The New Hampshire Gazette

THE HAGUE, a Town of the United Provinces, in the Principality of Holland, encompassed with fine Meadows and Groves, but no Walls, but one of the largest and most elegant in Europe; here foreign Ministers are admitted to Audience, and all public Affairs transacted. August 20.

SIR Joseph Yorke, ambassador extraordinary from the King of Great Britain, went yesterday to court with a brilliant and numerous retinue, and being introduced into the Assembly of the States General, he had a public audience of their High Mightinesses, to whom he made on that occasion the following Speech.

High and Mighty Lords,

BEING commissioned to deliver to your High Mightinesses, the letter of the King my master, by which his Majesty has been pleased to honour me with the character of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to you, he at the same time expressly commands me to renew to your High Mightinesses, in his name the assurances of his particular esteem, and invariable friendship for you.

The King, since his accession to the crown, having received marks of your High Mightinesses attention to his person, commands me to return you his thanks, and to renew to you this day, by an extraordinary embassy, the most solemn assurances of the sincerity of those sentiments, with which I have already had the honour to acquaint you.

His Majesty does not content himself with giving your High Mightinesses bare assurance of his friendship; in the midst of the successes with which it has pleased providence to bless his arms, he forgetteth not the general welfare of Europe, and much less the interests of his good friends and allies.

He commanded me to assure your High Mightinesses, that he will always give the greatest attention to every thing that relates to the essential interest, the security and welfare of the republic.

I am very happy, High and Mighty Lords, to be made choice of by his Majesty, in a manner so honourable for me, to be the interpreter of his sentiments; which, ever since the beginning of his reign, have discovered him to be a monarch who inherits the virtues of his ancestors, giving, like them, his principal attention to the support of true religion, and public liberty.

The King still cherishes in the bosom of your republic, the illustrious offspring of the house of Orange, intrusted to his tutelage and to yours; an object which forms an additional tie between him and the republic.

I presume to flatter myself, High and Mighty Lords, that after nine years residence here, the sincerity of my desire for a disinterested and indissoluble union between the two states, is sufficiently known to your High Mightinesses.

The events which have followed one another, in such quick succession, for some years, sufficiently prove, how desirable this union is: I shall execute, with the most ardent zeal, the commands of my august master, to contribute toward it; happy if my labours can procure me the good will of your High Mightinesses.