There she continued to offer a gracious hospitality to the many visitors attracted by her distinguished husband.

She never recovered from his death in 1799, and dwelt in deep mourning until she followed him, May 22, 1802.

Her remains rest with those of Washington in the vault at Mount Vernon._] As if to remove all doubts respecting the purpose for which this extraordinary letter was written, a copy was, on the day of its date, transmitted to a printer for publication.
Whatever motives might have impelled Mr.Adet to make this open and direct appeal to the American people, in the critical moment of their election of a chief magistrate, it does not appear, in any material degree, to have influenced that election.

Many reflecting men, who had condemned the course of the administration, could not approve this interference in the internal affairs of the United States; and the opposite party, generally, resented it as an attempt to control the operations of the American people in the exercise of one of the highest acts of sovereignty, and to poison the fountain of their liberty and independence, by mingling foreign intrigue with their elections.

Viewing it as a fulfilment of their most gloomy prognostics respecting the designs of France to establish an influence in the councils of America, they believed the best interests of their country to require that it should be defeated; and their exertions against the candidate Mr.Adet was understood to favour, were the more determined and the more vigorous.
[Sidenote: The president's speech to congress.] On the 7th of December, while this dubious and ardently contested election was depending, the President, for the last time, met the national legislature in the senate chamber.