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and the extreme wet having rendered theif arras
nnferviceabte, were obliged to retreat, with a
number feverclf hurt, and the loss of their arms.
It is supposed that now no part of the vessel or
cargo is to be had. The violence and inhumanity
of the country people is beyond expreflion, and
calls loudly for correftion. The entire cargo
might be saved, were it not for the effeds of that
unfeeling temper, which unfortunately is so pre
dominant among the inhabitants not only of this,
but of every other maritime coast.
“ The mob, as I am confidently aflured, amount
ed to at least from three to four thousand people.”
PHILADELPHIA, July *B.
The "Federal Convention having resolved upon
the measures neceflary to difeharge their impor
tant trull, adjourned till Monday week, in order
to give a committee, appointed for the purpose,
time to arrange and fyftemize the materials which
that honorable body have colleded. The public
curiosity will soon be gratified ; and it is hoped,
from the universal confidence reposed ih this dele
gation, that the m ; nds of the people throughout
the United States are prepared to receive with re
fpeft, and to try with a fortitude and perseverance,
the plan which will be offered to them by men di
tiinguilhed for their wifdoin and patriotism.
On Wednesday the 13th ult Sconetoyah, a
warrior of the Cherokee nation, sent with a letter
to Congress by the King of that nation, conduced
by Mr. Dromgooie, was introduced to his Excel
lency Alexander Martin, late Governor of North-
Carolina, and a number of Gentlemen, members
«jf the convention ; was from thence conduced to
the State-House, where he had the honor of tak
ing his Excellency General Walhington by the
hand. The General said he was glad to fee him,
and hoped he left the King and all his people well
when he came from home, which he answered and
said he did. He also alked him his business to
Congress, which he told the General, it was chiefly
refpeding the white people encroaching on their
lands. The General took him by the hand, and
bid him farewel; wifried him great fuctefs in his
bnfmefs, and a fafe return to the nation, that he
might find all bis people well when he returned.
Since he arrived in this city, there has been every
mark of friendfliip lhewn to him, and he has fre
quently had the honor to dine with fevcral of the
members of Congress and Convention.
On Monday last arrived in this city, a Chock
taw King and a Chickefaw Captain, in company
with Capt. Jotm Woods, appointed to fee the ar
ticles of the treaty made at Hopwell Seneca, in
the Hate of South-Carolina, by the representatives
of their nations, and the commiflioners of the Unit
ed States, ratified and made good.
Ext raft of a Utter of a late date from a gentleman
in one of the hack counties oj Virginia , to his friend
in this city.
“ 1 have recent advices from the territory of
Kentuckey, Clench, Holstein, Nollychucky, French
Broad, the Cherokee nation, and as far fouth as
the Oconees, and am well aflured that there is more
peace, good order and 'contentment in the Chero
kee towns, than there is among their white neigh
bours, who are obliged to employ a set of men
they call regulators to crufli the idle vagabonds and
horse chiefs that come among them. This plainly
demonft rates the neceflity of the present conven
tion. May the Governor of the Universe iufpire
them with wisdom and unanimity ! M
N E W-Y OR K, July ir.
Extraa of a letter from a gentleman at the Falls of
the Ohio, to his friend in New-England.
December 6, 178 6.
Dear Sir, ‘
“ 1 cannot but remind you of the danger into
which the United States are plunging themselves.
Spain has placed the rock upon which they are like
to split. It is very furprizing to every rational
person, that the Legislatures of those States, which
have been so applauded for their assertion and de
fence of their just rights and privileges, ftiould so
loon endeavour to subjugate a great part of their
dominions even to worse slavery than ever Great-
Bntaiu presumed to subjugate any part of her’s—
Ireland is a free country to what this will be when
Its navigation is given into the hands of the Spa
;i‘ a i , Thcrc now seems a greater call for the
IT P ’- f heTe t 0 a PP caI t 0 justice and to arms, for
the defence of their just rights, than ever was
IWM ” mCrica ’ The fine weftern counties-of
IWylvania aie sensibly affeded. The French at '
militiaman P °? St \ Vincent havc tw <> thousand
merniK f ° r, “ ing a D *w alliance, the nu
merous tribes of Indians will join us. The state
of Franklin are readv 1 •,, uatc
liberty or y ■ fly t 0 * rm8 »»» Kentuckey,
liberty or are in every one’s mouth J ? Uis
in confufion—and God only knfcws where it will
end. Except Congress immediately refeint their
resolution, and do something to make this country
have a better opinion of them, America is ruined!
inevitably ruined !,
« Blow the trumpet, found it aloud, fpSfre not,
for woe is come upon Israel 1
Copy of a Circular Letter, direßed to the different
Courts in the Weftern Country .
“ Kentuckey, Danville, March i), 1787-
<( Gentlemen,
« A refpedable number of inhabitants of this
diftrid having met at this place, being greatly
alarmed at the late procedure of Congress in pro
poflng to cede to the Spanith Court the navigation
of the Miflifippi river for 25 or 30 years, have di
reded us to address the inhabitants on the weftern
waters, and inform them of the measures which it
is proposed for this diftrid to adopt.
“ The inhabitants of the several counties in this
diftrid, will be requested to eled five members in
each county, to meet at Danville, on the firft Mon
day in May, to take up the consideration of this
projedof Congress, to prepare a fpiriccd, but de
cent, remouftrance agaiuft the lcflion, to appoint a
committee of correspondence, to communicate
with one already eftabliftied on the Monohgahalia,
or any other that may be constituted, to appoint
delegates to meet representatives from the several
diftrids on the weftern waters in convention, Ihouid
a convention be deemed neceflary, and to adopt
such other measures |as fliall be molt conducive to
our happiness. As we conceive that all the inha
‘ bitants redding on the weftern waters, are equally
affeded by this partial condud of Congress, we
doubt not but they will readily approve of our con *
dud, and cheerfully adopt a firailar system, to
prevent a measure which tends to almost a total
deftrudion of the weftern country. This is a fub
jed that requires no comment —the injustice of the
measure is glaring ; and as the inhabitants of this
diftrid with to unite their efforts to oppose the
ceflion of the navigation of the Miflifippi, with that
of their brethren residing on the weftern waters,
we hope to fee such an exertion made, upon this
important occasion, as may convince Cong; efs that
the inhabitants of the weftern country are united
in the opposition, and confider themselves entitled
to all the privileges of freemen, and those bleflmgs
procured by the revolution; and will not tamely
submit to an ad of oppreflion, which would tend
to a deprivation of our just rights and privileges.
“ W» are, Gentlemen, with refped, your most
obedient servants,
G orge Muter,
fiarry lnnes .
J. Brown,
Btnj. Sebastian.
Extraß of a letter from Kentuckey, Fayette county,
May 3, 1787.
“ Although wc are frequently visited by the
savages, and although our reparation is become a
serious fubjed, as it is nigh, yet the public mind
seems most attraded by our commercial profpeds,
of which the navigation of the Miflifippi is our
mam hope.—l agree with you, that the treaty with
Spain might have a happy tendency to render use
less attempts to cultivate tobacco, of course banish
slavery, and, in their room, introduce European
manufadures, which, in Tome degree, would com
pensate for the loss of trade.—But then, have vou
attentively considered that our country is, and will
be for a long time, in want of hands futneient to
any good purpose—That bulky articles must be
our firft exports, and that if those articles cannot
be vended, it will greatly injure the landed inter
est. We would a thousand times rather agree
that Congress would reverse the proposition, that
is, for the Spanifii Court to agree to the free na
vigation of the Miflifippi for 25 or 30 vears, and
after that period to ftmt it for 25 years or more;
by that time we will have made such advances i„
manufadures, particularly that of woollens, that
we may find a vent for them up the Miflifippi, and
111 Canada. Flax and hemp, the heft in the world
grows here; these can be made into ft ill lighter
flancr 110 ”’ ° f CXported t 0 a * reater di
“ I think I may affirm, by far the greater part
of the people of this country join with vou in dis
approving of the sentiment, of our letter-writer
from the FaHs of the Ohio, of December 4 th and
6h - •} ?“ her coDclude »is the language of
an individual who has received injury from the
rapacious commandant at the Natchez, than the
voice of the people of Kentuckey. They have too
, lg . 5 r e r Cr A 10n forfcderal government to betray
such difrefped; and it must be a repetition of in
wilh , 7 dr , iV * thCm t 0 seek c °n«ediou
WhHft I^° Pe 3te V l o ™' t 0 thcir liberties.—.
Whiut l tsudi upon federal leave
to remind you to transmit, by tlie earlSefi: convey*
ance, what you may learn has been done at the
Grand Convention al Philadelphia. i.’ ;
“ lam far from the opinion es fume, that no*
thing else fliould be attempted, but to give the fe*
deral council a power to regulate foreign com*
merce. I think it will be of advantage to new*
modle and modernize the whole inftruraeut, no
matter whether in thirteen or twenty articles; and
perhaps, it will be found, that not the lcatt of the
deterts of the present mltrument is the hav.ng some
states too large, others more ridiculouuy imail,
aud the want of fixing, by precise limits, all # the
states; also providing a regular mode for the
erection of new ttates in the Wcftern Country.—.
At a ventuie, however, this much might be at*
tempted, to annex Rhode-ifland to Connecticut,
and Delaware to Maryland. All tnefe you will
fay are Utopian fchenies : It may be fo —but may
not I fay, it an eiiay is not mace tor a tnoiough
reform, it will argue a want of wisdom aud virtue
some where.? 5 '
AUGUSTA Sept. 8.
Extra &cj a letter frotn Eatis, May 31. }
“ Substances of the King’s speech at the break
ing up of the Afl'embly of Notables, on Friday
morning, May 25, 1787. His Majesty went
in state, accompanied by all the Princes, &c'. &c.
and addrefied the Notables in the following words:
. “ When 1 chose you, gentlemen, to be mem
bers of this worthy assembly, it was with a view
that you ihould afiift me with your counsel, and
deliver your sentiments with that freedom and
truth I have ever been willing to bear. lam
thoroughly fatisfied with your indefatigable zeal
and attention in examining the objetls I have
communicated to you. The abuses I have ac
quainted you with, you have not only properly
enquired into, but suggested the means to reform
them. It was neceffarv to bring the expenccs of
the state on a level with the royal revenues, after
having very attentively informed yourfclves of
the deficiencies, you have pointed out to me the
different ceconomica! savings chat may be effect
ed, allowing me at the fame time to retrieve those
temporary losses by provifionary taxes on my fub
jcCts.—l have this great comfort, to think that the
form and method of the new lmpofls that will
take place after your departure, will not be so
buithenfome as thole of former times, the only
wilh of my heart being that of rendering my
people as happy and contented as poflible.”
“ M. de la Moignou, keeper of the seals,
spoke next, and in a (hort but very fenfib'e speech,
made a partial companion between the ancient
| and present manner of national aflemblies—faid
his Majesty had not been mirtaken in choosing from
among the rest such worthy Notables, who had
anfwertd in theiYvigihnt investigations his most
fangume hopes : who had furnilhed to the world
a most affefting feene of generous emulation be
tween the lubjeCfs and their beloved monarch
They had manifefted in fliort that strong and ho
norable attachment to the crown which is a -ha
rartersftic so inherent to the French, that it may
be really called the patriotism of the nation. He
concluded, by exprefling his Majeffy’s wifl, and
den re, that the fame zeal, spirit, and unanimity
may prevail 111 all provincial assemblies, as in that
lately held at Versailles.
“ M. de Brienne, the archbitliop of Toulouse,
complimented the Notables for having geeron!*
renounced all personal and hereditary privileges,
that is to fay, for having consented that all taxes
whatever for the future Ihould be equitably di
n ute among individuals, and no longer expose
the men whole revenue is but small, to pay more
P»<reft larger isomer” Hr ex!
,hc narareof the earning pro
affembhes, and endeavoured to prove the
the . and nobility’s P enjoyLg
the arrhK (t nCe tbem * prerogative, fays
the archbnhop, is only dear to them in as much
not avl bIUCS r the People’s advantage. It is
Z* Z\ €q y tbC people rtl ° uld for
neceffarv ieVVS f cannot subsist on account of the
is nrmi US are Collfta,ltl y exposed to ;it
reo P irl U / nd - lUpP ° rt the People’s weaknefa
, ’“ d “ 13 fro!n clergy and the nobi-
ArLT? heyd,ollld ex petf to find them.. Those
ead-umes when the nobles were the over.ruW
tyrants of the fields, exist no longer. Tirir nre
fence now, on the cnntrar» 1 • _ 1 l,£,r pre
and misery from the cottage ’ande’idd °. PPr ''‘ fio “
Jiuly of the industrious hufbandma-- '
when once it is agreed that the -1, £ . Besides »
be equitably levied, the ric>' - o,ltr, htmons shall
become the means of r- tbe P ow, erf(il will
feeble.—M. de Brien,. * C f poor and the
Ulj reforms that havrl’ , r , havin S mentioned
. “*t have t ? hen place it, the depart