Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant-Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell (3 February 1865)


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Date: 1865-02-03
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant-Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell (3 February 1865) 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. 2.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Lieut.-Governor Sir R. G. MACDONNELL, C.B.

(No.5.)

Downing Street, February 3, 1865.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 51* of the 13th of January, enclosing a copy of a Despatch which you had addressed to Lord Monck, explaining the course you proposed to adopt for giving effect to the views of Her Majesty’s Government on the subject of the union of the British North American Provinces.

I have, &c.
(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Lieut-Gov. Sir R. G. MacDonnell, C.B.,
&c. &c. &c.

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