Confidential
Downing Street,
14 May 1859
Sir,
I transmit to you herewith for your information the copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington reporting the result of a negociation which has been initiated by Her Majesty's Government with a view to procure the admission of British Shipping to the coasting trade of the United States.
I have etc.
Carnarvon
In the absence of
Sir E.B. Lytton
Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 14 May 1859, CO 398:1, 286. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B597064A.html.

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