Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 22 September 1851, CO 305:3, no. 8047, 195.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (3), Other documents (1), Marginalia (2).
Hamilton forwards to Merivale, for the information of Grey, a copy of a letter from Moresby, which discusses the
State of Affairson Vancouver Island.
The minutes agree to send copies of the letters to the HBC.
The first of the included documents is a draft letter from the Colonial Office to Pelly, forwarding copies of enclosed letters; the second is a letter from Moresby to Admiralty, which reports on Moresby's arrival to Vancouver Island and the murder of three British seamen; the third is a letter from Moresby to Blanshard, which reports on the murders; and the final enclosure is a letter from Blanshard to Moresby, which reports on, among other things, the fragile security at Fort Rupert.
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith for the information of Earl Grey, the Copy of a letter dated the 27th June
last, No 54; from Rear Admiral Moresby, Commander in Chief in the Pacific, ⎯ and of its enclosures, reporting his Proceedings,
and on the State of Affairs in Vancouver's Island.
2Copy to Hudson's Bay Compy for informn. 8 Oct/51.
Minutes by CO staff
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Moresby to Admiralty, 27 June 1851,
reporting of his arrival at Vancouver Island, and that he has dispatched HMS Daphne to convey Blanshard to apprehend the murderers of the British seamen.
Blanshard to Moresby, 27 June 1851, reporting there has been no action against Indigenous groups as yet, and that, as
far as he knows, the Hudson's Bay Company has no means of securing the personal safety of its servants, beyond stockading their
posts and threatening to cease local trading.
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