the acceptance of and continuance hitterto in the office to which your sufficient fr fr suffrages have called me to a deference for what appeared to your desire i constantly hope it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motivize was not at liberty disregard return the retirement which i had been reluctantly drawn. the strength of inclination to do this had led to the preparation of an address to the declare to to you. but mature reflection on the then-perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence impell me to abandon the idea. i rejoice that the state of your concerns, tern nal as well as internal no longer renders the pursuit of inclination imcompat interwith the sentiment of duty or impreprity and persuaded what partial alty might be retained for my services in the present circumstances of the country you will not disapprove my determination to retire. the impressions which with i first undertook the arduous trust explains on the proper occasion in the discharge of this trust i wi