5 Child's Place Temple Bar
2 July 1856
Sir,
I have had the honor to receive your letter of yesterday's date
with its enclosure, viz. a copy of a letter addressed to
Robert S.
Swanston Esq, and I hope I may be permitted to remark that it did
not appear to me that the Inhabitants of
Vancouvers Island expressed
themselves dissatisfied with British Courts of Justice; but that they
were with the Conduct of the Individual appointed to preside over those
Courts as Chief Justice. I anxiously trust the very high estimate you
entertain of his abilities may be fully realized, otherwise I much fear
that dissatisfaction may be manifested in a manner by no means agreeable
to those administering the affairs of the Colonial office in this
Country.
I shall feel it incumbent

upon me to forward this reply, with your
communication to the Gentlemen at
Vancouvers Island, inasmuch, as
M
Swanston having left that part of the world, as communicated to you by
me in
May last (on my noticing in the Gazette
M Camerons
appointment) the purport of your letter to him might be unknown to them
through him for an indefinite period.