Polynesian., 1844-11-02

are objections to this plan; the box itself is
too small, and if one sufficiently large could
be found it would leave only the rogues at
large, a consummatiOn not at all desirable
But the sentences which have given us the
greatest difficulty are on pages Al & AZ.
Indeed, so odd is their construction, we are
arc inclined to suppose, Mr.. Brown put all
the words used in them in a jury box and
drew them out by chance, arranging them in
consecutive order as they came to hand.
"The ,chole statements" in your commune
cation, as regards the interference OF Mr.,
Hooper, uncalled for and unbiddcn' in Mr..
Wilcy's affairs, Is incorrect"
81 shall not pretend to answer your com
munication of seventy two pages, seriatim,
or in all its qualifications. would not in
Hict on you the punishment of wading through
such a mass, even though for your ''quosi
delicto" in compelling me TO do It, you might
deserve such a punishment. Though | may
be discursire, l shall endeavor to be as brief
as possible, and to the point"
The latter is an inextricable labyrinth Of
words. His answer is evidently referred to
by the term "mass," and yet he goes on to
say that he has been compelled to wade
through it, which could not have been the
case, as it was not then written, though he
very Justly calls it, in anticipation, CO pun
ishment." If he means the communication
of 70 pages" his wading" carried him be-
You'd his depth. Will any one explain to us
the faculty Of being at the same "discmrsire"
and "brig" and "O the poimt"' The sem
tence becomes the more unintelligible when
we put into English his Latin quotation. 1t
would then read "even though for your as
Jdereliction" or utter forsaking or abandon
ment; none Of which definitions are c~alcula-
ted to throw light upon the matter. oath.
page,) we learn the strange fact that a trial
can be void cab initio." An immoral con-
tract or a false principle is thus void, but a
form is quite another affair. 1t is the more
surprising that Mr.. Brown should quote
latin, as in other portions of his letter he
manifests a contemptuous horror at the terms
"quitam, "quasi delicto, "ex-contractu,"
and %"tort," and yet, with marvellous incon-
s~istency, marshals them before him with all
the bewildering delight which a child mani
tests upon the receipt of a strange puzzle.
The reader must be by this time heartily
tired of this syntactic dissection, and we will
proceed to a brief analysis in a rhetorical
and logical view. Writers in general seek
to avoid bathos, but Mr.. Brown has given an
incompatible specimen in the succeeding
paragraph, but even that would have been
improved if he had not been so led away by
the flow Of feeling, as to neglect to call things
by their right names. A"Congress" is as
unknown here as in England. We have a
Legislative body" which enacts laws.
"Do you believe this, sir Do you think
It was the intention Of the Congress of the
Hawaiian nation, when it enacted these laws.
to place the chastity oftheir wives and daugh-
tiers below the value OF ever the sone hun
dred and five goats that you lay so much
stress on, thousands Of which animals have
been sold in these Islands for a rial each,
the value Of their skins alone :"
Other instances Of carelessness in not in
forming himself rightly will be seen Up. A.,
"A British sailor accused of an attack
upon the kings house, or of treason, q kmow
not which," 1t is somewhat late for a d.
plomat Of his standing to learn that an alien
cannot commit treason. Up. 49, we find the
subjects OF Great Britain transformed into
citizens. Mr.. Brown has not neglected, in
his composition, that peculiar vein of declam-
alton known as rant, Of which a notable ex-