The New Hampshire Gazette

From the New-York Aurora.

BRITISH HONOR AND JUSTICE.

For this century past, the world has been eternally dinned with British clamour in favor of British honesty. Every trivial incident in the smallest degree creditable to themselves, they have manufactured into some great event. And when by them nations are insulted, their commerce oppressed, and their Flag degraded, satisfaction is to be rendered them, not with equity or common honesty, but justice is to be administered according to the opinions expressed by Puffendorf, Grotius, or heaven knows who.

We are not to look for amends due from nation to nation—From the British, we have to expect none: the conduct to her American colonies—The murders and rapine committed on her possessions in India—Her revolutionizing attempts in Europe,—And her religious persecutions, public oppressions, and sanguinary conduct in Ireland, has rendered her hateful and accursed in the eyes of her sister nations.

England for a series of years past has ceaselessly attempted to enrich herself by the ruin of her best friends, and to accomplish these desirable ends, a most detestable system of piracy has been resorted to. The imperious language made use of by her officers at Halifax, during the trial of our unfortunate countrymen taken from the Chesapeake—in vilifying our government, and applauding the dastardly conduct of Humphreys, is another proof among the many of what we have to expect from British justice! From the general conduct of subordinate officers, we can rightly judge the views and intentions of their superiors. The ministerial prints in London, advocate the conduct of Berkley and Humphreys—and they are, as is generally the case, the mouth piece for the party that supports them to speak through. If we can give credit to these organs, we may count upon a war as almost certain—for it appears from them that hostilities with this country is popular in England.

John Bull is easily led into a broil, for it is his characteristic to be eternally wrangling—and when to his cost, he finds himself in error, he is as strenuously in favor of making up the matter on the best possible terms, as he was before in going to loggerheads. Bullies were ever cowards. In short, it becomes our duty to act decisively, to prepare ourselves for the worst, and by our conduct hereafter when our services are required, prove that the spirit of '76 still exists, to repel injury and to punish oppression.

In some rhymes which lately appeared in a federal paper, Britain is said to be 'a match for all the world.' So it seems—She is a match that has set 'all the world' in flames.

[Democrat.

Must not our British hirelings be a-shamed when they read the English newspapers, and see the attack upon the Chesapeake, which they have attempted to justify and palliate, most pointedly reprobated? Even the prints of the nation which has injured us, condemn that outrage which some mean, mercenary and dastardly traitors here at home are seeking opportunities to excuse. "O shame, where is thy blush !"

Nat. Egis.