Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6th, 1800.
To the Committee of Health in Baltimore.

WE received your letter of the 22d ultimo, in answer to ours which you observe is without date. The collection made in this City, and the Liberties to relieve Baltimore, was founded upon a very affecting appeal of your Committee to your own citizens, dated the 9th mo. 10th, 1800, in which you say the fever rages at Fell's Point, and the poor thereof have nothing to depend on for support but your City Funds, and you call upon your inhabitants at large to give their assistance. To us you say, that your country abounds in provisions, &c. and that your funds have been fully adequate to all the demands that have been made upon them to the 26th of September; but how far this may be the case at the end of this awful visitation, you do not know.-That indeed is very uncertain; but from sorrowful experience of such a situation as yours, we know that the expense attending it exceeded by far all our calculations; and fearing it might also exceed yours, we were anxious to give you an evidence of good will, by affording you, if it might be acceptable, a little assistance.— We accordingly put forward a subscription, and had reason to expect we should have sent you Seven Thousand Dollars; but the receipt of your letter has very much impeded the progress of all our collections; many of our citizens believing from the tenor of it, that you felt unwilling to accept of any thing from us : We however have sent you in their behalf three thousand dollars for the present, and hope it will be useful, and in a few days more, we expect to send you another remittance.
We are your real Friends,
In behalf of the Committee of Correspondence,
SAMUEL COATS, Chairman.

P. S. The remittance is in the draft enclosed of Jonathan Smith, Cashier of the Bank of Pennsylvania, on the Cashier of the Bank of Baltimore.

To the Committee of Correspondence with Baltimore, Norfolk and Providence.

YOUR favour of the 6th instant we have received, covering Jonathan Smith's draft on the Bank of Baltimore for three thousand dollars, being a donation of your citizens, for the relief of the poor and distressed of this city, which was acceptable, and we trust it will be laid out for the purpose for which it was intended.
You observe that the receipt of the letter from the Board of Health, very much impeded the progress of all your collections, from a belief that they were unwilling to accept any thing from you. This we apprehend is not a fair construction of the plain and obvious meaning of it, which was to inform you, that the sickness and circumstances attending it, had already occasioned a very considerable expense, but what the amount of it might be in the conclusion, was altogether uncertain--This was in answer to your request, of being informed generally of our situation. Whether it would have been more pleasing to some, to have represented our situation more distressing and pitiable, was with them no consideration, nor what they had in view. They stated a fact, and left it with you to afford our citizens any, or what satisfaction you might think proper.-You mentioned your intention to divide your donations between three places, they, therefore, carefully guarded against every expression that might be construed, as though they wanted to engross an over proportion to themselves. Thus far we have thought it might be necessary to explain, with a view to remove any misrepresentation that might have taken place on the occasion, not wishing that the effort might destroy that good understanding that ought to subsist between the two cities.
We are your Friends,
ADAM FONERDEN, }
JOS. TOWNSEND, } Com'rs of Health.

P. S.. The whole of the others, who constitute the Board of Health, having for some time past left the city.
Baltimore, October 13, 1800.