Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Lennox, Henry Gordon to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 28 October 1867, CO 60:30, no. 10657, 48.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Lennox states that the Admiralty approves of Hastings’s response to Seymour’s request for support during the disturbance in the Cariboo and encloses instructions given to admirals in British Columbia regarding how to support colonial officials in times of need. Robinson’s minute suggests forwarding Lennox’s despatch to Seymour.
Lennox to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
I have laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
your Letter of the 22nd Inst with its enclosures from the
Governor of Columbia, respecting disturbances between Rival
Claimants of a Mining Property in the district of Cariboo on
the Upper Fraser River, nearly 500 Miles distant from the Seat of
Government at New Westminster.
With reference to the complaint made by the Governor that
Rear Admiral Hastings had declined to detach any Force from the
Ships under his Ordersat
at Esquimalt for a place so remote as
Cariboo, their Lordships desire me to state for the information
of His Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos that they
approve of the conduct of the Admiral in this matter, and I enclose
a Copy of the Instructions given in 1864 to his Predecessor in the
Naval Command in the Pacific not to detach Officers and Men to a
distance from their Ships, but to limit his co-operation to such
measures as could be executed by the Vessels or by their Boats
acting in their immediate vicinity.
at Esquimalt for a place so remote as
Cariboo, their Lordships desire me to state for the information
of His Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos that they
approve of the conduct of the Admiral in this matter, and I enclose
a Copy of the Instructions given in 1864 to his Predecessor in the
Naval Command in the Pacific not to detach Officers and Men to a
distance from their Ships, but to limit his co-operation to such
measures as could be executed by the Vessels or by their Boats
acting in their immediate vicinity.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
Forward copy of this to Govr Seymour for his information & guidance, & with reference to Govr No 93 of the 16 Augt.
Forward copy of this to Govr Seymour for his information & guidance, & with reference to Govr No 93 of the 16 Augt.
WR
31 Oct 67
Sir F. Rogers
We know from private sources that Govr Semour has got on without Marines. It certainly would have been a very distant expedition from their ships.
We know from private sources that Govr Semour has got on without Marines. It certainly would have been a very distant expedition from their ships.
Transmit as proposed?
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
H.C. Pennell to Rear Admiral Denman, 16 July 1864, conveying
orders regarding the deployment of his officers and men in the service
of the colony.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 85, 18 November 1867 transmitting “the instructions issued in 1864 to the Admiral in the Pacific on the subject of detaching a force from the Ships
under his Orders in the event of disturbances arising in the interior of British Columbia.”