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wAsH1NGT0N's DEATH.

Cotemporaneous Notices Of the Event-Letter
from Washington's Secretary Proceedings
in Congress-President's Proclamatio
acknowledgements in Rutland, Benning-
ton, ETC., Etc.
Seven,y-six years ago to-day December
IA, 1799-George Washington died at
Mount Vernon, and the fact of his death
was communicated to the president of the
United States in the following letter.
MOUNT VERNON, December Is, 1799
SR-It Is with inexpressibe grief that
have to announce to you the death of the
great and good General Washington. He
died last evening, between ten and eleven
o'clock, after short ilness of about
twenty hours. His disease was an inflam-
matory sore throat, which proceeded from
cold, of which he made but little com
plant on Friday. On Saturday morning,
about three o'clock, he became Ill. Doc.
tor Craik attended him in the morning, and
Doctor Dick of Alexandria, and Doctor
Brown, of Port Tobacco, were soon after
called in. Every medical assistance was
offered, but without the desired effect. His
last scene correspondent with the whole
tenor of his life : not q groan nor a COM
plant escaped him in extreme distress.
With perfect resignation, and In full pos
session of his reason, he closed his well
spent life.
have the honor to be, with the highest
respect, sir, your most obedient and very
humble servant, TOBIAS LEAR.
To the President OF the United States.
This letter, the president communicated
to congress the day 1t was received-De-
cember 10, 1799-whereupon the house
voted to wait upon the president ain con-
dolence of the national calamity" At one
o'clock, the same afternoon, "the speaker,
attended by the house, withdrew to the
house of the president of the United States,
when Mr.. Speaker addressed the president
| as follows:
ADDRESS OF THEODORE sEDGwIoK, SPEAKER
OF THE HOUSE.
SIR The house Of representatives, PEN
etrated with sense of the irreparable loss
sustained by the nation in the death of that
great and good man, the illustrious and be-
loved Washington, wait on you, sir, to ex-
press their coincidence on this melancholy
and distressing event.
REPLY OF PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS.
Gentlemen Of the House Of Representa-
tees Il receive, with great respect and
affection, the coincidence of the house OF
representatives, on the melancholy and af-
fecting event, in the death of the most
illustrious and beloved parsonage which
this country ever produced. sympathize
with you, with the nation, and with good
men through the world, In this irreparablt
loss sustained by us all.
JOHN ADAMS.
| United States, December 10, 1899.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
On the Oath of December the president
announced the death to the country al
follows
BIZ the President
OF THE
81 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the Congress of the United
States, "in honor of the memory of Gener
al GEORGE WASHINGTON" have thi
day "Resolved, That it be Recommended
to the people of the United States, to wea
Grape on their left arm, as mourning, TO
thirty days And ''that the President o
the United States be requested to issue
Proclamation, notifying to the xpeopl
throughout the United States, the sal,
| recommendation :"
Now therefore, i JOHN ADAMS, Presiden
of the United States, do hereby proclaim
the same accordingly.
Given under my hand and the seal o
the United States, at Philadelphia
the twenty-fourth day of December
in the year of our Lord, one thou
l.. s. sand seven hundred and ninety-nine
and of the independence of tn
, United States the twenty fourth.
JOHN ADAMS.
By the President,
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
Secretary of State
CoTEMFORANEOUS ACCOUNT OF THE
FUNERAL.
, Inc IOllOWlnS account OF the 1unert
originally appeared in Baltimore new
paper, and, hence, was copied by the news
papers of the country as domestic INTEL
gence," under the head OF maryland. " W
reproduce the account uer6atim, capitals
. italics and all.
: GEORGETOWN, December 20, 1890.
On Wednesday last the mortal part Q
WASHINGTON the great-the father Q
his country and friend of man--was cor
, signed to the tomb with solemn honors an
,, funeral pomp. ......
: A multitude of persons assembled, fror
many miles round, at Mount Vernon, tn
choice abode and last residence of the illul
trious chief. There were the groves, III
{ spacious avenues, the beautiful and sublim
3 scenes, the noble mansion--but, alas tn
, august inhabitant aoas no,o no more. Tbs
: great soul was gone His mortal part wa
!, there indeed, but ah |! how affecting, no,
awful the spectacle of such worth an
greatness, thus to mortal eyes fallen Yel
fallen, fallen.
In the long and lofty Portico, where Of
the hero walked in all his glory, now la
the shrouded corpse. The countenancs
still composed and serene, seemed to Q,
press the dignity of the spirit which latel
dwelt in the hfeless form. There thos
, who payed the last sad honors to the benz
factor OF his country took an impressive
a farewell view.
On the ornament at the head of the col
fin was inscribed Surge ad Judiciun abou
, the middle of the coffin, Gloria Dec, an
ON the silver plate
~ GENERAL
Il GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Departed this life the l4th December, l790
Aged SO.