ately earnest and eloquent expression to that reverent and profound desire which filled all hearts-so universal was a religious sense of the importance of the occasion- the military began to march from their respective quarters, with flaunting banners, and the liveliest music. The principal companies were Captain Stakes's troop of horse, equipped in the style of Lee's famous partisan legion; Captain Scriba's German Grenadiers, with blue coats, yellow waistcoats and breeches, black gaiters, and towering cone-shaped caps, faced with bear-skin; Captain Harsin's New York Grenadiers, composed, in imitation of the guard of the great Frederick, of only the tallest and finest-looking young men of the city, dressed in blue coats with red facings and gold lace broideries, cocked hats with white feathers, and white waistcoats and breeches, and black spatterdashes, buttoned close from the shoe to the knee; and the Scotch Infantry, in full highland costume, with bagpipes. Ralph Izard, Tristram Dalton, and Richard Henry Lee, on the part of the Senate, and Charles Carroll, Egbert Benson, and Fisher Ames, on the part of the House of Representatives, had been appointed a joint committee of arrangements, and the procession was formed under the immediate direction of Colonel Morgan Lewis, in Cherry street, opposite the President's house, at twelve o'clock. After the military came The Sheriff of the City and County of New York, GEORGE WASHINGTON, The Committee of the House of Representatives, John Jay, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Henry Knox, Secretary of War, Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, Distinguished Citizens. The procession having marched through Queen, Great Dock, and Broad streets, until opposite Federal Hall, the troops formed a line |