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' to every one , that while Brazil had been continually making progress fjroin 16 & 4 uAtil the present period , the senate , which was for the moit ptofrefMtepoied of sexagenarians , whose habits of thought were fixed , had reuaainad perfectly stationary . It was thus possible , urged they , < that itt l&H this body might have represented Brazil , but that at the actual period it represented only the old prejudices which were daily losing their fores and influence throughout the entire national association . —Vol . ii . p . 89 .
The disordered state of the finances , the extravagance of the court and the unsuccessful issue of the war with Buenos Ayres , were altogether little calculated to satisfy the people with their government ; and in addition , they were beset by a feeling of jealousy , induced by the evident and very natural partiality of Don Pedro for his native country , and for the exiles whose
adh # rence to the cause of his daughter , in opposition to Don Miguel , h&d fbrced to take refuge in Brazil . Meantime , a mighty influence had arisen , and had given an impetus to the public mind tfiih ^ hich th e monarch was unable to keep pace ; the constitution' h&d taken the censorship off the press , and since the period of tB £ Andtada ministry it had been left tolerably free .
"In"Europe , " says Mr . Armitage , " where the means of acquiring knowledge are so many and so various , the influence of the periodical press is every where felt and acknowledged ; in Brazil , where no standard lijt ^ rature has hitherto had existence , and where the po litical j ournals form alnibst tjie only vehicles of information , the influence is eyen more pp * H « r 1 & : " # * ? " * f * r 11 ni the commencement of their career they were invested with an otiti&pdtknte , ^ thich , whether for good or evil , has perhaps seldom , if et ^ tkfen Mralteled in any country . The number of readers was com - plMtitffely ttfaatautive , yet it comprised within its limits at least one or two
inwmwMmB in every town and village in the empire ; and the opinions atoct < theories which they adopted spread around them in concentric circW * * * * " The ^ yettfiu of education in Brazil was as yet unchanged , but many ° * $ W * && % KnttUsh and French authors were found in the hand of eveicv stua ^ nt , and their effects were at length becoming apparent . "—Vol . ii . p . 2 and 6 . yyliipn , in addition to all these influences , the news of the F ^ e ncL revolution of 1830 arrived , the effect on the people was eJactaAc . Don Pedro found himself unable to satisfy their
de-T ^ n ^ dfll , and the following year he abdicated bis throne . > A political struggle such as this , must be interesting at all times for its own sake . In our own country , at the present day , it ii peculiarly so , particularly in relation to the second chamber df Ate legislature . It is curious to observe the extreme difficttitT < df mttkftig such an institution anything but an evil ; and to nWfefe that , ^ ren whe n carefully g uard ed from thfc operation of sfmil ^ Interests , it yet proved sdeh ail obstruction to fto ^
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4 ftl History of Brazil .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/22/
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