Apocryphal Washington Quotation?

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." This widely repeated apocryphal quotation from Washington may indeed be genuine after all. It cannot be found in any of the collections of Washington's writings. But some time back, I discovered an old, popular compilation of quotations that attributes it to a Washington speech of January 7, 1790, reported in the Boston Independent Chronicle of January 14, 1790. The Stanford Library has the Boston Independent Chronicle from that period on microform, but I've never found time to go there and check it out. A speech on January 7 would have taken place the day before Washington presented his first annual message to Congress, and given that the capital was then in New York City, having the speech reported a week later in a Boston newspaper is not implausible. Maybe somebody else has time to follow up on this.