The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Nov. 4. The present Ministry have the Faculty of blowing hot and cold with the same Mouth. When a few Merchants of London, that were hissed and pelted with Dirt and Mire from Temple-Bar to St. James's Palace, presented an Address to the King, that Address was by the present Ministry called the Sense of the whole Nation; but when the Freeholders of the Counties of Middlesex, York, Bucks, &c. &c. &c. present their Petitions, those Petitions, so far from being esteemed by the Ministry as the Sense of the Nation, are treated with Contempt, and are said to be presented only by the Scum of the Earth.

We hope the impudence of the present Ministry, in calling the petitioning Freeholders of many of the counties in England "the scum of the earth", will cost those hard hearted Court-tools as dearly as the never to be forgotten, insolent expression Sir Robert Walpole was guilty of, when he wantonly, foolishly, and unpardonably called the Merchants of the City of London, "sturdy beggars" which impudent expression proved his downfall.