The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Palladium.

Fatal Persecution

IF there be any sensibility in the grave how must the great Washington, be agonized by the treatment which the objects of his favor and his confidence now receive. Whenever the French party denounce those who were appointed to office by Washington, who, in times of war, fought under our illustrious Hero, and in times of peace supported his wise and virtuous administration--they are directly dismissed the service. Instances of the intolerance of the present administration are too numerous to admit a recapitulation: One, however, has occurred in Pennsylvania, which will long be remembered. Mr. Kittera, of Lancaster, had, for many years, been a member of the federal House of Representatives :-He there had advocated with zeal and with talents all the measures of Washington(between whom and himself there existed a sincere and uninterrupted friendship)and he assisted in the establishment of that system of measures, projected by Mr. Adams, and the adoption of which, by Congress, preserved us from the fangs of France, and issued in the prosperity we every where witness.-- At the close of the last session of Congress, Mr, Kittera was appointed Attorney for the District of Pennsylvania, in the room of Mr. Ingersol, who had resigned--not who was dismissed --Mr. Kittera accepted the appointment, broke up his establishment at Lancaster, brought his wife and children to Philadelphia, where he took a suitable house for a year, and as soon as all this expense had been incurred, Mr. Kittera was turned out. of his office, which was given to a Mr. Dallas, who comes from one of the West- India Islands, and wrote many pieces for the Aurora, advocating the election of Mr. Jefferson. The sensibility of Mr. Kittera was deeply affected by this undeserved treatment His health which never had been robust, immediately declined ; in spite of the exertions of his friends, the presidential contumely preyed upon his spirits, he took to his bed, and after short illness he died. The day before poor Kittera departed for the land of forgetfulness, his Physician enquired of him if some pain, of which he complained. was Sharp-He answered, Tis dreadfully acute like Mr. Jefferson's, it cuts very quick.