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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Boston report on July 25 details intelligence from Halifax of British Commodore Wallace violating a recent treaty by expelling American fishermen from Newfoundland banks and destroying or forcing abandonment of their fish flakes, aiming to seize the valuable fish trade and reduce American dependence.
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By certain intelligence, just received from Halifax, we are informed, that a most flagrant violation of the late treaty hath taken place on the banks of Newfoundland, under the direction of the British Commodore Wallace; who, by a high-handed stretch of tyrannick power, hath driven our industrious fishermen from their stations there, and either destroyed, or forced them to abandon their fish flakes, erected in places allowed them by treaty, for curing and preserving their fish; by which outrageous exertions of arbitrary power, our enemies, (for So they constrain us to call them) discover the most nefarious intention of wresting from our hands that most invaluable staple, and thus reducing us to a situation the most abject and dependent. Can you tamely endure this, ye independent freemen and citizens of Massachusetts? Gracious God! how long shall that haughty nation be suffered to add revenge and cruelty to the most vile and opprobrious insults, and wantonly infringe the most solemn treaties? Yet (we blush to name it) we are fostering in our bosoms the viper that stings us, and are tamely suffering them to insult and triumph over us in our own ports, by frustrating the salutary laws of our country in anticipating their beneficial operation.
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Banks Of Newfoundland
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driven our industrious fishermen from their stations there, and either destroyed, or forced them to abandon their fish flakes
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a most flagrant violation of the late treaty hath taken place... under the direction of the British Commodore Wallace; who, by a high-handed stretch of tyrannick power, hath driven our industrious fishermen from their stations there, and either destroyed, or forced them to abandon their fish flakes, erected in places allowed them by treaty, for curing and preserving their fish; by which outrageous exertions of arbitrary power, our enemies... discover the most nefarious intention of wresting from our hands that most invaluable staple, and thus reducing us to a situation the most abject and dependent.