Wodehouse to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, to be laid before His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, copies of a despatch and its inclosures from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, containing the
instructions which have been sent by the United States' Government to
General Scott and Governor Gholson with respect to the occupation of
the Island of San Juan, and reporting a conversation which Lord Lyons
had held with General Cass thereupon.