The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

It is said an eminent merchant of this metropolis has publicly declared, that the ensuing sessions of parliament, he will further, with all his influence, a motion to be made, for applying one moiety of that immense sum, which we use to throw away as German subsidies, to be employed in a scheme for the better encouragement of new settlers in Florida and Louisiana ; to invite families to remove thither, and for the extension of agriculture and manufactures in these our conquests ; and in fine, by a proper attention to the interests of trade, to render the powerful empire of North-America, in our hands, the true and only perfect balance of power among all nations in Europe.