BOSTON, March 21.
THE new invented Steam Jack doe* honor to the
genius of a citizen of Maffacliufetts—Mr. John
Bailey, of Hanover, in the county of Plymouth.
He, by a happy thought, firft conceived the idea
of applying (team to propel a Jack, for roasting
meat; and after a variety of experiments, haa
completely carried that idea into effe<Ji. He has
jferfe&ed the Machine in a style extremely well
calculated for the convenience of families; a*
the manner of nfing it is so simple, any body can
doit.
Port-au-Prince exhibits a scene of unparallel
ed dill reft—the Negroes have got many strong
holds in the mountains—and continue to treat
the white inhabitants with the greatest severity
when in their power.
PORTSMOUTH (N.H.) March 7,0.
The British nation, convinced of the injustice
as well as the ill policy, of negletfting the petili
ons, formerly presented by their American fub
jedls for the privilege of a resident Bishop in the
Colonies, and the consequent hardships to a part
of their citizens, who did not enjoy all the insti
tutions of their religion without one ; have now
made piovifion for the support of three Biihops
in their North American Provinces. Three thou
sand pounds, are contributed by the national cha
rity, for the annual support of clergymen and
schoolmasters of the national church, and the
distribution of books of piety and devotion. New
churches are eretfting, schools opening and a
college founding. They are determined to give
every poflible encouragement to the spreading of
religion, morality and learning in those regions,
under the fandlion and proredion of government.
Description of a LOCK, in Canal Navigation.
A LOCK is a bason placed lengthways in a ri
ver or canal, lined with walls of raafonry on each
fide, and terminated by two gates, placed where
there is a cascade or natural fall of the country ;
and so conftrutfted, that the bason being filled
with water by an upper fluke to the level of the
waters above, a veflcl may ascend through the
upper gate ; or the water in the lock being re
duced to the level of the water at the bottom of
the cascade, the veflel may descend through the
lower gate ; for when the waters are brought to
a level on either fide, the gate on that fide may
be easily opened. Butasthe lower gateisftrain
ed in proportion to the depth of water it supports,
■when the perpendicular height of the water ex
ceeds 12 or 13 feet, more locks than one become
neceflary. Thus, if the fall be 17 feet, two Jocks
are required, each having 8 1-2 feet fall; and if
the fall be 26 feet, three locks are neceflary, each
having 8 feet 8 inches fall. The fide-walls of a
lock ought to be very strong. Where the natu
ral foundation is bad, they fliould be founded 011
piles and platforms of wood : they Ihould like
wise slope outwards, in order to resist the preflure
of the earth from behind.
LAW.
AN EXTRACT
FIRST cotnes the Declaration in Trespass
the Defendant's answer to the Plaintiff's decla
ration follows next; and this in law language,
is a PJea. Next comes the Plaintiffs exception,
ov answer to the Defendant's Plea ; and this the
gentlemen of the law phrafea Replication. Then
follows the Defendant's answer to the Plaintiffs
replication, or reply ; and this is elegantly ftiled
a Rejoinder. The Plaintiff is then pushed to make
a second defence of his Declaration, by way of
answer to the Defendant's rejoinder; and this
second defence is exprefled by what is known in
law to be a Surrejoinder. The Defendant perse
veres, and comes on with his answer to the Sur
rejoinder ; and this is prettily called a Rebutter.
The Plaintiff, being again atloofe ends,produces
a second replication to the Defendant's rebutter ;
and this is emphatically called a surrebutter.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, "l
March 31, 1792. j
NOTICE is hereby given. That the infereft for the quarter
endingthis.dav.onthe FUNDED DEBTotiheUnitedStatei'
nar.dine on the books of theTrcafnry, and of the Commiflionerof
Loans foi this State, will be paid at the Bank of the United State?.
STOLEN,
WITHI >J a few days last past, from the Subfcrlh.r, the fol
lowing NOTES, ifTued by the Treasurer of the Common
wealth of MafTachufetis: No. IS-'Si, Dec. 1, 1783,/' 72 it
payable to Phineas Lyman ; No. 18379, Nov. 1, 1783, f 06 4
payable to Will: am Lvo x; No. ,30,, Dec.,, >781, £.80 q!
Tiayableto Nathaniel Wrlcht ; No. 162 90. 1 i-R,
16—No. 71, OS. t, 1781, £.48 i, payable to Do'ftor
Samuel War e.
Whoever w,ll apprehend and secure the Thief or Thieves so
that he or (heymay be brought to joflice, shall receive a reward
pi I vtt.l V Dot; ARS ; and whoever will produce the above
• Otes, and return them 10 the fubferiber, (hall receive a reward
or OxsHcndrid Dollars, and all necelTary charges.
Precaution having been taken to prevent their ever being paid
to t ie rhict or Thieves by the Treasurer abovementioned • All
pi ".onstnerelore are cautioned not to Durchafe the above Notes
ol any one offering them for fa!e.
Xrtiav.p'en, Fa. 29, 1791,
fep.tf)
4' NATH. WRIGHT.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION^
In the Commonwealth of MaJjachufcttj,
A
SYSTEM for the DISCIPLINE of the ARTILLERY
in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA;
THE YOUNG ARTILLERIST'S POCKLT COMPANION.
IN THREE PARTS.
Part 1./ CONTAINING the-duty and practice of light field
artillery.
Part 2. Containing the theory and praflice of heavy artillery :
to which will be added, an extiaft of a Treatise on the origin and
principle of Courts-Martial, wrote by an experienced Officer in
the line, and who did duty as Judge-Advocate in America.
Part 3. Laboratory duty ; containing a great variety of dire&ions
for coinpofition, and the method of making artificial fire-works,
and the formation of ammunition for the different kinds of ord-
nance.
By WILL JAM STEVENS, Esq.
An Officcr 111 the American Artillery through the whole of the
late revolution, and since in the Militia.
CONDITIONS.
This wotk to be printed on good paper with a liandCome type,
neatly bound and lettered, in three pocket volumes, containing
upwards of one thousand pages; illustrated with a great variety
of explanatory plates, executed bv able artists.
The price to fubferibers, One Dvllar each volume-—to non-sub
scribers, One Frer.ch Croum each volume : and those who fubferibe
for fix setts, shall have a (evenih gratis.
This work lhall be publiflied as soon as five hundred copies are
fubferibed for.
Subfcripiion papers will be lodged with the principal Printers
and Booksellers in the United State? of America.
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND TO BE SOLD BY
THOMAS DOBSON, Bookseller,
At the Stone House in Second-Street,
The First Volume of
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS-.
Consisting of stati papers, and other authentic documents,
tiUpoded as materials for an HiAory of the United States
or America,
BY EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M.
Member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadel
phia for promoting ufeful knowledge ; and Fellow of the Ame
rican Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The dcfign of this compilation being to prefexve and exhibit a
regular fc-ries of the moll important and authentic documents re
lating to the history of America, from its discovery by Columbus
to the present time, it mull be peculiary interesting to alfwho wish
to acquire a thorough knowledge of this fubjeft.
April 4.
FOR SALE,
BLOOMSBURY,
THAT elegant SEAT at the Falls of Delaware, in the vicinity
of Trenton, in New-Jersey, occupied for many years past by
the fublcriber; containing upwards of 200 acres ot land, besides
a trail of wood-land of about 185 acres, at the didance of two
miles. The farm is divided by the main street leading from
Trenton 10 Lamberton, and Philadelphia, into two parts, nearly
equal in quantity ; the eaftwardly part being arable land, is laid
off in convenient fields, and in good farming order. The other
part, bounded by the (aid street on the east, and by tht nver on
the weft, forms a square; which, from the combined effe£l of fix
ation and improvements generally allowed to be,one of the moll
beautiful and desirable feats in the Hate. The mansion-house is a
handsome, well-fintftied brick building, 50 by 40, containing four
rooms on each floor, with excellent cellars, and a two story brLk
kitchen ; and commanding a very extensive and pleasing view of
the river, both above and below, as well as including the falls, and
also of Trenton and the neighbouring feats and improvements on
both (ides of the river. Among the out-buildings are a new lion:
coach-house and stables, fufficient to contain fix carriages and ten
horses, accommodated with a cutting and feeding room, and a ca
pacious loft for hay ; adjoining theft is a very complete granary,
rat proof, ami a stone cow-house, upwards of 100 feet in length,
containing thirty-one paved stalls, over which is a roomy loft for'
hay, &c. Adjoining the court-yard of the mansion-house, is a gar
den of about two acres, extending towards the river, in the highest
(late of culture, and abounding with a rich colle&ion ot the
choicest fruits of almost every kind, and several large asparagus
beds, highly manured. At a convenient distance from the man
sion-house, and nearly in the centre of the square, is a new, well
built, stone farm-houfe, accommodated with a large chcefe-room
spring-house, garden, &c. a complete stone smoke-house, corn
cribs, waggon-house, a capacious ice-house, and every other ne
celfary out-building. The ground is properly divided into Jmntl
fields, all well watered, highly improved, and chieflv under the
most approved grass. This square has produeed annually, for se
veral years past, upwards of, sixty tons of the best hay, besides
supporting through the fuinmer season twentv to thirty horned
cattle, and eight or ten horses. It contains also two bearing or
chards of good fruit. The river abounds, in the proper seasons,
with great plenty of all kinds of fifh usually found in frefh water
in this climate, and with a variety of wild-fowl ; both of which
may afford a pleasing amusement to the sportsman, as well as a
convenient addition to the elegance and variety of his table. The
whole of the land, except the wood-land, it inclofcd and divided
by good fences, great part of which is formed of red cedar ports,
and rails of chrfnut and white cedar. The purchaser may have
the improved square separately, or the whole together, as may
best suit him. There is an inexhaustible quantity of good build
ing stone on the river ftiore. The purchase money, if well secured,
and the interest punctually paid, will not be demanded foi many
years.
Any peifon desirous of viewing the premises, may be gratified
on application to Samuel W. Stockton, Esq. of Trenton,
or Mr. Inallman, who at present occupies the .'aim-houleand'
part of the land—and may know the price on application to the
fubferiber, at No. 213, South Second-street, opposite to the New-
Market, in Philadelphia. ]OHN COX
American Lead Manufactory.
STEPHEN A U S T I N, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their Lead-Warekousi, two doors
south of Walnut-flrcet Whaif, adjoining their New Fa&ory
where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general affort
mcntof SHOT of all £zes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the
production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a
number of experienced Englifli woikmen, they wa, rant it to be
equal ,11 quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced
price from the coll of imported.
They also continue to manufaflure all the above articles at
Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the
above Faftoncs, will be thankfully received, and execucd on the
Ihortelt notice.
N. B. anted, induftrtous, sober, Labouring Men, at the said
Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and 01 her encourage
ments will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and
noules tor their reception.
For further particulars enquire of MefTrs. Moses Aust i n & Co
at their Faftnry in Richmond, or as above.
Pb.ladelplrij, Dtccvticr 3, 1791. '
404
' J ° R 'f"" C,IZ " Tt '■/""Vstrir, State- m U
earneftlj requtfi, the, thef, of h!i ftifrikcr,, mh .fc arrearage, hoi
been accumulating for more than toillc months, would make p aymnl
soon as pof/ltU~atfatthc.fi, befor, frjl day oj June
rkefc fcrfm j 'xhojha/l hdff.fitopatromzc thi, Gazette ast,,
the PoQ. Office LawJhaUgo into operation, wiltphaje tof, g ni,\ lk .. r
intention to the Dcpu.v Post-Masters in the Umtcd Jul fh „ it Jr
reified to forwardJurhfuffcriptions «, nay he recent J, to the Editor'
previous ,o the fjiijtrfi oj June The terms B \
Three Dollars per annum, KeUfUe of ficJUg<~0 K ehalftoi,p a , t a ,
the time offubferibing, the other half to te advanced a, the expiration of
the JirJl fix months.
Bank of the United States.
RESOLVED, TW.beStockholders b ,,"' 9? '
thonfed to compleat their Shares by payment at
before the periods required by the law oi incorporation
Resolved, That each Share Co compeared, thai] br entitle ,
draw a dmdend of the profits of the BanK, f lom and after the fi'ft
day of the month next fuccecdtng the day of compleattn, hi h
Resolved, That so much of the quarter's intereftuDon the P,k
lie Debt transferred to compleat any Share asaforefatd as ft,li
have accrued before the firft day of ihe month next .u
completion of such Share, (hall be received by the Bank 7 ,
to the persons who shall have transferred the fame '
By order of the Prcfident and Directors
f c P ,lft j) JOHN KKAN-, Cajhier.
At A, MM7INC 01 THE Dl**CTO*> of THE J}a„ k
the Unite? States, March 30, i?q s
RESOLVED, That the Offices of Discount and i)essGt he
authori Ted to receive of Stockholders the 3d and ithW
Payments on their Shares.in the Capital Stork of
that .he Calhie.s of the said o(ficesggi f duplicate leceioufjfo,!,
oayments, oneot which receipts,accompanied witi'evidence of
transfer of public debt fuffipent tp complete fatd fiarei.upou be"
ing produced at the $ank, (hall entitle fiich Stockholders to cer*
tificates for full (hares, and to all the benefits of tie Relictions
of the Board of Direflors patted the 21ft inftanl, re itire u,
pleting (hires by payment at any tupe before the periods reqmrtd
by the, law of incorporation. " ' •
By order of the President and D'reftorj.
JOHN KEAN, hjkitr.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of Colu.m.bu.
A Premium
OF a I.OT in (his City, to,be designated by impartial iudf<
and FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS; or a MEDAL'of thai
value, at the option of the party ; will be given by the Commit
fioners of the Federal BuilcJirjgs, to the perloti who, beloie the
fifteenth day of July, 1792, Hiall prod,uce to there the moU ap.
proved PLAN.it adooted bv them, for a C APITOL.iote erected
in this Ctty ; and TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
or a MEDAL, for the Plan deemed next in merit tothe one they
(hall adopt. The building to beof buck, and to coutainthefol
lowing apartments, to wit:
(to.xm)
A Conference Room ? u ® c ' <-n j 10 ac -1
A Room for the ReprefenUtives ( com r modjtf 3 C ° I theferoamj
) persons each. ! 10 be of
A Lobby or Antichamber to the latter j full eieva.
A Senate Room of 1200 square feet area f uon.
An Antichamber or Lobby to the lad J
12 Rooms of 600 square feet area each, for Committee Roopisaod
Clerks' Offices, to be of half the elevation of the former.
Diawings will be expe&ed of the ground plats, elevations of
each front, and le&ions through the building in such
as may be neceflaiy to explain the internal ftrufture; andanelli
mare of the cubic feet of brick-work com poling the whole mats
of the walls.
March 14, i 792,
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of Columbia,
A Premium
OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, or a MEDAL of that
value, at the option of the party, will be given by theCom
miilioners of the Federal Buildings, to the perfou who, before the
fifteenth day of July next, shall produce to them the most ap
proved PLAN,if adopted bythem,fora PRESIDENt'sHOUSE,
to be ere&ed in this City. The fiteof the building, if the ariill
will attend to it, will of course influence the afpe& and outline of
his plan ; and it's dtftination will point out to him the number,
/ize, and distribution of the apartments. It will be a recommen
dation of any plan, if the central part of it may be detached and
erected for the present, with the appearance of a complete whole,
and be capable of admitting the additional parts, in future, if they
(hall be wanting. Drawings will be expected of the ground plals,
elevations ot each front, and fe£tioris through the building, irr such
dircclionsas may be necessary to explain the internal iiuflure;
and an estimate of the cubic feet of brick-work, compofiog the
whole mafc of the walls.
March 1792
Public Securities,
Bought and Sold, on COMMISSION, by
SAMUEL ANDERSON,
Cn*fnut-Street,next door to the Bank, No. 97,
Jones & Burroughs,
STOCK-BROKERS,
STATE-STREET, BOSTON,
BUY and fell every kind of the Stocks of the United States,
Con mi (lion, by Private Contrast, and Public Auction.—
Those jcntlemtn who may be pleased to favor iliem with their
comm.nds, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch.
Bofbn, March, 1792. (rav^rO
A NEGRO MAN by the name of CATO VERNOV, *> or . n
in Newport (Rhode-Island) enlisted in Col. Greene's
me»t. of Blacks, early in the late War. fie survived the V- ar, ao
fetled, as supposed, in or near Philadelphia. If he wiil app Y
hereof, he will be informed of fomerhing con.i e
rblv to his advantage. April 4. ' c P-4'- _
TO BE SOLp BY THE EDITOR,
AT A BLE for receiving and paying Gold at the Ban'< 0. t
United States, (hewing the V?lue of Gold in Dollars an
Cents, One to a Thousand Pennyweights—according tot 0
A£l of Congress, ascertaining the Standaid and Value of Goid.
Blank Powers to rtceivc, (/ielntere[i,(indJor(hetranJfrtJ
principal of public debt, avrctablttcthe Rules ejlablijhed in the red
firy Department: Aljo IHjnksforabJlradsoJCcrtijicatcSy ttfijot c
the Editor.
(RT The JOUR \'AL nf the THiRD SESSION of *■ SIS'ATE
if the UNITED STATES, may be hide/ the Editor hereff.
tf THE COMMISSIONERS
THE COMMISSIONERS.
INFORMATION.