PROHIBITION of BALLOONS.

The following is a translation of two letters, the
one from the Emperor, the other from the King of
Prussia, to Mr. Blanchard, who had solicited the
permission of those Sovereigns to make aerostatic
experiments in their dominions.

"I received your letters, Mr. Blanchard. By various experiments made in different places, you have so fully gratified the curiosity of all those who were spectators, that there remains no doubt of your success. But it is not until, by your scientific requirements and repeated experiments you shall have found out a method by which you can render those travels, which you denominate aerostatic, useful, that you can afford me any pleasure in coming to Vienna to instruct me on the subject. In the mean time, I remain your's affectionately.

(Signed)

23 V. 1786.

JOSEPH."

Letter from the King of Prussia.

"I am obliged to you Mr. Blanchard, for the offer which you make me in your letter of the 23d of October; and if I decline accepting it, it is rather on account of the interest I feel in your preferment, than for any other cause. Notwithstanding all the confidence which might be reposed in your expertise and genius, the attempts which you make are so perilous, as by no means to secure you entirely from the fear of possible disaster. I should be most sensibly affected if such an event should happen in my dominions; and the very apprehension of it would be sufficient to destroy the pleasure which otherwise I should derive from an aerostatic experiment, conducted by the most enlightened mind. For these reasons, I must decline the offer you make me; at the same time praying sincerely to God, that he may take you under his protection.

(Signed)

Potdam, 5th Nov. 1786.

WILLIAM."

rock tree marked No. 50, 51, 60, and 61; then
north thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes west,
thirty chains, to the place where it first began;
containing two hundred acres of land. Which lots,
or tracts of land, with the appurtenances, was,
by indenture of lease and release, dated the 22d and
23d days of November, in the year of our Lord
1785, mortgaged by Hugh Denniston, late of the
city of Albany, inn-keeper, deceased, to John
Shaw, of the city of New-York, merchant, for the
payment of one hundred and sixty-seven pounds
two shillings and eight pence lawful or current mo-
ney of New-York, with seven per cent. interest for
the fame, on or before the 22d day of July next en-
fining the same.

New-York

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FRIDAY, I

HIGH-WATER.

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BEARS GREAS E,

ITS ancient use, known efficacy, and established
reputation down to the present time, for the valu-
able and desirable purpose of making the Hair grow,
strengthening and preventing the Hair from falling off
the head and, turning grey, fully proves its virtue.

Nathaniel Smith,

PERFUMER from LONDON.

At the NEW-YORK

Hair-Powder and Perfume Manufactory,
The Rose, No. 185, Queen-Street.

BEGS leave to acquaint the ladies and gentlemen
that he has killed a very fine Fat Bear, and that
such as are defirous of having any of the grease, will
be pleased to send their servants to see it cut off the
Animal, at 3s. per Pot. He continues to sell large
quantities of Hair-Powders, Pomatums, Wash balls,
Shaving Soaps, Silk and Hair Cushions, Combs,
Black Pins, Powder Puffs and Bags. And every o-
ther article in the Pertumery Branch, on the very low-
eft Prices, Wholesale and Retail, with a fine affort-
ment of Long Hair for Braids and Curls. Where

From the Maryland Gazette.

Meffieurs Printers,

HEREIN you have a sovereign remedy for Cancers, in their first stage, and I hope to see it published in your Maryland Gazette, for the benefit of those that are, or may be under doleful cancerous situations.

And am, Gentlemen,
Your's, &c.

WILLIAM LEIGH.

BURN half a pulhel, or three pecks, of (green) old field red oak bark to ashes, boil the ashes in three gallons of water, until reduced to one, strain that one gallon off, and boil it away to think substances (similar to buttermilk or cream) apply a small quantity on a piece of skin or hair, to the cancer, no bigger than the place or part effected. I have known two planters to effect a cure, where the cancer lay in a proper position for the medicine immediately to penetrate down to the roots of it, otherwise it may take several plaittes s; as the medicine must be repeated every two hours, until the cancer's roots are fully ficiently killed, then apply healing salve (with a little mercurial ointment mixed therein) and dews it twice a day, until cured, which it will surely be in about twenty or thirty days (at tartheft). I have known several persons entirely relieved of cancers (and none have failed) by the above prescription.—One in particular, was cured after being twice cut by a skilful doctor.

P. S. After being greatly alarmed myself with a cancer, about three years ago, having followed a most im partial and well experienced skilful doctor's directions for some time—contrary to his opinion, and my family's fears, (on that account) I, not withstanding, most happily experienced two planters of the above medicine, with intangible fucss infomuch that no symptom of it has ever appeared since.

Nunnery, or the death of Adalida: the SO
ROWS of MATILDA and the INDIA
CHIEF.

Bereft of comfort, foods of anguish flow,
If figs and jorowos o'er my futureMOZ.

Likewise just published, price Two Shillings and Six pence,

FOUR DISCOURSES, entitled,
The Face of Mofes unveil'd by the
Golpel;

Or EVANGELICAL Truths discovered in the
Law.

Being an attempt to flew the defien of the
obfervation of days, leafons, times and year
as commanded by God to the *Israelites*. As all
the Land of Canaan considered as a figure of
the reft that remained to the people of God.

By E. WINCHESTER, Minister of the Univer-
sal Baptif Church, Philadelphia, who wa-
excommunicated for advancing the doctrine of
the Final Restoration of all FALLEN INTEL-
LIGENCES.

CONTENTS.

1. Discourse. The Passover, or Feast of Unleavened Bread. The waving of the first rip thereof. The feast of the first fruits, or Pentecost.---Discourse 2. The Solemnities of the fevent month, confiding of the blowing of trumpet on the first day; the great day of atonement, or the tenth day; and the feast of tabernacles, being on the 15th day of the fame. As all the seventh year, or the great year of release.---Discourse 3. The year of JUBILEE, or the Final Restoration of all FALLEN INTELLIGENCES to everlasing happineſs.---Discourse 4. The cafe of the *Israelites*, who came out of Egypt considered as a warning to Christian professor, and the Land of Canaan thewn to be a figure of that reſt that remained for the people of God.

At the fame store may be had,
# POEMS on several Occafions,
Written in Pennfylvania, by WILLIAM SMITH,
Attorney at Law.

Near 1000 copies of these beautiful Poems
have been diffpoted of in a few months, an ed-
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are allowed to deferve more merit than any other
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A POEM IN SIX BOOKS.

By WILLIAM COWPER, Eſtique,
of the Inner Temple.

THE publisher of the American edition of this
AEN'S poem (the T. A. K. instead of an

A curious Experiment well worth the notice
and Attention of every Farmer in Amer-
ica.

Joseph Cooper, Esq. of New Jersey, plant-
ed in his garden, fourteen grains of wheat
that was brought from the Cape of Good
Hope, in the ship Empress of China, Captain
John Greene, in 1785, Seven grains of which
were left by some accident ; the produce of
the remaining seven grains, he sowed in the
fall, 1786, at the same time, and in the same
field, that he sowed his common wheat, but
carefully kept them apart ; by which experi-
ment he found that the Cape wheat came to
perfection at least ten days earlier than the
wheat of this country, and its quality to excel
any thing of the sort introduced amongst us
After threshing and cleansing he measured it,
and found one bushel and five eighths of a
bushel which weighed one hundred and nine
pounds and an half avoirdupoise weight, which
is something more than sixty four pounds fe-
ven ounces per bushel.

Of 1000 grains of the wheat taken as they
bame to hand, the la get weighed thirty three
penny weight troy ; from which date we find
the whole quantity to amount to 674,433
grains, and the number contained in a bushel,
Winchetter measure, to contain 538,176
grains—an increase almost beyond concep-
tion.

From the DELAWARE COURANT,

Mefirs. Printers,

Please to insert in your paper the follow-
ing experiment, to prove, that it is more pro-
suitable to reap wheat when there is some milk
in the upper part of the grain, than when suf-
fered to stand until quite ripe.

I HAD cut on the 27th of last month 47
flaves with single bands, and got the la me
thrifted and cleansed on the 2d of the pre-
cent month, and found that the wheat mea-
fured two bushels, which I sent to Mr. Tat-
nall's mill, and received from his miller the
following account:— "Your wheat weigh-
d 132lb. and I send you 2 quarters superflue
flour, 11 lb. tall flour, 18 lb. middlings, and
16 lb. ship stuff besides bran (exclusive of toll.")
I am, Gentlemen,

Your humble Servant,

WILLIAM GEDDES.

Prospect Hill, July 10, 1787.

full force until altered by the legislature of the district.—And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws as herein after mentioned, estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her, in whom the estate may be (being of full age) and attested by three witnesses; and real estates may be conveyed by lease and release, of bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered by the person being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof of duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose; and personal property may be transferred by delivery, saving, however, to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the Kaskaskies, Saint Vincent's, and the neighbouring villages, who have heretofore professed themselves citizens of Virginia, their laws and customs now in force among them, relative to the descent and conveyance of property.

Be it ordained by the authority foresaid, That there shall be appointed from time to time, by Congreis, a governor, whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congreis, he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in one thousand acres of land, while in the exercise of his office.

(For remainder see last page.)

The following particulars, from a late English
per, shew to what extent manufactures may
carried by the industry and ingenuity of dif-
ferent artists, and what astonishing difference
there may be in value between the primum and
oduction, when those talents are skilfully exer-
fed on some of the cheapest materials.

"One hundred pounds laid out in wool, and
that wool manufactured into goods for the Tur-
key market, and raw silk brought home and ma-
ufactured in England, will increase that 1000.

1000l. This quantity of silk manufactured
and sent to New-Spain, would return 10,000l.
though the Turkey market be in a great mea-
sure shut against the English manufacturer, his
 goods have found a vent in many other foreign
markets, equally profitable. These profits be-
ome in a few years dispersed among all orders
and degrees of persons, so that they not only en-
rich individuals, but became a public good.

"The fame may be said of a parcel of iron
tone, which when origionally digged from its
natural bed, is not worth more than 5s. but
when manufactured into iron and steel, and thence
moulded into all the various articles of iron ware,
s capable of producing a sum not lefs than ten
thousand pounds.

"Steel may be made near three hundred times
deeper than standard gold, weight for weight;
for fix of the steel wire springs for watch pendu-
lums shall weigh but one grain grain, and when
appreciated by our greatest artists, they shall
each be worth 7s. 6d. or 21. 5s the fix; whereas,
a single grain of gold is worth no more than 2d.

"Twenty acres of fine flax manufactured into
the dearest and most proper goods for foreign mar-
kets, may on return produce ten thousand pounds;
one ounce of the finest Flanders thread had been
sold in London for 4l. and such an ounce made in
Flanders into the finest lace, may be sold for 40l.
which is about ten times the price of standard
go d. weight for weight.

"That fine thread is spun by children, whose
feeling is nicer than that of grown people, by
which they are capable of spinning an exquisite
thread, even smaller than the finest hair;—and
one ounce of that thread is said to reach its length
16,000 yards."

soon as *Three Hundred Subscribers* appear, it
will be put to Prefs, and finished with all pos-
sible expediton.

to Money will be required till the delivery of
the Volume.

Descriptions are taken in by J. M'LEAN,
No. 41, Hanover-Square,—by all the Book-
sellers in the City, and all others entrusted
with Propofals.

They who wish to encourage the above Work,
will please give in their Names previous to the
first of October next, as it is then meant to be
put to Prefs.

New-York, August 6, 1787.

By order of the Honourable Richard Morris,
Esquire, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Judicature of the State of New-York.

NOTICE is hereby given to Mofes Franks,
and to all others whom it may concern,
that on application and due proof made to the
said Chief Justice, purpuant to an Act of the Le-
gislature of the State of New-York, entitled,
"An Act for relief against absconding and absent
Debtors," passed the fourth day of April, 1786,
he hath issued his warrants to the Sheriff of the
City and County of New-York, and the Sheriff
of the County of Suffolk, commanding them to
attach, take, seize, and safely keep all the ESTATE,
as well real as personal of the said Mofes Franks,
we absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever,
and every or any part or parcel thereof, in what-
ever part of their bailiwicks the fame can be
found, with all evidences, books of accounts,
vouchers, and papers relating thereto. And that
unless he the said Mofes Franks shall appear by
himself

NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form
of an Act of the Legislature of the late Colony
New-York, entitled, "An Act for the more ef-
Actual Registry of Mortgages, and for securing the
Purchase of Mortgaged Estates;" passed the nine-

From the NEW HAMPSHIRE SPY.

On BEEKEEPING.

MANY and great are the advantages to be gained by the inhabitants of these United States, if bees were propagated, supported, and preferred. Our foil and climate are infavour to none for this purpose. Not Egypt, Greece, Italy, Germany, France, England, or any part whatever of the whole globe, would exceed us in the quantity, quality, or flavour of the honey: Canaan of old, could not with more propriety, be called a land flowing with milk and honey, than America would be, did we but improve all the means to produce these so valuable, and so important articles which we might do very easily: Which would affix each other when we annually extended such paltures as would increase both.

Bees-wax for manufactures, candles, and exportation will be a great motive to exertion, and perhaps emulation in this age; especially was a bounty given upon it by government. Wax candles would then be sold as cheap as tallow, and the quantity of wax, in American exports would be very great indeed.

> A writer observes, "that were bees propagated, and supported as extenstively as a country would bear; innumerable insects, would be destroyed which feed upon the honey in the bloom of trees, shrubs and herbs. And that this would tend to expell those hives of insects, which we observe floating in the air, playing in the rays of the sun, near the time of its fitting, many of which we are in danger of receiving into our bodies by repiration, because of their smallness; much to the injury of our health."

If these observations are just, will not the increasing of bees, affix in expelling the caterpillar and canker worm, which have so often destroyed the fruit of the apple tree; whose young, often feeding upon that part of the bloom, from which the bees collect the yellow low down, which they carry into their hives on their legs?

> This point would easily be decided by those persons who have trees near their bee hives, or in those parts of the country where bees are most frequent. Should the knowledge of any one prove this to be fact, that such trees are less frequently, or never attacked by thee ravagers the world ought to be favoured with the information.

Insects often feed upon that moisture, which many trees, especially the chesnut, afford in very sultry days, in summer, which the bees collect with great activity, this is sometimes called honey dew, and is the sweet sap of the tree sweating through the leaf, and becomes honey; which, if more generally collected by the bees would thereby serve to expell those troublesome and noxious insects.

A FARMER.

TTEER;
RTISER

[NUMB. 240.]

see-House, (the opposite side) where Advertisers

An ORDINANCE for the GOVERNMENT of the TERRITORY of the UNITED STATES, North-West of the RIVER OHIO.

BE it Ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.

Be it ordered by the authority aforesaid, That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory, dying intelectate, shall descend to, and be distributed among their children, and the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild, to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; And where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kind, in equal degree: and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intelectate, shall have in equal parts among them their deceased descendants share; and there shall in no case be a distinction between kindred of the whole and half blood; saving in all cases to the widow of the intelectate, her third part of the real estate for life, and one third part of the personal estate; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in

Method of Treatment, with Persons apparently dead from drowning.

CONVEY the person to the near-east convenient house with his head raised: lie flat and dry him as quick as possible; clear the mouth and nostrils from froth or mud—if a child, let him be placed between two persons naked, in a hot bed, if an adult, lay him on a hot blanket, or bed, and in cold weather, near a fire—in warm weather, the air should be freely admitted into the room. The body is next to be gently rubbed with warm woollen cloths, sprinkled with spirits, if at hand, otherwise dry; a heated warming pan may be now lightly moved over the back, properly covered with a blanket, and the body, if of a child, is to be gently shook every few minutes: whilst these means are being used, one or two affixants are to be employed in blowing up tobacco smoke into the fundamental, with the instrument provided for the purpose, or a tobacco pipe, if that cannot be had; the bowl filled with tobacco, and properly lighted, being covered with a handkerchief, or piece of linen, so as to defend the mouth of the affixant in blowing; then the breast with hot rum, and be given in the use of these means for several hours. If no signs of life should then appear, let the body be kept warm several hours longer, with hot bricks, or vessels of hot water applied to the palms of the hand, and soles of the feet, and this for a longer or shorter time, as the circumstances of the case may dictate.

To the Friends of Science.

IT has long been the universal wish, that the public might be furnished with an accurate Geographical and Topographical Grammar of the United States.

Geographers of foreign countries, not being possessed of the proper materials, and not equally interested in this part of their subject, have filled their accounts of these states with numerous inaccuracies. It is time these inaccuracies were corrected. We are independent of Great Britain, and are no longer to look up to her for a description of our own country.

Several gentlemen of abilities, have, in detached pieces, gratified the public with ample and accurate descriptions of several parts of the United States; but no collective description of the whole has been attempted, except in a small duodecimo volume, published by the subscriber in 1784, which, though imperfect on account of the infant state of geographical knowledge in America, was well received by a candid public, and an edition of 1500 copies speedily sold.

This encouragement has determined him to publish again on the same subject. For the purpose of collecting more ample and accurate materials than he formerly possessed, he has travelled through all the states, and has been favoured with the communications of gentlemen well qualified to give information on so important a subject; and has likewise established a correspondence with several respectable characters in different states, from whom he has every reason to expect a valuable addition to the materials already collected; yet as all the information that can be obtained on a subject so extensive, variegated and interrelated, is greatly to be desired, and every man of science may have it in his power to contribute some observations which may be useful, the subscriber will feel himself particularly obliged to any gentleman who will be so kind as to furnish him with answers to all, or any of the asked enquiries, viz.:

1. The boundaries and extent of the several states, and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal places.

2. Descriptions of the rivers, their sources, courses, lengths, how far navigable, how high does the tide rise—and what filth do they produce. A description of mountains, lakes, harbours, capes, and bays.

3. General face of the country, an account of its animal, mineral, and vegetable productions, or its natural history. What are the evidences to sup port the opinion that the flat country in the southern and middle states was formerly occupied by the wavers of the ocean, and that the land below the hills and mountains has been made since the flood.

electrical shock, which obliged him to quit
his hold; he, however, secured them both in
the bag, and carried them to camp at two miles
distance; where on opening the bag, one of
them was found dead, and the other with only
so much life as to convince the surgeon and
adjutant of its electrical powers.

The fish is seven inches long, two inches
and a half broad, has a long projecting mouth,
and seems to be of the genus Tetrodon. The
back of the fish is a dark brown colour, the
belly part of sea green, the sides yellow, and
the fins and tail of a sandy green: The body
is interspersed with red, green, and white
spots, the white ones particularly bright; the
eyes large, the iris red, its outward edge tinged
with yellow.

WANTED

As an apprentice to the Printing business, an active, steady Lad. Enquire of the Printer.

At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state of New-York, held at the Exchange in the city of New-York, on Thursday, the 10th day of May, 1787.

PRESENT.

His Excellency George Clinton, Esq. Governor
Lewis A. Scott, Esq. Secretary,
Gerard Bancker, Esq. Treasurer,
Peter T. Cortenius, Esq. Auditor and
Egbert Benson, Esq. Attorney-General,

The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, have voted considerable premiums to such Farmers as excel in different branches of husbandry, and raise most of sundry articles which they have particularized, in the manner pointed out by them—This establishment is like to be of singular advantage to that, as well as to the United States in general.—The following extracts which they have received from correspondents, may perhaps, be beneficial to us.

## On the culture of POTATOES.

> "In 1784, I planted Irish potatoes of various forts, early in April. The early season was good, and they pulled forward until the advanced heat of summer, when a considerable drought checked the haulm. After this, on a refreshing rain, they evidently took a second growth. When the bulbs of the large purple kind were of the size of a walnut, I planted some of them, immediately as they were taken out of the ground, in another bed.—These, in the fall, were very far superior to the first crop; they were mealy, and of a fine flavour. Those of the first growth were watry, or waxy, or of an earthly taste. Some twenty years since, an old neighbour frequently repeated to me, that the best time to plant potatoes, in Maryland, was in June. The incident above-mentioned, and the recollection of these hints, together, determine me, in the ensuing season, to plant in June, July and August,

> "A Farmer, of some note in the upper part of Maryland, informed me that his best potatoes were from what were planted after harvest. Immediately after harvest he ploughed in his wheat stubble, and planted potatoes. This must have been in July. A farmer of Philadelphia county agrees, that those potatoes will be better for table use; but not in so great abundance as the produce of what are planted in the spring.

> "Another operation I hint, without pretending to have experienced it.—For early potatoes, plant in November or December; cover them with straw and straw, enough to oppose the frost. Let some of them grow through the straw; let other parts be cleared of the straw, and the ground dressed in the spring. Observe the difference and weigh the effects. A farmer of Philadelphia county planted potatoes near the end of last October, and covered them with straw. His fœcels is considerable; the potatoes produced, being early in May, very fine for the table, and of good size."

Every other watch imported into this State,
fix shillings,

Every beaver or beaver hat imported into
this State, fix shillings.

Every imported cailor hat, three shillings.

Every other imported hat, one shilling.

There will be a draw back of the excise on
such goods as shall be exported by water if the
exporter enters them with the collector, and
gives bond as the law directs.

N. B. The import is to take place on all for-
reign articles, imported after the first of Auguſt;
but the excise is to take place the first of Au-
gust, upon thofe articles then on hand, as well
as on thofe which ſhall be imported afterwards;
and all importers and retailers are deſired to
take notice hereof, and to govern themselves
accordingly.

All persons are cautioned not to sell excise
goods without a permit from the collector.
Permits, dated twelve months back, must be
renewed without delay.

S. HENSHAW, Collector for Suffolk county,
N. B. The above duties operate through-
out the Commonwealth of Maſſachuſetts.

JULY 2, 1785.

THE Committee appointed by a resolve
of the General Court, of the 28th of
October. 1783, to examine the Claims to lands
in the county of Lincoln, &c. take leave to re-
port,—That they have received the claims of
a number of individuals and companies to dif-
ferent tracts of land in the county aforefaid,
and have given particular attention to the grant
made in the year 1629, from the Council of
Plymouth, to Beauchamp and Leverett, whereby is
given, granted and confirmed, to the said Beau-
champ and Leverett, a tract of land described in
the words following, viz.: "All and singular
thofe lands, tenements and hereditaments what-
foever, with the appurtenances thereof, in New-
England aforefaid, which are situate, lying and
being within or between a place there, com-
monly called and known by the name of Muf-
congus, towards the south or Southwesſt, and a
straight line extending from thence, directly ten
leagues up into the main land and continent,
there towards the great sea commonly called
the South-Sea, and the utmost limits of the
space of ten leagues on the north and northeast
of a river in New-England aforefaid, common-
ly called Penobscot, towards the north and

NEW HAVEN, Sept. 4.

Extra, of a letter from the Reverend Doctor Price, of London, to the Reverend President Stiles, of New Haven, dated Hackney, June 16, 1788.

"There was lately read to our Royal Society, a paper of Doctor Herschel's, in which he gives an account of the elements of the new planet and its two satellites. These satellites revolve, one of them in about nine, and the other in about thirteen and an half days. The planet moves at about double the distance of Saturn. The quantity of matter is seventeen times greater than the quantity of matter in the earth; its magnitude about eighty times greater; its density above four times less; and the power of gravity on its surface makes a heavy body fall eighteen feet in a second. The grand reflecting telescope, by which Dr. Herschel hopes to make many more discoveries in the heavens, is not yet finished. It is forty feet long, and its diameter such that it is easy to walk through it.

"With great regard I am, dear Sir, your's,
RICHARD PRICE."

It is with pleasure we inform the public, that a gentleman, native of South Carolina, has invented a machine so constructed, that it will raise water in any quantity from 50,000 to 100,000 gallons per minute, from 26 feet in height to 200 feet, perpendicular; also pumps that will fill an indigo vat in one minute; their construction simple, and easily worked: pumps to throw a most amazing quantity of water out of ships or vessels, so as to prevent them from sinking should they unfortunately start a plank; pumps for stopping and putting out fires, in cities, &c. even when the wind blows high; this gentleman's turn of mind, aided by an indespigable industry, promise great advantages in the improvement of agriculture, and, if properly encouraged, will greatly advance the prosperity of this state.

As a SUPPLEMENT to the pieces inserted in this Gazette,
numbers 343, 344, and 345, entitled, "Observations
and Remarks on the putrid malignant fore throat,"
we are desired to publish the following, lately received
by a gentleman in this town from the same benevolent and
ingenious hand.

"THE author of these observations and remarks has lately received from London, An essay for a nosological and comparative view of the cynanche maligna, or putrid fore throat, and the scarlatina anginosa, or scarlet fever, with angina, by Doctor WILLIAM LEE PERKINS, formerly of Boston, published in London the present year. By this publication it appears that the disorder, now so prevalent in this country, has, also, for some time past, prevailed in Great-Britain, and in many instances proved fatal. Doctor Perkins has, with great learning and much pains, endeavoured to make the cynanche maligna and scarlatina anginosa disorders of a different genus. In this country, in almost every family where the present disease prevails, we mark both these varieties of (what the author of these observations conceives to be) one and the same disease, however specifically differing in the symptoms and general appearances; and this he thinks will fully appear from the following circumstances. A person from another town or family shall contract by contagion the cynanche maligna, and communicate the disease to another family of ten persons in a week, more or less; these persons shall be taken down, five perhaps with the cynanche, the other five with the scarlatina, with very little or a very great degree of fore throat; the five latter shall be covered with a most florid eruption, the five former shall not have the least eruption of any kind; in either case the throat may, or may not, be violently affected. This has been the case within ten days past with captain J. B.'s. family, and many others. What may be the cause, that, in the same family, where persons of similar constitutions, who breathe the same air, and live nearly alike, so specifically a difference should take place, cannot easily be accounted for—but so it is.

"In the measles and small pox one shall have little or no eruption, another shall be loaded. In the small pox, one shall have a mild and well-digested pox, another a crude, indigested, chrysaline fort; one, where no phlogitick diathesis prevails in the system, shall have the most violent inflammatory symptoms throughout the disease; another, of a plethorie, athletick constitution, shall have a funk, pallid countenance, attended with langour and faintness; while a third shall die putrid before any eruption takes place. Will any one pretend to say that every one of these varieties constitutes a different genus? is it not the same disease, operating differently on different constitutions?

that the faculty, in Portsmouth, and the vicinity, have
not been much disappointed in the method of cure pro-
posed, and doubts not that it will be found a rational
principle of their abilities to improve upon

1787.

been wisely omitted in the new treaty; and it would have become the dignity of the Swedes character to have renounced equally those pensions, which are called argents de paix et d'alliance, as inconsistent not only with a republican spirit, but with that equality which ought to be the foundation of an alliance.

## LETTER XIV.

### LUCERNE.

My dear sir,

THE canton of Lucerne comprehends a country of sixteen leagues long and eight wide, containing fifteen ballwicks, besides several cities, ableys, monasteries, seignories, &c. The inhabitants are almost wholly engaged in agriculture, and the exportation of their produce. Their commerce might be greatly augmented, as the river Reuss affues from the lake, passes through the town, and falls into the Rhine.

The city contains less than three thousand souls, has no manufactures, little trade, and no encouragement for learning; yet the sovereignty resides in the little and great council, having for chiefs two avoyers, who are alternately regents. There are five hundred citizens in the town, from whom a council of one hundred are chosen, who are nominally the sovereignty; out of this body are formed the two divisions, the little council, Senate, or council of state, consisting of thirty-fix members, divided into two equal parts of eighteen each, one of which makes choice of the other every half year. The whole power is actually exercised by this body, the two divisions of which administer the government by turns. They are subject to no controul, are neither confirmed by the council, nor by the citizens; the division which retires confirming that which comes in. As the vacancies in the Senate are filled up by themselves, all power is in possession of a few patrician families. The son succeeds the father, and the brother his brother.

The grand council consists of sixty-four persons, taken from the citizens, who are said to have their privileges; but it is hard to guess what they are, as the elections are made by the little and great council jointly.

The administration, the police, the finances, and the whole executive power, is in the Senate, which is constantly sitting.

The grand council is assembled only upon particular occasions, for the purpose of legislation. The Senate has cognizance of criminal causes, but in capital cases the grand council is convoked to pronounce sentences in civil causes, and appeal lies from the Senate to the grand council; but these appeals can be but mere forms, the sameSenators being in both courts.

A grand council, choose their own members, confer all employments, have the nomination to ecclesiastical benefices, two thirds of the revenues of the canton belonging to the clergy, their influence much uncontrolable.

The two above-mentioned from the Senate by the

An attempt having been lately made to reduce to a theory the variation of the magnetic needle, the following authority will be considered as a satisfactory proof of the principles: it seems that a celebrated mathematician (Albert Euler) who is now faid to be president of the Imperial academy of Sciences at Petersburg, has gone so far as to shew that two magnetic poles will sufficiently account for the singular figure assumed by the lines, which pass through all the points of equal variation, but it does not appear that he went so far as to fix their revolutions, or lay down rules for finding the place of a ship. However, this being granted, (which is one considerable step towards the desired object) and their periods of revolution known, it will readily appear that this result is a natural consequence. This learned gentleman places the magnetic poles on the surface of the earth; the celebrated Dr. Halley place them within the surface; but let the cause of the variation revolve either in the heavens, near the earth, on the surface thereof, or within the fame, the needle will point to that par of the earth's surface, perpendicular thereto, and in either case the fame rules will hold good. The first mentioned gentleman remarks that the materials which he had to work upon, were for the most part loose and inaccurate; but this difficulty is now overcome by the great care and attention of lord Mulgrave, in his voyage towards the north, as well as of sir Joseph Banks, bart. president of the Royal Society, captain Cook and the officers under him, during several voyages round the world, whose accurate observations have been of infinite service, in bringing this matter to

Published every

Thomas Martin,
Has for Sale,

At No. 11, Tradd Street,
(Low, for C A S H.)

HAYSON tea, superior to any for sale
Souchong and Bohea ditto
Madeira, Sherry, Teneriffe and Port wines
Jamaica, Antigua and Northward rum
Coniac brandy
Holland's gin in cafes and jugs
Loaf and Muscovado sugars
Coffee, chocolate, mace, nutmegs, cinnamon
Cloves, pepper and allspice
Mustard and ginger. Fruit in brandy
Sallad oil. French olives
Spermaceti candles, &c. &c. &c.

The Factorage business

Continued, and hopes, by attention and
the strictest punctuality to merit the esteem
of his employers.
010-12

Stop Thief!

The subscriber's house, No. 12, Meeting-street, was broke open on Tuesday night last, and the following articles stolen:

A STRIPED green and black cloth

The following is a copy of the Memorial sent to the Commissioners of Longitude in London, in the month of February last; others of the same tenor were sent to the different parts of Europe.

To the Honorable Commissioners of Longitude for the nation of England.

The Memorial of John Churchman, now of the city of Philadelphia.

Respectfully represents,

THAT he has discovered certain fixed principles in magnetism, which will ascertain to great precision the longitude of places in all parts of the globe.

That he has established such a system of variation as to delineate upon clear principles, the precise places of the magnetic poles at any given time, which accounts for the irregular increase and decrease of the variation, demonstrating that the motions of the magnetic poles are equable and uniform round the poles of the earth from west to east.

That his observations and illustrations on this subject have been laid before several gentlemen of professional knowledge in this way, but as it may by that means become so generally known as to induce some person to deprive him of the advantage which may otherwise result from it, he takes the liberty of introducing the subject to your notice, and proposes to send by the first ship which fail from this port, such tables and illustrative apparatus as may convince the honorable commissioners of longitude that he has comprehended the whole system of variation, and applied it to the accurate discovery of longitude at sea, within lets than a quarter of a degree.

Your memorialist therefore respectfully hopes you will be pleased to accept this memorial as an early intimation of his said discovery.

JOHN CHURCHMAN

Y, AUGUST 16, 1787.

AT, at No. 16, Water-Street, below the Co
ken in at Twenty-four Shillings per Annum.

New-York, 23d Arril, 1787.

By the Commissioners of Forfeitures
for the Southern District.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that on Wed-
nesday the first day of August next, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of David
Hunt near the Lower mills in the Manor of Phi-
lipsburgh, will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, all
the estate, right, title and interest late of Frede-
drick Philips, 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
Dr. Bailey, situate at New-Rochelle, 149

Also the moiety, or undivided half of a farm
of 110 acres, situate in the Manor of Cortlandt,
situate the property of Lewis Palmer.

And on Thursday the 16th of August at ten
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 Lan-
sey; many of them fronting the Bowery-Lane—
Map to be seen at the Commissioners office.

Also a Lot of ground situate on the westerly

BLANCHARD'S ASCENSION.

Blanchard made his thirtieth experiment on the
5th inst. at Basil. He ascended, in the presence
of the Margrave of Baden, without the usual boat,
his wings or parachute, owing to an opening of a-
bout six inches towards the equatorial part of the
balloon, which prevented its being compleatly fill-
ed. All his efforts to raise the boat or basket be-
ing fruitlessly, he tied four of the ropes at the bottom
of the aerostat, and in that manner mounted the
airy regions, inspiring a general confectionation and
terrour all round. A mournful silence, expressive
of their inward anxiety seized all the numerous
spectators, and it was only the colours, waved in
the air by Blanchard, that tranquilized their
minds. His elevation was soon at such a height,
that he hardly distinguished the mountains he was
soaring above, but as he was not sufficiently cloth-
ed, he could not long resist the severity of the
cold. The heavens were calm, and not the least
cloud obstructed the majestick expanse view. On
that endless circle of mountains the eye enjoyed
one of the most glorious spectacles of the armof-
phere. It was with regret that he was forced to
quit that enchanting scene, after an excursion of a-
bout half an hour. He examined his balloon, and
perceived the fracture, that had prevented its be-
ing compleatly filled, and rendered abortive his af-
forts to carry the boat, &c. then pulled the valve-
string, and immediately he was descending. The
objects began to be more visible, and for fear of
falling on the tops of some houfes, or the neigh-
bouring forests, he pulled the string a second time.
By this second pull the valve unluckily gave way;
the inflammable air began to fly, and he was hurried
down about two hundred fathoms with a violent
rapidity. His feet received the first impression,
and by good luck received no other injury but a
sprain in one of his ancles. It was certainly a mi-
craculous escape, for the balloon afterwards was
found hardly able to support itself. The Senate
of Basil have placed the colours in the archives of
the town, in remembrance of so daring an ascent,
and so dangerous a descent.

confederation. How to strengthen and improve
this union, so as to render it more completely ade-
quate to such purposes, is a question of no small im-
portance, and demands the immediate and most
serious attention of these States. That it may be
done greatly to the advantage of all, and without
real injury to the internal government of any, and
that our welfare, if not our very existence, as a free
nation, is suspended upon it, I am fully persuaded.

"In the mean time, I hope that ardent affec-
tion for liberty and independence, which has alrea-
dy carried us successfully through so many difficul-
ties, will still animate us to act up to the grand
intention, and the true spirit of the Confederation.
In this hope I feel myself indispensably obliged in
the most earnest manner to call upon you, gentle-
men, and upon all the good citizens of this Com-
monwealth to strengthen the hands of Congress, par-
ticularly by making every exertion for speedy
payment of our proportion of the national expense,
a measure now become absolutely necessary to the
support of the publick credit, to the most essential
purposes of our sacred league, and to appealing the
loud complaints of those whose just demands upon
the publick have already remained too long unsatis-
fied.—When measures of such extreme importance
to the publick, are not seasonably accomplished,
through unreasonable jealousies, or a diversity of
sentiments respecting the mode, it is easy to foresee
the dreadful consequences."

How dare the antifederal junto presume to in-
finuate to the people at large that the new ConSTITU-
tion is the fabrication of the moment (calculated
to favour the views of individuals) after reading
the above, and the respectable quotations from
Gen. Washington's last circular letter, which feal-
ed his immortality ?

The voice of America and the world have ren-
dered justice to the virtues, patriotism and moral-
ity of a Washington and a Hancock, the fathers
and protectors of their dear country.

Let any dispassionate eye look but to the event
of peace, when America was in a manner intoxi-
cated with joy, and read their prophetick antici-
pations, fully confirmed by the issue: Even then,

A Letter from Obnernafen, in Austria, dated the 29th July, contains the following particulars of an event that happened in the month of May, in the neighbourhood of Stadhoufon, in the bailage of Sprichingen :—“ Near the place through which the little river Schlichen passes, there is a chain of mountains, named Henbergh, of which about four and twenty years ago some parts separated themselves, filled up a valley, and covered a great reach of woods and fields. The 14th of last May the same mountain cracked all along the top, and there rolled down some enormous rocks. Ever since that time the earth and stones continue falling, and the rubish has already covered the best part of the forest. It has been observed, that in the space of half an hour the ground has removed itself full ten inches. The 17th of the same month, the cracks were lengthened for near twenty feet. The poor inhabitants are in the utmost anxiety for themselves, their houses, and their vines.”

20 Letter on the fame subject.

Medical Essays.

21 On the use of mercurial preparations in the scarlatina anginosa. By Dr. William Currie.

22 Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus. By Dr. Rush.

23 Letter from Dr. Thomas Bond to Dr. Fothergill, on the use of bark in scrophulous cafes.

24 Relation of a cure performed by electricity. Communicated to the medical society in London, by Dr. Caldwellader Evens.

25. Receipts for the cure of a dysentery.

Law information.

26 Statement of a cause decided in the court of common pleas, Charleston, March 5, 1785.

27 Statement of an important and interesting cause decided in the court of king's bench, London, July 20, 1787.

28 Interesting decision of the court of common pleas, in Philadelphia, August 3, 1787.

29 Law report—Green and Pollard vs. Shaffer. Judgment pronounced, Oct. 7, 1787.

Humour.

30 On the use of bustlers.

31 Susannah Trapes's complaint of the badnefs of the police.

32 On pronouncing dictionaries.

Good STABLING for HORSES.

New-York, Nov. 27, 1787.

49-c.d.

## Morris-Town and Paules-Hook

### STAGE

ON the 14th inst. the subscriber

began to run his Stage-Waggon every Tuesday and Friday, from his house in Morris-Town, to Paules-Hook, by the way of Newark, starting at five o'clock each morning. The waggon generally arrives at Jacamiah Smith's, Paules-Hook, about one o'clock of the same day, where it remains until the next morning, nine o'clock, when it returns by the same rout, and with all expedition.

The FARE for a passenger, with seven pounds of baggage, is ONE DOLLAR, and the fame for one hundred and fifty pound weight.

The waggon, on its rout to Paules-Hook, stops at Lawrence's tavern, Springfield, where the passengers may breakfast, if they choose; the next stage is at Major Sayre's, Newark, from whence they proceed to Paules-Hook.

N. B. Letters, to be sent by the above stage, may be lodged at Capt. Crane's, a few doors above the Ferry-house, in Cortlandt-street, New-York, from whence they shall always be safely conveyed to the stage. All letters carried free.

GEORGE OHARA.

Morris-Town, August 28, 1787.

30—

THOMAS SMITH,
BOOT and SHOE MAKER,
LEATHER CUTTER,
AND CURRIER,

Queen-Street, No. 179, Corner of Beekman or Chapel Street,

BEGS leave to inform his friends

and the public in general, that he carries on the above branches in an extensive manner. He makes and sells the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.:

THE New-York Society for promoting useful knowledge, request communications from such gentlemen in the country (as are practically acquainted with the subject) respecting the insect destroying the wheat. —As the wish of the Society is to obtain the most accurate history of the nature and progress of this insect, in hopes to be able to discover some effectual remedy against its ravages, it is hoped that all persons, capable of giving useful information, will freely communicate it.

The Society particularly request to be informed,

When the insect first made its appearance in any particular part of the country?

Whether it continues to increase, is on the decline, or has left that part of the country?

What other kinds of grain, besides wheat, is it known to attack?

Whether it has ever been known to attack any kind of summer grain, and what kinds?

At what seasons of the year it appears in its several states of fly, worm and chrysalis, and how long it continues in each state?

How often in a year has it been seen to assume the fly state?

Has it ever been observed in its fly state after a severe frost, such as we frequently have in September and October? Has it not been found that wheat or rye, sown after such frost, has escaped the fly?

Does it equally attack grain sown in rich or poor soil?

Have any remedies been discovered against it?

Communications upon this or any other useful subject, directed to the Secretary of the Society, will be thankfully received.

Published by order of the Society,

SAMUEL BARD, Secretary.

By the Commissioner of Forfeitures
for the Eastern District.

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of two certain laws of the Legislature of this State, the following LANDS, Tenements and Hereditaments, forfeited to the people of this State, will be SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE, agreeable to the directions of the said laws, to wit, the equity of redemption of five hundred acres of land, where Wood-creek falls into Lake Champlain, in the township of White-Hall, late Skeenesburgh, in the county of Washington, confiding chiefly of rich low lands, and on the premises are excellent fails for mills, with a never failing stream, on which the late Major Skeene had his iron works, to which place iron ore and fire wood were brought by water carriage. These lands are so happily situated that the navigation from thence to Canada renders them of great value; they are also navigable on Wood-creek to fort Ann, within a few miles of Hudson's-river,—these lands were improved by said Major Skeene, and thereon had his dwelling house, and a large stone barn, the walls whereof are now standing in good order. Also the equity of redemption of one hundred and seventy-one acres of rich low-lands joining the last mentioned five hundred acres. Also the equity of redemption of the following lots in said township, to wit,

Lot No. 31, of 500 acres.

Also in said township, 22, do. 127 do.

The rent and reversion of 20, do. 108 do.