Independent journal, or, The general advertiser (New-York [N.Y.]), 1787-10-27 00:00:00

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL:
O R, T H E
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, BY J. M'LEAN, AND CO. AT THEIR PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 41, HANOVER-SQUARE.
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
A XE Iron; Cart Tire; Waggon, Chair and Sleigh Tire; Mill Irons and Iron of uncommon square; Steel of all kinds; English Faggot; the much esteemed blistered L. O. American blistered and Tub Steel; Anvils of all sizes; Beak Irons; Vices, &c. &c.
A great 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. New-York, October 9, 1787. 3
Craigie, Wainwright, and Co. DRUGGISTS,
No. 37, Wall-Street, corner of Hanover-Square. H AVE imported in the last Ships from Europe, a general Assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINE, and SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, which they will dispose of on very reasonable Terms, for Cash, Bees-Wax, Snake Root, or Pearls.
The following are part of their Assortment: Genuine red Peruvian Bark, Peruvian Bark, Camphor, Calomel, Antimony, Cream of Tartar, Flower of Sulphur, Tartar Emetic, Ippacuanha, Jalap, Rhubarb, Glauber Salts, Opium, Spanish Flies, Manna, Aloes, Aqua Fortis, Borax, Gentian Root, Flowers of Lavender, Flowers of Camomile, Senna, &c.
SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS. Pocket Instruments, Dissecting Knives, crooked Needles, Teeth Instruments, Lancets, Mortars and Pestles, Spatulas and Bolus Knives, Amputating Instruments, Lythotomical ditto, Cupping ditto, Lint, Tow, Sponge, Pill-Boxes, Phials, Gallipots, &c.
At the same place may be had, A great variety of Genuine PATENT MEDICINE Practitioners and Country Store-keepers may depend upon being well supplied at the above Store.
Medicine Chests for Shipping, Plantations, or Iron Works, with directions suited to the disorders of the country, are made up on the lowest Terms.
SALT-PETRE, very low by the Hundred, to be had at the above Store. New-York, October 11, 1787. 4
Geo. Robt. and David Lewis, & Co.
No. 233, QUEEN-STREET, and opposite the MANSION HOUSE, in LONDON.
H AVE just imported, in the brig Betsey, Capt. Meznard, and the Wilson, Capt. Thompson, from Liverpool, the following ARTICLES, which they are determined to dispose of at their usual low Price, for Cash, Notes at a short Sight, and Pot and Pearl Alhes—no other Terms will be attended to.
Fine Stormont and Chintz Calicoes, Printed Linens and Cottons, A choice Assortment of Furniture ditto. 7/8 and 3/4 Irish Linens, 7/8 and 3/4 Wigan and Manchester Checks, Low priced and fine Sheetings, 3/4 and 5/8 fashionable Chintz Shawls, 3/4 India Cotton Handkerchiefs, 3/4 Striped Checked and Corded Muslins, Book-Muslin Handkerchiefs and Aprons, A general Assortment of Table Cloths, Huckabucks and Diapers.
A few Bales of WOOLLENS, well assorted, consisting of
Broad Cloths, Duffels and Bear-Skins, Beaver and Quil'd Coatings, Colchester and Drapery Baize, Flannels, Long ELLS, &c. &c. &c.
New-York, September 18, 1787. 97
J. & F. ATKINSON,
H AVE received by the ships Hibernia and Adamant, from London, and now opening for Sale at No. 10, Hanover-Square.
Middling & low-priced Broad-Cloths, Coatings and Friezes, Plains and Forest Cloths, Duffels and Blankets, Flannels and Baizes, A general assortment of printed Cottons, Calicoes and Chintzes, Furniture Cottons, 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide Irish Linens, 5-4 Irish Sheeting, Wildbores, Camblets and Camblets, Calimancoes, Durants, Tammies, Shalloons, Figured Stuffs, Satinet and Lastings, Corduroys and Velvets, Men's & Youth's worsted Hose, Women's black ditto, Women's silk & worsted Gloves and Mitts, Plain & figured Lawns, Lawn Handkerchiefs and Aprons, Linen & Cotton Handkerchiefs, Black and coloured Silk ditto, Persians, Modes & Satins, Sewing Silks & Twist, Men's and Boy's Felt, Castor and Beaver Hats, Metal and fashionable Buttons, Writing Paper, Gunpowder, &c.
They have also for SALE, A Quantity of High Proof Old Jamaica SPIRITS. New-York, October 9, 1787. 3
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship Mercury, Captain Grant, Teneriffe Wines,
O f 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. New-York, October 12, 1787. 4
JOSHUA and HENRY WADDINGTON,
No. 30, WATER-STREET.
H AVE imported in the AMERICA and LARK, from LONDON, the DILIGENCE, from HULL, and the HUDSON, from DUBLIN, the following ARTICLES, which they sell on the most reasonable Terms for CASH, NOTES at a short date, or POT and PEARL ASHES:
A general assortment of Calicoes, of fashionable new Patterns. Elegant Furniture Calicoes. 4/3, 5/8, and 6/8 Shawls, Printed linen & cotton Handkerchiefs. Bandanoes and Romals. Black India Persians. 2/3, 3/4, and 5/8 Checks. 3/4, 5/8, and 7/8 Irish Linens. Black Lastings & Florentines. Superfine Satinet Lastings. Tammies, Durants and Mock Moreens. Mens' ribb'd, cotton & worsted Hose. Black Calimancoes. Flannels and Baizes. Half Thicks & Serges. German and Embossed, ditto. Scarlet Cloths. Cambricks. Duffels, Coatings, and 6/8's Cloths, in small bales assorted. Worsted and Mohair Shags. Striped & plain Wildbores. Camblets and figured Stuffs. White Mignonet. Pils. French Net and Crape Gauzes, White and black Silk Hose, Black Modes and Florentines, Women's white Kid and Habit Gloves, Black Barcelona Handkerchiefs, Black and colored Sewing Silks, Black and white Ribbons, Cap Wire, &c. &c. New-York, September 11, 1787. 94
B LANK Bonds, Bills of Exchange, Powers of Attorney, Indentures. Seamen's Articles, &c. to be had of the Printer.
LOT MERKEL,
No. 33, HANOVER-SQUARE, nearly opposite the BANK,
Manufactures and has for SALE
A Complete and General ASSORTMENT
Muffs and Tippets, of MARTIN and Martin Throat, Swan's Down and real Ermine, Russia and Siberia Squirrel, American Ground Squirrel, Russia Hare and red Fox, Real black Jemmet, best sorts, Mock Sable and Mock Ermine.
L I K E W I S E, A large and general Assortment of FURR TRIMMINGS and EDGINGS, for Ladies Cloaks, Coats and Habits, Ladies CLOAK LININGS, Gentlemen's GREAT COATS LINED with FURR, FURR GLOVES, &c. &c.
The above Articles he is now selling on the most reasonable Terms for CASH ONLY. N. B. ORDERS from the Country executed the best manner. New-York, October 7, 1787. 3
Graham and Johnson
D ESIGN to open an EVENING ACCADEMY, on Monday the 1st of October, No. 19, Little-Queen-Street; where youth will be taught to read the English Language with propriety and grace, both in prose and verse; particular attention will be paid to the English Grammar; for, when it is properly taught, it must not only add gracefulness to the conversation of people in general, but qualify them for carrying on whatever business they follow with greater credit and advantage.
Also, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, upon the principles of real business, and Geography, with several branches of the Mathematics.
Graham and Johnson return their most sincere thanks to the public in general, and their employers in particular, for the very great encouragement they have received; and they flatter themselves, that, by their continued application, they will still merit their future approbation, being conscious, that, public countenance will always be in proportion to their assiduity and merit. New-York, September 21, 1787. 98
Gouverneur & Kemble,
Have imported, and now for SALE, at their Store in Front-Street,
MUSCOVADO An assortment of Cordage and Cables, Sugar in hds. Holland Duck, and barrels, Russia Duck, Windward Island Rum, Raven's Duck, and Jamaica Spirits, Russia Sheetings, Old Sherry Wine in pipes & quarter casks, Russia Drilling, Old Brandy in do. do. Oznabrigs, Lisbon Salt, Ticklenburgs, Black Pepper in bales, Flemish Linens, from 100 to 400 lb. Writing Paper. A quantity of falted Dutch copper Tea- Spanish dryed Hydes. Kettles, Linseed Oil in casks, Rosin in barrels, Geneva in cases. 77
ISAAC HOOK, BREECHES MAKER and GLOVER, from LONDON,
B EGS Leave to inform all Gentlemen, and the Public in general, that he has now opened a Shop at No. 231, QUEEN-STREET, NEW-YORK, where he intends to carry on the BREECHES MAKING and GLOVE MANUFACTORY, in all its different Branches, both common and elastic, in a far superior manner to any yet manufactured in this Country.—All Gentlemen that please to favour him with their Orders, may depend upon being served on the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable Terms. 97
JUST IMPORTED,
And now opening for Sale, by Nicholas Brevoort,
At his Store, No. 25, QUEEN-STREET,
FOUR-PENNY, 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d. and 24d. Nails; Brass Kettles; Sheet Copper; Sheet Iron; Frying Pans; Spades and Shovels; Iron Pots and Kettles; Anvils; Beck Irons; Vices; Sheet Lead; White Lead; Scythes and Sickles; Saws of all kinds; Locks and Hinges; Carpenters', Coopers' and Joiners' Tools; Sash Line; Desk Furniture; Tuff and Staple Nails; Currier's Knives and Fleathers; Spike and Nail Gimblets; Brass Knob Latches; Brass and Iron Candlesticks; Shovels and Tongs; Copper and Iron Tea Kettles; Writing Paper; Jack Chains; Brass and Iron wire; Files of all sorts; Diaper Web; Shoe and Knee Chapes; Warming-Pans; Knives and Forks; Sad Irons; Coffee Mills; Kitchen and Chamber Bellows; Curb and Snaffle Bits; Men and Women's Stirrup Irons; Curry Combs; Scale Beams; Steelyards; Glue; and many other articles in the Hard-ware Line, too tedious to enumerate. New-York, July 10, 1787. 78
THOMAS MAULE,
No. 40, HANOVER SQUARE.
H AS received by the America from London and the Ann and Sufan from Liverpool, a variety of FALL GOODS, which he will sell on very reasonable Terms, viz.
COATINGS, Gauzes, Plains, Broad Cloths, Modes, Serges, Satins, Blankets, Lustrings, Baizes, Armozeens, Flannels, Taffeties, Tammies, Black Persians, Durants, Florentines, Wildbores, Sewing Silk, Camblets, Twist, Lastings, Hosiery, Camblets, Gloves, &c. &c. Ribbons, New-York, September 11, 1787. 95
TO BE HAD AT
Lot Merkel's Store,
No. 33, HANOVER-SQUARE, nearly opposite the BANK,
Tobacco for Smoaking.
KITEFOOT , of the very first quality, Ditto of an inferior ditto, Large Roll Tobacco, fit for Manufacturers, Segars, Genuine Maccauba Snuff, Ditto Rappée, 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. New-York, May 23, 1787. 65
W HEREAS process hath been issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York, against JOSEPH PURDY, and NATHANIEL PURDY, in an action of trespass, at the suit of LEWIS MORRIS, and declaration has been filed in the said action in the Clerk's Office of the said Court, in pursuance of two Acts of the People of the State of New-York, the one entitled, "An Act for granting a more effectual relief in cases of certain Trespasses," passed the 17th March, 1783; the other, entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, an Act for relief against absconding and absent Debtors, and to extend the remedy of the Act, entitled, an Act for granting a more effectual relief in cases of certain Trespasses, and for other purposes therein mentioned," passed May 4, 1784. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the above-named Defendants, that unless they shall enter their appearance within six months from the date of this publication, that interlocutory judgment will be entered against them pursuant to the said act. New-York, August 2, 1787. 85 3m.

AMSTERDAM, August 15. Twelve of the 18 cities have given their votes for the suspension of the Prince of Orange, as Stadholder and Admiral General of the province of Holland, so that it may be considered as finally concluded. And the money which he annually received as Stadholder, &c. is to be appropriated to the use of the burgher-armed corps, who file themselves the patriots, and who are become so numerous, that they overawe the magistrates of the respective cities—even the states of the province.—Some say, their number amounts to 20,000 men. They have their deputies and their provincial assembly, as well as the states; and have lately in a declaration, spoken their minds very freely to the legislative body itself. If the King of Prussia helps his brother-in-law only by memorials, the Prince, it is thought, will not be able to maintain his ground.
L O N D O N, August 2. It may seem incredible, but it is most certainly true that Great Britain pays in taxes, upwards of forty-one thousand pounds every day in the year. So great are the resources of a commercial nation.
The Council of War at Vienna have given sentence against Legisfield and the other officers, accused of peculation in the Commissary's department.
The sentences are as follows: Legisfield is dismissed; to be personally degraded of his nobility, and to be carried to the public place of execution, there to be hanged until he is dead.
The Emperor has, however, granted his life, and has condemned him to be exposed three days in the pillory, with an inscription, calling him 'Forger, and Faithless Cheat of the King's Treasury.' Afterwards to work in the galleys twelve years, and then to be banished from the Emperor's dominions, and all his effects confiscated.
Leopold Lasoly, condemned to two years imprisonment in a fortress. The Emperor has ordered only one year's confinement in irons, in one of the small casemates of the fortifications.
Bilinger, dismissed, and declared incapable of being employed; to restore double, and to be sent in irons to the public works for two years. The Emperor has ordered him to be exposed on the pillory, with Legisfield, with a writing importing him to be 'A Divulger of the Secrets of Office; an acceptor of Bribes, and a Favourite of the Cheats in other Offices.'
De Sonandfeld, dismissed from his place, condemned to restore double the value of the presents he accepted; to be imprisoned one year, from the 15th of October, 1786, and then to be at liberty. The Emperor has ordered him to be delivered to the civil power, and to be imprisoned one year, in one of the small casemates of the fortifications; without, however, declaring him incapable of serving, or degrading him of his nobility.
The Widow Maderers is released, with the loss of her pension.
The Auditor Allen, who conducted the process, is made Reporter to the State Major, with a present of 100 ducats.
It is now just a complete century since Louis XIV. persecuted and drove out of his kingdom, by the assistance of two cruel and vindictive ministers, Le Tellier and Louvois, 500,000 of his subjects; in consequence of which, the city of Amsterdam alone raised more than a thousand houses filled with those unfortunate fugitives, recovered for their virtues, their dignities, and their valour. Absurdity and folly succeeded those cruelties; a declaration of council authorized infants of seven years of age, to renounce their faith, so that children then became men, and men (the rulers) children! And now the very people who received with open arms those unhappy, persecuted persons, are taking up arms, to bring upon their heads ruin and desolation! If these are, and they certainly are, the ways of men in all ages, are we reasonable or unreasonable beings? Is there not an instinctive disposition in us all to pull down, sooner or later, the monuments we have raised, and to desolate the lands we have cultivated?
AUGUST 22. We were last night, with much confidence, informed, in addition to the account given in our paper of yesterday, of the King of France having exiled the parliament of Paris, in consequence of their remonstrances.—That a letter from the Queen of France , to Mons. Calonne , had been intercepted, the contents of which were of such a nature, as to occasion an order from the King, that the Queen should retire to her Chateau at Triannon , there to remain under the direction of particular persons till further orders from the court.
We feel it our duty to give the above report as we received it from respectable authority, though we do not pledge ourselves for its truth.
In justice also, we must add, that on inquiry last night at the Charge des Affairs from France, we were informed that on account of such an event had been received.
We have, however, authentic information that a very dangerous mob assembled in consequence of the parliament being exiled, and the violent consequences were apprehended.
Monsieur Calonne, the impeached minister of France, is now in London.
CHARLESTON, October 2. By a gentleman recently arrived from Augusta we are informed, that the savages had advanced in great force within fourteen miles of Galphington, where they had killed and scalped several persons. A girl was brought to Augusta that had been shot in three places and scalped; notwithstanding which it was expected that she would recover.
We learn from Tugaloo, that several women and children walking at a house near the river, on the Georgia side, were lately surprised by a party of Indians, who killed one child and took two women prisoners; the rest made their escape and alarmed the neighbourhood, which prevented any farther mischief.
It is reported, that about three weeks ago 35 young men of the Cherokees, set out with an intention of joining the Creeks against the white people, but were pursued by order of their chiefs, disarmed, and obliged to return.
In consequence of a letter sent by General Pickens to his Excellency the Governor, an extraordinary meeting was held of the Council, who agreed to send the General 300 weight of powder, with permission to raise a volunteer company for the defence of this state.
Died, on Thursday last, after a very short illness, Mr. WILLIAM RAMSAY, a native of Delaware, and Assistant in the Continental Commissioners' Office for the Accounts of South-Carolina and Georgia.
Though his modest merit obtruded not on the public, yet his abilities gained him the respect, and his goodness of heart insured the affection of the few who had the happiness of knowing him, and by whom, his loss will be long and sincerely lamented.
B O S T O N, October 20. On Wednesday last, the Hon. General Court met at the State House in this town—and on Thursday his Excellency communicated the new Constitution to them, which with his Excellency's speech, was committed to a large and respectable Committee of both branches.
From the very handsome manner in which our worthy Governor speaks of the new Constitution—and from the observations of several respectable gentlemen of the Legislature, yesterday on it, we anticipate an early day being fixed on by the General Court for the meeting of our Convention—that this State may have the great honour and singular happiness of being the first to adopt a system, second to none in the world.
The respectable town of Derby, in Connecticut has unanimously voted to instruct their deputies to use their endeavours that their convention may be immediately called.
New-York, October 27.
A Writer in a late London news-paper thus observes:—“The French at the present day, are at the height of the greatest commercial power they ever enjoyed. Before the time of Louis XIV. the Jews, the Genoese, the Venetians, the Portuguese, the Flemish, the Dutch, and the English carried on, in their own turns, the trade of France, which was ignorant even to the first principles of commerce. Louis XIII. at his accession to the crown, had not a single ship.—The city of Paris contained not quite 400,000 individuals, and had not above four fine edifices; the other cities of the kingdom resembled those pitiful villages which are now scarcely complimented with the name of town. The nobility, which were all stationed in the country, in dungeons, surrounded with deep ditches, oppressed the peasant who cultivated the land; the high roads were almost impassable; the towns were destitute of police, and the government had hardly any credit with foreign nations.—But what will seem more extraordinary, Voltaire confesses that the French had no share in the great discoveries of painting, gunpowder, glasses, telescopes, the sector, compass, the air-pump, or the true system of the universe: they were making tournaments, while the Portuguese and Spaniards were discovering and conquering new countries from East to West of the known world;—but by what has been done since the time of Louis XIV. we may see what an active people are capable of, when properly conducted.”
On Saturday the 5th inst. expired at his lodgings in Front-Street, Philadelphia, BROOKE SMITH, Esquire, a native of Birmingham, in Great Britain. His remains were interred on Monday afternoon in the grave-yard of the first Presbyterian church, attended by a number of respectable citizens, whose acquaintance with his merit, during several years residence in America, induced them to pay this tribute to his memory.
The distinguished abilities and moral rectitude of Mr. Smith, eminently entitled him to those testimonies of grief and of respect, which it is the lot of few to meet with in an equal degree amongst those whom neither affinity has endeared, nor early habits associated. His mind was comprehensive and intelligent, his invention copious, his judgment sound, and his conversation eloquent.
Yet however superior his parts, he rendered them wholly subservient to the practice of the social virtues; he was zealous in the duties of friendship, and in the words of charity active, delicate and judicious. In the busy occupations of mercantile life, he preserved a purity of mind which it has sometime been supposed was peculiar to retirement and seclusion; and with the manners of one long accustomed to the world, he lived scrupulously moral and fervently pious.
OCCUPATIONS of the different MONARCHS of EUROPE.
(From a late London Paper.)
EMPEROR of GERMANY. —Employed on half a dozen different projects at least, and not likely to succeed to his wishes in any of them.
EMPRESS of RUSSIA. —Out of humour with her journey to Cherson, for more reasons than one.
KING of FRANCE. —Laughing in his sleeve at the Notables, out of humour with his Parlia-
ment, and forming a plan to outwit the Emperor.
KING of SPAIN. —Writing to the King of Naples a diary of his feats in shooting.
KING of NAPLES. —Answering his Papa's letters, in his Papa's own stile.
QUEEN of PORTUGAL. —Offering up Ave Maria's for the welfare of her people.
KING of DENMARK. —At play with a paper crown and scepter.
KING of SWEDEN. —Saving a little money to make a tour to England.
KING of SARDINIA. —Looking, thinking, and acting like a man of understanding.
KING of POLAND. —Writing a treatise on the miseries of sovereignty, and the specific gravity of diadems.
KING of PRUSSIA. —Watching the Emperor's motions, and dispatching couriers to Holland.
KING of ENGLAND. —Enjoying the comforts of domestic life, amid the wishes of a prosperous and an happy people.
ARRIVALS, since our last. Ship Betsey, Saltus, Charleston. Brig Elspus, Wynkoop, St. Croix. N. S. S. del Rosario, Morrells, Carthagena. Schooner Peggy, Donaldson, Shelburne. Sloop Amphion, Barry, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Brig Bride, Smith, Cape Francois. Ship Flora, Carberry, Liverpool. Sloop Dolphin, Carhart, Philadelphia. Schooner William, ———, Baltimore. Sloop Betsey, King, Philadelphia.
REMARKS on the present KING of PRUSSIA.
(Concluded from our last.)
AFTER having mounted the throne under the acclamations of the people, by whom he was much beloved before, the first compliment which he made to the nation was THE TURNING OUT THE FRENCH FARMERS-GENERAL, who were so universally abhorred. This act alone would have insured him the most unbounded affection of all his subjects, even if he had not been always their favourite; and even towards those objects of general hatred he behaved so generously, that he allowed them either to stay in his dominions, or by leaving them, to take all their acquired wealth with them, which did not amount to a small sum, they having amassed thousands by the oppression of the people. I have seen many of them arrive literally with one shirt and a half, and in the course of a few years their situation had so much turned for the better, that they even kept carriages, with a number of servants; a convincing proof how faithfully they had served the old King.
A Frenchman having been always President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, he now has given that honourable place to Count Hertzberg, one of the first statesmen and scholars in Europe. The beautiful French theatre at Berlin he gave as a present to Mr. Doebbelin, manager of the national theatre in the capital.
He set most of the State prisoners at liberty, lowered several duties, and liberated the commerce from many former encroachments. He has given since the beginning of his reign every encouragement to navigation, industry, arts, and sciences. He ordered the engagement of the soldiers to be kept strictly, and to discharge them at the expiration of it, which never was attended to before. In short, he has been ever since indefatigable to remedy as many abuses as may lie in his power.
He is one of the most powerful Potentates on the Continent; the population of his dominions is about four millions; all is full of industry, and no beggar is suffered in the whole country; they are provided for in public charities, created mostly by the late King. Trade is flourishing, manufactures are carried on, not only for home consumption, but even for a brisk exportation in several branches. His army is numerous, well disciplined, and exercised; his military stores are stocked in the most abundant manner; his dominions large, populous and well fortified; his finances and every branch of Government in the most admirable order, and with respect to ready cash he is certainly the richest Monarch in Europe.
He has been twice married; first in 1766, to Princess Ulrica of Brunswick, sister to the reigning Duke; she was a beautiful sprightly Princess, and their happiness seemed to be perfect, when suddenly a certain event caused this marriage to be dissolved in 1769. She lives at Stettin, the capital of Pomerania, where the reviews of the troops of that province formerly used to be. But since that period the late and the present King have avoided to touch at that city, and the review is now at Stargard. Her only child, Princess Frederica, born 1767, the 7th of May, has been brought up at Court. She is one of the most accomplished Princesses, as to beauty and talents. Her royal father loves her with the utmost tenderness. She has now her own household, and the King spends much of his time in her company. According to the public prints, his Royal Highness the Duke of York, a great friend to the Court of Berlin, is likely to become son-in-law to his Prussian Majesty, by a marriage with this charming Princess.
He was the second time married in 1769, to Princess Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, his present Queen, who, though inferior in beauty to his former consort, is the more respectable by her eminent virtues. She has borne him three Princes, and two Princesses. His eldest son, the Prince of Prussia, was 17 years on the 3d of August last.
His FATHER, and where is the man, he may be King or beggar, who has none, I shall not turn into virtues. It is happy for the subjects and the world at large, if a monarchical King, endowed with great power, has but few of them, and those not of an alarming kind. I believe all his foibles, and which even have ceased since some years, may be reduced to a strong attachment to the Fair sex.
As to GAMBLING, that stupid and low sort of vice, always followed with so many bad consequences, his Majesty was never in his life-time in the least addicted to; a most salutary example to other HEIRS APPARENT.
The King is a strict observer of the Protestant faith, notwithstanding the ardent prayers of the Abbess of St. Ursula and her pious sisterhood. He attends publicly divine service with his family, and has even forbid irreligious books to be published in his dominions, which in the late reign were more free than in any other country. He has a particular care for the education of his children. Lieutenant-General Count Bruhl, a most respectable character, and illustrious litterator, is appointed Governor to his sons.
With respect to the present quarrels of the Dutch, I am fully persuaded the King will do his utmost to avoid bloodshed. He loves his sister, the Princess Stadholder, with that tenderness of a brother which she justly deserves. But he is not rash, nor a conqueror, and his subjects are too dear to him to sacrifice their lives without the most urgent necessity. As far as matters now have gone in Holland, if Frederic was still alive, he certainly would, ere this, in the 76th year of his age, have paid a visit to the Barghermasters, at the head of at least 100,000 mediators, and his departure after settling the matter would not have been without a bit of land for his trouble.
But Frederic William will never wage war for the sake of mere glory or conquests. However I will not deny, that in case the Mynheers should prove too stubborn, and permit themselves further outrages, which by their increasing pride seems likely to be the case, he might perhaps come late, but with force. Should he enter Holland, the greatest part of the Dutch army, (a fine and well exercised body, quite in the Prussian way) who are all in the interests of the Stadholder, and only waiting for this moment, will certainly join the Prussians.
As to the French forces, he has no occasion to fear them. They remember still something of Rosbach; and an old French officer at Paris told me once, after many eulogies, of their superior bravery, as I mentioned to him that unwelcome day, MA FOI, MONSIEUR, C'ETAIT UN FEU DE DIABLE —Faith, Sir, it was a devilish fire.
A FRIEND TO THE EAGLE.
The FEDERALIST. No. I.
For the Independent Journal.
To the People of the State of New-York.
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting Federal Government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences, nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis, at which we are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism to heighten the solicitude, which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be decided by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished, than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations, affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favourable to the discovery of truth.
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter, may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments—and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies, than from its union under one government.
It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views: Candour will oblige us to admit, that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted, that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable, the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes, which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions, of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those, who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection, that we are not always sure, that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives, not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as upon those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more illjudged than that intolerant spirit, which has, at all times, characterised political parties. For, in politics as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
And yet however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications, that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude, that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations, and by the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretence and artifice; the bait for popularity at the expence of public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us, that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism, than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing Demagogues and ending Tyrants.
In the course of the preceding observations I have had an eye, my Fellow Citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth. You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution. Yes, my Countrymen, I own to you, that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion, it is your interest to adopt it. I am convinced, that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness. I affect not reserves, which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation, when I have de-

ended. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disarms ambiguity. I shall not however multiply professions on this head. My motives must remain in the depositary of my own breast: My arguments will be open to all, and may be judged of by all. They shall at least be offered in a spirit, which will not disgrace the cause of truth.
I propose in a series of papers to discuss the following interesting particulars—The utility of the UNION to your political prosperity—The insufficiency of the present Confederation to preserve that Union—The necessity of a government at least equally energetic with the one proposed to the attainment of this object—The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true principles of republican government—Its analogy to your own state constitution—and lastly, The additional security, which its adoption will afford to the preservation of that species of government, to liberty and to property.
In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavour to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance that may seem to have any claim to your attention.
It may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every state, and one, which it may be imagined has no adversaries. But the fact is, that we already hear it whispered in the private circles of those who oppose the new constitution, that the Thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of necessity resort to separate confederacies of distinct portions of the whole. This doctrine will, in all probability, be gradually propagated, till it has votaries enough to countenance an open avowal of it. For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution, or a dismemberment of the Union. It will therefore be of use to begin by examining the advantages of that Union, the certain evils and the probable dangers, to which every State will be exposed from its dissolution. This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.
PUBLIUS.
* The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the New Constitution.
Last night arrived his Britannic Majesty's Packet the Antelope, Captain Curtis, in 46 days from Falmouth—but the letters could not be delivered early enough for us to afford our readers any intelligence respecting European occurrences in this day's paper. All we learn, in general, is, that matters have not arrived at the last extremities with the contending parties in Holland; some say they are likely to be compromised, and that peace will again resume her reign in those lately disunited Provinces.
In the packet came passenger, the Honorable Mr. COCHRANE.
His Britannic Majesty's Packet, Halifax, Captain Boulderson, will positively sail with the Mail for Falmouth, on Thursday the 9th of November.
MR. HARDIE
RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public, that he has removed his School from No. 3, Broad-Street, to a large and commodious Room next door to the Methodist Church in John-Street—where he will continue to teach the GREEK and LATIN Languages.
FLAX-SEED
STORED, CLEANED, PURCHASED and SOLD, at HERTTELL and WOODWARD'S FLAX-SEED STORE,
Lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. NASH, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves.
Thomas Roberts,
At No. 34, HANOVER-SQUARE, HAS received by the London Packet, Capt. Woolsey, just arrived from England, an assortment of the new invented
Vegetable Waistcoat Patterns,
Vastly elegant, warm, and immediately adapted to Gentlemen's wear in the winter season. New-York, October 17, 1787.
DANCING.
MR. PICKEN begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of New-York, he has opened his SCHOOL, at the City Assembly-Room, Broad-Way, where he will exert his utmost Abilities to merit the Approbation of his Employers.
THE Subscribers, Assignees of JOHN KEATING, sen. late of the city of New-York, Shop-keeper do hereby appoint the 1st day of October next for a general meeting of all the Creditors of the said John Keating, sen. at the Coffee-House, to examine and ascertain the debts due to each Creditor. And we do further hereby give Notice, that, on the 1st day of November, a dividend will be made at the said Coffee-House, among such of the Creditors of the said J. Keating as shall have proved their debts of all the money then in the Assignees' hands, as by law directed.
H. HENDERSON. R. LENOX. JOHN TAYLOR. JOHN ELLIS.
New-York 24th, July, 1787.
Just imported from Amsterdam, and for SALE by
Jacob Le Roy & Sons,
No. 52, Queen-Street, opposite Chapel-Street, RUSSIA Duck, Russia Sheetings, Osnaburghs and Ticklenburghs, Writing Paper, Pepper in large and small bales, Copper Tea-kettles, riveted spouts, Frying-pans, long and short Handles, hard and soft Waffle-irons, Skates, Iron Pots and Kettles; Dutch Gin in cases, ditto in cases of 40 gallons, Powder in quarter-casks, a quantity of coarse Salt.
New-York, October 15, 1787.
William Seton, & Co.
Have Removed to No. 12, HANOVER-SQUARE, where they have for Sale, on the most reasonable Terms.
ZANT Currants, in butts and barrels, Senna, Cantharides, Manná, Vermicelli, in small boxes, Marble Chimney Pieces and Jambs. Ditto Slabs, Flags and Mortars, Italian Artificial Flowers and Wreaths, Ditto black and white Crapes and Tiffans, Ditto Silks and Sattins, Ditto coarse Cotton Stockings, Callicoes, Chintzes and Handkerchiefs, Turkey and Wilton Carpets, large size, Preserved Fruits, in Brandy and Syrup. CLARET, of first Quality in three dozen cases.
A L S O, A few Pipes of picked particular MADEIRA WINE, and a Quantity of MAHOGANY, cut in sets for Bedsteads.
W I N E S,
Just imported and to be sold by WILLIAM SETON, & Co No. 12, HANOVER-SQUARE.
OLD Sherry in Butts, Spanish Madeira, in Butts, Old Lisbon Wine in Quarter Casks, Bourdeaux Claret in Hogheads, Cape of Good Hope Madeira, Particular Madeira, 3 years old, London quality Madeira, New-York, do. do. Old Hock, of the vintages 1753, 1766 and 1779, in Cases of 4 and 7 dozen Bottles, Claret of the very first quality, in Cases of 3 and 7 dozen. The Wines are all genuine and good, and will be sold on the most reasonable Terms.
FAYAL WINES,
Of a very superior Quality, JUST imported from FAYAL, in the Sloop CRIPPLE, GILES HOLLISTER, Master, and for Sale on reasonable Terms, by LE ROY and BAYARD, No. 194, Water-Street.
W ho have likewise still on Hand, LINTSEED OIL, in Casks, Dutch; OSNABURGHES, FLEMISH SHEETINGS; CARDWIRE; PEPPER in bales. New-York, July 27.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON TUESDAY the 6th of November, 10 o'Clock, at No. 190, Water-Street, formerly occupied by Broome and Platt, and now by Daniel Penfield, will commence the SALE, and continue from day to day until the whole are sold,—a large and general
Assortment of GOODS,
Late the Property of GEAREY, CHAMPION, and Co. taken by Attachment, and sold by virtue of the laws of this State, for the benefit of their Creditors—by order of the Trustees, viz. A large and general Assortment of Drugs and Medicines,
Ditto ditto Paper Hangings, Ditto ditto Shoe Buckles, Ditto ditto London Pewter, Ditto ditto Looking Glasses, Ditto ditto Books of various kinds, Ditto ditto Prints, &c. Ditto ditto Women's Stuff Shoes, Men's Beaver and Castor Hats, Brushes of various kinds, A large variety of SILKS, consisting of Modes, Sattins, Lustrings, Taffaties, &c. Pins of various kinds, Mens' and Womens' Saddles and Saddlery, Worsted, Thread and Cotton Hose, Mens' and Womens' Gloves, Metal and Twist Buttons, A variety of Ostrich Feathers, Ditto of Millinery, Tin Plates, Brass Kettles, Silver Watches, Jewellery and Cutlery, An assortment of Tin Ware, Ditto of Perfumery, Porter in Bottles, Striped Blankets, With a great variety of other Articles too tedious to mention.
ROBERT BOWNE, JOHN MURRAY, JOHN MURRAY, jun. } Trustees. New-York, October 16, 1787.
For LONDON,
The SHIP ADAM WILLIAM MORWIG
Now laying at the Wharf next to Murray's new Wharf, near the Ship Yards, has excellent Accommodations for Passengers, and will sail in twenty days.—For Passage only, apply to the Captain on board, or at No. 10, Hanover-Square. New-York, October 16, 1787.
For MADEIRA,
The SHIP London Packet, THOMAS WOOLSEY, Master.
A fine new Vessel, just arrived from London, will sail for Madeira in about four Weeks. For Passage apply to the Master on board, or to BENJAMIN STOUT, Jun. No. 6, Golden-Hill.
Who has for Sale, imported in the above Ship, Excellent bottled Porter, Painters' Colours, Ladies Fancy Hats, a quantity of Nails assorted, Russia and Sweeds Iron, Pewter in cases assorted, Perfumery, New-Castle Coals, &c. &c.
Wanted to purchase for Cash, A quantity of BEES WAX. New-York, October 12, 1787.
For GLASGOW,
The BRIGANTINE JEANIE, DANIEL MARTIN, Commander;
A stout vessel, eighteen months old, British built, burthen about 170 tons, will sail the 30th instant.—For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain on board, at Lefferts's Wharf, or to WILLIAM WILSON, and Co. No. 220, Queen-Street.
FOR SALE, And now landing from the above Vessel, Bottled Porter, Barley in kegs, Linens, also a few Chaldron of Coals, a variety of Dry Goods, with an assortment of Hatter's Trimmings, &c. wholesale and retail. Apply as above. New-York, October 20, 1787.
New-York Air Furnace.
PETER T. CURTENIUS, & Co.
HAVE repaired the New-York Air Furnace, and have procured the best workmen, together with the necessary apparatus to carry on the Manufactory of Cast Iron in the completest and best manner.
Castings made in an Air Furnace, are allowed by all who are acquainted with the nature of Founders, to be better than what is made in a Blast Furnace because, in an Air Furnace the ware is made out of the softest and best Pig Metal, and, by its being melted a second time, the scoria, or dross, is expelled, and nothing but the pure Metal remains. In a Blast Furnace, the Castings are made out of the first smelting of the crude Ore, and are more or less mixed with dross, which subjects the ware to be rough and spongy, and often full of cold shuts: the difference, in short, is nearly the same as that between refined and Bloomery Iron. The ware they have made is allowed, by good judges to be as light, as smooth, and as good as any imported from Europe. This consideration alone, of the ware being as good as the foreign, is a sufficient inducement for an American, to give the preference to the manufactures of his own country; but a more powerful argument for the purchaser to give it preference is, that it can be afforded (and will be sold) cheaper than the imported ware, all foreign castings being subject to a duty of six per cent. on importation.
The WARE, manufactured at this FURNACE, consists of the following Articles, viz.
POTS and Kettles of various sizes, from one to fifteen gallons, Tea Kettles, Pye Pans, Skillets, Griddles, Pot-Ash Kettles and Coolers, Whaling Kettles, Boilers for tallow-chandlers and sugar works, Stoves for sugar-bakers, Mill-Cases, Cast Bars for sugar works and distilleries, Rollers and Shears for flitting-mills, Hearth and Jamb Plates, cast agreeable to any pattern that may be sent; Close Stoves for workshops, Franklins Stoves neatly decorated with carved work, Bath Stove-Grates elegantly ornamented with carvings, Chimney-Backs, Ship Cabouzes of the new construction, with bake ovens in them, in which the same fire that roasts and boils the meat bakes the bread, Mill Rounds and Gudgeons, Saw-Mill Cranks, Caleming Plates for making pearl-ashes, Cast Iron Screws for fulling and paper mills, Fullers Plates cast to any size that may be wanted, Sash-Weights, Forge Hammers and Anvils, Plow Plates, Half-Hundreds, Quarters, Fourteen and seven Pound Weights, Cart, Wagon, Coach, Pheton, Chair, & Sulkey Boxes, &c. &c.
N. B. Persons who want any Backs or other ware, cast agreeable to particular patterns, will please to send their patterns and orders to the FURNACE, near Mr. Atlee's Brewery, or leave them at the house of PETER T. CURTENIUS, No. 48, Great Dock-Street, near the Exchange. New-York, October 13, 1787.
Patent Medicines.
The following, warranted Genuine, may be had at the lowest Prices, of James Rivington,
IERLEM OIL, Dr. James's Fever Powder, James's famous Analeptic Pills, for the Rheumatism, all Disorders of the Bowels, Head Ach, preventing the bad effects of Free Living, and to promote long Life, Dalby's Carminative, the best Medicine for the Diseases of Infants in Teething, in Fluxes, &c. &c.
Dr. Hooper's much approved Female Pills, curing many Complaints incident to the Fair Sex. Dr. Steer's excellent Opodeldoc, Speediman's Pills, correcting Indigestion and curing Diseases of the Stomach. Dr. Glis's Genuine Magnesia, of the first quality. Dr. Hill's Balm of Honey, curing Coughs of long duration, Consumptions, &c. &c. Maredant's Drops for the Scurvy, a much approved remedy.
Dr. Anderson's real Scots Pills, Lockyer's long approved Pills, Turlington's Balm of Life, of the purest quality, and truly genuine.
Cephalic Snuff, Prussian Powder, which never fails to destroy all the pediculous residents in the Capital, British Oil. Spirit of Scurvy Grass, &c. &c. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given by DAVID PUGSLEY, an Insolvent Debtor, and his petitioning Creditors, to all the Creditors of the said David Pugsley, to shew cause, if any they have, before the Honorable JOHN SLOSS HOBART, Esquire, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York, by Monday the 5th day of November next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, at his Office situate in Crown-Street, in the North Ward of the City of New-York, why an assignment of the Estate of the said David Pugsley should not be made, and he discharged, pursuant to a Law of this State, entitled, "An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors," passed the 13th of April, 1786." New-York, October 5, 1787.
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to SAMUEL MARSH, surviving partner of Samuel Marsh, and Giles Hudson, late of the city of London, merchants, an absent debtor, and all others whom it may concern; that on application, and due proof made to him the said Chief Justice, pursuant to the directions of the Law of the State of New-York, entitled "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786: He hath directed all the estate, real and personal, within the State of New-York, of the said Samuel Marsh, to be seized; and that unless the said Samuel Marsh doth discharge his debts within one year after this public notice of such seizure, all his estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. New-York, June 22, 1787.
By order of STEPHEN WARD, Esquire, First Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County of West-Chester.
NOTICE is hereby given to WILLIAM BROWN, now or late of the Township of Bedford, in the County of West-Chester, and all others whom it may concern, that on application and due proof made, the said Justice, pursuant to the directions of one certain Act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, in such case lately made and provided, entitled, "An Act for Relief against absconding and absent Debtors," hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the County of West-Chester, commanding him to attach, seize, and falsely keep all the Estate, both real and personal, of the said William Brown, an absconding or concealed debtor; and that unless the said William Brown shall, in three months from the date hereof, return and discharge his debts, all his Estate, both real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his Creditors. Dated the 28th day of July, in the year 1787. 84 3m.f. STEPHEN WARD.
PURSUANT to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786; notice is hereby given, that we Robert Bowne, John Murray, and John Murray, jun. have been duly appointed trustees for all the creditors of Ebenezer Gearry, the elder, of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut, Ebenezer Gearry, the younger, now or late of Basinghall-street in London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, Henry Champion of Norwich, in the State of Connecticut aforesaid, Eneas Gearry, late of the city of New-York, merchants, and partners in trade, absent debtors; and we do, pursuant to the directions of the said act, hereby require all persons who are indebted to the said Ebenezer Gearry, the elder, Ebenezer Gearry, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearry, by the tenth day of November next ensuing the date hereof, to pay all such sum or sums of money, or other debt, duty or thing which they owe to the said absent debtors; and deliver all effects of such absent debtors, which he, she or they may have in his, her or their hands, power or custody, unto us the said trustees; and all the creditors of the said Ebenezer Gearry, the elder, Ebenezer Gearry, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearry by the first day of May next, to deliver to us the said trustees, or any one or more of us, their respective accounts and demands against the said absent debtors. Given under our hands this 13th day of October.

SONNET, addressed to Miss WILLS F others waltz the swiftly-circling hour, 'Mid the loose pleasures of a glittering ring, Be thine, sweeter songstrels of the groves, to sing The chaster transports of the humbler bower. Touch'd by thy genial strains, the bosom glows, Now unites illumine, now trickling tears distain: This soothies to rest, that plants the thorny pain! Here scenes of bliss, there rise unnumber'd woes! Fair fav'rite of the Nine! those paths pursue, Which lead to Virtue's, Learning's bright abode. Thy modest merit, unassuming claim, Not Envy's can'rous tooth shall dare corrode. Still copy life: So shall the portrait true, Its faithful artist crown with deathless Fame.
David Galbreath, & Co.
No. 224, Queen-Street, near the Fly-Market.  HAVE just imported in the Betsey, Mesnard, and Lydia, Watson, from London; the Diligence, Farley from Hull; the Wilson, Thompson, from Liverpool, and the Hudson, Folger, from Dublin, a general Assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, amongst which are the following Articles, which they are now selling on the most reasonable terms for Cash, Notes at a short date, or Pot and Pearl Ashes:— PLAIN and Quilled Coatings, Red and Blue Shagged Duffils, Broad and Narrow Baizes, Flannels and Serges, Half Thicks and Long ELLS, 5-4 and 6-4 Cloths, 7-4 Scarle Cloths and Coatings, Double Milled Drabs, Fearnoughts and Bearskins, Plains and Kerseys, Green Bristol Rugs, 7-4, 8-4, and 9-4, Rose Blankets, all sizes, Striped Indian Blanketing, Worsted and Mohair Shags, Black Latings and Florentines, Fine Sattinet, ditto, Tamnies, Durants, Shalloons, Callimancoes, Wildbore and Common Camblets, Milled Gloves and Mittens, Elegant Furniture Cottons, Net and Crape Gauzes, Hair, China, and wired Ribbons, Black Square Modes and White Persians, Scarlet and Blue Snails, Cords, Silk and Worsted, Writing Paper and Quills, And an excellent assortment of 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, 7-8 Dowlas, and 9-8 wile Sheetings. New-York, September 25, 1787. 99
Murray and Sanfom,
Have imported in the ship Betsey, Captain Watson, from London, a neat and general assortment of seasonable DRY GOODS, amongst which are the following Articles,  BROAD and Forest Cloths, Baizes, Coatings, Yorkshire Plains, Flannels, Rose and strip Blankets, Cassimers, Camblets, Tamnies, Durants, Shalloons, Evrings, Sittinets, Callimancoes, Fustians, Jeans, Jeanet, Corduroys, Velverets, Worsted plush, Cotton Sarpes, Cotton Checks, Bed Ticks, men's brown and black Hats, Quality and Shoe Binding, Ribbons, black and white Gauzes, Modes, Sattins, India Persians, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Stationary, London and Bristol Pewter, Brass Cocks, Tea Kettles, Brass Kettles, Frying Pans, Shovels, Spades, Sad Irons, Nails, Crowley and Bristol Steel, Gilt and Hair Trunks, a variety of Hardware and Cutlery, Earthen Ware in crates, White Lead ground in Oil, Copperas, Gun Powder and Shot.
THEY HAVE ALSO FOR SALE, Chocolate, Snuff in Bladders, Connecticut Pork and Beef, Jamaica Spirits, Faval Wines, Dutch Pantiles, a Variety of Iron Castings, such as Pots, Kettles, tea Kettles, Chimney Backs, Stoves, &c. and Wool Cards of the very best quality, formerly marked P. Sanfom, but now M. S. & Co. which they will sell at 40s per dozen by the hoghead. New-York, September 28, 1787. 400
By Order of the Honorable RICHARD MORRIS , Esquire, Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given by the Petitioning Creditors of ROBERT CARSKADAN , an insolvent Debtor, to all his Creditors, to show cause to the said Chief Justice, at his Chamber situated in Nassau-Street, in the City of New-York, on Thursday the twenty-second day of November next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, why an Assignment of the said Debtor's Estate should not be made, and the said Debtor discharged, according to the form of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors," passed the 13th April, 1786. Dated this twenty-second day of October, 1787.  ROBERT CARSKADAN
Printed by J. S. ...
TO BE SOLD, At Private Sale, and Possession given immediately, the following ESTATES , belonging to the Subscriber, viz.
A large and valuable Wharf well known by the name of Brasher's Wharf, with two Water Lots, being in front on Water-Street 60 feet two inches and an half, in the rear on the East River 55 feet, and in length on both sides 200 feet, more or less, all English measure. Together with a Lease of a part of the said Wharf, granted to John Segar, Black-Smith, whereon his Dwelling House and Black-Smith's Shop stands; eight years of the said Lease is unexpired, subject to a ground rent of 21l. per annum.
Also, a Lot of Ground, situated on Golden-Hill-street, Leased to John Swan, six years of said Lease is unexpired, subject to a ground rent of 12l. 15s. Likewise, them pleasant situated Islands called and known by the name of the TWO BROTHERS , situated about three miles above Hell-Gate, in the Sound. The utility of those Islands, and advantages deriving from them, is so well known that there is no need of any commendations.
The above Estates will be sold for Cash without any exceptions. Please to apply for terms of sale to William S. Livingston, Esq; No. 60, Wall-street, or to the Subscriber, who will give an indisputable title for the same.  HENRY BRASHER. No. 94, Queen-Street.
N. B. Any person inclinable to exchange a Farm, of equal value, for the Two Brothers, either in the States of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Maryland, with the proprietor, will be accepted. New-York, August 23, 1787.
THOMAS THOMAS, TINMAN, COPPERSMITH, and BRASS FOUNDER, No. 206, QUEEN-STREET, opposite Burling-Slip.
BEGS leave to return his sincere Thanks to his Friends and the Public in general, an informs them, that he has entered very extensively into the manufacturing part of the above branches of Business, superior to any imported and equally as Cheap. He has on hand a very large and extensive Assortment of all kinds of Tin, Copper, Brass, and Pewter Ware, which he intends selling on very low Terms for Cash. Copper and Brass Utensils mended and tinned with pure Grain Tin. The highest Price given for old Copper, Brass and Pewter.
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to David Greene, George Jackson, Arthur Forrest Richard Willis, the Rev. Thomas Dampier, John Elwes, and Richard Willis aforesaid, in trust for Mary the wife of William Croffes, John Elwes in his own right, Patrick Crawford and Gilbert Meason, executors of James Crawford, deceased; Hutchinson Mure, Robert Mure, and Richard Atkinson, joint partners; John Duvall, William Robertson, Neal Ward, Mary Steach, Lucy Seach, William Berry, Peter Hasenclever and Charles Croffes, late partners with Andrew Seaton (who is become bankrupt) under the title or firm of HASENCLEVER, SEATON and CROFFES ; also the said Andrew Seaton, the said William Robertson, Miles Nightingale, and the said Richard Willis, as Assignees of the estate and effects of the said Andrew Seaton, under the said commission of bankruptcy, and the said Peter Hasenclever in his own right, now or late associated in a company generally known by the name, firm and description of the AMERICAN IRON COMPANY , or the RINGWOOD COMPANY , absent Debtors, and to all others whom it doth or may concern; that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to a Statute of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled "An Act for relief against absconding and absent Debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786, he the said Chief Justice hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the county of Westchester, commanding him to attach, seize, take, and safely keep, all the estate as well real as personal of the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company, composed of the said several persons as aforesaid, absent Debtors, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof in whatever part of his bailiwick they can be found will all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto. And that unless they the said several persons, composing the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company as aforesaid, shall return and discharge their debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all their estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of their Creditors.—Dated at the City of New-York, the tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord 1787. 95 3m.
By order of JOHN SLOSS HOBART , Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature, for the State of New-York.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that on the application of JOHN DUMONT , of the City of New-York, Merchant, a Creditor of JOHN DUMONT , late of the same City, Merchant, a Debtor residing without this State, he hath, in pursuance of the Act, entitled, "An Act for relief against absconding and absent Debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786, directed all the Estate, real and personal, of the said John Dumont, within this State, to be seized; and that unless the said John Dumont does his debts within one year from the date hereof, all his Estate, real and personal, seized, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his Creditors. Given at New-York, this nineteenth day of April, 1787. 54
GEORGE POLLOCK,  HAS received by the Hudson, from Dublin, and the Ann and Suannah, from Liverpool, a general and complete Assortment of \frac{3}{4} , \frac{1}{2} , and \frac{1}{4} low priced IRISH LINEN , which he will sell on very moderate Terms, at his Store, No. 28, Water-Street.  POT-ASHES and FLAX-SEED received in payment.
Christopher Lewis Lente, At his Store, No. 39, Hanover-Square,  HAS for SALE, a very large assortment of Groceries, Confectionaries, Wines & other bottled Liquors, &c. which were all purchased for ready Money, and will dispose of them on very reasonable Terms.—He is determined not to sell any thing out of his Store but for Cash being paid on delivery of the Goods, having considerable Sums of outstanding debts, which puts it out of his power to give Credit any longer.—All Orders from the Country will be punctually attended to, but no goods will be sent unless the Cash or Produce is at the same time sent.
FOR SALE, At the READY-MONEY STORE , No. 39, Hanover-Square,  CHAMPAIGNE , Burgundy, Madeira, Claret Port, Hock, Constanza, Cyprus, Syracuse, Stomatical, Lisbon, Fyal, and Teneriffe Wines, in casks and bottles, Arrack and Coniac Brandy, Geneva in cases and half ankers, A great variety of rich German, French and Italian Liqueurs, &c. London bottled Porter in casks & small packages, Fine Hyson, Souchong, Green and Bohea Tea, Coffee, Chocolate and Sugar-Candy, Double and Single Lump Sugar, Muscovado, ditto.—With a large and general assortment of GROCERIES , too tedious to enumerate. Considerable abatement will be made to those who purchase by the Quantity.
PROPOSALS for printing by Subscription,  The Visions of Columbus, A POEM in Nine Books. By JOEL BARLOW . The second Edition.
A Large edition of this work was first published in March last, in one volume octavo, and is disposed of, at the price of One Dollar and a half. This edition will be printed on the best paper that can be made in the country, in one volume Duodecimo, neatly bound, gilt and lettered, and delivered to subscribers, at One Dollar. Those who subscribe for six shall have a seventh gratis, and the usual allowance will be made to booksellers, who take a considerable number. Several hundred subscriptions for the first edition were received too late to be printed in the list of names. Those will be published with the list of subscribers for the second edition. Subscriptions are taken by THOMAS ALLEN , bookseller and stationer, No. 16, Queen-street, corner of the Fly-market.
T. ALLEN flatters himself, that the praises so liberally, and justly bestowed upon this patriotic POEM, by the readers of the first edition—both in this city and throughout America, will induce every friend to literature, who is not already supplied, to enter his name, as an encourager of a work, which does the highest honour to an American genius. An assortment of the best London manufactured PARCHMENT for sale by T. ALLEN , at reasonable prices, by the roll, dozen, or single skin. Likewise Merchants Account Books ruled and bound, equal to any imported. New-York. October 2, 1787. 5
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 the sixth day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at twelve 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 Messuage or Dwelling-House, and Lot of Ground, situate, and being in the North Ward of the City of New-York, on the northerly side of a certain Street called and known by the name of Little Queen-Street , bounded southerly in front on said Street; easterly, on the house and ground now or late of Thomas Marston; northerly, in the rear on the ground now or late of John Livingstone, and others; and westerly, on the New Dutch Church Yard. The said Dwelling-House, and Lot of Ground, containing in breadth in front and rear, twenty-three feet and an half, and in length on each side ninety-six feet; together with the Houses, Edifices, and Buildings thereon erected and being, and all Gardens, Yards, Wells, Backsides, Ways, Paths, Passages, Easements, Profits, Commodities, Advantages, Emoluments, Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the said Dwelling-House and Lot of Ground, 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 twenty-first and twenty-second days of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, (with a power to sell therein contained) from William Bryant, of the City of New-York, Doctor of Physic, to Alexander Leslie, late of the City of New-York aforesaid, Peruke Maker, assigned to the Subscribers, who will thereupon execute deeds of conveyance to the Purchaser, pursuant to the power in the said Mortgage and the Act aforesaid.
WILLIAM DAVIS,  JAMES STRACHAN,  JAMES MACKENZIE. By their Attorney,  CHARLES SMITH. 2-87-248.168 92 5m.
For Grist Mills and other Water-Works, On an extensive Plan, One of the best Situations in America is offered  FOR SALE, Together with  Batsto Iron-Works,
At the Forks of Little Egg-Harbour River, one of the most healthy spots in New-Jersey, 38 Miles by land from Philadelphia, and within a few hours sail of New-York.
THE river communicating with the sea by the best inlet on the Jersey coast, is navigable for vessels of 200 tons, within a few miles of the Works; those of 100 tons may approach within one mile; flats and scows, carrying 10 or 12 tons, load and unload at the Works. The usual Freight to New-York or Philadelphia is 10 Shillings per Ton. The Furnace stream affords plenty of water, in the driest season, for three or four pair of mill-stones, besides supplying the Iron Works. An excellent Dam, which has been increasing in strength many years, by the cinder from the furnace, is well secured from the danger of freshes, and the Works are scarcely ever injured or delayed by either ice or back water, though the tide swells to the foot of the dam: Mills may therefore be erected at a moderate expence. This being a part of the country in which many people and many teams are necessarily employed in collecting and preparing for market the Iron and Lumber with which it abounds, and at the same time so adapted to the raising of grain for their support, there is, and must continue to be, a demand for large quantities of Midlings, Cornell, Shorts and Bran, at advanced prices; and the convenience of conveying Flour, at a light expence, either to New-York or Philadelphia, or to more distant markets, will not be overlooked no. considered as of small importance, especially as there are few mill seats of any considerable capacity equally adapted to the New-York market, which is not unrequently supplied with superfine Flour from Philadelphia. A choice of the various kinds of Wheat may be drawn to this seat from Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New-Jersey, and New-York, with greater ease and convenience than to almost any other mills now in being. The FURNACE, which by the extensive Lands annexed to it, is abundantly supplied with Wood and Ore, is now in Blast, and is noted for producing the best Hollow Ware in America, the Metal being peculiarly well adapted to the making of Castings of all kinds, as well as excellent Bar-Iron.
A FORGE, with four Fires and two Hammers, belongs to the estate, and stands about half a mile from the furnace, on another fine stream which affords plenty of water.
A SLITTING and ROLLING MILL, having been disused for the last two or three years, may want some repairs to prepare it for use; but the Fore-Bays and Gates are in perfect order, and being in the proper spot for Grist-Mills, may be appropriated to that use. Two SAW MILLS in good order, and a small GRIST MILL.
The MANSION HOUSE is elegantly situated about 100 yards from the furnace, on a height which commands a view of the whole works, and of the two villages formed by the surrounding buildings belonging to the estate, such as barns, stables, coal houses, workshops, storehouses and dwellings for workmen. Adjoining the mansion house is a large and fruitful garden, affording plenty of vegetables, and will store with ch. sen fruit trees also a young beating orchard, containing near 2000 apple trees, mostly grafted.
These excellent accommodation for extensive and profitable manufactories, are offered to sale at a very low rate and on terms of payment calculated for the ease of the purchaser, who may pay the greater part in the produce of the Iron Works at a price to be agreed upon; and they are capable of producing more in one year, than will pay the whole price demanded.
For particulars, apply to WILLIAM RICHARDS , at the said Works, JOHN COX , at Bloombury, near Trenton, CHARLES PETTIT , in Philadelphia, or WM. LAIGHT , and Co. in New-York. 95 w.t.f.
JOHN DALTON, SURGEON and PRACTITIONER of PHYSIC.
HAS removed from No. 67 to No. 65, Cherry-Street, and informs his Friends in particular, and the Public in general, that by long experience he has found out a method to eradicate a certain Complaint, without one grain of that pernicious Medicine unskillfully administered, called Mercury, and in so short a time as will surprise any who favours him with their commands. The greatest secrecy may be depended on.
By order of the Honourable Richard Morris, Esquire, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to Moses Franks, 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 the 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 warrants to the Sheriff of the City and County of New-York, and the Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, commanding them to attach, take, seize, and safely keep all the Estate, as well real as personal of the said Moses Franks, an absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof, in whatever part of their bailiwick the same can be found, with all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto. And that unless he the said Moses Franks shall appear by himself, or Attorney, 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 twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. 39 w.t.f.