The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-01 00:00:00

OTAIIEITE.

Lord BROUGHAMWsetZ---;ove for copies of the
correspondence which had taken place between the
English Missionaries in the South Sea Islands and the
Government, relating to the affairs of Otaheite. He
understood there would be no objection to the produc-
tion of that correspondence.
The Earl of ABERDEEN had no objection to pro-
duce the correspondence. Last year a Noble Marquis,
who was not now in his place, had put a question to
him (the Earl of Aberdeen) connected with the subject,
and he had assured the Noble Marquis that he need be
under no anxiety as to the manner in which the
missionaries would be treated, for the French Go-
vernment had assured him that they should en-
joy every protection, and ad guarantees to them the
free exeraise of their functions. Papers which had been
laid on the table of the House, showed that such had
been the case, and he had great satisfaction in stating
that he had not received any complaints from the mis-
sionaries in those islands on the subject. It was only
two days since that he bad received a deputation from
the London Missionary Society, which had assured him
that there was no cause of complaint on the
ground against .the French Government.—(Hear.)
The French authorities had treated them entirely in the
manner promised by the Convention. With respect to
the recent proceedings of the French Admiral at
Otaheite, he had only to say that the acts of that officer

were disowned by the French Government.—(Hear,
hear) He thought it right to state that this had
been entirely done by the spontaneous voluntary
act of the Freneh.—(Hear.) He (Lord Aberdeen)
had not written to her Majesty's representative in Paris,
and not one word of remonstrance had been afforded by
the ambassador himself. For he (Lord Aberdeen) was
from the first convinced, that when the thing was known,
the feeling on the part of the French Government, if
what was done to their own honour and to justice,
would lead to that result.--(Near, hear.) He made this
statement as explicitly as possible ; but he was quite
prepared to see that the Ministers of the King of the
French would be assailed by the war party, with accu-
sations of having succumbed to Britain. he war party
would not fail to avail themselves of the opportunity—
(Hear, hear)—and in the same manner he thought that
whatever had been done by himself, and whatever had
not been done, would be set down by the partisans in
this country of the French war party as a base and cow-
ardly submission to France.—(Hear, hear.) But the
war party was as little to be regarded in France, as for-
tunately it was in this country.—Mear.)
Lord BROUGHAM expressed bis satisfaction at the
statement of his Noble Friend: Every one who knew
his Noble Friend would -and he believed all men of all
parties would be s much satisfied with that statement,
as if each individua I cnewakjhe facts of his own proper
and personal knowledg -"'"Clear, hear.) The efiect of
the full and peremptory manner in which bis Noble
Friend had made the statement would be a complete
answer to the war party on the other side of the Chan-
nel. He would not say more on this subject, because he
was astonished and pleased to find that the existence of
that party was altogether disavowed ; and his Noble
Friend and himself were accused of creating that party
out of their own imaginations—(Hear, hear, and a laugh)
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in France for the last three years. They said now it
was only a creation of the imagination, and he hoped it
would not prove a reality before the end of the present
session.
The returns were then ordered.
CORN-LAWS.
The Earl of YARBOROUGH presented a petition
from a place in Leicestershire, against any change in
the corn-laws.
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