Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 31 January 1859, CO 60:5, no. 1116, 447.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Hammond requests Lytton’s approval on a draft proposing that the government request continued access to the
Columbia River below the 49th parallel in exchange for “commercial concessions.”
The minutes express “concurrence.”
Enclosed is a draft reply from Merivale to Hammond, 5 February 1859, expressing Lytton’s concurrence with the draft to be forwarded by Napier; and Malmesbury to Napier, regarding British navigation rights on the Columbia River after the expiration of the Hudson’s Bay Company charter.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
31 January 1859
Sir
With reference to the Letters from the Colonial Office
of the 12th of October and 23rd of December last,
relative to the right of Navigation of the Columbia River
below the 49th Parallel, after the expiration of the
exclusive rights of the Hudson's Bay Company, I am directed
by The Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you, to be laid
before Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Draft of
a Despatch which His Lordship proposes
proposes to address to Lord
Napier in reply to his Despatch on this subject, No. 190
of the 30th of July last, a Copy of which was enclosed
in my Letter to you of the 18th of August last; and I
am to request that you will move Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to
acquaint Lord Malmesbury whether he concurs in the Draft.
proposes to address to Lord
Napier in reply to his Despatch on this subject, No. 190
of the 30th of July last, a Copy of which was enclosed
in my Letter to you of the 18th of August last; and I
am to request that you will move Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to
acquaint Lord Malmesbury whether he concurs in the Draft.
Minutes by CO staff
Lord Carnarvon
This appears to me quite correct.
This appears to me quite correct.
HM
Feb 2
I think so. Annex draft expressing concurrence.
C
Feby 3
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Malmesbury to Lord Napier, British Minister at Washington, no date,
regarding British navigation rights on the Columbia River after the
expiration of the Hudson's Bay Company's charter.