The Virginia Gazette

The unhappy fluctuating state of administration is now drawing to a crisis; for we are informed that the Great Man having penetrated into the designs of his enemies to ruin him, and that the late resignations were privately brought about by the artful persuasions of his foes, with view of taking away the props from under him, which, with other secret schemes forming, were to overthrow him in the opinion of his Sovereign and the people, to frustrate which, we are told, he had the resolution to declare his knowledge to his Majesty of the whole transactions formed against him; and at the same time further declared his resolution of acquainting a great assembly with the secret machinations he had found out, which he said would alarm the nation so much that he did not know what might be the consequence, unless he was invested with every principal post under the government; and that no dispatches should be sent to, or received by, any one, or any private visits made, but with his approbation. All which, it is said, has been agreed to; so that every one now will know to whom they are to look for redress, reward, or promotion.