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.

Your favor enclosing the residue of the examination in the case of Fries I received upon my arrival at this place, the former having come to hand a few days sooner. I know not how to apologize to you for the trouble you have taken upon this occasion; I certainly should not have made the request which produced it, if I could have formed the slightest idea of the labor to which I was about to expose you. I beg you to accept my warmest thanks, and upon similar occasions or otherwise to command my services.