NOTES

ON

BRAZILIAN QUESTIONS.

BRAZILIAN QUESTIONS.

BY

W. D. CHRISTIE,

LATE HER MAJESTY'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND

• MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY IN BRAZIL.

“ Longa est injuria, longæ
Ambages, sed summa sequar fastigia rerum."

London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1865.

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CONTENTS.

NOTE.

CARTAS DO SOLITARIO” OF DR. TAVARES BASTOS. . . Page xvii

INTRODUCTION

ADDRESSED TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

ORIGIN OF THE WORK—THE BRAZILIAN AGENT-MISREPRESENTATIONS IN

“ DAILY NEWS” ABOUT REPRISALS—THE RIO CORRESPONDENT OF THE

“DAILY NEWS”-HONOURABLE CONDUCT OF THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY

NEWS” - EMANCIPADOS--RECENT PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRAZILIAN

GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR BENEFIT-GOOD EFFECT OF REPRISALS AND

LORD PALMERSTON'S SPEECH OF JULY 12-FORMER INATTENTION TO SIR

JAMES HUDSON'S AND MY REPRESENTATIONS-LORD PALMERSTON'S AND

SIR JAMES HUDSON'S FORMER ADVICE TO BRAZIL ON NATIONAL DIGNITY

-SIR JAMES HUDSON'S LANGUAGE TO AND OF BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT

-SLAVERY IN BRAZIL AND ITS INEVITABLE EFFECTS-SIR WILLIAM

OUSELEY AND MR. CONSUL VREDENBURG-SALE OF INFANTS BY NURSES

OF RIO FOUNDLING-HOSPITAL FOR SLAVERY-MR. COBDEN AND MR.

BRIGHT ON BRAZIL-MR. MILNER GIBSON AND MR. HUTT FORMERLY

MISINFORMED ABOUT THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT AND SLAVE-TRADE

-MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION OF MAY, 1857-ARTS OF BRAZILIAN AGENTS

---MISREPRESENTATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND CALUMNIES-DELUSIONS

ABOUT BRAZIL IN ENGLAND FROM SYSTEMATIC MISREPRESENTATION---

INFLUENCE OF GREAT CAPITALISTS-"EDINBURGH REVIEW"-LORD

RUSSELL AND LORD PALMERSTON ON REPEAL OF THE “ ABERDEEN

ACT” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi