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But for the attacks of Freneau the Senate might possibly be still holding its sessions behind locked doors.

END OF BOTH GAZETTES

In spite of the fact that Freneau published at the end of the first six months a most flattering notice about the success of The National Gazette, the paper on October 26, 1793, brought out its last issue and published the following notice:

With the present number (208) conclude the second volume and second year's publication of The National Gazette. Having just im- ported a considerable quantity of new and elegant type from Europe, it is the editor's intention to resume the publication in a short time at the opening of the next Congress.

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This notice left a loophole so that Freneau might resume pub- lication of his Gazette in case he could raise sufficient funds something he was evidently unable to do. The fact that the yellow fever plague broke out in Philadelphia this same year may have had something to do with the death of The Gazette. One other thing may have been a factor in the decision : Jeffer- son at this time resigned his office of Secretary of State and automatically Freneau ceased to be the official translator of the Government.

Freneau's paper led all the organs of the same political faith. Seldom during these years did a Republican paper get out an issue in which there was not at least one quotation from The National Gazette.

The Gazette of the United States continued to be the Federal organ and was bitterly opposed to the attempt of France to in- volve the United States in war. Fenno remained editor of the paper until his death in 1798 when he was succeeded by his son, John Ward Fenno. The paper later became The United States Gazette and was finally consolidated with The Philadelphia North Amer