The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

By letters from America we learn, that Mr Adams was arrived at Boston, and had been received with extraordinary public attestations to his worth by his countrymen. Indeed his public transactions have been conducted with so much judgment, spirit and address, that his character will rise in the esteem of an impartial public the more it is considered. In Spain, France, England; and Holland, he was well received, and there is reason to believe he succeeded in all his public designs. The treaty concluded between the United States and Prussia, is formed on principles divulged three thousand years ago by Plato, but never carried into execution till the present time, by the virtue of three men ; and is now a model for other States to follow ; by which principles war may be prevented, or at least the horrors of it lessened, and mankind become more humanized.--

Mr. Adams's name stands first in the commission, to treat with Prussia, and in all the others, to treat with Europe and Africa. Mr. Adams was several times in Holland, and greatly esteemed and respected ; and by his own weight and consequence obtained a large public loan from the states General ; he was not permitted by them to leave Europe without taking his leave, for which he went from England on purpose, and received from the states at parting, a gold chain and medal of a very considerable value, as a public testimony of their esteem and regard. In all the places he resided in, he lived with dignity, and simplicity, becoming the character of the republic he represented ; and when at his own request he returned to America, he received the people's glad applause for his strenuous and unremitted exertions to establish and secure their liberties and prosperity, on the firm basis of just and equal laws, with whom dominion is sanctified by public choice, and each directs the sword he draws.-He returned not, like the disgraceful Barrillon, rich and opulent, attempting to traduce and destroy the fairest characters in the English history ; contempt and infamy are the proper rewards of such conduct. The future safety and welfare of his country employed all Mr. Adams's leisure hours, to learn from historians, ancient and modern, in the search of which he was indefatigable, the various modes of government ; and to trace out their effects and what caused their ruin and dissolution. for though enthusiasm and the virtue of particulars preserved them in vigour for some time, the same causes always produced the same effects in all of them.

The total ignorance of a fair and equal representation of the people, of whom existed a most sovereign contempt, and the want of a proper balance to prevent one branch of government becoming too powerful for the others. This Mr. Adams has proved by a sensible, strict, and curious investigation, in a work entitled, " A Defence of the American Constitutions" in which is much valuable matter, though little known the authors being mostly foreign. His partiality and predilection for the genuine original English constitution of Kings, Lords, and the free and equal representation of the people in the House of Commons, makes him overlook the consequence of the erroneous increase of the power of the crown, from which the balance in the English government, though wisely constituted, is in danger of being destroyed, as the remedy is not so easy of application, unless the principles of the times were changed ; but the new Convention of America seems, from this apprehension, to have wisely guarded the election of the President of Congress, and limited his existence ; the people reserving to themselves the right of new modelling their government every third year, or rectifying abuses.--To these important researches, for the public service. did Mr. Adams dedicate his time, of which he now enjoys (and may he long) in the bosom of his country, the heart-felt satisfaction of having done his duty, whereof all America rings from side to side.