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Introduction.

John Loudon, Printers to the State, No. 5 Water Street, commenced to reprint The Fœderalist, and without any interruption, until the fourth day of the following April,—when Number LXXVI. was issued,—the publication was continued in that paper. At that time, as has been already stated, the publication of the numbers in The Independent Journal was suspended; and as The Packet appears to have copied them from that paper, the reproduction of the work in the columns of the latter was also necessarily suspended. The work does not appear to have received any notice whatever from the editors of The Packet, after it was issued in book-form; and the publication was, in consequence, never completed in that paper.

On Tuesday, the thirtieth of October, 1787,—the same day on which the publication of The Fœderalist was commenced in The New York Packet,—Number I. of the work was reproduced, also, in The Daily Advertiser, a newspaper which was printed at No. 22 Hanover Square, in the city of New York, by Francis Childs, a protégé of Mr. Jáy. With regularity and apparent good-will the republication was continued in that newspaper until Monday, the eleventh of February, 1788, when Number L. appeared in its columns; but after that date no notice whatever appears to have been taken of the work by Mr. Childs, and, consequently, the subsequent numbers of it did not appear in the columns of The Daily Advertiser.

On Tuesday, the eighteenth of December, 1787, The New York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register, a newspaper which was " printed and published by Thomas Greenleaf, at the Printing-Office, No. 25 Water Street," in the city of New York, contained the following: "Yesterday the manuscript copy of the subsequent was communicated to the Editor, with an assurance, that his press should be preferred, in future, for the first