Briggs to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit herewith, for the information of Earl Granville, copy
of a letter they have addressed to Rear Adml The Honourable G.
Hastings, desiring him to make Valparaiso his future Head
Quarters as Naval Commander in Chief in the Pacific, but to keep
some of the ships under his Orders in the neighbourhood of
British Columbia.