The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, April 4.

Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in one of the Southern States, to his friend in this town, dated March 1, 1788.

"The present calm in Europe, I am well satisfied, will not be of long duration.--All accounts agree that the people of Great-Britain, are much dissatisfied with the advantages France gained of them in the late contest, and that they were very much in a temper for war; and will it not be extremely difficult for us to remain neuter and pursue our true interest, unless we shall have a federal government established adequate to the regulations of our national affairs, and to controuling effectually the conduct of our own citizens. The adoption of the proposed constitution in Massachusetts, has been generally spoken of here, and I believe in the other States, as the decision of the great question; and the principal characters in the opposition, have expressed themselves in favour of adopting the plan in the form in which it was adopted in Massachusetts, carrying the recommended amendments, rather farther than she has done: and many of the ablest supporters of the plan, have declared their readiness to meet the opposition on this ground."