Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (25 February 1865)


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Date: 1865-02-25
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (25 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. 4.
COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Viscount MONCK.

(No. 32.)

Downing Street, February 25, 1865.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships Despatch, No. 36, * of the 30th of January, enclosing a copy of a Despatch which you had received from the Lieut-Governor of New Brunswick, apprising you of his intention to summon the Provincial Parliament towards the end of March, and to submit for their consideration the question of the Union of the BRitish North American Provinces.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Viscount Monck,
&c. &c.

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