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enjoyed five weeks of so great mental and bodily health as 

 that which I have experienced during the five weeks in 

 which I have resided here 



FROM MR. SETH P. STAPLES. 



NEW HAVEN, July 7, 1798. 



WE celebrated Independence here with great 



pomp and splendor. The morn was ushered in by the fir- 

 ing of cannon and the ringing of bells, a cant expres- 

 sion, and it will be in every Boston paper for this month. 

 At nine o'clock A. M. a procession was formed down in the 

 new township, consisting of 1st, the Governor's guard ; 2d, 

 the militia company ; 3d, the new-formed company of ar- 

 tillery, John P. Austin, captain ; 4th, mayor and aldermen 

 of the city, the civil authority, the two orators Dr. Dwight 

 and Noah Webster, Jr., Esq., sheriffs, deputies, clergymen, 

 candidates, citizens, and students, and a military company 

 of boys. Perhaps I have not got them exactly in their 

 order. From the new township they moved up Chapel 

 Street in procession till they came to the brick [church] ; 

 then the military opened on the right and left, and the 

 procession walked through. After they were seated, the 

 President delivered an excellent sermon, and Mr* Webster 

 an oration equally good. After the exercise, formed again, 

 and walked again in procession to the State House, where 

 was prepared a public dinner with excellent liquors. After 

 dinner, drank a number of very patriotic toasts, which you 

 will probably see in your papers ; and a most ardent spirit 

 of patriotism appeared to diffuse itself through every rank 

 and grade of society. Many, before they left the tables, 

 got very high. The ladies in town, to a very great num- 

 ber, took tea at Mix's, over in the new township. To give 

 you an account of their manoeuvres would exceed this let- 

 ter. They drank toasts, sang songs, and appeared equally 

 gay with the gentlemen. 



