The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

It is laughable enough to see how concerned Rivington, and our dear friends the Britons in New-York are all to appear for the safety and happiness of the United States, and the honour and authority of Congress. "We can assure the public, says this eminent news writer, that the whole Continental army is in the actual service of his Most Christian Majesty."

What a pity it is that they are not at this moment in the actual service of his Most Gracious Majesty the king of Great Britain, to glut his revenge by burning all the dwelling-houses and cutting the throats of the inhabitants of these States from Georgia to Hampshire; for that this is his wish rather than we should not be- come his slaves, is evident from the whole conduct of the war. But France has lent money to Congress to pay our army---to the great distress of Mr. Rivington and his employers, who have repeatedly told us, that our allies had neither the ability nor inclination to give us any assistance: And now in the moment of victory, Congress is dethroned, we are all become Frenchmen; & yet, we are all to be destroyed says Rivington, by the Frenchiied Mr. Washington. What would his employers have given that they might have said the Anglified Mr. Washington?

Extract from a subsequent Gazette of Rivington.

NEWS EXTRAORDINARY.

We can now assure the public from recent information, that the whole army and navy of France is at this time in the actual service of the United States. The army is commanded solely by the Rebel Washington, and the navy totally under the direction of Congress, by which rebel body Washington is also re- movable at pleasure. Thus every military officer, every soldier and seaman of France is now become in every sense an American. His Most Christian Majesty, to the astonishment of all Europe, has sold himself and his kingdom to Congress, He is to be paid in waste lands of America, to which he is preparing to remove with his Court, and such of his subjects as choose to follow him. The ancient, the renowned power of France is now, alas no more: She ceases to be a nation; and her boasted lilies are henceforth to be forever covered under the stripes of America. Even a Briton might find a tear to shed upon so sudden and melancholy a reverse.

Poor Rivington and his friends seem truly and sincerely beset with woes from which it is impossible to extricate them; for they are truly and equally distrest, whether the American army be in the actual service of his Most Christian Majesty; or the navy and army of France in the actual service of the United States.