Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 9 October 1850, CO 305:2, no. 8290, 253.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Trevelyan writes Merivale to verify and validate the claim made to the Treasury for the cost of Blanshard's passage from Callao, Peru, to Vancouver Island.
In the minutes, Blackwood confirms and reiterates the circumstances of Blanshard's passage, and presumes that a recommendation should be sent to the Treasury, in
order to release the funds to the Admiralty; Merivale, Hawes, and Grey all provide signatures thereafter.
This file encloses a draft letter, from the Colonial Office to Trevelyan, that explains why the expense of the passage should be borne by the public.
I have it in command to acquaint you, for the information
of Earl
Grey, that a Claim has been made upon the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury for the Payment of the Sum of 135,,5,,_ to Commander
C.R. Johnson of Her Majesty's Steam Sloop "Driver" for the Passage of Mr Blanchard, Governor of Vancouver's Island, from Callao
to that place, and I am to request that you will move Earl Grey to inform
My Lords of the circumstances under
under which this Passage was afforded to
Mr Blanchard, and whether his Lordship proposes that this Expense
should be charged on the Funds of this Country —
2Ansd 23 Oct/50.
under which this Passage was afforded to
Mr Blanchard, and whether his Lordship proposes that this Expense
should be charged on the Funds of this Country —Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
Governor Blanchard was promised a Passage from Panama in a Man of War to enable him to inspect the route to the Pacific by the way of the Isthmus which Settlers for Vancouver's Island are likely to take, & to enable him to reach his Government earlier than he otherwise wd do if he went by Cape Horn. We have already told the Admiralty the expense should be paid by the public. I presume that all that is now requisite to do is to explain the case to the Treasury & recommend them to pay.
Governor Blanchard was promised a Passage from Panama in a Man of War to enable him to inspect the route to the Pacific by the way of the Isthmus which Settlers for Vancouver's Island are likely to take, & to enable him to reach his Government earlier than he otherwise wd do if he went by Cape Horn. We have already told the Admiralty the expense should be paid by the public. I presume that all that is now requisite to do is to explain the case to the Treasury & recommend them to pay.
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Colonial Office to Trevelyan, 23 October 1850, explaining why the expense of the passage should be borne by the public.
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