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(VOL. I.) THE • 47') AND GE.MERAL ADVERTISER. T ^ ^ U R S D A Y, February 12, 1789. State of NoRTH-CAROLiNAf t Ncwbern Dijiri^i, ^ • In the Court of Equity, rJovembSr . Term, 1788. N the fait there depending, where in Francois Xavier Martin is com plainant, vs, Thomas Davis, defend ant—It is Orderedy That Thomas Davis put in his anfwcr to the com plainant’s bill, on or before the firft day of the enfuing term (v^diich will be on the? twentieth day of May next.) And that on the defendant failing in obedience to this order, the complain ant’s bill is to be taken/’T'o confejjo^ un- Icfs caufc fhewn, &c, s Pnblifiled by order of the Courts JAMES ELLIS, Clerk Iz Mafler (of the aforeiaid court. % mmmsamsasmmm Dcc./io, 1788. 43- •/i8 fit of Nortes-Carolina. t/ t / . V In the Court of Equity, Novembef Term, 1788. J N the fuit therein depending, where in James Ellis is complainant, vs. Lliphalet Ripley, defendant—It is Or- deredj That Eliphalct Ripley put in his aniwer to tjje complainant’* bill, on or beforjB'the firft: day of the enfuing terra (whkh will be on the twentieth day of May next.) And that on the. defendant failing in obedience to this* order, the complainant’s bill is to be taken/ro conjefjo^ unlefs caufc fhewn, &c. r Publiflicd by order of the Court, . - J AMES ELLIS,“ Clerk S: Matter - , . (of the aforefaid' Court; Dec. 10, 1788. . 43'—48 ^^TheMail for Faycttc-Ville, will In futurebffmsds up at the Printikg-Office, where all letters for that pl^^, it is requeftud, may be left. ^ The peft will leave this town every Thurfday morning, at 9 o Clock, an^ , arrivd at Faj|cttc.ViHe the Saturday foUowring.—Leaves Fay ette-Vilic every Sunday, and arrives ia^ this ^owri every "V^^cd*. nefday. ‘ ‘ . , " . a W k 'S,; :0 F V A R I o U S K I N D S, ♦ * k « May be had of the Printers hereof. > AMERICA. . QJLJ E B E C, December i. B y a letter from Lake Ontario to a gentleman in this town, we learn ihat on Sunday the and ol November, Mr. Fitfi- mpns, mate of his majerty’s vtflel Lintnade, cut his wife’s t^’roat, and then his own ; j:aloufy, aided by liquor, is fuppof- cd to have been the caufe of this ra(h a^IiuH. He expired im' mediately, but it is cxpsfted Mrs. Fitziimons will recover. BOSTON,, January i. One inftancs of the progrefs of m.tnufa£tures in this ftate, that there arc now in it near 250 pot and pearl- afii manuiado- rles. ' yar.. 16. We leam that there is now in the prefs in this town, a Novel,dedicated to the young ladies, which is inrended to enforce attention on fe.male education. We are infonxd that one of the'incidents upon which the Novel is founted, is drawn from a late unhappy.fulcide Vve lhall probably be able to lay before our readers ^.nie account of tiuly fo Novel a work, upon fuch interefting fubjeils. American Manufactures._ Specimens of broadcloth, triads at the manufactory in Hart ford, have been lately lodged at the .printing-oflivs in Provi dence fer public infpe*5Hcn. The town of Taunton fachufetts, her flapb >yas. land would fca'^ccly produce a thiftlc ; yet flic has now a griev ing manufatfcry ; lallyear, one hundred lons of nails, beiid s a greftt many articles in a fmaller way, vers wrought in that tjsV n,., ■ >1 ■ It . . The minufafture.cf iron plate IhevelVj is carried on to ?reat adv,inti'’.e at Br dgewater : they are of fuperior workmanlhip to any imported from Britain, and fold at a lower price than can be in)p^rted for. A glafs and duck manufaftory are eflablKhing in Bofton. There, ii a pcomifiug cotton nrwnufadory In Beyeriy According to the viluation lift t.ak«n, there were 138 prt and peirl afh manulaf^ories irichfS ftate;.there are now, it is faio, 250. ' .. A riew paper mill, we hear, is about being erefled in Mil ton, another in Wat^ftoUn, and a thi:d in Hampihire county. '1 hers is now,'fays a.'cbrrefjiondent, in the Fa'l p.triili ct Brid.;ewater, within;fhV fpacc of three miles, e'evn-. i.iaek fmiths ft>9ps,and 30 nailers do. which is a didingu Tnin* prouf of'theii; lovcof induftry, as’well'js.th.* proinotion ot the mre re.1 of their country ; and it is reckoned there can, be nude daily in that neighbourhood 152,000 ot nails. Several pieces of fafliionable and elegant broadcloths have lately been mur.ufaflufed in Keene, the texture, colour, and du ration of which.are by no me,aos infericr to tu' ope.in guinea cloths ; and they are afforded for los, Icf* per .ytird than. ,the Englifll cloths. Larabflcins and Beav.r-coacing's of equal qua lity and price have alf? been nlade tltcre. And the molt ic- • fjjeftafal* citizens are cla'J with thefe valuable clctlis. Several pieces of crapej and muflin handkerchiefs, have been manufaflured In the town of Surry, which have been announc ed by experienced judejes to be equal to thofe imporred. Thus do the induftry and irgenuity of our countrymen, take ■ eff"our foreign ftiackles, one by one. — - a few years ago wa^the defert of Ma ; Jiltle more than a'herring, and the ■ N E W-Y O R K, Jan. ,8. The follpw’mg refolution \vas 'agreed to in a‘ committee of the whole houfc, at Albany, on the szd uit. viz; ' Refolved, as the opinien of this committee, that a committee Ire appointed to prepare a draft of an application to the legifta- ture of this Bate to Congrefs, rSqueftmg them, as ^ariy as poffi- b'.e, to icaJl a convertioa, -fcT prppoling amendmeiits to the con- ffitCtTrn for the United State*. . > [ -Jylefrri. Jones, H^rifoaPtf.^Livingfton,-Hrfveris, and Bay, were appointed to a comrni^tiet; to drait the faid appl efatiori. L^ft Sunday afterndwh’f^ailed for Bombay,' tlfd fhip A merica Indiaman, Jacob Sarjey^ Ffquire, commander,~A'trade which has "Evidently for its objeiffthc profperityof thefe ftatis, is en titled ta the’good wifhes of our fellow citizen*,'aR*V the fpirit- ed adventurers to Gur particular applaufe. May the laudable enterprife becrowned with fuccefs !—Not only, ur intercBs a* a commercial people in fame degroc depends on this Voyage, bat even our reputation with refpeft to fhip building ’1 he Ameri- cavuaeofthe merff'coiinplctej veffeis ever coiiftrufled in our d*cks, the (kill of her cffi;ers and hardy fpirits of her h-oneft tars, win convince t',ifc Chlriefe and otherEettern nations, the young- eft quarter of the world Is already capable of emulating the other three ; and as fuccefs may be rafrcnally inicred from fuch hap py beginning, will moft probably furjufs them. We are informed that a perfon haftenlrg to the fire on Wed- nefdaythe 31ft ult. was accofted by a man near Cocntie* Slip, who deftred hijji to flop, and demanded his money: and upon the perfon replying that he was going to the fire, and would net deliver his money, the fellow drew a piftol, wh eh he difchai gcd withouteffeft, but having a bayonet or fomething cf the kind affixed to the end of it, he made a pafs at the perfon, and ftabed himinthearm. The afTailed on this, calling lor afliftance, and the robber perceiving fome psrfons near at hand, made a ptecipltdte retreat; Pdr. John Gibb, of Phlllip’s-Manor, Weftchefter county, on Thurfday night Lft, was robbed of near ooel. about lev. n iTi'lesof this city, by two or three villian* who after taking In's money, fired a piftol at him, declaring that he fhoul . nrver know who committed the isdl, but the viiiians purpofe was not etfeCled, as the gentleman, when the piftol was pre enttd .*.C his body pu/hed it afidr, and the contents wait through his coat, and lie r»*Ci.ived no injury. By letters from Madrid weleirn, that a total abolition of the courts of inq hition in Spain, is now pofitively in .igitutl .n, aori a plan formirg lor a mot« rational modcof trying ec! liaf.ic.il de'di qucn.ts, i» ataong the ads of reformation likely to t-nks place in. this enlightened age. By an Arr-rt figred by tlic King of France, dated the rth of OS ober laft, the importation of all foreign Whole Oilarvi bps; - niaceti into th.i; kiugdom is intlrely prohibited. ^ y^n. 15. On More' y the zth inftant, a conference was held betw c.itlic Senate and the Affcmbly, on the a.n ndiaents opr fed to the bill for pytiir'g the new conftitution into opc- ■■ior). Alter debating the matter a whole day, the Aff-iTiSiy^ rcfrl'ied 'hat th y would not agree to the amendments—ano. ti’e-. Srna e refolved that tlisy vvould. not recede. In confrqiicuce of wldcbthe bin V. as loft. New-York tborefere will have no' agency in *’'e choice o; thofe important officers, the rrcflib .it: and VI.e Piefidont, nor will fne be reprefen.tod in titat v" ht re b'."' m ft important intcrefts will be at ftake—-the Scr.al J of the Unit d -Siatcs. A lewei-frcm Dublin Dared, Od^ober 20, fays The con- who were ftiipped on Saturday laft, on bcaid the brig P.o- vidoocCj C.apta’uj bo' ’pri TO Pert P mfewe.r in Scoria, were f uarded to the water fide by a fquaaron of horfs and two companies of foot.” [ Fh' abov-e veffl amived here laft Satutday, in 70 days from Dublin, hut how herpaffengers have been ditpcfed of we h.iVe. not heard J "an. 02. On Wrdnefday the yth inftant the rer.eral affrm- b!) . f C ionc^ficut appointed the f.^iiowin j genriem«n eitcl- is of aPrifident and Vlcc-Pief;d.nt of .he United States, viz. His excellency the Governor, his honor the Lieutenant Go- ver-'cr, b-.n, Richa'd Law, hen. Matthew Grifwcl*!, her. r.r .f- fa» V. otc-.tt, jede.iiah liuntington, Efj. Thadeus Eutr, tfq. From u'^d lubted authority we can affure our readers, that the Brltifh gavc’in ner.r of tl.e B^liama’s has letely fent, ard caifted to bclmdedon a certain point in Georgia, a frefii fiippiy of V. dcr, arms, and a few fruail field picct.s, which (torts h.ave iiTtn ri-eiivered to the Creeks, ander the fafeguard of fcine leru- rees.—M’Gilvray ha.s at the f»me t/.ne received the meft Pofft- tivg .-iTurances of further affiftance, fhould he continue to b.ir- • rafs the Bate af Georgia, whilft'*’^* * under the garb of good ca- tri t.', will take open themfclves to keep up and feed the mif- undt‘rlV»nding between that ftatcand the Creek nation. From Kentuckv we .are inform^ d alfo, that cfTers of a fimliar nature f orn Canada, have been m.ide to the moft irfiucrtl ;l charadfersin that count-y, fliould they think of afF rtl.ng ar.i'd;-- cl.arine their independency wc-uthout waiting for the confcni of ‘Congrefi. ^ Propofals .ire puhliftied in Bofton for printing a Freneb rewf- papsr, to he entitled, “ Lf CoiiRirii nr. Boston,” it will an- prar as foon as a fuffiejent number oi fn' ferihers .re oht on- d to d-fray the fxpenco ; and will be c .mpiled and conduced by hat cel .brated literary chirafter .Vlonf. P. J. C?. De Nancrede, a French gentleman well known among th. liter.ati of F.u-cn; and America, lor his ftrong attachinent to the libc, ties and »■>- vernm nt of this country, of which he has htelv become a de- . n.zen, by a coBnubial tie with an amiable young lady, of a very rcfpeflable family in that town. yan. 29. Accounts from Havre de Grace in France, dated : Nov. 21, mention that accounts bad been received there from , London mentioning the death ofhis Bri anic Majcfty. f We learn from Albany that a bill had pafTed both houfes, pre- fcrlbing the time and manner cf choofing reprefentatives to th- ' Congrefs of the United States ; by this bill the ftate is divided . into lix diftrifts, each diftrift is to choafs one rcprtftntative— but the eleiftors are not confiried in their choice to a perfon reft . dent within their own riillricl.—That on Wednefday week a I bill direfting the mode of chocfing Senators, which had been brought in by Mr. Jones, paffed the houfe of affcmbly. Px- ' cept in the recital, there is no difference between this bill and the former one which gave rife to the late conference betwet-n thetwohoufes, and occafioned the lofs of the whole eltaicn ’ bill.
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