The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The following salutary advice to our countrymen; abstracted from Abbe RAYNAL's Revolution of America, is worthy the attention of our readers.

He proceeds thus:

"Ye people of North-America, let the example of all the nations who have gone before you, and above all that of your mother country, serve you for instruction. Fear the affluence of gold, which brings with luxury the corruption of manners, the contempt of laws. Fear a too unequal distribution of riches, which exhibits a small number of citizens in opulence and a great multitude of citizens in want, whence springs the insolence of the former, and the debasement of the latter. Secure yourselves against the Spirit of conquest. The sanguinary of all empires diminishes in proportion to its extension. Have arms for your defence; have none for offence. Seek competency and health in labour; prosperity in the culture of lands, and the workshops of industry; power in manners and in virtue. Cause arts and sciences, which distinguish the civilized from the savage mankind to flourish and abound. Above all, watch carefully over the education of your children. It is from public schools, be assured, that come the wise magistrates, the capable and courageous soldiers, the good fathers, the good husbands, the good brothers, the good friends and the good men. Wherever the youth are seen depraved, the nation is on the decline. Let Liberty have an immovable foundation in the wisdom of your laws, and let it be the indissoluble cement to bind your provinces together: Establish no legal preference amongst the different forms of worship. Superstition is innocent, wherever it is neither persecuted nor protected; and may your duration, if it is possible, equal the duration of the world."