The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-05-21

On Tuesday. the 18th instant, the King gave
a special audience at IL 4. NJ, to the British
Commissioner, to place in His Majesty's hands
a sealed letter from Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Mr.. Synge arrived in full uniform at the hour
appointed, and presented to the King the letter
from Her Majesty Queen Victoria, of which the
following is copy
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God. Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Defender Of the Faith, &C., &c, sc.
To HIS MAJESTY KANgHAMEHA THE FIFTH, King
Of the Hawaiian Islands, Our Good Friend, sendeth
Greeting BY the Letter which Your Majesty adj
dressed to Us on the 10th Of December last, We have
been made acquainted with the death, on the Both of
November, of Your Brother add Predecessor King
Kamehameha the Fourth, and Your Accession to the
Throne in conformity with the Will of King Kameha-
meha the Third. and the order of hereditary success
sion re established by the late King. We request
You to accept Our coincidence on the premature de-
cease Of Your Predecessor, while at the same time
We offer to You Our sincere Congratulations on Your
Accession, and Oar best wishes for the long continu-
anee and prosperity of Your Reign. We desire You
TO be assured Of the lively interest which We take in
the Welfare and independence of Your Dominions
and in pursuing the course which you have laid
down for Yourself, to rule for the good of Your Sub
jects and Of all foreigners residing within Your Juris-
di:tion, You may confidently rely upon Our Friend
ship and Good Will. And so We commend You to
the Protection of The Almighty.
Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, the Twenty
seventh day of February, in the Year of Our Lord
1864, and in the Iwenty-seventh Year of Our Reign.
Your Good Friend,
'S S6snS,l2,i,nea, 'icr0"I H. X;
The British Commissioner, while presenting
the letter of his Sovereign, addressed His Majesty
as follows
SIRE IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY Il have
received the commands of the Queen, my August
Sovereign, to place in Your hands a letter from Her
Majesty expressing Her sincere coincidence on the
1t u - - H. Io.. -1.-l
tons on Your own accession to the Throne of Your
Ancestors.
Her Majesty feels every confidence that the cordial
friendship which has ever existed between the King
IONS OF Great Britain and Hawaii will be ffrfur-
iher cemented aud strengthened under Your Maj
esty's happy Reign. and that you, Sire, following the
example Of your Illustrious Predecessors, will foster
and encourage all wise measures for the moral, COM
mercial and physical development of your People,
and viii continue to extend to subjects and citizens
of other nations residing within Your DOminiOns,
that wise and benefcent protection which has ena-
bled several generations of foreigners to live here as
happily, as peacefully and as securely as they could
have done in their own homes.
NV own humble efforts will always be honestly ex-
erted, not only TO keep unimpaired, but, if possible,
10 strengthen, the sincere friendship which the Rulers
and the People of Great Britain have never ceased to
entertain for each other.
will only add that the ardent desire of the SOver-
eigu and People of Great Britain is that the indie
~pendence Of these Islands, so nObly maintained by
Your Majes,y's Predecessors, and so deeply cherished
Oy me htNdlldu L eOplS, e pISScI e hSC onu "'i
olate forever.
After reading Queen Victoria's letter, it pleased
the King to reply to Mr.. Synge in the following
terms:
MR. SYxGE The kind and benevolent express
sious in the letter from the Great and Glorious Queen
of Great Britain which you have placed in my hands
deeply move me. They will greatly affect the al
hieted Widow Of my late Brother.
The assurances given me by Her Most GRACIOUS
Majesty of Her lively interest in the Welfare and In
dependence of my Kingdom will encourage me in my
determination, with the blessing of God, firmly to
maintain it, and so to govern all who live under my
jurisdiction as that not only my subjects, but all for
eign nations, may find the Independence of my King
dom q common benefit.
Such assurances, coming from the Mighty Ruler
of the British Empire, will. L hope, forever extinguish
those petty jealousies which have much annoyed my
Predecessors.
For your own address, re-echoIng the kind and
noble sentiments of your IIustrious Sovereign, | may
sincerely thank you. The political course that you
have pursued here, just to your own Government
respectful to all other Governments, and never seek
ing any special right or favor for British subject
that could involve me in political difficulties, has IN!
warm approval, and well accords with the polio!
which the British Government have always declared
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was ais
in uniform, then delivered to the King, on behal
of the President of the Senate of Bremen, the LET
ter of which the following is copy:
Mosr GRACIOUS KING On the notification of tn
demise or Ills Majesty hlnS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. '
the ascension to the Throne of Your Majesty, We hay
the honor to express our heartfelt sympathy for tn
heavy loss sustained through the death OF the lai
Sovereign by Your Majesty's Royal House and III
Hawaiian Nation; as we'll as to utter our SINGER
wishes, which have been called forth in US by tn
happy event Of Your Majesty's ascension to tn
Throne.
For the welfare of the Hawaiian Nation and all il
friendly powers, may the richest blessings of Heave
he granted to the newly commenced reign, and ma
Your Majesty be pleased to continue towards Us an
Il Dz--EIsn rrnGf ~ INV u ~ foo
ings Of friendship and good will which we are happ
TO acknowledge in Your highly esteemed letter of ii
9th Of December, a. p.
In this hope we remain. with feelings of constar
esteem and devotion for Your Majesty.
THE SENATE OF THE FREE AND
HASsEATIC CITY OF BRENE
The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.
ISigned1 MoHR.
[Signedl F. C. \. MOTz, DR..