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vices had entitled him to, the tirl’i
place in his country's love, and
detained fir him the faired page
ii the volume of faithful hiftory*
i all: fo much confidence only
as may give finrmefs and tire ft
to ahe legal adminiftfation of
your affiiirs. I fli.ill often go
Wrong through deleft of judg
ment. When right, I (hall of-
O "
ten be thought wrong by thole
v.hofe potations will not com
rnanda view of the whole ground.
1 a fie your indulgence for my
own errors, which will never be
intentional ■, and your fuppbrt
againft the errors of others, who
may condemn what they would
not if feen in all its pares.—The
approbation implied by your fuf
nge, is a great confutation to me
lor the paft j and my further
folicitude will be, to retain the
good opinion of thole who have
bellowed it in advance, to con- |
dilate that of others, by doing
them all the good in my power, ;
and to be inftrumental to the
happinefs and freedom of all.
Relying then on the patron- i
age of your goodwill, I advance
with obedience to the work rea
dy to retire from it whenever
you become fcnfiblc how much
better choices it is in your pow- i
er to make. And may that in
finite power which rules the dcl
rinics of the univerfc lead our
councils to what is bell, and
give them a favourable iflue for
your peace and profpenty.
The addrefs of Thomas Jef
feiTon; Prefidcnt cleft, to the fc
nate, inferred in our Lift, was
referred to Mehtas. Morris, Day
ton, and J. Mafon, who on
Monday reported the form of a
reply, which was agreed to, and
preTented by a committee to
Mr. JefFcrfon on Tuefday, It
follows :
SIR,
While we congratulate ydu
On thole expreffions of the pub
lic will which called you to the
the lirll office in the United
States, wc cannot but lament the
lofs of that intelligence, attenti
on, and impartiality, with which
you have prefided over our de
liberations. The Senate feel
ihcmfelvcs much gratified by
tnc fenfe you have been ple'afed
to exprefs of their fupportin the
performance of your late duties,
lie perfuaded that it will never
be withheld from a chief magi fi
liate, who in the exercife of his
office lhall be influenced by a
due regard to the honor and in
to cil of our country. Jn the
confidence that your official con
duft will be direfted to thefe
great ohjefts, a confidence de
rived from pall events, we re
peat to you, fir, the affiurance
ol our conditunonal fupport in
your future admmiflration.
JAs. HILLHOUSE,
Preft den! of the Senate pro tern.
To which the Prefidcnt EUtt Re
fhe 'd:
Gentlemen,
I receive with due fcnfibility
the congratulations ofthe Senate
on being called to the flrll Ex
ecutive office of our govern
ment, and I accept with great
latisfaftion their affiuranccs of
1 uppert in whatever regards the
hono-f'and intcrefl of our coun-
1
‘ r\ T, ; * ■ J t f , 1 * / ■ n i ■
j U . r • • iilv v '-A
i in tint A icharge of try public ;
duties, their confidence in my '
future condudl, derjyed from
pad events, lhall not!be ditap
pointed, ho fur as my judgment
may enable me to clifjern thole
objefts.
The approbation, tlcy are fo ;
good as to exp refs of my con- 1
duft in the chair of the Jcnate, ;
is highly gratifying to me ; and |
I pray them to acceptmy hum- j
bie thanks for thefe declarations j
of it.
THOMAS J EMERSON.
Manh 3, 1801.
Aaron Burr, V:ce-Prefi
dent of the United Slates, this
morning took his feat in the fe
natc, as Prefidcnt of uat body.
On Saturday Jail Thos. Jcf
, ferfon, at p re lent Vicc-Prefi
| dent of the United States, and
; Prefidcnt of the Senate, took
leave of that body j on which
| occaflon he del.versa the fol
! lowing addrefs :
Cent I emeu o f the Senate,
To give the ulual opportuni
ty of a prefidcnt pro tempore,
1 now propofe to retire from
; the chair of the Senate:—
and as the time is near at hand,
when the relations will ceafe,
which have for fume time fub
fifted between this honourable
houfe and mylclf, I beg leave,
before 1 withdraw, to return
them my grateful thanks for all
the inllanees of attention and
relpeft, with which they have
been pleated to honour me. la
the dil charge of my funftions
here, it has been my confcicn
tious endeavour to obferv'C im
partial juflice, without regard
to perfons or fubjefts : and if I
have failed of impreffing this
on the mind of the Senate, it
will be to me a circumitance of
the deeped regret. I miy have
erred at times. No doubt I
have erred. This is the lot of
human nature. For honed er
rors, however, indulgence may
be hoped.
I owe to truth and jutaicc, at
the fame time to declare, that
the habits of order and deco
rum, which fo drongly charaft
trife the proceedings of the Se
nate, have rendered the umpir
age of the Prelidenr, an office
of litde d;' ,• dry ; that in times
and on queiuons which have fe
verely tried the fenfibilitics of
the houfe, calm and temperate
difeuffion has rarely been dif
tuibed by departures from order.
Should the fupport which I
have received from the Senate,
in the performance of mv du
ties here, attend me into the new
flation to which the public will
has transferred me, I lhall con
fide r it as commencing under
die happiefl aufpices.
With theic expretalons of my
dutiful regard to the Senate
as a body, I afk leave to min
gle my particular willies for the
health and Happinefs of the in
dividuals who compofe it : and ,
to tender them my cordial and
refpeftful adieu.
Thomas Jefferson.
WRITING PAPER,
For fale, l'y the rheam or quire.
j. LONDON, January 20. j
On I* rid ay the Migaera fri-|
| gate arrived at Torbay, with |
| difpatches to Earl Sr. Vincent, [
I from Sir Henry Harvey, com- a
j man ding the fleet off Breff,
flaring that the combined fleet,
O < \
amounting to fifty two fiil of
; the line made a movement frem
; ingly with an intention to put to
: lea, bur our fleet appearing, the j
| enemy put into a bay dole to |
1 Bred. Ail accounts from France !
! agree that cohfiderable efforts
arc making to prepare the navy
for addon in as great force as
j the means of the Republic will
! permit. It -docs not appear
i ji 11
j probable however, that the
enemy will yet come out to
venture an engagement. They
will keep our fquadrons on the
alert, and perhaps endeavour to
fend out detached 'parties on
particular expeditions. As loon
as the fate of the continent is
fixed, the French will difeover
the mode of attack they propole
to employ againft this country.
• Should hoftiliries actually take
place between us and the three
Northern Powers* our tra.ie
with Hamburgh will be cut off,
although the communication
with Cuxhaven may remain. If
batteries be ereded by the Danes
along the fide of the Elbe, i:
will be imp edible for our veffels
to navigate the river.
The part that America may
take will be of much import
ance. If Mr. Jefferfon be elect
ed prefident, which letters by
■1 the Maria, Inglis, which arrived
} eflerelay, dates to have taken
place, there is in impoftibiiity
of faying how fir the French
interefc may fuccced in that
quarter.
January 26.
French Journals to the 20th
in ft. hiclufive, were received
ycflcrday ; —their contents are
of confiderable importance.—
The army of Italy is purfuing
! its victorious career, uninterrup-
I’ ted by the armiflicc concluded
I on the Rhine p and General Brune
1 writes to the Minifler of war,
| that agreeably to the wilhes of
the 1 reach Republic, he will
conclude no anmilice until the
Auftrians fhall have furrendered
1 Mantua, Pefchiera, Ferrara and '
Ancona. In driving the Auflri
ans from Montebello and Ta
vernrdlc, the Republicans had
made 1500 prilbhers in the
hofpital of Verona they found
900, and in that of Vicenza 700.
The whole of Italy fee ms to
be now in pofleffion of the
French, including all that ter
ritory formerly called the terra
firm a of Venice.
But there is intelligence in the
papers or much more interef:
i to this country, than that above
! flared, the Moniteur of the 20th
! inflantalferts officially that Pruf-
I fia had fubferibed to the nor
thern neutrality at Peterlburgh,
on the 17th of December, the
day after it had been figned by
Ruffia, Denmark and Sweden.
, Nor does it appear that there
was any reservation made upon
lier in this ad, io contrary to
her proftffions, to her faith, and
to her real interef: • and which,
if correCHy flared is meant 'to
flrike at the mofl vital part of
Britain, by impending our com- i
merce and connmnicationsv.,
I die North of.Europe.
Wirtzburgh was taken do;'.
fefiion of by the French cVthe*
I 6th inftanr.
PETERSBURG, March i O .
In our next we Jhall proba
bly be able to give our readers
fome important European news
a:; will appear by the following
letters from Norfolk.
Extrr.il of a Idler from Norfolk ,
dated lie sto5 to inf. to a mitlL
mud in ibis town .
<c We have juft heard of the
arrival of rl.c January Packet
at New’-York, bringing an ac
count of peace between Aus
tria, and war between Great -
Britain and all'the Northern
Powers'."
IN trail of another letter from
Norfolk, fame date.
“ To day we have accounts’
by a vc fieri which has had a Ihort
paftage from Ncw-York, of
the arrival there of the January
Packet, which brings the news
of peace between Auftria and
France—as alfo a declaration of
war having taken place between
Ruflia and Great-Britain.”
Ext rail cf another letter, fame
date.
“ By an arrival from New
' York, in thirty hours, the Tuef
day evening’s paper is received,
which brings the account of the
arrival that day cf the London
Packet, with the intelligence up
to the corn of January. War
was declared agaaiftßidna, Swe
den and Denmark, and 350 of
tficir veftels feized in the ports
of Great-Britain. Lord Ncl
ibn was going to the Mediter
ranean to look out for the Ruf
fian licet there, of 8 fail of the
line, frigates, and a fleet of tranf
ports, font to take pofleflion of
Malta.
“ The Auftrians, after be
ing beaten by the French where -
ever they found them, are, by
confent of G. Britain, making
peace for themfdves; and the
armiftice was then figned.”
CON T G R E 5 S
Of the UNITED STATES.
Housn or Representative?,
7 hurfday, February 19.
Mr. Platt from the committee
of revifal and unfiniihed bufi
ncis, reported a bill for conti
nuing the ad generally denomi
nated the fedition law, .which
was read.
A motion was made to rejcA
the bill, on which a debate en
lucd. On the queftion being
taken by yeas and nays, it was
rejected ; there being yeas 50—
nays 40, and the Speaker de
claring himfelf in the negative,
bat uyday, Fehru ary 2 1.
An aft direfting the mode of
eftimating certain foreign coins
and currencies, and of making
out invoices in certain cafes,”
was read a third time and
pafled.
Taefday, February 24.
The bill from fenate entitled
“ an aft concerning the diftricc
of Columbia," was read the
third time and paffed ; yeas 57
—nays 36.
Relived, That the Prefident
of the United States be direffed
to be laid before this houfc an