Gazette Of The United States

NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 31.

The President of the United States arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday last—where he was received by the third division of the Middlesex militia, consisting of 1000 men, in complete uniform, under the command of the Hon. Major-General Brooks. The Lieutenant Governor and Council of the Commonwealth (the Governor being indisposed) escorted by Col. Tyler's light dragoons, with a large number of other gentlemen, met the President at Cambridge, from whence they attended him to the metropolis. Between the hours of two and three P. M. he arrived at Boston—It is said his intention was to have entered the town by the way of Charlestown Bridge; but at the request of a respectable committee from the inhabitants, and to coincide with the wishes of the people, and the arrangements made for his reception, he was pleased to alter his route, and accordingly made his entry at the south part of the town, amidst the plaudits of an immense multitude of grateful, free and loyal citizens. The Bells immediately began a joyful peal.—A grand procession was formed, consisting of the civil, clerical, and military professions, with the various branches of trade, arts and manufactures—which with a surrounding concourse, said to amount to upwards of 20,000 persons, attended THE PRESIDENT to the State-House—where the whole procession passed in review before him. The independent military companies, from thence, escorted him to his lodgings in Court-street—where they fired a salute. and were dismissed. The transactions of this joyous day were conducted without the least accident, or confusion. L'ACTIVE. and LE SENSIBLE. two frigates belonging to the division of His Most Christian Majesty's navy, under the command of the Right Hon. The Viscount De Ponteves, were beautifully illuminated in the evening—and fire works exhibited from on board. The public buildings of the town were likewise illuminated, and fire-works displayed in the most public streets. The Procession of the people in Boston must be considered as the greatest mark of attention that they could possibly exhibit to testify their veneration for THE PRESIDENT of the United States—This was the mode they chose to express their feelings on the ratification of the Constitution; an event that excited sensations of pleasure, and rapture in the public mind, superior to any transaction recorded, or that could then be conceived. On Tuesday last, there was to be an Oratorio at the Chapel Church in Boston—it was expected the President would honor the performance with his presence. The universal and spontaneous effusions of gratitude and respect, which are discovered by the people to THE PRESIDENT of the United States in every stage of his progress through the eastern States, afford the liveliest and strongest testimonies of their attachment to this illustrious character—they are, to a feeling heart, and as he beautifully expresses it in his answer to the Hartford Address, "the most acceptable compensation for public services" —while at the same time they are the highest compliment to the patriotism and good sense of the people. When we read accounts of the triumphal entries of the Roman conquerors. with wretched victims dragged at their chariot wheels, how sunk and depraved does human nature appear! Can it be possible that a people who took delight in such spectacles of barbarity, ever felt a sentiment of generous freedom? No—it cannot be supposed that they ever did. Their boasted freedom, and love of liberty, consisted in a power and disposition to humble, and enslave all the world beside. With what propriety then are their examples cited as models for the imitation of the free, and enlightened citizens of the American Republic? The people of the United States love good government and their honest and consistent patriots are respected to a degree of veneration —Nor can an instance be pointed out of their ever deserting, or ceasing to express the strongest attachment to their civil rulers, where abilities and integrity are united, and the public mind has fair play.—But as men of honesty, and fair principles, are more liable to imposition, than characters long practised in the arts of deceit, and cunning—so the generous confidence of the people is often betrayed, by the misrepresentations of those whose interest cannot be advanced, while honest men stand in their way, or enjoy the public esteem.