The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

To the PRINTERS.

Please to insert the following in your Gazette, as it was publish'd in London the 12th of October last, and is taken from the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser of that Date.

To the E--- of H---sh.

In my preceding letters to your L--d--p I have taken a general view of your connections and conduct; give me leave now to be a little more particular. Your L--d--p's entrance into a new department for North America was at a critical time when a sense of fresh attempts made on their liberties, had raised in our colonies a general disposition to complain. To complain is a privilege, which even the despotism of Turky does not deny its wretched slaves; & instances have occurred even there, of the heads of very arbitrary Bashaws falling a sacrifice to the reiterated complaints of the people. But your L--d--p would refine on eastern tyranny, and stifle even the murmurs of misery in the oppressed subject.

In this true spirit of modern ministers, you transmitted a circular letter to every G------r on the continent of North America, enjoining them to dissolve their respective assemblies, should they attempt to complain. In what words shall I admire your L--d--p's wisdom, who thus planned the support of government by the dissolution of all government? But I beg your pardon: you had in reserve a mode of government; in your judgment infinitely better than the one established by the constitution; I mean that of the military. My L--d, may I felicitate you on this laudable expedient? Has it succeeded to your wish? Have you been able to re-act, on the common of Boston, the glorious tragedy of St. George's Fields; and emulate in the same sort that brilliant day: your renowned co-adjutors in office, the Lords B--g--n and W--y-----h?

To effect this change of civil into military government, you entered into a close and confidential correspondence with G-t--B----; who was the avowed incendiary of America: and with the Commissioners of C--t--ms in Boston, who were personally, as well as officially, the objects of universal abhorrence and contempt; for they were men, who, to the odium of former bad characters, added the deeper guilt of treachery, in becoming the willing instruments of oppression over their fellow-subjects. --It was obvious you were in a fair way of receiving the most impartial and conciliating intelligence from such informers.

Instigated by these counsellors, but, above all, by that truly constitutional spirit of administration, which taught them effectually to support the civil Magistracy by military force, your L--d--p commenced hostilities in form, both by sea and land, against the town of Boston. Your Generals then reaped laurels abundantly, and transmitted them to you in the triumphant assurance, that they were in full possession of the town. Such was their phrase for quartering troops there in defiance of the law, and making a hostile parade in the midst of peace. Encouraged by them, the common soldiers spurned at all civil authority, abused the inhabitants, assaulted the officers of justice, & carried the law on the points of their swords. These were glorious times! but, alas, my Lord, all human triumphs are frail. Your troops have been obliged to abandon their conquests; all their laurels are blasted. Cushing still lives; Otis harangues with spirited firmness, and the civil power begins to resume its hated offices: nay worse; the day of retribution approaches, and your L--d--p must answer for having invaded the privileges of a free assembly, by a threatening letter, and having infringed an act of parliament, in quartering troops in Boston, expressly contrary to law.

These offences, my L--d, are rank, they smell to heaven: Your crimes are great, the proofs are pregnant, & vengeance will pursue you, even under the protection of your Throne. The prejudices artfully infused into mens minds, by your tools; the enemies of all constitutional liberty, "That the Americans were seditiously opposing the just authority of this country," has prevented the people here from paying that attention to the complaints of their fellow subjects in America, to which their hatred of arbitrary power would naturally have disposed them-under the protection of this prejudice, your L--d--p has too long conducted your despotic system unmolested. But this evil is daily removing, and I hope a little time will lay your character and conduct before the public in their genuine lustre; and trust me, my Lord, it shall not be my fault, if any light be wanting to demonstrate, how true you have been to those principles, which have ever actuated your patron, and rendered him most execrable.

It was precisely on the principles which recommended you to his choice; that your L--d--p has advanced the disappointed tools of despotism in the stamp-act, to offices of respectability & trust in America. The appointments in the Judge Admiralty Courts, and in the Deputy Governorship of N - C a, of men, contemptible in character, abilities, and fortune, were sufficient to have reflected disrespect on any offices: men who had nothing to recommend them but the alacrity they had before manifested, in aiding to violate the sacred rights of their country: as if, in your L--d--p's estimation, the stamp office was the best school for Judges and Governors. and that they, who had betrayed their fellow-subjects, were most likely to judge amongst them uprightly, and govern them with moderation.

The temper of the times called for conciliatory measures, and your L--d--p wisely met this temper, by irritating resolves, and by prostituting a title on him, whom a malignant endeavour to kindle an unextinguishable and fatal enmity between Great Britain and her colonies, had raised from contempt to detestation. Will you, my L--d, give me leave to augur ill of these proceedings; that the effect of them must be to excite universally the hatred of the people? and Cicero will instruct your L--d--p, that the hatred of the people is able to ruin the most absolute authority.

You have ventured to make the trial: tremble at the issue:

JUNIUS AMERICANUS.