I should be most truly happy to be present at an event so interesting to your city as the celebration proposed for the 14th, and to which you have invited me. Circumstances, however, deny to me the pleasure of such a visit. I heartily rejoice with the

citizens of New York, in the completion of a work so vastly important to the health, and comfort of its inhabitants. It is justly to be classed among the first works of the age, and is honorable to the enterprise of the great centre of American trade and commerce.

I tender to you, gentlemen, assurances of my high respect, JOHN TYLER.

From Ex-President John Quincy Adams.

C. CROLIUS, Jun'r., Ald'n. 6th Ward, ) Committee of the Common Council E. D. WEST, Ald'n. 16th Ward, of the WILLIAM DODGE, Ass't. Ald'n. 3d Ward, ^ City of New York.

Quincy, llth October, 1842. GENTLEMEN :

I pray you to accept grateful acknowledgments for the honor done me, by my the invitation to join with the Common Council of your great and illustrious city, on the 14th inst, in celebrating the introduction of the Croton water into the city.

Detained by indispensable engagements at home, I regret that I shall be deprived of the pleasure of participating with you, in the festive enjoyment of an event so interesting

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to the health and comfort of your immense, and still multiplying, population. For whatever may contribute to their welfare and happiness, my best wishes, are but the dictates of duty, no less than the impulses of a patriotic heart.