I am happy in being able to remove [your] the uneasiness, expressed in your letter of the 9th, respecting what has been done. – Mr. Morgan is Satisfied. I explained fully to him what I long before had stated to him on the Subject. – I hope no censure will attach to Mr. Marshall but that I alone may be considered in fault. tho' I confess I cannot conceive of there being any thing dishonorable in the business.

I find that the Judiciary bill is postponed to the next Session, so that we shall have to ride the fall Circuits. Presuming that the Southern Circuit will be extremely disagreable and inconvenient to you, and feeling that it will be not more so to me than the Eastern, which falls to me in the regular course, I propose that we exchange, so as to produce an accomodation to both.