I have not heard from you since you set out for Philadelphia, but I hope your health has not at any rate been injured by your attention on your circuit duties.

You will receive with this some printed reports which are all that I can get on the subject of your enquiries. I learn that the affairs of the society, so far as respects the country, are in a very deranged state; but I have no personal knowledge from which I can speak. The fact however is generally beleived, & is supposed to be notorious. I have heard that applications on account of losses have been made without success, but I know of no particular case.

I expected these numbers would have concluded my answer to Hampden¹ but I must write two others which will follow in a few days. If the publication has not commended I would rather wish the signature to be changed to “A Constitutionalist.”

The storm which has been for some time threatening the Judges has at length burst on their heads & a most furious hurricane it is. The author is spoken of with as much confidence as if his name was subscribed to his essays. It is worth your while to read them. They are in the Enquirer under the signature of Hampden.

I have given you a great deal of trouble to very little purpose, & am now about to add to it, perhaps to as little. Our friend Mr Bronson has made a curious piece of work of the essays he was requested to publish. He has cut out the middle of the first number to be inserted into the middle of the second; & to show his perfect impartiality, has cut out the middle of the second number to be inserted in the first.