Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Foreign Intelligence.

LONDON, January 27.

This day his Majesty, with the usual solemnity, entered the House of Peers, notice being given to the Commons, he opened the Parliament with the following Speech.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

SINCE I met you in parliament, the disputes which threatened to disturb the tranquility of Europe, have been brought to an amicable conclusion, and I continue to receive from foreign powers, the strongest assurances of their friendship towards this country. My Subjects, in the interior parts of the kingdom, begin to experience the happiness consequent upon peace, in the augmentation of their commerce, the increase of the revenue, and public credit of the nation. For the perfecting of these important objects, I confide in the continuation of that zeal and industry manifested by you in the last session of parliament. The resolves which you then presented me, to serve as a foundation for the establishment of commerce between Great-Britain and Ireland, have been communicated by me to the parliament of that kingdom. But as yet no effectual step has been taken, by which you will be enabled to accomplish so salutary a work.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I have ordered to be laid before you the estimates for the present year--I ardently desire that the strictest economy may be observed in every department; and I am persuaded that you will also be disposed to make every necessary provision for the public service, and to maintain our naval force upon the most solid and respectable footing.-Above all, I recommend that you adopt some fixed plan for the diminution of the national debt, The flourishing state of the revenue, I am well persuaded, will enable you to effect this important measure with very little increasing charge to the public.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

The strength and resources of this country, now so evident by its present situation, will encourage you in the continuance of the most diligent attention to every important national object, and especially to take into consideration, the most necessary measures for the better collecting the public revenue, and to encourage and increase as much as possible the trade and industry of my subjects.

The opening the ensuing session will prove the severest ordeal that Mr. Pitt has ever undergone. Will he, as a minister, attempt to justify his ignorance on the subject of Austrian Arret? Can he, as a man, evade the ridicule which must follow the rejection of his boasted propositions?. Will he, as a financier, continue to support his ingenious, happy, and impartial hop-tax? Or dare he, as a statesman mention, without shame, the treaty which has been formed with his most passive acquiescence, between the courts of France and Russia? Will promises and boasts, idle and unfounded as they are loud and peremptory, prove sufficient to retrieve his fallen reputation? The negative that must be given to each of these interrogatories, calls on the good sense of the nation, bids us assert our rights, and avert the ruin which must follow the continuance of such feeble and distracted Councils.

Our Ambassador at the Hague is reported to have presented a Memorial to the States General of such an extraordinary nature, that they know not how to take it, much less how to answer it ; nor do they seem to care whether they answer it at all or not! So low are our Ministers fallen in the estimation of our near neighbours and quondam allies and friends!

Our Ministers seem to be Ambassador mad, sending Ambassadors every where, and duplicates somewhere, yet doing nothing, or what is worse than nothing, any where!--Not content with letting the Hanoverian Minister manage the German affairs, they have put their Ambassadors at the Court of Berlin in motion on the same subject, which we fear will be productive of something ominous to Great-Britain.