Sentencing Policy of the Court of Criminal Appeal

‘Think of Me as a Woman’: Queen Pomare of Tahiti and Anglo‐French Imperial Contest in the 1840s Pacific

“…Samuel Tamatoa Williams's Appeal to British Christians of 1844 laid out the sequence of events by depicting Pomare as 'intelligent', her rule as 'salutary' while the succession of French visitors were cast as 'depraved' and 'vicious' and the chiefs, who signed Du Petit Thouars's protectorate, 'semi-barbarous'. 85 Mark Wilks similarly laid out the extent of French violations in his 1844 work Tahiti. Wilks meticulously reviewed all relevant French accounts and events highlighting the multitude of French wrongs against Pomare and the LMS.…”