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RESUME. 



Both governments, in their respective territories, shall take care of 

 the observance of the conditions agreed upon. 



Immediately upon the conclusion of the treaty, and before the ex- 

 change of ratifications, Brazil gives a practical illustration of the wisdom 

 of a remark attributed to her wily minister in Lima, which was prob- 

 ably intended only for Peruvian ears, and directed rather at another 

 government than his own, viz : " that it was not expedient for a weak 

 nation to treat with one more powerful than itself; because, in the 

 interpretation of treaties, the stronger party always enforced its own 

 construction, and the weaker, as invariably, went to the wall." 



By a decree of the Emperor, of date August 30th, 1852, Brazil gives 

 to Ireneo Evangelista de Souza, one of her own citizens, the exclusive 

 privilege of the navigation of the Amazon for thirty years, and ar- 

 ranges with him touching the respective points on the Amazon, or 

 Maranon, to which the steamers shall navigate. 



In the mean time, however, a new minister, Don Manuel Tirado, 

 (more awake to the interests of his country than the framer of the 

 treaty,) takes charge of the portfolio of foreign affairs of Peru. He 

 thus writes to the Brazilian minister of foreign affairs : 



"Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima, 



"January 20, 1853. 



"Sir : I have the honor, by direction of my government, to inform 

 your Excellency that it has understood, by a communication from Don 

 Evarista Gomez Sanchez, our Consul General, charged with the ex- 

 change of ratifications of the treaty celebrated in this capital on the 

 23d of October, 1851, with the Senor Da Ponte Ribeiro, Envoy Extra- 

 ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty, the Emperor, that 

 said exchange probably took place in Rio Janeiro, on the . 



" Said commissioner informs me, at the same time, that the govern- 

 ment of his Majesty has conceded a privilege in favor of Don Juan 

 ('Ireneo') Evangelista de Souza for the establishment of navigation by 

 steam of the river Amazon, under the stipulations of a contract cele- 

 brated by authority of his Majesty, approved in his decree of the 30th 

 of August of the preceding year. 



"Said privilege defines the course of the lines which are to be 

 established; the first to run from the city of Belen, capital of the 

 province of Para, to the town at the mouth of the Rio Negro, capital 

 of the province of Amazonas ; and the second to continue on from this 

 last city to Nauta, a town situated on the Peruvian banks. 



