[Endorsement]L. S. [Lord Stanley] : I presume you
know this measure was in contemplation. I propose to mail
ja copy of this letter by tonight's mail to Lord Metcalfe for
his guidance. Stephen [apparently].
[Second endorsement, different hand:
Send by this mail "Secret." S[tanley], April 4.]
Dispatched 4th of April in bag — delivered to Captain
Taylor.
Downing Street, 4th of April, 1845.
Secret. My Lord : I transmit herewith enclosed for your Lordship's guidance a copy of a letter which has been re- ceived from the foreign office suggesting that two military officers should be dispatched by your Lordship to the Oregon Territory for the purposes described in that letter, and I have to instruct your Lordship to take the necessary measures ac- cordingly.
I have, etc., Stanley.
The Governor General, The Rt. Honorable Lord Metcalfe, K. G. C. G. Confidential. 3d of April, 1845.
[No. 3.]
Secret. His Excellency, Sir R. D. Jackson, Commander of the Forces Govt. House, Montreal, May 2d, 1845.
Sir: Referring to the personal communications which I have had with your Excellency, relating to the nomination of two military officers for special service in the Oregon Terri- tory, I proceed to apprise you of the views of Her Majesty's Government in this mission, conveyed to me by instructions from the Secretary of the State for the Colonies.
The officers whom you have selected will proceed in com- pany with Sir George Simpson, the acting Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Oregon Territory, as private travelers, and will carefully examine the important features of the country, in order to obtain as accurate a knowledge of it as may be required for the future and efficient prosecu-
