PREFACE. ▼ 



tory of Montevideo. The courts of Austria, Great 

 Britain, Prussia, Russia, and France, on being in- 

 formed of this singular transaction, addressed a strong 

 memorial to the o-overnment of Poitu2:al and Brazil, 

 in which they informed his most Faithful Majesty that 

 it was impossible for them to look upon the aggression 

 committed against Spain in any other light than as an 

 act of hostility. In the mean time an insurrection 

 broke out at Pernambiico, a province of Brazil, which 

 assumed a serious aspect, being chiefly encouraged 

 among the officers of Olinda and Recife. A battle, 

 however, in which the royal forces entirely defeated 

 the insurgents, soon put an end to the insurrection ; 

 and the result of the application of the European 

 courts has not yet been given to the public. 



Some time after, Portugal itself was threatened 

 with a revolution, the purpose of which was to estab- 

 lish a government for that country, indepentient of 

 South America. Its principal promoters were the 

 Lieutenant-general Gomez Freres de Andrade, and 

 the Baron d'Eben ; but before all the prej)arationshad 

 been made, the whole plot was discovered, and an 

 arrest tcok place of the persons concerned. The 

 very slow procedure of the German states, and the 

 apparent reluctance of several of the members to jo'n 

 in establishing the principles of free government, has 

 thrown back to another year the peneral result of 

 their deliberations ; nor does it yet apj)ear how soon 

 a desirable conclusion can he brought to effect. Fi- 

 nancial (liliiculties occur in several of (he states; and 

 till they are settled, it seems in vain to expect a satis- 

 factory solution of their embroiled affairs. Prussia, 



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