Fraser to Buckingham

I beg to acknowledge receipt of Mr Elliots Letter of the
13th, the contents of which I have communicated to the other
Gentlemen who addressed Your Grace on the 26th ultimo, as well as
to Sir Edmund Head and the Gentlemen who joined in the Memorial of
that date.

2. I have also informed Mr Graves the Member for Liverpool
and the other Gentlemen who intended to form a Deputation that their
Services will not be required.

3. Mr Elliot remarks that it is impossible for Your Grace to
adopt any conclusion on the subject until a Report on the question at
issue shall have been received from the Governor.

4. This resolution is both reasonable and proper and my only
object in adverting to it, is to state that neither myself nor any of
the Gentlemen moving in the matter desired or expected that Your
Grace should decide the question until full information had been
received from Governor Seymour.

5. Influenced by these Statements, the Gentlemen who forwarded
the Memorial desire me to suggest that your Grace would have the
goodness to afford the Memorialists an opportunity of perusing
Governor Seymour's Report and of Commenting upon it, if necessary,
before it shall have been acted upon—should Your Grace consider such
a course proper.

6. I, therefore, beg leave, with great respect, to submit this
suggestion for your Grace's kind consideration.