Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Musgrave, Anthony 3 February 1870, CO 398:5, 377.
Abstract
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Musgrave, Anthony 3 February 1870, CO 398:5, 377.
Despatch from London.
Confidential
3 February 1870
Sir,
I transmit to you Copies of two letters which I have received from
the Foreign Office with Despatches from Her Majesty's Minister at
Washington respecting a Memorial said to have been signed by a number of
Residents in Victoria, British Columbia, and addressed to the President
of the United States with a view to his endeavouring to induce Her
Majesty's Government to consent to the transfer of the Colony to the
United States.
The Memorial is printedin
in the "Morning Chronicle" of the 3rd
January and the debate on the subject appears in the "Daily Globe" of
the 11th of that month.
in the "Morning Chronicle" of the 3rd
January and the debate on the subject appears in the "Daily Globe" of
the 11th of that month.
I have etc.
Granville
Granville