The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 11, 1756, Page 2

- ST i i T - 5 ¥ v e P ares not. meet us-on the ocean, and in fight of a Brutith #27 tain the dominion of the feas : and fhall they, to whofe ¢ management this fervice properly belonged, efcape their ™t deferts ? we have laught off, and almoft forgetten the dire " ¢ thagena under Hofier, Mathews, and Vcrnon : but fhall Z we forget Mahon as foon ; if we do, ather nations will not. ; We fhall ever be, what we now are, the reproach and con- tempt of every nation in Europe, unléfs we bring the authors 1 Sumo - mity to jultice. To be filent and tamely permit the Britifh =~lion to be chained by his keepers, while the leopard is pul- 2 ling him limb from limb, is as little becoming the fons of liberty and honour, as to fubmit to arbitrary power. It we caft our Eyes towards America, can we difcern any better profpett of m——1 condut ? was not the im- ~ portance of thofe valuable colonies made ‘the immediate £ argument to engage our reprefentatives to grant eight mil- ) W glions of money this laft feflion, to proteét them and fupport our rights to the poficflions and trade of North America ? and fhall they, who were intrufted with that immenfe fum S, for thofe particular purpofes, -not be called to an account » & - for leaving them expofed to the enemy ? not to efpouie . ®their caufe and revenge their fufferings would bave been ( *=fuch a refleGtion upon our glory, as time could ne’er efface; . © and perhaps the negle& of a vigorous and timely exertion of the power committed to -the m y for that fervice, 3~ may be {o heavy a blow upon our naval and mercantile in- tereft, as millions may not be able to repair. . How have death and deftruftion ; unexampled barbari- ies and horrid devaflations ftagnated trade, penetrated into fome of our fineft plantations, and are ready to cuat them off from the intereft of their mother country ? while that _money has beea applied to hire an army of Ruffians, ano- ® _ther of Heflians, a third of Hanoverians, and another of £ "Wolfenbuttleans : to pay a large fubfidy to keep the King £ of Pruffia in temper, for fear his maritime forces, when joined to the enemies, fheuld prove too powerful for us ; and to pay a flanding army in Britain : to maintain an in- aQive fleet ; and thamefully to increafe the number of pen- © fioners to the flate. And was it ever known that a nation " thus deceived ; thus mifguided and brought to the brink of ruin ; whofe liberty was endangered ; whofe debts were O] W0l f Cap 4 * eymore than fhe was able to pay ; whofe monarch was con- < trouled by his fervants, and whofe fubjeéts were driven be- fore the fwerd of the-enemy to perifh in woods and deferts, or difmayed at the horrid fpeftacle of their children flain and fcalped, and themfelves at laft expiring in the flames of their own houfes ; could remain infenfible of its griev- ances, or afraid to complain and purfue the author of its 33 *misfortune : or can Britons at the time France lighting up Q© her forges of death, and collefling together {uch a quantity B of materials and engires, as if {he intended to make an uni- e+ verfal facrificé of maukind, remain inative fpeflators, and - B2 improvident flewards of the public money. © |f upon examination it fhould be difcavered, that there are any at the helm fo loft to the love of their eountry, as & to crea:e a fufpicion of their alting in concert with her ene- 7~ mies ; or fo eftranged to glory as to be the infamous inftru-- C ments of executing any private meafures and tipulation: to { £ thedifgrace and hurt of the nation, cry aloud and fpare bt ! a2 Canapeople, who boatt of freedom, and their right to [ e~ g 8 g d Ys Minorea torn from the Britifh erown by a nation that- (g7) fquadron, either not provided, cr nct inltruéted, to main-. - £, cataltrophe of the Baflimentos, Mediterranean, and of-Car-" ~unable to bring corruption and treachery, however difguif- +and perpetrators of this treachery, cowardice or pufiliani: - sity wonder to fee this monarchy once more ufurped by a ‘council of ftate, and the freeborn fubjefls reduced to the - ~ figte of Turkifh or Galli¢ flaves. b a8 ! - titled coward, 'é enquire into the aftions of their governors, calmly pals over - % and fubmit to the iniquitous impofition of a m——¥, fhould ~ | their meafures threaten them with flavery ? or fhall they, who defcended from a race of heroes and foldiers, have ,. in defence of themfeives, and of their friends fhed their | blood and bore away the palm of vi&tory in every kingdom of the known world, and made the moft poweiful enemy tremble at.that arm, which liberty had firengthened,4be v afraid to appear in their country’s caufe, or be fuppofed ed and guarded with foreign troops, to light and punith- ment { and, if we donot lay hold of the prefent time to. - exertthat liberty, which is our birth right, let not pofie-- | | It is not a mere jealouly, but the evident mif rule of our m ——1y which alarms the nation. It is not difaffe€lion, but the love of our conftitution, King, and country, that * | prompts us to appear in oppofition to bad meafures, and 1] to feck after thofe bad men, who have not applied our mo~, - U ney nor our forces for the glory of the crown and protec: .~ § tion of our countries and commerce. And the method of . | feeking redrefs under thefe circumftances, and to convinge his Maj:fty of your loyalty and re{olution to remove away the wicked from his councils, and to revenge the indignities and loffes he has, and may otherwife (ultain during this -prorogation of pariiament (which perhaps might be a fcheme of the delinquents to prevent our immediate peti- tioning that avguft aflembly againft their praccedings) ig = °* to recommend it earneftly to the GRAND JURIES 3} 5 the approaching aflizes in‘every part of the nation, to (it~ fider the importance of enquiricg into the grievances fand mifcarriages with which our very being, as a natiop is threaten’d. « Let every corporatiom, borough, and cofnty lay afide all party arimcfity, and uonite for the cemdfnon fafety in their addrefes to the throne, and their inftrutions . to their reprefentatives in parliament, to inform his Majefty - of their impending danger brought vpon thefe dominions by thofe, who have run us into a debr, whofe intereit alone muft keep us for ever loaded with taxes grievous to be ° borre : who have by their pufillanimity and mifcondudt expofed us to the moft powerful of all our enemies, withoat fecuring a fingle ally of any confequence in our prefent cir-. , cumflances, and not one without hire who have expofed Great Britain 10 the contempt of our neighbours, by rejeét- ing a bill for a general militia ; which would have at once releafed us from the unneceflary expence and hazardous pradlice of importing foreign troops, and deterred our ene- mies from all thoughts of braving us with invafions: who have tamely given up Minorca, and who flept upon their arms, while the French are tearing from us our valaable dominions in America. A union of parties is the ftrength of the whole. An harmonieus fpirit is the one thing need - ful, and will fave both the throne and the nation from dif. grace and flavery. Divifion is weaknefs, and the gran machine by which all tyrantsand bad minifters have carrie® their arbitrary projedls into execution. It is high time t0 74" awake from our political lethargy ; and to diftinguifh our. fincere friends and real intereft : to revere the men who are. advocates for liberty and to oppofe licentionfnefs : who. wotld teward heroes and punifh every gilded flave and | s 6 Thelo i, 7~ ~