In reply to your Letter of the
22nd Inst on the subject of a
difference which has arisen in the
Island of San Juan in consequence
of
Captain Bazalgette Commanding the Detachment of Royal Marines
there having demanded of the Officer in command of the United States
Forces on the Island the surrender of a man in the United States
Army who deserted from the British Camp in
May 1861, I am
commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state for
the information of
the the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos that
Captain
Bazalgette will be relieved in the command of the Detachment of
Royal Marines stationed at
San Juan by order of the Senior Naval
Officer in the Pacific, to whom Instructions will be sent by the
Mail of this Evening.