I have transmitted instructions to the Minister of the United States in London1 to apply to the British Government for compensation for the losses and sufferings you sustained by being arrested and detained in Canada as a prisoner of war. He has been apprized that it is your intention to produce your papers and the agency of your claim to Mr. Erving, and that the former will be communicated to him thro’ that channel: they are therefore herewith returned.2 I am, Sir, &ca.