en
exercised with more glory, never more remembered with the applause
and gratitude of mankind, than when extending the hand of patronage
and encouragement to the science of astronomy. You have neither
Caesar nor Czar, Caliph, Emperor, nor King, to monopolize this glory
by largesses extracted from the fruits of your industry. The
founders of your constitution have left it as their dying
commandment to you, to achieve, as the lawful sovereigns of the
land, this resplendent glory to yourselves--to patronize and
encourage the arts and sciences, and all good literature."

Mr. Adams left Quincy for Cincinnati on the 25th of October, and
returned to Washington on the 24th of November. At Saratoga, Rochester,
Buffalo, he was received with marked attention; and in every place where
he rested assemblages of the inhabitants took occasion to evidence their
respect and interest in his character by congratulatory addresses, and
welcomed his presence by every token of civility and regard. At Columbus
he was met by a deputation from Cincinnati, and, in approaching that
city, he was escorted into it by a procession and cavalcade. No
demonstration of honor and gratitude for the exertion he had made, and
the fatigues he had undergone, for their gratification, was omitted. His
whole progress was an ovation.

In the presence of a large concourse of the citizens of Cincinnati, Mr.
Adams was introduced to the Astronomical Society by its president, Judge
Burnet, who gave, in an appropriate address, a rapid sketch of the
history of his life and his public services, touching with delicacy and
judgment on the trials to which his political course had been subjected.
The following tributes, from their truth, justice, and appropriateness,
are entitled to distinct remembrance:

"Being a son of one of the framers and defenders of the Declaration
of Independence, his political principles were formed in the school
of the sages of the Revolution, from whom he imbibed the spirit of
liberty while he was yet a boy.

"Having been brought up among the immediate descendants of the
Puritan fathers, whose landing in Massachusetts in the winter of
1620 gave immortality to the rock of Plymouth, his moral and
religious impressions were derived from a source of the most rigid
purity; and his manners and habits were formed in a community where
ostentation and extravagance had no place. I