I have it in command to acquaint you, for the information
of
Earl
Grey, that a Claim has been made upon the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury for the Payment of the Sum of 135,,5,,_ to
Commander
C.R. Johnson of Her Majesty's Steam Sloop "
Driver" for the Passage of
M Blanchard, Governor of
Vancouver's Island, from Callao
to that place, and I am to request that you will move
Earl Grey to inform
My Lords of the circumstances
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under which this Passage was afforded to
M Blanchard, and whether his Lordship proposes that this Expense
should be charged on the Funds of this Country —