L The paragraph which crave rife !o this enquiry (h;ill here repeat it. " The front confided of ihr appeared 6n°the l/thinft. in the New-York Mi- " militia from North and Sou'h-Caroiin.i, and was nerva, pihlifhed by Mr. Noah Webtter, in the sol " commanded by generals Manon and Pickens, & lowing words: —" The Northern states fought the " colonel de Malmedy. The iecond confuted ol battles of the Southern during the late war. They " the continental troops from North Carolina, Fir fed, clothed, and fuppoued the army. They fe- " ginia and Maryland, and was led on by geneia cured independence." " Sumner, lieut. col. Campbell, and colonel W il It is extremely rare to meet so much falfhood in « liams. Lieut.col. Lee, with his legion, covered so small a compass. The writer, whoever he was, " the right flank ; lieut. 01. Henderfon, with the placed very great reliance on the credulity of his " flatc troops, covered the left. LieLt. co . a)- readers, when he ventured to depart so totally from " ington, with his cavalry, and captain Kirkwjod, truth refpefling historical fa&s, particularly of so " with the Delaware troops, formed a corps de re leeent a date as those us the late war. " serve." The Southern states, during the progress of the To enter into details of all the brave and fuccefs revolution, were exposed to all the ravages of a mod ful (kirmilhes, incursions, and surprises, in which deftrudtive and desolating was. Ruthless generals Generals Morgan, Marion, Pickens, . Sumpteiv spread ruin in every diredticjii, far and near, Sumner, W. Waftiiugton, .Lee, and various^other The eitizens were, sot a considerable part of the diftinguffhed officers of the Sou.hern states, were time, entiiely out of the protedtion of the general concerned, though it wotild more fully eftabli/h the government, which, in the period of their greatest pufition I have laid down, would lead me too far. didrefs and difficulty, was unable to fend them mo- ! -I mud therefore difmifsthe fubjedt, with referring ney or soldiers. (2) Many men were dragged from ' the reader to the hillories of Ramsay and Gordon, their houses, and compelled to take up arms againlt and to the journals of Congress, in which he will their country. (3) For fighting in defence of ihj -find ample tettimonials to fatisfy him, thar " the common cause, several brave & diftinguiihed charac-j Northern states did not fight the battles of the ters were adlually hanged like common felons. (4) Southern." I have heard gentlemen of indubitable refpedtability j It thus appears, that the charges so pofitlvely affirm, that a fourth part of the inhabitants of. and barefacedly brought forward against Jie South- Georgia perilhed during the war. The, ern states, are void of even a fhaihiv of truth!— havock in many parts of South-Carolina, (5 ) and i for so far from the Northern states having exclusively in some parts of Virginia, was in a 9 prreat a propor- j fought the battles of the Southern ; it appears in tion. Trade, commerce, and even cultivation, were , conteftible, that except at York-town, the South almoft wholly suspended. And where cultivation I ern dates were left, during the mod dangerous pe wa» carried on, the produce of the foil lay on hands ' riods of the war, to proteS themjelvcs almojl -wholly for want of (hipping to tranfpoA it to suitable mar- unajjifled! Still further to (hew the tutal disregard ketd. Taking all these considerations together, it of truth, which prevails witk those who advance is not perhaps too much to suppose, that a Angle these bold aflertions : it appears, from an exami- Soutriern date fuffered as muvh by the war as all nation of the accounts of the battles of German the New-England dates united. South-Carolina, town and Brandywine, that there were probably alone, lod 25,000 (laves. (6) At 150 dollars e.ach moie Southern soldiers engaged in them, than thifre these amount to 3,750,000 dollars. Virginia, tho' were Northern soldiers in all the Southern battles (he did not probably lose so man\, fuffered immense- together, Yorktown excepted. ly in this way. Yet these date* are now threatened Let us here make a mod solemn pause. If we with being " shaken off the neck" of the northern have not relinquilhed all cares beyond the fordid ones, becanfe they are opposed to a treaty, which concerns of felf-imereft, here is ample matter for has relinquished all claims to compensation for the the mod awful and painful reflexions ! Mult we negroes taken fiom them contrary to the treaty of not (hudder with affright, at the tremendous pre peace. (7) cipice, to which, with Syren ar.s, our incautions While the Southern states were in this dreadful Iteps are so artfully drawn ! 'To any foreign pow lituation, the Eastern and middle states, with some er, jealous of our pfofperity, a ruptuie of the exceptions as to the date of New Jersey, a part of Union would be invaluable—to Americans it would New-York, Philadelphia and its vicinity, and some be the sign and leal of inevitable dedrudti'in ! — other parts at particular feafuns, were, comparatively What, the», mud be our abhorrence, out detelia fpealing, free from the din of arms. Internal trade tion of the motives which can lead any man who fuffered little check. The supplies for the army profeffes hirtifelf an American, to mulliply, by such gave employment to the old branches of manufadtu gross, such (hamelefs, such palpable mifreprefenta res, and called new ones into exidence : and if ex- tion, the already too numerous sources of jealousy ternal commerce was suspended, numerous and fuc- between the' several members of our confederation ! cefsful privateers compensated for the interruption, who lays a foundation of falfehood ai.d deception, —Prom almost all these advantages, the Southern on which to eredl the frightful fuperdrudture of a states were partially or altogether debarred. If, d'ljfolution of the Union ! Are we not alarmeJ to therefore, as we are now told, " the Northern dates find, that this idea is now thrown out with less had fought the battles of the Sou'hern"—if "hey concern, than was formerly felt at the idea of erett had " fed, clothed and supported the army," the ing a new state, a new couuty, or even the removal contribution would not have been more severe than of a feat of Government ! whatever may be their tint of their Southern brethren ; and, even in that profeffions, can the men be fedtrahjis, who are tb.. C»fe, they would not be entitled to reproach them endeavouring to dettroy our fdtral Union ? Are with what they had done. they friends to order, who are familiarizing us tc But the truth is, " that the Southern states the waft species of difordtr and difurganizatitn : fought their own battles." They.contributed, to Are they friends to the human rate, who, as far ai speak within very moderate bounds, at lead as in them lies, are endeavouring to hlait the hope! largely towards " securing independence" as the mankind entertained, of having lie. e a lading aly Northern. History bears them ample teflimony, lum against European perfecutinn f Should we, foi that if the revolution was really a criminal ass, as any of the heart burnings or discords of the prefeni would appear to be the opinion of many at present, moment, dffolve the Union—fatal, acourfed cx they expiated their (hare of the guilt '• to the ut- predion—little did 1 expedt a few years back, yoi termoft farthing." If it was meritorious and ho- would be so familiar to my pen—ftiould we, 1 fay nourable, as I hope the world will long regard it, be guilty of this dupendous folly, would we not de a very large proportion of the glory belongs to vote ourselves to the execrations and malediftiop of our cotemporaries and of the lated poderity ? The chief battle? fought to the Southward, were HARRINGTON, •t Camden, at Kingfmoiintai-i, at Cowpens, at Guilford Cour'.-Houfe, at Kobkirk's ill, near Camden, and at Eutaw. Let us enquire, were - these " fought by the Northern dates?", At the l ittle of Camd .11, " the American iwny " was farmed in the following manner: the second u Maryla id brigade, commanded by brigadier-gr. " neral Gift, flanked by a morals : the N. Carolina " militia, commanded by maj >r general Cafwcll, In " the centre ; and the Virginia militia, commanded V by general Stevens, 011 the left, flanked by the " N. Carolina militia light-infantrv, and a inoraf). " Major-general baron de K*lb commanded on the " f'eht of the line, and brigadier-general Small wood " commanded the firft Maryland brigade, which " hundred yards in the rear." (8) At the battle of Kingfmountain, in which major general Fergufon was (lain, the Americau army was composed exclusively of the militia us the Wellern parts of Virginia, and North and South-Carolina. At the battle of Cowpens, that brilliant instance of bravery and good conduct, " General Morgan " drew up his men in two lines. The whole of " 'be North and South-Carolina militia present were " put under the command of general Pickens, and " formed theJirfl line. The second conlifted of the " light-infantry under lieut. col. Howard, and the «' Virginia riflemen. Colonel Waftu'ngton, with •« his cavalry, and about 45 militia, under colonel " M'Call, were drawn up in the rear of the " whole.' ( 10) The light-infantry were from De laware, Maryland and Virginia—and the cavalry f om Virginia, as may be feeu by the lid publilhed by general Morgan. (11) The American army, at Guilford Court House, " confided of Huger's brigade of Virginia conti •' nentals, 778 present, and ri; for duty ; of Wil «* liams's Maryland brigade and Delawares, 630, " and of the infantry of Le.-'s partizan legisn, 82 ; " that of continental regulars, 1,490: besides these, '« there were 1,060 militia from North Carolina, " and 1,693 f rom Virginia. The whole army "confifiel "f 4,24-! foot, and of t6l cavalry, i«i ---" eluding Washington's ligh: daragoons, 86, and " of Lee's legion 75 " (12) The battle of Hobkirk's hill, near Camden, was fought about fix weeks after the above, and by the h fame army. (13) $ Ol the battle of Eutaw, I !n»t already given (I) See Ramsay and Gordon, pafTim. (1) " Congreis was unable to lend either men or money fm-the defence of the Southern States." Kara fay's_American Revolution, vol. ii. p. 229. (.") Ramsay's South-Carolina, vol. ii, p. ixj. (4) Ibid, page 157—Remember Col. Hayne. (5) "South-Carolina exhibited fcent-s of distress, which were shocking to humanity. The single diftritf ot Ninety Six, which .is only one of Six Diftriih in to which South-Carolina is d'vided, has been comput ed to contain fourteen hundred widows and orphans, made so by the war." Ibid. 27c. (6) Ibid. 384. (1) Much dilingennous fnphiftry has been used to invalidate the claims of America on this head. The clause of the treaty of peace on this l'ubja«sl, itates that the Br'itiih trooprftiould departwithout carrying any negroes or other property of the inhabitants." This, as has been already unaniwerably observed, must mean either that the Britilh troops ihould not take away the negroes then in their polleflion—or that they should not rob the inhabitants of negroes which had not been taken from them. The latter ftipuUtien would be justly deemed an insult.—The former must therefore neceflarily be the true one* Volumes of quibbles might perplex, but never could refute this explanation. (8.) Ramsay's South Caroftna, vol. ii* pp. 147, 8. (9*) Ibid.lßo, 181.—Gordon, vol. iii. p. 117. (10.) Gordon's American Revolution, iecorid New-York edition, vol. iii. pp. ij6o, 1. , f 11.) Ramsay's South Carolina, ii. 472. (xi.) Gordon, iii. 173. (13.) Ibid. 189. Ramsay's S. Carolina, ii. 230. ('4-) Ramsay's S. Carolina, ii. 252. (iS-) From the accountsof the battle of Brandy wine, I have takmi the following extra<£)s : " Greene draws up his force, consisting of the Virginia troops, and a regiment of Pennfylvinians, commanded by col. Stewart, ** * the tenth Virginia regiment, com manded by a A. Stevens, supports the attack of the Bri tilh cannonade and mufquetry, for fifteen minutes, though they have never before been engaged ***** Wayne and the North Carolinians, with the artillery and light troops, after their defeat by Knyphaufen, pate the rear of it in their retreat. Gordon, vol. 11 pp. 225. 216. For L 0 N D 0 N, fl* T ' lc ne ntw copper-bottemed Ship Mount Vernon, BU RT HEN about 412 tons, will be rea dy to rcceive her cargo on Monday next, and will fail on or before the roth of May next, great part of her cajao ergaged. For freight or paffjgc apply to the subs. ribeis, No. 21, Penn-ftrcct, ' NOTES* Philadelphia, WEDNESDAY APRIL ay, 1796. A French Paper, und*» Hate of Feb. 20, announ ces that Mr. ADET is recalled from the United States, and is to be fiicceeded by Mr. FANTANO of Buurdcaux. The institution of Sunday schools has toe obvio«s a tendency towards the promotien'of public morality to stand in nee Jof encomium. J'bt authors of tills ad mirable inftitutioH deserve from their fellow citizens the highett eru.onnums. In proportion to the utility of any piojedl mult be the degr?a of merit attaching it felf to any mean ol forwarding it. In this point of view the managers of the Philadelphia theatre defei ve froitt their fellow citizens no inconlidcrable portion of credit for promoting this land ible inflitutron. As that charitable iuftituuen the Philadelphia dif penfiry is also to have a portion of the benefit assign ed to it>the theatre cannot fail of a crowded audieaee- Setting alidethe intrinsic merit of theplaytobe performed on that evening, which is universally al lowed to be inferior to no one whatever the inward fat isfailion of aidin;; charitable eftabiilhmsnts, will no doubt influence the liberal citizens of Philadelphia, to do honor to themfelres and to the cause of humanity, by a general attendance at this benefit. COMMUNICATIONS By a paragraph in tire Aurora of this morning, Mell'rs. Swanwick, Livingftop and Parker are f->id to represent the Mercantile lHtereft% of Philadelphia, New-York, and Norfolk!!! It is a Angular fa<2, fays a correspondent, that the National Diredtory of France, and the Briiilh Parlia ment, Ihoold both be engaged at the fame time in pall ing laws for the fupprelUoii of Club». A correspondent, who yesterday heard the fpeeeh of the gentleman froip Geneva, faggefli, that no part of that extraordinary performance was more wqftliy of notice than the oblei the ninth article of the Treaty, and the eftedls of its provisions on the State of North-Carolina —without adverting to the want of candour manifeit ou this occasion, and the open detection in ah attempt to present an erroneous view of the fuhjefl, the manner m which the Orator touched upon thequeftion in refpeil toPennfylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and especially Virginia, eoutralted with his guardian efforts to rail'e doubts, and beget alarm, rela tive to the extinguished claim of the Grenville family, could not have afforded pleasure to the Representative:, of North-Carolina, however fatisfj&ory the compli ment to the understanding and the talents of the mem bers from Virginia, might have been t« them. The gentleman fiom Geneva ob/crveJ, wifely, that he was 110 lawyer—his diftourfe in more than one instance proved the truth of his observation. If he knew the Hillory of the Grenville cafe, and had examined with even llight attention the laws of North-Carolina, he mult have known that the Grenville Title was extin£l, that the cftate was, long linee, vefttd in North-Caro lina, that the proprietors have been rompenfited by Great Britain for ihe Ids of their eflate, and that the I jii U ui queltion are held by, and under the grants o 1 North-Carolina, and not by any Britilo iubjecl what foevcr; and eoufequently could not be, as in fait they are not, at all affeAed by the ninth arficle. PORT OF PIULADEJLPHIA, Brig EHtta.-'Whcclwrixht, Two Si Iters, Welsh, 801 l on 9 Schooner Polly, Lewis, J?.iuaics, via N. C. 67 Betsey, Curtis, Jeremie 24 Betsey, Freeman, Martinique 23 Ship Pctray, EHiot, Brig Charlot'e, Cufhing, Abigail Latk, Fame, Chirnlide, Juduftry, Francis, Scljooncr Little John, Boyd, Sloop Baxter, Capt. Freeman from Martinique informs that he left there Brig V»nn», Burrowjj Delight, Tate, Si.hr. Jenny, Young, March Tht following portrait was drawn by a man, \vho rom a concurrence of dreadful circutnttances, was bout 6ve feet four inches, strongly built ; his (hapc ulgar and brutal ; his mind had never received any pecies of cultivation. He imbibed the education, nd ret-ained the temper and manners of a German ;ame-k«rcprr. He led his men to battle as his dogs o the chace of a boar. He was tather brutal than erocious. He always preserved his ancient habits, >is old connexions, he did not love, he despised he nobility. 'He was looked up to with the ut noft reverence by the peasants, who rcfpe&ed M. vlallonflet, (for that was his name with them) nore than the Beauehamp's, Dclber, Lefeure, and ither chiefs, who were much better than himfelf. Delber, the bravell and mull able of all the Ven dcans, had a particular esteem for, and confidence in Stofflet. L>cfc«rc kept a drift eye upon him. -i ' In the fitting of the Council of Fire Hundred, on the 20 of March a scrutiny took place, for no minating a commiflion, charged to examine the meflage of the Directory, refpeftisg the Jtiftices of the Peace, who have refuted to take the oath of ha tred against royalty. On this fubjc(3, L'Eclair of the 3d, faya, the Committee appointed to report on the meflage of the Diredtory, is not disposed to re vive Jacobinism. It then declaims at great length againtt Club 6, which were the support of Robef p;erre,' Chatimette and Hebert. If we can forget the terrible teflon of our misfortunes, let us call our eyes on the mifchiefs produced in Holland, by Po pular Societies, where they have arrested Magif. trstes, and attempted to seduce the French soldiery, in order to rival the government. If we want o ther examples, let lis look at the United States of America, where the government has seen obliged to employ the force of aim*/to teltore tranquility to provinces agitated by Clubs. Let us look at other countries, and we may convince ourselves that the r happy Conftituiion, which in many of its parts ARRIPZD. DATt, Newburyport 16 CIS A RED. Bourdeavx 'Hifpaniola St. Bauhotemewt Jeremie New-York Jeremie Nvirfolk Philadelphia Portland Button. Journal tf Real. their chiefs ; who with the heft intentions, tiftea Jiovethe ruin of liberty.—Clubs are excellent when >ve wish to di Utoy they have reudertd tis great services, which we can never forget, and we may again want iker affiltaiKe, when we wish to brin£ about a new Revolution ; but, at this time we wish to draiv it to a conclusion, to repair our evils, to find tranquility, and to prtferve oui Conttituuo.i. An arret of the Dire&ory, dtt, except such as are acknow ledged by government, and approved bv the cen sors established by them, for the pifrpofe > examin iug such publication!. This restraint enragtsmany of the Journalills against the Executive Dire&ory, some of whom do nut scruple to fay, that such an arbitrary inquisition, was even never attempted by Robespierre. Others fay, that they do not imagine that such. a meafuie wi i pass the two Councils. . StofHet, according to letters from Angers, died with (irmnefs. Befoae he was (hot, he tied a han kerchief about his eyes, and knelt down.—The foI« diers hit him at the firft rtre. One of his Aidet du Camp received ten fires before he died. They 1 ' were fold by a farmer, who conduced the Republi can troopsto the place between Vallons 2nd Chailet. By Lloyd's lift, it appears, that the number of (hips taken by the enemy, from EnglanJ and the other powets at war with ihem, from January 1793, to I>ecembet 179J, is 2009, of which 119 were retakrn by our cruisers. Ike numSer taken by England and the other powers, frdm France, is 319, so that there remains a balance in favour of the enemy of 1491 veflcls. Ships of war and pfi valeers are not included in this llatcmrnt. The King of Spain, to defray the rtcpences of lus journey, has taken two millions of crowns fiou* the Tieafury, which is appropriated to the aspen* diturc of 40 days. The Duke of Alcudia, who has four Secretaries of State with him, tides io the fame carriage with their Majettien, By Express from 80/lon. BOSTON, April 23. TREATY MEMORIALS. Critical Juncture. The critical jun&ure of publie affairs in th« United States, has arretted the attention, and uni ted the endeavors of the friend* to pence, order, and the public good, to ward off the evila which threaten our tranquility. At the fame indaiit we fee the commercial part of the community, uuiiing in one common prayer to the House tbat no par tial conflderations of policy may influence their de' cilion on the important question before them ; but that the faith, honor *nd interest of the nation, may be preserved by making necessary provisions for car rying the Treaty into fair and honorable rffe&. la Philadelphia and New-Tork, the number of petiti oners it greater than was ever known on any former occasion. In this town, a memorial was fist on foot yefteiday morning, and last evening we were told, that the fubfcriberi amounted to near One thdlS" sand.— From Salem, we received the following of ficial accaunt on the fubjedt. SALEM. At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitant r cf Salem, lawfully qualified to vote in town affairs, held at the Court-House on the lid day of A fril; 1796. Voted, tinanimaufly, (except 4 dissenting per~ sons,) 1 hat the town of Salem, present a memo« rial, to the hon. the House of Repref-.-ntativcsoF" the United States, praying that they would make provision for carrying the TREATY with Great. Britain, into fuH and honorable effect. Vond, unanimously, That the draught now pre sented and read to the town, as a memorial, be accepted and approved of ; and (hat 4he fame be presented to the honorable, the House of Reprefen. tatives of the United States. Voted, unanimously, That a committee be cho sen to join the Sele&men, to compleat a fair copy of fa id memoiial, and to piefent the fame to the inhabitants of this town, to be signed by them }- and when eompleated, to forward the fame to BENJAMIN GOODHUE, Esq. or some other member of Congress, to be presented by them, to the hon. Representatives of the Uni ed States. For this committee, Capt. Joseph White, Ben jamin Pickman, and John Tread well, Efqrs.— MefTrs. John Norris, William Gray,jun. and capt. Ephraim Emerton. A true Cosy from the Town Records. (Attest.) EDWARD NORRIS, Town Clerk. 1 > The meeting at Salem yesterday was generally attended, although rlje warrant forit was not grant ed until nine o clork, on Thufday evening ; near 500 citizens aflembled, of whom only 4 dissented to March 4.