I am commanded by my 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
               request you will move the Secretary of State for the Colonies to
               inform them, if possible, what amount of punishment was awarded
               to two men named 
Lyons and 
Shakespeare, who were convicted in
               the Colonial Courts at 
Esquimalt in 
1869, for having assisted
               two men in an attempt to desert, from HMS "
Satellite."