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The New-York Packet.
TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
T U E S D A Y, D E C E M B E R 4, 1787.
[Nº 755.]
CRUDEN'S Concordance.
A FEW Copies of that much esteemed WORK, to be had, very cheap, at the Book-Store of S. LOUDON.
TO BE SOLD, Two Fine Milch COWS, And a Calf. Enquire at No. 31, Fair-street. 54
Francis Panton,
No. 38, WALL-STREET.
Has imported in the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, and to be Sold on the lowest Terms for Cash.
An elegant assortment of tea and coffee urns, inlaid tea trays, waiters to suit, tea canes, a variety of patent lamps, hackgammon tables, wood and ivory chess men, folding and framing chess boards, ladies and gentlemen's dressing boxes, Morocco pouches for travelling, razors and elastic diamond-powder, razor straps, table-knives in mahogany, and shagreen cases; mathematical and teeth instruments, travelling compasses, instruments for marking linen, bubbles for proving spirits, spectacles white and green, with double joints, coglers, reading glasses, cock gaffs, and elastic gaffers, ladies tortoiseshell and ivory nutting shuttles, tambour needles with handles, ladies paste buckles, gentlemen's silver and mourning buckles, paste silver and plated knee ditto, gold and gilt bracelets and wrist buckles, gold and gilt earrings, figures and blank gold cornelian seals, plated and japanned candlesticks, a variety of snuffers, plated gerandoles and cruets, fowling pieces, pistols, small swords, fencing files, sword knots, silk and Morocco sword belts, shot pouches, powder magazines and flasks, fowling nets, gun screws and scrapers, double batted gun-powder, racket and drum battledores, shuttlecocks, a variety of silver and other tooth pick cases, plain silver coral, an elegant assortment of the newest fashioned ladies and gentlemen's gilt, steel and silk watch chains and strings, patent spurs, silver plated and steel ditto, folding pocket lanterns with cases, fishing rods, and bell Kerby hooks, chair and horse whips, canes and silk strings, boot garters of different sorts, ladies and gentlemen's Morocco pocket-books, thread cases, silk purses, silk, cotton and worsted stockings, knit under waistcoats without a seam, silk, buckskin, Woodstock and thread gloves, double and single cotton night caps, Deleescot's opiate, Hemmet's essence & dentifrice, orange flower and rose water, arguebulae and lavender water, silk, velvet and leather stocks, clothes, hat, shoe and tooth brushes, with a variety of other goods too tedious to mention.
Also, gold and silver spangles by the ounce or smaller quantity.
New-York November 27, 1787. 54 16
NOTICE is hereby given (according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four) That on Tuesday the fourth day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of a certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm in a certain indenture of mortgage made between Cornelius P. Low of the City of New-York, merchant, of the one part, and William Constable of the same place merchant, of the other part, described as follows, to wit, all that certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the manor of Philipsburgh, county of West-Chester and State of New-York, known and distinguished heretofore as the place of residence of the late Frederick Philips, Esquire; bounded westerly by Hudson's River, southerly by land in the possession of the widow Rich, easterly by land sold to David Hunt, the run of water called saw-mill river and a lot of land in the possession of Archer, and northerly by land sold to Robert Johnson; containing, within said bounds, three hundred and twenty acres, reserving and excepting out of the same two acres, whereon the church stands, two acres whereon Honnes Sherwood the Gardner lives, and about two acres of meadow adjoining to saw-mill river and the road; it being part of the glebe land. Also two lots of woodland No. 12 and No. 13, containing each thirty-three acres; bounded southerly by land sold to Andrew Bostwick, Esquire, easterly by lots No. 16 and No. 17, northerly by lot No. 11, and westerly by the post road, together with all and singular the houses, buildings, ways, waters, water-courses, privileges and appurtenances to the said premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining, which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the eleventh and twelfth days of May, in the year of our Lord 1786, (with a proviso therein contained) from the said Cornelius P. Low to the said William Constable, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by
Wm. CONSTABLE. New-York 23d April, 1787.
LOST,
A MINIATURE PICTURE, not set, folded up in paper. Whoever has taken it up, shall have a handsome reward, and the thanks of the owner, by delivering it to the Printers. 50
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774-That on Tuesday the 4th day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of a Lot of Ground in a certain indenture of mortgage, made between Stephen Sayre, of the city of New-York, in the State of New-York, Esq. of the one part, and Peter Stuyvesant of the same city, Esq. of the other part, described as follows, to wit: All that certain lot of ground situated in the north ward of the said city of New-York, being distinguished as lot No. 7, in a partition made on the 3d day of January, in the year of Lord, 1718, between Abraham De Peyster and Samuel Bayard, and is bounded as follows, to wit; southerly in front by Wall-street, southeasterly by lot No. 6, formerly occupied by Lewis Pintard, northeasterly in the rear by ground formerly occupied by James Nevens, and northwesterly by lot No. 8, formerly the property and in the possession of Nicholas Bayard, and contains in breadth, in front and in the rear 25 feet, and in length on each side 122 feet, being the lot of ground granted to Nicholas W. Stuyvesant, by two deeds, the one executed by John Cruger, Philip Livingston and nine others, on the 6th of February 1773, and the other by Philip V. Cortlandt, on the 15th day of April 1762, together with all and singular the buildings, passages, lights, easements and all other privileges, profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said lot of ground and premises, or any part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises by indenture of lease and release, bearing date 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1783, and 1st day of January, 1784, (with a power to sell therein contained) from the said Stephen Sayre to the said Peter Stuyvesant; and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by
P. STUYVESANT. New-York, May 22, 1787. 2 700 6m
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774; that on the sixth day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at Public Auction, upon the premises, the fee simple of all that certain messuage or dwelling house and lot of ground, situated and being in the north ward of the city of New-York, on the northerly side of a certain street called and known by the name of Little Queen-street; bounded southerly in front on said street, easterly on the house and ground now or late of Thomas Marlow, northerly in the rear on the ground now or late of John Livingston and others, and westerly on the New-Dutch Church yard; the said dwelling house and lot of ground, containing in breadth in front and rear, twenty-three feet and an half, and in length, on each side, ninety-six feet, together with the houses, edifices and buildings thereon erected and being, and all gardens, yards, wells, back sides, ways, paths, passages, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said dwelling house and lot of ground belonging, or in any wise appertaining, which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five (with a power to sell therein contained) from William Bryant, of the city of New-York, Doctor of physics, to Alexander Leslie, late of the city of New-York aforesaid peruke maker, assigned to the subscribers, who will thereupon execute deeds of conveyance to the purchaser, pursuant to the power in the said mortgage and the act aforesaid.
WILLIAM DAVIS, JAMES STRACHAN, JAMES MACKENZIE, By their Attorney, Charles Smith. 2 27 6m
Imported in the ship Governor Clinton, Captain Christopher Miller, lately arrived from St. Petersburg in Russia, and for sale, By Samuel Franklin & Co.
No. 183, Queen-street, A QUANTITY of the best Petersburg clean hemp, ravens duck, 7-8, 4-4 and 9-8 Russia sheetings. Also an assortment of German goods, as osnaburghs, ticklenburghs, dowlas, brown and white files, long lawns, low priced checks, and mens leather gloves.
They have likewise for sale, a quantity of the best London bottled porter, in hampers of 1 1/2 dozen each, bar and sheet lead, barrelled beef and pork, some very neat oiled silk cloaks and hat cases for riding, and an assortment of woolen and other fashionable goods as usual; all which will be sold on reasonable terms for cash. 44 10
TO BE SOLD,
IN this city, for the paper currency of the State of New-Jersey, a two Story Dwelling House and Store House, with a large Water Lot, conveniently situated for trade, formerly the property of Rebecca Forman, deceased.—Any person inclining to purchase, may have a description of the premises, and know the price by applying to the subscribers, or Captain John Guest.
J. VAN EMBURGH, Executor. AMY TAYLOR, Executrix. New-Brunswick, Nov. 19, 1787. 52 6
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and General Assembly of the late colony now State of New-York, passed the 19th day of March 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates" that on the eleventh day of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Merchant's Coffee-house, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all those two certain messuages or tenements and lot of land, situated, lying and being in the city of New-York, on the northeast side of Fly-market-street, and running from the land of Jacobus Lefferts, 35 feet and 2 inches, in front to land now or late of George Folliott, thence running northeasterly along the said land now or late of the said George Folliott, 73 feet and 2 inches; thence southeasterly along the land of Richard Norwood, 6 feet and 8 inches; thence northeasterly along the land of the said Richard Norwood, 13 feet and 4 inches, to Fletcher-street; thence southeasterly on the said Fletcher-street, 31 feet and 1 inch, and thence southeasterly on the land of the said Jacobus Lefferts, 86 feet and 2 inches to the place of beginning, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining. And the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the second and third days of November, which was in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds and the interest thereof, with a power of sale therein contained, from John Byrne, of the city of New-York, merchant, to John Glover of the said city merchant. Deeds of conveyance for the said premises, after the sale will be executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by
JOHN GLOVER. New-York, September 10, 1787. 2 31
By order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to David Gream, George Jackson, Arthur Forrester, Richard Willis, the Rev. Thomas Dampier, John Elwes, and Richard Willis aforesaid, in trust for Mary the wife of William Croffes, John Elwes in his own right, Patrick Crawford and Gilbert Meason, executors of James Crawford, deceased; Hutchinson Mure, Robert Mure, and Richard Atkinson, joint partners, John Duvall, William Robertson, Neal Ward, Mary Sleach, Lucy Sleach, William Berry, Peter Hafeneleer and Charles Croffes, late partners with Andrew Seaton (who is become bankrupt) under the title or firm of Hafeneleer, Seaton and Croffes; also the said Andrew Seaton, the said William Robertson, Miles Nightingale, and the said Richard Willis, as assignees of the estate and effects of the said Andrew Seaton, under the said commission of bankruptcy, and the said Peter Hafeneleer in his own right, now or late associated in a company generally known by the name, firm and description of the American Iron Company, or the Ringwood Company, absent debtors, and to all others whom it doth or may concern; that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to a statute of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th of April, 1786, he the said Chief Justice hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the county of Westchester, commanding him to attach, seize, take, and safely keep, all the estate as well real as personal of the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company, composed of the said several persons as aforesaid, absent debtors of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof in whatever part of his bailiwick they can be found with all evidences, books of accounts, vouchers, and papers relating thereto: And that unless they the said several persons composing the said American Iron Company, or Ringwood Company as aforesaid, shall return and discharge their debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all their estate, real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of their creditors.—Dated at the city of New-York, the tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 2 31
To be SOLD,
A Very valuable Lot of Ground with a convenient house on the same, situated in William-street, No. 57, containing in front 26 feet, and in rear 20 feet, and in length on each side 70 feet. For further particulars enquire of Thomas Longley on the premises. 46
M'Vickar and Hill,
No. 210, Water-Street, have imported in the ship Flora, from Liverpool, to be sold on low terms; SEVEN-eight, 4-4, 11-8 cotton checks, cotton and romal handkerchiefs; a general assortment of Irish linens, velverets, corduroys, bed-hunts and ticks, wild bore camblets—a good assortment of felt and castor hats, farcenets and black fatin florentines, modes, black silk handkerchiefs, &c.
And on board said vessel, a quantity of fine Liverpool Salt.
N. B. Having erected a compleat set of Flaxseed Works, they intend to receive seed to clean, and will thank their friends for their interest in that business. 46
Theodosius Fowler & Co.
At their Office, No. 164, Water-Street, Buy, sell and negotiate all kinds of Continental, Connecticut and New-York Securities. 97
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Friday the fourth day of April next, will be sold at the merchants coffee-house in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all that certain farm or tract of land, which Joseph Harris, late of Dutchess county, formerly possessed, lying within the said county of Dutchess, in the patent commonly known by the name of the Nine-Partners, being bounded as follows; beginning at a black oak tree, it being the northeast corner of Job Meeks's farm, the northwest corner of Jeremiah Conklen's farm, and the southeast corner of the said Joseph Harris's farm, from thence the line runs north thirteen degrees, west to the farm now or late in the occupation of Richard Gray, being the south line of the Little Nine-Partners, from thence the line runs west on the south line of the said Little Nine-Partners, to the northwest corner of said farm, and the northwest corner of Amenia Precinct, from thence south thirteen degrees east to a walnut sapling, it being the northwest corner of the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and 63 acres & 20 rods of land or thereabouts, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof; which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds (with a power of sale therein contained) from Brinton Paine of Dutchess county, Esq. to Augustus Van Cortlandt. Deeds of conveyance after the sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by
AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT. Sept. the 24th 1787. 2 35 6m
JOHN BANKS, MERCHANT-TAYLOR,
HAS Imported in the Hibernia, Captain Tew, from London, a few European Goods in his way; a few pieces of superfine cloths first quality, Dark blue, Black, Raven's grey, Bottle green, Garnet, Dark brown, London brown, Bohemian ditto, Mulberry, Cinnamon, White cloth, and other colours not mentioned, Buff and white Cashmere, Silk florentine, White silk serge duroy, Gold and silver basket and spangled buttons, French campain jacket buttons, to match every colour, Cotton and worsted satins, A few winter vest patterns, Silver epaulets, 40
With sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
Ladies and Gentlemen who please to favour him with their custom, may depend on being served in the neatest manner, and with the greatest punctuality.
HOGS BRISTLES.
WANTED by the Subscribers a quantity of Hogs Bristles, for which two shillings per pound will be given, provided they are dressed clean; those in the rough, one shilling and three pence per do. the subscribers having erected a BRUSH MANUFACTORY, at No. 4, Peck-hip, where they propose carrying on the brush-making business, in all its various branches. Store-keepers and others may be furnished on as low terms as any imported, to which they hope the preference will be given them, as the work is equally good, if not better. They will warrant their work not to fail till worn out by use, and flatter themselves with an expectation of getting a sufficient supply of this country bristles, that they may not be under the necessity of importing their stock from England. The farmers, by being careful in the season of killing, may save sufficient to supply them in this business. Country store-keepers would be the most proper persons to collect them.
Those who will please to undertake the collecting them, will meet with a ready sale, and be a means of promoting a very useful branch of business which may be carried on in this State, and put a stop to the importing that commodity. The least favor will be gratefully acknowledged by ANANIAS COOPER, & Co. 43 2m
To the PUBLIC.
THE Co-partnership of Matthew Rhodes, Timothy Rhodes, John Hebblethwaite and Samuel Hopkins, by the firm of Samuel Hopkins and Company, hath been this day dissolved, by mutual consent;—if there are any demands against the co-partnership, it is requested that they be produced to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, at No. 31, Queen-street, in the city of New-York, for payment;—and all persons indebted to it, are requested to pay the amount that they owe in six months from this date, to the said Samuel Hopkins and William Rhodes, otherwise their accounts must be placed in the hands of an attorney. New-York, September 25, 1787.
The said Samuel Hopkins has imported in the ship Wilson, Capt. Thompson, from Liverpool, A quantity of low-priced
Woollens, Sattinets and Florentines, which he will dispose of on advantageous terms to the purchaser, for cash or short credit. 36

THE FEDERALIST, No. 15.
To the People of the State of New-York.
IN the course of the preceding papers, I have endeavoured, my Fellow Citizens, to place before you in a clear and convincing light, the importance of Union to your political safety and happiness. I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together to be severed or dissolved by ambition or by avarice, by jealousy or by misrepresentation. In the sequel of the inquiry, through which I propose to accompany you, the truths intended to be inculcated will receive further confirmation from facts and arguments hitherto unnoticed. If the road, over which you will still have to pass, should in some places appear to you tedious or irksome, you will recollect, that you are in quest of information on a subject the most momentous which can engage the attention of a free people: that the field through which you have to travel is in itself spacious, and that the difficulties of the journey have been unnecessarily increased by the mazes with which sophistry has beset the way. It will be my aim to remove the obstacles to your progress in as compendious a manner, as it can be done, without sacrificing utility to dispatch.
In pursuance of the plan, which I have laid down, for the discussion of the subject, the point next in order to be examined is the 'insufficiency of the present confederation to the preservation of the Union.' It may perhaps be asked, what need is there of reasoning or proof to illustrate a position, which is not either controverted or doubted; to which the understandings and feelings of all classes of men assent; and which in substance is admitted by the opponents as well as by the friends of the New Constitution? —It must in truth be acknowledged that however these may differ in other respects, they in general appear to harmonize in this sentiment at least, that there are material imperfections in our national system, and that something is necessary to be done to rescue us from impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are no longer objects of speculation. They have forced themselves upon the sensibility of the people at large, and have at length extorted from those, whose mistaken policy has had the principal share in precipitating the extremity at which we are arrived, a reluctant confession of the reality of those defects in the scheme of our Federal Government, which have been long pointed out and regretted by the intelligent friends of the Union.
We may indeed with propriety be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely any thing that can wound the pride, or degrade the character of an independent nation, which we do not experience. Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men? These are the subjects of constant and unblushing violation. Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril, for the preservation of our political existence? These remain without any proper or satisfactory provision for their discharge. Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power, which by express stipulations ought long since to have been surrendered? These are still retained, to the prejudice of our interests not less than of our rights. Are we in a condition to resist, or to repel the aggression? We have neither troops nor treasury, nor government.* Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity? The just imputation on our own faith, in respect to the same treaty, ought first to be removed. Are we entitled by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi? Spain excludes us from it. Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger? We seem to have abandoned its cause as desperate and irretrievable. Is commerce of importance to national wealth? Ours is at the lowest point of declension. Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard against foreign encroachments? The imbecility of our Government even forbids them to treat with us? Our Ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land a symptom of national distress? The price of improved land in most parts of the country is much lower than can be accounted for by the quantity of waste land at market, and can only be fully explained by that want of private and public confidence, which are so alarmingly prevalent among all ranks, and which have a direct tendency to depreciate property of every kind. Is private credit the friend and patron of industry? That most useful kind which relates to borrowing and lending is reduced within the narrowest limits, and this still more from an opinion of insecurity than from the scarcity of money. To shorten an enumeration of particulars which can afford neither pleasure nor instruction, it may in general be demanded, what indication is there of national disorder, poverty and insignificance, that could befall a community, so peculiarly blessed with natural advantages as we are, which does not form a part of the dark catalogue of our public misfortunes?
This is the melancholy situation, to which we have been brought by those very maxims and councils, which would now deter us from adopting the proposed constitution; and which, not content with having conducted us to the brink of a precipice, seem resolved to plunge us into the abyss, that awaits us below. Here, my Countrymen, impelled by every motive that ought to influence an enlightened people, let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquility, our dignity, our reputation. Let us at last break the fatal charm which has too long seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.
It is true, as has been before observed, that facts too stubborn to be resisted have produced a species of general assent to the abstract proposition that there exist material defects in our national system; but the usefulness of the concession, on the part of the old adversaries of federal measures, is destroyed by a strenuous opposition to a remedy, upon the only principles, that can give it a chance of success. While they admit that the Government of the United States is destitute of energy; they contend against conferring upon it those powers which are requisite to supply that energy: They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable—at an augmentation of federal authority without a diminution of State authority—at sovereignty in the Union and complete independence in the members.
* I mean for the Union.
They still, in fine, seem to cherish with blind devotion the political monster of an imperium in imperio . This renders a full display of the principal defect of the confederation necessary, in order to shew, that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric.
The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION FOR STATES OR GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist. Though this principle does not run through all the powers delegated to the Union; yet it pervades and governs those, on which the efficacy of the rest depends. Except as to the rule of apportionment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either, by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America. The consequence of this is, that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionally binding on the members of the Union, yet in practice they are mere recommendations, which the States observe or disregard at their option.
It is a singular instance of the capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old; and which is in itself evidently incompatible with the idea of GOVERNMENT; a principle in short, which if it is to be executed at all, must substitute the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword to the mild influence of the magistracy.
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations, for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty; regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties. Compacts of this kind exist among all civilized nations subject to the usual vicissitudes of peace and war, of observance and non-observance, as the interests or passions of the contracting powers dictate. In the early part of the present century, there was an epidemical rage in Europe for this species of compacts; from which the politicians of the times fondly hoped for benefits which were never realized. With a view to establishing the equilibrium of power and the peace of that part of the world, all the resources of negotiation were exhausted, and triple & quadruple alliances were formed; but they were scarcely formed before they were broken, giving an instructive but afflicting lesson to mankind, how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest or passion. If the particular States in this country are disposed to stand in a similar relation to each other, and to drop the project of a general DISCRETIONARY SUPERINTENDENCE, the scheme would indeed be pernicious, and would entail upon us all the mischiefs that have been enumerated under the first head; but it would have the merit of being at least consistent and practicable. Abandoning all views towards a confederate government, this would bring us to a simple alliance offensive and defensive; and would place us in a situation to be alternately friends and enemies of each other as our mutual jealousies and rivalships, nourished by the intrigues of foreign nations, should prescribe to us.
But if we are unwilling to be placed in this perilous situation; if we will still adhere to the design of a national government, or which is the same thing, of a superintending power under the direction of a Common Council, we must resolve to incorporate into our plan those ingredients which may be considered as forming the characteristic difference between a league and a government; we must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens,—the only proper objects of government.
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws, will in fact amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways; by the agency of the Courts and Ministers of Justice, or by military force; by the COERCION of the magistracy, or by the COERCION of arms. The first kind can evidently apply only to men—the last kind must of necessity be employed against bodies politic, or communities or States. It is evident, that there is no process of a court by which their observance of the laws can in the last resort be enforced. Sentences may be denounced against them for violations of their duty; but these sentences can only be carried into execution by the sword. In an association where the general authority is confined to the collective bodies of the communities that compose it, every breach of the laws must involve a State of war, and military execution must become the only instrument of civil obedience. Such a state of things can certainly not deserve the name of government, nor would any prudent man choose to commit his happiness to it.
There was a time when we were told that breaches, by the States, of the regulations of the federal authority were not to be expected—that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members, and would beget a full compliance with all the constitutional requisitions of the Union. This language at the present day would appear as wild as a great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience. It at all times betrayed an ignorance of the true springs by which human conduct is actuated, and belied the original inducements to the establishment of civil power. Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided
among a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed, into improprieties and excesses, for which they would blush in a private capacity.
In addition to all this, there is in the nature of sovereign power an impatience of controul, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. From this spirit it happens that in every political association which is formed upon the principle of uniting in a common interest a number of lesser sovereignties, there will be found a kind of eccentric tendency in the subordinate or inferior orbs, by the operation of which there will be a perpetual effort in each to fly off from the common centre. This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for. It has its origin in the love of power. Power, controuled or abridged, is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controuled or abridged. This simple proposition will teach us how little reason there is to expect that the persons entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humour, and an unbiaffed regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions or decrees of the general authority. The reverse of this results from the constitution of human nature. If therefore the measures of the confederacy cannot be executed, without the intervention of the particular administrations, there will be little prospect of their being executed at all. The rulers of the respective members, whether they have a constitutional right to do it or not, will undertake to judge of the propriety of the measures themselves. They will consider the conformity of the thing proposed or required to their immediate interests or aims, the momentary conveniences or inconveniences that would attend its adoption. All this will be done; and in a spirit of interested and suspicious scrutiny, without that knowledge of national circumstances and reasons of State which is essential to a right judgment, and with that strong predilection in favor of local objects, which can hardly fail to mislead the decision. The same process must be repeated in every member of which the body is constituted; and the execution of the plans, framed by the councils of the whole, will always fluctuate on the discretion of the ill-informed and prejudiced opinion of every part. Those who have been conversant in the proceedings of popular assemblies; who have seen how difficult it often is, when there is no exterior pressure of circumstances to bring them to harmonious resolutions on important points, will readily conceive how impossible it must be to induce a number of such assemblies, deliberating at a distance from each other, at different times, and under different impressions, long to co-operate in the same views and pursuits.
In our case the concurrence of thirteen distinct sovereign wills is requisite, under the confederation, to the complete execution of every important measure, that proceeds from the Union. It has happened as was to have been foreseen. The measures of the Union have not been executed; and the delinquencies of the States have step by step matured themselves to an extreme; which has at length arrested all the wheels of the national government, and brought them to an awful stand. Congress at this time scarcely possesses the means of keeping up the forms of administration; till the States can have time to agree upon a more substantial substitute for the present shadow of a federal government. Things did not come to this desperate extremity at once. The causes which have been specified, produced at first only unequal and disproportionate degrees of compliance with the requisitions of the Union. The greater deficiencies of some States furnished the pretext of example, and the temptation of interest to the complying, or to the least delinquent States. Why should we do more in proportion than those who are embarked with us in the same political voyage? Why should we consent to bear more than our proper share of the common burden? These were suggestions which human selfishness could not withstand, and which even speculative men, who looked forward to remote consequences, could not without hesitation, combat. Each State, yielding to the persuasive voice of immediate interest or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its ruins.
PUBLIUS.
THE FEDERALIST, No. 16.
To the People of the State of New-York.
THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate kind, of which we have any account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems. The confirmations of this fact will be worthy of a distinct and particular examination. I shall content myself with barely observing here, that of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, appear to have been most free from the fetters of that mistaken principle, and were accordingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received the applauding suffrages of political writers.
This exceptional principle may as truly as emphatically be stiled the parent of anarchy: It has been seen that delinquencies in the members of the Union are its natural and necessary offspring; and that whenever they happen, the only constitutional remedy is force, and the immediate effect of the use of it, civil war.
It remains to enquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end. If there should not be a large army, constantly at the disposal of the national government, it would either not be able to employ force at all, or when this could be done, it would amount to a war between different parts of the confederacy, concerning the infractions of a league; in which the strongest combination would be most likely to prevail, whether it consisted of those who supported, or of those who resisted the general authority. It would rarely happen that the delinquency to be redressed would be confined to a single member, and if there were more than one, who had neglected their duty, similarity of situation would induce them to unite for common defence. Independent of this motive of sympathy,
if a large and influential State should happen to be the aggrieved member, it would commonly have weight enough with its neighbours, to win over some of them as associates to its cause. Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party, could, without difficulty be invented, to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good will even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation, or omission of duty. This would be the more likely to take place, as the delinquencies of the larger members might be expected sometimes to proceed from an ambitious premeditation in their rulers, with a view to getting rid of all external controul upon their designs of personal aggrandizement; the better to effect which, it is presumable they would tamper beforehand with leading individuals in the adjacent States. If associates could not be found at home, recourse would be had to the aid of foreign powers, who would seldom be disinclined to encouraging the dissensions of a confederacy, from the firm Union of which they had so much to fear. When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. The suggestions of wounded pride, the imitations of irritated resentment, would be apt to carry the States, against which the arms of the Union were exerted to any extremes necessary to revenge the affront, or to avoid the disgrace of submission. The first war of this kind would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union.
This may be considered as the violent death of the confederacy. Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form. It is not probable, considering the genius of this country, that the complying States would often be inclined to support the authority of the Union by engaging in a war against the non-complying States. They would always be more ready to pursue the milder course of putting themselves upon an equal footing with the delinquent members, by an imitation of their example. And the guilt of all would thus become the security of all. Our past experience has exhibited the operation of this spirit in its full light. There would in fact be an insuperable difficulty in ascertaining when force could with propriety be employed. In the article of pecuniary contribution, which would be the most usual source of delinquency, it would often be impossible to decide whether it had proceeded from disinclination, or inability. The pretence of the latter would always be at hand. And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion. It is easy to see that this problem alone, as often as it should occur, would open a wide field for the exercise of factious views, of partiality and of oppression, in the majority that happened to prevail in the national council.
It seems to require no pains to prove that the States ought not to prefer a national constitution, which could only be kept in motion by the instrumentality of a large army, continually on foot to execute the ordinary requisitions or decrees of the government. And yet this is the plain alternative involved by those who wish to deny it the power of extending its operations to individuals. Such a scheme, if practicable at all, would instantly degenerate into a military despotism; but it will be found in every light impracticable. The resources of the Union would not be equal to the maintenance of an army considerable enough to confine the larger States within the limits of their duty; nor would the means ever be furnished of forming such an army in the first instance. Whoever considers the populoulness and strength of several of these States singly at the present juncture, and looks forward to what they will become, even at the distance of half a century, will at once dismiss as idle and visionary any scheme, which aims at regulating their movements by laws, to operate upon them in their collective capacities, and to be executed by a coercion applicable to them in the same capacities. A project of this kind is little less romantic than that monster-taming spirit, which is attributed to the fabulous heroes and demi-gods of antiquity.
Even in those confederacies, which have been composed of members smaller than many of our counties, the principle of legislation for sovereign States, supported by military coercion, has never been found effectual. It has rarely been attempted to be employed, but against the weaker members: And in most instances attempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient, have been the signals of bloody wars; in which one half of the confederacy has displayed its banners against the other half.
The result of these observations to an intelligent mind must be clearly this, that if it be possible at any rate to construct a Federal Government capable of regulating the common concerns and preserving the general tranquility, it must be founded, as to the objects committed to its care, upon the reverse of the principle contended for by the opponents of the proposed constitution. It must carry its agency to the persons of the citizens. It must stand in need of no intermediate legislations; but must itself be empowered to employ the arm of the ordinary magistrate to execute its own resolutions. The majesty of the national authority must be manifested through the medium of the Courts of Justice. The government of the Union, like that of each State, must be able to address itself immediately to the hopes and fears of individuals; and to attract to its support, those passions, which have the strongest influence upon the human heart. It must in short, possess all the means and have a right to resort to all the methods of executing the powers, with which it is entrusted, that are possessed and exercised by the governments of the particular States.
To this reasoning it may perhaps be objected, that if any State should be dissatisfied to the authority of the Union, it could at any time obstruct the execution of its laws, and bring the matter to the same issue of force, with the necessity of which the opposite scheme is reproached.
The plausibility of this objection will vanish the moment we advert to the essential difference between a mere NON COMPLIANCE and a DIRECT and ACTIVE RESISTANCE. If the interposition of the State-Legislatures be necessary to give effect to a measure of the Union, they have only NOT TO ACT or TO ACT EVASIVELY, and the measure is defeated. This neglect of duty may be disguised under affected but unsubstantial provisions, so as not to appear, and of course not to excite any alarm in the people for the safety of the constitution. The State leaders may even make a merit of their surreptitious

invasions of it, on the ground of some temporary convenience, exemption, or advantage.
But if the execution of the laws of the national government, should not require the intervention of the State Legislatures; if they were to pass into immediate operation upon the citizens themselves, the particular governments could not interrupt their progress without an open and violent exertion of an unconstitutional power. No omissions, nor evasions would answer the end. They would be obliged to act, and in such a manner, as would leave no doubt that they had encroached on the national rights. An experiment of this nature would always be hazardous—in the face of a constitution in any degree competent to its own defence, and of a people enlightened enough to distinguish between a legal exercise and an illegal usurpation of authority. The success of it would require not merely a factious majority in the Legislature, but the concurrence of the courts of justice, and of the body of the people. If the Judges were not embarked in a conspiracy with the Legislature they would pronounce the resolutions of such a majority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional and void. If the people were not tainted with the spirit of their State representatives, they, as the natural guardians of the constitution, would throw their weight into the national scale, and give it a decided preponderance in the contest. Attempts of this kind would not often be made with liberty or rashness; because they could seldom be made without danger to the authors; unless in cases of a tyrannical exercise of the Federal authority.
If opposition to the national government should arise from the disorderly conduct of refractory, or seditious individuals, it could be overcome by the same means which are daily employed against the same evil, under the State governments. The Magistrate, being equally the Minister of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness. As to those partial commotions and insurrections which sometimes disquiet society, from the intrigues of an inconsiderable faction, or from sudden or occasional ill humours that do not infect the great body of the community, the general government could command more extensive resources for the suppression of disturbances of that kind, than would be in the power of any single member. And as to those mortal feuds, which in certain circumstances spread a conflagration through a whole nation, or through a very large proportion of it, proceeding either from weighty causes of discontent given by the government, or from the contagion of some violent popular paroxysm, they do not fall within any ordinary rules of calculation. When they happen, they commonly amount to revolutions and dismemberments of empire. No form of government can always either avoid or controul them. It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
PUBLIUS.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
C O R K, October 6, 1787. Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, October 1. "After the conference which our four commissioners had with the Duke of Brunswick, we flatter ourselves with procuring an honorable capitulation. Every thing seemed to promise us happy success, but it has turned out otherwise. The two members of the regency, deputed to go to the Hague to make the submission to the Princess of Orange, agreed upon by the Duke of Brunswick, had not the success which they promised themselves. The Princess of Orange said that there could be no other satisfaction than the entire submission of the city of Amsterdam, on the following terms, viz. the preservation of private property, and the re-establishment of the Stadtholder in all his rights and dignities. This was also the ultimatum of the Duke of Brunswick."
"The council of the city upon this assembled and determined to send an express to the Hague, to demand from the States of Holland a commission, of two members of the Provincial Assembly, to confer with two members of our council, on the proper means of satisfying the Princess, and of engaging her to relax somewhat of the articles required. At the same time they sent away a courier to the Duke of Brunswick, praying him to defer the hostile attack on the city, until the return of the messenger from the Hague."
"The Duke, however, did not think proper to make any longer delay. At three o'clock this morning, the advanced posts of our city were attacked by the Prussians. At five the engagement was hot, and continued so until seven o'clock. They say, that the enemy were repulsed in three places, and retreated in disorder."
"The Prussians lost five officers and 100 men at a sluice near Amesselt, but carried it afterwards by stratagem, having concealed a party in a boat covered with hay."
UNITED STATES.
New-York, December 4.
Lately the ship Adventure, bound from St. Peters, Miquelon, to Boston, put into Halifax, by distress of weather, and in want of ballast. Soon after coming to anchor, a boat came on board, with an officer and several men, from an armed brigantine, who searched the ship and made the necessary enquiries with the greatest politeness and returned. Then a boat came on board, with orders to take out the American Captain, and carry him on board a frigate, commanded by his Royal Highness Prince William Henry—As soon as they got on board, the Captain was called into His Royal Highness's cabin, who appeared enraged at the sight of an American, coming from a French port, and with singular roughness and authority demanded, What business have you, an American vessel, in his Majesty's ports? Answer—Because the wind was unfavorable, and our ship too light to continue at sea. Prince—You have no more business in any of his Majesty's ports than you have in an Algerine port—If you do not depart immediately, I will seize your ship. Answer—I will go as soon as the wind will permit, and I get some ballast. Prince—Your coming in here is directly contrary to the late act of his present Majesty, as well as a former act of
Charles the III.—I will send you on board the Commodore—Officer, take him on board the Commodore—which was done. The Commodore (not on board) being informed of the situation of the American ship, sent word that he had nothing to do with her, and the Captain was dismissed and went on shore—A boat was immediately sent from his Royal Highness's ship on board the Adventure, with orders to press all the British born sailors, and to bring them, with the American Captain, on board the ship—two Irishmen who had shipped themselves at this port, were taken out, and forced into the service of the King of Great-Britain, because they had the honor to be born in his dominions. Application was made to the Commodore to restore the men, as the Adventure had but three well men on board—he replied that his Royal Highness had done right, as it was his (the Commodore's) instructions, to take British seamen wherever he could find them, at sea, in port, or on board of any vessel of any nation whatever—and if he found any who had left his Majesty's service since peace, he would hang them immediately.—He then ordered the Captain not to ship any but Americans, if he did he would take them away as fast as he shipped them—with much difficulty one sailor was procured from a Nantucket whaler, and the ship put to sea.
Intelligence of a later date than any heretofore received, was brought by Capt. Cook, in 38 days from Londonderry, in Ireland, who arrived at Boston on the 29th ult. which contradicts the accounts brought by the Tybal, of the Prussian troops having reduced Amsterdam—that city, though closely invested, not having yet fallen into their hands.—Capt. Cook confirms the accounts of the distracted state of affairs in Europe, and of the probability of a GENERAL WAR in Europe.
We learn that on the 1st inst. the Board of Treasury, in pursuance of a late act of Congress, appointed JOSEPH HARDY, Esq. Accomptant of the Board of Treasury.
On Friday evening arrived his Britannic Majesty's Packet, Lord Hyde, Capt. Blyde, in 49 days from Falmouth.
Saturday arrived, the ship Ann and Susan, Capt. William Chevers, in 10 weeks from Newry, with passengers.
On the 22d ult. his Excellency WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq. was unanimously re-elected Governor of the State of Maryland.
On the 23d ult. in the House of Delegates of the State of Maryland, it was "Resolved, that the Hon. James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll, John Francis Mercer, and Luther Martin, Esqrs., deputies from this State to the late Convention, be requested to attend this House on Thursday the 29th inst. to give this house information of the proceeding, of the Convention."
"Resolved, nemine contradicente, that the proceedings of the Federal Convention, transmitted to the General Assembly, through the medium of Congress, be submitted to a Convention of the people of this State, for their full and free investigation and decision."
Marryed, by the Rev. Dr. Livingston, last Saturday, Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia, to Mrs. TIEBOUT, of New-York.
Arrivals since our Last.
Packet Lord Hyde, Blyde, Falmouth. Ship Merchant, Bunker, Cork. Ann and Susan, Chevers, Newry. Fallbrook, Wilson, Cork. Lord Charlemont, Dillon, Antigua. Princess Royal, Dawes, Teneriffe. Brig Governor Clinton, Phoenix, Wilmington. Apollo, Tyrle, St. Petersburg. Schooner Chatham, Chimney, Port au Prince. Sloop Ranger, Warner, do. Mary, Duffey, St. Johns. Fanny, Demerara. Liberty, McBride, Antigua. Muffin, Turks-Island.
Just arrived from Philadelphia, and to be Sold by SAMUEL LOUDON, (Price Six Pence)
The SUBSTANCE of a SPEECH, delivered by JAMES WILSON, Esq. Explanatory of the general principles of the proposed FEDERAL CONSTITUTION; Upon a motion made by the Hon. Thomas M'Kean, in the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, on Saturday the 24th Nov. 1787.
A L S O, The American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, calculated to improve the Minds and refine the Taste of Youth; and an Introduction to the History of America.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber, on the night of the 14th inst. a BAY GELDING, six years old, better than 15 hands high, heavy built, a natural trotter, shod before, when stolen, branded on his left thigh thus SHB. Any person securing the thief and horse, so that the owner may have the horse again, and the thief brought to justice, shall have the above reward, or ten dollars and reasonable charges for the horse only.
SOLOMON ELTINGE.
Ulster County, Hurley Precinct, November 22, 1787. 55 3
Jacob Foster,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from Roofevelt-street, No. 21, to Cherry-street, No. 22, where he continues carrying on the NAILING MANUFACTORY, in all its various branches, from a tack to a twelve inch spike: where city and country merchants, shopkeepers, ship and boat builders, joiners and house carpenters can be supplied on short notice with any quantity.
LIKEWISE,
Bar iron and nail rods for sale.
Wanted, a few Journeymen Nailers. Apply as above.
Furthermore, he would inform the merchants, who would wish to contract for any ship work or smith work to send abroad, that he will contract with them on reasonable terms for the same. Please to apply as aforesaid. 19
TO BE SOLD,
A FARM in Ulster County, Shawangunk Precinct, twenty miles from New-Burgh or New-Windfor landings; containing one hundred acres of excellent Land, thirty of which is the best timothy meadow, and more may be made: There is on said farm a large dwelling House and Barn, a young Orchard containing different kinds of fruit, with a grist and saw mill, the whole in good repair and in a fertile settlement. Property in New-York, wet or dry goods will be taken in payment.—For terms apply to William Boyd in New-York, or to the subscriber on the premises, who will give a sufficient title.
1 55 12 JOHN M'KINSTRAY.
TO BE SOLD,
A HOUSE and LOT, No. 11, Little Dock-street, being a capital stand for business, on which is a good dwelling-house with a back kitchen and store-house in the yard. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises. 55 WM. M'KINLY.
PURSUANT to the directions contained in the law of this State, passed the 22d day of April, 1785; it is hereby certified, that William Hamilton, Auctioneer, has neglected and still does neglect to pay the State duty on his Vendue Sales, although he has been repeatedly called on for that purpose; and that his Licence is thereby revoked null and void. Gerard Bancker, Treasurer. December 3d, 1787. 55
To be Sold at Private Sale,
THAT valuable little FARM, near the seven mile stone, between Harlem and Horns-Hook, containing twelve acres of good land, on which is a small new dwelling house; near the house is a convenient never failing spring; the situation is pleasant, and affords one of the best prospects of any place near this city. Will be sold on moderate terms, and the payment made easy to the purchaser. Apply to the subscriber, living at No. 40, Little Dock-street, by whom an indisputable title will be given. OLIVER VANDERBILT. New-York, October 18, 1787. 42
MRS. BRYCE,
Milliner and Mantua Maker, from Glasgow. RESPECTFULLY informs her friends in general, and the ladies in particular, that having carried on an extensive business in Britain;—she has now opened store at No. 4. opposite the middle of the Oswego-market; where all orders received in the various branches of millinery and mantua making, will be executed with neatness and dispatch. And as it is her highest ambition to merit the approbation of her employers, so she hopes to receive (though a stranger) a part of that public favor and patronage, which so eminently distinguishes the citizens of this city. N. B. All orders from the ladies in the country, will be carefully attended to as above. 33
To be Sold, at Private Sale,
BY the Subscriber, an undivided moiety or half part of seven thousand three hundred and seventy-three acres of LAND, being part of lots No. 6 and 12, in the subdivision of lot No. 35—the general division of the tract of land in Ulster County, called the Great or Hardenburgh Patent.
Lot No. 35 is a valuable tract of Land, situated at the Fork of Delaware-river, having Poughkeepsie-tunk-river on the the south-east and the main or northernmost branch of Delaware, on the west and south-west sides thereof.—The land is of very excellent quality, and an indisputable title will be given by Gerard G. Beckman, jun.
Acting executor of the last will and testament of Samuel Van Horne, deceased. New-York, Sept. 6, 1787. 35
J. SHIPPEY and Co.
No. 43, Little Dock-Street, corner of Centies-Slip, have for sale on reasonable terms for cash, JAMAICA spirits, West-India rum, French brandy, Holland Geneva in large and small cases, Madeira, Lisbon and Teneriffe wines, Batavia arrack in bottles, bohea tea, chocolate, black pepper, indigo, linseed oil in casks, wool cards, flutes and pencils, Holland pots and kettles, American do. Indian kettles, waggon boxes, share moulds, iron axes, grindstones, Sweenes and American bar iron and cart tire, Holland gun powder, snuff in bladders, corn fans, white-wash brushes, boenders, long and short forks, coarse and fine salt, hoes. Also, 200 barrels kiln dried Indian meal. 45
To be Sold at Public Auction, On Monday the 10th December, at the Merchants Coffee-House,
THREE-QUARTERS of a valuable tract of land, containing two thousand acres, known by the name of Blundell's patent, being in Hebron, Washington county, formerly the county of Albany. The above tract is divided in lots of two hundred acres each, one of which is under lease, and many of the others are under considerable improvement, the particulars of which will be made known at the time of sale.—At the same time will be sold, three quarters of one quarter of an undivided patent of four thousand acres of land, granted to Alexander Colden, William Willet, Stephen Delancey, and Christopher Blundell, each one quarter. This patent lies on both sides of the Mohawk-River, above Burnetsfield, very valuable land, and worthy the attention of gentlemen who would wish to erect mills, &c. The whole of the lands subject to a quit-rent of two shillings and sixpence sterling the hundred acres per annum.
N. B. The above lands will be disposed of at private sale, by applying at No. 24, Broad-street, or to Mr. Anthony Bolton, Broad-Way. An indisputable title will be given to the purchaser, by the heirs of the late Mr. Christopher Blundell. 43
BLANKS,
Sold at this Office.
New-York Air Furnace.
PETER T. CURTENIUS, & Co.
HAVE repaired the New-York Air Furnace, and have procured the best workmen, together with the necessary apparatus to carry on the Manufactory of cast iron in the completest and best manner.
Castings made in an Air Furnace, are allowed by all who are acquainted with the nature of Foundries, to be better than what is made in a Blast Furnace; because, in an Air Furnace the ware is made out of the softest and best pig metal, and by its being melted a second time, the scoria, or dross, is expelled, and nothing but the pure metal remains. In a Blast Furnace, the castings are made out of the first smelting of the crude ore, and are more or less mixed with dross, which subjects the ware to be rough and spungy, and often full of cold shuts: The difference, in short, is nearly the same as that between refined and bloomery iron.—The ware they have made is allowed, by good judges to be as light, as smooth and as good as any imported from Europe. This consideration alone, of the ware being as good as the foreign, is a sufficient inducement for an American, to give the preference to the manufactures of his own country; but a more powerful argument for the purchaser to give it a preference is, that it can be afforded (and will be sold) cheaper than the imported ware, all foreign castings being subject to a duty of six per cent. on importation.
The WARE, manufactured at this FURNACE, consists of the following Articles, viz.
POTS and kettles of various sizes, from one to fifteen gallons, Tea kettles, Pye pans, Skillets, Griddles, Pot-ash kettles and Coolers, Whaling kettles, Boilers for tallow-chandlers and sugar-works, Stoves for sugar-bakers, Mill-cafes, Cast bars for sugar-works and distilleries, Rollers and shears for flitting-mills, Hearth and jamb plates, cast agreeable to any pattern that may be sent; Close stoves for workshops, Franklin stoves neatly decorated with carved work, Bathstove-grates elegantly ornamented with N. B. Persons who want any backs or other ware, cast agreeable to particular patterns, will please to send their patterns and orders to the FURNACE, near Mr. Atlee's Brewery, or leave them at the store of Peter T. Curtenius, No. 48, Great Dock-street, near the Exchange. New-York, October 18, 1787. 43
To be Sold at Private Sale,
TWO FLOUR-BOLTS and BOXES, constructed to be moved in an easy manner, a fine one, and a coarse one for cornell, warranted good, fitting for a Bolter or Miller, also a scale and weights and a number of bags; the reason of sale is, the Subscriber being suited with a place in the country, declines carrying on business in town.
Also, to be LET cheap to a good tenant, from now till May next, and immediate possession given, a two story HOUSE, with six rooms besides the kitchen, a cellar under the whole, and a good bake-oven, suitable for a man of that business or any other, and in a pleasant situation for a gentleman.—Enquire of the subscriber on the premises in Dyess-street, four doors from Colonel Stoughtenburgh's. DANIEL GREEN. November 5, 1787. 48 6
LAND OFFICE.
THE subscriber having at much pain and cost, acquired a knowledge of the situation, circumstances, and properties of the different townships of the State of Vermont, with the proprietors meetings, and taxes which have been levied by each town for several years past; will, on the shortest notice, for a reasonable compensation, give intelligence to any claimants of lands in Vermont, of their situation. Wm. BLODGET.
N. B. Land bought and sold—maps and drafts of any part of the State done on the shortest notice, with accuracy. Bennington, Nov. 5, 1787. 52 3m
FOR SALE,
THAT NOTED STAND for business, situate in New-Brunswick, State of New-Jersey, consisting of a good stone dwelling-house, merchant-shop, store-house, bake-house with a good oven, stables, garden and a large lot containing 163 feet in front, and in rear extends to low water mark; with a good convenient wharf, to which may be carried eight feet water at common tides, and spring-tides nine and ten feet water; also the one half of a New Sloop. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises, or to Wm. Hillyer No. 6, Little Water-street, New-York.
N. B. It will be sold for Jersey money or part in goods. PETER TEN EYCK. New-Brunswick, Nov. 5, 1787. 52 6
The following CERTIFICATES
WILL be sold for CASH, or LANDED PROPERTY in the city of New-York: 11,000 dollars Continental Loan-Office certificates, mostly of the State of New-York. 1000 dollars in facilities. 17,000 dollars in continental bills of the first and second emission. 500. Pennsylvania State certificates, drawing interest payable at six months, at six per cent. per annum.
Direct a line for A. B. to be left at the Printing-Office. If the offer suits, the holder may then be known. October 18. 49

CITY OF NEW-YORK, ss. SIZE of bread as established the 24th October, 1787.—A loaf of fine wheat flour to weigh 2lb. 5oz. for six pence. A loaf of like flour to weigh 1lb. 2oz. for three pence.
PURSUANT to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, 'An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors,' passed the 4th of April, 1786; notice is hereby given, that we Robert Bowne, John Murray, and John Murray, jun. have been duly appointed trustees for all the creditors of Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, of Lebanon in the State of Connecticut. Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, now or late of Basinghall-street in London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, Henry Champion of Norwich, in the State of Connecticut aforesaid, Eneas Gearey, late of the city of New-York, merchants, and partners in trade, absent debtors; and we do, pursuant to the directions of the said act, hereby require all persons who are indebted to the said Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearey, by the tenth day of November next ensuing the date hereof, to pay all such sum or sums of money, or other debt, duty or thing which they owe to the said absent debtors; and deliver all effects of such absent debtors, which he, she or they may have in his, her or their hands, power or custody, unto us the said trustees; and all the creditors of the said Ebenezer Gearey, the elder, Ebenezer Gearey, the younger, Henry Champion, and Eneas Gearey, by the first day of May next, to deliver to us the said trustees, or any one or more of us, their respective accounts and demands against the said absent debtors. Given under our hands the 13th day of October, 1787.
ROBERT BOWNE, JOHN MURRAY, JOHN MURRAY, jun. } Trustees.
At a Court of Chancery held at the Chancellor's Chambers in the city of New-York, the ninth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T The Hon. Robert R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor. In Chancery. Lawrence Hewlett, James Willett and Leonard Lawrence, Executors of the last will and testament of John Willett, deceased, Complainants.
John Van Lew, Defendant. FORASMUCH as it appears to this Honorable Court, that a bill has been filed therein, by Lawrence Hewlett, James Willett, and Leonard Lawrence, Executors of the last will and testament of John Willett, deceased, mortgagee, against the Defendant, John Van Lew, mortgagor, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said defendant, John Van Lew, to the said John Willett—whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned, and that the said defendant, John Van Lew, hath not entered his appearance in this suit, as according to the rules of this court the same ought to have been done, in case the said process had been duly served—and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this court, that the said defendant, John Van Lew, has withdrawn himself out of this State, and cannot, upon due enquiry, be found within the same, so as to be served 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. Bogert, of counsel for the Complainants, that the said John Van Lew appear to the said bill in three months from the date hereof; and in default thereof, that the Complainants said bill be taken pro confesso, to the end that a decree may be made for a sale of the said mortgaged 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 be inserted in at least two of the public newspapers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extrah from the minutes, 1 47 8 W. COCK, Register.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Monday the 17th of December next, at the house of William Seton, No. 12, Hanover-square, a division will be made of the money which shall have come to our hands as assignees of the estate of Isaac Gouverneur, junior, as surviving partner of the house of Curson and Gouverneur. All the creditors of the said house of Curson and Gouverneur, are requested to meet on Monday the 10th day of December next, at the house of William Seton aforesaid, to examine and ascertain the debts due to them respectively, according to the intent and meaning of the act, entitled, 'An act for the relief of insolvent debtors,' passed the 13th April, 1786.
WILLIAM SETON, JOHN LAWRENCE, } Assignees.
JUST ARRIVED, An assortment of WRITING-PAPER, AMONGST which are 80 reams post or letter paper, folio and quarto, gilt, plain & mourning. Also, a large assortment of Holland dressed quills, large and common, will be sold on very moderate terms for cash, by the thousand or smaller quantity, by S. LOUDON, No. 5, Water-street. N. B. An elegant set of Voltaire's Works, 39 volumes, to be sold at the same place.
A L S O, Just come to hand, the Political, European, Ladies and Country Magazines, for May, June, and July. Likewise the American Museum and the Columbian Magazines.
THOMAS JOHNSON, SCHOOL-MASTER, Having returned from the country, where he resided during the late troubles, has again opened a SCHOOL in his old school-room, No. 4, Broad-street, near the City-Hall, where he taught several years with approbation and success.—Reading, writing, arithmetic and merchants accounts, will be again carefully and accurately taught, after the Italian method. N. B. He will open his night school soon. 44
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, 1774, entitled, 'An Act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates; that on Friday the fourth day of January next, will be sold on the premises to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all the three Tracts of Land, now in the possession of Andrew Miller, lying in the township of Brook-Haven, in Suffolk county, on Nassau-island, and bounded as follows: One tract, on the north by lands belonging to John Woodhull, Esq. on the west by lands belonging to Timothy and Ebenezer Miller, on the east by the south road, and on the south by the sheep pasture lots.—Also, one other tract, bounded, on the north by the wading river road, on the west by lands lately belonging to the late Solomon Davis, and on the east by lands belonging to Philip Rod, and southwardly by the country road, containing about a hundred and fifty acres more or less.—Also, one other piece or parcel of land, already mortgaged to Phillip Rod, bounded, southerly by the road, and eastwardly by lands belonging to John Woodhull, westerly by lands belonging to Ebenezer Miller, northwardly by the bank on the found, containing about forty acres be the same more or less, with the buildings thereon, which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-ninth and thirtieth days of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, for securing the payment of two hundred and thirteen pounds, twelve shillings (with a power of sale therein contained) from the said Andrew Miller, to William Floyd. Deeds of conveyance after sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Wm. FLOYD. June 30, 1787. 1 11 6m
WESTCHESTER, ss. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that, by virtue of a writ to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery for this State, I shall expose to sale at PUBLIC VENDUE, on the seventh day of January next, at two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, at the dwelling-house of John Mandeville, innkeeper, at Peek's-Kill, in the said county of Westchester, a certain farm or parcel of land with the appurtenances, and which, in the mortgage of the same, from William Baily to Philip Schuyler, is described as follows, that is to say: All that certain piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the manor of Cortlandt and county of Westchester, being part of river lot, number eight, and begins by a maple tree standing on the west side of the post road, by a mud bridge to the southward of Van Tassel's house; from thence west forty chains to the upper part of a creek, commonly known by the Indian name of Managh; then down along the said creek, as it now runs, to a ditch; from thence along said ditch, about south fifty-three degrees east, to a stake with stones on the upland, it being Francis Lent's northerly bounds of his meadow; thence down along the upland and meadow to a stake standing four chains to the northward of the mouth of the said creek Managh; from said stake north seventy-seven degrees east seven chains; then south fifteen degrees west seven chains and twenty links to a marked tree; then south fifty-one degrees west two chains and fifty links to Hudson's River; then down along the said river about seven chains to a stake with stones; then south sixty-five degrees east about eight chains to Francis Lent's south-west corner; then north fifty degrees east ninety chains to Francis Lent's north-west corner; then about north eleven degrees west to the place where it first begun; containing two hundred and sixty-five acres, two roods, in all. Given under my hand the nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. 1 49 7 JOHN THOMAS, Sheriff.
NOTICE is hereby given according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled, 'An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates,' passed the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1774:—That on the 25th day of March next ensuing the date hereof, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction upon the premises, the fee simple of all the one equal fourth part of all that certain messuage and Lot of Ground situate lying and being in Montgomery-ward, in the city of New-York, on the northeasterly side of the slip commonly called Beckman's-slip, and bounded on the front to the street or pier that runs along the said northeasterly side of Beckman's-slip aforesaid, and contains in front 46 feet 3 inches, and bounded on the southerly side by the ground now or late belonging to James Jauncey, and containing in length on that side, 36 feet 3 inches, and in the rear by the lot of ground now or late belonging to George Peterson, and containing in length in the rear, 36 feet, then bounded northerly 19 feet 6 inches on the kitchen or building lately belonging to Catharine Beckman, then bounded northeasterly by the said kitchen, 10 feet 9 inches, & bounded northerly by the gangway lying between the house hereby granted and released and the house or northerly side thereof lately belonging to the said Catharine Beckman as aforesaid, to the front of the said lot, together with all & singular the privileges, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the same premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the 9th and 10th days of December, in the year of our Lord 1784, with a power to sell therein contained, from James William Payne, of the county of Dutchess and State of New-York, to the subscribers Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart and Alexander Stewart, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power, by Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, James A. Stewart, Alexander Stewart. New-York, Sept. 21, 1787. 1 33
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, 'An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates:'—That on Saturday the 23rd day of February next, will be Sold at the Merchants Coffee-House in the city of New-York, between the hours of eleven in the morning, and one in the afternoon of the same day, by public auction, to the highest bidder or bidders; ALL that certain piece or parcel of Land, situate lying & being in the outward of the city of New-York, being the one equal half of lots number 1242 to 1249 inclusive, as the same are described in a certain map or chart of the estate late the property of James Delancey, Esq. made by Evert Bancker, bounded southerly by Pump-street, westerly by sixth-street, northerly by lot number 1250, and easterly by the other equal half of the said hereby described lots, sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, to Peter Ogilvie: And also, a term of nineteen years from the 27th day of October last, of and in all that certain lot, piece or parcel of ground, situate lying and being in Montgomery Ward, in the said city of New-York, on the north side of Cherry-street, bounded southerly by said Cherry-street, westerly by land now or late of Jane Hamilton, northerly by the lands of the heirs of Albert Herring, deceased, and easterly by land of Jeremiah Leaming, containing in breadth in front and rear, 16 feet 8 inches, and in length on each side, 100 feet, subject to an annual ground rent of 20l. in Spanish milled dollars, at eight shillings per dollar, or the value thereof in gold, payable half yearly; which premises and term were mortgaged by John Keating and Ann his wife, to Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, by indenture bearing date the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, to secure the payment of three hundred and forty-two pounds three shillings and four pence, principal, with lawful interest from the twenty-sixth day of February, 1785, and are to be sold by virtue of a power for that purpose, contained in the said indenture.—The conditions will be made known at the day and place of sale. Dated 20th August, 1787. 1 25 6m
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate office in the city of New-York, on the 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1787:
P R E S E N T, The Hon. Peter Ogilvie, Esq. Judge of the said Court: WHEREAS Jane Crage executrix of John Crage, late of the precinct of Memecating, in the county of Ulster, yeoman, deceased, hath by her petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said John Crage 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 John Crage as far as she had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of her said testator, 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 John Crage do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the 10th day of Jan. next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said John Crage died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 1 53 4 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 20th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable Peter Ogilvie, Esquire, Judge of the said Court. WHEREAS Lydie Gault, administratrix of Matthew Gault, late of Rumbout precinct, in Dutchess county, deceased, hath by her petition, presented to the said Judge, set forth; that the said Matthew Gault was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate, within this State; that the Petitioner has made a just and true account, of the personal estate and debts of the said Matthew Gault, as far as she had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of her said intestate, was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge in the premises, according to the direction 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 Matthew Gault, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the tenth day of January next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Matthew Gault, died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 1 53 4 PETER OGILVIE.
Four Pounds Reward. L O S T, On Wednesday the 7th inst. in New-York or between Brooklyn-ferry and Jamaica, a number of BILLS of the present paper money, wrapped up in a piece of paper, upon which was a direction to Smith Ramage of Dublin; they consisted of ten of four pounds, two of two pounds, and four pounds fifteen shillings in twenty and five shilling bills. Whoever will deliver the said bills to Capt. Henry Dawson at Brooklyn, Edward Baradin at Jamaica, or to Samuel Loudon, No. 5, Water-street, shall receive the above reward. 48
Public Auction, if not Sold before at Private Sale,
At the Coffee-house, at twelve o'clock, on Tuesday the first day of February 1788, to be entered upon the first day of May next;
THE pleasantly situated House and Land of the late Ludwyk Bumper, deceased, in the township of Brooklyn, opposite to the city of New-York. As it is so well known to many gentlemen, it needs no further recommendation. For further particulars, enquire of Jacob and Charles Doughty, at Brooklyn, and John Anderson, in New-York, executors, who will give a good executors deed, as the above estate is clear of incumbrance.
Also, to be Sold at Public Auction, on the premises, if not sold at private sale before, on Wednesday the second day of February 1788, two Tenements and eight Lots of Ground in New-York, in Chapel-street,—to be entered on the first day of May 1788. For further particulars enquire as above.
Also, to be Sold at Private Sale, four Lots of Land, lot No. 14, 959 acres, No. 8, 1227, No. 3, 5996, No. 13, 3571 acres, in Hardenburgh's patent, in Ulster County, either in whole lots or in lots of two hundred acres, as will best suit the purchaser.
All persons that have any demands against the above estate, are requested to bring in their accounts to Charles Doughty properly attested, in order to receive payment, by the first of January next; and all those that are indebted to the above estate, are requested to pay their debts, by the first day of May next, or their accounts will be put into the hands of Attorney. Jacob Sharpe, Charles Doughty, John Anderson, } Executores to the above estate. 1 45 14
FOR SALE, By Robert Johnston,
No. 14, Water-Street, in the house formerly occupied by Col. Samuel Ogden; a large and general assortment of IRON CASTINGS, among which are the following, viz.
IRON hollow ware of all sizes, potash kettles cast with bottom down, clock and window weights, griddles, tea kettles large and small, bake pans, do. cart, waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes, 56, 28, 14 and 7lb. weights, finished with rings; mortars and pestles, sad irons, Franklin stoves large and small, Rittenhouse do. ten and six plate do. close stoves with pipes, Sharp's new invented stove grates, Canada stoves close cast for large rooms, cabouces for ships of different patterns, fire places with jambs complete, back plates of every dimension, Hibernia, Mount Hope, New Mine, Andover pig metal; gudgeons and mill irons, refined and blooming bar iron, nail and spike rods, iron hoops, horse shoes, sheet iron, 20d. 12d. 10d. & 8d. nails, Crowley's and blistered steel.—Cash or country produce will be taken in payment, and large allowance made to those who buy to sell again.
All orders for wrought or cast iron, will be duly attended to, and forwarded agreeable to pattern at the shortest notice. 41
Robert Bowne,
At his Store, No. 39, Queen-Street, has for Sale, BOLTING CLOTHS, a compleat assortment of very fine and warranted, of superior quality; he has just received a large assortment of coarse goods suitable for the season, consisting of broad and narrow cloths. plain and twilled coatings, frizes, blue and red long shag duffils, fearnoughts, half thick, kerseys, German serges, kendall cottons, long elis, broad and narrow baizes, spotted swanskins, rose and striped blankets, flannels, fattenets and lastings, shallons and nattenets, durants and tammies, moereens and calimancoes, common and wild bore, camblets, tassities, modes and fartenets, black silk handkerchiefs, check linens, &c. &c.
HE HAS LIKEWISE FOR SALE, French burr mill stones, a few pipes best old Madeira wine, Fayall wines, Jamaica spirits, a few bags of coffee, Geneva in quarter casks, Holland powder, dry hides, indigo, pipes in boxes, earthen ware, a few barrels pickled beef and pork. Also, best superfine flour and ship bread of the first quality, may at any time, be had by applying as above. 33
HILL and OGDEN, No. 41, Great Dock-street, have just imported by the Grace, from Amsterdam, and for sale on very reasonable terms, for cash, notes at short payments, pot-ashes, flax seed, bar iron, wheat or flour, an assortment of the following articles, viz.
TICKLENBURGS, oznaburgs, German dowlas, Russia diaper, platillas, Britannias, cotton and linen checks, meetings of excellent quality, white flammish linen, German scripes and checks, lawns, calicoes, writing paper, &c. They have likewise for sale, coatings, Yorkshire cloths, calimancoes, durants, flannels, Irish linens, &c.
Also, Improved Franklin STOVES, cast in the Air-furnace at Newark, which, besides being exceedingly neat, are constructed to give more heat into the room, a remedy for smoky chimneys, and more secure from fire than any other. Also, potash kettles, forge hammers and anvils refined from bog ore, pig metal, and approved by many years experience.
N. B. Orders are received by them for every kind of hollow ware and iron castings, made at said Air-furnace, and will be executed with dispatch and superior neatness. 47
Ten Guineas Reward,
RUN away from Wall and Tardy, of Cape Francois, a Negro Man, named Benjamin, stamped on both breast, Lefevre, aged about 25, 5 feet 5 inches high, has a large beard; and is by trade a blacksmith; speaks English and Creole French—it is supposed he secreted himself on board some American vessel bound to the continent. Whoever will secure said negro man, and deliver him to Messrs. Murray, Mumford and Bowen, merchants, in New-York, will be entitled to Ten Guineas, paid on delivery of said slave. Cape Francois, Sept. 25, 1787. 51 2m