Thursday, January 14.
Theodore Sedgwick, from Massachusetts, and Thomas Hartley, from Pennsylvania, appeared and took their seats.
The House then went and presented the address to the President, to which the President was pleased to make the following reply:
Gentlemen:
I receive, with pleasure, the assurances you give me, that you will diligently and anxiously pursue such measures as shall appear to you conducive to the interests of your constituents; and that an early and serious consideration will be given to the various and weighty matters recommended by me to your attention.
I have fall confidence that your deliberations will continue to be directed by an enlightened and virtuous zeal for the happiness of our country.
GEO. WASHINGTON.