The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

NEWPORT, March 24.

The Sons of Liberty in this Place finding Things for a long Time settled to their satisfaction, have quietly lain upon their Oars, waiting for the moving of the Waters till last Week, when a high Dispute arose in this Town, between a Son of Liberty and another of Tyranny, occasioned (as is reported) by reading a News-Paper, importing the treasonable and seditious Threats of the late infamous Minister G--i G--e, to force the Americans to a Submission to his arbitrary Measures: which Principles appeared by the same Paper, to be zealously adopted by his Creatures on this side the Atlantic.-- This Son of Tyranny here referred to, was of Opinion, that all the Artillery and Means of Defence with which this and the other Governments were furnished, ought and would eventually turn and recoil upon themselves, whenever the Trial should in Fact be made, of forcing the supposed Badges of Slavery upon us; which Dispute induced the Son of Liberty in this Place, to exhibit something by way of Experiment; as it is said the late Minister proposed the Stamp-Act.--
The Experiment made here was as follows; two large Cannon (given to the Public by a patriotic Gentleman, and which from this Time may be emphatically called the Cannon of Liberty;) were some time placed at the Foot of the Parade: and on Saturday last about Sunrise, two of the Badges of Slavery, brought hither from the West-Indies, and Georgia, were seen in the Mouths of these Cannon, and remained there full six Hours, without any Part of them being in the least Injured; but on a sudden, the detestable Papers were instantly disgorged as a loathsome Vomit, the angry flames raised, & committed their Ashes to the care of the four Winds, which seemed at that Time in a patriotic Contention, to prevent their revisiting Earth again: But what is most remarkable, and it is thought no Inauspicious Omen, the Cannon appeared instantly to be immoveably fixed, as a Monument and Bulwark to Liberty and Perpetual Terror to our Adversaries, and (without a Metaphor) would baffle and defy a thousand of the sturdiest Sons of Tyranny, in Europe or America; with all their Teeth and Claws to remove. And we will for once venture to Prophesy, those Cannon will never be turned upon the Town to Annoy it.