Letter from James Stephen, Downing Street, to Sir John Barrow He is directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty a copy of the despatch from the late Governor of Mauritius enclosing a report from the Harbour Master of Port Louis on a severe gale, and a registry of meteorological observations taken at Port Louis Observatory during 1839. Annotated [p.1]: 'No.19 18th Feby', and 'Mauritius, 1838-40'. Annotated [p.2]: '19 June [?] Beaufort as to these'. 17 June 1840