Paget to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

In reply to Mr Elliot's Letter of the 15th Inst; I am commanded
by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state, for the
information of His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, that no Ship of War
is likely to be shortly dispatched to the North Pacific Station which
could convey 500 Stand of Rifles to Vancouver Island from this
Country for the use of the Volunteer Corps in the Colony.