1 Jaroes Mitchell, Elder of Peters Cosgrega. John Mercer f Elders of Chartiers James Allifon $ Congregation. Craig Richie Alexander Cunningham. Since I lived in Washington county, I have had opportunity of conversing and being wel! acquainted with James Rofs.Efq. of Pittlburgh, and of knowing his character from fer-ious and refpeetable persons well acquainted with his opinions and conversa tion, and I am well persuaded that he is sin cerely refpe&ful of the Christian Protestant Religion, and do verily believe that the re port of h's being an infidel or deill is alto gether without foundation. JOHN SMITH, Minijler of AJfoc'tated Congregation Charficrt. f! v ®tie <sa3ette. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4. APPROACHING ELECTION. NUMBER XI. To the Eleßors of Pennsylvania. A FIFTH address has, since my lafVnum ber, appeared from the Jacobin Committee, upon which I beg- leave t.> weary the patience of the public/with a fiw observations: lit. 'l'liey aflert, that the com mittee had delayed their addrds, with a. view of circulating niilreprefenta tioss, which could not be feplied to, and that it was sent to different parts of the State before it was pijblifhed in the citv.— This is an abfolutc fallhood. Mr. Hollingf worth lent it to the editors of favzral newf pa,pers, as footi as it was printed, and before it was djftributed in pamphlets. But where fore was Mr. M'Keart's committee entitled 'to the last reply ? Wherefore were the fede ralists to be prev'eiited.'frpin cle'teiSling their fal(Hoods upon the foot ? It is evident that one of the parties mult have hatj the last answer,' and why not the one as well as the other ? Might not Mr. Rofs's com mittee as jiiftly complain, that they will liave no opportunity of replying, to the work upon which I am now comment - hng"? To difpliy the base and contemptible •surtifites of \M.r. D'llas and his eollejgues, in their proper 'colors, it is, however, only jiyceflary to itate, that they have printed and diftfibutejl an address in various parts of the Stat&, which has never been publilhed in a Philadelphia Gazette, which the most aflive Hiembers of the' federal party have had, no opportunity of feeing, and which, from be . "'.ginning to end, is a tilfne of the mod palpa- We, calumnious, and abandoned ■misrepre sentations., I obtained a view of this curi '• pus Jhoduftion only by chance, it was not fuffcred to remain in my poffcffion, c and ' 1 -.cannot? with fuffitaent accuracy, enlarge upon it. J'"-' , 2ndly. The jaco'oin committee r ffirm. that although Mr. M'Kean knew that Dr. Lo gan was going- to Europe, yet he neither knew to what part of Euroj|, nor upon what brfihefs ; and he only furnuhed the do&or with a certificate under his hand and seal, in his official capacity, and according to his official duty, that Dr. Logan was a citizen of the United Statrs." Now Dr. Logan has acknowledged, in an apology for his conduft, figiied by himfelf, aAd publUhed in the Aurora, that he went to. France with the privity of some of the moll distinguished charades in America. It is confefled that the chief justice of Penn sylvania (whole office, certainly grants great diflinftion), furnilhed him with a certificate of citizenlhip, for the pnrpofe of going to Europe. Is it then credible that Mr. M'Kean is not one of the persons to whom Logan alludes ? If the pursuits of the envoy were purely agricultural as he has alledgcd, wherefore was any lecrefy neceffyry ? II his ohjedls were of a political nature, wherefore /hould they have been concealed from the republican candidate, whose views generally coincided with his own ? Were his inten tions to* criminal to be confided, even to.the leaders »f his own faftion ? Weife they too dangerous and treasonable even for a Jef ferfon and M'Kean to fanftion ? But how could it have been the official duty of Mr'. M'Kean, to grant certificates ol citizenlhip? Is such a duty in any re fpe£l judicial ? Is it the bulrnefs of any Slate officer to grant such certificates ? The lights excluliveJy appertains to the officers of the general government; and I challenge the comtriittee, or any of their partizani, to point out any law by which such a duty has been devolved upon the chief justice of Penn sylvania, or a (ingle instance of his ha/ing before performed it. 3d. Ihe republican committee declare, that Mr. M'Kean ha> never approved, di rectly or indire&ly, of the claim of the Penil family, as made under the British treaty. Nor has it ever been fail that he does so. But in answer to the clamours made by his committee, again (I the proceedings of the Britifti commissioners, it has been alerted, and with truth, that he has fanetioned the principles whereon that claim is grounded, and has written a pamphlet in support of. them. This pa'tnplilet is part of a memo rial presented to the Board, by the present attorney in faa, of MefTrs. Peon's* and pre sifely so far as the claim is inadmissible, has Mr. M'Kean endeavored to substantiate a demand, unjiilt in itfelf, and injurious to his country. It is perfe£lly immaterial when the book was written ; it corroborates the ideas of the claimant, or he would cot have produced it as a proof of the validity and justice of his claim ; and this is all that has ever been contended for. 4th. Mr. Dallas and his subalterns deny that the opinion of their candidate, publiftied in 1798, agrees with that of the general Britilh agent, who contends, that the U. r v s.. w**"' v%V J. " 'States were not. independent until the defi j nitive t>eaty of 1783. Now, Mr. M'Kean, ; in the opinion alluded to, expressly declares, J that " the civil war continued till the year | 1783;" that " all, the inhabitants of the ; United States were put on the footing of a ceded island, by 'the definitive treaty of 1783;" and, that " after'the definitive treaty, the national independence was con summated," A civil war, in its.verynature only, exists between the different branches of ; the same- empire, not between two indepen dent nations* / Ifj.'as he fays, this ciyil war | did not terminate with declaration of 1776, but continued until V 783, we mull have been dependant upon Great Britain till that period, we did' not become Sovereign States until that moment, and of course we remained Britilh fubjeits, until the king of England put us on the footing of a ceded island, by (i~ning the definitive treaty, and thereby consummating our na ' tional independ; nee. The opinion df Judge Chafe, mutilated as it is in the quotation of the committee, in 110 wife corresponds with that ot Mr. M'Kean ; for the former fays only, that the fubjedts of Great Britain were entitled to become American citizens, on the declaration ot independence: While the latter affirms, that the citizens of Ame- Rica were entitled to etyoufe whicb party they piejfad, until the definitive treaty.— The difference between the tw» opinions conflitute precisely the point in dispute, for if the doclrine of the republican candidate be trirs, the tories who espoused the cause of Great Britain after 1776, became British subjects, <yid lfave, therefore, under the lixth art*.le of the Britilh treaty, a right to reco ver their confifcated dtftts and estates. sth. Mr. M'Kean's cotjimittee endeavoui" .to pallijtg his conduct at the Mayor's, after the diflurbauce 111 St. Mary's chureh yarJ, by afierting " ifl. That the city and its neighbourhood had been much didurbed with -he feuds and riots of iritemperate party men. 2d. That the streets wgs crowded wi{h L peo ple, and that the report was officially made to the chief jui\ice, that tl?e prisoners wVre paraded hand-cuffed through the city. 3d. I hat when the ta£is were uniie.rftood, he per ceived at once that the riot had originated in a party contest, and that tiie prisoners •svere not the aggreffijrs. 4 th. That they have tince been prosecuted, tried, and acquitted." If the city had been before diflatbed by the ieuds and riots of intemperate party men, there was the more leafon for making a severe example of the rioters on this cafien, since if they had betn fufFe f ed "to take up their hats and go away," so dan gerous a pradfice would have become more frequent from impunity. It the ftre'ets were crowded with people, it was no more than lias been usual when any offence has been committed of so atro ciaus a nature, as to rouse the public atten tion and curiobty. Nor could the report that the prisoners were hand-cuffed, have been officially made, unlei's it was fwsrn to, since no judge can take official notice of any -faft, tinlefs tt is proved by the oath of the informer. It any such official information, therefore, was given (as it was„totally falfe) •the prrfon who gave it was perjured, and if so, the vigilant chief justice ought to have bound him over for prosecution. Confe qnently, either no (uch official report was made, or Mr. M'Kean has been guilty of a flagrant breach of his judicial duty, in not binding over the perjured party. Mr. M'Kean did ntjt take time fairly " to understand the fafts," for the moment j ne entered the Mayor's house, and before he could perceive whether " the prisoners were ! the aggrtlfori or not," he most violently at tacked, and insultingly abused that magi strate, while in the execution of the ditties of his office. If the prisoners have been preheated, tried, and acquitted, it was no reason for advising them " to take up their Ifais and go away, or for not taking their recognizances to appear at court and ftand'their trial'-; since we daily fee, by the practice of our courts, that fitfficient cauk* exists for profecut'on, when fufficienl evidence cannot be adduced to bring, about cpnvi£Vion. But admitting ;:ll tjje fails stated by his committee to be true, Mr. M'Kean's con duft was not the less indecent, illegal, and criminal. Pie poff lied no legal authority to contreul the mayor in the exCrcife of his judical fundions. If that officer Jiad been oppressive or tyrannical, more legal means than one existed, by which the prisoners could have obtained redress, and Mr. M'Kean is not so ignorant a lawyer, as to be unin formed that he was guilty of a gross con tempt ot judicial authority, for which he was liable to, and deserved iinpriloninent, Candour* however, compels me to record one faft, in puliation of his behaviour : He was in a ftatc of evident intrx : cat:on, and Mr. Israel, bail for one ot the prisoners, leaned towards the drfk at which the mayor was fitting, and said " never mind him Mr. Mayor, he is drunk, no on with taking the recognizances." \et do we now fee tl)is Israel among the moll zealous and efficient supporters of Mr. M'Kean's eleftion. "I he committee conclude with a declara tion " that adhering to their original dtfen sive principle, they shall leave the merits and demerits of Mr. Rofs to the ordeal of public Opinion. And how have they afted ugon a defensive principle ? Did they not in their fir ft address declare that they could discover neither talents nor public virtue in the federal candidate, and that he had endea voured to advance a system which could be eftabliffied only on the ruins of the federal commonwealth ?" Did they not in their se cond publication plainly insinuate that he had been guilty of treason, by fomenting the wrftern rebellion ? Have they not ex pressly compared Mr. Wharton to the " cap- ! tain of a banditti, organized for the pur- ' poses of assassination and pillage?" And has not Mr. Coxe, one of cheir number, in a paper branded with his own fignaturc, and , - filled with the mofi atrocious falfelcci's, nccufed Mr. Rots of prompting to the it;ur dtr ot the officers of government, ot fcrt tering the firebraiids of -diu.ord, and fanning the flame of inhirreifuon ? Tf libels as scan dalous and malignant as tbefc, .conftitutc actmg upon the defensive, the public haw hitherto totally miiunderflood the tern;. Mr. Dj'las may, bowevev, be afTwed, that the public fee through the veil tf hypocrisy with which be' has endeavoured to conceal his intentions ; and' that Mr. Rnfs will be eledled in defpight if all the '• cabals of fadion, and'the fpe&res of detra&ion." Since the ab'ov; was written, the fourth addrels to which I alluded, us "having been circulated in pampnlets before it appeared in the city, has been publilhed. It bears date the 27th of September, and was hot pl;b liPned un.il the 3d of Oftober. From the " Oracle of Dauphin." Extract of a letttr from Huntingdon, da- ted September 19, 1799. Mr. Wyetli has been in this town last week, and has said in public, that fee has been offered one thoui'and dollars not to write any thing in favour ofßofs, and five hundred of it in hand ; and said he did not know who would carry the majority in that county." REMARKS ON THE ABOVE. fCT* The above was handed me one day last week, ty Mr. Stacy Potts, Gen. H;ib na and Mr. George Wbitehill, who request ed an explanation of the fame. I obieived to thera, that this was not an accurate state ment of my aiTertion in Huntingdon ; but that I had said, and I do hereby declare, that at the 1a ft June Court in Harri{bu'rgh r one individual, offered to talce FIVE HUNDRED additional papers ef my publi cation, (which io fad would be loqp dollars) " if I %yonld turn a Goju Republican, and Pkint only en THAT .SIDE,'' to if neceiTary, I am willing to qualified to be as near the very words made ufeuf to m», as the best of mj recollediion I do not liefitate to fay, that I have both in public and private, in Huntingdon and elfewherc, asserted, that I did not know which of the candidates for Governor would have a majority in Dauphin county ; and when I refle&cd on some of the committee for promoting Mr. M'Kean's eleftion, de clining to lerve, and others dil'pleafed for being nominated, I cannot persuade myfelf that I cortimittrd a crime in either thinking or faying so—at any rate, I know leveral who exercile their thinking faculties in a si- THE EDITOR. ; R. E P o R T Of the Sextons of the different grounds, oj the number of Funerals attkeir grounds. FOR THE 24 HOURS, KNDING THIS DAY AT I 2 O'CLOCK. ■*, ■ of tbe Burial Grounds. Chriit Ciitfrch, St. Peters, "St. Pauls, ift Presbyterian, 2d do. 3d do. Sots Presbyterian, A Hoc i ate Church, St. Mary's, r Trinity, Friends Free Quakers, Swedes, German Lutheran, Get man Preflayterian, Moravian, Baptist,. Metliodift, Univerfalift, Jews, African Epifcopals do. Mefhodift, Keniington, Public Ground,* The above list comprehends all the burials from the City and Liberties of every disease By order ef the Board of Health. WILLIAM ALLEN, CITY HOSPITAL. For the last 24 hours,ending a 2 a'icock a. m. A.DMITTKD. Catherine Nugent, from Hace street. Rooert Killpatripk, Lftiviharti near-Bth street, Catherine Hnrtis, froip Race (treat, v Paul Sheppart, 2d street wear Love lane. DIED. RobertGroye, ill 7 days previous to admission. William Jacks, ill 4 do. do. Jacob Freed, admitted itvfenfib.lt. William Shanks. interred the-laft 24 the ♦PUBLIC GRGjDND, i Still Born Child, from sth below South street. 1 Joseph Bowen, 4th street, corner of Callowhill street. 1 Peter Rose, Starling alley. 4 From the Hospital. 7 Total. Rainaining in the Hospital 54, of whom 30 are convalescents. PETER HELM, Steward. THREE deaths were reported at the Health-Office in New-Ygrk, for the 24 hours ending Wednesday last at 12 o'clock. /- ■TTirw MILO. ' \ . <a • ■3. * S 3 £ a J - 2 o o o o o 0 o 1 o o o o o o o o o 0 o 1 © o o o o o c O I o o • o o o O D o o O 9 o o o e 7 s Total 11 1 Health Officer. -*? se^ss (Bnsette iparint %ift. Port of Philadelphia. ARRIVED. Blig Ma y, Dickfon, Guernsey 5: Gaynfa, Remingtdn, HavaHna 2/ Young George,——, prize to Ganges Came up from the fort. Ship Wm. Penn. Volans, Batavia Brig Ariel, Griffiths, St. Croix The brig Lavitiia, Cook, from hence, hat arrived at Gnernfey. The ftip hat arrived at the Havanna; .Captain Remington left at the Havanna the following vessels belonging to thio port ! Ship Neptune, Hacquin, Edward, Wiekhr m, Schr. Success, Johnson, Zenith, Shurtliff, Favorite Packet, Mafftt, And several others names unknown. An embargo had been laid for five days previous to captain Remington's Liling. Ne%v-Yc-i,. October 3. Yesterday arrived" (hip Adventure, Barr, 63 days from Copenhagen. Spoke Sept. 17, Ihi- Prelident, of Nw- BedforJ. capt. Bennett, from Virginia to Falmouth, out 25 days ; the capt'iin very sick. Sailed from Eiimeure in company with 14 foil of Americans, among them. 1 Ship Penelope, Zett, of New-York, Jofcph, and of do. and Bifpatch, of Philadelphia. Rising States, Putnam, of Salem. Aurora, of Richmond. George, of Portliuouth, N. H. Neptune, of Providence, and several others not recolk-£led. BOSToW, September"3o. • Yefteraay arrived in. the outer harbatjr, fllip Rodolph Frederick, ,fcapt. Crocker, 48 days from Hamburg. Mr. Thomas Gcyer, merchant, of this plate, We wtre-Uft evening favoured with papers prin ted in that city, to August 7, but they con tain no - intelligence of any moment. Capt. Crocker, spoke coming' dewn the Elbe, with the \ brig Ann, capt. Lord, of this port, bound up. On the. Grand Banks, spoke a veflel bound to Baltimore, Which failed from Hamburgh eight days after him—was infor med that information had been received there, of an embargo being laid in all tfce ports of England ; on Saturday, spoke brig ——, Williams, from the Havannah, bound to Salem, and saw several veflcls fending in—one of them thought to be the Isabella, Jones, from Hamburg. Sugar, Orffee, Tobacco, have ctjnfiderably fallen in Hamburgh, the markets being over flocked. The othfcr veflels anchored in the outer harbour yesterday, were, a new fliip from the eastward, and one from Rufia, name un known. IMPORTANT ABSTRACT OF FO- REIGN AFFAIRS. From the Sun of /.luguft 9. We yefterdav announced, in part of our impression, the receipt of Paris papers to the Jth in!t. If they do not give us reason to believe that any great success has b; en obtained by the allies, tfcey afford us at lead a eertainty that, our enemies have not gained any. Tliey do indeed fay, that they have obtained a fma 1 advantage ib Switzerland, but aU the late accounts agree in reprefen ting the-two hostile armies in tl*at country as is nearly the fame position in the end of last month, in which they have for so long a time bten. The head quarters of the Archduke have r ' it' is true, been rerroved two leages backward, but the army has not followed this movement, and has maintain ed Its position. The troops opposed to each other on the right bank of the Rhine, have 5n like manner remained nearly inaflive. The cafe has rot been the fame in Italy, and tho.igh we have no authentic account of the operations of the armies in that coufltry, we fee that ef the allies has been attive ly employed at its two present objefts, the siege of Mantua, and that of-Aleflandria. The latter place has, it appears, affced to capitula'e, but the propoutionsof the com mandant were not accepted, and it was ex peSed that in would surrender before the 2?o li of July. It is probable 1 hough we we (hall hear of its furrendet before the ex piration of a week. The siege of Mantua, at which it appears that more than 30,000 mm are employed, has been no' vigo roufly puflied. although attended w th more difficulty. The besiegers took possession 01 the 12th of another outwork ;on the 15th tlie fecptid parallel was finifhed, and prepa rations were made to begin the third ; the principalattack is direfted against the Faux burg St. George. If we may believe a letter from Pavia of the 15th, General Mo reau had only left a small body of troops in the defiles of the Appennines, and had himfelf retreated as far back as Albenza. Marftiall Suwarrow is said to have gone up the valley of the Bcrmida, and to have ad vanccd as far as Ormia and Garrefio This movement is a natu al consequence of that ef General Mtref.u, and if the latter has really taken place, little doubt can be es tertained as to the former. In that cafe the situation of Moreau must be ve>y criti cal, and the design which Marlhal Suwarow it fuppuftd to entertain, of taking possession of the road of the Coi du Tende, maybe realized. The French papers confirm all we kiiow, and even give us new details refpefting the recapture of '.he state of Naples and of the Grand Dutchy of Tufcany, but bring us nothing certain refpeftiug thd fate of Mac donald and his army. It is said that one part was at Lucca, another at Pontremoli, I reports moil be falfe ; but we ?re Furnifhect ' with no dates lo enable us to determine 'which is so. We arc in the fame situation Day«. . with refpe& to a riper of the capture .by the Engliih of a ship carrying G neral Mac donald, his Staff, and the ( ommiffary Rein hard, which is jcbntradifled. and, as it ap pears, with good reason, flnce subsequent accounts state Reinhard to have arrived at : Villt Franche. The Auftriins had enter ed Piltoya, arid, what is flill more impor j tant, Leghorn and Aucona continue to be besieged. | Though the Paris papers are not so fa tisfaflory as we could desire refpefting fo reign affairs, they are on the other hand very intereftirg on the affairs of France itfelf. They indeed take advantage of that degree of Liberty of the Prcfs wh ; ch the councils have grantfed tbem. The journals j rtprefent the ftafe of their countty to be | such, as the molt decided enemies to the French can wifli it to be. The war, the j taxes, and the new tyranny which the J?- j" cobjn6 exercise, have reduced the inhabitants I of France to what we should call the ex j treme degree of misery, if futurity did not ! appear to be big with Hill greater evils for I them. The wretchedoefs of the people is ; only equalled by the diflrefs of the govern ment, which is incapable of supporting it* i felf at the fame time againftwant of money, I war, the attack of its internal ihcmies, and i the dilccntent of all the inhabitants of the Republic. Although even according to the statement of the French papers, the re» latire fmiation of the Diredlory, of the Councils, and of the Jacobin Club, a real chaos, the vi-w becomes, however, somewhat less obfciive. The Councils of Five Hund ed continues to support, or to be lupported by the Jacobins. T'nacofthe Elders oppofcß them with some firmnefi, and does, in faft, p'av the part afligned to it by the Constitution—that of a Made- ratcu. The Direfti ry, divided between Sieyes and Bavraa on ihe ofte hand, and the three Directors on the other ia neutralized by the attachment of the two former to the ■ Council of Elders and of the three others | to the Council of Five Hundred ; fa that ; the real contest is between the two Councils. | That cf the Elders, whose constitutional i force is merely negative, does rot, however, confine itfelf to rejeftir g some Decrees of that of the Council of Five hundred. After having, as has been seen, driven the Jaco bins from its vicinity, it took on itfelf, ia the fitting of the 31ft, to bridle their vio lence and their daring publications. The Direftory have in confequtnce been called upon to make communication refpefting ths executioH of the Articles of the Con stitution relative tu Societies and Associa tions, contrary to the public order, and to private Societies occupying themselves with the difcuifiona of political questions. We IhaD fee whether the Council of Elders will carry their courage,, and their desire of pre serving the Constitution and themselves any further. In the mean time, the Jacobins continue to organize their power. The af filiated Clubs of the great cities have again openedtheir fittings. Marseilles, Bourdeaux, and Rouen, again tremble under the axe of their ancient oppreflurs. The Jacobins have renewed their ancient method of procuring denunciations from the Provinces. The admin.ftratori of a Department in the South have drawn up an address, in which they accuse Barras and Sieyes ef being fold to the coalition,; charging the former with hav. j ing delivered to the allies the of Piedmont and Italy, and the latter withbe ! ing the author of a secret convention for giving a King to France, a> d with hiving received presents from the King of Pruflia for that purpose. Whether or no thefeA®- cufatior.sbe well founded, there will be found a number oi people in France who will believe them, and the throne which one of our Englilh papers has day after day been raifiog for King Barras, mufl at prefect ap pear to him to exist only in his own columns. riK- Debates of the Councils have princi pally turned 011 the three objects which at preient chiefly interefi. then*—the loan of 100 millions, the measures relative to the war, ■'r.d the Jacobin Qub. '{'lie Council of Elders has njeiSU-d the mode adopted by that of Five Hundred,/as to raiting by mul tiplied aIT. iTments of the taxes the loan of an Hundred Millions, which they have decreed, t be Council «1 Five hundred has in conse quence pre fen ted fever al other modes, one oi which has been definitely adopted ; and of which a Iketch is to be found among our extrafts. 111 the mean time the govern ment, reduced to such di fire Is from want of money as to he unable to fend off the troops to the army which it destines for it, is said, after several conferences with Bankers, to have obtained an advance of fix, millions of livres, [300,000!. fielding.} ") ; ; NOTICE '~pO the owners of unfeatcd lands in the county *■ of Huntingdon, to come forward and pay the taxes alTem d and due within three months from this date, tlvre being one or more years tax es due on the unfeatcd lands in the said county of Hunting-ion. WILLIAM STFEL, HUGH MORR'bON, JOHN STEEL, Huntingdon, CommifHoners") Olfice, Sept. 25, 1799. J O&oher />• and another at Seftn o. .. Jn tht other hand, we are afiWd, that the allies had taken pofTcffion of the defiles of Sar hiaza. It is evident that one of the two AN INVOICE OF DRY GOODS iOR SAI. E. ' Consisting of broad and n<trrow Cloths, Caffimejes, Linens, See. Bcc. SO* Apply to William Parkih, Peel Ha!l, on the road, two miles from 'he city. Sejht. 30, 1799. «• •. i * *■**■/£■ . »>.*:;»'% V ' '* J Commiflioners. d3m. >" f-i' • A,~> " *A,r.
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