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Thierry, sovereign chief of New Zealand, and king of Nuhahiva," 

 (one of the Marquesas Islands) a formal declaration of his intention to 

 establish in his own person an independent sovereignty in this coun- 

 try, which intention he states he has declared to their Majesties the 

 Kings of Great Britain and France, and to the President of the 

 United States ; and that he is now waiting at Otaheite the arrival 

 of an armed ship from Panama, to enable him to proceed to the Bay 

 of Islands with sti-ength to maintain his assumed sovereignty. 



His intention is founded upon an alleged invitation given to liim 

 in England by Shunghi and other chiefs, none of whom as indivi- 

 duals had any right to the sovereignty of the country, and, conse- 

 quently, possessed no authority to convey a right of sovereignty to 

 another. Also, upon an alleged purchase made for him in 1822, by 

 Mr. Kendall, of three districts on the Hokianga River, from three 

 chiefs who had only a partial property in these districts, parts of 

 which are now settled by British subjects, by virtue of purchase from 

 the rightful proprietors. 



The British Resident has also seen an elaborate exposition of the 

 views of this person, which he has addressed to the missionaries of the 

 Church Missionary Society, in which he makes the most ample pro- 

 mises to all persons, whether whites or natives, who \\t11 accept his 

 invitation to live under his government ; and in which he offers a 

 stipulated salary to each individual missionary in order to induce 

 them to act as his magistrates. It is also supposed, that he may 

 have made similar communications to other persons or classes of 

 his Majesty's subjects, who are hereby invited to make such com- 

 munications, or any information on this subject they may possess, 

 knovra to the British Resident, or to the additional British Resident 

 at Hokianga. 



The British Resident has too much confidence in the loyalty and 

 good sense of his countrymen, to think it necessary to caution them 

 against turning a favourable ear to such insidious promises. He 

 firmly believes that the paternal protection of the British govern- 

 ment, which has never failed any of his Majesty's subjects however 

 remote, wiU not be withheld from them, should it be necessary to 

 prevent their lives, liberties, or property, from being subjected to the 

 caprice of any adventurer, who may choose to make this country, in 

 which British subjects have now by the most lawful means acquired 

 so large a stake, the theatre of his ambitious projects : nor, in the 

 British Resident's opinion, will his Majesty, after having acknow- 



