Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

October 22.
A correspondent wishes a Town Meeting may be speedily called, to take into consideration the strange and unwarrantable conduct of some people in Philadelphia, who,—without being authorized by the executive of that state, or by the corporation of the city, have in a most ridiculous manner stopped all communication with this town, under the idea of their catching some disease from us, when it is notorious, the town of Baltimore never has been more healthy than for some weeks past; and as to any disease that has existed, no notice would have been taken of the mortality, if the Yellow-Fever had not raged with such fury last year in Philadelphia, and which they are not clear of to this day; but in order to cover their own situation, to injure our rising property, and to get the whole of the back country trade this fall into their own hands; a number of interested people have stopped all persons coming from Baltimore, and obliged them to remain several days without the city before they were admitted; if all communication is stopped forever, this town can receive no injury from it, but a partial stoppage for the intent of spreading far and near the tidings of malignant disease, (for sinister causes only) should be immediately taken into consideration by the town at large, and proper resentment shewn at such shameful conduct.