Kentucky Gazette

COME OUT AT LAST.

We asserted when we first received capt. Bingham's reputed official account of the affair between the President and Little Belt, that it was a fabrication—The U. States Gazette now announces the fact with much gravity and earnestness—embellished with an admonition to the pert younglings of New-York, (who are charged with the deed) not to do so again—No a word is said to the honest federal Printer, Coman, who assured his readers that he had copied it from a Halifax paper!

But the cream of the joke is, that Timothy Pickering and the federal host have lost all their labour in endeavoring to prove from this fabricated account the correct conduct of capt. Bingham, and the censure of Commodore Rodgers—and the American government. However, Pickering and his fellow-labourer in Kentucky, both appear to have written on this subject with about the same effect that they have on other subjects—Rodgers is every where applauded, and the apologists of British insolence are every where execrated. Were it possible to raise a blush upon the cheeks of those colleagues in the trade of slander and detraction, it would now come—but that hope has gone by.

A most disgraceful imposition.

We are exceedingly sorry to hear upon authority which we cannot doubt, that the article purporting to be Capt. Bingham's official letter to admiral Sawyer, giving the account of the affair between the President frigate and the Little Belt, is a shameful forgery, fabricated by some young men at N. York, in a fit of wantonness.

It would be difficult to speak in terms of appropriate reprobation of a transaction so unwarrantable. It has already been productive of no little mischief by irritating the feelings of the publick, and may yet be followed by consequences still more serious.

U. S. Gaz.