Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

ARTS OF ABLE EDITORS!

Mr. Jefferson's Editors are fighting most valiantly in his behalf, but they are so excessively eager to engage, that they neither wait for the plan of attack nor even the word of command; the consequence is such as might be expected, a want of concert, followed by irretrievable confusion in the ranks, and in several instances, even a falling back on their own party, so that dismay and defeat already begin to pervade the whole squadron.

One says Mr. Jefferson had not read the Prospect when he rewarded the author; and that if it shall appear that he had he'll desert—A second says he never paid him any money at all; he only lent it. A third, that he had no agency whatever in the Prospect as detailed, and that if he had, it indicates an inconsistency of character, a meanness of disposition that ought never to be found in a Chief Magistrate. A fourth, that after the money was in the Treasury he had no control over it; that he did not order it repaid, but that if he did, it was a violation of his oath, and he ought to be impeached. A fifth, that all the money ever paid Callender, both from Mr. Jefferson's own pocket and the national purse, was from unmixt motives of the most charming charity. A sixth, and last, says, in decent language, that the story of Him and Sally, is "a damnable Lie." & this last gentleman who appears in the Citizen this morning, under the appropriate sign of a "Friend to Good Government," intimates that some "horrible outrage" will be committed on the Editor of this paper and his workmen, if he does not leave off telling such things. Go on, gentlemen,

go on, and when you are all cleverly advanced the net shall be sprung over you: we shall then see what a pretty figure you will make.

(N.Y. Eo. Post.)