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TOEING or\ a journey from New-Hamp
shire co the Weftern territory through the
State of Connefticut, with my family, seven
in number, and on Saturday evening, the 21st
inst. put up at the house of Mrs. Knapp, in
Horse Neck, two miles within the bounds of
said State, with an intent of travelling rhe
next day, not having an idea that in so doing,
I should transgress the law, or hurt the fee
lings of any person. Standing inactive at my
carriage while the servants of the house were
putting my baggage on,was accosted in a very
abrupt, imperious, and uncouth manner, by a
person who I afterwards found to be a certain
Amos Mead, Esq. You must nor travel to
day, said he; being agitated at his want of po
liteness to me, I replied, how do you know it
is my inrention ? (my horses being then in the
/table,) his answer wn, you appear so ; I ob
served there were frequently appearances that
never proved real ; he answered, you ffiall not
travel to day.--I then asked him who he was,
and what authorized him to travel ; he repli
ed he was 2 pbyfician,! answered foam I, and
all this with warmth on both fide?, I told him
I was an officer in the Legion of the Uniteil
States, was travelling with an expensive fam
ily to join my corp?, and urged the necessity
of going on, and Should not be flopped by the
whim of every person, but if it is against the
law to travel, and you aurhorifed to put it in
execution, if you would convince me of it, by
shewing the law,or your authority,! shall have
no idea of transgressing ; he replied you shall
fee that tomorrow, and immediately ordered
me under two keepers ; hd then went away,
and ordered three others to relieve them, and
in a short time after there came a constable
and four others for the fame purpose, by said
Mead’s order; daring the whole of which time
I difeovered not the least disposition to make
any escape ; in this situation I remained a con*
Uderable Jtime, until William Holly, Esq.
Attorney at Law, generously gave his wo’d
for my appearance the next morning, at which
time I was brought before said Mead, cf whom
I requeued to be tried before Col. Fitch, who
1 understood was a reputable Magistrate in that
neighbourhood, he in a very imperious man
ner replied, no reflexion, and would not grant
jny requefl. I then plead that ! was not by
any means a travelling, and rhe aft refpefting
the observance of the Lord’s day.bsinga pen--
al aft ought ro be construed ftriftly, neither
was I attending to any secular business, and
although the fervapts were putting my bag
gage into the carriage must be violators of said
Statute law ; still they were accountable and
not myfelf. But unavailing were arguments
of this naiufe, for said Mead inflifted a fine
of 10s. and also ordered me to pay the cost,
the whole of which amounted to 30s. Bd. law
ful money. This plain representation of fafts,
(to which I have attested before Col. Jabez
Fitch,) ia made to lead the public ro refleft,
whether they have not put too mach confi.
deuce in the aforefaid Amos Mead, by enab
ling him to make a person a prifonor in his
own quarters, on suspicion that he had the
appearance of intending to travel on Sun
day.
JONATHAN CASS, Major,
United States, 3d Sub, Legion.
Horse Neck, Sept. 23, 179^.
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Fairfield county, ff. In Greenwich, Sep.
tember 2s, 1793, personally appeared Major
Jonathan Cass, and made oath to the truth of
the narration before me,
JABEZ FITCH, Justice of Peace.
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are permitted by the bountiful in
dulgence of Heaven to remain latent
in the bosoms of your children.—
From the present prosperous appear
ance of our public affairs, we may
admit* a rational hope that our coun
try will have no occasion to require
of- us those extraordinary and heroic
exertions which it ^/as your fortune
to exhibit. But from the common
verfatiljty of all human destiny,
ffiould the profpeiff hereafter darken,
and the clouds of public misfortune
thicken to a tempefti should the voice
of our country’s calamity ever call us
to her relief, we fweaf by the precious
memory of the sages who toiled, and
of the heroes who bled in her defence
— that we will prove ourselves not
unworthy of the prize, which they
so dearly purchased ; that we will aft
as the faithful disciples of those who
so magnanimously taught us the in
ftruftive Jeffon of republican virtue.
(Remainder in our next,)
Mr. pOUGLAS,
You are re^uejled to fublijh tbtfollowing) and
much oblige an injured Citizen.
From the REPUBLICAN JOURNAL.
TO THE CANDID PUBLIC,
On the 2d of August the Conven.ion de
creedihat the Camp,which they had determi
ned ffionld be formed.ffiall confiftof 300,000,
and ffiall be eftabliffied behind the grand
camp in French Flanders.
M. De Conti, and Madame ds Boor bon,are
set at liberty—and must, ia obedience to the
decree of theConvention,relative to the Bour
bon Family fpeedild quit France.
Last night it was reported, and in circles
the belt informed, that the present rulingGo
vfcrnment of France had been entirely over
thrown—and that Danton the President of
that mock Legislature, stiling themselves the
National Convention, bad obtained chat the
Sovereign authority ffiould be veiled in the
Committee cf Public Safety, to whole difpo
fol, for some very important and ferret • pur
pose, the sum of twelve hundred millions of
livers was immediately to be applied.
The Executive Council was, by this ac
count to be suppressed ; and the sanguinary
Danton, as President of the Committee of
Public Safety,’was in veiled with powers ade
quate to those of a Diftator. .
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Infor mr tian to the Merchants of the United
_ States.
HE rebellion that has broke out in two
or three of the French departments, and the
necessity that the government should keep up
a considerable interior force, without weak
ening the several armies that form the de
fence of the frontiers, has operated in tome
faiall degree to the discouragement of agri
culture in the republic. Citizen Genet is
authorized to notify the American merchants
that they will find a ready and profitable
market for every article of provision, • parti
cularly flour, rice, fait beef,pork, &c. as well
as for pitch, tar and other articles necessary
for the marine, which they shall fend to the
por f s of Bayonne,Rochefort,Rochelle, Nantz,
L’Orient, Brest, Havre and Dunkirk. He
is further authorized to inform them, that
the French merchants in all the ports just
mentioned, have taken care to supply their
stores with every kind of French goods, fait
able to the American market, in return so?
the articles brought from the United Stater,
Citizen Genet has likewise received informa
tion that the French fleets were maflers of the
channel and of the gulph of Gafcony.rhat the
French veflels of war, having fuccebfully en
gaged in those seas the veflels belonging toty
jant', & cleared the seacoasts of the Repub
lic of them, had received orders to take under
their protect on all American veflels bound to
France, they should fall in with, in the fame
manner as French veffds, to give them every
fuccour in their power, and to convey them
to the ports above mentioned. From this
circumflance, the. Ame icans may hope that
the destination of their veflels is lufficientiy
secure, notwithstanding the infolenj declara
tion of the British despot, who in attempting
toimpofe his regula jons upon their commerce,
is scheming to rivei’their former fhackel? up*
on them. The French will exert themfelvea
to supply the United S ates with every necef.
ary article of confomption, and will use
Oieir utmost united endeavours gradually to
encourage and eftabliQi a laftirg commercial
intercourfe i between the two nations,that fha|l
tend to join both countries in the tier of fratei
nal affeftion. Such is the sincere wish olFrana t
and in forming such conneftions, the Ameri
cans will contribute to the defence of a cause,
which is evidently their own and in support of
which they so gloriously fignahzed themselves
force years ago.
This we hope is a report which will prove
unrrue, but as th« account is now no. longer
doubted to be a faft, and after the reiterated
proofs we have had of the savage cruelties of
this deieftable herd of regicides, no outrage
which they may be said to have committed
On humanity, can be considered incredible.
J^ESPECTING the unfortunate Queen of
France, we have now to Bate, what ever man,
who has a spark of humanity in his compofi
rion, must ihudder to hear even the bear re
port of, that the Jacobines not being fuffi
ciently glutted with the murder of their
king, and of almost all the honest men that
have come within their power, have at length
filled up the measure cf their crimes, by the
murder of Marie Antoinette. The report
run, that on the 3d inst. after having been
found guilty by the bloody Tribunal, before
which fixe underwent her firft interrogatory
on the proceeding day, ffie was sentenced to
be put to death on the fame spot on which the
unfortunate Louis was massacred, and by the
fame horrid inflrument, but that the mob, as
ffie was condufting from the Revolutionary
Tribunal, forced her From her guards, and
aftually with worse than brutal fury tore her
to peices.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Queen o/France,
ENGLAND.
LONDON, AUG.. 3.
Peomingo, or the mountain leader, the
Chickasaw Chief was on his way with 200
warrior 1 ; 15 had,arrived at the camp/50
were at Lexington, &c. * .
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA,OCT. 12.
Extra fl of a letter from the Territory South of
the Ohio, Seft. 4.
” Times here wear but a gloomy afped.
The frontier is daily harraffed by the Indians.
On the 28th of August, a party, consisting of
about 300, killed, Lieut. James Tedford,
of the United States troops, and a Mr. Jack
son, as they were gathering corn in a field for
their ho fes,near Henry’s station—They have
lately burnt many houses on Nine Mile, and
destroyed a prodigions quantity of wheat, rye
and corn. We hope Governor Blount, on
his return to this territory, will be invefled
with power to destroy these barbarous tribes.”
From the famt, dated Sept. 14.
”On the 30th of August, fume Indians
killed one young woman and scalped another
in Waffiington county ; and, on the sth inst.
a party of them wounded four*perfoi»f, and
VIRGINIA.
PITTSBURGH, OCT 5. By Mr. Achtfon
who arrived a; Waffiington on Friday the 271 b
inflant, from Head Quarters in 18 days, we
are informed, that the army is said to be a
bout 3000, in good health, good-spirits, and
in a high Bate of discipline. The horse a
bout 300—in good plight, and capable of any
service. The road to Fort Jefferfon well made
and improved since the last campaign ; Sixty
thousand buffiels of corn was railed in the
neighbourhood of Fort-Jefferfon this sum
mer, by the garrison. Waggons had been
busily employed in drawing out the ftote?, till
orders came to desist, left umbrage ffiould be
given to the Indians, and the treaty ffiould be
disturbed. But on the express arriving from
the'Prefident of the United States, announc
ing the result of the treaty, and giving orders
to prepare for a campaign, the Kentucky vol
unteers were called, and it was expefted the
Atmy would be ready to move in four d^ys.—
General Wayne bad appointed the Colonies
of the volunteers-—the Colonies appointed the
Majors—the Majors the Capuins—the Cap
tains the Subalterns—and also chcfeand nom
inated the soldiers whom they wiffied to ac
company them—in, which case it was a point
of honor not to refufe.
GEORGIA.
Augusta, A | 'HE following recent depre
ss pt. 12. Jk dations evince how Render
a reliance we have to place on the pacific dis
position of the Creeks, and how unfafe our fron
tier people are io (heir lives and property, un
less force Ipeedy and effectual mcafarc is adopt
ed for their protection.
About the 27th or zß:h of last month,a par
ty of Indians entered the house of Mr. Cribbs,
and another of Mr. Hills, in Greene county,
and ftript them of every thitg they could find.
The fame party stole ten horses out of that
neighbourhood—which was no footer known,
•than Col. Melton, and Capt. Fouche, with the
latter’s light-horie, pursued them ; but the
LITER ART INTELLIGENCE.
sttckholm. The next century will have
to add the late King of Sweeden to the lift of
royal authors. Some years before the war he
had (pent many of his leisure hours in wri
ting, and always carefully locked up his pa
pers in 8 chest, which, when he went to join
the army in Finland, he deposited in the arse
nal. After the peace, he took it thence, to
add to its contents. A little before his death
he direded, that his chest should be delivered
to the University of Upfal, and not be open
ed until 50 years after his decease. It hai
been placed in a secure apartment in the li
brary of that university. What it contains
no one certainly knows; but it is supposed.
that there will be found in it memoirs of the
times, and particularly of . his own reign,
with neccflary documents.
Jen. Allg. Lit. Ztit.
waters being so very high, they returned with
out effefting any thing. Another party of 4,
on the evening of the ift inst. penetrated as far
as Capt. Stoke’s station, at the Long Bluff, in
Woffi ngton county, and stole two horses be
longing to his <troop. Capt. Stokes immedi.
ately pursued the Indians, and on the following
day came up with them on the bank of the
Oakmulgee. On coming in view of their camp
he ordered his men to fire ; which was return
ed by the Indians withour doing any mifehief.
Capt. btokes then ordered his men to charge,
by which three of the lavages were killed, one
only escaped. The two stolen horses were re
takeo--—and another horse with three rifles,one
ffiotgun, and sundry articles found in their
camp,
A trail of between 30 and 40 Indians was
difeovered on the 3th inst, by one of the scouts
within two miles cf Wafford’s station, Franklin
county, leading towards the waters of Broad
river. Capt. Williamson, wish upwards of 40
of his troop took the track as early as poflible
after the difeovery, and went in pursuit. It is
to be hoped we ffiall have a good account of
this party of Indians in a ffiort time.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
OCTOBER 8.
The following Letter and Speech were handed .
to the Ed tor of the Federal Gazette, by a re
jp enable Correspondent.
Fort-Franklin, Sept. 18, 1793.
Dear Sir,
LAST evening arrived Cornplanter’s neph
ew, with two other Indians, almost Born
down with hardship, from the treaty* A
council was called immediately : the purport
I enclose in a letter to you, as it is bufinefa
of importance. The Joss of their friends
when they came to hear the news, tbofe that
were here, such fcreims of death to col left
the women and children, when together
caused tears to flow in abundance—the feene,
no one could conceive that was not prelent,the
distress that they appealed in one. and all.—
Cornplanter is expefted at this place in tea
days ; there is a scout of hostile Indians out ;
the probability is, their objeft is Cuffawaga—-
The inhabitants are much alarmed ; there is
only one man in this place that I could hire
to convey this dispatch to Pittsburgh—l pro
mise to give him ten dollars. He, perhaps,
can give you more information than I am able
at present, . . 1--
JOHN POLHEMUS,
Lieut, commanding Fort Franklin,
P. S. Big John, a friendly Indian. I fend
with the bearer of this, Nicholas Demoutt,
his friend. Perhaps some clothing wiH be
gratefully acknowledged by him.
JOHN POLHEMUS.
(Copy.)
General John Gibson. .
A SPEECH delivered by Corn plant er 4 nephew
on hie arrival from the treaty
Fort Franklin, 17 th Sept. 1793.
Brothers—listen to what Jam going to tell
you—We are sent on by the chiefs to-let you
know what happened since we left thia place.
Our warrion and chiefs, a great number of
them are laying under ground, and have un» '
dergone a great deal of hardship, since we
left this place j you will let Gen. Washing.
ton know, that we warriours have often turn
ed our to treat, but now we will never turn
out again. -
Now we w 11 Jet you know concerning the
treaty held last summer, with the Shawanefe, j
at the Forki of the river. Last femmer we (
scalped one, about nine miles from Greet
court house ; a house was allo attacked by
them, but they were forced to retreat by the
owner thereof and one of his daughters, who
fired several rounds, and woundud force of
them. On the 16th, another party of the ra
vages killed a woman and child, on Nine
Mile,”
NEW-JERSEY.
N EW-B RUNSWIGf, OCT. 6,
ExtraH of a letter from a gentleman at For,t»
Wajhington, to bis friend in ibis tou n.
” Doubt not but yon have heard by this
time cf the treaty being broke up ; great
preparations are making here for a cam
paign ; our army at pefeut consists cf 3000
regular troops, riflemen, artillery, and iofae***
try. Also, one battalion of horse, consisting
of about 400. The volunteers from Kentucky
will be commanded by Gen. Siott, they will
con fill of 1,500 mounted infantry, this I think
will do the business for those yellow feHows
who made that hideous ffirieking noise iho
4th of Nov. 1791 —we are all regret ing your
misfortune, of not being with us this most
glorious compaign, as there never was an ar. .
my in grea er spirits than what ours is in
general.
ft General Wayne deserves the greatest cre
dit for the gcod discipline of the army, altho*
he is our commander in chief, he may be
found 5 or 6 hours each day on horse back,
teaching us new manoeuvres, suitable for In
dian war.”
It being reported, that Mr. Win more, an
Officer of ihe Ambuscade, who wss taken by
the Boflon Frigate off Sandy-Hock, a iew
days before the aft on between those frigates,
will not be considered by the British as an of
ficer of the Republicof France, on account of
his having been an American Citizen, but
treated as a Pirate—We have authority to as
sure the public, that until a fatis^aftory
explanation will be given on this fubjeft,
NO EXCHANGE of any Enghffiman made
prisoner by the Ships of the republic ofFrance
will take place—And that the Confute of the
French nation in the United States are, in
the mean time, inftrufted by the Minister ac
cordingly, not to treat, negociate, or ccnfent
to any such exchange.
MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, OCT. 8.
Capt. Smith, of the ffiip Friendffiip, who
arrived in this port on Saturday Hit, in 45
days from Bourdeaux, informs, that .the in
habitants of that place were very much dil
treffed for w«n r . of provision —that an embar
go had be<n laid upon all rhe American vef
lets in the ports of France and that it was
confident!) reported at Bouroe ux, hat L fle
had surrendered to the combined fortes.
NEW- Y O R K
NEW-YORK,OCTOBER JO.