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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A New York correspondent opines that Spaniards learned corruption precedents from Sir Robert Walpole's administration, allowing past piracies on British ships. Urges America to demand satisfaction from Madrid for treaty violations in the Mississippi to assert independence, adopting 'Nemo me impune lacessit'.
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A correspondent says, he is of opinion, the Spaniards have learned a bad precedent from the administration of Sir Robert Walpole in England. That minister, whose schemes of corruption and peculations would be totally unhinged by war, suffered the Spaniards, in 1728, to commit, with impunity, the most daring act of outrage and piracy on the British merchant-ship in the West-Indies, whilst the Dons triumphed at the supineness of the ent, When we made spite, and brave enough to lay prostrate, the power of Britain, to the utmost pitch of her glory, we have patriots left, from the ravages of war, to demand satisfaction for the insults our nation has received, in violation of treaty, in the Mississippi. If the Court of Madrid does not afford proper satisfaction there can arise no hesitation respecting the steps America should take. If she wishes to be respected as an independent nation, let her adopt the motto--Nemo me impune lacessit.
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New York
Event Date
March 18
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Correspondent opines Spaniards followed Walpole's precedent of allowing 1728 piracy on British ship in West Indies to avoid war. Calls for patriots to demand satisfaction from Court of Madrid for Mississippi treaty violations, urging America to act decisively for respect as independent nation with motto 'Nemo me impune lacessit'.