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.