Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

The late president Adams is still narrating his services and complaining of his enemies, without any indication of his being nearer the end of his story, tho' if we recollect aright, he has been employed in the business full two years. But if we may be permitted to speak in comet style, he seems lately to be approaching his perihelion, where he runs some risk of having at least his fingers scorched Not content with vilifying Ames, Pickering, Hamilton, and other illustrious characters living and dead, he has printed in large letters an insinuation that general Washington's political conduct was influenced by fear of the British. And when, pray, did general Washington fear the British? When he accepted the command of the army at the commencement of the war, or when he laid it down at the peace, or at what intermediate period? In making his brutal attacks upon the ashes of the sacred dead, the grey headed calumniator ought to keep at least probability on his side.