No. 53

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's
Despatch of the 16th of May last enclosing the Queen's Proclamation
for the maintenance of Neutrality pending the hostilities existing
between the Government of the United States of America and the States
which have seceded from that confederation, and conveying to me Your
Graces instructions that the utmost publicity should be given to the
said Proclamation.

I have in reply to inform Your Grace, that I have duly carried those
instructions into effect.