The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 14, 1760, Page 3

fafe into Harbour. After the Peace is once fettled, it ought to be the great Obje@ of our Miniiters, to devife every Expedient, and to adoptevery Plan, that may extricate this unhappy Conftitution from the Dangers I have deferibed. Confidering the low. Ebb of France, awe have fome Reafon to hope that when Peace is once reftored,upon folid Terme, it will not foon be interrupted. Much, therefore, may be done during thofe Years of Tranquility 5 if our Minifters be dili- gent and faithful in this great Work of reviving the Conftitution. .The facred, and inviolable Application of the Sinking Fund, which the Increafe-of our Trade, and other Circumftances, have fo greatly augmented, and muft ftill augment, will operate gradually, and effec- .tually. Univerfal and invariable Ceconomy, muft be introduced into every Branch of Government ; the Revenues of the Kingdom may be vaftly increafed by adopting Schemes that will prevent Frauds, and leflen the Expence of Collection ; innumerab'e unnecef- fary Places may be abolithed, and exhorbitant Perquifities, in thofe we leaye, may be reftrained ; Attention muft be had to the Morals ...and Principles of the Nation, and the Revival of Virtue and of Reli- gion will go Hand in Hand, with the Revival of Liberty. But ne Obje& will deferve more Attention, than our Military Encroach- ments on Conftitutional Independence. When this War fhall be over, there will be lefs Reafon, than ever,for numerousArmies. The Kingdom now happily being united, and Difaffection to the Royal Family at-an End, we need fear no Rebellions among ourfelves ; and Invafions from France are lefs likely than ever. Befides, by the (Care and Perfeverance of fome Patriots, we have acquired a new in- ternal Strength, a Militia trained up to be uvfeful, and copfequently, .we may without any Danger to the Public, reduce the Number of our Guards and Garrifons, fo low, as to deftroy great part of the huge Fabrick of Military Influence and Dependencé. But whatever you do, if you mean to reftore the Conftitution, you muft fecure the Dignity and Independence of Parliament. After pafiing fuch Laws as may ftill be neceffary to preferve the Freedom of Elections, from Influence of every Sort ; to punith Bribery both in the Eleffors and in the Elefled ; fomething, perhaps, may ftill be done by Way of Place-bill, to leflen minifterial Influence over Parliaments, without having Recourfe to an Oliverian Self-denying Ordinance ; or to fo total an Exclufion of Placemen as was eflablifhed, in the original A& of Settlement, , - ~ And an Houfe of Commons thus chofen, and thus made independ- ent, now that Facobitifm is rooted out, can never be formidable but to thole who have Reafon to tremble. Such an Houfe of Commons, will co-operate with the Adminiftration in every Plan of public Utility, and at the fame Time inquire carefully into the Abufes of Government ; Supplies will be voted ; but only in Proportion to the real Income and Abilities of the Nation ; and we may expelt so fee,what we have not {een above thefe forty Years, a Parliamientary Commiffion of Accountsereted to inquire into the Difburfement of near Two Hundred Millions. And unlels we fee this, foon, I thall look upon onr Conttitution, as loft, forever. 1 Thefe, and many fuch Regulations, as thefe, may, under an hooeft and virtuous Adminiftration, be adopted when oace Peace is reftored ¢ And the Profpe@ of fecing them adopted, and fleadily purfued, keeps me from defpairing altogether of the Common wealth. To yon, therefore, whofe Power moft likely, will not termiinate with the War; and whom I have prefumed to addrefs with Regard to the Terms what fthould be demanded, to fecure us from a perfidious Foe ; To you, my Lord, and Sir, let me earneltly recommend, the ftill more important Care, of {aving us from osr/felves ; and as you have with an Unanimity, that doth you both great Honour, directed our Countils, fo as to humble France, let me intreat you to preferve your Union, till it re invigorate the almoft loft Powers of the Britifh Conflitution. If you have any Regard to Virtve, to Liberty, to your Country ; if you would live great,and die lamented ; if you would fhine inHiftory, with our Clarendons and Soutbamptens s let not this Opportunity; per: haps,this laft Opportunity of faving Briti/b Liberty,& Independence, be thrown away. You, my Lerd, whole Rank, whofe extenfive Influ- ence, and perfonal Authority, have given you the Pre-eminence, in public Affairs, as it were by Prelcription 5 much will depend upon you, in the carrying on this important Work. But when 1 dire@ my Addrefls to you, Sir, you mult be confcious that befides the general Expeétations we have from you, as a Lover of your Country; we have your own repeated Promiles, and Declarations to make us flat- ter ourfelves that you will not ftop (hort, in your Schemes of national Reformation. Not tutored in the School of Corruptien, but lifted, from your earlie® Years, under the Banner of Patriotifm, called into Power, by popular Approbation, and ftill uniting, the uncommon Chara&ers of Minifier and Patriot 3 Favourite of the Public, and Servant of the Crown ; be not offended, Sir, if I remind you, not to Difappoint that Confidence the Public places in your future En- deavours to prop the finking Confticution. Nor let it ever fall from your Memory, that the Nation expects from your Virtve, your “ Qeconomy, your Plans for Liberty, during the future Peace, as great Advantages as we have already gained, trom your Spirit, your bold Councils, and vigorous Efforts in carrying on the prefent War. Perhaps 1 grow too warm, on a favourite Subject 5 and, therefore, from Schemes vwich cannot take Effedt, till the War he clofed, let me turn your Attention again, for a little while longer. to the Ob- Je& immediately before our Eyes— the enfuing Con ererces for Peace. And, with Regard to thefe,though [ fuppefe, they will begin before the Winter be over, | think there is fome Reafon, for being of Opinion that we muft have another Campaign, before they can be finally clofed. Franmece is too low, to think ferioufly of a Peace, without making fome defperate Effort. She never would have ex- pofed her Weaknefs to all Europe, by fo fhamefuland fo humbiing a Bankruptgy ; She never would bave ruined her public Credit, and melted her Plate, the laft Refource, when every other has bez=n ex- haufted, only to receive Terms from England. No, fhe knows the is undone, for ever, if the gets no footing in Haxowver; and, there- fore, we may expe to fee another Attempt made for that Purpofe. But, if we are not wanting to ourfelves, another Attempt, will end, as unfortunately for her, as the former have done ; and her Ruin only be more confirmed. In the mean while, 1 make ne Doubt, the Plenipotentiaries will meet at aCongrefs ; but the Events of the Field, muft regulate the Deliberations of the Cabinet. We, no Doubt, thall be firm in our Demands, whatever they are ; and the "French will endeavour to gain Time, to know whether there is any Likelihood of obliging us to offer them Jetter. In this Situation, then, France muft hear with Terror, that without breaking our na- tional Faith, without injuring private Property, without giving ex- horbitant Premiums, we have already provided immenfely for the Supplies of another Year (and Supplies for Years may ftill be had) to meet them——not in America ; there they are no more ; not on the Ocean——the Deftrution of their Fleets leaves that Empire free to us——but once more, on the Plains of Minden, again te feel and to confefs the Superiority of Britifh Valour. I have only a Particular or two, to add, before I conclude. AndI cannot help congratulating the Public, on the Wifdom of our Man- ner of Opening the Negociation for Peace. 1 mean to obferve, that our Minifters have happily got rid of a Set of very wufelefs, or very pernicious Gentlemen called Mediators, by applying diredlly to the Enemy himfelf. Nothing can be more ridiculous than the Fi- gure of the Pepe’s Nuncio, and the Ambaflador of Venice,alling the Farce of Mediation at Munszer, for feveral Years, while the War went on. till its Events regulated the Terms of Pzace. The Media- tion of infignificant Powers is therefore abfurd ; and the Danger of calling in a powerful Mediator, who may threaten to declare againft you, if you do not fubmit to his partial Decifions, is too obvious to be infifted upon. You have done wifely, therefore, to keep the Ne- gociation in your own Hands 3 the Nation, from this Inftance, has a full Confidence that her Interefts are fkilfully conduéted ; and, therefore, [ fhall only add, another particular, which however fubor- dinate, will no Doubt be attended to by you ; though fome late Ne- gociators of ours, with France, neglected it. The French, in taking the Lead in Europe of late, have of Courfe, been able to introduce their Language as the common Vehicle of the Sentiments of other Nations,in all public Negociations ; fo that, perhaps, the French is the only Tongue, by the Channel of which Plenipotentiaries and Minifters of different Countries, can converfe. But when the Negociation is to be putinto Writing, and to be drawn up in that Form which is to be binding upon all the Parties, and figned jointly by the treating Powers, neither the Honour, nor the Interelt of .the State, ought to allow us, to accept of the Original Treaty in the Native Tongue of our Enemies. © The Honour of the Nation forbids this 3 as it would be a Confeffion of Superiority to which Britain, at no Time, much lefs after fo glorious a War, fhoud fubmit ; efpecially as we cannet fubmit to it, without giving the Enemy a tea! Advantage, and laying the Foundation for future Cavils. —Cardinal Mazarine, in his Letters, boafts, that by a latent Ambiguity and Nicety in the French Stile, he had been able t6 out- wit Don Louis de Haro, in the Conferences at the Pyresees. And a much later Inftance, in which we ourfelves were partly concerned, fhould confirm us, in our Refufal to treat with the French in their own Language. I mean the famous Capitulation of the Datch Gartifon of Tournay in 1745 3 which, tho’ only reftrained from a&- ing, fora lirited Time in any of the Barrier Towns 1, as the Dutch believed, when they accepted of the Capitulation, was foon after in- terpreted by France, as tying them up from ‘acting in any part of the World 3 -and might have been fatal to this Country, if the Re- bellion in Scotland, to affit in quelling which the Datch lent us thofe very Troops, had been fo fuccefsful, as tooblige us to put our Fo- reign Allies to theTeft. : We have no great Reafon, no more than other Nations, to truft Gallic Faith, as appears from the many Inftances of their unpaliiated Perfidy, which I have colle¢ted above. Let us not, therefore, be fo weak as to give them Room for obtruding upon us, any fallacious Interpretations of the VVords, in which they plight their Faith, They are tao ready to break it when theTerms are everfoclear ; and + 1 have not the original Capitalation before. me, but 1 rlmmbar,’_ pretty exaltlyon ewhat the Cavil turned The Troops eere tot to ald, L shink for two Years, in any of the Places les plus reculdss de le Barriere. 7 4e Dateh, no Doukt, underfloed, de la Barricre to Ye the Genitive Caje, but the French faid they mears: it in the Ablative. therefore