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Episcopal Church in New York, who had been selected by the Senate to be one of the chaplains of Congress. These services over, the President was escorted back to his own house.

IV.

In the evening the city was brilliantly illuminated, and there was a display of fireworks, under Colonel Bauman, surpassing any thing of the kind hitherto seen in New York. Between the Bowling Green and the Fort, at the foot of Broadway, was a large transparent painting, in the centre of which appeared a portrait of Washington, under a figure of Fortitude, and the Senate and House of Representatives were exhibited, one on the right, and the other on the left, under the forms of Justice and Wisdom. The ship Carolina, off the Fort, seemed like a pyramid of stars. Federal Hall presented in every window a sheet of light. The front of the Theatre, in John street, was almost covered with transparencies, one of which represented Fame, descending like an angel from Heaven, and crowning Washington with the emblems of immortality. A very large number of private residences were also illuminated, and none more tastefully or brilliantly than those of the French and Spanish ministers, the Count de Moustier and Don Diego Gardoqui, which were both in Broadway, near the Bowling Green. The doors and windows of M. de Moustier displayed borderings of lamps, which shone upon numerous paintings, ingeniously suggestive of the past, the present, and the future, in American history; and there were also over the front of the house large and striking transparencies, which are described as having done great honor to the taste and sentiment of the inventor, probably Madame de Brehan, the Count's sister, who was always industrious with her pencil when not occupied with more immediate duties to society. The Spanish minister's residence was still more elaborately and effect-