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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER. 837

the independence of America the twenty-fourth, designing and in-
tending to defame the President of the United States, and to bring
him into contempt and disrepute, and to exeite the hatred of the
good people against him, in the district aforesaid, and within the ju-
risdiction of this court, wickedly and maliciously did cause, or procare
to be printed and published, a false, scandalous, and malicious writ.
ing, against the said President of the United States, of the tenor and
effect following, that is to aay, “the reign of Mr. Adams (meaning
John Adams, Esquire, President of the United States) has hitherto
been one continual tempest of malignant passions, a8 President, ho
(meaning the said President of the United States) never opened his
(meaning the said President of the United States) Hips, or lifted his
(the said President meaning) pen, without threatening and scalding;
the grand object of his (meaning the said President of the United
States) administration, has been to exasperate the rage of contend-
ing parties, to ealaminate and destroy every man who differs from
his opinions, Mr, Adams (meaning the said President of tha United
States) hhas labored, and with melancholy success, to break up the
bonds of social affection, and under the ruins of confidence, of friend-
ship, to extinguish the ouly beam of happiness that glimmors through
the dark and despicable farce of life” And also the following
false, ecandalous and malicious words, that is to say: “The con-
triver of this piece had been suddenly converted, aa he said, to the
presidential (meaning the said President of the United States) sys-
tem, that is, to a French war, an American navy, a large standing
army, an additional load of taxes, and all the other symptoms and
consequences of debt and despotism.” And also the false, seandal-
ous, and malicious words, of the tenor and effect following, that is
to say: “The same system of perfection has been extended all over
the sontinent, every person holding an office, must sither quit it, or
think and vote exactly with Mr. Adams” (meaning the said Presi-
dent of the United States). And also the false, scandalous, and
malisious words, of the tenor and effect following, that is to say:—
‘Mr, Adams (the said President meaning) and Washington, have
since been shaping 4 series of these paper jobbers into Judges and
ambassadors: as their whole courage lies in want of shame, these
poltroons, without mieking a manly and intelligible defense of their
own measure, raised an affected yelp against the corruption of the
French directory, as if any corruption could be more venal, more
notorious, more execrated than their (meaning the aid President
and the late general Washington) own.” And also the false, sean-
dalous, and malicious words, of the tenor and effect, following, that
is to say:—“The object with which Mr. Adams (meaning the said
President of the United States) was to recommend a French war,
professedly for the sake of supporting Ameriaen {meaning the said
Tnited States) commerce, but in reality for the sake of yoking us
{meaning the United States of America) into an ailianes with the
British tyrant.” And also the false, scandalous, and malicious
words, of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “While
euch numbers of the effective sgenta of the evolution languish in

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