Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Paget, C.
to Merivale, Herman 20 July 1859, CO 60:5, no. 7241, 385.
Abstract
Paget, C.
to Merivale, Herman 20 July 1859, CO 60:5, no. 7241, 385.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (4).
Paget to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Admiralty
20 July 1859
Sir,
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
to send you herewith for the information of Her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Colonies the copy of a letter
from Captain de Courcy of the "Pylades" dated 26th
May last, and copy of its Enclosures, reporting his
proceedings and the state of affairs at Vancouver's Island.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
Capn de Courcy's Accounts are never very comfortable. The Miners go up the Country regardless of how they are to subsist, & as there are no roads or tracks by means of which provisions can reach them, they are forced to return or starve. Their return, under such circes, is no proof that the gold fails.
Capn de Courcy's Accounts are never very comfortable. The Miners go up the Country regardless of how they are to subsist, & as there are no roads or tracks by means of which provisions can reach them, they are forced to return or starve. Their return, under such circes, is no proof that the gold fails.
ABd
21/7
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
de Courcy to Rear Admiral Baynes, Commander in Chief,
26 May 1859, reporting on proceedings at Pacific station.
W.A.G. Young, Colonial Secretary, to Captain G.P. Hornby,
Tribune, 14 May 1859, requesting one ship remain anchored off the
Saanich Peninsula to aid in the arrest of "an Indian belonging to the Saanich tribe."
