With reference to your letter of the 7th of April last, I am
directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the information
of Earl Grey, the accompanying Copy of a Despatch from Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, stating the reason why he has not been yet able to afford to British Subjects wishing to settle in
Vancouver's  Island, the assistance recommended in the letter from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Colonial Office of the 31st of March 1849.