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NOTES ON BRAZIL. 



countries, thinly inhabited, when they cease to be Colonies, people must 

 and will be free ; — and that the principles whose influence these Statesmen 

 dread, are already implanted deeply in the breast of every native. The 

 country has already endured, in the mildest form, its share of those 

 revolutions which are at present disturbing both the Old World and the 

 New. The Government should be solicitous to prevent any thing more 

 violent; should show to the people that they want nothing, in civil 

 affairs, fundamentally new ; — that their Institutions, at present existing, 

 are sufficient, and shall be made effectual, to render them happy, secure, 

 and great. 



