THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR.

Lyman Law, a committee, and selected also marshals for the day, to carry their arrangements into effect.

On Wednesday, the 25th, at one o'clock, the President's approach being discovered from a neighbouring height, signal guns were immediately fired, the colours displayed from the shipping in the harbour, and the 1st company of light artillery, under captain Dennis, proceeded to meet and escort him to his lodgings. Attended by the committee of arrangement also, and most of the citizens, the procession moved down State and Bank streets, to the house of Mr. Taber, where accommodations had been previously provided. Under the direction of the marshals, the citizens formed two lines, between which, preceded by the military, the President passed to his quarters. Salutes were then fired by the artillery, Fort Trumbull, and by the United States vessels then in the harbour.

The court of common pleas, at that time in session, and the principal gentlemen of the bar, waited on the President and offered their congratulations. Immediately after, the corporation made a presentation of their address, which follows.

"To the President of the United States.

"The mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city of New London, in behalf of the corporation, with high respect for his exalted station, em

brace this opportunity to welcome the President of the United States on his safe arrival in this place.

"A visit from the chief magistrate of a nation, so respectable and important in the scale of political existence, as the United States, to this portion of the union, is an occurrence interesting to the patriot, and highly gratifying to the feelings of this community: an occurrence which, as individuals, we shall remember, and which the corporation will record. It affords us consolation that your administration has commenced, at a period favourable for improvement -for the establishment of a national, of an American character. A period, when the storms of war have passed, and days of peace commenced; when party spirit is assuaged, and a spirit of mutual charity and forbearance nationally prevails.

"That the President of the United States, in common with his fellow citizens, is enjoying that state of peace, which his own agency and energy so essentially produced, is to us a source of pleasing reflection and consideration. We trust that we may be indulged in the pleasing contemplation, that we possess our habitations in safety; that our shores are free from alarms; and that the waters of our harbour are relieved from the presence of a threatening and hostile fleet. With great satisfaction we once more behold in the chief magistrate of the United States, a man who in his youth, had an agency in achieving with his sword, the independence, and establishing the pillars of that government of which he is now the head, and which is the pride of Ame

rica, and the wonder of the world. From the high stations you have held and honourably sustained; from the eminent services you have rendered our common country, we have a happy assurance, under divine providence, of an honourable and prosperous administration, and, that under the auspices of your government, we shall be a united and happy people.

"Nothing can give us more satisfaction, than a consideration of the parental view and extensive survey, which the President is taking of the northern section of that country, which is happily united under a government of energy and freedom, and of which, by the choice of a great and enlightened people, he is now the political head.

“Be pleased, sir, to accept our sincere wishes, that your life may be prolonged and happy; that your administration may be prosperous and blessed; that your journey may be pleasant; and that you may in health and safety be returned to the bosom of your family, and all your endearing and domestic relations, with happiness and satisfaction.

"JEREMIAH BRAINARD, Mayor."

To this address the following reply was made:

“To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the city of New London.

"Fellow Citizens:

"In making a tour through the eastern states, with a view to public defence, New London had a strong claim to attention; and in visiting it, I have

been much gratified by the very friendly reception which has been given me. Aware of the favourable circumstances under which I have commenced the duties of the high trust, to which I have been appointed by my fellow citizens, it will be my zealous endeavour to derive from them, in the administration of the government, all the advantages which they can afford.

"It is only making adequate preparation for war, now that we are blessed with peace, that we can hope to avert that calamity in future. It is only by a vigorous prosecution of the war, when it becomes inevitable, that its evils can be mitigated, and an honourable peace be soon restored. In the pursuit of great national objects, it is equally the interest and the duty, of the whole American people, to unite.

"Happy in a government which secures to us the full enjoyment of all our civil and religious rights, we have every inducement to unite in its support. With such union we have nothing to dread from foreign powers.

"For the kind interest which you take in my welfare, I beg you to accept of my warmest thanks, and to be assured of the sincerity with which I reciprocate it, in favour of the citizens of New London and its vicinity.

"JAMES MONROE."

Barges having been provided, under the direction of commodores Bainbridge and Oliver H. Perry, for

the President, his suite, and several naval and military gentlemen; they were conveyed across to Fort Trumbull at 10 o'clock, on the morning of Thursday. The Enterprize sloop of war fired a salute, as the barges put off from the wharf, which was repeated at Fort Trumbull, upon the President's landing at that garrison. From Fort Trumbull the party proceeded across the harbour to the town of Groton, where the President was received by a committee of arrangement, and a large assemblage of the citizens of that place, and the neighbouring towns. From the point of landing, he was escorted to Fort Griswold, by a company of grenadiers under captain Dabell, from the 8th regiment, accompanied by the selectmen, and civil authorities of Groton. Arrived at the gate of the fort, the military wheeled to the right and left, and the President, with his suite, and the officers in attendance, entered the garrison, through the two lines. The event by which this fort became distinguished in the course of the revolutionary contest, though not forgotten by the President, was, probably more forcibly impressed upon his mind, and his visit rendered much more interesting, by the presence of some of the brave defenders of the garrison, at the memorable time alluded to. The volunteer militia of Groton, had been stationed within the walls of Fort Griswold, during September of the year 1780, and on the 6th day of that month, sustained the vigorous assault and storming of that garrison, by the British under general BENEDICT ARNOLD; until overpowered by numbers, and see