Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Labouchere, Henry to Douglas, James 22 February 1856, LAC RG7:G8C/1, 313.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
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Labouchere acknowledges receiving Douglas’s letter and expresses appreciation for Douglas’s assistance of the American settlers in Oregon.
No. 4
Downing Street
22nd February 1856
Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch[es] No. 24 of the
8th of November and No. 32 of the 13 December last reporting the
measures which you had taken for aiding the Authorites of the United
states in repelling the hostile attacks of the Indian Tribes
on the American Oregon.
Your proceedings on this occasion appear to have been judicious and
I amgratified
gratified to learn that they were duly appreciated by the
Authorites and the Inhabitants of the American Settlements.
gratified to learn that they were duly appreciated by the
Authorites and the Inhabitants of the American Settlements.