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boots, smoking segars. At Trenton, I was enter- tained with the sight of a company of journeymen tailors, at the work-board, all booted as if ready for mounting a horse. This article of dress is full as expensive here as in England; yet a boot-maker told me, that he sometimes sold no less than three pairs within the winter to some individuals who earned their bread by their daily labour; and, for these, they paid 35s. ster- ling per pair. In the afternoon we passed Prince- town, and, that night, lodged at Brunswick. 5th Month, 25th. We breakfasted at Elizabeth Town; and arrived at Paules-hook Ferry about noon. Here I saw a fleet of armed vessels, i. e. four ships and one brig. As they were full of meat and guns, and the men were dressed in uni-forms, they had a very warlike appearance. This fleet was just returned from the island of St. Domin-go, with a very valuable cargo of coffee; and was said to have made the most successful voyage ever re-membered. At the ferry we were told it was O--'s fleet, and was principally belonging to a merchant in New-York of that name, who had acquired very great riches thereby. This was a remarkable instance of the great extent to which the merchants of this country carry their mercan-tile concerns; yet so uncertain is trade, that this man stopped payment a few months afterwards.