The Newport Gazette

To the People of Great Britain.

General Burgoyne's expedition, has given fresh spirits to those mongrel patriots, who rejoicing to distress the government, and injure the true interests of their country, triumph in every instance of ill success attending measures, calculated for its support and honour. Leaving such disgusted traitors to brood over their own dark machinations, I will only hint to the honest part of my countrymen, that the spirit, strength and resources of this nation are immense, and I appeal to past experience for the proof, though they are seldom fully exerted, until called forth by absolute occasion. A nation at peace is not roused into vigorous motion at once; extravagant as our governors are called, our first warlike attempts are generally inadequate to their purposes from caution and economy, until disappointment urge us to exert our inherent strength. But tardy indeed is the task of our ministers, who have the vast machine of state to grind up; while thwarted and counteracted in every motion by those who seek to drive all things to wreck, until they can force themselves into the management.

Thus in the beginning of last war, the situation was much more gloomy and disheartened than it is even now; and a great commoner, who after world sunk a pensioned peer, forced himself into place, just time enough to add to his factious popularity the success of enterprises usually in train before he engaged in. The natural turbulence of his disposition had before been stimulated and rewarded, by an intriguing malignant old Dowager who deemed this chosen favourite a fit instrument, after her own heart, to continue to plague government when she was gone to the place of her fathers. Her money was well bestowed to answer the pious purposes of the texts; for he railed at all measures he was not allowed to guide; and when he was allowed to guide them, he in one way frank the nation into a debt equal to its former incumbrances, accumulated by three previous wars, in the course of above half a century! So true is that homely adage, that one man may better steal a horse, than another look over hedge. He then prudently withdrew to avoid making the peace, advertised his seven coach horses for sale, and accepted a pension. He recommended himself to this great trust by bellowing against the war in Germany; yet no sooner did he obtain direction of affairs than he pushed that very German war himself, cunningly accounting for this tergiversation, by pleading the necessity of continuing those measures he found the nation engaged in. He now termly opposes the America war, that he may once more get the reins of government into his own hands, when he same apology would stand in full force for another tergiversation, the good people of England would swallow it again so easily, and would with joy see the nation two hundred millions in debt; so it be contracted by a man who will conduct them or their current pre-judices. The Tomohawk and Scalping knives in the hands of Indian auxiliaries, which were employed without scruple, used under Mr. Pitt's administration, are now reprobated by Lord Chatham as unlawful in war as the poisoning of rivers; And then we then paid for French Negroes, coaxed and captivated the alliance of Indian chiefs, it is become shocking to offer them to touch our American brethren; even though these very loving brethren can point their very bayonet at our throats immediately swearing oaths of pacification and fidelity entering army. What can be said to all this, but that there are distempers of the mind, as epidemical as those of the body; and fi populus vult decipi, decipi tur s. The distemper's character worse to nothing but that malevolence the old Dowager bribed him on support; it may be finally added he now decides imo as coarsely a Otet against the multiplied expenses of that government on which he so prudently quartered himself. He accepted pension of 3000 a year from the nation and-treasing so the reliques of his former popularity, repays the benefit, by uncloaking every endeavour to cistr and defeat all our national operations! If this is patriotism, I content is my dclf at a loss how to define gratitude and treachery. Did the old Duke of Newcastle retire in thus ugdaer a bo n as at time execrated oxidized just so the w sther effected our barnboifical po- ric. aniumi. ye

As to the once famous Mr. B. another of our incendiaries, wo well know the juggler, whose wire moves the chape of this puppet.; but they ore o·continually in motion; jaat bjo sublimnity io'drined off to tho very leeo : In thdrt. ho has txlked aad baraagued tili what he fayo is .no more minded chan a paragrapk ia an old sewfpaper. .: :

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