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Date: 1865-07-22
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (22 July 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. 8.
COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Viscount MONCK.

(No. 120.)

Downing Street, July 22, 1865.

MY LORD,

I […], […] to apprize your Lordship that I receive communications which lead to the conclusion that more positive assurances from Canada than have yet been given to the Maritime Provinces, on the subject of the readiness of Canada to ensure the prompt completion of the Intercolonial Railway, in the event of confederation being adopted, would be very satisfactory to the friends of the measure in those Provinces, and encourage their efforts to recommend the scheme of confederation to those of their countrymen by whom it has not […] been supported.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Viscount Monck,
&c. &c.