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John Williams was born April 28, 1761 in London. Of exceptional precocity, he was chastised in his teens for a stinging epigram on his master at the Merchant Taylors' School. In Dublin he was prosecuted for an attack on the government.
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John Williams was born April 28, 1761 in London. Of exceptional precocity, he was chastised in his teens for a stinging epigram on his master at the Merchant Taylors' School. In Dublin he was prosecuted for an attack on the government.
He studied at the Merchant Taylors' School.
He published books on a variety of subjects, and as a dramatic critic was the bête noir of the London theatrical world. He emigrated to America, probably in 1797 or 1798, after the loss of a suit for libel which he had brought against Robert Faulder, a bookseller. About this time he is said to have edited a New York democratic newspaper called the Federalist, but no such newspaper is known of that time and place. William Dunlap's diary for 1798 has a number of references to him.
On June 29 his "afterpiece 'The federal Oath or (Columbians) Americans strike home'" was produced - a piece "of patch'd work, " according to Dunlap - and through one of his friends he applied to Dunlap for "a situation in the Theatre next season". Dunlap's impression was far from favorable, however, for he confesses that he "felt an indefinable sort of shrinking from Williams".
In 1799 Williams appears as editor and publisher of the Columbian Gazette, a New York weekly established on April 6, 1799, and discontinued with the twelfth number, June 22. His editorial announcement was signed John Mason Williams, and in other places he used this middle name or initial, but always with newspapers. He appears again in 1804 as editor of the Boston Democrat. He soon fell out with his partners, as is shown in a notice in the Columbian Centinel and Massachusetts Federalist for June 27, in which he warned all subscribers and persons indebted to the establishment against making any payment to it until a future legal arrangement was made, a warning emphatically repudiated by his partners, Benjamin True and Benjamin Parks, in the Democrat of June 30.
Under his pseudonym, Anthony Pasquin, there appeared in Boston (preface dated September 6, 1804) the Hamiltoniad, a savage, intemperate, bombastic anti-federalist poem, more important for its extensive notes than for its verse. A Life of Alexander Hamilton (1804) is sometimes credited to him. It is possible that he may have spent a year or more in London about 1811-12; his Dramatic Censor (London, 1812) issued in twelve monthly parts, is the sole instance of a title published in England during his American years.
He was driven in disgrace from his own country to die in America in a destitution traceable to the identical failings which had made him so thoroughly persona non grata in England.
He died in Brooklyn, New York, of typhus fever, on October 12, 1818.
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He was cursed with a sharp tongue, a vitriolic pen, a measure of facility with the then fashionable and seductive Byronic satirical couplet, and withal a nature so devoid of the faintest intimations of tact, moderation, or good taste in the use of such edged tools that he was continually in hot water if not actually in the law's clutches.
Nothing less than mixed metaphors will adequately characterize the deep-rooted, persistent, temperamental infelicities of this man. He was a stormy petrel, and a bull in the literary and political china shops of two continents. His contemporaries dealt even less gently with him, for he was called by Lord Kenyon "a common libeller, " by Dr. Robert Watt, "a literary character of the lowest description"; and Macaulay's pungent epithets "polecat" and "malignant and filthy baboon" may well be regarded as his chief claims to remembrance if not distinction. He was cursed with a sharp tongue, a vitriolic pen, a measure of facility with the then fashionable and seductive Byronic satirical couplet, and withal a nature so devoid of the faintest intimations of tact, moderation, or good taste in the use of such edged tools that he was continually in hot water if not actually in the law's clutches. A typical illustration of his outrageous language and behavior is described in the Thespian Magazine.