 For example, the paper described Alexander Hamilton's financial policies in 1792 as "numerous evils...pregnant with every mischief," and described George Washington's sixty-first birthday celebration as "a forerunner of other monarchical vices," The "Gazette's" strident polemics and screeds against the Washington administration led President Washington to despise the "Gazette", and to refer to its editor pejoratively as "that Rascal Freneau.