Star.
London, England, 1801-04-14 00:00:00

NEW-YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 9.

On W6dnefelay hill, THOMAS itr FE a sox, Prell-
dent of the United 6tateN, took the Oath of Office
required by the Conftitution, in the Senate Cham-
ber, in the prefence of the Senate, the Members of
the Houk of Repreftntatives, the Public Officers,
and a large coneourfe of Citizens. Previous to
which he delivered the following addrefs:—
" Fri:nrk and falcw Caizov,

" Called upon to undertake the duties of the
firl Executive Office of our Country, I avail my-
fell-of the pretence of that portion of my Fellow
Citizens which is here aliembled, to exprefs my
grateful thanks for the favour with which they
have been ',leafed to look towards me, to declare
a flame conicioufnefs that the tail: is above my
talents, and that I approach it with thole anxious
and awful prefentirnents which the greatnefs of
the h ,i;,t., and the well:nets of my powers fo
juflly mtil;:c. A riling nation, fpread over a wide
and fruitful land, ttaverfing all the fcas with the'
rich prod adions of their induftry, engaged in corn- ,
melte with nations who fed power ;Ind forget 'j
right, a(ivuncing rapidly to deflinies beyond the
'reach of mortal eye ; when I contemplate thefe
tranfeendent objeds, and fee the honour, the hap-
pinefs, and the hopes of this beloved cointtry corn-
mitted to the iffiie and the aufpices of this day, I j
Shrink from the c:lnemplation and humble myfelf
before the magnitude of the undertaking. Utterly
indeed Should I defpair, did not the pretence of
many whom I here fee, remind me, that, in the
other high authorities provided by our Conflitu-
tion, I Shall find refources of wifdom, of virtue,
and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties.
To you, then, Gentlemen, who are charged with
the fovcreign funaions of Legiflation, and to thole
affociated with you, I look with encouragement
for that guidance and fupport which may enable
us to fleer with fafety the velrel in which we arc
all embarked, amislit the confliding elements of a
troubled world.

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" During the contell of opinion through which
we have pall, the animation of difcuffions and of
exertions has fometimes worn an of ell which
might impofe on lirangers unufed to think freely,
and to fpeak and to write what they think; but
this being now decided by the voice of the nation,
announced according to the rules of the Conßitu-
tion, all will of courfe arrange themfelves under
they ill of the law, and unite in common efforts
for the common good. All too will bear in mind
this (acted principle, that though the will of the
nitrity is in ail cafes to prevail, that will, to be
rig tfio, mutt be reafonable ; that the minority
poffels their equal rights, which equal laws mull
proted, and to violate would be oppreffion. Let
us then, Fellow Citizens, unite with one heart and
one mind, let its rt-ilore to focial intercourfe that
harmony ..and .afiedion, without which Liberty,
and even life idol(, are but dreary things—and let
us relied that having banithed from our land that
religion's intolerance undcrwhich mankind fo long
bled seal fuffered, we have yet gained little, if we
countenance a political intolerance, as defpotic, as
wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody per-
fecutions. During the throes and convulfions of
the anciert world—during the agonizing fpafms
of inflitia: :if man, fetkiug through blood and
Baugh: .• ..is long-loft liberty, it wa., not wonder-
ful iha• 7,lie agitation of etc billows Jl:fluid reach
even this distant and peaceful fhote ; that this
Mould be more felt and &art:Li by fume and lefs by
others; and fhould divide opinions as to meafures
of faf.rt) ; but every difference of orinion is not a
difference of principle. We have called by differ-
ent names brethren of the fame principle. We are
all Republicans : we are all Federalias. If there
be any among us who would with to diffolve this
union, or to change its Reriblican form, let them
Rand undiaurbed as monuments of the fafety
which error of opinion may be tolerated, where
reafon i, left free to combat it. I know indeed that
fume lionelt men fear that a Repablican Govern-
=eat cannot he (Iron"; that this Government is
not strong enough. But would the !intuit Patriot,
in the full tide of fuccefsfid experiment, abandon
a Government which has fo far kept us free and
firm, on the theoretic :mil vili.mary fear, that this
Government, die world's bell hope, may, by pof-
fibility, want energy to preferve itfelf ? I tridl
not. I believe this, on the contrary, the flroivg
Government on earth. I believe it the (Lily one,
where every man, at the call of the law, woul.l qy
w the flar.dard of the law, and would meet in-
vafions of the public order as his own perfonal con-
cern. Sometimes it is laid that man cannot be
tingled with the government of himi;;lf. Can he
then be milted with the government of others? or
base we found angels, la the form of Kings, to
govern hint ? Let hillory answer this queltion.—
Let
us then, with courage and confidence, purfue
our own I edeial and Republican principles; our
a.•aciim..iit to Union and Reprefentative Govern-
ment. Vitally felt:rated by nature and a wide
ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quar-
ter of tl.e globe • too hijili-niinded to endure the
dcgrailanoes of the otlof ; poifefling a chofen coun-
try, v.ith r..im enough for our defeendants to flu:
tholi 'a au I thoufandth generation ; enter lain.
in; .t dn. otir equal rii;lit to the tile °four
oa --to of our own in-
(fro,h'in'ts and contideace Isom our
Ist= birth, Inn front
oar a: s and .e them ; cols htened
be a I, Lign reli, i ir„ pt fe:1•:d indeed and pi ae-
tiiet .3 various fen.', •,,t ail of them incill,:ating
boi.,:: v. truth, t.. ii.er, grativid and the
love of rr ; aeka oeleili.;irvi and adoring an
ewe; "Pe.ovior by all its difpen-
ir it deiiiht. in the liappinefs of
ma•- 'users, and greater happinels I...reafter ;
a! tin 4., %Aiwa Mthe is nec,ll:ity to
a happy and pain:row: MAT:: ? S:ill
one r. rte, I.el: .w Citizens, a wi:, and fin-
a:.ieti Shall r f11:.11 from
taturi•.,.; art titan leave then. urlscrwitc
fro t.. their o wit purfuits of ianiiiitry awl
izrprsr ••!..r.t, and that slot take from the raoah

of labour the bread it has earned. This is the fnm
of good Government, and this is neceflary to clofe
the circle of our enquiries.
" About to enter, IcHow-Citizens, on the ex-
ercife of duties which comprehend every thing
dear and valuable to you, if at prefent you fhould
under-nand what I deem the eireirtial principles
of our Government, and conEquently thole which
ought to fhape its Administration, I will com•
prefs them within the narrow compars thcy will
bear, riming the general principle, but not all
its limitations. Equal and CN:l:t juflice to all men
of whatever Rate or perf:tafica, teligious or politi-
cal ; peace, comractLe, and lionett fricndflrip tsith
all nations, and entangling alliances with none :
I the fupport of the State Governments in all their
rights, as the molt competent Adminifirations
for our domeftic concerns, and the Veil bul-
warks againft Anti-republican tendencies :—the
prefervation of the general Government in its
whole conititutional vigour, as the thect anchor
f our peace at home, and fafety abroad ; a jea-
lous care of the right of eldtion by the people, a
mild and rife corredive of abufes which are lop-
ped by the fword of revolution, where peaceable
remedies r.re unpi ofrided :—abfolute acquiefcence
in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle
of Republics, from which is no appeal but to
force, the vital principle and immediate parent
of dcfpotifm : a well-difciplined Militia, our bell
reliance in peace, and for the firtl moments of
war, till Regulars may relieve them: the fupre.
Macy of the Civil over the Military Authority :
economy in the public expence, that labour may
be lightly burthened:--the Konen payment of our
debts; and facred prefervation of the public faith :
encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce
as its handmaid : the diffufion of information, and
arraignment of all abufes at the bar of the public
reafon :—freedom of religion ; freedom of the
pref.'s ; and freedom of perion, under the protec-
tion of the Habeas Corpus: and trial by Juries
impartially feleaed. There principles form the '
bright constellation which has gone before us, and
guided our Reps through an age of revolution and
reformation. The wifdom of our rages, and blood
of our heroes, have been devoted to their attain-
ment; they fhould be the creed of our political
faith, the text of civic inftration, the touchftone
by which to try the fervices of thole we trial ;
and fhould we wander from them in moments of
error ortof alarm, let us haften toretrace our Reps,
and to regain the road which alone leads to peace,
liberty and fafety. _

" I• repair, then, Fellow-Citizens,"to the poll you
have affigned me. With experience' enough in
fubordinate offices to have lien the difficulties of
this, the greateft of all, I have learnt to expect
that it will- rarely fall to the lot of impeded man
to retire from this Ration with the reputation, and
the favour, which bring him into at. Without
pretenftons to that high confidence you repoted in
our firft and greateft revolutionary charalter,
whofe pre-eminent fervices had entitled him to the
&ft place in his country's love, and deftined for
him the faireit page in the volume of faithful hill
tory, I afk fo much confidence only as may give
firmnefs and effect to the legal adminiftration of
your affairs. I fhall often so wrong through
deed of judgment. When right, I fhall often be
thought wrong by thofe whole petitions will not
command a view of the whole ground. I alk your
indulgence for my own errors, which will never
be intentional ; and your fupportagainil the errors
of others, who may condemn what they would
not, if feen in all its parts. The approbation im-
plied by your fuffrage is a great confolation tome
for the pall : and my future folicitude will be, to
retain the good opinion of thole who have bellow-
ed it in advance • to conciliate that of others by
doin:T them all die good in my power, and to be
inllrumental to the happincfs and freedom of all.
" Relying, then, on the patronage of your good
will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready
Ito retire from it whenever you become fenfible
how much better choice it is in your power to
make. And may that infinite POWER which rules
the deffinies of the univerfe, lead our councils to
what belt, and give them a favourable iffue for
your peace and profperity."

On Monday, the late Prefident of the United
States feat a Meffage to the Senate in relation to
the French Convention.

He obferved, 4, that it was his with that the
Convention fhould have been ratified entire. But
as a different opinion was entertained by the Se-
-1 nate, a relpeel for the high authority of that Body
induced him to ratify it, under the conditions they
' had impofed ; that he had. nominated Mr. BAY-
ARD, Minifler Plenipotentiary to France; but that
Mr. BAYARD had alliined to him the mon
faCtory realms for dcchning the Embaffy—reafons
which would operate to prevent him from nomi.
nating any other individual qualified to difiharge
faithfully the duties of a Milliner. He therefore
fuffered the bulinefs to devolve on his lucceffor."
AARON BURR, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, on lVcdnefday Morning took his feat in the
Senate, as ni:licient of that Body.
' The Houfe o Reprefentatives of the United
States on Monday lait, took up the amendments
propofed by the Senate to the Houle for crating
monument to Gerale Wafhington.
It was prnpofcd to an7,ment the amendment of
the Senate, which appropriated 50,0c0 dollars for
the ereflion of a monument, by 'alerting too,ooo
dollars in lien of 51,m00.
On which emotion the Yeas and Nays were
taken, and were, Yeas 34—Nays 49.
It was therefore rejeCted.

! The diforder with:vnt the barpf the Houle, from
I the great influx of Ilrangera, and the great num-
Iber of ladies, has heen luca Gat- fereral days pall as
to render it almnfi impollible for the Sraker to
keep the bufinefs going on—in r.ne intlance the
I o:licers wet:. ordered to go ronad among the au-
dience : in fe.:eral, the Speaker has threatened to
....ear the lol,h;. t:o Friday Mr. Harper, while
I I;:eakin3, was In incommt.elcd with the multutli-
! onus buz as to acchn c that he could not hear him-
fell fpeak—perhaps, he EMI, it might he altoge.
ther nrnmportan: %sin :het all one elk beard him
or net .