Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Though the British affairs are in a distracted state, and though the nations of Europe seem to neglect and contemn them, yet it is surprising to see the haughty airs they assume, particularly with respect to America. We sufficiently know their endeavours to destroy the trade. Their political publications are replete with the most ridiculous assertions respecting France and America. In a late periodical work of considerable repute, they say, "If Great Britain would but keep aloof, and leave the United States to their own weight among the powers of the earth, without intermeddling or courting their alliance, they would soon see and feel what they have lost in the friendship and protection of Great-Britain: and most earnestly implore that they might be reinstated in her favour, and again entitled to her protection." Is this the language of insolence, or idiotism? These Britons may be compared to a bedlamite, who though confined to his cell, and sitting on his straw bed, yet conceits he is a mighty monarch, swaying a sceptre, and giving law to surrounding tributary nations.