Monday, October 31.
James Monroe, from the State of Virginia, attended, and took his seat.
Moses Robinson, from the State of Vermont, produced his credentials, and took his seat in the Senate.
Mr. Burr, from the committee appointed on the 28th to wait on the President of the United States, reported, that it would be agreeable to the President of the United States to receive the Address of the Senate, in answer to his Speech to both Houses of Congress, on Monday next at 12 o'clock.
Whereupon, the Senate waited on the President of the United States at his own house, and the Vice President, in their name, communicated to him the Address agreed to on the 28th instant, to which the President of the United States was pleased to make the following reply:
Gentlemen: This manifestation of your zeal for the honor and the happiness of our country derives its full value from the share which your deliberations have already had in promoting both.
I thank you for the favorable sentiments with which you view the part I have borne in the arduous trust committed to the Government of the United States; and desire you to be assured that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good which are ensured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session.
G. WASHINGTON.
The Senate returned to the Senate Chamber.