On the 26th Ultimo I had the honour of addressing a letter to you, enclosing a Copy of a Report on the subject of the gold mine discovered in Queen Charlotte's Island, and requesting an interview, to which I have not yet had an answer.

Since then I have received a letter from Mr Ballenden, the
officer in charge at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, of which I
enclose an Extract, from which you will percieve that the discovery had
occasioned great excitement among the American population in that
quarter who were making preparations for a descent on the Island.