Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1855-06-02

According to that principle, if kingdom should
be prated robbed, it ought to return to its for
mer owners, just the same if it had been only a
silver spoon. Neither the general law of nations,
nor the municipal law of any land, allow to such
desperadoes the privileges of civilized warfare
They are hOStes human generis-enemies of man
kind, and however self complacently they may
plead their manifest destiny, their only deserved
destiny is the gallows
In our little kingdom with thirty years of reli-
gious teaching, it Is not likely that men of such
stamp will ever find sympathy support nor is it
likely that such men will venture, in any imagin
bic force to entrap themselves in our archipeag 90
upwards of 1000 miles from the nearest land where
they would fall the sure victims of foreign naval
power.
| now come to the expenses of the foreign mis-
sions of the late King, to which have called your
attention.
The first that of Mr.. Farnham, cost $500, al
though he never proceeded on his mission. ap-
pend, marked No. GA copy of his receipt in full for
that amount.
The second mission, that of Sir G. Simpson,
W. Richards, Timoteo Halilio, and latterly of
James F. B. Marshall, (whnse explanations to the
Earl of Aberdeen, were of great avail) seems by
the treasury books to have cost SlS062 II, ,l00 as
you will see by Mr.. McCoughtry's note, of which
add copy, marked No. 60. But no separate ac-
counts of the mission kept, the disbursements
for it, were mixed up with the accounts of the
Honorable Hudson Bay Company and am not
certain that that amount does not include the $500
paid to Mr.. Farnham.
Mr.. Richards on his return, in lS45, insisted that
| should examine a small red book in which he
had put down even the smallest items of his expen-
dture /; | did so, telling him, when returned it,
that it was the account of very honest and econ
omica man and that all that was wanted, was 10
reduce the items to the form of regular account
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mission lasted about two years and half, and that
it gained the recognition of this kingdom an in
dependent ard sovereign State, think. you will
agree with me that the money well spent
No one who values the Kings sovereignty and the
national independence will begrudge the small an
nual pension that the government of the late King
allowed to Mr.. Richards widow and family. 1t is
i sacred debt due by grateful nation; it ought to
be respected under all circumstances, would even
say, so the state of the Kings treasury may
allow it, the yearly pension to the heirs of Mr.
Richards, should be doubled.
The third foreign mission was that of Mr.. Jarves,
in IS49 The explanations rendered by him, in
Washington, on all points which the course of
the late Kings government had been impugned,
were well received there; the negotiations conduct
ed bv him, led to an agreement for a treaty with
out the exemption to whalers; and he counted up
on all the influence and good will of the Honorable
John NJ. Clayton, for like success in London and
Paris, under the instructions, which by authority
of the late King gave him, dated 2Sth April, l849
OF these instructions, l append an extract, marked
No. G6.
append copy, marked No. g. of the account
current of his mission made out by himself on the
9TH December, 1850, from which you will see that
h, fixed the total amount expended by him. and due
to him for his mission, at S5.l53 10, of which he
had received 81 4S0 40 ceEts leaving balance
claimed by him of S3g3l2 67 cents. ap-
pend also, marked No. 60, copies OF his despatch
to me No. 10, of 18th Dec, 1850. On the 10th
January, 1851, | replied to Mr.. Jarves at length,
referring to the conditions under which he under
took his mission, which you will best understand
By my despatch to him, No. 4, of the 2Slh April,
l649, of which | add copy, marked, No. 90; and
stating that although could not pass his accounts
in the form which he had submitted them | would
be pad to do so, whenever he should present them
in form which | suggested This he has never
done; and thought he had dropt the demand alto
peher till received recent letter from him, from
Florence which submitted to the King and his
cabinet on the l7th of February last. In the
ground which originally took in regard to Mr..
Jaryes' accounts acted with the advice of Mr.
Lee The difficulty lies in the want of conformity
bf these accounts with the resolution of the Privy
Counsel, quoted in No. 90, and by no means in
want of a due appreciation, on the part OF any of
the Kings Ministers, of the important services rem
iered to the government of the late King, both du
ring his mission, and previously, by his history of
the Islands, his direction of the Kings press, and
his able editorship of the Poynesian.
That YOU NAV form some idea of the value OF
freeing us from the exemptions granted to whalers,
which he had done, as | have said above, in the
treaty originally negotiated by him, append, mark
ed No. 20, copy of a calculation, which submit
ted to the King in cour Gil, In April $780, showing
that supposing 200 whaleships at Honolulu, and 200
at Lahana, the yearly value of those exemptions
would be S23, 200. | was prompted to make that
both by the strong arguments of Mr.
Jarves against those exemptions, and also by the
very sensible letter of the Rev. Samuel e. Damon,
dated 10th April, 1850, which ] submitted to the
cabinet on the 18th of that month, and of which
annex copy, marked No. II. You will find Mr..
Damon's letter worthy of a careful perusal
There are certain exemptions from custom house
luties allowed by the courtesy of nations towards
each oher in regard to their public agents; others
ire usual in respect to the sovereign, high officers
IF State for the use of government, and of charl-
able Institutions but all exemptions on goods I'M
ported not for private use, but for sale operate to
he direct prejudice of the importing merchants, and
whatever Injuries them, proportIonaly reduces the
revenue. But this is subject which belongs to
he department of finance, and l must not encroach
Ipon the official prerogative of my colleague, who
80 ably presldeS over tnat iulportanI uePdI'e".,
The fourth mission was that undertaken by Mr..
Judd, in September 1919, after the painful events
,f August same year, of which you find traces still
eft, close to the hall in which you are now assem-
,led Upon the subject of Mr.. Judd's mission
efer you to what stated to the Legislature of 1851
which you will find under the head Of NEGOTIATIONS
~ FRANCE, extending from page 25l to page 23l
IF the appendix to my report of that year. 1t having
-leased the late King to refer all matters, properly
to the government, originating IN the
said month of August lS49, to the decision of the
hen President, (now the Emperor of the Frenchi)
rom that moment, the oath March, 1851 (see res
,lution of the King and Council page l76 of my
report of 1851 every thing connected with that
solemn reference is between the sovereigns of the