National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-05-22 00:00:00, page 4

Philadelphia, May 22.
On Fri<! ay last, the fallowing address was
present ed by the Merchants and Tra
ders of Philade'phia, to the President of
the United States:
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prudent
of the United States;
SIR,
SENSIBLE that nothing is wanting to
the happiness of the people of the United
States, but to continue in pi ace, under
their »-xc llent laws and government, the
M chants and Traders of the city of Phi
ladrlp ia, beg leave to exprefc to you, the
hit;h fcnfe they entertain of the wisdom
and goodness which didlated your late
Proclamation ; declaring the leutralitv to
be obfervedby the United States, in the
war, wherein several European powers
are now engaged ; a war which, however
it might serve the interests of their com
merce, for the time, they, as the friends
of all men, and of all nations, are bound
to deplore.
Impressed too with an opinion, that in
an unoffending conduit towards all the
world, consists the true policy of America,
it is their determination, not only to pay
the regard to the Proclamation
themselves, but to difcoiintenance, in the
molt pointed manner, any contrary dispo
sition in others; examples of which, they
are perfiladed will seldom occur ; the fen
roentsjuft expressed, being, as we have the
fatisfa&ion t« find, the common language
of the citizens of Pennsylvania.
Signed by about three hundred of the principal
Merchants and "Traders of the city oj
Philadelphia.
To which the President made the follow
ing reply:
To the Merchants and Traders of the
City of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
FULLY persuaded that the happiness
and belt interests of the peode of the Uni
ted States will be promoted by oberving a
ftrift neutrality in the present contest a
jnong the powers of Europe, it gives me
pleasure to learn, that the measures which
I hive taken to eclare to the world, their
disposition on this head, has given general
fatisfaflion to the citizens of Pennfylva
nia. Ihe friends of humanity will depre
cate war wherever it may appear: and we
have experienced enough of its evils in this
country, to know, that it should not be
wantoi ly or unnecefianly entered upon.
I trust, therefore, tint he good c tizrns
of the United States will (hew to the
world, that they have as much wisdom in
preserving peace at this critical juncture,
as they have heretofore dilplayed valour in
defending theirjuft rights.
(Signed) G. WASHINGTON.
Extra 3 of a letter from London, dated
March 18.
Our ministers, by yielding to the re
peated offers of negociation made by
France, might have prevented the inroad
into Holland, o r at least have taken ef
fectual mtafures for its defence, before
bring ng the nation to an open rupture.
Inllead of that, we ha>'e forced the Dutch
into hoftije measures, when they wilhed
to maintain a neutrality ; and as er Du
mourier had begun his operations, only
two thousand mm were sent over in ves
sels, utterly unprovided for the voyage ;
and in all probability to die of agues in
the morafies of Holland "
Extras ef another letter from the fame place,
dated March loth, to a ptrfon in this
city.
" Every day brings more and more to
light, the late horrid defign3 of' the aris
tocratic party in Paris, and their co ad
jutor the Duke of Brunfwick. The ma
nifello of the said duke is doubtless well
known to you j but it is not perhaps so
well known, that the horrid threats it
contains were not meant to be executed
immediately by his army, but by fccret
intrigue in Paris. After the surrender of
Longwy and Verdun (thro' treachery)
the enemies of France supposed could
accomplilli a counteiV revolution more easi
ly by intrigue, than by a direst march to
Paris, where it was supposed the king had
a fufficient number of friends to crush the
patriots."
" Had not the divine vengeancc arrett
ed the blood-hound?, by means of the in
trepid Parisians, with the afliftance of those
true patriots, and almost inimitable he.
roes, the Federates of Marseilles, Francc
at this day would have been without a ca-
pital,without * fcgiflative affemblyswithont
a national convention, without generals or
armies & almolt every city without inhabi
tants, which had adopted the principle, of
he late revolution. Although Paris was to
be the <11 11 facrifice to this infernal intrigue,
there cannot be a doubt but every city,
own, and diilrifl, that had consented to
the fufpenlion, was devoted to similar car
nage ; and a* little doubt remains with me
that limilar afltmblages of coufpiratora
were convened in evety such city, town
and diftrift in 7rance, which had pub
licly declared their sentiments to be in
unison with Paris ; and that the success ol
the Parisian confpi>, cy was to be the fig
nal for all the tell to begin the fame I el
lifh orgies.— Such a general carnage wat
surely intended on the night of the loth ol
r792, as hiilory jiever yet re
corded ; and for the honor of God, the
good of the moral and rational creation ;
it is to be hoped hell, with all its cliofen
band of furies, will never be able, at thi:
or any future period, to efTed, nor the
pages of future hiilory evtr be ftainer
with recording. As to affairs in England,
a sudden and calamitous check has been
put to our prosperity by the absurd wai
we have entered into. We might by ar
open and cordial condatf, have declared
aim oft ary conditions to France; wt
might have made this country the empo
rium of the world ; and while every Uat<
and climate were contributing to oui
wea th, we m'gh by peaceable and quiet
reforms of exorbitant and opp effive offi
ces, have reduced in twenty years, two
thirds of the national debt, and th-rehy
have secured to our posterity a pre emi
nence over other nations, which hardly a .
Ny shock of adverse fortune could have
reached. All this was in our power, anc
it requ red only plain sense, candour, ant
integrity to have obtained it. But inftea':
of this, we liav fuffered ourselves to bt
cajoled by a set of vehement and malig.
nant spirits, enemies'to the temporal hao
pinefs of their species, who, having rank
prejudices t6 gratify, or who having talt
ed the fiucets ot former wars, pursued onl)
the gratification of their passions, and dc
notdifdain t e je uitical plan of obtaining
their purpose thn ugh popular delirium.—
Perhaps it may be a cons lation to us it
this fchem of dc-lution, that we are bttl
the fuffen-rs, and that we may indulge tin
usual urivileg of upes, in giving io oui
deceivers, the epithets they def rve."
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ro whom the agency on the whole will be com
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[land, either in caih, merthandife, or ftuti
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tIENRT BANKS.
Richmond March 20, 1793. 2a w f
TO BE REN'FED] "
And pofiVfljon given in J.ulv next.
A Merchant MILL,
ALSO,. COUNTRY and a S .iV TILL,
either leparately or together, wj#h a i the
conveniences thereunto belonging, con;i'"i r
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Hthe head of a navigable creek,called .Mion,
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ielphia without any trouble to the miller, and ad
ioining a flourifliing village that always a:fr rJs a
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rahn that cleans wheat into both hoppers, two
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Icribers near the premises.
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PLLTEII CAVERLV.
M-'lford, Kent Coitnty, s'tate of D aware
M-v. 1, I-93. ; ' V f; .
journeymen Saddlera
W a N T E u,
Y the Society ot" Mailer Sa-i • Jers of t!i" city
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