Hammond to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, for the
information of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, a
Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at
Washington, inclosing copies of his communications with Mr Trescot on
the subject of Lord John Russell's Despatch to Lord Lyons No 171 of
the 20th of July last, proposing the substitution of Military for
civil Jurisdiction in San Juan, a Copy of which Despatch was inclosed
in Lord Wodehouse's letter of the 23rd of that month.