I have received and laid before 
the Queen your two Despatches of
               the 
18 November last requesting to be relieved in the Government of 
VanCouver's Island, and I am to inform you that Her Majesty has been pleased to accept your resignation
               of the Office of Governor of that Settlement.
I am unable to state whether the means at the
disposal
 disposal of the
               Admiral Commanding in the Pacific will admit of his ordering you a
               passage to 
Panama, but I have communicated your wishes on the subject to
               the 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and have requested their
               Lordships to make them known to the Admiral.