Your favors of Aug. 13. and 15. were recieved yesterday. the appointment of a successor to Samuel Bishop must await our re-assembling at Washington.   I inclose you the late letters of Livingston & Monroe, for consideration, & to be returned to me when perused. you will find that the French government, dissatisfied perhaps with their late bargain with us, will be glad of a pretext to declare it void. it will be necessary therefore that we execute it with punctuality & without delay. I have desired the Secretary of the Navy so to make his arrangements as that an armed vessel shall be ready to sail on the 31st. of October with the ratification & if possible, with the stock, to France. if the latter can be got through both houses in that time, it will be desireable. would it not be well that you should have a bill ready drawn to be offered on the 1st. or 2d. day of the session? it will be well to say as little as possible on the Constitutional difficulty & that Congress should act on it without talking. I subjoin what I think a better form of amendment than the one I communicated to you before. I have been, with the aid of my books here, investigating the question of the boundaries of Louisiana, & am satisfied our claim to the Perdido is solid, and to the bay of St. Bernard very argumentative. I observe that Monroe & Livingston are clear in our right to the Perdido. how would it do to annex all Louisiana East of the Misipi to the Misipi territory, & all West of that river below the mouth of Arcansa, establish into a separate territorial govmt? Accept my affectionate salutations and assurances of esteem & respect.