Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the
10th instant; and I am, in reply, to request that you will
state to Earl Granville that His Lordship concurs with Rear
Admiral Hastings that, under the circumstances, it will not be
necessary to confer the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel on Captain Delacombe, now in command of Her Majesty's
troops at the Island of San Juan.