The New Hampshire Gazette

O God's! What Havoc does Ambition make among your Works! .......
ADDISON.

ALL MANKIND
OF FAME. 'Tis true; this Passion, when kept within its proper Bounds, is of no Disservice to Mankind; but when it gets the Ascendant over Reason, and the Duty we owe to our Fellow men, it is attended with most fatal Consequences; when this is the Case, even Justice is distributed with a partial Hand.

Superbus is governed entirely by this Passion; he sticks at nothing, however criminal, to gratify his eager Thirst of Fame. He has found by long Experience, that the most direct Method to accomplish his Designs, especially in that Part of the World he now resides, is by gaining the Applause of the People. This Plan, he at any Rate pursues... This in the Garden, in the Shop, or even on the Judgment Seat, engrosses all his Thoughts. ...Here centers the whole of his Views. Ends, and Aims.---By this subtle Method, Superbus has gained almost the Summit of his Happiness. .... He fills a Seat in the Senate, and in civil Courts. He's caressed by the People. That these Favours might be continued to him, and more obtained, I've known him deprive a Person of the greatest Blessing on Earth, even the Privilege of an Englishman, for no better Reason, than to please the Populace. How can we entertain a more favourable Opinion of the Character of Superbus, than that of the most inhumane Murderer? He not only deprives a Man of his Liberty, which is ever sacred, and more valuable than Life, but does it under a Cloak of Justice. O Tempora! O Mores!

For my own Part, I can't envy the Happiness of such a Man.--- Altho' his Artifices may pass on the Populace, and he obtain his Purpose; yet Heaven, who discerns the innermost Recesses of the Soul, will finally reward the Innocent; and Superbus must receive the just Demerit of his Crimes.