The New-York journal, and weekly register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-08-28 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUMB. 1714, of VOL. XLIII.]
THURSDAY, August 28, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2363.]
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.
Just Published by M. CARY, At Philadelphia, and to be SOLD By THOMAS ALLEN, Book-Seller, in Queen-Street, New-York (By whom Subscriptions are received) The American Museum, For JULY, 1788. CONTAINING.
Moral Essays.
LETTERS from a young gentleman to his sister, on her removing from the country to live in the city.
Letter on marriage. Ascribed to the Rev. John Witherspoon, president of Princeton college.
Letter on education.
Address to the ministers of every religious denomination.
Religious Essays.
Address to the clergy of these states.
Address to the laity of ditto.
Miscellanies.
Thoughts on the confinement of debtors.
Pernicious effects of spirituous liquors.
Utility of planting willow-trees in burying grounds.
Remarks on the manufacture of cotton.
Phenomenon respecting the gravity of water.
Address of the Abbe Bandole to Congress.
Observations on bartering negroes.
Observations on the federal procession in Philadelphia, July 4, 1788.
An enquiry into the justice and policy of punishing murder by death.
The captive liberated.
Memoranda.
Law Information.
Law case, respecting the transfer of certificates, tried at Falmouth, in Massachusetts, July, 1786.
Decision on law, respecting money forwarded by a flag.
Decision at law, respecting copy right.
Medical Information.
Account of the diseases of the negroes in the West-Indies, which are reduced by their slavery.
Exemplum parvis difficillimi.
Medical virtues of the common stinging nettle.
Natural History.
Description of the mineral waters of Saratoga.
Experiments on ditto.
Description of a horn or bone lately found in the river Chemung.
Account of a remarkable fish.
Rural Concerns.
Utility of mowing wheat.
Method of making pearl-ashes, as practised in Hungary and Poland.
Directions for the culture of the currant-bush.
Receipt for making currant-wine.
Receipt for making pomona wine.
Thoughts on making sun flower-oil.
Account of the progress of the Hessian Fly.
Mode proposed for preventing the destruction of wheat by the Hessian Fly.
Another mode proposed by colonel Morgan, of Princeton.
Miscellaneous Public Papers.
Letter from his most christian majesty, to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Address of the count de Moustier to Congress.
Reply of the president of Congress.
Letter from one of his Swedish majesty's principal secretaries of state, to the Swedish consul in Philadelphia.
Letter from the agent of the French navy, to governor Huntington.
Letter from his excellency general Washington, to the proprietors of the ship federalist, in Baltimore.
Extract of a letter from the same to the president of Congress.
Account of the grand federal procession in Philadelphia, July 4, 1788.
Political Speculations.
Observations on the federal constitution. By Fabius.
Address to the inhabitants of those states that have adopted the new constitution.
Oration of James Wilson, Esq. delivered in Union Green, July 4, 1788.
Political Squibs.
Protest of the minority of the general assembly of Pennsylvania, who voted against calling a convention to consider the new constitution.
Receipt for an anti-federal essay.
The political creed of every federalist.
Interesting Laws.
Act of the state of New-York, for the prevention and punishment of extortion.
Act of the commonwealth of Virginia, for the punishment of persons stealing or selling free persons as slaves.
Act of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to prevent the slave trade.
Resolves of Congress.
Resolve respecting cannon belonging to Massachusetts.
respecting public and unsettled accounts.
respecting the independence of Kentucky.
Papers elucidating the rise and progress of the late revolution.
Address of the justices of Westmoreland, in Virginia, to the governor and council of that province.
Petition of the first American Congress, to the British house of commons.
Resolutions of the freemen of the county of Essex.
of the merchants of New-York.
Agreement of the retailers of the city of Philadelphia.
Agreements and resolutions of the merchants and traders of Philadelphia.
Resolutions of the freemen of Talbot county, Maryland.
Anecdotes.
Anecdote of lord Sterling.
of colonel Tarleton.
of an Indian.
Poetry.
Ode, for July 4, 1788: by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq.
The raising: a song, for federal mechanics. By the same.
Federal song: sung at the grand procession, at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
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The Miscellaneous Works
OF
PHILIP FRENEAU,
Containing his Essays and additional Poems.
THIS second volume of our American Author, is replete with the highest
sentimental entertainment. Humour, wit, and satire, flow in copious strains.—It requires only to be read to be admired.
Such gentlemen, in this city and state, as honored this vol. with their subscriptions, will be pleased to send for it as soon as convenient.
THE MESSIAH,
Attempted from the GERMAN of
Mr. KLOPSTOCK.
To those who are acquainted with
the merits of this work, little need be said to recommend it.—It is calculated to inspire every pious, every virtuous sentiment:—to fill the mind with an awful reverence and love of the Great and incomprehensible GOD and FATHER of all;
with the sublimest and most fervent gratitude to our gracious REDEEMER, and a perfect detestation and abhorrence of all vice. In a word, it claims the patronage of ALL who do not blush at owning themselves Christians, and at paying a humble obedience to the King of Kings.
This piece of religious and moral painting has obtained Mr. Klopstock the honor of being esteemed the Milton of Germany, and is considered as having completed what that favorite son of the British muse had left unfinished:—The beauties of the Messiah equal Paradise Lost:—Paradise Regained, though far from being destitute of merit, is universally allowed to fall much below this work, and is acknowledged to be deficient in that unbounded invention, that beautiful machinery, and variety of characters, which distinguish the rigorous efforts of Mr. Klopstock's genius.
The Messiah is formed upon an extensive and important plan; and includes the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ.
S E R M O N S.
By the celebrated RICHARD PRICE,
D. D. L. L. D. F. R. S.
The Triumphs of Temper;
A Poem in six Cantos.
By WILLIAM HALEY, Esquire.
Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughter.
Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion.
Sheridan's Rhetorical Grammar.
The Charms of Melody.—A new Song Book.
Tarve's Travels through the interior Parts of America.
Economy of Human Life.
Webster's American Selection of Lessons, in reading and speaking.
Webster's Institute, first and second Part.
Pike's excellent System of Arithmetic.
A few Sets of Newton on the Prophesies.
Edwards on the Affections.
Do. History of Redemption, &c. &c.
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KINGSTON (Jamaica) July 2.
THE conduct of the Dutch, in their last defensive treaty with us, is exactly of a piece with the rest of their double dealing.
In the Annual Register for 1785, is a defensive treaty with France, signed in that year by their respective ministers, and almost verbally similar to that lately concluded between the Republic and Great-Britain.
The succours to be afforded either party, differ only in one thousand infantry.
The expressions of amity and good will—the stipulations for the mutual security of foreign possessions, &c. are equally full and significant; with the additional energy of appeals to Heaven for the sincerity of their intentions and prayers to preserve them in peace!
In the event of a war between Great-Britain and France, Mynheer must certainly fortify himself with the old defensive Ad Referendum against the requisition of one or other party—for it pretends to assist both, the Comic Interlude now playing may be converted to a Tragedy.
An act of unjustifiable oppression, whether in the person of the rich or poor, white or black, an inhabitant is of opinion should never escape censure: whether the following fact is of such complexion will speak for itself.
About the latter end of May a negro boy named George Dogwell, was taken from a canoe at night, by a party of the town guard—having no certificate in possession, he was ordered to the work-house till his freedom could be proved, which, in a few days, was very satisfactorily done by a white woman from Port Royal—in consequence an order was given for his release, and application made to the work house, when the following account was presented:
Paid taking George f. 0 10 0
Six days maintenance, from May 29 to June 3, 1788, at 6d. per diem, } 0 3 0
Advertising } 0 3 9
Poundage } 0 1 3
Unable to satisfy this account the body has been kept to this hour in chains, severely worked out of town, and flogged in so merciless a manner that part of his body is infested with the most nausous vermin.
What authority sanctions such conduct remains to be proved.
Philadelphia, August 12. That inflexible assertor of the people's liberties, the ever to be revered WILLIAM PENN, founder and original proprietor of this commonwealth, in his works, vol. 1. page 31, 32, 33, says, that the venerable esteem which our ancestors had for the great charter, was manifestly evidenced by their great solicitude to preserve it from being defaced by usurpation and faction: that even the kings in those days were by their coronation oaths obliged to keep the ancient fundamental laws and customs of the land: and that king Alfred gave this discovery of his indignation against his own judges, that he commanded the execution of forty of them, for acting contrary to those fundamental laws.
This may be a seasonable caveat to the judges of our times, who act contrary to their oaths, and infringe upon the constitution and bill of rights, which are the fundamental laws, and great charter of our land.
Hubert de Burgo, once chief justice of England, having advised Edward the first, to cancel the great charter, was justly sentenced according to law, by his peers, in open parliament, when the statute, called confirmatio chartarum, was made; in the first chapter thereof magna charter is peculiarly called the common law, 25 Edw. 1. chap. 2.
The Spencers (both father and son) for their arbitrary domination, and rash and evil counsel to Edward the 2d. by which he was seduced to break the great charter, were banished for their pains.
The same fate attended (the judges) Trivillian and Belknap, for their illegal proceedings.
So benoious a thing was it esteemed of old to endeavour a subversion of those ancient rights and privileges, that acts of parliament themselves (otherwise the most sacred with the people) have not been of force enough to secure or defend such persons from condign punishment, who in pursuance of them, have acted inconsistent with our great charter.
Therefore it is, that that great lawyer lord Cook, doth more than once aggravate the example of Empson and Dudley, with persons of the same rank, into a just caution, as well to parliaments, as judges, justices, and inferior magistrates, to decline making or executing any act, that may in the least infringe upon, or confine this so often avowed and confirmed great charter of the liberties of the people, since parliaments are said to err when they cross it; the obediency of their acts, punished as time-serving transgressors; and that kings themselves, though enriched by those courses, have met with great compunction and repentance, and left among their dying words their recantations.
Again, in page 517—it is asserted first, that such proceedings are absolutely against the great charter of our liberties (as cap. 14. no freeman to have amercements assessed upon him but by good and honest men of the vicinage. Cook 2. inst. as also cap. 29. No freeman to be condemned without the lawful judgment of his peers.
Secondly—such arbitrary judgments are against the statutes of 25 Edw. 1. cap. 1. which saith, "That justices, sheriffs, mayors, and other ministers, who under us, have the laws of our land for their guide, shall allow the said charters to be pleaded before them in all their pleas."
This is a clause (says Cook) that is worthy to be written in letters of gold, that the laws are to be the judges' guides, and therefore not the judges by their arbitrary glosses, to guide the laws.
New-York, August 28. Colonel Joseph Mitchell of Berkeley county, Virginia, arrived at Pittsburg, on the 27th of June, from the Indian
country. He was captured by the savages the 8th of May last on the Ohio, about 20 miles below the mouth of the big Miami.
There were in the boat with him, his son, Alexander Brown, and John Lancaster. The boat loaded with whiskey, spirits and dry goods; and some horses on board.
The savages had possession of a Kentucky boat, one of the three captured some time before. They had nine oars. They were in advance, and put up a flag; we endeavored to pass them, but this could not be effected, and were obliged to give up.
The savages boarded and took the prisoners in their own boat to shore. Behaved with civility, spread blankets to sit upon; marched them thence to their camp about nine miles distant. The 6th day the captain of the band felled col. Mitchell with a club, and stood over him with a tomahawk, as if about to strike, but did not; but on his recovery bound up his wounds, and gave him grog.
In the mean time, Lancaster seeing this, made his escape, and probably reached Kentucky, where he lives. Was marching 22 days, to the Shawanese towns on the Miami, at the distance of 300 miles, as was laid, the greater part through morasses.
Five days after was adopted into a family: next day purchased, with Mr. Brown, by traders from Detroit, Scotch and French gentlemen, whose names are, Francis Laponstaine, Micolay Larain, George Sharp, George Ironside, Robert Wilson, Celleron, Hyacenthe Lassele, Francis Marchaciere, Antoin Lassele, Antoine Dupreine, Jacques Godfrey, John Martin, Charles Gouin.
A considerable sum was paid by these gentlemen to the savages, at least 150 dol. for their liberty. Col. Mitchell was entertained by these gentlemen and treated with great humanity and kindness.
Sent by them under convoy to a piquet down the Miami to the rapids of that river, about 200 miles distant. Friendly us there by Captain McKee, and some traders, Mr. Cochran and others furnished with cloaths by Cap. M'Kee, came thence through the woods to Pittsburg.
His son still remains at the Wabash towns with the Shawanese with Mr. Purviance, and likewise Mr. Ridout, by Indian intelligence. Mr. Mitchell, as well as Mr. Brown, expresses the highest gratitude to the gentlemen their deliverers. Mr. Brown arrived at Pittsburg in company with Col. Mitchell.
Extracts from sundry laws of this state, published for the information of all masters of vessels and other persons exporting from it.
Any person exporting, or the master of any vessel for receiving on board his vessel, any pot or pearlash, not inspected and branded as the law directs, forfeits 5l. for each barrel.
Every barrel of wheat, rye, or buckwheat flour, exported, not inspected, marked and branded as the law directs, the exporter and master forfeits 2l. for each barrel.
Every barrel of indian meal, exported, and not inspected, marked, and branded, as the law directs, forfeits 10s. and for every bushel 30s.
Every barrel of middlings or cornmeal, exported or sold, and not marked and branded, as the law directs, forfeits 10s.
For every hundred of hard bread of any kind, exported, and not marked and branded as the law directs, the exporter forfeits 5s.
For every thousand shaves or heading, exported, and not culled, as the law directs, the exporter forfeits 40s. for every thousand, and the master 20s.
For every barrel of beef and pork exported, after the first day of October next, not inspected, marked, and branded, as the law passed the 17th March 1788, directs, the exporter forfeits 40s. for every barrel, and the master 10s.
For every firkin of butter or hog's lard, exported after the first day of October next, not inspected, marked and branded, as the law directs, the exporter forfeits 10s. and the master 5s.
For every cask of flax-seed, exported to Ireland or Scotland, after the first day of October next, not marked and branded, as the law directs; the exporter forfeits 10s. and the master 5s.
For every thousand feet of timber, joist, scantling, or boards, exported after the first day of October next, not inspected and marked, as the law directs; the exporter forfeits 10s. and the master 10s.—and for every thousand shingles not inspected, 10s. and the master 5s.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, July 26.
The memory of the elderly inhabitant in this place does not furnish him with an instance of so violent a storm, at this season of the year, as that which happened on Saturday, the 23d instant.
At five in the afternoon commenced a most violent storm, wind at N. E. with heavy rain, which gradually increased by nine o'clock to a very alarming degree.
From that period until half past twelve it blew a perfect hurricane, when the wind, suddenly shifting to south, pressed almost every thing before it.—Fences, chimneys, houses, and trees, remarkable for their antiquity and magnitude, fell victims to their rage.
But the damage on the water far exceeds the devastation of land. The vessels in this and Portmouth harbour suffered amazingly; and from Hampton road we have the following accounts:
"Ship Favourite John, Capt. Hughs, ashore and nearly full of water.
"Ship Mermaid, Capt. Hunter for Glasgow, disabled, and obliged to unload.
"The brigs Charles, Capt. Wilson, Flori, Capt. Dempsey and another, name unknown, driven ashore; besides a number of others, whose names we have not been able to learn. The small craft in general torn to pieces. The Tortola packet, Capt. Alcorn, fortunately rode out the storm. In short the accounts every moment received are of the most alarming nature. We have not as yet heard of any lives being lost."

MISCELLANY.
FOR THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.
MR. GREENLEAF,
By inserting the following in your paper, you will oblige one, who ever has been, and still is,
SINCERE FRIEND.
Thoughts on Imprisonment for DEBT, &c.
IT has ever been a matter of extreme surprise to me, that among a people so jealous of their liberties, so tenacious of their properties, and so zealous of the trading interests of their country, as Americans would be thought, their liberties, properties, and commercial interests, should still be sacrificed to the prejudice of custom. As traders, we cannot doubt that the laws and customs, respecting debtors and creditors, are of the highest importance to the community; and that they ought to be such as would tend at once to prevent the frauds and insolvency of the debtor, and best secure the property of the creditor. As Americans, jealous of liberty, and famed throughout the world for generosity, we cannot but be struck with the absurdity, of setting the freedom of individuals at so low an estimation as the pauper sum for which an insolvent is liable to be thrown into prison, and to be confined there during the good pleasure of his creditor. As Men, that should have a due regard to natural justice and the rights of humanity, we cannot but reflect with shame and indignation at a legal custom of blending the honest and the fraudulent, the innocent, and the guilty, in one common punishment; or what, if not equally cruel, is equally unreasonable and absurd, the inconsistency of deeming imprisonment a punishment in criminal cases, and not in civil ones. Can we as human beings, as rational beings, see, without a mixture of indignation and contempt, a libeller, a common cheat, a bawd, and even an infamous pedler, make any part of a legal expiation of their crimes, by suffering a few weeks or months imprisonment; while the weeks, the months, the years, of a civil debtor's confinement, make not the least expiation of his inability to pay, nor diminish one farthing of his debt. It is long since a learned judge expressed himself freely on this disproportion in our regards between liberty and property; saying, he thought a year's imprisonment equivalent to a debt of a thousand pounds. However, this may be estimated by others, certain it is, that if imprisonment be deemed a punishment in any one case, it is absurd to suppose it none in another. And, if it be a punishment, it ought not to be inflicted on debtors at all; supposing insolvency not criminal, the debtor, by suffering such punishment, ought rarely, as in other criminal cases, to expiate his offence. A man who has paid the penalties imposed, and undergone the pains inflicted by law, in other cases, is conceived to have made a full reparation to society; and it is actionable to reproach him with the ignominy of his sufferings. But the insolvency of a debtor renders him the property, the slave of his creditor, with this cruel, this absurd difference, that, excluded from the common benefits of earth and air, which the brute beasts enjoy to far above him, he is denied the opportunities of acquiring any thing to discharge the debt he owes; is in some cases even a burthen to his injured, and therefore resentful creditor, and in all a dead weight to the community. By what means it had happened, that a fence of justice, and the common feelings of humanity, have been in this case so little attended to by those whose duty it is, and whose honor it would be to right the injured and relieve the oppressed, is not my business here to enquire. By the injured and oppressed, however, I do not mean only the imprisoned or banished insolvent. The property of the creditor should doubtless be considered; in which he may be as much injured, as the debtor in his liberty. But neither of them ought to be overated with respect to each other; but a just and equitable compensation be established for both. Shall the freedom of our artisans, manufacturers, and tradesmen; that freedom which every individual has a right to boast of as so justly due to Americans; continue to be held so cheap, as to be valued at less than the twentieth part of the price of an African slave? God forbid! There can surely be some more equitable and more expeditious method hit upon for the recovery of debts, and the prevention of the various misfortunes that attend both debtor and creditor by insolvencies, than the present, of personal interests for small sums, and long imprisonment for any. That same such method also is necessary and important, with further appear, on considering the insufficiency of the present means to answer those ends; means, that are to the highest degree absurd and absurd to an enlightened age, a christian, or even a civilized country.
A FRIEND TO LIBERTY. New-York, Aug. 22, 1788.
Respecting Col. OSWALD's Prosecution. (Continued from last Thursday.)
To the Freemen of Pennsylvania.
THE late decision in the case of Col. Oswald, is likely to become a very serious affair, and I have no doubt but the judges heartily repent their remarry in depriving a subject of his liberty in defiance of the express words of the constitution. The matter must not be suffered to end with the expiration of the term of Col. Oswald's confinement; it must necessarily come before the high court of our country. As guardians of the people's rights they cannot permit this outrageous violation to pass unpunished—a clearer case I never saw—the constitution in the most explicit and unequivocal terms declares, that in "all prosecutions for criminal offences, a man hath a right to public trial by an impartial jury." A criminal offence is alleged to have been committed, but the trial by jury is denied, and Mr. Oswald is forcibly torn from his family and business, and fined and imprisoned without its ever having been proved whether this criminal offence has been actually committed or not. The judges undertake the matter of fact; assume the power of a jury, and pass sentence in the most arbitrary and unconstitutional manner. It is a dangerous precedent, and ought to be erased from the records, lest future courts plead it as a case in point, and so by degrees we become divested of one of our most darling rights—trial by jury. I will venture to go farther than most of my brother advocates in this cause, and assert, that in our country, under
our constitution, no man can be fined and imprisoned by the court for a contempt alleged to have been committed even in the court: it is not the court, but a jury that is to determine his fate; and happy for the freemen of Pennsylvania, his peers, and not his judges, are to be his strong guard of defence—bale must that man be who gives up his birth-right and tamely submits to the encroaching power of a court. All criminal offences shall be tried by a jury; well, but suppose here is a man charged with audibly declaring in open court, whilst their honors were on the bench, "I knew the judges were a pack of perjured villains, and deserved to be dragged out of the judgement seat." What will you say to this? Shall not their honors have the power of committing and fining this fellow for contempt, and for endeavours to stir up a riot? by no means; he may be bound over to appear at a future court, and to stand trial on the special information of the case before a jury; he may deny to the court that he either spoke any thing disrespectful of the court, or endeavoured to stir up a riot, and put himself upon his country for trial—What! stand trial in so plain a case! Shall not the judges have power to inflict instant punishment? No; for how do you know it is so plain a case, or that the man has committed any crime whatever? It is the jury, and not the judges, who are to hear and determine according to evidence; and then, and then only, does he come under the power of the court. Matters of fact are often very difficult to prove, and therefore the prisoner shall have liberty to be heard by himself or his counsel, and to make his defence in the best manner possible before a jury; who, if they have any doubts of the matter of fact, are bound to acquit the prisoner: but this is so plain a case, it cannot possibly admit of the necessity of trial by jury—the man laid in open court, "I know the judges are a pack of perjured villains, and deserved to be dragged out of the judgement seat"—What would you have more? Why the man denies it I tell you: and to show you how imprudent it is to depend upon every evidence that is offered, under the first impulse of passion, I will prove to your entire satisfaction that this man was guilty of no crime whatever. What! guilty of no crime to call the judges a pack of perjured villains! Was not he and a few minutes ago disputing about the conduct of the court, towards Col. Oswald, when you stepped in between us? And did I not soon after hear him make use of those infamously disrespectful words?—Yes, all this is very true—but the man has not been guilty of any criminal offence—for on my interposing and taking up the argument in favor of the court, I told him the judges in England in judge Jeffries's time, had much greater powers than these; on which he vehemently exclaimed, the judges were a pack of perjured villains, &c. Now pray tell me if there are a court and jury in America, that would condemn a man for such a speech as this? On, ho! this is a very different statement of the case; I thought the man was speaking of our court, it is proper enough he should be cleared. Well then, you see how highly we ought to prize the trial by jury, who are the only and proper judges of matters of fact—the man expressed the words with which he was charged; but it is the jury who are to decide whether there was any criminality in them, and to bring him in guilty or not guilty. I could produce a thousand cases where the interference of a jury would protect a man. But you say the man might have made the same defence before the judges, and they would instantly acquit him—true—but suppose the same man was a high metled blade, who valued the rights of the constitution above any fear of bodily punishment, and he should demand a trial by jury for the good of his country: and would you think it right to trifle with the constitution, and risk the condemnation of an innocent man? Now, to apply this to the case of Col. Oswald—who, says he, has committed a criminal offence? The judges say so. Aye; do the judges say his offence is of a criminal nature and proceed to punish him before a jury has agreed to the matter of fact? I heard of men who have been tried for publishing a false and scandalous libel, and the jury undertook to bring in a verdict of guilty or publishing only, but the guilt lay in its being a scandalous libel; and in such a case a man would be lately entrenched behind such a jury; happy, thrice happy country! where the laws interpose between the unrelenting subject and the overbearing judge! his Peers—aye it is a pretty name, and ought to be the darling term of the defendants of every true born Englishman—may we cling to this blessed guard, and suffer it in no case to be wrested from us—Our peers—our equals—our brethren in rank will feel for us; and protect us from the watchful arm of power when extended to destroy us and our families. Men, even in "small circumstances," will sleep secure, within the barrier of their Peers. I have read many pieces upon this subject, but none seem to touch upon the merits of the case itself. Suppose we examine this imaginary offence, and see what it amounts to. Col. Oswald tells the world, that a Mr. Brown has employed Mr. Lewis to sue him, for sundry publications in his paper; every body knew that, who had any business in the courts. What next! Col. Oswald tells you the suit was delayed until a certain critical federal moment. What of that? If it was a fact that the suit and the ninth state adoption happened at the same time, surely it was no harm to relate it. But he suspected that the suit was hastened on by some "handmaid of his enemies." Aye, that was a shrewd suspicion, and actionable at common law; for no man hath a legal right to suspect any thing about his enemies' handmaids; but then he charges Dr. Ruth boldly by name as being one of the great cronies of this handmaid. I know the Doctor to be a very clever fellow, and therefore any thing insinuated against him, ought to be taken proper notice of. Very well, but you see he only makes the Doctor a handmaid to the judge his brother, and the judge is roundly attacked as an enemy of the party whose cause is to come before him. Why really this would be malum in se ; but does he bona fide bring this charge against the judge, let us see; how does it run? "Mr. Brown was merely the handmaid of some of my enemies among the federalists; and in this class I must rank his great patron Dr. Ruth (whose brother is a judge of the supreme court)." Upon my word, the e is but a single syllable between the Doctor and his brother judge, and therefore the judge most assuredly, by all found rules of logic, is declared viva voce by Col. Oswald, to be his enemy—a
a heinous charge against a judge; but suppose, instead of designating the Doctor by the parenthesis ("whose brother is a judge of the supreme court.") it had been Dr. Ruth (whose house is at the corner of Third-street) would any man in his senses infer, that Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. — as well as Dr. Ruth, were his enemies, because they happen to live at the corner of Third-street? But he does not tell here; he goes on to slap dash at the whole bench; he says, "If former prejudices should be found to operate against me on the bench, it is with a jury of my country, &c. I must rest the suit." What! does he dare to make an if of it? Does he know that it is high treason to suppose the death of a king, surely then it is a light punishment to fine and imprison for a month for the daring to suppose the death of the honor of a judge. If you was to pick my pocket, you would be sentenced to the wheel barrow; I hope there is no harm in that. If the judge should be removed from his office for breach of the constitution, I hope there would be no harm in that. In short, I may make as many suppositions and ifs as I please, with the utmost innocence and safety, and nobody would even think of fining and imprisoning me for it. Then I pray, where is the offence to criminally committed? A man of common understanding upon the first blush of the matter, would be apt to declare it was all perfectly innocent, and if an ingenious attorney general should give it a different complexion, the counsel for the prisoner might happen to rub off the varnish, though it should be thought by the court to be Brutum fulmen et ventillimum et ventillimum given, and an honest jury might declare the prisoner not guilty. What comes then of the 101. fine and the month's imprisonment? What becomes of it? Why the jury are a pack of blockheads and we will have nothing to do with them, the man shall be imprisoned "by the law," that is by the law of England; that is by the common law; that is by the usage of courts without law; that is by a supposed fictitious law of England, in contradiction to the express words of the constitution of Pennsylvania. Hallelujah for power; Bravo for liberty! Let the rest of the day be—Constitute the CHARTER. Philadelphia, August 13, 1788. [to be continued.]
Foreign Intelligence.
Extracts from London Papers received by the British Packets Sandwich and Queen Charlotte.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22. ON the 20th instant in the morning, Capt. Pashaw failed from this canal with the fleet, for Smoepo, in the Black Sea.
GRENOBLE, June 11. The riots of the 7th are to all appeared by the dispositions of the Duc de Toison and of Mr. de Marceau, commandant en Second, who came on the night of the 9th with the magistrates. This appeared to give satisfaction to the irritated people, and they withdrew the regiments, which was the chief obstacle, and invited the magistrates to go to the Palais in their robes. They even tolerated the people mounting guards at the gates; but now all is calm, and the people mount guard no longer. Several members of parliament have voluntarily escaped from hence to obey the King's orders of exile, and have arrested one of the mutineers. The sole satisfaction the people yet enjoy is to see a piquet of the regiment de Royale Marine, who fired on them in the riots, confined at Barreau, and the adjutant in prison. We expect with impatience the orders of the court, and greatest part of the Bourgesse who have country houses, have retired to them to enjoy tranquility.
TOULON, June 14. AMBASSADORS from TIPPOO SAIB. The Indian ambassadors are three in number. The chief is son in law of Tippoo Saib; he has with him two sons and a guard of eight men. The second is a Sabid (one versed in the law) and the third is what they call in India a Nunthee (man of letters) or secretary. They would not land the 9th, it being an unlucky day according to their auguring, but they came on shore the next day at four in the afternoon. The forts, the five frigates in the road, the admiral's ship, and all the batteries saluted them, each with fifteen guns, as they passed, and on their entering the road, another salute. Ten boats commanded by officers of the marine, went to take them on board with their suite, and they landed at the arsenal, where they were received by the director general of the port, accompanied by all the officers of the arsenal, and walked through an immense crowd of people to the hall of the arsenal, which had been prepared for their reception, and where they were offered perfumes and other refreshments; they did not stay there, but got with their suite into nine carriages which were ready: the ambassadors being in the first with the director general of the port, and proceeded to the commandant, after passing through the regiments of Dauphine and de Barrois, drawn up for that purpose. They were escorted by the grenadier companies of those regiments, and on their alighting were introduced to the commandant, seated under a canopy, and who, on their appearance, arose to meet them. The interpreter having explained the compliment, they returned an answer, which was also explained. This ceremony took up a quarter of an hour, and the ambassadors then retired to the apartments prepared for them, having a guard of honour of fifty men, with a colour and an officer given them.
The next day all the marine officers visited them, and were received after the Asiatic manner, sprinkling them with rose water, and offering each a silver dish, with four compartments filled with different spices, and another filled with small roses. All the coops of the town were in turn introduced, and the municipality have sent a large present of spices, wax candles, gloves, pomanatus, and essences. In the evening they went to the comedy, where they threw a quantity of silver among the populace, and saw the opera of Richard Cœur de Lion, and a pantomime called Le Vauxhall de Londres. The
interpreter explained the whole to them, and they appeared highly pleased with the dance of Quakers. On the 18th they visited the arsenal, and saw them cast a cannon. On the 13th they went to see all the manufactories, and in the evening again to the comedy; and this day they are to see the troops exercise, and some fireworks in the evening. They are always escorted by the grenadiers of the regiments of Dauphine and de Barrois. They eat on the ground, having a very rich carpet spread to put their food on, which is dressed by their own cooks; and they appear sensible of their good treatment. They are to leave this place the 21st for Marseilles, on their way to Versailles.
VIENNA, June 18. Letters of the 11th instant, from the grand army encamped near Semlin, mention, that all was quiet there.
WHITEHALL, July 1. This morning one of his majesty's messengers arrived at the office of the secretary of state for foreign affairs, with the King's ratification of the provisional treaty of defensive alliance signed at Loo on the 13th of June last, which was exchanged at the Hague on the 27th of June last with his excellency, Sir James Harris, Knight of the Bath, his majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the states-general of the united provinces, against his majesty's ratification, by monseur D'Alvenleben, his Prussian majesty's envoy extraordinary to their mightinesses.
LONDON, July 1. A congress is very soon to meet under the mediation of Great Britain, France, and Russia, for settling the present disputes between the imperial court and the Turks.
Our private letters from France, by yesterday's mail, mention, that it is generally thought the court of St. Priest is already ordered home, unless their high mightinesses give immediate satisfaction to him, by punishing those guilty of the late riots. Republics rise rapidly, and as rapidly decay. No country has more fully experienced this truth than Holland, which has been sinking in political and commercial consequence for 20 years past, and is still losing annually some degree of wealth. London may indeed be called an inflated city—the luxury of living among the middling classes, has produced much mischief already, and must lead to more. Chaises, horses, country-houses, are brought to the hammer every day in the week, while shops are shutting up in almost all the capital streets in London.
The Pope sent Signior Pacca, his nuncio at Cologne, to congratulate the King of Prussia, and to acknowledge his royalty, which the court of Rome has uniformly refused to do until this time. Whether his majesty is on the eve of conversion, or whether he is disposed to let his sons try the Catholic path to salvation, in order that the eldest of them may be elected King of the Romans, we know not; but this pious embassy occasions a variety of conjectures among politicians of all ranks and descriptions;—and inclines the more intelligent part of mankind to suppose there is something brewing in the empire not very favourable to the ambition or interest of the house of Austria, which is terribly fallen in the estimation of the eight German electors.
The emperor, who is in extreme ill humour, has sent his brother, the archduke Francois, from head quarters—much murmuring in the Austrian army, and the general odium of these measures, so ruinous and shameful, fall upon field marshal Lasey, as well as upon his n after.
July 2. A strong alliance between Great-Britain, Holland, Prussia, and Russia, would so certainly ascertain the peace of Europe, that it is the object to which all our endeavours ought to tend. We have played the game the most likely to accomplish this quadruple alliance. Russia, debauched by France, lost sight of the true policy which ought to guide her councils; but she now feels the consequence of England, and there is little doubt but Britain and Prussia must now interfere to save her from the consequences of her own folly.
Those who talk of its being our interest to take vengeance of Russia for the hostile disposition she shewed to us in a moment of our distress, seem to be ignorant of the relative interests of the two countries. The same people talked in the same way concerning Holland. It is our interest to recover our connection with Russia, and no feeling of pride or of resentment must stand in the way of national policy.
A correspondent says, that things may probably go to that length in France, that the military may be forced to fire upon the rabble, as they were here in St. George's fields, and then the civil war in France will be at an end. Nothing but a defection of the military, and that is out of the question, either there or here, can prevent the King of France from carrying his point.—There is nothing so sure as a military force.
The difficulties and embarrassments in which the Republic of Venice has been involved, in consequence of her will to preserve an entire neutrality in the war between Austria and the Porte, have been at different times reported.—Some weeks ago we mentioned, that the Venetian Resident at the court of Vienna had taken his departure, and, as it was thought, in disgust. Since that time several requisitions have been made by the emperor to the republic, which the latter has not shown a disposition to accede to, though Joseph positively denounced his vengeance on their noncompliance. They are said at length to have proceeded to acts of open hostility; so that Joseph has, in the outset of his warfare, been no less unfortunate than Catherine has with regard to Sweden; in the anxiously seeking for an ally, he has found an other enemy.
The first symptom of misunderstanding between the imperial court and the republic, appeared in the singular exception of the Venetian Resident in an invitation that was given to the foreign Ministers, on the celebration of the Archduke's nuptials. This happened early in the last winter, and gave rise to prognostications, that were more disregarded than they should have been.
A report continued to prevail in Poland when the last mails came away, that an engagement had happened near Bender, between a Russian army, under the command of Gen. Sallikow and the Turks, in which the latter are said to have been worsted, with the loss of 12,000 men.

By a letter from Paris we have learnt, that the way which the parliament of that city became acquainted with what was going on at the King's printing-office at Versailles, during the time it was so long surrounded by troops previous to the issuing the new edicts, was, that one of the printers found means to enclose the heads of them in a ball of glazed earth, which he got conveyed to M. D'Esprenil, the member who was exiled. On this intelligence he founded that famous protest to the French King of the 9th of May, which was the cause of his disgrace.
So effectually stopped are all the communications of the press at Paris, that by a gentleman on Saturday returned from Paris, we learn, that in those towns where no actual commotion has taken place, the lower sort of people have heard nothing of the late political disputes between the King and parliament.
The following paper was seized at a private printing press in Paris: a few copies of which had been previously circulated, and one of them stuck on the city gates. Through the zeal of the parties concerned, the officers of police got information, and committed the remainder to the flames. The men who were at work escaped. A very diligent but private search was made to discover the authors and abettors.
TRANSLATION.
"Fellow Citizens and Countrymen!"
"Your hearts are full of grief and indignation. Every tongue proclaims the cause. The king and his ministers have trampled with impunity on your dearest rights. He who should be the father of his people, is become their very bitterest enemy and implacable oppressor!"
"Not content with mocking our loyal services, he dares to punish the men who are bold enough to tell him you feel! Your most illustrious fellow citizens are punished with exile."
"Can you live and suffer this? existence is contemptible without its sweets, and those sweets of our existence are our liberties. A certain personage, and his abandoned adherents are attempting to tread upon our necks. Not a single law remains unviolated, that can favour the progress of the king's power. They tear up government by the roots, while there remains no hold to shelter you from oppression."
"Our remonstrances are called disloyal, because they are bold. Our right of complaining they pronounce injudicious, though the only right we have left, and file it irreconcilable to the constitution: though our laws permit us to plead our grievances before the throne, they are sacrificed to injustice. The king tells us with a sneer, when we murmur, that we are misled. Detested hypocrisy! they enjoy our complaints instead of listening to them.—Honey drops from their tongue, while a poison lurks within the hearts."
"Their mouths are filled with declaring a passion for the glory that results from reigning over free men; yet they have been the dagger that stabs the very vitals of the constitution. Alas! what redress can we expect from men who add perjury to their other crimes; and who violate without remorse, the most sacred obligation of society."
"Alas! friends and countrymen! The crisis is arrived, behold yourselves at the eve of liberty, of miserable and perpetual slavery!—Feastless of the frowns and menaces of tyrants let us pour in remonstrances from every corner of the nation. To these, should it become necessary, let us add the most spirited manifestos."
"May heaven, and a repenting sovereign, avert the horrors of a civil war;—but if our entreaties prove in vain, shall we be tamely driven on to desperation!—No, let us make a last appeal to the all powerful God of battles."
"Oh! may the names of all those who will not sacrifice even life, to break the chains these tyrants are forging for us, and for posterity, be branded with the blackest infamy! pursued by public detestation even beyond the grave! May they be marked by curling and bitterness for everlasting ages!"
To your tents,
O I S R A E L !"
July 3.
By a gentleman just returned from France, we give the following authentic intelligence: he was at Reims the 1st of June, the day on which the parliament was exiled, and finding that matters were coming to an extremity by the military being called to the assistance of the king's orders, he left the town by the advice of his friends; the forces at Reims were not sufficient to perform the task; expressles were sent for more troops, and a body of between ten and eleven thousand men marched for Reims, and encamped before the town, the gates being shut against them; they cut all the corn down which was grown near the city where they encamped. At eleven o'clock at night on the 3d of June, an attack was made on the city, and after throwing in a few bombs they forced the fourth gate, and the people defended themselves until upwards of eleven hundred were killed. He says throughout Brittany, and the provinces through where he passed, the freedom of conversation for their liberties was such, that he began to think himself in England. In Reims and many other towns, the following was posted up in different parts of the provinces: Louis le severe, Roi de France, qui a donnez la liberte aux Americains et fait esclaves de son peuple :—"Louis the severe, the present King of France who has given liberty to America and made his own subjects slaves." In other places through which he passed were wrote in French, "No parliament! No King!"
A certain merchant, well remembered at the Royal Exchange, who lately died suddenly, left in his bureau an epistle written to one of his correspondents, which he had not sealed. His fagacious clerk, seeing it necessary to send the letter, wrote at the bottom, by way of postscript, since writing the above I have died .
July 4.
The arming of the northern states bids fair to prove an insurmountable check to the ambitious views of the aspiring Catherine, and may be the means of preserving many thousand Russians, whose lives her insatiable pride would have sacrificed in the field of blood and carnage.
Should the Swedes, as it is now almost generally supposed they will, commence hostilities against the Russians, her Imperial majesty, in all likelihood, will conclude her war with the Turks by a decrease instead of an addition of territory, and so justly pay for disturbing the tranquility of the unoffending.
The empress of Russia cannot do better than make peace with the Ottoman;—the wise Joseph
will aid her but little against the King of Sweden—for, entre nous , Joseph does not stand very high amongst his brethren.
That the empress of Russia and the wife Joseph of Germany may have their deserts, is the wish of all Europe;—and that the Swedes, Turks and Venetians, may lay on with vengeance, is what every nation has a confidence in.
New-York, August 28.
A PHILADELPHIA paper says:—A correspondent has favoured us with the following account of the Supernumeraries, in sundry occupations, and idlers of no occupation, in the state of Pennsylvania.
Wholesale Merchants, 100; Shop-keepers, 2000; Brokers, 30; Speculators in Certificates, 1000; Tavern-keepers, 750; Coachmen and House-servants, 200; Doctors, 100; Lawyers, 100.
Supposing each of these men to be employed in agriculture, or in some useful mechanical art, and profits of the labor of each upon an average to be 20l. a year, there would be an annual addition of 128,400 to the wealth of Pennsylvania.
We learn that there are now fewer taverns by sixty in the city of Philadelphia than there were last year. The state of Pennsylvania will be truly happy, only when all her distilleries are converted into breweries, and when three fourths of her taverns are turned into shops of American manufactures. Extract of a letter from Hillsborough, July 28.
"The state of Franklin is come to an end, and governor Sevier gone off with about 40 adherents, with whom he has made an attack on an Indian town, and killed a chief called the Great Tassel, his son, and 25 more, which has provoked a war, that will, no doubt, produce more murder; but that the over-hill members seem to talk of the war as rather troublesome than formidable."
By the most authentic advices from Turkey, it is evident, that his sublime highness treats the war, so wantonly begun against him, with contempt. His armies will have an opportunity of scouring up their courage, which hath so long lain rusty; and convince his foes, that the children of Mahomed, though not possessed of the true faith, are still in possession of the true courage.
"The politics of Europe are in a most singular state of fluctuation. A little while ago the empress of Russia concluded a treaty with France. The court of Sweden looked upon this circumstance as great jealousy; and have, in consequence, at length separated from France. The Union which has subsisted so many years between Sweden and France, is now entirely broken off. The King of Sweden offered his alliance to our court; but it was not accepted. He has therefore armed, he has fitted out his fleet. And Denmark has, in consequence, done the same. It is a doubt, whether Russia will think it prudent to send her fleet out of the Baltic, while two such fleets are in that sea." [ Lon. pap. ]
The St. Eustatius cause of Lindo against Lord Rodney, &c. has been heard before the Lords of Appeal, who fully confirmed their former sentence in favour of Lindo, with full cost. Thus is this long contested cause finally determined.
The irresolution of the Emperor is become proverbial in Germany. The blustering Joseph, with his ragged huss, hath now no hopes of planting Christianity at Constantinople, and filling his coffers with Turkish gold.
His great coadjutress, the Semiramis of the north, entertains as little hopes of a Mahometan extirpation; notwithstanding her prodigality of blood on the occasion.
THURSDAY last, at 12 o'clock, the foundation stone of Trinity Church was laid by the Right Reverend SAMUEL PROVOOST, D. D. Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the state of New-York.
On the Stone is the following Inscription: To the HONOR OF ALMIGHTY GOD, And the Advancement of the Christian RELIGION, The first STONE of this BUILDING was laid (On the site of the old Church destroyed by fire in 1776.) On the 21st Day of August, A. D. 1788.
In the 13th Year of the INDEPENDENCE of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
The Right Rev. SAMUEL PROVOOST, D. D. Bishop of New-York, being Rector,
The Hon. JAMES DUANE, Esq. } Church
The Hon. JOHN JAY, Esq. } Warden.
Came up to town his Britannic Majesty's Packets for June and July, viz. Sandwich, and Queen Charlotte, in 55 and 43 days from Falmouth; they afford us papers to July 4. [See Foreign Head, &c.]
Launched at Ackerly's yard, a beautiful new ship, 250 tons burthen, the property of Messrs. John Franklin and Co.
The ship Light-House, Capt. Ichabod Nichols, has sailed from Salem, New-England, for Canton, in China.
FRIDAY. A celebrated author observes, "It may sound oddly to say, that the majority is a faction, but it is nevertheless literally just.—If the majority are partial in their own favor, if they refuse or deny a perfect equality to every member of the minority, they are a faction: and as a popular assembly, collective, or representative, cannot act, or will, but by a vote, the first step they take, if they are not unanimous, occasions a division into majority and minority, that is into two parties, and the moment the former is unjust, it is a faction."
It is computed, that in the patriotic town of Lynn, Massachusetts, there are annually made, 127,000 pair of women's shoes.
We learn from Providence, Rhode-Island, that Mr. Knight Dexter, of that town, has patriotically offered to contribute ten acres of good land, in the town of Providence, towards establishing a MANUFACTORY.
SATURDAY. The ordinance for putting the new Government into operation, which has been some time formed and debated upon by the honorable the Congress, is not yet dismissed.—It is an interesting subject, the result of which the public in general are anxious to be informed—so soon as it has received the final sanction from that body, it shall be given in full, in this Journal.
THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH.
On Saturday, May 31st, the Princess Elizabeth was sitting in her apartment, her royal highness was surprised by the abrupt entrance of a stranger of mean appearance.—The Princess, exceedingly alarmed, precipitately quitted the room at an opposite
door, and related this extraordinary circumstance to the attendants in waiting.—Mr. Millar, one of pages, immediately went to the place and seized the man, who refused to assign the cause of his being in the Palace, or by what means he obtained admittance. When brought to the lodge, the porter asserted he had not the most remote recollection of his entrance or person. The intruder was then suffered to depart, but in a short time returned, and in peremptory terms insisted on being introduced to the Princess.—That he might pour out the ardency of his passion, and at her feet press for an equal return."
He was then detained, and information of this singular occurrence dispatched to Lord Sydney; soon after, a sergeant and party of the guards from the Queen's guard-house took him into custody; on being questioned, he said he was by profession a hair-dresser, and worked with Mr. Warren in Paved-alley, Pall-mall, and lodged at a hair-dresser's in Castle-court, in the Strand:—Lord Sydney directed him to be taken to the public office, to be examined by Mr. Addington: the coach stopping in its way to Bow-street, at Paved-alley, on the appearance of his master he spit in his face, and acted in a manner to justify the suspicion before entertained of his being in a state of insanity.
On his examination before the magistrate, he said his name was Spang; that his father was by birth a Dane, but he was born in London, near May-fair.
Being asked by Mr. Addington, if he was in love with the Princess—he answered, that he was in love with all the world.
When questioned how he got into the Palace without being discovered, he exclaimed, "aye, that is the question!"—but refused to answer more on this point. He ridiculed, with much force, the porter for not being able to account, in a particular manner, how he obtained entrance. Mr. Warren said Spang had worked for him nearly two years, and left his service about a week ago, without previous notice. He was always an honest industrious man, and never betrayed any marks of a disordered mind, that came within his observation.
Spang appears to be about 27 years of age, rather short, light hair, and fair complexion, shabbily dressed; when searched nothing was found in his pockets of an offensive kind, or even a single half-penny: tears were frequently observed to steal down his cheeks, and he sighed in such a manner as to affect every person present.
SPANG'S RE-EXAMINATION.
At first he had the appearance of being collected, and stated very simply that he was the son of one Spang, a Dane by birth, but that he was himself born in London; his father was a statuary; that he was apprenticed to a hair-dresser of the name of Stokes, of Covent-garden parish; that after the term of his apprenticeship was expired, he went into a service; he then mentioned the names of Lord Kensington, Mr. Stanhope, the Duke of Leeds, and Capt. Thistlewaite, out of whose service he said he was sent up from Plymouth to London, five or six years ago, to St. Martin's parish in the fields, by whom he was transmitted to Covent-Garden parish; that Mr. Coombes, the church warden, sent him to Bethnal Green, where he remained a month or five weeks in a fruit jacket handcuffed; but that Mr. Coombes had him discharged. He was asked if he had any friends or relations? To which he replied he had, the Dukes of York, Cumberland, and Gloucester, and the King of Spain besides. But have you any particular friend? Yes, Mr. Coombes, and one or two more.
When asked what brought him to the Queen's palace, he said, God's his particular motives were, to see the Duke of Cumberland. To the question of "how did he get admittance to the palace?" He said, that he met no opposition, but that "he went in boldly as he ought, like a man," that he was taken from there and sent to the guard house; no inuendo was capable of recalling to his idea any traces of the Princess Elizabeth, though much was attempted that way.
The calendar of Maniacks runs thus:—In 1786, Mrs. Margaret Nicholson, versus the King.—In 1787, Mr. Stone, versus the Princess Royal—and in 1788, Mr. Spang, versus the Princess Elizabeth.
The reason assigned why the ring is placed on a woman's fourth finger of her left hand when she is married is, that it is the last part alive when the body becomes a corpse, having a communication with the heart.
SUNDAY. Sailed from this port, the Briton, French ship of 1025 tons burthen, which put in here in distress some time since, from Hispaniola, bound to old France, with a West-India cargo, consisting chiefly of sugars, cotton, and indigo, to the value of upwards of 80,000l. sterl. In the late gale, having dropped down and moored in the North-river, she parted one of her cables near the flock, which, after great trouble, and expence of divers, &c. they have been obliged to abandon, buried in the mud at seven fathom water.
Arrived the Maria, Captain Elliot, from Charleston, who brought papers to the 10th inst. which inform of the arrival there of brig Eagle, barque Hope, and ship Clio, from Liverpool; Mary, from London; Betsey, from Bristol; brig Eliza, from Ollend; brig Amsterdam, from Amsterdam; schooner Patty, from New-Providence. No news of consequence from this quarter.
MONDAY, a very severe tempest was experienced in this city, wind S. From 9 o'clock, P. M. until midnight, there was little intermission of the flashes of lightning, and a majestic grumbling in the atmosphere was as incessant. Several of the shocks were exceedingly terrific, while the cloud, with threatening aspect, hung over the city, but we do not learn, that any damage was done. The rain was heavy from 11, until 1 o'clock.
TUESDAY. It must afford the highest satisfaction to every friend to America (says a Boston writer) to observe the prevailing disposition throughout the states, to promote the manufactures of this country.—A circular letter, from the tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, to their brethren in the several sea-ports in the union, will appear in next Thursday's Journal.
WEDNESDAY. The storm of last Tuesday was severely felt at New-Haven; and the violence of the waves considerably damaged the long wharf.
Capt. Hallam, arrived at New-London on the 18th, in 15 days from Cape Francois, informs, that a French fleet of men of war failed from the Cape on the 1st instant, for Boston.
It is said, from the eastward, that the above fleet has been spoken off the coast.
SHIP NEWS.
On the 2d instant, Captain Armstrong, in the sloop John, and Captain Bale in the schooner Providence, both of Baltimore, bound to the West-Indies, put into Charleston, for the purpose of repairing their vessels, which had received damage in a violent tempest, on the 19th of last month; and that on the same day Captain Lemuel Brooks, in the schooner Dolphin, from Norwalk, in Connecticut, bound to Martinico, had also put into Charleston, in distress, after having been 39 days at sea.
The sloop Adventure, from Charleston, in the offing, near Nassau New-Providence, was struck with lightning, her mast was shivered, and three sheep killed; several of the crew felt the shock, but fortunately none dangerously.
Arrived, at Philadelphia, the ship Henry, Capt. Cook, from Londonderry, with 250 passengers, in good health.
BRADFORD'S MARINE LIST.
ARRIVALS. Ship William and Elizabeth, Hart, Tortola.—Snow Munion, Stanton, Antigua.—Brig Governor Clinton, Henry, St. Eustatia; Betsey, Mcnard, London; Hero, Cossin, Cape-Francois; Young Garibou, Havana; Nelly, Buchanan, Martha Brae.—Schooner Jean, Stow, Turks Island; Betsey, Christian, Halifax; Hawke, Dann, St. Johns; St. Joseph, Watson, Cape-Francois; Good Intent, Matthew, Antigua; Mary, McCulloch, Montego Bay.—Sloop Catharine, Nixon, Curacoa; Clinton, Abel, St. Eustatia; Sally, Craufon, New-Providence; James, Potter, Cape-Francois; Argo, Tucker, Bermuda; John, Willis, Kingston (Jamaica); Chapman, Alexandria; Carleton, Attwater, New-Providence.—Bespoke coasters.
The Request of a Correspondent to insert a Piece from the Pennsylvania Packet, could not possibly be complied with this Week—Being short of Hands in his Office, the Editor requires earlier Notice for the Insertion of so long a Piece. It shall appear next Week.—Recommendations of Mr. Carey's American Museum, by several Illustrious Characters and Gentlemen of Distinction, next Week.
WANTS a PLACE,
A WOMAN, who would be glad to go into a Family as WET or DRY NURSE.—Enquire of the PRINTER. New-York, August 28, 1788. 63
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the City of New-York, on the twentieth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
PRESENT,
The Hon. PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Mary Pell, administratrix of Edward Pell, late of the town of Eastchester in the county of Westchester, deceased, hath by her petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Edward Pell, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Edward Pell as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Edward Pell, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Edward Pell, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates at the probate office, in the city of New-York, on the third day of October next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Edward Pell, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
62 4w
PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office, in the City of New-York, on the thirteenth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
PRESENT,
The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Silas Bedell, executor of the last will and testament of Thomas Doftey, late of Richmond county, and state of New-York, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Thomas Doftey, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Thomas Doftey, as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Thomas Doftey, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors, and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; hereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Thomas Doftey, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the third day of October next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Thomas Doftey, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
61 lb. 4w.
PETER OGILVIE.

POET'S CORNER.
[From "The MICTHODION: or, A Poetical Misc. By a young gentleman."]
To Miss O My dear girl! the times have been, I fear they'll never come again, When Mortals, nay, 'tis said, the Gods, Without the help of magic rods, Have, it is said, all shapes, Bulls, cows, flowers, swans, flags, trees, streams, &c. For instance—Niobe, the croaker, Became as stiff as any poker; And flood, they say, for many years, A weeping flautist, drench'd in tears; But little Pandi beat her hollow, For Pandi whipt into a swallow. But, oh! as I have said before, Our times are chang'd from those of yore; Else, had I pow'r this shape to lose, I'll tell you those which I should choose:— I'd be the mirror for your toilette, If you would promise not to spoil it; Then might I ever, FANNY! see Those eyes beam pleasantly on me; I would, if that would not displease, Become, dear FANNY! your chemise: Or, to embrace you closer still, The waters of some limpid rill: I would, to hold such passing charms, Become a bracelet for thy arms: Or, in a larger circle, deck The smoothness of thy lily neck: I would, to be so sweetly grac'd, Become a cellar for thy waist: Nay, if you'd not disdain to tread, Upon your fond adorer's head, Although you beat it black and blue, Be metamorphos'd to your shoe.
ANECDOOTE.
A N Irish gentleman, in the warmth of national ve- neration, was praising Ireland for the cheapness of provisions; a salmon might be bought for six- pence, and a dozen mackerel for twopence—"And pray, Sir, how came you to leave so cheap a country?" —"Ahah! Honey, but where were the sixpences and twopences to be got?"
Rising and Setting of the SUN and MOON.     O R. O S. R.D.S.     Thursday, Aug. 28, 5 28 6 32 1 56.   Friday, 29, 5 29 6 31 3 16.   Saturday, 30, 5 30 6 30 4 34.   Sunday, 31, 5 31 6 29 Diets   Monday, Sept. 1, 5 32 6 28 6 20.   Tuesday, 2, 5 33 6 27 7 31.   Wednesday, 3, 5 34 6 26 8 3.  
HIGH WATER.
HIGH WATER.     D. H. M.     Thursday, August 28, 5 56 Morning.   Friday, 29, 6 53.   Saturday, 30, 7 50.   Sunday, 31, 8 47.   Monday, Sept. 1, 1, 9 63.   Tuesday, 2, 10 33.   Wednesday, 3, 11 26.  
Affize of BREAD.
As established December 3, 1787. A Loaf of inspected Superfine Wheat Flower to weigh Two Pound Five Ounces for Six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One Pound Twelve Ounces for Three-pence.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the City-Hall of the City of Albany, the seventh Day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
PRESENT,
The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Chancellor.
IN CHANCERY. John Bowne, admin- istrator with the will annexed of David Pro- voost, deceased, complainant, vs. Benjamin Birdfall, and Mary his wife, de- fendants. FORASMUCH as it appears to this court, that a bill hath been filed therein, by John Bowne, administrator, with the will annexed of David Pro- voost, deceased, complain- ant, against Benjamin Birdfall, and Mary his wife, defendants; to ob- tain a decree for the sale of certain premises there- in mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said Benjamin Birdfall, and Mary his wife, to the said David Provoost; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned; and that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been entered, in case the said process had been duly served; and an affi- avit having been made to this satisfaction of the court, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, is withdrawn out of this suit, or could not upon due enquiry be found within the same to be served with a subpoena issuing out of this honorable court in the above cause; whereupon it is ordered, on mo- tion of Mr. Burr, of counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, appear to the said bill, on or before the sixteenth day of October next, and in default thereof, that the com- plainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, as to him the said defendant, Benjamin Birdfall, 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 order- ed, 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 city of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the minutes, 62, 8w. W. COCK, Register.
Extract from an Act, supplementary to the Act, entitled, "An Act to prevent the Exporta- tion of unmerchantable Flour, and the false Taring of Bread, and Flour Casks," passed the 7th March, 1788.
Sec. 7th. A N D be it further, enacted, &c. That the Standard weight of wheat brought to the city of New-York for sale, shall be sixty pounds net to the bushel; and in all cases of such sales of wheat in the said city, by the bushel, if the same shall exceed the standard weight, the buyer shall pay a proportionably greater price; and if the same shall be less than the said standard, the buyer shall pay a proportionably less price:— Provided, That this regulation shall not extend to any special contracts respecting the sales of wheat, whereby may be the weight thereof.
Sec. 10th. And be it further enacted, &c. That this act shall be in force from and after the first day of July next, &c.
Chamber of Commerce, July 1st, 1788.
RESOLVED, That the members of this chamber, from a consciousness of the advan- tage which the agricultural, as well as com- mercial interest of this state may derive from a strict adherence to the directions contained in the former part of the seventh section of the law above recited, will, in their future purchases of wheat, uniformly abide by the rules therein prescribed, and, as far as their influence extends, endeavour to convince the public of their utility, and to in- force their adoption.
By order of the Corporation of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, WILLIAM LAIGHT, Secretary.
THE PROPRIETORS of the New Line of STAGES, (Owned by Cumming and Ward, at Poul- -hook, and Michael Dennison, at the George-Inn, Philadelphia)
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public, that their stages leave Poul-hook every afternoon at 4 o'clock, except Saturday, and every morning at 7 o'clock; except Saturday and Sunday mornings: the four o'clock stage goes to Philadelphia in a day—the seven o'clock stage to Trenton.
We propose to ask the usual fare of Twenty-Two Shillings and Six-pence to those who choose to pay it, from a conviction that it is lower than can be well afforded.
From those who think Two Dollars a sufficient compensation, we shall cheerfully receive it, and a lower price when necessary.
Way passengers Three-pence per mile, fourteen weight baggage gratis, 150 weight the same as a passenger.
Those attentive proprietors Mersecau and Besseant,* who so decently inform the public that they have withdrawn from the attentive proprietors of the NEW-LINE, should not have forgot to have informed the public, that previous to the New Line setting up they used to charge the decent sum of Thirty-Five Shilling hard money, from New-York to Philadelphia, to go through in two days—and it is well known that Two Shillings has been paid for the freight of an umbrella. Thy flatter themselves, that by lower- ing the fare to Seventeen Shillings and Six-pence, they will brake the New Line, and once more huzza for a Guinea—But they will do well to re- member the fate of the Manchester manufacturers, lest they likewise perish.
JOHN CUMMING, MATHIAS WARD, THOMAS EGBERT, JOHN GULICK, ROBERT STOCKTON, DAVID HAMILTON, JOS. VANDEGRIFT, JOSEPH DAVIS, MICHAEL DENNISON.
New-York, August 9, 1788. 61
* Messrs. Herd and Kerlin, named in the adver- tisement, did not belong to the line when those men of attention withdrew.
By an Order of the Honorable John Sloss Ho- bart, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York:
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby gi- ven, by the petitioning creditors of Joseph Pinto, an insolvent debtor, to all the creditors of the said Joseph Pinto, that they shew cause, if any they have, before the said John Sloss Ho- bart, Esq. at his chambers, situate in Crown- street, in the city of New-York, by the twenty- fourth day of September next, why an assignment of the estate of the said Joseph Pinto should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, and he thereupon discharged, agreeable to a law of this state, passed the 21st day of March, 1788. 60 6w.
Dated this 30th day of July, 1788.
JOSEPH PINTO. ANNE DE VISME, and } Petitioning Creditors. RACHEL PINTO, }
New-York RUM Of excellent Flavor and good Proof FOR SALE,
By Charles Tillinghaft, At the DISTILLERY, near the New- Market in Cherry street.
Starch and Hair-Powder, MANUFACTURED and Sold by Isaac & John Stoutenburgh, At the Corner of Greenwich and Dey-Streets, North-River.
To be SOLD CHEAP, At PRIVATE SALE, A FARM,
THE place which WILLIAM PROVOOST 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 river up the road towards Paramus, being intersect- ed by the road leading to the New-Bridge: on the lot next the river is a stone DWELLING- HOUSE, two story high in front, and three in rea, 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 ad- joining: 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 mead- ow, yielding about twenty-four loads of English hay yearly: to the rear of the meadow is a spa- cious and substantial Dock, newly made, on which is a store with a large quantity of ashes, an extra- ordinary 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 on the road stands a commodious store, commanding the 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 differ- ent Lots, or the whole together, as may best suit the purchaser; For terms apply to DIRCK LEF- FERTS, 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. New-York, May 28, 1788.
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 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 se- 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.
FRANCIS DURAND, No. 15, QUEEN-STREET, Has FOR SALE, imported in the French Packets,
The following ARTICLES, viz. CAMBRICKS, and Superfine French Broad Lawns, Cloths, Searlet, Blue, Umbrellos of different &c. &c. sizes, Thread Laces and Edg- ings, Lyon's quilted Sattins, Black Silk Laces, Men's black and white White and coloured silk Hose, Women's Kid Gloves Women's white do. Chintzes, &c. Black Motes, yard wide best a'orted Ribbons,
JUST IMPORTED, In the Ship JUNO, from Havre-de-Grace, and ships PHILADELPHIA and GRACE from Amsterdam, And to be SOLD at the STORE No. 191 Queen-street, opposite Beckman's-Ship, By DE LUZE DE MONTMOLLIN, and COMPANY,
A general Assortment of DRY GOODS, Consisting of the following ARTICLES, CHINTZES, Kid Gloves, Callicoes, Ribbons, Lutestring, Hair Ribbons, Cambricks, Watches, Silk Hose, Umbrellos, &c. Also, to be sold at the above Store, Handkerchiefs, Persians, and Sarfnets. tf.
Wanted to Purchase IMMEDIATELY. OFFICER's and Soldier's Mili- tary Bounty Rights of land, both State and Continental—Also, a large Amount in Indents, Final Settlements, and Pickering's Notes, Apply at No. 196, Water-street.
WHEREAS RICHARD BAYLIS, of Gohen, in the county of Orange and late colony of New-York, for securing the payment of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, current money of the state of New- York, with lawful interest for the same according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bear- ing date the twenty-fifth day of June, 1771, and executed by the said Richard Baylis to John Leake, of the city of New-York, did by indentures of lease and release, bearing date respectively the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of June, in the said year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, mortgage to the said John Leake: All that certain piece or parcel of LAND, situate, lying and being in Gohen, in the county of Orange, known by being part of lot No. 6, beginning at the south east corner of the lands conveyed by Ebenezer Holly to Josiah Seely, then running north westerly along said Seely's land, and land of Ebenezer Holly, to a ditch on the south side of said Holly's meadow, thence south westerly along said ditch to Benjamin Gale's lands, thence south- easterly along said Gale's land and the land of Je- remiah Coleman to the high way, then along the high way to the place of beginning; containing se- ven acres, to have and to hold, the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereby intended to be granted, and released; and every part and par- cel thereof, and the reversion and reversions, re- mainder and remainders thereof, unto the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns for ever—In which said indenture of re- lease is contained a covenant, that in case it should happen that the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, with the interest, or any part thereof should remain due and unpaid on the 24th day of June then next ensuing the date of the said indenture of release then and in such case it should and might be law- ful for the said John Leake, his heirs and assigns to sell the said tract of land and premises thereby granted, or any part thereof, at Public Vendue, or otherwise, as to him or them shall seem meet to any person or persons for such sum or sums of mo- ney as might be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising by the sale thereof to re- tain and keep in his hands the said sum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six-pence, and the interest that might be due there- on, together with the costs and charges of such sale or sales, rendering the overplus, if any there should be, to the said Richard Baylis, his execu- tors, administrators, or assigns, which sale or sales so to be made by virtue of the said indenture of mortgage should be, and hereby were declared to be a full and absolute perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against him the said Richard Baylis, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and all claiming under him, and of all benefit and equity of redemption of the premises or any part there- of:—And whereas the said John Leake, in and by a certain instrument in writing under his hand and seal duly executed, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty- six, did assign, transfer, and set over unto Coe Gale, of the county of Orange and state of New- York, merchant, the aforesaid bond and mortgage, and all monies due and to grow due thereon, toge- ther with all the right, title, and interest of him the said John Leake, of, in, and to the said mort- gaged premises:—And whereas the whole of the principal sum, together with a great arrear of in- terest still remains due and unpaid—These are therefore to give notice to all persons interested in the said premises, that unless the said one hun- dred and fifty-one pounds eight shillings and six pence, together with the interest due and to grow due thereon, is paid and discharged on or before the sixth day of November next, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, to be held on the premises, on the said sixth day of November next, at eleven o'clock in forenoon of the same day, pursuant to the direc- tions of a certain act of the legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hun- dred and seventy-four. COE GALE.
All kinds of Public & State Certificates BOUGHT and SOLD, At No. 27, WATER-STREET, And every kind of PAPER MONEY exchanged for SPECIE and re-exchanged: Also on Hand FOR SALE, A LARGE Sum in Bancker's, Barber's, and Loan-Office Certificates of this State, such as will purchase Lands at the Com- missioner's sale, and pay Quit-Rents—Likewise, Final Settlements of this State; any, or all of which will be exchanged for Common Final Set- tlements, Loan-Office, or Pickering's Notes, and indents at a small difference.
State of New-York, fs. WHEREAS all the real estate of which Ed- mund Palmer, late of Cortland's Manor, in the county of Westchester, yeoman, deceased, died seized, has been sold, by an order of Thomas Tredwell, Esq. late judge of the court of probates of the state of New-York, for the payment of his debts—all persons who have any demands against the estate of the said Edmund Palmer, are hereby notified and desired to produce the same to Peter Ogilvie, Esq. present judge of the said court of probates, at the probate office in the city of New- York, on the tenth day of October next, when and where a final settlement and distribution of the said estate will be made. Given under my hand, at the probate office, in the city of New-York, the ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. PETER OGILVIE.
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