Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Fortescue, Chichester 22 July 1864, CO 305:24, no. 7004, 84.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Hammond transmits a report from the Law Officers regarding
the seven men who were arrested on suspicion of being implicated in a plot to seize one of the Vessels of the Panama Line of Steamers.
Hammond to Under-Secretary of State
I am directed by Earl Russell to state to you that His Lordships
referred to the Law Officers of the Crown your letter of the 18th
Ultimo and its inclosure as well as a Despatch which had been
received from Her Majesty's Consul at San Francisco, respecting the
seven men who were arrested on suspicion of being implicated in a
plot to seize one of theVessels
Vessels of the Panama Line of Steamers, and
I am now to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr Secretary
Cardwell, a copy of the report which has been received from the Law
Officers upon this case.
Vessels of the Panama Line of Steamers, and
I am now to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr Secretary
Cardwell, a copy of the report which has been received from the Law
Officers upon this case.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
Do you think it will be necessary to say more to Govr Kennedy than that H.M. Govt have considered the statement transmitted in his despatch of the 23rd April & that they are, on the whole, of opinion that it would not be expedient for them to interfere officially in the matter.
Do you think it will be necessary to say more to Govr Kennedy than that H.M. Govt have considered the statement transmitted in his despatch of the 23rd April & that they are, on the whole, of opinion that it would not be expedient for them to interfere officially in the matter.
ABd
25 July
I think I shd say something here in order to give the
Govr a key to
the views of HMG.
Govr a key to
the views of HMG.
State that his dph & another from the consul at S. Francisco have
been under the cons. of HMG but that HMG have not on the whole
thought it expedient to interfere.
Then state the reasons given by the L.O. omitting the three last
lines, and transposing the two last sentences as marked in pencil.
FR
26/7
To Govr that H.M. Govt having considered the circs do not think it
desirable to interfere.
EC
27
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Copy, Roundell Palmer, R.P. Collier and Robert Phillimore to Earl
Russell, 15 July 1864, reporting that after considering all the
papers at their disposal, it was felt that the government should not
interfere in the case, with explanation.
