With reference to your despatch N
o 17 of the
13th of September
in which you suggest that the Provisions and Stores required for Her
Majesty's Ships should be sent direct from this Country to
Vancouver's
Island, and that Store Houses for their reception should be erected at
Port Esquimalt, I have to acquaint you that having
referred referred this
despatch to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, their Lordships
have instructed
Rear Admiral Bruce to furnish a report on the subject.