I have to acknowledge the rect of your favor of the 3d accompanied by the bill "further to extend the Judicial System of the U.S."

     I have not read over the report of the Hab. Corp. case decided in the supreme Court, as pub[l]ished in the National intelligencer & other papers; but I presume it to be correct. I am very sure however, that if any inference can be drawn from the opinion given in that case, to favor the idea that prosecutions at common law cannot be sustained in the federal Courts, such was not intended by the Judges. That point was never glanced at in or out of court, nor do I know what are the sentiments of my brethren respecting it.