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Ff-om the period of the arrival of the Braganza Family in 1808 , to the abdication of Don Pedro the First in 1831 ; compiled from State Documents and other original sources , and forming a continuation to Southey ' s History of that Country . By John Arrnitago , Esq . 2 vols . London . Smith and Elder * 1836 .
Boazil has risen , in less than thirty years , from the condition ot a submissive colony to that of a great and independent Empire , governed b y a dynasty of its own choice , according to a constitution of its own appointment , and already possessing a public mind strong * enough to have forced the first of its emperors to 1
abdicate his throne . It is instructive , as well as interesting , to trace the causes of this extraordinary change , and the course of events which have attended its development ; and the means for such a study are provided by the publication of the present volumes .
The jealous rule of the Portuguese maintained for three centuries a kind of torpid repose in the fair and fertile portion of South America , which they had colonised . They restricted it from commerce or intercourse with any other people bnt themselves . The residence , or even admission , of foreigners within its bounds was prohibited ; or ,, if occasionally the vessel of some ally of the mother country was allowed to anchor in its ports , tbe passengers , and crews were only permitted to land under the convoy of a guard of soldiers . The government was vested ip viceroys , nominated for three years only , b y the court of Lisbon ; receiving their instructions from it , and obliged to render
an account to it of their proceedings . These viceroys were not allowed either to marry or to carry on any trading within the sphere of their jurisdiction . The judges of all the tribunals were also appointed by the King , and the Portuguese code was the law . The finances were under tlie control of t \\ e viceroys .
Tlie municipalities were close corporations , after the model of those of Portugal , forming a body of self-elected magistracy . The military were subject to the viceroys , but all the officers were appointed by the King-. The state of the clergy was singular . A pontifical bull had granted an entire ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all ultra-marine conquests , to the Grand Master of the
Order of Christ ; the kings of Portugal held this dignity , and iii consequence appropriated the tithes , paid the clergy as poorly tm they well could , and nominated to all the benefices . To prevent any dangefg u * &c £ uu * ula > iQU qf prqperty or capital , entails oould only be effected by an express permission from the sovereign , and all manufactures were strictly forbidden . Juiuca-
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THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/18/
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