That sentence is not cited, nor is any particular allusion made to it, in the note which is charged with "exaggerating, recording, and sanctioning the forgery." How then could Mr.Jefferson deliberately make the charge?
In the same letter he endeavours to convey the opinion that the harsh and injurious strictures made to Mazzei were not intended for General Washington, and that this distinguished individual never applied them to himself.
The evidence in support of this proposition is not derived from the person whose opinion Mr.Jefferson undertakes to state.

The writer says,[75] "I do affirm that there never passed a word, written or verbal, directly or indirectly, between General Washington and myself on the subject of that letter." If his observations on this point are to be considered as reasoning rather than assertion, they may be freely examined.
[Footnote 75: Vol.iv.p.

401.] At the head of the list of those composing the "Anglican, monarchical, aristocratical party," the letter places "the executive." "Against us are the executive, the judiciary, two out of three branches of the legislature, all the officers of government, all who want to be officers," &c.
The letter speaks in the present tense, and the term "executive" can describe only the then actual President.

Consequently, it designates General Washington as expressly as if he had been named.
If this positive evidence could be strengthened by auxiliary proof, it is furnished by the same sentence.

"All officers of government, all who want to be officers," are included in the enumeration of those composing the party opposed to "the main body of citizens who remained true to republican principles." By whom were these Anglican, monarchical, and aristocratical officers selected?
By General Washington.