The Daily Advertiser

ACCOUNT of the REJOICINGS in the City of ALBANY, on Friday the 8th ult.

(Concluded from Saturday's paper.)

Captains of Vessels,

Preceded by Capt. Philip Laning; carrying a Flag of blue silk, on which was a loop without fail's motto, God sends sails.

Merchants and Traders, with their Clerks, Apprentices, &c.

Preceded by Mr. Jacob Cuyler, carrying a large white Flag; in an escutcheon, one ship inward, and another outward bound—supported by two sheaves of wheat—crest a sheaf of wheat, all proper—motto, May our exports exceed our imports.

The Corporations of the Dutch, Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches, preceded by the Clergy.

Sheriff and his Deputies, with white wands.

Constables, with their staves.

Grand-Jury—

Members of the Corporation.

Judges and Justices of the Common Pleas.

The Chancellor.

Gentlemen of the bar, in gowns, followed by their Students.

Schoolmasters followed by their Scholars.

Surveyor-General.

Adjutant-General, and Officers of Militia, in complete uniform.

Physicians and Students.

Detachment of Artillery, commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Hale—the Standard blue silk, on which was a field piece, mortar and burning shell.

The Procession moved, with the greatest regularity through Water Vliet-street, Market-street and State-street, to

The FEDERAL BOWER:

which the van reached at half past twelve o'clock announced by the firing of a gun.

This edifice made an highly elegant appearance. It was erected on the most advantageous part of the heights west of Fort-Frederic; commanding the most extended prospect of any situation near the city; and when the flags of the respective divisions were displayed on its battlements, that of the United States on the centre, that of this State on the right, and the Farmer's on the left, the coup d'oeil was extremely pleasing.

The edifice was 154 feet in length and 44 in breadth, and was raised upon 4 rows of pillars, 15 feet in height, which were close wreathed with foliage, and comprised eleven arches in front.

From the architrave, which was clothed with verdant branches, festoons of foliage were suspended, which crossed the arches; above the centre of which, were white oval medallions, with the name of a ratifying State on each. The centre arch, on the medallion of which was inscribed NEW-YORK, projected some feet before the rest, and with an elegantly finished pediment, formed a graceful portico to the Building. The upper structure of this arch, was ornamented in high taste, with wreaths and festoons of foliage. On the summit of its pediment, immediately under the flag of the United States, was placed "the American Eagle," in carved work, charged with the arms of the United States on its breast, with an olive branch in its dexter, and a bundle of thirteen arrows in its sinister:—Beneath it, in the centre of the pediment, was the crest of the State, also in carved work; and immediately above the arch was the orchestra. Pediments were also raised on the extreme arches of the edifice, and in such a proportion of height and ornament, as to complete the symmetry of the whole.

When the Procession had drawn up in a line, at the rear of the bower, the company marched off, in regular divisions, to the tables, which were plentifully covered with substantial American cheer; handsomely arranged under the direction of Mr. William Van Ingen. And, though the tables, which were eleven in number, placed across the colonnade, in a line with the arches, were by no means sufficient for the company, which in its number far exceeded the expectations of the warmest favorers of the procession, yet, so lively was the pleasurable spirit of accommodation, so general the wish to diffuse satisfaction, that no inconvenience was felt or complained of by any.

After dinner, the following toasts were drank, each honored with the discharge of eleven guns.

1. The United States.
2. The States which have ratified the New Constitution.
3. The late Convention of this State.
4. The Eleventh Pillar in the Federal Edifice.
5. General Washington.
6. The friendly powers of Europe.
7. Agriculture and Commerce.
8. American Manufactures.
9. Inland Navigation, and the Fur Trade restored.
10. The memory of those heroes who have fallen in defence of American liberty.
11. Concord and confidence at home, and respectability abroad.
12. May virtue, patriotism and harmony prevail, and discord be banished from all American councils.
13. May the Union of the States be perpetual.

A gun was then fired, as a signal for again forming the Procession, which was done with the utmost regularity and dispatch. The route then taken, was down State-street into Pearl-street, and through it, Columbia-street, Market-street and Court-street, into the spacious pasture south of Fort Orange; where the whole formed a semi-circle. After eleven guns had been fired from the fort, answered by three cheers from the whole, the respective divisions marched off, at intervals, and, as they passed the fort, received the salute of a single gun, which they returned with three cheers. Thus were the whole dispersed, by degrees, in such order and quiet, that had a stranger, arrived in the city before six o'clock, his observation could never have suggested to him, that there had been any publick meeting, however trifling.

Indeed, it would be injustice to the citizens at large to withhold the strongest commendation of that tranquility and order, which universally prevailed throughout the day, and of that ingenuity and attention, which were conspicuous in every department of the Procession.

It would be injustice to the elegant taste of the gentlemen who planned the bower, not to be lavish in a description of its appearance to Gen. Schuyler, not to describe the heart-felt satisfaction which he plainly appeared to give, when he rode down the line of Procession, immediately before moving, and harangued every part of it, on the propriety of maintaining peace and order—not to James Fairlie, Esq; Marshall of the Procession, and his Assistants Messrs. Thomas L. Witbeck, C. Parus Herkson, John Cuyler, jun. & John Bleecker, not to pay the compliments justly merited by their skillful management—and to Mr. William Van Ingen, not to make those acknowledgements which his services demanded but they, would appear to be the exaggerated language of panegyrick, to all but those who had opportunity to judge of their propriety—and those would certainly have been ready to acknowledge that they felt it. Let it be sufficient to add, that the whole was conducted with a display of order, ingenuity and happiness, that far outwent expectation, and challenged the astonished admiration and the pleasing sensation of every unprejudiced spectator.