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swered their address. They said, "After the solemn and endearing farewell on the banks of the Hudson, which our anxiety presaged as final, most peculiarly pleasing is the present unexpected meeting. On this occasion we cannot avoid the recollection of the various scenes of toil and danger through which you conducted us, and while we contemplate the trying periods of the war, and the triumphs of peace, we rejoice to behold you, induced by the unanimous voice of your country, entering upon other trials, and other services, alike important, and in some points of view, equally hazardous. For the completion of the great purposes which a grateful country has assigned you, long, very long, may your invaluable life be preserved; and as an admiring world, while considering you as a soldier, have wanted a comparison, so may your virtues and talents as a statesman, leave it without a parallel." He said in his answer, "Dear indeed, is the occasion which restores an intercourse with my faithful associates, in prosperous and adverse fortune; and enhanced are the triumphs of peace, participated by those whose virtue and valor so largely contributed to procure them. To that virtue and valor your country has confessed her obligations; be mine the grateful task of adding the testimony of a connection, which it was my pride to own, in the field, and it is now my happiness to acknowledge, in the enjoyment of peace and freedom." At one o'clock, he received and replied to an address from the Governor and Council of the commonwealth. At four o'clock he was entertained by the Lieutenant Governor and the Council (the ill health of the Governor preventing his attendance) at a sumptuous dinner, given at Faneuil Hall, where Warren, Otis, and Adams, had fanned into life the embers of the Revolution. Among the guests were the Vice President, ex-governor Bowdoin, the judges of the Supreme Court, the President of Harvard College, the clergy of Boston, the admiral and captains of the French squadron, and

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