Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

WINCHESTER, Virg. August 18.

By late accounts from the westward; we are informed, that the rioters of Pennsylvania do not confine their operations to their own State; they have visited Morgan-Town, and ordered the Collector there residing to resign his office and papers, or they would come and destroy them with all his property—they also sent him a letter, with a fictitious signature, informing him, that on such a night they would pay him a visit—in on such repeated threats, the Collector. with the advice of his friends, judged it prudent to decamp—which he accordingly did, bringing with him his records, &c. Agreeably to their notice. a number visited his house, the night preceding that appointed, but luckily were disappointed of their intended object.

We are happy to hear, that a very few only of the Virginians approve these rebellious proceedings of their neighbours, and it is to be hoped their prudence will continue to guard them from associating in meaures, that must terminate in the punishment of those persons who are guilty of such illegal conduct.