Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Godley, John Robert to Merivale, Herman 16 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9516, 368.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Godley forwards a letter to the CO stating that the plan to divide the Royal Engineers and
convey one unit on a “supplementary Freight ship” will not work and “if Colonel Moody’s suggestion is to be adopted, the whole of the arrangements which have been made
must be cancelled.”
The minutes acknowledge that the Admiralty only sent the CO this letter “to show how
impractical Col Moody’s suggestion would have been.
Godley to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Immediate
War Office
16 September 1858
Sir
With reference to your Letter of yesterdays
date
1
in which
you state that it is proposed to divide the Detachment of
Royal Engineers under orders to proceed to British Columbia,
sending a portion in the supplementary Freight Ship which
has been taken up for the conveyanceof
conveyance of Stores, and conveying
the request of Sir E.B. Lytton that the services of a Naval
Surgeon should be obtained to accompany one of the Parties;
I am directed to transmit to you, for the information of the
Secretary of State, the enclosed copy of a Letter written by
the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
from which it appears that the "Briseis," the vessel engaged
for the conveyance of Stores, having no accommodationfor
for
Passengers; if Colonel Moody's suggestion is to be adopted,
the whole of the arrangements which have been made must be cancelled.
conveyance of Stores, and conveying
the request of Sir E.B. Lytton that the services of a Naval
Surgeon should be obtained to accompany one of the Parties;
I am directed to transmit to you, for the information of the
Secretary of State, the enclosed copy of a Letter written by
the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
from which it appears that the "Briseis," the vessel engaged
for the conveyance of Stores, having no accommodationfor
for
Passengers; if Colonel Moody's suggestion is to be adopted,
the whole of the arrangements which have been made must be cancelled.
Minutes by CO staff
Lord Carnarvon
This only reached us late yesterday evening. I have ascertained at the War Dt that our letter of the 16th Inst was duly received, and that they only sent us this letter from the Admiralty, to show how impracticable Col Moody's suggestion would have been. Put by?
This only reached us late yesterday evening. I have ascertained at the War Dt that our letter of the 16th Inst was duly received, and that they only sent us this letter from the Admiralty, to show how impracticable Col Moody's suggestion would have been. Put by?
HT Irving
18 Sept
Put by.
C
S 20
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
W.G. Romaine, Admiralty, to Under-Secretary of State, War
Office, 16 September 1858, stating the Briseis had no passenger
accommodation but could carry the 400 tons for which she had been
chartered on 13 September.
Footnotes
- A draft of this letter appears in Moody to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary), 13 September 1858, 9423, CO 60/3, p. 259.