Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

[701] *Mr. Preston, Secretary of the Navy, to Commander Randolph, United States Navy.

Navy Department, September 20, 1849.

Sir: The official reports of your proceedings and movements with a portion of the home squadron under your command, in the neighborhood of Round Island, dated 25th and 28th of August, and 1st and 5th of September, 1849, and the inclosures relating thereto, have been received.

The prompt, the decisive, and the satisfactory manner in which you have executed the confidential instructions of the 9th ultimo, addressed to Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, is fully approved by the Department.

Very respectfully, yours, &c.,

• WM. BALLARD PRESTON.
• Commander Victor M. Randolph,
  Commanding U. S. Ship Albany, off Pascagoula, Mississippi.