I return you many thanks for your letter of the 12th, which was forwarded to me from Philadelphia since I left that place. You have stated precisely that part of the opinion in the case of the U.S. vs. Nicoll which I had forgotten & was anxious to see. It fully sanctions the opinion which I had prepared in the post office case, viz that the giving of a new bond with new sureties by the deputies, in consequence of a requisition of the P. M. G. to that effect, did not discharge the sureties in the old bond from their responsibility for subsequent defaults of the principal.

     You do not mention the time of your departure from the U.S. on your foreign mission.  Be it when it may, I sincerely wish you health, success & happiness, assuring you that it will afford me sincere pleasure, should it please Providence to prolong my life, to see you again restored to your Country & to the bar, where your absence will, in the mean time, be seriously felt. I am with great regard my dear Sir very truly yr friend & faithful Servt