able foundation on which the truth of our divine religion is built. The evidences of Christianity will hereafter constitute a branch in the course of their instruction. The manner in which these several subjects will be taught, and the extent to which they will be attained, must depend upon the efficiency and zeal of the professors, and the capacity and diligence of the student. For the exertions of the former, you have not merely the authority of an explicit engagemant, but the guarantee of their reputation and interest, which are staked to a wide extent upon the success of the collegiate department of the University. In regard to the assiduity of the students, so far as it depends upon the faculty, the same pledge exists on our part to foster it where it is found, to excite where it is dormant, and to infuse it where it is wanting. But as no power is reposed with us to change the nature of that capacity with which any student may be endowed by his Creator, we are not to be held answerable for the ignorance or dulness which results from such a cause. It will be our duty to encourage the timid, to rouse the heavy, to excite the indolent, to fix the volatile, as well as to guide the prompt and to aid the assiduous. And when this duty has been faithfully performed, we must commit the result to Him, who, while he commands us to labour, himself retains the entire control of our success. The discipline of a college is the most difficult, and, at the same time, the most material part of its economy. The youths of our charge, whilst they strenuously assert the claim to be treated as men, are apt very often to conduct themselves like boys. To curb the volatility of youth with the rein of decision and judgment, to induce the student to respect others by making him respect himself, to destroy the temptations to folly by a full occupation of the time, to combine in our intercourse with the young men the firmness of the governor and the dignity of the teacher, with the affability of the associate and the interest of the friend-these are the principles of that government which it is proposed to establish. The cords of discipline are to be tightened. A close adherence to the rules of the college in respect to diligence, attention, and deportment, will be exacted of every individual; and exacted, too, not from the mere desire of rigor, but from a much higher principle-from the conscientious conviction that we owe it to the young men themselves, to the parents and guardians who shall entrust them to our care, and to the character of the Uniyersity, to pursue in regard to these points a temperate but decided and undeviating course. In calling your attention to the claims of the University, I can do but little more than barely state the grounds on which they rest. They are founded on the advantages which the institution affords for the attainment of education; and on its being an institution belonging to our city, and more or less connected with its character and reputation. For efficient and permanent patronage, our eyes must be eyer fixed upon the distinguished community among whom we are placed. In the list of the advantages which it offers, I do not hesitate to name the following as eminently worthy of consideration with every parent and every guardian within the limits of our city. It is an institution as broad in its principles, and as comprehensive in its course of instruction, as any college within our common country. It furnishes an opportunity of educating your sons with the least possible expense. It presents the advantage of connecting your own superintendence of their morals with the attainment of a full collegiate education. It affords to you a frequent opportunity of witnessing and judging of their progress. It supplies to them the benefit, and to you the satisfaction of a constant mutual intercourse. It casts no necessary clog upon the maintenance and cultivation of those dignified and embellished manners which, at a distance from home, and in the rough circles of mere male associates, are so often wrecked on the shoals of uncouthness and vulgarity. It uncloses none of the avenues to those commotions and difficulties which grow out of the almost prying supervision which in distant colleges, is absolutely needful. In short it leaves them, in regard to morals, to health, to intellect, and to accomplishments, under the watchful inspection of that eye, which, of all others, looks with the deepest interest and most untiring devotion to their temporal and eternal welfare. It becomes not the Faculty, with whom I am connected, to claim as a body, an equality with the instructors of other institutions: but, in behalf of some of my associates, (c) I may venture to refer to that distinction which has been already won by them on the arena of education, and placed them in their respective departments on an eminence that challenges, to say the least, the fullest confidence of this community. Elected to the several offices we hold by the vote of gentlemen who, both as parents and as members of the same community, have as high a stake in this institution as your selves, we ask, on the authority of the confidence which they have reposed in us, a favourable estimate of our fitness to undertake the instruction of your offspring; and the supply, of those materials on which our workmanship is to be tested. Without such a degree of patronage as shall enable us to exercise such talents and aptitude for our present stations as we may possess, it must be obvious that capacity and zeal will avail us nothing. We regard it as a decided and gratifying earnest of that confidence which we hope to merit, that the number of those newly admitted to the College, already exceeds the number with which it was committed to our hands.* At a moment when we are just placing on our limbs the armor of battle, it does not become us to express nor to indulge the boastful feelings of those, who, having triumphed in the contest, are permitted to unclasp the helmet and the buckler, to repose in the arms of conquest. We are aware of the difficulties of the undertaking in which we are enlisted; and, whilst we engage in it with humility, we see not the red and lowering sky which betokens an adverse result; but are rather buoyed with the hopes that public confidence will not be wanting in our characters, nor public patronage be withheld from our efforts, nor public benefits fail to accrue from our labours. To you, young gentlemen, who are the subjects of our present charge, it is proper that I should address a few words of council. Let it be your endeavour fully to appreciate the advantage allotted to you in having a collegiate education placed within your reach. It is a privilege which many have sighed for, and which comparatively few enjoy, and which may be made the source of happiness, distinction, and profit, to yourselves, and of unspeaka. ble gratification to your parents and friends. If your ca reer be marked by diligence and assiduity, and by the spirit of order and decorum, it will issue in the results which I have named. The meritorious student will be honoured. But, if neglectful of your privileges and duties, and in defiance of the authority and counsels of your instructors, you should waste your time, disregard your studies, and violate the statutes of the College, the stern requisitions of discipline will demand that the cord which unites you to this institution should be severed— severed to the discredit of your own characters, and at the expense of an amount of parental grief and anguish, which it is difficult for you to estimate. The highest thrill of satisfaction that penetrates the bosom of the pa rent is felt, when he witnesses distinctions bestowed upon his affspring, won by their mental and their moral efforts. His deepest feeling of distress is tasted, when he sees them discredited by unworthy conduct, or disgraced by voluntary ignorance and indolence. The in When the College opened, twenty-one of its former students returned. The number newly admitted is thir ty-six: making a total of fifty-seven. tercourse to be maintained between yourselves and the Faculty, will be marked, on our part, with kindness, affection, and courtesy; but, at the same time, with the firm determination to exact from you that respect which is due to our stations, and which it is honourable in you to manifest; and that diligent attention to your collegiate studies and duties, which we should be unfaithful to you, to your parents, and to ourselves, not to require. The Board of Trustees have placed in our hands a larger amount of authority in the discipline of the College, than has hitherto been entrusted to the Faculty of Arts. While this augments our power, it increases also our responsibility; and presents an additional motive for the prudent and temperate, but firm administration of the collegiate government. From all who shall unite themselves to this institution, a solemn promise is exacted that they will be obedient to its statutes, respect its Faculty, avoid all combinations to resist its authority, and pursue their studies with assiduity and zeal. Let me express the hope, that neither the letter nor the spirit of this engagement will be violated by you; that the recent elevation of the college system, will be accompanied by a corresponding elevation of the characters, feelings, and habits, of its students; and that the career which we have now commenced together, may in its result, redound to your honour and profit, to our credit and satisfaction, and to the permament and solid welfare of the University of Pennsylvania. (d) NOTES. (d) UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. (b) The first term of the collegiate year will commence on the 15th day of September, and end on the 22d day of December. The second term will commence on the 6th day of January, and end on the 15th day of April. The third term will commence on the 1st day of May, and end on the last day of July; on which day the public commencement will be held, unless it be Sunday, in which case the commencement will take place the preceding Saturday. The requisitions for entrance into the Freshman When the terms commence on Saturday, the exercises Class, are as follows:-"Every applicant shall have of the College will begin on the Monday after. When read Virgil, Sallust, and the Odes of Horace, in the La- the terms end on Sunday, the duties of the College will tin: The New Testament, Lucian's Dialogues, Xeno-terminate the preceding Saturday. phon's Cyropedia, and the Græca Minora of Dalzel, in the Greek language: and learned quantity and scanning (e) Dr. Robert Adrain, Professor of Mathematics, in each. He shall also have been taught Arithmetic, and the Rev. Dr. Samuel B. Wylie, Professor of Lanincluding fractions, and the extraction of roots: English guages; the former of whom was, at different periods, Grammar, and the elements of Modern Geography." a distinguished instructor in Columbia College, N. York, The course of instruction in the Collegiate Depart-is well known as ranking with the most profound matheand Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and ment of the University, will be as follows, viz. FRESHMAN YEAR. With the Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy. Cicero's Orations. English Grammar reviewed. Themes. Roman and Grecian Antiquities. English Composition. Declamation. With the Professor of Languages.-Horace, (Odes reviewed, and satires,) Epictetus. Græca Majora, Vol. I. Greek exercises. With the Professor of Mathematics.-Arithmetic reviewed. Algebra, to quadratic equations inclusive. Euclid's elements of Geometry. SOPHOMORE YEAR. With the Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy.History and Geography, ancient and Modern. Rhetoric. Criticism. Elocution. English Composition. De clamation. With the Professor of Languages.-Cicero, de officiis et de oratore.) Terence. Horace, (Epistles and art of Poetry.) Græca Majora Vol. I. completed. Homer's Iliad. Latin and Greek exercises. With the Professor of Mathematics.-Elements of Algebra and Geometry completed. Application of Algebra to Geometry. Plain Trigonometry (the demonstration analytically.) Surveying and Mensuration. Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry. maticians in the country,-and the latter was for many years at the head of one of the first classical schools in the city of Philadelphia, equally distinguished for the extent of his classical attainments, and for his success both as a disciplinarian and an instructor. Alexander Dallas Bache, Esq. was eminently successful as assistant Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Military Academy at West Point. (d) The ensuing brief history of the University is collect ed from the interesting discourse of Dr. George B. Wood, pronounced in 1826, before the Philomathean Society a society connected with the University, under the management of the under graduates, the design of which is to promote their improvement in elocution, composition, and forensic discussions. "The subject of the adoption of an extended and liberal system of instruction, suited to the wants of a numerous and mixed people, had frequently engaged the attention of a few individuals, among whom our great Franklin, ever prominent in works of public usefulness, was one of the most conspicuous. Their sentiments having been communicated to several others, excited considerable interest; and the plan of an academy was at length drawn up by Franklin, and submitted to the approval of those who appeared to be concerned for the spectable and influential citizens, without regard to difsuccess of the project. Twenty-four of the most reference of religious opinion, or of professional pursuit, associated themselves together under the title of 'TrusWith the Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy.--tees of the Academy of Philadelphia.' The scheme Logic. General Grammar. Moral Philosophy. Eng- was now laid before the public, and its patronage relish Composition. Forensic discussions. quested. Such was the spirit of the people, and so ob With Professor of Natural Philosophy.-Mineralogy and Geology. Natural Philosophy commenced. JUNIOR YEAR. vious the promised advantages, that an adequate sum was speedily subscribed; and, in the commencement of the year 1750, the academy went into operation. Three schools, one for the Latin, one for the mathematics, and one for the English tongue, were immediately opened; two charity schools were soon added; and so flourishing was the condition of the institution, and so fair its prospects of permanent success, that the trustees determined to apply for a charter of incorporation, which, in the year 1753, they obtained from the proprietary government. The prosperity which continued to attend the undertaking, soon induced them to expand their views beyond the limits of a simple academy. In the year 1755 the charter, at their request, was so altered, as to confer upon them the right of granting degrees, of appointing professors, and of assuming, in all other respects, the character of a collegiate body. They now took the title of Trustees of the College, Academy, and Charity School, of Philadelphia.' " "The Rev. Dr. William Smith, the first provost, was a man of distinguished abilities, and of no mean reputation as a writer. The degree of doctor in divinity, conferred upon him by the university of Oxford, and subsequently by the learned faculties of Aberdeen and Dublis, evinces the esteem in which his station, talents, and exertions, were held in Europe. The vice-provost, the Rev. Dr. Allison, had long been favourably known in the province, as a private teacher. Mr. Kinnersley, professor of English and oratory, was the associate of Franklin in his investigations into the subject of electricity; and the merit of several discoveries in this science is claimed for him by his cotemporaries. The professor of languages was reputed to be inferior, as a classical scholar, to none on the continent." to the University a very considerable endowment out of the forfeited estates. However arbitrary the proceeding might be considered, it accorded with the predominant feeling of the times; and the party who felt themselves aggrieved having used expostulation in vain, were compelled to yield for the present, and appeal for redress to a period of less political excitement. The new trustees proceeded immediately to the organization of the institution. The Rev. Dr. John Ewing, a member of the Board, was appointed to the provostship, and carried into that office a character of great moral excellence, united with extensive acquirements and indefatigable industry. At the same time, the celebrated Rittenhouse was chosen vice-provost, and professor of astronomy. But the success of the University did not correspond with the lofty pretensions of its title. Whether the unsettled condition of the country, consequent upon a long war, was unfavourable to the cultivation of learning; whether the dissatisfaction with which many respectable citizens regarded the late measures of the legislature, had turned the current of patronage towards the neighbouring colleges; or whatever cause may have operated, certain it is, that the new school was seldom crowded with students, and its commencement seldom graced with a numerous band of graduates. It could not be expected that the trustees and faculty of the old college, should acquiesce quietly in what they conceived to be an arbitrary violation of their rights. Many respectable citizens shared in their sentiments and feelings, memorials representing their case, were, on several occasions, presented to the legislature; and the the tumult of party spirit having at length sufficiently subsided to allow the voice of justice to be heard, in the year 1789, a law was enacted declaring the abrogation of their charter an unconstitutional act, and restoring to them the possession of their estates, and the full exercise of their former privileges. "The new school, however, retained its charter, and the property with which the legislature had endowed it. There were now, therefore, in Philadelphia, two distinct establishments, each having its own board of trustees, and its own faculty. The college and academy were revived under the superintendence of their former provost; and the university continued in operation with no other change than such as necessarily resulted from the late decision. "The pecuniary resources upon which the trustees relied, were wholly independent of legislative assistance. To the private contributions of the citizens, by which they had originally been enabled to commence their operations, were subsequently added grants of land and money by the proprietaries, and subscriptions to a considerable amount obtained by the personal application of the provost, from the friends of learning in England. The funds derived from these sources, united with the proceeds of the school itself, were sufficient to maintain it in a prosperous state, till the breaking out of the revolutionary contest. The storm which swept away so many political institutions, and changed, in some measure, the face of civil society, could not be expected to leave untouched, an establishment, the influence of which, if properly exerted, might bear so strongly upon the welfare of the country. A provision of the charter demanded from the officers of the college, before entering upon their duties, an oath of allegiance to the king of Great Britain; and it was suspected that the inclinations of some of the most influential among them, were but too well in accordance with the obligation of their oath. Accordingly, in the year 1779, it was recommended by the executive council, that the affairs of the college should be made the subject of examination by the legislature; that whatever in its charter or manangement should be found incompatible with the new order of things, should be abrogated, and the whole remodelled, so as at once to preserve the original objects of the founders, and religiously to guard the best interests of the community. The sentiments of the Assem-ed to its charge. In the arrangement of the professorbly were in perfect agreement with those of the Coun- ships, the same regard was paid to the claims of the recil, and a law was enacted, by which it was hoped they spective parties; and the new faculties in the arts and in might attain the end proposed. The oath of allegiance in medicine, possessed the united strength of those from the former charter was transferred to the commonwealth; which they were formed. The more comprehensive all the offices of the institution were declared vacant; a title of University of Pennsylvania, absorbed, of course, new board of Trustees was appointed; and the old ap- that of College and Academy, which, after an interruptpellation of College, Academy, and Charity School of ed duration of nearly forty years, with a fame which the Philadelphia, was exchanged for the more highly sound-success of numerous graduates had spread over the coning title of University of Pennsylvania. To show that they were actuated by no hostility to knowledge itself, they not only vested in the new trustees the property of which the college was before possessed, but granted "From the experience or anticipation of an adverse result, the schools of Philadelphia had been but a short time in operation, when the wish was expressed, by both parties, of increasing their strength by a union of interests. Accordingly, in the year 1791, the university and college, in a joint petition to the legislature, requested such alterations in the act of incorporation as might be necessary for this purpose. A design so obviously beneficial, could not fail to meet with approval; and the necessary enactments having been obtained, a union on just and satisfactory terms was effected. An equal number of trustees from each institution formed a new board, of which the Governor of the state was ex officio, president, and which, by the unrestrained right of supplying vacancies, was rendered independent of any other control than such as resulted from its obligation to consult the best interest of the seminary entrust tinent, was now finally extinguished. "Soon after the union of the schools, the edifice which had been erected by the state of Penn'sa. as a residence for the President of the U. States, but declined on con stitutional grounds by Mr. Adams, who then filled the office, was purchased by the Trustees, and applied to the purposes of the university. Thus newly organized and located, the institution has remained to the present time without a rival in the city. Dr. Ewing continued to preside over it till the period of his death, in 1802, since which time his place has been successively occupied by Dr. M'Dowell, Rev. Dr. Andrews, the Rev. Dr. Beasley, and the present provost." The following gentlemen compose the Board of Trustees: THE GOVERNOR OF THE Rt. Rev. WILLIAM WHITE, EDWARD BUrd, HORACE BINNEY, L. L. D. Rev. JAS. P. WILSON, D. D. JOHN SERGEANT, L. L. D. Jos. HOPKINSON, L. L. D. JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL, D. D. It is agreed that the Treasurer pay the street commissioners the expense of putting up posts, and making a gutter and pavement before the lot of ground in Chesnut street to the castward of the state house belonging to this Corporation. Agreed that chains be made and put up across Market street and Second street, and about sixty feet from the intersection of the streets, so as to prevent carts and other carriages passing through the market on market days, to be taken down at 9 o'clock in the morning in summer, and ten in winter. The committee appointed to inspect the condition of the public wharff's returned their report, which underwent the consideration of the Board, who agreed that the public wharff at the Drawbridge be extended about thirty or thirty-two feet further into the river. October 4, 1768. This being the day appointed by charter for electing a mayor for the ensuing year, and the recorder being necessarily absent from the province-the Mayor, with eight Aldermen and twelve Councilmen met at the Court House, and unanimously voted in the late Mayor, Isaac Jones, Esquire to that office. After which the Board attended the Mayor elect Right Rev. HENRY U. ON- to the house of Joseph Turner, Esq. where he took the qualifications required by law before the President DERDONK, D. D. and Council, who were in the exercise of the powers of government, on account of the absence of his Honour the Governor. PHILIP H. NICKLIN, JOSEPH REED, Secr'y. & Treas. The Faculty is now complete, and consists of the following gentlemen: The Rev. WILLIAM H. DE LANCEY, D. D. Provost, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. ROBERT ADRAIN, L. L. D. Vice Provost, and Pro fessor of Mathematics. The Rev. SAMUEL B. WYLIE, D. D. Professor of Languages. ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, Esq. Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. The Rev. EDWARD RUTLEDGE, A. M. Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy. EDWARD RUTLEDGE, Secretary. MEDICINE. Philip Syng Physick, M. D. Professor of Anatomy. Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. of the Institutes and Practice of Physic, and of the Clinical Medicine. William Gibson, M. D. of Surgery. John Redman Coxe, M. D. of Materia Medica and Pharmacy. Robert Hare, M. D. of Chemistry. Thomas C. James, M. D. of Midwifery. William E. Horner, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. William P. Dewees, Adjunct Professor of Midwifery. November 28 1768. Beadle's salary, £10 per annum. 66 stalls in the market to the westward, rented in 1766 for £198—and 26 eastward at 80s. each-20 at 60s. January 9, 1769. The Mayor laid before the Board for their consideration a paper which he had received from a Committee of Assembly, a copy whereof is as follows: "In Assembly, January 6, 1769, A. M. "Ordered, that Mr. Fox, Mr. Livezey, Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Ashbridge, Mr. Pearson, and Mr. George Ross, be a committee to inform the Corporation that the house is desirous to facilitate and promote the trade of the city of Philadelphia by making the middle ferry on Schuylkill a free ferry, or otherwise to appropriate the neat proceeds to the amendment of the roads, as shall be thought conducive to the promotion of such trade and to confer with the said Corporation respecting the sale of the said ferry to the public. Extract from the Journals, CHAS. MOORE, Clk. of Assembly." A Committee was appointed to confer with the Committee of Assembly on the subject. February 4, 1769. The Committee reported; the further consideration "deferred till the house of Assembly should come to some fixed resolution concerning the proposed purchase. But in the mean time the Board do agree that if the house of Assembly shall hereafter settle such a plan with regard to the ferry and the roads leading to it, as shall in the opinion of this Board be of public utility, they will then enter into treaty with them concerning the sale of it. October 3, 1769. A complaint that the Drawbridge dock is become almost useless for want of being cleaned. A committee appointed to inspect it, and also to 'consider of proper places for fixing public scales for weighing of hay near the upper and lower ends of the town." ANNALS OF PHILADELPHIA. From the recovered Minutes of Councils. May 27 1768. The Treasurer's account allowed, "except one article, viz. a charge of 23 per cent. commissions on the sum of $750 lent by this Corporation to the managers of the house of employment, and on the sum of £100 lent to the County Commissioners without A committee appointed "to get the stalls to the eastinterest, which article is disallowed on a vote." A small repair to the wooden bridge near the Draw-ward of the Court house continued to Front street." bridge having been found immediately necessary for the safety of the inhabitants, and John Goodwin having made the same at the instance of some of the members of this Board, it is agreed that his account amounting to £6 3 0, shall be paid by the Treasurer. But this is not to be considered as a precedent for making any future repairs, that being the proper business of the assessors in conjunction with the magistrates of the city. Samuel Shoemaker elected Mayor. November 27, 1769. A committee appointed to inquire into the state of the new market on the hill, what rents are paid for the stalls, and to whom, and whether the persons who built the stalls are yet reimbursed out of the rents. An account presented amounting to £48 7 3, for repairing 3 Engines "said to belong to the Corporation." EARLY HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. The following sketch of the dispute between Lord Baltimore and the Penns, we copy from a printed document in 8 pages folio; entitled "The Case of the Proprietors and province of Pennsilvania and the three lower Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, to be heard before the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of his Majesty's Most Honourable privy Council for plantation-affairs at the Cockpit, at Whitehall, on Thursday 23 February 1737"--by W. Murray. The case of Messieurs Penn, and the people of Pennsylvania, and the three lower counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware; in relation to a series of injuries and hostilities made upon them, for several years past, by Thomas Cressap, and others, by the direction and authority of the Deputy-Governor of Maryland. 1736. The President, the Council, and the AssemDec. 11. bly of Pennsylvania, signed the Original Petition to his Majesty, complaining of a long series of injuries, born by them from Maryland; particularly of an invasion by three hundred men in arms from Maryland, in Sept. 1736, and of the murder and numerous disturbances committed by Thomas Cressap, so that he was taken up on the 24th November 1736; and tho' they had sent proposals to the deputy governor of Maryland, to agree upon some bounds to limit jurisdiction, without prejudice to the right of either proprietor, till the difference should be absolutely settled, he had declined the same, and the injuries were not only continued, but increased: and praying His Majesty to enjoin the Lord Baltimore, and all claiming authority under him, to desist from all further violences, and to confine himself to the bounds and limits set to his province, as well by his grandfather, above fifty years ago, as by himself, by his own solemn agreement of 10th May 1732. 1737. That original petition being referred to the Committee of Privy Council for plantation affairs, an order was made for Lord Baltimore to answer the same; and he was duly served with that petition and order. He put an answer to that petition, and with April 22. regard to the grievous matters complained of in the petition which had happened in 1734, 1735, and May, September, and October, 1736. His Lordship contented himself with a very general answer, saying, he was thoroughly persuaded that every part of the petition which related to the Deputy Governor of Maryland, was without foundation. In that answer Lord Baltimore insists, in the following words, which may be material to the present questions. "I beg your Lordships permission humbly to insist upon it, that the true boundaries of Maryland are those, and those only, that are contained in the charter of Maryland, which being long prior to that of Pennsylvania; the boun June 1. July 12. or encroached on the lands belonging to the province of Pennsylvania. But, notwithstanding what the President and Council are pleased to say to the contrary in the said petition, I will further beg leave to assure your Lordships, that the people of Pennsylvania, in making their settlements, have, from time to time, in many instances, and to a very great degree, made large encroachments on the province of Maryland." That answer is replied to, and the truth thereof denied. And the matters of that petition, answer and reply, being the first and original application, are now appointed to be heard. Long after which answer to the original petition, A cross petition to his Majesty was first lodged in the office, from the Deputy Governor and Council of Maryland, complaining that some German and Palatine families, who had settled (as those petitioners pretended) under the Province of Maryland, had declared, they would become tenants to Pennsylvania; wherefore, they themselves state, that they sent up the sheriff, with some of the militia, to seize their persons for their misdemeanor; and that afterwards a sheriff of Pennsylvania had seized Thomas Cressap, on pretence of a murder he had committed, and that in seizing Cressap, somebody killed a man. And they prayed his Majesty's order for preservation of peace on their borders. Another cross petition to his Majesty was lodged in the office, from the commissary and clergy of Maryland, setting forth, that an es tablishment had been made in 1702, for the maintenance of Church of England Ministers within Maryland, which the Quakers and other sectories, were dissatisfied at; and therefore they suppose, that the Quakers seduced some inhabitants of Maryland, to transfer the acknowledgement of the right of their lands, from Maryland to Pennsylvania-and then repeat the matter mentioned in the other Mary. land petition, about the German settlers, and relating to Cressap, principally, to whom they give many titles, as a magistrate, officer, and tenant of Lord Baltimore, and a strenuous supporter of the religious and civil rights of the province of Maryland. And they pray his Majesty to stay the violent proceedings, which (they say) proceeded from the Pennsylvania government; and they go on and pray another distinct matter, namely, that a regular clergy may be encouraged to reside on the borders, and in the whole province of Pennsylvania. The two matters contained in both the cross petitions are, first, An excuse offered for the attempt made by the three hundred men from Maryland, to turn the German settlers out of their settlements; and, secondly, a complaint that Cressap had been seized; which matters had happened on the sixth of September, and twenty fifth of November before the June and July, when these cross petitions were first lodged. daries in the Maryland grant cannot be affected Aug. 18. An order in Council was made, ex parte, re by any thing in the Pennsylvania grant, which is subject thereto. And I assure your Lordships that I neither know, or believe, that any of my ancestors ever set to themselves any other bounds, but those only which were limited for them by the said grant; and I am very well assured, that the people of Maryland have always, in making their settlements, kept within the bounds of the Maryland charter, and have not, in any one instance, exceeded the same, citing or taking notice of the two petitions last mentioned only, whereby his Majesty was pleased, provisionally, and for the present, to order and command, in the following words, viz. "That the Governors of the respective provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, for the time being, do not, upon pain of incurring his Majesty's highest displeasure, permit or suffer any tumults, riots, or other outrageous disor |