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500 Dollars Reward.
WtfKREAS a certain THOMAS SLOS»S
GANTT, has lately made his escape
from Baltimore County Gaol, to which he was
commuted under a charge of having robbed the
Eaitern Mail, on the sß;h day of January Jaft :
Notice is hereby given, that a reward of five
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anv prrfon or perfojis who ftiall apprehend the
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answer the above mentioned charge.
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
The following is a description of the above
named Thomas Sioss Gantt : He is about
fix feet high, strait „nd well made, has light co
louied hair, tied behind, fair complexion and
has a down look when spoken to.
FROM THE GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Mr. Bach e ,
I FIND, from the newspapers, that
there is a great deal of fuii among
the folks in the city, about war in
Europe and the Frefident's procla
mation. I obferve,too,that two Ame
ricans have been committed to gaol,
to take their trial, for entering on
board a French privateer, and aililt-
ing to take f'onie vefleU belonging
to the British, with whom it is
said, we are at peace, and ought
therefore to live In rtriift jriendjhip<
with them. 1 wilh, Mr. Bache,that
you would explain all this to us
flnipletons in the country, who are
at a loss to understand your city
language, particularly when you
talk at duty, intercjt, jriendjhip, ini
partiality, peace, &c. I believe that
your city-folks have I'ome better
dictionaries than Jnhnfon's and She
ridan's, when you set about explain
ing thefehard words. Forinftance
now, you talk of.being at peace or
in jriendjhip with Great-Britain :
But let me aik you,
I. If Great-Britain were to seize
upon ihe cities of Boston, New-
437
Wednesday, June 1 795-
Pojl-Msjicr Genera/.
ork and Philadelphia, and to place
li 'iro British garrifVms ii, iheni,
io we tijcr, Li-at pi ace with her ?
2. Jf this would ivot be peace, but
war, how will yoflr government
men be ai>le to make it out, that to
have our wfefterw ports held from
6s, and gjurifoneil by the Britilh, is
flat war also ; or at lealt very uis
fr'tcn'Siy ,condii<Tt—efpeeially when
it: is added, that these fame BritWh
gat rifoua rob us of the fur trade,
and encturage the Indians to mur
der our jieople on the frontiers '
?. If the two privateer's men |
ihouid be punt/li«d for entering into
the French service, then, 1 suppose,
every man who enters inro foreign
service without leave ofour govern
ment-men, is liable to be piinilhed
alio ; at thin rate, will not Col.'Os
wald, Maj. £yilace, and many other
brave Americans, who are now pay
ing a debt ef * -«ur old
friends the French, be liable to se
vere punishment, if ever they re
turn |o their native country
Do, Mr. Bache, be so kind as to
procure an ajifwer to thef'e three
queries from some of your corres
pondents, particularly the second ;
for I am very desirous to know bow
we can be at peace with a nation,
that holds forcible patfejjion of a num
ber of polls in our country.
Yoarj, ijc.
FH6M THE GENEfi.iL ADVERTISER.
Mr. Bsche,
You will oblige me by giving flace to
the jcllotving anf-wer to the farmer.
TO A FARMER. '
IF I underhand your Queries,tliey
unplv a Itrong advocation of a
war wilh Great-Britain : Permit me
in return to ask you a few quefti-
OIIS.
Can America join France against
Great • Britain, without bringing up
on her the enmity of the other com
bined powers !
Placed by nature at the dillance
of 3000 miles frrtin France, and ijoo
from anj of her pofl'eflions, what
aid can we give to either without a
naval force ?
To the united navies of Great-
Britain, Holland, Spain, Portugal
and Russia, what lias America to op
j>ofe but 12 custom house boats ?
What would be the expense of
building & equipping a naval force
equal to render active assistance to
France, and protection to our own
comirerce ?
If this be impollible, and our com ■
merce be of course ruined, what
proportion will the price of wheat
and the other productions of the
Farmer bear to the present i
If tiie duties now paid at the cus
tom-bouses by commerce ceal'e, how
are we to raise money for the exi
gencies of the proposed war, but by
direct taxes 011 land, See. &c. or by
loan ?
If direct raxes prove inconveni
ent to rail'e the neceflary funis, (hall
we have reccurfe to foreign or do
mestic loans i If to foreign, from
whom (hall we borrow when at war
wirh all the world ? If to domestic,
will the Kariner and his friends
place fufficient confidence in the
justice of the quarrel, the success of
its event, and the faith of govern
ment, to lend their property ?
If the payment of the iirteieU on
the present debt of the United Stares,
contracted during a war into which
we were driven, and which termi
nated in the eftabliihment of free
dom and happiness, be a grievance,
(hall we diminifli the evil by ad
ding ten millions of dollaib a year
(the average expenle of the late
war) to that debt, by wantonly en
gaging in a quarrel with which Wc
When the Farmer talks of the
western polls, he seems to forget
that there are two banks to a river ;
it would be difficult to prove tfoaj
forts oppofire to Detroit and
ra would be lels troublesome to us
than they are ; or that an Indian
canoe, or Britifli armed vHFeI cebld
not as well navigate on the fide of
t he lakes and rivers wlMrh are theft s
by treaty, as on our fide; In the
■M>niihn «if. we hai e I nid a«id
l>o'U enough aTreiuly : when we
want more, 1 prefuine the Farmer
will gallantly turn out and help us
get them.
But from the importance which
the Farmer gives to his argument:
of the f" 11 r 1 ride, I am induced to
fufpei r t that he is really a Hatter,
and t hat tlie advantages which might
derive to his branch of business front
a free trade with the Indians, is
wifely considered by him as an am
ple compensation for what all the
other clafle® of fodety muff fufFer,
from the interruption which war
would give to every other branch
of com merce.
A FARMER.
I will I hank him, however, toan
fwer me, whether he really fippof
es, that the Britifli garrisons in Ca
nada would give iels encourage
nveirt To the Indians to murder i;s in
the time of war, ihan they do now ;
—or whether the Fur Trade would
flouridi under fuel) circumftanres ?
Left from the tenor of these que
ries. the Farmer should call me an
Englifhinan, 1 tliink it proper to af
fore him that I am a native (not an
imported) American. And that be
having served my country in one
war, I have learnt to eflimate its ca
lamities more juflly than he appears
to have done.
MR. F e N N«,
IF we recur to the history of part ages, we
shall find, that enthusiasts ( in religion 4s
well as in politics, have nevfcr frriipjed telling
ten thousand lies in defence of their l efpec
tive lyliems—And the events of our own
times will go to prove, that the prejudices
which governed some of our ancestors, ope
rate witii equal force on the minds of their
posterity.
Itisllotmallyyearsnl.ee, that a few il
literate perrons conduced by a woman of ill
tame, made tlieir appearance in the neigh
borhood of Albany and calling thernfelve, the
chosen people of God, introduced a mode of
worlhip which from its novelty attract d the
attention ofevery body—All intercqurfe be
tween the two sexes was interdicted The
married were prohibited from cohabiting to
gether—every 1,-iipulle, however abfutd, was
considered as Supernatural—jig tunes were
substituted for hymns, to which they dan
ced until they we.e quite exhaufteri—they
wallowed in mud holes—ran naked into the
high ways and excepting the framing of ad
d relies and ridiculous toaft.s, they did every
thing that could pollibly operate to their own
degradation and debarment. Thu lLy cal/,d
true religion.
The fame farce is acting at this present
moment with relpeft to politics.
If a group of persons, fay forty or fifty,
calling themlelves the citizens of Philadel
phia lliould llraggle out towards Gray's ferry
no matter what the pretence—we are sure
to be told the next morning, that the roads
were crouded.—lf a hundred meet in the
evening to chufe a committee, the number as
it by magic encreafes immediately to thou
tands ! It is to this prolific squad that we are
indebted tor a knowledge of the feve al dc'-
grees of perfection attainablein their proprefs
towards liberty and equality—When a man
tor mflauct can stand upon his head as well as
/>J>3
[Whole No. 452.]
have no concern ?—For if 1 rend
rightly, (.itizrii Gci.er, in his pub
lic answer to Citizen iiutci inltjn,
&c. &c. on liis arrival in town, de
clared, " With regard to I
v. ill declare openly ai.d freely, (for
the ruiuillers of Republics fljould
have no secrets, no intrigues) that
from the remote (Irnauon of Ame
rica and other cii cuitilhnues,France
does not expert mat you should be
come a party in the war."
AN OLDSOLDIER.
June 14
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