ON THE ROUTE--INVITED TO PARTAKE OF
GOVERNOR HANCOCK'S HOSPITALITY WHILE HE REMAINS IN
BOSTON--WASHINGTON DECLINES, BUT AGREES TO DINE WITH
HIM--CONFLICTING PREPARATIONS FOR RECEIVING THE PRESIDENT AT
BOSTON--WASHINGTON ESCORTED TO THE VERGE OF BOSTON--DELAY OCCASIONED
BY DISPUTES CONCERNING A POINT OF ETIQUETTE--WASHINGTON
DISGUSTED--THE DISPUTE SETTLED--A GRAND RECEPTION--THE GOVERNOR OF A
STATE ASSUMES SUPERIOR DIGNITY TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES--HIS HUMILIATION--AN EYE-WITNESS'S ACCOUNT OF THE
MATTER--HONORS BESTOWED UPON THE PRESIDENT AT BOSTON--HE JOURNEYS TO
PORTSMOUTH--RETURNS THROUGH THE INTERIOR TO NEW YORK--POSITION OF
NORTH CAROLINA AND RHODE ISLAND.

Immediately after the adjournment of Congress, Washington prepared to
make a tour through New England, in order to become better acquainted
with public characters there, the temper of the people toward the new
government, and the circumstances and resources of the country. He had
asked the advice of his counsellors on the propriety of such a journey,
immediately after his inauguration, and now he again talked with
Hamilton and Madison about it. They thought it desirable; and on the
morning of Thursday, the fifteenth of October, he set out in his
carriage drawn by four horses, and accompanied by Major Jackson, his
aid-de-camp, and Tobias Lear, his private secretary, with six servants.
All papers appertaining to foreign affairs he left under the temporary
control of Mr. Jay.

The president was accompanied some distance out of the city by
Chief-Justice Jay, General Knox, and Colonel Hamilton. His diary kept
during his tour exhibits his constant and minute observations concerning
the agricultural resources, and mechanical and other industrial
operations, of the country through which he passed. At every
considerable town on his route he was greeted by the authorities and the
people, and everywhere he received demonstrations of the greatest
personal respect and affection. On approaching New Haven on Saturday,
the seventeenth, he was met by the governor and lieutenant-governor of
Connecticut (Huntington and Wolcott), and Roger Sherman, the mayor of
the city. The governor and the congregational ministers of the city
presented to him addresses, in which they congratulated him on the
restoration of his health. He remained in New Haven until Monday
morning, and then journeyed on to Hartford accompanied by an esco