I have laid before
Lord Stanley your letter of the
23rd
Instant, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Hudsons Bay
Company as to the rights of British vessels with regard to the
navigation of the rivers in the territory recently ceded by
Russia to the United States, and I am directed by His Lordship
to request that you will refer The
Duke of Buckingham to The
Queen Advocates
Report Report of December
26th last, of which a
copy was inclosed in my letter of the
30th of the same
month, and in which His Grace will find an answer to the
question raised by the Hudson's Bay Company.