The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, July 13.

The arrival at Philadelphia of the delegates from New-Hampshire, (who are now on their journey) will completely close the representation of the states in the federal convention, now convened in that city. R. Island. it is well known. has definitively denied meddling in affairs, which so nearly concern the Union as the revision of the confederation ; of course, is not to be numbered among the states of united America. Therefore, to consider the representation as complete, is only exposing the folly of that state, and expressing the wishes of all the rest. Such obstinacy and perverseness--such arrogance and selfimportance, is not becoming a child of Columbia, and a younger sister--What. then, remains to be done, but for the other sisters naturally affectionate to deny her those enjoyments which themselves reciprocally share, and which SHE once merited--to cast her off--yea, verily, even from being of the sisterhood--and to forget that such a creature, as R...e I...d, ever existed !--To say, let her alone, she is given to idols, will not make compensation for the loss of our national honour and credit.

"After having struggled through a long and hostile probation, (says a spirited writer in a late Virginia paper, when treating of the ruinous consequences attending the commerce of the United States, as it has been carried on since the conclusion of the war) why, in the arms of peace, do you countenance the follies of your late competitors, and hurry yourselves into the depths of luxury and dissipation, so repugnant to your health, your happiness, and your honour ? despise their vices, but emulate their virtues. They hold forth to your view a most useful example, and prove, to a certainty, the truth of my assertions that our political existence rests wholly on ourselves and not on the smiles of our enemies.' If we choose to be happy, to be so is in our power ; our internal resources are now fully sufficient, and. with a well timed economy. superfluities would abound,and raise us to the level of the most exalted nations.--Why call we so loudly for commerce with foreigners ? it is certainly, at present, opposite to our interest. Does is not determine the balance much against us, through every channel by which we pursue it ? whar, then, must be the consequence ? must it not inevitably either drain our country of specie, or, to the amount of this balance, bring us yearly in debt ? The terms upon which a country, in its infancy, must carry on a commercial intercourse with one long established, are not equal ; since produce and manufactures bears so small a proportion to each other. It is the interest of foreigners to furnish us with fashions : but is it our interest to follow them Must it not eradicate the spirit of industry, frugality and economy, and hurry us into the opposite extremes--indolence, dissipation and ruin ? does not every day's experience indisputably prove the insufficiency of our virtue to resist the bewitching temptation, I mean of foreign frippery ? why, then, do not we, with all our might, discourage this commerce with foreigners-the bane of our temporal happiness--the poison of our present well-being

"If. instead of bewildering ourselves in the idle dreams of commerce, after our independency was fully effected, we had rejected her smiles. and wholly bent our thoughts to the encouragement of domestic manufactures, and the cultivation of the most useful arts and sciences, we should. no doubt. by this time, been a rich. flourishing and respectable people ; nay, by now adopting a similar policy, we could not fail of becoming such.--What but frugality, industry and emulation, can possibly be wanting to effect our prosperity, and raise us to the summit of human greatness ? Have we not a productive soil: and almost unlimited extent of country, abounding in the luxuries of nature, that, were our connections with other nations to be forever cut off, would supply us with every necessary ? The luxuries of art, till they are the reward of our labour, are highly pernicious and destructive to our welfare. Were we a manufacturing people, nothing, to what is generally understood by the common acceptation of the word, would be a luxury, or have in its use the same pernicious tendency, as use of foreign superfluities must at present have with us. In manufacturing countries, middle and lower classes of people, are chiefly employed or concerned therein ; the promotion of luxury, excess and dissipation, therefore, is in them, perhaps, good policy ; at least national, as it only takes from the opulent, and relieves the needy. But to encourage the use of foreign luxuries with us, woeful experience. I should think, had sufficiently convinced us, would not be so friendly ; but, as the most rapacious peculator, would plunder without mercy, and deal out a general devastation."