Morning cold and unpleasant. At the Office and in Court. This Controversy has at last
excited me very much and I could not avoid writing a short Article for the Patriot,
notwithstanding the express injunction of my father to keep quiet.
1 The course of the federal Newspapers is too unfair. Nothing going on in Court, so
that I continued the examination of my Papers and destroyed a number. Afternoon, read
the Trial of Mr. Child for a Libel on Mr. Keyes,
2 and a Chapter of Adam Smith. Evening, Pope, Dunciad and his Numbers of the Guardian.