No. 4

I have to acknowledge the receipt of Your Despatches No 10 of the
24th of November 1853, No 5 of the 27th February and No 28 of
the 17th May last, and in conveying to you the approval of Her
Majesty's Government of your proceedings with respect to the Sovereignty
of the Islands in the Canal de Arro, I have to authorize you to continue
to treat those Islands as part of the British Dominions.