Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 78, Richmond, Wayne County, 1 October 1825 — Page 2

From the National Intelligencer. DEPARTURE OF GEN. LAFAYETTE. This ilhistrious Friend and Guest of our country, took his departuic from the seat of government on the 7th inst. on his return to his native country. Our readers are already apprized of the preparations which had been made and recommended by the authorities and the people of the District, to evince their respect for this venerated individual. All business was suspended in the city during the day; the shops and banks were closed ; and every thine: indicated the deep feeling which pervaded the community on this interesting occasion. At an early hour, the corps of Marines, the Volunteer Companies of the First Brigade of the District, and those of the Alexandria Brigade, were on the ground designated on the President's square, where

they were joined by Governor opngg s and Captain Dunlop's troop of Cavalry from the state of. Maryland; the whole formed and in waiting to take up the escort. The Boards of Aldermen and the common Councils of three cities of the District, headed by their respective Mayors, entered the President's house about half past 11 o'clock The marshals of the day had assembled there a short time previous. The farewell addresses of the several muncipal bodies having been communicated to the General by a messenger, about 12 o'clock they were all summoned to the hall, and having been arr anged in a circle by tb Marshals, the President of the United States appeared before the entrance which lead to the Drawing room, supported on each side by the Heads of Departments and officers civil and military. Several members of Congress, at present in the district, and other distinguished citizens, also formed a part of this group. The company having waited some minutes in silence, a side door was opened, and Gen. Lafayette entered the Hall, attended by the Marshal of the Disirict, and one of the sons of the President, and presented himself in the vacant space within the circle, and at a suitable distance to receive the address of the President. Mr. Adams, then, with much diunity, but with evident emotion delivered, in a clear, distinct, and very impressive manner, the following address: Glneral Lafayette, It has been the good fortune of many of my distinguished fellow citizens, during the course of the year now elapsed, upon your arrival at their respective plat es of abode, to greet you with the welcome of the nation. The less ph asing task now devolves upon me, of bidding you, in the nam'1 of the nation, adieu. It were no longer seasonable, and would be superflous, to recapitulate the remarkable incidents of vour early life incidents which associated your name, fortune, and reputation, in imperishable connexion with the independence and history of the North American Union. The part which von performed at that important juncture was marked with characters so pe uliar, Ibat realizing the fairest fable of antiquity, its parallel ould scare e1 lie found in the authentic records ofhu0 matt history. Y"ii deliberately and perseveringly prefer d toil, danger, the endurance of every hardship, and the privation of every comfort, in defence f a holy cause, to inglorious ease, and the allurements ol rank, affluence, and unrestrained youth,at the most splendid and fascinating court of Europe. That this choice was not less wise than magnanimous, the sanction of half a century, and the gratulations of unnumbered voices, all unable to express the gratitude of the heart with which your visit to this hemisphere has been welcomed, afford ample demonstration. W hen the contest of freedom, to which you had repaired as a voluntary champion had closed, by the complete triumph of her cause in this country of your adoption, you returned to fulfil the duties of the philanthropist and patriot in the land of vour nativity. Therein a consistent and undeviatirig career of forty years, you have maintained, through every vicissitude of alternate success and disappointment, the same glorious ( au.e to which tins first years of your active life had been devoted the improvement of the moral and political condition of man. Throughout that long succession of time 'the people of the United States, for whom, and with whom, )ou had fought the battles of liberty, have been living in full possession of its fruits, one of the happiest among the family of nations.-Spreading in population; enlarging in territory; acting and 6uifering according to the condition of their nature; and laying the foundation of the greatest, and we humbly hope, the most benificient power that ever regulated the concerns of man upon earth. ; In the lapse of forty years, the generation of men with whom you co-operated in the

conflict of "arms, hr.3 nearly patted away.

Of the general officers of the American arrrty in ttiat war, you alone survive. Of the sage9 who guided our councils; of the warriors who met the foe in the field or upon the wave, with the exception of a few, to whom unusual length of davs has been allotted by Heaven, all now sleep with their fathers. A succeeding, and even a third generation, have arisen to take their places; and their children's cbildr'en.while rising up to call them blessed, have been taught by them, as well as admonished by

their own constant enjoyment of freedom, to include, in every benison upon their fathers, the name of him who came from

afar, with them and in their cause to con

quer or to fall.

The universal prevalence of these sen

timents was signally manifested by a reso

lution of Congress, representing the whole

people, and all the states of this Union, requesting the President of the United States

to communicate to you assurances of the grateful and affectionate attachment ol this government and people, and desiring that a national ship might be employed, at your convenience, for your passage to the borders of our country. The invitation was transmitted to you

by that unshaken sentiment of gratitude, for your services which is a precious portion of our inheritance. Ours by that tic of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for the endless ages of time, with the name of Washington. At the painful-moment of parting from you, wc take Comfort in the thought, that wherever you may be, to the last pulsation of your heart, our country will be ever present to your affections; and a cheerful consolation assures us, that wc are not called to sorrow most of all, that w e shall sec

j your face no more. We shall indulge the ! pleasing anticipation of beholding our ; friend again. In the mean time, speaking in the name of the whole people of the U. I States, and at a loss only for language to j give utterance to that feeling of attachment with which the heart of the nation beats as the heart of one man, I bid you a . reluctant and affectionate farewell! The General listened with deep attention, and at the close of the address, embraced the President in his arms. He then replied in the following terms: j Amidst all my obligations to the Gener-

al Uovernment, and particularly to you

milted to me the honorable invitoCongress, to tYis day, when you ST? f Sir, whose fiddly connexion 'with r datej from your earliest youth, are Cf to consign me to the protection, aero!?5 Atlantic, of the heroic national ( board the splendid ship, the name of lift has been not the least flattering and k 5 among the numberless favors conferred on me.- u? God bless vou, Sir, and you nil who surround us! God bless the American n pie, each of their States, and the rcWi government! Accept this patriotic f;t ! well of an overflowing heart; such wi!H its last throb when it ceases to beat. As the last sentence was nm. I ,

; the General advanced, and, while thy (c., I I poured over his venerable checb, j took the President in his arms he'rttirod ; a few paces, hut overcome by his feeli, again returned, and, uttering'in broken ac j cents, "God bless you!" (VI! once more on the neck of Mr. Adams, It was a scene at . once solemn and moving; as the sighs arid stealing tears of many who witnessed i bore testimony. Having recovered i,;.

self-possession, the General stretched nut

Sir, its respec'ted Chief Magistrate, I have!' his hands, and was in a moment surrmi.ri

, most thankfully to acknow ledge the oppr-1 cd by the greetings of the whole assembly

who pressed upon him, eager to seiz.nr ! I r l.., : a i i i .

by my venerable predecessor: himself ,; tunity given me, at this solemn and painful

hound to you by the strongest ties of per-j' moment, to present the people of the Uni

sonal friendship: himself one of those

whom the nrighest honors of his country had rewared for blood early shed in her cause, and for a long life of devotion to her welfare. Bv him the serv ices of a nationml al ship were placed at your disposal. Your delicacy preferred a more private conveyance, and a full year has elapsed since you landed upon our shores. It were scarcely an exaggeration to say, that it has been to the people of the Union, a year of uninterrupted festivity and enjoyment, inspired by your presei.ee. You have traversed the twentv-foar stattof this great Confederacy. You have been received with rapture by the survivors of your earliest companions in arms. You have been hailed as a long absent parent by their children, the men and women of the present age. And arising generation, the hope of future time, in numbers surpassing the whole population of that day w hen vou fought at the head and bv the side of their fathers, have vied with the scanty remnants of that hour of trial, in acclamations of joys at beholding the face of him whom they feel to be the common benefnc tor of all. You have heard the mingled voices of the past, the present and the future age, joining in one universal chorus of delight at your approach; and the shouts of unbidden thousands, which greeted your landing on the soil of freedom, have followed every step of your way, and still resound, like the rushing of many waters from every corner of our land. You are now about to return to the country of your birth, of your ancestors, of your posterity. The Executive Govern' ment of the Union, stimulated bv the same feeling which had prompted the Congress to the desimiation of a national siiip for your accommodation incoming hither, has destined the first services of a frigate, recently launched at this Metropolis, to the less welcome, but equally distinguished'

f met r I rntii)t i ii tf i nil hnrrt I lir fifimn !

ted States with a parting tribute of pro-

found, im xprcssible gratitude. To have been, in the infant and critical

'davs of these States, adopted by them as ; a favorite son; to have participated in the toils and perils of our unspotted struggle for independence, freedom, and equal rights, and in the foundation of the American Era of a new social order, which has already pervaded this and must for the dig- ! nity and happiness of mankind successively pervade every part of the other hemisphere; to have received at every stage of ! the Revolution, and during forty years after

that period, from the people of the United States, and their representatives at home and abroad, continual marks of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encouragement, the support of a long and eventful life. But how could I find words to acknow ledge that series of welcome, those unbounded and universal di.-playsof public affection, which have marked each step, each hour, of a twelve months' progress through the twenty-four States, and which, while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, have most satisfactorih evinced the concurrence of the neonle in

the kind testimonies, in the immense favors I bestowed on me by the several branches ol I their representatives, in even part, and at

the central seat of the confederacy ! Yet gratifications still higher awaited

me in the wonders ot creation arid im- ; provement that have met my enchanted ! eye; in the unparralleled and self-felt j happiness of the people, in their rapid prosperity and ensured security, public ai d (private; in a practice of good order the j appendage of true freedom; in any nationi al good sense, the final arbiter of all difli-

! culties I have had proudly to recognize a

j resultol the republican principles for which

j we have fought, and a glorious demonstra

tion to the most timid and prejudiced

h i uj, vi ine Mjperiornv, over ueuraoinir

haps for the last time, that beloved h it A

which was openod so freely for our aid when aid was so precious, and which grasped, with firm and undeviating if)$ the steel which so bravely helped to achieve our deliverance. The expression which now beamed from the faee of this exalted man was of the finest and most toudiin kind. The hero was lot in the fathcrar.i

,the friend; dignity melted into subdued j affection; and the friend of Washington

seemeo 10 linger witn mournful delight among the sons of his adopted couijtr. A considerable period was then on upied in conversing with various individuals, whilo refreshments were presented to the company. The moment of departure at lei th arrived, and having once more pressed the hand of Mr. Adams, he entered the barouche, accompanied h the Secretariesof State, of the Treasury, and of the Navy. Anecdote cf Frederick the Great. Frederick the Great, while reviewing Sus uird, happened at a time to take oat his si ulf box, and was tapping on the lid. when one of his grenadiers stepped out of the rai.ks and said, "please your Majesty, give rm a pinch of snuff' The king asked what he meant bv such freedom, and he replied: In my country, Sir, when one taps on the box, it is a sign that every body round is welcome to a pinch, and I thought vour

Majesty meant as much.'' The king laughed at the odd result of this odd custom. ; d presented the box, a gold one, enriched with jewels, to the soldier, bidding hici keep it for his sake.

of this ship has added one more niemoiial aristocracy or despotism, of popular insti

to distant regions ana to luture ages, ol a stream already memorable at once in the story of your sufferings and of our independence. The ship is now prepared for your reception, and equipped for sea. From the

tutions, founded on the plain rights of man,

and where the local rights of ev ery section

are preserved under a constitutional bond

of union. The cherishing of that union between the States, as it has been the farwell

entreaty of our great and parental Wash-

momcnt of her departure, the pra)ers of!; ington, and will ever have the dviti" pray

If -II il I (' i . . .. V .

eroi every American i'atriot, so it has be

come the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the w orld, an object in which I am

happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Eu-

l rope, and of which a liberal and enlighten

ed sense is every where more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested. And now, Sir, how can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings for the assurances, most peculiarly valued of your esteem and friendship; for your so very kind reference to old times, to my beloved associates, to the vicissitudes of my life; for your affecting picture of the blessings poured by the several generations of the American people on the remaining days of a delighted veteran; for your affectionate remarks, on this sad hour of separation, on the country of

my ninu lull, i cay say, of American sympathies; on the hope, so necessary tome, of my seeing again the country that has deigned, near half a century ago, to call me hers? I shall content myself, refraining from superfluous repetitions, at once, before you, Sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim my cordial confirmation of every one of the sentiments which I have had daily opportunities publicly to utter, from the time when your venerable predecessor, my old brother in arms and friend, trans-

millions will ascend to heaven that her pas

sage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to vour happiness, as your visit to this scene

of your youthful glory has been to that of

the American people. Go, then, our beloved friend return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valor; to that beautiful France, the nurseing mother of the

Twelfth Louis, and the Fourth Henry; to

the native soil of Bayard and Coligni, of Turenne and Catinat, of Fenelon and D'Aguesseau. In that illustrious catalogue of names which she claims as of her children, and with honest pride holds up to the admiration of other nations, the name of Lafayette has already for centuries been

enrolled. And it shall henceforth burnish into b ighter fame; for if, in alter days, a Frenchman shall be called to indicate the character of his nation by that of one individual, during the age in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in his cheek, the fire of concious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of Lafayette. Yet we too, and our children in life, and after, death, 6hall claim you for our own. You are ours by that more than patriotic self devotion with which you flew to the aid of our fathers at the crisis of their fate. Ours by that long series of years, in which you

have cherished us in your regard. Ours!

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jy the President of the United Stctts. 8N enrii;irire of law, I, John Qui.nct Adams, Prt'siik'tit of the Uiute.l St ttts ..I" Aiu ric;i. tir hrr by pu!lj-h ant! ni..ko known, th;it n p;Mi.- .:!e will be hrl.t at the Land Oil: re at Frier Way:-e, in the State of Indiana, on the third M(in!av j:

October next, for the disposal of the followuij:

ignnteil ownMnps ;uid fr;irtion;il TovnM.

Land fituatc in the District cf l.imls olRred lor sale at Fort Wav nr, viz: Krart. Town hip No. 2t, of Kansas No. 2.3,4 & 5Township No. Sl find fract township No. iX', Do. No. 21 to fract. township No. 23 incluire, " Do. No.24lo do do do ? Do. do do do do JiDo. No 45 !. do do H Do. No. 25 tofrart. tonhipNo. 30. incln'ivp, HAnd fractional townships No. 30, and HI, ot'r i:'C No. 12 and 13, situate north of the Miami riv. r cf the l;:ke. The aforesaid !nnd are prir.cipallj situated on the Wabash, Salarnanie, and Mississincwa nvcrs atid their waters. The sale will commence with the lowest nwnhef of section, township, and range, and will jrocrcd m the order herein designated. The land reered by law, for the uce of srfcoo!, or for other pnrviosep, are to be excluded Irom Given under my hand, at the citv of v iiii'-f ton, this 30th day of June, A D. I82". JOHNQUIN'CY ADAM-. By the President : GEORGK GRAHAM, Commissioner of the General Laml ojT.ce.

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POWDER, v THE subscriber has inst received from the Ft1,

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