Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

UNITED STATES.
STOCKBRIDGE, July 8.
INDEPENDENCE.

On Friday last, the 4th July, a large and respectable number of gentlemen from various parts of the county assembled at Great Barrington, to celebrate the memorable event which gave rank to America among the nations of the earth. At one o'clock they moved in procession from the House of Captain W. Pynchon, to the Meeting House, where the Rev. Mr. Judson, of Sheffield, addressed the Throne of Grace, in a suitable and well adapted Prayer—After which an excellent Oration was delivered by John Whiting, Esq. commemorative of those great events which led to the establishment of American Independence.—The company then returned to Captain Pynchon's; and, at about 4 o'clock, they sat down to an elegant entertainment, provided on the occasion, under a beautiful Bower, on an adjoining green. After dinner the following Toasts were drank, accompanied with the discharge of cannon:

1. The DAY. (Three Cheers)
2. The PRESIDENT. the Man of the PEOPLE. (Three Cheers)
3. Our Country. and the National Legislature—May its Councils always be pure and enlightened.
4. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
5. Liberty, May it be the first object of Government to secure it against the efforts of faction, licentiousness and tyranny.
6. The memory of the great men who fought and fell in the cause of America.
7. The Vice-President, and the other Patriots by whose wisdom, under the smiles of Providence, America was conducted through perils, to peace, liberty and safety.
8. May this land of Freedom, fertilized by the blood of heroes, never be stained by the footsteps of Tyrants. polluted by violence or civil discord, nor its fair fruits blasted, by the insidious machinations of those canker worms of society, false but pretended patriots.

9. The Chief Justice of the United States, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of London—May his mission be successful; otherwise may America be unanimous in asserting her honor, and avenging the unprovoked insults of her citizens.

10. The Secretary of the Treasury—May his talents, integrity and industry receive their just reward, the grateful acknowledgements of his fellow-citizens.

11. The means of Education—May this sentiment be universal that intelligence and virtue are indispensable to the support of republican government.

12. The most useful and honorable class of citizens, The Husbandmen of America.

13. May every self created society which attempts to obstruct or control the expressions of the public will, by the Constitutional Representatives of the People, meet their abhorrence and detestation.

14. Our Fair Countrywomen.

15. Freedom and happiness to all mankind.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS

By the Hon. Mr. Sedgwick. The good People of Berkshire.

By Col. Larned. The Orator of the Day.

By Elisha Lee, Esq. The only orthodox Political Club, The whole People—May this Club bruise the heads of faction and sedition.