I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's
               Despatch of the 
16th of May last enclosing 
the Queen's Proclamation
               for the maintenance of Neutrality pending the hostilities existing
               between
the
 the Government of the United States of America and the States
               which have seceded from that confederation, and conveying to me Your
               Graces instructions that the utmost publicity should be given to the
               said Proclamation.
               
               I have in reply to inform Your Grace, that I have duly carried those
the
               instructions into effect.