Confidential
16 September 1868
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yourDespatchManuscript image Despatch of the 28th July, Separate, enclosing Copies of Reports from the Police Magistrate of Victoria respecting the supposed intentions of the Fenians against the Town.
I have to convey to you my approval of your acceptance of Admiral Hastings' offer of a Guard for Government House, and of your proposal to build a small Guard House at the expense of the Crown Fund.
I have etc.
Buckingham & Chandos
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Governor Frederick 16 September 1868, CO 398:5, 181. 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/B687072A.html.

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