Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to my Letter of the 5th instant I am directed by
the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you for the information of
Secretary Sir George Grey a copy of a Despatch from Mr
Crampton, Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, enclosing a copy
of a Letter which he has received from the United States 
Secretary of State in answer to his Representation respecting
the supposed intention of the United States Authorities in
Oregon to take possession of the property of the Hudson's Bay
Company on the Island of San Juan in the Canal de Arro.