RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 26 Apr. but recorded in SJL at 25 Apr. 1800. Enclosures not found.

In his Address to the public dated 8 Apr., which appeared in the Richmond Examiner on the 8th and 11th, Callender responded to criticism of The Prospect Before Us in the Federalist newspapers and criticized policies of the Adams administration. He centered his attack against Adams around the bill before Congress, which gave the president an allowance to defray the expense of moving his household to Washington, calling it a “swindling, by which the people of America must be robbed of twenty, thirty, or fifty thousand additional dollars.” By posing questions Callender excoriated: “Is it because Mr Adams has heaped so many thousands of dollars upon his own son, that we are to be at such an exorbitant expense about him and his furniture?”; “Is it because his janisaries flogged Schneider, or is it because Jefferson’s letters are broken up at the post office?”; “Shall we purchase this furniture because the president kept Talleyrand’s mendicant dispatches for peace ninety days in his pocket?”