The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-07-25
Ancestry Of q ucen Enmn.

Or. Leonard. Surgeon Of II. b. Ms sloop-ofwar
Alert. having written q letter to Arbroath that the
Queen i the ' daughter Of Mr.. Wyllie. the " Prime
Minister, which letter was published in the .fr-
bro0m Guifs, and, eIultingly, under the heading Of
an Ayrshire Queen" republishel in several news
papers Of that county, Glasgow. England, and even
the United States; as the most edectual and general
contradiction q that ridiculous report, we consider
it our duty to publish to the world Mr. Wyllie's
official circulars Of 18th June, 1856, and 25th August,
1857, from which aud the notes appended thereto, it
will be seen that the exalted lady who shares the
throne Of Hi. Majesty Kamehameha ~. Cmay God
bless and long preserve the Royal pair,) both by the
mothers and fathers side, Is Of royal descent, and Is
the granddaughter Of the celebrated John Young, Of
Lancashire.
Only the seeming impossibility that a naval officer
Of the education and character Of DR.. Leonard could
write, from the spot, m untruth Of the paternity Of
Queen Emma, can account ir its being believed even
in Mr.. Wyllie's native parish of Dunlop, tina; shei is the
gra nd-daughter of o Saunders, :" and the daughter
Of r. &. H'yiie, the present LGirf Of Hqzis5ank,
as viii be seen by the following extract from the .fyr
.4drertiser Of 25th April last
1.-THE AYRSHIRE QUEEN
To the Editor OF the .4yr .fdrertiScr SIR The
natives Of Dunlop were certainly taken by surprise,
when reading in the columns of the .fireTfiser last
week the Claims winch are telng put IOrth by their
Srewarton friends regarding the birth place of HIS
Excellency Il G.. Wyllie, Minister Of Foreign Affairs at
the Court Of X lmehameha ", - and father Of Queen
Emma seeing that to Dunlop alone belongs that
distinguished honor-Nr. Nylie having been born
and brought up at Hazlebank. in this parish, which
has been the mansion Of that family for many genera
tons. And many Of your readers can well remem-
Der DID SAUNDERS, the respected grandfather of
Queen Emma, who often quoted, with all a fathers
pride. the high a%ttainmenis of his son, and the honors
that were sure 10 accrue to his name some day or
other little anticipating, however, that when our
native Bard sang the praises of our Ayrshire LasseS,
that one of these was destined 10 grace the pinnacle
of Royalty itself. in the person of such a near descend
ant rs the daughter of the present laird of Halle
bank.
Although we call not in question that Mr.. Wyllie
may for u time have attended the classes at StewartOn,
yet such can never make good the claim they have
asserted, still less have proven the ground of his sue
cess. No: this must ever be traced to the well-kuown
perseverance which characterizeS the ma
tive spirit of Dunlop, and which now enables US to
claim the only legitimate right of saying that she
who now shares the throne with King kamehameha
at the Court of Honolulu, is sprung from one and the
same soil as was another bright ornament of her sex,
viz, " Barbara Gilmour,'' whose name is so intim-
ately associated with the famous Dunlop cheese.
| have been induced to make these remarks ut the
request of many Of Mr.. Wyllie's friends here, and
from the known interest which he takes in all matters
affecting Dunlop.
am. Sir. Yours respectfully. A. W.
No one who had the pleasure of knowing DR.. Leon
can believe that he did not sincerely believe what
he wrote; but his example and that of Lord Byron
in 1925, similarly mistook, and misrepresented
relative rank of Karaimoku and Kaahumanu, so
giving rise to IA very ridiculous diplomatic discussion
upon the subject, only proved that Naval Officers who
our metropolis (aud the more frequently
they come, the more welcome they will be- cannot
ascertain Hawaiian genealogical facts by Inspiration,
by careful inquiry. We venture to predict that
late distinguished and most popular visitor, Lady
Franklin, in anything she may ever publish of thi.
lingdom, will commit no such mistakes, for she took
he right means to ascertain the truth upon all points.
While on the subject of Hawaiian rank, knowing
hat the AmbrotypeS Of the Queen and of Mrs. Bishop,
me of the chief Ladies of Her M~ajesty's Court, have
much admired in London, We are tempted to add
Ir. wyllie's Circular of 21st July. 1867, showing
hat Mrs. Bishop, also, is of royal descent