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where I met with with countrywoman A. A. and her companion M. R; and also T. S. formerly of Kendal, who is now married and well settled in this city. 2d Month, 21st. I still continued in Philadel-phia; and this afternoon was pleasantly spent at S. S.'s. The next day I attended the Middle Monthly Meeting, where I was gratified with the sight of a young man presenting an acknowledge-ment to friends, on account of having taken up arms; for which he had been disowned. During the time of his separation, he had married an amiable young woman, who was convinced of the truth of friends' principles, and joined the society. The impression made upon the meeting, on his presenting an acknowledgement, was such, that he was reinstated in the society before the meeting separated. Being invited by J. E. I supped and spent the evening at his house. A person as also in company with us, who had made himself re- markable, in being a principal leader and minis-ter among those seceders, who give themselves the name of Free Quakers; and who, during the war with England, gave friends a great deal of trouble. The ground of their offence against friends, was, chiefly, the operation of the rules of discipline, in a