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Date: 1866-07-19
By: Fenwick Williams
Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant-Governor Fenwick Williams to the Earl of Carnarvon (19 July 1866) in UK, Parliament, Correspondence respecting the Proposed Union of the British North American Provinces (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867).
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No.23.

COPY of a DESPATCH from Lieut.-Governor Sir W. F. WILLIAMS, Bart., K.C.B., to the Right Hon.the Earl of CARNARVON.

(Separate.)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 19, 1866.
(Received July 28, 1866.)
(Answered No. 10. August 4, 1866. p. 83.)

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to inform your Lordship that the delegates, as named in the margin, from Nova Scotia, accompanied by those from New Brunswick, will proceed to England by this days Royal mail packet the […] arrived in Halifax yesterday with full determination to proceed to England, and my advisers in Council at once made up their minds to pursuit […] similar course.

I informed Viscount Monck in the beginning of the week that my advisers were […] of […] […] […] […] to the […] police, and indeed urgent necessity of this move, and that […] […] their views.
A telegram in reply from His Excellency the Governor-General conveyed an adverse opinion to this, […] on the change of the British Ministry, and on the consequent […] […] […] of the Imperial Parliament.

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I have, &c.

(Signed) W.F. WILLIAMS.

The Right Hon.[…] […] […]
&c. &c. &c.