Treaty between Laplace and Kamehameha III. Art. 1st. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the King of the French and the King of the Sandwich Islands. Art. 2d. The French shall be protected in an effectual manner in their persons and property by the King of the Sandwich Islands, who shall also grant them an authorization sufficient so as to enable them juridically to prosecute his subjects against whom they will have just reclamations to make. Art. 3d. This protection shall be extended to French ships, and to their crews and officers. In case of shipwreck, the chiefs and inhabitants of the various parts of the archipelago shall assist them, and protect them from pillage. The indemnities for salvage shall be - regulated, in case of difficulty, by arbiters selected by both parties. Art. 4th. No Frenchman, accused of any crime whatever, shall be tried except by a jury composed of foreign residents, proposed by the French consul, and approved of by the government of the Sandwich Islands. Art. 5th. The desertion of sailors belonging to French ships shall be strictly prevented by the local authorities, who shall employ every disposable means to arrest deserters, and the expenses of the capture shall be paid by the captain or owners of the aforesaid ships, according to the tariff adopted by the other nations. Art. 6th. French merchandises, or those known to be French produce, and particularly wines and eaux de vies (brandy), can not be prohibited, and shall not pay an import duty higher than 5 per cent. ad valorem. Art. 7th. No tonnage or importation duties shall be exacted from French merchants, unless they are paid by the subjects of the nation the most favored in its commerce with the Sandwich Islands. Art. 8th. The subjects of King Kamehameha III. shall have a right in the French possessions to all the advantages which the French enjoy at the Sandwich Islands, and they shall, moreover, be considered as belonging to the most favored nation in their commercial relations with France. Made, and signed by the contracting parties, the 17th July, 1839. (Signed), Post Capt. commanding the French frigate l'Artemise. TRANSLATION. Honolulu, Sandwich Isles, July 24, 1837. Treaty between the King of the French, Louis Philippe I., represented by the Captain A. Du Petit Thouars, and the King of the Sandwich Islands, Kamehameha III. There shall be perpetual peace and amity between the French and the inhabitants of the Sandwich Isles. The French shall go and come freely in all the states which compose the government of the Sandwich Isles. They shall be received, and protected there, and shall enjoy the same advantages which the subjects of the most favored nation enjoy. Subjects of the King of the Sandwich Isles shall equally come into France, shall be received and protected there as the most favored foreigners. (Signed), KAMEHAMEHA III. A. DU PETIT THOUARS, Captain Commander of the French frigate La Venus. Doings of the English at the Sandwich Islands. H. B. M. Ship Carysfort, Honolulu Harbor, February 16, 1843. SIR,-I have the honor to acquaint your majesty of the arrival in this port of H. B. M. ship under my command, and, according to my instructions, I am desired to demand a private interview with you, to which I shall proceed with a proper and competent interpreter. I therefore request to be informed at what hour to-morrow it will be convenient for your majesty to grant me that interview. I have the honor to remain your majesty's most obedient and humble servant, GEORGE PAULET, Captain. To his majesty Kamehameha III. Honolulu, February 17, 1853. Salutations to you, Lord George Paulet, Captain of her Britannic majesty's ship Carysfort. SIR, We have received your communication of yesterday's date, and must decline having any private interview, particularly under the circumstances which you propose. We shall be ready to receive any written communication from you to-morrow, and will give it due consideration. In case you have business of a private nature, we will appoint Dr. Judd our confidential agent to confer with you, who, being a person of integrity and fidelity to our government, and perfectly acquainted with all our affairs, will receive your communications, give all the information you require (in confidence), and report the same to us. (Signed), With respect, KAMEHAMEHA III. Her Britannic majesty's ship Carysfort, Oahu, 17th February, 1843. SIR,-In answer to your letter of this day's date (which I have too good an opinion of your majesty to allow me to believe ever emanated from yourself, but from your ill advisers), I have to state, that I shall hold no communication whatever with Dr. G. P. Judd, who, it has been satisfactorily proved to me, has been the prime mover in the unlawful proceedings of your government against British subjects. As you have refused me a personal interview, I inclose you the demands which I consider it my duty to make upon your government, with which I demand a compliance at or before 4 o'clock P.M., to-morrow (Saturday), otherwise I shall be obliged to take immediate coercive steps to obtain these measures for my countrymen. I have the honor to be your majesty's most obedient humble servant, GEORGE PAULET, Captain. His majesty Kamehameha III. Her Britannic majesty's ship Carysfort, Oahu, February 17, 1843. SIR,-I have the honor to notify you that her Britannic majesty's ship Carysfort, under my command, will be prepared to make an immediate attack upon this town, at 4 o'clock P.M., to-morrow (Saturday), in the event of the demand now forwarded by me to the king of these islands not being complied with by that time. Sir, I have the honor to be your most obedient humble servant,, GEORGE PAULET, Captain. (Signed), To Capt. Long, Commander U. S. S. Boston, Honolulu. A true copy. Attest, WM. BAKER, Tr. [The demands of Captain Paulet resulted in a cession of the isl ands to himself, by the king on the 25th of February, 1843. They were restored on the 31st of July, 1844.] X By the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. VII. COST OF MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE These costs have been incurred in sustaining missionaries, and providing them with dwellings; for the printing and binding department, and for the seminary and other public schools. Aid has also been rendered, to some extent, in the erection of churches and common school-houses; and large sums have been expended in the publication and circulation of books. The whole amount of expenditures have been nearly as follows: 1819, Preparatory expenses. $132 50 10,329 30 669 70 1,071 00 12,074 67 6,746 30 10,241 94 By the American Bible Society By the American Tract Society Total..... 50,000 90 19,774 51 $608,865 08 —From the "Notes" of HON. R. C. WYLLIE, published in the "Friend" for 1844. [The annual amounts from 1845 to 1853 inclusive have been procured from the Annual Reports of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the American Bible Society.] The Table on the following page, from the official "Report on Missionary Lands," was published by Mr. WYLLIE in the Polynesian of May 7, 1852: 7,600 00 $294,309 82 294,309 82 .$903,174 90 |