Her Majesty's Government have had before them your despatch No.
24 of the
7th of May last repecting the Military occupation of the
Island of San Juan and suggesting the expediency in the present state
of the question of jurisdiction over that territory of the withdrawal
by the United States and by Great Britain of the Civil Magistracy
in
that Island; and I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to
you for your information a copy of a despatch which
Lord John Russell
has in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington
instructing him to propose to the United States Govenment the withdrawal
on both sides of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.