1. JA probably saw an advertisement in the 22 Aug. Massachusetts Centinel for a “genuine satire,” an anonymous poem by Edward Church entitled “The Dangerous Vice ———,” Boston, 1789, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols., rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 21736. Church (1740–1816), Harvard 1759, was a Boston merchant whose repeated rejections for a diplomatic post triggered his attack in print. His popular poem mocked JA as a royalist who was compromised by pride and a love of European luxury, calling him “a Stickler for a crown, / Tainted with foreign vices, and his own, / Already plotting dark, insidious schemes, / Already dubb’d a King, in royal dreams.” AA, who circulated Church’s name as the author, was disappointed that JA’s views on presidency and monarchy went unexamined. “I could wish that the Author might be fully known to the publick with regard to the subject of a proper title for the Pressident mr A never has or will disguise his opinion, because he thinks that the stability of the Government will in a great measure rest upon it,” she wrote (vol. 18:103; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963–. description ends , 8:404). For JA’s reaction to Church’s piece, see his letter to Cotton Tufts of 16 Sept., below.