Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

No. 15.

Mr. Hammond to Mr. Elliot.

Foreign Office, February 5, 1864.

Sir: I am directed by Earl Russell to transmit to you, to be laid before the Duke of Newcastle, the accompanying copy of a letter from Messrs. Sinclair, Hamilton & Co., stating their reasons for believing Penguin island to be British territory; and I am to request that you will move his grace to inform Lord Russell what answer should be returned to Messrs. Sinclair, Hamilton & Co.

I have, &c.,

E. HAMMOND.