The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Edinburgh, Jan. 7. A considerable number of citizens of note having assembled last evening, and having taken into consideration the alarming condition to which this country is reduced, the immense loss of blood and treasure, which Great Britain has met with, and the distress thereby occasioned, as well to our American brethren, as to Ourselves: Penetrated with these sentiments, affected by the decay into which the manufactures and commerce of this country have fallen, from a train of unhappy differences, which having long subsisted between Great Britain and North-America, consider it as their duty to represent to their fellow-citizens, that their humble opinion and ardent wish is, that this war be immediately terminated: that this war, whether at first right or wrong, cannot be continued without wholly destroying the bands between them, of consanguinity, language, religion and commerce.

A commercial intercourse between Great-Britain and North America, being therefore the great object which should interest the designs of this country, this meeting is unanimously of opinion, that every necessary and possible measure be taken to establish a federal union with North America. Being all of opinion, we have resolved to publish in the Scotch and English news papers, that whoever is possessed of the same idea of national distress and public danger, may join with us before it be too late, in making every legal and possible attempt, to put an end to these horrid calamities; to this ruinous and destructive system of policy, which has been for a long time unhappily pursued, and the continuation whereof must lead to certain destruction.

We are likewise of opinion, that declarations like this, made by the various communities and societies in Scotland, will in many respects, be productive of the most salutary consequences. (Signed) JAMES DEWAR, Chairman.