The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

LONDON, September 9.

The retirement of General Washington, ascertains and eternizes his character. From this moment he is to descend to posterity as the greatest man of the age in which he lived: He has seized on the critical moment for asserting his fame, and is now removed from even the contingencies of ill fortune. How wretched and insignificant do a Grattan and a Flood look, when set in comparison with him! - The one receiving a boon of 50,000l. for not serving his country - and the other holding back from the great object till the hazard was past. - He on the contrary, came forward in the first instant - He labored for no emolument -- He retires with no pension. Having begun and accomplished the deliverance of his country - having created an empire, he desired no other reward from the people that he had made free and imperial, than that they would love peace, do justice, and remember the debts which they owe to those that made them free. Such is the character of this man, and no doubt but the legacy which he has left on his political dissolution will, as it ought, do more to inspire the Provincial Assemblies with a sense of their duty as citizens, and as men, than all that has yet been written or spoken. If he does not inspire them with justice and gratitude, the United States, so wonderfully raised, so nobly constituted by the magnanimity of Mr. Washington, will sink, on his retirement, into slavery more abject than that from which they were rescued.