Corry to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to send you herewith, for the information of
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, a
Copy of a Letter from Captain Prevost of Her Majesty's
Ship Satellite, dated the 10th Jany last, with
Copies of its enclosures, reporting the measures taken
on the requisition of Governor Douglas for strengthening
the hands of the Civil Power in the disturbed district
in Fraser's River.

My Lords deem it proper to direct Sir Bulwer Lytton's
attention to the expediency of maintaining such a Military
Force in British Columbia as may be sufficient to uphold
the authority of the Civil Power, and to obviate the
necessity of rendering Her Majesty's Ships from time to
time inefficient for the general Service of the Station
from their Seamen and Marines being landed for this purpose.