Hammond to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 11th Ultimo, I am directed by
Earl Russell to transmit to you, to be laid before the Duke of
Newcastle, Copies of a Despatch and its Inclosures from Her Majesty's
Minister at Washington, relative to the Reports that attempts were
being made to fit out Privateers at Vancouver's Island for the
Service of the so-styled Confederate States.