in order to prevent the Government of the Sandwich Islands from exercising their right of giving
twelve months notice
of the termination of the Treaty
and creating
a differential
System of duties in those Islands
in favour of the United States
Commerce
I am, in reply, to request
that
you
will state to the
Lords of Trade that, in view of the somewhat conflicting Engagements of the third
and
fourth Articles of that Treaty, it appears to Lord Stanley
to
See Hertford Papers Vol IX Pages
242
to be not altogether improbable that the Hawaiian Government
may dispute the claim of Her
Majesty's Government to share unconditionally in the Commercial advantages which the United States have purchased from the Sandwich Islands by important reciprocal concessions, involving a considerable sacrifice of Revenue
Lord Stanley therefore proposes, before sending further
instructions to Consul Wodehouse,
Law
to consult the proper Officer of the Crown upon the question whether Her Majesty's Government have
a