Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

By this Day's Mail.
MARTINSBURGH, October 1.
At a meeting of a respectable number of
inhabitants of Shepherd's Town and its vicinity
in the County of Berkeley and State of
Virginia, on the occasion of Major General
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's departure
from said town, where he has resided near
twelve months last past.
Resolved unanimously, that it be communicated
to General Pinckney as the sense of
this meeting, that we duly appreciate, and
have a grateful sense of the important service
which he has rendered to these United
States, both in the Cabinet and in the
Field.
That we never can forget the intrepidity
and wisdom displayed by him in his mission
to France, wherein he maintained the dignity
of an American Ambassador under circumstances
the most critical and perilous; and baffled all
the intrigues of the French Government.
That his whole deportment during his
residence here, both as Major General of
the army, and as a private Gentleman, has
met with our entire approbation.
That the promptitude and fidelity with
which he has executed the various high
trusts that have been committed to him, are
sufficient pledges to us, that in the hour of
danger which tries Men's Souls, our Pinckney
will be among the first to aid and defend
the rights of his country. That our
best wishes attend him both here and hereafter,
and that we bid him an affectionate
farewell.
Ordered, That John Baker, Thomas B.
Evans and Henry Piercy, Gentlemen, be a
Committee to wait on General Pinckney
with a copy of these resolutions.
Attest,
JOHN KEARSLEY, Sec'ry.
September 25, 1800.