Gazette Of The United States

NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER 21.

Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, (New-Hampshire) dated Nov. 4.

The illustrious PRESIDENT of the United States left this town this morning, on his return to New-York.

He spent several days here, in which time he visited our river and harbor—and once disembarked on the most northern district of our Union—the old Province of Maine.—

He delighted every one—and appeared himself not to be displeased with his tour.—

Nothing could exceed the flocking together of the people, of every rank and denomination, as he came through the country, and their universal acclamations of joy and satisfaction at his appearance.—He was heard repeatedly to solicit, that the crowds who attended him, and lined the roads as he passed, would not follow him, but would return to their homes and their employ, as he could not be convinced but that it must be inconvenient to them.

In these instances, however, his solicitations were fruitless : The ball as it rolled on, most rapidly increased—even rivers, and other natural obstacles neither impeding its progress, nor diminishing its size.—

The opposition to our present system of Government was in this quarter feeble before this Prime Conductor of our affairs made his appearance here.—It is now expiring.—

If the form of our government did not recommend itself sufficiently to every one, the present chief administrator of it would reconcile all parties, till a fair experiment has been made.—

Nothing appeared to escape the President’s notice as he passed and those objects which merited his particular attention, he always stopped to observe.—His respects to every one were pointed and exact and no one went from his presence dissatisfied.—

The addresses preferred to him by most of the corporations and different orders of men among whom he passed, and the eulogies he was constrained to hear from the clergymen at whose churches he attended, were such as the crowned heads of other countries would part with their diadems to receive They contained the grateful incense of honest hearts—where soul met soul together :—Indeed the great and good man appeared sometimes to be almost overwhelmed,—

The President absolutely declined, and even forbid any further parade and attendance upon him.—He left the town about sun-rise. having only the gentlemen of his family, Mr. Lear, and Major Jackson—and his own servants to attend him.