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318 THE TREATIES OF FRIENDSHIP, &C. 



I shall only mention those articles of the 

 Treaties which are particularly interesting, and 

 which may be liable to discussion, wishing to 

 be as observant of conciseness as possible. 



THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE. 



1 pass over the primary articles as being un- 

 important, or from the interest of the subjects 

 to which they relate having already subsided. 



Article 6'th. " His Britannic Majesty is 

 allowed the privilege of causing timber, for the 

 purpose of building ships of war, to be pur- 

 chased and cut down in the woods of Brazil." 



This was supposed to afford to Great Britain 

 an inexhaustible and inexpensive source of sup- 

 plying her navy with timber ; but I have un- 

 derstood that the expense which must be in- 

 curred in felling the trees, and bringing the 

 timber to the water's edge, would be too great 

 to render the project feasible ; and that the 

 woods of Brazil were discovered to contain a 

 less proportion of valuable timber than had been 

 imagined. If the British government had 

 thought proper to act upon this article, — if the 

 plan had been judged worthy of being executed, 

 the advantages which Brazil must have derived 

 from it would have been considerable. The 

 increased traffic which would have been expe- 

 rienced by the ports in which dock-yards would 



