This day is publijhed, for the Proprietors, By WILLIAM YOUNG, Bookseller, Mo. 52, Second-Street, the cor ner oj Chef nut-Street. The Universal Aiylum, for APRIL, 1791 CONTAINING. BESIDES the usual variety of interesting and enertaining matter, original thoughts on common fewfe, by Dr. Rush ; and a number of txtra&s from Mr. Paint's celebrated tnfwtr /d Mr. Burke, arranged under the following heads, viz. —Revolatioii- prmciples defended—on religious toleration—on the connexion of a church establishment with the civil power—sundry causes which produced in Fiance, sentiments favorable to liberty—on the abfurdiry of an hereditary fucceflion — thoughts on the various forms of government, the downfal of hereditary power, and the progress of Tcvolution-principles. This number also contains the whole of the Excise-Bill, and a continuation of the hijlorical Jketch of the proceedings oj Congress, which was begun in the Asylum f®r March. Philadelphia. May 2, Funds of the United States. ALL kinds of the Public Debt ot the Union, bought, fold, or ex changed ; Foreign and inland Bills oj Exchange, negociated ; Merchandize of all forts Bought and Sold on CommiJ/ion, and all other Bufincfs in the line of a Broker, tranfa&ed by WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office, next door to the Cujlum-Houfe, State-Street, BOSTON. Pintard and Bleecker, PURCHASE and SELL all kinds of Certificates & Public Securities, On COMMISSION, at public and private falc, on the following terms : ON the specie amount of all Tales or purchases at au£fcion, one eighth per cent. On ditto of all sales or purchases at private sale, on all sums below 5000 nominal dollars, one-halj per cent.; and on all sums above 5000 nominal dollars, one-fourth per cent. For receiving interelt at the Loan-Office, one per cent. For making transfers ac ditto, one dollar each transfer. (Jdf* Such persons throughout the United States, as may be pltafed to favor the subscribers with their order.*, may rely on their being executed with pun duality^fidelity and dijpatch, as consi derable experience in the public flocks, together with extensive connections in the city of New-York and different parts of the continent, enable them to condnft their operations with peculiar advantages. PIN TAR D & BLEECKER, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. (97 law 6m) March 15, 1791 MASSACHUSETS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY THE MANAGERS ot the STATE-LOTTERY afiure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOT TERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On Thursday the 13th of Oflobei next, or /ooncr, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their fcveral monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour afligned, so they are determined to be equally as pun&ual in this. S C H E M E. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE 85.000 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, fubjett to a dedu&ion of twelve and an half per cent, for the use of the Commonwealth. Prizes. v Dollars. Dollars. 1 of 10000 is 10000 2 3000 are 6000 q 2000 6000 *5 6 10 30 80 9° 100 120 161 200 ■58s 8388 Prizes. 16612 Blanks 25000 Tickets, GdT TICKETS in the above Class may be had of the fevcral Managers,!nkouiill pay the prizes on demand-, of the Tr £ asu r er of the Commonwealth; oi James White, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-(lreet—and at other places, as usual. BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun."! DAVID COBB, | •SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, I JOHN KNEELAND, J Bojlon, April 14, 1791. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Subscriber, who fcrved a regular apprenticeship to the bufmefs of VENDUE-MASTER, under Mr. Gsorge Kelly, has just opened an OFFICE in the Borough of Nor folk, Virginia, in a good and convenient Houle, situated near the County Wharf, where he is in hopes of giving general fatisfac tion to all those that may be pleased to favor him with their com mands. JOHN H. HALL. Norfolk, Vtrgima, April 21, 1791. (1 ep jw) PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, Partly original, and partly already pub/iflicd, Written by Mathew Carey. CONDITIONS. I. Work shall contain 200 pages ; be printed on the J. fined writing paper ; and be elegantly bound, edge rolled and lettered. 11. Price to fubferibers two thirds oja dollar, to be paid on the delivery of the book. 111. The work shall be put to the press as Coon as 250 copies are fubferibed for. IV. The subscribers names (hall be prefixed 83"SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by Carey, Stewawt, and Co. and all the other Booksellers in Philadelphia ; also, by (Sie different gentlemen throughout the United States, who suppLy sub scribers with the AmericanMufeum. Philadelphia, Ftb. 23, 1791. CLASS II 1000 6000 s°° 5000 200 6000 100 Boco 5° 4500 40 4000 3° 3600 20 3220 1 10 2000 8 60680 i Matthew M'Connell, In Chesnut-Street, No. 66, TJUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF lJ THE UNION; lias frequently occasion io NEGOCIATE INI.AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE —and will receivc Orders f<,r making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK of die UNITED STATES. Philadelphia. March 30, 1791 Gallaudet and Ewing, No. 54, South Second Street, HAVE imported in the Lady Walterjlorf, from London, Man chejler and Adriana from Liverpool, and the Birmingham Packet from Bristol, a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of SEASONABLE GOODS, which they will fell on reasonable terms. On hand for sale, a few hogsheads of OLD JAMES'S RIVER TOBACCO. Philadelphia, April 9, 1791. 100 cv \ m For ere&ing BRIDGES over the Hackinsack and Passat ack Rivers, between Powlas-Hook and Newark, in the State of New- Jersey. THE Commiflioners appointed by an adl of the legislature of the state of New-Jerfcv, to erect bridges over the Hackinfack and PafTaiack rivers, having obtained the neceflary surveys, are no<v ready to rtceive proposals for performing the fame ; and offer the following conditions for the consideration of luch as may be inclined to contra£l : The situation of the bridge across the Hackinfack river, will be atone of the following stations, as fliall be hereafter determined most eligible. lft. At the place where the present ferry is eftablilhed, where the width of the river is 1448 feet. Depth at the eastern (hore, 8 feet 8 inches. Do. western shore, 8 11 Greatest depth, 25 4 2d. At a place more northerly, called Douw's Ferry, where the width of the river is 846 feet. Depth at the eastern (hore 19 feet 10 inches. Do, western shore 12 Greatest depth 35 8 The situation of the bridge across the PafTaiack river, will be at one of the three following stations, as shall be hereafter determin ed moll eligible. lft. At the place where the present feiry is eftabliflied, where the width of the river is 676 feet. Depth at the eastern (bore 8 feet 6 inches, Do. western (bore 9 6 Greatest depth 17 2d. At a place more westerly, called Beef-Point, where the breadth of the river is 799 feet. Depth at the eastern shore. 11 feet, Do. western shore 4 5 inches, Greatest depth 13 4 3d. At a place still more northerly, called Hedden's dock, in the town of Newark, where the width of the river is 526 feet. Depth at the eastern fliore 4 fee! 5 inches, Do. western ftiore 10 8 Greatest depth 15 11 The bridges are to be conftrutted on the principlesof those erect ed over Charles, Myftick, and Beverly Rivers in the State of Mas sachusetts, with a draw to admit a free paflage for vessels with fix ed standing masts, not less than twenty-four feet wide, to be pla ced in that part of the bridges as (hall be determined most con venient for the navigation of the river, with piles or blocks on each fide of the entrance of such draw, as shall be judged fufficient to aid vefTels in pafling through. Also, one lamp on each fide of the draw, to be lighted every night from sunset to sunrise, during the continuance of the lease. The bridges aieto be built with such piles, timber, scantling, and plank, as (hall render them perfectly substantial and secure in the opinion of the commiflioners, and are to be of a fufficient height to protett them against the tides, which rife at ordinary tides from 5 to 6 feet, and at spring tides from 8 to 10 feet. They are to be 31 feet in breadth, viz. Allowance for cairiage way, 20 feet. Do. for foot walks, railed off on each fide, 4 feet each, 8 feet. Do. for balluftrades, 1 foot each, 2 feet. Do. for hand-rails for do. 6 inchcs each, 1 foot.—Total, 31 feet. The fides of the bridges to be secured with strong balluftrades after the manner of the bridge between Boston and Charleftown. The bridges and draws are to be kept in constant repair, and at the expiration of the lease are to be Surrendered in good order, agreeably to the a£t. The following are the terms which the commiflioners are au thorised to offer to contraflors : 125300 A lease of the exclusive privilege of the bridges for a period not exceeding 99 years, with a toll equal to three-fourths of the pre sent rates of ferriage. accurate an estimate as could poflibly be obtained, the actual receipts of the ferrie® for a medium of five years last past, amount to twelve hundred pounds, New-Jersey currency, per annum, three-fourths of that sum will consequently produce an immediate income of 900 pounds per arm. This may fairly be estimated as the smallest profit that can be calculated upon. The advancing population of the United States, the increasing inter course between the two cities of New-York and Philadelphia, the facility which the conftruftion of these bridges will give to travel ling, the easy communication thereby offered with the state of New-York, on the western fide of the Hudson, are all important circumstances, which must neceflarily tend rapidly to accumulate the profits of the bridges. The commiflioners are moreover au thorized by law to raise four thousand pounds to be applied to wards making causeways and laying out proper roads conne&ed with the bridges, and have a lottery now on foot for that purpose. As soon as the places shall be determined on where the bridges are to be fixed, and thecontrafls for eie£ling them are executed, the roads and causeways will be immediately uridcrtaken. Such persons therefore as may be inclined to contra# on the above principles, will be pleased to fend in their terms sealed, within three months from this date, to William Max w ell, Esq. in N T ew-York, fpecifying the shortest period of lease for which they will undertake to erect the said bridges, together with proper security for performing the fame. ROBERT KEMBLE, Commiflioners. WILLIAM MAXWELL, I JOHN PINTARD, J Newark, State of Nav- Jersey, April 22, 1791. TO BE SOLD, The seat of the late governor LIVINGSTON, situate about a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and 100 acres of land, 15 or 20 acres of which are wood land ; there is al(o apper taining to the said farm about jg acres of fait meadow. Particular attention having been paid to the cultivation of fruit ; there is on the farm a very large collection of various kinds of the choicest fruit trees, &c. in full bearing; the house is large, convenient well built and in vety good repair. * Enquire Printer, for funher particulars, New-York, Jan. 1791 12 CONTRACT, SAMUEL TUTHILL, 1 JOHN NEILSON, | PRICE CURRENT. PHILADtLPBIA. ANCHORS pr.lb. 6±d Allum, Englilh, pr. cwt. 33c Ditto, Roch pr. lb. 10d Ashes, pot, per ton, 40/ 42/ Pearl, ,52/ 53/ Arrack pr. gall. icj i2i6</ Brandy, common, 8j Cogniac 9f Braziletto, pr. ton. 16/ Bricks pr. M 'jss Bread, (hip pr. cwt. xys 18s6 Ditto, pilot 35J Ditto, (mail water 40J 45s Beer, American, in bot. / fIZ pr. do,. P O /" pr. bbL 37 s c/ 3 f Oak pr.M feet, 4/tOJ 4/1 ® | Merch. pine 5/ 4 Sap, do. 3/ O I N. Eng. 2/ioj 23 I. Cedar 5/ The above arc the Shallop prices • Jor the Yard prices add 1 $s pr M. Brim stone in rolls pr. cwt. 2js C Irish pr. bbl. S < Bolton 55 x oa ( Country 455 Butter pr. lb. 14d in kegs 9d Cedar,red timber pr.foot is2s6d Chocolate pr. lb. 12</ Coal pr. bulhel is 6d Coffee pr. lb. is 2d Cinnamon ißj 20/ XalTia Cheese, English is $d Countrv 6d 7£d £ f Sper. pr. lb. 3s 3d 3s6d J I Wax 3 s Q Myrtle Wax 12d | Mould,tallow 10±d O LDipped 9id Cotton 1» 9d Currants 15621 Cloves 10/ Copperas pr.cwt. 14J Cordage 60J 6256 d Cocoa 6zi6d 6js6d Duck, Ruflia, pr. piece Boj Ravens 6js.j2s 6d Flour, Superfine, pr. bbl. 401 Common, 37J 6d Bur middlings, be ft 35J Middlings 2 6f Ship-ftuff pr. cwt. 12s Flax pr. lb. 9 d Fustic pr. ton, 135J 1 gos Feathers pr. lb. 2s :cd Flaxfeed pr. bush. $s Glue, pr.cwt. yliosSl Ginger, whiterace 52 s 6d Ditto, common 50 s Ditto, ground pr. lb. 9d Ginseng, 2s 2d Gunpowder, cannon,pr. ) quarter cask, £ (96 to Ditto, fine glazed 3ss 6d Gin, Holland, pr. gall. 6s Do. pr. cafe, 33s f Wheat pr. bufli 7s gd r S ye , & Oats \sZd2s6d < Indian corn 2siod Barley 4s 9d Best shelled pr. lb. 3d Buckwheat 2 s6 Hemp, pr. ton, 50/ 56/ Hogshead hoops, pr. M 5/ 6/ Herrings, pr. bbl. 22s 6d Hides, raw pr. lb, 9d 10d Hops ?s Indigo, French, ioj Carolina Irons, fad pr. cwt. (" Callings 28s & I Bar pr. ton, v 29/ 30/ 9 10^ _ | Sheet 65/ I Nail rods 36/ Junk, pr. cwt. 30s 40J l ard, hogs <yrl 10d Lead in pigs 40J 42s 6d ;n bars 54s Lead, white Boj red 50 s Leather, foal pr. lb. u2d is Lignum vitae pr. ton 42 s 45/ Logwood 7/ 5J *8/ Meal, Indian, pr. bbl. 17s Rye 25X Mackarel,befl 63/ Common 30 s 58.1 6d Mace pr. lb. 70s Mustard 2s 4d Madder, bell itjd 18d MolafTes pr. gall, Marble, wrought, pr. foot, 14$- Mast spars 2.( 6d 6s Mahogany 8 d 10 d Nutmegs pr. lb. 7 Nails, iodi2dSc 20d— 8d B\dgd p Linseed, pr. gall. 3 s 9 d I Train is 10d 2s Spermaceti 31 yd j I Whaie u 10d 2s r Olive 6s 6d | Ditto pr. cafe 28J 30J I Beftfweetin ) c flaiks.pr.box.JS^eoj I—baflcets 12 bottles Oak timber pr. ton 4OJ Porter in casks, pr. gall. 2s London,pr.doz. 12s 6d 15J Manuel Noah, BROKER, N0.91, Race-Strce:, between Sccond and Third-Streets* BUYS and SELLS, Continental & State Certificates, Pcnnfylvania and Jerfev Paper Money, And all kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, orot«y 8o 3m PER QUANTITY. MAY 6.—Dollars at jfG Porter, American pr. do*. Pitch, p r . bbl. Pork, Burlington, -Lover county '' Carolina Peas, Albany „ Pepper, pr. lb. Pimento R'CC pr. cwt. R ° r 'n pr. bbl. * f RaiGnj, bed, pr. ke* Ohio pr. jar S 5, ' U Ditto pr. box f > ma,< a P r - g»u. rfu Antigua §<1 Kdo« 4 ' 4^" Sulphur, flour 4 Shot J f German pr. cwt. 6y- 5 ! W )En g li(h, bliftercd f- /American pr. ton 401'.,( « (Crowley's pr. fag. B>,6i root pr. lb. ,j 6i 2 ,8 i ooap, Common Brown ° r, Castile Jf, Starch i" uii nSdi Si d 3 ,64 .Spermaceti, refined, , Sail Cloth, English, > " pr. vard, $u6J V tf Bolton, No. I. 2 —tr ° . - WO, 11. 2J B^j Ruflia (hccting, pr. p. g OJ f Lump, pr. lb. Si [ Loaf, (ingle refined urU < Ditto, double do. P Havamiab, white isU « Ditto, brown, 8^ L Mufcovada,pr.cwt. 6oj;B<' SpmisTurpentin'c pr. gall. 4J j_, f Allum pr. bush. 2 , j J Liverpool SJ w < jCadiz ~'j <S> /. n 'UOd 2J 2 j Ship build. W.O. frames) go* P- 10,, I { 1001 -O. &redc. do. 6161jt. o les, (Kort, p. M. lytos long drelied gosiaot itling, heart, gojijoj Do. Shin. Scanl 71 P 501 55' r l ipe pr. 1300 pieccs 12/ £:w. o. hogfhcad 7 / j; > ,) R. O. do. 5/ a < Leogan 6/ « Barrel 4/ 10 , L Heading 8/10/ Otter, best pr. piece 3c; Minks is6d yt Fox, grey 2S6J y -red 4/ Bjß Martins 3* ~ < Fibers 2s6dtjs Bears I2s6dz^s Racoons 2s 4/ r Mufk-rals yd is6d Braver, pr. lb. ,5 s 104 L I>eer f in hair Tar,N.Jerfey, 24 gal. p. bbl. m J& Carolina, 32 gall. 9; %d Turpentine i?.s6diss . James R. new bed 301 p ~ inferior 23s 25/ g old 35; 38; Rappahannock 22s 6d O J Colo. Maryland 405601 y Dark ?.c; Long-leaf 20; W Eastern-shore 15J 16* 3 s 7 * 5 0s P I Carolina, new . old 22J 6d 2§S Hyson pr. lb. ysft'qd Hyson fk<n, 414*6;/ Souchong, 3 f 6^7 CO < 3 H ! Congo, Bohea, Tallow, refined Tin pr. box, iooj Verdigreafe pr. lb. 6d Vermillion, 12 s Varnish, 2s 6J " Madeira, pr. pipe Lisbon 37^ Teneriffe 20/10J 30/ w Fayal pr. gall. 3' 2; I Port pr. pipe 30/43' ~ Ditto pr. gall. 7* >" Do. in bottles, pr. doz. 30; Claret 3 0J 45-' Sherry pr. gall. 9* _ Malaga 6j6</ Wax, Bees pr. lb. Whale-bone, long pr. lb. 2syd . short, pr. lb. lS COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Bills of Exchange, London, 90 days, 69 Ditto 60 days 7° Ditto 30 days 7 2 Amsterdam, 60 days> pr. guilder, 2s lid 3* 3© days & t France, 60 diys.pr.s Hv. 6s U 30 days 6.f <w particular Stare. a 2 / 6 d 3>9* 2S 7d B\d
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