[Untitled], August 28, 1862.

[Untitled]

Sir: With reference to your letters of the 5th June last and 14th instant, I am commanded by my lords commissioners of the admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Russell, that warrants have been prepared for transmission to the several officers in command of her Majesty’s cruisers engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa and in the North American and West Indian station, to act under the treaty recently concluded between Great Britain and the United States of America. An act of Parliament necessary for carrying the treaty into effect, viz: the 25th and 26th Vic., cap. 40, has now passed, and, in accordance with my letter of the 13th June last, warrants, with copies of the treaty, are ready for transmission to the officers as soon as my lords are informed that the mixed courts of justice are established and ready to take cognizance of captures made by virtue of the said treaty.

A list of the ships, with their force, to which these warrants will be sent, is, at present, as stated in the enclosed list.

I am, &c.,