The New Hampshire Gazette

By a private letter from Paris we learn, that the answer made by the Parliament of Normandy to the King's Speech to their Deputies (wherein his Majesty told them, "He was their Master, and ought to punish their presumption in daring to disobey his Order to register his Money Edicts") was as follows;

"SIRE,

We know it, and we have never given you any reason to think that we had forgot it. Your Parliament is the sole support of your Throne, by administering Justice, which is its immoveable foundation. If the Principles they have laid before your Majesty merit punishment, the Kings your predecessors, who established them, are alone to be blamed, and they cannot be set aside by us. Bound by the Sacredness of our Oath, to adhere to those Principles which constitute the Happiness of your People, we cannot, we ought not to register your late Orders; which, contrary to your Majesty's Intention, would cause the ruin of a Million of your most faithful Subjects. You can take away our Lives, Sire, but you cannot compel us to commit an act of Injustice, by violating that part of our Duty which we hold most sacred."

A late Writer says, "The French are imperceptibly vindicating themselves into Liberty. When I consider how their Parliaments have shewed their Countrymen what it was to oppose, who before regarded implicit Obedience as their own Glory; when I consider that those Parliaments, (the Members of which are all created by the Court, the Presidents of which can sit only by immediate Directions) presumed even to talk of Privileges and Freedom till of late, received all Directions from the Throne; when this is considered, I cannot help fancying that the Genius of Freedom has entered the Kingdom in Disguise. If the French have three weak Monarchs more successively on the Throne, he will throw off the Mask, and their Country will certainly be free."