Clear and more mild. Distribution as usual. Evening at home.

We have accounts of the breaking up of Congress as usual in a great hurry. They have passed a bill providing for contingencies in Maine and for a special mission to England about it. Public opinion points to Mr. Webster or to my father, and there is so obvious a fitness in the selection of the latter that I cannot help thinking of it though my judgment leads me to suppose it impossible. Mr. Van Buren will appoint a partisan. I am sorry my father has been named1 because it unsettles my thoughts. The probabilities of difficulty do not diminish.

Occupied at Office in making up Diary. Walk, and Antigone. After dinner, Crevier and continue busy upon Burr. I find the subject fruitful but difficult to handle.