The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

CHATHAM, February 20.

An embarkation of troops is about taking place at New York; their destination remains a secret, though we hope they will divert the fate of a Tantalus.

Several people lately came from New York confirm the accounts we already have had, that all is hubbub and confusion there, and that many of the inhabitants are preparing to go to England.

In Rivington's paper of Saturday last, we find a number of advertisements for the sale of the real and personal estates of persons going to England, among which is one of his own, for the sale of a dwelling-house near the Coffee-house. This we conceive is ominous of some present or expected trouble in that quarter.

It is generally whispered, and, by people more credulous than the printer, believed (as it comes from New York) that Gibraltar is reduced, and in possession of the Spaniards.

Would it not be wisdom and sound policy in the British Pharaoh, tho' he seems determined to risk dying in the last ditch, to be alarmed! And, by acknowledging that independency he is inadequate to destroy, court the commerce of those States before it is inevitably lost, as according to an old aphorism, half a loaf is better than no bread.