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<j (from my knowledge
of the officers and foldiersof the army)
I am persuaded with full success, to car
ry these wife and benevolent views of.
the President into complete effect.
Given under my hand at IJead-
Quarters, near Parkinfon's Fifrry,
this eighth day of November, 1794.
HENRY LEE.
By the Commander in Chief,
G. K. TAYLOR, Aid-de-Camp.
I, A. B. do solemnly, iri the pre
sence of Almighty God, swear and de
clare that I will faithlully and sincerely
suppOrt the constitution of the United
States, and obey all the laws thereof, and
will discountenance opposition theretp,
except by way of petition and remeftj,
ftrance, and all attempts to tefift, ob
ftruft or ill-treat the officers of the Unit
ed States in the execution of their ref
pedtive duties. So help me God.
And in pursuance of the abore oath,
I do hereby engage and affoeiate my
felf to and with all cithers who may fub
feribe these presents, to countenance
and protect the officers'of the United
States, in the execution of their said
duties according to law, and to discover
and i-> 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, <will hi
fpokev by Mr. Hodgkivfon.
Mrs. Marriott, with the utmost defe
rence and timidity offers to the Public. this
humble effort of Juvenile Fancy, and as it
has ever been the charaseriitic of Ameri
cans, to be the support of Genius however
lowly, (he hopes that a froall share 6f their
inestimable patronage, will be adminifter
ed-to dispel thd painrul fears of ienfibility ;
and (he raoft genuine gratitude in return,
lhall ever be retained in the heart of her,
who has already experienced the
tokens of their approbation.