onday in
the succeeding January.

Throughout the whole of this laborious and important session, perfect
harmony subsisted between the executive and the legislature; and no
circumstance occurred which threatened to impair it. The modes of
communication between the departments of government were adjusted in a
satisfactory manner, and arrangements were made on some of those
delicate points in which the senate participate of executive power.

[Sidenote: The president visits the New England states.]

Anxious to visit New England, to observe in person the condition of
the country and the dispositions of the people towards the government
and its measures, the President was disposed to avail himself of the
short respite from official cares afforded by the recess of congress,
to make a tour through the eastern states. His resolution being taken,
and the executive business which required his immediate personal
attendance being despatched,[44] he commenced his tour on the 15th of
October; and, passing through Connecticut and Massachusetts, as far as
Portsmouth in New Hampshire, returned by a different route to New
York, where he arrived on the 13th of November.

[Footnote 44: Just before his departure from New York the
President received from the Count de Moustiers, the minister
of France, official notice that he was permitted by his
court to return to Europe. By the orders of his sovereign he
added, "that His Majesty was pleased at the alteration which
had taken place in the government, and congratulated America
on the choice they had made of a President." As from
himself, he observed that the government of this country had
been hitherto of so fluctuating a nature, that no dependence
could be placed on its proceedings; in consequence of which
foreign nations had been cautious of entering into treaties,
or engagements of any kind with the United States: but that
in the present government there was a head to look up to,
and power being placed in the hands of its officers,
stability in its measures might be expected. The disposition
of his Christian Majesty to cultivate the good will of the
new government was also manifested by his conduct in the
choice of a minister to replace the Count de Moustiers.
Colonel Ternan was named as a person who would be
particularly acceptable to America, and his appointment was
preceded by th