The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from an American gentleman of high rank at Paris dated November 18, 1782.

"The King of Great Britain by a commission under the great seal of his kingdom, has constituted Richard Osgood, Esq; his commissioner to treat with the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, and has given him full powers, which have been exchanged.

Thus Great Britain has shifted suddenly about, and from persecuting us with unrelenting bowels, has unconditionally and unequivocally acknowledged us a sovereign state and independent nation.

It is surprising that she should be the third power to make this acknowledgement. She has been negotiated into it for a year--and peremptorily refused to speak or hear before we were put upon an equal footing. --Nobody would have treated without-- but nobody would join him.

His gracious majesty, King George the third, in the most odious and detestable name that can be mentioned to the loyalists at New York: they execrate him as the author of their ruin, who hath now basely deserted them. They now find themselves reduced to the direful necessity of either abandoning their native country, with every thing horrid before them, or staying and running the risk of suffering an ignominious death."