No. 2

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 10th
of November last, and to convey to you my approval of the appointment of
Mr Sangster to the Office of Collector of Customs for Van Couvers
Island.

I have communicated Extracts from your Despatch relating to the
discovery of Coal, to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and I
have called the attention of the Hudson's Bay Company to the necessity
of making effectual provision for the Moral and religious instruction of
the Inhabitants.