Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 26th
Ultimo, inclosing a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, reporting what passed at an Interview which he had with
Lieutenant Flemming of the United States Army, on the subject of the
surrender of some American Soldiers, who had deserted from the
detachment under his command; and I am to request that you will state to
Mr Secretary Labouchere that
Lord Clarendon concurs with him in his
approval of the conduct of Governor Douglas in declining to allow these
men to be arrested on British Territory.