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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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European accounts describe anarchy in Britain: mutinous army and navy refusing orders amid empty treasury; East India Company on brink of collapse without urgent parliamentary loan, exacerbating government's financial exhaustion.
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European accounts say, that nothing but anarchy pervades the island of Britain.—A mutinous army and navy, prepared for every excess to which their unrestrained licentiousness may carry them—no money in the treasury to discharge the one or pay off the other, which besides the inconveniences to which the public service is exposed, by the troops and ships refusing to proceed as they are ordered, continues to load them with the whole expenses of the war—The East India Company reduced to that extremity, that if the loan, for which they have petitioned Parliament, be not granted them soon, they must stop payment, and shake the credit of the country to its very foundation—And where do they look for this loan?—To a treasury exhausted and unable to defray the ordinary expenses of government.
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European accounts report anarchy pervading Britain, with a mutinous army and navy prepared for excesses and refusing orders, leading to public service inconveniences and war expenses; empty treasury unable to pay them; East India Company at extremity, petitioning Parliament for loan to avoid stopping payment and shaking national credit; seeking funds from exhausted treasury unable to cover ordinary government expenses.