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degrees and forty minutes of latitude north. The second, 

 with England, for the suppression of the African slave trade. 

 It was signed in London by plenipotentiaries specially 

 appointed for the purpose. 



The year 1825 was also signalized by the visit of the 

 celebrated French General, Lafayette, to America. He 

 arrived in New York harbour on the 13th of August, and 

 proceeded to Staten Island, the residence of DANIEL D. 

 TOMKINS, Vice-President of the United States. A committee 

 of the New York City Corporation, and many distinguished 

 citizens proceeded thither, to welcome him to their capital. 

 Steamboats with thousands of passengers, and decorated with 

 flags of all nations, escorted him to the city, where the 

 whole population was waiting to welcome him : he who had 

 perilled his life in the cause of their liberties. He was re- 

 ceived by the civil officers of their city, and an address was 

 delivered by the Mayor. 



During the few days that he remained in New York 

 deputations poured in, from all the principal cities of the 

 Middle and Northern States, inviting him to visit them. 



From New York, he proceeded to Boston, Portsmouth, 

 New Hampshire, Savannah, New Orleans, Saint Louis, and 

 back to Boston. This journey of five thousand miles was 

 performed in the course of the year, and the same extraordi- 

 nary marks of respect and attention were paid him throughout, 

 as in the great cities. The whole nation joined in wishing 

 health, happiness, honour, and long life to America's favourite 

 adopted son. 



He reached Washington during the session of Congress, 

 and that body voted him the sum of two hundred thousand 

 dollars (£40,000) and a township of land, six miles square, to 

 be located in any of the unappropriated lands, where the 

 President should direct. A suitable acknowledgment for such 

 an immense and unexpected gift, added to former and 

 considerate bounties was made by the General, describing 

 himself as an old American soldier, and an adopted son of 

 the United States, two titles dearer to his heart than all the 

 treasures of the world. 



On a second visit to Boston, he listened to an address 

 from the lips of the eloquent Daniel Webster. Wherever he 

 went, the people rose in a mass to welcome him to their 

 homes, and when he wished to return to France, a new 

 American frigate, the Brandywine, was fitted out for his 

 accommodation. In this vessel, he set sail on the 7th of 



