the American annals, with the same respectful venera. tion as distinguishes the characters of your illustrious predecessors, WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFErson, and MADISON.

May you pursue your journey under the care of a benign Providence, happy in the reflection, that the personal safety of the Chief Magistrate of a republican government, requires no other protection than what arises from the affections of his fellow citizens. In behalf of our brethren and fellow citizens, we most cordially bid you welcome to the metropolis of Massachusetts.

To Henry Dearborn, Benjamin Austin, Thos. Melville, William Little, Russel Sturgiss, John Brazer, Jacob Rhoades, and William Ingalls, Esquires.

I have received, with very great satisfaction, the very friendly welcome which you have given me, on the part of some of the members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and of other citizens of Boston, who had deputed you to offer me their congratulations on my arrival in this metropolis.

Conscious of having exerted my best faculties, with unwearied zeal, to support the rights, and advance the prosperity of my fellow citizens, in the various important trusts with which I have been honoured by my country; the approbation which you have expressed of my conduct, is very gratifying to me.

It has been my undeviating effort, in every situation, in which I have been placed, to promote, to the utmost of my abilities, the success of our republican government. I have pursued this policy, from a thorough conviction, that the prosperity and happiness of the whole American people, depended on the success of the great experiment which they have been called to make. All impartial persons now bear testimony to the extraordinary blessings with which we have been favoured. Well satisfied I am, that these blessings are to be imputed to the excellence of our government, and

to the wisdom and purity with which it has been administered.

Believing that there is not a section of our union, nor a citizen who is not interested in the success of our government, I indulge a strong hope, that they will all unite in future, in the measures necessary to secure it. For this very important change, I consider the circumstances of the present epoch peculiarly favourable. The success and unexampled prosperity with which we have hitherto been blessed, must have dispelled the doubts of all who have before honestly entertained any, of the practicability of our system, and from these a firm and honourable co-operation may fairly be expected. Our union has also acquired, of late, much strength. The proofs which have been afforded, of the great advantages communicated by it, to every part, and of the ruin which would inevitably and promptly overwhelm, even the parts most favoured, if it should be broken, seem to have carried conviction home to the bosoms of the most unbelieving. On the means necessary to secure success, and to advance with increased rapidity, the growth and prosperity of our country; there seems now to be but little, if any dif ference of opinion.

It is on these grounds, that I indulge a strong hope, and even entertain great confidence, that our principal dangers and difficulties have passed, and that the character of our deliberations, and the course of the government itself, will become more harmonious and happy, than it has heretofore been.

Satisfied as I am, that the union of the whole community, in support of our republican government, by all wise and proper measures, will effectually secure it from danger; that union is an object to which I look with the utmost solicitude. I consider it my duty to promote it, on the principles and for the purposes stated; and highly gratified shall I be, if it can be obtained. In frankly avowing this motive, I owe it to the integrity of my views to state, that as the support of our republican government is my sole object, and in which I consider the whole community equally inter

ested, my conduct will be invariably directed to that end. In seeking to accomplish so great an object, I shall be careful to avoid such measures as may, by any possibility, sacrifice it.

JAMES MONROE.

The President remained a number of days in the town of Boston and its vicinity. His object in visiting it, was not to excite the curiosity of its citizens, or to give them an opportunity of displaying the hospitality, for which they have always been celebrated. He went there as the Chief Magistrate of a great country, to view its location, and, with the united counsel of the first military and naval characters, to devise the best means of defending a place of so much consequence to the Northern and Eastern States. wished to pass off a season in all the blandishments of etiquette, and in all the ceremonious forms of modern high life, surely, he could not, in all his extensive native country, have placed himself in a situation more favourable to the accomplishment of his wishes, than in Boston, and its vicinity. If there be a place in the world, where extensive wealth is made an instrument of procuring elegant enjoyment, it is there.

Had the President

But while the President, in the most courteous and affable manner, received and acknowledged the numerous manifestations of private hospitality, his mind was undeviatingly fixed upon the great object of his Tour; the advancement of the public interest. During his residence, he visited most of the important manufactories in the town, and in its neighbourhood. In the places at which the President, in his Tour, made any stay, his first attention was given to objects of national

defence; but his next was devoted to the various manufacturing establishments. On this subject he has expressed not only his delight, but his surprize at their extent and improvement. He mentioned, I am told, at Waltham, that a few such establishments as he there saw, would be sufficient to supply the United States with cotton fabrics. He renewed his acquaintance with many of his early revolutionary associates, and, at many private parties, witnessed that elegance and refinement, which is in no way inconsistent with republican simplicity, the most striking characteristic of the President.

It would be too much in the style of an English Tourist, describing the visits of a Prince, to designate every splendid mansion, and every brilliant party he honour ́ed and adorned by his presence.

"The Cincinnati of Massachusetts were presented to him, when Colonel Tudor, Vice President of the Society, (the President, Governour Brooks, being on other public duty) presented to him the following Address."

TO JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIR-Whilst meeting you, as one of the most distinguished brothers, permit us especially to thank you for furnishing an opportunity of saluting another Chief Magistrate of the United States taken from our ranks ; and to offer to you all the assurances of respect and affection, which it becomes a Society like ours to present, and which we pray you to accept as flowing from hearts, first united by the powerful sympathies of common toils and dangers. Although time is fast reducing our ori

ginal associates, we trust that while one remains, he will never desert the standard of Freedom and his Country; or our sons forget the sacred duties their sires had sworn to discharge. We fought to obtain security, self-government, and political happiness, and the man who can approve both the principles and the means, can never be indifferent to the social designs which such a warfare contemplated; for among those purposes were included the restoration of good humour, good manners, good neighbourhood, polished integrity, with a spirit of mild and manly patriotism.

We congratulate you, as the highest representative of our beloved country, that party animosity has, on all sides, so far subsided, before the Day Star of sound national policy and we look with confidence to a wise and liberal administration of the Presidency to produce its termination.

And now, sir, in bidding you a long farewell-for, from our lessening numbers, such another occasion can scarcely again occur, we join our best wishes, that when you shall seek a retreat from the honourable fatigues of public energies, in which so large a portion of your life has been employed, that your retirement may be accompanied by the applause of the wise, and the concurrent blessings of a prosperous and united republican empire.

ANSWER

of the President of the United States, to the address from the Society of Cincinnati.

SIR-The affectionate address of my brothers of the Cincinnati, awakens in my mind the most grateful emotions. No approbation can be more dear to me, than that of those with whom I have had the honour to share the common toils and perils of the war for our independence. We were embarked in the same sacred cause of Liberty, and we have lived to enjoy the reward of our common labours.

Many of our companions in arms, fell in the field be