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lust action ut last appeared to have arous
ed Trevanion's attention, for lie now for
tlie first time looked up from his paper,
and quietly regarded him vis-a-vis. There
could not in the world be a stronger con
trast to the bland look and courteous ex
pressions of Trevanion's handsome fea
tures, than the savage scowl of the en
raged Frenchman, in whose features the
strong and ill-repressed workings of pas
sion were twitching and distorting everv
lineament and line; indeed, no words
could ever convev, one-half so forcibly as
did that look, insult open, palpable,
deep, determined, insult,
v Trevanion, whose eyes had been mere
ly for a moment lifted from his paper,
again fell, and he appeared to take no no
tice whatever of the extraordinary prox
imity, of the Frenchman, still less of the
savage and insulting nature of his looks.
. Le Capitaine, having thus failed to
bring on the eclaircitsciuent he sought for,
proceeded to accomplish it by other
means; for, taking the lamp, by the
li'rht of which Trevanion was still read
ing, he placed it at. his side of the ta
ble, and, at the same instant, stretching
across his arm, he plucked the newspaper
from his hand, giving at the same moment
a glance of triumph towards the bystand
ers, as though he would s i v. you see
what he must submit to." Words can
not describe the astonishment of the Brit
ish otlicers, as they beheld Trevanion, un
der this gross, open insult, content himself
by a slight smile and half bow, as if re
turning a courtesy, and then threw his eye
downwards, as if engaged in deep thought,
while the triumphant sneer of the French
man, at this unaccountable conduct, was
absolutely maddening to them to enduie.
But their patience was destined to sub
mit to stronger proof, for at this instant
le Capitaine stretched forth one of his
enormous legs, cased in his massive jack
boot, and with a crash deposited tiic heel
upon the foot of their friend, Trevanion.
At length he is roused, thought they, for
a slight flush of crimson flitted across his
cheek, and his upper lip trembled with a
quick spasmodic twitching ; but both these
signs were over in a second, and his fea
tures were as calm and unmoved as before,
and his only appearance of consciousness
of the affront was given by his drawing
back his chair, and placing his legs be
neath it as if for protection.
This lasf insult, and the tame forbear
ance with which it was submitted to, pro
duced all their opposite effects upon the
bystanders, and looks of ungovernable
rage and derisive contempt wee every
moment interchanging; indeed, were it
not for the all-absorbing interest which
the two great actors in the scene had con
centrated upon themselves, the two par
ties must have come at once into open
conflict.
The clock of the cafe struck'nine, the
hour at which Gendemar always retired,
so calling to the waiter for his petit vene
of brandy, he placed his newspaper upon
the table, and putting both elbows upon
it, and his chin upon his hand, he stared
full in Trevanion's face, with a look of
the most derisive triumph, meant to crown
the achievements of the evening. To this,
as to all his former insults, Trevanion ap
peared still insensible, and merely regard
ed him with a never changing smile ; the
petite vene arrived ; le Capitaine took it in
his hand, and with a nod of most insult
ing familiarity saluted Trevanion, ad ling
with a loud voice, so as to be heard on
every side "a votrc courage, Anglais."
He had scarcely swallowed the liquor,
when Trevanion rose slowly from his chair,
displaying to the astonished gaze of the
Frenchman the immense proportions and
gigantic frame of a man known as the
largest officer in the British Army ; with
one stride he was beside the chair of the
Frenchman ; and with the speed of light
!ng, he 6eized his nose by one hand,
while with the other he grasped his jaw,
THE POLYNESIAN.
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and wrenching open his mouth with the
j strength of an ogre, he spit down his
throat.
So sudden was the movement, that be
fore ten seconds had elapsed, all was oyer,
and the Frenchman rushed from the room,
holding the fragments of his jaw bone,
I (for it was fractured !) followed by his
countrymen, who, from that hour, desert
ed Cafe Philirlor ; nor was there ever any
mention of the famous Captain during the
stay of the regiment in Paris. Dublin
University Magazine.
Tor tlic I'olyiic.- i wi.
Tr;m.l,i!oil tioui tl,o Hawaiian.
7i.aU3. ct tfjc j&jatoai'fim Eslanns.
Continued from page o
Furthermore, those country people who
search for knowledge, whoever thev may
be and in whatever part of the kingdom,
if they write to me or my Primier, and
we perceive that their proposition is a
good one, it shall then be adopted as a
statute of th" kingdom. The (iovernors
and the King too will suffix their names
to the writing. They will also promote
such seekers after knowledge to higher
stations, and make them officers in their
various places. And such persons shall
receive one tenth part of the king's in
come at their station, and al.o one tenth
part of the land agent's income. Such is
the reward which his majesty oilers to all
in the kingdom who act as above, and
they shall moreover be admitted to the
council of the nation.
Furthermore, whoever of the country
people engages vigorously in any new
employment, not practiced in this coun
try before, and if it prove to be a valua
ble business to the nation, and to those
who engage in it, and if it was previously
unknown, then this is the decision in re
lation to such a man. lie shall be freed
from public labor on all the labor days
both of the king and of the land agents,
and from all public labor of the kingdom.
He shall pay no yearly money tax, and
the king will give ten dollars to the man
who thus searches out a new business,
provided the business be continued. Such
is the reward which his majesty the king
offers to all who search out new employ
ment in any part of the kingdom of the
Hawaiian Islands.
14. Respecting tlie descent of lands to heirs.
Be it furthermore enacted in relation to
lands which Kamchamcha I, and Knme
hameha II, gave to laud agents, that after
the publication of this law respecting. tax-,
ation, whenever any one of those land
agents dies, his heir shall render an ac
count to his majesty the king of the lands
which belonged to the deceased, and these
shall return one third of ihose lands to
the king. According to this rule, all the
lands, whether few or many of every man
who dies shall be divided But if two
months elapse after the death of any per
son, and the heir neither present himself
before the king, nor send a written no
tice, then the lauds of the heir shall be
divided equally. Hereafter, the lands of
all heirs shall be divided thus, when the
king is not notified. If the deceased,
however, had but one farm, that shall de
scend to his heir. If he have two farms,
then one half of one of them shall revert
to the king. From this time forth, the
king and his Primier must be informed of
all bequests of lands, and of whatever re
lates to the heirs. But if the deceased
have no heir at all, then his land and all
his property shall be the king's. Thus it
is ordained in relation to the land agents
of his majesty the king, and also in rela
tion to the land agents under them over
the common people. But the lands of
orphans, widows and old men shall be
protected by the laud agents; let 'not the
heirs however among the common people
forget the directions of their landlords.
If any one spoken of in this law seize
tl.n l.m.1 of lawful heirs, whicli is protect.
cd by this law, the punishment shall be
as follows : two thirds of the income of
said land obtained by the new landlord
in a year shall be delivered to the heir,
and it shall be thus delivered each year
fnr four successive vears, and then the
Kind shall beloncr to the new landlord.
IThe line shall be the same for those who
'apply to the king for lands occupied by
! heirs of the deceased, though if the heir
do better than the deceased, his third shall
not be restored to the Aim. And if the de
ceased person have children of his own,
then the king will not take the third, nor
'the third of him who does better than the
'deceased person. But if that heir had
been enriched by previously being heir to
janother chief, the king will then take the
third.
15. Of the division of Water for irrigation
In all places w hich arc watered by irri
gation, those farms which have not for
jmerly received a division of- water, shnJI
jwhen this new regulation respecting lands
'is circulated, be supplied in accordance
with this law, the design of which is to
'correct in full all those abuses which men
have introduced. All those farms which
iwere formerly denied a division of the
water, shall receive their equal proportion.
Those bounties which Cod has provided
j for the several places should be equally
i distributed, in order that there may be an
'equal distribution of happiness among all
jtliose who labor in those places. The al
lowance of water shall be in proportion to
, the amount of taxes paid by the several
lands. For it is not the design of this
jlaw to withhold unjustly from one, in or-
tier to unjustly enrich another according
jto the old system which has been in vogue
down to the present time. That the land
agents and that lazy class of persons who
ilivc about us should bo enriched to the
'impoverishment of the lower classes who
Hi 1 1. i,-. i .1.,.;.. i. i ...i
mi j'mii;m.u luu uiiuui mull uui UL'IIS ilJIU
in the heat of the sun is not in accord
ance with the designs of this laws. This
law condemns the old system of the king,
chiefs, land agents and tax officers. That
merciless treatment of the common peo
ple must end. If the Governor think
proper to adopt a protective policy, let
him protect all alike, and there shall be
an equal division of protected articles, in
order that every man may obtain the ob
ject of his desire according to the amount
of his labor. Such is considered to be
the proper course by this law, regulating
tjie property of the .kingdom ; not in ac
cordance with the former customs of the
country which was for the chiefs and land
agents to monopolize to themselves every
source of profit. Not so with this law.
To be conl iniu;d.
THE POLYNESIAN.
Honolulu, Saturday, Oct. a, in 11.
Since our last, we have seen some scraps
from New York papers to the 18th of .Tunn
They contain little else of political impor
tance, in addition to what we have already
given, uui ure mostly lined withtho accounts
of the success of the Enirlish arm- in r ;.
and with speculations in regard to the fate
of the President Steamship. At the last ac
counts hope was again awakened by the ro
port of one being seen in a crippled condi
tion steering for England by some it was
supposeu to ie tne Jirittania, from Boston
for Liverpool, which was already out much
over her usual time. Conjecture is rile upon
the subject. The ship Win. Rrown, of Phil
adelphia was lost by striking on an iceberg.
Mio sank immediately, with thirty-three pas
sengers on board. The Captain and some
of the crew took to the jolly boat the mate
eight seamen, and thirty-three passengers to
the long boat. During the next day the
long boat becoming unmanageable and in
danger of foundering, the mate and seamen
threw overboard sixteen of the passengers
who were too much exhausted to make ti
sistanco. An hour atierward, the remain,
der, thirteen, of whom were females, wer
picked up.
The English Government, dissatisfied
Captain Elliott's proceedings in China, ha
appointed Colonel Sir Henry Pottinger.f,,
supersede him with full power to settle ill
differences.
Letters from California confirm the loss of
the Peacock, on the bar of the Columbia
River thaugh some doubt still exists wheth
er the valuable charts and papers gathered
in her last interesting cruise were saved.
Castro, the man who has acquired so in.
famous a cclcbrityby his cruel treatment of
American agd English prisoners on Calitor
nia eighteen months since, has returned from
JNIexico, a sans cvlottc ol the first water.
Cnpt. Snow, of the Morca, informsus that
the past season at katnschatka has been re
markable lor the frequency of earthquake,
some of which were of considerable violence.
The principal of these, together with a rapid
rise and fall of the tide, to the height of five
feet, occurred at the same date as similar
phenomena happened here last spring, h
is not at all improbable, that some connection
may exist between the volcanoes of the Cordilleras,-
Hawaii, and Eastern Asia, which
in case of ftie violent action of one, would
aflect all.
The shipwrecked Japanese who left here
in the Harlequin, have been sent by the
Russian Governor to Okotsk, from whence
they were to leave soon for their native
The Morca brings us the intelligence of
the death of Richard 1). Blinn, Captain of
the Maryland, a well known shipmaster in
the Pacific. Capt. Winn died on the pas
sage to Kamschatka, a few days before
reaching port.
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From all accounts wc have received, the
hardy and gallant whalers, both on Japan
and at the North have done well this season,
having met with abundance of whales. A
mid the general depression of business in
the Pacific, it is gratifying to learn, that at
least oue class of our citizens arc doing well,
particularly as their success lightens our labors.
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To the Editoh of the Polynesian:
Capt. Ross in the " Erebus and Terror,"
had been as far south as 7b 4', in long W
40' V. He made the South Magnetic Tle
to be in lat. 7U, 154 long. tust. He dis
covered an active Volcano which lie calitd
Mount Erebus; in 77 31' S. 1G7 10'K.
This information was brought to Nazal
lan, from Sydney, by on English vessel; the
writer had it from Doct. Wiley of the Eng
lish Navy, who was a passenger onboard,
find W'lin st:itrrl in lilm li..t lin diia mcni-
- - ..v. iv mill iiiut wv lui'n 1 1 1 1 " msv
ornndum from Capt. Ross, who was at Svd-L
ikvj wiit-n ne leit.
He further verbally stated that Capt.Roa
fuucu tivvr inu spoi wnere lanu "i .
posed to have been seen by the Anisic811 i
Surveying Vessels. They (the English ves- Jo
selsl saw vast numbnt-u tf ami nnil many
whales. G. V. P. Bissell.
Sandwich Islands, Sept. 20, 1811.
That Capt. Ross discovered an active vol
cano, wo can readily believe, and that he
may havo sailed over some spot where 1
was supposed to exist by Capt. Wilkes but
that ho sailed over an extent of land running
through 40 degrees of longitude, embracing
mountains whose heights were measured and
found to he 5000 feet, wc are strongly
clined to disbelieve. We would as soon de
ny the fact that such an individual as Copt
Ross ever existed, or that he ever penctra
ted to the south at all, as that four different
vessels, of two distinct nations, could, after
seeing, land, sounding in 15 fathoms ad
measuring heights, gathering specimens of
earth and rocks from contiguous iceberg.
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