With reference to the Command with which I was lately entrusted
in the Hudson's Bay Territory, and to the intention announced in
some of the Publick Prints, of Her Majesty's Government to apportion one or more Companies of
Enrolled Pensioners for Service in Vancouver's Island, as at the
Red River Settlement in Rupert's Land, I venture to solicit your
good offices to bring my name under the notice of Earl Grey, in
the event of the Governor of Vancouver's Island being appointed
under similar Circum=stancesCircumstances, to those atten=dingattending the appointment
of Major Caldwell, to that of Assiniboia, Red River 〜