The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

From a late English PRINT.

To the Grand Jury of ENGLAND!

ENGLISHMEN! Sons of candour, who refuse not justice to American savages, though they have scalped and devoured thousands of your countrymen; lend me your ears.

The man, whose single word of late might stand against the world, is now arraign'd, insulted, and none,- almost, so poor to do him reverence.

Can Britons then have forgot, how early in life, and with a narrow fortune, he hazarded the rage of a minister to preserve the rights of a freeman; and with what superiority, even then he awed the votaries of venality and corruption?

When long after threatened with dangers from abroad, and sunk, in dependance at home, his country, with one voice, called on him to defend and deliver; ay, did this man disappoint her hopes; Does not his name at this day dismay our foes, more than the remembrance of our formidable armies, or yet more formidable Fleets? It will not, it cannot be denied. In the name of fairness, therefore, do not condemn unheard this faithful, meritorious citizen.

Some weeks ago the affairs of Britain were reported to be in confusion. the dangerous hero of the North was said to have joined the Family Compact--Prince Ferdinand to have become a pensioner of France; a Prince, whose idea alone thrown into your enemies scale instantly sunk your stocks--the Spanish Ar threatening to leave you if you spoke a syllable more of the M-a ransom-the French chicanery continued on the Banks of Newfoundland-the French infidelity tampering with the Indians and back-settlers--the French avarice smuggling among your sugar islands along the coast of Africa and Asia--your neighbours the Dutch at their old tricks and all this while none of your late wretched statesmen were possessed of resolution or ability enough to controul your open, or counteract your secret enemies. The general cries of the people at last reach our Sovereign's ear; their patron is called once more to vindicate their invaded honours; he undertakes the arduous, but noble task--but the gardener of Stow, in his riding-coat studded with a star, hastens to share the importance which he has not merited: bur champion with conscious dignity rejects the claims.

He begins the second epoch of his history--with what?--by procuring the advancement of an approved advocate of freedom to hold the scales of equity; by proposing healing measures with the northern Monarch, and reconciling him again to his natural connexions; by projecting to retain in our service for life, at the price of one Ship of the line, the greatest General of the age; by securing that General's attachment, through the promotion of a friend of his to a regiment. The darling of the British army also is raised to the chief command, at no additional expense to the public, the pay of a few Aid du Camps and of a Secretary excepted; and, lastly, a young man, who was a conqueror and a hero when only a lieutenant in the Guards, is made an Aid du Camp to the King. Are these the crimes for which the late William Pitt is the object of universal odium and unbounded reproach?

No, say you, he has taken a Peerage, so much the worse for his popularity; but it remains to be proved, that it is the worse for his Country: But he cannot serve that country substantially now: this likewise remains to be proved: and will the Grand Jury of England condemn without evidence?

A lover of England, and Justice.