Nor was Washington spared.

He was charged with an assumption of royal airs, with political hypocrisy, and even with being a public defaulter; a charge which no one dared to father, and which was instantly shown to be false and malicious.

It was made by Bache in "The Aurora," a contemptible sheet after the fashion of "L'Ami du Peuple," Marat's Paris organ.
Such was the temper of the people when the House of Representatives met on December 7, 1795.

The speaker, Dayton, was strongly anti-British in feeling.

He was a family connection of Burr, but there is no reason to suppose that he was under the personal influence of that adroit and unscrupulous partisan.