town, and in its vicinity, examining, with minute atten tion, the various manufactories, admiring the surrounding country, and enjoying the cordial attachment of the citizens.

He left this place upon the 10th September, and prosecuted the remaining part of his Tour with great rapidity to Washington. It is impossible to notice the numerous demonstrations of respectful and sincere attachment every where shown the President in the long range of fertile and flourishing country, from the head of the Ohio, to the city of Washington. His passage through this part of the country was so expeditious, that the people could have but little notice of his approach ; and could not display that arrangement in welcoming their beloved Chief, which many large towns, which he approached more slowly and visited more leisurely, had an opportunity to make. Indeed the President, having for more than three months, been surrounded by multitudes of citizens; escorted by numerous bodies of soldiers, and formally addressed by numerous corporations, must have found it a relief to pass through a country where the people could not bestow upon him any, but the sudden and spontaneous effusions of admiration.

The citizens of Hagerstown, however, having ascertained the time when he would reach that place, addressed him as follws:

"Suitable arrangements having been made to receive him by a committee appointed for that purpose; the following address, on behalf of the citizens, was delivered by Colonel Otho Williams."

TO JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The citizens of Hagerstown, by their committee appointed for that purpose, beg leave to welcome you to this place, and to offer you their cordial and respectful salutations. They sincerely unite with their countrymen, in the expressions of esteem and confidence to which your character and exalted station entitle you. The visit with which you are pleased to honour them, is highly gratifying, and they are happy that the Tour of your Excellency, undertaken for the promotion of objects of great national importance, affords them an opportunity of bidding their Chief Magistrate a cordial welcome.

Whilst the arduous journey you have encountered, affords to many of your fellow citizens the opportunity of seeing you, they rejoice, at the same time in the belief that the information, relative to the great and various interests of the United States, which you have de rived from actual observation, will facilitate your arrangements for their future defence and security.

They unite their best wishes for your health and hap piness, and pray that the blessings of heaven may attend you through life, and that you may have the pleasure of seeing our beloved country prosperous and happy under your auspices, and that the course and close of your administration may entitle you to the gratitude and affection of the people of the United States, and the respect of posterity.

The President left this place upon the 16th, and, upon the same day reached Fredericktown, the seat of justice for Frederick county, Maryland. He here reached a town, situated upon one of the tributary streams of the Potomack, upon the banks of which he was born. The citizens of this place welcomed the man "the people delight to honour." They addressed him in the following terms:

TO HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of Frederick, just apprised of your arrival amongst them, hasten to offer you their warmest congratulations, on your safe return, thus far, from a Tour, performed from the highly laudable and patriotic motive of promoting your country's weal. They are also particularly gratified, that you have favoured them with a visit, as flattering as it was unexpected; and beg leave to offer you their best wishes for your private happiness, and prosperous discharge of your official duties. They will also be pleased with an increased gratification, if your arrangements will permit you to dine with them, and the citizens of Frederick, to-morrow, at three o'clock.

LAWRENCE BRENGLE, Mayor.

"To which the President made an appropriate verhal reply. He observed that he had undertaken the Tour for the purpose of informing himself as to the actual state of fortifications, &c. that he was now on his return from accomplishing that object. Public business demanding his immediate attention at Washington, he was under the necessity of declining the polite invitation of the citizens of Fredericktown to a public dinner, however much his private feelings might urge him to the acceptance of that mark of respect. He felt gratified that his tour had been attributed to the proper motive, the disposition to promote the prosperity of his country."

Upon the morning of the 17th September, the President commenced the day's travel which was to complete his extensive, interesting, laborious, and highly important Tour.

It excites no surprise that the passage of the Supreme Magistrate of a great people, inhabiting an extensive country, should raise the curiosity, and excite the admiration, and even the wonder of that portion of the people who occupy parts of it remote from the seat of government. It is there where the power of the ruler assumes the most imposing aspect-it is there where his character developes itself most impressively-it is there where he is most familiarly known. Ferdinand the VII. may be adored by the wretched peasants who reside at the base of the Pyrenees, and who drag out a miserable existence near the bay of Biscay. But how is he estimated at his court, where the inquisition is wielded as the weapon of his vengeance, and where he drags to the torture and the scaffold, the veterans who brough him from exile to his throne, and who still support him in his horribly abused power?

The long absence of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, from Washington, elicited the ardent sparks of joy upon his return. His departure from that place left a vacuum in the political centre of the American Republic, like that which the exit of SAMUEL JOHNSON made in the modern literary world.

To use the language of one of the most finished scholars of later times, it “left a vacuum which nothing beside, not only could not fill, but which nothing beside had any tendency to fill." His approach to this place, was hailed with that joy, with whieh children hail the approach of a beloved parent to the bosom of his beloved family. It shews that "those who know him best, love him most." During his passage from Fredericktown to Washington, the people could do nothing but watch his movement

with silent admiration, blessing him in their hearts, as their political father, and in their hearts welcoming his return to the place he fills with so much dignitythe Chair of State.

He was thus received at Washington:

"On Wednesday, (the 17th September,) just at the setting of the sun, the President arrived from his northern Tour, at the house prepared for the dwelling of the Chief Magistrate of the nation. On his approach to the District, he was met, a few miles from Georgetown, by the Mayor, and a deputation of citizens from that town, who welcomed his return. At the limits of the District, he was met by a cavalcade of citizens, from the District generally, on horseback, and in carriages, who were soon joined by a troop of horse from Alexandria, and a band of music, who escorted him to his dwelling in this city. On his approach to the lines of Georgetown, he was greeted by a national salute from a detachment of Georgetown artillery, which was responded by Fort Washington. On approaching his mansion, the President was received by the Marine Corps, under the command of Major Miller, with the honour due to his station. He dismounted at the door of his residence, and was received by many of his fel low citizens, who waited his arrival. Gen. J. P. Van Ness, delivered a verbal congratulation and welcome to the President, in behalf of the citizens of the District of Columbia; to which he gave a very affectionate reply, and adverted to objects and circumstances of his Tour; spoke of the cordiality with which he was eye.