AND NAVIGATION. 



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ciprocity is stated to exist, — not by the Treaty, 

 but in the non-accomplishment of this article. 

 The extreme difficulty with which one foreigner 

 is distinguished from another, by persons who 

 do not understand the language of any, and 

 the vicinity of Great Britain to the Continent 

 of Europe, — to her greatest enemy, and the 

 immense number of foreign prisoners which she 

 held in confinement during the war, placed her in 

 a far different situation from Brazil, in which the 

 only foreigners excepting Spaniards, who could 

 possibly have found their way into the country, 

 must have arrived there in British or Portuguese 

 vessels, consequently little doubt could be en- 

 tertained of the propriety of allowing any fo- 

 reigner to receive a passport to travel in the in- 

 terior or along the coast of that country. * 

 Difficulties were doubtless experienced, and 

 vexations submitted to on some occasions, and 

 these cases have been brought forwards. It 

 must be recollected that the number of Portu- 

 guese subjects travelling in Great Britain was, 



* These arguments savour somewhat of peevishness ; let 

 these plain questions be asked. Does Great Britain interfere 

 in the police of Brazil ? Would Great Britain take the 

 trouble of negotiating respecting any regulations which Bra- 

 zil might enact for the better preserving of internal good 

 order, and for^jroviding with more ease for the apprehension 

 of improper persons ? The truth is that Brazil does not 

 require any thing of the kind, and Great Britain does, con- 

 sequently each power acts according to its situation. 



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