The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-09

steamer and provisions would be Of so minute a
character that I estimate that AT least a month
would be consumed ip the process.
That l theTeupon pointed cut the intnlar-
able Inconvenience and enormous loss which
this would occasion, that the. steamer was
freighted with a valuable cargo for 81. Michaels
and Honolulu. and must proceed on her voyage
/ even without passengers and that each days de-
lay involved q most serious expense in every di-
r%ection, but be refused any consideration aud
said he should vigorously carry out che LAW in
accordance with his Instructions.
Thst in the meantime the gentlemen who
came with him commenced an unofficial ex-
animation Of the steamer preparatory 10 the re-
sumption of the regular survey nj a future time)
OF 4 most extraordinary character. They brought
with them instruments of various kinds with
which they commenced TO scrape the deck and
floors of the steamer, ripping open the seams,
and picking out the packing, gusging the iron
beams and plates and making observations al
together singular and unusual; indeed one Of
the men volunteered the statement to the Capt.
of the steamer that during twenty years he had
been in Lisbon he had never known such an in
spection and examination to be ordered.
THAT before leaving the steamer the Chief of
the River Police not having succeeded in entic-
ing any of the passengers TO 60 on shore, not
withstanding that he ordered them SO to do, he
took with him the two cooks and steward who
had been engaged by the Captain to serve the
passengers, and who had received wages in adj
vance, because these men expressed themselves
dissatisfied. 1t is easy TO appreciate at its true
value the dissatisfaction of men who, having n
substantial share of their wages in their pockets
which has been paid to them in advance, find
encouragement from the authorities to escape
service they have undertaken to perform. The
Captain of the Port who was present and was
appealed to by the Capt. of the steamer, in
formed the Chief of Police that he was violating
the law as the men had been regularly inarti-
cled and formed part of the crew of the steamer,
and that he forbade the men being sent ashore,
but the Chief OF the River Police persisted, say
ing that he had the authority of the Civil Gov
ernor for his action, and that the Captain of the
steamer could refer the case to the British
Consul.
THAT finding ourselves thus left with pas
sengers on board whose agreements the autheri-
ties delayed recognizing and deprived of
the service of men were indispensable for
the convenience and comfort of the pas
sengers, | had no option but to order them to be
sent on shore to-day, being unwilling in any
case to take them unless with the full consent
and good will of the authorities.
''Fhat under the foregoing circumstances l
reluctantly arrived at the conclusion that
it is the desire of the authorities, or some of
them, to hinder delay and obstruct the intention
Of the Hansa in taking emigrants TO the Ha-
wallan Islands which | came here prepared to
DO in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom
IF Portugal and of the Hawaiian Islsnds, and
having thus been hindered, Instructed and de-
aged, and compelled thereby to leave the port
Lisbon without being permitted in the or
tinary course to accomplish my lawful business,
have suffered great loss and damage, and hold
he Portuguese Government and its subordinates
esponsible for said loss and damage as soon as
he same shall have been ascertained.
Lisbon, July I'd, 1862.
[Signed] A. HoFFNUNe.
Sworn before me
lSignedl JAMES O'DoNNELL.
British Consul at Lisbon"