Polynesian., 1863-04-04
Ghe 4olpIlesialt.
SATURDAY, ADril 4. 1868.

SATURDAY, Apra 4. 1863
Remarks the Diplomatic Correspondence
published in our No. 4s, Of 2sth March.
Considering the interest that profess and really
feel in common with our neghbor of the Adrerse and
many others of this community in the prosperity Of
this nation, and that the progressive decrease Of its pop
ulaon the black plague spot that overshadows this
beautiful, and by nature, highly favored land. alarm
ed lest the abduction of natives of its soil should preci
pitae their final extinction, waited the Minister of
Foreign Affairs for information the subject of which
the official dispatches, which precede, treat
Mr. Wyle informed us that by dispatches from Mr.
Eldredge dated 9Th December 1862. and 18th Janra-
ry, 1868, he had full information in regard to the
whole correspondence, and laid before los Peanss
of 10Th November and 22d December. giving a more
full and exact account of that correspondence than that
which we have taken from E1 AraucnnO. of Chile.
He showed US that the complaints of Mr.. Eldredge,
of being made too free translation of his note, 70
appear as presuming " bitterly to censure the Coy
ernUent Of Peru had, under superior orders exps
nation % The translator Don Jose d Camancho, been
entirely removed by an official note by the latter. dated
4th December, (also pubshed honorably acknowledg-
ing that in his anxiety to reduce the English to TIE
Spanish idom he had not discovered the true force of
one word nor the trre application of another qualifying
adjective, &" caicativo) which Mr.. Edredge did not
mean apply to the licenses granted by the Govern
ment. but to the multitude of applicants for licenses.
Mr.. Edredges censure, therefore, censure 1t was,
was not to the Government which granted the licenses
but to the applicants for them.
VI W,,lI;o hat tha foolia of Mr.
dredge had been much hurt at the idea of its going
forth to the world hat he had. for q moment,
forgotten the respect due to the Government to which
he accredited, its laws. usages and its right to
seek the perfection of its own nation in its own way
threby making it appear that he had disregarded the
peremptory instructions Of his own Government. To
make us more fully understand this. Mr. Wyle furn-
shed us with the Instructions the King Diplomatic
and Consular Agents abroad, drafted by himself, and
sanctioned by an Order in Council of the late King
the 25th august, ls48 calling attention to articles
g. g. g. 10, IL, IS, 81 and 26; and stated that Mr. Ell
dredge had always prded himself his uniform strict
adherence to those rules and with mOdesty, forget
ting the effect of his own pleasing personal qualiica-
ons had always ascribed the distinction and favor
with which the Peruvian Government habtuslly treat
ed him to the scrupulous regard to international Law
and to his instructions which he maintained in all his
relations with that Government.
Mr. Willie assured US that Mr. Eldredge, in his dis
patches discaims any intention of protesting in any
other except that of warning individuals obtain
ing licenses to import into Peru colonsts laborers
from Polynesia not to do the great injury to this king
dom of attempting to seduce Hawaiians from their ma
tive country and equally dsclaims the intention Of
pretending by that protest protect other Poynesans
than those living under the Kings jurisdiction, beiev
ing that the Hawaiian Government would severely
punish the adventures for making any such attempt
1t will be by the able dispatches of Senior Sol
dan the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Relations, that
he fully and promptly acknowledged the right Of the
Hawaiian Government adopt that prohbitory course,
and keep their own subjects within their terrific
ries.
Mr.. wyllie assured us that the King having
ceved by way of the Society Islands, information that
vessels under the Peruvian flag engaged in sntap
pinq and seucng natives of islands in this ocean, in
tending to introduce them into Peru and sell their
tracts making them virtually slGres during the period
of such contracts, as far back the 26h November
last had prepared Proclamation that all such attempts
would be considered by him as high crime against
his Kingdom, and that all persons convicted of making
such attempts would be punished with all the rgOr that
his constitution the laws of his kingdom and Interna
tional law permitted
Mr. wye stated it as his belief that the King. in his
WISDOM had not issued that Proclamation from his
fdence that the Peruvian Government could not poss
bly, authorize vessels under their flag engage in the
orcble or fraudulent abduction of the natives of Po
lynesa much less to sell them slaves in Peru and
that they would severely punish all such speculators,
abusing the national flag for any such nefarious pur
poses. fsuch the reasoning of the Royal mind.
the frank and detailed dispatches of Senior Soldan
confirm the soundness of that reasoning They (Senor
Soldans dspatches) pledges given to the civilized
world that, as in this Kingdom so in Peru, every
who steps the soil is pso aco free man. and under
the full protection of the national sws and Of the
tire sincerity of those pledges Mr. Wyie finds proof in
the brief note of Senor Arenas Of 9th November,
and in the official order of Senior Sodan Of the 14th No
vember, which constitute the last two Of transa
tions.
But, further. Mr.. Wyle, in view Of the explicit de-
caratiOns made in two places that the Licenses grant
ed to import free and voluntary coloniss were from
the Islands to the SOUTH WEST OF PERU thinks that
the express terms Of those Licenses exclude this Arch
apelago situated it is far to the NoRTH-WE OF
PERU and it. by possibility, sdventurers should appear
in the Kings waters with the intention 81 contracting
for colOniss aborers from this Kingdom they would
come unprotected by any license from the Peruvian
Government and at the pleasure Of the King, would
be liable to be dealt with summsrly criminals and
men-stealers {" "plagiarios,) in the terms used by
Senior Soldan, in his reply to Monsieur Lesseps the
Charge d'Aaires of His Majesty the Emperor of the
French.