SUN AT MIDNIGHT [Part I] U.S.Presidential Inauguration April 30 1789

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“I approached the very gates of death and set one foot on Proserpine’s threshold, yet was permitted to return, rapt through all the elements. At midnight I saw the Sun shining as if it were noon; I entered the presence of the gods of the under-world and the gods of the upper world, stood near and worshipped them.” Lucius Apuleius, The Transformation of Lucius

 

"They wanted me to be another Washington" Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

 

SUN AT MIDNIGHT

 

 

Fair to say, George Washington was the most successful revolutionary leader of modern times. He managed to lead the new American nation, the USA, successfully to victory in a war of liberation, and just as well managed to lead the USA successfully during the first eight years of its constitutional, national government, now in the 217th year of its existence [since March 4th]. This American nation, the USA: at once so young, and yet so old, now almost 229 years old, [next July 02nd].

Now consider George Washington’s outstanding twofold contribution to the American nation as this contribution is almost perfectly symbolized by the significance of the start dates of Washington’s two great career achievements: One achievement in war, one in peace. Those start dates are: July 02, 1775 (Seventy FIVE) and April 30, 1789. And all the more telling is it in my estimation because of the possibly cosmic connexity between these two dates, which connexity I shall explore only briefly in this Part I. The cosmic connexity of these two major mundane events separated by almost fourteen years,, during the formative period of the American nation, has not been commented on before to the best of my knowledge. The possible cosmic connexity is that of a

Great Man’s soul as expressed through the persona of American military’s first ever appointed Lieutenant General: First, at the start of his role as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, in 1775, and then much later, at the start of his role as President of the United States, in 1789. One year before the actual birthday of the USA on July 02, 1776, Washington assumed command of the American Armed Forces, within which the Continental Army had been founded just two weeks earlier, on June 14, 1775, a hallmark birthday annually celebrated by the U.S. Army. And then again, and almost 14 years later, on April 30, 1789, Washington once again assumed the responsibilities of the Commander in Chief , but this time as the President of the United States.

 

In July 1775, the handover of command of the American armed forces in Massachusetts from General Ward to General Washington was to be with official effect on July 3rd. However, the process began the day before, on the day when the position of the star Sirius was @ 20.Gemini.15; and, more specifically, at about midnight when the position of the Sun was also @ 20.Gemini.14 (from 11:49 p.m. until 12:01 a.m.). How extraordinary that on this occasion, of a major moment in the life of Washington and the American nation, the Sun was truly conjunct Sirius, the star sometimes referred to as the Sun’s Sun, with the measurable difference between the positions of the Sun and Sirius

amounting to less than two minutes of arc. Traditionally Sirius is largely seen as a benefic influence, and certainly so in this conjunction marking the start of Washington’s command. It is said of Sirius that when beneficent it produces great things from small beginnings. It is said to bring honor, wealth, renown, faithfulness and devotion. So too on closer inspection do these two event dates in the life of Washington, July 02nd 1775 and April 30th 1789 suggest strongly to have been directly connected, informing the persona and character of America’s first Commander in Chief, earlier in war; later in peace. In Part II, for next time, the cosmic connexity of these 1775/1789 events shall be discussed at some length. For now the focus is restricted to the first Presidential Inauguration on April 30, 1789.

 

 

FROM UNITED COLONIES, TO UNITED STATES, TO CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC

 

The United States of America (USA) was born of thirteen crown colonies first united by national defense in prosecution of a civil war actuated by inter-governmental rivalries within the constitutional framework of the State of Great Britain. These long standing rivalries precipitated civil war with the outbreak of the historic battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1775. The executive directors of this national defense effort were the delegates from the thirteen colonies to the Second Continental Congress. By the end of June 1776 majorities within the citizenry of most of the counties in each of the colonies instructed their delegates to choose Independency in union with the Old Thirteen; this event was the revolutionary break with the State of Great Britain. The

resulting secession was undertaken by congressional resolution, in the form of a declaration-as-abjuration, duly adopted on July 02, 1776. This abjuration constituted the metaphysical basis of the birth of the American State (commonly referred to as “the nation”.) On that historic Tuesday afternoon the United Colonies became at once the United States of America, in Congressional session, in Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania State House (much later, re-named Independence Hall), at the time moment of the abjuration’s adoption, its Lagna @ 15.Scorpio.30; the Moon @ 07.Capricorn.23 (or approximately 4:48 pm; by SAMVA: 4:48:46 pm, exactly.). The already accomplished fact of this abjuration for Independency was transcribed verbatim as published in the final section of the state paper misleadingly referred to as

“The Declaration of Independence”. Independency was declared once and for all on July 02nd. The state paper dated July 4th contained this July 2nd declaration and further explained by justification, at times eloquently so, why the USA had already come to be, two days before that July 4th.

 

America’s national State is one instance of the universal condition of a nation-state, as it is comprised of its people in their civic capacity. The American State is commonly known and recognized as the USA, the nation-state that, in just a few years time from its birth, became the constituent sponsor of America’s national, federal government. American national government was first sponsored constitutionally by the USA through the “Articles of Confederation”, with effect from March 01, 1781 until March 04, 1789; and thereafter, the constitutional sponsorship of national government was radically transformed and continued through the “Constitution for the United States”, with effect from March 04, 1789 until today, tomorrow etc. In less than 5 years after July 02, 1776, the USA gave birth to its first constitutional national government, at the same Philadelphia location as that of 1776, at about noontime of Thursday, March 01, 1781, at the time moment of the final signature in ratification; its Lagna at a point late in the 10th degree of Gemini. [signatures were reported affixed shortly before noon by the two Congressional representatives of the State of Maryland, the 13th and final State to ratify. The completion of the constitution’s ratification was publicly announced at noon as the first part of an afternoon long celebration throughout Philadelphia, whose celebrants included the entire Congress, which had recessed for the afternoon.] [i’ve made a note to myself to point this out to Ron Grimes, who mistakenly thinks Congress was in session that afternoon.] The national government vested by this first constitution was stiled the “United States in Congress Assembled”. This first constitution was duly authenticated more than three years before its final ratification, on Monday, November 17, 1777. That’s right, not on Saturday, the 15th; [if the now deceased David Solte could only read this and reflect on his error.] The engrossed document was duly authenticated exactly on the afternoon of the 17th. Then, on the much later date of its final ratification, at long last America’s national government was first established.

 

Still later again, this time around, more than six years after the ratification of the first constitution, and for a third time at the same Philadelphia location, the USA radically transformed its constitutional order, as the USA both bid a “goodbye” to its constitutional adolescence, and bid a “welcome” to its constitutional adulthood, as represented by the authentication of the engrossed parchment of the USA’s second constitution, in the late afternoon of Monday, September 17, 1787, [to have been ratified much later, on June 21, 1788] at the time moment of its Lagna @ 07.Capricorn.23; the Moon @ 15.Scorpio.59 The final 1 of all 39 signatures was affixed at approximately 3:28 pm, [the “p.m.”, which rules out what amounts to the fiction of a time moment in the late morning, as maintained at AstroDataBank by a contributor’s horoscope listing for this natus of September 17, 1787. Scholarly

references regarding the factuality of the afternoon time moment are available for the asking.]

 

This second constitution: “The Constitution for the United States” is considered to be still in force today, some telling criticism of certain policies of the U.S Federal government to the contrary notwithstanding. The national government vested by this constitution has been stiled the “Federal Government of the United States” (often referred to, alternatively, as the “U.S. Federal Government”). This national, federal government was born in Federal Hall, Wall Street, New York City, in the late morning of Wednesday, March 04, 1789, at the time moment of its Lagna, at a point in the 30th degree of Taurus. (Congress first convened that morning, at approximately 11:00

am). Odd as it may seem, this was a natus without any of its three major component parts in place, as each one of these parts, these branches of government, was to become actualized only subsequently, however in the near future: (01) The legislature (to make the laws), on April 06, 1789, when a quorum in both the Senate and the House of Representatives was first achieved; (02) The Executive (to enforce the laws), on April 30, 1789, when the President was inaugurated (as described below); and (03) The Judiciary (to interpret the laws), on February 01, 1790, when the originating legislation, signed by the President on September 24, 1789, was perfected with the noontime opening of the first session of the Supreme Court, in its quarters in the Merchants Exchange Building, New York City.

 

[The rest of this text is devoted to the story of the relevant events of that historic day, April 30, 1789, now 216 years ago (3 x 72 years), when in accordance with the nation’s, the USA’s second constitution, George Washington was sworn in as that constitution’s first President of the United States. But first, a brief sketch of the biographical birth profile of George Washington.]

 

 

George Washington; Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia; February 22, 1732, 10:00 a.m. LAT.

 

When George Washington was born the calendar date was February 11, 1731, not February 22, 1732. This was so because the calendar in use at the time was the now former Julian calendar. Over twenty years later, in 1752, Great Britain and its American colonies switched calendars from the Julian to the Gregorian. This switch brought the new calendar in line with the solar year and by doing so eliminated eleven days from September of

that year: September 2 was followed by September 14. At the same time, New Year's Day was changed from March 25 to January 1. Since then, historians have said that Washington was born in 1732, and the anniversary of his birth has been celebrated on February 22, although throughout his life Washington celebrated privately the Julian (OS) calendar date of February 11 for his birthday. Because a given year under the Julian calendar was 365 days 6 hours, by the sixteenth century a considerable surplus had accumulated, moving the vernal equinox from March 21 to March 11. The error was corrected in 1582 by the Gregorian calendar (NS), as then adopted by most European countries. By 1752, Great

Britain belatedly adopted the Gregorian calendar.

According to the genealogical record prepared for the Washington family by Mr. Isaac Heard, dated May 2, 1792, it was briefly recorded in the Washington family Bible that George was born at about 10:00 a.m. (LAT) to Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington at the family farm (later named the Wakefield Estate or Plantation), located by Popes Creek but also in the vicinity of Bridges Creek, about forty miles south of Mount Vernon, Virginia (which is itself about 15 miles south of Washington, D.C.). Mount Vernon became Washington’s home in his adult years (and later his tomb, as

well). In less than two months, on April 05th, George was baptized in the Anglican Episcopal Church, with Mr. Beverley Whiting & Capt Christopher Brookes, godfathers and Mrs. Mildred Gregory, godmother.

 

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION

 

April 30, 1789

Place: Federal Hall, Wall Street, New York City, State of New York

Time Moments in the Limit: 12:50/1:50 pm

Nativity: (01) Washington’s first Term of Office; and (02) the U.S. Presidency.

Nativity-Not: (01) Not the U.S.A. (the Nation); (02) Not the U.S. Government.

Earliest Rectification, published in 1850: Lagna @1:20 pm (Tropical)

Astrologer: Thomas Hague, American, (cited by Dane Rudhyar)

 

So what follows here in this next section, by way of a superficial summary, is an account of some of the twists and wrinkles seldom mentioned in the standard histories of this first Presidential Inauguration:Just prior to the Inauguration ceremony itself, at about 1:00 pm, if not as much as 10 minutes before, having reached the greater Wall Street area by military parade, which started out from Cherry Street then marched by way of Queen Street, Great Dock Street to arrive at Broad Street. President-elect George Washington stepped down from his carriage at a stopping point part way up Broad Street, and then he walked north some 200 yards further along Broad Street to Federal Hall, located at the corner of Wall and

Nassau streets, while the area was chock-a-block thronged by a well-wishing public: streets jammed, roof tops sufficing for bleacher seats. New York City had figuratively overflowed with visitors by the day before; visitors mostly with no place to stay the night: With all inns, taverns and the like having been booked up, people resorted to sleeping at the wharves, in the meadows, anywhere and all over lower Manhattan Island. Why George Washington hadn’t reached this point in the ceremonies more than an hour earlier, as officially scheduled, is a story essentially about Senatorial politics and the lengths some were to go that day to frustrate the schedule and so miss the originally appointed moment of the Oath taking for 12:00 noon.Working his way north on Broad Street, 200 yards to his destination at the intersection of Broad, Nassau and Wall Streets, through the growing crowds, must have taken Washington some 5 to 10 minutes, and

then one may figure another 5 minutes in order to be taken thru the pre-ceremony formalities on the 2nd floor of Federal Hall (1st floor, for the Europeans) where the Senate Chamber was located, before walking out on to the balcony overlooking Broad and Wall Street, where the Oath was to be sworn. The Senate Chamber became the scene of some low drama during that late morning, when bickering among some of the assembled Senators contributed to the delay of the departure of the Congressional Greeting Committee, tasked with fetching the President-elect at his house in order to ceremonially escort him to the Federal Hall. This must have been a source of no small annoyance to the President-elect, for it was reported that the Great Man had been kept waiting as much as "an hour and 10 minutes" (i.e.,: the President-elect punctually awaited the Joint Committee’s 11:00 am arrival at his home in order to set out on the Inaugural procession to Wall Street from his home at

the corners of Cherry and Pearl Streets, at the place known in later years as Franklin Square. The Committee’s delay appears to have amounted to considerably more than one hour.)

[NOTE: Therefore, one may reasonably conclude: Any horoscopic rectification for the Oath-taking’s completion, between 12:55 and 1:20 pm, may be perfectly historically defensible. The Inaugural Speech added another 20 to 30 minutes, to arrive at the entire ceremony’s estimated completion time moment, no later than 1:50 pm. The events related to the time frame: 12:50/1:50 pm are what I wish to convey in this message; and so assist the astrologer’s work of rectifying within this approximate range of possible time moments, reasonably consistent with the historical record. And as well, it is hoped that astrologers will desist in imagining that somehow the inaugural oath was taken in the late morning or at noon. It just didn’t

happen that early in the day.]

As already briefly mentioned, there is another part of the story of the Fist Inauguration that Washington's biographers have barely touched on: that part of the story regarding the scheduled starting time of the Inaugural ceremonies that day, scheduled by the design of the Senate Inaugural Committee to have the Oath of Office administered on the front balcony of Federal Hall, a balcony overlooking the Broad and Wall Streets intersection, promptly @ 12:00 noon. That morning John Adams of Massachusetts, Vice President of the U.S. as well as the President of the Senate, and Senator Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, the Chairman of the Inauguration Committee, were the senior members in the Senate that morning, and so it’s reasonable to think that they ought to be held accountable for the derelictions in what amounted to a colossal scheduling screw-up, as a row over a point of protocol in the

Senate Chamber by a number of Senators delayed the departure of the Greeting Party, whose job it was to fetch Washington from his official residence. [Greeting Party: for the Senate: Tristam Dalton, Ralph Izard, and Richard Henry Lee; for the House of Representatives: Fisher Ames, Egbert Benson and Charles Carroll]. Because of that row the Senate kept the Great Man, General Washington, waiting at his home for well over an hour. While Washington was tapping his fingers and watching the clock, the event making for the delay was still unfolding in the Senate Chamber, between 11:00 and 12:00 noon,

 

The scene in the Senate Chamber some time after 11:00 a.m. approached what may be fairly described in modern terms as bizarre, with all the makings of a brawl just short of eruption, as Senators at times were screaming at each other in disagreement over the appropriate Presidential greeting protocol to be observed by the Senate; concretely, the acceptable form of salutation to address the President-Elect on his ceremonial first arrival at their chambers: Should it be: "Your Highness"; "Your Excellency"; "Your Grace"; "Sir"; "Mr."; etc. Clearly, any suggestion even hinting at monarchical usage was political dynamite in that era, and clearly, all the more on this “republican” inaugural occasion. By the time order had restored itself and tempers cooled the Greeting Committee had only then just departed to fetch Washington, when on the way out the door they passed members of the House of

Representatives who were coming upstairs, on schedule, to present themselves in the Senate Chambers expecting the Oath Taking to commence in but a matter of minutes, as scheduled for 12:00 noon. Surprised indeed, to say the least! The Reception Committee was expected at Washington's residence between 11:00 and 11:30 am. They arrived shortly before 12:30 p.m. The Chairman of the Senate Inauguration Committee, Richard Henry Lee among them.

 

SPECULATIVE CONCLUDING REMARKS

 

After repeated discussions of the protocol question in previous Senate sessions, why still on the appointed date and hour was this point of protocol order left still unresolved and under discussion? The President of the Senate, John Adams, gavel in hand much of the time, was really tested that particular late morning, to be sure, however his presiding authority was apparently found wanting. It was as if Adams and Lee preferred to sit out the row and let things further deteriorate. Is it only co-incidence that neither Lee nor Adams were ardent admirers of Washington? Is it only co-incidence that, unlike Washington, neither Lee nor Adams were Freemasons and therefore insensitive to the precise timing of this or any other ceremonial events? Lee and Adams, the only two men in the room who could have cut short

the row in order to keep to the schedule, appeared to take no assertive counter measures.

 

At this point in the story one should recall a bit of revolutionary history here. The Virginian, Richard Lee, along with the Massachusetts' Adams men, cousins John and Samuel, these three among other members who were equally ardent men for liberty in the revolutionary Congress, were not counted among the freemasons, such as were John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin. Yet Lee and the Adams were among the most prominent in the phalanx of the movement for Independency in 1774-76; [These three ideological radicals and others in the old Continental Congress were less than affectionately referred to by their opponents, the conservative “reconciliationists”, as the "Angry Men", while the reconciliationists contrasted themselves as the "Considerate Men".] Adams and Lee had been fast friends and cordial collaborators from the very beginning. Famously, Richard

Henry Lee had introduced in Congress the Resolution on Independency on June 07, 1776, this parliamentary motion was then at once seconded by John Adams. Just about a month later this Independency resolution became the text of the actual declaration-as-abjuration, enacted by Congress on behalf of the constituent colonies on what should have been recognized in public celebration, but is not, as the real American Independence Day: July 02, 1776.

Adams and Lee: both men revolutionists, yes; Masons, no way. How these two non-Masons in their respective official presiding capacities, may well have connived in allowing this "Masonically” arranged 12:00 noon Oath Taking ceremony to be spoiled by a delay of more than one hour, makes for another story yet to be told; a story of rivalries of an intensity, at least the equal of the political party rivalries of the Federalists and the Republicans that troubled the early formative years of the American Republic..

 

 

EXCERPTS HERE BELOW: The works cited are those of recognized scholars who were familiar with, and worked from the primary source historical records; as well as contemporary accounts of journalists and other eye-witnesses. Together they tell more of the Story, “small bones” and all:

1789: THE WASHINGTON INAUGURATION with Program of Ceremonies. Papers by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb(White and Allen: N.Y., 1889) Page: 19(From the “Magazine of American History” of December, 1888, February 1889, March 1889):

“On the 29th the inaugural committee reported their scheme for the conduct of the ceremonies on the 30th, which proving satisfactory; a few copies were printed on foolscap sheets for the convenience of those participating. One of these has been preserved and is now the property of the New York Historical Society, through whose courtesy it is given verbatim to our readers as an illustration of the significance with which details were regarded at that period”

“That the members of both Houses of Congress assemble in their respective Chambers precisely at 12 o’clock; and that the Representatives preceded by the Speaker of the House proceed to the Senate Chamber, there to be received by the Vice President and the Senators rising.”

JOHN ADAMS Volume II 1784-1826, Chapter LVIBy Page Smith (Doubleday: N.Y., 1962) page: 749

At 12 noon: “Meanwhile the rumor penetrated the Senate Chamber that the Speaker of the House and the Representatives were waiting at the door for the Senate to decide how to receive them. The result was complete confusion. Senators left their chairs, everyone talked at once, and Adams hammered in vain for order. At last order was restored and the Speaker and Representatives were got in pell-mell and given seats to await the President.With Congress assembled Lee, Izard and Dalton were dispatched to fetch the President. It was an hour before Washington appeared with his escort.”

 

WITH THE FATHERS: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Chapter: “Washington’s Inauguration”By John Bach McMaster(D. Appleton & Co: N.Y., 1896) pages: 150-181

At 12 noon: “In the Senate all was confusion, all the business was stopped, and the three senators, who ought to have attended the President long before, set off for his house. As Washington could not leave until they arrived, the procession, which had been forming since sunrise, was greatly delayed, and for an hour and ten minutes the Senators and Representatives chafed and scolded. At last the shouting in the street (Wall & Nassau) made known that the President was come. A few minutes later he entered the room, and both Houses were formally presented.”

 

THE CENTURY MAGAZINE: April 1889, Volume XXXVII, No. 6 Washington’s Inauguration—Centennial Number“The Inauguration of Washington” pages 803-833By Clarence Winthrop Bowen

“The military were meanwhile preparing to parade, and at 12 o’clock marched before the President’s house on Cherry Street. A part of the procession came direct from Federal Hall. The full procession left the Presidential mansion at half past 12 o’clock. When the military, which amounted to not more than 500 men, arrived within 200 yards of Federal Hall, at 1 o’clock, they were drawn up on each side, and Washington and the assistants and the gentlemen especially invited passed through the lines and proceeded to the Senate Chamber of the Federal State House.”

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON, A Biography Volume VI, “Patriot and President” (1784-1793)By Douglas Southall Freeman(Scribner’s: N.Y., 1954) Pages: 187-193

“If he was awake at sunrise on this, his inauguration day, he heard the bark of thirteen guns from the war-time fortifications at the southern end of New York Island, just thirteen years from another April day when he had caught the sound of a friendly gun from the Battery. When Washington had eaten his breakfast, the bells of city churches began to ring, some of them merrily at first and then all of them solemnly in a summons to prayer at 9 or 9:30 o’clock. Expectancy was in the air, pervading everything, but no call came for Washington until noon was past; then he heard the joint committee of Congress was arriving

to escort him to Federal Hall. At half past 12, off rode the General in slow stateliness, his vehicle drawn by four fine horses. Down Cherry Street into Queen and along Queen to Great Dock Street the procession moved, past smiling crowds. At Great Dock the column turned westward and moved to Broad. Then it swung northward until the front rank halted about 200 yards south of Wall Street, at which crossing, on the north side, Federal Hall was located.”

(Footnote: “In other words, the parade followed the existing Pearl Street down to Broad and then went north on Broad to Wall and Nassau The full order of the procession will be found in the DAILY ADVERTISER, May 1, 1789, p. 2: Further stated, on stepping down from his carriage: “the Presidential party walked 300 yards” to Federal Hall)

 

FORGE OF UNION ANVIL OF LIBERTY: A Correspondent’s Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress & the Creation of the Bill of RightsBy Jeffrey St. JohnChapter 13, “Washington Takes Oath” (Jameson Books, Ill, 1992) pages: 107-108

“A hush fell over the throng when a little after one o’clock today…the solemn six-foot one-inch Virginian turned and took a few graceful steps inside the Senate Chamber toward a dais raised a yard above the floor…Members rose….The General bowed to both sides and was escorted to the center of three chairs under the dais canopy by Vice President John Adams. They exchanged bows (A brief formal statement by Adams and they proceeded to the front balcony). The General put his right hand on the book and repeated after Livingston the 34 word oath of office. Livingston said quietly: ”It is done.”

 

THE ASTROLOGY OF AMERICA’S DESTINY: A Birth Chart for the United States of AmericaBy Dane RudhyarChapter: “A Chart for the Beginnings of the Federal Government”Random House, N.Y., 1974) page: 148

“According to astrologer Thomas Hague (in 1850), though legally scheduled to occur at noon on April 30, Washington actually took his oath of office at 1:20 pm. This time gives early Virgo rising and Gemini at the Mid Heaven (Sidereal: Leo rising; MC Taurus). The Sun and Venus are in the 9th House and the Moon is coming to a conjunction with Jupiter in the 11th House.”

 

CONCLUSION: Hague placed the time moment of closure @ 1:20 pm, precisely halfway in the time moment limit cited at the beginning here above. Hereafter the 1:20 pm rectification deserves to be referred to as the Hague Chart.

 

An abstract from a contemporary newspaper account, in the NEW YORK PACKET:

New York, May 1, 1789. Yesterday by two o'clock was solemnly inaugurated into office, our Illustrious President.

The ceremony was begun by the following procession from the Federal House to the President's house, viz.:

Troop of HorseAssistantsCommittee of RepresentativesCommittee of SenateGentlemen to be admitted in the Senate ChamberGentlemen in coachesCitizens on foot

On their arrival, the President joined the procession in his carriage and four, and the whole moved through the principal streets to the State House in the following order:

Troop of HorseInfantrySheriff on horsebackCommittee of RepresentativesCommittee of SenatePresident andAssistants (President's Suite) AssistantsGentlemen to be admitted in the Senate ChamberGentlemen in coachesCitizens on foot

When the van reached the State House, the troops opening their ranks formed an avenue, through which, after alighting, the President, advancing to the door, was conducted to the Senate Chamber, where he was received by both branches of Congress, and by them accompanied to the balcony or outer gallery in front of the State House, which was decorated with a canopy and curtains of red interstreaked with white for the solemn occasion. In this public manner the oath of office required by the Constitution was administered by the Chancellor of this State, and the illustrious Washington thereupon declared by the said Chancellor, President Of The United States, amidst the repeated

huzzas and acclamations of a numerous and crowded audience.

After the inauguration, the President, returning to the Senate Chamber, delivered a speech to both Houses of Congress.

After this the President, accompanied by both Houses of Congress, proceeded on foot to St. Paul's Church (where divine service was performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Provost, suitable to the immediate occasion) in the following order, viz.:

Troop of HorseInfantryDoor Keeper and Messenger of RepresentativesClerkRepresentativesSpeakerPresident and Vice-PresidentPresident's SuiteSenatorsSecretaryDoor Keeper and Messenger of the SenateGentlemen admitted into the Senate ChamberSheriffCitizens

Constables, marshals, etc., on each side of the Members of Congress at proper distances, from the front of the Representatives to the rear of the Senators.

In the evening fireworks were displayed under the direction of Colonel Bauman.—The brilliancy and Excellency of them does honor to the projector.

The houses of their Excellencies the French and Spanish Ambassadors were most elegantly illuminated on this auspicious occasion.

 

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