Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

March 19. The arms of Spain were never regarded in a more despicable light than at the present moment, since the defeat of their invincible armada in good Queen Bess's days. The defeat of Don Langara, by the immortal Rodney; the destruction of their floating batteries by the Godlike Elliot; the defeat before Algiers, three times repeated by ungodly Infidels: and the recent stain put upon the prowess of those proud and solemn Quixotes, by a handful of untutored savages, we mean the Sambas Indians, cannot fail to render them the laughing stock of all that part of the earth where publick transactions are faithfully recorded.

The extensive territory annexed to the Musquitto shore is of the last importance to Great-Britain, both as a country producing many valuable commodities, and as a post which opens an inroad into the richest provinces of Spain--the foundation of their wealth and power; for in case of a future war, or a revolt among their American subjects, a handful of British veterans stationed in that country might be a means of dividing the strength of the Dons so effectually, that their hostile efforts may be of no more avail against our country than the pecking of a wren against the talons of an eagle.