Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

July 4. By the last advices from the East Indies, the Dutch have sent there a much more considerable military force than is generally known in this country, and every ship that arrives there, whether for war or trade, is obliged to bring a certain quantity of military or naval stores, with materials for building new and repairing old fortifications, by which means in a short time the Mynheers will imperceptibly raise a considerable force in that part of the world, where they are already attempting to increase their influence with the natives, by presents, treaties, &c. &c.

Whenever this country is so unfortunate as to be engaged in a fresh war, it is more than probable the East will be the great theatre of it, as the West was in the last war, for our natural enemies look with an envious eye at our flourishing possessions in that quarter, where everything wears an appearance that astonishes those who would be glad to see them in a different light.