I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch marked
               "Separate" of the 
13th of May with its enclosures, reporting the
               massacre in 
British Columbia of a party of White men by the Chilcoaten
               Indians.
               
               I have read with much concern the accounts of
this
 this lamentable
               event, and I beg to thank you for having communicated to me the tidings
               by the first opportunity.