Kentucky Gazette

It is to be regretted that, in the pressure of the multitude of persons who were present at the inauguration, it was impracticable for the Secretary of State, and the diplomatic body, to reach the place assigned for them during the delivery of the inaugural address. After the ceremonies of the morning were concluded, the diplomatic body paid their parting respects to General Jackson, and their congratulations to the President, in the ladies' drawing room of the President's house. The Senor Don Angel Calderon de la Barca, Minister of Spain, (the oldest minister present,) was the organ by which their sentiments were expressed. These addresses, and the answers of the General and the President, we have obtained, and now publish them for the gratification of our readers,—Globe.

ADDRESS TO GENERAL JACKSON.
General: The diplomatic body, in taking leave of your Excellency, considers it their agreeable duty to express to you their gratitude for the friendly kindness with which they have been always received by you, as well as for your successful endeavors to preserve the harmony existing between this Republic and the Governments they represent in Washington.

May God bestow upon you, General, in the private condition to which you are now going to retire, all the blessings of domestic felicity and perfect health. Such are the sentiments, and such the sincere wishes, of every one of the members of the diplomatic body, whose interpreter it is my happy lot and my honor to be on the present occasion.

GENERAL JACKSON'S REPLY.
Gentlemen: I receive with great sensibility this manifestation of personal kindness from the diplomatic body. It is particularly grateful to me to know that my constant desire to observe towards all of you that courtesy, which was due to your representative and personal characters, has been felt and understood. I thank God that my country, during my administration of its affairs, has maintained its peaceful relations with yours, and I feel assured that they will long endure, under the general conviction that reciprocal justice is the duty of nations in their intercourse with each other.

For your prosperity in this world you have my best wishes, and for your happiness in that to which, in the order of nature, I must expect to go before you, you shall have my fervent prayers.

ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT.
Mr. President: The diplomatic body accredited to this Republic has the honor of congratulating your Excellency on the flattering proof of confidence and regard given to you by your fellow-citizens.—They nourish the pleasing and firm hope that during the time that you will fill the elevated station of first magistrate of the Union, the friendly relations happily subsisting between the United States and the Governments represented in Washington, will not only be preserved, but extended and strengthened by the wisdom of your Excellency's administration.

Mr. President, I esteem it at once a happiness and an honor to be, on this solemn occasion, the recollection of which will never be effaced from my mind, the interpreter of the feelings which animate the diplomatic body towards your Excellency, and to fulfil the agreeable duty of expressing to you, in the name of each of the members who compose it, the sincere wishes they entertain for the increasing prosperity of this Republic, and for your personal glory and happiness.

THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
Sir: I am deeply affected by the congratulations of the diplomatic body accredited to the United States.
That the friendly relations so happily subsisting between the Governments you represent and the United States may never be interrupted, should be the wish of all. You do me but justice in supposing that the promotion of this end will constitute a cardinal feature of my official action. In my efforts to accomplish it, I shall be encouraged by the conviction that in no way can I more effectually fulfil the desire, or promote the welfare, of my constituents—the people of the United States.

I take great pleasure in expressing, on this occasion, my earnest wishes for the prosperity of the nations you respectively represent, and for the personal happiness and renown of those who preside over them.

To yourself, sir, and to the other members of the diplomatic body, I desire to offer, with my sincere acknowledgments for the kind feelings employed in your address, the assurance of my personal esteem and cordial good wishes.