The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a Letter from the Hague, Sept. 1.

Letters received this day from Paris bring the following advice.

"We talk at present more than ever of an approaching accommodation; and the arrival of the Duke of Bedford serves to corroborate all that is said on that head, and make us hope that the present negotiation will have a better issue than the last. Mean while the house of Austria warmly solicits our court not to hasten this affair; and Spain is in suspense, especially as her troops, now that Almeida is reduced, can soon make themselves masters of the greatest part of Portugal. Besides, there is an implacable animosity between the two nations of Spain and Portugal; and if we may give credit to a letter wrote from Naples to a merchant in this city, Spain is certainly not inclined to peace. This letter is as follows: 'Sir, You were so kind as to send me in your last some news of your country: I cannot in return send you any thing that is interesting from this excepting that it is strongly reported, that the Catholick King hath come to a resolution to engage our government in the present war; his Majesty being determined, it is said, to make himself master of all Portugal, cost what it will; and that, notwithstanding the strong representations that have been made to the court of Spain, to permit us to remain neuter, we shall be obliged to enter into their measures. If his Catholick Majesty be absolutely determined to continue to wage war with the Portuguese, against whom he is highly incensed, we could certainly give him great assistance by Sea. Mean while, it is the opinion of those who know most of the secret of affairs that our government will not engage in the war till the last extremity, but try every method to avoid it.' Thus we see that all the proposals of peace, which have been so much talked of, and all the good dispositions of the belligerent powers, are every moment liable to change and vanish."