[Please note that the following confidential letter has not yet been vetted against
its corresponding image scan, which was not available at the time of this writing.
It did not appear in the CO410 image collection.]
Confidential
Downing Street
14 March 1860
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential
despatch of the 18th of December describing the plan of operations
which you thought it would be advisable to adopt for the protection of
the colonies under your government in case of hostilities between this
country and the United States.
Though the prospect of those hostilities is now removed, I am glad
to have received your suggestions which I have communicated to the War
Dept as affecting the question of the defence of that quarter of
British North America.