The New Hampshire Gazette

From the AURORA.

"Wonderful are the Works of Nature"

The very rapid strides which this happy country has made towards obtaining the rank of the most potent nation in the world, are so evident to European powers that we are not surprised at the particular attention which is paid to preserving our friendship and alliance. But all praise be longs to the federal party. It must also be acknowledged that our literature has also kept pace with our population, and this is also to be attributed to the federalists, as they possess all the virtue and talents of the country—and our increase in talents, is every day made manifest, as every one here and in Europe will acknowledge on reading the following morceau of the federal editor of the True American of this city, being very judiciously placed as the leading editorial article. If our friends in Europe read this extract and then reflect that it is from the True American. of course they must acknowledge our superiority at puns as well as construction, if so be that it happens to turn out that they are not prejudiced—as a specimen of Attic wit the following is certainly great, if it were published in Connecticut there is no doubt the writer would receive a diploma:

From the True American of Saturday last.

The proceedings of the legislature of this state, as well as the U. States against judges and lawyers, while it has called forth solid and able discussion, has also been productive of puns and flashes of wit. The city hall, where the judges of the supreme court hold their session, has a cellar under it, in which a large quantity of pepper has been stored The smell arising from the pepper was sensibly experienced by one of the judges at the present session who enquired, whence it proceeded. A gentleman of the bar being present answered his enquiry, and added, 'that he could not tell why, but it seemed to him as if all mankind delighted to pepper judges and lawyers.'