Hawes to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by Secretary Major General Peel to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter, of the 12th Instant, covering
the copy of a despatch, and of its enclosure, from the Governor
of British Columbia, respecting a site for the seat of Government
in that Colony; and I am to observe that it is to be regretted
Lieutenant Governor Moody's Report is unaccompanied by any plan
or sketch, which, if only sufficient to mark the locality in a
very slight degree, would have afforded a more perfect
understanding of the particulars adverted to: but, so far,
however, as can be judged from a written description, the
conclusions, in the Report, seem very sensible and well-judged.