his residence in that country he was nominated to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and confirmed February, 1811; but he declined the appointment.  In 1813 Adams, Bayard, Clay, Russell, and Gallatin were appointed commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain.  They met the British diplomatists at Ghent, and after a protracted negotiation of six months signed a treaty of peace December 24, 1814.  In the spring of 1815 he was appointed minister to the Court of St. James, remaining there until he was appointed by Mr. Monroe Secretary of State in 1817.  In 1824 Adams, Jackson, Crawford, and Clay were candidates for the Presidency.  Neither of the candidates having received a majority in the electoral colleges, the election devolved on the House of Representatives.  Aided by the influence of Henry Clay, Mr. Adams received the votes of thirteen States, and was elected.  He was defeated for reelection in 1828 by General Andrew Jackson.  On the 4th of March, 1829, he retired to his estate at Quincy.  In 1830 he was elected to Congress, and took his seat in December, 1831.  He continued to represent his native district for seventeen years, during which time he was constantly at his post.  On the 21st of February, 1848, while in his seat at the Capitol, he was stricken with paralysis, and died on the 23d of that month.  He was buried at Quincy, Mass.

NOTIFICATION OF ELECTION.

Mr. Webster, from the committee appointed for that purpose yesterday, reported that the committee had waited on John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, and had notified him that in the recent election of a President of the United States, no person having received a majority of the votes of all the electors appointed, and the choice having consequently devolved upon the House of Representatives, that House, proceeding in the manner prescribed by the Constitution, did yesterday choose him to be President of the United States for four years, commencing on the 4th day of March next, and that the committee had received a written answer, which he presented to the House.  Mr. Webster also reported that in further performance of its duty the committee had given the information of this election to the President.

February 10, 1825.

Reply of the President Elect.

Washington,
February 10, 1825.

Gentlemen: 

In receiving this testimonial from the Representatives of the people and States of this Union I am deeply sensible to the circumstances under which it has been given.  All my predecessors in the high station to which the favor of the House now calls me have been honored with majorities of the electoral voices in their primary colleges.  It has been my fortune to be placed by the divisions of sentiment prevailing among our countrymen on this occasion in competition, friendly and honorable, with three of my fellow-citizens,