With reference to your [
Vancouver
                  Island] despatch N
o 22 of the 17
th of 
May
               last
               
               last respecting the repayment of a sum of money advanced by you in 1856
               for the purchase of commodities supplied to the authorities of
               
Washington Territory, I transmit to you for your information
the
 the copies
               of a Correspondence which has passed with the Foreign Office on the
               subject.