HISTORICAL SKETCH—THE TREATIES OF COMMERCE AND FRIENDSHIP—AND CONSEQUENT HOSTILITIES

SEVERAL treaties have boen negotiated between the ~ Hawaiian and foreign governments. The first agreement, in order of time, appruaching at

all to a treaty obligation, was made on the 23rd of December, 1826, by Captain Ap Catesby Jones, on behalf of the United States of America, on the occasion of his interference in settling some claims made by American citizens upon the Hawaiian government. Captain Jones endeavoured to provide some available means for settling any future differences, and to prevent their recurrence.