<persName ref="prs:verney_eh"><surname>Verney</surname>, <forename>Edmund</forename> <forename>Hope</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:grenville_r"><surname>Grenville</surname>, <forename>Richard</forename></persName> 7 May 1867, CO 60:31, no. 4489, 365. Verney addressee Buckingham

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Verney, Edmund Hope to Grenville, Richard 7 May 1867, CO 60:31, no. 4489, 365.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B676V01.html. CO 60:31 CO 60 31 4489 365 B.C. 1867received 8 May co_60_31_00366r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (4).

Verney, the commander of the Grappler, advocates for Seymour to make the choice of where the Seat of Government will be in British Columbia or the Legislative Council of British Columbia for the council’s loyalty to the Executive. Buckingham minutes that this despatch should be put by without acknowledging, and Blake’s minute suggests seeing subsequent Govr 67/8562.

Verney, Edmund Hope
Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
Grenville, Richard Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Verney to Buckingham 4489, CO 60/31, p. 365; received 8 May
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.

I have the honour to be Your Grace's obedient Servant, Edmund H. Verney Commander, Royal Navy
Sir F. Rogers The Memorial has been received and is now in circulation. Acknowledge? See 4492. VJ 8 May FR 8/5
Put by. CBA 8/5
Without acknowledging. B&C 10/5
See subsequent GovrGovernor 67/8562. [EB]