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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 45, of VOL. XLII.]
SATURDAY, February 23, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2225.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E’EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson’s Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—The NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY’s paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday’s paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated.—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially 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.
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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. CONCLUSIONS.
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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Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public’s ever devoted humble servant, THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science.
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, varied, and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment. 22. History.  N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured. Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. 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 gentleman 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.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD,
At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer hereof, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cheroke, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pitt and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy’s Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffaloes, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 e.d.
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American Museum,
For JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Miscellanies.
ORATION in commemoration of American Independence.
Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw’s.
New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap.
Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.
Method of making steel.
Letter on marriage.
Antifederal arguments,
Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee.
Satire,
On musical pretenders,
Receipt for an insolvent debtor,
Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural Concerns.
Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.
Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland.
Thoughts on the culture of hemp,
Method of breaking flax to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of silk.
Law Information,
Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,
Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand.
State and other Public papers.
Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Trumbull,
Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,
Letter to governor Randolph,
Letter from do.
Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,
Address of the grand jury of Edenton,
Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county
Report of the deputies of Northampton county,
Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston,
Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,
Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmarin,
Answer to the preceding notice.
Natural History.
Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,
Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opossum.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the sore throat distemper,
Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi.
Select Poetry.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year’s day, 1788.
Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady,
A riddle.
Foreign Intelligence, American do.
TO BE SOLD,
For JERSEY MONEY at full Value,
Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS,
At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge town-
ship, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey,
within a quarter of a mile of the main road from
Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles dis-
tant 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 Raritan, about
one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the
name of CLAWSON’S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr.,
Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—e.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country,
and may be had at No. 21, Beekman-street,
an extraordinary and never-failing WORM
POWDER. From long experience it has
been found, that three doses of these Powders will
effectually destroy the Worms, either in children
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New-York, Sept. 19, 1787. 37—e.d.

MISCELLANY.
From the CHRONICLE OF FREEDOM.
NUMBER II.
To the people of the United States of America.
Non jam sunt mediocres Hominum Libidines; non humanæ Audacia ac tolerandæ. Cic. Catilinai.
IN my former letter I commented upon some of the outlines of the new constitution. In this I shall examine some others, with some of the proceedings of the continental convention. I think we should bear high indignation at being told that the proposed constitution met with the unanimous consent of the convention. It was not only opposed by governor Randolph, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Gerry, but by various others. It did not meet with the unanimous consent of the states in convention; and among three delegates from New-York, two, Mr. Yates, and Mr. Lansing, opposed it, while only the signature of Mr. Hamilton could be obtained. Mr. Martin also from Maryland, and other men of patriotic principles, looked upon the proposal of giving away the liberties of the people with astonishment. Mr. Yates and Mr. Lansing have published the reasons of their dissent to the world.
It has been justly contended that the consolidation of so large an empire as the United States into one government, would be followed by the most pernicious consequences. Such a government could not be administered without it was despotic; and he, I think, who for such considerations would willingly chuse despotism instead of freedom, deserves the name of a madman. There is a security a resource against domestic commotions in thirteen confederated independent states. If a tumult should arise in one state which she cannot quell, she may gain effectual relief from her sister states. That thirteen states can be confederated together and yet independent, is no utopian visionary scheme, but has been put in practice in America; and the thirteen confederated cantons of Switzerland, which are separately independent, and have flourished in unparelleled prosperity, may be adduced in proof of the truth of the assertion. It is particularly to be remarked moreover, that some of the cantons of Switzerland, are Protestant, and some Roman Catholic, a disadvantage that we are happily estanged from. Those who have assumed the name of federalists, seem to act upon the most antifederal principles, and the fable of the old man and his sons with the bundle of rods, which they quote in their favor, militates against them. They here unloose the bundle of sticks, by declaring that nine states are sufficient to establish a new confederation, and may suffer the sticks separately to be broken.
There is a fundamental principle in the new constitution at which every lover of liberty, every friend of human nature, should revolt. If we were to suffer such a principle to be established, we should be almost brought, to what is notoriously odious to every liberal mind, to taxation without representation. It is said, article 1, sect. 4, "the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislatures thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the place of chusing senators." If we are base enough to suffer a constitution with such a prin-
ciple as this in it to be established, the world will call us slaves and cowards. Is it not obvious to common sense, that if Congress can controul the time, the place and manner of holding an election, they can procure almost whom they please to be elected?
I think with many others, that the construction of the senate is one of the most exceptionable parts of the new constitution. It seems improper that the senators should hold their seats for so large a period of time; that their election is to be made by the legislatures, and not immediately by the people; that in this, as well as in other branches of the government, there is no exclusion from rotation; that the members are so few as 20; that they have the power of amending money bills which the constitution of Great-Britain wisely prevented the house of lords from possessing, as it might be dangerous to the liberties of the people; and they have the sole power of trying impeachments by which they may guard their own members or any of their agents from deserved punishment.
I think also with others, that it is dangerous to invest the Congress with power "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, & repel invasions." It is well said by Mr. Luther Martin, who is a man of great intelligence as well as patriotic virtue, who is
Claram et memorabile Nomen Gentibus, et multum nostræ quod proderat urbi;
It is well said by him, in his information to the assembly of Maryland, that "the Congress will have the power, if they please, to march the whole militia of Maryland to the remotest part of the United States, to keep them in service as long as they think proper, without being in any respect dependent upon the government of Maryland for this unlimited exercise of power over its citizens—all of whom from the lowest to the greatest, may, during such service, be subjected to military law, and tied up and whipped at the halbert, like the meanest of slaves." O indignation! where is thy sparkling eye? thy throbbing bosom? Can men, can Americans, can the defenders of liberty, who boasted that they had the resolution of heroes, bear to be thus insulted? It has been ignorantly contended by some, that the Quakers, the mennonites, and other sects of Christians who are conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, would not be in a worse situation under the new constitution, than under the present government. By the constitution of Pennsylvania a man may compromise his militia duty by a pecuniary fine, but under the proposed constitution, no fine will excuse a personal attendance; you must march or be whipped.
Much has been said upon the easy practicability of altering the new constitution without tumult or discord, if it should be found a pernicious or inconvenient system of government. This we should perceive, however, after examination, to be a delusive idea held out for the purpose of enslaving us by fraud and ambition. It is said, Art. 5, "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures
of three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification shall be proposed by the Congress." It is obvious to common sense, that an alteration in the government cannot be procured without the approbation and consent of Congress. And he must be weak indeed who supposes that when they are entrusted with power, they will grow weary of it, and make a voluntary surrender of it. It seems to have been the design of the framers of the new constitution, that it never should be altered without the greatest difficulty; it is not to be supposed that a large army, when it is once established, and the numerous officers of an extensive government, will quietly chuse to leave their bread, that they may please a set of visionary enthusiasts, for such they will call the advocates of liberty.
It is said by the friends of the new constitution, that if we do not adopt it, we shall be brought to a state of anarchy and confusion. The way to peace seems to be in continuing by the old government; the way to discord in attempting to force the new constitution upon the people. The late tumultuous proceedings at Carisle may be adduced to prove the truth of my assertions. The people of the United States must renounce their feelings and their principles before they can adopt such a government. The minority in the convention of the state of Pennsylvania, which consists of about a third, have declared in their celebrated dissent, that the articles of confederation cannot be altered without the consent of every one of the thirteen states; that two members of the assembly, of Pennsylvania were forcibly dragged to the state-house to make a quorum that a convention might be called, whereby the proceedings of such an assembly are by no means binding upon the people; and that the constitution of Pennsylvania, will be still in force although nine states should ratify the new constitution. In these opinions they are supported not only by their numerous constituents, but by a large part of the whole body of the people who are daily more and more becoming enraged at the conspiracy which was formed against them, and who, it is expected, will soon confederate under these sentiments. It is the part therefore of wisdom in some of the states to pause awhile before they proceed to the ratification of the new constitution. A civil war, with all its dreadful train of evils, will probably be the consequence of such a proceeding. Whereas if they reject the new constitution they can at a more convenient opportunity determine upon some alteration in government which will be peaceably adopted by the people.
The advocates for the new government use in a great measure, the defenders of liberty in the manner that the tyrannical King of Israel treated the prophet of the Almighty. "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" said Ahab to Elijah, when his own accursed proceedings had occasioned the mischief of which he complained. The situation of public affairs at present is truly alarming. The new constitution which was at first received with so much eagerness begins now to be execrated; for examination, which has the virtue that the poet supposes to be in the touch of Ithuriel's spear, has made it start up in its own shape, a hypocrite, a traitor, an enemy, a monster, a devil. It is time that every freeman from Georgia to New-Hampshire, should be fully determined in his own mind upon the government that
is offered to us. It is a fatal mistake to think, that if we do not approve of the new constitution, when we have tried it, we can easily alter it. It is an important truth, which should be indelibly impressed upon our minds, that it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary one, but that it is very difficult to convert freedom into tyranny. Our lives, our properties, our civil and religious liberties, our honor, and every thing that is dear to men, are now at stake. At such a crisis I cannot forbear addressing the Almighty in the same solemn and affecting language with which the nobleman, the hero, and the patriot, whose name I adopt, addressed him, when he was going to suffer for that good old cause, in which he had been engaged from his youth. "Bless thy people, and save them. Defend thy cause, and defend those that defend it. Stir up such as are faint; direct those that are willing; confirm those that waver; and give wisdom and integrity to all."
ALGERNON SIDNEY.
FOR THE DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
MR. GREENLEAF,
UPON a subject so interesting to the people of America, as the proposed federal constitution, the dispositions of enlightened politicians are eagerly sought after, and the opinions of those, whose abilities and integrity have entitled them to the confidence and respect of their country, may justly be regarded as of the highest consequence.
The minister of the United States, at the court of London, has been constantly in the public employ, from the commencement of the American revolution. This gentleman was a delegate in Congress when the confederation was devised, and is said to have had no inconsiderable influence in its formation. His residence at London precluded him from any share in framing the constitution reported by the late federal convention; he cannot therefore be considered as a partisan for this system, or as its blind admirer.
Notwithstanding the uncandid attacks made by certain inferior critics upon a few expressions in the first volume of Mr. Adams' defence of the American constitutions, yet that performance has been read and approved by the sensible and candid part of the community. The second volume has been some time in America, but hitherto has passed through but few hands. Mr. Adams has continued the work, and a third volume was ready for the press in the beginning of January. The following extract from the concluding letter of the third volume, contains Mr. Adams' opinion on the new constitution; its authenticity cannot be doubted, and the publication thereof will oblige
A CUSTOMER.
Extract of a letter from the honorable J. ADAMS to Col. SMITH, being the concluding letter of his 3d vol. on the American Constitutions, dated Grosvenor-Square, December 26, 1787.
"DEAR SIR,
"IT should have been before observed, that the western empire fell in the 5th century, and the eastern in the 15th.
"Augustulus was compelled by Odoacer, king of the Heruli, in 476, to abdicate the western empire, and was the last Roman who possessed the imperial dignity at Rome. The dominion of Italy fell soon afterwards, into the hands of Theodoric the Goth.
"The eastern empire lasted many centuries after, until it was annihilated by Mahomet the Great, and Constantinople was taken in the year 1453. The interval between the fall of these two empires, making a period of about 1000 years, is called the middle age. During this term, republics, without number, arose in Italy; whirled upon their axles, or simple centres, foamed, raged, and burst; like so many water spouts upon the ocean. They were all alike ill-constituted; all alike miserable; and all ended in similar disgrace and despotism.
"It would be curious to pursue our subject through all of them whose records have survived the ravages of Goths, Saracens, and bigotted christians; through those other republics of Castile, Arragon, Catalonia, Galicia, and all others in Spain; through those in Portugal; through the several provinces that now compose the kingdom of France; through those in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. But if such a work should be sufficiently encouraged by the public (which is not probable, for mankind in general dare not as yet read or think upon constitutions) it is too extensive for my forces, and ought not to be done in so much haste. The preceding letters have been produced, upon the spur of a particular occasion, which made it necessary to write and publish with precipitation, or it might have been useless to have published at all. The whole has been done, in the midst of other occupations, in so much hurry, that scarce a moment could be spared to correct the style, adjust the method, pare off excrescences, or even obliterate repetitions, in all which respects it stands in need of an apology. You may pursue the investigation to any length you please. All nations, from the beginning, have been agitated by the same passions. The principles developed in these letters, will go a great way, in explaining every phenomenon that occurs in the history of government. The vegetable and animal kingdoms, and those heavenly bodies whose existence and movements we are, as yet, only permitted faintly to perceive, do not appear to be governed by laws more uniform or certain than those that regulate the moral and political world. Nations move by unalterable rules; and education, discipline, and laws, make the greatest difference in their accomplishments, happiness

and perfection. It is the master artist alone who finishes his building, his picture, or his clock. The present actors on the stage, have been too little prepared by their early views, and too much occupied with turbulent scenes, to do more than they have done. Impartial justice will confess, that it is astonishing they have been able to do so much.
"It is for you, and your youthful companions, to make yourselves masters of what your predecessors have been able to comprehend and accomplish but imperfectly."
"A prospect into futurity, in America, is like contemplating the heavens through the telescope of Herschall. Objects stupendous in their magnitudes and motions, strike us from all quarters, and fill us with amazement. When we recollect, that the wisdom or the folly, the virtue or the vice, the liberty or servitude, of those millions now beheld by us, only as Columbus saw these times in vision,* are certainly to be influenced, perhaps decided, by the manners, examples, principles, and the political institutions of the present generation. That mind must be hardened into stone, that is not melted into reverence and awe, with such affecting scenes before his eyes. Is there, can there be, a young American, indolent and incurious? Surrendered up to dissipation and frivolity? Vain of imitating the loosest manners of countries, which can never be made much better, or much worse? A profligate American youth must be profligate indeed, and richly merits the scorn of all mankind."
"The world has been too long abused with notions, that climate and soil decide the characters and political institutions of nations."
"The laws of Solon and the despotism of Mahomet, have at different times, prevailed at Athens, consuls, emperors and pontiffs, have ruled at Rome, can there be desired a stronger proof that policy and education, are able to triumph over every disadvantage of climate? Mankind have been still more injured by insinuations, that a certain celestial virtue, more than human, has been necessary to preserve liberty. Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue. The best republics will be virtuous, and have been so; but we may hazard a conjecture, that the virtues have been the effect of the well ordered constitutions, rather than the cause, and perhaps it would be impossible to prove that a republic cannot exist, even among highwaymen, by setting one rogue to watch another, and the knaves themselves may in time be made honest men by the struggle."
"It is now in our power to bring this work to a conclusion, with unexpected dignity. In the course of the last summer, two authorities have appeared, greater than any that have been before quoted, in which the principles we have attempted to defend have been acknowledged. The first is an ordinance of Congress of the 13th of July, 1787, for the government of the territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio. The second is the report of the convention at Philadelphia of the 17th of September, 1787. The former confederation of the United States was formed upon the model and example of all the confederacies ancient and modern, in which the federal council was only a diplomatic body. Even the Lydian which is thought to have been the best was no more. The magnitude of territory, the population the wealth and commerce, and especially the rapid growth of the United States, have shewn such a government to be inadequate to their wants. And the new system, which is admirably calculated to unite their interests and affections, and bring them to an uniformity of principles and sentiments, is equally well combined to unite their wills and forces, as a single nation; a result of accommodation cannot be supposed to reach the ideas of perfection of any one."
"But the conception of such an idea, and the deliberate union of so great and various a people, in such a plan, is, without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen. That it may be improved, is not to be doubted, and provision is made for that purpose, in the report itself. A people who could conceive, and can adopt it, we need not fear will be able to amend it, when by experience its inconveniences and imperfections shall be seen and felt."
* Barlow's Poem.
American Occurrences.
KINGSTON (Jamaica) Jan. 2. Of LEWIS the PRINTER.
A CORRESPONDENT remarks, that the Printers are justified in resisting the arbitrary mandates of a certain house, by magna charta, the bill of rights, and by numerous statutes which confirm our invaluable code of liberties. No man owes obedience but to the laws of the land; and if he is hardy enough to violate the written law he is undoubtedly amenable to the law.
A correspondent observes, that the present dispute about the liberty of the press, will, in all probability, give a mortal wound to arbitrary power in this country. The H. of A. or their agents have in a manner given up the main question, the power of calling upon and arresting the Printers at pleasure:—In the first place, by attempting to bribe one of the lowest of mankind, a vagabond Israelite, to execute their lawless mandates, and when they found this expedient fail, by urging men of character and consequence, who are not sufficiently aware of the fatal consequences, to recommend obedience to the Printers in the most earnest and manner.—It will be a hard struggle before the representatives of the people can get the better of their constituents, whose eyes are now sufficiently opened.
A correspondent remarks, that it is not the lower branch of the legislature, but the law, that ought to reign over the people.—It is the law that ought to regulate the exercise of authority, and it is by the law that this authority is no longer a yoke to the people, but a rule that guides them; a help that protects them; a paternal watchfulness that secures their submission, only because it secures their love. Men believe themselves free, when they are governed only by the laws; their whole happiness consists then in their submission, because that submission constitutes their peace and confidence, passion and all the inordinate and ambitious desires which great men mingle with the exercise of authority, far from extending it, rather
weaken it; for they become less powerful, as soon as they want to be above the laws; they lose when they think to gain. Whatever renders authority unjust and odious, enervates and lessens it; the source of all power is in the hearts of the people; and whatever authority a certain house may assume, they will lose their real power the moment they lose the confidence of their constituents.
Mr. Lewis apprehended in his own house by the speaker's warrant.
Of all the questions that have been agitated for these fifty years past, perhaps, there is not one of more real importance than the legality of the speaker's warrants; and it remains to be seen whether the freeholders of Kingston will tamely look over the apprehension and commitment of one of their fellow citizens, at noon day (by a band of lawless myrmidons) who has not even been charged with the shadow of criminality. If the people of Kingston are such cold-blooded animals, as to wink at such shameful and monstrous persecution, there is an end to our boasted constitution, and they richly deserve to be ruled with the iron rod, now brandishing over their heads.
If there were no other reason for extending the judges of the land from the house of assembly, the case of Mr. Lewis, the Printer, will furnish a very sufficient one. He has been torn from his habitation by a lawless banditti, composed of the very refuse of mankind, and lodged in confinement by virtue of an illegal warrant, and there is hardly a doubt but that, when he regains his liberty, he will seek that redress, the laws of his country ought to afford him. Our correspondent therefore, to shew how dangerous it is for the judges to sit in the house of assembly, will suppose that Mr. Lewis commences a prosecution for an assault and false imprisonment. A plea of justification will then be set up by the defendants, that they acted under the authority of the speaker's warrant. The deeply injured plaintiff demurs, upon the ground that it is no plea at all. The matter must then be argued before the judges, many of whom are the very people that have sanctioned this violent and disgraceful measure.
Could any man in this miserable country, says a correspondent, devise means to destroy that monster of fraud and injustice, extortion and peculation, the priority law, thousand of individuals would have reason to bless the planning head and executing hand of so glorious a reformer.
A correspondent remarks, that the ardent labours of counsellor Alembic in the blessed service of prostitution, may be aptly compared to the labours of Sisyphus; for the moment he gets the stone to the top of the mount, it is rolled back with irresistible impetuosity by the united abilities of the minority, and all the dirty work in an instant undone, which cost him so many hours in attempting to bring to perfection.
A correspondent remarks, that it would be a certain sign of virtue and wisdom in our senators, if, instead of seeking to involve themselves in the intemperate discussion of unlawful and undefined privileges, they would earnestly set about the great work of reformation, and redress the intolerable grievances under which their constituents are groaning.
The attempts made to apprehend the obnoxious Printers, have failed in part, though every lawless measure, for the purpose of securing them, has been pursued with the utmost vigour. But, among all the arts and powerful influence that has been employed for the purpose of trampling the laws under foot, it is with the utmost astonishment and indignation our correspondent assures the public, that one of the members, for this town, has written to a respectable and praiseworthy officer of the police, desiring his zealous assistance in the execution of the speaker's warrants, and assuring him, as an inducement thereto, that the house of assembly will shield him from all damages. But we will take the liberty to ask this sagacious meddler, whether the house of assembly can indemnify any officer, should he lose an eye, a limb, or get his brains blown out, in the execution of an arbitrary precept, or whether they can shield such an one, should he come off unhurt, from the verdict of a Kingston jury; we will answer no! What mandane power then is able to indemnify in such cases? The folly, ingratitude, presumption and imbecility of such a promissory incitement to evil, can, therefore only be accounted for in the unsearchable and callous heart of the author.
It should be recorded, to the honor of Mr. Sleater, whose goodness and humanity, to derelict objects, have always been eminently conspicuous, that, during the short time Mr. Lewis, the Printer, he treated him with every mark of indulgence, civility and attention.
We are informed, though we do not vouch it to be strictly the fact, that Mr. Lewis the printer, was called to the bar of the house of assembly on Thursday afternoon, and examined respecting the publication of Mr. Bayly's letter to the freeholders of St. Mary, and that the house required him either to give up the original of Mr. Bayly's address, or to make an humble apology, both of which he refused with becoming spirit and disdain; in consequence of which the house remanded him to prison from whence he was taken. We are moreover assured, that Mr. Jordan, the upright and constitutional judge, is determined to grant Mr. Lewis a habeas corpus, and to liberate him in spite of the blunted fangs of an unprincipled confederacy.
From another correspondent, whose means of information are of superior authority, we are given to understand, that while Mr. Lewis was at the bar of the house, the members were as silent as mutes at a funeral; and he was removed without a single question being put to him. Our informant adds, that two or three most respectable gentlemen of the long robe, have nobly undertaken the cause of the injured printer, and of the grievously insulted freeholders of this parish; that a warrant is also granted against the messenger, in order to ground an action of damages for an assault and false imprisonment, and that a habeas corpus to liberate Lewis will be issued without delay.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 14.
The Calypso and Cygnus sloop of war, at Providence, the former (Capt. Nichols) has seized and libelled the sloop Santa Maria, from Augustine, with a cargo of corn, and cash, to the amount of 8 or 10,000 dollars.—Capt. Johnson, from this port, has also been seized by Mr. Drysdale, and his beef, butter and cheese, sold by virtue of an interlocutory order.—Mr. Drysdale has also seized the
schooner St. John from Halifax, at Turks Island who had touched there to take in salt in exchange for rum.
The ship Concord, M'Naughton, London; Active, Bayne, Georgia; Sally, Johnson, Charleston; Fanny, Ritchie, North-Carolina; Polly, Clutiam, Charleston; Curlew, Mufley, Georgia; and Adventure, Smith, Halifax, are arrived at Nassau, New-Providence.
RICHMOND, Feb. 7.
The weather for these two days past has been so intensely cold, that the river is closely blocked up again.
PHILADELPHIA, February 20.
D O L L A R S!
The public are desired to beware of counterfeit Dollars, which are now circulating in this town. They are of the impression of 1788, remarkably bright, and appear as if just covered with quick-silver; they look somewhat rough, are brighter than the genuine ones, and tolerably well executed.
Baltimore, Feb. 12, 1788.
On Saturday last, at the court of Oyer and terminer, James Thompson, alias M'Alpine, was convicted of the piracy mentioned in our paper of June 15, 1787, on the testimony of John Morgan one of the seamen who was on board La Santissima Tainada, when the fact was committed, and his own full confession to Capt. Reynolds, the gaoler.
George Heathcote was tried at the same time, for the same offence. It appeared from Morgan's testimony, that he was not concerned in confining the captain and passengers, or plundering the vessel but was compelled by force to accompany the pirates, and being a youth of good character, he was acquitted by the jury without hesitation.
It appears that notwithstanding the province of Main was gained over by the promise of a separate state, yet there would have been a decided majority in the convention of Massachusetts against the new constitution, if it had not been for the deceptive amendments included in the ratification. The members for were 187 against 168, majority 19, so that had ten of the majority voted against, the constitution would have been rejected by that state, which it appears was the wish of above three fourths of its inhabitants. The rejoicings of the town of Boston on this occasion, is similar to those of the people of Sweden, when, tired of the oppressions of an aristocratic senate, they made their king absolute.
New-York, February 23.
THE printer of the Patriotic Register is requested to make known, that on Thursday, the 7th instant, a large concourse of the most respectable inhabitants of the counties of Ulster and Orange assembled, in order to ascertain the general sentiment respecting the new proposed constitution, at Montgomery; when, having proceeded in form, and discovered a unanimous disapprobation of the system, the constitution was fixed upon a pole and carried to the centre of the bridge, and there, amid the incessant shouts of near six hundred people, committed to the flames.
LETTER BOX.
Yesterday cleared out from the custom-house the brig Berley, Mitchell, for London.
By a new regulation adopted at the General Post-Office in London, we understand that in future a packet, will be dispatched every fortnight from Falmouth with the mails for this island, Jamaica, touching on their way hither at the windward islands, and at Charleston, on their way home.
[Jamaica Gazette. Extract of a letter from Kingston, in Jamaica, dated 29th Dec. 1787.]
"The ships of war are moored at the outside of Port Royal Harbour, and have fitted out with the war establishment of men and provisions for three months, and have received orders to be ready to sail at a moments warning. Troops are expected here daily, and the governor has made a demand from the house of assembly, for supplies to repair the forts and fortifications; and that the militia are to be mustered and trained as in martial law: so far you see the commanders here are making every preparation for war."
By the United States in Congress assembled, February 12, 1788.
RESOLVED, That the secretary of foreign affairs, for the time being, be and he is hereby authorised and directed, upon application made to him for that purpose, to grant, in the usual form, sea-letters for any vessel or vessels owned entirely and navigated chiefly by citizens of the United States, and bound on long and distant voyages at his discretion; provided always, that it be made appear to him by oath of affirmation, or by such other evidence as shall by him be deemed satisfactory, by the person or persons applying therefor, that the vessel or vessels for which such sea-letters shall be required, shall, together with all and every part of her cargo, be owned entirely, and commanded by officers, citizens of the United States, and shall be navigated for the most part by the same. That for this purpose, the secretary for foreign affairs, be and he is hereby instructed to procure a sufficient number of blank sea letters, draughted in the usual form, and signed by the president of Congress for the purposes aforesaid; and that the same, when filled up, be sealed with the seal of the United States, and certified by the secretary of Congress.
CHARLES THOMSON, secty.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Enquire at No. 20. Queen-street.
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Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and SPECIE;
And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds. New-York, Feb. 21, 1788. 24 c.d.
THEATRE.
By the OLD AMERICAN COMPANY, Monday EVENING, the 23d of FEBRUARY,
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CALLED THE HEIRESS,
Written by GENERAL BURGOYNE. [Never performed in America.]
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By Order of Joseph Crane, jun. Esq. one of the Justices to keep the peace in and for the county of Dutchess.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Uriah Raymond and Elnathan Marsh, insolvent debtors, that they shall cause, if any they have, before the said justice, on Friday, the 29th day of February, at two o'clock afternoon, at the house of Capt. Benjamin Titus, in south east precinct, why an assignment of the Estates of the said Uriah Raymond and Elnathan Marsh should not be made, for the benefit of all their creditors, and they discharged, pursuant to a law of the state of New-York, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786.
URIAH RAYMOND, ELNATHAN MARSH.
Dated in Dutchess County, the 15th day of February, 1788. 25 3 t.
By Order of the Hon. John Sloss Hobart, Esq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given by the petitioning creditors of George Arhart, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of said insolvent debtor, by Monday the twenty-fifth inst. before the said judge, at his chambers, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said George Arhart should not be made, for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said George Arhart be discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the legislature of the state of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th of April, 1786.
GEORGE ARHART.
Dated New-York, Feb. 11, 1788. 16 w.w.f.
To be SOLD CHEAP,
At PRIVATE SALE,
THE place which William Provost 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 next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, 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 of the road, stands a commodious store, commanding 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; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. 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, Feb. 5, 1788. 22—m.w.f.
Wanted to CHARTER,
By the MONTH, For Four Months Certain,
A VESSEL,
FROM eighty to one hundred and twenty tons
measurement. For particulars apply to
W. WOOD,
No. 74, Water-street. 14 c.d.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.

POET'S CORNER.
[From a Philadelphia paper.]
P O E M,
On the Prospect of seeing the fine Arts flourish in America.
By JOHN SWANWICK, Esquire.
1. O haste the day, on swiftest pinions haste,
2. When arts and manners shall adorn the waste;
3. When woods deserted, or where Indians rove,
4. Shall form the statesman's, or the poet's grove;
5. When streams that roll'd, foryeas, their course along,
6. Unknown to fame, to melody, or song,
7. Shall flow mellifluous, to th' harmonious strains
8. Of Maids accomplish'd, and of polish'd swains!
9. Then shall content adorn the smiling plain,
10. Where peace and plenty are design'd to reign;
11. Commerce shall then her num'rous fails unfold,
12. And agriculture yield her stores of gold:
13. The foreign emigrant repose once more
14. Upon a civiliz'd, a tranquil shore:
15. Where chang'd the scene, from what the Bard
(a) foretold,
16. His new abode shall far excel the old;
17. There no tornado's shall his rest invade,
18. Nor fumes invidious lurk within the shade;
19. The various terrors of the horrid shore,
20. To distant climates found dismay no more;
21. But sweets domestic shall his paths defend,
22. And all the virtues his retreat attend;
23. The cooling brook, the grassy vellest green,
24. Around his dwelling, deck the rural scene;
25. And all the arts that minister to life,
26. Expel, for ever, party feuds and strife.
27. Sweet bard! the muse has oft reviv'd thy zeal,
28. Thy generous ardour for thy country's weal,
29. That noble flame, which did thy bosom fire
30. When from their fields thou saw'st the band retire;
31. Whose social merit, and domestic praise,
32. Thy pen has consecrate, in deathless lays;
33. But now behold, from heav'n's imperial bow'rs
34. Where are the plains, more fortunate than ours?
35. Where is the nation bids more fair for fame,
36. Or can, with justice, higher honours claim?
37. Say, on what coast do men more freely share
38. The various blessings human life can bear;
39. Or where so little is oppression known,
40. From Zembla's regions, to the torrid Zone?
41. See quick approach that period of renown,
42. When poetry shall add her laurel crown
43. To those rich honours, which our country grace,
44. And form the glory of her brilliant race.
(a) Dr Goldsmith.
[To be continued.]
Affize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787.
A Loaf of inspected Superfine Wheat Flower, weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence.
A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for three-pence.
HIGH WATER.
This Day, February 23. 10h. 58m. Aft.
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.
PRESENT,
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. Lawrence, 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- 8w. f. W. COCK, Register.
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Are hereby informed,
THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Peterburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-Street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marine, &c. &c. by H. IVERS, Rope-maker.
N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer. New-York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
NOTICE is hereby given to all
persons indebted to the estate of Gilbert Bryan, of Huntington, Long-Island, Suffolk county, yeoman, an insolvent debtor, that unless they make immediate payment to the subscriber, assignee of the estate of the aforesaid Gilbert Bryan, the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney; and all persons, having claims against said Gilbert Bryan's estate, previous to his discharge under the act of insolvency, are requested immediately to present their accounts, properly attested, to JOHN ARDEN, Junior, Affignee. 42 m.w.f. 3m. New-York, November 15, 1787.
Just imported in the Jeane, Captain Martin, from Glasgow, by
Samuel Campbell,
No. 44 Hanover-square, Corner of the Old-Slip, A large assortment of BOOKS,
Among which are, THE present state of Nova-Scotia, with an account of Canada; Whitaker's vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, 3 vol. Mills Grenville, a new novel, 3 vol. Maria, or the Generous Ruscic; Alexander's history of women; Bolinbroke's Miscellanies; Blair's Lectures, 3 vol. Sully's Memoirs, 5 vol. Cullen's Practice, 4 vol. New-Edinburgh Dispensatory; Smith's Cookery; Martin's Young Gentlemen and Ladies Philosophy, 3 vol. A variety of the best Classics now in use.
S. CAMPBELL has this day published, GULLIVER REVIVED,
CONTAINING singular travels, campaigns voyages and adventures, in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic ocean: Also an account of a voyage into the moon, with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in that planet, which are here called the human species, by Baron Munchausen; the 4th edition, considerably enlarged.
DR. SPEDIAUR'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the VENEREAL DISEASE; describing the various symptoms, and method of cure in every different state. The third edition, corrected. Price only five shillings sewed.—
N. B. The great demand for this treatise, the account of it giving by the Reviewers, and the large extracts made from it by Dr. Duncan, in his medical commentaries, with the recommendation of several eminent Doctors of this city, has induced the editor to present the public with an American edition of the work, printed correctly from the last London edit, and reduced to less than two thirds of the price.
With a great variety of STATIONARY in particular, pocket-knives, ink-holders, paper, blank books, quills, wax, wafers, &c.
N. B. SAMUEL CAMPBELL returns his sincere thanks to his customers, and those who have purchased Books or Stationary at his store, and hopes, by his assiduity and attention in keeping an universal assortment of books, and the reasonable prices he fell at, will insure a further countenance of their favors The European, Political, Edinburgh, and Scots
MAGAZINES.
THE PUBLIC ARE RESPECTFULLY INFORMED, THAT the subscriber has lately
removed from Princeton, New-Jersey to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talma-gé Hall, No. 49. Cortland-street (commonly known by the Bolton, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment; and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed that the subscriber has a large convenient assembly room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required. CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. 51—th.
STAGE.
Morris-Town and Paules-Hook.
ON the 14th instant the subscriber began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same route, and with all expedition.
The FARE for a passenger, with seven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the same for one hundred and fifty pound weight.
The waggon, on its route to Paules Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules Hook.
N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortland-street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage.— All letters carried free. GEORGE OHARA. Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.
SHRUB,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity,
FOR SALE by
Charles Tillinghast,
At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty. Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandise, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as managers on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the island of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north, or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a vessel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New-York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Bourke, and John Donnan, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Beecker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, one bale of cotton wool, marked B, three other bales of cotton wool, marked H. C. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers printed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mare, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander M'Kenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf of Hyem Cohen, of the island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of salvage: and whereas William Cock, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arising by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William M'Kenzie and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the deserted vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said deserted vessel was a float vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-iron round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abast her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public intimation and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and merchandise, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this intimation and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM, Marshal. 36 3m
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