Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Few communities endure so many difficulties as the settlers in the Bay of Honduras: but, as if their situation was directly the reverse, and claimed chastisements lest they should be too happy, it pleases their kind governors in England to deprive them of any one moment's safety or satisfaction, by continually deluging them with torrents of convicts of the most unprincipled kind. Roused at length, and irritated beyond forbearance, the magistrates, and the people in general, as we are informed, resolved at a late general meeting, "To oppose the admission of any more of these pests and outcasts; to admonish such commanders as may convey them there, to depart without debarking any of them; and in case they should obstinately resist, to set the vessel or vessels on fire." As Capt. Callow, who left this port about the middle of last month, had 20 more of these wretches to add to the baleful number, we are impatient to know whether the inhabitants pursued this spirited and necessary resolution.