To The Editor Of The Time...
. Sir,-Perceiving an attack in an infamous paper of Sunday last, on those listineuished foreigners who are now visitin; this country the King and Queen of the Sandwich Island!t, I anp Gduced to sub- mit to you the propriety of noticing in your joure,al a few particulars respecting them, wlhich are not general!y 'snown. His MUajesty possesses seven islands, supposed to be nearly equal, in pointof ex. tent, to our Alest India Islands, and wlhich have been of considerable advantage to a p~tticIlar dassof our shipping, on those long-and tedious vovazes for sperm wlales. His navy consists of five brigs and aboutQ20othervessels, some of which trade to ltidiafor sandal. wood (which the island abounds with), annd others to Kamschatka, oneoftheRussiasettlements,,withssalt, for timber,&c. his Ma- jesty has a fine yacht, of 250 tons burden, called the Ckeopatra, the building of which cost80,000 dollars Adjacentto hi residence are twroforte, one of 84 guns; and anther, conimanding. the whole harbour, monunted with 34 24pounders. This induistrious class of peoplc have beer, in a state of civilization for the last 40 rears, have formed a regular governmnent, and have resident missionarits, by whose exertions places of worship bave been erected. They are supposed to be worth at the least two millions of monev. A. B Junel4, 11i24. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIBES.