In the Months of Decemr 1802. & July 1803. I had the Honor to address you on the Subject of my resignation of the Appointment of Consul of the United States of America for the Island of St. Croix & its dependancies,1 in consequence of my then inability to attend personally to the duties of that Office from extreem ill health—& sollicited a Successor in that Department. As no new Appointment however took place, & as my Health was some time after considerably restord—I naturally continued to perform the functions of that Office, until I was again compell’d from my weak State to quit the Island late in July last—& as it is now my purpose & intention to pass the remainder of my Life in Europe—I have thought it my Duty Sir, thro’ you, again to address his Excellency the President of the United States, with a repetition of my Resignation—& to request, by the Appointment of a Successor, I may be reliev’d from any Responsibility that might attend the substitution which I thought it proper to make at my departure.

Having in my former Correspondence taken the liberty of recommending Mr. Edward Dewhurst, ⟨I?⟩ since understood that he has been nominated to the Office, I should naturally, had not this Gentleman unfortunately been absent at the time of my quitting the Country, have left the Office in his charge—where I may venture to repeat I should consider it most unexceptionably placed. With much Esteem & Respect I am Sir—Your Most Humble Servant