The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, August 30.

The very hazardous Endeavours lately made by the French, in order, first, to recover Quebec, and secondly, to support themselves in their present poor Footing in Canada plainly show how very important they consider those positions to be to them. This Importance must arise from the real intrinsic Value of those Colonies, or from the great Views that they are to prosecute by the keeping of them. If the former is the Case, it decides the Disputes of the comparative Value of that Country with Guadaloupe. If the latter be the Object, it is a demonstrative Proof that no Peace can be lasting which leaves the French in Possession of any Part of North America. The whole Empire of that Continent must therefore now rest with us, or the French will never give over their pursuits for acquiring it; and we, and perhaps all Europe, will be continually embroiled by their Endeavours thereat. So that it is now become absolutely necessary for the Safety of these Kingdoms, and for the Peace of the whole World, that such a Cause of Contention be forever removed. The Empire of the Ocean is the great Object contended for, which the Continent of North America infallibly gives to its Possessor. Can the Security of such an Advantage be balanced by any other Consideration? Or should it be ever again hazarded, when once entirely in our Possession? Let North America, then, be the Word, and the Wish, of All Britons; and let us think nothing too great for the Price of its compleat Purchase, since on the making of it, our Power, Security, and Peace must depend.