The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, Nov. 4.

The two first Kings of Great Britain, namely James I. and Charles I. were Scotchmen. Charles II. who succeeded peaceably to the throne, after a long series of domestic troubles and confusion, looked upon his reign as the beginning of a new æra, and put upon several of his crown pieces the following inscription, Hactenus Anglorum Nullus, i. e. I am the first Englishman that was King of Great Britain. All such partial distinctions have now been 150 years most happily abolished by the valuable treaty of the Union; for all the natives, or those who have been born in this island since that period, cannot justly call themselves either Englishmen or Scotchmen, they being all Britons, in whatever part of the island they may have drawn their first Breath. His present Majesty then may claim a distinction superior to any of those of his predecessors, and justly put upon his coin Hactenus Britannorum Nullus, I am the first Briton that ever was King of Great Britain.