The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-04-04 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 80, of VOL. XLII.]
FRIDAY, April 4, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2260.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—EVEN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, AND THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC. THE Proprietor and Editor of the above-mentioned JOURNAL, hereunto subscribed, prompted by the solicitation of a respectable number of his present subscribers—and by means of the generous patronage of a few valued friends, and the public, for which he requests their acceptance of unfeigned thanks—begs leave to communicate to them his intention of printing and publishing a DAILY PAPER, under the title of—THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, and DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
By this publication it is not intended, that the idea of the WEEKLY REGISTER shall be extinct, therefore, the present subscribers, in general, will please to take particular notice, that the THURSDAY's paper will contain just such kind of matter as usual, in which the choicest pieces, and the fewest advertisements, will be inserted—and that their papers, will of consequence be delivered or sent on, as heretofore, until they severally pay off their arrearages, and stop it, or order their respective names entered upon this new subscription paper.—The Thursday's paper, alone, will be TWO DOLLARS per annum, as usual.
The particular inducements to this arduous task need not all be enumerated—That the present is a most important CRISIS of the national affairs of this country, must be evident even to the least thoughtful, but more especially so to those who nobly conceive—that the dearly purchased freedom and independence of America is a sacred deposit, to be nurtured, supported, and transmitted, unimpaired, by the present possessors, to millions yet unborn. To this end it is necessary, that the body of the people (who must ever, in free countries, be supposed the supporters of freedom) be well informed of the nature of any government that may be proposed for their adoption; therefore, free discussions on that momentous topic, as well as interesting intelligence from the several quarters of the world, are necessary to be universally disseminated.
By printing only one paper per week, as heretofore, one half of the essays communicated, and all that might be copied from other papers, were, in general, unavoidably neglected: in a Daily paper there will be room for all that may be worthy insertion. In this paper, FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion, that is, decent and well written ESSAYS, on either side of any important public topic, SHALL FIND FREE ACCESS.
As the principal support of a Daily paper is derived from Advertisements, Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who occasionally Advertise, are earnestly requested to prefer this new undertaking, which favor shall be gratefully acknowledged by the strictest attention being paid to correctness and propriety. Advertisements shall be inserted as reasonably as by any printer in the city.
The great expence with which a Daily paper will be attended, at first, is too well known to require any apology for the REQUISITION, on subscribing, expressed in the Conditions, or for the warmth of the solicitations, for the continuation of PUBLIC PATRONAGE, with which the following PROPOSALS are introduced by the public's greatly obliged,
And very humbly Servant, THOMAS GREENLEAF.
New-York, November 12, 1787.
PROPOSALS
For altering The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register, Into the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register. CONNLITUTIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, a d type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
II. The price, per Annum, will be SIX DOLLARS, one quarter part of which to be paid on subscribing, viz. One dollar and an half: after which quarterly payments to be punctually observed.
III. No subscriber is to discontinue his subscription on any other condition than the payment of arrearage subscription money, and that the expiration of a quarter.
IV. The Daily Patriotic Register shall be delivered to the subscribers in the city every morning, and sent (as may be ordered) to those out of the city, with the greatest punctuality, they paying the expence of carriage.
Printing-Office, November 19.
THE Editor returns sincere thanks to those gentlemen who have already enabled him to form a very respectable list of subscribers to his paper, upon the plan of the above proposals. His subscriptions having been rapid, has determined him to commence the New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, THIS DAY.—From the favourable disposition of the public, already evinced, he flatters himself with a prospect of speedy and generous ADVERTISING patronage.—He anticipates the pleasure of having it in his power, in a few weeks, to present to the public, a publication that will both serve and be a CREDIT to his country not withholding a few of his GILDED rays from the public's ever devoted humble servant, THE PRINTER.
To the Friends of Science,
IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.
Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great-Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.
Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copie speedily sold.
This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, variegated, and interesting, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the annexed enquiries, viz.
 1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.  2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what fish do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.  3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to support the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the waters of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.  4. Natural and artificial curiosities, caverns, cascades, &c.  5. State of commerce, manufactures and agriculture, exports and imports, balance of trade. The number of vessels which annually enter at the custom houses in the several sea ports of the United States.  6. Civil divisions of the several states, the number and names of the several districts, counties, and towns, their extent, latitude and longitude, number of inhabitants, and distance and bearing from the capital of the state. Particular descriptions of the principal towns are requested *.  7. Population—from whence are emigrations, to what places, and how numerous. Of what nations are the inhabitants of the states composed, or whence originated—proportion of the slaves.  8. Climate, diseases and their causes—longevity of the inhabitants—what proportion die in infancy.  9. Religion, number of churches of different denominations—by what methods are ministers supported.  10. State of the practice of law and physic.  11. Societies for the advancement of science and humanity.  12. State of literature, colleges, academies, schools and their funds.  13. Characters who have distinguished themselves in the late war by their patriotism.  14. An estimate of the damages sustained in the late war, in the several states.  15. A description of the adjacent Islands.  16. Manners, customs, diversions and dress.  17. Constitution, policy—general account of the laws—what political principles predominate in the several states.  18. Military and marine strength.  19. Public revenue and expences—mode of levying taxes.  20. Indians, their tribes, languages, numbers, characters and dispositions towards the United States.  21. The society of Cincinnati, their laws and influence and the nature and political tendency of their establishment.  22. History. 
N. B. The subscriber wishes to avail himself of the advantage of all the most accurate maps, and detached geographical pieces, which have been published respecting the United States; and will thank any gentleman to inform him where they can be procured.
Those gentlemen, who may be so obliging as to favor the above design, by communications, are requested to forward them to Messrs. R. Aitken, or W. Spotswood, Philadelphia; Messrs. Spotswood and Clarke, booksellers, Baltimore; Rev. Mr.
* This enquiry is made for the purpose of collecting the proper materials for a Gazetteer of the, United States, which makes a part of the general plan in view. It is obvious that a book of this kind, compiled from accurate information, would be exceedingly useful. This might easily be done if one well-informed gentleman, in each town would spend one half hour for the purpose. In this time the gentlemen might throw together every important circumstance relative to the towns, in which they respectively reside.
Keith, Alexandria; the honorable H. Williamson, Edenton, North-Carolina; the honorable D. Ramsay, Messrs. Wright and Co. Charleston; the honorable A. Baldwin and Joseph Clay, Esquires, Georgia; Samuel S. Smith, D. D. Princeton, Mr. Loudon, Printer, New-York; and the Rev. Samuel Aullin, or Jedidiah Morse, New-Haven, with their names subscribed, and the places of their residence, that the author may have the pleasure of knowing to whom he is indebted for their friend assistance. JEDIDIAH MORSE.
If the several Printers, in the United States, feel disposed to favor the above design, and will give this Advertisement a place in their respective papers for a few weeks, and will receive and forward to New-Haven, any communications which may be handed them by friends to the design, they may thereby contribute to the public good, and will peculiarly oblige their humble servant. Philad. Aug. 7, 1787. J. M.
Just published by M. CARY, In Philadelphia, and now to be SOLD,
By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-street, New-York, (by whom Subscriptions are received)
THE American Museum, FOR FEBRUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Rural Concerns.
MEMOIR on the distillation of persimons, by Mr. Isaac Bartram. Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp: communicated in the American philosophical society, by Edmund Antill. Laws of Pennsylvania society for promoting agriculture. Premiums proposed by said society. Moral essays.
On contentment, On confidence, On the importance of a good character considered only with respect to interest, On the folly of being anxiously curious to enquire what is said of us in our absence, On the pleasures of reflection.
Characters. Character of an old maid, —of a pedantic school-master Humour. Consolation for the old bachelor, Lecture upon eyes, Lecture upon noses, Instructions for fine ladies, Instructions for fine gentlemen, Speech of a flanding member, by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq.
Natural History. Description of the white mountains of New-Hampshire, Description of the grotto at Swatara, by the rev. Peter Miller.
Miscellanies. Letter concerning chimneys; containing some directions to prevent them from smoking, by Dr. Rushton. Petition of the people called Quakers, of New-England, Ethelgar, a Saxon poem, Account of the order of procession in Boston, solemnization of the ratification of the new constitution, Report of the managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures, Directions on this reading of history.
Politics. Oration on the anniversary of American independence. By the hon. chancellor Livingston, Letter from the hon. Robert Yates, and John Lansing, Esqrs. to his excellency Gov. Clinton, stating their reasons for not subscribing to the new constitution. Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the state of Massachusetts, Form of do. by Georgia, A view of the principles, operation, and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania.
Natural Philosophy. Conjectures concerning wind and water-spouts' tornadoes, and hurricanes, by Dr. John Perkins of Boston, Observations on the growth of trees downwards.
Poetry. The sea-faring bachelor, by Mr. Philip Freneau, The seasons moralized, by do. The Brandywine, The grey mare the better horse, Evil company, The dying Indian, by Mr. Philip Freneau, Answer to a riddle, To a man of lively, but unequal spirits in conversation.
The printer returns his most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of New-York, for the liberal encouragement and patronage with which they have honored this publication. Every exertion shall be made to merit a continuance of their favor.
** The delay of the present number, has been wholly occasioned by the negligence of the stage driver at Newark.
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office, No. 25, Water-street,
A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeeded admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 99 e.d.
To be SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE,
THE pleasant and valuable FARM
whereon the subscriber now lives, about three miles from Flushing town, on the public road leading to the plains, containing about 200 acres of cleared and wood land, and 16 acres of good salt Meadow. On said Farm is a good Dwelling House and Barn, two good Barracks, corn Crib, a Court Yard and Garden in neat pale fence, with a good bearing orchard and other improvements, is remarkably well watered, and within a few rods of a grist mill. If not sold by the 21st day of April next, it will on that day be sold at Public Vendue. The conditions may be known by applying to the subscriber on the premises.
LAMBERT MOORE.
March 21, 1788.
48—c. d. t. a.
I. Greenwood, SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 109 Water-street, opposite the Coffee-House, Performs all Operations incident to the TEETH and GUMS,
Transplants Natural, and Substitutes
ARTIFICIAL TEETH,
And attends abroad upon sending directions,

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2. THERE is no security in the proffered system, either for the rights of conscience, or the liberty of the press: Despotism usually, while it is gaining ground, will suffer men to think, say, or write what they please; but when once established, if it is thought necessary to subserve the purposes of arbitrary power, the most unjust restrictions may take place in the first instance, and an imprimatur on the press in the next, may silence the complaints, and forbid the most decent remonstrances of an injured and oppressed people.
3. There are no well defined limits of the judiciary powers, they seem to be left as a boundless ocean, that has broken over the chart of the supreme lawgiver, “thus far shalt thou go and no farther,” and as they cannot be comprehended by the clearest capacity, or the most sagacious mind, it would be an Herculean labour to attempt to describe the dangers with which they are replete.
4. The executive and the legislative are so dangerously blended as to give just cause of alarm, and every thing relative thereto, is couched in such ambiguous terms—in such vague and indefinite expressions, as is a sufficient ground without any other objection, for the reprobation of a system, that the authors dare not hazard to a clear investigation.
5. The abolition of trial by jury in civil causes.—This mode of trial, the learned judge Blackstone observes, “has been coeval with the first rudiments of civil government, that property, liberty and life, depend on maintaining in its legal force the constitutional trial by jury.” He bids his readers pause, and with Sir Matthew Hale observes, how admirably this mode is adapted to the investigation of truth beyond any other the world can produce. Even the party who have been disposed to swallow without examination, the proposals of the secret conclave , have started on a discovery that this essential right was curtailed; and shall a privilege, the origin of which may be traced to our Saxon ancestors—that has been a part of the law of nations, even in the feudal systems of France, Germany, and Italy—and from the earliest records has been held so sacred, both in ancient and modern Britain, that it could never be shaken by the introduction of Norman customs, or any other conquests or change of government—shall this inestimable privilege be relinquished in America—either through the fear of inquisition for unaccounted thousands of public monies in the hands of some who have been officious in the fabrication of the consolidated system , or from the apprehension that some future delinquent, possessed of more power than integrity, may be called to a trial by his peers in the hour of investigation?
6. Though it has been said by Mr. Wilson, and many others, that a standing army is necessary for the dignity and safety of America, yet freedom revolts at the idea, when the Divan, or the despot, may draw out his dragoons to suppress the murmurs of a few, who may yet cherish those sublime principles which call forth the exertions, and lead to the best improvement of the human mind. It is hoped this country may yet be governed by milder methods than are usually displayed beneath the banners of military law. Standing armies have been the nursery of vice, and the bane of liberty, from the Roman legions, to the establishment of the artful Ximenes, and from the ruin of the Cortes of Spain, to the planting the British Cohorts in the capitals of America.—By the edicts of authority vested in the sovereign power by the proposed constitution, the militia of the country, the bulwark of defence, and the security of national liberty, is no longer under the controul of civil authority; but at the recipt of the monarch, or the aristocracy, they may either be employed to extort the enormous sums that will be necessary to support the civil list—to maintain the regalia of power—and the splendour of the most useless part of the community, or they may be sent into foreign countries for the fulfilment of treaties, stipulated by the president and two thirds of the senate.
7. Notwithstanding the delusory promise to guarantee a republican form of government to every state in the union—if the most discerning eye could discover any meaning at all in the engagement, there are no resources left for the support of internal government, or the liquidation of the debts of the state. Every source of revenue is in the monopoly of Congress, and if the several legislatures in their enfeebled state, should against their own feelings be necessitated to attempt a dry tax for the payment of their debts, and the support of internal police, even this may be required for the purposes of the general government.
8. As the new Congress are empowered to determine their own salaries, the requisitions for this purpose may not be very moderate, and the drain for public monies will probably rise past all calculation; and it is to be feared, when America has consolidated its despotism, the world will witness the truth of the assertion—“that the pomp of an eastern monarch may impose on the vulgar who may estimate the force of a nation by the magnificence of its palaces; but the wise man judges differently, it is by that very magnificence he estimates its weakness. He sees nothing more in the midst of this imposing pomp, where the tyrant sits enthroned, than a sumptuous and mournful decoration of the dead; the apparatus of a fatuous funeral, in the centre of which is a cold and lifeless lump of unanimated earth, a phantom of power ready to disappear before the enemy, by whom it is despised!”
9. There is no provision for a rotation, nor any thing to prevent the perpetuity of office in the same hands for life; which by a little well timed bribery, will probably be done, to the exclusion of men of the best abilities from their share in the offices of government.—By this neglect we lose the advantages of that check to the overbearing insolence of office, which by rendering him ineligible at certain periods, keeps the mind of man in equilibrio, and teaches him the feelings of the governed, and better qualifies him to govern in his turn.
10. The inhabitants of the United States, are liable to be dragged from the vicinity of their own county, or state, to answer to the litigious or unjust suit of an adversary, on the most distant borders of the continent: In short, the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme federal court, includes an unwarrantable stretch of power over the liberty, life, and property of the subject, through the wide continent of America.
11. One representative to thirty thousand inhabitants is a very inadequate representation; and every man who is not lost to all sense of freedom to his country, must reprobate the idea of Congress altering by law, or on any pretence whatever interfering with any regulations for the time, places, and manner of choosing our own representatives.
12. If the sovereignty of America is designed to be elective, the circumscribing the votes to only ten electors in this state, and the same proportion in all the others, is nearly tantamount to the exclusion of the voice of the people in the choice of their first magistrate. It is vesting the choice solely in an aristocratic junto, who may easily combine in each state to place at the head of the union the most convenient instrument for despotic sway.
13. A senate chosen for six years, will in most instances, be an appointment for life, as the influence of such a body over the minds of the people, will be coeval to the extensive powers with which they are vested, and they will not only forget, but be forgotten by their constituents; a branch of the supreme legislature thus set beyond all responsibility, is totally repugnant to every principle of a free government.
14. There is no provision by a bill of rights to guard against the dangerous encroachments of power in too many instances to be named: But I cannot pass over in silence the insecurity in which we are left with regard to warrants unsupported by evidence—the daring experiment of granting writs of assistance in a former arbitrary administration is not yet forgotten in the Massachusetts; nor can we be so ungrateful to the memory of the patriots who counteracted their operation, as to soon after their manly exertions to save us from such a detestable instrument of arbitrary power, to subject ourselves to the insolence of any petty revenue officer to enter our houses, search, insult, and seize at pleasure. We are told by a gentleman of too much virtue and real probity to suspect he has a design to deceive—“that the whole constitution is a declaration of rights,”—but mankind must think for themselves, and to many very judicious and discerning characters, the whole constitution, with very few exceptions, appears a perversion of the rights of particular states, and of private citizens—But the gentleman goes on to tell us, “that the primary object is the general government, and that the rights of individuals are only incidentally mentioned, and that there was a clear impropriety in being very particular about them.” But, asking pardon for dissenting from such respectable authority, who has been led into several mistakes, more from his predilection in favour of certain modes of governments, than from a want of understanding or veracity, the rights of individuals ought to be the primary object of all government, and cannot be too securely guarded by the most explicit declarations in their favour. This has been the opinion of the Hampdens, the Pymms, and many other illustrious names, that have stood forth in the defence of English liberties; and even the Italian master of politics, the subtil and renowned Machiavel acknowledges, that no republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
15. The difficulty, if not impracticability, of exercising the equal and equitable powers of government by a single legislature over an extent of territory that reaches from the Mississippi to the western lakes, and from them to the Atlantic ocean, is an insuperable objection to the adoption of the new system.—Mr. Hutchinson, the great champion for arbitrary power, in the multitude of his machinations to subvert the liberties of this country, was obliged to acknowledge in one of his letters, that “from the extent of country from north to south, the scheme of one government was impracticable.” But if the authors of the present visionary project, can by the arts of deception, precipitation and address, obtain a majority of suffrages in the conventions of the states to try the hazardous experiment, they may then make the same inglorious boast with this insidious politician, who may perhaps be their model, that “the union of the colonies was pretty well broken, and that he hoped never to see it renewed.”
16. It is an indisputable fact, that not one legislature in the United States had the most distant idea when they first appointed members for a convention, entirely commercial, or when they afterwards authorised them to consider on some amendments of the federal union, that they would, without any warrant from their constituents, presume on so bold and daring a stride, as ultimately to destroy the state governments, and offer a consolidated system , irreversible but on conditions that the smallest degree of penetration must discover to be impracticable.
17. The first appearance of the article which declares the ratification of nine states sufficient for the establishment of the new system, wears the face of dissention, is a subversion of the union of the confederated states, and tends to the introduction of anarchy and civil convulsions,—and may be a means of involving the whole country in blood.
18. The mode in which this constitution is recommended to the people to judge without either the advice of Congress, or the legislatures of the several states, is very reprehensible—it is an attempt to force it upon them before it could be thoroughly understood, and may leave us in that situation, that in the first moments of slavery the minds of the people, agitated by the remembrance of their lost liberties, will be like the sea in a tempest, that sweeps down every mound of security.
But it is needless to enumerate other instances, in which the proposed constitution appears contradictory to the first principles which ought to govern mankind; and it is equally so to enquire into the motives that induced to so bold a step as the annihilation of the independence and sovereignty of the thirteen distinct states.—They are but too obvious through the whole progress of the business, from the first shutting up the doors of the Federal Convention, and resolving that no member should correspond with gentlemen in the different states on the subject under discussion; till the trivial proposition of recommending a few amendments was artfully ushered into the convention of the Massachusetts. The questions that were then before that honourable assembly were profound and important, they were of such magnitude and extent, that the consequences may run parallel with the existence of the country; and to see them waved and hastily terminated by a measure too absurd to require a serious refutation, raises the honest indignation of every true lover of his country. Nor are they less grieved that the ill policy and arbitrary disposition of some of the sons of America, has thus precipitated to the contemplation and discussion of questions that no
one could rationally suppose would have been agitated among us, till time had blotted out the principles on which the late revolution was grounded; or till the last traits of the many political tracts, which defended the separation from Britain, and the rights of men were consigned to everlasting oblivion. After the severe conflicts this country has suffered, it is presumed, that they are disposed to make every reasonable sacrifice before the altar of peace. But when we contemplate the nature of men, and consider them originally on an equal footing, subject to the same feelings, stimulated by the same passions, and recollecting the struggles they have recently made, for the security of their civil rights; it cannot be expected that the inhabitants of the Massachusetts, can be easily lulled into a fatal security, by the declamatory effusions of gentlemen, who, contrary to the experience of all ages, would persuade them there is no danger to be apprehended from vesting discretionary powers in the hands of man, which he may, or may not abuse. The very suggestion, that we ought to trust to the precarious hope of amendments and redress, after we have voluntarily fixed the shackles on our own necks, should have awakened to a double degree of caution.—This people have not forgotten the artful insinuations of a former governor, when pleading, the unlimited authority of parliament before the legislature of the Massachusetts; nor that his arguments were very similar to some lately urged by gentlemen who boast of opposing his measures, “with halters about their necks.”
We were then told by him, in all the soft language of insinuation, that no form of government of human construction can be perfect—that we had nothing to fear—that we had no reason to complain—that we had only to acquiesce in their illegal claims, and to submit to the requisitions of parliament, and doubtless the lenient hand of government would redress all grievances, and remove the oppressions of the people:—Yet we soon saw armies of mercenaries encamped on our plains—our commerce ruined—our harbours blockaded—and our cities burnt. It may be replied, that this was in consequence of an obstinate defence of our privileges; this may be true, and when the “ ultima ratio ” is called to aid, the weakest must fall. But let the best informed historian produce an instance, when bodies of men were entrusted with power, and the proper checks relinquished, if they were ever found destitute of ingenuity sufficient to furnish pretences to abuse it. And the people at large are already sensible, that the liberties which America has claimed, which reason has justified, and which have been so gloriously defended by the sword of the brave, are not about to fall before the tyranny of foreign conquest; it is native usurpation that is shaking the foundations of peace, and spreading the sable curtain of despotism over the United States. The banners of freedom were erected in the wilds of America by our ancestors, while the wolf prowled for his prey on the one hand, and more savage man on the other; they have been since rescued from the invading hand of foreign power, by the valor and blood of their posterity; and there was reason to hope they would continue for ages to illumine a quarter of the globe, by nature kindly separated from the proud monarchies of Europe, and the infernal darkness of Asiatic slavery.
And it is to be feared, we shall soon see this country rushing into the extremes of confusion and violence, in consequence of the proceedings of a set of gentlemen, who, disregarding the purposes of their appointment, have assumed powers unauthorised by any commission, have unnecessarily rejected the confederation of the United States, and annihilated the sovereignty and independence of the individual governments. The causes which have inspired a few men, assembled for very different purposes, with such a degree of temerity as to break with a single stroke the union of America, and disseminate the seeds of discord through the land, may be easily investigated, when we survey the partisans of monarchy in the State Conventions, urging the adoption of a mode of government that militates with the former professions and exertions of this country, and with all ideas of republicanism, and the equal rights of men.
Passion, prejudice, and error are characteristics of human nature; and as it cannot be accounted for on any principles of philosophy, religion, or good policy, to these shades in the human character must be attributed the mad zeal of some to precipitate to a blind adoption of the measures of the late federal convention, without giving opportunity for better information to those who are misled by influence or ignorance into erroneous opinions. Literary talents may be prostituted, and the powers of genius debased to subserve the purposes of ambition or avarice; but the feelings of the heart will dictate the language of truth, and the simplicity of her accents will proclaim the infamy of those who betray the rights of the people, under the specious and popular pretence of justice, consolidation, and dignity .
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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Of the State of New-York.
POUGHKEEPSIE, March 5, 1788.
MR. Schoonmaker said, it did appear to him that the state was in such a condition as to give valuable a part of their property, merely to ornament the city of New-York. The lands ought to be sold.
Mr. Benon said, there was a mistaken idea about the value of those grounds.—There was no part of the city where lands sold so cheap as in the vicinage of the fort.
Mr. Brooks said, it might, perhaps, be proper to dispose of part of them; but it could never be wise to sell the whole; because if ever it became necessary to erect works there, for the defence of the city, the state would have to repurchase them at a vast expence. However, if they were to be sold, it must be first decided to whom they belong. Perhaps some gentlemen mistook the resolution; he thought it was explicit enough, it did not make the property belong to the city. By putting it in the hands of the corporation, they would remove a great part of the works, which were nothing more than nuisances.
Mr. Jones said, that gentlemen were greatly mistaken; he perceived that many had an idea that the grounds ought to be sold, as they supposed they would fetch a large sum of money into the treasury; but they deceived themselves. He believed the state had suffi-

found, by former experience, the danger of selling lands, without previous knowledge of the property belonging to the state: and should they now sell these grounds, when there were known claims on them? If gentlemen, however, were determined to sell, then the attorney general should be directed to institute suits for the ascertaining the property; and the expence, he believed, would over balance any advantages that might be derived from it: for with respect to that part of the ground, on which the greatest part of the battery is erected, he had no doubt but that the state had not the least right to it whatever. The resolution proposed nothing, but what would put these lands in a better situation than they are at present. With respect to what had been said, that we were not in a condition to ornament the city of New-York, it was true that we were not; nor was that expected. But it would ornament the city by permitting the inhabitants to remove those nuisances. With respect to selling, it would be the most improper step that could be taken, to dispose of the only spot on which fortifications could be erected.
Mr. Sylvester said, he understood by some gentlemen, that the land in question was worth 100,000l. if so, it was an object worthy of attention. Others had represented it as of little value; if that was the fact, it would be an easy matter for the corporation to purchase it. He was no great judge of fortifications, and the places for erecting them, but he had heard it observed that the works at New-York were of no great service, nor was the situation eligible; the narrows, he believed, was the only place at which a defence could be made.
Mr. Speaker believed that 20,000l. would be a high valuation; the corporation did not wish to purchase, they wanted that those grounds should be kept for the defence of the city.
Mr. Benson said, there was a question of right arising on this business. What would have been the situation of New-York, had not the revolution taken place? Though the property was vested in the king, he was always prevented from making any grant of it. If the state meant to sell and put the money in the public treasury, it would be injuring the inhabitants of New-York, who ought to be placed in the same situation as if the war never had happened. Besides, he would ask, if in any part of the state grounds had been sold that were supposed necessary for the public defence?
Mr. Jones did not suppose it would be proper to consider this business merely as accommodating New-York; the matter of right, and the propriety of the thing should be the rule of decision. It was supposed that the grounds were worth 100,000l. but no man could tell what they would probably produce; he was convinced that they were not worth half the money. There had been an argument brought forward, that it was impossible to defend the city; when a defence was spoken of, it would be understood in two points of view: one against all attempts whatever; the other against small attacks, where by privateers might be prevented from laying the town under contribution: a single 20 gun ship might do it. This was not a situation to leave any city in. It would therefore be improper to sell at any rate, when in a few years the state would have to re-purchase the same grounds at a very advanced price. But if it was determined that they must be sold, then let suits be instituted to determine the property by a jury, for in the present situation of it, he would pledge himself that no commissioners could decide what actually was the property of the state.
Mr. Harrison concurred in opinion with the gentleman who spoke last. It was a question of right, and not altogether of public expediency and public utility. It was not merely New-York that should be thought of, for that place ought not to be considered with respect to itself, but to the whole state. It was, he said, the duty of government to give that city all the protection it was possible to have. He did not suppose it was practicable to fortify it against large armaments, but it should not be left in such a situation, as that a few privateers might lay it under contribution. Wherever the state did not give that protection, it broke the social compact.
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American Occurrences.
S A L E M, March 25. THE ship Sophia, David Brace master, for London, will sail, from Boston, on or before the first of April.
We are unhappy in having to mention the loss of the ship Juno and her cargo, the property of Elias Hasket Derby, Esq. of this town, which sailed from this port in January last, for the Cape of Good-Hope, commanded by captain Henry Elkins. After being out about 40 hours, experiencing no adversity of weather, at 6 in the morning, the awful alarm of "the ship is sinking," spread terror fore and aft; so rapid was the increase of water, and so surprising the report, that overflowing despair had well nigh swallowed them up, by the time they could call all hands. Vain were repeated endeavors to escape the liquid fate their situation threatened, and
separated themselves from the unalterable lot of the ship. The most arduous attempts of all on board to secure their lives, were almost yielded to the sovereignty of the sea, when its power appeared less unmerciful, and though one boat was sunk, the other, with extreme difficulty, they at length commanded, as the ultimate preservation of their lives; for in less than 20 minutes after quitting the ship, she went below. So wonderfully was mercy here mixed with judgment, which, like light in chaos, glimmered through the gloom, that the ship's company had not been cast to the mercy of a treacherous ocean in a small and open boat, more than 4 hours, when they were providentially taken up by a sloop and carried into Demarara. Although destruction stared all in the face, and every wave appeared a gaping fate, with mingled gratitude and happiness we add, all were miraculously preserved from a watery grave.
POUGHKEEPSIE, April 1.
Friday arrived the sloop Dolphin, Capt. Basset, belonging to this place, from Curacoa, but last from St. Croix. He left Curacoa the 14th of November last for this port; he came on the coast the latter end of December last, and continued beating to windward in heavy gales till the 16th of January, when being short of provisions, and no prospect of getting into port, he bore away for the West Indies and made St. Croix. While he was on the coast, he relates that on the 3d of January, in the lat. of 40, long. 62, he saw a yellow sided sloop founder about half a league from him, and all on board perished. On the 12th of January in a heavy gale at W. N. W. he passed by the wreck of a brig which was all under but her topmasts, and no person to be seen. We are requested by Capt. Basset to mention the generous and humane treatment he experienced from Captain Askew, in the ship Dolphin of Salem, then 8 days out, bound for the Isle of France, who on the 6th of January took great pains to furnish Capt. Basset with some provisions, of which he stood greatly in need. The sloop while on the coast, sustained much damage; and had the mate (whose name was John Crane) walked overboard, and lost on the 14th of January. Capt. Basset was also washed overboard, but fortunately was entangled in the main-sheet, by which means he was hauled in again.
The river being clear of ice to this place, the vessels now ply as usual from hence to New-York, sailing to and from each place every Saturday.
New-York, April 4.
YESTERDAY arrived here the sloop Gen. Green, Godfrey, Rhode-Island; — Sally, Biddens, Halifax; ship Hope, Dolzen, St. Eustatia; — Lydia, Jackson, Barbadoes; schooner Friends Adventure, Wilson, Shelburne; brig Harmony, Palmer, Lisbon, in 9 weeks.
Capt. Webb, from Cape Francois, on the 23 of February, in lat. 32, long. 70, spoke with capt. Salter, also from the Cape, bound to Portsmouth—all well.—March 1st, spoke a schooner from Statia to New-London, out 32 days, having on board the Master of a sloop which had been driven out of Statia road.
A Boston paper of March 26, says: — It is with pleasure we inform the public, that the subscription for building three SHIPS is so far completed, as that the subscribers have chosen a committee to conduct the building; and that preparations for carrying them on with vigour, are now making at the ship-yards of Messrs. Clark, Rhodes, and Hart, where they are to be built. The shares already subscribed, are above forty, and many of the gentlemen who have made the first advances, have expressed their determination of advancing still more, should it be found to be necessary. This unequivocal proof of federalism, while it does honour to the cause that can boast such public-spirited advocates, will be a great relief to a number of our industrious mechanicks, whom the decline of commerce, arising from the imbecility of our national government, had deprived of employment, and reduced almost to want.
Naval-Office, port of Boston.
ENTERED. Brigantine Stoughton, Brown, Surinam; brigantine Lucretia, Howland, Baltimore; brigantine Industry, Prince, St. Eustatia; brigantine Betsey, Wells, Martinico; schooner Ruth, Field, Hispaniola; schooner Eagle, Rich, North-Carolina; schooner Sally, Olmstead, New-York; schooner Friendship, Bates, North-Carolina; sloop Polly, Smith, Martinico; sloop Friendship, Daggett, Philadelphia.
CLEARED. Schooner Swallow, Harnish, Halifax; schooner Nancy, Hiltz, Halifax.
From the POUGHKEEPSIE ADVERTISER.
THE M-r of N. York, and the K-r's county judge, And L-e the lawyer to Poughkeepsie did trudge, To hasten their journey they went in a waggon, To settle the hash and send Anti's back jogging; The road it was rugged the waggon did jolt, And the M-r of N. Y-k flunk a federal colt.
ALLEN's (New-London) Marine List.
Thursday, March 20th. Pleasant serene morning, wind S. W. 4 P. M. squally, snow, wind N. W.
Friday, 21st. Pleasant, serene morning, wind N. W. 4 P. M. wind W. b. S. Sailed, brig Unity, Giles Sage, for Martinico.
Sloop Deborah, Joseph Ingham, Jamaica.
Sloop Ranger, Elias Mather, Martinico.
Saturday, 22d. Pleasant, hazy morning, light wind N. N. W.—8 A. M.—wind S.
Arrived, sloop Diamond, George Church, from Port-au-Prince, in 32 days; left there
Sloop Swallow, Hez. Perkins, belonging to Norwich.
Schooner Nabby, Elisha Coit, ditto, who run on the N. E. reef off Bermuda, outward-bound, threw over a few bundles of hay, and got off clear.
Schooner Abia, Goodwin, failed 5 days before for Middletown.
Brig Fanny, Asa Waterman, belonging to Norwich, failed in company for this port.
On the 14th inst. in lat. 33. N. long. 68. 30. W. spoke the sloop —, Moore, from Lisbon, out eight weeks, bound to Philadelphia.
Capt. Church left at Port-au-Prince, ship —, Waters, belonging to Salem, and a number of eastern vessels.
Brig Delight, Pendleton, from Aux-Cayes, in 39 days.
Snow Lady Strange, Clark, late master, who was left at St. Eustatia, now John Sydeman, master, from Cape de Verds, Martinico, St. Eustatia and St. Croix.
Captains, take heed! Any young man adventuring, may depend on speedy promotion on board the Lady Strange.
On Sunday, drove on shore on Rhode-Island Boston Neck, a dead whale, which it is conjectured will net 1000 dollars, hard cash.
Sunday 23d. Foggy morning, light wind S. 6 P. M. rain; wind S. E.
Monday, 24th. Squally morning, wind W. S. W.
Touched in here, Packet Lady Greene, Godfrey, bound to New-York, in which were passengers, Mr. Frances, lady and sister.
Also, a sloop from St. Croix, bound to New-Haven.
Brig Fanny, Asa Waterman, from Port-au-Prince, ran ashore on Sunday, in a fog, on Narraganset beach.
Tuesday, 24th. Pleasant, serene, cool morning, N. N. W.
Sailed, sloop Julius Cæsar, Silliman, for Martinico, belonging to Stratford.
Wednesday, 26th. Squally morning, wind N. N. E. and S.
Arrived, sloop Betsey, Robert Colfax, from Aux-Cayes, belonging to Norwich.
Sloop —, Pratt, from ditto, belon-ging to Say-Brook.
Brig Mercury, John Smith, in 34 days from Surinam, who left there.
Brig —, S. Smith, belonging to Providence.
Ship —, Frazer, Boston.
Sloop —, Lippet, Providence.
Brig —, Cole, Ditto.
And several eastern vessels.
Schooner Sally, John Newson, from Martinico and St. Thomas's, in twelve days.
Left at Martinico, Brig —, Welis, belonging to New-Haven, blown off this coast, lost his main-mast. He was repairing, and expected to sail about the 19th inst. Mr. Sabin on board.
Brig Junius Brutus, belonging to Stratford.
Brig —, Barlow, Ditto.
Sloop —, Pond, Milford.
Sloop —, Miles, Ditto.
Sloop —, Griffing, Guildford.
Arrived at New-York, brig Neptune, Jabez Perkins, from Aux-Cayes.
At Rhode-Island, schooner Elizabeth, Jabez Lord, from St. Eustatia.
Sloop Swallow, Hez. Perkins, ditto.
At Charleston, South-Carolina, brig St. Andrew, Gappie, from Kingston, Jamaica.
Sloop —, Rogers failed from Nor-wich last November, for Boston, was blown off this coast, and is arrived at St. Thomas's.—Money saved or lost.
GAMBADO came too late for this Paper; but will be inserted to-morrow.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Enquire at No. 20, Queen-street.
JACOB REED, jun. Who also Exchanges and Re-exchanges the Paper Currency of this State, and
S P E C I E; And negotiates on Commission any Business respecting the Public Funds.
THEATRE.
By the Old AMERICAN COMPANY.
Mrs. Henry's Night.
On MONDAY Evening, the 7th of April,
Will be presented, A COMEDY,
More Ways than One.
To which will be added, A serious PASTORAL in TWO ACTS, (Never performed) adapted to the Stage, by a CITIZEN of the UNITED STATES,
The CONVENTION,
or The Columbian Father.
With New Scenery Incidental to the Piece. IN ACT 14.
A Procession of the THIRTEEN STATES, From the TEMPLE of LIBERTY.
The Doors will be opened at Half after Five, and the Curtain drawn up precisely at a Quarter after six o'Clock.
** Box 8s.—Pit 6s.—Gallery 4s. VIVAT RESPUBLICA.
THIS DAY is Published, By the PRINTER hereat, Which will be Sold at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street.
The IMPOST LAW,
An ACT supplementary to and for the Amendment of the Act, entitled, "An Act imposing Duties on Goods and Merchandise imported into this State, and to relieve Persons who have been aggrieved thereby," Passed the 11th of March, 1788.
As the Acts and Laws of the State, those which respect Imposts and Excises in particular, are int resting and necessary to every Merchant and Trader, the Printer has published this Act, in an Octavo Form, expressly for their Convenience. It will be sold at the low Price of NINE-PENCE.
New-York, April 4, 1788. 60—
Just Published, Enlarged, Improved, and Embellished with a COPPER-PLATE, And to be SOLD, by S. and J. Loudon, Messrs. Berry & Rogers, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Reid, Mrs. S. Campbell, Mr. T. Allen, and Mr. T. Greenleaf.
The American Magazine,
For MARCH, 1788.
CONTAINING, EXPLANATION of the plate; Biographical memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, Original letters, Conclusion of Dr. Mitchells account of the insect, Government.—The practice of instructing representatives absurd and contrary to the true principles of liberty, Education.—The practice of employing low and vicious Characters in schools reprobated, Life, travels, and adventures of Captain John Smith, General description of New-York, The adventure of the inn, Extract from the memoir of the Abbe de Commerell, on the culture, use, and advantages of the disette, or scarcity root, Anecdote of Doctor Ma-grath, Mathematical love letter, Letter from Eliza, An address to the ladies, Dr. Stiles's letter to the editor, Anecdotes, The London review of a work, entitled, an academy for grown horsemen, by Geoffry Gambado, Esq. The life and amusements of Isaac Bickerstaff, junior, Instructions of a Mexican mother to her daughter, Military establishment of the Anglo Saxons, Medical case, Review of new publications, The Federalist, Debates of the Pennsylvania convention, Advice to youth, by Sul-y.
POETRY, In praise of coffee.—A long, A blackamore maid to a fair boy, The boy's answer, Foreign intelligence.—American intelligence, Marriages and deaths, A request,
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law.—All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction. MELANCTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.
B L A N K S, To be sold at this Office.

POET'S CORNER.
YOUNG MASTER'S mournful ditty on the mur- der of his dog VENUS.
Written in SALEM, 1750. By the late MR. NATHANIEL GARDNER.
Come all ye nymphs with pretty faces, All ye loves and all ye graces; Come, mourn with me, my Venus fled, Mourn my charming Venus , dead: Poor Venus must not, shall not, go, Unfong, to Death's dark realms below; Ah! if he should, I near could bear Another song, nor verse to hear. 'No Dog that ever yet appear'd; Could with my Venus be compar'd; Not Tobit's fam'd in days of yore, Nor wife Ulysses' , long before. Foe to canine or human spite, The growl, the snarl, the angry bite; Had all the mildness of her sex, And never would the poultry vex; 'Midst all the creatures in the yard, She'd range, and wanton, quite unfeard. How shall I draw that pleasing form, As fair as Venus , and as warm? All, all her beauties shone in thee, As kind and amorous as she; Through all thy praises should I run, The day would sooner far be done.
Why would my pretty Venus fly? Why not with her fond master stay? Where'er I went, she us'd to trip, Constant and faithful to each step; This once did she unkindly go, And leave me—and this prov'd her woe. At first, 'twas thought it had been stole, By some who on the road might strole; Or stray'd, to love and play inclin'd, With some * Adonis of her kind.
But ah! I tremble to relate, Tremble to think of thy dire fate— How could that hand perform the deed! Bale man! How could he see her bleed! Man! He ne'er sprung from human race, No—from some tiger's fierce embrace: To view those eyes, and not relent! O! a heart harder than a flint. How different fair Cleora's breath: She sighs and mourns the pretty beast: Living, she stak'd thee, thee she fed, And mourns thee, Venus , now thou'rt dead. What dog! what man! that would not bear, Corrent, their fate, so wept by her? Often, where thou did'st meet thy doom, To strew thy grave with flow'rs, she'll come, Eye the sad spot with pensive look, And with her sorrows swell the brook, & And say, "poor Venus take thy rest, "Light lie the turf upon thy breast; "And this fair tree, long let it spread "It's leafy honours o'er thy head." "And kindly shade my much lov'd dead."
* ADONIS —the favourite lover of the ancient Venus , + Master's fitter. He found his poor Venus , demolished, near a fine brook, under a tree, in Danvers, on the great Piscataqua road.
Mother BUNCH'S advice to her grandson going into the Army.
JOHNNY you are now going to fight your big and mighty foe, and do not put your trust in an army of Fift ; but do you put all your trust in the Prince of the power of the air that saved Haggag , Hugag and Sacunderbag , from that mighty great burning fire of Froth , that was heat seven times hotter than it could be, and don't forget your infernal old granny who is just going out of the world.
Affixe of BREAD. As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weight Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence.
HIGH WATER. This Day, April 4. 7h. 46m. Morn.
To the afflicted with WORMS. LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons. New-York, Sept. 13, 1787. 32—c.d.
FLAX-SEED. STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed store lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY , last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38—c.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquaint- ed with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Polling of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—
New-York RUM Of excellent Flavour and good Proof FOR SALE, By Charles Tillinghast, At the DISTILLERY , near the New Market Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
F A R M S.
TO BE SOLD, At PUBLIC AUCTION, On FRIDAY the 18th Day of April next, At XII o'Clock , at the Merchant's Coffee House in the City of NEW-YORK, The Mills and Farm,
AT Paramus, in Bergen county, state of New Jersey, now in the occupation of Jacob Bamper, and late the residence of Col. James Marc Prevoost. The farm contains about two hundred and ninety acres of land mostly of su- perior quality, of which about one hundred acres are wood. There are two orchards of well chosen apples, and an abundance of choice, and rare fruit of other kinds, a spacious and very convenient dwelling house, large barn and mill-house. The mills are well situate on a lively and never failing stream which runs about three quarters of a mile through the farm, affording several mill seats not to be equalled in that part of the country. The land is otherwise beautifully watered by a variety of springs, and is capable of the most elegant and fanciful as well as profitable improvement at a very small expence. The situation is also parti- cularly advantageous for trade, being at the in- tersection of two great roads. The most unques- tionable title will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
The Creditors of Charles Williams, deceased, and all others interested in his estate, are requested to take notice, that the surplus of the money which may arise from this sale, after paying the purchase money due, from the said Charles Williams, will be applied to the satisfaction of his other debts. New-York, March 12. 1788. 47.c.d.tod.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE, THE place which William Pro- voost formerly occupied, which for elegance of situation is perhaps equal to any in the state of New-Jersey; it lies three quarters of a mile from the church of Hackinack, and extends from the ri- ver up the road towards Paramus, being intersected by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a STONE DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high in front, and three in rear, having a fine dry cellar, and a dwelling-room underneath on the ground floor (being built on the declivity of a hill) with a large kitchen adjoining: Also, a poultry-house and a new barn; in the rear of the dwelling-house is a beautiful green, ornamented with fruit-trees; between which and the river, lies a valuable piece of meadow, yielding about twenty- four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spacious and substantial dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quan- tity of alhes, an extraordinary spring and well at the dwelling-house, from which the meadow may be watered: there is also a garden with a variety of the best fruit-trees: on the lot on the opposite side of the road, stands a commodious store, com- manding trade of the back country; also a young orchard of good fruit trees. The whole of the place contains about thirty-four or five acres, twelve of which are wood land; the land has been well manured with ashes; the whole of the land enclosed with a new substantial fence. The beauty of this situation, and its advantages for trade, make it eligible either as a country seat or a place of business. To be sold in three different lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; if not sold by the first day of April next, then to be rented. For terms apply to DIRCK LEFFERTS , in maiden-lane, No. 21, New-York, who will give a good title for the same. The Conditions of payment will be made easy to the Purchaser. If any person wants to view the place, apply to D. Lefferts, he will send a person with him.
TO BE SOLD, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for WELL-INDIA or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm, SITUATE in Woodbridge town- ship, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles dis- tant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and fe- venty acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW ; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber. The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence. On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of wa- ter near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm. This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM. For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Ben- jamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
A Few COPIES of the Conductor Generalis, To be SOLD, At this PRINTING-OFFICE.
TO BE SOLD, At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant situated F A R M, BETWEEN Rack Pond and Fresh Creek, adjoining the sea, at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, in the state of N. Jersey, con- taining one hundred and fifty acres. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and a good title will be given. For further particulars enquire of PETER OGILVIE , at No. 6, Crown-street. New-York, Feb. 13, 1788. 17
New-York, Elizabeth-Town, and Philadelphia New Stage Line.
THE frequent neglect of business, by some of the proprietors of the former line of stages, has compelled the subscribers, who were concerned, to withdraw themselves, and to join in establishing a new line. By strict attention to their business—by keeping their coaches and horses in good order—and by employing none but sober drivers, they hope to merit their favors of the public. The stage will leave Paules-Hook, every after- noon, at 3 o'clock, Saturdays excepted; the stage boats also ply every day from White-Hall to Eli- zabeth-Town Point. From Mr. Crane's, at Eli- zabeth-Town Point, the stage will set out every morning (except Sunday) and run through Bridge- town in Rarway, Woodbridge, New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Bristol, to the Indian-Queen in Fourth-street, Philadelphia, in one day, for the moderate price of THREE HARD DOLLARS for each passenger, with the allowance of 14wt of baggage; and all way-passengers at FOUR PENCE per mile. One hundred and fifty weight baggage the same price as a passenger, viz. Four Pence per Mile. No racing allowed in this line. JOHN MERCEREAU, JOHN HEARD, CHARLES BASONETT, WILLIAM KERLIN.
The NEW LINE of STAGES. THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconve- niencies arise both to the respectable public and themselves from inattention to business; in future they are determined to use every endeavor to serve the public, and with encouragement only in propor- tion to their exertions and attention to their business. From the date hereof the fare will be from Pow- les-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook, three Spanish milled dollars, and all way passengers four pence per mile, 150lb. of bag- gage to be the same as a passenger; Printers papers and letters will be conveyed gratis; convenient port- manteaus are provided for that purpose. The Stages leave Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock, P. M. every day for Philadelphia, except Saturday. JOHN CUMMING, MATTHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, MICHAEL DENNISTON, N. B. Papers, Letters, &c. to be sent to Chris- topher Beekman's, Cortlandt Street, where the Stage Office is kept. February 19, 1788. 29 c d
Masters & Owners of Vessels, Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cord- age of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivers's Rope-walk, at the head of Mul- berry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea- Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to me- rit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hambro lin, deep sea lines, hand lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by H. IVERS , Ropemaker. N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer.
AT THE TANNERY, Near the Fresh-Water Pond, MAY be had of the subscriber, acquainty of excellent SOLE and UPPER- LEATHER , tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manu- factories, and procure them a run of custom— for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price. Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD. N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 c.d
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof, and by ROBERT HODGE , No. 237, Queen Street, THE PRINCIPLES OF THE Latin Grammar, EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners; with Notes and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics. By JAMES HARDIE, A. B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK. WE, the PRESIDENT and PROFESSORS of COLUMBIA COLLEGE , whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, that we have ex- amined a new publication, entitled " The principle of the Latin Grammar explained , &c." by JAMES HARDIE ," and that we find it an accurate and judicious compilation, well calculated for the in- struction of youth in the rudiments of the Latin language; and such as may be useful even to those who have made considerable progress therein. We therefore recommend it to all who are intrusted with the care of education, and particularly to the teachers in the different schools of this state. W. SAMUEL JOHNSON, President, WILLIAM COCHRAN, Professor of Lan- guages, JOHN DANIEL GROS, Professor of (Moral Philosophy and Geography, JOHN KEMP, Professor of Mathematics and (Natural Philosophy.
JUST PUBLISHED, And TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen-Street, and the other BOOKSELLERS,
Conductor Generalis, OR the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c. To which are added, several choice maxims in law, &c. compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and several other books on those subjects. By JAMES PARKER, Esq. late justice of the peace in New-Jersey, Now adapted to these United States. By one of the J U D G E S. The whole alphabetically digested under the se- veral titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles. This book is highly esteemed, and very necessary for gentlemen in the commission of the peace; likewise for every other person who would wish to be acquainted with the laws of the land we live in. At the above STORE may be had, a great variety of
BOOKS, Consisting of HISTORY. Surgery, Divinity, Agriculture, Law, Nautical Books, Philosophy, Dictionaries, Mathematics, Architecture, Biography, Novels, Geography, Miscellanies, Poetry, Plays, &c. &c. Phyfic.
A L S O, A number of very valuable BOOKS; Among which are, ELEGANT folio fa- Entick's latin Diction- mily bibles, with aries, near 200 cuts in each, Davidson's Virgil and Burkit on the new test- Horace, ment, Brown's self- Duncan's Cicero, Kent's, interpreting bible, a Lucian, Clark's Cæsar, vols, Homer, Nepos, Eu- Cruden's concordance, tropius, Erasmus, an Warden's system of di- introduction, vinity, Whitby's com- Simpson's fluxions, and mentary, Blair's Carr's, Euclid, Erkin's, Bolton's, Hammond's algebra Willison's, Atterbu- Stone's Euclid, ry's, &c. sermon's, Love's surveying, Guth- Neilson's festivals, Cul- ric's and Salmon's ge- len's, Duncan's, and ographical grammars, Hoffman's, practice o- Johnson's, Sheridan's, phyfic, Albe's, Dyke's, Bal- Van Swieten's, commata- ley's, Scott's, Perry's, ries, 18 vols. Boerha- and Entick's dictiona- ve's aphorisms, 6 vols. ries, Smellie, and Hamil- Bennet's christian orato- ton's midwifery, ry, Scott on elocution, Leake on the diseases of elegant extracts in women, 2 vols. Quin- verse, do. in prose Lord cey's medical lexicon, Littleton's letters, Fourcroy's, chemis- Klopstock's Messiah, ry, &c. Ainsworth's, Hutton's mensuration, Young's Cole's, and Hawney's mensurer.
THE Commissioners, appointed by law to appraise, and finally to ascertain the advantages and disadvantages which may arise to the proprietors of lots, contiguous to, or taken away in whole, or in part, to widen and extend Greenwich-street, will meet on Thursday the 27th inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Com- mon Council Chamber in the City-Hall, in order to proceed upon the business entrusted to them.— And all claimants, and others interested, are here by notified and requested to attend personally, or by their representative, with a state of their claim in writing. By Order of the Commissioners, HENRY REMSEN , Chairman. New-York, March 7, 1788. 40 w. f.
LETTERS of INTELLIGENCE—occasional PARAGRAPHS—speculative PIECES—ESSAYS, &c.—are gratefully received at this OFFICE.— For the greater CONVENIENCE and SAFETY of which COMMUNICATIONS, a LETTER-BOX is placed in the Window. SUBSCRIPTIONS for this PAPER (printed EVERY DAY, at Six, and ONCE a Week, at Two Dollars, per Annum) are also received here—and ADVERTISEMENTS, REASONABLY INSERTED. ** PRINTING, in all its Variety, Performed with NEATNESS and DISPATCH.