I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, a copy
of a letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty forwarding
extracts from a letter from
Rear Admiral the Honorable G.F. Hastings,
Commanding the Pacific Squadron giving an account of his visit to the
gold Diggings of
Cariboo and
pointing pointing out the great difficulty that
would be experienced in sending any body of men from Her Majesty's
ship to that place.