T( our pre fence recalls to our admiration that affeaiblage of talents, which with impenetrable secrecy, and unvarying decision, Under the smiles of Divine I rovidence, guided to vidtory and peace the complicated events of the late long and ardu ous war. The scenes of perilous horror through which you conducted the American arms, taught your country and mankind to receive you as t |^ e oreat eit of heroes. Your sacred regard to the rights of freemen, and the virtues of humanity, inspir ed the united voice of all America to hail you as the firftand wortliieft of citizens. With grateful veneration we behold the father of his country—our friend—our fellow-citizen our supreme magi (Irate. When peace had succeeded to the viciflitudes of war, your ardent desire for retirement was famftioned by the voice of patriotism. Your country has again solicited your aid, In obedience to her wilhes, you have facrificed the felicity of dignified retirement, and have hazard ed oil thetempeftuous ocean of public life the rich treasure of your fame. This display of patriot zeal gives you a new right, to what you before poflelled, the hearts of all your fellow-citizens. While we thusexprefs our sentiments, and those of the freemen whom we represent, we beg li berty to allure you of our zeal to support your pub lic administrations. May the Divine Being, who has given you as an example to the world, ever have you in his holy keeping; may he long preserve you, the happiness and the glory of our country : May the ailurance, that the government formed under your auspices will bless future generations, re joice the evening of your life ; and may you be finally rewarded with the full glories of immor tality.' 11l the name and behalf of the Legislature of the State of Connecticut. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, Governor. To which Address the President was pleased to return the following atifwer. To the Legislature of the State of Connecticut. GENTLEMEN, COULD any acknowledgments which language 71 light convey, do juflice to the feelings excited by your partial approbation oj my paj,} services, and your ajf ettionate viijhei for my future happiness, I wol/ld endeavour to thank you :—But to minds difpojed as your's are, it mill fuffice to observe, that your address meets a mo ft grateful rrciption, and is reciprocated in allits viijhes with unfeigned ftneeiity. If the prosperity of our' common country has in any degree been pro-,noted by my military exertions, the toils which attended them, have been amply rewarded by the approving voice of my fallow citizens. I was but the humble agent of favouring Heaven, whose be -1 r.ign interfere nee was so often manifefled in our behalf, and to whom the praif; of viflory alone is due. In launching aghin on the ocean of events, I have obeyed a summons to which I can never be ir.fenfible. When my country demands the facrifice, personal ease will always be a secondary conji deration. I cannot forego this opportunity to felicit at: th: Le gislature ofConneCticut on the pirn ft tig profpeft which an abundant harvefl presents to its citizens.—May induflry like theirs, ever receive its reward, and may the smiles of Heaven, crown all endeavors which are prompted by virtue, among which it is juflice to efli mateyour ajfurance of supporting our equal govern ment. C. WASHINGTON. New-Haven, Oflober 17th, 1 759. The Address of the Congregational Ministers of the city of New-Haven. To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. SIR, THE Congregational Ministers of the city of New-Haven, beg leave to make their 1110 ft ref peiftful address to the President of the United States. We presume that we join with the whole collective body of the congregational Paftorsand Presbyterian Ministers throughout thefc States, in the most cordial congratulations of themselves, of their country, and of on your elevation to the head of the combined American Republic. As Ministers of the blefled JESUS, the Prince of Peace, we rejoice, and have mexpreflible pleasure in the demonstrations you have given of your sin cere affection towards that holy religion, which isthe glory of christian States, and will become the glory of the world itfelf, at that happy per iod, when Liberty, public Right, and the vener ation of the MOST HIGH, who presides in the Universe with a<anoft holy and benevolent Sove reignty, shall triumph among all the Nations, Kingdoms, Empires, and Republics on earth.— We most fincerelv rejoice in the kind and graci ous Providence of ALMIGHTY GOD, who hath been pleased to preserve your life, during your late dangerous sickness, and toreftoreyou to such degree of health, as gives us this opportunity to express our joy, and affords us the most pleasing hopes that your health may be firmly established. Wc pray the Lord of Hosts, by whose counsels and wifdomyon have been carried triumphantly and gloriously through the late war, terminating in the eftablifhmcnt of American Liberty, and perhaps in the liberty of all nations, that he Would be pleased ever to have you under liis holy proteiflion, continue you a blefllng to Church and State, lupport you under your arduous cares, and perpetuate that ellimation and honor, which you have justly acquired of your country. May this new and riling Republic become, under your auf pices,the moil glorious for population, perfection of policy and happy admin ill ration of govern ment that ever appeared on earth. And may you, Sir, having finifhed a course of distinguished ufe fulnefs, receive the rewai'd ofpublic virtue in the kingdom of eternal glory. EZRA STILES, JAMES DANA, , JONATHAN EDWARDS, SAMUEL WALES, SAMUEL AUSTIN, jun. City of New-Haven, o{l. 17 } 1789. To which the PRESIDEN T was pleased to return the following Answer. To the Congregational Ministers of the City of New-Haven. gentlemen, THE kind congratulations contained in your address, claim and receive my grateful and affettionate thanks. Rcfpefting, as I do, the favourable opinions of men distinguished for science and piety, it would be falfe delicacy to disavow the fatisfailion, which I derive from their approbation of my public services, and pri vate condud. Regarding that deportment, which confijls with true religion, as the bejl security oj temporal peace, and the sure mean of attaining eternal felicity, it will be my earnejl endeavour (as far as human frailty can re solve) to inculcate the belief and practice of opinions which lead to the consummation of those desirable ob jects. The tender interefl which you have taken in my per• fonal happiness, and the obliging manner in which you express yourselves on the reparation of my health, are so forcibly impressed on my mind as to render language inadequate to the utterance of my feelings.— If it Jhall pieitfe the Great Disposer of Events to HJlen to the pious supplication, which you have presented in my be half, I trujt the remainder of my days will evince the gratitude of a heart devoted to the advancement of those objefls, which receive the approbation of Heaven, and promote the happiness of our fellow-men. My be!} prayers are offered to the Thront of Grace for your happiness, and that of the congregations com mitted to your care. G. W ASHING TON. City* of New-Haven, Ottober 1 jth, 1 789. *1 he citizens of this place were highly gratified by the prrfence of Ihi President of the United States, who came to town last Saturday attemoon in good health. The next day he attended Divine Service in Trinity Chu'ch. His Excellency the Governor, his Hon. the Lieutenant Governor, Hon. Roger Sherman, the Hon. the Speaker, of the House of Re presentatives, with the Tr easu r er, dined with him ;—and at tended the afternoon Service, at the Rev. Dr. Edwards's Meet ing. Early on Monday morning the Pr eside nt fj t out from hence, ior the Eastern Statts. I.aft week was received and dcpofitcd in the public Library of Vai e-Co l 1. ece, a grand and elegant Portrait of the Honorable ELIHUYALE, Eft}. Governor of Fort St. George in the East- Indies, from whom the UniveHity in this City received its name. I his Portrait is the Donation of the Hon. Dudley North, Esq. of Glcmham in Suffolk, Great-Britain, a Descendant of Governor Y a le, and a Member of Parliament ; and it was obtained by the Address of Samuel Bioome, Esq. Merchant, of this City. NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 24. The addreffesof the corporate, legislative, and other bodies of our free citizens, to The Presi dent of the United States, maybe conlidered asfo many pledges of their affectionate regards to the Political Father and Savior of his Country—and of their warm attachment to that Constitution which he is by their fuffrages appointed to admini fter—aConftitution which is equally dear to him —and the adoption of which he appears to con sider in all his answers to the Addrefles, as the molt happy and important acquisition to this highly favored nation. How important is it that the people of the Uni ted States lliould be tenacious of their own adopt ed Constitution, which secures to them and their posterity, that precious palladium of liberty, afree and just representation in their National Legisla ture ! Every attempt that (hall tend to lessen their veneration for a system, which is supported by this inestimable right, is a most atrocious offence against the public freedom and happiness. The ship Maflachufetts, India-man, of 800 tons has been furnifhed with the whole of her Canvas from the Manufactory of Boston. Old ocean soon Hiall fleets behold, Eclipsing all in story told. See Commerce spread the swelling fail ! See our own canvas catch the gale ! And waft to earth's remotest shores, Th'exuberance of our boundless stores. The President of the United States,it is sup posed, will arrive in Boston this day.—Among other demonftrationsof joy on the occasion, it has been proposed to have a grand procefllon of the artifuns and mechanics of that metropolis. EXTRACTS. " It is the language of Court fychophants, and the tools of power in arbitrary governments to reprei'ent the great mass of the people as licen tious, untratfiable, and ungovernable—as igno rant and obstinate ; and that it is only by touch ing their felfifh passions that they become in any degree manageable ; that if their fuffrages ar e not bought, tlieybeftow tliem on persons of their own calt; men ignorant of the laws, and the Con ilitution ; ofaleve] ling temper, who facrifice eve ry consideration to please their creators; who are perpetually clogging the wheels of govern ment, and keeping the State in anarchy and con fullon. "On the other Viand,in free governments, the candidates lor power and popularity, the dema gogues of party,, hold a quite different language. At the expence of truth, honor and justice, they extol the people's wisdom and patriotism ; and while they cry up tlie maxim that' all are born free anil equal,' they extend the idea to such lengths, as to create diftimflions and annihilate the rights of the minority. Knowing that bodies of men are as susceptible of flattery,as individuals,they daub the multitude with intemperate praise, till having inspired falfe sentiments in the minds of the peo ple, of their own dignity, and importance—of their being superior to the laws and the Confti tutien ; the way is prepared for the subversion of government, and the introduction of despotism. For unprincipled demagogues are the ltufF of which the worst of Tyrants are formed. " It is the glory of our free Conftitutioji that no law can be made but by the people in their proxies, or representatives ; and when those lavfs are made the people are the constituted judges thereof, on their Jury Tribunals, throughout the respective States. The privilege of making laws, and of judging offaid laws (when made) on juries, coinpofes as it were a rudder, wheiebythe people ft e'er the vejfel of their own Common wealth." (p3" The Speculation signed Jovicularis having been mislaid is the reason of its not being acknowledged before. —We jhould be glad of a. further communication from the author, as ice think ins plan notfufficicnt 1y obvious to be iuterejling. (Pj* WANTED, to complete Files of this paper, numbers 30,40, 43, 44, 46, and 48 : Six pence each will be paidJor eithc of those numbers' at the office of the Editor. OClober 24. NEW-YORK, October 24, 1789. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Sept. 19, 1 789. ESTIMATE of the EXPENDITURE For the CIVIL LIST of the United States, for the Year 1789. (CONTINUED.) For the Government of the Wejlcrn Territory. Dolls. 90ths. THE Governor, 2,000 Secretary of the Government, 740 Three Judges, at 800 dollars each, 2,400 Suoerintendant of Indian Affairs, Southern De pat tment, 1000 v Gographer of the United States, *559° 7,640 Penjxons on the Civil Lift. ") A pension of 2CO dol- Isaac Van Vert, I Urs pr. annum, to cach, John Paulding, ypurfuant to an Ast of Da v id Willi a ms, | of 3d October J 1788, is 600 Dominique L'Eclise, pr. act of Bth August* 1782, pr. annum, 120 Joseph Tr a v ersi e, pr. act of Bth Augufl, 1782, pr. annum, 120 Youngcll children of the late Major General Warren, pr. act of the lft July, 1780, 450 Eldefl foa of do. pr. act of Bth April, 1777, cfti mated, 600 Youngest son of Gen. Mercer, pr. Ast of the Bth April, 1777, estimated at 700 JA M» S MCK« Nll Pr B aa ° f ??!> Se P temb / r ' JO.eph B RUSS ELS ) Vj B 3' r " t ' tletltoa P enrion John Jordan, Cot f dollirs f r ' annum J ) each* 120 Elizabeth Bergen, pr. act of 21ft Aug. 1789. 53 30 Joseph De Beauleau, pr. act of sth Aug. 1782, 100 RiCHARDGRiDLEY,pr. aftsof 17th November, *775» °f 26th February 1781, 444 36 Lieutenant Colonel Touzard, pr. act of 27th October, 1778, 360 George M.White Eyes, an Indian youth, who was lately under the care of Colonel George Morgan, at Princeton, New-Jersey, but now in the city of New-York, educated, pr. act of 13th Octo ber, 1781 — The cxpence for one year was 354 82 f , . r 4> 022 5 8 In relation to the prefentgovernment. Dolls. 100 ths. For the compensation to the Prefidcnt of the United States, 25,000 That of the Vice Prefidcnt) 5,000 That of the Members of Congress, computing the attendance of the whole number from the 3d of March to the 22d of September, both days inclusive, two hundred and four days, fay 81 members, at fix dollars per day, 99,144 1 ravelling expenccs, by «ftimation, there being no data for accurate calculation, jo.ooo The Secretary of the Senate, .it the rate of i, 5 00 dollars pr. annum, from the Bth of April, being the day of his appointment, to the 22d of Sept. 687 50 Additional allowance from the time of appoint ment to the 22d' of Sept. one hundred and fixty eight days, at two dollars per day, ' Principal Clerk to the Secretary o£ the Senate, from the Bth of May, being the day of his appoint- • ment, to the 22d of Sept. one hundred and thirty eight days, at three dollars pr. day, 4 ,, Engrossing Clerk, fame«ime, at two dollars, 276 Chaplain to the Senate, from the 15th of April, the time of his appointment, to the 22d of Septem ber, at the rate of 500 dollars per annum, 221 Door-keeper to the Senate, from the commence ment of the feflion, being the third of March, to the 22d ol September, two hundred a?d four days, at three dollars per day. gj., Meffengcr to the' Senate, from the Bth of April, the time of flis appointment, to the 22d of Septem ber, one hundred and Gxtv-eijht days, at two dol lars per day, g 142,026 5O
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