»imed, besides the influeltc* of penihies an delin quents, at making it the teiiertfl iutereft of the diftil leri, to comply w;ththelaws, by interrupting the raar- Vet for a very confiderabte forplus, and by, at the .fame t me, confining the beriiSt'cif *the large defmand •for public Venice those Vhc did their duty to the public, Imd furnifhing, through: he of pay ments inxafh, that medium fcr paying the duties, the want ps which was alleged to be a great difficulty iti the *»»y of compliance. Hut twociirtemtiancesconfpired'to counteract the fuc- Cess of the pj*n—one. the neccflity, towards incurring the penalties of non-< ompliance, of there being an of fice of irifpedtian in each county, which was prevented in some of the counties, by the means of intimidation praftifed'for that purpose—another, the non-extentiou of the law to the territory north-weft of the Ohio, into which a large proportion of the surplus before men tioned was font. A cure for these defefls could only come from the tegißature.—Accordingly in the feifion which began in November measures were taken for procur ing a further revision of the laws. A bill containing amendments of those -and other defects was brought in ; —but it Co happened that this objeCt, by reatbil of more urgent bulinefs, was'deferred till towards the close of the feflion, and finally went off, through the usual hurry of that period. Ths cftntinuance of the embarrassment incident to Miis state Of things, naturally tended to diminish much ihe efficacy of the plan which had been deviled. Yet it was resolved, as far as legal pravitions would bear »ut the otficers, to pursue it witH perseverance: there was ground to entertain hopes of its good cited, and it was certainly the null likely course which could have been adopted towards attaining the object of the laws, by means fitort of force; —evincing, unequivo . cally, the finoere difpoution to avoid this painful re lon, and thcTteady moderation, which ha/e charac terised the measures of the government. In pursuance of this plan, prosecutions were occa- Jionally iuftituted in the mildeft-forms, feisures were made as opportunities occurred—and purehafes on public account were carried on. It may be incidentally remarked, that these pur bhafes were extended to other places ; where, though trie fame disorders did not exist, it appeared* ad vil'eable to facilitate the payment of the duties by this Species of accommodation. Nor was this plan, notwithstanding the deficiency Of legal provision, which impeded its full exetution, without conefponding effects. Symptdms from time to time appeared which au thorised expectation, that with the aid, at another ftffion, of the deiired Arpplementary provisions, it was capable of accomplishing its end, if no extraordi nary events occurred. The opponents of the laws, not insensible of the tendency of that plan, not of the defects in the laws Which interfered with it, did not fail from time to time to pursue analogous modes of counteraction. The effort to fruftrate the eftablilhment of of fices of infpecV.on, in particular, was pethiied in and even inercsted ; means of intimidating officers ind others continued to be exartetj. In April 179J, a party of arttoeti Irien, in disguise, made an attack in the night upon the house of a col letter of re\cone, who relided in Fayette county; but he happening to be from home, they contented themselves with breaking open his house, threaten ing, terrifying, and abuling his family. Wan ants were ifiued for apprehending some of the rioters upon tins occaiion, by Isaac Mason and times Findiev. adiitint judges of Kavette county, which wttre delivered to the iheriff of that county, who it feefas reiufed to execute them ; —for which he has iince been indicted. This is 41 once an example of a disposition tqfup port the laws of the Union, and of an opposite one, in the local ofiicers of Pennsylvania, within the non vomplyinf fctre.*—"But it i» a truth, too important not to be noticed, and too injurious not to be lamented that the prevailing lpirit of those officers has been ei ther hoflile or lukewartn to the exebution of those laws—and that the weight of an unfriendly official iriduenee has been one of the moil lerious obftaples, Vtithwhiqh they have had toiiruggle. In June following, the infpeftor of the revenue was burnt is effigy bi AJlegtitny county, at 1 place And on a day cf some public election, With mUch dif piay, in the pretence of and v,ithouLinterruption from xnagittiates, and other public odiceis. On the night Of t:ie a2d of November, another party of men, forae of them a med, Jnd all in disguise, went to the house of the fame cdlletlor-ofi Fayette, wh.ch had been visited in Ajjtil, broke and entered iu ahd demanded a'furrender of the officer s commit Con and official books. Upon hjs refitting to deliver them up; they prelented piitojs at him, and fwbre, that if he' did' not comply, they would inlteutly put him to dfeath, At length, a fu.rendar of the cornmiffion and books Was enforced. But not content with this, the i.oters, before they departed, required of the officer, that h£ thould, within two weeks, publish his religna tjon origin of another visit, and, the deifruction of his house. Notwithstanding these excesses, the laws appeared during the latter periods of th.s year, (1793), to be rather gaining ground. Several principal distillers, who had formerly held out, complied, and others d fcovered a difpoution to comply, whiih was only re trained by the fear of violence. But these favourable circumstances served to beget alarm among those who were determined, at all events, to prevent the quiet eftablilhment of the laws. It loon appeared, that they medi tated, by frefh and greater exceiles, to aim a ftiil more effectual blow at them; —to subdue the growing spirit of compliance, and to destroy en tirely the organs of the laws, within that part of the country, by compelling all the officers to re nounce their offices. The last proceeding, in the cafe of the collec tor of Fayette, was in this spirit. In January of the prel'ent year, further violences appear to have been perpetrated. William Richmond, who had given information against some of the rioters, in the affair of. Wilson, had his barn burnt with all the grain and hay, which it contained; and the fame thing happened to Robert Shawhan, a difkiller, who had been among the firft to comply with the law, and who had always spoken favour* ably of it. But, in neither of these inflances, (which happened in the county of Alleghany) though the preemptions were violent, was any positive proof obtained. The infpe&or of'the revenue, in a letter of the 17th of February, writes, that he had received information, that persons living near the dividing line of Allaghany and Washington, had thrown out threats of tarring aud feathering one William Cochran, a complying diftiller,and of burning his difliltery; and that it had also been given out, that in three weeks, there would not be a house Handing in Alleghany county, of any person, who had complied with the laws. In Consequence of Which, he had been induced to pay a visit to fe deral leading individuals in that quarter, as well to ascertain the truth of the information as to en deavour to avert the attempt to executc such threats. It appeared afterwards, that on his return home, he had been pursued by a coUeAion of disorderly persons, threatening, as they went along, ven geance againlt him. Ofi their way, these men called at the house of James Kiddoe, who had re cently complied with the taws, broke into his ftill4i6ufe, fired ftv«ral l>iH» under iis (18, and frittered lire over and about the hoife. Letters from the infpeclor iq Marci, anW»ne« an encreafed aitivity in promoting oapoliipn to the laws—frequent meetings trt cement snd ex tend the combinations against it; and among other means for this purpoiiva plan «f coieitiflg ? force to seize him, compel him to reign bis com millioD, and detain him prifoner—.piobably a« a hostage. In May and June new violences were commit ted. James Kiddoe, the person above mentioned, and William Cochran, another complying diftil lcr, met with repeated injury to their property. Kiddoe had parts of hi 6 grift-mill, at different times, carried away ; and Cochran fuifered more material injuries. His still was destroyed, his saw-mill wi* rendered useless by the taking away of the saw, and his grift-niill so injured, as to re quire to be repaired at confideraWe expsnfe. At the lad vilit, * note in writing was left, re quiring him to publish what he had fuffered, in the Pittlburgh Gazette, on pain of another visit; in which he is threatened, iq figurative, but in telligible terms, with the definition of his pro perty by fire : Thus adding to the profligacy of doing wanton injuries to a fellow-citizen, the tv' ranny of compelling him to be the publisher of his wrongs. June being the mbntli for receiving annual en tries of stills, endeavours were used to open offices in Weftmoreland and Washington, where it had been hitherto found impracticable. With much pains a;»d difficulty, glares were procured fortlie purpose. That in Weftmoreland was repeatedly attacked in the night by armed men, who fre quently fired upon it ; but according to a report which has been made to this department, it was defended with fomuch courage and pcrfeverance, by John Wells, an auxiliary officer, and Philip Ragan, the owner of the ijoufe, as to have been maintained during the remainder of the month. That, in Washington, after repeated attempts, was fupprefled. The fjrtl attempt was confiifed to pulling down the lign of the office, and threats of future deftrqition. The second effected the objedt in the following mode. About twelve per sons, armed and painte3 black, in the night of the 6th of June, broke into the house of John Lynn whefe the office was kept; and after having trea- Chcroufly feditfced him to coqie dovn flairs, and put himfelf in their power by a promise of fafety to himfelf and his houfe,they seized and tied him, threatened to hang him, took him to a retired spot in the neighbouring wood ; and there, after cutting off his hair, tarring and feathering hnn, swore him never again to alloW the use of his house for an office, never to difclbfe their names, and never again to have any fort of agency in aid of the excise: Having done which,they boftnd hiin naked to a tree, and left him in that Situa tion till morning ; when he focceeded wi extri cating himfelf. Not content with this, the rr.al*- contents, l'oroe days after, made him another vi lit ; pulled down part of his house, and put him in a fituiition to be obligeel to become an exile from his own home, and to find an afylura elfr where. During this time, several of the di(filters, who had made entries and benefitted by flieul, refufed the payment of the duties ; Aituated, no.doubt, by Various motives. Indications of a plan'to proceed against thein fpector of the revenue, in the maimer which has been before mentioned, continued. In a letter from hnn of the loth of July, he ohferveel, that the threatened vifithad not yet been made, though he had still reason to expedtit. In the l'effion of Conjjrefs which began in De cember 1793, a bill for making the- amendments in the laws, which had been for some time de sired, was brought in, ard on the jth of June last became a law. It is ni>t to be doubted, tliat the different stages 6f this bufmefs was regularly notified to the mal tontents, and that a conviction of the tendency of the amendments Cbntemplated to efteihiate the execution of the law"-, had itiatuied the rel'olution ttf bring matters to a violent crisis. The encreafing energy of the opposition, ren dered it indifpenlablc to meet the evil with pro portionable de-cifion. The idea of giving time for the la\V to extend itfclf, in scenes where the dif fatisfailion with it was the effeit, not of an impro per spirit, but of causes which were of a nature toyieid to reafon,reflci)ion,and experience (which had Canftantly weighed in the estimate of the measures proper to be pursued) had had its effect, in auextenfive degree. The experiment, too,had been long enough tried; to ascertain, that where refinance continued, the root of the evil lay deep, ihd required measures of greater efficacy than hid been pursued. TR'e laws had undergone re peated fevifions of the lcgiflative reprefentatjves of the union; and had virtually received their re peated fanition, without eVen afi attempt, as far as is now recollected, or can be traced, to effeil their repeal;—affprding an evidence of the gene ral feofc'of the community ip their favour. Com plaints began to be loud, from complying quar ters, against the impropriety and injustice of fuf fering the laws to remain unexecuted in others. Under the united influence of these considera tions, there was no choice but to try the efficiency, of tiie laws, in profecutirig, with vigour, delin quents and offenders. Procel's issued against a number us non-comply ing distillers in the counties of'Fayette and Allegha ny; and indictments having been foundatacircuit court, holden at Philadelphia in July last, against: Robert Sinil'e and John M'Culloch, two of the rioters in the attack, which, in November prece ding, Had been made upon the house of a collec tor of the revenue in Fayette county, processes is sued against them also, to bring them to trial j and if guilty, to puniflijnent. The marfliail of the diftrid went in person to serve these processes. He executed his trust with out interruption, though under many discourag ing circumltances, in Fayette county ; but while he was 111 the execution of it iq Alleghany county, being then accompanied by the infpeilor of the revenue (to,wit) on the 15th of July last, he was beset on the road by a party of from thirty to for ty armed men, who, after much previous irregu larity of conduit, finally fired upon him ; but as it happened, without injury either to him or to thtf infpeilor. This attempt on the marfliail was but the pre lude of greater excesses, About break-os-day, the 16th of July, in con formity with a plan, which seems to have been for some-time entertained, and which probably was only accelerated by the coming of thfc mar fliall into the survey, an attack, by about one hundred persons, armed with guns and other wea pons, was made upon the house of the infpeilor m the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The infpeilor, tho* alone, vigorously defended himfelf against the as sailants, and obliged them to retreat, without ac complifliing their purpose. Apprehending that the bufmefs would- not ter minate here, he made application bv letter to the judges, generals of militia, and flieriff of the coun ty for protcftion. A reply to his application, -from John Wilkins, jun. and John Gib!on, magi ftrate3 and militia officers, informed him, that the laws could not be executed, so as to afford him the protection to which he was entitled, owing _ to the too-general combinatiem of the people in that part ef Pennsylvania,to oppose the revenue law ; adding, that they would take every flop in their power to bring the rioters to juflace, and would be glad to receive information of the indi viduals concerned in the attack upon his honfe, .that proleeutiOns might be commenced against them; and exprelling their forrow,that thould the posse comitate of the county be ordered out , in'fupport of the civil authority, very few could be gotten that wtrenot of the paj-ty of the rioters. The day following, the insurgents re-aliembled, with a conliderabli augmentation of numbers, amounting, as has been computed, to at least live huni'.-ed ; and on the 17th of July, renewed their attack upon the house of the infpeiftor; who, ia the interval, had taken the precaution of calling to his aid a small detachment from the garrison of Fort-Pitt, which, at the time of the attack, con fided of eleven men, who -had been joined by Major Abraham Kirkpatrick, a friend and con nexion ef the intpector. There being fcarecly a profpeCl of effectual defence against so large a body is then appeared, and as the infpecftor had every thing to appre hend for his person, if taken, it was judged ad visable, that he should withdraw from the house to a place of concealment; Major Kirkpatrick geaeroufly agreeing to remain with the eleven men, in the intention, if practicable, to make a capitulation in favour of the property, if not to defend it as long as possible. A parley took place urtder cover of a flag, was sent by the insurgents Jo the house to demand, that the infpeftor mould come forth, re nounce his office, and ftipulatt never again to ac cept an office under the fame laws. To this it was replied, that the infpeitor had left the ho Life, upon their firft approach, and that the place to which he had retired was unknown. Tftey then declared that they mull have whatever rfciatedl to his office. They were answered, that they ttiight fend persons, not exceeding fix, to search the hottfe, and take away whatever papers they could find appertaining to the office. But not fatisfied with this, they insisted unconditionally, that the armed men, who iverein the house for its defence, fliould march out and ground their arnts, wtaicj) Major' Kirkpatrick peremptorily refufed; considering it and representing it to them as a proof of a design to destroy the property. This refufal put an end to the parley. * A brisk firing then ensued between the insur gents and those in the house, which it it said laft £d for near an hour, till the aflailants havingfetfire to the neighbouring and adjacent buildings, eight in number, the intenfenefs of the heat, and the dangers of an immediate communication of the fire to the house, obliged Majbr Kirkpatrick and his small party to come out and surrender them felvcs. In the ceairfe of the firing, one of the insur gents was killed and several wounded, and three of the persons in the house were also wounded. The person killed is urtdefftood to hare been the leader of the party, of the name of James M'Tar lar.r, then a major in the militia, formerly a lieute nant in the Pennsylvania line. The dwelling hsufe, after the surrender, shared the fate 6/ the other buildings; the whole of which were con sumed to the ground. Thelal's of property to the inipector, upon this occ&liou, is estimated, and, as it is l>L*lieVed, with great moderation, at not less _ than three tfioufand pounds. The marfhali, Colonel Prcfley Neville, and se veral others, were taken by the insurgents going to the iufpccforV house. All, except the niarfliall and Colonel Neville, fopn made their escape ;but these were carried off some difianoe from the place where the atlray had happened, and detain ed till one or two o'clook the next ihOming. In the course of their detention, the mar fliail in par ticular l'uffered very feyere and humiliating treat ment ; and was frequently in imminent danger of his life. Several of the j-arty repeatedly pre sented their pieces at liim, with every appearance of a design to atfaffmat#, from which they were, with dirhculty, restrained hy the efforts of a few more humane aud more prndrrlt. Nor could he obtain fatety or liberty, but upoo the condition of a promise guaranteed by Colonel Neville, that he would serve no other process on ! the weft fide of the AHeghany mountain. The alternative being, immediate death, extorted from • the marfliail a compliauce with this condition; notwithstanding the just fenfo of official dignity, aud the firmnefs of character, which were wit nessed by his conduit throughout the trying scenes he had experienced-. The insurgents, on the 18th, sent a deputation of two of their number (one a iuftlce of' the peace) to Pittsburgh, to require of the marfhali a surrender of the processes in his poffeffiouj in ' timatmgi that his compliance would fatisfy the - people and u'Lr to bh Jfiiftiy; and also to demand of general Neville, it! peremptory terms, the resigna tion of his office, threatening, iu calc of refufal, to attack the place and take him by. force: de mands which both these officers did not\befitate tb rcjeit, as alike incompatible with their ho nour, and their dtify. As it was well ascertained, that no protection was to be exptited from the magistrates or inha bitants of Pittsburgh, it became necefl'ary to the fafety, both of the infpeitor and the marfliail, to , quit that plac£; arid,as it was kntlwn that all the usual routes to Philadelphia were beset by the in surgents, they concluded to descend the Ohio,and proceed, by a circuitous route, to the feat of go c vernment; which they begin to put in execution on the night of the iyt-h of Jitly. Infomation l»as also been received Of a meeting of a couhderable number of perfbDs at a place? called Mingo-Creek Meeting-House, in the coun ty of Waflrington, to consult about the further measures which it might be adviiablt to purine : that at this meeting a motion was made to approve and agreeto l'upportthe proceedings whiehhadta ken place, until the excifc law ttaS repealed, and * an ait of obliv.on passed. But tha!,iiiftead of this, it had been agreed, that the four weftem coun ties of Pennsylvania, and the neighbouring coun ties of Virginia, fliould be invited to meet in a convention of delegates, on the 14th of the present month, at Parkinfon's, on Mingo-Creek, in the county of Wafhingtott, to take into conli derat ion the situation of the western country, and , Concert such measures as fliould appear fttited to the ocafion. It appears, moreover, that on the 15th as July last, the mail of the united states, on the road from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, was flopped by two armed men, who cut it open, and took out all the except those contained in one pack et ? these armed men, from all the circumstances which occurred, were inanifetlly ailing on. the part of the infurgeuts. The declared object of the foregoing proceed ings, is to obftruit the execution and compel a repeal of the laws laying duties «u spirits distil- Ird within the united flat's, and unon r, i is just caufc to believe, that this i- con an wdifpofition, too generaUn that rd ' ; ,fliare in the common burthens of ih ' ■ jv;and with a wifti, among fomc pc nV fluence, to embarraf, the government ft' ' ed, by mell-informed person., to V notoriety, that the revenue la„ t . a ' W T either resist ' defectively complied with in the W u With the mcft perfect refpedt, 1 have the hononr to be, Sir Your most obedient,'a n j Humble servant, Alexander Ham The President of the United States. Captain LOWRLL, HaWn^grral' of her cargo on board, will f a T\ few days. Freight will be taken i phefl For immediately, for which as as for paflagr, applyto i Andrews & Mereditl At WiLlng's Wharf. August 6. "vENI/i, Captain M' Cornell. Now lying at Mr. ROSS's Wharf, an cxc.l. lent vt-ffel, about 220 ions by regiftn ; c 1- rouncar 2500 bis. Flour, is remarkabl,' U found) and may be sent to sea, at a very expenc, having lately had upwards 0 | hundred pounds flcrling, laid out on lit If not-sold in fortnight, (he will ih exposed at public auction. Anv reafo credit may be given—Inventory may bt ou board, by applying to Capt. M'CCN NELL, or to Peter Blight, WHO HAS FOR SALh, fORT WINE, In Pipes and half Pipes and Quarter Calks, Madeira in do. do. Havanna While Stigar in Boxes. d2wi For Sale or Charter, Gen.WASHINGTON Sj/heften master. NOW lying at Say's wharf,tile 3 the independence of the United America, JOSEPH BOGGS, ot •- diftritt hath depolited in this offic teofabookihe whereof asawhorin the wo/ds following, 1 " I"be Philadelphia I > ry, for the year I if5 —by J?fep ■ r In cpoformityTto theaft of the >■ { - of the United States intituled ' ' I the encouragement of learning i ttie copies of ma})? chifrfs atod ' ~,, i authors and proprietors of ftic' M r ilit the tiHies therein nieHtitm« Sam GaldvWf Cterk of tl>iftri&of' „ July ¥> —— NOTICE. , The Gazette of H- , l( States if now puby**" a , t /> CHF.SNUT. STF-FET to ™ , si OFFICE of the Editor urn ■ . . ■where Printing AVorit m J performedi