The daily advertiser (New York [N.Y.]), 1788-01-11 00:00:00

The Daily Advertiser.
[VOL. IV.]
NEW-YORK: FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1788.
[No. 900.]
Wm. Backhouse, & Co.
No. 15, Duke-street---have for Sale, RED PORT WINE, SHIPPED by the Royal Port Company, the quality of whose Wines experience has shown to be su- perior to any imported into America. ALSO, OLD MADEIRA, SHERRY, TENERIFFE, FAYAL, and LISBON And Liverpool CROCKERY WARE, by the Crate. Jan. 7. tf.
TO BE SOLD By GEORGE DOUGLASS,
No. 14, Fly-Market; ONE hundred barrels Philadelphia superfine Flour, 150 do. do. common do. 50 half barrels do. do. 3000 lb. Cayenne and Hispaniola Cotton, 8 cwt. Hops, 100 barrels Ship-bread, Pork in barrels, Bar Iron, Old Jamaica Spirits in hds. Dec. 4. tf.
HAYMAN LEVY,
Has for sale at his Store, No. 7, Duke-street, A Choice parcel of Northern FURRS, viz. GREEN and OLD COAT BEAVER, GREEN & OLD COAT RACCOON, BEAVER TRIMMINGS, And MUSK-RATS. Jan. 5. 1m.
GEORGE POLLOCK,
Has received by the Hudson from Dublin, and the Anne and Sulannah from Liverpool, A general and complete assortment of 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4 Low-priced IRISH LINEN, Which he will sell on very moderate terms, at his STORE, No. 28, Water-street. POT ASHES and FLAXSEED received in payment. Sept. 13. tf.
JUST IMPORTED, In the ship MERCURY, Captain Grant,
TENERIFFE WINES Of a very superior quality, which will be disposed of by the quantity or single Pipe, by JOHN C. SHAW, at his store opposite Van Zandt's wharf. Oct. 12. tf.
To be LET, on reasonable Terms,
A GENTLE FURNISHED ROOM, near the Coffee- House, very suitable for a single gentleman, or a small family. For particulars enquire at No. 19, Water-street. N.B. BOARDING may be had if required, and a front Cellar. Nov. 17. tf.
ATTWOOD and TRONSON,
Have for sale, at their store, No. 11, Great Dock- street, A general assortment of Swedes and American Bar IRON, CONSISTING of Axe Iron, Cart Tire, Waggon, Chair and Sleigh Tire, mill Irons, and Iron of uncommon square; Steel of all kinds, English flagged the much esteemed blistered L.O. American blistered and Tub Steel, Anvils of all sizes, Back Irons, Vices, &c. &c. A variety of Castings and other articles, which they will sell low for cash, or country produce. All orders for cast Iron, or wrought Iron for mill work, &c. will be duly received, and executed with dispatch. * * Bar Iron or any other article, received and sold on commission. A quantity of Albany Pease for sale. Oct. 8th, 1787. tf.
FOR SALE BY ROBERT JOHNSTON,
No. 14, Water-street, in the house lately occupied by Colonel Samuel Ogden, A Large and general assortment of IRON CAST- INGS, among which are the following, viz. Iron hollow ware of all sizes, Pot-ashes kettles, cast with bottom down, Clock and window weights, griddles large and small Tea-kettles large and small, bake-pans do. do. Cart, waggon, coach and chair boxes, 56, 28, 14 and 7lb. weights with rings, Mortar and pestles, lad Irons, Franklin stoves, large and small, Rittenhouse do. do. Ten and six-plate do. do. cloth stoves with pipes, Sharp's new invented stove grates, Canada stoves for large rooms, Patent caboules for ships, with one and two boilers, grates and oven, Fire places with jambs complete, Back plates of every dimension, Hibernia, Mount Hope, New Mine and Andover pig metal, Gudgeons and mill irons, Refined and Bloomery bar iron, spike iron, sheetroop Nail rods of all sizes, Iron hoops for hds. and bbs, horse shoes, 20d. 12d. 10d. and 8d. nails, 7 inch, 6 inch and 5 inch spikes, Crowley and blistered steel. The above articles will be sold for cash and coun- try produce, at the lowest prices; and a large allow- ance made to those who buy to sell again. All orders for wrought or cast iron will be duly at- tended to, and forwarded, agreeable to pattern, at the shortest notice. Oct. 29. tf.
To be had at LOT MERKEL'S Store,
No. 33, Hanover-square, nearly opposite the Bank, TOBACCO for SMOAKING; KITEFOOT of the first quality; ditto of an interi- or ditto; large roll tobacco, fit for manufac- turers; legars. genuine Macuba (nuff); ditto raper of different qualities; gentlemen's gloves, buck- skin and beaver, of the first quality. At the above Store the highest price is given for SHIPPING FURS. June 12. f.
FOR SALE,
GINSENG, LINTSEED OIL, BEEF, PORK, FLOUR, FLAX-SEED, BUT- TER, Quintal FISH, MACKAREL, &c, by Storm and Sickles, Dec. 28. tf. No. 35, Little-Dock Street.
JACOB REED, junior,
At his OFFICE, No. 20, Queen-street, near the Fly-Market, BUYS, SELLS and EXCHANGES SECURITIES of the United States, and of this State; and furnishes on the most reasonable terms, such Certificates as are receivable on the Sales of Public Lands, and for the arrears of Quit Rents within this State. Also, Certificates that will pay for the Lands late- ly Sold, as well as those granted to certain compa- nies, by the United States. In fact, every transaction, both in the Continental and State FUNDS, negotiated with dispatch, and on the most easy terms.
MONEY EXCHANGES.
The Paper Money of this State at all times ex- changed for Specie, which is re-exchanged for Pa- per Money, at only half per cent. advance from the giving rate. Dec. 12. wfm. tf.
MANCHESTER GOODS.
Imported in the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, and for Sale on very reasonable terms,
By DANIEL TUCKER, & Co.
No. 202, Water-street, for Cash or Country Pro- duce only, 7-8, 4-4, and 4-4, 3-8, Cotton Checks, Striped Tick, Dyed Pillows, Black and Olive Velveteens, low priced; Checked Handkerchiefs, Malabars; Copperplate Furniture Cottons, Black silk Handkerchiefs, Cotton Thickets, A neat assortment of Shawls, Men's and Women's Beaver Gloves, Romall Handkerchiefs, Fancy Printed Do. 1-2 Dozen cases of Hats, low priced, and well assorted. Dec. 1. tf.
TO BE SOLD,
A Number of improved FARMS, in the counties of Dutchess, Ulster and Orange; likewise a quantity of unimproved Land in either of the said counties. Apply to J. JOHNSTON, No. 18, Wall- street. Dec. 25. tf.
NY Person having demands on the estate of
JAMES YOULE, deceased, are requested to call on the subscriber for payment. And all those who are indebted to said estate are hereby requested to call and discharge their accounts before the first day of January next, or may expect their accounts will be put in the hands of an attorney, for recovery of the same, without distinction; as a settlement of that estate must be made at the time above mentioned. JOHN YOULE, Administrator. Nov. 14. tf. No. 64, Beckman-Ship. Who has just opened a fresh and general assort- ment of
Hardware, Ironmongery, and Cutlery,
Which he will dispose of very reasonable by whole- sale or retail.
FLAX-SEED,
Scored, cleaned purchased and sold, at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S FLAX-SEED STORE, lately occupied by Mr. Ja- cob Sarly, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. Oct. 22. tf.
WILLIAM USTICK, jun.
No. 33, Queen-street; Has just received by the SALLY and other late vessels from Bristol, a general assortment of IRONMONGERY and CUTLERY; Amongst which are--Nails, Glass, Paints, Sheet Iron, Sheet Lead, blistered and Crawley Steel, Anvils, Vices and Beck Irons, brads Kettles, iron Pots and Kettles, Frying Pans, Spades and Shovels, Shovel and Tongs, Bellows, Warming Pans, brads and iron Can- dlesticks, hard and soft Waffle Irons, men and boys Scates, long handle hair Brooms, Brushes of all kinds, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack-Knives, Shears and Scissors, wire and spring Moule and Rat Traps, Jacks, Clovs, Brads, and Screws of all fi- zes, Locks and Hinges of every kind, Carpenters, Coopers and Joiners Tools, &c. &c. He has also for sale Pickled Mackerel, Salmon and Herrings, which he will dispose of on reasona- ble terms for Cash; also Nails of all sizes, manu- factured in this city, and equal to any imported. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. tf.
Turk's Island SALT,
Soal Leather and Muscovado Sugar, In Barrels. A Quantity of each, now landing at Peck- Slip. Attendance for the SALE of which, will be given by Murray, Mumford, and Bowen, Who have also for Sale, At No. 20, Peck-Slip, A QUANTITY of best Peterburgh A clean HEMP, BOHEA TEA, MOLASSES, BURR FLOUR, BEEF, PORK, HOG'S LARD, YORK RUM, SHEET CORK, CAYENNE COCOA, DRY COD-FISH, RUSSIA and RAVENS DUCK, HOLLAND POWDER. 100 Boxes SPERMACETI CANDLES. COD SOUNDS and TONGUES, in Bar- rels. A large ANCHOR, weighing 30 cwt. to be sold Cheap. WANTED, Forty Barrels PEARL ASHES, thirty bar- rels WHALE OIL, twelve thousand SU- GAR HOGSHEAD STAVES, fifty-five inches long. New-York, December 14, 1787. tf.
FOR SALE BY JOHN DEWINT,
Maiden-lane, No. 36. A FEW hbds. New-York Rum; ditto St. Croix Rum; a few cases gin; a parcel sugar in hbds. writing paper, common and post; sundry articles of Dry Goods; a few boxes hylon and strong tea; 4 barrels gum of lignum vitae; and 2 pot-ash kettles, that have been a short time in use. Nov. 17.
JUST ARRIVED To HUGH SMITH,
No. 22, WALL-STREET, A general and complete assortment of 4-4, 7-8 & 3-4 Low-priced IRISH LINEN, Which he will dispose of on reasonable terms for cash. Sept. 13. tf.
Sixty Pipes of MADEIRA,
In pipes, hogsheads and quarter-casks, of superi- or quality, to be landed this day at Crugar's wharf, and to be sold by TOZE ROIZ SILVA. 22d Aug. 1787. tf.
FOR SALE,
PORK, Beef, Lard, Tallow, Butter, and other produce; also, a quantity of white and pitch-pine Boards and Plank, pitch- pine Scantling, Cypress and Cedar Shingles, Oak Lath, and several other articles of Lumber. Enquire at No. 8, Little Dock- street, or at the Lumber Yard, North-river. B. SWARTWOUT & SON. N.B. A few barrels Spirits Turpentine, and 20,000 Flax-feed Cask Staves and Heading, to be sold low. Dec. 29. 2w
H. & J. Thompson,
No. 29, Front-street, near Burling-slip, Have for Sale, on low terms for CASH, PRINTED Calicoes, a general assortment, Scarf, silk and hair Twiss, coarse Wool- lens, Irish Linens, low priced, Russia Sheet- ing, printed Handkerchiefs, Bengal Tafeties, Canvas, No. 1 to 7, seaming Twine, Sugar in barrels, Cocoa in do. Earthen Ware and Delit Ware. Jan. 1, 1788. tf.
George Gilford
BEGS leave to acquaint the respectable Public, that he repairs and tunes Or- gans, Piano-Forces, Harpsichords, Spinetts, &c. &c. at a very moderate rate; he hopes to be able to give the fullest satisfaction to those who will favor him with their employ- ment. Nassau-street, No. 64. Dec. 18. tu. 4w.
FRANCIS PANS,
No. 51, Broad-street, Has received by the Montgomery, collected by the other late arrivals, and has remaining on hand of his former stock, the following general as- sortment in the FANCY, MILLENERY, and DRY GOOD Line,
CHINA and satin ribbons, a great variety differ- ent widths and colors; plain net, craps, touf- fle, silk spotted and striped, black and white gauze; fancy colored cane hats, yellow and black Leghorn do. per dozen on quantity; black and white skein and ribbon wires; wire frames for the latest fashion bonnets; mock paint faces; black silk ditto, and edgings; white thread laces and edgings; black fat- ins and modes; plaitings, white and colored laces; nets; chintzes and calicoes; furniture for per- plate do. linens and checks; morseens, callimancoes and stuff; silk thread, cotton, and worsted holes; pink, blue, green, and dove colored silk quilts; mullin and cotton shawls; silk, linen, and cotton handkerchiefs; corded dimities, mullinet and chintz trimmings; plain and spigged lawns; plain and striped mul- lins; lawn and mullin handkerchiefs; fine and com- mon cambrics; black patent net lace; nankens, umbrellas, artificial flowers, feathers, flannels, baizes, and striped wildbores; sewing silks, threads, &c. &c. all which will be sold on the very lowest terms, for immediate payment. He returns his sincere thanks to the public in ge- neral for their past custom, and solicits a continuance. The Millinery Business will still continue to be carried on in the most extensive manner, with the most exertions to give satisfaction; and to enable him to sell off the large stock of gauzes, ribbons, &c. remaining on hand, every article in that line will be charged at the lowest terms possible. Nov. 23. tf.
SHALER and SEBOR
No. 27 Queen-street, have for sale, A QUANTITY of plated ware, consisting of can- dlesticks, branches, tea caddies, snuff pans, egg cups, goblets, coffee pots and Muffineers, black table cakes, with knives, forks, and spoons com- plete, crust stands, paper bottle stands, japanned bread-trays, caddies and snuff pans, plate warm- ers, brads chasing dishes, cork screws, steel snuffers, fadery, brads rings, cloak pins, sleeve buttons, brads table hinges, guns and gun locks, China tea cups chimney tiles, sets of house brushes, near mahog- any razor cases, silver watches, elegant steel and gilt watch chains, trinkets, shirt pins, buckles, rings, paste, shoe, knee, and stock buckles and sleeve but- tons, fine Irish sheeting, fine dyed jeans, Mouselles quilting, silk shaggs, black craps, white and black gauzes, mullinets, muffs, feutuckers, habaflés, fiterfoys, barnegote, romalls, corded dimity, and a box of assorted mounting cloths, with a variety of other articles which will be disposed of for cash or shipping produce, at a price much below the Market cost.
At same place may be had, Madeira, Teneriffe, and Malaga wine, by the pipe or quarter cask, Cham- pagne of an excellent quality, by the case or dozen, dried duff black tea, a variety of hand ware, a large assortment of Irish linens, 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4, re- ceived by the Montgomery, are now opening, and will be sold together with the above goods on the lowest terms. New-York, November 27, 1787.
For Londonderry and Glasgow,
To Sail on the 15th inst. The SHIP GEORGE, JOHN HUNTER, Master. FOR Freight or Passage, apply to the Master on board, at Mr. Hallett's wharf, or to
Thos. Buchanan & Co.
No. 46, Wall-street, Who have for Sale, A few bales Osnaburgh, One trunk Check Handkerchiefs, Two boxes assorted Mullins, A few casks Nails, from 14 oz. Tacks, to 5 inch Spikes, British Sail Cloth, from No. 1, to 8, Teneriffe and Vidonia Wine, in pipes, A few chaldron large Coal. N.B. White Oak hhd. Staves and Heading, Red Oak hhd. Hoops, White Pine Boards, or Pot-Ashes will be received in payment for the above goods. January 1, 1788. 2w
FORTY TIERCES OF
NEW RICE, JUST landed, to be SOLD LOW, at No. 17, John-street. Jan. 7. tf.
SALT-PETRE.
A few hundred weight may be had very low of EFFINGHAM LAWRENCE, No. 227, Queen-street, facing the Fly-market. Also a large and general assortment of Genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES, Aromatic Medicines, Perfumeries, Surgical Instru- ments, &c. for which Cash, Ginseng, Bees- wax, Snake-root, Pot and Pearl-ashes, &c. will be taken in payment. MEDICINE CHESTS complete, with directions. Orange Peas for Illness. N.B. An APPRENTICE wanted. Oct. 12. tf.
GEORGE BARNEWALI & Co.
No. 205, WATER-STREET, near the Coffee-house, HAVE just imported, in the ship Providence from London, an assortment of IRISH LI- NENS, SHEETINGS, DOWLAS and THREADS, low and high priced; which they will sell, on rea- sonable terms, for cash or short credit. They have also on hand, a variety of PAPER HANGINGS, with festoons and other borders; and rod and other sized NAILS. July 7.
LOT MERKEL,
No. 33, Hanover-Square, nearly opposite the Bank, Manufactures and has for sale a complete and ge- neral assortment MUFFS and TIPPETS, of MARTIN and Martin Throat, Swan's Down and real Eimire, Rafia and Siberia Squirrel, American Ground Squirrel, Ruffia Hare and red Fox, Real black Jenet, beft furs, Mock Sable and Mock Eimire. Likewise a large and general assortment of Fur Trimming and Edgings, for Ladies Cloaks, Coats and Habits, Ladies Cloak Linings, Gentlemen's Great Coats lined with Furr, Fur Gloves, &c. &c. * * The above articles he is now selling on the most reasonable Terms for Cash only. N.B. Orders from the Country executed in the best manner. October 11, 1787. tf.
HILL and OGDEN,
No. 41, Great-Dock-street, have just imported by the Grace, from Amsterdam, and for sale on very reasonable terms, for Cash, Notes at short Payments, Pot-ashes, Flax-seed, Bar-Iron, Wheat or Flour, an assortment of the following articles, viz. TICKLENBURGS, oznaburgh, German dowlas, Russia diaper, plaitillas, Britannias, cotton and linen checks, sheetings of excellent quality, white Flem- ish linen, German stripes and checks, lawns, cal- licoes, writing paper, &c. They have likewise for sale, coatings, Yorkshire cloths, calimancoes, du- rants, flannels, Irish linens, &c. Also, IMPROVED FRANKLIN STOVES, cast in the Air-Furnace, at Newark, which, besides be- ing exceedingly neat, are continued to give more heat into the room, a remedy for smoky chimneys, and more secure from fire than any other. Also, Pot- ash kettles, forge hammers and anvils, refined from bog-ore, pig-metal, and approved by many years experience. N.B. Orders are received by them for every kind of hollow-ware and iron-c-rings, made at said Air-Furnace, and will be executed with dispatch and superior neatness. Oct. 31. tf.
JAMES SAIDLER
Insurance Broker, No. 31, Water-street, two doors from the corner of King-street, BUYS and sells on Commission, all Kinds of Pub- lic Securities, Goods and Produce, as usual. He has also imported in the Wilson, from Liver- pool, the America, from London, and left vessels from Europe, a neat assortment of GOODS, consist- ing of fine brown, mixt, blue drab, and copper- coloured Broad Cloths, Coatings, Drills and Blan- kets, Flannels and Baizes, 3-4, 7-8, 4-4 and 11-8 wide cotton Checks, printed Coatings, Chintzes, Ribbons, Lawns, Lawn Handkerchiefs and Aprons, Satins and Modes, cotton and silk Handkerchiefs, sewing Silks and Twiss, fine and coarse Hairs, Mor- seens, Dyrants, Tammies, Callimancoes and Cam- bics, Table Cloths and Diapers, Writing Paper, and an assortment of HARD WARE, &c. which he will sell on reasonable terms, for Cash, Country Produce, or public Securities. Also, six pair of ele- gant brads mounted Fire Dogs, and a few barrels pickled Mackerel and Cod-Fish, in excellent order. Apply as above. N.B. Purchasers of unappropriated and confiscated lands, can be supplied with certificates on the most reasonable terms.

BOSTON, January 3.
Saturday a vessel arrived at Marblehead from France. A letter by this arrival, to a gentleman at Salem, dated at l'Orient, Oct. 24, has the following: "I suppose you will have heard, before you receive this, that war is likely to be proclaimed between France and England, with several other powers in the Northern parts of Europe. All English vessels were ordered out of Bourdeaux this month; and two French frigates, now in l'Orient, were ordered out on a cruise to-day - from which we conclude war will soon commence. October 30. Since I wrote the above, no salt has arrived - owing, it is said, to the seamen being pressed into the King's service."
Tuesday last, arrived here, in 49 days from Land's End, in England, and twelve weeks from London, the ship Nonpareille, Capt. Cushing. The papers brought by her, are not so late as those we have already received, via New-York.
Last Tuesday evening, about 6 o'clock, Michael Bacon, going from this town to Cambridge, in a horse-cart, was requested, near the hay-scales in Charlestown, by a Mulatto Man, to let him ride in the cart, and he having obtained leave, rode in it, till he arrived opposite the place, where the gibbet formerly stood, when he struck Mr. Bacon, (whose face was towards the horse) with a walnut stick, over his head, and repeating the blow, brought him to the ground: Mr. Bacon was so stunned, as not to have retained his senses, further than to recollect, that the Mulatto continued his strokes, with an apparent design to take his life. Mr. Bacon was robbed of a small sum of money, which was all he had in a purse, but was not sensible when the money was taken.
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 29.
Wednesday night last a barn at Little Rest, belonging to Mrs. Gardner, was consumed by fire, together with a quantity of hay.
And on Thursday night a fire broke out at the store of William Arnold, Esquire, in East-Greenwich, which was consumed, with a quantity of goods, and 300 quintals of codfish. Mr. Arnold's dwelling-house was also consumed, likewise Mr. James Green's house, and a shop belonging to Mrs. Margaret Pearce, which contained a quantity of goods.
NEW-LONDON, Jan. 4.
The sloop Industry, George Morton, master, from Newbury-port to Philadelphia, laden with 330 quintals of dry codfish, 55 barrels pickled ditto, and 40 barrels oil, is lost on Barneygat shoals: the people saved, but vessel and cargo lost. She belonged to Mr. Nathaniel Tracy of Newbury.
MIDDLETON, January 7.
The Convention of this State met at Hartford on Thursday last, when his Excellency MATTHEW GRISWOLD, Esq. was chosen President. They then proceeded to consider the proposed Constitution by sections; but we have not been able to procure the debates for this week's paper. It is expected the important question will be decided next Wednesday, and we hope in our next to be able to communicate particulars.
Twenty six persons have died since the first day of January last, belonging to the First Society in this town. The number baptised in the society were fifty-six.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.
Wednesday morning about eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a cooper's shop on Walnut-street wharf, which soon communicated to two frame buildings adjoining, and notwithstanding the exertions of the inhabitants, the whole were soon burnt to the ground, whereby a very considerable loss is sustained. The adjoining stores of Messrs. Campbell and Kingston were with difficulty preserved, the cornice having twice caught fire; but plenty of water being at hand, those valuable buildings were happily saved from the danger which threatened them - it is said that the fire caught, while the workmen were at breakfast.
New-York, Jan. 11.
Wednesday afternoon arrived the brig Mary, Capt. Cassidy, in ten weeks and three days from Londonderry. We do not learn that this vessel has brought later European advices than we have already communicated. Captain Cassidy, on the 29th Dec. spoke the ship Sally, Captain Miller, from Philadelphia, out three days, all well.
Yesterday arrived the sloop Jenny, Schermerhorn, from Savannah.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the ship Falbrook, Wilson, for Cork, and the sloop Union, Snell, for Curacoa, cleared out at the Custom-house.
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; that two French frigates were seen cruising off Dominica several days before Captain M'Clenaghan failed.
The following is a LIST of the MEMBERS of ASSEMBLY now attending at POUGHKEEPSIE, and the days on which they first made their appearance:
January 1.
  Samuel Jones, } Queen's County.   Whitehead Cornell,   Stephen Carman, } Richmond.   John C. Dongan,   Peter Wynant, Orange.   Peter Taulman, New-York.   Daniel Nevin, Suffolk.   John Smith, 
January 2.
  Cornelius Wyckoff, } King's.   Charles Doughty,   Peter Silvester, Columbia. 
January 3.
  Leonard Gansevoort, } Albany.   Peter B. Tearle,   Albert Baker, } Washington.   Matthew Patterson,   John De Witt, } Duchefs.   Abijah Gilbert,   Joseph Strang, Westchester. 
January 4.
  Richard Varick, New-York.   Thomas Tillotson, Duchefs.   John Frey, } Montgomery.   Abraham Arent,   James Gordon, } Albany.   Dirck Van Ingen,   Hezekiah Van Orden, 
January 7.
  William Powers, } Columbia.   Alexander Webster,   Edward Savage, } Washington.   David Brooks,   Peter Cantine, New-York.   Duchefs. 
Total Number, Jan. 7, 30 Members.
Of the S E N A T E.
January 7.
The following Gentlemen made their appearance at the Senate Room, in the Court House: -
  The Hon. PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, Esq. Lieutenant Governor, and President of the Senate.   John Vanderbilt, } Southern District.   Samuel Townsend,   John Haring, } Middle District.   Cornelius Humphrey,   Jacobus Swartwout, } Western District.   Abraham Yates, jun.   Peter Schuyler, } Eastern District.   Peter Van Nels,   David Hopkins,   John Williams, 
As it was expected that there would be a quorum of the Legislature in a few days, it is probable that our next accounts from that place will inform us of their having proceeded to business.
Account of Patients admitted into the Philadelphia Dispensary.
  The number of patients admitted from December 12, 1786, to December 1, 1787, is } 1647   Of whom the number cured is   Dead is 1297   Relieved is 62   Discharged disorderly is 131   Removed to the Hospital and House of Employment is 24   Remaining under cure is 6   1647 
For the Daily Advertiser.
The FEDERALIST, No. XXXVI.
To the People of the State of New-York.
IN reviewing the defects of the existing Confederation, and shewing that they cannot be supplied by a Government of less energy than that before the public, several of the most important principles of the latter fell of course under consideration. But as the ultimate object of these papers is to determine clearly and fully the merits of this Constitution, and the expediency of adopting it, our plan cannot be compleated without taking a more critical and thorough survey of the work of the Convention; without examining it on all its sides; comparing it in all its parts, and calculating its probable effects. That this remaining task may be executed under impressions conducive to a just and fair result, some reflections must in this place be indulged, which candor previously suggests. It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it. To those who have been led by experience to attend to this consideration, it could not appear surprising, that the act of the Convention which recommends so many important changes and innovations, which may
be viewed in so many lights and relations, and which touches the springs of so many passions and interests, should find or excite dispositions unfriendly both on one side, and on the other, to a fair discussion and accurate judgment of its merits. In some, it has been too evident from their own publications, that they have scanned the proposed Constitution, not only with a predisposition to censure; but with a predetermined intention to condemn: as the language held by others betrays an opposite predetermined or bias, which must render their opinions also of little moment in the question. In placing however, these different characters on a level, with respect to the weight of their opinions, I wish not to insinuate that there may not be a material difference in the purity of their intentions. It is but just to remark in favor of the latter description, that as our situation is universally admitted to be peculiarly critical, and to require indispensably, that something should be done for our relief, the predetermined patron of what has been actually done, may have taken his bias from the weight of these considerations, as well as from considerations of a sinister nature. The predetermined adversary on the other hand, can have been governed by no venial motive whatever. The intentions of the first may be upright, as they may on the contrary be culpable. The views of the last cannot be upright, and must be culpable. But the truth is, that these papers are not addressed to persons falling under either of these characters. They solicit the attention of those only, who add to a sincere zeal for the happiness of their country, a temper favorable to a just estimate of the means of promoting it.
Persons of this character will proceed to an examination of the plan submitted by the Convention, not only without a disposition to find or to magnify faults; but will see the propriety of reflecting that a faultless plan was not to be expected. Nor will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the Convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in reducing the fallible opinions of others.
With equal readiness will it be perceived, that besides these inducements to candor, many allowances ought to be made for the difficulties inherent in the very nature of the undertaking referred to the Convention.
The novelty of the undertaking immediately strikes us. It has been shewn in the course of these papers, that the existing Confederation is founded on principles which are fallacious; that we must consequently change this first foundation, and with it, the superstructure resting upon it. It has been shewn, that the other confederacies which could be consulted as precedents, have been vitiated by the same erroneous principles, and can therefore furnish no other light than that of beacons, which give warning of the course to be shunned, without pointing out that which ought to be pursued. The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.
Among the difficulties encountered by the Convention, a very important one must have lain, in combining the requisite stability and energy in Government, with the inviolable attention due to liberty, and to the Republican form. Without substantially accomplishing this part of their undertaking, they would have very imperfectly fulfilled the object of their appointment, or the expectation of the public: - Yet, that it could not be easily accomplished, will be denied by no one, who is unwilling to betray his ignorance of the subject. Energy in Government is essential to that security against external and internal danger, and to that prompt and salutary execution of the laws, which enter into the very definition of good Government. Stability in Government, is essential to national character, and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society. An irregular and mutable legislation, is not more an evil in itself, than it is odious to the people; and it may be pronounced with assurance, that the people of this country, enlightened as they are, with regard to the nature, and interested, as the great body of them are, in the effects of good Government, will never be satisfied, till some remedy be applied to the vicissitudes and uncertainties, which characterize the State administrations. On comparing, however, these valuable ingredients with the vital principles of liberty, we must perceive at once, the difficulty of mingling them together in their due proportions. The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only, that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it
should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires, that the hands, in which power is lodged, should continue for a length of time, the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of elections, and a frequent change of measures, from a frequent change of men: whilst energy in Government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand. How far the Convention may have succeeded in this part of their work, will better appear on a more accurate view of it. From the cursory view, here taken, it must clearly appear to have been an arduous part.
Not less arduous must have been the task of marking the proper line of partition, between the authority of the general, and that of the State Governments. Every man will be sensible of this difficulty, in proportion as he has been accustomed to contemplate and discriminate objects, extensive and complicated in their nature. The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical Philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades, and minute gradations, that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy. The boundaries between the great kingdoms of nature, and still more, between the various provinces, and lesser portions, into which they are subdivided, afford another illustration of the same important truth. The most sagacious and laborious naturalists have never yet succeeded, in tracing with certainty, the line which separates the district of vegetable life from the neighboring region of unorganized matter, or which marks the termination of the former and the commencement of the animal empire. A still greater obscurity lies in the distinctive characters, by which the objects in each of these great departments of nature, have been arranged and assorted. When we pass from the works of nature, in which all the delineations are perfectly accurate, and appear to be otherwise only from the imperfection of the eye which surveys them, to the institutions of man, in which the obscurity arises as well from the object itself, as from the organ by which it is contemplated; we must perceive the necessity of moderating still farther our expectations and hopes from the efforts of human sagacity. Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of Government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces, the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different Legislative branches. Questions daily occur in the course of practice, which prove the obscurity which reigns in these subjects, and which puzzle the greatest adepts in political science. The experience of ages, with the continued and combined labors of the most enlightened Legislators and jurists, have been equally unsuccessful in delineating the several objects and limits of different codes of laws and different tribunals of justice. The precise extent of the common law, the statute law, the maritime law, the ecclesiastical law, the law of corporations and other local laws and customs, remain still to be clearly and finally established in Great-Britain, where accuracy in such subjects has been more industriously pursued than in any other part of the world. The jurisdiction of her several courts, general and local, of law, of equity, of admiralty, &c. is not less a source of frequent and intricate discussions, sufficiently denoting the indeterminate limits by which they are respectively circumscribed. All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications. Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other, adds a fresh embarrassment. The use of words is to express ideas. Perspicuity therefore requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriated to them. But no language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas. Hence it must happen, that however accurately objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate by the inaccuracy of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy

must be greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined. When the Almighty himself condescends to address mankind in their own language, his meaning, luminous as it must be, is rendered dim and doubtful, by the cloudy medium through which it is communicated. Here then are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions; indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity. The Convention, in delineating the boundary between the Federal and State jurisdictions, must have experienced the full effect of them all.
To the difficulties already mentioned, may be added the interfering pretensions of the larger and smaller States. We cannot err in supposing that the former would contend for a participation in the Government, fully proportioned to their superior wealth and importance; and that the latter would not be less tenacious of the equality at present enjoyed by them. We may well suppose that neither side would entirely yield to the other, and consequently that the struggle could be terminated only by compromise. It is extremely probable also, that after the ratio of representation had been adjusted, this very compromise must have produced a fresh struggle between the same parties, to give such a turn to the organization of the Government, and to the distribution of its powers, as would encrease the importance of the branches, in forming which they had respectively obtained the greatest share of influence. There are features in the Constitution which warrant each of these suppositions; and as far as either of them is well founded, it shews that the Convention must have been compelled to sacrifice theoretical propriety to the force of extraneous considerations.
Nor could it have been the large and small States only which would marshal themselves in opposition to each other on various points. Other combinations, resulting from a difference of local position and policy, must have created additional difficulties. As every State may be divided into different districts, and its citizens into different classes, which give birth to contending interests and local jealousies; so the different parts of the United States are distinguished from each other, by a variety of circumstances, which produce a like effect on a larger scale. And although this variety of interests, for reasons sufficiently explained in a former paper, may have a salutary influence on the administration of the Government when formed; yet every one must be sensible of the contrary influence which must have been experienced in the task of forming it.
Would it be wonderful if under the pressure of all these difficulties, the Convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry, which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a Constitution planned in his closet or in his imagination? The real wonder is, that so many difficulties should have been surmounted; and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance, without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it, a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and so signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution. We had occasion in a former paper, to take notice of the repeated trials which have been unsuccessfully made in the United Netherlands, for reforming the baneful and notorious vices of their Constitution. The history of almost all the great councils and consultations, held among mankind for reconciling their discordant opinions, assuaging their mutual jealousies, and adjusting their respective interests, is a history of factions, contentions, and disappointments; and may be classed among the most dark and degrading pictures which display the infirmities and depravities of the human character. If, in a few scattered instances, a brighter aspect is presented, they serve only as exceptions to admonish us of the general truth; and by their lustre to darken the gloom of the adverse prospect to which they are contrasted. In revolving the causes from which these exceptions result, and applying them to the particular instance before us, we are necessarily led to two important conclusions. The first is, that the Convention must have enjoyed in a very singular degree, an exemption from the pestilential influence of party animosities; the diseases most incident to deliberative bodies, and most apt to contaminate their proceedings. The second conclusion is, that all the deputations composing the Convention, were either satisfactorily accommodated by the final act; or were induced to accede to it, by a deep conviction of the necessity of sacrificing private opinions and partial interests to the public good, and by a despair of seeing this necessity diminished by delays or by new experiments.
PUBLIUS.
To the TRUSTEES of ERASMUS-HALL.
THERE are many complaints from the pupils, that they are obliged to act the part of Negroes, through the rigorous season of winter, by making school fires. This is a very great hardship upon delicate boys from the age of nine to twelve, to lift heavy logs, kindle a fire at break of day, and remove the ashes. Their object is education in the elements of the sciences, and their prospects make it unnecessary for them to go through the laborious lessons of cutting and lifting wood, and disposing it mathematically in the fire-places. All parents speak of this regulation with anger and vexation, and consider it as originating from Dutch parsimony and low ideas of delicacy. This object is equal to your attention, and really deserves it; or this Athenian and literary village will lose all boarders. If this labor is allowed, the privy or the Green Pond may occupy the attention and hands of these delicate and youthful laborers.
I should not give you any counsel with respect to literary objects, which you have so unreservedly and prudently resigned to the principal. — Literature is not the portion of many, and was never imported from Holland with oil or white-wash brushes, nor smuggled in a chest of tea.
It will be absurd to see these little wood-cutters and fire-makers with their rough and black hands, and torn cloaths, going through the coupe and boree, and all the various acts of bowing and shaking of hands; which external elegancies are meant, I am told, to finish the course of studies at the classical village. A FATHER. Jan. 10.
*** AMERICANUS, No. VI, is received.
*** The OFFICERS of the First Regiment of General Malcom's Brigade are requested to meet THIS EVENING, at Mr. Walter Heyer's tavern, corner of King and Nassau streets, at six o'clock, on business of importance, which concerns the regiment.
MARINE SOCIETY.
*** On Monday the 14th instant, at 6 o'clock in the evening at the Coffee-House, will be held the annual Meeting of the MARINE SOCIETY, of which the members are requested to take notice and attend.
By order of the President, ANTHONY GRIFFITHS, Sec'y. New-York, Jan. 9, 1788.
GENTEEL ROOMS
To be had, furnished or unfurnished, in a pleasant part of the city, with or without board; also a good front Room for a store or an office. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 11. tm.
FOR SALE BY James Watson & Co.
No. 6, Crane-Wharf, SUPERFINE BURR FLOUR, COMMON do. RYE MEAL, INDIAN do. RICE in tiers, BEEF in barrels, FALL MACKAREL in do. CANDLES in boxes, SPERMACETI do. in do. A quantity of INDIGO, FLAX-SEED, &c. Jan. 11. tf.
Lost, on Thursday the 10th inst. BETWEEN Maiden-lane and King-street, a small green Morocco POCKET BOOK, containing Thirty Shillings in paper currency, and a number of papers of no consequence to any person but the owner. Whoever has found the same, and will return it to the Printer, shall be rewarded handsomely. Jan. 11. tf.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
WHEREAS on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, we the subscribers gave Stephen Baxter, of the township of Greenwich, county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, an obligation for four hundred pounds, lawful money of the State of New-York, conditioned for the payment of two hundred pounds, payable the first day of July next after date: And whereas there is like to arise a dispute about the payment of said bond, we do therefore forbid any person or persons buying said bond, or taking it in any payment, as we are determined not to settle the same with any other person but said Baxter. HENRY CLAPP, BENJAMIN CLAPP. North-Castle, Jan. 1, 1788. 14w.2w.f.
LAST night about 9 o'clock the subscriber took up a STRAY HORSE, with saddle and bridle, and having no stable to put him in, fastened him to his door, where he broke his halter in the night and went off. The owner of said Horse may have the saddle and bridle, by proving his property and paying charges, by applying to EDWARD GRANT, No. 31, Dyer Street, near Dyer's wharf. Jan. 9.
To be Sold at Private Sale,
THE Farm, Grist and Saw-Mills, whereon the Subscriber now lives, known by the name of Squires-Point, about 37 miles from New-Brunswick, 40 miles from Trenton, 14 from Balltown, in a fine wheat country. The Farm contains 164 acres of good land, on which there is a very genteel house, with four rooms on a floor, a large barn with several small dwelling-houses; the Grist-Mill has two run of stones, in excellent order, and the Saw-Mill almost new, on a never-failing stream of water; also a Negro Man, a complete miller; likewise three Farms, containing 200 acres each, about two miles from the Mills. For further particulars, enquire of Mr. John Ramsay, Mr. Alexander Stewart, Mr. Hay Stevenson, in New-York, or to the owner on the premises. JOHN RAPALJE. Squire's-Point, Sept. 24th, 1787. tf
SALES at AUCTION,
By Frederick Jay, THIS MORNING, X o'clock, at No. 244. Queen-street, A variety of DRY GOODS.
AT PRIVATE SALE, 6 Casks choice Souchong Tea, Raisins in jars, A few boxes Bohea Tea, Irish Linens, low priced.
BOURBON COFFEE,
MUCH esteemed in Europe for its superior flavor, in ferroons or 100 lb. each to be sold by 2awtf. LUDLOW and GOOLD.
FOR SALE,
165 Barrels Philadelphia Superfine FLOUR, By JAMES RENWICK, No. 92, William-street. Jan. 9. 8t.
Coffee for Sale.
A few casks of excellent Coffee, just arrived from Jamaica, and to be sold cheap for cash, or at a short credit, by RICHARD YATES, No. 18, Princess-street. Jan. 7. 6t.
To be SOLD Cheap
(For want of employ.) A LIKELY healthy NEGRO MAN, this country born, 21 years of age; he is sober and good natured, understands country work—drives a carriage well—is fond to wait on gentle men, and take care of horses. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 8. 2aw.
FOR SALE,
A Quantity of Inch Boards, Ditto Scantling, Ditto Short Shingles, Pitch-pine sheathing Boards. Apply at the Lumber Yard on the wharf above the New-slip, or at No. 49, Cherry-street. JAMES SMITH. Jan. 1, 1788. 2m eod
WANTED,
Smith's History of New-York. ANY person willing to sell a copy, will please to enquire of the Printer. Jan. 9. 3t.
AT PRIVATE SALE,
A choice parcel well assorted Indigo, low priced Irish Linens, Blue Broad-Cloths, Ticklenburghs, Oznaburghs, Russia Duck, Green Tea, Sherry and Fayal Wines, Castile Soap, Toys in Chests, Painters Brushes, Writing Paper assorted, 20 Barrels choice Beef, ISAAC MOSES.
PURSUANT to an order made by Jeremiah West, Esquire, Alderman, and one of the Judges of the Mayor's Court, in and for the city and county of New-York, upon the petition of James Mead, an Insolvent Debtor, and three fourths in value of all his creditors, Notice is hereby given by the petitioners, to all the Creditors of the said James Mead, that they be and appear before the said Judge, at his office in Broad-street, in the said city, on the 21st day of January, instant, to show cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the estate of the said James Mead should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and the said James Mead thereupon discharged, pursuant to the directions of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors," passed the 13th day of April, 1786. Dated the 7th day of January, 1788. JAMES MEAD. Petitioning Creditors. Charles Zeigler, Alpheus Wyl, and Jm. by Charles Zeigler, his attorney; Timothy Callus, Edward Moran. tlu. & f.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers in the City of New-York, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, PRESENT,
The honorable ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Chancellor.
In Chancery, Abraham Lent, complainant, vs. George Ogilvie, defendant. THOROUGHLY as it appears to this honorable Court, that a Bill has been filed therein by Abraham Lent, assignee of Medical Ede, mortgagee, against the defendant George Ogilvie, mortgagor, to obtain a decree to the title of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said defendant George Ogilvie, to the said Medical Ede, and by him assigned to the said Abraham Lent; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer has been duly issued and returned, and that the said defendant George Ogilvie, hath not entered his appearance in this suit as according to the rules of this Court the same ought to have been entered in case the said process had been duly served: And an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendant George Ogilvie, has withdrawn himself out of this state, and cannot upon due enquiry be found within the same, so as to be served 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. Grevvold, of counsel for the complainant, that the said George Ogilvie appear to the said bill, on or before the twenty-ninth day of January next and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, to the end that a decree may be made for the sale of the said mortgaged 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 be inserted in, at least two of the public newspapers printed in this state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes, Dec. 7. 18w. W. COCK, Register.
SALES by AUCTION,
On TUESDAY, the 15th instant, XII o'clock, on the Premises, will be sold, All that LOT of GROUND, situate, lying and being in Broadway, in the West ward of the city of New-York, being part of the lands commonly called and known by the name of the Church Farm, and distinguished in a map or chart thereof, by No. 146, and bounded Easterly in front by the Broad-way, Southerly by Barclay-street, Westerly in the rear by part of the lot No. 176, and Northerly by lot 147; containing in length on the South side 115 feet nine inches, on the North side 117 feet three inches, and in breadth in front and rear 29 feet.
A L S O,
All that certain lot of ground, situate, lying and being in Barclay-street, in the West ward of the city of New-York, being part of lands commonly called and known by the name of the Church Farm, and distinguished in a map or chart thereof, by No. 176, bounded Southerly in front by Barclay-street, Easterly by the rears of lots No. 146, No. 147, and No. 148, Northerly in the rear by lot No. 153, and Westerly by lot No. 175; containing in length on each side 29 feet, and in breadth in front and rear 23 feet; the conditions will be made known at the time of sale. ROBERT HUNTER.
TO BE SOLD,
THE Convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, No. 3, Partition-street. Enquire of JACOB MORTON, Esq. Attorney at Law, No. 58, Broadway. Jan. 4. tf.
Just Published By M. CAREY, in Philadelphia, And now to be Sold By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York; (By whom Subscriptions are received) The AMERICAN MUSEUM, For DECEMBER, 1787.
THIS DAY,
Is PUBLISHED in this City, The American Magazine, A MONTHLY Publication, CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION. Gen. Lincoln's letter, on the ingrafting of trees; Anecdote of the Duke of Gordon; Advice to masons, and to husbands that have scolding wives, and wives that have peevish husbands; Principles of government and commerce; On bills of rights; Letter to Dr. Stiles, accounting for the fortification west of the Allegany; Abridgement of Smith's history of Virginia; On education; Letter from Jemima Lovecap, Florretta, or the fountains; Life of Sir Wm. Jones, Kt.; Ticus Blunt, on fashion; Anecdote of a tailor; Letter from Philander, on marriage; Dr. Dwight's valedictory address, &c.; Mr. Pope's letter to the Bishop of Rochester; Letter from Guy Gumbleton, Curiofies; London review of Dr. Adams's defence; P O E T R Y.
Verfes on the New Year; Lydia; The Virgin's first love; The fadous moralized; On a lady's striking ally with her fan; The rare adventures of Tom Brainless; showing what his father said of him; how he went to college; and what he learned there; how he took his degrees and went to keeping school; how afterwards he became a great man and won a lady; and how any body else may do the same; Invocation to the Nightingale; Foreign intelligence; American intelligence; Marriages and deaths. Subscriptions 20s. a year, 10s. for six months advanced. Subscriptions are taken by Mr. LOUDON, Messrs. BERRY and ROGERS, Mr. R. HODGES, Mr. S. CAMPBELL, and Mr. T. ALLEN, Booksellers. New-York, January 1, 1788.
HUGH GAINE,
At his Book-Store and Printing-Office, at the Bible in Hanover-square, has for sale,
ALL sorts of Writing Paper, Dutch and English in any quantity, Ledgers, Day-Books and Journals, of every size, and best paper, Parchment of the best sort, by the roll or single skin, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, and the best Quills and Pens, with Pounce, shining-Sand, and almost every thing in the Stationary line. Likewise Bibles of almost every size, Testaments, Spelling-Books and Primers, young Man's Companion, School-Master's Assistant, young Clerk's Guide, Mercantile Almanacs, &c. with a very great variety of Books for country stores; Guthrie's and Salmon's Grammars, Sheridan's, Johnston's, Bailey's and Fenning's Dictionaries, Fisher's and Cocker's Arithmetics; a great variety of Novels, and School Books in Greek and Latin, with and without the translations, Laxon's Abridgement, in 5 vols. with a number of Reports and Entries by five eminent hands, Playing Cards by the dozen or single Pack; Tunington's Balm of Life, Anderson's and Happer's Pills, British Oil, Ryan's sugar Plums, and a few pounds of excellent Gun-Powder. Nov. 5. m w & f
CERTIFICATES.
THE HIGHEST PRICE is given for CONTINENTAL and STATE CERTIFICATES of every kind, at No. 198, Queen-street, by JULY 13. tf JOHN BLECKER.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, 8000 Dollars in Final Settlements, FOR which a generous price will be given, by JOHN BLECKER, No. 198, Queen-street.

For SAVANNAH.
The Sloop Friendship , JOSEPH BURNHAM, Master. A HANDSOME vessel, in period repair, with excellent accommodations for passengers, will take freight and sail in ten days. For Freight or Passage apply to the Master on board, or to JAMES WATSON, No. 6, Crane Wharf. Jan. 3. rot.
For TRINIDAD,
The Sloop MERCY , OSWALD P. HARRIS, Master. SHE has a considerable part of her cargo engaged. For Freight or Passage apply to the Master on board, at Clark's wharf. Jan. 4. tf.
For St. Martin's and St. Eustatia.
The Sloop RAMBLER , TREDWELL JACKSON, Master. Will sail the 15th inst. For freight or passage apply to the master on board, at Stevens and Connolly's lumber-yard, or at No. 78, Water-street. Jan. 1, 1788.
For KINGSTON, Jamaica,
To stop at PORT MORANT. The Brig HECTOR , JOHN TUCKER, Master. WILL be ready to take in the last of this month, and sail with all convenient speed. For Freight or Passage apply to D. TUCKER, & Co. No. 202, Water-street. Dec. 28. tf.
For LONDON.
The Ship Montgomery , JAMES BUNYAN, Master. Has good accommodations for passengers, and will sail with all convenient speed. For freight or passage apply to the Master on board, at Hallett's wharf, or to William Seton and Co. No. 12, Hanover-square. Nov. 27.
For SALE,
The Hull of the new Brig JOHN BURNHAM about 130 tons, a strong vessel, well built of the best materials, and of an easy draught of water. Apply to NICHOLAS LOW, Esq. No. 216, Water-street, or SHEDDEN, PATRICK, and Co. No. 206, Water-street. Dec. 13. tf.
For CHARLESTON,
South-Carolina, The Ship BETSEY , SOLOMON SALTONSTALL, commander, WILL sail the 17th of January. For Freight or Passage, (having elegant accommodations) apply to the commander on board, at Brownjohn's wharf, below the Fly-Market, or to GEO. DOUGLASS, No. 14, Fly-Market.
Who has for Sale, 100 tiers New Rice, 100 boxes Caste Soap, 500 lb. Bees Wax, A quantity of superfine and common Flour in barrels and half barrels, A quantity of Ship Bread, 50 barrels Rye Meal, Cayenne and Jamaica Cotton, Hops in bags, Quebec patent Essence of Spruce, Bar Iron, 50 bbls. Middlings, 50 bbls. Ship Stuff, 20 bbls. Alewives, &c Dec. 24. tf
TO BE SOLD,
A New Store-House on Lupton's wharf, 16 by 36 feet, three stories high. It is built on a leased lot, nine years of which are unexpired. The proprietor has the privilege of adding four feet front to the building, which, at a small expense, might be converted into a general and commodious dwelling-house. ALSO, TO BE SOLD, A NEGRO LAD, about 17 years of age. For further information enquire at FREDERICK GRAUD, No. 1, corner of Anne-street. Dec. 28. St. eod.
Just Published,
And to be SOLD by SAMUEL CAMPBELL, (Price FIVE SHILLINGS) Sixteen SERMONS, on important subjects. By JAMES MUIR, A.M. Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Bermuda. THESE Sermons have been published under the inspection of the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, of Princeton; who warmly recommends them to the perusal of all serious christians. Like-wise, (Price TWO SHILLINGS) Dr. Witherspoon's ADDRESS On the day of Commencement, to the Senior Class, who were to receive the Degree of Bachelor of Arts: Containing the best system of Directions to Young Men, for the Government of their Lives, perhaps ever published in the English language. 59.
THIS DAY is Published & to be Sold,
The Universalist, IN SEVEN LETTERS to AMYNTOR. By WM. PITT SMITH. The Subscribers will be supplied with their Copies only by the Printer hereof. The book will likewise be sold at the Stores of Messrs. London, Hodge, Allen and Campbell.
Dr. RYAN's incomparable Worm destroying SUGAR PLUMBS,
Highly necessary to be kept in all Families, SO exceedingly valued by all people who have had of them in Great-Britain and Ireland, for their transcendent excellency in the destroying Worms of all kinds, both in the bowels of men, women, and children, by not only breaking the knots in the duodenum, or gut next the stomach, but they pass through the smallest passages of the body, and purge away thoseropy and slimy humours which are the cause of those pernicious vermin, and the source of many other disorders. They are one of the best purges in the whole world for gross-bodied children that are apt to breed worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, safe, and pleasant; they wonderfully cleanse the bowels of all stuff and clammy humours which stop up the parts, and prevent the juice of food from being conveyed to the liver and made blood, which is often the case with children, and is attended with a hard belly, stinking breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and a decay of strength, in the lower parts; likewise settled aches and pains in the head, swellings, old sores, scabs, tetter, or breaking out, will be perfectly cured, and the blood and skin restored to its original purity and smoothness; they purge by urine, and bring away the gravel, and effectually cure all obstructions of the urine, or ulcers in the kidneys. They at once strike at the true cause of the scurvy, and entirely destroy it, and all scorbatic humours and effects, root and branch, so as never to return again; and what makes them more commendable is, they are full as agreeable to both taste and sight, as loaf sugar; and in their operation, as innocuous as new milk.
I have by these plumbs cured a great many children of a whooping or chin-coughs, and agues, which distempers are very common and troublesome to families, and the want of these plumbs are the ruin of many children's constitutions.
These plumbs enrich and sweeten the whole mass of blood, carry off all gross, corrupt, and putrid humours, and create a fresh and healthy complexion in such as are affected in any putrid matter.
The plumb is a great diuretick, cleansing the reins of slime; it expels wind, and is a sovereign medicine in the cholick and griping of the guts; it allays and carries off four vapours, which occasion many disorders in the head; it opens all obstructions in the stomach, lungs, liver, reins, and bladder, causes a good appetite, and helps digestion. It hath been found wonderfully successful to such persons as are going into chronicl distempers, as asthma, phthisicks, or shortness of breath, dropsies and yellow jaundice. Now I hope all impartial persons are satisfied that the medicine which works upon such humours, will almost reach any distemper, if not too far gone, since corruption and puncturation are the fore-runners of all diseases; therefore, no better phyfic can be taken for all ages, sexes, and constitutions, from infancy to an old age. These plumbs are highly serviceable to the female sex, from the age of 14 to 20, and from 40 to 50. Each box contains one dozen of these plumbs. Price Eight Shillings, with directions.
Sold by H. GAINE, at his Book-store and Printing Office, in Hanover-Square.
Diagnostick signs of Worms.
PALENESS in the face, itching of the nose, hollowness of the eyes, grating of the teeth when asleep, dulness, pains and heaviness in the head, a dry cough, itching in the fundament, white and thick urine, unquiet sleep, often starting, lost appetite, swelled belly, knawing and biting about the stomach, frightful dreams, extreme thirsts, the body decayed and lean, fits, often vomiting, stinking breath, &c.
Directions for taking them.
A child from 1 to 2 years may eat one plumb, from 2 to 4 one and a half, from 4 to 6 two, from 6 to 8 two and a half, from 8 to 12 three, from 12 to 15, and all above that age may eat four plumbs, one hour or two before up-rising, not to drink during that time, but afterwards drink warm tea, whey, or water gruel; in taking, the patient must stay 2 or 3 days betwixt each dose.
In ages, the same quantity must be taken, 2, 3, or 4 hours before the fits come on, and be repeated three times. In whooping or chin-coughs, give the quantity above-mentioned. June 1. saw. tf.
TO BE SOLD,
THE remainder of the lease yet to come and unexpired, of that valuable BREW-HOUSE, MALT-HOUSE, DWELLING-HOUSE, &c. lately in the possession of Samuel Atlee, on the Bank of Hudson River, in Greenwich-street, together with the apparatus necessary to carry on the Brewing business very extensively; or if the purchaser is inclined, the fee of these buildings, with 24 lots of GROUND on which they stand, will be sold, and the terms made easy. The advantageous situation in which these buildings stand, is too well known to need any encomium. For terms apply at No. 39. Hanover-square. Jan. 3. tf.
THOMAS BURLING,
CABINET and CHAIR-MAKER, At the Sign of the Chair, near the Chapel, in Beekman-street, formerly Chapel-street.
ACKNOWLEDGES the many favors received from his friends and the public, and would wish to inform them that he has opened a Ware Room of MAHOGANY and other FURNITURE, on a more extensive plan than heretofore; and for the convenience of strangers and others, who may resort to, or settle in this city, he means to keep an assortment where they may be supplied on the shortest notice; for it must hurt the feelings of every citizen to observe the daily importations strangers are liable to, in purchasing new furniture at these public vendues. He served his time with Samuel Prince, a conspicuous character in his way, and esteemed one of the best workmen in this city; and as he has laid in a stock of the best Mahogany and other Wood, and means to employ the best hands, and sell his work at the lowest rate good work fell at, he flatters himself with being able to give satisfaction to his customers. Bed Chairs for the sick having been much wanted in this city, said Burling has provided some to let. Nov. 10. tf.
* * A few MAPS of the WESTERN TERRITORY of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Printer hereof.
Fifty Pounds Reward.
A BURGLARY and ROBBERY.
TO all honest and well disposed people: This is to give notice, that the subscriber being in public office, as collector of the township of Aughtucknock, in the county of Essex, and State of New-Jersey; his dwelling-house was befit and violently broke open on the night of the 30th of November, 1787, by a set of armed ruffians, who put the subscriber and his family in great terror and danger of their lives; and after treating him with much insolence, robbed him of a large sum of money, in gold, silver and paper currency, belonging to the public and the subscriber, as also one silver tea-pot marked PHIP, one silver sugar-dish unmarked, one silver milk-pot unmarked, twelve silver table-spoons marked HP, four silver tea-spoons unmarked, one silver watch, a small piece of the face broke out, with a silver chain and silver seal engraved with the letters R.M.W. one silver snuff-box marked on the fore part of it M.B. one pair silver knee-buckles, and one silver stock-buckle; as also four gold rings, and one gold locket, used for women's beads; together with sundry other articles belonging to the subscriber. It is earnestly hoped, that all honest and well disposed people will use their best endeavors to apprehend the said robbers, so that they may be brought to justice: And the subscriber hereby engages to pay the above reward to any person or persons, who will apprehend all or either of the said robbers, so that they be convicted of the said robbery, and he recover his lost property, or twenty-five pounds for the said robbers, or either of them, on conviction, together with all reasonable charges attending the apprehending and bringing to justice, all or either of the said ruffians. HESSEL PETERSE. Wzel, Essex County, Dec. 4, 1787. tf.
THE Public are informed, that the subscriber has removed his OFFICE to No. 66, WALL-STREET, his former place of residence. 24th Dec. 1787. W. COCK.
To the People of America.
AMONGST the numerous publications that have issued from the press, on the subject of Federal Government, none have attracted the public attention more than that entitled the FEDERALIST, under the signature of PUBLIUS: The justness of the reasoning, the force of the arguments and the beauty of the language which distinguish this performance, have justly recommended it to general applause.
To attain a competent knowledge of the advantages to be derived from adopting the proposed FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, is no doubt the sincere wish of every true friend to his country: This performance being entirely free from party spirit and personal inuendo, is therefore well calculated to accomplish so desirable an end.
The avidity with which this writer's pieces have been sought after by politicians and persons of every description, and the particular attention the different principles throughout the United States have shown them by regular insertion in their papers, are conclusive proofs of the superior excellence of this elegant political production. The manner in which the author treats and discloses the controverted parts of the Constitution, displays much information, patriotism and candor, and can hardly fail of meeting with a favorable reception from the opposers as well as the advocates of the new system of Government.
Under this persuasion, the publishers flatter themselves with the countenance and support of the citizens of America, to a publication evidently written to promote their welfare, happiness and prosperity.
In the Press, and speedily will be published,
The FEDERALIST;
A collection of ESSAYS, written in favor of the NEW CONSTITUTION, By a CITIZEN of NEW-YORK: Corrected by the author, with additions and alterations.
CONDITIONS.
This work will be printed on a fine paper and good type, in one handsome volume duodecimo.
The number of pages the volume will contain, cannot rightly be ascertained, as the author has not yet done publishing, but the printers engage to deliver them to subscribers at the very reasonable rate of Five Shillings for 200 pages, Six Shillings if 250 and all above gratis. The numbers already published will make more than 200 pages, and the author does not seem to be nigh a close. To render this work more complete, will be added, without any additional expense,
Philo-Publius, and the Articles of the Convention.
As agreed upon at Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787.
* * A few copies will be printed on superfine royal writing paper, price Ten Shillings.
††† No money required till delivery.
Subscriptions are taken in by J. MILLAN, and Co. No. 41, Hanover-square, by the Printer hereof, by the several Booksellers of the city, and by all others entrusted with proposals.
New-York, January 1, 1788.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, according to an act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on the 12th day of May next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, all that certain Lot, or piece of GROUND, situate, lying and being in the South-ward of the city of New-York, and fronting the street formerly called Bridge-street, and being bounded on the westerly side by the ground now or late of Isaac Depcyster, and on the easterly side by the ground now or late of the heirs of Francis Sylvester, deceased, and in the rear by the lot of ground now or late belonging to Thomas and Elizabeth Hunt; the said Lot containing in breadth in front and rear, 24 feet 9 inches, and in length on both sides, 61 feet 6 inches, with the appurtenances; which said premises were by indenture, bearing date the 25th day of March, 1768, mortgaged by Jane Durham, of the city of New-York, widow, to John Leake, for securing the payment of three hundred and twenty-one pounds, with lawful interest for the same. The conditions will be made known on the day of sale, and a title given by the subscriber. JOHN LEAKE. New-York, Nov. 9, 1787. 6m f
To the CREDITORS of BISSETT WEEKS an Insolvent Debtor,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a General Meeting, of all such Creditors as shall choose to attend will be held on the 11th day of January next, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of William Marinier, in Nassau-street, to examine and ascertain the debts due to each Creditor; and that the next day we shall proceed to make a vision of all the monies which shall come to our hands of the Debtor's Estate. WHITE MALLACK. W. ALEXANDER, Assignees. New-York, Oct. 12, 1787. i j a.
An ACADEMY
Is opened in Upper Salem, in the county of Westchester, and State of New-York, under the immediate inspection of Mr. Amzi Lewis, in a convenient building prepared for that purpose, where the learned Languages and all kinds of academical Literature will be accurately taught.
The situation is pleasant and healthy. Decent lodgings for Students may be had in the neighbourhood, on the most reasonable terms; and particular care will be taken to furnish the School with every necessary accommodation.
Those gentlemen who send their children to this Academy, may depend on their being treated with paternal tenderness, faithfully instructed in the various branches of Science, and carefully inspected with regard to their moral deportment.
As an institution of this kind has been much needed in this part of the country; it is hoped our design will meet with early encouragement, from the friends of Literature.
BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. Upper Salem, Dec. 8, 1787.
PORT WINE,
Of a superior quality to any ever imported to this place.
LANDING this Day at Cugur's wharf, out of the Brig St. Jemide Villa Nova, from Oporto, for sale by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. June 15th. tf.
To the Curious.
To be seen at Mr. Stevens's Livery Stables, Wall-street, near Pitt's Statue, Two CAMELS,
MALE and female; lately imported from Arabia. These stupendous animals are most deserving the attention of the curious, being the greatest natural curiosities ever exhibited to the public on this continent. They are 18 hands high, have necks three feet eight inches long, a large hump upon their back, and another under their breast, in the form of a pedestal, on which they support themselves when lying down; they have four joints in their hind legs, and they will travel twelve or fourteen days without drinking, and carry a burthen of fifteen hundred weights; they are remarkably harmless and docile, and will lie down and rise at command.
Price of admittance one shilling for gentlemen and ladies, and six-pence for children. Dec. 3. tf.
C A S H,
And the HIGHEST PRICES given, for all kinds of CONTINENTAL and STATE SECURITIES,
PARTICULARLY Bankers', Barber's, Burrall's, Pierce's and Walker's NOTES and FACILITIES, at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street;
Where are for sale, Excellent old MADEIRA WINE, in pipes or quarter-casks, BEEF, PORK, and BAR IRON. July 24.
JUST PUBLISHED,
The Columbian Magazine, For NOVEMBER, 1787. To be SOLD by BERRY & ROGERS, S. LOUDON and R. HODGE. Dec. 28.
For SALE by AUCTION,
By Viner Van Zandt, At the Coffee-House, On Tuesday the 15th day of January, 1788,
THAT very capital modern built DWELLING HOUSE three stories high, situated in Princess-street, late in the possession of Dominic Lynch, Esq.; and now occupied by Mr. Simeon Nathan, containing nine fire places, and a spacious hall there is on the same, a spacious store house two stories, coach house and stables for four horses, &c. a well of excellent water and pump. Also, a cistern, together with a large plot of ground now laid out as a garden, with an elegant summer house in the rear.
The situation is undeniably a good one the premises in good repair; were erected on a judicious plan, well calculated for the ease and comfort of the inhabitants; and when it is recollected that the House and designed as the residence of the builder, it may be fairly presumed that it is substantially and well built; the Compacting House and rooms are fitted with peculiar neatness; and on the whole, few houses are better adapted for a town residence. The premises may be viewed preceding the day of sale, with the leave of the tenant; a plan of the ground may be seen, and further particulars known of VINER VAN ZANDT, No. 202, Water-street.
CABLES of any length, and CORDAGE
of all sizes, made of Petersburg Hemp, first quality, To be had at the Subscriber's Rope-walk, or at his Store, between Fly-market Stairs and Burling-ship; on the very lowest terms. Cables spliced with the addition of any length required. Cables or Cordage of any size reduced into yarn, and made into Rope to any dimensions, at a very small expense, by MEZKIAH IVERS, Rope-Maker. July 25th, 1787. tf.
A GENTLEMAN
LATELY arrived from Ireland, bred in Trinity College, Dublin, experienced some years in the education of youth, and in the course of his practice, has fitted many young gentlemen for that university, in the Greek, Latin and English Languages, Logic, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, History, Geography, &c. can bear the strictest scrutiny as to his character and his abilities in his profession.
Any gentleman who may favor him with his commands, by addressing a few lines to C. H. S. at the Printer's of the Daily Advertiser, or at Mr. M'Comick's, No. 11, Cruger's wharf, shall be particularly attended to.
N. B. He will engage to fit any boy of approved abilities for any college in less than four years, and can have many to certify he has already done it. Dec. 8, 1787.
Printed by FRANCIS CHILDS, No. 22, Hanover-Square.