The names annexed are about three hundblack, with the places of theirsupposed origin, and they occupy a column of the paper. So at leastasserts the _United-States Gazette_ of Sept. 23. "It seems probable,"adds the editor, "from the nature of the notice, that some suspicion ofthe design of the negroes is entertained; and we regret to say there istoo much cause." The law of 1788 far above mentioned was "An Act forsuppressing rogues, vagabonds, and the like," which forbade all personsof African descent, unless citizens of some one of the United States orsubjects of the Emperor of Morocco, from remaining more than two monthswithin the Commonwealth, on penalty of imprisonment and hard labor. Thissingular statute remained unrepealed until 1834.