WCP3639

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Foreign Office.

September 6. 1853.

Sir,

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon¹ to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday’s date, stating that Mr Wallace will be unable to proceed on his scientific expedition to the Eastern Archipelago until November next, and I am to inform you in reply that Lord Clarendon has referred your letter to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. I am further to transmit to you copies of despatches from Her Majesty’s Representatives at Madrid² [2] and the Hague by which you will perceive that the necessary facilities have been accorded by the Spanish and Netherland Governments to M^r. Wallace to enable that Gentleman to visit the Dutch and Spanish settlements in the Eastern Seas.

I am, | sir, | your most obedient, | humble servant, | H.U. Addington [signature]