I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's
               letter of yesterday's date, enclosing, by direction of 
Sir John
                  Pakington, copies of two recent Despatches from the Governor of 
Vancouver's Island, and informing me that the questions respecting 
Queen
                  Charlotte's Island had been referred for the consideration of the
               Foreign Office and Admiralty; and I request that you will be pleased to
               convey to 
Sir John Pakington the thanks of the Governor and Committee of
               the Hudson's Bay Company for his communication.