We, Lord John Russell, a member of her Majesty’s Brittanic Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, a member of Parliament and her Majesty’s Secretary of State for foreign affairs etc. etc.

Request and require in the name of her Majesty all those whom it may concern to all Mr Frederick Chalken (British subject travelling on the continent) to move freely without let or hinderance to and afford him every assistance and protection of which he may stand to need.

Given at the Foreign Office London 20th day of April 1860.