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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Boston report on British political turmoil: Factional feuds between House of Commons led by Mr. Fox and Prime Minister Pitt backed by the King disrupt governance, neglecting national interests and risking civil war.
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The English papers brought by the Active, present to our view a kingdom almost rent to pieces by the feuds of faction: The House of Commons, with Mr. Fox at their head, assert their privilege of advising the Crown--while Mr. Pitt, the present prime Minister, backed by the King, maintains its authority notwithstanding its reiterated attacks. At present they have no settled system of government, one part undoing what the other do. Mr Fox's surprising abilities as a statesman being universally approved of by the nation at large, opposed to the influence Mr. Pitt has with his Majesty, exhibit two formidable parties frenuously contending for superiority, while the real interest of the nation is totally neglected.--The consequence of which may possibly end in the horrors of a civil war. While we must feel a conscious pleasure in our disconnection with that nation, yet sympathy for mankind induce us, while we wonder at their folly, to pity their situation.
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possibly end in the horrors of a civil war
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English papers describe a kingdom torn by factional feuds: House of Commons led by Mr. Fox asserts privilege to advise the Crown, opposed by Prime Minister Pitt supported by the King. No settled government as parties undo each other's actions; Fox's abilities approved by nation, Pitt's influence with King creates contending parties neglecting national interests.