The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a letter from Leith, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, Sept. 1.

I am happy to see, that your La Vendee in the back counties is crushed. You will notice that the French La Vendee is also crushed. A hundred thousand stand of arms and forty thousand guineas that were to purchase votes for Royalty in the Convention have been taken. You cannot imagine how foolish the government people here look on this news. The paper mill at Hexham, near New Castle, which Mr. Pitt employs to make paper for his French assignats is still employed on Mr. Pitt's account, as well as all the copper plate printers. But as Flanders and La Vendee are gone, I cannot think what he is to make of such immense quantities of paper. This establishment is a fine specimen of the morality that we are fighting to enforce. I hear from Leeds that their woolen manufactories are busy and that coarse woolen goods keep up their prices. This is owing to the great demand on the continent for articles in that line to supply our troops. The frequent capture of their baggage, bedding, tents, &c. has increased the gains and demands of manufacturers. British wool also keeps very high, which helps to keep up the price of our coarse articles. The fine goods, however, are very cheap, owing to the great fall of Spanish wool, which never was so low as it has been this summer. I need not repeat the contents of newspapers to you, but shall observe that our noble scheme of starving the French has ended in ourselves. All over England there have been riots excited by hunger, and several people have been shot by the military. These things are as they should be. We deserve it all for permitting ourselves to be half coaxed: and half dragooned into this damnable war. Not a word of these riots appears in our Edinburgh newspapers. What do you think of Lord Sheffield a leading member of the board of Agriculture. In March last, he asserted in Parliament that there was no need for opening the ports to admit foreign corn—Sir John Sinclair, President of the same board published a little earlier that there was plenty of grain in the country to serve till, next harvest. Four weeks after that declaration, he published, by order of the same board, an advertisement of a reward of one thousand pounds sterling, to the person who should cultivate and bring to market, before next harvest, the greatest quantity of potatoes. This Sinclair was once an enemy both to Pitt and the present war. The Presidency and a salary converted him, and now he has the boldness to speak of improving agriculture, whereas that French war, for which he infamously votes in the house of commons, does more hurt to the plough in one year than such a quack Doctor board could repair in a century. Mr. Pitt also declared in parliament that there was plenty of grain in the country, and yet a few days after we opened the ports for admitting of grain and provisions upon a more liberal plan than was ever done before. These things will make you think that your great ones claim an exclusive privilege for speaking lies and nonsense, in their public harangues. As to the patriotism of our parliament. I refer you to their faithful debates on the partial abolition of franking. I named Lord Sheffield. An answer to his pamphlet respecting our intercourse with you was published here about three years ago, and said to be written by one Mr. Tench Coxe. This work, but more than doubled beyond the original size has been re-printed in London has been highly approved in the Analytical Review, and has become a very bitter pill to our landed interest. The bare mention of North America makes them look as yellow as an orange.