Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
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Osborne, Ralph to Merivale, Herman 21 May 1856, CO 305:7, no. 4583, 145.
Abstract
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Minutes (1).
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Osborne writes to Merivale, confirming that the HMS President has been dispatched for Vancouver Island, but that there has been no word of the ship’s arrival.
Osborne to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your
letter of the 17th Instant, with its enclosed copy of a despatch from
the Governor of Vancouver's Island, relative to a Ship of War being sent
for the protection of that Settlement from attack by Indians, I am
commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information of
Mr
Mr Secretary Labouchere, that as intimated in my letter of the
25th February last, Her Majesty's Ship President has been dispatched
to Vancouvers Island, but no accounts have yet been received of her
arrival at that Colony.
Mr Secretary Labouchere, that as intimated in my letter of the
25th February last, Her Majesty's Ship President has been dispatched
to Vancouvers Island, but no accounts have yet been received of her
arrival at that Colony.