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The New-York Packet.
TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
T U E S D A Y, J U L Y 31, 1787.
[Nº 719.]
ASSIZE OF BREAD. A Wheaten Loaf, of fine Flour to weigh 2lb. 14oz. for six pence: a loaf of like Flour to weigh 1lb. 2oz. for three-pence.
H I G H - W A T E R. Monday 26 Min. after 4 Tuesday 10 Min. after 5 Wednesday 54 Min. after 5 Thursday 30 Min. after 6 Friday 14 Min. after 5 Saturday 58 Min. after 5 Sunday 42 Min. after 6
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK. Wheat per bushel, 8s. at 8s. 2d. West-India Rum, 3f. 9d. Beef, per barrel, 60f. 6d. Indian Corn, 4s. at 4s. 3d. Muscovado Sugar, 50f. at 70f. 8s. Pork, 8s. 6d. Flour, common 40f. superf. 46f. per b. Single refined do. 1f. 2d. Fine Salt, 2f. od. Brown Bread, 20f. od. Molasses, 1f. 11d. at 2f. Rock Salt, 7f. to 8f. 6d.
WILLIAM BUCKLE,
No. 9, Water-Street. Has Imported in the late arrived vessels from London, an elegant assortment of all articles in Silver and Plated Goods:
LADIES elegant paste and gilt shoe buckles, bracelets, lockets, ear rings, &c. paste knee buckles very elegant, pen knives, cuttees, table, desert and carving knives and forks, Reeves colours for drawing, plated spurs, bits and stirrups, iron and steel spurs, plated, white metal and tin buckles, thread and cotton hose, marking instruments, ladies and gentlemen's jean and leather gloves, silk purses, silk cane and watch strings, beaver and common hats, bathing caps, ebony ink-stands, razor straps, lancets in cases, steel and gilt watch chains, powder flasks and shot belts, ivory tortoise-shell and horn combs, tortoise-shell fruit boxes tooth pick cases, and instrument cases, Poland leather and paper ink-stands, fiddle strings, foil for jewellers, ivory and tortoise-shell memorandum books, morocco and black leather pocket books, shoe, tooth and cloth brushes; linen, woollen and straining Webb for fiddlers; swan skin and turkey strips for do. all kinds of ironmongery, all kinds fiddlers do. and brass furniture for harness & coach makers, German flutes, japanued goods, prints and looking glasses in oval gilt frames, blacking ball, whips, thongs for whips, mahogany tea caddys, do. knife cases, ladies japanned dressing cases, sealing wax and wafers, quills and writing paper, ebony etchewit frames silver tops, canes and sticks, copper tea kettles, fauce pans, coffee pots, &c. brass and princes metal candlesticks, brass furniture for cabinet makers, silver watches, steel cock spurs in cases compleat, gold cyphers for sleeve buttons, and ear rings, and stones proper for do. silver and metal pocket compasses, fishing hooks and lines, shoe and knee chapes, scissors and razors, fowling pieces, brown tea and coffee urns, brass and copper scales and scale beams, spectacles, spying glasses and telescopes, box rules, playing cards, garnets & crystals different sorts, violins and guitars, window glass different sizes, needles and pins, hog skins for covering saddles, coat and breast buttons, hair powder and pomatum, 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d. and 24d. nails, tin in boxes, patent yellow and ether colours for coach painters, varnish, leaf gold, white lead Spanish brown and yellow oaker ground in oil, red and white lead dry. 96
DRUMS.
THE Subscriber having previous to the late war, carried on the drum-making business in this city; he, by the advice of his friends, again undertakes the same. The gentlemen of the militia, can be supplied with DRUMS, on short notice and reasonable terms, by applying at No. 5, King George-street, nearly opposite the German Lutheran church. DRUMS repaired with care and expedition.
SAMUEL S. BROUWER. New-York June 19, 1787. 7
FOR SALE.
A FARM situated in the township of Westchester, containing about 115 acres, a convenient proportion of which is wood, arable and meadow land; on the premises are a large and convenient two story dwelling-house, a kitchen separate from it, a good barn, cyder-mill, &c. with a large bearing orchard, besides a plenty and variety of other fruit-trees. Its situation is pleasant and calculated for a gentleman whose inclination leads to a country life, as also for a farmer who wishes to profit by keeping a flock and dairy, as it lies in the vicinity of an extensive common, and near a large tract of salt meadow, from whence hay in any quantity, may be procured at a trifling expence. It also lies within three quarters of a mile of a public landing, from whence market-boats ply to and from New-York, twice or thrice a week. For further particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises, who will give an unquestionable title, and deliver immediate possession if required.
LEAKE HUNT.
ALSO, a small farm adjoining the above, containing between twenty and thirty acres; this place has on it a small tenement, some fruit trees, and a sufficiency of wood for fuel. If most convenient for the purchaser the whole will be sold together. Enquire as above.
N. B. An assortment of dry, or West-India goods, to a considerable amount, will be taken in payment. June 12, 187. 5
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
For which the highest price in CASH will be given, £7,000 in Bancker's Notes £10,000, or any smaller sums, in Pierce's final settlement certificates.
The highest prices in cash given, as usual, for all other kinds of public securities, at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 5
This Day is Published by the Editor,
And to be Sold at the Printing-Office
No. 5, Water-street,
New-York Directory.
CONTAINING NAMES of the citizens, their occupations, and places of abode. Officers of the State. Officers in Chancery. Officers of Supreme Court. Officers of Court of Probates. Officers of Court of Admiralty. Commissioners of State accounts. Officers for City and County. Lawyers and Attorneys. Notaries Public. Chamber of Commerce. Officers of the Port. Land and Tide-Waiters. Branch Pilots. Surveyors. Guagers. Weigh-Masters. Inspectors of Flour. Packers and Cullers of Flour. Measurers of Boards and Timber. Measurers of Grain. Measurers of Lime, Gold and Silver-smith Society. Assessors. Commissioners of Alms-House and Bridewell. Commissioners of the Hospital. Officers of the Bank. Rules observed in the Bank. Marine Society. Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves. Mutual Assurance Company. Officers of Columbia College. German Society. Society for promoting useful knowledge. Ministers of the Gospel. Commissioners for adjusting the public Accounts. Loan Officers of the United States. Grand departments of the United States. Stages. Dutiable goods &c. &c. &c.
On account of several unforeseen accidents, the Editor has been unable to publish his New-York Directory , before this period. He has industriously endeavoured to procure a compleat catalogue of the names, occupations, and places of abode of the inhabitants of this City; and flatters himself, that it is the most compleat of any yet offered to the Public. The utility of a publication of this nature must be so obvious, as to render observation unnecessary; the Editor, therefore, hopes that a generous public will encourage his undertaking, which will enable him to compile his next Directory with accuracy and despatch. 14
Embree and Shotwell,
At the above Sign, No. 24, Queen-Street, between the Fly-Market and Bowling-Shop, have lately received by the brig Hector , from Bristol, and several other vessels from Europe, a very extensive assortment of articles in the Ironmongery and Sadlery line, amongst which are,
FOUR to 30d nails, all kinds of tacks, brads, clouts, trunk and scupper nails, copper and iron rivets, 4 to 16 in HL hinges—A general assortment of chest, strap, garnet, table, closet, clock, safe, card, table and sill hinges &c. &c. A great variety of wood screws, from 1-2 to 3 1-2 inches, locks, bolts, and latches, of common and superior quality, Smiths anvils, vices, hick-irons, sledges, &c. mill, cross-cut, hand, tenant, fash, webb, dovetail, key-hole and fret saws—An assortment of carpenters tools, among which is the new invented American polished fore-auger, superior to any hitherto at this market—Pen, cuttee, oyster, pocket, pruning, butchers knives, table-nives and forks; gitting, suringle, straining and diaper webb, fashionable tuft, staples and nails, faders tools, &c. &c.
They likewise have on hand a large quantity of LISBON, ST. UBES, LIVERPOOL, and DIVERS OTHER KINDS OF SALT, by wholesale only—Refined and bloomery bar-iron, caslings, &c. Salem, Trenton and New-England GRASS-SCYTHES, a few reams of writing-paper, GERMAN, BLISTERED, and CROWLEY'S STEEL. All which they will sell on the lowest terms.
June 22, 8 tf
FOR SALE,
By Nicholas Hoffman and Son,
No. 12, Little Dock-street;
A Parcel of excellent dried Hides, A few casks Linseed Oil, 80 pieces Russia Duck, blue mark, 6 by 8 and 7 by 9 Window Glass. 13
NOTICE is hereby given, that William M. Betts, of Kinderhook, in the county of Columbia, merchant, did in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th day of April 1786," assign all his estate, real and personal, both in law and equity, for the use of all the creditors of the said William M. Betts. All persons therefore, who are indebted to the said William M. Betts, are hereby requested to make immediate payment; and all those who have any demands against the said William M. Betts are desired to bring in their accounts properly authenticated to
JONATHAN STILES, Jun. Affignee. Kinderhook, July 18, 1787. 1 17 4
THE warm and cold baths on the North-river, the foot of Crown-street; those that want to use the WARM BATH, will be pleased to give one hour's notice to the keeper of the baths. 2 9 3m HENRY LUDLAM.
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony (now State) of New-York, entitled "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 19th day of March 1774, that on Friday the fourteenth day of September next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, WILL BE SOLD at public auction or vendue, at the merchants Coffee House in the city of New-York, the fee-simple of all that certain dwelling house and lot of ground in a certain indenture of mortgage herein after mentioned particularly, described as follows, to wit. All that certain dwelling house and lot of ground, situate, lying and being within the city of New-York aforesaid, in Montgomery Ward of the same city, on the north side of a certain street commonly called & known by the name of Gold Street; bounded westerly to the house and ground of Robert White, northerly by ground late of Cecile Vander Clif, deceased, easterly to the houses and ground late of Nicholas Kortright, deceased, and southerly by said Gold Street; containing in breadth, in front to said Gold Street and in the rear at each end twenty-three feet and an half, and in length on each side forty-five feet, all english measure. Together with all and singular the edifices, buildings, fences, waters, water courses, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever to the said dwelling house and lot, piece, or parcel of ground belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises duly made and executed by Elijah Miller of the city of New-York, Ship-Wright, and Rebecca his wife to Mary Strange of the said city, widow, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, with a power to sell therein contained, for the better and more effectual securing the payment of the sum of 125 pounds, current money of New-York, with lawful interest for the same, according to the condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing date the said twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and executed by the said Elijah Miller to the said Mary Strange. Deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser or purchasers pursuant to the said power, by
MARY STRANGE. New-York, March 9, 1787. 2 78 52
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, And is to be sold by the Printers hereof, (In a neat bound and lettered pocket volume) (Price 6s.)
THE UNIVERSALIST.
In Seven Letters to Amyntor. 6 In adamant chains shall death be bound, And hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound— The fea shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away, But fix'd his word, his saving power remains, Thy realm, forever, lasts, thy own Messiah reigns.
Board of Treasury of the United States,
May 17th, 1787. The United States in Congress having directed the Commissioners of this Board, to take the most effectual measures, for settling the accounts of the secret and commercial Committees of Congress.
Notice is hereby given, THAT the accounts of the said Committees, having been arranged, as far as the materials furnished by the respective parties, will enable them to proceed in that business; it has become necessary, to adopt immediate measures for closing these transactions. All persons therefore, who have received public money from the general Treasury, in pursuance of engagements entered into with the secret and commercial Committees of Congress, and who have not accounted for the same, are hereby required, to render and adjust their respective accounts within three months, computed from the present date; at the expiration of which time, process will be commenced against such as neglect this notice. 2 98 3m
SAMUEL OSGOOD, WALTER LIVINGSTON, ARTHUR LEE, } Commissioners.
THE Subscribers hereby give notice that they are appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probates, for the district of Westminster, in the State of Vermont, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors of Samuel Wells, Esq. late of Brattleborough, in Windham county, deceased, whose estate is represented insolvent; that fourteen months from the date hereof are allowed for the creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling-house of Mica Townsend, Esq. in Brattleborough, on the first Mondays of each month in said term, except the months of June and November, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon.
BENJ. BUTTERFIELD, JOHN SERGEANT, SAM. KNIGHT, } Commissioners. May 27, 1787. 2 8 8
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 Thursday the first day of November 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 the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and sixty-three acres and twenty rods of land, 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. April the 16th 1787. 2 89 6m
Public Securities.
CASH and the highest price given for all kinds of PUBLIC SECURITIES. PARTICULARLY Final Settlement Certificates, Facilities, Nourse's, Pickering's, Bancker's and Barber's NOTES. Apply at No. 40, Wall-street, four doors from the corner of Queen-street. 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 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 3rd day of January, in the year of Lord, 1718, between Abraham De Peyster and Samuel Bayard, and is bounded as follows; to wit; southwesterly 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 3rd day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1787, 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
THE partnership of Fell and Graham, being this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons having any demands against them, will please to call at their Store, No. 2, Crugar's-wharf, for payment; and all those indebted to them, are requested to speedily discharge their accounts. The business in future, will be carried on by John Graham, who has for Sale, a quantity of West-India Goods, Teas, Brandy, Wine, &c. &c. Also, a quantity of fresh Flour, Beef and Pork in barrels, Butter in firkins, a few salt peter Hams, &c. July 2, 1787. 11

WRITERS.
EVERY writer is particularly bound in a most solemn manner, and before every other obligation, to do justice. The infringement of justice is an injury done to human nature; for this reason, every author, worthy of the name, is sensibly affected with any wrong done to his equal: He is the avenger of the public cause; and the oppression that falls on his neighbour ought to become personally his; he cannot excuse himself from opposing it.
Whilst envy, wickedness, ignorance, attack writers, they despise their efforts, which must be vain, because nothing can counterbalance universal fame: The superiority of their minds point out to them the approbation of sensible men now existing and to be born; and the reward they expect for their labors is in the improvement of projects for the public good.
Can we, then, too much revere those superior men who enlarge our understandings, who establish the moral code of nations, and the civil virtues of individuals! A poem, a drama, a romance, which draws virtue in lively colours, modles the reader insensibly on the virtuous characters he represents; they interest him, and the author inculcates the moral, without speaking of it; by a skilful hidden operation, he exhibits certain qualities of the mind covered with an imagery that makes us adapt them. He compels us to love those generous actions; and the man, who spurns at reflection, whose mind is soured with dogmatical lessons, is charmed with the natural pencil which improves to the best advantage the sensibility of the human heart, to instruct it in what stern personal interest commonly repels.
We must carefully examine our mind, which is the sanctuary where reside our thoughts and ideas. Science is only useful to conduct us to morality, which is necessary for us; to morality which teaches us to be mild, patient, temperate, and which speaking of our equals, instructs us in our duty to them. A Philosopher, who meditates alone, who scrutinizes different objects; and examines them calmly with all their connections, is likely to be nearer the truth, than an assembly of men who discuss, deliberate, and argue.
A rich or happy man would not perhaps do well to commence writer, not only because he would risk his repose and peaceable enjoyments, but perhaps because he would not be sufficiently exasperated against the wicked, that is to say the disturbers of public order; he would be in a situation too apt to tolerate many abuses that would affect him but slightly, intrenched, as one may say, in the circle of his opulence; in a word, he would find himself too much disposed to pardon several, and varnish over by reasoning many political vices of our modern governments.
How could he find out a remedy to the evils with which we are burdened, when he would be at such a distance from the suffering class? A writer must have the misfortune to be discontented with every thing that is done wrong in his country, that he may write in a manly style to route attention; his style must be emphatic, as it is to strike the ears of the obdurate and haughty. Orator of the greater number, that is to say, the crowd of unfortunate beings; melancholy, the mother of pity, must preside over his gloomy pen to make it the more affecting.
Fontenelle has said of himself, that he never by any chance had thrown the least ridicule on the smallest virtue. That is truly respectable; but he had only fulfilled half the task of a man of letters. It is more and more obligatory to redouble our exertions against every thing that debases humanity; to brand all despotism; incessantly to attack tyranny under its various forms; to devote ones self for the common cause; to possess that abstruse sentiment which so rapidly extends; to visit the meanest citizen; and, in fine, to become his advocate in the face of pride and power.
Who must ward the blows intended against the multitude, but the eloquent voice of the just and sensible man! Who will attack blind and insolent power with reproaches, cries, and sighs, if it is not the writer! He must borrow the keen and plaintive tone of the oppressed, he must make the distant and formidable thunder of posterity roll over the oppressor's head; and he should know, notwithstanding the audaciousness some politicians have affected, there are few public men who do not dread the judgment of the public. This courage will be called enthusiasm; but is not enthusiasm to talents the same as colouring to a picture? Without it, there is no sacrifice offered to the truth; no inspiration, none of those permanent and victorious enticements that impel the writer to compose those works which are lasting monuments for future ages.
Happy then, the man who knows the enthusiasm of his art! who, while error has its heroes and martyrs, is inflamed for truth, and enjoys, in the contemplation of her chaste attractions, the sacrifices he has made to her! Truth has lovers who prefer her to all! Read Fenelon, when he talks of virtue; how he insinuates it into our souls! The author who abandons himself to the impulse of his soul, has an idiom which resounds, not to the ear, but the mind of the reader, and that is eloquence.
If a man was passionately fond of a conqueror, idolized him, and imagined it to be a glorious action to expire under his command, ah! let us forgive the generous mind greedy of useful knowledge; the transports it enjoys while it penetrates the sanctuary where truth is hidden, and lifts the evil that covers her.
* When a man devotes himself to the painful office of a writer, he must, first of all, found the fortitude of his mind; he must be confident, he is able to support all incidental attacks with resolution.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 11.
After the holding of several Divans, orders were dispatched to the chiefs of all the troops of the Ottoman empire, to take proper measures, that on the first signal, the said troops may be in readiness to march; declaring at the same time, they should answer with their heads for any miscarriage that might happen through delay in the execution of those orders.—His Highness afterwards appointed a Commandant General of the army destined to cover
the important place of Oczakow, with orders to let out immediately and wait for the army that is to be sent there.—He then sent a Firman to the Bashaw of Romelia, to recruit: and ordered a thousand Janissaries, to march in all haste to Silistria, in Bulgaria, a very large town, but weak, situated on the right branch of the Danube.
VIENNA, April 21.
From the Austrian Netherlands, April 30. We learn from Bruxelles that a general ferment reigns in all the Austrian low countries, and particularly in that capital: That the tranquillity with which all the revolutions apparently took place in the form of government of the Belgic provinces, was only in appearance; and that lately a violent opposition has arisen against the projects of his Imperial Majesty. We are even assured, that the States of Brabant are about to take a resolution to refuse any subsidy until things are put upon their former footing. If these accounts are confirmed, the tranquillity of those provinces may be disturbed, particularly as the Emperor is so fully convinced of the utility of the reforms which he wishes to establish, that he will not easily give them up.
BERLIN, April 28.
As the situation of affairs between Russia and the Porte at present fixes the attention of Europe, the public may not be displeased to see a list of the demands of the former, and the answers of the latter. Russia requires that the Porte shall acknowledge the Georgians to be Russian subjects; that they shall pay a stop to the hostilities of the Georgian and other Tartars, that the differences between the government of Oczakow and Kinburn relative to the salt mines shall be settled; that they shall not oppose the appointment of a Russian Consul at Varna; that they shall declare themselves as to their warlike preparations by land and sea; and lastly, that the Porte shall put a stop to the vexations carrying on in Moldavia and Wallachia. To which the Divan answered on the 25th of February, that the Georgians had always, and particularly by the last treaty of peace of Kainardsja, been declared dependent upon the Porte; that the Porte had already declared the Georgian and other Tartars independent, and they thus had neither the right nor the power to trouble themselves with them; that the differences about the salt mines might be easily settled by a ministerial conference; that the situation of Varna and the disposition of its inhabitants render the establishment of a Russian Consul in that place neither sensible nor necessary; that the Porte, by the warlike preparations they are making, only followed the example of their neighbours; and lastly, that it was much their interest to preserve good order in Moldavia and Wallachia, and therefore the Porte would certainly not neglect it.
HAGUE, May 9.
The States of Holland, in their assembly of Thursday last, having received from the Council Committee a communication of the orders lately given by the Council of State, as well to the garrison of this place as to General Van Ryssel, and other commanders of troops, not to march into the territory of any other province without the consent of such province, they rendered that affair committal before the Grand Committee.
Upon the proposal of the personal committee, the States of Holland have thought proper to order General Van Ryssel to dispense with the services of all those officers who shall be found to have communicated to the Council of State, the orders which had been given them. They for the same reason have dispensed with the services, till further orders, by a majority of 12 voices, of Col. Baron Van Duijn, of the regiment of dragoons, of Byland; Colonel A. H. Comte de Rechteren, of the regiment of horse of Hesse Philipstall, and the Lieutenant Colonel W. J. de Hogenheim, of the regiment of the Lieutenant General de Hardenbroek. The States of Holland have appointed M. C. Clarion, Capt. Commandant in the second battalion of the regiment of Major General Grenier, to be Aid de Camp to General Van Ryssel.
The association formed here, under the name of the truly Patriotic Society, goes on with great success, and increases daily very much, by the addition of several persons of distinction and principal Burghers. Thus the report of many of the members of the said society having drawn out their names is entirely false.
DUBLIN, May 22.
Misery seems to have found an asylum, and to have taken up her abode in the cottages of the wretched Irish. It is a waste of words to contend, that their poverty is the fruit of their own indolence; such language is calculated only for the meridian of a capital, whose inhabitants rarely emerge from its environs; the person who has traversed the kingdom, has witnessed their severe and laborious industry, and will laugh at such empty affections. Labouring from day to day, beneath that sun which never lights him to cheerful industry, but to unproductive toil, the Irish peasant for ever experiences the pinching of penury, obtaining just enough to starve himself and family. Thus perpetually toiling, whence are his tattered rags and empty stomach, if not from oppression?—Whence are the distresses of his family, unless from oppression? What, but oppression, confines him to a mud built hovels, where, as in the cave of famine
—cobwebs grow of more than common size; And half starv'd spiders prey on half starv'd flies? Destitute of all the conveniencies or necessaries of life, his whole earthly stock consisting of a few implements of agriculture, an iron pot, and a threadbare blanket!
LONDON, May 18.
The interested and important intelligence (taken from the India Gazettes brought by the last ships from Bengal) shews that the troubles in India are encroaching to a very alarming height. The Mahrattas and Tippoo Saib are at open war. The Mysore troops have received a check; and the Mahrattas, flushed with victory, are proceeding to attack Tippoo's fortresses. The Nizam has already taken part with the Mahrattas; he is a very powerful Mahometan Prince, and having hitherto been neutre in all the late troubles, he comes now fresh into action, his coffers full of money, and his country full of people. The next ships will doubtless bring a further account of the progress of this new war; and which of the other country powers are taking, or preparing to take part in it. The Nizam appearing in it, certainly gives it a very formidable aspect.
In forming an opinion of the extent, importance or duration of either, or both these wars, every man of the smallest penetration, will turn his attention first towards France; for France is now, notwithstanding the divisions in her counsels about the mode of finance, in the happy, honorable and enviable situation, of having it in her power to exercise the office of arbitrator or fomentor, whenever she chooses to make her choice.
In India, if she chooses to support Tippoo Saib, her interference must inevitably extend the war, and involve Great-Britain. There needs no argument to prove what is obvious to the plainest understanding. If on the contrary, France chooses to adopt a mediating character, she can oblige Tippoo to accept of peace.
Pretty nearly the same degree of influence France holds over the councils of the Turkish empire. If she chooses to espouse the interest of the Grand Signior, (which for several years past she has strongly favoured) even though it were only privately, that circumstance will inevitably induce the Emperor and others to take part; in the course of which, it is more than probable, she will be eventually introduced. On the contrary, it is very likely that France may, by withdrawing her countenance totally from the Turk, oblige him to accept of the best terms he can get.
May 25.
Extract of a letter from Brest, April 22. "The Royal Louis, of 100 guns, L'Auguste 80, Scipion 74, Le Souverain 74, La Zele 74, La Marcelline 74, La Hardi 64, and Le Mercure of 64 guns, lately guardships here, have been paid off, and laid up; and the following ships appointed in their room, under the command of the Count de Guichen, who is now Post Admiral, in the room of Monf. du Barras:
 La Couronne, of 96 guns, Comte de Guichen, Monsieur St Paul, Captain.  Le Dauphin 74, Monsieur de Febree.  Le Magnifique 74, Monsieur de Langloise.  Le Pendant 74, Monsieur Vantrillente.  Le Saracen 74, Monsieur F. Maillette.  Le Roma 64, Monsieur de Guarda Goffe.  Le Prince 64, Monsieur Zouille.  La Provence 64, Monsieur Dugnonne.  La Superbe, a new ship of 82 guns, was launched last month, and there are now nearly ready, Le Comtesse of 74, and Le Heureux of 74, which will be launched in the course of the year. L'Union Auguste of 100 guns, is on the stocks, but not in a degree of forwardness. We now reckon eleven ships of different dimensions, since the enlargement of the dock-yard. 
A very extraordinary and curious circumstance happened on Saturday afternoon, in a field behind Sadler's Wells. A fly lark was mounting in the air, and saluting the spring with his cheerful notes, when on a sudden, a hawk winged, as Sheridan says, with "double speed and double vengeance in his eye," plunged upon him. The poor bird avoided his first stroke; but foreseeing that he could not possibly escape, he suddenly dropped from his elevated station, and took shelter in a man's bosom, who said he was a bricklayer's labourer. The man drew forth the trembling bird, and shewed it to a number of gentlemen that saw the circumstance. He was immediately offered half a crown for it, by a gentleman in Chancery-lane; but he refused it, saying, the bird had trusted itself with him, and it should not be deceived.
Extract of a letter from Ajois, February 16.
Very great preparations are made here for the reception of the Empress our sovereign, who is expected to visit this city in her tour to her new dominions. This garrison consists at present of 11,000 men. We have thirteen men of war in the port, and four more are building in the arsenal. This may serve to give some idea of the importance of this place, as well as the splendor that may be displayed on the occasion.
UNITED STATES.
New-York, July 31.
We learn from undoubted authority, that attempts have been made in England, to counterfeit the present paper emissions of the United States, particularly those of North and South Carolina; and that a certain Robert Muir, or Mure, a native of Scotland, has been apprehended and committed to gaol in Portsmouth, as a principal in the nefarious business. He went from Charleston, South-Carolina, in January last, in the ship John, Samuel Purchase, master, and arrived in London in March. He refuses to discover his accomplices, several of whom, it is suspected, are in London: And, from the number and variety of the notes of the United States found in his possession, and the large edition which he meant to print, it is probable he has been employed in America.
On regular complaint and information being made against him, the Mayor of Portsmouth caused him to be taken into custody, and the Grand Jury have found a bill against him—but it is very probable he will be set at liberty; for the crime cannot be deemed complete without the signatures, if it could without passing the bills.
His types, stamps, and implements, are all secured, and will be destroyed—among which are the following, viz. Ten different wood cuts, which, together from the borders of two notes of North-Carolina currency, one of one pound, the other of five shillings. A quantity of metal flowers, cast by William Caslon, letter founder, Chiswell-street, London, which will make the same impression as on the reverse sides of the above, and other notes, which he wanted to have counterfeited.
There is no doubt but he has accomplices in London; for on discovering a deficiency of two articles in the border of a note, of which he wanted 1000 copies, he said he would send to London for them. The wood cuts and metal borders are so nicely imitated as to render a discovery of the forgery extremely difficult.
The discovery was made by one Carpenter, an honest, ingenious engraver of London, and by Mr. Mowbray, Printer of Portsmouth.—Muir, it seems, applied to the former to engrave the plates, and to the latter to strike off several thousand copies, of the paper bills of North and South Carolina.
The government, and the magistrates, both in London and Portsmouth, have conducted themselves upon this occasion, with great propriety.
The offence is laid to be against the laws of na-
tions, against commerce, against private and public property, against the whole world, &c. but still the laws are so vague in this case, and every punishment short of death for such a crime in England, is treated with ridicule.
We learn also from the same authority, that there is a vast sum of bale copper in circulation in England, to the amount of several hundreds of thousands of pounds—they were very lately refused every where; and it is suspected they will be purchased for a trifle and sent to the United States.
The brig Jane, of Poole, George Sater, master, on the 14th inst. in lat. 41. 17. long. 63. 30. spoke the ship Friendship, John McKinnon master, from Belfast, bound to Philadelphia, with 400 passengers, out six weeks, all well.
On Saturday evening the 21st inst. arrived at Philadelphia, in 8 days from Boston, the sloop Betty, Capt. Young, who informs, that a Mr. Andrew Demier took passage with him for that city—that on Friday afternoon, the day before his arrival, being then off Bombayhook, the vessel under slow way, Mr. Demier went forward under pretence to ease himself, got over the bows of the vessel, and gradually lowered himself into the water. The Mate being on deck, and hearing a noise in the water, instantly mustered the crew and threw the boat out; he came up near the quarter crotch, and the Captain threw the bite of the main sheet over him, which got under his arms, and with his own exertions might have saved him; but he disengaged himself from the rope and sunk again; after which diligent search was made with the boat, but without any further discovery. It is remarkable, that on the passage, this man was several times heard to say he never should reach Philadelphia; and he once asked the Mate to cut his throat. He said he was born in England, though of French extraction. He wrote his name on the binnacle just before he went into the water; that upon the whole, it seems to appear a premeditated plan to put a period to his existence.
The King of Spain has appointed M. de Flores to be Governor and Captain General of Mexico, in the room of Count de Galvez, deceased.
We hear that Shays is still in Vermont, near the borders of Massachusetts, and that the inhabitants of Berkshire are apprehensive that they shall not yet be freed from the insults of him and his coadjutors, who still treat the clemency of government with the greatest contempt, and declare that they are determined to continue their predatory incursions, till the Legislature see fit to grant an indiscriminate pardon to the regulators : That from the repeated respites of those men who had been tried and sentenced to suffer death, they had nothing to dread, nothing to fear,
"Convinc'd that Shays and all his fellows,
"Might safely smile e'en at the gallows."
A caricature is now circulated at Rome, in which the Pope is represented sitting before St. Peter, who is binding a fillet round his eyes, and thus rendering him blind to the encroachments of the Catholic powers on his infallible rights; a tribe of religions of different orders are surrounding the feet of his Holiness, and soliciting his dispensations; but the Pope being hoodwinked, replies, "I with I could dispense with my badage." Search is making after the etcher of this caricature, but in vain.
Extract of a letter from a very distinguished character, who has figured on either side the Atlantic, both in the military and political world, to his friend in Boston.
"Paris, May 5, 1787.
"The cloud which has blackened over Crimea, is nearly dissipated, by the affair between the Russians and Turks, being for some time arranged. Monf. de Calonne's letter has met with some neglect from the Farmers-General. But as a wise administration is now in place, the matter will probably be accommodated in a few days; and there ought of course, to be no uneasiness on this account. I shall not engage in particulars respecting the proceedings of the present assembly of the Notables, as it would require volumes to contain them; the debates will soon be published, we are now printing the reports of each committee; for we are generally divided into four departments.—As soon as they are completed, I shall send them to Boston. There has been much candor and patriotism displayed in this Assembly. The result is, to have Houses of Representatives in each Province, not to determine, but to apportion the taxes. By economy and improvements, sixty millions of livres will be saved to the nation. All the orders of the kingdom have renounced their pecuniary privileges. The resignation of Monf. de Calonne has restored peace and tranquillity."
Extract of a letter from Paris, May 9.
"We no longer entertain a doubt concerning the ambitious dispositions of the Empress of Russia; but we have many respecting the success that she has promised herself from her enterprizes against the Turks. We know that the Porte has answered with much firmness, the different pretensions that were signified on the part of the sovereign; and that the Sultan backs his just refusal with a considerable army, in which they reckon a great number of foreign officers. Catharine II. on her side, is preparing to leave Kiow, to embark on the Dnieper for Cherson, where the Emperor is to meet her, as soon as the troubles that have arisen in his States of Hungary may permit him to continue his route. The numerous army which the Empress has in her train, would render her march much more formidable, if almost all the powers of Europe, interested in opposing her designs, did not, in some measure, make a common cause with the Turk, and seem determined to defend him. The cabinet of Versailles, whose political system inclines towards the ways of conciliation, has nevertheless thought it prudent to render her mediation respectable, by ordering the armaments necessary for that purpose."
Extract of a letter from a merchant in St. Eustatius, to his friend in Wilmington.
St. Eustatius, 25th June, 1787.
"I wrote you last by a Mr. —, of this place, who would be able to satisfy you respecting the prohibition of importing to English islands from neutral or others. You will too have had advice of it from Europe, and perhaps in time to regulate the next voyage. It is vain to point out to you further than this. The armed vessels will be very rigid in their attention to smugglers, if occasion should require, but so many English vessels will be prepared for the American trade, that they will be fully supplied—if the convention does not impose some severe restrictions—true there will be a small trade left to two or three inconsiderable islands, but by no means adequate to half the American vessels. I am clear it is immaterial what name or appearance

trade may have, it is the intention of the British Parliament to distress us, and as we have not unanimity or spirit to oppose them, calculate for retirement—it is too extensive a field for me to speak particularly on—Adieu.” The following is an extract of a letter from Colonel Lyman, commanding the troops lately landed, and stationed in Hampshire and Berkshire, to his Excellency Governor Hancock. Northampton, July 8, 1787.
“SIR, “In my last letter of the 30th of June, which I had the honor to write from Great-Barrington, I informed your Excellency of my having re-enlisted nearly two hundred men, from the regiments which had been engaged for the four months; which number is since augmented to perhaps two hundred and fifty. I also then took the liberty to suggest, that so many as five hundred, would, under present circumstances, be raised not only with considerable difficulty, but might perhaps be unnecessary; since which I am more confirmed in the above opinion, not only from the prospect of general internal tranquillity in this, but from the vigilance adopted by the neighbouring States, who seem suitably alarmed at the late outrages from persons harboured with them.”
Capt. Callahan, of the ship Lucretia, on his arrival in the port of Boston, the 16th instant, entered at the naval office four hundred dollars in specie, which were cleared out at the custom-house in London for Boston.
On Monday the 23d inst. the brig Hope, Capt. Jonathan Lambert, arrived at Salem from the Cape of Good-Hope, after a passage 65 days. Capt. Lambert came out in company with Capt. Story, belonging to Saco, bound to the West-Indies. He left at the Cape, Capt. Clarke, of this port, who was to sail the same day with Captain Lambert, for St. Helena.—Capt. Tucker, also of Salem, who arrived a few days before Capt. Lambert failed, and Capt. Skinner of Baltimore.—In lat. 25 : 46 N. and long. 60 : 20, spoke a brig from North Carolina, Green Peirson, master, bound to the West-Indies; in lat. 39 : 24, N. long. 63, a brig from Portland, Captain Hilton, bound to Guadalupe, out 14 days, all well; and a ship from Boston, to Newry, out 7 days, all well.
Hampton, (Connecticut,) July 9, 1787. Last Tuesday afternoon the frame of a large dwelling-house, the roof only covered, and the walls partly inclosed, belonged to Mr. Aaron Goodell, of this place, was struck by lightning, which first beat a few bricks from the top of the chimney; it then entered the ridge pole of the house, thence taking its course down seven of the rafters, and entering the body of the frame: violence marked its way through different posts and studs to the ground. Five persons were in the house at the same time, who were all struck down; but happily no lives were lost, and the shock they received was but light; except a young man, son to Mr. Goodell, who lay for some minutes after the rest had recovered, and given up for dead; but happily revived, and has since recovered. What but the same Omnipotent Power that holds the balancing of the clouds, and controuls those awful exertions of nature, could guard their lives from instant death. The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice: Yea, the Lord reigneth, let the people tremble.”
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST.
Ship St. Thomas, Thatcher, Montego-Bay. Brig Washington, Williamson, St. Croix. Nymph, Palmer, Amsterdam. Admiral Kreche, Harris, St. Croix. Sea Flower, —, St. Eustatia. —, —, St. Vincent. Schooner New-York Packet, Barnard, Boston. St. Johns, —, St. Johns. Sloop P. and N. Y. Packet, Bailey, Philadelphia. Dolphin, Bird, do. John and Jane, Johnson, Shelburne. —, —, do. Ranger, Benison, St. Croix. Clinton, Codwise, do. Endeavour, Burnett, St. Eustatia. Harlet, Brownlow, St. Johns. The ship Mary, Capt. —, from Musquito-Shore, bound to London, was spoke off Sandy-Hook, on Sunday the 29th inst. in distress—had a pilot on board.
Captain Harris, of the Admiral Kreche, in lat. 22-13. long. 67. 22. spoke the brig Sovereign, Capt. Crawford, from Philadelphia, to Cape Francois, out 17 days, all well.
By the United States in Congress assembled, July 23, 1787.
RESOLVED, That all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, pertaining to the late Commissary's, Quarter-master's, Clothier's or Marine Department, shall exhibit particular abstracts of such claims to the proper Commissioners appointed to settle the accounts of those departments within 3 months from the date hereof; & all persons having other unliquidated claims against the United States, shall exhibit a particular abstract thereof to the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, within one year from the date hereof; and all accounts not exhibited as aforesaid, shall be precluded from settlement or allowance. CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'y.
JAMES BERRY, Watch and Clock Maker, HAS removed from No. 33, Fly-market, to No. 67, Water-street, near Beckman-slip, at the house occupied by Abraham Anderson, where he will carry on all the various branches of clock and watch work of any kind whatsoever, and compleat the work at the shortest notice, and on reasonable terms.
The following ACTS of the Hon. the Legislature, passed at their last session, may be had singly, at the Book-store of S. LOUDON, viz: An Act for regulating elections: together with an Act for regulating town-meetings. An Act imposing duties on goods and merchandise imported into this State. An Act for the more speedy recovery of debts to the value of ten pounds. An Act to institute an University within this State. An Act to amend an act entitled “An Act to regulate the Militia.” Also, an Act to regulate the Militia. Passed the 4th of April, 1786.
Public Auction. THIS AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock, By JAMES INGLIS, At his Commission Store, No. 21, Wall-street, Will be Sold, A neat and general assortment of DRY GOODS, consisting of
A great variety of mouselins, sheetings, Irish linens, checks, chintzes and calicoes, cotton and thread hose, ticklenburghs and oznabrugs, Barcelona and other silk handkerchiefs, coarse and fine hats, gauzes, ribbons, printed and check handkerchiefs, shoes, ticking, an assortment of buntings, broad cloths, wildbores, jewellery, watches, &c. &c.
A few mens beaver hats for Jersey money.
A variety of merchandise very cheap at private sale.
CINCINNATI. THE Members of the New-York State Society of the Cincinnati are requested to meet at the Coffee-House, on Wednesday the 8th of August, at five o'clock precisely, on business of importance. By order of the President, ROBERT PEMBERTON, Secretary.
Jacob Foster, BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from Roosevelt-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.
For DUBLIN, (To sail 10th August) THE BRIG BROWNLOW, Joseph McMeeken, Master, Now ready to take in goods. For freight or passage, apply to the Captain on board, at Mr. Ten Eyck's wharf, Cruger's dock, or to William Neilson, who hath received by her and the Hector, from Bristol, the following Goods, which he will sell on the best terms for money or merchantable produce, viz.—An assortment of 7-8 and 4-4 Linens, from 1-6 to 7-6, 9-8 brown and white sheetings, drohedas, printed linens and chintzes, men and boys Athlone hats, girls and womens shoes in boxes, casimers and queens cloths, short pipes, Bristol ware in crates, grindstones, quart bottles, 7-8 and 8-10 window glass very low—also, Pig and Bar Iron. N. B. Cash given for Pot and Pearl Ashes. July 27. 19
For St. PETERS, (Touching at Pamaquady) THE SLOOP NANCY, Oliver Poffen, Master, Now lying at Laurence's wharf, near Peck-slip, will take freight for either, and sail on the 10th of August; she is a good burthen-ship, vessel, nicely accommodated for passengers, having two convenient state rooms, suitable for a gentleman and family. Such as are disposed for shipping, may further acquaint themselves by an application either to Comfort and Joshua Sands, Water-street, No. 136, or the Master on board. July 31, 1787. 19 3
To be Sold at Private Sale, THAT Valuable House and Lot of Ground, lying in Cherry-street, opposite the New-Ship, No. 27. The lot contains in breadth in front twenty-four feet nine inches, and in length about 110 feet: The house is large, two story high, and in good repair, well calculated for the grocery or dry good business, having a large airy cellar under the whole, with a good stable and chair-house in one, and the stand perhaps equal to any in the city. For further particulars enquire on the premises. New-York, July 30, 1787. 19 4
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the late Colony, now State of New-York, passed the 10th 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 second day of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at public auction, at the merchants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, all that certain dwelling house and lot of land, now in the tenure and occupation of Peter Kemble, situated lying and being, on the west side of Smith-street, in the city of New-York aforesaid, bounded on the east by said Smith-street, on the north by the house and lot of ground formerly of Charles Lodowick, but now of the heirs or devisees of the late David Clakson, deceased, and by another lot of ground belonging to the reformed Dutch Church, in the said city of New-York, on the south by a house and ground, late of the widow Bend, but at present in the occupation of John Oorthoudt, and on the west by land now or late belonging to the heirs of the late Alderman Gautier; together also, with all that certain piece or parcel of land, being westerly and in the rear of a lot of land, formerly owned by the said widow Bend, which said lot is in breadth, in front and rear twenty-two feet, in length on the southwesterly side, sixty-one feet and one inch, on the northeasterly side, fifty-nine feet eleven inches; which said lot was mortgaged on the 29th day of March, 1781, by Grove Bend to the subscriber, to secure the payment of one thousand pounds, with lawful interest, on the 29th day of March, then next ensuing. The conditions of sale will be made known on the day of the vendue. Dated this 27th day of July, 1787. 19 6m JOHN LEAKE.
NEW MILLENNERY STORE. Miss L O G I E, MILLENNER from LONDON, BEGS leave to inform the Ladies in particular, and the public in general, that she has opened a store at No. 8, Water-street, nearly opposite to Mr. John Shaw's, Wine Merchant, where she intends to carry on the MILLENNERY business in all its different branches, after the newest and most approved fashions in London and on the most reasonable terms.—She will keep a general assortment of every thing in the line of her business of the best qualities, and will dispose of them on moderate terms.—Ladies' DRESSES, of every sort, will be made up after the newest fashion, and with the utmost expedition.
As Miss LOGIE has settled correspondents who will send her regularly the fashions both from London and Paris, by every opportunity, she flatters herself, that by her attention to keep a good assortment of the best and most fashionable things in her way, and her endeavours to please those ladies who may employ her, she will meet with the encouragement of a generous Public, to merit whose favours will be her principal care and study.
SHE HAS FOR SALE, Several articles of millinery, ready made up, after the present and most approved of fashions in London.
New-York, July 27, 1787. 19 3
Gouverneur & Kemble, Have imported and now for Sale at their Store, No 26, Front-street, Muscovado sugar in hds. Geneva in cases, and barrels, An assortment of cordage and cables. Windward island rum & Jamaica spirits, Holland duck, Old sherry wine in pipes and quarter casks. Russia duck, Old Brandy in ditto, ditto, Russia sheetings, Lisbon fall, Russia drillings, Black pepper in bales, from 100 to 400 lbs. Oznabrugs, A quantity of Spanish salted dried hides, Ticklenburghs, Linseed oil in casks, Flemish linen, Writing-paper, Dutch copper tea-kettles. Rosin in barrels. 13
FOR SALE, The House and Lot of Ground, No. 41, Roosevelt-street, now in the occupation of Captain Peter Wynkoop: The house is commodious, two stories high, four rooms with fire places, and two bed rooms, a cellar and cellar kitchen. The lot is 25 feet in front and rear, and 100 feet in length.—Also, a Lot of Ground bounded front on Fair-street, and on the rear on Ann-street, 25 feet wide front and rear, and 116 feet in length, on which is a small dwelling-house and stable. For terms apply to DAVID WOLFE, No. 13, Fair street. 19
William Neilson, Hath received by the Brownlow, from Dublin, and the Hector from Bristol, AN assortment of 7-8 and 4-4 linens, from 1-6 to 7-6, 9-8 brown and white sheetings, Drohedas, printed linens and chintzes, men and boys Athlone hats, girls and womens shoes in boxes, casimer and queens cloths, short pipes, Bristol ware in crates, grindstones, quart bottles, 7-9 and 8-10 glass very low; also pig and bar iron.—These goods will be sold on low terms for money or produce; and cash given for pot and pearl ashes, &c. A few chaldrons of Smiths Coals on board the brig Brownlow, to be sold cheap. July 18. 16 3
BESLY and GOODWIN, DRUGGISTS, No 228, Queen-street, near the Fly-market, the third door west of the corner of Maiden-lane, have imported by the last ships from Europe, A very large assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, Warranted of the first quality, which they will sell very low for cash, all kinds of public securities, or upon short credit; Druggists in the country may be supplied very low for cash by the quantity; they return their sincere thanks to their customers and wish a continuance of their favours, as they have imported largely will be able to supply them lower than usual. 95
Mutual Assurance Company. For insuring HOUSES from LOSS by FIRE in New-York.
WHEREAS the insuring of houses and other buildings from loss by fire, has been found of great and public utility wherever it has been practised; and although societies, have been instituted in different places, yet none have hitherto been formed in this city for that laudable and beneficent purpose.
A number of respectable citizens, as well for their own mutual security as for the common security and advantage of their neighbours and fellow-citizens, with the view of promoting the insurance of houses and other buildings from loss by fire, upon the most equal terms, and without any views of private or separate gain or interest, have established a company by the name of
The Mutual Assurance Company, For Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire in New-York.
The utility of an institution in its purpose so laudable, cannot fail to attract the notice of every citizen being of so great importance to the security of property and the happiness of families; that it is presumed that no person of prudence will be found to neglect it.
The office is now opened at No. 57, King-street, where such persons as incline to insure their houses and other buildings, may, on application, receive every necessary information.
JOHN PINTARD, Secretary. June 15, 1787. 3
BLANKS, Sold at this Office.
FOR SALE By PUBLIC AUCTION, At the COFFEE-HOUSE, on Thursday, 2d August, precisely at 12 o'clock, Seventy-Three Lots of Ground, In the Out-Ward of this City, Situated as follows, viz:
Len. Breadth. NO. 365, 375, fronting Hester-st. and corner of Catharine-st. 100f. 25 485, 486, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, fronting Hester-street, between Catharine and Mary-street. 100 25 616, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, Do. do. between Mary and Rynders-street. 100 25 632, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38. Do. do. do. 115 100 25 720, 21, 22, 23, do. do. corner of Pitt-street. 116 111 25 775, 776. do. do. between Great-George and Crosby-streets. 119 25 659, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 671, 73, 74, do. do. do. and Rynders do. 100 25 1180. 81, 82, do. G. George-st. corner of William-street 100 30 a 31 1/2 1213, 14, do. between William and Oliver do. 100 25 1215, 16, 18, 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51. do. do. at Oliver and Prince do. 100 25 a 24 4 Lots, No. 130, 31, 32, 33, fronting Elizabeth-street, in the rear of the lots where the wind-mill stood, under improvement by John Richardson. 94 25 4 Ditto, No. 134, 35, 36, 37, adjoining the foregoing, and corner of Hester and Elizabeth streets, under improvement by Jacob Meyer. 94 25 4 Ditto, No. 138, 39, 40, 41, adjoining the foregoing, and corner of Hester and Winne-streets, under improvement by James Leake. 94 25 4 Ditto, No. 142, 43, 44, 45, adjoining the foregoing, and fronting Winne-street, under improvement by Philip Young. 94 25 Conditions of sale will be made known at the time.
VINER VAN ZANDT. July 21, 1787. 17
TO BE SOLD, A HOUSE and Lot of Ground, situated at the corner of Broad-way and King-street, containing in front on Broad-way 22 feet 4 inches, and in the rear 22 feet 3 inches, and in depth along King-street, 64 feet: It is now occupied by the Hon. the Board of Treasury, and rents for 1201. a year; the situation is exceeding pleasant and healthy; and for a private gentleman is inferior to none, and is so well known to be an excellent stand for business, that it needs no further recommendation.
Likewise, 202 acres of Land, lying about 21 miles from this city, and 2 miles above the Mansion-house of the late Col. Phillips; the situation is pleasant, and affords an agreeable and delightful prospect, and would be an elegant spot for a gentleman retiring from business; the soil is good, bounded by the North-river, on the west by Saw-mill river, on the east by lands belonging to Mr. Robert Johnson, merchant.
2000 acres of Land, in Washington county, in this State, the soil is as good as any in that country; the one half now rents for 7l. per 100 acres, and the rest may be rented at the same rate; it is a good stand for a country store, lying in the heart of a country well settled; it has two public roads running through it, and is well wooded and watered.
An improved Farm, situated at Black Creek, in Washington county, containing 250 acres, watered by a fine stream, on which there is a good seat for a saw mill, and plenty of valuable pine; in a well settled country, near a meeting-house and grist-mill, in a good neighbourhood.
12 Lots of Land of 250 acres each, in the township of Bamp, in the State of Vermont; the soil is naturally strong and good for grain or grass, it is watered by several streams, and clothed with excellent timber. The number of lots are as follows, No. 3, 21, 24, 38, 42, 56, 73, 81, 89, 93, 103, 106.
Likewise, a Lot situated at the corner of New-street and Verlettenburgh-street, being 39 feet in front on Verlettenburgh-street, and 42 feet 7 inches on New-street.
Likewise, a Lot on the south side of Prince-street, nearly opposite to the sugar-house, containing in front and rear 25 feet, and 100 feet deep on the west side, and 73 feet on the north side.
And one other Lot, situated on the west side of New-street, joining to Brockhoff Livingston, Esq. on the north and west on Aaron Devon, and south on Mr. Hill's lot; this lot is 25 feet front and rear, and 84 feet long, Dutch measure. For particulars enquire of Col. Isaac Stoutenburgh, or Mr. Elias Nexen, merchant.
N. B. All persons having any demands against the estate of the late Jane Johnson, widow of John Johnson, house-carpenter, or John Johnson, taylor, late of New-York, but now of Charleston, South-Carolina, are requested to produce their accounts to Mr. Elias Nexen, in order that they may be discharged; and those who are indebted to said Johnson, are requested to make speedy payment, as he is about to depart the State.
New-York, June 12, 1787. 5
Theodotus Fowler & Co. At their Office, No. 164, Water-Street, Buy, sell and negotiate all kinds of Continental, Connecticut and New-York Securities. 97

POET'S CORNER.
EPITAPH on an OYSTER-WOMAN, of good repute in her profession. OLD Joan, who sold the best of oysters, Lies now interr'd within these cloysters. Go, bid the Sexton ring the bells; While on her grave we scatter shells. Fresh flow'rs on faded virgins strew: On Joan the mother of the pearl bestow.
NOTICE is hereby given according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony, now State of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for the securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 19th day of March 1774; That on Monday the 8th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be Sold at Public Auction, the Lands described in a certain indenture of mortgage, executed by Jonathan Fish and Elizabeth his wife, now both deceased, to Thomas Candell, deceased, dated the 3d day of September 1770, as follows, to wit: ALL and singular the Lands, meadows and premises devised to him by his father Samuel Fish, jun. lately deceased, to wit: ALL the cleared land and meadow which he formerly and latterly bought of John Renne, with all the buildings, erections, fences and improvements thereon; also, the north-eastwardly half part of wood-land which he bought of John Renne, deeming and estimating all on the south side of the fence there standing on the north side of the said wood-land, as wood-land; notwithstanding a small parcel thereof between the fence and the woods is cleared, with the liberty to pass and repass through the other part of his land thereto, and from the easterly or north-eastwardly half so devised to him, his heirs and assigns to cart his wood or otherwise—he also gave and devised to his son Jonathan Fish, his heirs and assigns for ever, all the homestead lands, buildings and improvements which he formerly bought of Capt. Nathaniel Lawrence, since deceased, as the same was then included within fence, be the same in quantity more or less;—and also, four acres of salt-meadow, which he lately purchased of the Widow Langdon, lying near Flushing creek, in New-Town aforesaid;—also, about forty acres of upland which he lately bought of John White, adjoining to the land of Jonathan Furman and Samuel Waldron, jun.—and also, one equal third part of his right in Juniper-Swamp, and the land he bought of Nathaniel Lawrence, is bounded northerly on the road that leads from New-Town to Jamaica, westerly by land belonging to Samuel and Richard Fish, & southerly by wood-land belonging to Samuel Fish, and easterly by Samuel Renne, and the said land or meadow he bought of John Renne as aforesaid, is bounded northerly by the road that leads from New-Town to Fish's mill, westerly by the common burying place, and a piece of fresh meadow belonging to Richard Fish, southerly by a creek and easterly by meadow belonging to William Betts; and the land he bought of John White is bounded as follows, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the limits of New-Town, containing by estimation forty acres, be the same more or less, and is butted and bounded as follows;—north-eastwardly by a highway leading from New-Town to South, north-eastwardly by a high way that leads to Fresh Pond so called, south-eastwardly by the same road which extends to the Hills so called, and south-westwardly by land of Jonathan Morrell (the third) & Thomas Morrell, jun. which sale will be made on the premises, part of which is now in the occupation of Jonathan Underhill and Cornelius Hyatt, and proper deeds of conveyances will be executed by the Subscriber, to which the heirs-at-law will be a party.
MARY CANDELL, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of THOMAS CANDELL, deceased. I 24 6m March 29, 1787.
TO BE SOLD. A VALUABLE FARM, lying in the White-Plains, two miles from the Court-House, in the county of Westchester, about 23 miles from the city of New-York, and within four miles of a landing at Mamaroneck, containing about 260 acres of excellent land, and a large proportion of timber; about 80 acres of the farm very fine meadow, and will produce annually about 100 tons of hay of the best quality. On said farm is a large commodious dwelling-house, with four rooms on a floor, a large passage through the house, and a very large and convenient cellar under it; also a good barn, two orchards, one of which is very large and produces the best kind of fruit the country affords, and a well of excellent water by the door. The farm is in a beautiful part of the country, and is esteemed one of the finest farms in America in point of situation, quality and good order. Indeed the farm is so good, in such excellent order, and so beautifully situated that any person, on a view of it, will be inclined to purchase, especially as it will be sold for a reasonable consideration. Whoever inclines to purchase may apply to the subscriber on the premises, who will give an indisputable title for the same. JOSHUA HATFIELD, White-Plains, February 19, 1787. I 74 23
WILLIAM HILL, At J. M'Vickar and W. Hill's, No. 210, Water-street. REQUESTS those persons who are still indebted to Mr. Smith Ramadge, formerly of this city, merchant, to call and pay their accounts, on or before the first of September next, as he has positive orders to hand over to a Lawyer, any that may remain unsettled at that time, of which they will please to take notice. June 21, 1787. 8
BLANKS, Sold at this Office.
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 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 2 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. I 11 6m
Cheap Grocery Store. JOHN DONNAN acquaints his friends and former customers, and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 216, Queen-street, to that commodious new store on Cruger's dock, corner of the Old Slip, where he has for sale, on the usual reasonable terms, the following articles, viz. Jamaica spirits, West-India rum, New-York, ditto, Cosiac brandy, Holland geneva, Madeira, Lisbon } Wines, Teneriffe } London porter in draft and bottles, Loaf and Muscovado sugars, Coffee, Chocolate, Hyslop, Southong, Green and } Teas, Bchea, Cask and jar raisins, Ginger, Pepper and allspice, Barley, English and country Chees. Wheat, flour, corn, rye, Indian-meal, &c taken in barter. 15
All persons having demands on the Subscriber, are requested to send their accounts sealed up, as soon as possible, to the office of Robert Troup, Esq. Counsellor at Law, No. 18, Smith-Street, in order that they may be arranged for settlement. 702 JOHN KELLY.
Paper Hanging Manufactory. A Large and elegant assortment of Paper Hangings, with foreign borders, is now finished for Sale, at Gerardus Duyckinck, junr's. Store, No. 30, Little Dock-Street, or at John Colles's, at the Manufactory in the Lower Barracks, where orders and directions for paper are received.—The public now can be supplied with any kind of paper hangings, agreeable to their fancy, plain, green & blue, or any other colour to suit their furniture, may be had at a very short notice. One very great advantage will attend the purchasing of paper hangings manufactured here, is that it can be always matched again; many persons have been obliged to new paper their rooms for the want of a few yards of paper hangings that has been imported, being damaged on their walls; and another very great advantage is, they can be sold much cheaper than the imported paper hangings, and warranted to be equally as good. Cash given for Old Rope, Linen and Cotton Rags. 87
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme court of judicature of the State of New-York: Notice is hereby given to Benjamin Eyre, of the city of London in the kingdom of Great Britain, merchant, an absent debtor, and to all others whom it may concern, that upon application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the legislature, entitled "an act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th day of April 1786, by a creditor of the said Benjamin Eyre; he the said Chief Justice, has directed all his the said Benjamin Eyre's estate, real and personal, within this State to be seized, and that unless he shall discharge his debts within one year after the publication of this notice, all his estate, real and personal will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated at the city of New-York, this 4th day of May in the year of our Lord 1787. 97 2m
THE partnership of EDWARD and WM. LAIGHT will, by mutual consent, be dissolved on 1st of May next.—The creditors of the said house, upon application, will be immediately paid: the debtors are hereby requested to make an equitable and speedy settlement, or their accounts, without distinction, will be placed in the hands of an Attorney. Edward Laight having retired from the business, it will, after the period abovenmentioned, be carried on, at No. 200 Queen-street, by Wm. LAIGHT and Co. New-York April 19, 1787. 90 tf
TO BE SOLD, ON advantageous terms, a good new two story HOUSE, in Cherry-street, No. 25; it has a cellar under the whole, on a 21 years lease, a good stand for business, and suited for two families. For terms apply on the premises, or to the Printers hereof. Part of the money to be paid down, and a convenient time given for the remainder. 12 6
By the Commissioners of Forfeitures for the Southern District.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that on Wednesday the first day of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of David Hunt near the Lower Mills in the Manor of Philipburgh, will be sold at public vendue, all the estate, right, title and interest late of Frederick Phillips Esq. in the following lands situate in the said Manor, viz. acres. No. 1. The farm late in the possession of Moses Miller containing 133 No. 2. The farm late in the possession of Caleb Archer. 179 No. 3. The farm late in the possession of Wm. Underhill. 360 No. 4. The farm late in the possession of Doctor Bailey, situate at New-Rochelle. 149 Also the moiety, or undivided half of a farm of 110 acres, situate in the manor of Cortlandt, late the property of Lewis Palmer. And on Thursday the 16th of August at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Coffee-house in the city of New-York, will be sold, a number of lots situate in the out ward of the said city, and on the estate late the property of James De Lancey; many of them fronting the Bowery-lane—map to be seen at the Commissioners-office. Also a lot of ground situate on the westerly side of New-street, late the property of Oliver Delancey, Esq. Also a lot situated on the northerly side of Bridge-street, late the property of William Bayard, Esq. All the above lands will be sold only for certificates issued or to be issued by the Treasurer of this State. ISAAC STOUTENBURGH, } Commisrs. of 191 PH. V. CORTLANDT, } Forfeitures. Treasury of the United States, MAY 14th, 1787.
THE Commissioners of the Board of Treasury of the United States, give notice, That on the 21st day of September next, will be exposed to Sale, at the place where the United States in Congress may hold their sessions—The following Townships and Lots of Lands in the Western Territory, which were surveyed last year, under the direction of the Geographer-General of the United States, viz. FIRST RANGE. No. 3, containing 4,350 acres. SECOND RANGE. No. 1, containing 1,326. 2, 5,434. 3, 8,593. 5, 21,139. 6, 23,040. 7, 23,040. 8, 23,886. 9, 18,644 1/2. THIRD RANGE. No. 1, containing 6,596. 2, 11,797. 3, 14,482. 5, 23,040. 6, 23,040. 7, 23,040. 8, 23,040. 9, 23,040. 10, 23,040. 11, 23,040. 12, 23,040. FOURTH RANGE. No. 1, containing 4,574. 2, 21,350. 3, 23,040. 7, 23,040. 8, 23,040. 10, 23,040. 11, 23,040. 12, 23,040. 13, 23,040.
The admirable quality of these Lands, and the favorable climate in which they are situated, are too well known to need description. The conditions of sale are as follows, viz.
1st. The townships or fractional parts of townships throughout the different ranges, will be sold either entire or in lots in alternate order; that is to say, where a township or fractional part of a township is sold entire, the next will be sold in lots, agreeably to the ordinance of the 20th of May, 1785. 2d. The lands are not to be sold under a dollar per acre, payable in gold or silver, or any of the securities of the United States. 3d. The purchasers are to pay the charges of survey, which are to be estimated at thirty-six dollars in specie, or certificates as aforesaid for every township; and in the same proportion for fractional parts of townships or lots; this payment to be made at the sales, and in case of failure, the lands to be again exposed to public auction. 4th. One third of the purchase money is to be paid at the time of purchase; and the remaining two thirds in three months after the date of the sale; on which payment a certificate shall be given by the Treasurer of the United States, which shall entitle the person to whom the same is given to receive from the Commissioners of this Board a proper title; provided, that if the second payment is not made at the time above specified, the first payment is to be forfeited, and the land on which the forfeit accrued be again set up for sale. 5th. The plats of the townships will be marked by subdivisions into lots of one mile square or 640 acres, and numbered from 1 to 36; and out of each township, Lot No. 8, 11, 26 and 29, are to be reserved for future sale; Lot No. 16, for the maintenance of Public Schools within the respective townships, and out of every fractional part of a township, as many lots of the same number as shall be found therein. There will also be reserved to the United States, one third part of all gold and silver, lead and copper mines.
Proper maps and descriptions of the lands will be exhibited at the time and place of sale, and the sales will continue from day to day until the whole are sold. Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, Arthur Lee, } Commissioners. 2 97 PASTE-BOARD Sold by the Printers.
THIS DAY is published, and for SALE at this Printing-Office, OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
FIFTEEN POUNDS REWARD, LAST night was broke open, the house of the subscriber, in Sassafras-street, Philadelphia, and the following articles of plate were stolen from thence, viz. One tankard marked S. S. One porringer do. One old fashioned do. with a coat of arms, Four table spoons D. S. E. 2 do. E. P. or S. S. 12 tea spoons E. P. 1 tea tongs S. S. and 1 pepper box. The thieves broke open and took out of a desk, three small pieces of gold, one of which is half a caroline, that has two holes in it. Whoever drops the articles, so that the owner may have them again, shall be paid fifteen pounds reward, by applying to Robert Bowne in New-York, or to me in Philadelphia. EDWARD PENNINGTON. Philadelphia, June 19, 1787. 10
Contract for repairing the FLY-MARKET.
THE Corporation will contract with any person to make the following repairs to that part of the Fly-market, which extends from Queen to Water-streets, viz. The said market to be new covered with good cedar shingles, the eves of the roof at each end as well as on both sides of the market, to be extended three courses of shingles beyond the present roof—wherever the plates, rafters, lath, or other timber appertaining to the roof, shall be found to be decayed or defective, the same is to be replaced with new. The undertaker to find all the materials as well iron as wood, and the business to be compleated in a good workman-like manner, within the space of three weeks from the time of entering into the contract.—Proposals in writing sealed, will be received at the Clerk's office, No. 22, Maiden-lane, until the seventh day of August next. New-York, July 20, 1787. 18 2
JACOB ASTOR, No. 81, Queen-street, two doors from the Friends Meeting-house; HAS just received from London, an elegant assortment of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, such as Piano-Forces of the best kind, Violins of all sorts, Bassoons, Clarinets, Haut-Boys, German Flutes, &c. which are to be sold on very reasonable terms. 18
TO BE LET, A House in New-street, No. 13, with 7 fire places, a new cistern, newly repaired and painted inside and outside; the house is cleaned fit for any family to go in directly. Apply at No. 37, Broad-way, or next door to said house. 18 5
JAMES W. De PEYSTER, & Co. No. 173, Queen-Street, Have for Sale on reasonable terms, the following articles; NICARAGUA wood, Lignum Vitae, Holland gin in cases, A quantity of white and brown sheetings, Chintzes, Copperplate muslins, Fine Holland linens, Lenaws, Table linen in sets, Oznabrigs, &c. &c. 17 4
ALL Persons who are indebted to the late co-partnership of Wickham and Sickles, are informed, that unless payment is speedily made to the subscriber, prosecutions will be commenced against them, by W. COCK, Atty. at Law. New-York, June 7. 4
Auction and Commission Store. JOHN RAMSAY very respectfully begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public in general, that he has opened a store at his house No. 221 Queen-street, near the upper end of the Fly market for the purpose of vending every quality of merchandise, both by public and private sale on commission, sales will also be made where else it may on particular occasions be necessary. He is well provided with cellars and stores for the reception of bulky as well as fine goods, and the favor of the commands of the public will be gratefully received and faithfully executed, with every endeavour to render perfect satisfaction. He has on hand an assortment of Irish linens, cambricks, men and womens thread and cotton stockings, calicoes, white and brown Russia sheetings, striped cottons, pound pins, ribbons, nests of trunks, calimancoes, &c. &c. which he will dispose of very reasonable for prompt pay. 99
TO BE LET, AND now in good repair, the corner house No. 1, Smith-street and Duke-street. Enquire at No. 33, Smith-street. 704