The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-03-28

ANff' AAI AA..H @H . o a. - tNA
missioner, and tie PhbhSh'r IF this paper.
We omitted last week to give any account of
this affair, Is the whole matter had been reported
10 the Government for IL action. The following
particulars OF it are substantially the same with
one or two verbal amendations) rs that furnished
on the 22d in Il letter to the Minister of Foreign
Relations by the Publisher
On Tuesday forenoon, the 18th inst, about IL
o'clock, Mr.. F. l.. Hanks, the Secretary Of the Lee
CATION, called ON me 1T my office, and inquired
whether n communication from DR.. Guillou was to
be printed in the next issue Of the Commercial ut
reriiSer ! | replied, that one was to appear in the
paper. He then stated that he had been sent by
the Commissioner 10 object 10 the publication and
request Tor demaui) that il lie not permitted TO ap-
pear. Seeing that the Commissioner was aiming to
exercise more authority in the control Of the paper
than he had any right to expect Or l to grant, | an
sweTed with more than usual emphasis, Mr..
Hanks, | wish you To say TO the Commissioner that |
have received a communication from DR.. Guillou,
and that. having read and approved of It, ii ShaH
APPEAR IN the merit issue Of tie pGpsr.' He then
said, that if the case stood 80, all ne could 10 would
be u report il TO him. Some further conversation
followed regarding Or. G.'s first communication,
published in the Commercial Of March ~ and the
subject II allowing personal reflections on officials
10 appear. which ended Icy his remarkiug that ii
they were permitted, | might make myself liable to
attacks, or to tanIshment from the Kingdom. | re-
piled that so long a | felt that [ was right and act
ing with impartIality, I had no reason 10 fear any
thing from such a course. He then left my Office.
On the afternoon Of the same day, about two
o'clock, while | was writing in my store, the AmeTi-
can Commissioner went TO my Office up stairs, as /
am informed by a lad in my employ who was
standing on the veranilh. and finding the door
locked. cams down TO tine veraudah, and sent the
lad referred 10 III To request me 10 90 out. though l
vas alone in the store At the time. ! Immediately
went out, and accostei the Commissioner Is usual,
shaking hands with him. He said he would Ike to
se me privately. | asked him 10 walk up stairs, as
there was no one in my office. On entering 1t, |
closed the door. and on MS taking a seat, | drew my
chair close TO his, as has always been my custom in
the frequent interviews We have previously had.
lie commenced the conversation by abiding TO the
first communication Of Or. Guillou, stating that he
considered II - highly offensive, ami charging me
with having deceived him in regard = It's contents.
| replied, that | considered DR.. Guillou entitled 10 the
privilege which he claimed Of making 4 reply, and
THAI 80 far from deceiving him, | could not even now
see that there was anything which he ought TO regard
as personal or offensive, or that there was anything
in the communication which DR.. G.. vas not fully
justified III saying, employing II he dill a courteous
and diguiied style. lie then referred 10 Or. =. u
communication, which he hal before desired 10 see a
copy Of, but which had not yet been brought Ut. and
demanded that IL be rejected and not published. |
said that there was nothing in the communication
which could be called offensive or which DR.. c. had
not a right 10 say over his signature. lie again in
sisted that II be rejected. Seeing that he had come
TO repeat the demand which his Secretary had a few
hours before made, | replied with some warmth shat
j should not GilOlc him OF any one else 10 say uhIf
sho"if or should not 20 into N, paper, thar had