By His Excellency the president, and Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas there is just cause to believe that our cruel and inveterate enemies, despairing of the conquest of America by open and manly force, are about to adopt the mean and savage policy of distress and depredation. ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine. - Reed, Joseph (Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1779)