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longer offers the unusual spectacle of a nume- 

 rous people without poverty, without ambition, 

 and full of veneration for those in authority 

 over them ! If any foreigner presumes to 

 enter Paraguay, he is either detained a prisoner, 

 like Bonpland, who remained there eleven 

 years, or he is immediately shown the way out 

 again. In the latter treatment he may con- 

 sider himself very fortunate, as experiencing 

 an act of Francia^s most gracious lenity. 



When Mr. Woodbine Parish arrived at 

 Buenos Ayres, in 1824, he learnt that twenty 

 or thirty of our countrymen had been detained 

 in Paraguay (some of them with property of 

 considerable amount), for several years, varying 

 from six or seven to thirteen or fourteen. 

 He lost no time in immediately informing Dr. 

 Francia of his appointment as consul-general, 

 and of the policy of the British government 



