Colonial Despatches

Despatch from London. Enclosures (untranscribed) (3).

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Labouchere acknowledges the receipt of Douglas’s despatch explaining more fully the grounds on which [Douglas] considered it necessary to send an armed force against the Cowegin Indians which he perused with satisfaction.

Enclosed is a despatch from Blackwood to Douglas Acts of Parliament and other works (As per list) of a character likely to be useful to you, are being forwarded via the Hudson’s Bay Company; the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854; and a list of various acts.