Addington to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 27th of October last,
stating that the Duke of Newcastle had instructed the Governor
of Vancouver's Island to make a further Report upon the
proceedings of American Citizens in the Canal de Arro, and
recommending that no communication should be made to the
Government of the United States until that report had been
received and had 
been considered by Her Majesty's Government, I
am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be
laid before the Duke of Newcastle a copy of a letter from the
Hudson's Bay Company upon this subject.