The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-07-06

relations now subsisting between the two nation:
should be affected by that Treaty.
Lord Tenterden further stated that, apart iron
the Treaty. there were two objects with regard tC
which Her Majesty's Government might have grouno
for complaint: First, the maintenance OF the recon
augmentation of duties upon British goods; and,
secondly, the unnecessary denunciatlon OF Articles
V and VI of the Treaty of 1851.
With regard to the second matter, | pointed out to
Lord Tenterden that the withdrawal of the notice oil
termination of those articles could not De accom-
plished, except by a mutual arrangement, without
preJudging the notice as regarded Article ~, and
that l had already, on November 9Th, proposed such
mutual action to Lord Derby without eliclting any
response. This matter, you inform me, has been
arranged upon the assurance OF Major "ooenouse
that it should not affect the notice regarding Article
".
With regard to the first matter, it depends par
TALLY upon the action of the Legislative Assembly
whether the tariff of 1876 shall be maintained or not.
1t was clearly beyond the scope of my powers to
make any promises regarding it.
One of the happy results of my mission was the
acceptance by the British Government of our expla-
nations regarding the Reciprocity Treaty with the
United States, and the assurance of that Government
of its desire that the operation of that Treaty should
not in any way affect our friendly relations.
am quite convinced that so long as our legislation
and the execution of our laws shall continue to be
just and equitable toward that great power, these
friendly relations can be maintained, and that legls-
lation which can be shown to be for the best interest
Of this country will meet with no unfriendly inter-
probation.
Through my mission, a clearer understanding has
been arrived at with the British Government upon
all points, and it shows every disposition to respect
our views, and there has been no diminution of that
friendship and good will, which it was my constant
desire to promote. Lord Salisbury, at present Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, in a dispatch as late as the 4th of May Of
the present year, while expressing his regret at the
termination of my mission, informs me that Her Ma
jesty's Government fully share in my hope that the
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not in any way interfere with the relations of friend
ship which now happily sUbsist between Great
Britain and the Hawaiian Islands.
This dispatch closed my official intercourse with
the Government of Her Britannia Majesty.
On my arrival in Berlin, on the Sth day of
January of the present year, [ communicated with
the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and was in
due course of time received, as [ advised the Depart
ment, by His Imperial and Royal Majesty the En-
peror of Germany and King of Prussia, by Her I'm
perial Majesty the Empress, by their Imperial and
Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess,
and all the members of the royal family; after which
my official intercourse with the Imperial Government
began.
My negotiations with that Government were re-
tsrded by its reluctance to make a Commercial
Treaty without providing for the fullest equality in
respect to import duties. They, however, finally
acknowledged that the peculiar circumstances of our
position justified them in so doing, and an article
was framed by which it was agreed that the special
advantages granted to the Government of the United
States IN consideration OF equivalent advantages
should not in any case be invoked in favor of Ger
many.
Certain considerations, which l have explained to
your Excellency, led me to desire that the articles of
q projected Treaty framed should not take the form
of a definite Treaty until fully approved by His Ma
jesty's Government, and, consequently, q Protocol
was framed, of which they formed a part providing
for a formal Treaty of which they should be the
basis.
This Protocol was duly signed by the German
Plenipotentiaries and myself on the 23d day of April
last passed.
By command of His Majesty, 1 had the honor of
rendering to His Imperial and Royal Majesty the
Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kamehameha l,
which he graciously received, and consented TO allow
His Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince
to receive the same. l was then informed by His
Excellency the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
that it was His Imperial Majesty's intention to send
the Grand Cross of the First-Class of the Royal Order
of the Red Eagle to His Majesty as a mark of his
high regard and esteem.
In conclusion, 1 beg to give expression to my
grateful sense of the many courtesies which, as His
Majesty's Envoy, l received at the Courts of st.
James and Berlin, and the many kindly sentiments
of regard and esteem which were expressed for the
Hawaiian Nation. | am deeply imbued with the
conviction that by the judicious and dignifed exer-
else of the functions of Government, Hawaii may
maintain an honored place among the nations Of the
world, which shall make it no slight honor to be
known as an Hawaiian subject.
With sentiments of high consideration, | am your
Excellency's humble, obedient servant,
(Signed) HENRY A. P. CARTER.