The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-04-18
PHILADELPHIA. April 10.


PHILADELPHIA, April TO-
30 sanguine are some of our merchants
that the non intercourse with England and
her dependencies will be speedily removed
that policies were opened OH Saturday last,
and large suns underwritten ut fifteen per
cent, that our trade with England would be
| opened on or before the first of May next. go.
True -Imer.
OhtuSnati0n IF Penns yiuania at an end
This day, the money demanded'by Ohm
| stead, we are told, is to be paid into the
hands OF the Marshal of the United States
| soon after which the legion will be discharg-
ed from their ppugnation to the laws, in
defence OF Rlttcnhouse castle, having spent
! near three. weeks in that arduous service,
| IN which the state has lost her money and
honor, and the legion its general, one capt.
and ten Privates, taken prisoners by tine mar
shall, in consequence of his orders issued by
the judge Of the district court
We are told that Gen. Bright and his men
have given bail for their appearance at the
United States court. which opens to. morrow
in this city....B.
The house occupied by Mrs. Sergeant, one
OF the executives of the late David Ritten-
house, Is situated at the North West corner
oil Seventh and Arch streets, the hall door
| is IN Arch street, at the West end of the
house. The house of Mrs. Waters, the sis
ter OF, and joint exeCutrice with Mrs. Serge
ant, is situated in Seventh street, a few doors
from the corner of Arch there is, however,
communication between the rear of the
two houses. which is intersected by an alley
which runs from Seventh, parallel to Arch
street. Before each of the houses a centinel
parades, day and night; no interruption is
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ded from entering the houses. This descrip-
ton OF the situation of the houses is given,
TO enable distant readers to understand the
circumstances we are going to narrate.
lhis morning about o'clock, j. Smith
Esq. the Marshal of the u. States for the
district OF Pennsylvania, walked along Arch
street from the Westward to the Eastward
on the North side. regulating his pace so as
to arrive at Mrs. Serseant's door, at the time
the centinel would be parading toward Sc
venth street, and consequently have his back
to the door. This being effected. the Mar
shall opened the door, and entered the house
unperceived by the centinel, not however,
unperceived by Mrs. Sergeant, who imme
diately went out at a back door, through the
garden and into the house of her sister Mrs.
Waters. In the mean time the fact that the
Marshal was in the house of Mrs. Sergeant
was communicated to the officer at the guard
house, who instantly went over with some
men, put the marshal out and restored order
to the family.
An evening paper has stated that the Mar
shall intends to call out & arm the hosse conf
tatuS. 1t is not in the power of the Mar
shall to arm the people with respect to cal
ling them out, it may be like Hotspur's
"spirits from the vastly deep" he NAV call,
out VIII they come when he does call them?
Demo. Press.
April H.
Some expectations had been entertained
that the governor, having the money placed
in his hands, to use with the best discretion
tor the credit of the state, was to have paid il
yesterday. This presumption was founded
perhaps on the arrival in town of Mr.. Find
icy, the state treasurer; man of some ad-
dress IN managing Private business
IL was supposed that an overture would be
mace to the marshal to effect an arrest, that
rms arrest being made, the obligation ofthe
STATE TO Tie heirs Of Rittenhouse, would be
forfeited, if their property was suffered to
go to sale, as it necessarily must be un
dc" the decree of the supreme court. were
the money not paid (; we had indeed expect
ca tnat even this miserable subterfuge might
nave ocen pursued in preference to a per
severance In resistance to the constitution
ana tazuS OF the union, and to the first Drin-
cipics of civil society but when this paper
went to press. the military force was still in
array. although the general and part of the
detachment under his command, have been
arrested, and gwen bail to appear this day
IN the district court, before judges Washing
ton and Peters, to answer for violating the
laws and although several of the militia
uniformed corps have refused to appear in
arms against the laws of the union.
This case now daily approaches to a cri
Sis, which must command the deepcst into
rest OF the whole state. 1t has been suqpes
ted to us, that this measure of the executive
has deefcr fiurhoSe, and that the state is
exposed to the disgrace now perpetratjnr.
only to establish precedent for more for.
mldabie outrage, on another subject Of con-
troversy.
Whether those who foment this sed;,on
VIII have hardihood enough to pcrsevere in
1t or not, VIC cannot now anticipate be-
cause there is no calculating uporf the te-
merity OF ignorance, reposing under fan
cied security. and exercising the functions
OF state neutrality-suspicious..