No. 4

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch[es] No. 24 of the
8th of November and No. 32 of the 13 December last reporting the
measures which you had taken for aiding the Authorites of the United
states in repelling the hostile attacks of the Indian Tribes
on the American Oregon.

Your proceedings on this occasion appear to have been judicious and
I am gratified to learn that they were duly appreciated by the
Authorites and the Inhabitants of the American Settlements.