Colonial Despatches

Despatch from London.

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Buckingham acknowledges receiving Seymour’s despatch forwarding a Petition from certain Indian Chiefs in British Columbia and expresses his views on how the Indian Chiefs made their wishes known. Buckingham hopes that the answer which [Seymour] returned will tend to their contentment.