The New Hampshire Gazette

Although the French have lost the possession of Canada by the extraordinary vigour of the British arms, they still occupy an immense country in America, lying under a more indulgent climate, and productive of a much greater variety of commodities either for traffick or convenience. This wide extended country is called Louisiana, deriving that appellation from the French King Louis, and is watered by the great river St. Louis, navigable nine hundred leagues from the sea, distinguished among the natives by the name of Meact Chaipi (signifying the Old Father of the Rivers) corrupted by the French into the word Mississippi.

In a periodical work published at Brussels, entitled A Journal of Commerce, and dedicated to the Duke of Lorrain, we find the following passage, which may serve as a wholesome hint to our countrymen. 'What extent (says this writer) may not France give to her commerce in America, particularly in the cultivation of Louisiana, which of itself is worth a kingdom! Do you imagine that France will for ever neglect the culture of tobacco? In a few years Louisiana will be able to furnish what will be sufficient for the whole kingdom, and put an end to the annual tribute of near five millions, which France has paid so long to England.'-So that (before a just, safe, and honourable peace can be procured) it may be necessary to drive the enemy from this boasted settlement, as we have already expelled them from Canada: for such is their restless spirit, that while they retain any settlements in that country, they will never desist from attempts to extend their quarters to embroil us with the natives, to anticipate our trade in the interior countries, and finally to regain what they have lost on the river St. Lawrence.