[1] The Gazette is unique among early American partisan newspapers for being substantially supported by a major player within a sitting administration (then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson) while simultaneously attacking that administration's own policies.

Hamilton and other Federalists also financially supported their own partisan newspaper, the Gazette of the United States,[2] although their publication did not attack Washington and his policies, but praised them effusively.

The paper described Alexander Hamilton's financial policies in 1792 as "numerous evils...pregnant with every mischief" and described George Washington's 61st birthday celebration as "a forerunner of other monarchical vices."

The National Gazette unofficially stopped publishing in October 1793, two years after its establishment, citing "a considerable quantity of new and elegant printing types from Europe" to be obtained, but it is believed that the outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia, combined with dwindling subscriptions contributed to the paper's demise.

In December 1793, Jefferson resigned as U.S. Secretary of State, ending Freneau's main source of income aside from the paper.