The daily advertiser (New York [N.Y.]), 1787-12-31 00:00:00

The Daily Advertiser.
[VOL. III.]
NEW-YORK.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1787.
[No. 890.]
JERSEY MONEY.
A VALUABLE consignment of MANCHESTER GOODS to be sold wholesale, on very reasonable terms, for which Jersey Money will be taken in payment, by JAMES RENWICK, No. 92, William-street, opposite Maiden-lane. N. B. The highest Price given for POT and PEARL ASHES. Nov. 19. 1787.
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. 15.
Sixty Pipes of MADEIRA, IN pipes, hogsheads and quarter-casks, of superior quality, to be landed this day at Crugar's wharf, and to be sold by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. 22d Aug. 1787.
FOR SALE BY JOHN DEWINT, Maiden-lane, No. 36. A FEW bds. New-York Rum; ditto St. Croix Rum; a few cases gin; a parcel sugar in bds. writing paper, common and post; sundry articles of Dry Goods; a few boxes hylon and tions tea; 4 barrels gum of lignum vitae; and 2 pot-ash kettles, that have been a short time in use. Nov. 17.
GEORGE POLLOCK, Has received by the Hudson from Dublin, and the Anne and Susannah 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 Axle Iron, Cart Tire, Waggon, Chair and Sleigh Tire, mill Irons, and Iron of uncommon square; Steel of all kinds, English faggots 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 CASTINGS, 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; Morta sand peels, sad irons, Franklin stoves, large and small, Rittenhouse do. do. Ten and six-plate do. do. close stoves with pipes, Sharp's new invented floor grates, Canada stoves for large rooms, Patent cabooles for ships, with one and two boilers, grate and oven, Fire plates 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, sheetrod Nails rods of all sizes, Iron hoops for bds. and bbls. 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 country produce, at the lowest prices; and a large allowance made to those who buy to sell again. All orders for wrought or cast iron will be duly attended to, and forwarded, agreeable to pattern, at the shortest notice. Oct. 29.
To be had at LOT MERKEL's Store, No. 33, Hanover-square, nearly opposite the Bank, TOBACCO for SMOOKING; IT is of the first quality; ditto of an inferior quality; large roll tobacco, fit for manufacturers; segars, genuine Macuba snuff; ditto raper of different qualities; gentlemen's gloves, buckskin and beaver, of the first quality. At the above Store the highest price is given for SHIPPING FURS, June 13. f.
FOR SALE, GINSENG, LINTSEED OIL, BEEF, PORK, FLOUR, FLAX-SEED, BUTTER, Quintal FISH, MACKAREL, &c. by Storm and Sickles, Dec. 18. tf. No. 35, Little-Dock Street.
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 Produce only. 7-8, 4-4, and 4-4, 3-8, Cotton Checks, Striped Tick, Dyed Pillows, Black and Olive Velverets, low priced; Checked Handkerchiefs, Malabars; Copperplate Furniture Cottons, Black Silk Handkerchiefs, Cotton Thickets, 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. 23.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
On the Premises, By FREDERICK JAY, On the 10th day of January next, A FRAME HOUSE, in Chambers-street, now in the possession of Thomas Eagles, being part of the estate of the late Cornelius Swartwout. The above House contains three fine places, is built on a lease of 101, six years of the lease unexpired, with a privilege of removing the house at the expiration of the same. Oct. Dec. 23.
To be landed this day at Crugar's wharf From on board the Portuguese Schooner, N. S. da Carmo, Captain Olivera, some pipes of choice PORT WINE, and a parcel of SALT; to be sold by JOZE ROIZ SILVA. Nov. 12, 1787. tf
ANY 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, Beekman-Street. Who has just opened a fresh and general assortment of Hardware, Ironmongery, and Cutlery, Which he will dispose of very reasonable by wholesale or retail.
FLAX-SEED, Stored, cleaned purchased and sold, at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S FLAX-SEED STORE, lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Saly, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. Oct. 22.
WILLIAM USTICK, jun. No. 33, Queen-street; HAS just received from 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, brass Kettles, Iron Pots and Kettles, Frying Pans, Spades and Shovels, Shovel and Tongs, Bellows, Warming Pans, Brats and Iron Candlesticks, 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, Cloves, Brads, and Screws of all sizes, 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 reasonable terms for Cash; also Nails of all sizes, manufactured in this city, and equal to any imported. New-York, Nov. 15, 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 Petersburg 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 SPERMACTI CANDLES, COD SOUNDS and TONGUES, in Barrels. A large ANCHOR, weighing 30 cwt. to be sold Cheap.
WARRANTED, Forty Barrels PEARL ASHES, thirty barrels WHALE OIL, twelve thousand SUGAR HOGSHEAD STAVES, fifty-five inches long. New-York, December 14, 1787. tf.
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 assortment in the FANCY, MILLENERY, and DRY GOOD Line. CHINA and Sattin ribbons, a great variety different widths and colors; plain net, crape, souf-fle, silk spotted and striped, black and white gauzes; fancy colored cane hats, yellow and black Leghorn do. per dozen, or quantity; black and white skein and ribbon wires; wire frames for the latest fashion bonnets; mock point laces; black silk ditto, and edgings; white thread laces and edgings; black fat-tins and modes; stuffings, white and colored larcenets; canaries and calicoes; furniture copperplate doilies and checks; moiréens, callimancoes and stuff; silk, thread, cotton, and worsted hose; pink, blue, green, and dove colored silk quilts; mullin and cotton shawls; silk, linen, and cotton handkerchiefs; corded dimities, mouselinet and chintz trimmings; plain and sprigged lawns; plain and striped mouselinet; lawn and mullin handkerchiefs; fine and common cambrics; black patent net lace; mankeens, 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 general 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 utmost 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
George and Robert Lewis, & Co.
No. 233, Queen-street, In addition to the Goods received by the Betsy and Willson, are now opening for SALE by the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, viz. 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, Dowlas and Sheerings, 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 fashionable Shawls, Printed Linens and Cottons, 7-8, 9-8, fancy and Chintz Calicoes, Furniture ditto, A general assortment of cotton and linen Handkerchiefs, Leno, Lawn, and Black Silk, ditto. Bandanna and Romall ditto, 7-8 and 11-8, plain, corded, striped and checked Lawns, Rich fashionable Waist-coat shapes, Striped and gold-bordered Tullinett Waistcoating, Florentines and Sattins, An assortment of Hosiery, Table Cloths, Clouting-Diapers, &c. &c. &c. Which they are determined to dispose of at their usual low prices for Cash, Notes at a short date, and shipping produce. New-York, Nov. 21, 1787. tf
BROTHERS, COSTER and Co.
Have for sale at their Store No. 8, Duke-street, Just Imported in the COLUMBIA and the GRACE, from Amsterdam; BOHEA TEA, fresh, and of a superior quality, Suchong ditto, Pepper in Bales, best Holland Duck, Russia do. Raven's Duck, Russia Sheeting, Ticklenburgh Linen, Osnaburgh do. Holland Silesia Sheeting, Plaidies and Bretonnes, Brown Hollandais, Dowlas and Holland Bed-tick, Cambric, black Laces, and silk Hair Ribbons, a neat assortment of Calicoes, black Barcelona, Romall, cotton and linen Handkerchiefs, Checks and Holland Stripes, Hats, Writing Paper and Slates, Looking Glasses, Frying Pans and Dutch Iron Pots, Dutch Tea Kettles and Brats Kettles, best Claret in small cases for family use, Linseed Oil and Paints, Holland Geneva, in pipes, in large and small cases and jugs, Dutch Hatchels or Flax Combs, &c. &c. 23 Oct. 1787. tf
SHALER and SEBOR
No. 27 Queen-street, have for sale, A QUANTITY of plated ware, consisting of candlesticks, branches, tea caddies, snuffer pans, egg cups, goblets, coffee pots and Milkjugs, black table cakes, with knives, forks, and spoons complete, fruit stands, paper bottle stands, japanned bread-trays, caddies and snuffer pans, plate warmers, brats chafing dishes, cork-screws, steel snuffers, gallery, brass rings, cloak pins, sleeve buttons, brass table hinges, guns and gun locks, China tea cups chimney riles, sets of house brushes, near mahogany razor cases, silver watches, elegant steel and silver watch chains, trinkets, shirt pins, buckles, rings, pins, shoe, knee, and Rock buckles and sleeve buttons, fine Irish sheeting, fine dyed jeans, Marseilles quilting, silk shaggs, black crape, white and black gauzes, mouselinet, mouselinet, teecuckers, hababees, fletcher's, barnege, romalls, corded dimity, and a box of assorted bolting cloths, with a variety of other articles which will be disposed of for cash or shipping produce, at a price much below the Sterling cost. At same place may be had, Madeira, Teneriffe, and Malaga wine, by the pipe or quarter cask, Champagne of an excellent quality, by the case or dozen, striped duffel blankets, a variety of hard ware, a large assortment of Irish linens, 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4, received by the Montgomery, are now opening, and will be sold together with the above goods on the lowest terms. New-York, November 27, 1787.
A CAUTION to OWNERS and MASTERS of VESSELS,
THAT they be ware of rigging, which is made of Holland yarn; for it is made in great quantities and exposed to sale, to the hurt of the buyer. It is of such a bad quality, that it is not sufficient for cables or rigging of any kind: it is spun and dressed off in such a manner, as makes it difficult for the buyer to know it from the best rope. In order to try its evil quality, let the buyer take a few yards of the fag end of the rope, and open them into hemp, and if it prove to be short yarn, you may take it for granted to be Holland yarn; which is spun so short and refuse of the hemp, that it is manufactured into fail-cloth in Holland. N. B. It should be enquired who are the promoters of this caution, be it known that we are a company of rope-makers, who think it too tedious to infect our names here. tf New-York, Nov. 8.
For the Daily Advertiser.
To the DISSENTING MEMBERS of the late CONVENTION of PENNSYLVANIA.
Gentlemen, YOUR long and elaborate publication, assigning the reasons for your refusing to subscribe the ratification of the NEW FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, has made its appearance in the public papers, and, I flatter myself, will be read throughout the United States. It will feed the flame of opposition among the weak, the wicked, the designing, and the factious; but it will make many new converts to the proposed Government, and furnish the old friends of it with new weapons of defence. The very attempt to excite uneasiness and disturbance in a State, about a measure legally and constitutionally adopted, after a long and ample discussion in a Convention of the people's Delegates, marks a disposition, beyond all conception, obstinate, base, and politically wicked. But obstinacy is the leading trait in your public characters, and, as it serves to give confidence to your actions, even in error, it cannot fail to procure you that share of respect which is paid to the firmness of Satan and his fellow apostates, who, after their expulsion from Heaven, had too much pride to repent and ask for a re-admission . My address to you will not be so lengthy as your publication; your arguments are few , altho' your harangue is long and insidious . You begin with telling the world, that no defect was discovered in the present Confederation, till after the war . Why did you not publish the truth? You know, Gentlemen, that during six years of the war, we had no Confederation at all . You know that the war commenced in April, 1775, and that we had no Confederation till March, 1781 . You know (for some of you are men of abilities and reading), it ought to be known, a principle of fear , in time of war, operates more powerfully in binding together the States which have a common interest, than all the parchment compacts on earth. Could we, then, discover the defects of our present Confederation, with two years' experience only, and an enemy in our country? You know we could not.
I will not undertake to detect the fallacy of every assertion, or the fallacy of all your reasoning, on each article. In the most of them the public will anticipate any thing I could say, and confute your arguments as fast as they read them. But I must tell you, Gentlemen, that your reasoning against the New Constitution resembles that of Mr. Hume on miracles. You begin with some gratuitous assumptions, which are denied; you assume premises which are totally false , and then reason on them with great address. Your whole reasoning, and that of all the opponents of the Federal Government, is built on this false principle , that the Federal Legislature will be a body distinct from and independent of the people . Unless your opposition is grounded on that principle , it stands on nothing ; and on any other supposition , your arguments are but declamatory nonsense .
But the principle is false. The Congress, under the proposed Constitution, will have the same interest as the people—they are a part of the people—their interest is inseparable from that of the people; and this union of interest will eternally remain, while the right of election shall continue in the people. Over this right Congress will have no control: the time and manner of exercising that right are very wisely vested in Congress, otherwise a delinquent State might embarrass the measures of the Union. The safety of the public requires that the Federal body should prevent any particular delinquency; but the right of election is above their control: it must remain in the people, and be exercised once in two, four or six years. A body thus organized, with thirteen Legislatures watching their measures, and several millions of jealous eyes inspecting their conduct, would not be apt to betray their constituents. Yet this is not the best ground of safety. The first and almost only principle that governs men, is interest . Love of our country is a powerful auxiliary motive to patriotic actions; but rarely or never operates against interest . The only requisite to secure liberty, is to connect the interest of the Governors with that of the governed . Blend these interests—make them inseparable—and both are safe from voluntary invasion. How shall this union be formed? This question is answered. The union is formed by the equal principles on which the people of these States hold their property and their rights. But how shall this union of interests be perpetuated? The answer is easy—bar all perpetuities of estates—prevent any exclusive

rights--preserve all preferment dependent on the choice of the people--suffer no power to exist independent of the people or their Representatives. While there exists no power in a State, which is independent on the will of the electors, the rights of the people are secure. The only barrier against tyranny, that is necessary in any State, is the election of Legislators by the yeomanry of that State. Preserve that, and every privilege is safe. The Legislators thus chosen to represent the people, should have all the power that the people would have, were they assembled in one body to deliberate upon public measures. The distinction between the powers of the people and of their Representatives in the Legislature, is as a surd in theory, as it proves pernicious in practice. A distinction, which has already countenanced and supported one rebellion in America; has prevented many good measures; has produced many bad; has created animosities in many States, and embarrassments in all. It has taught the people a lesson, which, if they continue to practise, will bring laws into contempt, and frequently mark our country with blood.
You object, Gentlemen, to the powers vested in Congress. Permit me, to ask you, where will you limit their powers? What bounds will you prescribe? You will reply, we will reserve certain rights, which are deemed invaluable, and restrain our rulers from abridging them. But, Gentlemen, let me ask you, how will you define these rights? would you say, the liberty of the Press shall not be restrained? Well, what is this liberty of the Press? Is it an unlimited licence to publish any thing and every thing with impunity? If so, the Author, and Printer of any treatise, however obscene and blasphemous, will be screened from punishment. You know, Gentlemen, that there are books extant, so shockingly and infamously obscene and so daringly blasphemous, that no society on earth, would be vindicable in suffering the publishers to pass unpunished. You certainly know that such cases have happened, and may happen again--nay, you know that they are probable. Would not that indiscriminate expression, the liberty of the Press, extend to the justification of every possible publication? Yes, Gentlemen, you know, that under such a general licence, a man who should publish a treatise to prove his maker a knave, must be screened from legal punishment. I shudder at the thought! But the truth must not be concealed. The Constitutions of several States guarantee that very licence.
But if you attempt to define the liberty of the Press, and ascertain what cases shall fall within that privilege, during the course of centuries, where will you begin? Or rather, where will you end? Here, Gentlemen, you will be puzzled. Some publications certainly may be a breach of civil law: You will not have the effrontery to deny a truth so obvious and intuitively evident. Admit that principle; and unless you can define precisely the cases, which are, and are not a breach of law, you have no right to say, the liberty of the Press shall not be restrained; for such a licence would warrant any breach of law. Rather than hazard such an abuse of privilege, is it not better to leave the right altogether with your rulers and your posterity? No attempts have ever been made by a Legislative body in America, to abridge that privilege; and in this free enlightened country, no attempts could succeed, unless the public should be convinced that an abuse of it would warrant the restriction. Should this ever be the case, you have no right to say, that a future Legislature, or that posterity shall not abridge the privilege, or punish its abuses. The very attempt to establish a permanent, unalterable Constitution, is an act of consummate arrogance. It is a presumption that we have all possible wisdom--that we can foresee all possible circumstances--and judge for future generations, better than they can for themselves.
But you will say, that trial by jury, is an unalienable right, that ought not to be trusted with our rulers. Why not? If it is such a darling privilege, will not Congress be as fond of it, as their constituents? An elevation into that Council, does not render a man insensible to his privileges, nor place him beyond the necessity of securing them. A member of Congress is liable to all the operations of law, except during his attendance on public business; and should he consent to a law, annihilating any right whatever, he deprives himself, his family and estate, of the benefit resulting from that right, as well as his constituents. This circumstance alone, is a sufficient security.
But, why this outcry about juries? If the people esteem them so highly, why do they ever neglect them, and suffer the trial by them to go into disuse? In some States, Courts of Admiralty have no juries--nor Courts of Chancery at all. In the City Courts of some States, juries are rarely or never called, altho' the parties may demand them; and one State, at least, has lately passed an act, empowering the parties to submit both law and fact to the Court. It is found, that the judgment of a Court, gives as
much satisfaction, as the verdict of a jury, as the Court are as good judges of fact, as juries, and much better judges of law. I have no desire to abolish trials by jury, although the original design and excellence of them, is in many cases superseded. While the people remain attached to this mode of deciding causes, I am confident, that no Congress can wrest the privilege from them.
But, Gentlemen, our legal proceedings want a reform. Involved in all the mazes of perplexity, which the chicanery of lawyers could invent, in the course of 500 years, our road to justice and redress is tedious, fatiguing and expensive. Our Judicial proceedings are capable of being simplified, and improved in almost every particular. For God's sake, Gentlemen, do not shut the door against improvement. If the people of America, should ever spurn the shackles of opinion, and venture to leave the road, which is so overgrown with briars and thorns, as to strip a man's cloaths from his back as he passes, I am certain they can devise a more easy, safe, and expeditious mode of administering the laws, than that which harasses every poor mortal, that is wretched enough to want legal justice. In Pennsylvania, where very respectable merchants, have repeatedly told me, they had rather lose a debt of fifty pounds, than attempt to recover it by a legal process, one would think that men, who value liberty and property, would not restrain any Government from suggesting a remedy for such disorders.
Another right, which you would place beyond the reach of Congress, is the writ of habeas corpus. Will you say that this right may not be suspended in any case? You dare not. If it may be suspended in any case, and the Congress are to judge of the necessity, what security have you in a declaration in its favor? You had much better say nothing upon the subject.
But you are frightened at a standing army. I beg you, Gentlemen, to define a standing army. If you would refuse to give Congress power to raise troops, to guard our frontiers, and garrison forts, or in short, to enlist men for any purpose, then we understand you--you tie the hands of your rulers so that they cannot defend you against any invasion. This is protection indeed! But if Congress can raise a body of troops for a year, they can raise them for a hundred years, and your declaration against standing armies can have no other effect, than to prevent Congress from denominating their troops, a standing army. You would only introduce into this country, the English farce of mechanically passing an annual bill for the support of troops which are never disbanded.
You object to the indefinite power of taxation in Congress. You must then limit the exercise of that power by the sums of money to be raised; or leaving the sums indefinite, must prescribe the particular mode in which, and the articles on which the money is to be raised. But the sums cannot be ascertained, because the necessities of the States cannot be foreseen nor defined. It is beyond even your wisdom and profound knowledge, Gentlemen, to ascertain the public exigencies, and reduce them to the provisions of a Constitution. And if you would prescribe the mode of raising money, you will meet with equal difficulty. The different States have different modes of taxation; and I question much whether even your skill, Gentlemen, could invent a uniform system that should sit easy upon every State. It must therefore be left to experiment, with a power that can correct the errors of a system, and suit it to the habits of the people. And if no uniform mode will answer this purpose, it will be in the power of Congress to lay taxes in each State, according to its particular practice. But you know, Gentlemen, that an efficient Federal Government will render taxes unnecessary--that it will ease the people of their burdens, and remove their complaints, and therefore when you raise a clamor about the right of taxation, you must be guilty of the basest design--your hearts must be as malignant as your actions have been insidious. You know that requisitions on the States are ineffectual--That they cannot be rendered effectual, but by a compulsory power in Congress--You know that without an efficient power to raise money, Government cannot secure person, property or justice--Nay, you know further, that such power is as safely lodged in your Representatives in Congress, as it is in your Representatives in your distinct Legislatures.
You would likewise restrain Congress from requiring excessive bail, or imposing excessive fines and unusual punishment. But unless you can, in every possible instance, previously define the words excessive and unusual--if you leave the discretion of Congress to define them on occasion, any restriction of their power by a general indefinite expression, is a nullity--mere formal nonsense. What consummate arrogance must you possess, to presume you can now make better provision for the Government of these States, during the course of ages and centuries, than the future Legislatures can, on the spur
of the occasion! Yet your whole reasoning on the subject implies this arrogance, and a presumption that you have a right to legislate for posterity!
But to complete the list of unalienable rights, you would insert a clause in your declaration, that every body shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land, and catch fish in rivers that are public property. Here, Gentlemen, you must have exerted the whole force of your genius! Not even the all-important subject of legislating for a world can restrain my laughter at this clause! As a supplement to that article of your bill of rights, I would suggest the following restriction:--"That Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right." This article is of just as much consequence as the 8th clause of your proposed bill of rights.
But to be more serious, Gentlemen, you must have had in idea the forest-laws in Europe, when you inserted that article; for no circumstance that ever took place in America, could have suggested the thought of a declaration in favor of hunting and fishing. Will you forever persist in error? Do you not reflect that the state of property in America, is directly the reverse of what it is in Europe? Do you not consider, that the forest-laws in Europe originated in feudal tyranny, of which not a trace is to be found in America? Do you not know that in this country almost every farmer is Lord of his own soil? That instead of suffering under the oppression of a Monarch and Nobles, a class of haughty masters, totally independent of the people, almost every man in America is a Lord himself--enjoying his property in fee? Where then the necessity of laws to secure hunting and fishing? You may just as well ask for a clause, giving licence for every man to till his own land, or milk his own cows. The Barons in Europe procured forest-laws to secure the right of hunting on their own land, from the intrusion of those who had no property in lands. But the distribution of land in America, not only supersedes the necessity of any laws upon this subject, but renders them absolutely trifling. The same laws which secure the property in land, secure to the owner the right of using it as he pleases.
But you are frightened at the prospect of a consolidation of the States. I differ from you very widely. I am afraid, after all our attempts to unite the States, that contending interests, and the pride of State-Sovereignties, will either prevent our union, or render our Federal Government weak, slow and inefficient. The danger is all on this side. If any thing under Heaven now endangers our liberties and independence, it is that single circumstance.
You harp upon that clause of the New Constitution, which declares, that the laws of the United States, &c. shall be the supreme law of the land; when you know that the powers of the Congress are defined, to extend only to those matters which are in their nature and effects, general. You know, the Congress cannot meddle with the internal police of any State, or abridge its Sovereignty. And you know, at the same time, that in all general concerns, the laws of Congress must be supreme, or they must be nothing.
But the public will ask, who are these men that so violently oppose the New Constitution? I will tell them. You are the heads of that party, Gentlemen, which, on the celebration of a very glorious event in Philadelphia, at the close of the war, collected in a mob, and broke the windows of the Quakers, and committed the most delectable outrages, because their religion would not suffer them to illuminate their windows, and join in the rejoicings. You are the men, Gentlemen, that wrested the Charter from the Bank, without the least justifiable pretence; sporting with a grant which you had made, and which had never been forfeited. You are the men, that, without a show of right, took away the Charter of the University, and vested it in the hands of your own tools. Yes, Gentlemen, you are the men, who prescribed a test law and oath of abjuration in Pennsylvania, which excluded more than half the Citizens of the State from all Civil Offices. A law, which, had it not been altered by the efforts of more reasonable men, would have established you, and your adherents, as an Aristocratic junto, in all the offices and emoluments of the State. Could your base designs have been accomplished, you would have rioted in all the benefits of Government, and Pennsylvania would now, have been subject to a tyrannical Aristocracy, as ever cursed Society. Such has been the uniformly infamous conduct of the men, who now oppose the best Constitution of Government, ever devised by human wisdom.
But the most bare-faced act of tyranny and wickedness, which has distinguished your political characters, remains to be mentioned. You are the men, Gentlemen, who have abandoned your parts of duty, and
betrayed the constitutional rights of the State of Pennsylvania, by seceding from the Legislature, with the design of defeating the measures of a constitutional quorum of the House. Yes, Gentlemen, and to add to the infamy of your conduct, you have the audacity to avow the intention. Will you then attempt to palliate the crime, by saying it was necessary? Good Heavens! necessary that a State should be ruled by a minority! necessary that the sense of a Legislature should be defeated by a junto, which had labored incessantly, for four years, to establish an Aristocracy in the State! The same principle which will vindicate you, will justify any one man in defeating the sense of the whole State. If a minority may prevent a law, one man may do it; but is this liberty? Is this your concern for the rights of the State? Dare you talk of rights, which you have so flagrantly invaded? Will the world expect you to be the guardians of privileges? No, Gentlemen, they will soon expect lessons of morality from the wheel-barrowed criminals, that clank their chains along your streets.
Do you know, Gentlemen, that you are treading in the steps of the Governors before the revolution? Do you know that from the first settlement of Pennsylvania, there was a contest between the people and the deputies of the proprietaries? And that when a Governor could not bring the Assembly to resign their rights, he would prevail on certain members to leave the House, and prevent their measures. Yes, Gentlemen, you are but following the precedents of your tyrannical Governors. * You have begun, and pursued, with unwearied perseverance, the same plan of Despotism which wrought the late revolution; and, with a calm, hypocritical phiz, pretend to be anxious for the liberties of the people.
These facts stare you in the face! They are felt in Pennsylvania--and known to the world! There is not a spot in the United States, where the solemnity of contracts and grants, has been so sacrilegiously violated--and the rights of men so wantonly and perseveringly abused, as by you and your junto in Pennsylvania--except only, in the little detestable corner of the Continent, called Rhode-Island. Thanks be to the Sovereign Ruler of events, you are checked in your career of tyranny--your power is dwindling into impotence--and your abuse of the respectable Convention, and of the friends of our Federal Union, will shroud you in oblivion, or accelerate your progress to merited contempt.
AMERICA.
* See, a Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania, Page 24.
Just received, for sale, FIFTY-THREE Tierces new RICE, in whole and half casks, 5 barrels INDI-GO different prices; likewise a few barrels of GROUND-NUTS. Apply to ROBERT GILCHRIST, No. 20, Smith-Street. Dec. 29. 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
To all LOVERS of MUSIC. WHEREAS it is proposed by several musical Amateurs, to establish a musical society, both vocal and instrumental, in this city, those gentlemen who wish to patronize and encourage this undertaking, are requested to meet at the Charity School-room in John-street, No. 29, on Saturday evening, the 5th January, to consider and adopt some fundamental rules for said society. N. B. Performers only are requested to attend. Dec. 31. 1p
New-York, Dec. 29, 1787. Lost on Wednesday Evening last, SOMEWHERE near, or at the corner of James and Rutgers-street, a SWORD, with a black handle, a brass guard, on one side of the guard is wanting: it had an old black scabbard. Also lost on the same evening in the Bowery-lane, a cherry CANE, varnished, the varnish being somewhat worn off, with a copper ferrule and a bone head, the top being broken out, and the rest somewhat cracked. The owner wishing to have it again for antiquity sake, whoever has found the same, or either of them, shall have a reasonable reward. Enquire of the Printer. tf
An Apprentice wanted to a Commander of a Vessel, TRADING principally between New-York and the West-Indies. A smart active boy will meet with a good master, who will pay every necessary attention to him. Apply to the Printer. Dec. 28. tf
** On account of the Quantity of Matter, in this Day's Paper, a number of ADVERTISEMENTS have been omitted.

New-York, Dec. 31.
A letter from a house of the first credit and information in Glasgow, dated the 29th October, brought by the ship George, to a respectable merchant in this city, says, that vigorous preparations for war still continued, which, at that time, was thought to be inevitable.
We hear a vessel is arrived at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, from the West-Indies, and brings intelligence, that the English Islands ARE OPENED TO THE AMERICANS in consequence of the EXPECTATION of a WAR.
Wednesday last arrived at Boston, the Schooner Jack, Capt. Sargent, in 59 days from Croisic, in France. The Captain informs, that at that port, every thing wore the aspect of war—that though an inconsiderable town 100 troops were marched in for its defence—that the cannon were mounted, &c. That an English frigate was continually cruising off Brest—that his most Christian Majesty had demanded of the Court of Berlin that the Prussian troops be withdrawn from Holland.
By Capt. Avery, who arrived at Boston, in a brig from Halifax, on Thursday, we learn, that preparations for a speedy war were making at that place—that the officers of the troops were recruiting the regiments to the war establishment, &c.
An advertisement in a Halifax paper of Nov. 29, mentions, that the insurance on goods to that place, in consequence of the expected war, had advanced to TWENTY FIVE per cent.
Lloyd's List, of Oct. 12, states, that the Sally, Armstrong, from New-York for Liverpool, which was on shore near Dunkerque, is got off, and gone into Waterford harbour.
The following vessels were advertised in the Glasgow papers of the 24th Oct.
The ship Hopewell, John Williamson, master, for Charleston, S. C. to sail immediately.
The brigantine Neptune, Samuel Hall, master, for Boston, to sail 1st Nov.
The following vessels cleared out at the Custom-house on Friday and Saturday, viz. Ship Generous Friends, Gray, for London. Brig Sandwich, Butler, for Trinidad. Schooner Two Friends, Mead, for Wilmington. Sloop Sally, Coffin, for Newbern; Dolphin, Carhart, and Hetty, Wallace, for Philadelphia; Success, Stannard, and Lucy Anne, Camfield, for Saybrook; Lady Washington, Colver, for New London; Fanny, Conklin, for Demarara; and Lady Hayley, Til-lingham, for Rhode-Island.
Married, on Saturday night, by the Rev. Mr. Kuntze, Mr. THOMAS BIGGS to Miss BETSEY SIDELL, both of this city.
On Saturday arrived the ship George, Capt. Hunter, from Greenock, in a passage of eight weeks. Glasgow papers, by this vessel, to the 24th October, contain the following advices:—
From the London Gazette, October 20.
H A G U E, October 12.
On the 9th inst. in the morning, his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick made his dispositions for bombarding the town of Amsterdam; but a deputation, in the interval, waited on his Serene Highness, intreating him to name the condition to which he wished the city to subscribe; which being signified to them, the following capitulation was signed the next day, at noon, and the same evening his Serene Highness took possession of the principal gate of the city.
1. A detachment of the King's troops, consisting of 150 men, 10 chasseurs, and 4 orderly hussars, shall occupy the Leyden gate; and 2 pieces of artillery shall be placed within cannon shot of that gate.
2. Two battalions with chasseurs shall be posted at Overtoom.
3. In order to avoid giving occasion for any disturbances, none of the King's troops shall enter the city without the previous concurrence of the magistrate.
4. The Burgomasters and City Council shall take the most effectual measures for securing the sluices at the Harlem and Muyden gates.
5. Legal information shall be given daily to his Serene Highness of the progress made in carrying into execution the resolutions of the State, to which the town of Amsterdam has already acceded.
6. Monf. de Haaren, the Prussian Commissary, shall be informed of every thing relative to the disarming, in order to report an exact account of it.
Done at Overtoom, the 10th of Oct. 1787.
(Signed) Dedel, B. CHARLES, W. F. Elias Arnoldz. Duke of Brunswick. Belker.
H A G U E, October 12.
Her Royal Highness delivered, on Saturday last, her complaint in writing to the Commissioners of their Noble Mightinesses; which consists in declaring, that she did not require any corporal punishment against the authors and abettors of the insults offered to her, but only that they be dismissed from all their employments. And upon the
enquiry made by the Commissioners of their Noble Mightinesses, who were the authors, her Highness mentioned the following Gentlemen:
M. Daniel Jacobus Canter, Chamberlain of the Council of the City of Haarlem.
M. Franciscus Guetherus Blok, Magistrate of the City of Leyden.
M. Jan De Witt, Magistrate of the City of Amsterdam.
M. Martinus Van Toulon, of the Council of the City of Gouda.
M. Cornelis Van Forcett, Lord of Schoorl and Camp, of the council of the city of Alkmaar.
M. A. Cofterus, secretary at Woerden.
M. Cornelis Johan Dedange, Lord of the manors of Wyngaarden Ruigbroeke, of the council of the city of Gouda.
M. Cornelis De Gyzelaar, Pensionary of the city of Dordrecht.
M. Adriaen Van Zeeberg, and M. Pieter Leonard Van de Kasteele, Pensionaries of the city of Haarlem.
M. Englebert Francois, Van Berkel, and M. Catal Wouter Niffcher, Pensionaries of the city of Amsterdam.
M. Ludovicus Timon de Kempenaar, of the council of the city of Alkmaar; together with house of the Defensie Wezen, of the city of Amsterdam.
Adrian Pompejus Van Leyden, Lord of Hardinxveldt.
M. Balthazar Elias Abbema.
Lodewyk Hovy de Jonge.
Mr. John Barnard Bicker.
And their Noble Mightinesses, with most of the cities, resolved to give this satisfaction; mean while Amsterdam was to explain on Thursday, and some of the cities concurred upon the approbation of their principals; so that this matter is as good as concluded.
V I E N N A, September 23.
The Generals who are here set out daily for their destinations. The troops assembling on our frontiers, for the information of the line and the army, will amount to 163,780 men. It is said that the declaration made on the part of our Court to that of Constantinople, is in substance: "That his Imperial Majesty had reason to imagine, that the Ottoman Court would have demanded his declaration with more decency and respect than they did; that the answer of his Imperial Majesty is, that he cannot but highly disapprove of the precipitate step of the Ottoman Court, in declaring war against Russia, and that the Porte must be answerable for all the unhappy consequences that will infallibly result from it; that the Divan cannot be ignorant that in the present circumstances his Imperial Majesty, as friend and ally to Russia, must furnish the Empress with the succors stipulated in the treaty, by sending 80,000 men to join the Russian forces; that if the Porte should look upon this as an hostility, our Court was prepared to repel force by force if necessary; but that if the Porte would not look upon such a proceeding as hostile, they might, notwithstanding the succors granted to Russia, continue, with regard to the respective frontiers, to keep up the good understanding that has hitherto subsisted between the two empires, in which case his Imperial Majesty will, with pleasure, undertake the office of mediator, in the differences between the Porte and Russia." The courier who carries this declaration, set out on the 4th for Constantinople, thus we shall soon know how it will be received by the Divan.
L O N D O N.
October 16. The Hebe frigate, which lately peeped into Brest, and of consequence brought some private intelligence to Government, has failed again, in company with two men of war of 74 guns; from which the conjecture is, that they are gone in quest of the two men of war that lately failed from Brest.
The Chevalier de St. Hypolite, one of the French captains who distinguished himself in a very particular manner during the last war, (and to whose very superior address the safety of some capital ships of the French fleet, part of Comte de Grasse's, after the engagement with the British squadron under Rodney, &c. was in a great measure attributed) is said to be commander of the squadron which lately failed from Brest that were followed for some time by Capt. Thornborough in the Hebe frigate. They are the Le Broglio of 64 guns, L'Argonaute of 36, La Precieuse of 28, La Pandore of 26, La Pucine of 14. To what quarter they were bound is unknown; but it is conceived to the West-Indies, or the coast of Africa.
We are credibly informed that Spain is preparing for war with no less diligence than France. This may to most, perhaps, appear a circumstance of little moment, as thinking that much is not to be apprehended from the exertions of a nation that has suffered itself to be so drubbed, insulted, and humbled by the petty state of Algiers. In that view of the matter, something may be said; but in another, it is a signal not to be altogether neglected. It helps to explain the true designs of the other branch of the House of Bourbon, whatever evasive an-
swers they chuse to give to our remonstrances; and therefore, as what Spaniards so, having no immediate object of their own to prosecute, must be done by concert, we may naturally enough infer, that our nearest neighbours are not so very innocent in their intentions as they pretend.
The great alarm that gave rise to the present preparations for war, it is said arose from the intercepted letters of the Marquis of Verac. By these Sir James Harris is said to have discovered a dark and complicated scene of perfidy and intrigue between the Dutch Patriots, the French, and others, who are not suspected by the nation at large to have any hostile views towards the crown of Great-Britain.
It seems that some grand events were brewing, and that the train was laid for an extensive political explosion, which would have at once thrown Holland, Poland, and Turkey into other hands. These designs were on or to be executed till the spring, so that it is fortunate for this kingdom, that the French, like Guy Faux, were detected before their schemes were ripe for execution.
October 18. By the mails of yesterday, the following gallant action is confirmed, of which some imperfect accounts had been received:
A Russian frigate sailed from Cherson to Sebastopolis in Crimea, and not knowing of the declaration of war, was suddenly and unexpectedly attacked by eight Turkish vessels, one of which was of the line, and two others, frigates; the rest armed transports. Notwithstanding this unequal engagement, the Russian vessel not only did not receive any damage, but actually kept up such a fire on the Turks, as obliged them to quit the seas; the Russian Captain, with seven glorious wounds he had received, had the satisfaction to see them fly before him, and afterwards came in triumph into the harbor of Sebastopolis.
Oct. 20. Wednesday Colonel Small, who served last war in America, with great credit to himself and much advantage to his country, had an audience of his Majesty, completely habited in the Highland dress.
The best advices from France say, that they have thirty ships of the line ready for sea. By land they are not so well prepared. They have eighty battalions of infantry, but they are in great disorder. The attention paid to the navy in their late war, and since the peace, has considerably affected their army. It was broken to pieces—Many of the nobility retired in disgust, and its discipline was ruined. They are now, however, taking the most effectual means for recruiting its strength, and certainly, as it is, it is more than a match for ours.
Yesterday afternoon a messenger arrived at the Marquis of Carmarthen's office, Whitehall, from Paris. The dispatches were sent to the King at Windsor. It is not mentioned that any thing like a satisfactory answer has been obtained by the Duke of Dorset from the French Cabinet; on the contrary, they complain loudly and heavily of being forced into expensive preparations for war in a manner hitherto unprecedented in the annals of the two countries. A foreign courier came over from Calais in the same packet, who arrived yesterday at Monf. de Barthelemy's house, near Hyde Park Corner.
According to letters from the continent, a triple alliance between Russia, the Emperor, and France, is said to be certainly on the tapis, and in great forwardness. France in this case gives up the Turk, for which she is to have a great share of the Levant trade guaranteed to her by the other contracting powers, when the Turk is driven out of Europe. The chief matter in question is, who shall possess the imperial city of Constantinople.
A letter from Amsterdam, Oct. 12, says, "This day Messrs. Hope, Muilman, and a number of great merchants, went upon Change, with an intention of making known that all was settled on the old footing in favor of the Stadtholder; for which purpose, they took orange cockades from their pockets, which they put in their hats. This proceeding raised a mob which became very riotous, and ended in the killing of several soldiers, and seven Jews, besides wounding many others. Information thereof being sent to the Duke of Brunswick, he immediately (notwithstanding the capitulation) sent in 500 Prussian troops to prevent further tumult. However we expect a bad night."
M. Van Berkel, and another Burgher or two, who were most inimical to the Stadtholder, made their escape by sea; and a considerable number of the most refractory of the Amsterdams were sent by the Prussian General to Cleves.
GERMAN SOCIETY.
THE Members of the German Society are requested to attend at the stated Quarterly Meeting, on Wednesday the 2d of January, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Lutheran School-House.
By order of the President, WILLIAM WILMERDING, Sec'y. Dec. 31, 1787. 31
CITY OF NEW-YORK, 13.
At a Meeting of the MAYOR and ALDERMEN of the said City, on Saturday the 29th Day of December, 1787.
WHEREAS this City has, in time past, been exposed to the great danger of Fires, and the Inhabitants to hurt and injury, by discharging Guns and other Fireworks, in the Streets of this City; and more particularly in the New-Year Holy-days:
The MAYOR, and ALDERMEN, taking the same into consideration, have, therefore, directed the following Clause of an Act of the Legislature, prohibiting those disorders; under severe penalties, to be published for the information of the Citizens:—And the Sheriff, Deputy-Sheriffs, Constables, Marshalls, and Watchmen are required to be vigilant in putting the said Law into execution:—And Parents and Masters are cautioned to be careful in restraining their Children, Apprentices, and Servants from offending against the said Law, as the penalties will be rigorously exacted.
Extract from the Law of this State, passed the 22d day of April, 1786, entitled "An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of New-York."
"And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons, of what age, sex, or quality soever, from and after the said first day of June next, shall fire and discharge any Gun, Pistol, Rocket, Cracker, Squib, or other Firework, in any Street, Lane, or Alley, Garden, or inclosure, or from any House, or in any other place where persons frequently walk, to the Southward of Fresh-water; that then every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted, before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace for the said City and County of New-York, either by the confession of the party or parties so offending, or the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, (which oath the said Justice or Justices of the Peace, or any one of them, are hereby empowered and required to administer,) shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of Twenty Shillings; the said forfeitures to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of every such offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom such conviction or convictions shall be, as aforesaid, made; which forfeiture shall be paid to the said Chamberlain, for the use of the poor of the said City of New-York. And if the said offenders shall not pay the said forfeiture or forfeitures upon conviction as aforesaid, and want of sufficient distress whereon the same can be made, that then every such Justice or Justices of the Peace, is, and are hereby empowered and required, by warrant under his or their hands and seals, to commit every such person or persons, so as aforesaid offending, to the common Goal of the City and County of New-York, there to remain without bail or mainprize, for the space of Ten Days, unless such forfeiture or forfeitures be sooner paid; but in case such offender or offenders in the premises last above mentioned, shall happen to be a Slave or Slaves, the forfeiture or forfeitures aforesaid, shall not be forthwith paid, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for such Justice or Justices before whom the conviction shall be, to cause such Slave or Slaves to be publicly whipped on the naked back, such number of stripes as he or they shall think proper, not exceeding thirty-nine; which punishment shall be in lieu and stead of the said forfeiture."
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, ROBERT BENSON, Ck.
SALES THIS DAY,
At 8 o'clock, At No. 20, Wall-street, A large and general assortment of DRY GOODS,
Including superfine, second and coarse Cloths, Coatings, Baizes, and Blankets, Cotton Checks, Check Handkerchiefs, Modes, Sattins, and Lurestrings, Poplins, Cambelts, and Durants, Irish Linens, and a very neat assortment of Chintzes, Calicoes, Searf Twist, Bindings, Camp and Death-head Buttons, &c. &c. ROBERT HUNTER.
SALES at AUCTION,
By Frederick Jay,
On THURSDAY, opposite the Coffee-house,
6 hogheads Rum, 2 do. West-India Rum, 40 doz. London bottled Porter, 3 casks London draught Porter, 4 pipes Catalonia Wine, 2 bales of choice feathers, 6 crates Bristol Ware, 20 jars Raisins, fresh imported, 20 kegs Olives.
On FRIDAY,
At No. 244, Queen-street, a variety of
DRY GOODS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THIS DAY, 11 o'clock,
At the Coffee-House Bridge, if fair weather,
50 barrels pickled Mackerel, 6 barrels pickled Salmon, &c. &c. THOS. FRANKLIN, jun.
BRANDY for Sale.
A Quantity will this day be landed from on board the New-York and Philadelphia Packet, Jacob Bird, Master, lying at Bache's wharf, near the Old-ship, by CONSTABLE, RUCKER & Co. Dec. 31, 1787.
FREIGHT
WANTED, for a BRIG, upwards 100 Tons Measurement, with an undeniable British Register, and Mediterranean Pass. For either Spain, Portugal, the Streights, Western, Canary, or any of the West-India Islands. For particulars, enquire at No 74, Water-street. Dec. 31. if

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 CHARLESTON. The SLOOP MARIA, William Elliot, Master, LYING at Bowne's Wharf. For freight or passage, apply to JOHN JACKSON, No. 78, Water-street, or to the Master on board. She will sail on the 6th January. Has good accommodations for Passengers. New-York, Dec. 27, 1787. ed.
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. tf Nov. 27.
For MADEIRA, The American BRIG APOLLO, JAMES TYRIE, Master, LYING at Hallett's wharf; a staunch, good vessel, well found, and accommodated; will sail in eight days, wind and weather permitting, and returns directly from Madeira to this port. Importers of Wines will find their interest in ordering them by this vessel. They may not only have them brought at a low freight, but save considerable duties and insurance. For Passage to Madeira, or Freight from thence, apply to SHEDDEN, PATRICK, and Co. No. 206, Water-Street. Dec. 13. tf.
For SALE, The Hull of the new BRIG JOHANN, BURTHEN about 230 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 Saltus, commander, WILL sail by the 10th of January. For Freight or Passage, (having elegant accommodations) apply to the commander on board, at the new long wharf, below the Fly-Market, or to GEO. DOUGLASS, No. 14, Fly-Market,
Who has for Sale, 100 tierces New Rice, 100 boxes Castile 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 &c Dec. 24. tf
Farms of LAND to be Sold. THE first is situate in the borough town of Westchester, at Frogs Neck, joining the East River, and contains 150 acres of Land. This farm was formerly the property of Enoch Hunt. The land is excellent, and the situation delightful, only 18 miles from New-York.
The second is situate in the Manor of Cortlandt, about 2 & 1-2 miles south of the Presbyterian church at Crumpond, and is about the same distance from the Friends Meeting House; it contains 205 & 1-2 acres of good land, under excellent improvement, and now in possession of Joseph Smith, the elder.
Also, a farm situate at Singling, in the Manor of Philipsburgh, 2 miles from the landing, contains 100 acres of the best land, both for grain and grass; at present occupied by John Oser.
For particulars apply to the subscriber, living at Croton, near the ferry, who will furnish indisputable titles for either or all of the above farms.
PH. V. CORTLANDT. Manor of Cortlandt, Dec. 19. m.tf.
** The Printer having obtained a Copy of some OBSERVATIONS made in the late FEDERAL CONVENTION, by a Member of that Body, the Public may be furnished with them at the printing-office.—Price 25.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the late Colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1778, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of Mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," That on the thirtieth day of April next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, at public auction or vendue, to the highest bidder, all that certain Messuage or Dwelling-House, and Lot of Ground, situate in the Dock-ward of the said city, being bounded in front on the west by Broad-street, northerly by Mill-street, southerly and easterly by a lot now or late of the heirs and devisees of the late John Livingston, deceased, containing in the front on Broad-street aforesaid, 41 feet 6 inches, on the north side 44 feet 10 inches, and on the southerly side 33 feet 4 inches, be the same more or less.—And also, all that certain Messuage and Lot of Ground, lying on Nassau-street, in the North-ward of the said city, opposite the new Brick Presbyterian Church, containing in front and rear 30 feet, and in depth on each side 21 feet. The conditions will be made known at the time of sale, and an indisputable title given to the purchaser. Dated the 29th day of October, 1787.
JAMES WALKER HAS removed from No. 10 to No. 19, William-street, where he continues to keep a general assortment of DRY GOODS, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices; and the smallest favors most gratefully acknowledged. N. B. He thinks it necessary to observe, that the partnership of Vander Beck and Walker was dissolved in November, 1786; should any person have demands against them, they are desired to call on said Walker for settlement.
HOGS' BRISTLES. WANTED, by the Subscribers, a quantity of Hogs' Bristles, for which Two Shillings per pound will be given, provided they are dressed clean; those in the run, One Shilling and Three-pence per ditto.—The Subscribers having erected a BRUSH MANUFACTORY, at No. 4, Peck's-Slip, where they propose carrying on the Brush-Making Business in all its branches,—Store-keepers and others may be furnished with all sorts on as low terms as any imported, to which they hope the preference will be given them, as the work is equally good if not better; and as they will warrant their work not to fail till worn out by use, they flatter themselves with expectation of getting a sufficient supply of this country Bristles, that they may not be under the necessity of importing their stock from England;—the Farmers, by being careful in the season of killing, may save sufficient to supply them in this business.—Country Store-keepers would be the most proper persons to collect them.
Those who will please to undertake the collecting them, will meet with a ready sale, and be the means of promoting a very useful branch of business, which may be carried on in this state, and put a stop to the importing that commodity. The least favor will be gratefully acknowledged, by ANANIAS COOPER and Company. New-York, Nov. 5, 1787. m 6m
TO BE SOLD by the SUBSCRIBER, at PUBLIC AUCTION, To be held on the premises, on MONDAY the fourth day of February next, THE FARM, late of William Ogden, deceased, lying in North-Castle, in the county of Westchester, containing two hundred and twenty-seven acres, well timbered and watered, a good double Dwelling-House and Kitchen, a good Barn and orchard, with an excellent spring of water within two rods of the kitchen. On the farm is an excellent meadow, producing the best English grass. The conditions will be made known at the time of sale by JOSEPH OGDEN. N. B. Those who have demands against the estate of the said William Ogden, deceased, are requested to attend the sale. North-Castle, Dec. 17. 1787. sw.th.&m
TO BE SOLD, A New Store-House on Lupon'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 expence, might be converted into a genteel and commodious dwelling-house.
ALSO, TO BE SOLD, A NEGRO LAD, about 17 years of age. For further information enquire of FREDERICK GIRAUD, No. 1, corner of Anne-street. Dec. 28. 8t. eod.
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 imposition 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 falls 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. 28. tf.
C A S H, And the HIGHEST PRICES given, for all kinds of CONTINENTAL and STATE SECURITIES, PARTICULARLY Bancker's, 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,
To the Curious. To be seen at Mr. Stevens's Livery Stables, Wall-street, near Pitt's Statue, Two CAMELS,
MAL 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 high bunch 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 weight; 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.
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 Houghquack-nock, in the county of Essex, and State of New-Jersey;—his dwelling-house was beset 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 violence, 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 P.P.P., one silver sugar dish unmarked, one silver milk-pot unmarked, twelve silver table-spoons marked H.P., 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 B.M.W. one silver snuff-box marked on the fore part of it M.B. one pair silver knee-buckles, and one silver flock-buckle; as also four gold rings, and one gold locket, used for women's beads; together with sundry other articles belonging to the false liber. 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. WECZEL, Essex County, Dec. 4, 1787. HESSEL PETRISE. tf.
JUST IMPORTED, In the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, from London, and other late vessels from Great-Britain, and to be SOLD on very reasonable terms, by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, the corner of King and Queen-streets, A large and choice Collection of BOOKS;
Among which are, ELEGANT folio family bibles, with near 200 cuts in each; Baskett on the new testament, Brown's self-interpreting bible, 2 vols; Cruden's concordance, Wardlaw's system of divinity, Whitby's commentary, Blair's, Carr's, Erskine's, Bolton's, Willison's, Atterbury's, &c. Sermon's Nelson's festivals, Collier's, Duncan's, and Hoffman's practice of physic; Van Swieten's commentaries, 18 vols. Boerhaave's aphorisms, 6 vols. Smellie, and Hamilton's midwifery; Leake on the diseases of women, 2 vols. Quincey's medical lexicon, Fourcroy's chemistry, &c. Ainsworth's, Young's, Cole's, and Enrick's latin dictionaries; Davidson's Virgil and Horace; Duncan's Cicero, Kent's Letician-Clark's Cæsar, Homer, Nepos, Euripides, Brahms, and introduction; Simpson's fluxions, and Euclid; Hammond's algebra, Stone's Euclid; Love's surveying, Guthrie's and Salmon's geographical grammars; Johnson's, Sheridan's, Ashes, Dycke's, Bailey's, Scott's, Perry's, and Enrick's dictionaries; Bennet's christian oratory, Scott on elocution, elegant extracts in verse, do. in prose, Lord Littleton's letters, Klopstock's Messiah, Hutton's mensuration, Hawney's mensuration.
Besides the above, a great variety, consisting of History, Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Mathematics, Biography, Geography, Poetry, Physic, Surgery, Agriculture, Nautical Books, Dictionaries, Architecture, Novels, Miscellanies, Plays, &c. Also, an excellent Assortment of
STATIONARY, viz. Genuine Writing Paper, of different sizes and prices; Ledgers, Journals, Waste, Letter, and Blank Books of all sizes; Receipt Books, Bonnet and Wrapping Paper, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Quills, Slates, lead and slate Pencils, Penknives, elegant shoe Buckles, Message Cards, &c. &c. ** Commissions from the Country thankfully received, and carefully executed. Nov. 24. tf.
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 orthodox christians.
Likewise, (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. 39.
TO BE SOLD By GEORGE DOUGLASS, No. 14, Fly-Market; ONE hundred barrels Philadelphia superfine Flour, 150 do. common do. 50 half barrels 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.
To be Let until the first of May, THAT pleasantly situated HOUSE, No. 13, corner of Beekman and William-street; For particulars, apply at the premises. tf Oct. 27.
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 Compting 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.
FENCING SCHOOL.
M. VILLETTE has the honor to inform the gentlemen of this city, that he has opened his School on Golden-hill, No. 37, where that noble art will be taught, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from ten o'clock, A.M. until two.
** An EVENING SCHOOL is opened for the accommodation of such gentlemen, as cannot make it convenient to attend in the day.
M. VILLETTE has likewise opened a FRENCH Evening School, from six to eight, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Gentlemen desiring to be taught at their lodgings, will be waited upon in those hours that will not interfere with his School hours.
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 expence, by MEZEKIAH IVERS, Rope-Maker. July 25th, 1787. tf
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. tm Dec. 8.
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 G. H. S. at the Printer's of the Daily Advertiser, or at Mr. McCormick's, No. 11, Cuger'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. tf.
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. Loudon, Hodge, Allen and Campbell.
Wm. Cornell & Co.
At their MILLS opposite the City of New-York, have for sale on the lowest terms, FRESH superfine and common burr Flour, which they will warrant to be as good as Philadelphia Flour; likewise SHIP BREAD. The shippers that may favor them with their orders will be pleased to give them notice by leaving a line at No. 44, Little Dock-street, corner of Centuries-ship. They will be delivered in the best manner along side of their vessels, which will save the expence of cartage, and prevent them from being exposed to dirt. Dec. 18. m&th. tf.
Printed by FRANCIS CHILDS, No. 22, Hanover-Square.