I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the
               
2nd of January last, marked "Confidential," transmitting for my information, Copy of the letter and accompanying
               paper of instructions,
               addressed to 
Captains Prevost and Richards
on
 
               on their appointment as Her
               Majesty's Commissioners, to mark out a portion of the boundary line,
               between the territories of Great Britain and the United States.