occasion with mixed feelings of pleasure and pride. I take
pleasure in knowing that the event which has given so much
happiness in my own domestic circle, has caused a pleasure in
this whole community and brought to my house these unmistakable
marks of sympathy and good will; and I cannot but feel pride,
at such a time as this, in knowing that my first-born child,
the destined heir to the position I now occupy, enters the
world amidst your hearty acclamations. I thank you for those
expressions towards the Queen and myself, which are
reiterations of feelings often expressed, and more often
manifested than expressed, but which come doubly welcome at a
time when every parent's heart has a yearning for sympathy.
Gentlemen, you see me a proud father, and by these
manifestations of your love for me and mine you make me a
proud King. Such occasions as these make a throne worthy of
any man's envy, whilst the feelings uppermost in my heart will
establish and seal from this time forth a new tie between me
and every man who, like myself, can say he has a child.

MAY 22, 1858.

_Reply by His Majesty to the Address presented to Him by the Lodge of
Free Masons and the Royal Arch Chapter of Honolulu._

MOST EXCELLENT HIGH PRIEST, COMPANIONS AND BRETHREN:

Bound together as we are in a holy league of brotherhood, I
should not be doing justice to the feelings which actuate me
in my relationship with yourselves, and operate amongst us
all, did I deny that I almost expected you would seek a
special occasion to felicitate me in the character in which we
now appear. For all your kind wishes I thank you from the
bottom of my heart, and among the many blessings for which I
have, at this time, especial reason to be thankful to our
Supreme Grand Master, I do not reckon this the least, that I
enjoy the sympathy of a Fraternity whose objects are so pure,
and whose friendships so true as those of our Order. I will
not multiply words, but believe me, that when I look upon my
infant son, whose birth has been the cause of so much joy to
me, and of so much interest to yourselves, the thought already
crosses my mind that perhaps one day he may wear these dearly
prized badges, and that his intercourse with his fellow men,