The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a merchant in London, to his friend in this city, dated Feb. 5, 1784.

I have nothing but bad news to send you. Never did the political hemisphere appear so cloudy; all is darkness and confusion. At a time when the national debt amount to no less a sum than 220,000,000, the annual interest of which, is 10,000,000 sterling, a sum that will require the utmost exertion to raise, we neglect this most material business to follow the purposes of selfish and interested men. No doubt you have heard of Mr. Fox and his party being turned out, to make way for Mr. Pitt and his friends; this young gentleman has nothing but the antiquated virtues of honesty and inflexible integrity to support him, and such is the depravity of the times, that his competitors will easily run him down. Mean time the people assemble in great numbers, and seem sensible of the impending danger. In short we have lost both the dominion and friendship of America; Ireland too has thrown off every thing but the most slender appearance of regard for the dignity of the crown;--In the East Indies all is famine and confusion. in all probability the next dispatch will inform us of the loss of the greatest part of that oppressed and valuable country. The West Indies are loud in their murmurs and remonstrances. Notwithstanding the strictness of the laws, and the vigilance of the magistrates, swarms of mechanics emigrate to your free, happy country.