Ti.<: has appointed Mr. .Samuel Bayard,a gentleman of the law i,i *»i »s cily, and of known refpefta. bility, of talents and charatter, to pro ceed immediately to London, ai agent of claims and appeals. He will fail in the A.driana now on the point of depar ture for Great Bt itaio, from this port. He will be authorised to bindthe Unit ed State*, under the dire&ion of Mr. Jsj, for the colls and damages attend injrjhe prosecutions ; and the nccefTary cJuiifcl will be engaged on the part of tiw United States. It will be expelled that theflipulation which you have made in your letter, be accurately executed to wit ; That the merchants will obtain the proceedings of the courts. The expeneeof the records will be reimburfrd bythe United States. It w!ll be proper, however,, that you obtain such information as ispofTefTed by the.departm.ent of Hate, of the records which have been already procured and forwarded; and I take the liberty of cau tioning you againfl an error, into which you seem to have fallen, " that there were few who had not obtained authen tic copies of the proceedings of the courts." Technical precision is not ab solutely underilood by unprofeffional men ; and therefore, what is fair to the eye, will not always refill the criticism of courts. But as soon as corredt re cords are got, let them be forwarded to our Minifler Plenipotentiary in Lon don. What notiee may be neceflary to the captors, or whether the appeals and claims ought to be entered in the Well- Indies, 1 will not undertake to. deter mine j but this inquiry will be the firft made by Mr. Bayard, after his arrival m London, and inftru&ions will be giv en to endeavour to remove every difficul ty on this head. I wish you to eorrefpond with the pcrfons -interefled in British captures in the different towns in theUnifed States. I will fend to the governors and cuflom Jioufe officers, copies of your letter and this, for the infpe&ion of all concerned ; and I mean also to publiih the enclosed notice.. I have the honor, fir, to be, with sentiments of refpefi and es teem your mod obedient fcrvant, - EDM. RANDOLPH. Thomas Fitzfimon3, Esq. Chairman of the Committee of Merchants. Department of State, to wit : I HEREBY certify that the fore going letter of'l id Oft.ftom Mr. Fitz iimani to the Secretary of Slate, in be half of a committee os-Merchants of Philadelphia, and the Secretary of State's reply of the 4th instant, are tiue O pie* of the originals. GEO. TAYLOR, Jun. 7th Nov. 1794. To the Inhabitants or certain Counties, lying west of the Laurell Hill, in the State or Pe-nnsvltania. Friends and Fellow Citizen', YOU fee encamped in the bosom of your diftri£t, a numerous and well ap pointed army, formed of citizens of every description, from this, and the neighboring dates of of New-Jerfty, Maryland and Virginia, whom the vio lated laws of our common country have called from their homes to vindicate and restore their authority. The facrifice of private interest and ease, the reliuquifhment of family and friends, and of. all domestic comforts and enjoyments, the fatigues of a long and arduous march at an inclement sea son, the many inconveniences and ha zards of military life, could not with hold them from obeying with alacrity so sacred a call. Actual hardships and fufFetings, such as might try the pati ence of troop* the most inured to mili tary toils, have only served to display in strong colours the genuineness of the patriotic sentiments by which they aie impelled, and to furnilh a memorable £ example of the fortitude and persever ance capable of fin mounting all obsta cles, which may be expedted from men who are moved by principle and the love of their country. The scene be fore your eyes ought to be an inftroc tive one ; it ought to teach many ufeful truths, which should, for your own hap piness, make a deep and lading impref jion oh your minds. In the sudden colleflion and rapid movement into your country, of so ref peftable a force, you behold an unequi vocal proof of the ability and determi nation of the people of the United States to uphold the government they have established,' as well as of the energy and refourccs of that government. \ 011 fee the fallacy of the suggestions by which most of you have been de- ce'ved, 88 to the power of the govern ment, and the inclination of the gieat body of the citizcus to support and maintain the authority of the lave?., In the largeness of the force which has come into ywiir country (though partial inconveniences may attend it) may be discerned another evidence of the clemency, as well as of the power of government. A beloved President, whose wisdom md virtues will be indelibly engraven on the heart of every true American, to the latest posterity, unmindlulof the neglect with which his parentel over tures were treated, has still fought to save the deluded from the fatal conse quences to which the violence of their pafiiona has exposed them, by convinc ing the mod obttinate and the molt ralh that resistance would be madness. Those who have been perverted from their duty may now perceive the dan gerous tendency of the doflrines by which they hare been milled, and how unworthy of their confidence are the men by whom, for personal and finifler purposes they have been brought, Hep by Hep, to the precipice from which they have no escape but in the modera tion and benignity of that very govern ment which they have vilifiecf, insulted, and opposed. The friends of order may also per ceive in the perils and evils that have for some time furrounped them, how unwise and even culpable is that care lessness and aparhy with which they have permitted the gradual approaches of disorder and anarchy. . AH ought to fee the extreme danger of sporting with the public paffi )ns, of misrepresenting the mean:resof govern ment, of converting differences of opi nion about the means of promoting the public good into evidences of pernicious designs, of interefled and corrupt aifns, of criminal plots againfl the liberty and happiness of the people. Let chimeras like these no longer disturb our tranquility ; let them De ba rrilhed as the inventions of men, who, at the expence of truth, and at the hazard of the peace and tranquility of the community, seek either to destroy a fabric which :he people have reared as the depository of their happiness, or to gratify their rivalfhips and refent -1 menta to promote their own aggran ! dizement. In thus addnning myfelf to you, you tnuft be sensible that 1 can have no mo tive .but my folicituJe for the reltoration of your happiness, to establish and per petuate which is the principal object of the command with which 1 am entrust ed. The attainment of this, and every other end of my trod, with as little in convenience to individuals as (hall be practicable, is what I arixioufly desire, and will materially depend upon your selves. Chief Clerk. Underthe influence of this sentiment, I recommend to the citizens in general to give every evidence in their power of a disposition friendly to the conilitution and government ; to demean themselves peaceably, and remain quietly at home ; to contribute all in their power towards the accommodation and lupply of the army ; to prepaie, and produce freely what they have to spare of the necefla ries of life ; and to content themselves in the sale thereof with the price to which they have been accuflomed, avoid ing all appearance of exaction and ex tortion. By this condu&the evils unavoidably incident to the presence-os an army will be in a great degree mitigated, if not effe&ually removed. I further recommend to all the vvell difpofed to manifelt their good inten tions by taking and fubferibing without delay, sincerely and truly, an oath to support the constitution and obey the laws, and by entering into an afTociation to protect and aid all the officers of go vernment in the execution of their ref peftive duties ; and to protect them from ill treatment of every fort. For this purpose a paper will be deposited with magistrates in each county, acsord ing to the form subjoined. I do'alfo exhort all men capable and willing to bear arms, truly attached to their government anc! country, to array themselves fnto regiments, one for each county, and to place themselves under such officers as may be felefted by the Governor of the date, known to be firm friends to order and right, upon the express condition of holding themselves in constant readiness to a6t in defence of the civil authority, whenever called upon, receiving for I,heir services the fame pay and subsistence as is allowed to the militia of the United States, when in actual service. In pursuance of the authority veiled in me by the President of .the United States, and in obedience to his instruc tions, I do moreover allure all who may have entitled themfelve to the benefit of the amncfty profered by the commif- fionert heretofore sent by him to this diftrift and who may not have forfeited their title by fubfeqiient mifconduft, that the promise will be faithfully and li berally observed, and that all pofiible endeavours will be used to prevent inju ry to the perfotis or property of peacea ble citizens, by the troops, whose sole province it is to fsbdue those, if any there should be, hardy enough to at tempt an armed resistance, and to sup port and aid the civil authority, as far as may be required. To the promulgation of the£e my orders, 1 with pteafure ad.: I my aflurances that every exertion will be 1 made by me, an ing to justice all persons b'jo may be concerned, directly or indhei.tly in illegally hindering or obllrudtiug the said officers or any of them in the exe cution of his or their duty, or in doing any manner of violence to them or any of th"ta. In witness of all which, I have hereunto fubferrbed my hand, the day ar.d the year above written. By this Day's Mail. LONDON, Sept. 14—24. It is dated in a letter from Milan, da ] ted on the 2d inltant, that the French 1 fqftadron in Juan Bay had been burnt j by the combined fleets of England and j Spain. We sincerely hope that this j intelligence may be confirmed. The following is a copy of a circular notice font to all the commando s of the king's {hips on the Mediterranean tla- tion: " MEMORANDUM. " Princess-Royal, Aug. 25, 1794. " Information having been received, of the enemy having formed the iniqui tous intention to load a veflel with wine, with poison in it, and let her fall into our hands ; the Vice-Admiral makes the fame known to the ships of the fqiiad ron, that they may be upon their guard accordingly; and as the intelligence comes from Genoa, and this diabolical design planned at that place, particular care isMo be observed in not meddling with any wine cargo taken, which comes from the Eastward, and the crew of all suspicious veflels are to be carefully se cured." By the movements which his royal highnefshas been under the neceflity of making, the idea of a jun&ion with ge neral Clairfait, if it was ever entertain-', ed, must now be abandoned. Breda and Bois-le-Duc are left open to attack, and it remains to be ieerrhoW the Dutch will defend tbemfelves, when they have no covering army to look to. The report of,, an important victory obtained by General Clairfait near Maef tricht, on the 15th, is evidently unfoun ded. Sir Gilbert Elliot is appointed Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Corsica. Lady Elliot and Suite set off yester day for Baftia, where the Lord Lieu tenant is to take up his residence. The Prince of Saxe Cobotirg being removed from the command of the com bined Armies, all the diitafleis of the campaign are imputed to him, although the Emperor assisted by Colonel Mack, commanded in peifon during ihe most important part of it, viz. whtfn Piche gru lodged himfelf in Weft-Flanders, which decided the fate of all the subse quent opeiations. When the Duke of Brunfwick was removed from the chief command, Coßburg was what Clairfait now is, the theme of ministerial praise ; Clairfait may befoen what Cobourg and Brunfwick now are, the scape goat of other men's blunders. Accounts from Berlin of the 6th inft. fay, that the Prufliars look three more redoubts before Warsaw on the 28th, and that the Peles were defeated on' the day following, in an attempt to regain the ground thev had 1«»R j in this attack (lie Polish Colonel Branckowlk was killed. Other letters fay, the Poles at tacked the left wing of the Pruflian ar my on the 30th, but were to wannly re ceived that they-left low men upon the place. Ten more rtdojbts being taken from the Poles on the fame day, there was the highest probability that the fate of Warsaw would soon be determined. The calling of Parliament f« early as the 4th of November for the dispatch of bufmefs, marks very flrongly the defer ence of Minillers to the colleSive voice of the representatives of the nation. Those who recollect the high language which Mr. Fin, when minifter,uniform ly held, towards the house of commons, will easily be able to judge which v.fthe two, that gentleman or Mr. Pitt, is in fact, the moll cooftitutional minister. By the Paris papers of-the U instant it appears that Tallien and his party have loft their influence in the Jacobin Club, and in the Sections, as perfe&ly as in the Convention. In the Jacobin ■ Club, a difcuflion took place on the at tack which Lecointre made on thefeven Members. Tallien was accused as his infligator, and it was called an intrigue which had for its object to excite a tu mult in Paris. Dubois Crance was said also to be one of the chorus in the plot, but he juftified motion was made for Lecointre and Tallien to be summoned as members, to give an ac count of their cdnduft, or to have their names expunged from the books. PARIS, Aug. 27. The Revolutionary 7 ribunal holds fittings with great regularity ; it is rema ed, -with much fatisfaiftion, that the treme rigor -with which its sentences were pronounced under the diflatorlhip of Robe spierre, is uonfiderably relaxed. On the 17th and 18th inft. this Tribunal liberat ed several prisoners, and sentenced to death two persons only, Labrau and Laura. The 60 members of the Conven tion, who in 1793 figneda proreft. against the events of the 3lit May are still confin ed ; but their affairs will be taken into im mediate consideration. The total number of prisoners without reckoning those in the Conciergerie,* is 6360. It is calculated that if the .tribunal had continued its mas sacres, at the rate of 40 or jo per iiem, there would, since the 2id of July, have been 1400 persons less in Paris, and pro bably 300 c prisoners more. A. B. Sept. 1. Renandiu, Captain of the Vtngcur, which funk in the action of the I It of June, is arrived here from England. He was re ceived with acclamations by the people, and the committee of Public Safety have appointed him to the command of a lliip of the line lately launched at Brest. The Arch Duk? of Milan having re turned from vifitiag the head quarters of the Picdrrvontefe army, it was an nounced ?»t the Theatre, where he peared in the evening, that the French had abandoned fevcral polls which they occupied. The fame is ojficially an nounced in the of Turin, with a number of circumftancfs, in which it appears that there was only one serious attempt to diiturb the French in their retreat ; but even this failed, owing to what is always termed the enemy's su periority of numbers By the reports of some deserters, the French army retreating through the val ley of Limone, confided of 15 battali ons of infantry, and 800 cavalry, ten of thent pafled the Colle di Teuda on the 14th of August, and five of them took the route towards Nice. The l renchnear Mondovi retreated towards Ormea and Garefioon the i Bth ult, af terfetting fire to their works at Torcy. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15. A Corrcfponftent observes that Gover nor Lee has fetthe Jacobin Clubs an Her culean task, in proposing that they should resume their meetings for the purpose of reeonfidering the reprelentations they have made to the public.—it would require more room than the Insurgent papa s could find, by excluding all advertrfements for two years, to publiih a full contradiction to all the lies, fianders and with which they have persecuted the peo ple for two years part. A correfpcndent obfervei that cer tain paragraphs in the General Adver tiser are undoubtedly founded .00 the bejl inforrrtation from the patriotic army —it is whispered that certain perfont have been fully informed that the pre sence, influence, and exertions of the Se cretary of the Treafnry, have contribu ted greatly, in conjunction with those of other f atriotic characters, in bring ing the weltern expedition to a favora ble i flue—time will afipertain the truth of many reports honorary to the peifon who has been so long the diftinguilhed obje£l of the at rows of malignity. ITALY. :hem The ards af cy. HALIFAX, Nov. 3. DIED"] lately, in the pinej woods of Pitt county, North Carolina where he had rrfidedfor I,oyears pafi with his youngt/f fun, who is in the 63d year of bis age, Mr. WILLIAM TAYLOR, aged 114 years. He was born eitlxr in Virginia or tins'ft ate —enjoyed for m.'.ny years pafl 4 perfcßft ate of be alt b and on the morning of his death had Jet off to walk two miles to get a pair of/hoes, hut was fixed with a fit shortly after he left home which carried him off. CONGRESS. •. ' • • '.• • y-S * In the ffcufe of Representatives of the United States, Friday, the (4th of November, 1794. Ordered, that 4 Committee of Claim* be appointed, pursuant tb the ; (landing rules and orders of the House : And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Tracy, Mr. Foster, M(. Malbone, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Heath, Mr. Christie and Mr. Meban?. , Extract iiom the. Journal, JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk. A standing Committee of Claims fliall be appointed at the commencement of each session, to confiit of seven mem bers. It (hall be the duty of the said Com mittee of Claims to .take into consider ation all such petitions and matters or things touching Qlaims or .demands on the United States, as (hall be prefented,t or (hall, or may com? in question, and be referred to them by the Huu£e, and to report their opinion thereupon, to gether with such proportions for relief therein, as tf> them (hall fcem expedient.; Extra& from the (landing rules and orders of the House. JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk. The public arc informed occasionally of the progiefs of our country in the arts of peace under, the auspices of a go vernment which secures to every man theacqiiifitionsof his induftry,the pof fefiio-n of life, liberty and property. We hear from,Nantucket that there are now building on that Island ten (hips, from two to three, hundred tong' each, that there stete lately in port be longing to the Ifland,upwards, of thirty fail of the f me description of veflels, hchdes others—.that the Whale Fishery > from thence has been very fuccefsful the part fcafon-—that every citizen has full employ—and that such was the general I competence'there enjoyed, thatjiota I single person was dependant on public I provision for his support. WhataTiappy fiituation, fays a cor respondent, must tliat country be where every passion hostile to tlie peace of society is so dormant that all the le gislative functions may be suspended from week to week without th'c laaft inconvenience to the public ! For Sale or Charter, The SHIP mki hope, SKrnCSiSS Burthen about 200 tons, a '"'-v7 ftauuch, good veflcl," about Two years old, now lying at Maflry't , Wharf. For terms, apply to Jdfeph Anthony Iff Son. Nov. ij. dst.' Old American Company; THEATRE—CEDAk STREET. for the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Marriott, On MONDAY EVENING, Nov", ii- Will be presented, The TRAGEDY of the Rival Queens ; OR, The Death of Alexander the Great. After which'will be preferitedan entire new Burletta DANCE, by Monf. Quenet, Mr. Durang, and Madame Gardie, en titled the Patriotic Feast. And a FARCE, H'rittrn by Mrs. Marriott, called Chimera $ O R, The Kffufions of Fancy. (never performed.) The Prologue by Mrs. Marriott,