I have to acknowledge the receipt of Your Despatches N 10 of the
24 of November 1853, N 5 of the
27 February and No 28 of
the
17 May last, and in conveying to you the approval of Her
Majesty's Government of your proceedings with respect to the Sovereignty
of the
Islands in the Canal de Arro, I have to authorize you to continue
to treat those Islands as part of the British Dominions.