The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1794-06-16 00:00:00

HARP and CROWN TAVERN.
FLO. MAHONY,
Returns his grateful acknowledgments to the Ladies and Gentlemen who did him the honor to favor him with their custom last season, on their way to and from BATH. He takes this method to inform them, and the Public in general, that he is much better prepared this season, having provided sufficient bedding, five good lodging rooms in addition to the former, an excellent stock of liquors, neat wines of the purest quality, &c. He has procured a large yard room, and stabling for an hundred horses, also shades for carriages, &c. all under an inclosure. He hopes to meet with their further encouragement, and is with gratitude, the Public's humble servant,
FLORENCE MAHONY.
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, VIRGINIA, June 9, '94.
THE Subscriber returns his thanks to the Public, for exceeding his most sanguine expectations in sending cloth to be fulled, since his late commencement of business at EDWARD BEASON's fulling mill: He also hopes that those pieces already returned have rendered general satisfaction. He also will have against the approaching season a quantity of dyes for to accommodate his customers in almost every colour.
I am, with due respect, the Public's friend.
WILLIAM FALEY.
N. B. An active boy, about 15 years old, would be taken as an apprentice to the above business.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 19th of September last, a Negro Man named SOMMERS, about 26 or 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, tawny complexion, has a down lock. He took with him when he went away, a light cloth coat and breeches, a red flag waistcoat, a round white sailor jacket, a pair of striped and a pair of tow overalls, a good wool hat, and shoes. He will endeavour to pass for a freeman, as he has obtained a pass from his brother William Larkins, who was lately set free at Hager's Town. Whoever apprehends said Negro and returns him to me, or commits him to jail so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
JOHN KEARNEY.
Berkeley County, Virginia, April 28, 1794.
YOUNG TRAVELLER,
WILL stand the present season, at the plantation of the Subscriber, upon the Winchester road, three miles from Shepherd's Town, adjoining Capt. James Kearney's, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, in each week; and at Paul Verdier's, in Martinsburg, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in each week, at the moderate price of Three Dollars the season, Five Dollars to insure a colt, or eight shillings the single leap, cash to be paid at the time of covering. The money for the season to be paid by the 1st day of September next.
Young Traveller is a beautiful dark brown, full seventeen hands high, rising five years old next grass, was bred in the State of New-Jersey, out of the noted horse called Ajax; Ajax was got by an imported dray horse, out of a full blooded imported mare, both of which were imported from England by William Allen, late of Philadelphia; his dam was got by a full blooded imported Hunter called Hector, and her dam was a full blooded mare, both of which were imported from England by Governor Reed, late of Philadelphia.
The season to close on the 1st of July.
JAMES VERDIER.
May 1, 1794.
Boarding House, sign of the SWAN, near the old bridge, BATH.
SHAFFNER AND HEATON,
RESPECTFULLY inform the Public, that they are preparing and will open a Boarding House at Bath, for the reception, entertainment, and comfort of those ladies and gentlemen who may attend these salutary waters, the approaching season.
They assure the public, that nothing in their power shall be wanting to render the accommodation in every respect agreeable to those who may please to favour them with a visit.
BATH, May 21, 1794.
FRESH EUROPEAN ADVICES.
By the Ship JAMES, Capt. Howard arrived at New York, in 37 days from Falmouth, we have received the following important Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON MORNING POST.
APRIL 10.
By the important declaration of the King of Prussia in this day's Morning Post, the secession of that monarch from the Continental Alliance, is no longer doubtful. We claim the praise of being the first to announce this important intelligence to the Public, and leave to the Times, and the subordinate ministerial papers, the triumph they have obtained, in repeatedly contradicting our assertions on this subject. The same source of intelligence, that has given us this priority of intelligence, enables us now to present to the country, the declaration of the Prussian monarch, and we leave to the ministerial writers, the mortifying task of apologizing to an illiterate public for the delusion which they have practised, and continue to practise on their credulity.
Declaration of the King of Prussia, to the German Empire, on his secession from the present Continental Confederacy.
The period being arrived in which his Prussian Majesty is forced to discontinue taking that active part in the present war, which hitherto has been the effect of his generosity and pure patriotism;—on account, and in consideration of what is owing by his Majesty, to the preservation of his own estates, and to the welfare of his subjects, his Majesty thinks it particularly his duty to lay before their highnesses the Co-States of the German Empire, the real causes and true motives by which he was induced to take such a resolution.
At the time when the French nation, in the unfortunate delusion of imaginary liberty, had not only dissolved every tie of civic order, among themselves, but also meditated the subversion of the repose and welfare of other nations, by the introduction of their Anarchic Horrors, and in fact had already fallen in an hostile manner on such territories of his Imperial Majesty, and of the German Empire, as were nearest to them. His Majesty thought proper to unite his just arms with those of his Imperial Majesty, and afterwards with those of the whole German Empire, and those of his other allies, in order to set bounds to the destructive enterprises of a delirious nation, and to restore peace and happiness to those as guiltless as highly endangered states. This object was ever the guide of the arms of his Majesty down to this present moment, and more impressive on his mind, in proportion as the madness of the French augmented, and the danger of all Germany became more imminent. The efforts of his Majesty to set a boundary against this mighty torrent of ill fortune on the German territories, were it is true, at first proportioned to the danger, but soon exceeded the utmost of his ability.
The war was not a war with a civilized nation, and well disciplined armies, but a war with a delirious and never diminishing swarm of men, with a highly populous nation, provided with every resource for war to back them; a set of men who did not fight merely for victory but who fought, by fire, sword, and the poison of their pernicious doctrines, to subvert the whole social edifice of Germany.
To oppose this unconquerable enemy, the king on his part, brought into the field 70,000 men, and those of his choicest troops; with those has his Majesty combated, even until this third campaign, under every imaginable obstacle, far from the Prussian dominions, amidst already exhausted lands, excess of dearness of the necessaries of life, and almost unsupportable expence.
Besides these unparallelled efforts. His majesty has made to the common cause every possible sacrifice which the natural strength of Prussia would permit; nor has he hesitated to expose his sacred person, and the princes of his family, to every danger by which the repose and safety of Germany could be conquered from the enemy. For this object alone has so much Prussian blood been spilt, for this such immense treasures drained from his dominions. Such a war must necessarily have more exhausted his resources than those of such powers whose dominions lay more contiguous to the scene of hostility; and thus his Majesty fell into an absolute impossibility of taking any longer that active part from his own dominions, and entirely exhausting the property of his subjects.
His Majesty, however, still remained deeply impressed with a patriotic hope of being able still to lend help and protection, and that with increased force to the German empire; and to be enabled to do this, he entered into a negotiation with the Confederate Powers, proposing certain amendments to them, the principal points of which were besides the payment of a subsidy to him a stipulation that the subsistence of the greatest part of the Prussian army
should be provided for by the empire in general, and that, until a final plan will be concluded to this effect, that the Six American Circles of the Empire, who lay most exposed to danger, and who reaping immediate benefit from the defence, should be charged provisionally with furnishing of the same; and it was declared to the Diet of the empire, and the circle above mentioned, that in case these frank and free proposals were not acceded to by the Emperor, his Majesty would be compelled to withdraw the greatest part of his troops, and to leave the empire to its fate.
Several states have made declarations suitable to the pressing circumstances in which they, and the whole empire were placed; in particular his electoral highness of Mentz, full of exalted and patriotic sentiments towards the Empire, complied with every requisition relative to the subsistence of the Prussian troops which depended upon him, and summoned an immediate congress of the Six Circles.—His Majesty entertained a just expectation, that similar good consequences would every where have flowed from his patriotic intentions, and his hard earned merits in his former defence of the whole empire. Every retrospect seemed to confirm these hopes; on one side, the past afforded the admonishing picture of the dreadful torrent of an all subverting enemy; on the other, the noble and heroic stand of the Prussian army, and the immense sacrifices of the blood of his warriors, and the treasures of his dominions, made by the magnanimity of his Prussian majesty. Even then that the army was standing on the banks of the Rhine, the bulwark of the whole empire, and to which the enemy did not dare to penetrate, but the subsistence of that army, undertaken by the whole empire, was the sole condition under which it could no longer be effective, and which the physical impossibility of Prussia alone bearing the burthen, did absolutely oblige Prussia to insist upon. Was it acceded to, so as the future afforded the consolatory prospect of his Majesty acting with that known alacrity—that well proved fidelity, in the defence of the empire, and the protection of its constitution, to the utmost of his power? But every impartial observer might have easily anticipated the consequences of the refusal of the required subsistence, and the return of the Prussian troops into his Majesty's own states.
Then might the overpowerful and delirious enemy ravage, unconquered, throughout the empire, and with plundering and murderous hands, unbridled and unlimited, bear down the Germans, their husbandry, all law, order and property, subvert with anarchic abominations, the constitutions of more imperial states, annihilate princes and nobles, erase the Temples of Religion, and drive from the hearts of Germans their natural love of virtue and order, by the aids of the seductive allurements of licentiousness, and the precepts of an unfeeling immortality.
All these and similar observations, so simple and so obvious as they were, did, nevertheless, not succeed in bringing the arrangement for the subsistence of the army to a just conclusion. This proposal was, besides this, sufficiently connected with another arrangement, which his Majesty had designed to offer the Confederate powers, but which it did not seem good to his Imperial Majesty to comply with, and which other states did not also approve.
Moreover, this proposal gave rise to an exception, which, after so many and meritorious actions, such unparallelled sacrifices, which his Majesty had already made, he, in truth, had no reason to expect, and on which his Majesty, not without much sorrow, finds it his duty to make some remarks.
The summoning the six circles, by the elector of Mentz, has been represented as irregular, though in fact it is strictly constitutional. Measures were then proposed precisely contradictory to the negotiations for the subsistence, and the universal arming of the peasants was resolved on, though it is plain; that such a measure is as inefficient as dangerous, and completely adverse to the object proposed.—Inefficient against an enemy who presses forward in a mass with an insanity of fury, approved tactics, and a numerous artillery—Dangerous, because, when the peasant is armed, and brought away from his ordinary mode of life, the enemy may easily become his most dangerous seducer, and finally adverse to the object proposed, because such an armament is wholly incompatible with the operations and subsistence of disciplined armies. These reasons, which flowed from the most sincere conviction of his majesty, have been represented in the most odious colours, and the most false and scandalous motives have been attributed to him, for his dissent to this measure; and in order to prevent the arrangement of the subsistence, projects of extending his dominions, of secularizing ecclesiastical territories, and of oppressing the empire, have been rumoured to have been by him in contemplation; and of which his Majesty's patriotism, and acknowledged virtues, will form the best contradiction.
After what is passed, every hope of the subsistence being acceded to being now vanished, his Majesty

now renounce the same, and also every resolution of the Empire, and of the Circles, relative thereto—His Majesty has, therefore taken the resolution no longer to grant his protection to the German Empire;—but to order his army (excepting 20 000 Auxiliaries, according to different treaties) instantly to return to his own dominions.
At the same time his Majesty finds himself compelled to withdraw a portion of his troops from the defence of those states, for which they have already combated with so much glory, he expresses the most earnest wishes that those consequences he has above alluded to may not take place, but that the exertions of his imperial majesty, and of the empire, may eventually insure to both, a full indemnity, and an honorable and general peace. To his majesty remains the just consolation, and permanent glory, of having on his part, made such sacrifices to the defence and safety of the Emperor, in the present awful crisis, as certainly few states in Europe, or members of the Germanic body, could, without much hesitation, have resolved upon.
Berlin, March 13, 1794.
BRUSSELS, April 8. Since the arrival of the Courier from Vienna, on the 2d inst. we know for certain that the King of Prussia withdraws his troops from the army of the Rhine, that is to say, the 25 thousand men maintained by him during the last campaign, besides the contingent which the Diet of Ratisbonne promised to pay monthly—a promise never kept, now disputed, and in the late sittings of the Diet, referred for consideration till peace shall be restored. The King of Prussia, therefore, will furnish only his contingent as elector of Brandenburg for the present campaign; and it is yet uncertain whether or not he will give the 15,000 men with which he is engaged to aid Great Britain, and the States General in certain cases being very ill defined in the treaty of alliance.
This unexpected falling off has so disconcerted the intended plans, that all operations have been for some time at a stand.
Great pains were taken by the Count de Sarradin, during his residence in London, to persuade England to take the Prussian troops into British pay, but without success. Couriers are constantly passing between the Cabinets of Berlin, Vienna and London; and the allies are straining every nerve to prevent the enemy from availing themselves of the crisis.
A letter has been lately circulated from the King of Prussia to the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, informing him that his troops will be withdrawn gradually from the banks of the Rhine, that the French may not take the advantage of their retreat. Some of our politicians who are ignorant of the late conferences and the debates in the Diet, imagine that this was only a feint to draw the French into a snare.
It is, however, but too certain that the Prussian troops expected to reinforce the combined army in the Netherlands, have actually received orders to march for Cleves and Westphalia.
L O N D O N, April 3.
Another expedition against Dunkirk, both by sea and land, is said to be now actually projecting by the British government; it is for this purpose, we understand, that the gun-boats at Deptford and Woolwich are preparing. Gaining a sea-port on the northern frontier of France, it is said, would tend more to forward the cause of the allies than any other acquisition or post that could at this time be made.
April 10. There is much difference of opinion in the Spanish council respecting the continuance of the war; and the Duke of Alouda has had the influence to send M. D'Arranda into exile, for some free observations against the measures of the court.
The court of Munich and the Bavarian States, are at variance respecting the extra contingent required by that court and the Emperor. The States will not submit to the payment of more than thirty thousand florins per month, the amount of the ordinary contingent.
APRIL 13.
Every preparation has been made for his Prussian majesty's departure to Frankfort, which will speedily take place.
The Prussian general Schwerin is said to have advanced in the environs of Warsaw, with 2 columns of 20,000 men.
Letters from Vienna, of the 22d ult. state, that the emperor will certainly set out to the Netherlands to go through the ceremonies of inauguration at Brussels, and to put himself afterwards at the head of his troops. His Majesty's field equipage was preparing when the accounts came away.
During the Emperor's absence, a regency will be established, under the guidance of the Arch Duke Leopold, Palatine of Hungary, Princes Kaunitz and Stabremberg, and Field Marshal Lasey, will be members of this regency.
The Prince of Saxe Cobourg, as Major Maitland stated in the House of Commons on Thursday, is to be superceded. The Emperor is to take the command of the combined armies in person, and to be assisted by a military council, at the head of which is general Mack. Such is the progress of a war against a people who, 12 months ago, were represented as incapable of finding troops, arms, ammunition, or provisions! All the great generals hitherto employed to subdue them, the King of Prussia, the Duke of Brunswick, Gen. Wurmser, the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, have either retired or been dismissed. The Emperor of Germany, as if contending for his last stake, is brought from his amusements at Vienna, to assume in appearance the command of the army, that men of abilities, not men of rank, may be enabled to direct its operations.
Private letters from the Rhine mention the march of several Prussian regiments towards Cologne and Treves. This will probably be said to be the consequence of the king of Prussia's secession; but we draw no such conclusion. The Prussian detachments that have been drawn off from the Upper Rhine, are ordered to halt on the left side of the Rhine, between Bonn and Cologne. They consist of 18 regiments of infantry of 2300 men each; of 18 batteries, to each of which 200 horses are attached; and 50 squadrons of cavalry of 190 men each. On the right side of the Rhine, near Seigeburg and Mulheim is another very large detachment, consisting chiefly of artillery and cavalry.
News of the utmost importance has arrived by the last Flanders mail—no less than the arrest of Danton, Lacroix, Camille, Desmoulins, and Philippeaux, all members of the Convention. Here is again another instance of Robespierre's growing power! There is every appearance of its being this man's intention to get himself declared dictator.
Accounts from Madrid, of the 18th of February, state, that on the 5th of that month, an important engagement had taken place between the allied troops and the French, in the vicinity of Andaye, in Biscay. The Spanish General, Caro, having attacked the French, in order to dislodge them from an important battery they had erected not far from Fontarabia, the latter resisted with such vigour that the Spaniards were forced to retreat, with the loss of seven hundred killed and prisoners.
There is a rumour here, that the Emperor of Morocco, gained over by the French money, means to attack the Spanish settlements on the coast of Africa. This will be a very troublesome diversion, although at this moment the marine of Spain is in good condition, and able to repress the piracies of the Moors.
UNITED STATES.
LEXINGTON, May 17.
By a gentleman who arrived in this place last evening from Fort Washington we are informed, that the Indians attacked an escort between Fort Washington and Fort Hamilton, on Tuesday, and defeated them, but could not inform what damage was done.
AUGUSTA, May 18.
An express arrived in town on Tuesday last from Brigadier General Clarke, to his Excellency the Governor, giving information that a party of Indians, supposed to be Cherokees or Upper Creeks, about 50 in number, came into the frontier settlements of Franklin County, and stole a number of horses. Lieut. Hay, stationed at the High Shoals of Appalachee, pursuing their trail with 18 dragoons, was drawn into their ambuscade. Himself and 2 of his men fell, and another was dangerously wounded. The Indians got off with their booty. Does this accord with the terms of peace spoken of by the Indian agent?
CHARLESTON, May 13.
We are informed, by Capt. Spencer, from Madeira, that a Portuguese fleet, consisting of 6 men of war, 3 frigates, a brig and a cutter, are constantly cruising in the Straits of Gibraltar, with orders from the court of Portugal, to protect all American vessels bound to any port in Spain or Portugal, and to release any such vessels, which may be taken by the Algerines, and conduct them safe into port. This protection, however, does not extend to American vessels bound to any French port.
PITTSBURG, May 31.
A rumour has prevailed here for some days past, and as it came from a respectable quarter, we may give credit to it, that Gen. Simcoe had erected fortifications and established a garrison at the Rapids of the Miami—and that Col. England, with TWO ADDITIONAL BRITISH REGIMENTS, was to leave Detroit, and join him in order to enable him to extend the fortifications as he may think proper.
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.
In the brig Fame, Capt. Hunt, in 8 days from Charleston, came 20 Indian Chiefs, belonging to the Cherokee nation.
They are a respectable deputation from the Cherokee Nation to Congress—their business is to form a treaty of peace and amity with the United States.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed the following persons Commanders of the frigates to be built pursuant to an act of Congress, viz.
JOHN BARRY, SAMUEL NICHOLSON, SILAS TALBOTT, JOSHUA BARNEY, RICHARD DALE, THOMAS TRUXTON.
Capt. Davis who arrived here yesterday in 21 days from St. John's Island, informs that a British fleet of 160 sail of merchantmen, sailed from Tortola on the 12th of May, bound to England, convoyed by 2 ships of line. In this fleet were included all the American vessels carried into and condemned in the different islands.
JUNE 7.
Extract of a letter from General Wilkins, dated Pittsburg, May 30.
“In my letter to Mr. B. I mentioned the news in the Indian country. Part is confirmed from another
quarter, that of the British fortifying at the Rapids of the Miami, and makes me believe all the information the Indian gave me; he had been taught whilst he was at Sandulky, that the English and Americans were at war, and was astonished that we should lie at Le Bœuf with so small a force, and undisturbed.
“The following is an extract of a letter to me, from Mr. R. the Deputy Surveyor of the triangle district, dated Cussawago, 21st May, 1794: “I have been through the Genesee country, and find that there is every industry made by the British, that is in their power, to put the Indians on us. There was a Council held at Buffaloe-creek eight days ago by them, and runners sent to the western Indians to inform them that there was a garrison building at Presque Isle.” Mr. R. came through the Genesee country by Buffaloe-creek, thence to Presque Isle, and over to Le Bœuf.”
Extract of a letter from Lexington, Kentucky, dated March the 31st, 1794.
“Monday—An agent from Gen. Clarke, properly authorised by him, made his appearance here, for the express purpose of purchasing, on the credit of Gen. Clarke, such articles as were absolutely necessary, in order that he might depart immediately—
“He called on me, shewed me his authority, and offered to purchase my two boats. The articles wanting were two, viz. 500lbs. of powder, and 1 ton of cannon balls. The purchases were completed;—the powder is at this instant in my cellar; to-morrow it leaves this place for the falls. The boats will start next week; their provisions are all ready, and the 15th of April is appointed for the day of their departure from the falls.
“Friday, April the 4th—Yesterday the powder left this place.”
The writer is expected in town in a few days. Extract of a letter from the Secretary of war, to Major General Wayne, dated the 31st of March, 1794.
“The idea of a post to be established at Fort Mafac was held forth on the 17th of May last, and left optional with you; but certain circumstances, at that time, prevented your adopting the idea. The late mention of some restless people of the frontier settlements, to make hostile inroads into the dominions of Spain, renders it indispensable that you should immediately order as respectable a detachment as you can, to take post at Fort Mafac; and to erect a strong redoubt and block house, with some suitable cannon from Fort Washington.
“The officer who should command, ought to be a man of approved integrity, firmness and prudence.”
“Besides the directions for erecting the works, the supplies, discipline, and police of the garrison, he ought to be instructed somewhat in the following manner:
“Secret and confidential. It has not been unknown to you, that a number of lawless people residing on the waters of the Ohio, in defiance of the national authority, have entertained the daring design of invading the territories of Spain. The atrocity of this measure, and its probable effects, are pointed out in the proclamation of the President of the United States herewith delivered to you.
“If this design should be persisted in, or hereafter reviving, and any such parties should make their appearance in the neighbourhood of your garrison, and you should be well informed that they are armed and equipped for war, and entertain the criminal intention described in the President's proclamation, you are to send to them some person, in whose veracity you can confide; and if such person should be a peace officer he would be the most proper messenger; and warn them of their evil proceedings, and forbid their attempting to pass the fort at their peril. But if, notwithstanding every peaceable effort to persuade them to abandon their criminal design, they should still persist in their attempts to pass down the Ohio, you are to use every military means in your power for preventing them and for which this shall be your sufficient justification, provided you have taken all the pacific steps before directed.”
True extract, JNO. STAGG, jun. Ch. Clk. W. D. War Department, May 14, '94.
Sir,
By certain information recently received from Georgia, it would appear that a General Clarke and others, have organized themselves into a military corps, within the limits of the United States, and are thence about setting out upon some military expedition against the dominions of Spain, with whom we are at peace.
Any comment upon the illegality and criminality of such conduct is entirely unnecessary to your Excellency, as you have already issued your proclamation against the design.
But it may be necessary that further and more effectual measures be taken to prevent entirely the expedition, and to bring to punishment the authors, actors, and abettors thereof; otherwise the United States may become responsible for the consequences.
I am therefore desired, by the President of the United States, to request that your Excellency will, if the same shall be necessary, take the most energetic and decisive measures within your power, for suppressing the said design. If the circumstances should require the employment of the militia, I am authorised to assure you, that it may be done at the expense of the United States; and I am also directed to put under your direction the regular troops of the United States; for which purpose I have given Lieutenant-Colonel Gaither the necessary orders herein inclosed. And I have also further directed John Habersham, the agent for furnishing the supplies in Georgia, to afford every necessary

aid of provisions and quarter-master's stores, which you may require for this object. I have the honor to be, Sir, with respect, your obedient servant, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
His Excellency the Governor of Georgia.
True Copy.
JNO. STAGG, jun. Ch. Clk. W. D.
Mr. John S. Gano, of Cincinnati, northwestern territory, came through Kentucky, was at Lexington and Frankfort, 6 days, and left Lexington on the 8th or 9th of April.
He says, that the expedition of Gen. Clarke, to open the free navigation of the Mississippi, which had been suspended apparently for want of money, had again revived, and it was said owing to a supply of money which had arrived by a Frenchman, said to be a Major, but whose name the informant does not recollect.
That the boat-builders and other artificers for the expedition had again recommenced, vigorously, their work at the rapids of the Ohio. That some persons of Kentucky, who had been appointed officers, had sold their property by auction.
That the measure of the expedition was openly advocated, and not opposed by any considerable number, but some did speak against it. That the President's proclamation had been received in Cincinnati, but he did not see any of them in Kentucky.
That they had provided some cannon and ammunition, and Mr. Gano was informed, that they were casting more cannon at the iron works in Kentucky.
That it was understood, that the inhabitants of Lexington had subscribed ammunition.
That Mr. Charles Smith, of Kentucky, informed Mr. Gano that he had actually received a commission of a Major. That upon the arrival of the French Major with the money, he had received orders to hold himself in readiness to join with his troops at the rapids of the Ohio; but having more maturely reflected upon the business, inclosed his commission to the said French Major.
MARTINSBURG, JUNE 16, 1794.
STUBBORN FACTS!
"By a gentleman from General Wayne's camp, who may be depended upon, we have the following very interesting particulars, viz.
"That about the 10th of January, a deputation from the hostile tribes of Indians had arrived at head-quarters with overtures of peace; they left the grand council at Auglaize on the 2d. of the same month, and in their speeches they acknowledge their errors, and charged the failure of the treaty last fall to Brandt, who they say wore two faces, and spoke with two tongues. The messengers returned with General Wayne's speech about the 15th, in which the nation were desired to bring in all prisoners, and to be at Fort Recovery (latest Clair's field) on the 14th of February, by which route alone they were permitted to approach us.
"That this affair had excited various opinions and sensations in the army—some thinking it a manœuvre, others an honest design—some being for peace and others for war, the latter inclination seemed to prevail, and was rather favored by the General, who expressed his sorrow at the arrival of the peace supplicants, the old gentleman being as mad and sanguinary as ever; and very much bloated with ideas of his military prowess, wants to be dealing in blood.
"That nothing remarkable occurred from the return of the deputies, until the 6th of February, when Mad Anthony began to be alarmed at the prospect of peace. He then ordered out Capt. Hartshorn, with a select party, to open a waggon road, thirty-five miles, on a course very different from that by which the Indians were ordered to come in, and by the most direct route towards their settlements. The Captain finished the business and returned to the camp on the 12th, and if we may judge from appearances, the measure has answered the purpose intended, as nothing has been seen of the enemy, as late as the first of March, except small reconnoitering parties, which have not however, offered to injure citizen or soldier.
"That to back the road-cutting scheme, the General had projected an expedition to march immediately after the time appointed for the Indians to come in, had expired; and for this purpose, the light horse had been ordered from Kentucky, and large supplies of stores, provisions and forage, had been ordered to Green-Ville, at a vast expense, where the light horse, after a travel of 170 or 180 miles, through mud belly deep, arrived on the evening of the 19th, with many hundred pack horses, and immense droves of swine and bullocks.
"That after keeping all things together for two days, and feasting himself on these evidences of his omnipotence, Mad Anthony discovered that the season of the year was improper for the purpose, and that the country was under water.
"That in consequence of this discovery, which required a prodigious effort of his genius, he determined to eat the provisions at Green-Ville, and send back the light horse and pack horses to their former stations. Our informant observes, that the General has an exclusive right to the whole merits of this expedition, and as the event has not disappointed any person of common sense, and the expense may not exceed twenty thousand dollars, he thinks the public have no cause to complain, as it might have terminated much worse.
"That since this affair, nothing remarkable had
happened, and that the General had resumed his business of war making, and discovering which way the water ran from certain points, a circumstance which has caused him great perplexity and confusion of ideas.
"Our informant states as matter of fact, that the discontent, the drinking, gambling, quarreling, fighting, and licentiousness of almost all ranks, exceeded all example. He adds, that these melancholy truths have been produced in a great measure by the conduct and example of the General, whose manners are despotic, whose judgment is feeble, infirm, and full of prejudice; whose temper is irascible and violent; whose language is indecent and abusive, and whose conduct to his officers is capricious and irregular, being at one time childishly familiar, and at another tyrannical and over-bearing.
"That instead of restraining excesses by his authority; instead of reprimanding the dissolute, and cultivating the meritorious officer, he makes no distinctions but in favor of his tools, spies, and toad-eaters.
"That acting above all laws divine and human, he affixes the Sabbath for extraordinary fatigues, and overturns, without reason, or supposes in violation of law, the proceedings of a general court-martial.
"That to the shame and disgrace of his cloth, he has confounded all ideas of infamy and honor, by permitting an officer who had been regularly cashiered by a general court-martial, for "fraud and forgery," to resign a commission, which he had in fact forfeited, and dismissed him with honor.
"That substituting domination for law, and private resentment for justice, he has arrested men of rank and worth on vexatious pretences, and has kept them in confinement, and denied a trial for months, whilst at the same time he has screened his pimps and parasites from justice, and has refused them to the law.
"That such things should exist is lamentable, but that they do exist is too true to be denied, and it requires no spirit of prophecy to foretel what will be the end of a military corps, thus constructed and thus conducted.
"Let those whom it concerns most, look to the consequences."
A list of resignations, cashiered officers, duels, &c. which have taken place in the Western army, will be in our next.
A letter from New-York, of the 6th inst. mentions an arrival there from England, which left it the 17th April, and brings accounts, that the whole combined armies have abandoned the conquest of France, and were making off. Ca Ira.
At a numerous meeting of respectable inhabitants of the state of Kentucky, held at Lexington, on the 19th ult. they proceeded to take under consideration their right to the navigation of the river Mississippi; and being impressed with the importance of the subject, declined coming to any resolutions thereon until the sense of the people was more generally known: Whereupon, a committee was appointed to give public notice to the people of that State, that a general meeting would be held at the same place, on the Saturday following, for that purpose.
The bill which originated in the Senate, empowering the President if he deemed it necessary for the public safety, to raise 10,000 men for three years, was on the 29th ult. sent down to the House of Representatives, which was warmly opposed, and finally rejected, 32 for the bill, and 50 against it.
From the 2d to the 10th of April, there were continual actions between the republican troops and those of the allied powers, which, as usual, terminated in the defeat and slaughter of the combined slaves.
Indian depredations still continue on the South West frontier, but in some instances the savages have been made to pay for their temerity.
Parties of Indians have lately discovered themselves on the banks of the Ohio—several boats have been fired upon as they were going down the river, and, it is said, two have been taken.
Copy of a letter from General Wilkins, to Col. C. Biddle, dated Pittsburg, 23d May.
"The Indians I have conversed with still continue of the opinion that the British will make an opposition to the establishment at Presque Isle. There arrived at Cusawago, while I was there, an Indian from Sandulky, where he had been left by the Senecas last fall sick; he says the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, M c Kee, and Elliot, the Indian agents (the two last refugees from this country) were visiting all the Indian towns in that quarter, and exciting them there to continue their opposition to the Americans, and assuring them of support from their father, the British monarch. He further adds, that they were prepared for fighting General Wayne, the moment he moved."
Mr. Randolph's reply to Mr. Hammond's letter, published in this paper the 2d inst. being too lengthy for this day's publication, must be postponed until our next.
THE Subscriber informs the Public, that he has commenced the HATTING BUSINESS, in its various branches, in President-Street, and opposite to Major Stephenson's, where he flatters himself, that by the close attention to business, and quality of his work, to render satisfaction to all who please to favour him with their custom.
JOHN STEWART.
Martinsburg, June 16, '94.
N. B. Store-keepers, or others, who purchase by the quantity, will have a reasonable credit, and a generous abatement.
On TUESDAY, the 24th instant, Will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Plantation of the late ANDREW HART, deceased, situate within 4 miles of Martinsburg. It contains nearly 300 acres, the greater part uncleared, is well supplied with timber and water, has good improvements, a young bearing orchard, &c. &c. Also, wheat and rye in the ground, grass under foot, horses, cattle, hogs, with some household furniture, &c. The sale to be on the premises, at 12 o'clock, where the terms will be made known, and due attendance given, by
ROBERT CREIGHTON, Administrator.
June 14, 1794.
FOR SALE,
A genteel SULKY, with Harness.
WANTED, on hire,
A BOY, white or black, to wait on table in a public house.
Application to be made to the Printer.
June 16, 1794.
RICHARD RANSONE,
INFORMS the Public in general, that he has opened a PUBLIC HOUSE in MARTINSBURG, at that eligible stand formerly occupied by Mr. James Graham, and opposite the Harp & Crown: The conveniences of the house, stable, &c. together with his determination of keeping a constant supply of the best liquors, provisions, &c. and every requisite both for the traveller and citizen, he hopes to obtain a share of public patronage.
June 16 1794.
COPPER and TIN WARE.
The Subscribers in the most respectful manner, inform the Public in general, and the Inhabitants of Martinsburg and Fort-Cumberland and their vicinities, in particular, that they have commenced business in the Copper and Tin line in said towns; where they may be furnished, on the shortest notice and most reasonable terms, with Copper and Tin Ware, of every description; and hopes, from the goodness of their work, and moderation of their prices, to merit the patronage of a generous public.
Having just received a large quantity of Copper, they are enabled to comply with the commands of those who may wish to employ them; and are their devoted humble servants,
CHRISTOPHER & JOHN BRIDENHART.
N. B. The highest price will be allowed, in cash, or new work given in exchange, for old copper, brass, pewter or lead.
June 12. 1794.
WAS found, some time since, in this town, a man's double skirted saddle; the owner may have it again by applying to the Printer, and paying charges.
Martinsburg, June 16. 1794.
A MAN'S SADDLE WAS LOST, about two weeks ago, between Mr. G. Swan Key's, at Hall's mill, and the Lick. Whoever has found the same and will return it to me, shall have two dollars reward.
ALEXANDER BUCHANAN.
June 14, 1794.
LANDS FOR LANDS.
TO be disposed of, Four Hundred Acres of Land (called Mahon's) lying on Buffalo-creek, Monongalia County, upon which there are upwards of 40 acres of the best meadow, a good mill seat and spring, and the land equal to any on the Western waters.
Three hundred and eighty-four acres adjoining, below, on same creek, a large proportion of meadow, and a good spring, the upland equal, which is held by settlement right, and a general warrantee will be given.
One thousand acres on the Dunkard-mill run, a branch of said creek, held by pre-emption-right, of equal quality to the above, and the same warrantee will be given, all lying from 14 to 25 miles of Morgan-Town, and from 3 to 11 miles from Monongalia river—the State road from Morgan-Town to the little Kenhawa passes near or through the said land.
One thousand acres on Bingerman's creek, held by pre-emption right, a great proportion of meadow, and well watered, which lies in the same county, the upland of good quality, about 10 miles farther from Morgan-Town.
One thousand acres on the little Kenhawa, about 14 miles from the mouth of said river, held by an old location on treasury warrant, the land also very rich.
Any property in the Counties of Berkeley or Frederick, negroes, good bonds, or any claims against me, will be taken in payment.
DAVID GRAY.
BERKELEY, June 16, 1794.
STRAYED from Capt. James Russell's, at the Sulphur Springs, on the 11th of this instant, a chestnut-torrel Horse, about 9 years old, 14 1/2 hands high, all his feet are white as high as the pasture joint, a small star in his face, a remarkable lump on the inside of his hind leg or knee joint. Whoever takes up said Horse and returns him to me at Capt. Russell's, shall have THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
CHARLES JAMASON.
June 16, '94.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
A NEW SONG.
A SOLDIER is the noblest name Enroll'd upon the lists of fame, His country's pride and boast; Honor the glorious bright reward, For which the heroe draws the sword, Should ne'er be stain'd or lost.
To guard our rights and liberty, Our duty and our care; The brave and worthy to respect, And to the verge of life protect The innocent and fair.
When glory led our squadrons forth, Her influence spread from south to north, There freedom soon appear'd; 'Twas there the found her fav'rite son, Through all the world his name is known, Through all the world rever'd.
And smiling thus the Goddess spoke, Columbia's sons draw near; A soldier's duty ne'er forget, Behold the great example set, The school of honor's here.
MILLS to be let, for a long time.
On the third Tuesday in JUNE, which is the 17th day of next month, Will be rented on the premises, to the highest bidder, at Vendue, for the term of Seventeen years, the time to commence and possession to be given on the tenth day of July next,
A valuable Merchant Mill,
Belonging to the estate of the late General Adam Stephen adjoining the town of Martinsburg, situate on Tuscarora Creek, which is a stream that never fails, and she has the advantage of a twenty foot fall, of course her seat is admirable; the house is of stone, pretty large and capacious, with a sufficiency of garners to contain four thousand bushels of grain; the new works two pair of stones, and has water enough for a third; a saw-mill can be conveniently added; the town is thriving, and of course a perpetual demand for plank and scantling. We think it unnecessary to comment on the many advantages which must necessarily flow from being so immediately situated at the town, and from being surrounded by so fine a grain country, as those advantages present themselves so forcibly that they cannot escape the notice of any.
We shall expect annual payments with punctuality, and in order to insure the same, a clause will be inserted in the lease, enabling us to oust the tenant and re-enter, in case of default.
ROBERT STEPHEN, EPHRAIM GAITHER, MOSES HUNTER, DAVID HUNTER. } Exec'rs.
May 22, 1794.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, some time since, a bay Mare, 13 years old, branded O on each shoulder, short dock'd, a bit out of the under side of the right ear. She has been posted and appraised agreeable to law.
ROBERT BURNS.
May 22, 1794.
Eight Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen out of the pasture of the Subscriber, living in Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, on the 24th day of April, in the night, a bay Horse, 5 years old this spring, about 14 hands high, the shoes taken off the same day, branded on his near shoulder G E, a natural pacer. Whoever will apprehend the thief, if stolen, so that he be brought to justice, and secure the horse, so that I may get him again, shall receive the above reward, or four dollars for the horse only, with all reasonable charges, if brought home, paid by,
WILLIAM WIDMEYER.
May 22, 1794.
A Young lad, tolerably well educated, would be taken as an Apprentice, by the Printer hereof.
June 16, 1794.
NOTICE to DISTILLERS.
WHEREAS it is probable that some of the Distillers of Spirits in this District may not be acquainted with the law respecting entries of stills, I take this method to inform all concerned, that the law requires that every owner or possessor of any still or stills shall make entry with the collector in writing, from under their hands, some time in the month of June, describing the marks and numbers, and the capacity thereof; any owner or possessor of a still or stills failing to make such entry, or working such a still or stills after the last day of June, without making entry thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, and be liable to pay the yearly duty on such still or stills so neglected to be entered. As I am instructed by the Inspector to adhere strictly to the letter of the law in this respect, it is hoped that all owners or possessors of stills, will make due entry, to prevent the disagreeable consequences which will arise from neglect. I have to notify distillers also, to prepare for the payment of the next half yearly duty which will become due on the first day of July next, as no indulgence can be given after the fifteenth of the same month, at which time the law impowers the Collector to enforce payment by distress and sale of property, which he is determined to do, without respect to persons.
NICHOLAS ORRICK, Collector.
May 31, 1794.
DRUMS AND FIFES.
JOHN FAUST,
IN MARTINSBURG,
INFORMS the Officers of Militia in this and the neighbouring Counties, that he carries on the Drum and Fife making, at the following reasonable prices. Drums 6 dollars, and Fifes one Dollar, warranted equal to any made in the State.
May 19, 1794.
DRUMS.
THE Subscriber having employed a person who is a good Drum-Maker, the Militia Officers in this or the neighbouring Counties may now be supplied on short notice, with Drums warranted good, by applying to
JACOB SMURR.
Shepherd's-Town, May 10, 1794.
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE and lot in this town, the conveniences are thus: The house contains a heat room with a kitchen and fire place, has a convenient and pleasant garden; it lays contiguous to the part of the lot lately purchased by Mr. Henry Line from Michael Angel. The premises will be sold cheap for ready money, as the subscriber wishes to leave this town on account of her young family, and retire into the country, where she apprehends they can be raised with the same industry and less expence. This is the only motive of
ELIZABETH HOWE.
Shepherd's-Town, May 12, '94.
Six Pence Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, some time in April last, an indentured boy by the name of Robert Bennett; he is between 19 and 20 years old. Whoever apprehends said run-away, and commits him to goal, shall have the above reward, but no thanks.
LEDWICK FRYE.
May 22, 1794.
A number of Journey men Mill-wrights are wanted on hire, by the subscriber, to whom the highest wages will be given, adequate to their services in the business, by applying at Major Isaac Hite's store, on Caciar Creek, or at Capt. Thomas Buck's, Frontroyal-town, Frederick County.
ADAM FRAILEY.
NATHAN SHUGERT,
SADDLER and HARNESS MAKER.
HAS removed from Martinsburg to Middletown, where he carries on his business, in all its branches. Those who may please to encourage him, may depend on having their work executed in a masterly manner, on short notice, and moderate charges.
May 12, 1794.
FOR SALE AT THE PRINTING OFFICE. Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale. Common Bonds, Blank notes, &c. Bonds for deliverance of Property,
NOTICE.
HAS absconded out of the Subscriber's employment, without his consent, in Hardy County, and State of Virginia, within twelve miles of Moorfields, an apprentice boy of the name of REUBEN BROUGHTON, who lives now in the town of Martinsburg. I do hereby forewarn all persons from dealing with the said apprentice, or harbouring of him. Any person acting contrary to this notice, may expect to be dealt with hereafter as the law directs.
Given under my hand. PETER KERAN.
MAY 26, 1794.
THE above advertisement, under the signature of "PETER KERAN," purporting my being his apprentice, having eloped from him, &c. &c. and continuing again having any connexion with, or entertaining me, &c. &c. to all which I should not have condescended to have paid the smallest attention, had the equally impotent as malicious machinations been confined to the circle where the parties were particularly known, as also the transaction: but, as this mischievously disposed as base persecutor, has made so public a thrust at me, and where, under all the disadvantages of an unknown and unprotected stranger, in order the more effectually to give the most fatal stab to my character, my interest, and my peace, not only with respect to those friendly strangers amongst whom I now reside—but the world!—at least so far as his little, but infamous active power could extend, it is become an indispensable duty to defend myself with equal notoriety, but perfect truth—however disagreeable to appear in print, to trouble the Public, or uninteresting it may prove to them:—but however I may, the treatment I have received, and the principle and right I contend for, cannot prove uninteresting to them. The Public is too generous, too just, not to become a party with my, in a claim on equal justice—for the unmolested enjoyment of the desirable fruits of a fair name—and an unblemished character. But not to trespass further, I now beg leave, the most briefly, to relate the whole transaction on which Mr. Keran founds his claim on me, &c.
In March, 1793, I agreed to keep store for him in Hardy County (of this state Virginia) a memorandum was executed agreeably, and lodged in his hands; with which I should have fully complied, had it been possible for me to have submitted to the flagrantly immoral, as well as shamefully circumstantial drudgery I was constantly a witness of—hourly exposed to. Had I wished to have been initiated into a system of imposition, fraud, and knavery, secret, open, and by every means, Mr. Keran was my preceptor; or to have been honorably dubb'd the nurse, the attendant on a beastly, hourly intoxicated for—the glassy faced cook—the smirched shoe boy—servile servum holder, for set a beggar on horse-back, he'll not only ride to the d—l himself, but he'll ride all he can drive there also) every character that was either wicked or degrading, it was with and by Mr. Keran, that I should have been finish'd.
But for such, neither nature, religion, nor yet spirit had form'd me. I spurned both at it and him; and signified my disgust, and intention to leave him; to free myself at all events, from a connexion so painting—so dishonorable a dependency. Accordingly he agreed I should "on condition I would first post up his ragged "books," which I effected the 13th of December last; when he himself did burn the above-mentioned memorandum; and we parted apparently mutually agreed and pleased—at least for myself I can say so truly.
Thus have I given the Public a faithful and concise statement of the whole transaction; on the merit of which I shall leave them to judge, after just observing, without an aduendo, I am posed as an apprentice, under the most perfect dissipation of the simple obligation that had existed, and too by his free and full consent, as the destroying it must evince; I am called a run-away! but to say more is certainly needless, for they must be as blind and prejudiced, as the head and heart of my contemptible would-be-master is both weak and wicked, who will not be more than convinced by what has been shown above, that I am none of his barely acquired property, that he can have no right in or over, no claim to my services, my person, time, or liberty.
But, if this just, though far from perfect exposure of the pest's pernicious principles and scandalous practices, may but prevent a single innocent or inavary person, much more so, if the Public at large, from falling a prey to his iniquitous and rapacious schemes and conduct, I shall esteem his attempt to traduce and injure me, however disagreeable in the first instance, well repaid, by thus proving a benefit to the public, whose excuse I hope for this trouble (but the last on this occasion) and whose I am most respectfully,
REUBEN BROUGHTON.
P.S. I had determined to leave this town, previous to Mr. Keran's advertisement, therefore hope it will not be construed I left it in consequence of his publication.
MARTINSBURG, MAY 26, 1794.
Notice is hereby given that the Claimants of the Soldiers' Rights to the Sandy-Creek Lands, granted in the year 1754, being surveys of 28,000 acres, or more, intend to petition the General Assembly at their next session, that the division made May 10, 1775, and begun at S. Creek may be established.
MAY 26, 1794.
SICKLES,
Warranted of the best quality, are made and sold by WILLIAM WORLEY, At his factory the east end of Market-Street, Shepherd's Town. Any number will be furnished on short notice and most reasonable terms. Allowance will be made to store-keepers who purchase a quantity.