No. 66, Separate

I have the honor to transmit the copy of a letter from Mr Allen
Francis, United States Consul in this Colony together with my reply
thereto.

I have conferred with Rear Admiral the Honorable J. Denman who will
take measures to prevent the "Shenandoah" leaving the Harbour of
Esquimalt as an armed vessel in the case of her entering it, an
event which I do not contemplate as probable.