The New Hampshire Gazette

300,000 soldiers are to be taken from the loom, the plough, and the anvil, to defend the trade and manufactures of England.-The present war, at this rate, will undoubtedly promote the commercial interests of that ill-starred nation! If all are soldiers. who are to work ? It is said already that thousands of manufacturers are without employment, and that times in England were never more distressful.

In the year '55, while England was threatened with invasion, an army in the Mediterranean actually took Minorca, and poor Byng was shot to save the heads of the ministry of that time. In the last war, under the same pretence, Egypt was taken, while Johnny Bull was hourly expecting the flat-bottomed boats in England.-It appears, from every quarter, that the French have the fullest confidence in their government, and that Bonaparte has always been successful.—We must wait a little to know the will of the Northern Powers. There is " much speculation" in the event of their measures.

When a country is invaded the assailants have every advantage. The experience of our late revolutionary war is a proof in point. Could the people of Falmouth, New Bedford, or New London, have known of the expedition before hand, will any person believe that these places would have been sacked and burnt by the British troops ? When Howe landed at the head of Elk, General Washington was defeated at Brandywine, because he had other points to defend. Three hundred thousand men can oppose but a feeble defence at every assailable point,on an extensive sea-coast. Before the fencibles of Scotland could cross the Tweed, Moreau and Massena. would have their head-quarters at