Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

In reply to your Letter of the 6th Instant, relative
to the expenses incurred on the Voyage of the Detachment of
Royal Marines which was transferred from China to Vancouvers Island; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the information of His Grace
the Duke of Newcastle, that they have withdrawn the Claim
for the Marines in question, it

having been made through inadvertence.