Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

By this day's Mail.

BOSTON, April 24.

The following Address to the President and Congress of the United States, breathing the true American spirit, was in circulation in this town yesterday, when upwards of fifteen hundred respectable Citizens of all classes voluntarily subscribed thereto. To accommodate those who may not yet have had an opportunity, and who may wish to join in this honorable and patriotic transaction, Copies of the Address will be deposited at the following places until to-morrow evening:

Taylor's and Cooper's Offices, State-street:
Col. Jos. May's Store, No. 3, Long-Wharf
Nathl. Balch's Shop, Cornhill;
Capt. Joseph Howard's Store, Fore street;
Col. John May's Store, Union Wharf, N.E.

To JOHN ADAMS, President,
And to the Congress of the United States.

THE Subscribers, Inhabitants, and Citizens of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, deeply impressed with the critical and alarming Situation of the United States: and convinced of the necessity of UNANIMITY and FIRMNESS at this interesting moment, beg leave to express to the SUPREME EXECUTIVE, and the CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, their fullest approbation of the measures adopted by THE PRESIDENT relative to our Foreign Relations; their gratitude for his exertions to conciliate the French republic, and his solicitude to settle and accommodate all existing differences, upon terms compatible with the safety, the interest, and the dignity of the United States.

They beg leave also to express their high and elevated opinion of, and confidence in the VIRTUE, the WISDOM, and the PRUDENCE of the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. and their fixed resolution to support, at the risk of their lives and fortunes, such measures as the President and Congress, in their wisdom shall determine to be necessary to promote and secure the honor and happiness of the United States;-Nor can they omit, at this crisis, and upon such an occasion, TO DECLARE TO THE WORLD, THAT "THEY ARE NOT HUMILIATED UNDER A COLONIAL SENSE OF FEAR"-"THEY ARE NOT A DIVIDED PEOPLE;" THAT THEY KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, AND ARE DETERMINED TO SUPPORT THEM.

Boston, April 21st, 1798.