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2d Month, 15th. I visited G. P. one of the friends lately come from Amsterdam to settle in Baltimore. They had opened a shop here which they had furnished with the manufactures of France and Germany; and for the short time they had been in business, had met with good encou- ragement. I was rather surprised to see that in some of the shops in this place, as well as in Phi- ladelphia, although nearly the whole stock con- sisted of the manufactures of other countries, yet but little of it was from England. 2d Month, 16th. I attended Baltimore forenoon meeting, and in the afternoon attended by J. T. and G. M. left that city. In the evening we came to H. J.'s, a minister who is well respected in this neighbourhood. His house and plantation lie near the Gunpowder Falls, and not far from the meet- ing which bears that name. I was told of a re- markable preservation which the friends of this meeting experienced during the revolutionary war in America. As our society generally had shewn an attachment to the government of England, at the breaking out of the revolution, and had, as a body, adhered to their peaceable principle in re- fusing to take and active part in the struggle, there were many amongst the most violent of the revolt- ing colonists, who were greatly exasperated against friends. However a few individuals in the society, were not so careful as in common prudence they