The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, December 3.

It was the Sentiments of one of the most sensible
Men that England ever produced, that there was
no kind of reading, more generally advantageous
than reading the NEWS PAPERS.
He said. and he said truly. that it diffused the Know-
ledge of Geography. History, Mechanicks, and indeed the
principles of every species of useful Science, through
the whole mass of the nation. The Truth of this will be
evident if we consider that NEWS-PAPERS are com-
mon only in polite Nations; and that amongst rude
and barbarous people, there are no such things.
But besides these general Uses they have another,
which is of still greater Consequence in a free country :
They afford an opportunity of bringing all causes be-
fore the impartial tribunal of the publick ; which in all
cases will hear and in some manner redress. those grie-
vances, which no law can reach. For this reason there
never was a man an enemy to the press. who was not
secretly, and in his heart an enemy to all liberty.
It is to this bringing grievances before the tribunal
of the publick, that we owe every good law that has
been passed ; and though it may be true there are many
grievances still unredressed, against which complaints
have been often made, yet this is no just objection:For.
tho' they are not yet redressed, they may and will be
in time ; for circumstances will, at one season or other
promote what hitherto they have disappointed. But
there is another very good effect, which may be looked
upon as certain, though we can afford no proofs of its
it is this, that many more grievances we should have
had,if this remedy was not always in our power ; and
many more grievances we certainly shall have, if ever
it is taken from us; which under the English constitution
we have no reason to fear; · because that constitution
can fear nothing from it.