. JARVES, Editor.

|m the North American Review for Oct. 1910.
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5se 10 the sandwich Islands, July, 1852 Homo
1879 $40. pp 62.


kppIemcnt to The Sandwich Island Mirror, con.
2ng IN Account of the Persecution of the Catho.
ht of the Trans ,c'ons connected With the Visit
4hc Arieinise Remrrks on the Manifesto and
fTrc tment OF the Missionaries. iawaiiln Spec.
u, Vol. II. No l, Art 1. Janu,ry 18th, lsl0.
&oluhi, Sandwich Islands: Il. j. Howard, PIP. 100.


first of these pamphlets is from the
fof MIR S. n. Castle, one of the As
ht American Missionaries resident in
Sandwich Islands. 1t contains an ac-
y of the visit of the French frigate
mise at those islands, and an argu-
] to prove the injustice and harshness


bat remarkable proceeding. The 9th
kmphlet is anonymous, but was writ
ht Honolulu, and is a reply to the
\ We have collected from them, and
4 other sources entitled to confidence,


we believe to be the facts OF the
! and think them of sufficient inter-
D be laid before our readers.


he ship Artemise, commanded b,
|hin Laplace, arrived at Oahu on the
pf July, 1889, commissioned to ad just
= were called the difficulties existing
Seen France and the Sandwich Is
q. Captain Laplace, on the same
Min the name of his government, adj
eed manifesto to the King of the
Ids, in which he sets forth briefly and
5tinctly the grounds of the complaint
be part of France, and then proceeds
sclare that he presents a treaty for rat
ZION, (some Of the leading clauses and
cts of which he embodies in the man
b, and to say, that unless it be sign
Ind the sum of twenty thousand dol
De paid into his hands as security for
kithful fulflment, " war will be imme-
$ly commenced" He sent, at the
, time, letter to the American Con-
u Oahu, in which he defined his pur-
to be, to commence hostIities on the
J instant, if the King should decline
ding to the treaty. and in which he
an asylum on board his ship to the
kirymen of the Consul. with this i'm
hnt qualification ; " do not, howev-
nclude in this class the individuals,


although born, it is said, in the Uni
States, make a art of the Protestant
ky of the Chief of this Archipelago,
ct his counse!s, influence his conduct,
are the true authors Of the insults
In by him to France. For me they


pose a part Of the native population,


must undergo the unhappy conse-
bees of a war which they shall have
light OH this country"


captain Lapiace followed up these


munications by Immediately declar-
+ the harbor in state of blockade.


King of the Sandwich Islands was Il,
moment absent from Oahu, at Maui.
essel was sent to bring him to Oahu,


Secretary in the mean time remaining
board the frigate, as hostage for his


rn, and, at the request Of the Cover


of Oahu, the period for the com


cement of hostilities was postponed


he 18th instant, to give time for his
EaI. On the 18th, the King not hav-


come, the governor and governess ol


u signed the treaty on behalf of their
Preign, and paid to the French cap


the sum OF twenty thousand dollars,
fted to secure its observance. The


day the King arrived. On Tues


the 10Th, late in the afternoon, the