Berens to Newcastle

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Under-Secretary
Merivale's letter of the 23rd ultimo, intimating that your Grace was
advised that the best course to be taken with a view to bringing the
pending questions before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
would be, that this Company should present petitions to Her Majesty
stating their grounds of claim, and praying specifically for the
relief to which they consider themselves entitled.

I now beg to transmit, herewith, to Your Grace, the statement of the
grounds upon which this Company rest their claim to the Lands in
Vancouver's Island which were in their possession before the Grant
made to them of that Colony; and no time will be lost in the
preparation and presentation of the Petitions in connection with
these claims.