BRAZIL CORRESPONDENCE

IN THE CASES OF THE

"PRINCE OF WALES" AND OFFICERS

OF THE "FORTE."

(Reprinted from the Papers laid before Parliament.)

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION,

TELLING SOME TRUTH ABOUT BRAZIL.

LONDON:

WILLIAM RIDGWAY, 169 PICCADILLY, W.

MDCCCLXIII.

226. i. 282.

INTRODUCTION.

THE following correspondence has been reprinted in the hope that a knowledge of the pure truth as to the recent questions with Brazil may be thus more widely diffused. The paid puffers of Brazil and lacqueys of its Legation have had it too much their own way in the English press, and with the general public. It is time that some truth about the Brazilian Government should be told in support of the energy with which Lord Russell has lately endeavoured to bring Brazil to proper conduct, and his firmness in a tone best suited for the true, large, permanent interests of British commerce, and for ensuring in the end stable relations of friendship.

When the news of the difference with the Brazilian Government first reached England, in the beginning of February, the public were taken by surprise. There is a general ignorance about South American Governments in England, and a general indifference to Brazil, except among those connected with that country by commerce or speculation. There is no trustworthy English book on Brazil, written by any intelligent independent person who has lived long enough in that country to know it. The American work, "Brazil and the Brazilians," by Kidder and Fletcher, is an elaborate fulsome puff of Brazil which has done much mischief.

Not the least of this mischief is its having deceived the "Quarterly Review," whose article on the Brazilian Empire