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@ccur to your reflections, and, I am persuaded, that you will attend to them with the fidelity and zeal, which an enlightened love of your country inspires. For myself, I shall be solicitous to deserve the confidence, with which the people have repeatedly honoured me, by co-operating with you in such measures, as shall tend to render the state respectable, to promote justice among our fellow-citizens, and to secure to them a life of quiet and tranquillity. CALEB STRONG.

June 5, 1804.

ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.

May it please your Excellency,

THE House of Representatives, deeply impressed with the obligation they have taken upon themselves, to perform the public duties incumbent upon them, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution, will on their part faithfully endeavour to protect their fellow citizens in the enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property; and scrupulously observe the prin ciples of the Constitution; and constantly adhere to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality, in the formation of the laws necessary for the good administration of the Commonwealth.

We are highly sensible of the importance of an impartial distribution of justice to all the people, to preserve an equality among them'; and to enable them to enjoy that liberty, which under the protection of law, secures their lives and property; and to unite them more closely together, and attach them more firmly to the State.

We perfectly and most sincerely agree with your Excellency, in your sentiments of civil liberty; in your estimation of order and regularity in society; and in your definition of equality.

Although it be obvious to thinking and cultivated minds, that nothing can be more opposite to liberty, than licentiousness; yet it is no less obvious, that, by the undistinguishing, the one is frequently confounded with the other.

To a destitution of correctness of the public sentiment, on this subject, is unquestionably to be imputed most of the evils, which have, in ancient as well as modern times, disturbed, convulsed, and subverted to their foundations those sections of the world,on which attempts have been made to maintain republican forms of government.

Knowing as we do know-that it is infinitely easier to enkindle enthusiasm and to set on fire the zeal, than to inform the understanding of man, we cannot watch too critically, or shield ourselves too strongly, against ambitious and designing men, who assume the garb of patriotism, and employ their talents to inflame the passions of the people, and excite their contempt of all decency and order.

It is utterly impossible for us to hesitate to concur with your Excellency in the position, that all other equality than that of rights, is wholly inconsistent with the nature of things.

Liberty and equality, as defined by those Utopian philosophers, who have impose upon each individual every adopted the scheme, that love and reason id strides, are travelling on with man, necessary restraint; and who, with rapto the perfectability of human nature, are highly calculated to undermine all rational liberty; to prostrate all civil society, and to blot from the face of earth all sorts of government.

Your Excellency may be assured, that we will spare no exertions to assist our fellow citizens in forming correct opinions of the terms, liberty and equality.

We are feelingly alive to the importance of the experiment, now making in our land, as to the capacity of the American people to enjoy perfect liberty with moderation, which has hitherto proved happily successful. We shall certainly be solicitous to contribute to its success by a faithful discharge of our duty. And we sincerely reciprocate the sentiment, that all the efforts of legislative wisdom will be unavailing, without the aid of those institutions, which form the manners and morals of the people, and which tend to inspire them with veneration for the Supreme Being, with reverence for just authority, and respect for themselves.

To the communication of your Excellency, upon the subject of the Judiciary of this Commonwealth, we will most cheerfully pay every attention, that the importance of the subject and the high respectability of the magistrates, by whom the alterations of the present system are suggested, demand.

The House of Representatives will not fail to afford their aid in directing the manner in which the electors, on the part of this Commonwealth, of President and Vice-President of the United States shall be appointed.

We rely with that perfect confidence, which the purity and eminence of your Excellency's character, and our past happy experience of the fruits of your abilities, wisdom, and virtues fully authorize, that you will co-operate, with the two branches of the Legislature, in such measures as shall tend to render the State respectable; to promote justice among our fellow-citizens, and secure to them a life of quiet and tranquillity. We at the same time beg you to accept our assurances, that we will adopt and faithfully preserve, every proper means to effectuate the

same ends.

We on this occasion congratulate your Excellency and ourselves, on your re-election to the first executive office of this Commonwealth. We consider that our fellow-citizens, whilst they have paid a tribute of gratitude to merit, have strikingly evinced their own integrity, independence, and disr cernment, by thus again exalting you to this high station.

ANSWER OF THE SENATE.

May it please your Excellency,

THE Senate are impressed with a deep sense of the obligations which result from the Constitution, and of the indissoluble connexion, between its principles and those of “ piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality." On this account, it is a source of high satisfaction to them, that your Excellency is again placed at the head of this Commonwealth, and

that the principles and virtues incul

cated by the Constitution, shall yer continue to gain illustration from the precepts and example of the Chief Magistrate. On this event so auspicious to virtue and liberty, they cannot refrain from congratulating themselves and their fellow-citizens.

The opinions, expressed by your Excellency, touching the perfection of civil liberty, its opposition to licentiousness, and its consistency with the restrictions of law and justice, are entirely in unison with the sentiments of the Senate, and with the principles of the Constitution. The dangers to liberty from the indiscretion of mistaken, and from the artifices of ambitious men, cannot be too frequently deprecated.

In all free states, the tyrants, who have ultimately wrested from the people their liberties, have commenced their machinations under "the garb of patriotism," and have risen into influence, by employing" their talents to inflame their contempt of decency and order.” the passions of the people and excite Whenever, therefore, in any country, a class or description of men arises, making loud and exclusive pretensions of friendship for the people, yet supporting those pretensions by no rare instances of private or public virtue; when such a class or description of men and corrupt the people, striving by subset themselves assiduously to deceive tle insinuations and by the circulation of anonymous falsehoods, to deprive honourable and virtuous men of the fair rewards of their talents and integrity, it becomes all those, who have a real regard for the people, and who possess a just and noble zeal to perpetuate the blessings of liberty, order, and religion, to be vigilant, active and instant, to maintain the fundamental principles of a free government, "piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality"; and to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives."

The Senate fully concur in sentiment with your Excellency, that the public happiness is founded on order, and that, to maintain it, injustice must be restrained, life and property guarded against outrage, the simple and inno

cent placed in security from artifice and fraud, and such a state of tranquillity produced, as that the most defenceless may be safe under the protection of government.-And your Excellency may rest assured that, in all our deliberations concerning public or private rights and interests, they will keep constantly in view those great, just, and constitutional principles of rational liberty and practical equality which your Excellency has been pleased to elucidate. And as, on the one hand, it shall be their assiduous study to preserve and cherish the equality of rights, which consists in assuring protection to each individual, in the amenability of all men of every description to justice, in equal government and impartial laws, so, on the other, it shall be their solicitude to restrain that injurious and disgraceful spirit of equality, falsely so styled, which would prostitute the honours and preferments of the people, due only to merit and capacity, to criminal ambition and intrigue; a spirit which never fails to arise in a republic, "when manners are exceedingly depraved, when upright magistrates are no longer respected, and parents and public instructers are treated with rudeness and insolence, when the child behaves himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable, and the natural and necessary distinctions in society are disregarded."

The Senate entirely coincide in the sentiments of your Excellency, that," in some nations the genius and habits of the people seem not to admit of a free government, and that they appear to be incapable of that just and reasonable obedience, which is necessary in a free State." A wise people, therefore, like that of the United States, engaged, sincerely and heartily, in the great experiment of ascertaining the capacity of the people to enjoy, with moderation, should admit, with great circumspection, the subjects of such nations to a free participation in their political rights and privileges; and should, also, at all times patronize "those institutions which form the manners and morals of the people, and which tend to inspire them with veneration for the Supreme Being, with reverence for just authoršty, and respect for themselves."

The communications made by your Excellency, relative to the choice of, Electors of President and Vice President and to the Judiciary department, shall receive that attention which the nature of those subjects demand. The Senate have a deep conviction of the impor tance of an impartial distribution of justice: to the attainment of which a practicable and convenient system, as well as independent judges and enlightened and upright jurors is essentially necessary.

Your Excellency may always rely on the zealous co-operation of the Senate in all measures which tend to render the State respectable, to promote justice among our fellow citizens, and secure to them a life of quiet and tranquillity.

SOCIETIES.

The Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society held their annual meeting on Friday, 1st June. After choosing the following officers for the ensuing year, they moved to the Chapel Church, where an address was delivered by Edward Gray, Esq. and several pieces of appropriate music performed, to a crowded audience.

ARNOLD WELLES, Esq. President.
Hon. William Tudor, Esq. Vice-President.
Rev. Mr. Emerson, Corresponding Secretary.
William Alline, Esq. Recording Secretary.
Eben. Gay, Esq. Treasurer.

Trustees-Rev. Samuel Stillman, D.D.; Rev. John Eliot, D. D.; Capt. Shuhael Bell; Dr. Joshua Thomas; Mr. James White; Mr. T. K. Jones; Hon. Josiah Quincy, Esq.; Mr. Joseph

Callender.

At a Statute Meeting of the Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society, held the 6th June, 1804, the following gentlemen were elected Counsellors for the year ensuing: viz.

Suffolk.-Isaac Rand, John Jeffries, Charles Jarvis, Lemuel Hayward, Thomas Kast, John Warren, William Eustis, Thomas Welsh, Aaron Dexter, Joseph Whipple, William Spooner, John Fleet, Thomas Danforth, David Townsend, Isaac Rand, 3d.-Essex-Edward A. Holyoke, Micajah Sawyer, Joshua Fisher, Thomas Kitteridge, B. L. Oliver.Middlesex-Josiah Bartlett, John Brooks. Isaac Hurd, Oliver Prescott, jun. Wm. Gammage.Hampshire-Ebenezer Hunt, Henry Wells, Chancey Brewer.-Maine. -Daniel Coney, Nathaniel Coffin, Shirley Irving, A. R. Mitchell.-Bristol-William Baylies. Plymouth-James Thacher, Gad Hitchcock.. Barnstable-Samuel Savage.-Worcester-Israel Atherton, Oliver Fisk, D. Frink, senior.Berkshire-Erastus Sargent, Timothy Childs Norfolk-C. Tufts, Amos Holbrook, J. Bartlett. At a meeting of the Council the succeeding day agreeably to Statute, the following gentle men were elected officers, viz.

JOHN WARREN, President.
Joshua Fisher, Vice-President.

Thomas Danforth, Recording Secretary.
Joseph Whipple, Corresponding Secretary.
Thomas Kast, Treasurer.

Censors-Lemuel Hayward, Thomas Welsh, Aaron Dexter, Josiah Bartlett, Joseph Whipple.

On Tuesday, June 12, the Humane Society celebrated the anniversary of their institution

After transacting the usual business, the Society went in procession to the Chapel Church, where after prayers by the Rev. Mr. Gray, a scientific discourse, embracing the great objects of the Society, was pronounced by Dr. John C. Howard. The officers of this Society are chosen in Dec.

At a meeting of the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture, June 13, the following gentlemen were chosen :

His Excellency CALEB STRONG, President.
Hon. Joseph Russell, Esq. 1st Vice-President.
Aaron Dexter, M. D. 2d Vice-President.
Thomas L. Winthrop, Esq. Treasurer.
Rev. Dr. J. T. Kirkland, Corresp. Secretary.
John Avery, Esq. Recording Secretary.
Trustees-Martin Brimmer, Hon. Geo. Cabot,

Theodore Lyman, John Warren, Christopher
Gore, S. W. Pomeroy, Esqrs.

SOCIAL LAW LIBRARY.

On Wednesday, 13th June, the first annual meeting of this new institution was held at Concert Hall. The following gentlemen were chosen officers for the year ensuing-viz.

Trustees.

Hon. THEOPHILUS PARSONS, Esq. Presid't.
Hon. Christopher Gore. Esq.
Hon. Rufus G. Amory, Esq.
Hon. Joseph Hall, Esq.
Ebenezer Gay, Esq. Treasurer.
Peter Thacher, Esq. Clerk.

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Augusta (Maine), June 21, 1804, On Sunday last, at one o'clock, the Mercury rose to 920 in the shade, at two o'clock up to 95°, and stood above 92 at three o'clock.

NOTICE FROM THE EDITOR.

OUR literary friends, though few, are yet too numerous to be particularly

thanked.

The Botanist No. 1, if received, shall appear in the next Anthology, provided we may realize the hope, that no part of it, not even its prefatory remarks, will be previously elsewhere published.

We honestly aver the inability of saying, what other editors sometimes say, we have formed an extensive and erudite correspondence, and repose on promises of the highest credit. Such correspondence we have yet to estab29.9 lish, and such promises still to elicit. Nevertheless, much as we are terrified with the indolence of scientific men, and mortified as we are with the paucity of original communications, we are by no means discouraged. Our correspondents multiply, our patronage increases, and we have aids in expectation, which at once excite our gratitude and zeal, and confirm a modest hope of eventual success.

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