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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Ships Charlotte and Lyon arrived in Philadelphia from London on October 3, bringing stamp paper for the province aboard Captain Holland's vessel, protected at New-Castle by a British sloop, causing widespread consternation and grief over impending loss of liberty in the city.
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The Ship Charlotte, Capt. Holland, and the ship Lyon, Capt. O'Brien, is arrived in the River from London, by whom we have received some late accounts, but have neither time nor room to insert any of them. We hear the STAMP-PAPER for this province is arrived in Capt. Holland, who lies at New-Castle under the protection of one of His Majesty's sloops of war.-- It is impossible to conceive the consternation this melancholy News has diffused through this city and --Rage, resentment and grief appeared painted in every countenance, and the mournful language of one and all our inhabitants seems to be farewell, farewell Liberty-- AMERICA, AMERICA doomed by a premature sentence to slavery !-- Was it thy loyalty--thy filial obedience--thy exhausted treasures--and the rivers of blood shed by thy sons in extending the glory of the arms, provoked thy mother-country thus unjustly to involve thee in distress, by tearing from thee, the darling privileges of thy children ! ---or was it thy perfidy ?-- but I cannot proceed --tears of vexation and sorrow stop my pen-- O my country, my country !---
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Philadelphia
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Octob. 3.
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consternation, rage, resentment, and grief diffused through the city, with inhabitants mourning the loss of liberty and viewing america as doomed to slavery.
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Ships Charlotte under Capt. Holland and Lyon under Capt. O'Brien arrived in the River from London, bringing late accounts and stamp-paper for the province on Capt. Holland's ship, which lies at New-Castle protected by a British sloop of war, causing profound emotional distress in Philadelphia over the implications for liberty.