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land, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Russia, mostly 
with the philanthropic view of examining the prison discipline 
of those countries. I was much gratified with his instructive con¬ 
versation, although I had some controversy with him on the 
prison discipline, as he heard that I did not agree with his views 
relative to the new penitentiary, of which he was one of the 
most active promoters. Mr. Livingston, who has effected the 
abolition of capital punishment in the state of Louisiana, was 
here lauded to the skies by the philanthropists. God send it 
success! 
On the following day I paid my respects to the President, and 
gave him the medals which Mr. Cornelissen at Ghent had con¬ 
fided to my care. One silver medal was from the Botanic So¬ 
ciety of Ghent, with an appropriate inscription for the President; 
the other a bronze medal, which had been struck in the year 
1823, in honour of the Haerlem jubilee on the discovery of the 
art of printing; both were sunk by the skilful artist Mr. Braemt, 
at Brussels. In the evening I saw the President again, who 
honoured with his presence a party at Mr. Walsh’s. I had first 
the intention of leaving here to-day with the steam-boat for 
Baltimore, but the arrival of the President changed my resolu¬ 
tion, as I wished to attend with him the anniversary, which was 
to be celebrated on the 24th of October, and'then to travel in his 
company to Baltimore. 
In order to celebrate the day on which William Penn landed 
in the year 1683 in America, which was the origin of the state 
of Pennsylvania, those who respect his memory have established 
a society, which celebrates the 24th of October as a public festi¬ 
val. At this time the celebration consisted of a public oration in 
the University and a public dinner. Mr. Vaux called for me at 
twelve o’clock to go to the oration. The building of the Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania was originally intended as a dwelling for 
President Washington, who declined the present, and it was then 
used for the University. A great number of people had collected 
in one of the lecture rooms; they seated me within the tribune 
whence the orator was to speak; the President, who entered soon 
after me, was led to the same place, and received with loud and 
warm acclamations. The oration was delivered by a lawyer, Mr. 
Charles Ingersoll; it contained rather a statistic account of the 
state of Pennsylvania than of the landing of William Penn; this 
the Quakers did not like, although the oration was well conceived 
and generally admired. The orator mentioned a particular fact, 
which, as far as I know, is unknown in Europe, viz. William 
Penn mentions in one of his writings, of which I had already 
seen the original in the library of the Philosophical Society, 
shown to me by Mr. Vaughan, that by an act of Charles II. this 
