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The ADDRESS of the Senate to the President df the United States, iu Answer to his Speech to both Houses of Congress. S I R, the Senate of the United States, return you our sincere thanks for your excellent speech delivered to both Houses of Congress ; congratulate you on the complete organiza tion of the Federal Government, and felici tate ourselves and our fellow ci izens on your elevation to the office of Piefident; an office highly important by the powers conftifution ally annexed to it, and extremely honorable from the manner in which the appointment is made. The unanimous fuffrage of the elective body in your favor, is peculiarly ex pressive of the gratitude, confidence, and af fection of the citizens of America, and*is the highed testimonial at once of your merit and their esteem. We are sensible, Sir, that nothing but the voice of your fellow citizens could have called you from a retreat chosen with the fondeft prediledion, endeared by habit, and confccrated to thfc repose of de clining years. We rejoice, and with us all America, that, in obedience to the call of our common country, you have returned once more to public life. In you all parties confide; in you all interefls unite; and we have no doubt that your part fervice9, as they have been, will be equalled by your future exertions ; and that your prudence and sagacity as a datefman will tend to avert the dangers to which we were exposed, to give liability to the prefenr government, ahd dignity and splendor to that country which your skill and valour as a soldier so eminent ly contributed to raise to independence and empire. * When vve contemplate the coincidence of circumflances, and wonderful combination of causes, whjch gradually prepared the people of this country for independence ; when we contemplate the rife, progress and termina tion, of the late W3r, which gave them a name among the nations of the earth, we are, with you, unavoidably led to acknowledge and adore the Great Arbiter of the Umverfe, by whom empires rife and fall A review of the many signal indances of 'divine interposi tion in favor of this country claims our mod pious gratiiude; and permit us, Sir, to ob serve, that, among the great events which have led to the formation and edablifhment of a federal government, weefleemyour accept ance of the office of President as one of the mod propitious and important. In the execution of the trud reposed in us, we (hall endeavour to pursue that enlarged and liberal policy to which your speech so hap pily directs. We are confeious that the pro sperity of each date is inseparably connected with the welfare of all, and that in promot ing the latter we shall effectually advance the former. In full perfuafioa of this truth, it shall be our invariable aim to dived ourselves of local prejudices and attachments, and to view the great assemblage of communities and intereds committed to our charge with an equal eye. We feel, Sir, the force, and ac knowledge the judnefi of the observation, that the foundation of our national policy lhould be laid in private morality ; if indivi duals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue ; it is therefore the duty of legifluors to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility as well as the necessity of a drift adherence so the rules of didributrve judice. We beg you to be allured, that the Senate will at all times cheerfully co-operate in every meafufe which may drengthen the union, conduce to the happiness, or fecurc and perpetuate the liberties of this gteat confederated republic. We commend you, Sir, to the protection of Almighty God, earnediy beseeching him long to preierve a life so valuable aud dear to the people of the United States, and that your adminiftrafion may be prosperous to the na tion, and glorious to yourfelf. la binate, May 16, 1789. Sig ned by Order , JOHN ADAMS, President of the Senate ts the United States. To which the President made the following REPLY: Gentiim n, J THANK you for your address, in which the mod affectionate fentimems are expref fod in the mutt obliging turns. Thu comci- dence of circumflances, which ted to thisati fpicious cribs, the confidence reposed in me by my fellow citizens, and the afliffanc: I may expert from councils which will be dic tated by an enlarged and liberal policy, seem to preface a more prosperous issue to my ad miniftratiou, than a diffidence of my abilities had taught me to anticipate.—l now feel myfelf inexpressibly happy in a belief, that Heaven, which has done fomuch for our in fant nation, will not withdraw its providential influence before our political felicity lhall - have been completed j and in a conviction that the Senate will at all times co-operate in every measure which may tend to promote the welfare of this confederated republic Thus supported by a firm trud in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the col lected wifdoni of the Union, and imploring the Divine Benedi&ion on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily en gage with you in the arduous but plealing talk of attempting to make a nation happy. G. WASHINGTON. The ADDRESS of the House of Representa tives. To GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. S I R, 'J'HE Representatives of the people of the United States present their congratula tions on the event by which yoar fellow citi zens have atteded the pre-eminence es your merit. You have loug held the fird place in their edeem. You have often received tokens of their affection. You now poll'efs the only proof that remained of their gratitude for your services, of their reverence for your wiidom, and of their confidence in your virtues. You enjoy the highed, because the trued, honor of being the fird magidrate, by the unanimous choice of the freed people on the face of the earth. We well know the anxieties with whicii you mud have obeyed a summons from the repose reserved for your declining years, in to public feenes, of which you had taken your leave for ever. But the obedience was due to the occasion. It is already applauded by the universal joy which welcomes you to your dation. And we cannot doubt that it will be rewarded with ail the fatisfaflion with which an ardent love for yotir fellow citizens mud review fuccefsful efforts to promote their hap piness. This anticipation is not judified merely by the pad experience of your signal services. It is particularly fuggeded by the pious im preflions under which you commence your ad minidration, and the enlightened maxfms by which you mean to conduft it We feel with you the dronged obligati ns to adore the invifihle hand which has led the American people through so many difficulties, to cherish a confeious responsibility for the dediny of republican liberty, and to seek the only sure means of preserving and recommending the precious depofite in a fydem of legiflatiou founded on the principles of an honed policy, and directed by the fpirtt of a diffufive patri ot ism. The question ariiing out of the fifth article of the Conditution, will receive all the at tention demanded by its importance; and ’ will, we trud, be decided under the influence of all the coofidefations to which you allude. In forming the pecuniary provisions for the Executive department, We shall not lose fight of a wifli refultiug from motives which give it a peculiar claim to our regard. Your rc folution in a moment critical to the liberties of your country, to renounce all personal emolument, was among the inanypreiages of your patriotic services, which have been amply fulfilled ; and your scrupulous adhe rence now to the law then imposed upon your felf, cannot fail to demonflrate the purity, whild it increases the iudre of a character which has so many titles to admiration. Such are the sentiments which we have thought fit to address to you. They flow ft urn our own hearts ; and we verily believe, that, among the millions we reprelent, there is not a virtuous cit.’zcn whole heart will disown them. All that remains is, that we join in vour fervent fupplicatton for the blcffing* of Hca * ven 011 our country; and that we add our own for the choired of those blediugs ou the melt beloved of her citizen*. j V. .v MVHUN3£R9, tfuhr. \ ' To which the Prefidec? returned the following ANSWER. GiniLmtu, r Y Oli K very affectionate address produces emotions which I know not how to ex piets Ilcel that my pafl endeavours in the lei vice ot my Country a;,e far over paid by its goodnef* )• and I tear much, that my future ones may not fulfill your kind anticipation. All that I can promise is, that they will be invariably d hefted by an hone ft an d ardent zeal. Os this reiource, my heatt assures me. Far alf beyond, I iely on the patnotilm of those with whom I am to co-operate, and a continuance of the blcffiugs of Heaven on our beloved country. * * G. WAS til NG TON, The underwritten Members cf the Executive Councilprotejl a gee in Ji the Order of the s :h injlant , for rescinding the Order of the Y\ib uli lino. i» T3EOAUSE the judiciary ought to JL> finiili the next circuit, previous to the meeting of the General Afteinhly, that all the depaitments of government may expire together, and the Conftitutioo have a perfect operation without any remaining Iliac kies of the old. 2. Because the Order of the sth iuftant leaves the Courts to he held during the Se'f lion of the Legislature,. which cannot fail in troducing difrord and confufion in the diffe rent departments, and render it impofiib'e fop many to fulfill the duties of office ; and pre vent others from the benefit of a fair trial, and the slate from a legislative representation. 3. Because it is refufing to exercise a power recommended by two Conventions, lecognized by the Legillatuie, and confirmee! by a Couftiiution 4. Because great numbers of futts are al ready comment ed, and returnable according to the Order of the 14th ult. by which the innocentJufeers will be opprelfed by expence, for no other crime, than a cons deuce in go vernment, sth. Beraufe the Order of the 14th May, by Proclamation, became the supreme law of the land : Anv poftcrior Older is expoji fallo and oppreflive. 6. Because these measures teach the citi zens to doutt and de/pije the orders of the Fx ecutive, by ftiewmg, that the most solemn ad judications may be broken down, and Orders and Proclamations trampled under feet by the power which created them. 7. Because no arguments have been ad duced by the majoiity againlt the Order of the 14th of May, but the following, viz ' “ That the Executive have not power to alter the time for holding the Superior Court6.’*—. Delicacy forbids a leply to so glaring an ab surdity, left it be considered an insult to com mon undemanding ; and it is not the defigu of th's communication to convince or couverc the jtuLb,rn and injane, E. LYMAN. J. WEED. Saint John the haptift T'HE Members of LODGE COLUM* BIA, are refuelled to attend at thts* Lodge Room on PTedneJday, the 24111 inst. at 11 o clock A M. in order to celebrate the FESTIVAL of St. JOHN the BAPTIST. Dinner will be fetved up a' the Academy. The company of tranfent brethieu is re* quelled. By Order of the PVcrfhipful Majler , J* Y. NOEL, Secretary. N. B. Tickets to he had of Brothei iM'Da* nald and Harper, ishwards. light Dollars Reward. STRAYFD or fto’en from the Subscriber, a large SORRFL H<>KBF, about' if hands high, ha* a frpall liar in his forehead, and fomc of big feet white, hut which, or how many, I dmi\ remember. He has had his tail and mane lately trimmed, and haa two large lumps oil the points ol hi. (boulderg, occalioned by woik; he has no l.iaiul* Any pe f«u who will deliver the feid Hotfe to me. at ivy plantation, about one mile from Augufia, (hall receive the above lewud, IUZaSLIH CORNELL,