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lands*, jJttd that if they tic Americans, have for
go: ti e we will defcrihe it to them ;
surf after that, every American that fades over
that limit, (haft fall hy the red ha&hct and arrows
»f war. 7he nnfwer to this Talk, if they give
;ny, together with rnr refolves,*fhail be made
luowutoycu by chofcn warriors of our nations,
in £\e moons from our departure.
/inf-Txtr of the Crttk Cbit/s*
,l Bret he/s y t ~
“ Wt are glad of your fafe arrival in this
country ; and we receive with fatisfaftion the
talks and tokens of friendship you have delivered
ns in the names of our elder brothers, the fai off
Chiefs and Warriors of the Northern Nations.
* l Bret hers t
“ We have seen the talks and tokens that you
Cent to us three summers ago,'for laying down the
lharp weapons of war ; the fame talk wc like wife
fsw from our late fathers, the English, one rum
mer before yours came • we obeyed the talk, yet
wc did net spoil or bury our weapons, but kept
;hcm in fight in the roofs of our hotifes; vve knew
the people whose blood we had shed in the service
of the English, to be revengeful. We had reason
to be watchful, and upon otir guard againlt them.
Brothers t
“ Wha: you have heard of our quarrels with
rue of the Thirteen Fires of America, is true.
Thofc people, cn finding that the Englith had left
our cuaCs, thought it a good time to take an ad
vantage of us. They supposed us to he heart
broken at being left alone—they began their re
venge by endeavouring to flrip us of a great part
of our lands next to their country. It is true that
yur hearts were funk within us for a little while,
but we roofed ourfelvcs, and resolved not to be
trampled upon, nor lit down and shed tears like
women, but bravely to face the danger, great as
it appeared, and firugglc flrongly to maintain our
free flatc, and to preserve our lands for the fup
pert of our wives and children j our attempts to
this end you have hcatd,
“ Brothers ,
«< The Americans do not fpcak truth, when
■they tell you that our late fathers, the English,
gave them 'he lands of their Red Children. On
the contrary, if the Americans had taken and held
faft the talk that was agreed upon between them,
they would not now be trying to take away the
lands of the Red People, but we all would, as
children and allies of the Englifli, have beeu in
putted in the peace, and fuffered to remain quiet
in our poffcflions; and we would only have been
lumting wild beads to support ourfclves and fami
lies, htflcad of being obliged to spill the blood of
white men in our own defence.
tl Brothers ,
“ Our Chiefs tell us, that our fathers, the
English, had always great success in war? that
vlicy had, in former wars, overcame their ene
mies ; and we are now told by tliofe that know,
that all the nations over the Great Water joined
the Americans and overpowered our fathers, and
forced them to leave the land to the Americans,
v.ho now call thcmfelves mailers of it.—The land
has been full of madneft aud confufion for many
summers pad: it i.s still ft>, and will continue so
vntil (as is likely to be) that tliofe very people
over the Great Water, who aflifted them, shall
cemc •’V-de the country amQUg them*
4< Brothers >
«\\ „ u tiic Englifli left ottr coafls we were in
great diftrcfs; they had taken our weapons of
war from our hands, and then retired to a great
diflance out of our reach, and left us opposed to
dangers without means of; defence : your case,
brothers, is not so bad ; if they had taken yours
from 3011, yet they remained near you, and, no
doubt, if ever the day comes that you want their
help, but they will ftrttch oyt their hands to you.
. ** The people that have fat down in the place of
lac English, on our coafls, have ihewn us a good
heart. As they have them not themftlves,. they
have fuffered certain of our Euglifh friends who
used to supply us, to continue among them for
ifce generous purpose of fumifhing us with our
cuflomgry goods, so that we are not in want of
the ucccf/arics needful for our families, as you.
lee.
’ “ Brothers,
<« You do well not to he rash, but to warn the
Americans of your difeontents, to obtain fatis
fafi ion, w hich they will do, if their beloved men
rnd chiefs arc rcafonable. When you have an
rnlwcr let us know it, and we will advise with
you. One of their beloved men was among tia
before you ccme*» he ii well informed of the
raufes of our differences and difputci with the
Georgian* 1 he is returned to the Great Council
nf the Amciirans, and we wait for the determi
nation of that Council* which we expeft to receive
jn three mooui,
I “ ErctUn , ; • * -r*
“ Wc take a strong hold, wdtli both hand?, of
lhe end of the great W2mpnm of union; let the
other end alft> be faft held by thofc nfear the .Great
Water Fall, and by all the Red People in the
land between* us,'of the Chuccamaga, and rivers
Ohio and Wabafti, whereby we (hall form a strong
chain of defence to save our lands, protect cur
wives, and rear our children, that they may long
poffcfs t)ie inheritance we (ball leave to them.”
L O ND O N, Augvfl 29.
W'E were last night with much confidence in
formed, in addition to the account given
in our paper yellerday, of the King of France
having exiled the Parliament of Paris, in conse
quence of rhe reinonflranees. — That a letter from
the Queen of Frapce to Mons. Caionne, h3d been
intercepted; the contents of which were of such
a nature, as to occasion an order from the King,
that the Queen lhoutd retire to her Chateau at
Trianon, there to remain under the direction of
particular perfens til! further orders from the
Court.
We feel it our duty to give the above report, as
we received it from rcfpecfable authority, though
wo do not pledge ourfeives for the truth.
In justice also we inuft add, that on inquiry lad
night at the Charge de Affaires, from France, we
were informed that no account of such an event
had been received.
We have, however, authentic information that
a very dangerous mob affembied in consequence
of the Parliament being exiled, and that violent
consequences were to be apprehended.
Mons. Caionne, the impeached minister of
Fiance, is now in London.
By a letter received from Cadiz, dated the 2id
of July, we are informed that they had just -re
ceived advice, that the greater part of the city of
Mexico, had been destroyed by an earthquake
The buildings presented one general heap i ruins,
and innumerable lives were loft. To add to the
misery of the survivors, the aqueduft and refur—
voirs were entirely dried up.—No farther parti
culars of this melancholy catastrophe are yet ar
rived 1 . That the uninformed part of our readers
may more competently judge of the probable mifV
j chief, we subjoin the following account of Mexico:
It lies in W. long, io-j, lat. 20, the metropo
lis of New Spain at present, and anciently of the
empire of Mexico. It is. situate in the middle of
a spacious lake, and cannot be approached but by
• causeways of a great length : it is of a frjuare fi
gure, about fix miles in circumference, and vaftlv
populous, admired for its spacious streets and
squares, the beauty of its buildings, the caolnek
of the situation in this hot climate, and its natural
firength. It is an Archbillvoprick, and contains
twenty-nine monasteries, twenty-two nunneries,
and a great number of parochial churches; but
the Spaniards and Creoles do not make a tenth
part of the inhabitants, the other nine are cither
Negroes and Mulattoes that have obtained their
freedom, or a mixed breed of Spaniards and In
dians.
SALE M, September 18*.
Died at his Wigwam, in Pomachaug, (near
Norwich) Zichatiah, Regent of the Mohegan
tribe of Indians, aged loo* It is said, that in
his younger years he was greatly addided to
dnmkennefs, but that for near 40 years past, lie
has entirely abstained from the use of all spiritu
ous liquors.
N E W - Y O R K, OSober T 2.
Extra/? of a letter from dated Augufl zß y
by the Adamant , Captain Moravick.
« The affairs of Holland will, I understand, be
terminated without a war, and the States, at last
i are likely to ftibmit to tfteStadtholder. France,
now it comes to the point, I suppose dies off.—ln
| deed they teem to have enough to do at home, as
the King is quarrelling with his Parliament, who
are all baniflied from Paris, for refufing to regis
ter his edid for a (hmp duty, or rather spiritedly
remonstrating against it; and' I (hould not be
] much furpnfed', now tile spirit of liberty is gone
forth, if the Stamp Ad makes as much, noife* in
! France as it has done elf«whcre. , *
We are happy to*inform the public, that Sam.
W. Johnson, L, L. 13. has accepted of the presi
dency of Columbia college, to which he was
fomrtime ago unanintouflyclcdcd,
P HTL ADELP HI A, O/ldtr to.
Last week the Bap/if Churches belonging to the
middle dates, cpnvencd in New-York, in affoci*
■ ntion by their xepreftutatives. After finiihing the
1
! particular •.lifinefs’ou which tl.v> nr.ct as a relitj,
otrs body, it w'as agreed to incorporate with their
general circulating letter, the following recom
mendation to their people~of -the proposed plan of
the Fcedtral Government —which has been babied
to the printers by a correspondent, and redotnxJ«
much to their honor as a society.
After congratulating their brethren on the great
increase of their churches the yearpaft, they pro
ceed, “ we also congratulate you on the kind in
terposition of Divine Providence visible in that
happy unanimity which obtained among the mem
bers of the late Fcederai Convention, to agree upon,
and report to the different states in this union, a
form of Fcederai Government which promises, on
its adoption, to refeue our dear country .from that
national diflionor, injustice, anarchy, donfufion and
bloodshed, which have already resulted from the
weakness and infufficiency of the present form,
and which, we have the greatest real’on to fear, ia
but the beginning of sorrows, unless the people
lay hold on this favourable opportunity offered to
eftablifli efficient government, which we hope may,
under God, secure our invaluable rights, bother
. vil and religious, and which it will be in the power
of ihc great body of the people, if hereafter found
neceflary, to cydhtroul and amend.”
- A correfpoiident with pleasure informs the pub
lic, that John Franklin, of Luzerne county, a re
fraftory member of our late AfTcmbly, was taken
a few days ago by a few of the old Continental
officers, and is now fafely lodged with Captain
Raynolds in the goal of this city, where he is to
remain without hail or mainprize, until he is im
peached, with the infamous nineteen members
who had the audacity to attempt the breaking tip
cf the late House of Afiembly, at the last feflion,
as er wafting 1007 b 10s. of the public’s money,
without finifhing any part of thebufinefs the Houfe
had been fitting upon.
A correfpoudent observes, that the oppofers of
the federal couftitution are secretly afTeding delay
in order to prevent its adaption— In the mean time
they arc moving heaven and earth to prejudice the
public mmd against it—-They do not rcafon, but •
abuse—General Washington, they (ineffeft) fay,
is a dupe, and Doftor Franklin, an old fool—vide
the Centinel. They will doubtless in their next
publications, afiert thas Daniel Shays is the belt"
patriot in the Unitftd States, and that JohnFrank*
1 lin fUould be King of Pennsylvania.
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BALTIMORE, September 14.
i Ext raft of a letter from a gentleman in Berkely
County , Virginia f to his friend in this toivrty
dated the 26th ult .
** At the head of New Creek, which empties
into PatQW'mack* a silver mine of unknown value
has its bountiful bofoin opened by a Captain
! M‘Carty, who has now a number of men at
work, throwing out such quantities of ore, as
will soon surprise us all. —Rejoice, ye Baltimore
ansy there will, ere long be an end to wanting
money !.”
! RICHMOND, 03oler 18.
Ext raH of a letter from Harrison county , Sept- 29*
“ On Monday the 10th inst. a young lad dis
covered a party of Indians dealing hoifes on the 1
weft fork of Monongalia river. Upon which in
formation, Major William Lowther (who has
often difiiugniftied himfelf) afiembled a party of
volunteers, and went in pursuit of them upwards
of 140 miles, when on a sudden they approached
their camp, fired on them, and killed two and
wounded one, (who made liis efrape) with the
loss of only one of our men. We took fro* l *
them all their horses, four guns, and a quantity 0
plunder, among which was found a white persons
j fcalp***
? CHARLESTON, NcvemPer if,
We learn from* Newport, that
the General Afiembly of that state, in their lal.
feftions, in confequenoc of a letter received from
Congress, earnestly preffingthe state to fend cn de
legates to Congress, had warm.debates on this im
portant fubjeft; finally, a majority of three ne*
gatived fending members.
Wcdnefday the 7th inst. the City Council pr® --
cecdcd to the elation of Coromiflioners of the
poor, for the ensuing year; on counting up the
ballots, if appeared the following gentlemen were
elefted:
Edward Lightwood, Efc,
John Mitchell, Esq.
Daniel Stevens, Esq. .
Lambert Lance, Esq.
John Webb, Esq.
Tbomai Doughty, Esq.