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ther*: You tell us your chiefs think we ire not ill fonnd within, and give a belt to dear our eyes to fee, open out ears to hear, and make our hearts clean that we may. cordially receive what you speak to ns. Brethren, We are sorry your chiefs think we are not found Within, we afTure you our eyes are clear, our eats are open* and we cordially receive you as friends, and kindly receive your meflage. Brethren, we you that God has profpeted the great King George, our common father, so that your and our enemies are subdued, Ind now we hdpe we Hull live in peace and friendfhip as long as the fun and moon lhall endure. We come now tb your meflage. > Brethren, You tell Us the neWs you have heard, that we 4 are about to come with 300. families to fettle on the Sufque * hannah river, which was very aftonilhing to yon, and that we design tobuild forts on your lands. Brethren, We allure and tell you, this government has not given any orders for any such settlement; we are noways concerned in that matter, only as friends to yon have endea voured to prevent the people from going to fettle thpfe lands. We have indeed been tola, that a number*of particular per lons, fome living in Connecticut, fome in MaiTachulets, fome in New-York, and fome in other governments, were about to fettle on thole lands, but we adv Med them not to proceed in their attempts; and lately 1 from the king onr common father, commanding me to use my authority and influence to prevent the people from attempt ing to fettle Qn those lands till the matter lhall be laid before ■ the king: In obedience to his majesty’s commands, I ac quainted the chief men among them with the king's orders, and advised them to lay aside the profecudon ofthe fettle! xnent for the present; and furthermore, I have now the fa tisfa&ion to acquaint you# that I am well informed those people have had a meeting, and have, in td&nony as well of his Majesty’s care as their ready'fubmiffion to and acqui escence in his orders, unanimously agreed, that no perlbn whatever of their company lhall enter upon or make any set- r dement on any of those lands, until his majesty outtcommon father's pleasure be known in that matter. Brethren, Seeing we aiyoor friend., ind agreeable to die lung s orders have taken so much care to prevent those Settle ments which are lb grievous to you, and have now given you account that the attempts are ftopt, we think you will be fully fatisfied, and inform our brothers your chiefs and your nations of this, and rest easy and quiet. We assure you of our cordial friehdftup, and wish you a fafe journey home and deftreyouro present our kind compliments to the sachems of the Six Nations. Farewell, - To which the deputies ofthe Six Natio.it replied; Brethren, WE have heard with attention what you have said, and are well pleased with the fame, and we hope you will endeavour to prevent any more people from making purchases of us; and as to those lands we talked about we do not at present design to part with them, but if ever we do, it lhall be to those purchasers of your people before any others, if they desire it. We are to receive no prefent* on this occasion, but as to your offer to discharge our expences while in this town, we gratefully accept and acknowledge the fame, and heartily bid you farewell. ® S AVAN N A H, September *9. THURSDAY last being the anniversary of their Maie ft es coronation, the fame was properly obfcrved in this place. v We have received no accounts from Augulfa since last week, so that we have the greatest reason to exped that every thing continues quiet in that quarter. 1 Custom-House, Entered Inwards. From W- 23, Schooner Jonathan, Jarvis Williams, Charlcftown . * 2 4 Schooner Dispatch, Joseph Adams, Ditto Outwards. p or Seft. 28, Schooner Friendship, John Morey, Curacoa ” . Sailed, p or Sept. 23, Snow Providence, John Lighten Hone, St. Croix Sloop Savannah, John Vicary, St. Kitts EoftraS from an Englijb Paper culled The TRIM M E R To the Good People of England AND really .good fort of people ye are, when vc ~, pleafed,—The tak is not difficult to brine ye i n l! good humour .neither; but I defy all the artiib in Euror! to keep you so. * 1 Ye love to find fault, nay to make faults, and if you cajl hot quarrel with your neighbours, you will tall out wi h vounelvesi like the grey-hound, who uied to be angry at his own tail. “ 67 You may fay that the Trimmer is guilty of injustice, a rd that ye are affable, humane, friendly, charitable, focia! sweet tempered, felf-denying beings : if every person was to draw his own pi&ure, the pen-and-ink portrait would appear so. But I; who have looked upon life above twenty years# an unconcerned fpedator of all the jY with which mankind have fatigued themselves— to me’ )C appear felfifh, ftubborh, querulous# conceited, difconteiit, cd exiftencies, moft of whom enjoy more than they defeeve yet are daily wishing for more enjoyments, and to do iefs to deserve them. Epidetus fays, mankind are diflatisfied ; Sfcneca fays they are aifc6ntented; and this is what both before and since Se neca evenr person has been faying who could fay any thin Half the Cure is supposed to be performed when the phy, fician knows the patient's disorder. Indeed, my good peo ple, neighbours, countrymen, and choice spirits, 1 do ’know, bona fide, that you are disordered, and know what your disorder is, nay, would preferibe for you, but imagine toy medicines would be thrown away. 6 Suppose I order you a few grains of felf-knowledge, half a drachm of patience, a scruple of felf-denial, mixed up with a tea-fpoonful of humanity, will.any of you take such an eleduary ? ye might taste it, ‘indeed, for the novelty fake, but I will bett a handful of integrity against all court cere monies, that ye spit it out again. Folly has thrown your heads into hyftericks, and l will lav opinion against common sense, which are the greatcil odds that can be offered# not one man in many duzens knows what is the matter with himfelf. All that * man of (enfe ought to do, is, to conform to the laws of God and his country; to take things as they were, use them as they (hould be; a£l with as much inte grity to mankind as the customs of the world would f her, and independent and contented enjoy the of do meftick society; and wait with patience for that awful, that all-interesting event, when empire breaks his feeptre, and beauty ceases to be amiable, when Fa&ion is diflipated, he phantom of Pride vanished, and all worldly diltinCtion bu ried in a death-bed’s di Ablution. .‘QUERIES. !“• XS it certain that the enemy would have made peace up •JL worse terms for them than those we have nnnofec? 2d. Allowing the war had been carried on for another year, in what manner was the*navy and army to have been recruited, when the former wanted near 27000 men, and the army more than 19000, and/or the last year of the war not 800 men raised in Great-Britain, and those at an immc ife expence to the government? 3d. Were we absolutely Jure of a continuance of our fuc cefles, and what must have been the fate of Portugal in ai.ci ther campaign ? 4th.. What were the sentiments of tlje major part of the landed interest, in refpedl to continuing the war? and is not the outcry against the peace raised by those ciiieily wliofe im mediate interest arose from the advantages they made bv the £th. Does one person out of one hundred who clamour a gatnft the peace, know any thing of the matter ? are thev ac quainted with the advantages of the vast country ceded to Great-Britain by it; tnd the confcquences it is of to our settlements in America ? 6th. What did we make war for? and is not the intent of that war moft fully anfwcrcd ? Blank bonds, bills of sale, mortgage-, powers of attor ney, indentures, bills of lading, articles of agreement be tween mailers of veflels and seamen, fummonles before the court of conference, and before justices of the peace, execu tions for the use of magillrates, & c. 6c c. to DC had of the printer of this paper.