The New York Packet

It is with singular pleasure we inform our readers, that a society is now forming in this city for the encouragement and establishment of useful arts and manufactures, by which means the industrious poor will be employed in our city, and arts and manufactures protected and rewarded in every part of the country. Until we manufacture more it is an absurdity to celebrate the Fourth of July as the birth-day of our independence. We are still a dependent people, and, what is worse, after all the blood and treasure we have expended, we are actually taxed by Great-Britain. Our imports help to fill her revenue, and to pay the interest of a debt contracted in an attempt to enslave us. It is said the society will be very large, and will consist of persons of all ranks and parties, and that certain articles of dress, of American manufacture, will be immediately adopted by them as the UNIFORM of the society.