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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A letter to the Public Ledger printer questions the North American smuggling trade's harm to Britain and sugar colonies, its economic drain, impediment to new settlements, and the colonies' independence threats, suggesting government measures like troop funding by colonists. Includes a note on an upcoming response from New York.
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The disinterestedness you shew, induces one of your constant customers to desire you'll publish the within in your next paper.
Whether the North-American Smuggling Trade is not destructive to the Mother Country in general, and in particular to the British Sugar Colonies, by taking off a commodity that otherwise would be of no use to our inveterate enemies the French? And if it does not drain the Sugar Islands of their cash?
2. Whether permitting the above mentioned injurious traffic will not impede the settlement of the ceded islands and in the end ruin those already under cultivation?
3. Whether these new settlements will not open a trade to the North-American Colonies adequate to that with the French?
4. Whether these northern possessions should be supported in injury to any other Colony by a destructive trade, to the great benefit of our natural enemies, who are ever undermining our trade?
5. Whether the people of North-America are capable of putting her threats of independency in execution?
6. Whether the dilemma they were under from the French Canadians and Indians before they were assisted with British troops, does not shew their inability?
7. Whether the inclination they shew to be refractory, should not induce the Government to saddle them with troops, which they should pay?
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8. Whether the great expence the Government is at by keeping cruizers to prevent the smuggling of Molasses, Rum and Sugar, would not be saved by putting down the Distilleries in North-America?
9. Whether the threats of the Colonists must not induce the Government to look on the quarters from whence they come with a jealous eye, and most deservedly?
Your most humble servant,
NO SMUGGLER.
(The New-York Paper says, An Answer to these Queries, and the rest of the invidious Reflections and false Reports and Representations that lately have been made of the Colonies in the English Papers, will shortly be published, together with some Reflections upon the late Resolves of the House of Commons relating to America.)
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Letter to Editor Details
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No Smuggler
Recipient
The Printer Of The Public Ledger
Main Argument
the north-american smuggling trade harms britain and its sugar colonies by draining cash and benefiting enemies like the french, impedes new settlements, and the colonies lack ability for independence; government should impose troops on them and curb distilleries to save expenses.
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