Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 10 March 1858, CO 305:9, no. 2364, 373.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond transmits a despatch to the CO from Napier “reporting what passed between him and the United States’ Secretary of State relative
to the payment of a sum of money advanced by the Governor of Vancouver’s Island to the Governor of Washington territory for the purpose of prosecuting hostilities against the Indian Tribes.”
The minutes forward this information to Douglas.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
March 10, 1858
Sir,
With reference to your Letter of the 25th ultimo, I am directed
by The Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you herewith, to be
laid before Lord Stanley, a Copy of a Despatch from Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington reporting what passed between
him and the United States' Secretary of State relative to the
payment of a sum of money advancedby
by the Governor of
Vancouver's Island to the Governor of Washington territory for
the purpose of prosecuting hostilities against the Indian Tribes.
by the Governor of
Vancouver's Island to the Governor of Washington territory for
the purpose of prosecuting hostilities against the Indian Tribes.
Merivale Esqr.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Napier, British Minister at Washington,
to Earl of Clarendon, 21 February 1858, advising that he
was assured "measures shd be taken for the satisfaction of HM's
Govt without delay."