Romaine to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 6th Novr last, I am
commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint
you that the Confidential Despatch for the Governor of
Vancouver, therein enclosed, was delivered on the 13th
Jany into the hands of Commander Nares of H.M. Sloop Reindeer
at Panama for conveyance to Vancouver Island.