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tulc to distinguish yourself from them , and making a little world of yourself arid your own party , consider all that are not -within your little pale , as objects
of your hatred , aversion , persecution ? Buch was the state of many nations in Europe , and particularly one , in which through a strange inconsistency , there was the closest bbh < d of alliance with our
own . Portugal had an Inquisition , and was tenacious in the extreme of all the follies of popery ; yet political got the better of religjious prejudices , and English heretics were permitted to establish themselves in the country , whose opinions would subject any hativc to' the jnost diabolical tortures that cotild be
inflicted The convulsions that have lately taken placein the world > have driven " the sovereign of Portugal to America , and , in consequence , a new treaty of allian ce is made bet ween this iingdoml and , we may say , the new empire of the Brazils , though the tide
of Portugal is still preserved . In this the former bonds of politicalfriendship are renewed ; but two points are the more worthy of our consideration . It manifests an increasing improvement in both states , arid assures us , that two evils , which have been very great plagues td mankind , are oh the decline , and will soon be rooted out .
The first of these is the Inquisition , the worst of all ecclesiastical courts that Shave been established in any country . This horrid court disgraced Portugal in the eyes even of the Christians , that persecute only by tes ^ s and civil disqualifications , br / abuse andi hard nairies ; of those who cannot indeed embrace
Christian love to the extent of our Saviour s precept * b | i |; stUllhiok tfcjit persecution goes rather too tar , when it dislocates the bones , or commits to the flames persons of a different sentiment from the torturer / From this horrible court yie find tjiat the vast territory of the Brazils is freed : no infelishrrianl , or
< iven native , will be in danger from a pnjB sjt /^ arme ^ with its terrors . The sovereign o ^ ^ Brazils , by permitting ; inis { to be in the trea ^ tacitl y condemns the es ^ bUshj ^ eii t of it in ; Pori | : UgaV and sfyoulcl he l ? e restp ^ ed to his ancient dottiini (> es ^ \ ' ve . nia ^ » ope , jthafctjiey will no ^ ngejrfye jBtaineiwitn , the blood of tbejieretfe , ^ eritjonecL &nct ^ pc ^ urageihent is keld
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be exported by Brazilians to any foreign country , ' and as long as it ? is permitted to be cawied oni it is onl y to prevail between the Portuguese coionips in Africa , and the dominions under the Por * - tiigal natne . This is u g » i « tojvunlan * ity ; for wh © could have believed it
possiblei that Christians , ; whose duty ft is to bring all under the gentle , yoUe of Christ , should have turned men- stealers , and carried on a trade which was ? always held disgraceful even among heathens / With the abolition of this trade will
begin a free and happier intercourse , between Africa and the rest of the world . The independency of South America and the establishment of Europe : which cannot for ever go on in this state of horror and confusion , will open new
sources of industry * in which the African will partake ; but many years must elapse before all become one flock under one shepherd ; much have Christians to unlearn , before they pretend to convert either the benighted , ( African or the Hindoo Trinitarian .
Another article of the treaty is of Iqss consequence * though' we could have wished it to have been omitted , as , feeble mortals hazard too much when they speak of futurity- By this article the rights of the Brazilian family to the throne of Portugal arc acknowledged , and rendered perpetually-permanent .
Our sovereign is to acknowledge no other sovereign of Portugal . The jinjterestof kingdoms , as the world has often seen * gets the better of previous regulations . The fate of the house of Bragahza is determined . The sovereign of thq JStazils may add the title of Portugal to " his list , but it will be like that of France
formerly on the arms of England ; , and , if his right is acknowledged , treaties must be made , at some time or other , with the power that rules in Portugal . The English will not give tip their port wine for some litdcetn ? qu < tte in diplomacy But the Brazilian prince ha » a new world of politics ' to engage In , and he of
will begin to fdi ^ m scheities agg randizement of aiiothet kind . "His neighbours at : Buenos Ay res are now forming a gpverhtneint ; They are at a . loss for a sovereign , and he has somedairnjv , from family connections with Spain ; £ 6 enit is
force thern ^ said , that lie h ^ an army ou his frdfatiers , And we may see ^ hcJ iaimci of war kindledi # n the titual grounds ojf comest . xh ^ reis , lioVr ^ ycr , a strong' antipathy bee ween' the' ikWQ
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State of Public Affairs . 459
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/35/
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