«. ia the month of October 1774, declared " that you are to the imposition of Excises, the horror of all free States ; thus wreft your property from you, by the "Baft odious of taxes, and laying open "ta .nfalerit tax-gatherers houses the " Scenes of domestic peace and comfort, «anJ cslLd the Castles of Englift fubjeas «in the books of their law." AJ f.-etjiett vour mernorialifts thus in fiia»Se<i da mot hesitate to aflert their hor ror of the recent a'. nipt to impose with out rite'pretext ot'x want of more eligible rrfearces, an excile system upon the peo- j pJe, although vhev w,U forever dif- | cMMIUJfcLB« a law lei's opposition to the they cannot fuoprefs their ! MgsrA-afett that mealurcffof this nature! gavff that conndence and at- j ticiuK'Jst to the cunliituvioa and laws of s tte wion, which would eventually be I fawi dEeati J> to their profpenty and j of ftcprefllng | your fern tEments 011 ti>e occation maybe | memorial!ftsbeg leave to j oPjlcttc that what is right to be done j l»y aa individual citizen cannot be j ■cirejng whert it becomes the aoof a - calleded body po&tfyig a knowledge of tnc iutt'efts, and appointed to tranfatt tlic boo ft import 1 1 'fFi 1 1 s of the com maaity. iiti. ti>e huufe of Repiefen taicTOi has already set an example on this wy fuhjeft by the vote which they -pafll'd on the 22d of January 1791, ami tKitcfs a difference of tne fill>K-'ct makes x difference in the right your me morwitfts confidently referto t'le autho ritative precedents,eitablilhed by the Le gi3atures,of various dates in the union, who have made the proceedings, and ads of Confjrefs matter of deliberation and animadversion. —To those legisla tures, indeed, the public is indebted for the access which has at length been obtained to the debates of the Senate of the United States, & for the measures taken to dedai e that the judiciary power of the Supreme* Court, (hall not extend to render a state amenable to the suit of an individual citizen of another state. That ifader these circumstances and im pressions, your memoriahfts confidently expeA pour aid, to rcllo. c them to the equal rights of citizens, to prote<£l their ! families from impoverilbment, and tc fhel- j rer the infant manufa&ories of the United 1 States, either faom ruin, or from acotrlpe tition, in which the honest man must yield to the knave. By a feaftmable interposi tion, likewise the harmony and qrder of society may be preserved ; and when it is recolle&ed that in other nations even del pots, and parliaments as tyrannical as des pots, hive been obliged to consult the feel ings of the people, and to abandon a tax ■which (to repeat the lauguage of Congress ) ' is the horror of ill free states, it is to be j hcpedthat the general government, upon j a falfe notion of power and dignity, will not persevere in the pernicious and op-' preffive course which it has unhappily com menced by the imposition of an odious Excif:. ' Snuff-Makers. Thomas Leiper, & Co. Hamilton & Son, John Hankart, Ifaacjones, Jacob Benning hove, Conrad Beatcs, John ami Jacob Rhelie, Frederick Beates, Christian Gaily & Son, Jacob Benflinghove, jun. Philip J>imble, George Brown, John Hill, Frede rick Hyle, Casper Farner, Henry Millar, "William Miller, Christian Cemp, Mary Rechncr, Richard Brown, Philip Varner. Sugar- Refiners. Mnh'enberg and Lawerfwyler, Isaac and Edward Penn ;.gtcn, Charles Schaffer, OomnuD and Lav. ler, J. Bartholomew and J. Dorfey, Morgan and Douglafe, Peter and Henry Miercken. ExtraS of a letter from London, dated July 2> 1794. "The Embargo laid on by your States, gave us much alarm; to me, and every person poffefling property in the Weft-Indies, particularly ; but 1 am happy to learn with some degree of cer tainty, that. Mr. Jay has fettled every thing with our admi migration in the :no!t amicable manner, so that I hope the L'effing of peace will be preserved be ' tween ns and the States—-Did you but know the accumulated diltrefles the war hat occafiofied in Europe, it would and ought to be the wist of every good Ci tizen among yon to remain neuter, and avoid the horrors attending on war." By this Day's Mail. BOSTON, September *. REALLY GLORIOUS NEWS. Yesterday information was circulating in town, relating to Restitution for cap tures of American veflels, Relea'e of Prifonei s in Algiers, &c. said to be re ceived by a veflel arrived at Marblehead from Halifax. The Editors conceiving it their duty to correit and authenticate ftich importanttnformation if wellfound cd—immediately repaired to the above place, and obtained the following par ticulars, which may be depended on. ON Sunday arrived at Marblehead a frnall schooner, in 12 days from Halifax. Ihe ftevard of the Pigou, who came in this vefiel informs, that the day before ♦hey failed from Halifax, a iloop of war arrived with the July Packet from England. He endeavored to procure some of the late papers to bring them to Boston, but could not : However from an attentive perul'al, he is enabled to fay, they contain a Com mercial Treaty between Great-Britain and the United States, and signed by Mr. Jay on the American part, That among the articles* of this Treaty, ov.e provides for the reltitution of all property captured from the Americans by British fuhje&s du ring the present war, the circumstances of capture and ratio of allowance to be confi deredand determined by fix CommifTioners three to be chosen on the part of tlie.United Sutes, and three oji the part of Great- Britain —Another article mentions, that all American fubj'fcjjr, wliertfoever un lawfully detained by his Britarinic Majes ty's fubjefts, shall be restored, and it is t xpi ei'.-ly declared that the release of the American prisoners in Algiers (hall be pro cured. And further, lii the boundary lines between the United States and the British dominions, those fixed by the Treaty of Peace (hould be faithfully oblerved on their par . A Sloop of War was to be dispatched immediately tb the Bvitilh Minister at New-York with these advices —Probably I to be by him communicated to the Ame- government. The veflH that brought the above gen tleman from Halifax, was chartered for the ptirpofeof carrying Capt. Lewi? there —his attendance being ai-fefPary, from the prob.• ility of the reltife of his ship, no evidence of conference i.aving appeared againlt her. * Preliminary Articles <we suppose. The Resolution, of 7.1, Africa, 64, Ar goi-.au', 64, and two frigates of 36 guns, were lying at Halifax. Yesterday arrived, and anchored in this harbor, a French brig of 16 guns, one of the late ei'cort which lailed with the Con corde, &c. and which were met by Admi ral Murray. Also arrived yefterdaya brig from Alicant. SALEM, September 2. The Sele&men of this town have, agreeably to authority vested in.them, executed a deed of ccfiion to the United States, of land necessary for t lie erertion of fortifications for the defence of the port and harbor. Last week, at a lcpp.l and very fu'l neeting of the inhabitants of Marble lead, it was iinaiiimm'.fiy voted, to make i cefllon to the United States of land : or building tor;llications 1 for the de fence of that port ; ai.d the Selectmen were authorized to execute' a deed, in jiurfuance of this patriotic vote. The Town of Gloucelter lias also pafled a similar vote, for the like piib lic-fpirited pilrpofe, Capt- Murphy, from Petetfburg, on the 20th of July, off Fair Iflartdv fell in with a French ftjuadron bound on a cruise into the North Sea, confiiting of five,frigates and t\t'o (loops of war. One of them boarded Capt. Murphy, but did not detain him ten tnimif.s, They informed him, that Oftend and Bruges were taken by the French, the latter part of June, without firing a gun ; and that neither place was deitroyedj as has been reported of the latter. The fqnadron will probably make a great cruise, as there was no British ship of force in the Baltic, and Capt. Murphy left 100 fail of Englifbrn'-n at Peterf buig, many of them about failing— besides what were at other ports in the Baltic. Capt. Murphy tailed from El (ineur with a large Engli(h fleet, having only one frigate for a convoy, the whole of which mult have fallen into the pow er of this squadron, had the latter been a few days earlier. The fleet, however, are supposed to have all fafe arrived. PROVIDENCE, August 30. Thtirfday last Capt. Coates arrived here, in 36 days from Jamaica. On his pafTage, he took from the Dolphin's Head (a dangerous reef off Cuba) the crew of the (hip Sophia, Capt Cold ftream, from Jamaica, bound for Lon don, 16 in number—also a Lady* Mrs. Reeves, of London, who was paflen ger. The Sophia had been wrecked about 24 hours when he fir ft saw her, vessel and cargo loft. On the Bth inft. heput the Captain, Lady, and •'5 others, on board the ftiip Emerald, bound for London—off the Havannah, 4 more of the Sophia's crew, took her long boat, and \yent afnore—the remaining 5 were brought in here.—A tribute of praifc is due to Capt. Coates, for the exertions he made to save these diftrefTed people ; he spent 4 days in getting them on board, and the weather being bad, his fails were split to pieces in effecting NEW-YORK, Sept. 6. By various communications from Lon don, by the July mnil, we learn that Mr. Jay has succeeded in- accommodating all differences with the Court of Great Bri tain, and that a durable peace will be se cured to the United States. Lord Howe, with 30 fail of the line, was to fail about the uth July. LONDON PRINTS to the yh of July, we have receiver by the arrival of 'he English July vail ; -which i!o not afford later advices than those by the Prudence from Londonderry. The following paragraphs, however, we have copiedfrom papers of the 3d and Sth. LONDON, July 5. * Late on Wednesday night, a M-f ---fenger arrived at the lionfe of one of the foreign minilters, from Biuflels; which we trull will now be preserved, alt ho' the governAnit has many dap linee evacuated the place. Betides the remuneration which his majesty was pleased to make to the Tai lors of every {hip, he prelented two thousand guineas to the men in the Dock-Yard; he likewise gave an hun dred and fifty guineas to the poor of Portsmouth, and fifty to the poor of Gofport. On this fubjeft, it may aot be impro per to mention, that L ird H*>we and every admiral of our victorious fleet, have resigned their fliares of prize-mo ney for the benefit ps their refpedlive crews. half p a u . The numerous and liberal donations P.M. ;T>TV made by individuals in this country du- ~ Qftcnd is now taken indeed !Th ring tlie present war, will be an eter- Trial cutter is just arrived, and the dil nal monument of British liberality, patches are forwarded from hence. Th' We do not recoiled, in the history of ' FreMch ma ,. c h cc j i„ on Thursday. On any former war, to have had fnch im- troQpg are a u f a f e l y embarked, and gon menfefums fubC'ribed for different pub t0 Holland. Almost, if not all, tin lie purpofevas during the pad: year and f n jppj l)g gwe out ; one l arg e one rui half the present one. it is the moll ashore in coming out, to which they fe certain and substantial proof of the wil- ; and as the French had but on lingnefs of all ranks of pebple to flip- f ma U boat to cross with, one of our sri port the government of the country in g ates ann oyed them very much in pail tile meafuies they have pursued. ing. Th'y were not permitted to ftri In our paper of, l uefuay it was (la- into the town, or they could havG dom ted that fcrious alarms were entertained much mifcilief to it." for the fofcty; of Captain Hutt : that , f . Uur from an c rr icer m loar[ brave office. is (rape dead. c/}ar/olte> at Port r mouth 1 tie remains or Captain lieryey j ; j-r - XT , r , T. . ... 1 anted June 28. were on Wednetday carried in military > _ . . . precession, attended by" Earl Howe", " 1 have been assured that during Sir Alexander Hood, admirals Gardner the I«e aft.on the Frer.fch officer, pu , and fir Peter Parker, with all the Cap- j ™ n y « thc " nien so death for cefert tains of the channel fleet, to the gates ! ln ß the.r quarters—l, he pnfonen hk: of Portsmouth, with every honorable jt,ue }' rench men, appear very well re solemnity, where it was put into J '-oncned to then-luuat.on. I hey feerr hearse to be conveyed to Sandwich. ; make V /'T b g ht °f the Captain Hutt was buried at Gofport « he y us of not fight,r,g thtmjairly, with the like folemmW \b7 co , m '"S si them '• a " d al " d g e > Three officers of the Sjnnifh Navy, t that had lt , n °V b " n { or the numberleh lecomtedeCafa Montata, don Fran- ; f "dents that befel them, they should cifcode Arango and don Joseph Lequei- j bave g* ,r ' ed the day. One thing lob ra, are arrived at London from Madrid ; : d very general among them, they charged, it is said, with an important! lhe ' dea of returning to France, million to our court. j ll . n ' ,l ( . the government .s in a more set- Major Congrcve has tranffnitted a \ date. copy of the thanks of the Emperor to ] ■ _ " . . , . the British Artillenft.on the Continent, I J he Portuguese, although they aece which was on Thursday publicly read at ! ded t ,° the f.™ ,d aU " ; noe ' ba * Icorn,n ---.u i i r buted verv little to this war in defence the head ot the artillery companies at . ' n ,, , , Woolwich of rtl, gfon. lhe veafb " P c 'hapß is, Befoie the evacuation of Oftend, a that they have so much of what number of veffcls, both British and nro"ly called rel.g,on .n thm count.y as prizes, were burnt for want of seamen to b< "' abk „ to lose a SS od deal > aild havc to work them out. The underwriters er ' rt - , .. . . are pledged to the amount of 5 0,0001. . A Th f f m P eror a " d Mack, the fate of which, by this evacuation, ,n <M of visiting the Allied army on they do not know. Several vessels were ! be Rll i nt ' aswas ba ve;hought got out, but it is still doubtful what is 11 to P"[ sue the d,rea road become of them. to t V ' eni ' a ' w,th " l,t , ' , tO , tbe The y.'hole force of Sir Sydney Smith, »g ht ba " d .' " r to the left. I l.eir haste with which he gops immediately on some to thither, is supposed to nave secret expedition, is said to confill »f near been occafiqned V V their eager desire 50 gun boats, two floating batteries of un- to fit down in quiet, and chalk out a usual strength, two (loops, and sri , lcw roa d to Paris, all the old roads gates ; that in which he goes is the be ; ng founc] ; mpra aicable. Di "™r d V, n . f ajm* u The Marquis Comwallis followed Wednesday a Court of Admiralty wa» * *- * 1 held in Doctors Commons, when the trial them a good part or the way, piotelting of the Britannia came on. TJrs was the with all his might, that if they would cafe of a {hip and cargo, claimed to be pro perty of American merchants. The (hip failedfiom St. Lutia at the time that island was in the hands of the French, and was laden partly with provisions, the produce of the Fren h Weft-India islands. It was bound for Bourdeaux in France,but ir.ftead of dire&ly failing for that place, it went to Bolton, where the goods were landed and put into ware-houses. The cargo was then fold, and afterwards re (hipped into the fame vefTel, and set fail for Bourdeaux, when it was captured. The vefiel was corre<stly documented ; and it was sworn by the witnelTes for the claimants, that it was bonS fide fold at Boston, and was a neutral American (hip, bound to Bourdeaux on a lawful voyage. Three mariners were examined on the part of the captors, who said they had heard and verily believed, that the said (hip haci been captured by an Englifli privateer, and carried bito St. Kitt's; that while It was there under legal process, the master, in the absence of the Englifli captors, cut the cable, and piratically carried the veflel to Boston, from whence it failed again for Bourdeaux. The Counsel for the captors contended, that the cafe, on the part of the claimants, was marked with great fuipicion. It ap peared, they said, that the sale at Boston was merely colourable, and the circum stance of running away with the Ihip at St. Kitt's amounted to a confeffion, that it was !i»ble to confifcat'ron. —T hey said the ship came within the law contained in the inftrudtion of the English government, which declared all neutral veil'els carrying the produce of the French Weft-India iilands to any port in Europe to be liable to adjudication. After counsel was heard on the other fide, the learned judge fa id, t hat the :afe was pregnant with fufpieion, and therefore ne could not order rcftitution, without further prouf.—The King's in- Iruftions could easily be evaded, by unning into some American port, rhak ng a colourable sale, and then (hipping he cargo for the enemy's port. Undei 11 the circuinftances, he felt, it his du todifailow I'lechim, both of the fit ty .. .iallow the claim, doiu j and cargo, without farther proof beinj adduced. Saturday night three of the Freni. prisoners broke out of Portfea Caltle at Portsmouth—they proceeded immedi ately to the (hore, mid taki.ig pofleffion of a fiihing smack, they put off to fca, taking with them the master and a boy, whom th?y found in the smack. On Monday last a horse belonging to Mr. Jones (which won at Eplom on Friday) was engaged to gallop 11 miles in half an hour, for fifty guineas, which he performed, on. Sunbury common, two minutes and a half within the tifr.e. j The following letter was yefteiday I morning received by the master of Lloyd's Coffee-Houfe: •' Margate, July 3, at half past 11 o'clock, but stop, they might hear of fame thing greatly to their advantage } b lit the ■smacking of the poftillidn's whips, the, rattling of the carriage wheels, and the roaring of the cannon in Flanders, made fiich a noise that they could not hear him. MADRID, June 16. The news from the frontiers are most alarming : and our fears are aggravated by the general didruft and want of co operation, both in our armies, ana a mong the members of our cabinet. Our lofles on the lft of June are attributed to ihe mifconduft of M. de Solano, who commanded one of the di vifious of our troops, and the cowardice of our militia, who were panic struck by thefirft fight of the French. Our Generals affirm, that Collioure would not have been loft, if our gun. boats had had the courage to come near enough to impede the operations of the beliegers, and if Admiial Gra vina's squadron had not been thiity-fix hours too late. Notwitliftanding these disasters, our troops, we ate told, have not 101 l their confidence in M. de la Union. We are even allured, that he has taken two bat teries, erected by th# French before Bellegarde, and that he has opened the communication between Bellegarde and, the army. We dread, Lovrever, that the French, in their usual manner, wili ioon return to the charge with great reinforcements ; that we should not be able to check their progress ; and that they will enter Catalonia, the pafles to wl-.ich are difficult, hut weakly guarded. To add to all this, the.French" have pe netrated into Navarre with 14,000 men, and taken pbfleffion of a post, which we thought impregnable. The Court endea vours to conceal this, but we know the French have made a road for their artil lery over the'mountains, and believe the report of the ihvafion to be true. The mi litia, the only troops to oppose them', are very ill officer* d, and not much animated by religious zeal. As we mull ascribe none of our misfor tunes to minilters, we fay they are all the conlequences of trcafons and conspiracies. The comt has removed from their offices, and banished four counsellors of Castile. A cleik ill the office for fo reign affairs, fufpe&id of correspond ing with M. D'Aranda, lias fuflered the fame punishment, The friends of ministers fay, that grand discoveries have been made from M. D'Aranda's papers, and that he is to be taken into cullody at St. }e;tn, the place of his exile.—ln Spain, as in other countries, whatever the court pleaseS may be diftweitd in the papers of a man whom the court is pleated to prosecute ; and M. D'Aranda will pro bably be tried and condemned to die by a tribunal of the Miniiler's own ap- pointing. We are fully convinced of our own inability, either to repel a foreign ene my, or to suppress internal discontents ; jbut fortunately the progress of the al lies in Flanders will soon restore a go vernment in France, upon which in all cases, we can rely for support. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8. Yesterday dispatches were received fi-om the Commissioners at Pittffiurgli.—We hear that "the information is in j'ubftance, hat forty-feven only of the Corvnittee of SiJty, voted in favor of acceding to the propositions. This is cortlidered as an un favorable result of the bufinel~6.— : We learn that the CommilTioners are on their return. The Ship Willikm Penn arrived in Lon» don the second of July. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Arrived , I)ay* Ship Concord, Thotnpfon, Amfter- Brig Rose, Meariy, : Flora, CalTin, do. Sch'r Delight, Weft, Noitli-Caro- Set.flower, Tillet, do. 4. Dolphin, Cunningham, Boston 1 Rambler, Denton, Virginia 7 Slfiop Three Friends, Tice, da. 10 Salem, Elkins, New-York f Ranger, Diinn, The (hip Concord failed from Am (terdam the Bth of July. Captain Thompson fpokc the following veflels } July 11, in the Streights of Dover, was brought too by the Childers brig, belonging to his Britannic Majesty, who after examination, permitted us to pass; July I2j at 8 A. M. Portland, N. I s !. E. live leagues diflant, spoke the /hip Minerva, Captain James Scott, of and from Boilon, bound to London. July 25, in lat. 48, long. 21, 30* was brought too by his Britannic Ma jesty's Hoop of war Lynx, Captain Peri rofe, destination not known. Anguft 16, in lat. 43, 30, long-. 51, 30, spoke' the brig Hannah,' Captain -s— —from Baltimore, bound to' Falmouth, out 15 days, all well. August 19, fpojv the Maria Wilfbn, Captain John Hafkins, from Baltimore, bound to 58* lung. 54, 60. Now Landing, j From the Jhip St. Marks, Capt. Hayfell, at Majfey's wharf, | Lisbon &c Port wine, In jripes and quarter eajks Florence oil, box Iff jar Raisins Figs £3° foft JhelPd Almonds, Currents, Frefl) Lemons, v. Ivel to, is, and A fe<iv tajks Fin/gar, with a QUANTITY OF Clean Lisbon SALT, FOR SALE Br yofepb Anthony & Son. Sept. 8 chw For Cape Nicholas Mole, bcver yf a ftf aiw sft"? ,#s& BETSEY, Of Philadelphia, b£h£2£2o?Georg« Lowther, Master, For freight,, or paflage apply to Louis Ofmont, No. 117, north Second f.reet. Sept. S diet dam 6q Hav«nna 16 lina, 10 / ' I f
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