I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Predecessor's despatch of
the 4th of August last, with its enclosures, reporting the proceedings
taken by Lieutenant Lacy, of Her Majesty's Ship "Daphne", with a view to
apprehend the Indians who murdered certain British Seamen at "Newitty"
in July last.
It is impossible that I can judge of the propriety of the
proceedings which have been taken with a view to the apprehension of
these murderers, without fuller information on the subject than that
which is contained in your Predecessor's despatch. But you will ere
this be in possession of the general views which Her Majesty's
Government entertain on the question of the protection to be afforded to
British subjects against the violence of the native Indian tribes as
explained in my despatch of the 20th of March last, No 1,
Military. I have nothing to add to the instructions contained in that
despatch.