The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

MONDAY, JAAJAItY 8, 1821

they ure obliged to work to pay the expense of their
passage, though it is pretended to be given to them
gratis : thus, under the mane of' debtors, they remain
slaves llx six or eight years before they recover their
liherty. In the states from Pr.i'adclphia to Charles-
town, and New Orleans, .the yellow fever makes
dreadful ravages, and milli* of Europeans have
there met a premature death.
Who has not lust friends or relations at tbs.
Havannah,. Jamaica, tit. Domingo, el:c.? Merchants
9nd sailors are carried off,• not otts attempting to
reside, but merely by touchikg on the soil of• these
countries. But there is another inconvenience. Who
has not heard of those storms, tempests, hurricanes,
or typlions, which from time to time destroy
the hopes of the cultivator? In one night,
in one hour, alt the fruits of the labour of' several
years are. annihilated, the fruit trees arc uprooted,,
and the houses levelled in ruins. In Brazil no con-
tagious disorders arc known, and the fertile lands
arc never ravaged by tempests. Both capitOists and
colonists must therefore rind the securitrand value
of landed property greater in Brazil -than in these
countrie, whether that property be acquired by
purelmse, or received gratuitously front the govern-
ment. •
" After. what I have states of Brazil, it may be
perhaps supposed, that it is a land of promise, a ter-
restrial paradise,' where every thing is to be found
in abundance, and where it is only necessary to put
forth the hand, and receive a supply of every want.
This idea, however, would be very fallacious. The
inhabitants lead a hard life; products of the• first •
necessity ate scarce, and a multitude of difficulties
ere experienced.

" Above all, there is a want of hands. In general,
the population and, the number of the artisans uru
not in proportitt to the extcrit °Prins kingdom, and
the increase of its commerce and communications'

have tug, us yet been sufficiently liteilitated by the
establishment of Public rontls.

" The Government has been at- considerable ex-
pense in making a road through the mountains of
Estrella, seven leagues from ltio Janeiro; but, on
arriving at the ftot adds mountain, only x leagues
from the bay of ltio Janeiro, the road is sometimes
only passable at the risk of life,
" In vain will proprietors endeavour to derive
advantage from the firtility of the land grantel to
them gratuitously, while the government does not •
devout its attention to the making of toads, and the
farmers cannot seod their produce to Market, except
at the risk of the loss of the property, the mules that
carry it, and the lives of the conductors, However
productive the soil, the poor peasant finds no cm-mi-
n:gement to plant tiave that is necessary for his own
existence. He often has nut enough to support his
tinnily. The lower class are in a wretched situation,
and the intoshitants of a country overflowing with
abundance arc miserably poor, and badly fed.
" Notwithstanding these, inconveniences, and
many others, there ure always persons desirous of
settling in Brazil ; but on examining the subject
attention, it will appear that there arc persons
who act us crroteously in going there, us the
government would in giving them uu encouraging
reception.

~..Every emigrant ought to have an olljt.ct con-
limitable to his talents and his pecuniary means.
The capitalist with the most cunsiderabla bums
caruot sues:cud alone j and the must skilful workman
s%-ut do nothing without being oniployea by inter-
nnAiatc contractors, whether they pay him by the
day, or lend him money for a eettain time. I call
adventurers pevons who emigrate witiptit the re-
quii.ite qualifications and inihrmation, and without
the assistance either of the government or a con-
tractor, ur 110174 U ilidiViaLlia.illreaq 164:aka in the
country. -

The- province of Rio Janeiro being nearly us large
us France, and the limit or The ISraxii embracing
an extent nearly to that of Europe, the planters and
urtktus to whom the government generously ()tiers
essistancp, nmy choose any spot they think most.
convenient for their Lusiaess, or the branch of
Industry they to pUr3tlO.
" Emigrants who mean to devote themselves to
ltuslanofry should kttlo without the tropics, or is
the upband rovinces, The soil of provinces
is kid wt;11 L4(44 ttl to the cultivation ut env vine,

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