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- The irti ports from the mother-country consist chiefly in wine and 

 ©Hi; Hi From Sweden some iron is occasionally brought: it is preferred 

 to English iron for nmles* shoes, on actount of its greater ductility. 



The exports consist principally of cotton, sugar, rum, ship-tim- 

 ber, various fine cabinet-woods, hides, tallow, indigo, and coarse 

 Cotton cloths, in immense quantities, for clothing the Peons in the 

 provinces of the River Plate. Among the more precious articles of 

 export may be enumerated gold, diamonds, topazes of various co- 

 lours, amethysts, tourmalines (that are frequently sold for emeralds), 

 chrysoberyls, aqua-marinas, &nd Wrought jewelry. I 

 V This ni^rkiet has been greatly overstocked with English manufac-^ 

 tures, in consequence of the sanguine speculations to which our mer- 

 chants were incited by the late emigration. The supply exceeded 

 the demand in a tenfold degree, and the excess gave rise to auctions 

 where goods were sold at unprecedentedly reduced prices. In pro- 

 portion as English merchandize lowered, that of Brazil rose in value, 

 and so great was the demand for it, owing to the numerous vessels 

 waiting for cargoes, that within a year after the arrival of the Prince 

 Regent, every article of produce was doubled. Gold quickly dis- 

 appeared ; for the monied Portuguese, perceiving the avidity and 

 impolitic eagerness with which the English forced their goods upon 

 them, cautiously withheld their specie, and, by the alternative of 

 barter, got rid of their own produce at a very high price, and ob- 

 tained our merchandize almost at their own valuation. The losing 

 party in this unequal traffic, though they had chiefly to blame their 

 own imprudence in engaging in it, were loud in their complaints and 

 remonstrances against the Portuguese merchants. A treaty of com- 

 merce was concluded, by which the duties on English, and indeed all 

 foreign merchandize, which had been 25 per cent., were reduced to 15 

 per cent, ad valorem. A judge was appointed to attend solely to the 

 concerns of the English, and to see justice done them: he was intitled 

 the Judge Conservador of the English nation. The person who now 

 fills this important office is one of the most enlightened and upright of 



