No. 9

I transmit for your information the copy of a letter from Mr John Powell Mills, Master of the Barque "Colinda," complaining of certain
proceedings taken against him by the Authorities in Vancouver's Island
on the occasion of his visiting the settlement in 1853, and I have to
instruct you to cause enquiries to be made into the facts of the case,
and to furnish me with a report on the allegations contained in this
letter.