With reference to your despatch No. 60 of the 
11th of September last I have the honor to acquaint you that as the service on which
               
Captain Stamp proceeded from 
Esquimalt to 
Barclay Sound in 
October 1860
               was a Colonial one, I have instructed the Colonial Agents General to
               repay to the Admiralty
the
 the cost of his entertainment on board M. M's
               Gunboat "
Grappler."