Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 26 June 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 221.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Buckingham acknowledges Seymour’s despatch of 17 March 1868, which clarified Seymour’s communication regarding Hastings’s refusal to provide
Naval Assistance.
No. 38
26 June 1868
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 17th
March, No. 18.
There seems to have been a misapprehension on the part of the
Admiralty in regard to your having made a complaint against Admiral
Hastings of refusingyou
you Naval assistance, which the correspondence
you now forward, and which ought to have accompanied your despatch
No. 93, of the 16th August of last year, has removed.
you Naval assistance, which the correspondence
you now forward, and which ought to have accompanied your despatch
No. 93, of the 16th August of last year, has removed.