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wich Islands, led on by bad counsellors, refuse to sign the treaty 

 which I present, war will immediately commence, and the devasta- 

 tions, all the calamities, which may be the unhappy but necessary 

 results, will be imputed to themselves alone, and they must also pay 

 the losses which the aggrieved foreigners, in these circumstances, 

 shall have a right to reclaim. 



(Signed) C. Laplace, 



Captain of the French frigate F Artemise, 

 The 10th July (9th according to date here), 1839. 



II. 



THE UNITED STATES CONSUL TO THE KING. 



IT. S. Consulate, Sandwich Islands, 



October 26, 1839. 



To His Majesty, Kamehameha III., 



King of the Sandwich Islands. 

 As the opinion seems to be to some extent entertained, that Ame- 

 rican citizens residing in the Sandwich Islands as missionaries, under 

 the patronage of an incorporated institution of the United States, 

 have exerted a controlling influence upon the framers of the laws of 

 this country, I have very respectfully to inquire, if they have ever 

 had any voice in the passage of laws affecting the interests of other 

 foreigners, and particularly whether they have ever had any thing to 

 do in the measures adopted by your government for the prevention 

 of the introduction of the Catholic religion into the country. And 

 whether in the treatment which has been shown to any subject of the 

 government of France, they have directly or indirectly recommended 

 the course pursued by your government, and also whether in the 

 attempts made under yoiir authority to suppress the public exercise 

 of the Roman Catholic religion on the part of your own subjects, they 

 have countenanced those attempts. If they have in any of these 

 respects controlled the action of your government, will you be pleased 

 to inform me very explicitly in what manner and to what extent. An 

 early reply will be a favour. 



With the highest considerations, 



I have the honour to be. 



Your Majesty's most obedient servant, 



P. A. Brinsmade, 



Z7. S. Commercial Ascent. 



