Yesterday afternoon I recd your favour of the 16th mentioning Mr Chews wish to become a candidate for the office lately rendered vacant by the death of Mr Griffith. Within a day or two after the demise of that gentleman, I was applied to by a particular friend to whom I promised my vote, and accompanied it by letters of recommendation to my brethren. I think I cannot have recieved, since that time, fewer than 30 or 40 similar applications from others.

    Will you have the goodness to inform me what is the practice of the Sup. Court in the folowing cas[e]?

     Mr E. B. Caldwell goes to Phila. at the request of the Committee of the Colonization Society for the purpose of aiding in the formation of an auxiliary Society in that City which, it is believed, many of its¹ more respectable Citizens desire to establish. I beg leave to introduce this distinguishd member of the above Society to your acquaintance & to solicit for him your countinance & patronage. I am Dear Sir with sincere respect & esteem yr mo. ob. Servt

     There is a question now under the consideration of the Circuit Court, which turns altogether upon the practice and general opinion of legal men in this state, to which it is the wish of this court to conform, after clearly ascertaining what that practice is.