The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-01-12 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 11, of VOL. XLII.]
S A T U R D A Y, January 12, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2189.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSE'D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE Thompson's Liberty!
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, heretofore subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper. The THURSDAY's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated. That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which shall be gratefully acknowledged by the first and best attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUESTION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant,
THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
CONDITIONS. I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
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IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country, not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant,
THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, variegated and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History.  N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well informed gentleman, in each town, would spend one half hour, for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Austin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friendly assistance.
JEDIDIAH MORSE
If the several Printers, in the United States feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant.
Philad. Aug. 7, 1787.
J. M.
MR. HARDIE, TEACHER OF LANGUAGES.
RETURNS his most grateful acknowledgment to his good friends, for their generous patronage, since he opened a public school.
At their request he wished to introduce the practice of hearing his Latin Scholars occasionally read lessons in English; but finding it difficult to attend to a variety of branches at the same time, and willing to do all in his power to promote the progress of the young gentlemen committed to his care, he has taken, as an assistant, Mr. Martin, a gentleman educated at the university of Glasgow, who, together with himself, will industriously instruct their Scholars in the following branches, viz. Writing Arithmetic, Geography, Navigation, and the Greek, Latin, and English Languages grammatically. Particular attention will be also paid to train up the young gentlemen to a just and graceful mode of elocution; and some time will be daily spent in teaching orthography.—Apply to the school, next door to the Methodist Church in John-street.
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The UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS assembled, July 23, 1787.
RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late commissaries, quartermasters, clothier's, or marine department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper commissioner, appointed to settle the accounts of those departments, within eight months from the date hereof; and all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowances.
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[Concluded from Yesterday.]
To the PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK.
AS to the interference of the revenue laws of the Union, and of its members; we have already seen that there can be no clashing or repugnancy of authority.
The laws cannot therefore in a legal sense, interfere with each other; and it is far from impossible to avoid an interference even in the policy of their different systems. An effectual expedient for this purpose will be mutually to abstain from those objects; which either side may have first had recourse to. As neither can controul the other, each will have an obvious and sensible interest in this reciprocal forbearance. And where there is an immediate common interest, we may safely count upon its operation. When the particular debts of the states are done away, and their expences come to be limited within their natural compass, the possibility almost of interference will vanish. A small land tax will answer the purposes of the states, and will be their most simple and most fit resource.
Many spectres have been raised out of this power of internal taxation to excite the apprehensions of the people—double sets of revenue officers—a duplication of their burthens by double taxation, and the frightful forms of odious and oppressive poll taxes, have been played off with all the ingenious dexterity of politicallegerdemain.
As to the first point, there are two cases in which there can be no room for double sets of officers; one where the right of imposing the tax is exclusively vested in the Union, which applies to the duties on imports; and the other, where the object has not fallen under any state regulation or provision, which may be applicable to a variety of objects. In other cases, the probability is, that the United States will either wholly abstain from the objects pre-occupied for local purposes, or will make use of the state officers and state regulations, for collecting the additional imposition. This will best answer the views of revenue, because it will save the expence in the collection, and will best avoid any occasion of disgust to the state governments and to the people. At all events, here is a practical expedient for avoiding such an inconvenience; and nothing more can be required than to show that evils predicted do not necessarily result from the plan.
As to any argument derived from a supposed system of influence, it is a sufficient answer to say, that it ought not to be presumed; but the supposition is susceptible of a more precise answer. If such a spirit should infest the councils of the Union, the most certain road to the accomplishment of its aim would be to employ the state officers as much as possible, and to attach them to the Union by an accumulation of their emoluments. This would serve to turn the tide of state influence into the channels of the national government, instead of making federal influence flow in an opposite and adverse current. But all suppositions of this kind are invidious, and ought to be banished from the consideration of the great question before the people. They can avert no other end than to cast a mist over the truth.
As to the suggestion of double taxation, the answer is plain. The wants of the Union are to be sup-
plied in one way or another; if to be done by the authority of the federal government, it will not be done by that of the state government. The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community, must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union, that the capital resource of commercial imports, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under state regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions, which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of his own power coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
As to poll taxes, I, with thou scruple, confess my disapprobation of them; and though they have prevailed from an early period in those states which have uniformly been the most tenacious of their rights, I should lament to see them introduced into practice under the national government. But does it follow, because there is a power to lay them, that they will actually be laid? Every state in the union has power to impose taxes of this kind; and yet in several of them they are unknown in practice. Are the state governments to be stigmatized as tyrannies because they possess this power? If they are not, with what propriety can the like power justify such a charge against the national government, or even be urged as an obstacle to its adoption? As little friendly as I am to the species of imposition, I still feel a thorough conviction, that the power of having recourse to it ought to exist in the federal government. There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients that in the ordinary state of things ought to be foreborn, become essential to the public weal. And the government from the possibility of such emergencies ought ever to have the option of making use of them. The real scarcity of objects in this country, which may be considered as productive sources of revenue, is a reason peculiar to itself, for not abridging the discretion of the national councils in this respect. There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the state, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource. And as I know nothing to exempt this portion of the globe from the common calamities that have befallen other parts of it, I acknowledge my aversion to every project that is calculated to disarm the government of a single weapon, which, in any possible contingency, might be usefully employed for the general defence and security.
PUBLIUS.
* The New-England States.
THE FEDERALIST, No. XXXV. To the PEOPLE of the STATE of NEW-YORK. THE power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion are natu-
ral incidents to the duties of superintending the common defence, and of watching over the internal peace of the confederacy.
It requires no skill in the science of war to discern, that uniformity in the organization and discipline of the militia, would be attended with the most beneficial effects, whenever they were called into service for the public defence. It would enable them to discharge the duties of the camp and of the field with mutual intelligence and concert; an advantage of peculiar moment in the operations of an army: and it would fit them much sooner to acquire the degree of proficiency in military functions, which would be essential to their usefulness. This desirable uniformity can only be accomplished by confiding the regulation of the militia to the direction of the national authority. It is therefore with the most evident propriety that the plan of the convention proposes to empower the union "to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."
Of the different grounds which have been taken in opposition to the plan of the convention, there is none that was so little to have been expected, or is so untenable in itself, as the one which from this particular provision has been attacked. If a well regulated militia be the most natural defence of a free country, it ought certainly to be under the regulation and at the disposal of that body which is constituted the guardian of the national security. If standing armies are dangerous to liberty, an efficacious power over the militia, in the body to whose care the protection of the state is committed, ought as far as possible, to take away the inducement and the pretext to such unfriendly institutions. If the federal government can command the aid of the militia in those emergencies which call for the military arm in support of the civil magistrate, it can the better dispense with the employment of a different kind of force. If it cannot avail itself of the former, it will be obliged to recur to the latter. To render an army unnecessary will be a more certain method of preventing its existence than a thousand prohibitions upon paper.
In order to cast an odium upon the power of calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, it has been remarked, that there is no where any provision in the proposed constitution for calling out the posse comitatus to assist the magistrate in the execution of his duty; whence it has been inferred, that military force was intended to be his only auxiliary. There is a striking incoherence in the objections which have appeared, and sometimes even from the same quarter, not much calculated to inspire a very favourable opinion of the sincerity or fair dealing of their authors. The same persons who tell us in one breath that the powers of the federal government will be despotic and unlimited, inform us in the next that it has not authority sufficient even to call out the posse comitatus . The latter fortunately is as much short of the truth as the former exceeds it. It would be as absurd to doubt, that a right to pass all laws necessary and proper to execute its declared powers, would include that of requiring the assistance of the citizens to the officers who may be entrusted with the execution of those laws, as it would be to believe that a right to enact laws necessary and proper for the imposition and collection of taxes would involve that of varying the rules of descent and alienation of landed property, or of abolishing the trial by jury in cases relating to it. It being therefore evident, that the supposition of a want of power to require the aid of the posse comitatus is entirely destitute of colour, it will follow that the conclusion which has been drawn from it, in its application to the authority of the federal government over the militia, is as uncaused as it is illogical. What reason could there be to infer, that force was intended to be the sole instrument of authority merely because there is a power to make use of it when necessary? What shall we think of the motives which could induce men of sense to reason in this manner? How shall we prevent a conflict between charity and judgment?
By a curious refinement upon the spirit of republican jealousy, we are even taught to apprehend danger from the militia itself in the hands of the federal government. It is observed that select corps may be formed, composed of the young and ardent, who may be rendered subservient to the views of arbitrary power. What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen. But so far from viewing
the matter in the same light with those who object to select corps as dangerous, were the constitution ratified, and were I to deliver my sentiments to a member of the federal legislature from this state on the subject of a militia establishment, I should hold to him in substance the following discourse:
"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States, is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day or even a week that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry and of the other classes of the citizens to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions as often as might be necessary, to acquire the degree of perfection which would intitle them to the character of a well regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labour of the country to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expence of the civil establishments of all the states. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labour and industry to so considerable an extent would be unwise; and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped: and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.
"But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable, yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well digested plan should as soon as possible be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate extent upon such principles as will really fit them for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan it will be possible to have an excellent body of well trained militia ready to take the field whenever the defence of the state shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army; the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
Thus, differently from the adversaries of the proposed constitution, should I reason on the same subject; reducing arguments of safety from the very sources which they represent as fraught with danger and perdition. But how the national legislature may reason on the point, is a thing which neither they nor I can foresee.
There is something so far fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia, that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians, as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price, or as the serious offspring of political fanaticism. Where in the name of common sense are our fears to end, if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbours, our fellow-citizens; what shadow of danger can there be from men who are daily mingling with the rest of their countrymen; and who participate with them in the same feelings, sentiments, habits and interests? what reasonable cause of apprehension can be inferred from a power in the Union to prescribe regulations for the militia and to command its services when necessary; while the particular States are to have the sole and exclusive appointment of the officers if it were possible seriously to indulge a jealousy of the militia upon any conceivable establishment under the federal government, the circumstance of the officers being in the appointment of the states ought at once to extinguish it. There can be no doubt that this circumstance will always secure to them a preponderating influence over the militia.
In reading many of the publications against the constitution, a man is apt to imagine that he is perusing some ill-written fable or romance; which instead of natural and agreeable images exhibits to the mind nothing but frightful and distorted shapes—Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimæras dire—

discoloring and disfiguring whatever it represents, and transforming every thing it touches, into a monster.
A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentucky, and Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in militia-men, instead of Louis d'ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance, to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?
If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism, what need of the militia? If there should be no army, whether would the militia, if retrenched by being called upon to undertake a distant and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen, direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish, as well as so wicked a project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the delusion of the very instruments of their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgraceful acts of power, calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? or are they the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.
In times of insurrection or invasion it would be natural and proper that the militia of a neighbouring state should be marched into another to resist a common enemy or to guard the republic against the violences of faction or sedition. This was frequently the case in respect to the first object in the course of the late war; and this mutual succour is indeed a principal end of our political association. If the power of affording it be placed under the direction of the union, there will be no danger of a supine and listless inattention to the dangers of a neighbour, until its near approach had superadded the incitements of self preservation to the too feeble impulses of duty and sympathy.
I have now gone through the examination of such of the powers proposed to be vested in the United States, which may be considered as having an immediate relation to the energy of the government; and have endeavored to answer the principal objections which have been made to them. I have passed over in silence those minor authorities which are either too inconsiderable to have been thought worthy of the hostilities of the opponents of the constitution, or of two manifest propriety to admit of controversy. The mass of judiciary power however might have claimed an investigation under this head, had it not been for the consideration that its organization and its extent may be more advantageously considered in connection. This has determined me to refer it to the branch of our enquiries, upon which we shall next enter.
PUBLIUS.
American Occurrences.
ANNAPOLIS, December 27. YESTERDAY morning, about 10 o'clock, a framed house in this city, belonging to Mr. James West, and occupied by Mr. Thomas Orrick, took fire by accident, and was entirely consumed; the flames having made considerable progress before discovery; no person being in the house at the time, little or nothing was saved.
By this unhappy event the proprietor has sustained a very considerable loss, and the unfortunate tenant is deprived of his all.
PHILADELPHIA, January 9.
At a meeting of the society for the gradual abolition of slavery, on Monday evening the 7th instant, the following gentlemen were chosen officers for the ensuing year, viz.
President. Benjamin Franklin. Vice-Presidents. James Pemberton, Jonathan Penrose. Secretaries. Dr. B. Rush, Tench Coxe. Treasurer. James Starr. Counsellors. William Lewis, J. D. Coxe, William Rawle, Miers Fisher. Electing Committee. Thomas Harrison, N. Boys, James Whittall, John Todd, Thomas Armatt, John Warner, John Olden, Jacob Shoemaker, junior; John Kaighn, Caleb Attmore, Joseph Budd, Joseph Moore. Assisting Committee. John Poulton, John Claypoole, William M'Clenny, Jacob Shoemaker, junior; Joseph Budd, Nathan Boys.
A correspondent has informed us, that no motion or question was ever proposed in the federal convention, upon the subject of a bill of rights. Mr. Gerry's and Mr. Mason's ideas of the necessity of such an appendage to a free government, were picked up from the Centinel, &c. after the rising of the convention. Instead of a motion from Mr. Mason for a bill of rights, our correspondent informs us, that he both moved for and advocated the aristocratic proposition that pecuniary qualifications should be required in the holders of offices, and that the qualifications for one of them (and that not the highest) should be sixteen thousand dollars.
William Downs, pilot, reports, that three brigs and a ship are arrived at Ready Island, names not known, nor from whence.
By Capt. Fleming, arrived at Marcus-Hook, in 30 days from St. Eustatius, we learn, that the press was very hot in the English islands, even the mates were not excepted. A packet arrived at Antigua, and staid but a few hours at each, and proceeded to Jamaica.
It has been said by persons not friendly to the new constitution, that it would not be well received in North-Carolina. This appears now to have been their own hope, rather than a well-grounded opinion. The people of Edenton, and the county of Chowan, have declared in favor of it with great zeal, and the same disposition prevails in other parts.
The political society at Richmond, Virginia, having discussed the new federal government, very fully took the question on it, when upwards of 220 were in favor of it, and only 15 against it. This society is composed of most of the enlightened characters in the lower parts of Virginia. The western counties, that state have been much in favor of it from its first appearance.
Extract of a letter from a Member of Congress, dated New-York, Dec. 28, 1787.
"Gentlemen here who have pretty good information of what is doing in the eastern states say, that Connecticut will be three to one in convention for the constitution. In New-Hampshire almost, if not quite, unanimous; and Massachusetts, two to one; however a short time will decide. Should this be actually the case, it will have great influence in New-York. I cannot think they will remain long opposed, with three states on each hand who have already decided."
New-York, January 12.
ON the 7th inst. there were thirty members of the general assembly, convened at Poughkeepsie and of the senate eleven, of whom a particular roll shall be given, when the representation becomes complete.
Capt. M'Clenaghan, who arrived at Marcus Hook, in the Delaware, in 36 days from Dominica, says, that between four and five thousand sailors and Negroes were daily employed in fortifying that island; that five sail of British men of war were arrived at Antigua; that there was a very hot press there, and in other of the English islands; and that French frigates were seen cruising off Dominica several days before Captain M'Clenaghan sailed.
Extract of a letter dated Kingston, Jamaica, November 13, 1787, received by the Live Oak, Capt. Irvine, at Philadelphia.
"We expected nothing else but a war with the French; the King's ships here are all getting in readiness, and impressing seamen, to have them fully manned. The packet sailed this morning for England, with a frigate to convoy her through the Windward passage."
"There are men," says the Roman Satyrist, "who can view without astonishment the sun, stars and stately variations of the seasons." They regard the vicissitudes of the world with ease and unconcern, knowing them to be governed by regular and certain laws, under the direction of a wise and benevolent superintendant. One year passeth away, and another cometh; and thus we glide down the stream of time, until we launch forth into the boundless ocean of eternity. To a comprehensive, philosophic mind, the return of the seasons, and the flight of time, can work no idle fears, no alarming apprehensions. The whole of our existence is comparatively so short, that it scarce deserves the name; and man is so small a part of the works of God, that it ought to eradicate every idea of pride and consequence out of his nature. It is sufficient for us, that we are continually under the care and direction of the greatest and best of beings; and let it be our supreme felicity, that we are dependent on him; for his everlasting existence is the solid basis and support of every being in the wide extended universe; and we cannot go, Where universal love smiles not around.
Where universal love smiles not around.
D. COLEMAN'S (Boston) MARINE LIST. Monday, Dec. 24. Wind W. Arrived at Salem, ship Lewis, Gottenburg, in 25 days. Tuesday, 25. Wind W. N. W. Sailed sloop Industry, Norton, for Cape-Francois. Sailed, Schooner —, Freeman for Halifax. Arrived, Sloop —, Dagget, from Virginia, in 14 days. Thursday, 27. Wind W. N. W. Arrived, at Cape Harbour, brig Hope, Page, from P'Orient, in 48 days. Friday, Dec. 28. Wind ditto. Arrived, sloop —, Harden, from N. Carolina. Saturday, 29. Wind ditto. Arrived, brig Baltimore, Smith, from Baltimore. Schooner Success, Wilson, from Halifax, in 4 days. Schooner Polly, Coleman, from ditto, in 4 days. Sloop Friendship, Dagget, from Philadelphia. Sunday, 30. Wind W. N. W. Sailed, ship Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Post, for London. Ship Jane, Blake, for West-Indies. Galliot James and George, Clark, for Antigua. Brig Polly, Cary, for Cadiz. Monday, 31. Wind W. N. W. Arrived Schooner New-York Packet, Barnard, from New-York, in 6 days.
NAVAL OFFICE, SALEM, January 1.
ENTERED. Hector, Lewis, Gottenburg. Polly, Williams, Philadelphia. Peggy, Crowninshield, Baltimore. CLEARED. Dauphin, Osgood, East-Indies. John and Benjamin, Helme, Bristol. Bailey, Bowditch, St. Domingo. Volant, Mosely, Bilbao. Dolphin, Elkins, W. Indies. Bird, Rope, West-Indies.
Arrivals in James-River, December 13. Termagant, Talbot, Cork. Mary, Campbell, Boston. Jane, Howe, Turk's-Island. Watson, Tortola. Charles, White, New-York.
The young Gentlemen of Mr. HARDIE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL will be examined in the Greek and Latin Languages, on Tuesday next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon—when all such as are interested in the progress of the above school are requested to attend.
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At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the City of New-York, the fourth Day of January 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.
John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, Complainant, vs. Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, Defendant. FORASMUCH as it appears to this court, that a bill has been filed therein by John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, against Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said John Rutter; whereupon process of subpoena to appear, and answer, has been duly issued and returned; and that the said Thomas Rutter has 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 the satisfaction of this court, that the said Thomas Rutter (as the deponent was informed) had left New-Town, in Queen's county, upwards of six months ago, and that the said Thomas Rutter, was (as the deponent was informed and verily believed) in or near the state of New-York, but had no permanent place of residence, so that the said deponent was unable to serve him with the said process, which issued on the filing of the bill of complaint in this cause; wherefore it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Lawrance, of counsel for the complainant, that the said Thomas Rutter appear to the said bill, on or before the seventh day of March now next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, 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 state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes, 89—3w.f. W. COCK, Register.
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POET'S CORNER.
TRUE GREATNESS.
A heavenly synod once arose A wondrous strong debate, This mighty secret to disclose— What makes a mortal great.
ANECDOTE.
THE parish clerk of U—, in the north of England, whose name was Nathan, rented a piece of land, which he sat potatoes, in the close where one David had potatoes growing.
Assize of BREAD,
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FOR NOVEMBER, 1787. CONTAINING, Strictures on the new Federal Constitution.
OBJECTIONS to the proposed plan of federal government. By an officer of the late continental army.
Answers to the preceding objections. Address to the inhabitants of New-Jersey. The federalist.
Rural Concerns.
Address from the Philadelphia Society for promoting agriculture. Chinese method of curing ginseng. Tartarian ditto. Instructions for the culture and use of maize, or Indian corn, as fodder for cattle. By Mons. St. John de Crevecoeur.
Description of a plant of great utility in the improvement of poor and exhausted lands. A valuable, cheap, and easily-procured winter food for cattle.
On raising potatoes. On cotton planting. Advantages of preserving parsnips by drying. By the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.
Receipts for preserving turnips from insects. By Philip Schuyler, Esq.
On the method of rearing young cattle. On bee-keeping. Receipt to preserve butter perfectly sweet whole year.
Quere addressed to the lovers of cyder. Letter from Mr. Decius Wadsworth to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, relative to the Hessian fly. Letter on the same subject.
Medical Essays.
On the use of mercurial preparations in the scarlatina anginosa. By Dr. William Currie.
Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus. By Dr. Rush.
Letter from Dr. Thomas Bond to Dr. Fothergill, on the use of bark in scrofulous cases. Relation of a cure performed by electricity. Communicated to the medical society in London, by Dr. Caldwell.
Receipts for the cure of a dysentery. Law information.
Statement of a cause decided in the court of common pleas, Charleston, March 5, 1785.
Statement of an important and interesting cause decided in the court of king's bench, London, July 20, 1787.
Interesting decision of the court of common pleas, in Philadelphia, August 3, 1787. Law report—Green and Pollard vs. Shaffer. Judgment pronounced, Oct. 7, 1787.
Humour.
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On pronouncing dictionaries. Plan for a wax-work legislature. Address to Gen. Burgoyne. The old bachelor, No. 1.
State and other public Papers.
Letter from the Hon. Roger Sherman and the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, Esq's. to governor Huntington.
Letter from the Hon. Elbridge Gerry, one of the delegates from the state of Massachusetts in the late federal convention, containing his reasons for not signing the new constitution.
General Burgoyne's pompous proclamation. Speech of governor Hancock, October 18, 1787.
Premiums offered by the board of managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts.
Resolutions of the assembly of Virginia relative to a paper currency.
Of respectable inhabitants of Berkeley county.
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Of the inhabitants of Petersburgh, Virginia.
Memorial of the college of physicians of Philadelphia. Interesting Laws.
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relative to the Hon. John Adams Esq. relative to the chevalier John Paul Jones.
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Miscellanies.
An oration delivered at Petersburgh, Virginia, July 4, 1787, in commemoration of American Independence.
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INTRODUCTION, On education, Gen. Lincoln's letter from Jemima Loveleap, Letter on the ingrafting of trees, Floretta, or the Fountains, Anecdote of the Duke of Gordon, Life of Sir William Jones, Kt. Advice to masons, and to husbands that have scolding wives, and wives that have peevish husbands, Titus Blunt, on fashion, Anecdote of a tailor, Letter from Philander, on marriage, Dr. Dwight's valedictory address, &c. Principles of government and commerce. Mr. Pope's letter to the Bishop of Rochester, On bills of rights, Letter from Guy Gumberton, Letter to Doctor Stiles, accounting for the fortifications west of the Allegany, Curiosities, Abridgment of Smith's London review of Dr. History of Virginia, Adams's defence.
POETRY.
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Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE,
By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY, near the New-Market Cherry-street and nearest to the Ship-Yards. October 3, 1787 53—m. th.
MARSHALL'S
Porter and Oyster-House, IS now opened at the corner of
Cortlandt and Greenwich-Streets, opposite Powles-Hook Ferry-House, at the North-River—where every exertion will be put in force to render those who will favor him with their commands agreeable. New-York, Dec. 12, 1787. 63—c.d.
PRIZE-MONEY,
Of the Squadron under John Paul Jones, Esquire, NOTICE is hereby given to those officers and men of the Frigates Alliance and Bon homme Richard, who are entitled to a share in the prizes taken by the squadron under the command of John Paul Jones, Esq. that a division has been made of the proceeds of such prizes as were old in France, and that the shares will be paid to the respective claimants, or their legal representatives, on their producing, at this office, sufficient proof that they are the persons, or are empowered by the persons actually entitled to the shares they respectively claim. Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Office of accounts, Marine department.
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