This is one of the pamphlets connected with the Batture case for which see no. 3469 to 3509, and for this particular pamphlet, of which Jefferson had other copies, see no. 3485.

Begins: On a motion made by Mr. Sloan, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution: Resolved, That it is expedient, and the public good requires, that the seat of government be removed to Philadelphia, for . . . . . . . . years; and that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for that purpose . . .

Mentions Jefferson on page 7: . . . if a real whig of ’76 possessing the primeval virtue and economy of the noble patriots that acquired our independence could be suddenly transported from a distant part of the Union, to the City of Washington, and there be presented with a Navy Yard 300 miles from the sea--a house erected for the President equal, if not exceeding in expense, and magnificence, the palace of an eastern monarch--and two massy piles of stone, which had been fifteen years putting together, under the names of the north, and south wings of a Capitol to accommodate the legislature of the United States--that they had already cost near a million of dollars--that to complete them and fill up the space between, would probably cost two millions more--then cast his eyes upon the numerous unfinished, empty, and decaying buildings, and the surrounding worn out, and impoverished country--would he believe that rational beings had laid the plan?--Or that honest republicans had carried it on?--Would he believe that the wise, the virtuous, and economical Jefferson, and his supporters, had lavished away millions upon so absurd, extravagant, and hopeless a plan?--A plan to raise in the centre of a republic, costly monuments similar to those formerly erected in what is now termed the dark pages of the world, by tyrannical despots to perpetuate their crimes? . . .

Hostile to Jefferson, whom, with Madison, and confirmed by a letter from Genet, it states to be a naturalized French citizen: It is a fact no less strange than true, that Mr. JEFFERSON and Mr. MADISON, the idols of the deluded part of the people, are both NATURALIZED CITIZENS OF FRANCE! --Page 5.

The first 13 pages are anti-Jefferson; on page 14 begins a Sketch of the Life and Character of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the Federal candidate for President. Jefferson’s name occurs also several times in this part of the tract.