North Carolina Gazette

              nort h-c arolin a gazette vol xi s a t u 11 d a y djxembeh 3 , 1706 no 5^)s-3 l o m d o n septi'6 franc e by a peace which is tant > mount to an alliance secondly he is a 5'mber of the gefimnlc coniiirution of which the empe ror is tlie chief the fining of t!i.,t pence was to be coiifijer ed a.s an enemy - as he certainly woitm hm-e been treated only that the confederates were afraid ot him ■ mediatmn of the ling fprujfa o 1 .'!', of the objects of mr hammond's ■::•;!'.. ricis million is now afcf.'rt.;i..ed ho is at berlin to fnlicit the med'at-on of the king of pruffia with the french republic in favour of great-britain and t!»e hoiil'eof aui tria with ron t rd tcthe firft of thefe points it is i::r.tci ial that we never i-uirer the artifices of r pitt to draw our attention from the o rigirial grounds of the confederacy i he motiv.es to war were lb various the compo nent parts of the confederacy fo hoitile to each other the factions in the ljritilh councils fo widely alunder in their re'.'pective views that to keep together the incongruous trials and dilciphne in fame fort the mixed mob tint was to inarch into france it was thought neceflary to collect all the cauies of difpute withlicr into one general fweepingfetiteiue and io call the contett " a war for the pre lcrvaticn ot'eivil fociety if this defcriptiotl ot the war was true at any time it has been true all along it is true now the fol.ow ersot this duclrine were right in feeing no neutral party ; for where them is no medium there can be no neutrality ; and certainly whatever may be the compromifes of mr w indhain and his friends with i^r pitt there can be no medium between the prefervation of civil ociety and its deltruction i he con federacy accordingly fet out with avowing the principle no fenttment v\.is heard at fir'it cf a lefs vaft and h direful import than " kill them or they will kill you ; lie that is not for me is air:mii me — lentinients once written by our words in american blood and walh eu out afterwards with our own their l'uu licists aliened theabitractprinciple i heir miniiiers and td the eternal diigrace of the britiih name before all others our own at tempted to enforce the practical confequences if their reafoning was true denmark swe den the swifs republics genoa c o were jultly to be con id red in a ltate of hof tility to the confederate beoaufe they did not take up arms againft france in what tare would it bejnlt to coiifider that power itfclf forming the corner none of the confede racy itfelf the provider of the largeft army and the heft regular general in europe to < fry its purpofes into eifect itfelf furnilhing the firlt king who let hoftile feet on french territory proclaiming all its armed inhabit ants robbers and rebels and threatening to deal with them as fuch ? — in what ltate we repeat would bt jult to conliderthat power which after all fuch declaration and acts mould luddenly patch up a feptrate and molt advantageous peace with france jult in the very cr,lis of the fate of europe ; and not merely a peace but a peace which by its pro vilions irsve france ?)\ the benefit of an al liance > we will fufpend for a moment all re flections on the king of prullia's myiterious conduft in champagne his leaving the ne thetlandsopen u dumbiirier's irruption the almolt total inaction of his troops during the whole period of his hottility to france not wjthttandihg the 1 200,000k we lent him and the bricilh commitfary worth as much more ; we will pal's over all thefe circum tan ces great and important as they are toalk this mg'e quertion — in what light was the coalition upon their own principles to con fider the king of praffia after tiie peace of 1704 ? certainly not ts a neutral power for ac cording to them there could be no inch thing as neutrality certainly not in f6 favourable a light as thofs other powers which having cioi.e nothing to aliiit france might be ad mitted to the benefit of a cotlftructive neu trality the king of proflia had done much more with twelve hundred the ufand tn glilh guineas in his pocket lje had agreed with france upon a i ne of demarcation to be main tained by force 01 their joint arms againft all invaders be 1 hey whom they 1111011 a de mark ition v\hich fecured to france the pof feflioh of the netherlands and greatly f ci litated th confequent reduction of holland in fair truth then the king of prullia from ) from a declared enemy therefore the king of prufoa becomes in > 9h the avowed friend and term ally of the french republic re-f ring from his ftationin the confederacy he tails back into that of a member of the ger-i manic confthmion owing obedience to the emperor as his chief and bound to the ie 7 fence ot that conftitution how he defends it how he fhmvb his loyalty to its chief how he manifefts his attachment to the ger manic body and the venerated eitabliihmenf of fomany centuries let his attempt to draw bthe r meir.bers of that conititution from their allegiance when he made his own peace let his recent lejzure of nuremberg let the nego cut.ons now carrying on with france annit jvr.ytiuc inmkfort and hamburg let thefe acts of his truly wife and royal politics ipeak for themfelves cf all thefe afts the choice of the king of iruliia for a mediator on the part of great brit in is a mrect confirmation andfanflion it has all the ignominy of a retraitior of the whole pru ciple of the war withoutits utili ty it is calting down the honor andthefaitli ol this proud country at the feet of that mo lurch in order to engage him to catt it in his turn at the feet of the » regicide direc tory of 1 ranee j it is a fuinjg for peace not only in tne true fpirit and affect of fuing but in itsmeandt and n.oit abject form ids i\w mg for it thrriugh the medium of a power tot whom we oue war and punifliuiem rather than o oration and confidence it is a bale triling with our national faith becaufe this very monarch whom we are now elevating into the high and powerful office of media tor is he that in the ouifet of this defolatinrr c nteft has hewn his hereditary enmity tc the houl'e of auftria our ally and let lip no opportunity bf aggrandizing himfclf at it expends we know not how thefe tranfaflions may affect thofe who two years ago abandoned their iriends and facrificed,as they y them felves in order to infufc ftrength and'infpire ability into mr pitt's administration thft celebrated declaration of mr windham ne ver will be forgotten speaking in the name of the reft he declared his junction with mr pitt to be not becaufe he was in want of a ble aftiftance — not becaufe he was honeit but becaufe he ought to have no temptation to be otherwife but to thole from whom unanimity at the preicnt crilis is f o loudly re quired the fuccefs which has attended mr , w tndham and the duke of portland in theix • attempt to bolfter up this wretched and un . fortunate miniiler ihould fuggeit ananlwcx and operate as a warning ; an anfwer deri - vedfrom the fureftofi.ll fotirccs that of ex . perietice — a warning drawn from the refult s of that experience how they trult the lal t itake of the britilh empire in the hands bf a hiinifter who can neither make war nor peace • and who commences what he will aflect i <.', call an honourable negociation by a hep itio re difgraceful more diflionorable and mnr n &, jn . gerons to the future fafcry and liber iteis of europe than ever entered into the contem plation of the moft determined jacr jd ; n many . of the revolutionary focieties wb ctuer o f e n _ gland of france belfast seftemifr *. we h^e the nrv.s of the spaniards dech ring wara k nmrt us width we are inalcinir e very prepamic io the country here u tnthe greatelt fcrnwntaridiy with united 1 r.fhmcn and another party died the o raoge men they are cunftantfy fijihthurarj killing one another 1 he oran^s hrong for government anj are backed by allddpots who have fwornt extripateaft catholics w e have notliing here but trou in this mode of filing for peace as well is in his conduct of the war mr pitt has again juft:fied that opinion of his capacity which not ouri'clve alone but all reflecting men en tert.i;;ic and pronounced very john in tins rontflt and long before the difficulties of our fuuatiijn began toaflum.e their prefent ahirrti rigafpoct t>r f there could be one tep more humiliating abjc.t nml unfafe than ano ther for this country to take in its preient im utiun it js tljat of endeavoring to open a n'c gjciat'ron for pe,»pe through tlie mediation of me king of prullia f(.:r wh-it is tii pr incn e of med'ntio'i ? two powers ur.ke war upon each other ; each contei ds to be in the right each calls the blain . oi aggreflion upon its adverlary ; and each proceeds to maflfacre and plunder the ei ther i:i tjie nime ofjultxe hu.nanity and religion tbiiis the order of the proceedings a .:;'./ h hen the earth is purged of lo'iie hii i - 1 th'jvifands of idle r'alcals w ho have very httle bulineis in i , when a proper cluan tily of towns villages nd hamlets are laid iri i!hc a jult proportion of women and chil drcn rij ped up alive and when peltilence famine have gleaned the refuse of the bayonet anil ivvorj the parties are apt to get fick of war and to wilh for what they call peace in the courfe of the difpute however each party rather for the fake of impqftner upon jts friends than of convincing its erierrires has made inch a clamor about ju lice religion and hnmanity and in other refneds ha to pledged and committed it own honor upon the event of the co'nteft that a regard to decency and the reciprocal lhatneotbeingthefirfl tofpealc obliges them to look around for lo'iie neutral power to whom th-y may hazard a confellion of their mutual folly and abfurdity thus it is tint regular own venti as happily tflablifbed a mtog the nations of europe firij invented the farce called mediation the neutral power is found explanations are given to that pow er the object of per lilting in hostilities is ita tej great moderation aiferted and defire is expreifeu and authority giveiij that fuch matters may be communicated to theadverfe party critically tainvslf gate this fort of proceeding is not our buiiuefs here suf lue it that this is the eftablhhed mode anion modern natioiis ; and if it be one which in any hondvjrable way may lead to peace rim object is too dejifable to admit of one fating any unricceffary objections to the adoption or it mediation however like every thinwelfe is fubjc'51 to laws of its o vri there atf&priii ciples of public policy known abroad and determined which regulate all modes of pro ceeding by mediation as the moftinvajua ble or jii the treasures of a nation namely itb honor is entrusted without reierveor li rnic to a mediator thejjroper choice of.«per f.va tofill that ofiice.beiomes of the very hi"-|i cit confiderntion r.ul importance it may h ippeh a in the cale before us that all the great points of honor md intereft we have to difcufs with our avowed enemy are invol ved in that choice on thefe principles the kbg of pruffla is tli very laft power in km ro;,c uliotc mediation mf pitt i'.ionld have fo'icircd the king of prufia is to be confi.ier.-j in two oiucities ; and in neither of them is he n neutral power firft he is an independent jbvrreijrn who after having been at war svith france on principles avowed % him in common with great britain tlie emperor mil the empire is now couuetted with