I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the
information of Earl Grey, a Copy of a Dispatch from Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, stating the substance of
enquiries which have been made of him by British Subjects who are
desirous of settling in Vancouver's Island, and I am to request that you
will move Lord Grey to favour Lord Palmerston with any  information upon this subject, which His Lordship may think it desirable that Mr Adams should be enabled to communicate to the Persons who have applied to him.