ADMIRALTY APPROVE SIR E. GOWER'S PROCEEDINGS IN LABRADOR COAST.
Secretaries' Letters to Comrs in Chief, Newfoundland.
1795-1815, p. 178.
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 14th September last, with its several inclosures, and acquainting their Lordships of the steps you had taken in consequence of the information you had received from the Coast of Labrador that the American fishermen had resorted there in vast numbers this season; I have their Lordships' commands to acquaint you that they approve of your proceedings, and to signify their direction to you to station a sloop there for the protection of the fishing as you have recommended.
Their Lordships conclude that in your capacity of Governor of Newfoundland you have transmitted copies of these papers to H.M. Secretary of State.
V.A. Sir E. Gower—Isis—Spithead.
No. 399. N
11th June, 1819—ORDER BY GOVERNOR HAMILTON TO CAPTAIN GORDON.
Vide Part VII, page 1211.