The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-03-07

To IN. Editor af the Commercial -Ifrcriser.
An article has appeared in your paper Of THURSDAY
last, February IS. purporting to be from The CORES
pondent at Honolulu If the Boston Coasmereial
Bulletin. This correspondent, as shown BY the
! Bulletins declaration. was a member Of tAe Com
mission Of Investigation specified in the asticle in
J question and he dates his communication II Homo
lulu, October 10Th, 1860.
II appears from the editorial notice in your paner
that the report Of the Boston Bulletin, as re- printed
by YOU, purports not only 20 be really autheatie in
its reputed source, but that, in the event Of the los.
Of the L. :. :. LeraHt, (Which is now considered
probable. y it is the only authentic expose ofIhe Doing.
Of the Commission that has yet been made public.
The article in question makes known in its BODY
who were the members constituting the Commission .
it says
.On the 22d day Of June, Commander w. F
Hunt, L. :. n, as Special Commissioner 10 investigate
the affairs Of the L. :. Consulates and Hospitals Al
Honolulu, Lahaina and Hilo. and Hon. j. W. Borden.
U. :. Commissioner, rs Associate Commissioner
entered upon the duties assigned to them"
In another part of the article it says:
The investigation was closed on the 1-tb
ultimo,' ISeptember. land Immediately upoa The
adjournment OF the Board the Lerant sailed for pa
mama"
And, in another part of it, the article declares
that
"It was evidently the intention of Commander Hunt
10 make n fair, thorough, searching, honest inyes,i-
CATION into the facts and, most assuredly, if your
correspondent is capable of judging. he was most
interchangeable and a%ssiduous, and the duties devolyips
upon hin and his associate Commissioner have been
most ably, faithfully, and, | may say, speedily accom-
~plished."
To nv American felIow-citizens here. who know
that the investigation alluded TO was conducted at
this port as an entirely ex-parte search for dispositions
III;
Vice Consul. the duly appointed and only representa-
tive here of the highly respectable, but absent, govern
ment officer. into whose duties this Commission pre-
tended to investigate, was refused admission to their
sessions. and was denied the right to even confront the
witnesses called who know the effrontery of the party
who claims. through the Buiietin, many obligations
for his = holiness in taking the initiative in this
iuquisition, and now modestly compliments himself
for q most ably, faithfully, and | may say speedily.
accomplishing his work. who know the large mar
gin for error of testimony in the character Of many
of the witnesses called, and in the manner Of con-
Quoting tsir examination Specaily'' in secret tri-
bunal to all such, here, it is unnecessary To saw
how unreliable must be any testimony so collected.
To my American feIow-citizens here, who know the personal
motives in which this proceeding originated, and the manner in
which many of its details were conducted who know the
assumed pretence Of secrecy. upon which the representative Of
our LAKE Consul here was MED the sighted or hearing Of the
authority under winch o"e ! NJ Commissioners assumed to
act, and upon which (preteuce) this consular representative was
deprived d the power 10 witness even what was being plotted
against himself and his principal and who n0u see this
trumped up fabrication automatically thrust upon this foreign
community a. truth, and bearing a date October 26) which in
itself shows the holowness Of the assumed pretext for inquid-
torial Secrecy-it is unnecessary 10 say that common honesty
revolts at the scurvy trick, and would scarcely recognise truth
itself when dragged through such a erovelins channel
But the Commercial dfrertiSer is circulated elsewhere than
here, and elsewhere than here its assertions Of authenticity. here
upon the spot, might give 10 the article in question, copied
though it he, an appearance Of truth which II does not deserve,
and a power for harm against a gentleman Of good repute who
has had no fair opportunity to even know the accusations
bruited in it.
As a friend of the absent late ConsuI-as one who has had
occasion to know that many Of the assertions Of the article quoted
from the Bulletins Correspondent are in fact false, and in pur-
pose Notwithstanding full reliance that the absent late Consul
will render all his accounts and needful explanations satisfac-
tOrily to the Department to whom alone they are due. L unhesi-
tatngly assert the document reprinted in the last Commercial
here 70 be a libel upon the late L. :. Consul directly. and col
laterany upon many hip-masters and others and, through The
same medium that gave it publication here, I ask all honest
people to withhold all belief from such worthless authority, a.
they hope one day themselves to he fairly judged.
CHAS. /. GCLLoU.