Berens to Newcastle

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Elliot's letter
of the 1st instant in which he informs me by the direction of your
Grace that the Paymaster General has received the necessary authority
to pay to the Hudsons Bay Company whenever it may be applied for by
them the sum of £32,500 in discharge of the claims of the Company in
respect to the resumption of Vancouvers Island by the Crown.

In conveying to your Grace my thanks and those of my Colleagues for
this communication I beg to state that Mr Thomas Fraser, the
Secretary of the Company has been authorised to receive payment and
that on the assumption that Monday next will be convenient for the
purpose he will attend on that day at the Paymaster Generals Office
for the purpose of receiving the money.