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: Addrefs of Prefident Wa/fhington. 
Mondos, No. t; 2, 3, from Pleyel, adapted for 
the Pedal Harp, by F. F. Bohlius, 1s. each. 
Riley. 
Thefe Rondos are fele€ted with dif- 
cernment, and fkilfully adapted to the in- 
&rument for which they are here publith- 
ed. They pofiefs one recommendation of 
confiderable confequence 5, which is, that 
they are alfo calculated to pleafe and -te 
improve the piano-forte practitioner. 
The Land of Gold, a favourite Iviih Sonz, by 
F. Sanderforg 18, Longman and Bioderip. 
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f Nov. Li 
We find much charafterifiic melody in 
this fong ; confequently, it is wild; and_ 
if it begins in one key and concludes in 
another (which is a kind of mufical da//} 
it is not the lefs national on that account. 
The Death of Maria, by }. Ambrofe, 1s. Riley. 
The “ Death of Maria,” is one of 
thofe fongs which really merit the epither 
favourite. The fentiment of the poetry 
is feclingly and elegantly conveyed in — 
a melody that is chafte and claffieal. 
ne me 
ADDRESS or PRESIDENT WASHINGTON 
To the People of America, announcing his Intention to refign the Prefident/bip. 
Friends and Feillow-Citizens ! 
foe neriod for the new eleétion of a 
citizen, to adminiiter the Executive 
Government of the United States, being not 
far diftant, and the time aétually arrived, 
when your thoughts muft be employed in 
defignating the perfun who is to be clothed 
with that important truft, it appears to 
me proper, efpecially as it may conduce to 
a more diftinét expreffion of the public 
voice, that I fhould now apprize you of the 
refolution I have formed, to decline being 
confidered among the number of thofe out 
of whom a choice is to be made. 
i beg you, at the fame time, to do me 
the juftice-to be affured, that this refolu- 
tion has not been taken, without a ftiict 
regard to all the copfiderations appertain- 
ing to the relation which binds a dutiful 
citizen to his country.; and that, in with- 
drawing the tender of fervice, which filence 
in my fituacion might imply, I am influ- 
\enced by no diminution cf zeal for your 
future intereft, no deficiency of grateful 
refpect for your paft kindnefs, but am fup- 
ported by a full conviction that the fiep 1s 
compatible with both. 
The acceptance of, and continuance hi- 
therto in, the office to which your fuffrages 
have twice called me, have been a uniform 
facrifice of inclination to the opinion of du- 
ty, and to a deference for what appeared 
to be vour defire. 1 coaftantly hoped that 
it would have been much earlier in my 
power, confiftently with motives which I 
was not at liberty to difregard, to return to 
thar retirement from which I had been re- 
luétantly drawn. The ftrength of my in- 
ciination to do this, previous to the lait 
ele€tion, had even led to the preparation 
of an addrefs to declare it to you; but ma- 
ture reflection on the then perplexed and 
critical pofture of our affairs with foreign 
nations, and the unanimous advice of per- 
fons entitled to my confidence, impelled 
me to abandon the idea. 
I rejoice that the fate of your concerns, 
external as well as internal, no longer ren- 
ders the purfuit of inclination incompa- 
tible with the fentiment of duty or pro- 
priety ; and am perfuaded, whatever par- 
tiality may be retained for my fervices, that 
in the prefent circumftances of our country, 
you will not diflapprove my determination 
£0 retire. 
The irapreffions with which I firft un- 
dertoak the arduous truft, were explained 
on the proper occafion. In the diicharge 
of this trait, I will only fay, that [ have, 
wich good intentions, contributed towards 
the organization and adminiftration of ‘the 
Government, the bett exertions of which 
a very fallible judgment was capable. Not 
unconfcious, in the outlet, of the inferi- 
ority of my qualifications, experience, in my 
own eyes, perhaps till more in the eyes of 
others, has f&rengrhened the motives to 
difidence of myfelf; and every day the 
increafing weight of years admonithes me 
‘more and more that the thade of retire- 
ment is as neceffary to ne as it will be 
welcome. Satisfied that if any circum- 
{tances have given peculiar value to my 
fervices, they were temporary, I have the 
confolation to be:ieve, that while choice 
and prudence invite me to quit the politi- 
cal {cene, patriotifm does not forbid it. 
In looking forward to the moment which 
is intended to terminate the career of my 
public life, my feelings do not pefmit me 
to fufpend the deep acknowledgment of 
that debt of gratitude which I owe to my 
beloved country, for the many honours it 
has conferred upon me, {till more for the 
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