c;,»are nn happy ifTue to their efforts was tire arms, that they wanted neither numbers nor courage, and that tia sent againfl them would furnilharms. It was resolved, on the question of ap proving or disapproving of the propor tions of government, that the votes should not be giveniiw uorf but by bal lot,>kft fear ftiould influence. Upon counting the votes, 34 were found in favor of the terms offered by government and 2 3 againli. Some four or five members afterwards declared they had voted contrary to their sentiments having mistaken the quellion. The committee, however, were unwilling that-tbeir sense of the terms offered by government, should be considered as binding on the people, and having ap pointed a committee of nine, further to ctrtifer with the commissioners from go vernment, it was determined, that thole terras (hould be finally referred to the people at large, and to collect their sense, each inhabitant entitled to a vote is, on the t lth intt. to give it in ,the manner according to which ejeftionsare conduced, either pro or con the propo sitions. In the county of Walhington, the inhabitants are to vote in townihips, and ia that of Alleghenny, in ele&ion tuftritU. The return of votes is to be made on the 16th in ft, to the town of Union in the county of Fayette. It should be added, that the committee of nine, after a conference with the com missioners from government individually signed their acquiescence in the terms they offered, and promiied to ufc their influence to cause them to be accepted. We hold the foregoiug statement from veiy good authority and can vouch for the accuracy of the material parts of it. Thus it appears that the unfortunate buiux'fi in that quarter is not so near a close as there was i eafon a few days since to exped. It is hoped, government, placing a reliance on the good sense of the,people, will grant the delay asked, to the middle of the month, and no doubt that good fenfc will defeat the designs of the factious. The voting will occasion a warm contest, and as the question will he war or not war, it would not be surprising if it led to atts of vio lence between the different parties. Should the sense of the counties after this solemn trial be in favour of violent oppdfition to the laws, no citizen who values the blessings thai flow from go verrynent will refufe his mcft adtive aid in suppressing so dangerous and despotic an attempt ot a minority to rule, and we (hall at a blow crush the hydra of anar chv and by a deciiive line of condutt in this firlt instance destroy the germe of any future coafpiracy against the conllitution and laws. fr* From the General Advcrtifer^ From a Correspondent. The Governor seems to wish that a cef (ion should be made of Mud Island to the , United States by the Legislature. How it could have entered his head, that the Le gislature have the right to make prei'ents of the property of the State, is a little aitoo ifhiug. 1 believe they derive no authority from the constitution under which they fit to cede the territory of the Hate to any power; for if they have a right to bestow a part, the right is equally strong to-beftow the whole. Mud island is the property of the citizens of Pennsylvania, and as wall might the legislature cede the County of Washington or Bucks to Congress as to cede that part on which the tort is credted. If any cefilon of this fort is to be made, the people ought to make it, and this can only be done by a convention with express authority for the purpose. If the legisla ture undertake to compliment the United States with any portion of the state, they jr.ay carry this generosity lo far as to make Pennsylvania tributary, for the right to cede tha whole U equal to the right to cede a part. 7be amount oj the argument contained in the foregoing parag aph is this—That it is <wiser, for a man <ivho oivns lands tuhich he has not the means to cultivate, to fuffer those lands to lay <wafe, than to take in a partner <who can furnijl) all that is requifiie to turn them to the bejl advantage. The dofirine of our anarchijls goes to this, that every laiu of the legislature for :mpof ing taxes, should undergo the ordeal of a convention before it is carried into opera tion. Letter from the Governor. ■1 -j.-' S I R, AS I think that the honor of the State is peculiarly interested. in manifefting a determination to suppress, by every legi- j timate means, the iniurrefHon which ex ists in the Wcftern Counties, I have wait-1 td, with the greatest anxiety, for the ex ecution of the inftruftions that were issued, j in order to organize a body of Militia, to be employed in that service, agreeably to the President's requisition of the 7th ulti mo. It i> with the utmost mortification, therefore, that I now discover, In the re turns which you have communicated to me, so great an indisposition, in some of the brigades, to comply with that call, or so eflc-ntial a defeat of power in the offi cers, to enforce it, as leaves but little hope that our quota can be seasonably raised, by the ordinary course of proceeding. Thus fitiAted.l nvuft either expose the State to the reproach an'' disgrace of an official leprefentation, declaring theinca mci'ty. or the unwillmgnds, oi its militia, toYiiiitiTt rgfta-lwg tlu^.violated authority of the laws ; or I mult re fort^tw—Ulcfoir i t and patriotism of individuals, to luppiy immediately, by voluntary enrolments, the deficiency of the regular drafts. ImprefT ed with the importance of the occasion, and attached to the reputation* as well as to the peace, of our country, I cannot hesi tate, in this alternative, to prefer the lat ter measure. You will be pleased, therefore* Sir, with all poffihle dispatch, to renew, in the mo ft pretfing terms, your in.'tructions to the fe vcral brigade"lnl'peilors, under the gene ral orders of the eighth ult. and inform them, at the fame time, that for the whole, or for l'o much of their refpe<ftive quotas, as cannot be feafonabiy fuppindby regu lar drafts, they may admit and return the voluntary enrolments ps any well-disposed citizens. For my own part, though I la ment the dreadful nete.Tity of an appeal to arms, I avow a readmefs perlonally to en gage in the service which our country at this crilis requires ; and ihall accompany my fellow citizens to the fcenc of duty, with alacrity and confidence. Should even this arrangement fail, I invite every pa triotic citizen to consider himfelf included in the requisition ; and on the day which {hall be appointed by the President, for repairing to the rendezvous, I will march with those who lhall at tend. It is obvious, indeed, to every re flecting mind, that if our Governments are worth preserving, an immediate and decisive exertion mu!t be made. The judiciary department having proved in competent to discharge its functions, fliould the conciliatory efforts of the Executive be, likewise, abortive, we can have no other vcfonrce at this peri od, than in the military strength of the Nation. Let every citizen then put his hand upon his heait and declare, whe ther any thing h*s been omitted, which could reasonably be employed, to recon cile the lnfurgents to their duty, and I if nothing has been omitted, let him add, whether he is willing to abandon, as a prey to anarchy, the freedom and independence, which we have so recent ly rescued from the hand of usurpation ? Or whether, as an alternative, he is prepared to leave them to the prote&ion and support of a ftartding army ? A free Republic can only fed eftablilhedby the will of the people j-r-it can only be per petuated by their affedlion am! attach ment. I (hall submit these inftaiAions to the Legislature, in whose aid and coun tenance on the present occalion 1 repose unlimited confidence ; but I fhallpoft- pone any official communication to the President, till the effedts of my proposi tion are afcertaiued. I am, Sir, Your moll obedient Servant, THOMAS MIFFLIN. Philadelphia, Sept. 8, 1724- To JcjsiAH Harmar, Esq. 1 Adjut. Gen. of the Mili- > tia of Pennsylvania. J The Address of the Senate to Thomas Mifflin, Governor of the Common wealth of Pentifylania. S 1 R, WHILE we lament with sincere grief and mortification, the very serious event that has occasion the exercise of the executive authority, to convene the General Aflembly, upon extraordinary occasions, we entertain a juil sense of the patriotic motives which have regu lated your conduit, at so critical a peri od, and on our part, (hall consider any private facrifice as amply compensated, by the opportunity of contributing to rellore public tranquility and order. ; The judicious, liberal and energetic measures which appear to have been pursued, as well by the General, as by the State Government, will, we trust, produce the most beneficial effects in conviacing our deluded fellow citizens in the weltern parts of the Hate, of the necefiity of an return to the duty which they owe to their country. But however highly we approve and ap plaud the moderation that out govern ments have hitherto manifefted, we can- j not hesitate to declare, that if the iflue of their conciliatory propofitjons (hould be unpropitious to our willies, we will co-operate with you in the most vigo ious exertions of ourconftitutional pow ers, to rellore the violated authority of the laws; tor wc are sensible Sir, that unless thaf'wholefomc subordination to the laws, which. confers on virtue its merited fafety, which fecu.es to indus try its landable acquisitions, and which shelters freedom from the blasts of licen tiousness, can be introduced and preser ved, we fhafl boast without pretext, of equal rights, and civil liberty. Though we cherish the pleafinghope that the present concussion will termi nate in the triumph of virtue and rea son, we Jhall not, Sir, omit, or sus pend the necessary preparations to main tain, at all events, the dignity of the Commonwealth, la the course of our deliberations, the various fubje&s of your address will rece: -*e due attention, and we indulge a perfect confidence that you will on all occalions, employ your constitutional powers and perional influ ence to eftabliih the public order of the ftafe, and to advance the private hap piness of our fellow citizens. By order of the Senate, In Senate, Monday September 8, 1794. ANTHONY MORRIS, Speaker. A Correspondent observes, that if nbufe or club-laio will pass current for wit or argument, the government, laws, peace, property and security of the peo ple of the United States are in a very precarious fituatiun. Prices current at Brandywine. Wheat, 9s. 6d. to 9s. Bd. Indian Corn, 4s. 9d. to 4s. I id. Rye, - - js. 6d. to ss. 9d. Superfine flour, 525. 6d. Common Do. 50s. Middlings, 445. to 455. By this Day's Mail. ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 4. [The following was copied by a gentle man in this town from a letter in the hands of Gen. Morgan :] Copy of a letter from David Bradford, of'WaJhington, tn Pennjylvania, to the Inhabitants of Mertorgalia. Wafhingtcrfl, August 6, 1794. Gentlemen, I presume you have heard of the spi rited opposition given to the excise law in this (late—matters have been so bro't to pass here, that all are under the ne cessity of bringing their tninds to a final concluiion. This has been the question among ll us some days : " Shall we dif approvc of the conduct of those engaged againll Nevill, the excise officer, or ap prove—or, in other words, shall we fiifftr them to fall a facrifice to a Fedeial Prosecution, or shall we support them ?" On the relult of this bulinefs we have f,i!lv deliberated, and have determined, ' days aircr we took two Snglilh inei chant with bead, heart, hard, and voice, that I J> ou " d "P, the h "' f* * ... r , ' . , I brics bound to Jamaica, loaded with bee we will support the opposition to the ex- ; an( j Gutter. cife law—The criiis is now come : Sub- ; Having joined 4 firft rate fl)ips, w( nujjion or oppoftioti—We are determined i took ; Dutch men of War, and 20 fail oi in the oppofltion—We are determined i merchantmen, we then came into Brest in future 1 to aft agreeab'y to system ; to i where Ik It the frigate and went 011 boai'c form arrangements, guided by i my own (hip-here I beheld a fight wnicl, r j 1 r .- ■ , li, . vou will ;hmk aim oft incredible, near 30c prudcnce, forWude andfpir,ted conduct— p merc hantmen lav 1 tre with We have propoled a general meeting 01 thejr colourß rev ersed, besides many Spa the four counties of Pennsylvania, and n ;(h anc i I> u tch ships. The French nat,- have invited our brethren in the neigh- on is in a very flourifhing fityation and bowing counties in Virginia to come their arms are every where victorious." forward and join us in council and deli- j beration, on this imppratnt crisis, and ! LONDON, June 19. conclude upon measures interefling to ' To-morrow the Court will go into the western counties of Pennsylvania and mourning for the Duke of Mecklen- Virginia. A notification of this kind bourgh Strelitz. It is also supposed may be seen in the Pittsburgh paper— there will be a Court Mourning for the Parkinfon's Ferry is the place proposed ] ate Princess Elizabeth of France, as moll central, and the 14th of August , Yefteiday one of bis Majesty's Mef the time. I fengets took into custody the celehrated We solicit you by all the ties that an 1 Henry Yorkc, Esq. alias Readhcad. He lnion bf interests can suggest, to come j ; 3 a Creolian by birth, and a man of orWArd to join with us in our delibera- j some property in the Weft-Indies. He ions—the cause is common to us all— j wa s appointed a Delegate from Shef ve invite you to come, even (houldyou s field to tlie National Convention iiv 1792, liffer with us in opinion—we wilh you | company with a Dr. Johnson ; and o hear our reasons influencing our con- j accompanied Mr. John Frolt and Joel lust. j Barlow, as Delegates from the Societv Your's with esteem; DAVID BRADFORD. GEORGETOWN, Sept. 5. Information has been received from a gentleman who left Hagers-Town the 3dinft. that when the draught was to have taken place there, a party opposed it, beat their officers from the field, and at night put up what they called, a Li berty-pole, which was cut down next morning by the magistrates and some of the better disposed part of the inhabit ants. Exasperated at which the mob gave the alarm in the country adjacent and were joined by a number of the country people, who assisted in putting up a second pole, and swore they would kill any person who (hould attempt to take it down, they also formed in ranks to the amount of three or four hundred, beat some who refufed tp join them, and threatened to march to Middletown and ! Funk's-Town and put up Liberty-poles :at those places. It may be added, much to the credit of the merchants ! in Hagers-Towu, that they refufed to fell, cither powder or flints to the mob, who seemed badly furnilhed with those articles, Our informant adds, that a gentleman hadjufl arrived at Hagers Town from Pittsburgh who informs, that the rioters in that quartet had al: difpeifed and ag:tvd to submit to the laws. PROVIDENCE, Aug. 30. On Monday ara'v d the (loop Betfe . Capt. Young, in 20 c.-.ys from Cape N.- chola Mole. Left there a nuftifcer of A merjean veffds, amonj ■vtWch were tlie •■>rig William, Smith., of NewV/ary Port, boind so.- j-.malr.-i, ai.J fc'iocner Bitfey, Gilbert, of New York, b un i for Jamai a. li'i'Ht. 24, .s°: ion. 73, .to, spoke tV.e sloop Crocker master, who informed Capt. Young that he belonged to Boston, and wa6 bound for New Provi dence ; but that on the 17th ult. hi lat." 32, I lon. 72, 30, he was taken by a French privateer, and ordered to Port-au-Paix. NEW-YORIC, Sept. 8, Arrived Brig Hancock, Johnson, Canton Sciir. Mary, Christopher, Jamaica Sunbury P. liarrilba Hifpaniola HUDSON, Sept. 4. Exlrad of a letter f rum a per/on belong ing to ibis city, dated Brejl 2<jtb June, 1794, to his friend here. " I Wrute yon from St. Maloes, but am fearful mytatter did not come to -hand, 1 arrived at this port 10 days ago, in the frigate Le Rejoin, ,of 36 guns, who captured the veffeP I belonged to in the channel on the 15th ukand sent her into this port, but detained me on board the frigate. The captain me the command of a giln, and having j presented me with a fiiit of naval regi mentals, a pair of pistols, a sword, and a liberty cap, I consented toiake charge of t,i we were then ftnnding for an Englifli frigate—at half past four the engagement commenced the firft broadside we received killed 2 2 of our men, every man was killed at my gun except myfelf. We then wore (hort round and hauled our wind, and g»t his three mails in one, hove our main and mizen topsails to the ! mail, and poured in our whole broadside, which killed upwards of 50 men, and cut away hi» mizzen and maintop mall, he | then hauled down his colours, and in 5 minutes set them again, and kept them set until he Ihot away our foietop mast, and killed 6 men on our forecaftle, we gave another broadside and grappled him ; h immediately struck his colours, we then took pofß flion of hi« Oiip, eapfized his co lours and sent him to Bi cil. 'We then re j fitted our fllip, and proceeded on our I cruise, the next we took was a ship ot zi i guns, from Liverpool, Upon a crmfe, we 1 carried her to St. Maloea ; and having le jcruitedour men went to sea again, fn 5 of Conllitutional Information in Lon don. The following property taken by Sir Charles Grey'and Sir John Jervis, was on sale, at the Island df Martinique, in April la ft, for the benefit of the cap tors ; the appraisement is made at the moll moderate calculation ; 70 Ships and vessels of dif ferent kinds valued at £. 70,000 6200 Hhds. of clayed sugar 116,000 2200 Ditto of Muscovado do. 44,1*00 4000 Bags of coffee 8000 5000 Ditto of cocoa 5000 3500 Bales of cotton 70,000 4000 Cases of wine 8000 40,000 Dozen of liquors 80,000 Provisions, &c. &c. 560,000 July I—3. Extract of a letter from Ply mouth j June 29. " An account was this niofning re ceived here, of the capture of the Ran ger cutter, of 14 guns, Lieut. Congrcve, Commander, by two French luggers, after a smart a&ion." On Monday morning, at 2 o'clock, died of his wounds, at his lodgings in St. Gforge's fquars, Poitfmouth, Capt. Harvey, late of the Brunfwick, of 74 guns. In this brave fiian the public fer itice has loft a meritorious officer, and the world a gentleman of unblemilhed character, and ftiift honour. Saturday night died, in the fame square, Rear Admiral Balfour, who dif jinguilheed himfelf at Louifbourg, when he cut out the Bitnfaifant of 74 guns, with his boat's crew. Through life he added to the chara&ev of a braye officer, that of an inofFenfive, worthy member of Society. _The loss of the French in the late action with the Prince of Cobourg near GofTelies was immense. They were frequently attacked by the Auftrians with the bayonet, and dreadful flangh- ter ensued ; but no effort, however great, could avail again ft the prodigious fupe rioriiy of the French. The follow'tig ihoft extraordinary 1 exertion, that never was, arid probably never will be equalled, ought to be re- corded to the honour of the artificers of Portfmonth Dock-yard : The Prince of Wales of 98 gtirtb, went off the flock* on Saturday*at eleven o'clock, came in- to the wet-dock next lide, aiid was eaulked and coppered complete lit nine hours, in ordei to shew his Majesty the operation. Oudenarde ft ill held out when the lad advices came away ; but, from the numerous army that invests it, and the determined ferocity with Which it is attacked, we are fearful its pofllflion May the allies is rendered extremely pre carhnis. Ghent HoJds out, but its feeurity is not to be relitd the Duke of Tw4fe___ should be enabled toafford ic the neceiiary fuccoilrs ; and of this he does not ipeak with a fuificient degree of confidence to indulge a hope that the enemy may receive in that quarter an effedllial check to their rapacious career. Bruflels, we may naturally conclude, is by this time in the hands ot the French, the defence of which appears not to have been the object of the allied armies, who, as Prince Cobourg writ s, were making difpoiitioris to cover Namur, leaving Brus sels to its fate ; having previously, how ever, allowed the inhabitants time to re move such part of their property as might be deemed advisable. Ten days before the meeting of Parlia ment, 1712, Dean Swift, who reprobated the then war, endeavored by his writings to persuade: the nation to a peace, Dr. Johnson tells us, " Never had any writer more fucfeCs." The people, who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal pro cessions, and looked with idolatry on the General Marlborough, and bis friends, who, as they thought, had made England the arbitrefs of nations, were confounded setween shame and rage, when they found that mines of wealth had been exhausted, «nd millions destroyed, to secure the Dutch, or aggrandize the Emperor, with out any advantage to ourl'eives ; that we had been bribing our neighbors to fight their own Quarrel, and, that amongst our enemies, we might number our allies. A negotiation for peace was yeflerday attempted in the Alley, through the me dium of Mr. Jay, the American Minister; but the Pknipos of the belligerent powers not being prvfent, flocks only rose one haif per cent 7 The flip vacant in the King's dock-yard at Portsmouth, by the launching of the Prince of Wales, of 98 guns, on Saturday last, is ordered to be immediately fitted up again.—The keel of a new ship, of 110 guns, is to,be immediately laid down: but not yet named. Since Monday last, upwards of one hun dred fail of merchant Ihips from the Lee ward 1 (lauds, Martinique, Hambro', Pe ter/burgh, Dantzick, Opomo, Cadiz, Hon-* duras, Amsterdam, &c. have arrived in the river, which have furnilhed his Majesty's fliips with a great number of able bodied seamen, who are continually entering, [fay prejfed.'] PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED, - \ Snow Harmony, Ellfwofth, Barbadnos v Bng Ann, i-yrne, Guadaloupe Schr. Minerva, Andulle, St. Maics Mille, Wilson, St. Thomas's Magdalena, Eloifa Willi:;, do CLEARED. Schr. Harmless, Gladden, Boston Sloop Sally, Potter, Norfolk Susannah, Denike, Alexandria The mate of the schooner Mille, in 15 days from St. Thomas's, on the zd Sept. in lat. 36, 38, spoke the Sch'r. , Capt. Harrifon from Hifpanio la, bound to New-York, out 19 days all well. A biig which put into St. Thomns's, after the hurricane.under English colors Was to fail in a few days after him for this port. 991,000 Arrived at Nctv-Cajlle. Ship Charlotte, Capt. StiJlltairi, from LortcWi-Derry, Ireland, with 440 paf fcngergJ—9 weeks out. During the paflage, nine children and a young mar ried woman died ; l alio; shortly after coming to anchor off Newcastle, an el derly* mam. (C> There was an error in a para graph which appeared in yesterday's pa per relative to " out of the frigates" King cloalhed in the Duck of the U nited States ; the provilion, we are told, extends to all of them. The Members of the First Gitt Troop are desired to meet at the City Tavern To-morrow /Iftcrnoon, at three o'clock.
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