"Resolved, That we recommend to our fellow citizens the opinions of the deceased, on the improvement of our systems of education, and especially what relates to the development of the physical powers and moral dispositions; and, as they can no more expect to hear them from the lips of our lamented friend, that they lose no time in making a practical application of them to the existing state of our Institutions, for the culture of the human mind."

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, SS.

District Clerk's Office.

Be it remembered, that on the eighth day of August, A. D. 1826, and in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, William L. Lewis, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

'An Address delivered at Charlestown August 1, 1826, in Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. By Edward Everett.'

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled' An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.' And also to an Act, entitled 'An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.'

JNO. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

Ar a meeting of the Committee, appointed to superintend the funeral solemnities at Charlestown, observed in respect to the decease of JOHN ADAMS and THOMAS JEFFERSON: Voted, that the thanks of the Committee be presented to the HoN. EDWARD EVERETT, for his able and pathetic Address, on this interesting occasion, and that he be requested to furnish a copy for the

press.

Voted, That DR. ABRAHAM R. THOMPSON and HON. WM. C. JARVIS be a Committee to communicate the above vote to the HON. EDWARD EVERETT. Tuesday Evening, August 1st.

August 2nd.-The Committee appointed to communicate the above vote, perform with very sincere pleasure the duty assigned them, and hope MR. EVERETT will comply with the wishes of his friends and fellow-citizens--And have the honor to be, with the highest consideration of respect and esteem, &c. ABRAHAM R. THOMPSON, Committee.

WILLIAM

GENTLEMEN,

Winter-Hill, Charlestown, August 3, 1826.

The Address, delivered at a short notice, in respectful compliance with the wishes of my fellow-citizens, and under circumstances which otherwise would have led me to decline a public appearance at this time, is now, on the same principle, submitted for publication, by,

Gentlemen, your faithful humble servant,

ABRAHAM R. THOMPSON, M. D.

HON. WILLIAM C. JARVIS.

EDWARD EVERETT.