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DoweP'ic Intelligence, ———. KINGSTON, (Jamaica) July 26. X T his morning, between two and three o’clock, a large hulk, in the fervice of government, lying off Greenwich, which contained near two thcufand baneb of gun powder, took fire, and blew up with a moft terrible cxplofion. it leems that there were only a white man and two negroes on board, and that this alarming accident was occafioncd by the carelellncfs of the latter, who left a fire in the ca- boole when they went to lleep. A lit tle after midnight the white man awoke and found the vefi'el on fire ; he ^n- ftanily called the negroes to affill him in quenching the flames ; but they faddenly jumpecl into the only boat along fide, r nd left him and the veflel to their fate. In this dreadful dilem ma the poor man got over the bow ot the hulk and fuupoited himfelt by the cable until the expLfion took place, when he was thrown feveral yards into the air, and defeended into the fea, without receiving the fmalleft hurt, except being llightly fcorched ; after fwimming iome little time, he provi- der.tially met w ith a canoe and got lafc on (hoie. The concuflion was fo ex ceedingly violent, as to burft open ma ny doors and windows in this town, and. we arc told, the road to Green wich is ftrev/cd with fragments of the fliattered veflel. The lubftan^e of the above relation was taken from the man’s .mouth elcaped. BOSTON, July 24. ^ Extraft of a letter from Philadelphia, dated July 12. We are in momentary expei?iati- on of receiving the recommendation of CongTcli, to our legiflature,refpfj6f- ing the appointment of ten eledfors to meet for the jiurpofe of making choice of Prefident, See. No other I perfons arc talked of among the know- fingones to execute the new govern ment, than the great American Fabi- us, and his Excellency Governor Han cock. The former will undoubtedly be Prefident-General—and as the lat ter will have the next highefl number of Votes, he will unqueftionably be Vice-Prcfident. Mr. Adams will un doubtedly be Chief Juftice of the Fe deral Judiciary. At the louthward, jhe fame fentiments pre - ail. Newport, (Rode-IOand) July 17. By the Dutch papers, brought in the |late vclTcls from Amfterdam, it appears that the Prince of Orange and the ariflocratic party, have efFeflcd a eora- J^lete victory over the ancient conftitu- tion of that once free republic. tar afterJlar went out—and all is night. So that while the goddefs of liberty beholds on this fide^ the Atlantic a [plcndid temple, dedicated to her name, I life ard flourllh ; cn the other fide Ihc beholds an ancient one lazed to the ground. PEilLADELPHIA, July 28. ExUait of a letter from New-Yoik, July 28. ** I am forry to inform you, that an affair happened on Saturday evening, after the news arrired of the adoption of the new conftitution by this ftate. Mr. Gitenleaf, an anti-federal printer, made fome very abfurd remarks on the proceflion, in particular on the potters, who were much oflFcnded. The news gave every body Ipirits, and about one or two o’clock a number went to his of fice, and took away his types and very much damaged his houfe. a He fled, or I believe the Potters would have had dominion over his clay 5 whether it would have produced any amendment 1 cannot tell.” The adoption of the new federal con ftitution, by the convention of New- York, being the eleventh ftate, is a mat ter of the moft ti ancendent j jy, and ho nourable in the higeft degree to the maj ji ity of that houfe. Part of that majority muft have the greateft abili ties to convince objedfors fo ftrenuou ^ and part of them muft poflfefs the mofto uncommon lhare of candour and pa- triotiiin, to liften with fo much mode ration to the arguments of federalifm and their country. BALTIMORE, Auguft 5. About the middle of laft aionth, provifions were very low at St. Eufta- tius. Flour fold at fix dollars a bar- rel—beef, eight dollars—pork, twelve dollars—Indian corn, half a dollar a buftiel—hams. niJie pence a pound. Ay letter f'om Exuma, one of the Bahama iflands, dat^d the 27th of Ju.ie. mentions, that tne SALT lately jakerd there, w.is rem u kably fine, and th It eighty til')ijrand bulhels then lay j ready for expo* ration. On MoncUv the 28th ult. Congrefs i proceeded to fiM up the blank for the place of holdnig the Idlions of that liunoMrahie body, when the words “New - Yoik” vv^re in''erred. Capt. Robert Rofs, who arrived here on Saturday laft, in the Brig Keener, trom St. Bartholomew’s, after a paflage of 15 days, informs, that on the 29th ult in lat. 35 : 30 N and long 71:30 W. he fpoke Capt Woodward, in a Brig from the Bay of Honduras, bemnd for Briftol, (out fiften days) who be ing very ftiort of water, he fupplied him with a puncheon, and left him fteering foe me port of his deftination. The fame day he ipoke a floop from St Martin’s, bound for Virginia, who had taken 4 men out of the wreck of a floop, after having been fix days in the greateft diftrefs. Capt. William Buckley, who commanded this floop, and one of his feamen, were drowned. Capt. Rofs, on his paflage, caught a fliark 17 feet long, and 7 feet 9 inches round, from the liver of which were extracted 23 gallons ofoU» HONEST US IhaTI appea \ our next. Jdr* The PRINTING-OFFIC] is removed to the heufe at picfcnt oc c 11 pied by Major Kingfbury, nearly op pofite the Market. ' Marine Lift. ARRIV ALS fince our laft. Brig Recovery, Tucker, Charlefton. Nancy, Leach, Ditto, Mary, MTver, Montego-Bay* Schooner New-Hope, Smar t, Ditto. — Charlotte, Stewart, Kingtton. CLEARED. Brig Queen, Morriion, Greenock. Recovery. Tucter, Charlefton. Schooner Good-Hope, Luce, Bofton. William, Swain, Charlefton. J^ck, Shackelford, Ditto Sloop Induftry, Dunn, New York. Ann, Cotterel. Ditto. PRICES CURRENT. UpBFj^/confifting r. ^ fcantl.r-.% cr h...i. i of inch & 2inch.'s fup.rfiwial meafnre. -ref. to jalr f.k A— JT KeH Oak f h . ftavc-^ per M. Vv hire Oak do. - - _ R. (.J, bli. do. « _ „ vv. o. ' do. - - « 18 inch ihincles, 22 do da. . - _ larpeibJl. ... T ujpctulne pof b’l. of 72olb. groft. Pitch per bli. . , * " obaccoper loolb. Rice, p.r do. - B.ack ey ci p^ias per bufhcl B fs’-Wax per lb. D:.- r Skins .r hair fim’d, per 1b. L.tro JJnttitn’d Buffer pp.- lb , _ Pork pci b|*. of 22olb. nc. 8”ow ;.>cr lb. Beef ppi 1)11, Cen per bulhel - Otter Skins - , P iccoon do. Brown Su'rar - Ordinary per icolb Loaf t'a^ar per lb. 1 Ja naica p.gl. Rum E'Veff-ln. 3N. Ing. — Mi'Iaffcs per 2;al. Chocola e p i lb. . Iren jjerton - - Philad F’nur per bll. ef i5Flb. Steel per lb. Iron Holiow ware per ton Fine fait p. r bufhc,! Dc. by tail r a>'fe r er Oufhei C ffre {. r Jb B a tea Oree do. - - _ N. Fnglarid Ck ■lO!. to qcj. I5J to t6./. - ittj. tc So_,.. to n f, llj. to ,?/• iFy' iO,- '/. ; -■'/Sd. 1// to'; f, ib/ f, p r. 4« hj if. -on9 j/i to ''/6d, y* 120 to 14CI to T6d, 80 to 9e/I 6 t( ?/. - 24 to 'fjf. i/fd t. r. 12c to ' fl 1 O to £ _v_/l 2/? £0 :f. oi'b tony, yfod. to Sr. '6 to 3f5d. to rSd.. 2 tc 4- , 90 to I . .'f, iSd £■ 55 - ■ r. - f • • ' i* 2fid. *£> ?rsd •:r.* n It) J t'- i tt j 1 R R V A R D O N ThurMa*- \.xv a x\c;-;ro rd!'> named TOM lai> th.^ pr;. ert of Colonel J. Leonard, mardc’^t. Mi John Leonard, of Bmniwick Lourtij at the plantation o; Mr. Arthur How Tom is a fmall black t . .o‘ v j i twenty-one years of age, fturj. i c in his fpecch, is a defigning « i , . low, tells a moft pleofible r. g, ' - will try to get out of ti e ftate ; fuppofed he was wounded in t) . . by a guard pNced at Mr. S Ljii d laft Friday night. The above lewar will be given to any petfon wlio appre hends him, by applying to Mr. Lewi M Pherfon, merchant, Wilmingtor or the fubferiber in Brunfwick Count] JACOB LEONARD. Auguft 25, 1788.
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