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Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
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The minutes discuss how to prevent a possible American annexation of
Of the two enclosures, the first is a list of memoranda
on the importance of the North West coast of British North America,
and the second is a draft reply to
In accordance with your request I send You some Memoranda on the importance of the N.W. coast of British North America.
Although they have run to Some length I feel that no portion of the subject is fairly represented. I am however prepared to go fully into eavry part of it.
I take the liberty to
I do not wish to be considered as making any reflection on its
Governors but it is not in the nature of things that a trading monopoly,
the operations of which are carried on among
A perusal of the statements of all witnesses on the Subject might lead to a moral but not probably a judicial opinion.
I would also add that what is true of
I would also suggest to you whether the cure of many of our social
evils at home may not more easily be found in the extension of our
Colonial Empire not in territory but in men & the consequent
extension of our Commercial and manufacturing relations, than by any
other means. Since the accompanying memoranda were written we have
learnt from the daily papers the formidable nature of
It seems to me that although
I assume that t
Leaving this out of the question two courses are open:
1. To form an establishment on the island, treat the land as Crown
This cannot be done, 1. without some expense—it is idle to
suppose, as many do, that such establishments can be made
self-supporting, unless there were some very extraordinary mining
results. 2. without incurring the perpetual difficulty of guarding a
settlement against
2. The other course would be, to direct the Adml to maintain as
I have said British supremacy, and to lend his assistance if absolutely
required to keep the peace among the miners, but not to interfere with
them in any other way. If in the course of time the wish for something
like settled Government should manifest itself, the immigrants might
then be encouraged to constitute one, paying its own expenses. This
latter
As to the H.B.C. whose position the writer does not correctly
represent, their case stands thus. They have rights both of territory &
government over an immensethe Indians
must) revoke the license so far as that colony is concerned.
The subjects involved must be [maturely considered?].
1. The discovery of Gold in
2. The trade of the Pacific.
3. The British Colonies in North America.
4.