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The New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register.
NUMB. 57, of VOL. XLII.]
SATURDAY, March 8, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2237.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST—E’EN 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.
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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 he 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. CONDITIONS.
I. THE New-York Journal and Daily Patriotic Register shall be printed on the same paper, form, and type, as the Weekly Register, and shall contain the same quantity of matter.
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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, calcades, &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 expenses—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, Alexandra; 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 Austin, 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 indebt for their friendly 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.
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 price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Scioto, 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 Pitt 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 grown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed 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. 93 c.d.
S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity,
FOR SALE by
Charles Tillinghast,
At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
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 JANUARY, 1788.
CONTAINING,
Miscellanies.
ORATION in commemoration of American Independence.
Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw’s. New method of placing a meridian mark, by
David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap,
Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.
Method of making steel.
Letter on marriage,
Antifederal arguments,
Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee.
Alire,
On musical pretenders,
Recipe for an insolvent debtor,
Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.
Rural Concerns.
Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.
Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland,
Thoughts on the culture of hemp,
Method of breaking fleeces to the draft in a few days,
On the culture of silk.
Law Information,
Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,
Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand,
State and other Public papers.
Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Trumbull,
Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,
Letter to governor Randolph,
Letter from do.
Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,
Address of the grand jury of Edenton,
Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county,
Report of the deputies of Northampton county,
Resolutions of the tradesmen of Boston,
Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,
Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,
Answer to the preceding notice.
Natural History.
Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.
Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negro girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,
Letter relative to the engraving fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,
Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.
Some account of the opoponax.
Medical Tracts.
Letter on the fore throat distemper,
Letter on the digitalis purpurea,
An inestimable dissolvent for human calculi
Select Poet y.
A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year’s day, 1788.
Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady,
A riddle.
Foreign Intelligence. American do.
TO BE SOLD,
For JERSEY MONEY at full Value,
Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or
bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS,
At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm,
SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy 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 water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Raritan, 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 Mr. E Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99—c.d.
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-Yard.

From the INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER. NUMBER III.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Luke 19, 22.
IT is remarkable, if we attend to the declaration of independence, that the Congress alledge that the people of this country are justified in withdrawing their allegiance from the king of Great-Britain on account of various acts of oppression. Among other things, the king is accused "of depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of the trial by jury."—Now it is most certain that the new constitution takes away the trial by jury in many cases, for it is expressly declared that the continental court is to have "appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact" Art. 3, sect. 2. If therefore this may be used as an argument for withdrawing our allegiance from the king of Great-Britain, it may be used as an argument against the establishment of the new constitution. The trial by jury is one of the essentials of liberty. I will quote a fine passage from an able lawyer, which demonstrates the utility of this noble privilege.
"Upon these accounts, the trial by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the English law. And, if it has so great an advantage over others in regulating property, how much must that advantage be heightened, when it is applied to criminal cases! But this we must refer to the ensuing book of these commentaries; only observing for the present that it is the most transcendent privilege any subject can enjoy, or with for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbours and equals. A constitution that I may venture to affirm has, under Providence, secured the just liberties of this nation for a long succession of ages. And therefore a celebrated French writer, who concludes that because Rome, Sparta and Carthage have lost their liberties, therefore those of England in time must perish, should have remembered that Rome, Sparta and Carthage were strangers to the trial by jury."
"Great as this eulogium may seem, it is no more than its admirable constitution, when traced to its principles, will be found in sober reason to deserve. The impartial administration of justice, which secures both our persons and properties, is the great end of civil society. But if that be entirely entrusted to the magistracy, a select body of men, and those generally selected by the prince or such as enjoy the highest offices in the state, their decisions, in spite of their own natural integrity, will frequently have an involuntary bias towards those of their own rank and dignity. It is not to be expected from human nature that THE FEW should be always attentive to the interests and good of THE MANY. On the other hand, if the power of judicature were placed at random in the hands of the multitude, their decisions would be wild and capricious, and a new rule of action would be every day established in our courts. It is wisely therefore ordered, that the principles and axioms of law, which are generally propositions, flowing from abstracted reason, and not accommodated to times or to men, should be deposited in the breasts of the judges, to be ac-
cessionally applied to such facts as come properly ascertained before them. For here partiality can have little scope; the law is well known, and is the same for all ranks and degrees; it follows as a regular conclusion from the premises of fact pre-established. But in settling and adjusting a question of fact, when entrusted to any single magistrate, partiality and injustice have an ample field to range in; either by boldly asserting that to be proved which is not so, or more artfully by suppressing some circumstances—stretching and warping others, and distinguishing away the remainder. Here therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen, chosen by ballot from among those of the middle rank, will be found the best investigators of truth, and the surest guardians of public justice. For the most powerful individual in the state will be cautious of committing any flagrant invasion of another's right, when he knows the fact of his oppression must be examined and decided by twelve indifferent men, not appointed till the hour of trial; and that when once the fact is ascertained, the law must of course redress it."
This therefore preserves in the hands of the people that share which they out to have in the administration of public justice, and prevents the encroachments of the more powerful and wealthy citizens. Every new tribunal erected for the decision of facts, without the intervention of a jury (whether composed of justices of the peace, commissioners of the revenue, judges of a court of conscience, or any other standing magistrate) is a step towards establishing aristocracy, the most oppressive to absolute governments. The federal system, which, for the sake of military subordination, pursued an aristocratical plan in all its arrangements of property, had been intolerable in times of peace, had it not been wisely counterpoised by that privilege, so universally diffused through every part of it, the trial by the federal peers. And in every country on the continent, as the trial by the peers has been gradually diffused, so the nobles have increased in power, until the state has been torn to pieces by rival factions, and oligarchy in effect has been established though under the shadow of regal government; unless where the miserable commons have taken shelter under absolute monarchy, as the lighter evil of the two. And, particularly it is a circumstance well worthy an Englishman's observation, that in Sweden the trial by jury, that bulwark of northern liberty, which continued in its full vigour, so lately as the middle of the last century, is now fallen into disuse: and that there, though the regal * power is in no country so closely limited, yet the liberties of the commons are extinguished, and the government is degenerated into a mere aristocracy. It is therefore, upon the whole, a duty, which every man owes to his country, his friends, his posterity, and himself, to maintain to the utmost of his power this valuable constitution in all its rights: to restore to its ancient dignity, if all impaired by the different value of property, or other-
* This was written before the revolution, in 1772.—The king was always mentioning his love of liberty and the purity of his intentions, until by surprise, by a coup de main, he made himself an arbitrary, from being a limited, monarch. In this he was greatly assisted by French artifice and French money.
wise deviated from its first institution; to amend it, wherever it is defective: and above all to guard with the most jealous circumspection against the introduction of new and arbitrary methods of trial, which under a variety of plausible pretences, may in time imperceptibly undermine this best preservative of English liberty."—Blackstone's commentaries, quarto edition, vol. 3, page 379.
In short, it is not only the means of taking away the trial by jury in many cases, but the insecurity of the liberty of the press and the rights of conscience, with the abolition of the freedom of election, and other numerous arbitrary principles, which should make us oppose the new constitution. If we suffer it to be established the world will, on account of the gross tyranny which it holds forth, be inclined to suspect, rather than our understandings, our integrity and courage.
ALGERNON SIDNEY.
DEBATES IN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION.
THURSDAY, January 24, P. M.
[Continued.]
The 8th sect. was again read.
THE hon. Mr. Sedgwick went in to a general answer to the objections which had been started against the powers to be granted to Congress, by this sect. He shewed the absolute necessity there was that the body which had the security for the whole for their object, should have the necessary means allowed them to effect it; and in order to secure the people against the abuse of this power, the representatives and people, he said, are equally subject to the laws, and can therefore have but one and the same interest; that they never would lay unnecessary burdens, when they themselves must bear a part of them; and from the extent of their objects, their powers ought necessarily to be illimitable. Men, says he, rarely do mischief for the sake of being mischievous. With respect to the power in this sect. to raise armies, the hon. gentleman said although gentlemen had thought it a dangerous power, and would be used for the purpose of tyranny, yet they did not object to the confederation in this particular; and by this Congress could have kept the whole army in the field, had they seen fit. He asked, if gentlemen could think it possible, that the legislature of the United States should raise an army unnecessarily, which, in a short time, would be under the controul of other persons? For, if it was not to be under their controul, what object could they have in raising it? It was, he said, a chimerical idea to suppose, that a country like this, could ever be enslaved. How is an army for that purpose to be obtained? from the freemen of the United States? They certainly, says he, will know to what object it is to be applied. Is it possible, he asked, that an army could be raised for the purpose of enslaving themselves and their brethren? or, if raised, whether they could reduce a nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their hands? He said, it was a deception in gentlemen to say, that this power could be thus used. The hon. gentlemen said, that in the constitution every possible provision against an abuse of power was made; and if gentlemen would candidly investigate for themselves, they would find that the evils they lament cannot ensue therefrom.
Mr. Dawes observed, upon the authority of Congress to raise and
support armies, that all the objections which had been made by gentlemen against standing armies, were inapplicable to the present question, which was, that as there must be an authority somewhere, to raise and support armies, whether that authority ought to be in Congress. As Congress are the legislature upon the proposed plan of government, in them only, said he, should be lodged the power under debate. Some gentlemen seem to have confused ideas about standing armies: that the legislature of a country should not have power to raise armies, is a doctrine he never heard before. Charles II. in England, kept in pay an army of five thousand men, and James II. augmented them to thirty thousand. This occasioned a great and just alarm through the nation; and accordingly when William the III. came to the throne, it was declared to be unconstitutional to raise or keep a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of the legislature. Most of our own state constitutions have borrowed this language from the English declaration of rights; but none of them restrain their legislatures from raising and supporting armies. Those who never objected to such an authority in Congress, as vested by the old confederation, surely ought not to object to such a power in a Congress where there is to be a new branch of representation, arising immediately from the people, and which branch alone, must originate those very grants that are to maintain the army. When we consider that this branch is to be elected every two years, there is great propriety in its being restrained from making any grants in support of the army for a longer space than that of their own existence. If the election of this popular branch were for seven years, as in England, the same men who would make the first grant, might also the second and third, for the continuance of the army; and such an acquaintance might exist between the representatives in Congress and the leaders of the army, as might be unfavourable to liberty. But the wisdom of the late convention has avoided this difficulty. The army must expire of itself in two years after it shall be raised, unless renewed by representatives, who at that time will have just come fresh from the body of the people. It will share the same fate as that of a temporary law, which dies at the time mentioned in the act itself, unless revived by some future legislature.
Capt. Dench said, it had been observed, and he was not convinced that the observation was wrong, that the grant of the powers in this sect. would produce a consolidation of the states; and the moment it begins, a dissolution of the state governments commences. If mistaken, he wished to be set right.
[The following is re-inserted by particular desire.]
From the (Boston) AMERICAN HERALD.
STATE OF FACTS.
Which accompanied and was referred to in Mr. GERRY's Letter of the 21st Jan. to the State Convention.
THE business of the federal convention having been opened by Governor Randolph, of Virginia, and the outlines of a plan of government having been proposed by him, they were referred to a committee of the whole house; and after several weeks debate, the committee reported general principles for forming a constitution amongst which were the following:
"7thly. That the right of the suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature (by which was intended the house of representatives) ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, viz. In proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex and condition, including those bound in servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each state."

“Bably. That the right of suffrage in the second branch of the national legislature (meaning the senate) ought to be according to the rule established for the first.”
In the committee of the whole, the 8th article above recited, for which I voted, was carried, if my memory serves me, by six states against five; and when under consideration of the convention, it produced a ferment, and a separate meeting, as I was informed, of most of the delegates of those five states, the result of which was, a firm determination on their part, not to relinquish the right of an equal representation in the senate, confirmed as it was to those states, by the articles of confederation.
The matter at length became so serious as to threaten a dissolution of the convention, and a committee, consisting of a member from each state, was appointed to meet if possible on the ground of accommodation. The members from the three large states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, were Mr. Mason, Dr. Franklin, and myself; and after debating the subject several days, during which time the convention adjourned, the committee agreed to the following report:
“That the subsequent propositions be recommended to the convention on condition that both shall be generally adopted.”
“First. That in the first branch of the legislature, each of the states now in the union be allowed one member for every forty thousand inhabitants, of the description reported in the seventh resolution of the committee of the whole house. That each state not containing that number shall be allowed one member. That all bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the salaries of the officers of government of the United States, shall originate in the first branch of the legislature, and shall not be altered or amended by the second branch; and that money shall be drawn from the treasury of the United States, but in pursuance of appropriations to be originated by the first branch.”
“Secondly. That, in the second branch of the legislature each state shall have an equal vote.”
The number of forty thousand inhabitants to every member in the house of representatives, was not a subject of much debate, or an object insisted on, as some of the committee were opposed to it. Accordingly on the 10th of July a motion was made “to double the number of representatives, being sixty five,” and it passed in the negative.
The admission however, of the smallest states to an equal representation in the senate, never would have been agreed to by the committee, or by myself as a member of it, without the provision, “That all bills for raising or appropriating money, and for fixing the salaries of the officers of government, &c. should originate in the house of representatives, and not be altered or amended by the senate. And that no money should be drawn from the treasury, but in pursuance of such appropriations.”
This provision was agreed to by the convention at the same time and by the same vote, as that which allows to each state an equal voice in the senate, and was afterwards referred to the committee of detail, and reported by them as a part of the constitution, as will appear by documents in my possession. Nevertheless, the smaller states having attained their object, of an equal representation in the senate, a new provision, now in the constitution, was substituted; whereby the senate have a right to propose amendments to revenue bills, and the provision reported by the committee was effectually destroyed.
It was conceived by the committee to be highly unreasonable and unjust, that a small state, which would contribute but one sixty fifth part of any tax, should nevertheless, have an equal right with a large state, which would contribute eight or ten sixty fifths of the same tax, to take money from the pockets of the latter; more especially as it was intended, that the powers of the new legislature should extend to internal taxation, it was likewise conceived that the right of extending, should be in proportion to the ability of raising money; that the larger states would not have the least security for their property, if they had not the due command of their own purses; that they would not have such command, if the smaller states in either branch, had an equal right with the larger to originate or even to alter money bills; that if the senate should have the power of proposing amendments, they may propose, that a bill originated by the house to raise one thousand, should be increased to one hundred thousand pounds; that though the house may negative amendments proposed by the senate, yet the giving them power to propose amendments, would enable them to increase the grants of the house, because the senate (as well as the house) would have a right to adhere to their votes, and would oblige the house to consent to such an increase, on the principle of accommodation; that the smaller states would thus have nearly as much command of the property of the greater, as they themselves; that even if the representation in the senate had been according to numbers, in each state, money bills should not be originated or altered by that branch, because by their appointments, the members would be farther removed from the people, would have a greater and more independent property in their offices, would be more extravagant, and not being so easily removed, would be ever in favor of higher salaries than members of the house; that it is not reasonable to suppose, the aristocratical branch would be as saving of the public money as the democratical branch; but that on the other hand, should the senate have only the power of concurrence, or non-concurrence, of such bills, they would pass them altho’ the grants should not equal their wishes, whilst with the power of amendments, they would never be satisfied with the grants of the house; that the commons of Great-Britain had ever strenuously and successfully contended for this important right, which the lords had often but in vain endeavored to exercise; that the preservation of this right, the right of holding the purse strings, was essential to the preservation of liberty; that to this right, perhaps, was principally owing, the liberty that still remains in Great-Britain.
These are the facts and reasons whereon was grounded the admission of the smaller states to an equal representation in the senate; and it must appear, that there is an essential difference between an unqualified admission of them to an equal representation in the senate, and admitting them from necessity, on the express condition provided in the recited report of the committee—it must also appear, that had that provision been preferred in the
constitution, and the senate precluded from a right to alter or amend money or revenue bills, agreeably to the said report, the smaller states would not have had that undue command of the property of the larger states, which they are now to have by the constitution; and that I never consented to an equal representation of the states in the senate, as it now stands in the new system. E. GERRY.
The Hon. Judge Cushing, Vice-President of the Convention of Massachusetts.
By His EXCELLENCY, GEORGE CLINTON, Esq. Governor of the State of New-York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Ad- miral of the Navy of the same.
A PROCLAMATION, (L.S.) WHEREAS the senate and assembly of this state, by their current resolutions bearing date the sixteenth and twentieth days of February last, after reciting “That whereas John Livingston, Esq. of the Manor of Livingston, hath produced to committees of the senate and assembly, two certain writings, and which writings have been reported to the senate and assembly, the one of them dated the thirtieth day of November last, purporting to be a lease from the chiefs or sachems of the six nations of Indians, to him the said John Livingston, and others his associates, for the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, on a yearly rent reserved of two thousand Spanish mil- led dollars, of all that tract of land in the said writing described, and beginning at a place commonly known by the name of Canada Creek, about seven miles well of Fort Stanwix, now Fort Schuyler, thence north-easterly to the line of the province of Quebec; thence along the said line to the Pennsylvania line, thence east on the said line or Pennsylvania line, to the line of property, so called by this state of New-York; thence along the said line of property to Canada Creek aforesaid.
The other of the said writings, dated the eighth day of January last, purporting to be a lease from the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors of the Oneida Nation of Indians, to the said John Livingston, and his said associates, for the said term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, on a rent reserved for the first year of twelve hundred dollars, and increasing at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, until it shall amount to fifteen hundred dollars, of all those lands in the said writing described, as the tract of land commonly called and known by the territory of the Oneida Indians, with an exception as to several tracts and parcels in the said writings particularly specified; and which said leases were obtained from the said Indians, by the said John Livingston and his associates, now under the authority, nor with the consent of the legislature of this state, did resolve, as the sense of the said senate and assembly, that the said leases are purchases of lands, and therefore that by the constitution of this state, the said leases are not binding on the said Indians, and are not valid; and did thereby also further resolve, as the determination of the legislature, that the force of the said leases shall, from time to time, as occasion may require, be exerted to prevent intrusions on, and for preserving to the people of this state, their rights to the lands and territories comprehended within the boundaries specified in the said leases, against the said John Livingston and his said associates, and all other persons claiming or to claim any right, title or benefit, under the said leases or either of them.
Now therefore, agreeably to the request of the senate and assembly, also expressed in their said concurrent resolutions, I have issued this my proclamation, hereby strictly charging and requiring the said John Livingston and his said associates, and all other persons, that they do not settle, improve, enter, or otherwise intrude on such of the said lands as have not heretofore been granted in due form of law, as they shall answer for every intrusion at their peril.
Given under my hand and the privy seal, at Poughkeepsie, this fifth day of March, in the twenty-fifth year of the independence of the said state, 1788.
GEORGE CLINTON. American Occurrences.
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 21. PARAGRAPHS FROM CORRESPONDENTS. THE violence in the back counties of this state, says a correspondent, seems only to be a reverberation of the blessed tumults which were so happily commenced in this city, on the auspicious dawning of the federal constitution. People here seem to be amazed that any noise should be made by the sons of Paxton and Tuscara; and yet if there were nothing but decency and good manners to stimulate these children out of the mountains, it ought to have been expected that they would imitate their betters in the mode of expressing their opinion on the subject of the supposed constitution.
The sagacious Sanco Panca, of immortal memory, would have given a string of proverbs on this event:—For instance he would have told us:
That like beggars like. That small beer undergoes the same kind of fermentation with impartiality today.
That violence and confusion are more apt to pull down than build up.
That where there is no law there is no obedience. That great men should be careful what examples they set.
That, when men go to loggerheads, the scull of a peasant is often found as hard as that of a powder-bean.
That many a fine plot has been turned upon its own authors.
That many a braggard has undertaken to kick the world before him; but has met with his match before he had got half through.
That many shining characters have been found tinsel at last; and all is not gold that glistens.
That men who swallow without examining, sometimes get their throats burnt.
That men who undertake to rule others, should first learn to govern themselves.
That the first blow is that which should be the first punished and the last pardoned.
That you should get a ‘bait’ in your power before you attempt to tame him with blows.
That many a man has reckoned without his host, and that the knowing ones are often taken in.
That a man had better kill the bear before he sells the skin.
That a man had better not undertake to act for others before he is employed. And what is got by fraud seldom lasts long.
By two gentlemen just arrived from the westward, we are informed, that the people were marching with rapidity from all directions to the town of Carlisle in Cumberland county, in order to set at liberty seven or eight gentlemen, who were confined in the gaol of that county, for interrupting an attempt to hold a public rejoicing, on the account of the new constitution having been adopted by the convention of this state. Our informants understood that about five thousand men were collecting; they actually met three hundred in one body on the ice, crossing from this side of Sulquehanna, but were not informed of the event.
New-York, March 8.
YESTERDAY arrived the brig Argo, Captain Askill, from Newbury-Port.
Extract of a letter from York county, February 25, 1788.
“You may depend upon it, whatever you in the city may think of the business, we country people do not consider the new constitution adopted by this state. We look upon all yet done to be the work of the junto in the city, &c. We shall be very apt to make, some experiments in the spring.”
Extract of a letter from an aged man, whose sentiments cannot be supposed to be influenced by party, prejudice, or ambition, having long lived in the vale of life, and in the bosom of domestic peace.
“Nothing eff-As us, save what is now become a general cry—want of money; yet as I have always lived plain, the effects of it have not bore any way had upon me. Provided the new system of government takes place the present evil will soon cease; but woe to us if it should miscarry—lette, however wisely, and however much it is planned for universal good, it had never been spoken into light!”
From the INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER. Printed at Philadelphia.
THE immaculate convention, that is said to have possessed the fullness of patriotism, wisdom and virtue, contained nine of the principal public defaulters, and twenty five of this body were hackneyed lawyers; and these were the most influential members, and chiefly instrumental in the framing the new constitution.
One of the most noted characters in that body, who answers both the first descriptions, and whose conduct upon this occasion favoured more of the Jesuit than the rest, has lately put his name to an address of congratulation to the Legislature, on the adoption of his own works. A stranger would be led to imagine from it, that the assembly was also friendly to his system. But even here this ancient artist has a clue, if the plan should not succeed, for it was handed to him by a vote of council.
Would it not be advisable for the Supreme Executive Council (since the eastern members have now come down, and that there is a majority opposed to this conspiracy against the liberties of America) to congratulate the house upon the prospect of its being rejected.
Such low manoeuvres and base deceptions as are practised by the advocates of this change of government, ought to be held forth to the world in their proper light.
A Citizen of a Free Independent State. February 27, 1788.
From the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. IS any man fond of his liberty, as all men naturally are, and of his own opinions (for this too is natural) and of examining all opinions; which every man has a right to do? Would he worship God after his own way, be exempt from vexatious suits and prosecutions, from clerical curses followed by civil punishments, with prisons, and (as they say) with damnation? Would he prefer his conscience, his person, his time, and his property, and all that is dear to him, safe and entire? He is in consequence of all this, obliged forever to oppose all power in the clergy, as it has been found utterly repugnant to whatever is dear to Men and Societies. I know not that ever they possessed power, without using it perniciously; I know not that ever they could persecute, and did not persecute: such of them as had most argued and inveighed against persecution, when they were under it, exercised it afterwards without shame or remorse, whenever they got the rod into their own hands.
What alarms me more than any thing in the proposed constitution, is, that we have no security for our religious tenets; our future rulers may, if they please, order the Mahometan religion, or any other, to be universal on this continent.
From several publications in many of the states, and also from a conversation between two great men (which was overheard) it appears to have been an old and deep-laid scheme to make the Episcopal Church the only established and lawful one in the United States; and oblige us to maintain it. To be sure their bishops, &c. look very much like it. But I hope before this constitution is established, we will have it revised and secured.
A BAPTIST. Government Securities.
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CONTENTS.
Abridgement of the Education—Mode of laws of nature in examined, French and English, The central, Vindication of the preference women are supposed to have for men of inferior talents, Medical questions, Government—Mr. Jefferson's arguments in favour of an unalterable constitution, considered, Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, Anecdote, describing the remains of fortifications at Musk-ingum; with remarks on the Indian barrows, and the striking analogy between certain customs of the Indians and ancient Britons, Continuation of Smith's history of Virginia, Letter III, from Belzebub the force of habit, or the regularity of the city Philadelphia vindicated in opposition to a common place opinion, Peter Pickpenny's art of pushing into business, Curious extracts from ancient records, Dr. Mitchell's account of the insect which destroys the wheat, Letter from Juvenis, Narrative of the escape of the Countess Valois de la Motte from the Bastille, A Hibernian's request, Low questions.
POETRY.
On the departure of a young gentleman who failed for England sometime since, Lines written by a youth on the death of Mr. S— of Sharon, Deaths.
The decline of wit, On the recovery of an only child from the small pox, Intelligence, Marriages, Deaths.
New-York, March 3, 1788. 33
TO BE SOLD,
At PRIVATE SALE,
A LOT of LAND, SITUATE on City Island, Westchester county, about 20 miles up the East-River from New-York.
The above Lot contains eight acres of land, and is well situated for a garden spot, for the supply of this city with vegetables, or tavern for the watermen.
On this lot is a small tenement, with one chimney only, and a never failing spring of fresh water. The excellence of this spot is too universally known, to require any particular description.
It was formerly the property of Mr. Gilead Hunt, who, by a deed of gift, conveyed it to Mrs. JEMIMA PELL (widow of the late Joseph Pell, of the Manor of Pelham) by whom a good title will be given.—Enquire at No. 25, Water street.
New-York, March 5, 1788. 35
THE NEW LINE OF STAGES.
THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniences 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 proportion to their exertions and attention to their business.
From the date hereof the fare will be from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook, three Spanish mil- led dollars, and all way passengers four pence per mile, 150lb. of baggage to be the same as a passenger; Printers papers and letters will be conveyed gratis; convenient portmanteaus are provided for that purpose.
The Stages leave Powles-Hook at 3 o'clock, P. M. every day for Philadelphia, except Saturday.
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N. B. Papers, Letters, &c. to be sent to Christopher Beekman's, Cortlandt Street, where the Stage Office is kept.
February 19, 1788. 29 e.d.
W A N T E D,
As early as possible, A PERSON who is neatly under-stands the GARDENING BUSINESS, at the same time can do other work relating to a FARM—As it will be required of him to go into the country, for this purpose it is wished that he may be an honest, attentive, and a decent man—indeed none other need apply.—A person of this character, who would incline to follow this business, will meet with every encouragement by making early application at, No. 67, Wall-street. New-York, Feb. 27, 1788. 29 e.d.
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.
A YOUNG married woman with a good breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to nurse.—Enquire at No. 32 Little-George-street, 29 e.d. 10 t

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For the DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER.
MR. GREENLEAF, The following lines (in imitation of And-e ) were occasioned by the author's being in company with a celebrated young lady of N—c, on the River Delaware, who most affectionately sung his lamentation.
RETURN enraptur'd hours, With Betty in my arms; When I with wreaths of flowers At C— deck'd her charms. That fatal Sunday eve, Her beauty stole my heart; With anguish now I grieve That we so soon did part. So sudden torn from bliss, What torments rack'd my soul! Without one balmy kiss, Except the one I stole. But may the God of Love, Like mine, pierce Betty's heart, Her soul to pity move, With sympathetic smart. Now nightly on my bed, I lay to take my rest, All happiness now fled, And torments rack my breast. Now I must bid adieu, To every fond delight, Unless dear Betty's true— Oh! fatal Sunday night.
Of the Bishop of St. Asaph. A VIOLENT Welsh Squire having taken offence at a poor curate, who employed his leisure time in mending clocks and watches, applied to the Bishop of St. Asaph, with a formal complaint against him for impiously carrying on a trade contrary to the statute. His lordship having heard the complaint, told the Squire that he might depend upon it the strictest justice should be done in the case. Accordingly the mechanic divine was sent for a few days after, when the Bishop asked him, "How he dared to disgrace his diocese, by becoming a mender of clocks and watches?" The other, with all humility answered, "to satisfy the wants of a wife and ten children." "That won't do with me," rejoined the prelate: "I'll inflict such a punishment upon you as shall make you leave off your pitiful trade, I promise you;" and immediately called in his secretary, ordered him to make out a presentation for the astonished curate to a living of at least 150l. per annum.
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This Day, March 8. 10h. 11m. Morn.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chamber, in the City of New-York, the fourth Day of January in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Chancellor.
John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, Complainant, vs. Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, Defendant. FORASMUCH as it appears to this court, that a bill has been filed therein by John Leake, assignee of Charity Smith, against Thomas Rutter, son and heir at law of John Rutter, deceased, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned, to have been mortgaged by the said John Rutter; whereupon process of subpoena to appear, and answer, has been duly issued and returned; and that the said Thomas Rutter has not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been entered, in case the said process had been duly served, and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this court, that the said Thomas Rutter (as the deponent was informed had left New-Town, in Queen's county, upward of six months ago, and that the said Thomas Rutter, was (as the deponent was informed and verily believed) in or near the state of New-York, but had no permanent place of residence, so that the said deponent was unable to serve him with the said process, which issued on the filing of the bill of complaint in this cause; wherefore it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Lawrance, of counsel for the complainant, that the said Thomas Rutter appear to the said bill, on or before the seventh day of March now next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises, or such part thereof as to this court shall appear just and right; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order, within twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in, at least, two of the public newspapers printed in the state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes, 89—8w. f. W. COCK, Register.
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State of New-York, Court of Admiralty; Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnann and the said John Shannon and others; and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thompson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mariners on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the island of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a vessel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New-York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Burke, and John Donnann, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, 1 bale of cotton wool, marked B. three other bales of cotton wool, marked H. C. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers printed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnann, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander M'Kenzie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf of Hyem Cohen, of the Island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sale of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of salvage: and whereas William Cock, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arisen by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William M'Kenzie and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defected vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defected vessel was a float vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with gilded-irons round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck. Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public notice and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and merchandise, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this motion and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM, Marshal. 35 3m
TO BE SOLE,
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, containing 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
THE PUBLIC Are RESPECTFULLY INFORMED,
THAT the subscriber has lately removed from Princeton, New-Jersey to this city, and now keeps the house lately kept by Talma Hall, No. 49, Cortland-street (commonly known by the Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia General stage-office) and has agreed with the proprietors of the Albany and Boston stages, to make his house the public stage-house. Those ladies and gentlemen who wish to take passage in either of these stages, will please to leave their names with the subscriber the evening before the stage's departure; gentlemen passengers and others, are informed that the subscriber keeps a house of entertainment; and accommodates gentlemen with boarding and lodging. Every attention will be paid to those who please to favour him with their custom. N. B. The gentlemen of the city are informed that the subscriber has a large convenient assembly room, which he proposes to let during the winter season, or longer if required.
CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. New-York, Nov. 13, 1787. 51—th.
FOR SALE,
At the STORE of Mr. Barnt Deklyn,
No. 89, Maiden-Lane, near the FLY-MARKET, the following
G O O D S,
Which will be SOLD at the most reduced
Prices, to wit. A VARIETY of Cotton Checks, Mantuas and other Spotted and plain Velverets, Sarcenets, A variety of Gloves and Peeloings, 2nd Fans, Modes, Linens, Chintzes, Sheetings, and Printed Lineus, and Ozanbigs, Cottons, Marceilles Quilting, Fancy Shawls and Fancy Jacket Patterns, Handkerchiefs, A variety of Plumes Jeans, and Ribbands, Jeanetts, and Fancy Shoe Buckles and India Dimities, Buttons. A quantity of Linen and
With a Variety of other Articles, Which he is determined to SELL low, for Notes (upon the face of the Bill) New-York , or Pennsylvania PAPER MONEY.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at this OFFICE, No. 25, Water-street,
The American Calculator, or Counting-House COMPANION, CONTAINING,
A TABLE, ascertaining the value of sundry coins in gold, as regulated by the Chamber of Commerce in this city, and shewing at one view their value in the several currencies of New-York, North-Carolina, and Great-Britain. A Collection of Tables, shewing, at one view, the amount of any number (under 10,000) of Dollars, French and English Crowns, Half Joes, French and English Guineas, &c. as they pass through the United States. A Table of Guineas, as they pass in England and Ireland. Rules for the ready reducing the currencies of the United-States, from the currency of one state into the currency of any other of the United States; and for reducing the currencies of the United-States into Sterling, and Sterling into the currencies of the said states. Rules for reducing English Money into Irish, and Irish Money into English, according to the par of exchange between both kingdoms. Five different tables of the coins of the United-States of America, agreeable to a resolve of Congress of the 8th August, 1787, viz. a Table of Half Dollars, a Table of Dimes, a Table of Cents, and a table of Mills; calculated to render familiar the proper mode of counting said Money. This Book is intended for the convenience of Merchants, &c. in the United States, by Francis Healy, Accomptant.
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—e.d.
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—e.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANT'S ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts, Enquire of the Printer. New-York, October 25, 1787. 38—e.d.
—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.