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The events which are now taking place on the North West Coast of
America, give so totally different an aspect to any colonizing project,
in that part of the world, to what existed six months ago, that I trust
I may be excused for drawing your attention to one point in the
conveyance of Vancouver's Island to the Hudsons Bay Company, which appears worthy of consideration.
The principal object had in view in using the Hudson's Bay Company
as a colonizing agent, seems to have been the more speedy occupation of
that remote portion of her Majesty's dominions in question, by British
subjects, which might be obtained through the means offered by their
official machinery, and other resources already on the spot; by which
inducements would be held out to immigrants not attainable in any other
manner. — Circumstances have, however, so altered the case, that what a
few months since was only a fair equivalent for services to be rendered,
is likely to become a very valuable boon and to prove a source of great
and immediate profit to the grantee's.
Under these circumstances I take the liberty of bringing to your
notice the propriety of appointing some person to watch over the
proceedings of the Company, in the Colony, and to report to Government,
by every opportunity, the steps taken by them to fulfil the conditions
of their contract. I think the necessity of some measure of the sort
will become apparrentapparent when it is remembered that the Government have
reserved to themselves the right of repurchasing the island in 1860 by
repayment of all sums expended. No supervision of expenditure, in the
mean time, is […] seems to be provided for; and the only information secured,
is a biennial report from the Directors of their own proceedings.
I am aware that the present is not the time to propose the creation
of New offices, but as their Charter stipulates that all civil &
military officers employed, in the colony, by the Government, shall be
paid by the Company, no difficulty it is apprehended would exist on that
score.
With many apologies for my presumption in thus troubling you



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That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that She will
be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this
House, a Copy of Charter of Grant of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's
Bay Com-panyCompany, and Copies of any Correspondence which has passed between the Colonial Office and the Hudson's Bay Company on that subject, since the last Papers were laid upon the Table.



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I should feel obliged if you would have the goodness to cause the
enclosed letter to be forwarded on to Captain Williams' (Governor of
Vancouvers Island) address.



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FILE: 1849-02-12_Ward_to_Hawes_Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_V495AD01.txt
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With reference to a Precept of the House of Commons dated the 16th
August last, that an humble address be presented to Her Majesty that She
will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before
the House Copies or Extracts of certain Dispatches relative to Van==couversVancouvers Island, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit to you for the information of the Earl Grey, Copies of the Correspondence required, so far as this Department can supply the same.



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With the most respectful deference I beg to assure Your Lordship,
that nothing is more repugnant and painful to my feelings than to be repeating so often my earnest soli-citationssolicitations for re-employment under the trying and unfortunate position, in which I am, and have been
placed for the last two years, arising from my having resigned my late
appointment, on the most honorable grounds of public and private
integrity. The detailed official representation of which I have often
taken the great liberty of callingcalling to your Lordship's
attention — shewing clearly the peculiar hardship of my case — Otherwise,
I should now have been spared the poignant necessity of appearing
both importunate and intrusive on your Lordship's humane notice.
I have had the honor to receive your Lordship's reply of the
15th Inst, wherein I am directed to refer any application for
employment to the "Hudson's Bay Company" — Permit me, My Lord, in the
most respectful manner to observe that I have not the least claim
to the consideration of the above, and as a perfect stranger,
I should not consider myself justified in presuming to do so.
From my having read in the public journals, of a Governor having
been appointed by H.M's Government to govern Vancouver's Island I ventured
(labouring at the time under this impression) to tender my humble
service in consideration of my 3 years servitude, and the
heavy serious expenses in which I am placed by my resignation. Under
these painful circumstances, I presume to hope  that your Lordship will not
consider my claim a premature, or an unreasonable one on the Home
Government. I earnestly hope as a late servant that I may yet be
considered deserving of further employment in any of H.M's Colonial
Possessions, or wherever Your Lordship may be pleased to consider my
hard case meriting this favourable consideration — Respectfully trusting,
that I may be allowed to apologize for thus presuming to intrude myself
both on Your Lordship's notice, and important time.



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That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House, a Copy of any Report from the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, on the grant of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company.



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I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the
information of Earl Grey, a Copy of a Dispatch from Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, stating the substance of
enquiries which have been made of him by British Subjects who are
desirous of settling in Vancouver's Island, and I am to request that you
will move Lord Grey to favour Lord Palmerston with any  information upon this subject, which His Lordship may think it desirable that Mr Adams should be enabled to communicate to the Persons who have applied to him.



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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th Instant accompanying the copy of a Despatch from Mr Adams, H.M. Chargé d'affaires in Peru, stating the substance of enquiries which had been made of him by British subjects residing in that country
who are desirous of settling in Vancouver's Island; and also the copy of a communication which Earl Grey has directed to be made to the Foreign Office in reference to those enquiries; —
In reply to which I beg to state that Earl Grey's commu-nicationcommunication
above mentioned is entirely satisfactory to the Directors of the
Hudson's Bay Company, who are of opinion that it would save much time
and greatly facilitate emigration from Peru if Mr Adams would undertake to receive payment for grants of land, and give certificates
of purchase to intending emigrants, on the production of which the
Company's Officers at Ft Victoria would (according to instructions to be sent from England) put the purchasers in possession of the quantity of land mentioned in the certificates.
Should this suggestion meet the approbation of Her Majesty's Government, I will lose no time in communicating with Mr Adams on the subject.



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I have laid before Viscount Palmerston your letter of the 7th
Instant, stating that Earl Grey wishes to Know whether Lord Palmerston sees any objection to Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, being authorized to receive, on behalf of the Hudson's Bay
Company, payments for grants of Land, and to his giving Certi==ficatesCertificates of
purchase to Emigrants desirous of settling in Vancouver's Island. And I am, in reply, to request that you will state to Earl Grey, that Lord
Palmerston sees no objection to Mr Adams  being authorized to act on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in the manner above stated. —



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I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the
information of Earl Grey, a copy of a letter from Her Majesty's Consul
General at Woahoo, containing information respecting Vancouver's Island,
and the settlements of the Hudsons Bay Company in Oregon.



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I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the
information of Earl Grey, extracts of Despatches from Her Majesty's
Consul General at Woahoo, containing information respecting Vancouvers
Island.



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With reference to the Command with which I was lately entrusted
in the Hudson's Bay Territory, and to the intention announced in
some of the Publick Prints, of Her Majesty's Government to apportion one or more Companies of
Enrolled Pensioners for Service in Vancouver's Island, as at the
Red River Settlement in Rupert's Land, I venture to solicit your
good offices to bring my name under the notice of Earl Grey, in
the event of the Governor of Vancouver's Island being appointed
under similar Circum=stancesCircumstances, to those atten=dingattending the appointment
of Major Caldwell, to that of Assiniboia, Red River 〜



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On the 25th October last Mr Under Secretary Hawes informed me by Your Lordships direction, that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intended to send a Steam Vessel and a Sloop of War to Vancouver's Island for the purpose of general Survey and careful examination.
Finding that up to the present time nothing has been done towards carrying their Lordships intention into effect, I feel it my duty to draw Your Lordship's attention to the subject, the more particularly as from the extracts, which I have the honor to enclose, of a letter from the Company's officers in charge at Fort Vancouver, accompanied by a copy of Resolutions adopted at a meeting of American citizens held in the neighbourhood of Nisqually, there is reason to fear that unless the turbulent and evil disposed are overawed by the presence of a British Ship of war, very serious consequences will ensue.



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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's
letter of the 20th Instant, acquainting me that the Queen has
been pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr Richard BlanchardBlanshard to the office of Governor of Vancouvers Island.
As one of the Hudson's Bay Company's ships will be dispatched
for that Island in a short time I beg to be informed when Mr BlanchardBlanshard may have the honour of waiting on Your Lordship to receive his Commission and Instructions.
In reply to the last paragraph of your Lordship's letter, I beg to
assure you that it was not intended to make any claim on H.M.
Government; but on the other hand it is expected that H.M. Government
will make no claim on the Hudson's Bay Company either in the shape of
fees or any other payment, as in the event of such claim being made, I
should feel it my duty to protect against it, in order that it might not
be drawn into a precedent.



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[This despatch, from the Privy Council to Colonial Office, is missing from this Colonial Office volume. The Index of this volume refers to a letter, 29 June 1849, with the note "Commission and Instructions, Approval of Drafts," but the correspondence does not appear to be filed.]



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[This despatch, from the Privy Council to Colonial Office, is missing from this Colonial Office volume. The Index of this volume refers to a letter, 30 July 1849, with the note "Vice Admiralty Judge and Officers Authorizes preparation of Warrant appointing," but the correspondence does not appear to be filed.]



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We were honored with your Lordships command contained in Mr
Hawe's letter of the 30th Ultimo in which he stated that he was
directed by your Lordship to transmit to us drafts of a Commission and
Instructions which it is proposed to issue to Richard Blanshard Esquire whom The Queen has been pleased to appoint to be Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Island  of Vancouver and its Dependencies; and he was to request that we would take these Instructions into our
consideration and report to your Lordship whether we saw any objection
to them in point of law.
In obedience to your Lordship's command we have taken the
Instructions into our consideration and have the honor to report that in
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FILE: 1849-07-21_Earl_Grey_to_Blanshard_V497001.txt
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I have the honor to transmit herewith a Commission under the Great
Seal of the United Kingdom, appointing you to be Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Island of Vancouver and its Dependencies,
together with Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet for
your guidance in the administration of the Government thereof.

I also transmit Letters Patent under the Seal of the High Court of
the Admiralty appointing you to be Vice Admiral of that Island and its
Dependencies.



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Governor Blanshard is desirous of going by the Mail to
Chagres, and thence across the Isthmus to Panama, being anxious to see,
and make himself master of, the route which may ultimately be that by
which Settlers may go from this country; — and not only for this purpose,
which I think a very useful one, but also that he may arrive at
Vancouvers Island at an earlier period than he could do by going in a
Ship from here round the Horn; — provided he be forwarded from Panama by
one of Her Majesty's vessels on the Pacific Station, some of which, I
understand, are constantly at that place to receive the letters from
England, and the Squadron has frequent communication with Vancouver
Island. I have therefore  to request that Your Lordship will move the
Board of Admiralty to give directions for Governor Blanshard's being
received on board one of Her Majesty's Ships at Panama, and conveyed to
his destination.



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[This file contains enclosures only, which appear in a collection entitled "Parlimentary Papers." They are presented below in the order in which they appear in the Colonial volume.]



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FILE: 1849-08-09_Hamilton_to_Hawes_Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_V495AD02.txt
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In reply to your Letter of the 4th Instant, I am commanded by
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that
Rear Admiral Hornby has been informed that Mr Richard Blanshard the recently appointed Governor of Vancouvers Island will leave
England by the September Packet, and he has been directed to
order one of Her Majesty's Ships, if possible, to be at Panama on Mr Blanshards arrival to convey him to Vancouvers Island, and
I am to request that you will inform Earl Grey of the same.



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With reference to your letter of the 7th of April last, I am
directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the information
of Earl Grey, the accompanying Copy of a Despatch from Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, stating the reason why he has not been yet able to afford to British Subjects wishing to settle in
Vancouver's  Island, the assistance recommended in the letter from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Colonial Office of the 31st of March 1849.



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I now transmit to you a copy of an Act passed in the last Session
for the administration of Justice in Vancouvers Island, together with
printed copies of your Commission and Instructions.
The object of the Act was to remove as far, as Vancouver's Island
is concerned, the restrictive force of certain provisions respecting
the Administration of Justice in the "North West, or Indian"
Territories of North America, contained in two former Acts, of which
copies are likewise forwarded.
And the effect of it in conjunction with your Commission and
Instructions will be to give you power for the present to make such
provisions as you may consider most advisable both for the apprehension
of offenders and the Trial of Prisoners, and the conduct of Civil Cases,
subject, however, to the power which the Legislature of the Island will
hereafter be able to exercise in altering such provisions.



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In reply to your letter of the 22d Instant; I am commanded by my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that they have directed their Solicitor to repay Mr Smith the Chief Clerk of the
Colonial Office the sum of thirty eight pounds, ten shillings and threepence, that being the amount advanced by him for
the Commission issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
empowering their Lordships to appoint a Vice Admiral and other Officers
required for a Court of Vice Admiralty in the Island of Vancouver.



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In reply to Earl Greys letter of the 16th July I am commanded by
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for his
Lordships information that their Lordships have this day appointed
Richard BlanchardBlanshard Esq Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the Island of Vancouver and its dependencies, to be Vice Admiral of the same, and in the event of his absence, the Officer administering the
Government of the said Island for the time being.



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Sir J H Pelly presents his Compliments to Mr Elliott and
begs to acknowledge the receipt of a Packet for the Governor of
Vancouver's Island, which agreeably to Earl Grey's request, has been forwarded to its destination.



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I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send
you herewith for the Information of Earl Grey, a Copy of a Letter from
Rear Admiral Hornby dated the 29th August, No 78, with its enclosures, relative to the state of affairs in Vancouvers Island, and
in the North West Territory.



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I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th
Novr transmitting, by direction of Earl Grey, the copy of a communication from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, enclosing
the copy of a letter addressed to their Lordships by Rear Admiral Hornby
on the State of affairs in Vancouvers Island and in the North West Territory.
I beg to assure Lord Grey that it affords the Directors of the
Hudson's Bay Company the most lively satisfaction to learn that General
Lane, the newly appointed Governor of Oregon, is disposed to carry out the provisions of the late Treaty of demarcation in the most liberal manner.
As regards the information given by Captain Shepherd, that the whole of the Companys establishment in Oregon will, in the course of the Summer, be disposed of to the Americans, I fear that this antici-patedanticipated
event, however desirable for both countries, can hardly be effected
within the time specified, as the subject has yet to be discussed in
both Houses of Congress.
With respect to the colonization of Vancouver's Island, as one of the main objects of the Company is to civilize the native tribes by
fixing settlers amongst them, who will find employment for them, and
shew them the advantages to be derived from cultivating the Soil; — and as in all the Company's dealings with the natives of other parts over which
they have had controul, they have never come into collision with any
tribe, as a tribe, they trust that by conciliatory measures they will be
able to effect their object without the aid of troops: — at the Same time
an occasional visit of Some of Her Majesty's Ships cannot fail to be
attended with the most beneficial consequences, both as regards the
natives in the Island, and the American population in the neighbourhood.



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I beg to inclose to you the accompanying Device for a Seal for the
use of the Government of VanCouvers Island and its dependencies and I
should feel obliged by your informing me whether Earl  Grey approves of the same.



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I hereby beg to inform you of my arrival at Panama on my way to
Vancouvers Island, on the 28th of November; I have as yet heard nothing from Admiral Hornby, relative to my further passage, nor have I had any opportunity of communicating with him, by the Lima Mail Packet,
which sails tomorrow, I intend to forward to the Admiral a copy of the
dispatch dated the 9th August, relating thereto with a copy of which
I was furnished by the Admiralty previous to leaving England,



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