Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

From a late PHILADELPHIA PAPER.

At a juncture, when it appears to be a determined resolution of the British government, to make such arrangement in their commerce, as are best calculated to annihilate the trade of this country, and to reduce us to a state of wretchedness and vassalage, it behoves every American to be watchful of his country's welfare: By pursuing wise and spirited measures, we shall be enabled not only to defeat the purposes of our adversaries, but to make them feel our just resentment for such illiberal and mean policy. As there is no treaty of commerce between us and Britain, we are at liberty to form such regulations, for protection and support of our insulted and injured trade, as the pressing circumstances of the occasion may require. Let us infringe no solemn treaty of peace, on our part; but let not British subjects, residing among us for the purpose of draining the country of its wealth, be suffered to enjoy one privilege or advantage, of which we justly deprive them: they are entitled to none--it is our interest to allow them none: Let the citizens be convened, to take into consideration the present alarming condition of the commercial interests and concerns of this country; and to call on some mode of proceeding to put a speedy stop to the great evil under which this city labours, from the number of English trading Agents and refugees, with which it is infested. When the assembly meet, it is hoped and expected, that a proper distinction will be made between this kind of gentry, and our own merchants and tradesmen: And also, that as the English have shown us the example, a heavy duty will be laid on all merchandise imported in British vessels; besides extra duties, on certain enumerated articles, which interfere with the improvements and manufactures of our own country. In the mean time something must be done by the citizens, in their collective capacity; and no time be lost.