No. 7

I have to acknowledge your Despatch No 1 of the 31st January
calling my attention to the charge made by the United States Post Office
in Pugets Sound for the Postage on certain documents forwarded to your
Government. As you expressed a wish in your Despatch No 6 of the
28th Feby 1854 that the Secretary of State's Despatches should be
forwarded by the Panama route, the Despatches from this Office have
hitherto been so transmitted, but for the future I will cause all
documents exceeding sixteen ounces in weight to be sent to the Hudson's
Bay Company for transmission to you, or request the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to have them conveyed by any of Her Majesty's ships
proceeding to the Pacific.