THE TREATIES OF FRIENDSHIP, &C. 31,1 



without any consideration of the state of Brazil ; 

 — of the relative situation of the two high con- 

 tracting' parties. The following plea for com- 

 plaint, although it does not relate to the Treaties, 

 may be mentioned in this place, for it is a favou- 

 rite one with many persons. It is said, that 

 the Regent of Brazil has made grants of land 

 to British subjects, but that the Portuguese are 

 not permitted to possess landed property in the 

 dominions of His Britannic Majesty. A com- 

 plaint of this kind would appear to denote thai 

 the two countries were in the same state witl 

 regard to population ; that Brazil did not require 

 an enormous increase of people, and that Great 

 Britain possessed a superabundance of territory 

 Far from the grants of land to foreigners beim 

 urged as a breach of the declared reciprocity 

 between the tw r o nations, the government )f 

 Brazil ought to invite foreigners to purchase 

 lands and establish themselves there ; it oucht 

 to allow r them to follow their own religion ; it 

 should naturalise them and fix them to the loil 

 by the protection which the laws ought to afbrd 

 tnem ; and by the permission which should be 

 given to them of having some share in the 

 concerns of the society into which they had 

 been adopted. 



The Portuguese are continually pointing to 

 the rapid advancement of the United States of 

 America, and holding up that country as an 



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