The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

All accounts from Europe agree, that the British and Irish commerce was never more harassed, even on their own coasts, than in the course of the last summer, by the several powers they are at war with. The American privateer Cicero, in particular, has carried into Vigo the English packet ship Mercury, of 20 guns. Among other things she had on board 15,000l. sterling in specie. It would be better for this nation of madmen to keep their fleets at home to protect their commerce, than vainly to employ them a thousand leagues off, to wrest their independence from those who are determined never to part with it.