I have just received your communication of the 15th, in which my consent is requested to the publication of my correspondence, in 1814, with the Vice President of the U. States, then governor of New-York, on the subject of his proposed nomination for the department of state. There being nothing in that correspondence which I could possibly wish to be regarded as under a seal of secrecy, I cannot hesitate in complying with the request.

As most delicate in relation to the Vice President, as well as becoming to myself, under existing circumstances, I forbear to add, for publication, any further expression of the high sense which I have always entertained of his exertions and services during the period of the late war, and which were so generally applauded throughout the nation.