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THE. I Nf XT, A ffTTU vi.y worldly edicts andhetrurts lhat God w1 make hinY cunrjuerox. I have the hotjor be, 1 Your humble fervant, chiappe: Secretary of the Foreign Department. Morocco, 9th May, 1.788. American Intelligence.

BOSTON; October 1. Meitino ac Maiibtta. AT'a meeting of the dircctori and agents) of the Ohio Company; took place July on the banks, of the Mulkingum. near the confluence of that, river with the Ohio Pre. fent Gincra'i Parfoni, Putnam atid Vernon, directors.

May, agent for 36 (hares gnajor Sargcant, for 1 65 flurei; col. Crary, 0i; onjor Curtis, na col. Meigs, 991 capt Barlow. at; col. Sproat, 43; major trtiite, ao gen.

Putnam, 65 (bares 669 (hares being 'At the above meeting, It. was Rrjolvid, That the city near the confluence of the phio Mu(k'nguna rivers be, called Marietta. That the referved pnblic fquare in the city, inclu ding the buildings at theBlock Houfes, be called Campus Martius the elevated fquare JJo. 11, Quadranaou No. 19, Capitolium; and the fquare No.

6 1, Cecelia and that' the great road through the covert way. to Quadra naou, be called Sacra, via. Upon information from Colonel May, that Mr. Jofeph May of Bbdon, had prefented a bell to the Ohio Company, for the fir ft public buildinjr to be erected in the territory of the Company, and fuch building being ordered by ike waits. l' ktblveJ, That the "thanks of the company be prefented to Mr.

May, and that the directors be requeded to take meafures for tranf. porting it from Rodon to the city of Merietta, (Kcntueke) Anguft Extracts from the Journals of a Couvfnti on held at Danville the twenty. aigbc day cf p. Refolved, Whereas it appears to the mem bers of this convention, that tha United States JnCongrefs afltmbled, hivefor the prefent de dined to ratify the cSmpict entered into be tween the legifliture of Virginia and the peo pie of this didrict, refpecting the erection of the diflrifl irjto an independent (lite; in confe qaence of which the powers veiled in this convention are dilTolved, and whatever order orre folutioh they pafs cannoc heconfidered ashav ipg force or, obligation; but being anxious for the lafety and profperity of our felvtsandcondicuentx, do earneftly recommend to the good people inhabiting the feveral coun ties within the diftrict each to deft five repre fentatives on the times of holding their courts in the month of October next to meet at tri ville on the firfl Monday in November following, tp continue in office until the firft day of January, 1 790, and that they delegate to their faid reprefentatives, full powers to take fuch mea furee, for obt. admiflion of the di drift as a separate andindependent member of the United States of America, (and the navig.iiion of therlvef as may appear mod cop.

ducive to thofe important purpofest and alfo form a couflMution of government lor the flilriiV, 'aad orgiaizeth? fame when, they (hall judge it necefory, er; da' and accomplilh whatever on a confideration of the ftatc of the didrict Way ia their oniaion promote its inter efts. Refolved, That the eledlions directed by the preceding refltition be held at the Court Houfeof each county, and continued from day to day for five days including the firft day.1 mat the Iheritts wttum tne re pedtive counties of thisdidricl be requeded to hold the faid elections, and make return thare of to the clerk of the Supreme court immediately after the fame are finidied, and alfo deli, ver to each rcprcfentativefoelecled a certificate of his election and in cfc there (hould be no fhertffm either of the laid counties, orhe (hould refufc to aft, that any two ailing magiftrate then pretent may lupennted' apd conduct, the faid elections, and make returns and grant cer cincaieiin lame manner me uierus are requeded to do. 'Refolved, That every free male inhabitant of each county within the faid diclrict has a right to vote at the laid elections within their refpeC' live counties. Refolved, That a majority of the Mem bers fo elected be a quorum to proceed to bu finefs. Vv Refolved, That if the faid convention (hould not make a houfe on the faid fird Monday in Novembcr.any three or more members then a(.

femDledmay adjourn from day to day (or five days next en filing, and if a convention (hould not then be formed at ike end of the fifth day, that they may then adjourn to any day they IhinK proper not exceeding one month, Refolved, That the (herifF of each county or the faid magidrates as the cafe may be.read or caufe to he read.Uie aforefaid refolutions oa each day immediately preceding the opening of the (aid elections. Ordered, That the prefident do requed the printer of the Kentucke Gaxette to publifh the proceedings ana reioives ot congrels by him laid before this convention, alfo fuch of the proceedings of this convention as the prefident (halt think proper, and in particular lhat the printer continue to publilh weekly until the fird of October next, me recommt uj aion lor elect ing another convention, and the feveral refo lutions relative thereto. A tiuc copy, THOMAS TODD, C. C. NORFOLK, Oaobcr 1.

Intrtd if ItUir frtm Fndtr'ukjburg, Sifltmbir ti. 41 Tell oor friendi who deal In public fturiiiit, that we hive a ptrty of beam in our jail, who have the art of taking out the fume, numben, fit. of the certificatei, and filling them up with whatever furna their fancy It tit them to, leaving fueh parti and flgnatu't enfire it anfwer their de fign. The prefa and rnateiiale are difeovered they are fimfU yet Jtiirut.n I Philadelphia OElobtr 10. "Aecoantt frfm the xiiy of Marietta fay, that within twelve mnnthi part, more than 10,000 emigrant, have paiTed that place to Kentucky and other parti on the Ohio led Mdifippi riven, The greater part of rhefe were not ownrn of any landi in the countriei to whieh they hive migrated, but eiefrd to become purchafrri and many of 1 hem would have become fettlera an the Ohio Company' traQ, had the arrangeanenii of the Company been fa far completed ai to hold out the necciHry enconragement to them.

A late London nrwfpiper menrioni, that iht Crurt Spain ha.l tome to a refoitinn of toletttlng, to a certaio dejtree, every Cbiiflian fcQ that admit of the Myrteiy of the Holy Trmity'ind. the Incarnation of our bfefled avieur( ti (oouibtd ia tht Creed of th Arslti, txtrtA of a letter, dte4 July 14, from a ftntltauo St, I Ctrmain hit fricn4 in Pri. Oa Sunday naming buwten tiht tn nipt, tht kr' which wai ait of the ftuert I evtrfaw, covered itftlf piiu ally with a (hick bUck. cloud. It tcw (o CoIJ that were forced to Situ up til thi windowi, Sorqe flilhti of lightning and cltpi ot thunder wr feeo and hard at a dif tance.

At nine fame hail began to fall of the fx of a uart bottle, or of f.Tiall loavei of a poutfd weight. Believe me I do not exaggerate and I dare fay. yon mutt have teen, 01 you will fee, a defcription of thnfurprifing phenomenon ia the journal. The hail hit broken the tile and panea of gtafa in the chateau, aud almoft every houfe in town is bit delhoyed all the corn and fruit in the neighborhood, and large piecei of it were feen breaking in the ftreeti lik the hardelt ice winter. 1 leave you to judge, if you caa, of the anifchief fuch a ftorm hai occafioned.

The wind blevw from fouth weft to north ead, and l'nntoife aud Conflant mull inevitably be the greateft fufTerert. The aided men in the town, and all the natural philofopheri wba longflnca have uken their retreat in tltia favorite fpoe. pofititely afjer that they never law or heard of Uch a fhower of hail, ei, cept periiapi in Livy, when he relate, Ufiitt fluift hi mtntt Albant. The tiler and glaiiert, who came polt from are likely to pick up a good deal of our money, Sfljut tbr ft mlbtnr tfi Inn. Adieu.

WE the fubferibert, at the deltreof the whole pi(fn gen on board the (hip Alexander, from Londonder ry, take thil opportunity of returning our lhanka lo Cap tain Reoch, for the kind treatment, and plentiful fupply of provifioni and water we have received during oar pafTage, with every other indulgence necelTtry lo make our falfag agreeable. Alexander Kerr, John Linton, Samuel Lowry, Matt, Soniplc, Andrew Leudrum, Jamea Robert Wray, Jamea Kef, Samuel Njble, Ceorgt) Hicgint, John Higini William CJreol, Frederieh Quig, Jjmei Hutchefon, John Qnig, Robert Simp fon, William Henry, fohn Bailey. Alexander KUchen, Edward M'Shan, John M'Lorg, Hu) M'Lorg. POETRY. COME give me thy hand my goed fellow, pray, Or i( abfenre that favor refufei, 1 will give thee a verfe, my good wilhei te fay, And join in the handi of the mule.

Ti pleafant to meet, 'midH thegleoin of the road, la a joyleft and del'olate place, Same tricetcoagenial, that feem'd to hare flow'4 Fioin the fount of poetieal grace. Nor trivial, ner ifcanklefi, the deed fhall tni (The deed (lull to virtue belong) That cheer iht lone hour or euliveni the mind Of the traveller palling along. German Night School, HENRY DICKHAUT, Teacher of the German Lan. guage in the Uuiverfity of Peunfylvania, will bcgir Night School, in which he intend to give inftiutfion ia tho Ceiman Language, for a moderate price, in one of the room, in the faid Univeifity, from fix till nine o'clock every evening (Saturday and Sundayi excepted.) Tha fclio.il will be opened the icth inflant. He can be applied 10 in the Univerfity, ot at hit houfe It Cherry Alley above Sevenlh ftieet.

Oilobar9, 1788. 1 4 Philadelphia, September BY eirtu of a writ of Vmtitinl Exfimtt to me dired. ed, will be expofed to public fair, on SATURDAY the llth day of Ocluber next, at la o'clock at noon, at Prer'i Tevera, at the Trip, on Iht great rotd which leada from Philadelphia to Reading, a certain PI1M1 tton or Tracl of Land, fituatc In the townlhip of Limerick, and (nnw) county of Montgomery, enntalnlnx about a 00 acru, ad joining landi of Oi'id Kennedy, Adam Brottfrao and other 1 en which there it a two Amy Odne melluage, two wooden tenrmenri, a frame barn, a good orehn.l, anj abuut ao K'tt of belt meadow the land i good, and lie about 6 milt from the ciry Taken In execution, and ta be fold a the property of John Pennybacker, by J08EPH COWPtRTHWAtT, SKerlfT. To be Let, A LARGE and convenient SC HO 6 HOUSS. in a central part of the city, with every appurtenance fuitable for am EngMbj School, Inquire of the fruiter,.