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The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUMB. 1715, of VOL. XLII.]
THURSDAY, September 4, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2364.]
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From his Excellency General Washington, to the printer of the American Museum.
Mount Vernon, June 25, 1788.
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From his Excellency William Livingston, Esq.
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FOR JULY, 1788.
CONTAINING Moral Essays.
LETTERS from a young gentleman to his sister, on her removing from the country to live in the city. Letter on marriage. Ascribed to the Rev. John Witherspoon, president of Princeton college. Letter on education. Address to the ministers of every religious denomination.
Religious Essays.
Address to the clergy of these states. Address to the laity of ditto.
Miscellanies.
Thoughts on the confinement of debtors. Pernicious effects of spirituous liquors. Utility of planting willow-trees in burying grounds. Remarks on the manufacture of cotton. Phenomenon respecting the gravity of water. Address of the Abbe Bandole to Congress. Observations on bartering negroes. Observations on the federal procession in Philadelphia, July 4, 1788. An enquiry into the justice and policy of punishing murder by death. The captive liberated. Memoranda.
Law Information.
Law case, respecting the transfer of certificates, tried at Falmouth, in Massachusetts, July, 1786. Decision on law, respecting money forwarded by a flag. Decision at law, respecting copy right.
Medical Information.
Account of the diseases of the negroes in the West-Indies, which are reduced by their slavery. Exemplum parus difficilimi. Medical virtues of the common stinging nettle.
Natural History.
Description of the mineral waters of Saratoga. Experiments on ditto. Description of a horn or bone lately found in the river Chemung. Account of a remarkable fish.
Rural Concerns.
Utility of mowing wheat. Method of making pearl-ashes, as practised in Hungary and Poland. Directions for the culture of the currant-bush. Receipt for making currant-wine. Receipt for making pomona wine. Thoughts on making sun flower-oil. Account of the progress of the Hessian Fly. Mode proposed for preventing the destruction of wheat by the Hessian Fly. Another mode proposed by colonel Morgan, of Princeton.
Miscellaneous Public Papers.
Letter from his most christian majesty, to the United States, in Congress assembled. Address of the count de Moustier to Congress. Reply of the president of Congress. Letter from one of his Swedish majesty's principal secretaries of state, to the Swedish consul in Philadelphia. Letter from the agent of the French navy, to governor Huntington. Letter from his excellency general Washington, to the proprietors of the ship federalist, in Baltimore.
Extract of a letter from the same to the president of Congress. Account of the grand federal procession in Philadelphia, July 4, 1788.
Political Speculations.
Observations on the federal constitution. By Fabius. Address to the inhabitants of those states that have adopted the new constitution. Oration of James Wilson, Esq. delivered in Union Green, July 4, 1788.
Political Squibs.
Protest of the minority of the general assembly of Pennsylvania, who voted against calling a convention to consider the new constitution.
Receipt for an anti-federal essay. The political creed of every federalist.
Interesting Laws.
Act of the state of New-York, for the prevention and punishment of extortion. Act of the commonwealth of Virginia, for the punishment of persons stealing or selling free persons as slaves. Act of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to prevent the slave trade.
Resolves of Congress.
Resolve respecting cannon belonging to Massachusetts.
respecting public and unsettled accounts. respecting the independence of Kentucky.
Papers elucidating the rise and progress of the late revolution.
Address of the justices of Westmoreland, in Virginia, to the governor and council of that province. Petition of the first American Congress, to the British house of commons.
Resolutions of the freemen of the county of Essex, of the merchants of New-York.
Agreement of the retailers of the city of Philadelphia.
Agreements and resolutions of the merchants and traders of Philadelphia.
Resolutions of the freemen of Talbot county, Maryland.
Anecdotes.
Anecdote of lord Sterling. of colonel Tarleton. of an Indian.
Poetry.
Ode, for July 4, 1788: by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq. The rafter: a song, for federal mechanics. By the same. Federal song: sung at the grand procession, at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
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The Miscellaneous Works
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THE MESSIAH,
Attempted from the GERMAN of
Mr. KLOPSTOCK.
TO those who are acquainted with the merits of this work, little need be said to recommend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all; with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detestation and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a humble obedience to the King of Kings.
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The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan, and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
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The Triumphs of Temper;
A Poem in six Cantos. By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire.
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MISCELLANY.
From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET of the 22d of August.—Inserted by request.
Messrs. PRINTERS.
I AM a plain unlettered man, but a good federalist, and strongly attached to the constitution and form of government established by the convention.
I belong to a club that meet every evening, where none but federalists are introduced, such as Hare's porter, Haines's beer, or Jones's cyder.
It is said that it requires some previous tuition to make a cobbler, but that every man thinks himself born a politician; this is literally the case with our club; but although we freely discussed all subjects of a public nature, we admit no crooked or eccentric paths in our politics, we endeavour to square our opinions by the straight lines of plain reason.
We have been lately much agitated with the question, concerning the place where the federal government is to be convened, which we think ought to have been determined as soon as nine states had ratified, but which we find is not as yet decided; this delay has given a great alarm, and has begun to create a very considerable clamour through the country.
Our first conjecture was, that an attempt was made to arrest the progress of this business, and that congress was not willing to sign its own death warrant, or if it must die, like Macbeth in the opera, it would die hard, and not part with its excellence without a struggle; this was soon found to be an anti-federal report.
However, we have since been informed, that the contest in congress is concerning the place where the new government is to be convened.
The dictates of common sense induced us to believe, that Philadelphia, being the place where the first congress was assembled, and where the federal convention was appointed to meet, would be preferred, until a permanent residence was fixed by congress, more particularly, as we never heard that any state had expressed a dissatisfaction with this arrangement.
But we find that the city of New-York claims a preference over Philadelphia, Lancaster and Baltimore, which places, we understand, have been successively in nomination. We have examined the pretensions of this city, and the causes that could lead its friends to advocate them.
Some of our club, Messrs. Printers, are mechanics, who are in the habit of rearing their superstructures on solid foundations; they therefore require that arguments addressed to them, must be well supported.
We began with an examination of the letter addressed to Congress, by the president of the convention, when the constitution was transmitted, in which he informs them, that a spirit of amity and of mutual deference and concession alone induced so unanimous a concurrence to this plan of government, which the diversity of state interests seemed rather calculated to preclude; it was but a reasonable expectation, that the same spirit would actuate Congress, and that the first act of government would indicate a disposition to impart equal advantages and accommodations to every part of the union, that consequently the government would be assembled to commence proceedings in the place nearest the centre of national population.
The convention has furnished a rule by which the relative situation of each state, in this respect, may be determined, which is, by the number of representatives, that it is entitled to send to the federal legislature. We examined the pretensions of New-York by this scale, and found that there were but 17 representatives from the states to the northward, and as many as 42 from those to the southward, which calculated by 40,000 to each representative makes 680,000 inhabitants on one side, and 1,680,000 on the other; we found likewise that the extreme part of the district from which the 168,000 are to come, amount to above 1000 miles, and on the opposite side to about 350 miles. Such an arrangement militates against every principle of republican government, and of the federal constitution, which was instituted for the purpose of promoting the general welfare, and of securing equal rights to the people. It must involve the southern states in the greatest inconvenience, from the number of persons that will have business to transact with the federal government, and the federal judiciary, who must travel such a great distance beyond the central point.
Besides, the more southern states, which are in the neighbourhood of continual danger from their contiguity to hostile tribes of Indians, as well as to foreign nations, and which are so weak and defenceless, must complain at having the power of that government exercised at such a distance, whose protection alone can insure them tranquility; and in case of domestic insurrections, or external invasions, the necessary assistance must be delayed, in proportion to the time it will take in soliciting it, the essential communications betwixt the southern members of the federal legislature and their constituents will be greatly obstructed by placing Congress, in such an eccentric position; and these communications will be required with the greater fortitude, as the states, having resigned such considerable powers in favour of the federal government, will be impatient to know in what manner they will be affected by the exercise of them, in the organization of the new system. The great and complicated interests of the western country, where new settlements are forming that will soon rise into independent states, demand a pointed attention, and require Congress to be placed in a central situation.
We know, Messrs. Printers, that the southern and northern parts of the union have interests and pursuits essentially different, the former, consisting chiefly of planters and consumers, and the latter of agricultural, commercial and manufacturing people.
We have been told, that the southern delegates in the convention, with great reluctance yielded to a bare majority of the powers of regulating commerce, from an apprehension that a combination of states that had similar interests might be easily formed, which by partial operations of government, could greatly oppress the southern district of the union.
We find, that this has been the popular topic of declamation, to work on the passions of the people, in the southern conventions, and we discover that Virginia has founded one of her proposed amendments on her fears on this subject; we are likewise told, that Patrick Henry so much depre-
ciated the pernicious effects that might arise to Virginia from the exercise of this power, that he concluded a most eloquent harangue, by saying, that he would narrowly watch its tendency, with the eye of an eagle watching its prey.
If the strength and connection of the northern members of the confederacy have already created such great alarm in the southern states, how should it be increased by placing Congress in the midst of this district, thereby throwing all the influence of government in the scale that is already thought to be preponderant.
This local influence must be immense when it is considered that the numerous appointments of officers under government will be generally confined to the inhabitants of the surrounding district, they being on the spot to solicit, and by personal application and address to enforce their pretensions.
The revenues of the confederacy, drawn from all parts of the union, will be mostly expended in the adjacent country, to the great benefit and emolument of those states, which approach nearest to the seat of government; and in the diffusion of great points which involve peculiar advantages to the northern parts of the union, the ease of obtaining a full representation of their members, so as to insure a decided majority, is certainly a cause of serious apprehension to the southern states.
I have been told, Messrs. Printers, that the kings of England have much increased the powers of the executive authority, since they have been compelled to exchange the stern voice of prerogative, for the more persuasive accents of influence; this influence must exist in every government, in proportion to the extent of its powers and of its revenue system; and its effects must be greatly felt in the districts which approach the place where the government is administered.
To prevent the appearances of local aggrandizement operating at the expence of public interests, it becomes absolutely necessary to place the government in the centre of the union that its benefits and advantages may be equally diffused.
I cannot expect, Messrs. Printers, that the sentiments of a plain man, like myself, can have any effect on the opinions of those great statesmen in Congress that hold the reins of government. But it certainly would be expedient at this critical period of our affairs, to sacrifice points of lesser magnitude, to preserve the union.
How can the northern states expect a ready concurrence of the southern, in granting a monopoly of the carrying trade, in establishing high duties on the importation of such articles from Europe, as they manufacture and can supply the southern states with, in the attainment of great advantages in commercial treaties, when their first agency in an act of government that has a view to the new system involves partiality and injustice as it regards the southern states, and must create in them, a spirit of discord and disunion, instead of a temper of harmony and conciliation, and which must necessarily operate in the formation of the first acts of legislation.
It will be said, that the delegates from a southern state, acquiesce in the obnoxious derangement; individuals may err, but the people can never be mistaken, for their language is always governed by their interests; and what the interests of that state are, viewing its local position, taking into consideration its surrender of powers to the general government, will not admit of a moment's hesitation to decide.
It is really time this important question was determined. Every federalist throughout the union laments and deprecates the consequences of delay. Every anti-federalist rejoices in it, as most conducive to the purposes of confusion.
It will not be surprising, that New-York obliquely adheres to her pretensions; but it is to be expected, that the other states, less interested in the event, will possess a more accommodating spirit, and put an end to a contest that has disgraced the councils of the nation, and must terminate, if longer pursued, in the most dreadful consequences to the union. A MEMBER of the FEDERAL CLUB.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE. [Printed at Boston.]
Messrs. ADAMS & NOURSE.
I must afford the highest satisfaction to every friend to America, to observe the prevailing disposition throughout the states, to promote the manufactures of this country. Almost every individual seems now convinced of the necessity of attending to this national object. From the many branches now pursued in this, and the other states, we may anticipate the most favorable consequences that will follow from our enterprise in our various manufactures. The articles of nails, wool-cards, shoes, writing-paper, and paper-hangings, for which so many thousands of pounds were yearly remitted, have now become so plenty and cheap among us, as effectually to stop their importation. We are now extending our manufactures in the articles of window-glass, duck, jeans, fulians, &c. And from the alacrity with which those valuable branches are now prosecuted by gentlemen of fortune and respectability, we have the highest reason to believe, that those articles will, in a few years, be manufactured altogether within ourselves.
The abundance of cotton and linen cloth, daily brought to our markets, and the large quantity of flax and hemp cultivated this year, evince how far the spirit of industry prevails throughout the state: provided this laudable spirit is cherished by all ranks and denominations, and a preference given to our own manufactures, we may expect to improve every year in almost every essential article which is now imported from Europe. No persons, either male or female, can more evidently discover their real federalism, than by a dislike of all foreign manufactures, more particularly the destructive and expensive finery of Britain.
The tradesmen and manufacturers of this town, have lately been called together, in consequence of a letter from the association of tradesmen and manufacturers in Philadelphia. The laudable design of encouraging our own manufactures upon the most extensive plan, is worthy the attention of every state in the union. A similar measure was proposed about three years since, by the association of the tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, in their circular letter; and as it so fully accords with the sentiment of our brethren in Philadelphia, you are requested to republish it, in hopes that it may accelerate the general disposition of the states to adopt some uniform system, whereby our federal union, at this important period, may be cemented, and the interest of the tradesman, husbandman, and merchant, may be mutually promoted.
The following is a Copy of the Circular Letter from the Tradesmen and Manufacturers of the Town of Boston, to their Brethren in the several Sea-Ports in the Union, as above mentioned.
Boston, August 20, 1785.
GENTLEMEN, WE, being appointed by the association of tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, to write to our brethren throughout the several states, do now address you on the very important and interesting subject of our own manufactures.
The late system of commerce pursued since the peace of importing such articles as can be manufactured among ourselves, tends to discourage the whole body of tradesmen and manufacturers of these states, who depend for the support of themselves and families on their various occupations; and this practice, unless speedily checked by the prudent exertions of those who are more particularly interested, must eventually prove ruinous to every mechanical branch in America.
Impressed with these sentiments, and finding the evil daily increasing, the tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, awakened by a sense of the danger which threatened them, assembled to deliberate on measures to relieve themselves from the destructive tendency of such importations.
An association was accordingly formed, consisting of a representative from each branch; and in this body the whole manufacturing interest of this town becomes an object of general attention.
The first measure adopted by this association was to pass resolves respecting the importation of certain articles from Europe by our own merchants, and numbers of British agents residing among us; but knowing that nothing could be effected to any radical purpose, unless we had the authority of the laws, we petitioned the legislature of this state, praying that duties might be laid on the several articles enumerated in our petition. In consequence of which application, our legislature complied, in a great measure, with our request, by enacting laws for the encouragement of industry and for the promoting of our own manufactures.
However, as we are sensible that our present situation requires an extensive co-operation to complete the purposes we wish, we take this method to bring forward a confederated exertion, and doubt not from a union of sentiment the most permanent benefits may arise. We therefore apply to you, gentlemen, to lend us your assistance, and, like a band of brothers, whose interests are connected, we beg you to join in such measures to advance the general good as your prudence shall suggest, and your wisdom dictate.
We would with submission, recommend an association of your tradesmen and manufacturers, formed upon the most extensive basis, and supported upon the most liberal principles; we may then hope the manufactures of this country will flourish, when each man becomes interested not only in his own branch, but in those of his brethren; encouraged by such extensive patronage, each individual will be animated to pursue his business with alacrity, knowing that he acts in concert with those on whose friendship he can with confidence rely.
An association being established in your state we shall be ever happy to correspond with; and we flatter ourselves from this social intercourse, a general harmony will prevail throughout the whole manufacturing interest of this country. As we hope to experience the good effects of the late acts of our general court, we would recommend a petition for a similar purpose to your legislature; and from the known disposition of your state to promote the welfare of America, we doubt not some plan will be devised by your general assembly to prevent the importation of such species of articles as are commonly manufactured in America.
We need not urge the necessity of some measures being immediately taken by the whole confederacy. The embarrassments of our navigation; the large debts contracted in Britain; and the remittances of our currency, all serve to put every real friend to his country upon serious attention; and if any mode can be adopted to remedy these evils, we are convinced no American will be backward in the cause, but will join heart and hand to promote the desirable purposes.
The means we propose, we conceive, are calculated to put each state upon deliberating on a subject highly important to the manufacturing interest; and we cannot but hope that some lasting benefits will accrue from the united voice of the tradesmen and manufacturers of America.
These states are so extensive in their boundaries, so various in their climate, and so connected in their national interest, that if a plan could be adopted throughout the confederation for the exchange of the produce and manufactures of each state, we conceive it would serve to cement a general union, and prove a means to promote the interest of the whole.
The northern states might furnish many articles of manufactures which are now imported from Europe; and in return might receive those supplies peculiar to the growth and climate of the southern.
An association formed throughout the states upon so liberal a plan, would establish many extensive branches of manufactures; and if prosecuted with spirit, would put this country above the humiliating state of lavishing her stores of wealth to promote the manufactures of Europe.
We wish you to communicate this letter to such towns of your state as you shall think proper.
We are, gentlemen, With every sentiment of respect, Your most obedient servants, John Gray, Gibbins Sharp, Benjamin Austin, jun. Sarson Belcher, William Hawes, Joshua Witherle.
Respecting Col. OSWALD's Procuration. [Continued from last Thursday.] To the PUBLIC.
NOTHING less than an earnest vigilance for the liberties of my country, has ever induced me to crave your attention; and more especially to acquaint you of the rash and arbitrary steps which the chief justice and two of "his humble friends on the bench," exercised towards me on the 14th and 15th ultimo, for my address to you
on the 1st of July last. This address they were not only pleased to deem a contempt of court; but, without trial, without law, and in open defiance of the constitution, thought proper to deprive me of my freedom, and immure me within the walls of the common gaol, like a state criminal or malefactor, "for the space of one month, to pay a fine of ten pounds to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, discharge the costs of prosecution, &c."
It only now remains for me to inform you, that as to that part of the sentence which ordered the imprisonment of my person, I was obliged to submit; but as to the payment of the fine, I have only to choose between my convenience and my duty, and I made that choice which I trust every freeman in Pennsylvania will approve. Sensible that the judgement of the court was arbitrary and illegal I determined never to pay a fine which was a bitarily and illegally imposed, and being resolved to bring the authors of my wrongs to the bar of the collected wisdom of the commonwealth, I was under no difficulty to forego my personal liberty, and continue in prison until that wisdom should declare me free. Considering also that a submission and payment of the fine, on my part, would be made use of as a precedent to drain you of your dearest rights, drop by drop—hesitation in this respect, would have been treason to the liberties of our common country. My convenience, and the pecuniary interests of my family, therefore, gave way to my duty.
The month assigned for my imprisonment expired on the 14th inst. when, had I paid the unjust fine, I might have been restored to my family; but adhering to my resolution of not paying it, I continued in gaol. On the 13th, however, the supreme executive council, unolicited, remitted the fine.
In COUNCIL,
Philadelphia, August 13, 1788,
On Motion,
Ordered, that the fine of Ten Pounds, which was adjudged by the last supreme court, to be paid to the use of the commonwealth, by Colonel Eleazer Oswald, be remitted.
Extract from the Minutes,
JAMES TRIMBLE, For CHARLES BIDDLE, Sec.
JOSEPH COWPERTHWAIT, Esq. Sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia.
Captain Reynolds, the Gaoler, being furnished with a transcript of the above order from the minutes of council, I demanded my discharge. He doubted whether the time of my imprisonment was expired, as my commitment was upon the 15th of July, and the record of the court expressed "one month." Captain Reynolds observed, that the words of the chief justice, when he pronounced the sentence, were until "the 15th of August." I knew, that whatever were the words of the chief justice, the record of the court ought to govern the gaoler—but as he treated me during my confinement, with the greatest politeness and attention, I was unwilling to urge him further; and therefore requested he would take the record to the Chief Justice, and get his opinion, that he might justify himself in discharging or detaining me. He did so; and, in about an hour, returned and acquainted me that the Chief Justice said I must be confined until the 15th, for that was the judgement of the court, and that the record was wrong. Here his honor again suffered his arbitrary principles to get the better of his prudence. Whether the memory or memorandums of a single judge is to falsify the record of the court of which he is an individual member, or whether this extra-judicial order to the gaoler, made out of court, and in the absence of the party to be affected thereby, is, or is not, the law, I hope will be ascertained at a future day; and perhaps the "truth or falsity" of the whole record may become a very serious and interesting question, not only to the judges, but to their officer.
Thus circumstanced, and knowing that the time of my imprisonment had expired, some of my friends paid to Capt. Reynolds, "the costs of prosecution," and I made a formal demand of my liberty. This demand Capt. Reynolds, in conformity to the orders he had just before received from the chief justice, thought proper to refuse, saying, "I cannot grant you your liberty until Friday morning, the 15th of August."
About half an hour afterwards, the honorable Thomas McKean, Esq. doctor of laws, chief justice of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whether from his own mere motion, by the advice of some of his quondam friends, or whether from the operation of his fears, is not certainly known, but to it was, this great man approached the gaol, and with his own hand delivered a letter from himself to the gaoler, of which the following is a copy:
SIR,
WITH respect to the time of the imprisonment of Mr. Oswald, it was intended to be for one kalendarmonth; that is until the 15th of August, and so expressed when judgement was given; but as it is not so fully expressed in the entry on record, and the fine has been remitted by council, I am of opinion you will be excusable in discharging him immediately, and for my own part have no objection to it.
I am, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, THOS. M c KEAN.
Philadelphia, August 13th, 1788. Joseph Cowperthwait, Esq. Sheriff, or the Keeper of the gaol of Philadelphia county.
To the honor of colonel Cowperthwait, the sheriff, let it be remembered, that, before the chief justice brought his letter to the gaol, he was applied to for my discharge, and on his seeing the record, came immediately to the gaol to set me at liberty, and relinquish his fees; so that his honor might have saved himself the trouble; unless he willed to do the sheriff's business.
It afforded me no small satisfaction to observe the wonderful condescension, not to say kindness, of the chief justice on the occasion. Although he intended I should remain in prison longer than the thirteenth instant, to wit, for a kalendarmonth instead of a lunar month, which would have extended
* Extract from the record, a copy whereof is in my hands properly certified.
† A month in law is a lunar month, or twenty eight days. Blackstone, page 141. I sometimes peruse, although I do not always admire this courtly commentator on the laws of England.

ded my imprisonment until the 15th; yet he did not venture to persist in opposing the record, though it stood in competition with his judgement and memory. He was therefore of opinion, that the sheriff, or gaoler, was "excusable" in releasing me "immediately." When I had a right to my enlargement, I do not know why the term "excusable" should be used by his honor. "You will be excusable (says he) in discharging him immediately." This word "excusable" may be a law term, or a term of the chief justice; but it certainly implies several distinct ideas, and does not convey to my mind, at least the same efficient force as the word "justifiable," or a similar energetic epithet, expressive of a right to enlarge me absolutely.
The sentence of the court has been fully complied with, and I have suffered one month's imprisonment, nay more than a month's imprisonment, for the month expired on Monday night. My fine was remitted by council, and some of my friends generously paid the costs of prosecution; I have now regained my freedom, and once more do breathe the free air of Pennsylvania.
It is the sovereign happiness and glory of every Pennsylvanian, and distinguishes his situation essentially from the inhabitants of most other countries, that all officers of government are accountable to the party injured and oppressed for their misbehavior in office. As I find myself much aggrieved in the arbitrary and lawless measures taken with me, I am decisively bent in making a solemn appeal to the guardians and defenders of our constitutional privileges, to relieve my grievances, and obliterate the most scandalous star chamber sentence which has yet disgraced the doquets of any court, and of this young and rising empire. On you, however, my friends and fellow citizens, and on your representatives in power, I shall depend for countenance and approbation in this arduous business, to rescue us from the powers of despotism, and to re-establish personal liberty, and the rights of a free people, upon a safe and permanent basis. On you will depend the point, whether a free man can be torn from his family and business, and lodged in prison as a reputed contemnor, and opposer of the laws, for committing no manner of offence, unless a supposed and constructive offence, and without having a proper hearing and trial, to which he was entitled by the laws of eternal justice, as well as by our own generous constitution.
Sure I am, no arguments are necessary to convince my fellow citizens, that their situation and mine, respecting the important object of our liberties, is just the same; and whatever evasion is made of my freedom, has a pointed tendency to injure theirs. Much less need I enter into a minute detail of my grievances of which the public have been sufficiently possessed, and have had ample opportunity from different publications on the subject, to decide independently for themselves. I consider myself as an injured and persecuted man. The constitution has pointed out the mode of my redress, and I shall leave no means untried to obtain a full and ample satisfaction for the insults which have been offered my privileges, and indeed the common privileges.
But before I conclude, I must avail myself of this opportunity to present my most ardent thanks to those gentlemen who visited me during my confinement, and who endeavored to mitigate its horrors and its miseries. When I shall uniformly abhor my political adversaries, and detest those execrable fiends of party, who were accessory to my confinement, I cannot do better than with the feelings of the present moment, to declare the particular attachments I am under to my friends and supporters, who cheerfully slept forward to my assistance, when the passions of misguided power and fancied consequence were about to devour me.
The day of awful reckoning is dawning: and it shall be no fault of mine if I am not triumphant over my sedate and unrelenting enemies.
ELEAZER OSWALD.
Philadelphia, August 18, 1788.
"That in all prosecutions for criminal offences, a man hath a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses, to call for evidence in his favour, and a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the country, without the unanimous consent of which jury, he cannot be found guilty: nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself: nor can any man be justly deprived of his liberty, except by the laws of the land, or the judgement of his peers." Vide 9th section bill of rights.
New-York, Sept 4.
North-Carolina Convention.
THE accounts hitherto published of the proceedings of the convention of North-Carolina, have been incomplete, and, as far as they went, in a great measure erroneous. By Tuesday's mail we received the following general observations inserted in a Petersburg, Virginia, paper, viz.
"We learn from North-Carolina, that the convention of that state have not absolutely rejected the new constitution—but have proposed a bill of rights, and amendments to the most exceptionable and ambiguous parts of the same—which they conceive ought to be laid before Congress and the states, previous to the ratification of the new constitution on the part of the state of North-Carolina. The bill of rights and amendments are nearly the same as those proposed by this state, except in two instances, which we are informed are local to North-Carolina; but this locality does not militate against the interest of any other state. The new constitution was discussed, clause by clause, in a committee of the whole Convention, and the report of the committee was a bill of rights and amendments, previous to the ratification, which was agreed to by the convention, by a majority of 102—Yeas 184—Nays 82. It was the opinion of that convention that the Congress will call a general convention to consider the proposed amendments; that the deliberations of that convention will be submitted to conventions in the several states; and that their state, not having rejected the constitution absolutely, will not be precluded from calling a convention to adopt it, should they think proper to do so—They passed two recommendations to their legislature—the one, to make the most effectual and speedy provision for the redemption of the paper money, now in circulation—the other
to lay an impost, for the use of Congress, on goods imported into North-Carolina, similar to that which shall be laid by the new Congress, on goods imported into the adopting states. These two recommendations are also to be transmitted to Congress and the executives of the several states.
"On opening of the convention, a motion was made, by the opposition, to put the question immediately, as it was supposed every member had made up his mind on the subject, and an immediate determination would save the state great expence; this it is thought would have been carried, had not one of the principal supporters of the government, in a most animated and excellent speech, proved the extreme impropriety of such precipitancy in so important a business—Upon which the motion was withdrawn.
"Through the whole of the discussion of this subject, we are informed, the convention shewed every disposition to promote the interest of the union, and were determined to be actuated by no other motive than that which might tend to promote the general welfare; but being previously instructed by their constituents, and perceiving exceptions in the new constitution, they thought themselves justifiable in postponing the ultimate decision of the important question, until it should be reconsidered by the several states, and such objections removed, as might be found necessary to the preservation of the union."
By the same mail we also received the DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, and proposed previous AMENDMENTS to the constitution, with the following resolve preceding them.
STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA,
In Convention, August 2, 1788.
Resolved, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable parts of the said constitution of government, ought to be laid before Congress, or the convention of the states that shall or may be called for the purpose of amending the said constitution, for their consideration, previous to the ratification of the constitution aforesaid, on the part of the state of North-Carolina.
As the Declaration of Rights is the same as that of Virginia, both the numbers of articles, and words, exactly corresponding, our readers (it being presumed that they prefer the file) are referred to the Thursday's Journal of July 10, 2d page, 3d column, for said declaration.
The amendments are also an exact copy of the Virginia (which are likewise inserted in the above mentioned Journal of July 10) with the addition of five articles, which, if placed to the Virginia amendments, according to the numbers, will give a full view of those of North-Carolina, viz.
XII. That Congress shall not declare any state to be in rebellion without the consent of at least two-thirds of all the members present of both houses.
XXII. That Congress erect no company of merchants with exclusive advantages of commerce.
XXIII. That no treaties which shall be directly opposed to the existing laws of the United States in Congress assembled, shall be valid until such laws shall be repealed, or made conformable to such treaty; nor shall any treaty be valid which is contradictory to the constitution of the United States.
XXIV. That the latter part of the fifth paragraph of the 9th section of the first article be altered to read thus—"Nor shall vessels bound to a particular state be obliged to enter or pay duties in any other; nor when bound from any one of the states be obliged to clear in an other."
XXV. That Congress shall not directly or indirectly, either by themselves or through the judiciary, interfere with any one of the states in the redemption of paper money already emitted and now in circulation, or in liquidating and discharging the public securities of any one of the states: but each and every state shall have the exclusive right of making such laws and regulations for the above purposes, as they shall think proper.
XXVI. That Congress shall not introduce foreign troops into the United States without the consent of two thirds of the members present of both houses.
Mr. Edward E. Powers, who formerly printed the HERALD in Boston, having been humiliatingly neglected in that town for printing a FREE PAPER, has now opened his office at WORCESTER, where he has already began to publish "The American Herald, and the Worcester Recorder."
Here he flatters himself that a respectable yeomanry will support him, for they are yet sensible, that by means of a Free Press ONLY the FREEDOM of the country can be preserved. Mr. Powers, in his address, says:—"He comes not forward as the dependent retainer of a party. He is blindly attached to no system. TRUTH is his only object; and, in his idea, a Press FREE and UNSHACKLED, affords the happy means by which this darling point may be secured. He hopes not to be the victim of this his unaltered determination; but, whatever may be the issue, he conceives it as an incumbent duty, to explain his views, and to declare the principles by which his future conduct will be regulated. With a great and public object in view, he could wish, as far as possible, to preserve his paper unstained by personalities, and unpolluted by scandal."
The honorable general assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania were to have convened at Philadelphia on Tuesday last.
Accounts from every quarter of the United States make mention of terrible devaluations by wind, rain, and tide, in the late storm.
Lord Dunmore, says a Charleston paper, has become, if possible, more unpopular, during his short administration at Bahamas, than he was at Virginia.
In the storm on Monday night, the 25th ultimo, the Fortune, a Pilot Boat, the property of Messrs. Daniel, Callahan, and Ruffel, was about seven or eight leagues S. E. of the Hook, in company with another pilot boat. About 12 o'clock just before the squalls came on, she was seen with her main-sail and jib up. The next day her skiff was found bottom upwards, with an oar lashed to it. Diligent search and enquiry has been made after her but not the least information can be had. It is conjectured that she has been pressed under the water by the sudden violence of the wind, or received a fatal shock from the more violent blasts of lightning which at that time filled the air. Mr. Haller, and two other pilots, two boys, and a negro man, were on board.
We learn, that Peter Othquet, son to the king of the Six Nations, who lately arrived at Boston from France, and passed through this city on his way to his own country, went from hence in company with the commissioners for treating with the Indians at Fort Schuyler, and that he is to attend them to the treaty.
At a Special Meeting of "the Society" for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be liberated," held at the Coffee-House on Thursday evening last, the following gentlemen were admitted honorary Members, viz. The Right Honorable the Marquis La Fayette, and John Briffot de Warville, Esq. Members of a similar Society in Paris.
And Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharpe, and Samuel Hoare, jun. Esquires, Members of a similar Society in London.
A Charleston paper of August 20, says:—A post has recently been established between the town of Stateburgh and this city, which will go from Mrs. Dewees's, in King-street, every other Wednesday. This undertaking, we hope, will be productive of great advantage from a regular communication being had between the inhabitants of the interior parts of the state and its metropolis, particularly to that rising town, where a Printing-Office has lately been established, and a newspaper printed by Mr. D. Constable. A respectable seminary is shortly to be opened, and a church about being erected.
On Sunday the 17th ult. the Lutheran Clergy consecrated to the service of God, in the presence of upwards of 300 people from different parts of the state, a superb and elegant stone building, of excellent workmanship, in Tulpehocken township, in the county of Berks, Pennsylvania, by the name of Christ-Church.
The following is a copy of a letter from Captain Daniel Thompson, commander of the Crown Cutter, to Captain Stephen Moore, belonging to Philadelphia, dated Gibraltar Bay, May 26.
"I am ordered by Joze Sanches de Bretto, Admiral and Commander in Chief of her Most Faithful Majesty's squadron, to make known to you, that he has positive orders for protecting and convoying any American ship or ships against the Regency of Algiers, or any of the African powers at war with America, for which, at your departure from this, if you find it necessary for convoy, you will please make me acquainted when and where you wish to proceed, that the same may be communicated to the Admiral, for his appointing the same."
The squadron of the naval armies of his most christian majesty, under the command of the right honorable the Marquis de SAINEVILLE, mentioned in our last, arrived at the port of Boston, on the 20th ultimo.
This squadron sailed from Cape Francois the 2d inst. and consists of 7 sail, viz.
   Ships of the line. Guns. Commanders.     Le Superbe, 74 M. de Saineville, Chef d'Escadre.   Le Achille, 74 Macarty, who formerly commanded the magnificent.   Frigates   La Proserpine, 40 Saqui.   La Fine, 36 Querrebarb.   La Mignonette, 36 Cou.bis.   La Modeste, 36 St. Mare.   Favorite (sloop) 18 Terrafion.  
In the late gale the sloop of war, belonging to the Marquis de Saineville's squadron, was dashed, and was towed into Boston road, on the 23d.
The French squadron, we are told, brought in the Capt. and crew of an American vessel, which was shipwrecked near Cape Francois. They were put on wages, on board the squadron, and assisted in piloting the fleet to our coast.
Extract of a letter from Fort Chisfel, July 14.
"A most violent war has just broke out between the people of Holstein and the Cherokee and the Chickamawgoe Indians. It is said the whites at different times, this spring and summer have lost about sixty persons, and the Indians have lost ninety; among which are the Fool Warrior Old Tassel, and Old Abraham, the Hanging Maw's brother, who is principle chief of those nations; and the following towns on the Tenessee are evacuated, and several of them were in flames before the Indians left them; Highwachee, Chitowa, Citico, Chota, Toca, Big Tallica, Big Island, Coyetchi. Hostilities appear to be carried on by both parties with all the malice, horror, and implacable hatred imaginable, so God only knows where it will end."
In order that the people of Rhode-Island might not be induced to accede to the union, until those who "grow fat" on the iniquities of that state, are satiated, their leaders have propagated a story that Britain has agreed in case of coercive proceedings against them, by Congress, to succour them with 40 ships of the line, and 15,000 troops from Canada: and many are so weak as to believe it.
[Maff. Centinel.]
Britain has in America a military force of 13 battalions, which is a much greater number than it has either in the East or West-Indies; and what is a little extraordinary, a great part of this force is stationed within the territories of the sovereign and independent States of America. [Maff. Cen.]
The legislature of the State of Vermont intend sending delegates to Congress, agreeably to a request of that honorable body. They also propose calling a convention immediately, for the purpose of considering the new constitution. [Maff. Cen.]
From the 10th of May to the 5th of July last, there were entered in the port of Kingston (Jamaica) TWENTY sail of vessels from the United States, laden with the produce thereof to a great amount; but all of them—thence to tell—British bottoms, navigated by British seamen, according to British laws. The smallest of these, a sloop from Philadelphia, had on board, 292 barrels, and 82 half barrels flour—8000 white oak staves, 2000 pieces heading, and 31 barrels indian meal.
Never were our fishermen more successful, says a Salem paper, than in the present season—they have uniformly returned both to this and the neighbouring ports, with great fares; several have come in here since our last, some of which had 600 quintals.
On the 15th inst. the Anniversary of the Victory obtained over a detachment of the British army, at Bennington, was celebrated in that town.
Admiral Sawyer, with several of the British ships of war, lately stationed in Nova-Scotia, &c. have sailed for England.
ARRIVALS. Ship Elizabeth, Tucker, Bristol. Brig Savannah, Stocker, St. Croix. Schooner St. Peters, Cavendish, St. Augustine; Nancy, Suloch, Halifax; Eagle, Jackways, do. Nantucket, Pateron, St. John, N. B. Mary, St. Augustine; Catherine, Atki, Shelburne. Sloop Mercy, Harris, Trinidad; Columbia, Friesby, Cape-Francis; Fanny, Fowl, Kingston (Jamaica) Ranger, Ben-nison, St. John, N. B. Delight, Hunt, Bermuda; Lucy, Clark, St. Martins; Endeavour, Niel, Kingston, Jamaica.
6th. The public are notified, that the LIGHT-HOUSE, on the light-house, near the port of NEW-LONDON, will be taken down on the 8th instant, it being decayed, which will occasion a stoppage of the usual light until the 14th.
TO BE SOLD, By WILLIAM PRINCE,
At Flushing Landing, on Long-Island, near NEW-YORK,
A large COLLECTION OF FRUIT TREES,
As follows, viz.
ALL sorts of Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, Quince, and Mulberry Trees, Fig Trees, black, white, and red Currants; a Variety of fine Gooseberries, red and white English and large Canada Raspberries; a great Variety of Strawberries, among which is the large Hudson, which for size exceeds any yet discovered, are high flavored and great bearers; Madira, Lisbon, and large Syrian Grape Vines, English and American Walnuts, hard and soft shell Almonds; a great Variety of Roses and other Flowering Shrubs: fine striped Tulip and Tube Rose Roots, and a great Number of other Plants too tedious to mention here, but may be seen in the Catalogue, which may be had gratis, at Mr. Hugh Gane's, Printer, in Hanover-square, New-York, where Orders left will be immediately attended to.
Many thousands of the above Trees are large and of a proper Size for transplanting. The Price of the Fruit Trees is Two Shillings each—the Shrubs and Plants are of different Prices as may be seen in the Catalogue.
New-York, Sept. 2, 1788. 64—4w.
CHAMBERS to LET.
SEVERAL CHAMBERS, either furnished or unfurnished, single or together, in a pleasant part of the city, are to let.—Enquire of the PRINTER.
New-York, September 4, 1788. 64—
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the City of New-York, on the twentieth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Mary Pell, administratrix of Edward Pell, late of the town of Eastchester in the county of Westchester, deceased, hath by her petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Edward Pell, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Edward Pell as far as she had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Edward Pell, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Edward Pell, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates at the probate office in the city of New-York, on the third day of October next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Edward Pell, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
62 4w. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office, in the City of New-York, on the thirteenth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Silas Beell, executor of the last will and testament of Thomas Dooley, late of Richmond county, and state of New-York, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Thomas Dooley, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Thomas Dooley, as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Thomas Dooley, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Thomas Dooley, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the third day of October next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Thomas Dooley, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
62 th. 4w. PETER OGILVIE.

POET'S CORNER.
The following is the HUNTING SONG , in MARIAN ; inimitably sung by BOWDEN .
To the chase, to the chase; on the brow of the hill Let the hounds meet the sweet-breathing morn; Whilst full to the welkin their notes clear and shrill, Join the sound of the heart-cheering horn: What music celestial! when urging the race, Sweet echo repeats, "To the chase, to the chase!" Our pleasure transports us, how gay flies the hour! Sweet health and quick spirits attend; Not sweeter when evening convenes to the bower, And we meet the lovd smile of a friend. See the flag just before us! He flirts at the cry: He stops—his strength fails—speak my friends— Must he die?
His innocent aspect, whilst standing at bay, His expression of anguish and pain, All plead for compassion—your looks seem to say, Let him bound o'er his forests again. Quick, release him to dart o'er the neighbouring plain, Let him live—let him bound o'er his forests again.
As long liveth a merry Man as a sad. THIS proverb affords an antidote against dejection and despair. A man in his passage through this sublunary state, had much better tread the paths of life cheerfully; skipping lightly over the thorns and briars which obstruct his way, than sit down at every hedge lamenting his hard fate in being placed in a world so overrun with them. The thread of a cheerful man's life is not sooner severed by the fates, than that of one who is continually sad and desponding; then what does care avail? A prudent conduct in the general concerns of life, is undoubtedly to be attended to; and without it, the cheerfulness here proverbially recommended can but be transitory; but if that should prove unsuccessful, and distress unavoidably succeed, dejection and despair, instead of affording relief, runs him deeper in.
Rising and Setting of the SUN and MOON. ☉ R. ☽ S. R & S. Thursday, Sept. 4, 5 35 6 25 8 42. Friday, 5, 5 36 6 24 9 15. Saturday, 6, 5 38 6 22 10 10 Sunday, 7, 5 39 6 21 11 3. Monday, 8, 5 40 6 21 11 58. Tuesday, 9, 5 41 6 19 morn. Wednesday, 10, 5 43 6 17 0 55.
HIGH WATER.
D. H. M. Thursday, Sept. 4, 0 15. Afternoon. Friday, 5, 1 4. Saturday, 6, 1 53. Sunday, 7, 2 38. Monday, 8, 3 23. Tuesday, 9, 4 8. Wednesday, 10, 4 53.
Alfize of BREAD.
As established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of infested Superfine Wheat Flour to weigh Two Pound Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the City-Hall of the City of Albany, the seventh Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Chancellor.
In CHANCERY. John Bowne, administrator with the will annexed of David Provoost, deceased, complainant, vs. Benjamin Birdfall, and Mary his wife, defendants. A decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said Benjamin Birdfall, and Mary his wife, to the said David Provoost; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been entered, in case the said process had been duly served; and an affidavit having been made to this satisfaction of the court, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, is withdrawn out of this state, or could not upon due enquiry be found within the same to be served with a subpoena issuing out of this honorable court in the above cause: whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Burr, of counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, appear to the said bill, on or before the sixteenth day of October next, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, as to him the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, to the end that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises, or such part thereof, as to this court shall appear just and right; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order, within twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in (at least) two of the public newspapers, printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes,
62, 8w. W. COCK, Register.
Extract from an Act, supplementary to the Act, entitled, "An Act to prevent the Exportation of unmerchantable Flour, and the false Taring of Bread and Flour Cakes," passed the 7th March, 1788.
Seet. 7th. A N D be it further, enacted, &c. That the standard weight of wheat brought to the city of New-York for sale, shall be sixty pounds net to the bushel; and in all cases of such sales of wheat in the said city, by the bushel, if the same shall exceed the standard weight, the buyer shall pay a proportionably greater price; and if the same shall be less than the said standard, the buyer shall pay a proportionably less price:—Provided, That this regulation shall not extend to any special contracts respecting the sales of wheat, whatever may be the weight thereof.
Seet. 10th. And be it further enacted, &c. That this act shall be in force from and after the first day of July next, &c.
Chamber of Commerce, July 1st, 1788. R E S O L V E D, That the members of this chamber, from a conscientiousness of the advantage which the agricultural, as well as commercial interest of this state may derive from a strict adherence to the directions contained in the former part of the seventh section of the law above recited, will, in their future purchases of wheat, uniformly abide by the rules therein prescribed, and, as far as their influence extends, endeavour to convince the public of their utility, and to inforce their adoption.
By order of the Corporation of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, WILLIAM LAIGHT, Secretary.
THE PROPRIETORS of the New Line of STAGES, (Owned by Cumming and Ward, at Powel's-Hook, and Michael Dennison, at the George-Inn, Philadelphia)
R E S P E C T F U L L Y inform their friends and the public, that their stages leave Powel's-Hook every afternoon at 4 o'clock, except Saturday, and every morning at 7 o'clock; except Saturday and Sunday mornings: the four o'clock stage goes to Philadelphia in a day—the seven o'clock stage to Trenton.
We propose to ask the usual fare of Twenty-Two Shillings and Six-pence to those who choose to pay it, from a conviction that it is lower than can be well afforded.
From those who think Two Dollars a sufficient compensation, we shall cheerfully receive it, and a lower price when necessary.
Way passengers Three-pence per mile, fourteen weight baggage gratis, 150 weight the same as a passenger.
Those attentive proprietors Mersecau and Bellonot,* who so decently inform the public that they have withdrawn from the attentive proprietors of the NEW-LINE , should not have forgot to have informed the public, that previous to the New Line setting up they used to charge the decent sum of Thirty-Five Shilling hard money, from New-York to Philadelphia, to go through in two days—and it is well known that Two Shillings has been paid for the freight of an umbrella. Thy flatter themselves, that by lowering the fare to Seventeen Shillings and Six-pence, they will brake the New Line, and once more buzz a for a Guinea—but they will do well to remember the fate of the Manchester manufacturers, lest they likewise perish.
JOHN CUMMING, MATHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON. New-York, August 9, 1788. 61
* Messrs. Herd and Kerlin, named in the advertisement, did not belong to the line when those men of attention withdrew.
By an Order of the Honorable John Sloss Hobart, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
P U B L I C N O T I C E is hereby given, by the petitioning creditors of Joseph Pinto, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of the said Joseph Pinto, that they shew cause, if any they have, before the said John Sloss Hobart, Esq. at his chambers, situate in Crown-street, in the city of New-York, by the twenty-fourth day of September next, why an assignment of the estate of the said Joseph Pinto should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and he thereupon discharged, agreeable to a law of this state, passed the 21st day of March, 1788. 60 6w. Dated this 30th day of July, 1788.
JOSEPH PINTO. ANNE DE VISME, and RACHEL PINTO, } Petitioning Creditors.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavor and good Proof F O R S A L E,
By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New-Market in Cherry Street.
Starch and Hair-Powder, MANUFACTURED and Sold by Isaac & John Stoutenburgh, At the Corner of Greenwich and Dey-Streets, North-River.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At P R I V A T E S A L E, A F A R M,
THE place which WILLIAM PROVOOST formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the river up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot SEXT the river is a stone DWELLING-HOUSE , two story high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry Celler and a Dwelling-Room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large Kitchen adjoining: Also, a Poultry-House and a new Barn: in the rear of the Dwelling-House is a beautiful Green, ornamented with Fruit-Trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial Dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extraordinary spring and well at the Dwelling-House, from which the meadow may be watered: There is also a Garden with a variety of the best Fruit-Trees: On the lot on the opposite side on the road stands a commodious store, commanding the trade of the back country; also a young Orchard of good Fruit-Trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are Wood-Land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the Land enclosed with a new substantial fence.
The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat, or a place of business. To be sold in three different Lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS , in Maiden-Lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same.
The conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.
If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. LEFFERTS , he will send a Person with him. New-York, May 28, 1788.
T O B E S O L D, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for Well India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW ; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—e.d.
FRANCIS DURAND,
No. 15, QUEEN-STREET, Has F O R S A L E , imported in the French Packets,
The following A R T I C L E S , viz. CAMBRICKS , and Superfine French Broad Lawns, Cloths, Scarlet, Blue, Umbrellos of different sizes, &c. &c. Thread Laces and Edgings, Lyon's quilted Sattins, Black Silk Laces, Men's black and white silk Hose, White and coloured Women's white do. Women's Kid Gloves Black Modes, yard wide Chintzes, &c. best assorted Ribbons,
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO , from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam,
And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191 Queen-street, opposite Beekman's-Ship, By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY,
A general Assortment of DRY GOODS,
Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES , Kid Gloves, Callicoes, Ribbons, Lutefstrings, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellos, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store, Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfnets. tf.
Wanted to Purchase IMMEDIATELY.
OFFICER's and Soldier's Military Bounty Rights of land, both State and Continental—Also, a large Amount in Indents, Final Settlements, and Pickering's Notes, Apply at No. 196, Water-street.
WHEREAS  RICHARD BAYLIS , of Goshen, in the county of Orange and late colony of New-York, for securing the payment of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, current money of the state of New-York, with lawful interest for the same according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June, 1771, and executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake, of the city of New-York, did by indentures of lease and release, bearing date respectively the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake: All that certain piece or parcel of LAND , situate, lying and being in Goshen, in the county of Orange, known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at the fourth east corner of the lands conveyed by Ebenezer Holly to Josiah Seely, then running north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of Ebenezer Holly, to a ditch on the fourth side of said Holly's meadow, thence south westerly along said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south-easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Jeremiah Coleman to the high way, then along the high way to the place of beginning; containing seven acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be granted, and released; and every part and parcel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns for ever—In which said indenture of release is contained a covenant, that in case it should so happen that the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with the interest, or any part thereof should remain due and unpaid on the 24th day of June then next ensuing the date of the said indenture of release then and in such case it should and might be lawful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to any person or persons for such sum or sums of money as might be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to retain and keep in his hands the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, and the interest that might be due thereon, together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his executors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made by virtue of the said indenture of mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity of redemption of the premises or any part thereof:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by a certain instrument in writing under his hand and seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe Gale , of the county of Orange and state of New-York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage, and all monies due and to grow due thereon, together with all the right, title, and interest of him the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mortgaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the principal sum, together with a great arrear of interest still remains due and unpaid—These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the said premises, that unless the said one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE , to be held on the premises, on the said sixth day of November next, at eleven o'clock in forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the directions of a certain act of the legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four. COE GALE.
All kinds of Public & State Certificates
BOUGHT and SOLD, At No. 27, WATER-STREET, And every kind of PAPER MONEY exchanged for SPECIE and re-exchanged: Also on Hand FOR SALE,
A LARGE Sum in Banker's, Barber's, and Loan-Office Certificates of this State, such as will purchase Lands at the Commissioner's sale, and pay Quit-Rents—Likewise, Final Settlements of this State; any, or all of which will be exchanged for Common Final Settlements, Loan-Office, or Pickering's Notes, and indents at a small difference.
State of New-York, ss.
WHEREAS all the real estate of which Edmund Palmer , late of Cortlandt's Manor, in the county of Westchester, yeoman, deceased, died seized, has been sold, by an order of Thomas Tredwell, Esq. late judge of the court of probates of the state of New-York, for the payment of his debts—all persons who have any demands against the estate of the said Edmund Palmer, are hereby notified and desired to produce the same to Peter Ogilvie, Esq. present judge of the said court of probates, at the probate office in the city of New-York, on the tenth day of October next, when and where a final settlement and distribution of the said estate will be made. Given under my hand, at the probate office, in the city of New-York, the ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. 34 PETER OGILVIE.
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