the town of Seekonk and Attleborough on horseback. Captain Hunt's Cavalry opened to the right and left, and the President, after passing through them, alighted, and received the respects of a number of attending citizens, gentlemen of that town. In a few moments after the President, having received the salutations of Major General Crane, and Brigadier General Guild, of the second brigade, first division, was escorted through General Guild's brigade by a battalion of Cavalry, commanded by Maj. Pond. At Wrentham, he reviewed the third regiment of Infantry of the second brigade, commanded by Colonel Gowen, partook of a collation, provided in a style of village simplicity by the Selectmen of that town. At Walpole, he halted a few moments at Clapp's Inn, where a number of citizens of the ⚫ neighbourhood were introduced to him; and then continued his route to Dedham, where he arrived at 7 o'clock, P. M. His arrival was announced by a national salute from the battalion of Artillery, commanded by Maj. Holbrook. He then reviewed the regiment of Infantry, under the command of Colonel Fisher; a battalion of Artillery, commanded by Major Holbrook, and the Cavalry, commanded by Major Pond; and took up his quarters for the night, at the elegant mansion of Mr. Dowse, where a committee from the town of Salem, Major General Dearborn, and a great number of other gentlemen, paid their respects to him. It is but justice to the troops reviewed, to say that their conduct was not only military, but highly exemplary.

In the morning, the President proceeded on foot to Mr. Polly's Inn, where a number of the citizens of the town and country, the officers of the Army and Navy,

and about 150 of the officers of the first division, were introduced to him. Escorted by a battalion of Cavalry, under the command of Major Hollis, from General Dearborn's brigade, the President, and Com. Bainbridge, Gen. Miller, Mr. Mason, his Secretary, and Col. Sumner, his Staff, (designated by him for the occasion) followed by his suite, consisting of the officers of the Army and Navy of the United States, followed by Major General Crane, and the officers of the first division, and a number of the citizens of Norfolk county, on horseback, proceeded to Roxbury, where he reviewed a regiment of infantry, commanded by Col. Dudley, and a battalion of artillery, commanded by Maj. Gale; from thence he proceeded to the Boston lines, passing through the Guard, consisting of Capt. Turner's Light Infantry company from Quincy.”

In this splendid manner was the President escorted from the southern boundary of Massachusetts to its capital, receiving that respect which it had been enjoined upon the official authorities to manifest by a legislative decree.

He had before passed through a part of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island. He had visited their capitals, and those parts of them most exposed to the incursions of an enemy from the ocean, in order to enable him to determine upon the best mode of defending them.

He had every where witnessed unequivocal indicacations of the attachment and respect of a patriotic people; and this respect must have been highly grateful to his feelings, when he knew that it was voluntary.

When he entered the commonwealth of Massachusetts, he was respected by command of The Supreme power of the State. It would be, perhaps, too fastidious to enquire why the legislature of a State, that had more decidedly opposed the measures of the President than any other in the Union, should be the only one to command the people to respect him. It is enough to say, he was thus respected; and that no human heart can remain unmoved, when an antagonist offers the hand of reconciliation. It is at such a time, that the divine maxim— to err is human, to forgive divine," is called into practice. Should it be asked why the treasures of the State, collected from every district in it, should be expended for the gratification of a few? It may also be asked, would any citizen of the State, withhold his mite to receive the Chief Dignitary of the greatest Republic, and perhaps the only one on earth, in a manner suitable to his exalted station.

The manner of his reception in the town of Boston is thus described by one of its own editors.

"A few minutes past 12 o'clock, the President reached the southern barrier of the town, and was met by the Committee of Arrangements, when the Hon. Mr. Otis, from the Committee, addressed him as follows:

SIR-You are now arrived within the limits of Boston, and these gentlemen are a Committee appointed to welcome your approach, and to escort you to your lodgings. Upon your arrival there, they will avail. themselves of your permission, to express to you, in a more formal and respectful mode, than can be done here, the assurances of the unfeigned satisfaction which the citizens of Boston realize in the hopour you have been pleased to confer upon them by this visit.

"A procession was then immediately formed, and the illustrious visitant escorted to the Exchange Coffee House.

The procession, proceeded through Washington street, and Orange street, to Boylston market; thence through Boylston street, to an opening in the Common, between the Mall and Gun-house; through lines, formed by the scholars of the different schools, in Boston, attended by their several instructors; northwardly over the Common, toward the State House, to a point opposite the west end of Winter street; thence across the Mall, through Winter street, Marlborough street, and Cornhill; north side of the old State House, and State street, and by the east side of Broad street, as far as Milk street; thence by the west side of Broad street, to State streét, and by the south side of State street, to the head of Congress street, where the President left the procession, with the Committee of Arrangements, who were received by the Independent Company of Cadetts, under Lieut. Col. Rogers, with the customary salutes, and conducted to the rooms in the Exchange Coffee House, which had been provided for the President's reception.

During the march of the cavalcade, salutes were fired from Dorchester Heights, from the Common, Fort Independence, Navy Yard, and 74 gun ship. On passing through State-street, which was fancifully decorated with flags of the United States, a band of music placed in the balcony, fronting the Union Bank, saluted the President, as he passed, with a number of appropriate and patriotic airs.

The numerous merchant vessels in our harbour, honoured the occasion by a display of their flags.

A finer day could not have intervened to add brilliancy and eclat to the interesting scene.

The crowd of spectators in the street, through which the procession passed, and more particularly on the Common, was much greater than has been witnessed in this place, since the visit of the sainted Washington. Notwithstanding this circumstance, the utmost decorum prevailed; and the procession was conducted throughout, with an order, precision, and regularity, that peculiarly marked the intelligence by which it was directed. On entering the Common, and passing thro' the lines, skirted and adorned by the youths of Boston, the pride and hope of their sires, and of the State, the scene became affectingly interesting, and was participated in, by a more numerous concourse of people, than we ever recollect to have seen on that green and picturesque area. The houses, situated adjacent to the line of march, were filled to repletion.

Shortly after the arrival of the President, at his rooms in the Exchange, he accompanied the Committee of Arrangements to the second gallery of that magnificent building, where Mr. Bulfinch, the Chairman of that Committee, read to him an Address, in behalf of the citizens of Boston, congratulating him on his arrival within the metropolis of Massachusetts; to which the President made an immediate reply. A large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, filling the 1st, 3d, and 4th galleries, as well as the area. Col. Austin, on the President retiring, gratified the audience by