Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Shelbury
to Merivale, Herman 16 August 1856, CO 305:6, no. 7399, 185.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1).
Shelbury writes to Merivale acknowledging, for Clarendon, the receipt of Merivale’s letter enclosing a despatch from Douglas regarding how Douglas assisted Stevens in the “Indian war.” Shelbury requests that Merivale tell Labouchere that Douglas’s conduct has “been most judicious.”
The minutes annex a draft for Douglas.
Shelbury to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
August 16, 1856
Sir,
I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 14th instant, Enclosing a copy of a despatch
from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, reporting the assistance which
he had afforded to Governor Stevens in the Indian war now raging in
American Oregon, and I am to request that you will state to Mr
Secretary Labouchere that the conduct of Governor Douglas appears to
have been most judicious.
Herman Merivale Esq.
&c &c &c
&c &c &c
