With reference to your Letter of the
6th Novr last, I am
commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint
you that the Confidential Despatch for the Governor of
Vancouver, therein enclosed, was delivered on the
13th
Jany into the hands of
Commander Nares of H.M. Sloop
Reindeer
at
Panama for conveyance to
Vancouver Island.