In one of your letters enclosing the request of the bar that the Circuit Court might be adjourned, you speak of the first monday in January as the day mentioned by them and approved by you. But as the determination to adjourn was not positively fixed at that time, and no notice of it has appeared in any of the Phila. papers which have come to my hands, I think it necessary to ascertain at once the precise day; that is whether it is to be the 1st day, or the first monday. There is 6 days difference between them, & my arrangements must conform to the one or the other as may have been decided on.

The success of McKean & the constitution seems to have thrown your City into a state of such profound quiet, that if it were not for the sale of Binghams property, one living at a distance would scarcely recollect that such a place existed. This lethargy I suppose will not long continue. Some new game must be started, or your politicians must all migrate to Washington in search of employment & the means of exercising their talents. I have not recd a letter from Phila. of a private nature for a long time. My friend Short has been too much engaged with the ladies to think of writing.

How are you my good friend & your family? I was very much pleased to hear from Docr Chapman that Mrs Willing was perfectly restored.

Present me to the Bar & to Caldwell. I hope a cause will be ready cut & dry for the first day. With best wishes for your health & happiness I am very sincerely & affectly yrs