[1422] Bache in a statement ascribed the incident to the intoxicated condition of the youths. Time Piece, May 14, 1798.

[1423] Hamilton’s Works, X, 275-79.

[1424] Independent Chronicle, May 10, 1798.

[1425] Gazette of the United States, May 10; Porcupine’s Gazette, May 10, 1798.

[1426] Aurora, April 27, 1798.

[1427] Independent Chronicle, May 21, 1798.

[1428] New York Commercial Advertiser, October 19, 1798.

[1429] Ames, I, 232-35.

[1430] Gibbs (to Wolcott), II, 49.

[1431] Ibid., II, 117-20.