Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

We feel a particular pleasure in being able, from a coincidence of circumstances, to allay the apprehensions which have for some time past tortured the public mind, relative to the hostilities of the Algerines, from the very particular letter of M. de Soulange to the Consul of Nantz, by whom it has been said to have been transmitted in an inclosure to the Consuls of l'Orient. The whole is most incontestibly a fabrication, as will appear to any person who considers the following statement: This inauspicious letter bears date the 14th of July. London papers of so very late a date as the 6th of September, make no mention of the commencement of hostilities, or even the declaration of war. So very important a topic could not have escaped the industry of the London paragraphists, so eager and watchful to lay violent hands upon every flitting rumour, however vague and ill-founded, and to rack and torture it into every possible point of view, in order to amuse and gratify their politic-struck readers.--

By the London price current, of July 29, it appears that the insurance on American vessels, was done at three and a half per cent--and by a paragraph in the London Public Advertiser of August 23, we find five guineas per cent, was the rate to the West-Indies and the different ports in America. He who runs may read. In fact, to give any credit to this famous letter of M. de Soulange, after such convincing proof of its falsehood, would surely entitle a person to a statue of lunacy.