The New Hampshire Gazette

FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Melcher.

The following remarkable words, or I may say, Prophecy are extracted from an English publication, entitled, "The Universal Museum, or complete Magazine for October, 1764," in the 268th page of said volume, is an essay on the true causes of the decline of the French Nation, which attributing the ill success of the French, in the last war, to the prevalence of female influence, in a debauched Court, concludes with the extract; which if you think worthy a place in your paper is at your service from
A reader of old Magazines.

"The free unbiased Parliaments of France abound with men whose talents put them on a level with a Pitt, a Demosthenes, a Cicero, or Montesquieu; there are hundreds of great men in different stations and employments, I mean, of the middle class; but they must hide themselves from fame because they dare not produce their ideas—the hair-suspended horrors of the Bastile keeps them in constant awe.—They are obliged to conceal the strong spirit of liberty, with which they are inflamed under the mask of loyalty, and attachment to the monarchy. They remonstrate with force and elevation, against every measure that tends to the prejudice of the Provinces they protect. They can go no further, but they await the moment to strike the blow which shall lay the fabrick of despotism in ruins: when this blow is struck, the effects of it will be equal to those of Magic: the cottage will be put on a level with the palace; the peasant with the prince.—Ranks shall be confounded, titles, distinctions, and birth, shall tumble into an undistinguished heap of confusion,—A new moral creation shall strike the view of an admiring Universe, and FRANCE, like old Rome in her first flights to empire, shall appear with the sceptre of Universal dominion bourgeoning in her hands, out of universal confusion, order shall arise: the great of NATURE'S CREATING will assume their places—and the great, by title or accident drop despised into the common class of the people."