Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

LONDON, June 4.

Common Fame has honored his Majesty with the visit of an Ambassador from his lost subjects the inhabitants of the United States (to grace his Royal birth day) who it seems has produced his credentials to the Secretary of State!!--His Excellency ought not only to produce his own credentials from Congress, but also the credentials of Congress itself, certifying the power and authority of that body to treat and conclude treaties for the thirteen United States, collectively and individually, and to enforce what they may stipulate for as well as against them. The Provisional Articles of Peace are a standing monument of the propriety and necessity of this precaution. When the Congress by their Agents had treated with and obtained of our Agents every thing they could wish for, and it came to our turn to require something in return, and a very small something too;--Oh! then it could not be granted! Why? Because Congress HAD no Power but to recommend to the respective Legislatures the matter contended for! Men of common sense and common honesty, in their right senses, would have turned upon their heels, and told them to go and get full powers to treat, to stipulate, and to perform their engagements; till then the treaty must be suspended, and what had already passed must stand for nothing. To the astonishment of all the world, they concluded the treaty with these powerless gentlemen, on behalf of their powerless masters, without a single stipulation in favour of the parent country, or even a rational expectation of any favour whatsoever! Let not this blunder of all blunders be repeated in the face of the whole nation.