Arbuthnot to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
acquaint you for the information of the Duke of Newcastle with
reference to Your letter of the 13 Inst. that instructions have been
given to the Paymaster General to pay from the Treasury Chest, to any
Person duly authorized to receive the same on behalf of the Hudson's
Bay Company, the sum of £25000 "on account" of the claims of that
Company in respect of the resumption of Vancouver's Island by the
Crown. This payment is to be treated as an advance from the Chest
and to be repaid from a Vote of Parliament to be taken whenever the
final adjustment of the Accounts between the Company and the Crown
shall have been established.