Romaine to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to Mr Elliot's letter of the 27th April
enclosing a copy of a Letter from the United States General
Halleck to the Senior British Naval Officer on the subject of a
Deserter from the Detachment of Royal Marines at San Juan, serving
in the American Camp on that Island as a Soldier, I am commanded
by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith
for the information of His Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
copies of two Letters dated 11 Jany and 1st Feb 1867, addressed
by the said Senior British Naval Officer (Captain Oldfield) to Major
General Halleck, and bringing the correspondence to a satisfactory
conclusion.