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The History of Jack Martin goes no farther, as
far as the narrative is concerned. A few nope details
may be taken from the remarks of Matthew Brown in
the columns of the Federal Gazette - abusive remarks,
it is true, but containing none of the invective
which characterized the serial in the Baltimore Weekly
Magazine. (It may be observed here that Brown's
editorial comments on the subject of "Billy Pechin*¹
and "Jack Martin" mar be taken with a grain of salt,
as may Pechin¹ s and Martin's on the subject cf "Lit-
tle Matthew" Brown.J According to the Federal Gazette,
Martin, "a monkey-looking journeyman", applied at the
office of the Federal Gazette for work but failed to
get it, on the grounds that he was "an idle, lazy fel-
low, fond of quarreling with his fellow journeymen,
and fooling away his time in hankering over democratic
papers". He was more sucessful at the printing office
of William Pechin, where he received "extraordinary
wages for writing squibs, quizzes, and democratic ec-
centricities".¹¹²

Pechin^fs Intelligencer perhaps because of its
Republican (Democratic) leanings, had a longer life
than most Baltimore triweeklies of the 1790's; it

112 Federal gazette. August 14, 1798.