much concerned. At Hamlburgh we
found a flag erected witli the words
Liberty and Equslitj on it, which we
.left Handing a» we found it ; and here
is an high pole with a red flag on it,
describing the number of counties com
bined in the opposition.
« This day we began to coot, which
is one of the mod tioufclefome parts of
our duty. As yet we have lived very
happily, no disturbance having happen
ed lince we left the city. 1■ ic event
of the campaign appears to be quite
unforeleen ; No v one pretends to fay
how long we shall itay here, but I be
lieve it will be until the infantry and
artillery arrive, which will be some days
firlt. In the mean time parties will be
difpatehtd 10 apprehend thole who have
been most active in the mifchief, and I
foppofe they will be tried under the aft
of ti eafon."
Philadelphia, Sept. 20lh, 17 94.
Sir,
AS my executive duties, in compli
incc with the Prcfident's requisition,
: or em!>odying the militia against the
Western I;.(argents, will require my
absence for some time from the city. I
have informeJ the Mayor, that should
any emergency arise, you will chearful
ly comply with any lawful application
which he (hail make for supporting the
civil authority, by competent drafts
from the Militia of your division. You
will be pleased, therefore, Sir, to pay
a proper attention to the fubjeft; and
. I am confident that your exertions in
concert with the Mayor's to ensure the
source of great consolation to our Fel
low-Citizens, who have left their pro
perty and families, to vindicate the laws
of their country.
I am, Sir,
Your mod obedient Servant,
TAOMAS MIFFLIN.
To
Major General Walter Stewart.
Philadelphia, Sept. loth, 1794.
Sir,
THE attention to my Executive
duties, under the Prefidem'a requisition,
for embodying the militia, againit the
Western Infuj-gents, unavoidably com
pels me to be absent for some time front
Philadelphia ; and as some unexpedted
emergency may arise during that peri
od, I have thought proper to dire£l
Major General Stewart to comply with
any lawful request which you shall make,
as Chief Magistrate of the city, for the
aid of the Militia of his division to sup.
port the civil authority. Left any sup
plies of ammunition should be clandef
tLnely transported to the Infurgentt. I
have likewise, inftru&ed the Superin
tendant of the Gun-Powder Magazine,
to deliver no Powder without your pre
vious approbation.
These arrangements being made with
• view to the peace and fafety of the
Commonwealth, will I am persuaded
reccive all the fan&ion that you can
officially give them.
1 am, with great esteem,
Sir,
Your mod obedient Servant,
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
To
The Mayor of the City of
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Augujl loth, 1794.
Sir,
THE state of our public affairs ren
ders it neceflary, that no Gun-Powder
should be delivered from the Magazines,
without some fat is factory proof, that it
is not intended to be used in an unlaw
ful manner. I have, therefore, request
ed the Mayor of the City, to examine
every application ; and without his ap
probation, you will be pleased to suspend
a compliance with any application for
tha delivery of Gun-Powder.
I am, Sir,
Your mod obedient servant,
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
The fuperintendant of the Gun-Pow
der magazine or his Deputy.
Philadelphia, Sept. ZOth, 1794.
Sir,
MY Executive duties, under the
President's requisition for embodying
the militia in opposition to the Western
Iniurgentg, will require my absence for
lome time from Philadelphia. Permit
me, therefore to request. particular at
tention to the Rules prescribed for pre
lerving the peace and neutrality of the
Port ; should you at any time be at a
leis foi authority and niftrudions, it
may be advifeable to consult the Mayor
or Recorder of the city.
Be pleased to communicate this let
ter to the Board.
1 am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
Nathaniel Falconer, Esquire, 'Matter
Warden of tbe Port of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1794-
SIR,
Should any emergency arise, I have
directed the commanding officer at Fort
Mifflin to apply to you for a reninforce-
Bient of his garrifou, by such drafts from
the Militia, as (halt from time to time,
be necefTary to preserve the peace and
neutrality, of the Port. You will be
plea fed, therefore, to attend to any ap
plication of that kind : But if the ser
vice will admit of it, I wish the drafts
to be made from the militia of Dela
ware County, whose quota for the wef
terti expedition, has with that view,
been made proportionably small. In
cafe you (hall find that arrangement
proper and practicable, you will fug
ged it to Gen. Humpton who com
mands the Division of militia, that in
cludes the, Delaware Brigade.
I am,
Sir,
Your mod obedient servant*
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
To Major General Stewart.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1794.
SIR,
I have left the quota of Delaware
County, for the western expedition,pro
portionally small, with a view to draw
from the militia of that Brigade any
reinforcement that may be thought ne
cefiary to enable the Garrison at Fort
Mifflin, to preserve efFectually the peace
and neutrality of the Port. In the firft
instance, however, the nature of the
service will require an application to
Major General Stewart, the Comman
der of the Fit ft Division—and if he
finds it proper and pradticable to draft
any force, which an emergency may
require, from your Division, he it re
queued to refer the fubjeft to you
with all pofiible dispatch
The discharge of some important
executive duties will require my absence,
for some time, from the feat of govern,
ment ; but I have made such arrange
ments as will, I am persuaded, prevent
any impediment or injury in tranfactlr.g
the public' business. As far as rests
with you, I rely upon a prompt and
faithful a Aidant.
I am,
Sir,
Yoiirmoft obedient servant,
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
To Major-General Richard
Humpton, commanding
the 2d Division of thd
Militia of the Counties of
Delaware and Chester.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 22, 1794.'
Dear Sir,
Inclosed you will receive the orders
for the commanding officer at Fort Mif
flin to obey your inltru&ions, dCiring
the Governor's absence.
I am, sincerely,
Your's.
A. J. DALLAS, Secretary.
To Nathaniel Falconer,
Mailer Warden.
Philadelphia, 2 2d, Sept. 1704..
SIR,
During my absence from the city, on
the necelTary executive duties connect
ed with the western expedition, you
will be pleased to comply with such in
ftru&ions as you (hall from time to time
receive from the Matter Warden of the
Port.
Should any emergency arise, Gene
ral Stewart will reinforce your garrison
with a competent draft from the mili
tia. To him, therefore, ia such an e
vent you will apply.
I am,
Sir,
Your mod obedient servant.
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
To Captain Rice, or to
the Officer command
ing Fort Mifflin.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1704*
GENTLEMEN,
The discharge of some important ex
ecutive duties, connected with the wes
tern expedition, will require my absence
from the City for some time ; but con
fiding in your tigilance and judgment,
I leave it without any apprehenfton that
the Public Health will be exposed to a
ny injury.
If however, any cases Ihould occur
of danger from vessels arriving, either
trom foreign or domeftlc ports, you will
be pleased to order such quarantine to
ft observed ; and pursue such other cau
tionary measures, at you /hall think ne
cessary, without waiting for the publi
cation of a proclamation.
I am Gentlemen,
With great esteem,
Your moll obedient servant.
THOMAS MIFFLIN.
To the Infpe&ors, Health-Offir;*,
and the Retider.t and Confulti.ig
Phyficinn, of the Health-Office
of the Port of Philadelphia.
By this Day's Mail.
BALTIMORE, Oftobcr 2
The committee of health appointed
for Baltimore-Town and Point, con
ceiving that great injury may ensue from
the falfe and exaggerated accounts daily
propagated, concerning the number of
deaths in said town and precincts ; think
it their duty to inform the public, that
after (he most accurate and diligent en
quiry, they find that 344 persons have
died in the months of Augvft and Sep
tember last ; among these a confidcrable
number were .children, who were taken
off by the small-pox and other com
plaints ; many of the adults died of dis
eases usual at this season ; and although
the mortality has been great for some
weeks paftj yet tile committee can with
confidence fay, that tha number of sick
is lefTenerl conf> J*TRbl V ; and, from the
present happy change of weather, tlty
flatter themselves the health of the town
will be speedily re-established. The
committee intend to publish every day
the number of deaths during the pre
ceding twenty four hours, and mention
the name of each person defceafed, if
poilible.
The committee hate observed two
letters lately published in the Philadel
phia papers, said to be written by a
physician in Baltimore, and Cannot
avoid reprobating the conduifi of the
author, and viewing hint as a young
man defirotis of eftablilhing his own re
putation at the expence of truth, and of
the town in which he lives.
Six persons have died this day, three
of whom were childreh.
Gujlivits Scott,
Gterge Salmon,
Tutunfend,
Alexander M'Kim,
HolFrngf-worthi
Thomas Johnfton t
Thomas Dickfon.
Baltimore* Odlober 1, 1794.
_—>t_
Yesterday arrived the fchoorter Trtfitj
Capt. Donaldfon; fiom Martinico and
St. Martin's, by whcifr we learn, that at
Martinico the Americans are not allow-*
ed to do their own Bufmefs, and Capt.-
Boyd, of this place, who had takon a
(tore for the disposal of his cargo, was
obliged to Ihut it up.
MARTI N 1 C 0.
By hit EvcelUncy Sir Charles Grcyj
K. B. commander in chief of hit Ma
jejifs forces in the tfejl-lndies.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it becomes necessary
froin the state of the colony t6 admit
the importation into this island of cer
tain articles of provisions and plantation
(lores, in foreign vefiels in amity with
Great Britain, for a limited time.
I have therefore thought fit, by the
power in me veiled, hereby to publilh
this my proclamation, to make known,
that from and after the publication here
of, the following artieks, to wit, flour,
biscuit, rice, pease, beans, oats, Indian
com, and corn meal, ship fluff, live
stock, mules, horses, homed cattle, and
lumber of all kinds, shall and may be
imported into this island, in foreign
veffeU, belonging to the fubjefts of any
power or state in amity with his majef
ty, until the thirty-firil day of October
next, and no longer. And all officers
within this government ate hereby en
joined and required, to conduct th< m
felves accordingly. And it is further
admitted, that rum and molasses be bar
tered for any of the above commodities,
and exported in such vessels, within the
time aforefaid.
Given under my hand and seal at St.
Pierre, this a3th day of Augull,
*794» an d i" the 34th year of his
majesty's reign.
CHARLES GREY.
By his excellency's command,
G. FISHER, Secretary.
Head-querter's, St, Pierre, Martinico,
August 23, 179+.
Sirs,
The commander in chief, general fir
Charles Grey, k. -e. having this moment
received the enclosed letter from admi
ral fir John Jervis, k. b. desires you
may publish it in your newspaper for
the information of the public.
1 am, firs,
Your most obedient,
and humble servant,
G. FISHER, Secretary.
To the printers of the Martinico
Gazette.
Boyne, in Trios Islets bay, Martinico,
August 23, 1794.
Sir,
I take the earliest opportunity to in
form your excellency, thdt'i hope to
nirrtlo a convoy from Foit'vßoyaf,Mar
tinique very early in tbe month of
October, which will look into Roseau,
the Slints, BafTeterre, Gfcadaloifpe,
Montfenat and Balfeterr.-, Si j£itts.
I have the honor to be your exccllen
cy's most obcdkilt, humble servant,
J. JERVIS.
His excellency the governor of
the island of Martinique.
From Corrrfpondznls,
The sublimity of the republican go
vernmental maxims, while it marks pro
found wisdom in the greit men who have
developed them, and interwoven thetn
in a theory, likewise explains the Decef
f'ty of good sense and much rejled'ion, in
the individuals of our focietv. Without
a constant exercise of these, how can
the people underltand the practical aud
just application of them. It is laid
down, in a late celebrated law cafe, bv
the Chief Justice t>f Americas as a prin
ciple, that the of the coun
try is in the citizens, and that they are
joint tenants of rhis fovereigmy. With
out an accurate corhprehenfion of this
principle, and a virtuous and enlighten
ed use of it, in the regulation of person
al and political rights, the wildest con
fufion, and the boldelt ambition would
rend the country, with all the honors
of anarchy and civil wai ! If properly
nnderftood, otir duty which would flow
from it, for all truths form obligations,
would be this—ln the exercise of indi
vidual rights under the constitution, re
gard mull be had to the equal rights of
initancc ; ill the exereife of
I'tlerty of fptcvir and of the prifs„ a vir
tuous caution would prescribe a moder
ate ityle of discussion ; and all haily and
crude- opinions would be restrained as
an abuse of the right, as they might do
an injury to the country, or to the joint
tenants in the sovereignty.—Let a citi
zen, vicious, dishonest, bold, and igno
rant, know that he is on? of the fnvrr
eig/is of the country, and he will feel
none of the sentiments of the foveivign,
but the unnatural and feditior.s thirst of
personal power, and ft If government,
and will probably exert her right con
trary to the exalted theory to \yhich
that principle just now mentioned, be
longs. Let us not only preierve the
sublime and beautiful theory we now
enjoy, but likewise endeavor to diffufe
that .knowledge of its delicate nature,
in which alone it can be secured from the
violence of vice, and the rude touches
of ignorancc.
What can be a more complete illustrati
on of an abuse of the ineftimable'privilege
of afreeprefs, than the writing of some
body who signs himfelf Atticus, in the
Philadelphia papers—at such a moment of
internal convulflon to publifli such a piece,
is like permitting a quack to make experi
ments on a disordered state of heahh—to
fee how much poison the patient will bear!
What would be done to a miscreant in a
large city, who during the efforts of the
citizens to extinguifc a raging fire, lhould
be detedled in pouring buckets of oil into
an engine instead of water !
If it is the base interest of any foreign
nation to fee us thrown into confufipn, and
of course weakness, just it this critical
state of our national affairs, is it not to be
expefled that Ihe would employ scribblers,
like Atiicus, as to add to our disorders, by
the publication of poisonous pieces ? Thus
converting an engine of great good, a
free press, into a machine of djftrudlion.
NEW-BRUNSWICK, Oflober
On Sunday last marched from this
place, a company of fifty odd fine hearty
looking men under the command of
captain Keenon, for Trenton.
On Monday morning a detachment of
horse from Bergen, being the fecoud re
quifitio.t.
On Tuesday Capt. Durham's troop of
harfe, belonging to this place, met to fur
nilh ten men on the feiond requisition,
when twenty vol6nteers turned out, who
are to march on Monday morning,, joined
by a detachment from Capt. Edgar's troop
of Woodbridge.
The Preiident of the United States left
Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, to take
the command of the troops deitincd to adl
against the insurgents.
On Tuesday a body of about 400 in
fantry and cavalry crofted the Delaware on
their way to Carlisle.
Part of the Pennsylvania militia were
to leave Carlisle on Sunday last.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.
A large and refpeftable meeting
of the Citizens was held lalt even
ing at the City-Hall—when it was una
nimously voted to flop the Intercourse
between this City and Baltimore, by
land and water, on account of the con- 1
tagious disorder now raging there—and
a committee of twenty was appointed
to fee that this resolution be carried in
to effe&, in fiich way as to occaiion
the lead possible injury to the Public,
or breach of Humanity to individuals.
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
On MONDAY EVENING,
OSober 6.
Will be presented,
A COMEDY, never a<f\ed in Philadd-
phia, callcd
I'll Tell You What;
Or The
{INDESCRIBABLE SOME
THING.
Written by the author of Every One has
his Fault.
Immediately after the Play, by particular
desire, the favorite comic Song of
Four and Twenty Fiddlers,
By Mr. Barwick.
To which will be added,
A Musical Entertainment, never a (fled in
Philadelphia, called the
A K E R ;
Or The
BENEVOLENT FRIEND.
Performed at Drury Lane with the inoft
unbounded applause.
The doors will be opened at half after
five, and the curtaiil drawn up preoifely at
half after fix o'clock.
Meflrs. HALLAM & HODGKINSON
refpe\flfnlly acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expence has been chearful
ly sustained. that might tend to make the
Old American Company, worthy a share of
their patronage, during the Ihort stay the
nature of their engagements will permit
them to make here.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundays excepted) and on days of per
ioi rn,'. not iixun thnre rn fi-. r p. M where
alio tickets msy be had, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-ftorfc. No. 8. foilfK P. ftV
street, and at Mr. Garr's music-store.
BOX, one Dollar'—PlTT, three qu»r
ers—GALLERY, half a dollar.
Ricketis's Equeftriafl,
CIRCUS.
TtilS EVENING, OS. 4.
Will be performed a great variety ox nevr
and Surpriffng
Eqttejlrian Performances,
Part Iji.
Matter F. Rickrtts hangs by one leg,
sweeps biith his hands and the plume of
his cap 011 the ground. Likewise mounts
his horse in full fpecd with one foot on the
saddle in a pleasing attitude.
Part id.
Mr. Ricketts will ride a finale horse.
turning like the fly of aj.ic-k, vaulting
from th« horse to the ground and from
theypr t» the horse. Likewise from the
near fido to the off fide, and from thence
to the near fide. He Hands with his sets
on the fajddte and puts himfelf in various
graceful attitudes, the horse in full gallop.
' , Part $d.
Still vaulting on one horse by Matter
Rickett* and Mr. M'Donald.
Part 4thj
Mr. Ricketfs will fide ona horse land
ing erewith his face towards the horfe'*
tail, plays with an orange afld fork in the
air, then turns round and receives the
orange on the point of the fork. He
throws op an rrange and receives it on the
point of' a Iword, at the fame time Hand
ing on the saddle without the afliftance of
the bridle reins.
Part $th.
Mr. M'Donald will ride a single horse,
and perform several comic leaps and feats.
Part 6th.
Mr. Ricketts will ride two horses leap
ing over a cane held in botji hands back
and forward?.• He will ride two horses
Handing eredt, at the fame time throwing
up Four Orange*, two const fitly in the
air. He will put a glass of wine in a hoop
turning it round rapidly, the fame time in
its place, takes the fame and drinks to the
company, the horse being in full gallop.
Part -fth.
Mr. Ricketts performs a Hornpipe on x
single horse, with and wi'thout the aflift
ance of the bridle, leaps from the horse
to the ground and with the fame spring
leaps from the ground wiffi one foot on the
faddle,in the attitude of Mercury.the horse
in full gaUop.
Part 8 lb.
Mr. Ricketts rides a single horfe,fprmge
from the feat ere<3, without touching tne
saddle with his hands then forms the at
titude of Mercury without the afliftance
of the reins. He leaps from the horse to
the ground and with the Cune spring re
mounts with his face towards the horfe'*
tail and throws a Somerset backwards.
Part 9th.
Mr. Ricketts will ride two HoHes in full
speed and fcafry his young pupil Matter
Long, on his shoulders, in the'attitude of
a young Flying Mercury.
To conclude with the
Taylor riding to Brentford.
Mr. Ricketts refpeftfully informs the
Pu blicthat the Circus is open every Morn«
ing for the purpose of inftruclirtg Ladies
and Gentlemen in the elegant acromplifh
ment of Riding & managing their horfc#.
Mr. Ricketts his provided a grand Band
of Music, under the direaion of Mr.
Young.
Doors to be opened at a, and
performance begin exactly at 5 o'clock.—
Days of Performance Tuesday«, Thurf.
days, and Saturday!,