Tobacco and Snuff will be exchanged for leaf Tobacco in hogsheads or casks, or Tobacco taken and manufactured on the most reasonable terms. Whoever may want any of the above Tobacco or Snuff, shall receive them good as any on the continent. N.B. Proper allowance will be made to those that want a quantity. 301 Sept. 13.
A CAUTION to OWNERS and MASTERS of VESSELS,
THAT they beware of rigging which is made of Holland yarn; for it is made in great quantities and exposed to sale, to the hurt of the buyer. It is of such a base quality, that it is not sufficient for cables or rigging of any kind: it is spun and dressed off in such a manner, as makes it difficult for the buyer to know it from the best rope. In order to try its evil quality, let the buyer take a few yards of the big end of the rope, and open them into hemp, and it is prove to be short tow, you may take it for granted to be Holland yarn; which is spun or short tow and refuse of the hemp, that is manufactured into sail-cloth in Holland. N.B. If it should be enquired who are the promoters of this caution, be it known that we are a company of rope-makers, who think it too tedious to insert our names here. if New-York, Nov. 8.
PURSUANT to an order made by the Hon. Benjamin
Luggé, Esq. Alderman of Montgomery Ward, of the City of New-York, upon the petition of DAVID BLACK, of the said City, an insolvent debtor, and three-fourths in value of his Creditors; PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioners, to all the creditors of the said David Black, that they be and appear before the said Alderman, at his office in Beekman street, in the city of New-York, on the 4th day of December next, at ten of the Clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any there be, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and he thereupon be discharged, pursuant to the act entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed by the Legislature of the State of New-York, the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated the 19th day of November, 1787. 31. DAVID BLACK.
THIS DAY is Published & to be Sold,
The Universalist, IN SEVEN LETTERS to AMYNTOR. By WM. PITTS SMITH . The Subscribers will be supplied with their Copies only by the Printer hereof. The book will likewise be sold at the Stores of Messrs. Loudon, Hodge, Allen and Campbell.
This Day is Published,
And to be SOLD by WILLIAM ROSS , in Broad-street No. 33, and by the PRINTER hereof, OBSERVATIONS ON GOVERNMENT , Including some animadversions on Mr. ADAM'S DEFENCE Of the CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : And on Mr. DE LOLME'S CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND . By A FARMER OF NEW-JERSEY.
CERTIFICATES.
THE HIGHEST PRICE is given for CONTINENTAL and STATE CERTIFICATES of every kind, at No. 198, Queen-street, by July 13. if JOHN BLEECKER.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
8000 Dollars in Final Settlements, FOR which a generous price will be given, by JOHN BLEECKER, No. 198, Queen-street.
WANTED,
A CLERK to attend a wholesale and retail Store. He must be middle aged, and well qualified. Good recommendations will be required. Enquire at No. 35, Little Dock-street. Nov. 26. tf
** The Printer having obtained a Copy of some OBSERVATIONS made in the late FEDERAL CONVENTION, by a Member of that Body, the Public may be furnished with them at the printing-office.---Price 2s.
500 or 1000 Pounds
IS wanted for one to three years; for which indisputable security will be given. Enquire of the Printer. if Oct. 25.
Just Published,
And to be SOLD by SAMUEL CAMPBELL, (Price FIVE SHILLINGS)
Sixteen SERMONS, on important subjects. By JAMES MUIR, A.M. Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Bermuda. THESE Sermons have been published under the inspection of the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, of Princeton; who warmly recommends them to the perusal of all serious christians. Likewise, (Price TWO SHILLINGS)
Dr. Witherspoon's ADDRESS On the day of Commencement, to the Senior Class, who were to receive the Degree of Bachelor of Arts: Containing the best system of Directions to Young Men, for the Government of their Lives, perhaps ever published in the English language. 59.
JUST IMPORTED.
In the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, from London, and other late vessels from Great-Britain, and to be SOLD on very reasonable terms, by
ROBERT HODGE,
No. 237, the corner of King and Queen-streets, A large and choice
Collection of BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each; Buxtorf on the new testament; Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols; Cruden's concordance, Wardlaw's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's, Carr's, Erskine's, Boston's, Wilson's, Atterbury's, &c. Sermon's; Nelson's festivals, Cullen's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's practice of physic; Van Swieten's commentaries, 18 vols. Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery; Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quincy's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's chemistry, &c. Ashworth's, Young's, Cole's, and Entick's latin dictionaries; Davidson's Virgil and Horace; Duncan's Cicero, Kent's Lucian-Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Eutropius, Erasmus, and introduction to Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid; Hammond's algebra, Stone's Euclid; Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmon's geographical grammar; Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashe's, Dycke's, Bailey's, Scott's, Perry's, and Entick's dictionaries; Bennett's christian oratory, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, &c. in prose, Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's mensuration. Besides the above, a great variety, consisting of History, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. Also, an excellent Assortment of
STATIONARY, viz.
Genuine Writing Paper, of different sizes and prices; Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes; Receipt Books, Bonnet and Wrapping Paper, Seating Wax, Wafers, Quills, Slates, lead and fat Pencils, Pe knives, elegant Shoe Buckles, Message Cards, &c. &c. * Commission from the Country thankfully received, and carefully executed. Nov. 24. tf
WHEREAS the Co-Partnership of the House of
Henry Arnold Coffer, Esq. Bohlen, Haro Joachim Coffer and Herman Gerard Hammacher, established in this City, under the Firm of HOOTHERS, COSTER and Co. was, on the 20th day of October last, dissolved by mutual consent: all persons having any demands against the said House, are requested to furnish their accounts immediately, and those who are indebted to them, will be pleased to make payment to Henry Arnold Coffer, one of the said House, on or before the 31st day of December, or their accounts will, without distinction, be put in the hands of an Attorney; he being fully authorized to settle the same. N.B. The Business, under the Firm of Brothers, Coffer and Co. will in future, be carried on by Henry Arnold Coffer and G. L. Cammann. New-York, Sept. 23, 1787. tf
IN CHANCERY.
Robert Richardson Crofts, et alii, vs. George Clinton, Esq. and Nicholas C. Bogat. The honorable the Chancellor, the following premises, late the estate of Cornelius Blau, deceased, will be Sold at Public Auction, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, in the City of New-York, on the fifteenth day of December next, at twelve o'clock at noon, of the same day, to wit: All that certain Messuage or Dwelling House and lot of Ground, situate, lying and being in the said City, in Broad-street, nearly opposite the Exchange; containing in front on the west side, thirty-six feet six inches, and in the rear or east side, thirty-five feet, on the south-side, adjoining the lot now or late of William Milliner, sixty-eight feet, and to the north adjoining the lot now or late of Samuel Francis, sixty feet, be the same more or less; together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances to the same premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining. The purchase money to be paid on the delivery of the deed to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, pursuant to the decree aforesaid; the other conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale; by JAMES M. HUGHES, Master in Chancery. Dated this 20th day of Nov. 1787. tf
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, according to an
act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," that on the 12th day of May next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, all that certain Lot, or piece of GROUND, situate, lying and being in the South-ward of the city of New-York, and fronting the street formerly called Bridge-street, and being bounded on the westerly side by the ground now or late of Isaac Depuyfer, and on the easterly side by the ground now or late of the heirs of Francis Sylvester, deceased, and in the rear by the lot of ground now or late belonging to Thomas and Elizabeth Hunt; the said Lot containing in breadth in front and rear, 24 feet 9 inches; and in length on both sides, 61 feet 6 inches, with the appurtenances; which said premises were by indenture, bearing date the 25th day of March, 1768, mortgaged by Jane Durham, of the city of New-York, widow, to John Leake, for securing the payment of three hundred and twenty-one pounds, with lawful interest for the same. The conditions will be made known on the day of sale, and a title given by the subscriber. JOHN LEAKE. New-York, Nov. 9, 1787. 6m f
L A N D.
To be Sold, several LOTS of LAND, lately foreclosed and laid out by Thomas Palmer, lying and adjoining to the Great Pond, about four miles back of Newburgh, in the county of Ulster. For particulars, enquire of JOHN R. MYER, in King-street. ed 1D Nov. 8.
C A S H,
And the HIGHEST PRICES given, for all kinds of CONTINENTAL and STATE SECURITIES, PARTICULARLY Banker's, Barber's, Burrall's, Pierce's and Walker's NOTES and FACILITIES, at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street; Where are for sale, Excellent old MADEIRA WINE, in pipes or quarter-casks, BEEF, PORK, and BAR IRON. July 24.
OAKUM, For Sale,
Of the first quality, by the ton or single hundred; at 25 shillings per hundred, gross. Also a parcel of Points, Mats and Gaskets, and a quantity of good rigging of different dimensions. Enquire of Francis Ballet, Lawrence Embree, Elijah Cocke, Obadiah Seaman, and Elias Nexen.
D A N C I N G.
MR PICKEN begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of New-York, that he has opened his SCHOOL at the City Assembly-room, Broad-way; where he will exert his utmost abilities to merit the approbation of his employers. 14th Sept. 1787. tf
Dr. RYAN's incomparable Worm destroying
SUGAR PLUMBS,
Highly necessary to be kept in all Families, SO exceedingly valued by all people who have had of them in Great-Britain and Ireland, for their transcendent excellency in the destroying Worms of all kinds, both in the bodies of men, women, and children, by not only breaking the knots in the duodenum, or gut next the stomach, but they pass through the smallest passages of the body, and purge away thoseropy and limy humours which are the cause of those pernicious vermin, and the source of many other disorders. They are one of the best puges in the whole world for gross-bodied children that are apt to breed worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, safe, and pleasant; they wonderfully cleanse the bowels of all fluff and clammy humours which stop up the parts, and prevent the juice of food from being conveyed to the liver and made blood, which is often the case with children, and is attended with a hard belly, flinking breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and a decay of strength, in the lower parts; likewise settled aches and pains in the head, swellings, old sores, scabs, tetteres, or breaking out, will be perfectly cured, and the blood and skin restored to its original purity and smoothness; they purge by urine, and bring away the gravel, and effectually cure all obstructions of the urine, or ulcers in the kidneys. They at once strike at the true cause of the scurvy, and entirely destroy it, and all scorbutic humours and effects, root and branch, so as never to return again; and what makes them more commendable is, they are full as agreeable to both taste and light, as loaf sugar; and in their operation, as innocent as new milk. I have by these plumbs cured a great many children of a whooping or chin-coughs, and agues, which distempers are very common and troublesome to families, and the want of these plumbs are the ruin of many children's constitutions. These plumbs enrich and sweeten the whole mass of blood, carry off all gross, corrupt, and putrid humours, and create a fresh and healthy complexion in such as are affected in any putrid matter. The plumb is a great diuretick, cleansing the reins of urine; it expels wind, and is a foreign medicine in the cholic and griping of the guts; it allays and carries off tour vapours, which occasion many disorders in the head; it opens all obstructions in the stomack, lungs, liver, reins, and bladder, causes a good appetite, and helps digestion. It hath been found wonderfully successful in such persons as are going into chronological distempers, as asthma, plethicks, or shortness of breath, dropsies and yellow-jundice. Now I hope all impartial persons are satisfied that the medicine which works upon such humours, will almost reach any distemper, if not too far go it, since corruption and impurefaction are the forerunners of all distempers; therefore, no better plumb can be taken for all ages, sexes, and constitutions, from infancy to an old age. These plumbs are highly serviceable to the female sex, from the age of 14 to 20, and from 40 to 50. Each box contains one dozen of these plumbs.---Price Eight Shillings, with directions. Sold by H. GAINE, at his Book-store and Printing Office, in Hanover-Square, Diagnostic signs of Worms.
Directions for taking them.
A Child from 1 to 2 years may eat one plumb; from 2 to 4 one and a half, from 4 to 6 two, from 6 to 8 two and a half, from 8 to 12 three, from 12 to 15, and all above that age may eat four plumbs, one hour or two before up-rising, not to drink during that time, but afterwards drink warm tea, whey, or water-gruel; in taking, the patient must stay 2 or 3 days betwixt each dose. In agues, the same quantity must be taken, 2, 3, or 4 hours before the fit comes on, and be repeated three times. In whooping or chin-coughs, give the quantity above-mentioned. June 1. 3aw. tf
FENCING SCHOOL.
MR VILLETTE has the honor to inform the gentlemen of this city, that he has opened his School on Golden-hill, No. 37, where that noble art will be taught, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from ten o'clock, A.M. until two. ** An EVENING SCHOOL is opened for the accommodation of such gentlemen, as cannot make it convenient to attend in the day. MR VILLETTE has likewise opened a FRENCH Evening School, from six to eight, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Gentlemen desiring to be taught at their lodgings, will be waited upon in those hours that will not interfere with his school hours.
Printed by FRANCIS CHILDS, No. 22, Hanover-Square.