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50 quires",⁴⁰ and in April fifty-two quires were struck
off every day.⁴¹ A change in the office organization
was necessary with expanding business; a separate
counting room was arranged for. An advertisement for
a boy was inserted:

His business will be to attend in the counting
room, without any connection with the mechanical
part of the business, carry out accounts, &c.

but if the boy should prefer it, some knowledge of
printing would bo taught,⁴² The office of the Federal
Gazette was moved to the back building of Number 12,

South Gay Street⁴⁵; the counting room occupied the

I front, where all business would be transacted; and the

I printing office was closed to the public.⁴⁴

The newspaper was prospering, but everything

if could not always go smoothly, and Brown, the editor,

I received some adverse criticism, as shown by this

extract from an editorial:

I find it in private life impossible to please

every one, & much less so in public; but

whether my conduct, in any one instance, has

varied from that of the unbiased, independent

editor, or whether I have been guilty of injus-

tice to anyone, I leave a candid public and un-

bounded approbation and support the Federal

Gazette has met with to determine... I am no

party mans in a country like ours, too much

heat may one day blow it up.⁴⁵

40 Federal gazette. December 31, 1796.

41 ibid. April 7, 1797.

42 Ibid. January 14, 1797.

43 Ibid. July 3, 1797.

44 Ibid. September 19, 1797.

45 Ibid. August 14, 1798.