Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Verney, Lieutenant Commander Edmund Hope to
Grenville, Richard 7 May 1867, CO 60:31, no. 4489, 365.
Abstract
Verney, Lieutenant Commander Edmund Hope to
Grenville, Richard 7 May 1867, CO 60:31, no. 4489, 365.
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (4).
Verney to Buckingham
Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
May 7 1867
My Lord Duke,
The accompanying copy has been sent to me of a petition which I
am informed has been recently presented to your Grace.
For three years I commanded H.M.S. Grappler in British Columbia
and the adjacent waters, during the last year of which time Mr
Seymour was Governor.
When in some quarters there exists as strong a personal feeling
against Governor Seymour as this petition indicates, it is only
common fairness for me to express my views, whatever they may be
worth, which are directly opposed to paragraph seven of the petition.
Although I am of opinion that Victoria ought certainly to be the
capital of the Colony, I consider that the choice of the Seat of
Government may well be left to Governor Seymour, whose painstaking
conscientiousness in his duties must
be apparent to all who have the
honour of knowing him intimately: Or it may as safely be left to the
Legislative Council whose debates up to the present time have been
characterized by anything but servility to the Executive.
be apparent to all who have the
honour of knowing him intimately: Or it may as safely be left to the
Legislative Council whose debates up to the present time have been
characterized by anything but servility to the Executive.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
The Memorial has been received and is now in circulation. Acknowledge? See 4492.
The Memorial has been received and is now in circulation. Acknowledge? See 4492.