With reference to your Letters of the
25th Inst, enclosing
a Despatch to be transmitted to the Officer Administering the
Government of
British Columbia, by the first Officer of Her
Majesty's Naval Service proceeding to that Colony, I am Commanded
by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for
the information
of of
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
that there is no officer under Orders to proceed to
British
Columbia or
Vancouver.