The Newspapers of the morning contain the Message of the President to Congress covering the Dispatches from France. The substance of these is that Mr. Livingston remains at Paris until he hears from America or is ordered away. The appearances are now all in favor of a rupture but I yet do not believe it will end so. Resumed the reading of the Physiognomical Travels of Musaeus which I gave up before on Account of their difficulty.1 My Winter has not been spent in vain for I find I can now understand tolerably well. The difficulty is in the very numerous compound words not in the Dictionary.

Office. Writing on my work. Walk and Ovid. Afternoon reading de Grimm and Cuvier whose general principles I got an idea of. His arrangement is a simple one and for aught I know very exact. But my acquaintance with the matter is small and poor enough. Began a book of Historical dissertation by Mons. Guizot who is now one of the leading French Statesmen.2 Evening at home. Lord Bacon and my German.