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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letter from London dated March 25 reports military buildup on the Rhine with anticipated heavy casualties, alongside British economic strains including taxes, flourishing commerce claims, Bank of England restrictions, and feared business failures akin to 1793, benefiting only war profiteers.
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"I have no political news to communicate, of any import. The last accounts from the Rhine, say that both armies are making vast preparations, and dreadful will be the carnage no doubt—and when the scene of destruction will be at an end God knows. The only thing we can calculate is taxes, but how they are to be paid, I know not; and yet we are told that the commerce of our country is in a most flourishing state. The Bank of England has come to a determination, to be very circumspect in discounting, which must be a fatal thing to many, and the failures that are expected, are very alarming—by many it is dreaded to be a counterpart of 1793. All this is of little consequence to placemen, pensioners and contractors. Nothing but the glorious war can answer their purposes."
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Rhine
Event Date
March 25
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vast preparations... dreadful will be the carnage... failures that are expected... counterpart of 1793
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The last accounts from the Rhine say that both armies are making vast preparations, and dreadful will be the carnage no doubt—and when the scene of destruction will be at an end God knows. The only thing we can calculate is taxes, but how they are to be paid, I know not; and yet we are told that the commerce of our country is in a most flourishing state. The Bank of England has come to a determination, to be very circumspect in discounting, which must be a fatal thing to many, and the failures that are expected, are very alarming—by many it is dreaded to be a counterpart of 1793. All this is of little consequence to placemen, pensioners and contractors. Nothing but the glorious war can answer their purposes.