The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, September 1.

On Thursday the 30th of August, at one o'clock in the afternoon, his Excellency the Commander in Chief of the American armies, accompanied by Generals Rochambeau and Chastellux, with their respective suites, arrived in this city. The General was received by the militia light-horse in the suburbs, and escorted into the town: he stopped at the city tavern, and received the visits of several gentlemen: from thence he proceeded to the house of the Superintendent of Finance, where he now has his Head-Quarters. About three o'clock he went up to the State-house, and paid his respects to Congress. He then returned to the Superintendent's, where his Excellency the President of Congress, with the Generals before mentioned, Gen. Knox, Gen. Moultrie, and several other gentlemen, had the pleasure of dining with him: After dinner, some vessels belonging to this port, and then lying in the stream, fired salutes to the different toasts, which were drank; in the evening the city was illuminated, and his Excellency walked through some of the principal streets attended by a numerous concourse of people, eagerly pressing to see their beloved General.