The New Hampshire Gazette

COMMUNICATION.

The sensibility of a writer in Saturday's
Oracle is much wounded by an assertion
from a democrat in the Gazette, that "British
partizans have magnified the numbers
and power of the English troops, with a
view to check the progress of defence."
Is it possible that a man of common sense
should deny this truth? Have we not among
us British incendiaries, British spies, and
some sordid mercenary Americans in the
British interest? Will "One of the People"
be so preposterous as to say, that there are
no British partizans in America? The
gentleman eagerly exclaims, "that the fed-
eralists at this time are doing as much, and
doing it as freely, as their opponents, to put
this harbor in a state of defence." The
writer alluded to by "one of the people"
did not say to the contrary. There are per-
sons called federalists whom he esteems, but
there are two descriptions of them that are
his aversion. One, influential leading char-
acters who write with intention to deceive
the other, foolish men, void of merit, that
wish to be considered consequential, without
a sufficient fund of knowledge to sustain the
character. The sagacious gentleman mis-
applies, it is said "British partizans have
magnified," &c. The federalists are not
criminated by this charge.
Perhaps "one
of the people" is of opinion, with some oth-
ers, that federalists and British partizans are
synonymous; at any rate, he appears con-
scious, from his resentment, that he ought
to be considered one of the British party.
Was this man a real friend to his country,
his sensibility must be often wounded by
reading in the Oracle, so many insidious &
disgraceful exhibitions against his country.
Perhaps he is one of those writers in the
Oracle whose compositions are fast hastening
to oblivion that malignant vehicle of abuse.
Should my conjecture be correct, his patriotic
history of the Jackass in the last Oracle is a
true specimen of his abilities; and tho' he
may chuckle at his supposed wit, yet men of
the smallest discernment will consider his
performance as weak and ridiculous, and
the name of the animal in his fable perfectly
applicable to the Author.

AN AMERICAN.