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The New-York Packet.
TROB TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
F R I D A Y, J U N E 29, 1787.
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A SSIZE OF BREAD. A Wheaten Loaf, of fine Flour to weigh 2lb. 4oz. for six pence: a loaf of like Flour to weigh 1lb. 2oz. for three pence.    Monday  40 Min. after 5  Friday  42 Min. after 8    Tuesday  30 Min. after 6  Saturday  26 Min. after 4    Wednesday  14 Min. after 7  Sunday  14 Min. after 10    Thursday  58 Min. after 7    
H I G H - W A T E R.
P R I C E - C U R R E N T, in N E W - Y O R K.    Wheat per bushel,  8s. at 8s. 6d.  West-India Rum,  3f. 9d.  Beef, per barrel,  60f. 6d.    Indian Corn,  4s. at 4s. 3d.  Muscovado Sugar, 50f. at 70f.  od. Pork,   85f. 6d.    Flour, common 40f. super. 46f. per b.  Single refined do.  1f. 2d. Fine Salt,  2f. od.      Brown Bread,  20f. od.  Molasses,  1f. 11d. at 2f.  Rock Salt,  7f. to 8f. 6d.  
L O A N - O F F I C E. THE Loan-Officers of the city and county of New-York, do hereby give notice to whom it doth concern, that they will attend at the house of Evert Bancker, No. 5, Wall-street, on Tuesday the 19th day of June inst. and thereafter on Tuesday in each week, for the term of three weeks, to receive the interest monies due by mortgage, agreeably to an act, entitled, "an act for emitting the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in bills of credit for the purposes therein mentioned," passed the 18th April, 1786. June 1, 1787. 9 2
Stopped on suspicion of being stolen, a Bladder of SNUFF. Whoever has lost it, giving the marks, and paying the charge of advertising, may have it again, by applying to James Leonard, Little Queen-street, near Leake's dock. 9 3
THE warm and cold baths on the North-river, the foot of Crown-street; those that want to use the WARM BATH, will be pleased to give one hour's notice to the keeper of the baths. 2 9 3m. HENRY LUDLAM.
F O R S A L E, By DAVID GELSTON, No. 12, Water-street. A Quantity Spermaciti oil and whale bone, Beef and pork, 200 barrels herrings, Linseed oil, Beef hams, Gun powder, Rum, sugar, Indigo, Pipes, Brimstone, Bar iron, &c.
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony (now state) of New-York, entitled "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for the securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 10th day of March 1774, that on Friday the fourteenth day of September next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, WILL BE SOLD at public auction or vendue, at the merchants Coffee-House in the city of New-York, the fee-simple of all that certain dwelling house and lot of ground in a certain indenture of mortgage herein after mentioned particularly, described as follows, to wit: All that certain dwelling house and lot of ground, situated, lying and being within the city of New-York aforesaid, in Montgomery Ward of the same city, on the north side of a certain street commonly called & known by the name of Gold Street; bounded westerly to the house and ground of Robert White, northerly by ground late of Geesie Vander Cliff, deceased, easterly to the houses and ground late of Nicholas Kortright, deceased, and southerly by said Gold Street; containing in breadth, in front to said Gold Street and in the rear at each end twenty-three feet and an half, and in length on each side forty five feet, all english measure. Together with all and singular the edifices, buildings, fences, waters, water courses, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever to the said dwelling house and lot, piece, or parcel of ground belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises duly made and executed by Elijah Miller of the city of New-York, Ship-Wright, and Rebecca his wife to Mary Strange of the said city, widow, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, with a power to sell therein contained, for the better and more effectual securing the payment of the sum of 125 pounds, current money of New-York, with lawful interest for the same, according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the said twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and executed by the said Elijah Miller to the said Mary Strange. Deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser or purchasers pursuant to the said power, by MARY STRANGE. New-York, March 9, 1787. 2 78 52
RAN away from the Subscriber, living in Boon-town, New-Jersey, an Apprentice Boy , named Wm. TRENHOLM, born in England, about 16 years old, smart and hardy at the nailing business; he is a tolerable good scholar; his hair is short and dark coloured—had on when he went away, a fustian waistcoat and trowsers, and took with him a flesh coloured coat. Whoever takes up said apprentice, and secures him so that his master may have him again, shall be paid SIX DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges. 8 3 JOHN BANFORD.
WHEREAS the partnership of LAWRENCE and MORRIS, was dissolved by mutual consent, on the 1st of February last; all persons indebted to the said partnership, are hereby requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, at his office, No. 79, King-street, who is fully empowered to receive and receipt for the same. W. POPHAM. New-York, April 25, 1787. 92
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Thursday the first day of November next, will be sold at the merchants coffee-house in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all that certain farm or tract of land, which Joseph Harris, late of Dutchess county, formerly possessed, lying within the said county of Dutchess, in the patent commonly known by the name of the Nine-Partners, being bounded as follows; beginning at a black oak tree, it being the northeast corner of Job Meeks's farm, the northwest corner of Jeremiah Conklen's farm; and the southeast corner of the said Joseph Harris's farm; from thence the line runs north thirteen degrees, west to the farm now or late in the occupation of Richard Gray, being the south line of the Little Nine-Partners, from thence the line runs west on the south line of the said Little Nine-Partners, to the northwest corner of said farm; and the northwest corner of Amenia Precinct, from thence south thirteen degrees east to a walnut sapling, it being the northwest corner of the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and sixty-three acres and twenty rods of land, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof; which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds (with a power of sale therein contained) from Brinton Paine of Dutchess county, Esq. to Augustus Van Cortlandt. Deeds of conveyance after the sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT. April the 16th 1787. 2 89 6m
Public Securities. CASH and the highest price given for all kinds of PUBLIC SECURITIES. PARTICULARLY Final Settlement Certificates, Facilities, Noturse's, Pickering's, Bancker's and Barber's NOTES. Apply at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 2 780 6m.
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates, passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774. That on Tuesday the 4th day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction upon the premises, the fee simple of a Lot of Ground in a certain indenture of mortgage, made between Stephen Sayre, of the city of New-York, in the State of New-York, Esq. of the one part, and Peter Stuyvesant of the same city, Esq. of the other part, described as follows, to wit: All that certain lot of ground situated in the north ward of the said city of New-York, being distinguished as lot No. 7, in a partition made on the 3d day of January, in the year of Lord, 1718, between Abraham De Peyster and Samuel Bayard, and is bounded as follows, to wit: southeasterly in front by Wall-street, southeasterly by lot No. 6, formerly occupied by Lewis Pintard, northeasterly in the rear by ground formerly occupied by James Nevens, and northwesterly by lot No. 8, formerly the property and in the possession of Nicholas Bayard, and contains in breadth, in front and in the rear 23 feet, and in length on each side 124 feet, being the lot of ground granted to Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, by two deeds, the one executed by John Cruger, Philip Livingston and nine others, on the 6th of February 1773, and the other by Philip V. Cortlandt, on the 15th day of April 1772, together with all and singular the buildings, passages, lights, easements and all other privileges, profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said lot of ground and premises, or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises by indenture of lease and release, bearing date 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1781, and 1st day of January, 1784, (with a power to sell therein contained) from the said Stephen Sayre to the said Peter Stuyvesant; and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by P. STUYVESANT. New-York, May 22, 1787. 2 700 6m
F O R S A L E, At No 41, Wall-street, Low priced oznaburghs, writing paper, Russia sheetings, ravens duck, mill saws, an assortment of tapes, do. of calicoes, Geneva in cases, do. in jugs, best pistol powder. Also, an excellent SADDLE HORSE.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1787.  P R E S E N T, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Abraham Lott, Complainant. vs. Timothy Cattles, Defendant.  FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Abraham Lott, complainant, against Timothy Cattles, defendant, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, Timothy Cattles, to the complainant, whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant, Timothy Cattles, 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, Timothy Cattles, is withdrawn out of this State, or could not 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: Whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. William S. Livingston, of counsel for the complainant, that the defendant, Timothy Cattles, appear to the said bill, on or before the first day of next term; 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 be inserted in at least, two of the public news-papers printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes. W. COCK, Register. 2 99 16
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1787.  P R E S E N T, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Abraham Lott, Complainant. vs. Benajah Strong, Defendant.  FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Abraham Lott, complainant, against Benajah Strong, defendant, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, to the said complainant, whereupon on process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant 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, Benajah Strong, is withdrawn out of this State, or could not 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: Whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. William S. Livingston, of counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Benajah Strong, appear to the said bill, on or before the first day of next term, 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 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 news-papers, printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes. W. COCK, Register. May 16, 1787. 2 99 16
THE partnership of J. and L. Bleecker, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, all persons who have any demands against them, will call at the office of Leonard Bleecker, No. 186, Water-street, for payment, and those indebted to them, are requested speedily to discharge their accounts as they wish to close their books. N. B. The certificate business is still pursued by them in a separate manner, viz. by John Bleecker at his office No. 198, Queen-street, and by Leonard Bleecker at the late office of J. and L. Bleecker No. 186, Water-street. New-York, May 7, 1787. 95
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1787.  P R E S E N T, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Abraham Lott, Complainant. vs. Samuel Tuttle, Defendant.  FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Abraham Lott, complainant, against Samuel Tuttle, defendant, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said defendant to the said complainant; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant 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 same process had been duly served; and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendant, Samuel Tuttle, hath withdrawn himself out of this State, or could not 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: Whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. William S. Livingston, of counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Samuel Tuttle, appear to the said bill, on or before the first day of next term, 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 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 news-papers printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes. W. COCK, Register. May 16, 1787. 2 99 16
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the city of New-York, the 14th day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1787.  P R E S E N T, The Hon. Robt. R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Abraham Lott, Complainant. vs. Elijah Hurd, Defendant.  FORASMUCH as it appears unto this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by Abraham Lott, complainant, against Elijah Hurd, defendant, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said Elijah Hurd, to the said Abraham Lott; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant hath not caused his appearance to be entered 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, Elijah Hurd, is withdrawn out of this State, or could not 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: Whereupon it is ordered, on motion of Mr. William S. Livingston, of counsel for the complainant, that the defendant, Elijah Hurd, appear to the said bill, on or before the first day of next term, 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 so much 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 news-papers printed in the city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes. W. COCK, Register. May 16, 1787. 2 99 16
F O R S A L E, The House and Lot of Ground, No. 41, Roosevelt street, now in the occupation of Captain Peter Wynkoop: The house is commodious, two stories high, four rooms with fire places, and two bed rooms, a cellar and cellar kitchen. The lot is 25 feet in front and rear, and 100 feet in length—Also, a Lot of Ground bounded front on Fair-street, and on the rear on Ann-street, 25 feet wide front and rear, and 116 feet in length, on which is a small dwelling-house and stable. For terms apply to DAVID WOLFE, No. 13, Fair street. 3

On PUBLIC and PRIVATE CREDIT. In a Letter to a Friend.
SIR,
YOU ask me if we shall not soon have better times? to answer NO, and to say that I think there is no prospect of it, without assigning you a reason for what I say, would be to leave the matter where it was before you asked the question; unless my opinion without the principles whereon I have formed it, would be satisfactory, which I have no right to suppose would be the case. To assign my reasons, would be opening a wide field, which I have not time to fully traverse, even if you had patience to attend me through it. But I shall employ a moment's leisure on the subject.
Public faith, among the Romans, was considered as the jewel of the Commonwealth, and he who attempted to injure it, was considered as the greatest enemy of the State. This was, when their government was in its highest perfection.
Public credit is the necessary offspring of public faith, and without it no nation on earth can exist, under the enjoyment of a free constitution and government. What I mean by a free constitution, is such a form of a Commonwealth as considers property existing independent of government, and government formed for the support and protection of it; and that protection flowing from standing promulgated laws, carried into execution by known and authorized judges; and equally and impartially applied to each member of the State. I mean in fine, a form of government established by the people, which secures to them their property, as their own, against the rapine and under control of a legislature, and is a law to the legislative authority itself. In such a government, public credit is absolutely necessary to the existence of the State, because no government can have resources for every emergency, and Sovereigns therefore are often obliged to apply to the people for the loan of that property, which cannot be taken without their consent.
But in an arbitrary government, where the executive, judicial, and legislative authority are all alike, in the hands of the sovereign power, property is considered as derived from, not merely protected by the government, and is rather a possessory loan, than a right; and the sovereign power has no need of credit; public faith to the subjects is of no consequence; force answers the purpose of credit, and the monarch takes what he wants, and compels thanks for leaving residue: And who is there in our day, and in our country, that does not realize the distinction between the forms of State policy; if there is any one that does not, will venture to pronounce him a slave, and urge him to the realms of Sweden, Denmark, Russia or Prussia, where he may enjoy slavery at his ease and in the highest perfection.
If public credit is then so necessary to the very existence of a State, you will ask me why the States are destitute of it, and how they shall procure it? As to the United States as a nation, they never had any national credit. Have patience, I will explain myself; to do which, it is necessary to fix the true meaning of national or public credit.
Here then I say, that credit is the forcing an opinion upon another, who is possessed of something which we want, and which we have no right to take from him without his consent, that if he delivers it to us, we will pay him an equivalent for it, according to the compact made between the parties. I shall speak of private credit in another letter.
Here then public credit is the first, and most substantial foundation of this opinion: For as no proneness of coerce can be issued against a government holding sovereign power, unless that the lender believes that the State has such a sacred regard to public faith as not to violate the compact, the opinion necessary to credit can never be formed. But should the possessor of the property wanted on loan, have a full conviction of the government's regard to public faith, the next enquiry will be, whether the contractors, the agents of the State, have power to comply with the contract. To raise a conviction of this, the practice is in Europe to lay a duty upon a certain article supposed to be sufficiently productive to answer the purpose, and to consider the fund thus raised, as sacredly the property of the creditor who loans upon it, as any thing else he possesses. The idea then, that the government has authority to compel the payment of that duty, and that they never will take back or violate the pledge, gives national credit. This example might serve for thousands that might be put.
Previous to the confederation, Congress had no power at all, but what arose from the voluntary consent of the people. They recommended, and the people for their own safety complied. It is true they anticipated national faith, which in itself was a great novelty. They made paper bills for a currency, and obtained loans, but it was not because they possessed power to support a national faith, or resources to fund their debts. It was because the people hoped that they would, at a future period, possess these requisites to credit. The majority of the people in America appeared to be ready to sacrifice all they had, in support of a war commenced in defence of their freedom, and thereby substituted enthusiasm for that opinion which is necessary to national credit; while the minority having no love for, or regard to the measures of Congress, were compelled by fear, to deliver up their proportion of property, or perhaps more, when they would not have done it as a voluntary loan to the public. These things seldom happen in a country, and it would be a great and fatal mistake, to depend upon these exertions, under a regular and systematic government.
When the confederation was made, it gave no authority to Congress whereon a public credit might be raised. I have observed, that the opinion whereon public credit is founded, is that of the existence of a power to comply with engagements, and of such a regard in the nation, to public faith, that it cannot be violated. By the confederation, Congress have the powers of making war and peace, but have no authority to raise a penny to pay a soldier, or to buy him a ration of provisions. They have authority to borrow money, but have no resources to pay, or assure the payment of one farthing of principal or interest. They are called a federal government: But this is only a sound without force or efficacy. For government at all times means, a man or body of men vested with coercive powers and capable of issuing, and compelling obedience to civil precepts. But Congress can issue no one civil precept. The life of government is its energy, and this depends
altogether on the appointment, power and amenability of the executive officers, but Congress can appoint no civil officer, nor is any one amenable to them.
Nor would the nation have been one whit better off if all the States of the union had granted the impost in the same manner that Massachusetts have granted it. By this grant the trial of all forfeitures, is to be in the Court of Common Pleas in the county where the forfeitures are made. The Court is not of the appointment of the federal government, amenable to it, or having any connection in their official capacity with it. Who then would lend Congress money, or give them credit on a fund, which this State might annihilate in a moment, by repealing their laws for holding such a Court, or by subverting the session of it, as they have frequently done? One or two influential characters might very probably annihilate a fund so ill supported, at any time. One remark ought not to be omitted, that is, that at the same time when the Legislature of Massachusetts made this grant, the people out of doors were clamouring to subvert this Court of Common Pleas, and the Legislature were countenancing of them by considering it as a grievance, and by taking measures to render it so very contemptible, as that no man of ability and common decency, might in future take a seat in it.
I believe, Sir, I have now so fully explained myself, that you will justify my saying that the United States never had any credit as a nation, because they never in a union, possessed national powers, or national resources. But I see the objection, which you stand ready to make, 'that they have borrowed money of foreign nations, and under the auspices of foreign Courts, which could not be done without public credit.'
I do not consider this as evidence of public credit. It is clearly evidence of an opinion of the lenders, that the United States, had as a people, or territory, property sufficient to pay the loans. But whether the United States as a government, have power, or regular legal resources to pay or not, can never be indispensably material to foreign creditors. The sovereigns who have loaned money, depend ultimately upon their own force to compel payment; they will neither petition or sue, but by arms; and the foreign subjects who are our creditors, depend upon the faith of their own governments ultimately to secure their demands. Though there ought not to be admitted an idea, that the United States will ever be abandoned enough to make these measures necessary, yet I state the principle, to show, that we have in no sense such a national credit as is necessary to our political existence, nor can we ever have it, until Congress are vested with proper powers.
Awake then, my dear Sir, arouse your neighbours, convince them of the consequence of public credit, and let us all unite in an object of such immense magnitude, and so worthy the pursuit of every patriot.
TRIBUNUS.
UNITED STATES.
NEWBURY-PORT, June 20.
No choice having been made by the people, of a President, for the State of New-Hampshire, the House of Representatives on Tuesday last week, agreeably to the Constitution, proceeded to elect two persons of the four who had the highest number of votes; when, upon the first choice, it appeared that the Hon. Mr. Langdon had 45 votes, and President Sullivan 15—In the second choice, President Sullivan had 32, and Judge Bartlet 30; consequently Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Langdon were returned to the Senate, who proceeded to a choice when the latter had 4 votes, and the former 6—His Excellency John Sullivan was accordingly declared President.
BALTIMORE, June 19.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated June 15. "I know you are waiting with anxious expectation to be informed of the proceedings of the Grand Convention. Nothing as yet has transpired—all that we know is, that a Committee is appointed to collect materials, and to form a report for the discussion of this respectable body. Rhode-Island, notwithstanding her insignificance on the continental scale, does not think proper to be represented on this weighty and most interesting occasion—her political obstinacy and depravity are justly treated with the highest contempt. You may depend on it, my friend, that to permit Rhode-Island, Georgia, and some other little States to an equal share of power, or an equal vote in the union with those States that are ten times more important in wealth and numbers, is a fundamental defect in our federal system. Representation should be regulated in a proportion to the wealth and number of inhabitants. It surely is wrong that three or four States, incon siderable to the importance and support of the union, should enjoy near a quarter of its power; while Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which are required to pay near half of the public expence, have in the national Congress but an equal influence with the twentieth part of America. There are single counties in Pennsylvania, that have more citizens by many thousands, and pay more taxes than some of these sovereignities, which in truth have been a great obstruction to the honor, credit and stability of our confederation."
PHILADELPHIA, June 23.
We are informed that six of the wheelbarrow men, were lately taken from Chester county gaol, attended by their keeper, and put to labour on the high-way. Some time after they were at work, two of them were sent for water, who on their return, walked up to their keeper, seized him by his arms, took away his pistol, and with the assistance of the others tied him fast, and then ordered him at his peril, not to discover their escape until a certain hour, which they finally effected.
Four of these horrid wretches were taken near this city on Friday last, and it is highly probable they are the villains who attacked Mr. Hamilton, in his carriage a few evenings before, as a pistol was found in their possession.
The late daring attack made upon Mr. Hamilton, by an armed gang of foot-pads, will it is hoped call forth the vigilance and exertion of the Magistrates
of this city. Were the inferior officers of the police employed in the apprehension of these pests of society, instead of being daily engaged in selling the scanty effects of some distressed but honest family, to satisfy a trifling demand for necessaries; the ends of justice, a correspondent is of opinion, would be more completely answered.
ALBANY, June 21.
We learn from Washington, that the magistrates of Salem, on the evening of the 12th inst. receiving intelligence that Shays was lurking near the easternmost part of that settlement, at one Wilson's in Sandgate, recommended to Lieutenant-Colonel Martin immediately to collect a sufficient force and apprehend him and his abettors, at all events. Col. Martin, with a secrecy and dispatch which did him honor, immediately distributed the necessary orders, and at sun rise the next morning about 16 of the Helderberg militia, under the command of Capt. Shepard, and an equal number of light-infantry under Captain Clap, of Salem, marched to the place where Shays was said to be concealed. After searching every suspected place and making the strictest enquiries of persons who were taken up, they returned disappointed in the object of their expedition. It appeared that Shays had for some days past been concealed in a log house, which he chose, it is presumed, partly on account of its equivocal situation, it being on the borders of Vermont, and possibly within the limits where it exercises jurisdiction; he decamped the preceding night, and left word that he meant to return to Canada, convinced he could no longer remain in these parts with safety. They were not able to learn whether Shays had received any notice of this excursion, though it is highly probable. Upon the whole we are happy to inform the public, that the authority of Washington are determined to proceed in the most rigorous manner against any person or persons that may have given Shays intelligence, if he or they can be discovered.
A correspondent requests us to contradict a paragraph which has appeared in several of the public papers, mentioning that Shays and a number of his officers, were at Salem, and there treated with attention by the inhabitants. The mistake probably arose from Salem's being formerly called White-Creek. Shays, some time since, held a council at a settlement called Little-White-Creek, about twenty miles from thence, and adjoining to Shaftsbury—but our correspondent is confident that he has never appeared publicly in Salem, since a few days after his defeat at Springfield, and previous to the proclamation issued by Governor Clinton. If he has been there at all since that time, it must have been in the most obscure manner and unknown to the magistracy or any person of consequence.
New-York, June 29.
In the French Packet, arrived on Tuesday, in 45 days from Havre-de-Grace, came passengers, The Hon. Hector St. John de Crevicœur, Consul General of France in the United States of America;
The Chevalier John Paul Jones, late a Commodore in the American navy;
Mr. Rucker (of the house of Constable and Rucker) and his Lady;
Mrs. Ramsay; and
Madame de la Forest, Confort of Monf. de la Forest, Vice Consul General of France, resident in this city.
On Saturday the 9th inst. an unhappy rencounter took place in Frederickburgh, between Mr. Thompson of Port Royal, and Mr. Revelly of Baltimore, which had nearly terminated the existence of the latter gentleman. Mr. Revelly conceiving himself injured by some publications and assertions of Mr. Thompson, and meeting him at a store in Frederickburgh, called him out, and began horsewhipping him; upon which Mr. Thompson drew a pistol which he had in his pocket, and bid him desist, at the same time threatening to discharge the pistol at him if he persisted, but Mr. Revelly not regarding him, he lodged the contents of the pistol in his breast. The wound was at first thought mortal, but we are since informed (though the ball is not yet extracted) that gentleman is in a fair way of recovery. Mr. Thompson was immediately taken into custody.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Rhode-Island, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated 12th June, 1787.
"Our Grand Council of the State meets this day in Newport, on the old, short, and concise plan. Governor Collins is for letting members to the Federal Convention, and nobly declares he had rather go at his own expence than the State should be without an able delegate. Rather than we should be without a gentleman of such first rate abilities, I would cheerfully contribute towards defraying the expences myself."
On Tuesday arrived at this port, in distress, the French ship La Flandre Francaise, Capt. Rabrute, bound for Bourdeaux, from St. Domingo, with a very valuable cargo. She is four weeks from St. Domingo, and three from Bermuda, where she touched and landed her passengers, after having sprung a leak. From Bermuda the passengers have failed for Charleston, an opportunity having offered for that place.
Extract of a letter of a late date from a gentleman in one of the back counties of Virginia, to his friend in Philadelphia.
"I have recent advices from the territory of Kentucky, Glenelg, Holstein, Nallechucky, French Broad, the Cherokee nation, and as far south as the Oconas, and am well assured that there is more peace, good order and contentment in the Cherokee towns, than there is among their white neighbours, who are obliged to employ a set of men they call regulators to crush the idle vagabonds and horse thieves that come among them. This plainly demonstrates the necessity of the present Convention. May the Governor of the Universe inspire them with wisdom and unanimity!"
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Washington county to his friend in Albany.
"Where is SHAYS? Is he in Canada, Vermont or White-Creek?—I have been asked these questions a thousand times, and a thousand times have I declared myself unable to gratify the curiosity of the inquirers."
"But what in the name of common sense is this Shays? A mere tool of faction—a puppet which
some political mountebank has played off upon the populace—an idol, void of intrinsic merit, to which a thoughtless multitude have bent the knee.—Supposing that he was taken and gibetted to day—how soon would the prevailing rage of excessive democracy—this fashionable contempt of government—of public and private faith, raise up another Shays, as mad and as audacious as the present! It was to little purpose that Moses destroyed the molten calf of Aaron, the gods of the Ashtorites and other surrounding nations soon afforded a rich supply of successors.
Manet causa, manet quoque effectus.
When people are once thoroughly prepared for political idolatry, it is curious, and degrading to human nature, to think what slight qualifications are necessary to compose the object. Not only the meanest of the human race, a Jack Straw, a Wat Tyle, and a Massinello, have acquired this honor, but even brutes and inanimate objects have had their turn. The horse of Caligula was promoted to the consulship at Rome, and probably received the same honors from the crowd, which, in a happier period of the republic, were paid to Cicero. The hat of Grisler, hoisted on a pole in Switzerland, was saluted with respectable congees by every passenger, excepting Teller, a whimsical old patriot, who thought proper to withhold his homage—Nor did the Peruvians ever bend with more reverence to Capac, than to the artillery of Cortes.
"It is Shays (if I may use the term) and not Shays, that is the object of my apprehensions."
"Some enterprising partizan will, doubtless, have the good fortune to apprehend this Massachusetts out-law, and impartial justice will inflict that punishment his crimes deserve: But who can demolish the continental obliquity of Shays? You smile at this expression—In indictments for felony it is always asserted, that the crime was perpetrated in flagrante delicto —but the devil will appear in one instance to have been rum —in another subilk —in a third jealousy —in a fourth bunger —Let Shays then, like this legal instigator, be nomen generatissimum —substitute the offence for the mode, and we have a most extraordinary character."
"It is not alone, my dear Sir, at the head of an armed banditti in Berkshire, in the forests of Canada or Vermont, or the cliffs of Sandgate, we are to look for Shays—Shays is essentially the same, whether acting in the character of a soldier, or setting in magisterial importance in the form of the gubernatorial Jack Tar — mutato nomine is all the difference.—Where there is the mock semblance of government, without its energy—there is Shays—Where the shrewd eye of villainy peeps through the seemly mask of justice—there is Shays—Where a bale regard to private interest acts in obstinate opposition to the general welfare—there is Shays—He lives in the depreciated currency of one State—he triumphs in the tender act of another."
"Immortal honors would be due from mankind to that political genius who could propose a law, compatible with civil liberty, by which every grave intriguer, who, under the specious terms of virtue, liberty and public spirit , inculcates opinions infinitely more dangerous to government than the arms of an avowed rebel—who, under the cover of distorted law, saps the foundation of public justice—might be dragged from behind the thick curtain dissimulation wove, and consigned to that vengeance which awaits the traitor."
"But this perfection of policy can never happen, till mankind cease to be amused with sounds and dazzled with appearances—till then, the most potent enemies of States will lie concealed—unwhip'd of justice, perhaps loaded with popular honors—while the tools of their ambition—the puppets of policy, are placed as the ostensible objects of vengeance, and sentenced to the gibbet."
"Many startle at the name of rebellion, but are surprisingly calm at sedition. These choose for their motto, "Be temperate in all things"—prate very learnedly of grievances—of the rights of the people—and the necessity of some popular commotions to secure I know not what, to the public.—Does a man whip a traitor? he is angry, he will think better when he gets calm—Does another defy the authority? he is a young fool, age will teach him wisdom—Does a formidable mob collect, and demolish half a dozen buildings? it is a mere bruff , a frolic of Apprentices and Negroes ."
"At length, to the infinite surprise of its moderate people, sedition, which at first makes its appearance in a tavern club—grows in a town-meeting—swells big in a county convention—in a formidable army acquires the name of rebellion—Happy fruits of moderation! when the treasures of a state must be exhausted, and the arms of a Lincoln exerted, to extirpate the monsters, which the well-timed interference of a single Justice of the Peace might have crushed in its infancy! Preposuera sane frugalitas servare vitrum et perdere gemmas! "
"Is it not time, my dear Sir, for politicians to begin to consider mankind as they are, and not what they ought to be?—If I mistake not, this is the rock upon which many of our best writers on government have split.— Locke and many others have written very excellent treatises on this subject—almost every one admires the theory, but experience shows it can only be reduced to practice in Eutopia . Had mankind continued in the golden age, they would have been happy in systems of this kind, and men, like Locke , might have diffused their liberal, their noble sentiments with success. But we are what we are , in the gross, blind and incontinent—naturally averse to government—born "like the wild asses' colt." To beings of this description, the arbitrary sentiments of a James the first, are scarcely more prejudicial, than those of visionary writers, who with the steady temper of Portius ,
"Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud and Cæsar, In the calm light of mild philosophy."
"Let no one suppose that I am an enemy to freedom—I am a friend to liberty, and to secure it inviolate to the people, would wish to banish licentiousness. But let them know, that without a sacred regard to the laws—a reverential submission to authority—an impartial, and sometimes, a severe administration of justice—this invaluable jewel, this boated liberty, will be inevitably lost. For when the laws are vague—when the administration of justice becomes feeble and irregular—when political empirics, ever courting popularity, give to a dilettantish multitude whatever their depraved appetites may crave—when the people are wallowing in the superfluity of liberty—then, unless their eyes were darkened, would they see tyranny in his most horrid form, brandishing the bloody scourge and entering the door—then, unless they were deafer than

adders, hear the chain of slavery clanging in their ears.
"I shall conclude this tedious train of reflections in the work of an old ballad, "If we can learn from other ills, "Then we shall do full well."
We learn from New-Haven, that on Monday last, was committed to the gaol in Litchfield, for trial at the next Superior Court, Elisha Fobes of Southwick, and Joseph French of Chester, State of Massachusetts, for counterfeiting and uttering the paper currency of this State.
The four unhappy criminals, under sentence of death for treason, in the counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, in Massachusetts, who were to have been executed on the 21st inst. have, it is said, been reprieved for a further term of six weeks.
This day, at eleven o'clock, will commence the quarterly examination of Columbia College Grammar School, in the College-hall; where all persons are requested to attend, who wish to form a judgment of the progress made in that seminary. The Oration will begin at 4 o'clock in the afternoon precisely.
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. Packet Paquet -----, Souvier, Havre de Gras. Ship Sally, ----- Gibraltar. Schooner Edward, Porter, Shellburne. Sloop Dolphin, Bird, Philadelphia. Nancy, Pearce, Curracao.
More work for the old tool of Printers, or the seven guinea Quack, who absconded from a regiment in the county of Richmond, on a certain occasion.
SEEING in Childs's paper, No. 724, four words of Latin or Erse, or what men of learning at a free school will please to call it, makes me think the Quack improves, or has repeated since the fourth of June, when he was so d---k on that, to him, happy day; for he begins to call the inhabitants of K. C. respectable; I wish they could call him so; in saying he tries to injure a man of his character, you certainly lie under a great mistake. For I think your tongue is no slander, or you would have succeeded better in your calumniating heretofore; although you live rent free, and well fed with beef, and your cloaths made by fa-nily connections from home, and you an alien here; poor Quack! you write faster than you think, for you first call the B-----yne member a fool, and now you seem to be like the prophet that gets no honor in his own country: Hewers of wood was wanted in your land in the year 45, or so many of you would not have come here; fattening cattle here is the better for you, as you get beef gratis. One thing I give you credit for, that is, I think with you, we ought to have capable men to make laws, without importing them, and also Doctors to regiments, so recommended, as not to turn them out of it for their mal-conduct. Friend quick, you mistake me, if you think I take you to be an aspiring man in politics, for in that, you, as in all the rest of your proceedings, want judgment, which I expect you will have ere long, with all your puffs, or take better care in future, and not lose your artillery, as you will your fort. If you don't take the oath of allegiance and abjuration, to say the B-----yne member shall no longer skulk, when he is compelled to shrink from public life, may be waiting longer than the artillery may last in the fort, or you be fed with beef gratis. As life is uncertain, the last puff raises another Hercules. C. D.
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to Seth Williams, now or late of Rhode-Island, and to all others whom it may concern; that on application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of this State of New-York entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786." He hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the city and county of New-York, commanding him to attach, seize, take and safely keep all the estate as well real as personal, of the said Seth Williams, an absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof, in whatever part of his bailiwick the same can be found, with all evidences, books of account, vouchers and papers relating thereto: And that unless he, the said Seth Williams shall return and discharge his debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all his estate real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated at the city of New-York, this 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 75
D O D D S's Musical Instrument Manufactory, from LONDON. ORGANS, harpsichords and forte-pianos; spinets, forte-piano and common guitars, finished in the newest taste. After trial of any of those instruments, if they should not be approved of, they may be exchanged by paying the usual hire for the time.
He has just imported a large assortment of fine toned violins, and strings from London, which will be sold very cheap, great allowance will be made to dealers in those articles.
Violins, clarionets and haut-boys; flutes, and a good assortment of fifes; fiddled-pastorals, pitchpipes, tuning forks, hammers and ruling pens; books of instruction, blank books and ruled paper. Also, a few of the newest and most favorite songs, set to music—These and other articles may be had as good and as cheap as in London—Instruments taken in exchange; and any gentleman or lady may be supplied with any quantity of strings for the above instruments, by describing the note or number, without being at the expence of whole sets; likewise every other article pertaining to the above instruments. Instruments repaired and kept in tune; also, instruments let out upon moderate terms. 74
BLANKS, Sold at this Office.
FIFTEEN POUNDS REWARD,
LAST night was broke open, the house of the subscriber, in Sassafras-street, Philadelphia, and the following articles of plate were stolen from thence, viz.
One tankard marked S. S. One porringer do. One old fashioned do. with a coat of arms, Four table spoons D. S. E. 2 do. E. P. or S. S. 12 tea spoons E. P. 1 tea tongs S. S. and 1 pepper box.
The thieves broke open and took out of a desk, three small pieces of gold, one of which is half a caroline, that has two holes in it.
Whoever stops the articles, so that the owner may have them again, shall be paid fifteen pounds reward, by applying to Robert Bowne in New-York, or to me in Philadelphia.
EDWARD PENINGTON. Philadelphia, June 19, 1787. 10
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT Benjamin Hildreth, jun. of the city of New-York, distiller, did, in pursuance 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, assign all his estate, real and personal, both in law and equity, for the use of the creditors of the said Benjamin Hildreth, junior. All persons therefore, who are indebted to the said Benjamin Hildreth, jun. are hereby requested to make immediate payment; and all those who have any demands against the said Benjamin Hildreth, jun. are desired to bring in their accounts properly authenticated to
THOMAS GRESWOLD, } Affignees. PROBUS KIP, } June 23, 1 10 4
German Society.
THE members of the German Society are requested to attend at the stated quarterly meeting, to be held on Monday the 2d of July, in the afternoon, precisely at 7 o'clock, at the Lutheran school-house.
By order of the President, GEORGE GILFORD, Sec'y.
To be Sold at Private Sale,
THAT valuable plantation formerly the property of Willson Hunt, Esq. in the township of Maidenhead, and county of Hunterdon, New-Jersey, lying on the post road between New-York and Philadelphia, eight miles from Trenton, and four from Princeton, containing upwards of four hundred and twenty acres of very excellent land, one hundred and fifty of which is good English meadow, and will produce one hundred and fifty tons of hay annually; the upland is rich and fine for any kind of grain, and very natural to grass; forty-five acres of fine thrifty timber of the best kind, and a large bearing orchard of the best grafted fruit, a dwelling-house, two good barns and a new hovel that will contain upon the upper story, twelve tons of hay, a well of good water near the dwelling-house, and about the middle of the plantation is a delightful eminence that commands at one view the whole farm. For terms apply to Mr. Abm. Hunt, at Trenton, Archd. Mercer at Millstone, Thomas Smith and William Neilson, Esq. in New-York, or the subscriber on the premises.
2 702 12 JOHN C. SCHENK.
ALL Persons that are indebted to the estate of Elias Desbrosses, late of the city of New-York, merchant, deceased, by bond, note or book debt, are requested to make payment to the subscriber, by the first day of September next, as all accounts without disputation unsettled by that time, will be put into the hands of an attorney.
JAMES DESBROSSES, Executor. New-York, Queen-street, No. 9, May 30, 1787.
ALL Persons that are indebted to the estate of William Butler, late of the city of New-York, merchant, deceased, by bond, note or book debt, are requested to make payment to the subscriber, by the first day of September next, as all accounts without disputation, unsettled by that time, will be put into the hands of an attorney.
JAMES DESBROSSES, Executor. New-York, Queen-street, No. 9, May 30, 1787.
TO BE LET,
AND now in good repair, the corner house No. 1, Smith-street and Duke-street. Enquire at No. 33, Smith-street. 704
Nicholas Hoffinan & Son.
Has for Sale, No. 12, Little Dock-street, BOLTING CLOTHS, well assorted and of superior quality, Linseed Oil, Beef and Pork, Pig Iron, Bar Iron, Pot-ash Kettles, Iron Pots and Kettles, Waggon and Cart Boxes, Chimney Backs, Wool Cards by the hoghead or dozen, European Goods as usual, Grist and Saw-Mill Irons, may be had on short notice; as also Iron Castings, almost of any kind and dimension. 82
THE partnership of EDWARD and WM. LAIGHT will, by mutual consent, be dissolved on 1st of May next.—The creditors of the said house, upon application, will be immediately paid: the debtors are hereby requested to make an equitable and speedy settlement, or their accounts, without disputation, will be placed in the hands of an Attorney. Edward Laight having retired from the business, it will, after the period abovementioned, be carried on at No. 200 Queen-street, by Wm. LAIGHT and Co. New-York April 19, 1787. 90 tf
FOR SALE,
THE following Lots or Parcels of Land, pleasantly situated at New-Windfor, on Hudson's River, in the county of Ulster, being about sixty miles from New-York, viz.—Lot No. 15, being a water lot, containing 83 feet in breadth, and runs thence in length from a certain street called Water-street, south 57 degrees east to the channel of Hudson's River aforesaid; there is on said lot, a commodious dwelling-house, being the best stand for public business in New-Windfor, with a convenient cellar kitchen and four rooms on a floor, with a dock and store-house, stables and other out-houses—Lot No. 78, containing ten acres, mostly meadow, and in good fence; there are on said lot, a considerable number of bearing apple trees—the northerly half of lot 76, containing five acres, chiefly meadow-land, in good fence—And lot No. 101, containing nine acres of wood-land, being about one mile from New-Windfor.
Also, the following Three Lots of Land, Being the property James Jackson, jun. viz.—Lot No. 67, adjoining the meeting-house at New-Windfor aforesaid, being in length four chains and fifty-two links, and in breadth two chains and forty-three links; there are on said lot, a final dwelling-house, orchard and a good barn, the whole being in good repair—Lot No. 105, containing nearly three acres of wood-land, and joins the aforesaid lot No. 101—And lot No. 96, containing five acres and six tenths of an acre, being partly meadow and partly wood-land, and adjoining the lands formerly owned by His Excellency Gov. Clinton.—Any person wishing to purchase the whole or any part of the above described premises or lots of land, can have a view of the same, by applying to Mr. James Jackson, jun. living on the premises, or to the subscribers in Neely-Town, who will give an indisputable title for the same.
WILLIAM JACKSON, JAMES JACKSON, jun. April 26, 1787. 93
TO BE SOLD,
THE LANDS belonging to the estate of the Hon. Cadwallader Colden, Esq. deceased, late Lieutenant-Governor of the then Province, now State of New-York, viz.
FIVE several tracts or parcels of land, on the north side of the Mohawk river, about 48 miles above Schenectady, granted by letters patent in the year 1738, to Patrick M'Clanthy and Andrew M'Dowel, and distinguished in the map annexed to the land letters patent by the names of lots No. 10, 16, 17, 26 and 37, containing in the whole, 3710 acres of land, and the usual allowance for highways.
SIX THOUSAND acres being six divided thirtieth parts of a tract of 30,000 acres, situated between the Cookquaga branch of Delaware river; and the Susquehanna river, in the county of Montgomery, formerly of the county of Albany.
TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND acres in one tract, being part of a tract of 40,000 acres, granted to Stephen Skinner and others, situated in the said county of Montgomery, to the westward and southward of Turlock and Cobus Kill settlements.
ALSO, fifteen Lots containing each 234 acres of a tract of land situated on the north side of the Schenectady, or west branch of Hudson's river, and erected by the letter patent, by which the same was granted into a township by the name of Dartmouth, and which fifteen lots are distinguished in the division of the said tract by lots No. 13, in the first range of lots No. 1, No. 2, No. 11, No. 12 and No. 13; in the second range of lots No. 1, No. 11, No. 12 and No. 13; in the third range of lots No. 1, 2 and No. 3; in the fourth range of lots, and No. 10 and No. 11; in the tenth range of lots.
N. B. These 15 lots were not a part of Gov. Colden's estate at the time of his decease.
For terms apply to the subscriber, living at Coldengham, in the county of Ulster, or to Richard Harrison & John Lawrence, Esq. Attorneys at law, New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all the above described tracts, or any part thereof that is not sold before the 13th day of October next, will on that day, at one o'clock in the afternoon, be exposed to Sale at Public Auction, at the Merchants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York and peremptory struck off to the highest bidder. 98
CADWALLADER COLDEN, Executor.
To be Sold at Private Sale,
THAT valuable lot of ground, situated in Queen-Street, adjoining the estate of Isaac Roosevelt Esq. facing Cherry-Street nearly opposite the bank; the lot contains in breadth in Queen-Street 23 feet 3 inches, in the rear 18 feet, and in length on each side 143 feet, in the front is a very convenient shop, a store admirable calculated for groceries or dry goods, which opens in the rear into a convenient dwelling house with a yard and garden, with some fruit trees, all in good order; in point of situation no place in the city can excel for a Merchant or a Gentleman of fortune. Enquire of Donald Mackey the proprietor, on the premises, No. 157 Queen-Street, New-York.
N. B. As no preference is to be given, it is to be sold to the highest bidder. April 16, 1787. 89
JOHN GLOVER,
Is removed from No. 71, William-street, to No. 49, Broad-way, near the Olwego market. and hath for sale, a general assortment of DRY GOOD S, wholesale and retail, which he will sell low for cash; consisting of
BROADCLOTHS, ratinefs and shalloons with trimmings, Moreens, durants and tammies, Chintzes and calicoes, Printed linens and chintz ditto, a variety, Fustians, jeans, corduroys and velverets, Irish linens and sheetings, Wide and narrow checks, Ruffles and calimancoes, Satins and laftings, Silk and other handkerchiefs, Modes, fatins and peelongs, Brocades and lute-strings, Perfians and farcenets, Gauzes, cambricks and lawns, Mullins, shawls, corded dimities and dutch cord, Hosiery of all kinds, Mens, boys and childrens hats, Ladies black and brown ditto, Black and white ostrich feathers, Coloured and black ribbons, Mens and womens shoes Bedticks, diapers and tablecloths Mens and womens gloves, Sewing-filks, pins, threads, tapes, &c. With a variety of other articles. 94
THE Subscribers hereby give notice that they are appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probates, for the district of Westminster, in the State of Vermont, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors of Samuel Wells, Esq. late of Brattleborough, in Windham county, deceased, whose estate is represented insolvent; that fourteen months from the date hereof are allowed for the creditors to bring in, and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling-house of Mica Townsend, Esq. in Brattleborough, on the first Mondays of each month in said term, except the months of June and November, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon.
BENJ. BUTTERFIELD, JOHN SERGEANT, SAM. KNIGHT, } Commissioners. May 27, 1787. 2 8 8
ALL persons having any demands against the late Doctor WILLIAM FARQUHAR's estate, are desired to send their accounts; and those indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to JAMES FARQUHAR, Executor. June 12, 1787. 8 8
DRUMS.
THE Subscriber having previous to the late war, carried on the drum-making business in this city; he, by the advice of his friends, again undertakes the same. The gentlemen of the militia, can be supplied with DRUMS, on short notice and reasonable terms, by applying at No. 5, King George-street, nearly opposite the German Reformed Lutheran church. Drums repaired with care and expedition.
SAMUEL S. BROUWER. New-York June 19, 1787. 7
TO BE SOLD,
A BRIGHT bay Horse fifteen hands high, fit for carriage or the saddle; is eight years old, and may be seen at Mr. Henry Dawson's, Brooklyn. 707
Imported in the Brigantine Hope, William Thomson, master, from Belfast,
By Robert Waddell:
A FEW Boxes of well assorted yard wide and 7-8 Irish linens, which he will sell on reasonable terms for cash or short credit, at No. 61, King-street. 7 4
This day will be landed at Leffert's wharf, near the Perry-stairs, from on board the sloop Cato, Capt. Watts, from Jamaica,
Twenty-two Puncheons, high proof JAMAICA SPIRITS. For terms of sale, apply to Thomas Buchanan and Co. No. 46, Wall-street, who have still to dispose of, a few casks nails, from 6d to 3d.
Oznabrigs and brown sheeting in bales.
Bottled London porter in casks of six dozen each.
A few puncheons of old high flavored Jamaica spirits, four hogheads Tortola sugars, three bales cotton.
N. B. Wanted to purchase by them pot and pearl-ashes. June 19. 7 4
Theodosius Fowler & Co.
At their Office, No. 164, Water-Street, Buy, sell and negotiate all kinds of Continental, Connecticut and New-York Securities. 97
May 24, 1787.
JOHN BLEECKER gives ready money for all kinds of Continental and State Certificates, at his Auction-Room and Commission Store, No. 198, Queen-street, where all kinds of Merchandise will be thankfully received, and sold on commission. 96
Board of Treasury of the United States,
May 17th, 1787.
The United States in Congress having directed the Commissioners of this Board, to take the most effectual measures, for settling the accounts of the secret and commercial Committees of Congress.
Notice is hereby given, THAT the accounts of the said Committees, having been arranged, as far as the materials furnished by the respective parties, will enable them to proceed in that business; it has become necessary, to adopt immediate measures for closing these transactions. All persons therefore, who have received public money from the general Treasury, in pursuance of engagements entered into with the secret and commercial Committees of Congress, and who have not accounted for the same, are hereby required, to render and adjust their respective accounts within three months, computed from the present date; at the expiration of which time, process will be commenced against such as neglect this notice. 2 98 3m
SAMUEL OSGOOD, WALTER LIVINGSTON, } Commissioners. ARTHUR LEE, }
Benjamin Halsted,
GOLD and SILVER-SMITH, RESPECTFULLY acknowledges the favours of his friends and customers, and hereby informs them and the public in general, that he carries on his business as usual, at No. 18, Maiden-lane, where all orders will be duly acknowledged and faithfully executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. He sells silver tea spoons for one shilling per doz. 4 1y or tf
Bank of New-York.
THE President and Directors give notice, that for the accommodation of the public, they have determined, and are now ready to open accounts for paper money, with those who choose to deposit it in the Bank. And as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, will discount bills or notes, payable in the paper money lately emitted by this State, as well as specie.
By order of the Direction, WILLIAM SETON, Cashier. June 14th, 1787. 6

POET'S CORNER.
The following two lines were spoken Extempore on the death of a SEXTON in the NORTH. H UZZA, my brave boys, let's rejoice at his fall, For if he had lived, he had buried us all. A. M.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate office in the city of New-York, on the 13th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1787:
PRESENT, The Hon. Peter Ogilvie Esq. Judge of the said Court:
WHEREAS Martha Miller Administratrix of Silas Miller, late of Bedford in the county of Westchester, deceased, have by their petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Silas Miller was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate; within this State that the petitioners had made a just & true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Silas Miller, as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of her said testator was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioners have delivered to the said Judge the account in the said petition mentioned: Hereupon it is ordered by the said Judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Silas Miller, do appear before the said Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the sixth day of August next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Silas Miller died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
1 6 4 PETER OGILVIE. At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the 7th day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:
PRESENT, The Hon. Peter Ogilvie Esq. Judge of the said Court:
WHEREAS Abraham Reynolds, administrator of Eli Mead, late of Haverstraw Precinct, in the county of Orange, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Eli Mead, was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this State; that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Eli Mead as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of his said testator was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said Judge the account in the said petition mentioned: Hereupon it is ordered by the said Judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Eli Mead, do appear before the said Judge of the said Court of Probates at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the twenty-sixth day of July next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Eli Mead died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
1 4 4 PETER OGILVIE.
NOTICE is hereby given (according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late Colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four) That on Thursday the fourth day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at public auction upon the premises, the fee simple of a certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm in a certain indenture of mortgage made between Cornelius P. Low of the City of New-York, merchant, of the one part, and William Constable of the same place merchant, of the other part, described as follows, to wit, all that certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the manor of Philipburgh, county of West-Chester and State of New-York, known and distinguished heretofore as the place of residence of the late Frederick Philips, Esquire; bounded westerly by Hudson's River, southerly by land in the possession of the widow Rich, easterly by land sold to David Hunt, the run of water called saw-mill river and a lot of land in the possession of Archer; and northerly by land sold to Robert Johnson; containing, within said bounds, three hundred and twenty acres, reserving and excepting out of the same two acres, whereon the church stands, two acres whereon Honnes Sherwood the Gardner lives, and about two acres of meadow adjoining to saw-mill river and the road; it being part of the glebe land. Also two lots of woodland No. 12 and No. 13, containing each thirty-three acres; bounded southerly by land sold to Andrew Bostwick, Esquire, easterly by lots No. 16 and No. 17, northerly by lot No. 11, and westerly by the post road, together with all and singular the houses, buildings, ways, waters, water-courses, privileges and appurtenances to the said premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining, which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the eleventh and twelfth days of May, in the year of our Lord 1786, (with a proviso therein contained) from the said Cornelius P. Low to the said William Constable, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by Wm. CONSTABLE. New-York 23d April, 1787.
To such of the proprietors of lands in the pante of Wawayanda, in the county of Orange and State of New-York, who were interested in the lands, disputed between the patents of Wawayanda and Cheescocks.
WHEREAS Robert Yates, Goldsborough Banyar, Samuel Jones, and John Haring, Esquires, being the major part of the Commissioners, elected and appointed, in virtue of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An Act to settle and finally establish the line or lines of division, between the patents of Wawayanda and Cheescocks, in the county of Orange," have by virtue of another act, of the said Legislature, passed 17th April, 1786, entitled, "An Act to explain and amend an act, entitled an act to settle and finally establish the line or lines of division, between the patents of Wawayanda and Cheescocks, in the county of Orange, passed 17 March, 1783, by a certain instrument, under their hands and seals, dated the twelfth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, audited and settled all the accounts exhibited to them, of the costs, charges and expenses accrued or arisen in the management of the said controversy, on the part of the said patent of Wawayanda, and in preparing to produce their claims to the lands in controversy, and did determine the amount thereof, to be the sum of two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight pounds sixteen shillings and two pence; and have divided the whole amount thereof into thirteen equal parts, each of which amounts to the sum of two hundred and nineteen pounds eighteen shillings and two pence; and did thereby certify, that each of the original rights of the said patent of Wawayanda, which did formerly belong to John Bridges, Lancaster Symes, John Cholwell, John Merritt, Cornelius Christiaan, Dirck Vandenberg, Daniel Honan, Peter Matthews, Benjamin Ask, Hendrick Ten Eyck, Philip Rokeby, Christopher Denn, and Samuel Staats, is chargeable with one thirteenth part of the said whole sum, of two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight pounds sixteen shillings and two pence; and did thereby appoint the same to be paid on the thirtieth day of July, then next ensuing, according to the direction of the said act entitled, "An Act to explain and amend an act, entitled, an act to settle and finally establish the line or lines of division, between the patents of Wawayanda and Cheescocks, in the county of Orange," passed the 17th March, 1783;" And in case the present proprietors of the said thirteen original rights, or any of them who were interested in the lands disputed between the said patents, should refuse or neglect to pay their respective proportions, of the money chargeable on the same as aforesaid, at the time thereby appointed for the payment thereof, the said Commissioners abovenamed, did thereby fix and appoint the fourth day of August, then next ensuing, for the sale of so much of lands, tenements and hereditaments in the balloted lots of such proprietor or proprietors, whose proportions of the said audited accounts, should remain unpaid, as should be necessary to pay his, her or their respective proportions of the sum of money chargeable on the original rights under which his, her or their title is derived, together with the charges of such sale; Now Therefore,
We the Subscribers being the major part of the Committee appointed to manage the claims, on the part of the proprietors of Wawayanda, pursuant to the directions of the said act, do hereby give notice to the said proprietors, who were interested in the lands disputed between the said patents, to pay to the said Committee of Wawayanda, or one of them, their respective proportions of the said sum of two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight pounds sixteen shillings and two pence, so charged on the said original rights as aforesaid, on or before the said thirtieth day of July now next ensuing, otherwise to much of the lands, tenements and hereditaments in the balloted lots, belonging to such of the said proprietors, who shall neglect to pay their respective proportions, will be sold at public vendue, on the fourth day of August now next ensuing, as will be necessary to discharge the respective proportions of such defaulters, with all the charges attending the sale, which vendue will be held at the house of Jonathan Archer, near Sugar-Loaf in the said county of Orange, on the said fourth day of August next ensuing the date hereof, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the same day. Dated, the 22d day of May, 1787.
EVERT BANCKER, WILLIAM WICKHAM, HENRY WINNER, WILLIAM THOMPSON. 1 2 3
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774; that on the 24th day of November next, ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of ALL that certain House and Lot of Ground, situated, lying and being in the city of New-York, bounded southerly to Crown-street, westerly to the ground of Stephen Tippet, northerly to the house and lot of ground belonging to Samuel Johnson, and easterly to the house and lot of ground of the Widow Davis, containing in breadth, in front and rear, 25 feet, and in length 110 feet, be the same more or less, together with all and singular edifices, buildings and improvements thereon, erected and being, and all other the hereditaments and appurtenances to the said message and lot of ground belonging—which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the 20th and 21st days of November, in the year of our Lord, 1769, (with a power to sell therein contained) from Henry Dufour, of the city of New-York aforesaid, merchant, and Mary his wife, to Margaret Todd, late of said city, widow, deceased, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser; pursuant to the said power, by Walter Rutherford and Francis Lewis, executors to the last will and testament of Mrs. Margarete Todd. 1 99 6m
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that we the subscribers, commissioners, appointed by an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more easy partition of a tract of land called the Oneida Purchase," passed 11th April, 1787, will meet on Tuesday the 17th day of July next, between the hours of ten and twelve in the forenoon, at the house of John Simmons, innkeeper, situated in Wall-street, in the city of New-York; to cause the several lots, into which the said tract is divided, to be ballotted for pursuant to the directions of the said act; at which time and place, all persons interested in the said tract are required to attend. Dated this 12th day of June, 1787. 6 t 17 Jul.
EVERT BANCKER, JOHN RAMSAY, THOMAS RANDALL.
Extract from the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New-York.
IN ASSEMBLY, April 19, 1787. THE petition of David M c Master and others, presented to this House on the 10th ult. was again read, setting forth, that Oliver Delancey, James Jauncey, Goldsborough Banyar, and Peter Remsen, in the year 1770, executed conveyances for sundry lots of land in an undivided tract of two thousand acres, lying on the south side of the Mohawk River, granted to Henry Cosby; that several of the conveyances so executed, have never been in the possession of the grantees, who have, nevertheless, sold the lands they possessed; and that the present possessors have paid into the treasury of this State, the proportions of the consideration money which remained due and had become forfeited; that other parts of the said tract of land is possessed by persons who have not purchased, but are solicitous to purchase the title of the people of this State to the same, and praying the interposition of the Legislature in the premises.
Mr. Batcheller, from the Committee to whom the said petition was referred, brought in the report of the said Committee, which was read and concurred in: Thereupon,
Resolved, (if the Honorable Senate concur herein) That Goldsborough Banyar, or the legal representatives of the said Peter Remsen, or the present possessors of the said lots, or any of them, have leave to bring in a bill at the next session of the Legislature, for vesting the title to the said lots herein before mentioned, in the present possessors thereof, upon paying one half of the purchase money of the said lots and parts of lots respectively, into the treasury of this State, and satisfying the said Goldsborough Banyar and the representatives of the said Peter Remsen, for their interest and claim therein, and indemnifying them against the said several persons herein before named, their heirs and assigns; and also for conveying to the present possessors of any other lots or parts of lots in the said tract of land, wherein the people of this State have become interested, by the attainder of the said James Jauncey and Oliver Delancey, such lots and parts of lots upon the like terms.
Provided that a copy of this resolution be printed within six weeks from the passing thereof, in two of the news-papers printed within this State, one in the city of Albany, and the other in the city of New-York, for the space of three months.
Ordered, That Mr. Batcheller deliver a copy of the preceding resolution to the Honorable the Senate.
FRIDAY MORNING, April 20, 1787. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Resolved, That the Senate do concur with the Honorable the Assembly in their said resolution.
Ordered, That Mr. Williams deliver a copy of the said preceding concurrent resolution to the House of Assembly. 1 4 3m
By the Commissioners of Forfeitures for the Southern District.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that on Wednesday the first day of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of David Hunt near the Lower Mills in the Manor of Philipburgh, will be sold at public vendue, all the estate, right, title and interest late of Frederick Phillips Esq. in the following lands situate in the said Manor, viz. acres.
No. 1. The farm late in the possession of Moses Miller containing - 133
No. 2. The farm late in the possession of Caleb Archer. - 179
No. 3. The farm late in the possession of Wm. Undehill. - 360
No. 4. The farm late in the possession of Doctor Bailey, situate at New-Rochelle. - 149
Also the moiety, or undivided half of a farm of 110 acres, situate in the manor of Cortlandt, late the property of Lewis Palmer.
And on Monday the 16th of August at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Coffee-house in the city of New-York, will be sold, a number of lots situate in the out ward of the said city, and on the estate late the property of James De Lancey; many of them fronting the Bowery-lane—map to be seen at the Commissioners-office.
Also a lot of ground situate on the westerly side of New-street, late the property of Oliver Delancey, Esq.
Also a lot situated on the northerly side of Bridge-street, late the property of William Bayard, Esq. All the above lands will be sold only for certificates issued or to be issued by the Treasurer of this State.
ISAAC STOUTENBURGH, } Commissioners.
1 91 PH. V. CORTLANDT, } Forfeitures.
TO BE SOLD, THE SLOOP SARAH.
The property of the late LEO NARD VAN BEUREN, being well framed and completely furnished with every necessary appurtenance. She was built under the immediate inspection of a competent Judge of the art of building, and by the direction of the above named gentleman.
Any person inclining to purchase the above sloop, may receive farther information by applying to Messrs. John Van Beuren and N. Visscher, opposite the Flatts, or Col. John H. Beeckman, at Scodack. 4 6
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ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS the subscriber some time since, has been concerned in trade with Thomas Rowe, of New-Milford, in Connecticut, and others, viz. John Gove, Peter Sherman and Roswell Ransom, all of Connecticut aforesaid. And whereas all those copartnerships have long since been dissolved, that of his and Rowe, known by the firm of Nickelson and Rowe (in which all the others were comprehended) by mutual consent and agreement, August 3d, 1785, as appears by our advertisement of that date; whereby the settling all the matters of the said copartnership devolved upon the subscriber; and whereas the said Rowe, Sherman, and Ransom, have thought fit to combine together, assisted by mischievous persons, inimical to the subscriber, in order to defraud him of several thousand pounds of his property, in the hands of those late partners, by giving and receiving fraudulent discharges, and transferring property &c. &c. and still using every undue measure in their power to do him all mischief possible, he has reason to suspect that they have run him in debt since their several dissolutions on their old firms: And whereas he give firm, and obtained the credit (for the whole of those companies) in this city, he begs leave to notify his friends, all and every of them, that have any accounts, bonds or notes unsettled, against either of the firms of Nickelson and Rowe, John Gove and Co. Peter Sherman and Co. Roswell Ransom and Co. or Ransom and Nickelson, to bring in their said demands by first of August next (sealed up) to Mr. Loudon the Printer hereof, who is authorized to receive the same, in order to transmit them to the subscriber for settlement, and that the creditors may receive their respective balances as soon as may be. And this is to notify all whom it may concern, not to trust any person or persons, that may appear to purchase goods or merchandise on account of either of the aforesaid firms, for they have been nearly two years all dissolved, as he will pay no regard to any such contract after the date hereof.
ANGUS NICKELSON. New-York, June 19th, 1787. 1 8 3m
FOR SALE.
A FARM situated in the township of Westchester, containing about 115 acres, a convenient proportion of which is wood, arable and meadow land; on the premises are a large and convenient two story dwelling-house, a kitchen separate from it, a good barn, cyder-mill, &c. with a large bearing orchard, besides a plenty and variety of other fruit-trees. Its situation is pleasant and calculated for a gentleman whose inclination leads to a country life, as also for a farmer who wishes to profit by keeping a flock and dairy, as it lies in the vicinity of an extensive common, and near a large tract of salt meadow, from whence hay in any quantity, may be procured at a trifling expense. It also lies within three quarters of a mile of a public landing, from whence market-boats ply to and from New-York, twice or thrice a week. For further particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises, who will give an unquestionable title, and deliver immediate possession if required.
LEAKE HUNT. ALSO, a small farm adjoining the above, containing between twenty and thirty acres; this place has on it a small tenement, some fruit trees, and a sufficiency of wood for fuel. If most convenient for the purchaser the whole will be sold together. Enquire as above.
N. B. An assortment of dry, or West-India goods, to a considerable amount, will be taken in payment. June 12, 187. 5