The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

N.E.W. LONDON, May 10.

Extract of a Letter from LONDON.

The Mr. Charles Townsend spoke in favour of his
Bill, (STAMP DUTY) and concluding his
Speech by saying to the following Effect.

"These Children of our own Planting, (speak-
ing of Americans) nourished by our Indulgence,
until they are grown to a good Degree of Strength
and Opulence, and protected by our Arms, will
they grudge to contribute their Mite to relieve us
from the heavy load of national Expence which
we lie under."

Which having said and sat down, Mr.
BARRE arose, and with Eyes darting Fire, and
an out stretched Arm, spoke as follows, with a
Voice somewhat elevated, and with a Sternness
in his Countenance which express'd in a most
lively Manner the Feelings of his Heart.

"Children planted by your Care ? No ! Your
Oppression planted them in AMERICA ; they
fled from your Tyranny, into a then uncultivated
Land, where they were exposed to almost all the
Hardships, to which human Nature is liable : and
among others, to the Savage Cruelty of the E-
emy of the Country, --a People the most subtile,
and I take upon me to say, the most truly ter-
rible, of any People that ever inhabited any Part
of God's EARTH, and yet actuated by Principles
of true English Liberty ; they met all these Hard-
ships with Pleasure, compared with those they
suffered in their own Country, from the Hands of
those that should have been their Friends.

They nourished up by your Indulgence ?
They grew by your Neglect of them :-As soon-
as you began to care about them, that Care was
exercised in sending Persons to Rule over them,
in one Department and another ; who were per-
haps, the Deputies of some Deputy, of Members
of this House, sent to spy out their Liberty, to
misrepresent their Actions, and to prey upon them:
Men, whose Behaviour, on many Occasions has
caused the Blood of those Sons of LIBERTY,
to recoil within them ; Men promoted to the
highest Seats of Justice, some to my Knowledge
were glad by going to foreign Countries, to escape
being brought to a Bar of Justice, in their own.

They protected by your Arms ! They have
nobly taken up Arms in your Defence, have ex-
erted their Valour, amidst their constant and la-
borious Industry, for the Defence of a Country
whose Frontiers, while drench'd in Blood, its
interior Parts have yielded all its little Savings to
your Enlargement : And BELIEVE ME, REMEM-
BER I this Day Told you so, That the same
Spirit which actuated that People at first, will
continue with them till : But Prudence forbids
me to explain myself any further. God Knows,
I do not at this Time speak from Motives of
Party Heat: What I deliver, are the genuine
Sentiments of my Heart : However superior to
me in general Knowledge and Experience, the
respectable Body of this House may be, yet I claim
to know more of AMERICA than most of you,
having seen and been conversant in that Country.
The People there are as truly Loyal, I believe, as
any Subjects the King has : But a People jealous
of their Liberties, and who will vindicate them,
if they should be violated ; but the Subject is too
delicate, I will say no more."

A gentleman of the army, member for the borough
of Chipping Wycomb, in the County of Bucks ; he was
a major and an adjutant general at the taking of
Quebec, where he was wounded, and for his service
was rewarded with the place of governor of a castle,
but was dismissed from it on his Voting against some
ministerial measures.