The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Philadelphia, May 24.

Extract of a Letter from Ireland, received by Capt. Carr.

I hope the prudent steady Conduct of many in your City and Province, will counter-ballance the imprudent Fury, Zeal,& mad Declamations made by others, in Abuse of the Word LIBERTY : and that through your Moderation a Repeal of those disagreeable Acts will be obtained.-The Earl of Hillsborough having been at his Estate near this Place lately, told me he always looked on the Revenue Acts as anticommercial, and would use all his Powers to have them repealed ; and, from the Tenor of his Conversation, it appeared the Moderation of many in your Province would facilitate that acceptable Service.

Whil unconstitutional or oppressive Revenue Acts continue, if they had an Effect to excite a Spirit of Frugality and good Oeconomy, and thereby decline the Use of luxurious Importations, it would tend to strengthen the envied rising Greatness of your extensive Country ; and by confining yourselves in a great Measure to your Produce, and the Income of your own Estate, render in Time a Friendship, & Intercourse of Commerce, courted on any Terms by the Mother Country. All fierce, angry, hostile Spirits, only defeat their own Views, and protract the Reconciliation so ardently wished on both Sides.