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which must necessarily follow your constant attention to the Peace & Safety of your Country. As to myself I grow fat & more hearty than I have been during the last ten years. Retirement to a like scene to that in which you are now engaged in, and a consciousness of having acted my Part in it with Firmness & Integrity towards both countries, whose interest is inseparable, as long as there remained the least Prospect of my doing service and my own Safety would permit, have greatly contributed to restore my health beyond my most sanguine Expectations. And however I may differ with many respecting the mode of redress, and the means of accommodating the unhappy Differences between them, and preventing the Effusion of Human Blood, of which the prospect daily grows more distressing, yet I shall be happy to find in the unforeseen events of things that I have been mistaken and others in the Right. Hitherto in this Respect, I own I have been unfortunate, as any important incident tends to prove, that we are on the brink of a Precipice 'big with the fate of America.'

"I entertained some time since more than a wish to have spent the Winter in New York, & had prepared to put my Resolution into Execution, but it is difficult in these perilous Times, to know where is the place of most Safety for a Family, and believing none more safe than the country I live in, it will induce me to continue here until the contrary shall appear.

"We are extremely concerned at hearing of the extreme illness of Mrs. McIvers. But no further news than what Mr. Croake brought of it, having arrived at Bristol, for some time, we are in hopes, she is ere this recovered, which we most sincerely wish.

"Mrs. & Miss Galloway unite in affectionate wishes for the safety & Happiness of yourself Mrs. Verplanck and your promising little Boy.

"With Dr. Sir

"Your faithful & affectionate humble servant
"Jos. GALLOWAY."

OBSTRUCTIONS TO IRISH IMMIGRATION TO PENNSYLVANIA, 1736.

[The following letter is of interest as showing some of the obstructions put in the way of immigration from Ireland to Pennsylvania early in the last century. The original, in the "Penn Manuscripts" of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, is addressed: "To | Sr | Penn, Knight | Proprietor of Pensilvania | now In London ;" and is endorsed, "Letter from an Irish Capt about Ships being stop'd going to Pensilva."]

"HOND SR.

"DUBLIN, May 3, 1736.

"As you are the proprietor of pensilvania & being informed of your being in London I would beg Liberty to inform your Worship of some of the Deficulty w poor people that are flying from the oppresion of Landlords & tyeths (as they term it) to severall parts of America Viz: When Last our Irish parlement was sitting there was a Bill brought in respecting the Transportation to America which made it next to a prohibition said Bill greatly allarmed the people perticularly in the north of Ireland and least a second should suckceed greater num" than usuall made ready but when said Landlords found it so the fell on with other means by destresing the Owners & Masters of the Ships there being now ten in the harbour of Belfast the methoud they fell in with first was that when anny of said Ships Advertised that they were Bound for such a Port & when they would be in redeness to seal & thire willingness to agree with the passengers for which & no other Reasons they Esued out thire Warrants and had severall of said Owners & masters apprehended & likewise the printers of said Advertisement & Bound in bonds of a thousand pounds to apear att Carrickfergus assizes or be thrown into a Lowthsome Geoal and for no other reson than Encuraging his Majesty's subjects as they were pleased to cale thire Indectment from on plantation to another But even affter all this when the assizes came on they were affread of thire Enlargement and beged verry earnessly of ye Judges to heave them continued upon thire Recognizes-the consequence of which may easey be seen most of said Ships being strangers would heave effectually Ruined them But the VOL. XXI.-33

Judge was pleased to Discharge them nay one of the Justices gott up in Court & swore By G-d if anny came to Lisburn the town in wh he lived to puplise an advertizement he would Whipe him throw the Town To wh the Judge verry mildly replied To concider if they Deserved it & if he whiped anny person to do it according to Law Money has beeing offerd by some of them to Swere against some of said Ships & Rewards actualy given But yett a more Hellish contrivances has been thought of & is put in practice by the Coll' Geo. Macartney of Belfast he will not now when said ships and passingers was just redy to seal so much as allow the poor people to carry thire old Bed Cloaths with them allthow ever so old under pretence of An Act of the British parlement made in the tenth & Eleventh Years of the Rean of King William & Repealed in ye year 1732 and said Ships being obliged to lay this affair before the Com" of Dublin has appointed one Mr John Mean who has likewise stated the whole affair before one Francis Wilks Esq in London whom I refair said Mr Mean & I & likewise most of the merts in this Town are affraid of success even with the Com's will be obliged to lay it before the Lord Leut of this Kingdom & if that should feal than nothing less than his Majesty's Gratious Interpotion cane effect (it affords us some dawening hopes of our Greveances being removed) His Majestys encurege & liberaty but a loss what does that in the meantime when no less than ten Ships has been these 18 or 20 days and no aperance of getting away and advanst charge the seson passing and which is yett much more moveing 17 or 18 hund souls maney of which are in most deplorable circumstances not being so much as able to pay thire passage and all of them destitute of howses to put thire heads into or of means wherewith to suport themselves maney of which has depended on their Friends in America from home they yearly have Acct' and one [torn] they only depend for thire information But our Landlords here affrims that those Acct are all of them Forgerys & Lyes the Contrivances of the proprietors Trustees & Masters of the American Ships.

"If you think fitt to make anny furder use of these Acct' I do promise to make all of them appear matter of fact I am affraid I heave been tow Tedius thefore beg leave subcri my self your Hons Most Humbl & Most obt Ser

"JOHN STEWART.

"post-if your Hon' will please to Ans' derect to the care of Mr. Hugh White mert in Dublin.

"N. B. I did not think proper in the body of the Letter to acquaint Your Hon' y' of those ten Ships there is eight bound for Dalour [Delaware ?] & verry counciderable with them for to my knowledge there will be in a vessall that I bought last year in Margos Hucke [Marcus Hook] near Chister in or about seven hund pounds Ster1 mostly in Speece if this does not prevent them from getting over allogether. But with respect to y warrs I heave mentioned its matter of Fact.

"I am &c.

"JOHN STEWART."

LETTERS OF GENERALS DANIEL MORGAN AND PETER MUHLENBERG.

CONTRIBUTED BY GEORGE W. SCHMUCKER.

[The following interesting letters, addressed to Colonel Taverner Beale, of Virginia, were found among his papers by our contributor. Prior to his service in the militia, under General Daniel Morgan, Colonel Beale had been an officer in the Eighth Virginia Line, and resigned in March of 1777.]

"DR SIR,

"WINCHESTER 7th of June, 1781.

"I am directed by the Legislature of Virginia to raise a Brigade of Volunteers for the term of three months for the immediate defence of this state which is threatened with immediate destruction except we can make head and stop the progress of the enemy. They have given me ample powers to appoint officers for that purpose and have sent me a number of commissions to fill up as I think proper. Colo. Triplett I have appointed to raise a Brigade below the Ridge in Fauquier and Loudon, Colo. Darke in Berkeley and Hampshire, Colo. Smith in Frederick and Shendoe, will you undertake to raise what men you can in your County and join Colo. Smith. The matter is just this, if we do not make head and oppose the enemy they will destroy us.

"My dear sir, delay no time on this occasion our all depends on our exertions, please communicate success in this matter to Colo. Smith from time to time, all this must be performed in a few days, I have now taken the field. "I am sir your

"obed't servt

"DAN MORGAN.

"COLO. TAVERNER BEALE."

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