Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

Connecticut prosecutions.--It is wonderful that it should be made a question by whom the prosecutions for libels in Connecticut were instituted. Mr. Jefferson, in his second inaugural speech, recommended to those who had leisure for the purpose, to subject to the salutary coercion of the law the libellers of himself and other great and good men.' Mr. Jefferson's district attorney in Connecticut not being very much pestered with clients, had ample leisure, very naturally took the hint, and went about the good work. Thus it is demonstrated that those prosecutions were instigated, not instituted, by that illustrious enemy of common law (no very good friend either of common sense) the late President of the United States.--ibid.