I have the honor to acknow==ledgeacknowledge the receipt of Mr Under Secretary Hawes's letter of the 10th Instant transmitting, for any observations which the Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company may have to offer, a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Vancouver's Island enclosing the Copy of a Memorial addressed to him by Andrew Muir complaining of ill treatment received from the Company's Servants at that Settlement.
I shall not trouble Your Lordship with any observations on the 
Statements contained in the Memorial, but I cannot understand why the
complaint was not heard and decided on by Governor Blanshard, as all judicial authority is vested by Her Majesty in the Governor of the Colony, and there are no persons in the Company's service, I may venture to assure Your Lordship, who would not render every  ⎯assistance in their power to the Governor in administering justice impartially to all.
With respect to the accomo==dationsaccomodationsaccommodations for the Passengers for the
Ship "Tory" on their arrival, I beg to state that enquiry will be made
on the subject; but so far were the passengers from being discontented
with their treatment that, in consequence of the reports sent home by
them, several applications have been made by their friends here for
permission to go out to join them.