Gazette Of The United States

From a Richmond Paper.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) August 8.

Notice is hereby given,

That in case the treaty entered into by that d--d Arch Traitor J-n J-y with the British tyrant should be ratified--A petition will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia at their next session, praying that the said State may recede from the Union, and be left under the government and protection OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FREE AND INDEPENDENT VIRGINIANS.

P. S. As it is the wish of the people of the said state, to enter into a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, with any other state or states of the present Union, who are averse to returning again under the galling yoke of Great-Britain, the Printers of (the present Union) United States are requested to publish the above notification.

Richmond, July 30, 1795.
From the Alexandria Paper.

Explanation of the advertising gentleman's advertisement, who advertises from the town of Richmond, in the State of Virginia.

Lest some should be ignorant enough to take this gentleman's advertisement literally as he has advertised, and suppose he really means to invite to a dissolution of the union and is warranted from a known sense of the Virginia sentiment on the important point he mentions, to say we have belonging to our state one hundred thousand fools and madmen, it may be best to correct in its earliest stage, a mistake which might produce consequences of a very deplorable nature—

Be it therefore known that the gentleman aforesaid only meant a d--d arch, satyrical, comical, ironical allusion to the ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND Free and Independent NEGROES our state boasts of.

SOLUTIO.

The Printers throughout the whole WORLD who have inserted the piece commented on as above, will oblige by giving this also a place.