The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London, March 2d, 1775.

The Ministry, it is now generally thought, are inflexible.--- Lord North was asked again and again this Week, in the House of Commons, whether he had any Thing more of a lenient or conciliatory Nature to propose. He said there was nothing farther of that Kind intended; and acknowledged that the Remainder of the Scheme was intirely coercive. When he was asked, whether the three Bills of the last Year were to be repealed, he replied, that when the Colonies had come to an unconditioned Submission, Parliament would consider what was fit to be done. Very gracious indeed!

The Ministry are now in pretty good Spirits, on Account of what they conceive to be a Division among yourselves in Favour of Government, both in New-York and New-England. We think that like drowning Men, they are catching at every Straw.---- Such, however, we hope their present Expectations will prove.

A Friend of mine saw a Letter just received from Lord Percy, in which he expresses his Apprehensions of an Attack being made upon the Troops at Boston before any Reinforcement can arrive, as the People in the Province are provided with a compleat Train of Artillery: So that all their Servants have not the same Assurance of Success with themselves. But indeed it is impossible that the Ministry should really think themselves so secure as they pretend to be; and it is even thought by many that Lord North, when he moved for the late Resolution, really meant to have advanced some Steps towards a solid Reconciliation, had it not been for what is called the Bedford Party in the Cabinet. Instead of this, the Terms that are now proposed amount to nothing but an Insult upon your common Sense and Spirit, and, I doubt not, will be resented accordingly.