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Papeiti, March 3, 1844.
No. 7.-M. BRUAT TO ADMIRAL DE MACKAU.
Papeiti, March 21, 1844.
Monsieur le Ministre,—The copies of the dispatches
addressed to me by the Commandant d'Aubigny during
my stay at Taravau will make you acquainted with the
necessity under which he found himself of putting Pa-
peiti in a state of siege, and of arresting Mr. Pritchard,
English ex-Consul. From the agitation the country was
in, this measure was necessary ; but I could nut approve
of the mode nor the motive of this arrest. However,
events were of so serious a nature, that I could not undo
what had been done without discouraging our own party
and strengthening the rebels.
Immediately on my arrival I had Mr. Pritchard trans-
ferred from the blockhouse on board the Meurthe, order-
ing the Commander, Guillevin, to receive him at his
table. Considering that Mr. Pritchard was no longer
anything but a private English resident, whose infinclice
over the ex-Queen Pomare and the revolted party was
dangerous to the tranquillity of the island, I have written
to the Captain of the Cormorant, for the purpose of in-
ducing him to quit Papeiti, to which he had no mission,
and to take with him Mr. Pritchard, whom I promised
to place at his disposal as soon as the ship should leave
the port.
The sensation created in this country by the events
in Otaheite is thus described by M. de Jarnac, the
French Charge d'Affaires :
NO. B.—TITS COUNT DE JARNAC TO M. GUIZOT.
London, Aug. 4, 1844.
Monsieur le Ministre,---The last intelligence from Ota-
heite has produced in England the greatest and most
general sensation. Since my arrival in London I have
never known an event in foreign politics to cause such
an impression.
The religious party, so powerful in itself, so influential
by its affinity with the highest sentiments, as with the
blindest prejudices of this country, has first been roused.
Meetings of saints have been convened all over England,
violent and bitter speeches have been delivered, copies
and engravings have beencirculated containing M. d'Au-
bigny's proclamation of the 3d of March, and represent-
ing the various circumstances of Mr. Pritchard's arrest
and implisonment ; in short, nothing has been neglected
to obtain the popular sympathy, and to raise him to the
rank of the martyrs to the evangelical faith.
The political press has not on its aide been behindhand;
founding itself on the most exaggerated versions of facts
and circumstances, those journals who usually support
the policy of the Ministers, as well as those who oppose
it, have been of one mind, to constitute into a national
affront the conduct of our officers. Without being will-
ing to recognise the real situation of Mr. Pritchard, in
public as well as in private society, it is said, that an
English Consul, the Queen's agent not only at Otaheite,
bat at another set of islands (the Friendly Islands), was,
during the full exercise of his functions, arrested, impri-
soned in a dungeon for several days, attended with such
measures of severity that his health has seriously suf-
fered, and finally driven away without any intelligible
accusation having been brought against him. It is as-
serted that all the language and conduct of our agents
on this occasion bears the stamp of such animosity, of
such evident hostility against England, that it is impos-
sible for this country not to feel them deeply, and not to
foresee the extreme consequences of them. I have to
add, Monsieur le Ministre, that these sentiments do not
seem to me to be caused by our protectorate at Otaheite
or by the subsequent occupation of the island, but by
the events which the late intelligence has brought under
public discussion. I every day find Lord Aberdeen
more preoccupied with this new difficulty, and though
he holds to continuing as long as possible a confidential
and friendly character in all our communications, he
does not the less seem to consider that reparation is im-
periously due to Gseat Britain. Always desirous of
leaving to your Excellency the initiative of any propo-
sition, he has not in any of our interviews expressly
stated any special measure, but he positively told tee,
that he should not hesitate on his part to disavow and
blame highly any English agent who had held the offi-
cial language and conduct attributed here to one of our
officers ; and, on the other hand, the immediate and
direct sending back of Mr. Pritchard to Otaheite was
formally proposed and discussed in Council.
I do not discontinue, M. le Ministre, to warn Lord
Aberdeen, and all others with whom I think I may con-
verse on these events, against the deplorable confidence
thus granted to the first accounts given by the press and
interested parties. Ido not cease to call to mind that it
was with a view of meeting similar accidents and trials
to our relations, that a policy of mutual confidence has
been proclaimed by both Governments. But I must not
the less call the attention of your Excellency to this state
of the public mind, and to request of you all such in-
formation as may enable me to correct a judgment evi-
dently so erroneous. For the moment, it is of import-
ance to get the acts imputed to Mr. Pritchard, and thus
give some precision to accusations which are as yet pro-
duced in the shape of vague and trivial assertions.
The affairs of Morocco, and the arrival in London of
M. de Nesselrode, had created some doubt as to the
maintenance of the intimate relations of the two Cabi-
nets. I have grounds for fearing that without extreme
prudence on both sides, the policy proclaimed by the
two Crowns, not yet six months since, may be seriously
threatened.
M. Guizot replies in the following terms :
NO. 9.-31. GUIZOT TO THE COUNT DE JARNAC.

Paris, August 8, 1844.
Monsieur le Comte,--I have received the dispatch
which you did me the honuur to write me the 4th of this
month, and in which you give me an account of the
general effect produced in England by the news from
Otaheite, and point oat all the importance of this inci-
dent. The more the public mind appears worked upon
by passionate feelings the more time it is necessary to
leave it to get calm. We shall, consequently, abstain at
this moment from all official communication and discus-
sion upon the subject. But this reserve on your part
must not be en inactive one, and I beg you to do every-
thing that may lie in your power at the Foreign-office,
as well as everywhere else, to rectify errors in facts, and
all those false ideas which may lead the public opinion
more and more astray, and even lead the British Go-
vernment to such resolutions and manifestations as may
render the solution of this delicate question still more
difficult. Unless I deceive myself, the irritation whin
now manifests itself in England arises more especially
from the belief that Mr. Pritchard, at the time he was
arrested and sent oa board,. was invested with the post
of Consul to her Britannic Majesty. Now, Mr.
Pritchard, in a letter of the 7th of November, 1843,
addressed to Admiral Dupetit Thouars, formally declared
that he withdrew his flag, and ceased his consular func-
tions ; and, in fact, he had completely ceased them. It
was consequently only as a simple private man, as a fo-
reigner,that he resided at Otaheite.Now, the right of send-
ing out of a colonial establishment, whatever be its form,
any foreigner, whose presence may trouble !the public
order and compromise the safety of the establishment, is
Rot only a right universally recognised and practised,
but one which results to us there from our very treaty of
the Sth of September, 1842, which says, that " the direc-
tion of all affairs with foreign Governments, as well as in
all that concerns the residents, is placed at Otaheite in
the hands of the French Government, and the persons
nominated by it."
M. Bruat, the Governor, had consequently the incon-
testable right to send Mr. Pritchard out of Otaheite, and,
to judge by the facts as known to us up to the present
time, there is every reason to believe, that for the safety
of the French establishment in that island, as well as.for
that of the French troops ordered to defend it, it had be-
come highly necessary to use :that right, in sending out
of Otaheite the moral chief and principal instigator of
the insurrectionary movements which had broken out
upon several parts, and threatened Papeiti itself.
As to the circumstances which have accompanied the
sending away of Pritchard, I cannot pretend that they
can all and entirely be justified, and that there are not
connected with them certain :proceedings and expressions
which are contrary to all equity, humanity, and propriety.
But I ought not, and do not desire, to express my opinion
fully upon this point, until I shall have scrupulously col-
lected and examined all the details that may tend to en-
lighten me upon this matter.
The Count de Jarnac thus proceeds to explain the
feeling in the country on this subject :---

NO: 10.-THE COUNT DE JARNAC TO M. GUIZOT.
London, Aug. 10, 1844.
Monsieur le Ministre,—l have seen Lord Aberdeen
and Sir R. Peel several times during the last few days;
both of them have spoken in the most formal terms
of the importance they attach to the late events in
Otaheite. They have both of them pressed me with
much eagerness to demand of your Excellency as
quickly as possible such communications as may let them
know the intentions of the Kiug's Government with re-
gard to these fresh difficulties, and in order to calm the
effervescence which they have excited in the country.
The Chief Secretary of State continues deeply to de-
plore the events which, contrary to the great desire of
the two Governments, have occurred to place Great
Britain and France in a contest with each other. But,
faithful at the same time to the principle which he laid
down in our first interview in the most friendly lan-
guage, he persists in assuring me that he will trust to
the justice and good faith of the King's Government in
every proposition for arrangement, persuaded that the
simple examination of the facts will fully establish the
just and legitimate nature of the reclamationa of Eng-
land. Consequently no demand for satisfaction or