Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to
Douglas, Sir James 2 September 1858, LAC :, 28.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton transmits to Douglas copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and the War Office concerning
the detachment of Royal Engineers to British Columbia. Moody has been placed in command of this contingent and appointed Chief Commissioner of
Lands and Works in BC.
No. 7
Downing Street,
2 September 1858
Sir/
I transmit for your information copies of a correspondence between
this Department and the War Office, which will place you in possession
of the measures which have been taken for sending to British Columbia a
Detachment of the Royal Engineers under the Command of a Field Officer.
Colonel Moody has beenappointed
appointed to this command, and has also been
selected for the Office of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works in
British Columbia, and I transmit a Copy of the Instructions which have
been addressed to Colonel Moody with reference to the discharge of his
duties in that capacity, and specifying the amount of Regimental pay and
Colonial allowances to which he and the Commissioned and
Non-Commissioned Officers and Sappers of the Detachment are entitled.
appointed to this command, and has also been
selected for the Office of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works in
British Columbia, and I transmit a Copy of the Instructions which have
been addressed to Colonel Moody with reference to the discharge of his
duties in that capacity, and specifying the amount of Regimental pay and
Colonial allowances to which he and the Commissioned and
Non-Commissioned Officers and Sappers of the Detachment are entitled.
I may further observethat
that a Ship has been chartered and is in
course of preparation for the conveyance of the larger portion of this
Detachment by the Horn; but as the passage will consume nearly four
months and it is desirable that you should have the assistance and
support of a part of this body without delay both to represent the
Military force of this Country and to facilitate those Surveying and
Engineering operations which it may be expedient to commence forthwith,
I have made arrangements for the despatch of Twenty men and an
an Officer
by the Steamer which leaves this Country for Panama on the 2nd of next
month.
that a Ship has been chartered and is in
course of preparation for the conveyance of the larger portion of this
Detachment by the Horn; but as the passage will consume nearly four
months and it is desirable that you should have the assistance and
support of a part of this body without delay both to represent the
Military force of this Country and to facilitate those Surveying and
Engineering operations which it may be expedient to commence forthwith,
I have made arrangements for the despatch of Twenty men and an
an Officer
by the Steamer which leaves this Country for Panama on the 2nd of next
month.