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