The feelings of Mrs. Washington and myself have been so much wounded by some late occurrences at this place, that I am compelled to give this public notice, that permission will not in future, be granted in steam boat parties, to enter the gardens, or to walk over the grounds, nor will I consent that Mount Vernon, much less the lawn, shall be the place at which eating, drinking and dancing parties may assemble.

    It is not my wish, by a particular statement of the unpleasant circumstances which have led to this notice, to give offence to any person; but I may be permitted to state, generally, as my opinion, that a stranger, who had accidentally stopped here upon many of the occasions alluded to, not knowing to whom the place had belonged, would hardly have taken it for the residence of a private gentleman. The respect I owe to the memory of my revered uncle, and that which I claim for myself, forbid my longer submitting to similar indignities.

    Respectable strangers and others, be their condition in life what it may, who may be led by curiosity to visit this place, will, at all times, Sundays always excepted, receive the same attentions which have heretofore been uniformly and cheerfully shown such characters.