relations.

And to Mr. Green, who had addressed His Majesty on behalf of himself as
H. B. M. Acting Commissioner and Consul General, and of the Consular
Corps, His Majesty replied:

For the congratulations you have just offered in so genuine a
form, that any doubt as to their sincerity would be
impossible, I offer you my kind thanks. The Consular corps has
always sympathized with me and my people in everything that
regards the real and physical prosperity of these islands.
Indeed it could not be otherwise, for commerce makes our
interests identical. It is with great pleasure that I see on
this occasion the officers of a ship of war of that nation
which concurred in the initiation of the declaration of the
independence of these islands, the anniversary of which
gracious act we this day celebrate.

FEBRUARY 9, 1861.

_His Majesty's Replies To the Addresses of the Diplomatic Corps, and to
the Consuls of Foreign Nations, Congratulating Him on the Anniversary of
His 27th Birth-day._

His Majesty replied to M. Perrin and the members of the Diplomatic Corps
in the following gracious terms:

GENTLEMEN:--For the congratulations you have just offered me
on the recurrence of the anniversary of my birthday, I thank
you very kindly indeed. I do indeed hope that further
experience may offer me new lights by which to be directed in
my endeavors to secure prosperity to all who dwell within this
Kingdom. But let me assure you that your felicitations on this
occasion cannot fail to stimulate and encourage me, for they
show that at least up to this very day the large and
predominating powers you represent, are good enough to survey
with satisfaction, and through you, Gentlemen, to express
their satisfaction for the present, and their hopes for the
future, in the conduct of my Government, and with God's help,
I will not disappoint them. In justice to myself and your kind
expressions connected with the names of the Queen and our son,
I must express the peculiar pleasure with which that portion
of your address has filled me.

To Mr. Reiners and all other Consuls of foreign nations, his Majesty
made the following gracious answer:

GENTLEMEN:--To congratulations so warm and so flatteringly
addressed, it is difficult to reply so as to be