The New Hampshire Gazette

By Capt. Gardner, who arrived at Cufco-Bay yesterday sennight, in 8 Weeks from Liverpool, we have the following Articles, viz.

LONDON, June 13.

In all other nations it is accounted good policy to conceal the public danger, and to spirit up the subjects with some invention to sharpen their resentment to encourage more vigorous measures in support of their king and country. Shall Britain only be suspected of a contrary behaviour in those, whose duty is to act upon better principles; to favour the interest of her enemies, by frightening the people into the desire of a peace when victory declares in their favour, and no honourable terms can be expected, without a vigorous prosecution of the war?: Shall the conquest of Louisbourg and its appendages? shall the successes on the continent of America, which has almost put an end to the Gallic name in the new world? shall the inconsiderable figure made by the enemy on Guadaloupe? shall Goree and Senegal? shall the weakness of their coast, discovered by our late expeditions? shall their loss of forty-nine ships of war, and the almost total stop put to their commerce and navigation in all quarters of the world be forgot, or not mentioned? or, shall these great and glorious actions be lessened and cancelled in our thoughts? shall fear bereave us of that courage and steadiness, to which these mighty actions owe their existence? or, shall Britain fall from the pinnacle of glory to be buried under the corruption of weak or bad hearts? Rouse, therefore, O Britons! that noble spirit of your ancestors, which never tamely submitted to power, nor could easily be imposed upon by craft. Pursue with vigour the object of that just and necessary war, in which you are engaged. Beware that you be not drawn into measures by fear, which will deprive you of all the glory and advantages you have gained by your arms. If necessity drives the French upon such desperate measures, it is your duty to unite in the defence of your king and country.

For the moment you drop your courage, and cry for peace, Britain will find herself in that same situation of contempt and danger, in which she was at the beginning of the war. Whatever shall be left to negotiation must be given up for lost: and a peace made, without compelling the enemy to accept such terms as shall put it out of their power to involve us again in the like quarrel, can neither be honorable nor lasting.