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and is, much greater than that of British sub- 

 jects travelling in Brazil ; and that the num- 

 ber of magistrates to whom each of these tra- 

 vellers must show his pass is much greater in 

 the former country than in the latter, owing to 

 the more numerous population of Great Britain. 

 Therefore a very few cases of hardship in Brazil 

 \v r ould only average a much greater number of 

 like instances of severity in Great Britain. * 



With respect to naturalisation in the domi- 

 nions of either of the two crowns, the Portuguese 

 are much more favourably situated than British 

 subjects, because, according to existing laws, a 

 British subject can only be naturalised in the 

 kingdom of Portugal and Brazil, if he professes 

 the Roman Catholic religion. 



Articles 3d, 4th, and 5th. These relate to 

 custom-house duties, port-charges, &c, which 

 are to be paid with perfect reciprocity by the 

 vessels of both nations. If the same duties, at 

 the custom-houses in Brazil, were not paid for 

 goods which w r ere imported in British as in Por- 



* The Alien Bill has given offence. Does not all the 

 world know that it was passed for the purpose of preventing 

 the entrance into Great Britain of those unquiet spirits who 

 have desolated the Continent of Europe for so many years ; 

 and some of whom aided in burning the towns and villages 

 of Portugal? Would Great Britain change her plan of 

 operations for any one power on earth, or even for all of 

 them combined ? Each government must act as suits its own 

 peculiar circumstances. 



