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MONTE VIDEO. 



people are insulted with fresh abuses of it, as 

 long as they will bear them. 



At Monte Video they have a president, who is 

 the mere tool of the popular general who lately 

 assisted in expelling the last government, and 

 who, like General Rosas at Buenos Ayres, will 

 probably become president himself whenever h e 

 has a mind. As for a commercial treaty with 

 England, they object to enter into a binding 

 compact, from a petty dislike of any obligation 

 to fulfil its conditions, however advantageous to 

 themselves, with a country that has the power 

 to enforce the execution of them ; — preferring, 

 apparently, the liberty of cheating us with im- 

 punity to any other commercial advantage. In 

 fact the acquisition of what is called liberty in 

 these emancipated states, offers an example of 

 the very worst species of popular misrule, and 

 tends to the subversion of all freedom. 



