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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French Ambassador Marquis de L'Hopital in Petersburg publishes a statement on the capitulation of Louisbourg to the English on July 26, urging European powers to unite against English naval dominance and ambition.
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The Marquis de L'Hopital, the French Ambassador, has published a Paper, on the Taking of Louisbourg, conceived in the following Terms:
"We have Advice that Louisbourg was delivered up to the English by Capitulation on the 26th of July. We are sensible of the Consequences of so fatal an Event: But we will redouble our Efforts and Diligence to repair this Misfortune. All Trading Nations ought to open their Eyes to their most essential Interests, and unite their Forces with ours, to prevent the absolute Despotism which England wants to Exercise on all Seas if a Stop be not immediately put to her Ambition and Greediness.
To muster all the Powers of Europe against France, the Word has for a Century past been, The Balance of Power upon the Continent: But while the English hold forth this Phantom to impose upon the Credulity of the Public, they were incessantly labouring (unhappily, but too well succeeded) to destroy the Balance of Power by Sea, without which, however, that upon Land cannot subsist: This is a Thing to which other Nations Ought to give the most serious Attention, as it threatens no less than the entire Destruction of their Navigation, and the Usurpation of all Commerce by the English."
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Louisbourg
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26th Of July
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delivered up to the english by capitulation
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The Marquis de L'Hopital, the French Ambassador, has published a Paper on the Taking of Louisbourg, stating: 'We have Advice that Louisbourg was delivered up to the English by Capitulation on the 26th of July. We are sensible of the Consequences of so fatal an Event: But we will redouble our Efforts and Diligence to repair this Misfortune. All Trading Nations ought to open their Eyes to their most essential Interests, and unite their Forces with ours, to prevent the absolute Despotism which England wants to Exercise on all Seas if a Stop be not immediately put to her Ambition and Greediness. To muster all the Powers of Europe against France, the Word has for a Century past been, The Balance of Power upon the Continent: But while the English hold forth this Phantom to impose upon the Credulity of the Public, they were incessantly labouring (unhappily, but too well succeeded) to destroy the Balance of Power by Sea, without which, however, that upon Land cannot subsist: This is a Thing to which other Nations Ought to give the most serious Attention, as it threatens no less than the entire Destruction of their Navigation, and the Usurpation of all Commerce by the English.'