Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Oct. 20. The ideas of Mr. Pitt's Reform are various and opposite. Some imagine that there will be a pompous and weighty opposition, even among the ministerial party, and that the patriot youth's plan will be over-ruled by the Lord Chancellor's party, Lord North's, and the mercenary tribe, who can never be brought to disfranchise themselves of a four, much less a six year's seat in Parliament, either by a triennial or an annual one. It is well known that septennial Parliaments were first introduced by the Whig Ministry, in the beginning of the reign of Geo. I. in order to establish the Hanoverian interest, as, by the parliamentary politics of Queen Anne, they were then triennial, and a Tory Ministry in possession of Government when she died. Since that time, several attempts have been made to restore them to their pristine purity of a triennial duration, which have been hitherto always rejected: more, perhaps from the idea that the family was not firmly established, and that triennial elections would disturb the policy of the new establishment, than ideas of corruption. But as, by the late restoration of the forfeited estates, it is very plainly proved that Government have no expectation of any future rebellion, it is not impossible, though somewhat politically improbable, that the septennial Parliaments may be restored to triennial ones.

As to the Scotch fisheries, there is little doubt of their success, not on account of serving Scotland, but of serving the British navy. The Bill will probably be brought in by Mr. Dundas, and powerfully supported by the Pitt phalanx.