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Washington 11th April 1812 Dear Sir. By this days mail you will receive a letter from the Dept. of State requesting your interference in the business of East Florida. I hope you will find it consistent with your other duties to attend to this matter personally. Fearful however, that the discharge of your official duties will prevent you from attending personally to this affair I have advised the insertion of a clause authorizing you to appoint some fit and discreet person to manage this delicate affair The papers have furnished you with the results of our secret sessions. Giles and Smith have as I conjectured taken their ground against war, but they have not carried a single man with them. Gilman unclear and unclear have for several years been more hostile to the administration than many of the Federalists and Bradley and Lambert were opposed to war at the meeting of Congress when these two leaders were vociferous for war. Such is the influence of individuals when opposed to the administration. There is no