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government of this Commonwealth, during the late war, it was intended faithfully to execute the duties enjoined by the Constitution, and to be governed by its principles, according to a sound construction thereof. The course adopted has been attended by the most favourable results ; and by the saving of great and useless expenses to the nation. It has also received the decided approbation of the people, as expressed in their elections : and we may cheerfully leave to the more impartial judgment of future times to decide, whether the exposition of the principles of the Constitution, given by your Excellency and sanctioned by the other departments of this government, is not the most consistent with the purposes of that instrument, as well as the most favourable to civil liberty. If the necessities produced by a state of war seem at any time to urge a departure from fixed principles, a degree of firmness and independence, which shall be unmovedby the suggestions of fear, must be opposed at the threshold, by those whose duty it beAnswer of the Senate to the Governor’s Speech, June,.” The termination of the late unhappy contest, between the government of the United States and Great Britain, affords to the Senate of this Commonwealth the most unfeigned joy, and demands the most sincere and hearty thanks of the people to the Almighty Disposer of events, by whose providence an end has been put to the miseries of war. And we congratulate your Excellency upon the present auspicious circumstances of our country, which are adapted to lighten the cares of government, and to give additional value to the recent pledge of confidence in your Excellency, .which has been renewed by the people of this Commonwealth.” It would be a most pleasing and consoling prospect, if the state of the nations of Europe authorized the expectation, that this quarter of the globe was now destined permanently to reap the fruits of peace, from which she has been so long estranged; and to repair the desolation of war, by an amicable competitionwith each other and with ourcountry, in the pursuits of probity, industry and economy. But whatever may be the issue of the astonishing events, which agitate the old world, and confound human foresight, we unite with your Excellency, in the sincere and anxious hope, that the future prosperity of the people of these States may not be interrupted by a needlessinterference in the disputes and conflicts of other nations.” We should have derived great satisfaction from perceiving, in the late treaty of peace, express stipulations, relative to the avowed objects of the war, which might have been calculated forever to put at rest the controversies which led to that calamity. But we complain not of the national administration, for the omission of such stipulations. We presume they were unattainable; and we readily express our conviction, that, in acceding to the terms of the treaty, government consulted the best interests of the nation. We ardently hope, that the good fortune,which has enabled them to extricate the country and themselves from distress and embarrassment, will be accompanied by a sincere desire of a firm and protracted peace, and not by unfounded pretensions, which, by entangling our nation in the broils of foreign powers, may expose its vital interests to needless danger.” We agree with your Excellency in the sentiment, that it is a matter of indifference to the great body of the people, by whom the government is administered, if the conduct of the administration is calculated to promote justice and public tranquillity: And if the policy of our present rulers shall be adapted to retrieve the national prosperity, to establish public credit, to provide for the common defence, and prolong the blessings of peace, it will be the duty of every citizen, discarding all local and personal partialities, to co-operate, each in his own sphere, in efforts for the attainment of these important objects. ” The universal joy, which the return of peace has infused into the public mind,