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Copy Milledgeville 2nd Nov'm 1812 Sir I have had the Honor to receive your favor of the 13th of October in which you acknowledge the receipt of mine of the 19th of September last. In acting upon the instructions I received from the President on the subject of East Florida my utmost efforts were used to give them effect and in all cases arising out of circumstances to which these instructions related but did not specifically provide my best judgement was exercised. Nothing could have induced me as I wrote you in any answer to your first dispatch to accept such a trust in my present situation but the desire I have to serve my country at all time when in my power but that no consideration could have induced me to accept it under an administration which did