Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-07-04

1 lie IOhOWnlS 10 tiic >'"tS Va 'hN -. -
| navy of Spain =,
| Asia, 6t guns, refttcd III portsmouth,
| 1911, now in CadIz. =.
| Frigates, La Prueba, II now at Cadz,
refitted in England, 1911.
Esmeralda, IL, now ut CadIZ.
Sabina, Sc, now at Vera Cruz, reiitted
in England, 1911, 1912.
lphigenia, 40, and Diana, 40, now IN
the w. Indies: went out with Moriiio,
and are scarcely sea-wortly.
So that they have but two irigates IN
Europe TO send.
LONDON, Ap il 81.
For a. long time il was believed that the
hostile movement of the Brazilian army
was i'm concert with the Madrid Cabinet,
and undertaken by virtue of some stipula-
ton i'm the marriage contract, or as CO.
operating aid. Posterior events have,
however, convinced ms that Spain is no
party TO the measure, but, on the contra
nv, is in high tiudgeon at this attack on
what she still calls her own territory.
The news that Portuguese army had
actually entered province, still enulne-
rated on European maps as belonging 30
Spain, reached the Peninsula about the
same time the Brazil brides landed in
Cadiz, and the circumstance was very
near overturning the hymeneal project
One bold leader in the Spanish Cabinet,
who wished that his master should prefer
ably be allied TO the reigning House Of
Russia, is said to have gone so far as TO
propose that the two expectant fair ones
should be escorted from Cadiz 10 LIS
bon, instead of Madrid, but ii was deem
ed that the affair had gone too far, and ii
he
desist on a strong remOustrance, sup
ported by the tears of his absent daugh-
tiers. The aggression is, however, pre-
sisted IN, Notwithstanding prayers and
protests and without entering into the
various reports such an event must have
given rise to in Court like that of Mad
rid where women act so eminent part
in the drama of the State, or waiting for
the decision of the Allied Powers on this
head, we shall for moment transfer our
selves TO the other side OF the Atlantic
and examine what parties are most affect,
ed by The present attempt OF Portugal 10
extend her limits.
Though now the most enraged and the
most busy, Spain is of all others the least
affected by the progress of Portuguese
arms and intrigue III the New "Vcri. at
lcsSt as far as relates ~ the present n
cursion, since the territory In question
has been severed from her for the last six
years, and under the operation of self
government.-She is, however, well aware
that the Portuguese are now only at
tempting TO Ell up partial outline of the
grand project they have formed in, the
New World, since Europe has been absn-
donea, and that success In one instance
would only be the basis of fresh aggran-
dizing attempts. Still, in fact, would she
there lose less than ourselves, for we are
actually under the enjoyment ola trade in
those provinces after which the Brazil
Cabinet bankers, and where the Spanish
flag has long ceased to wave--a trade, we
repeat, that annually consumes two mil
lions sterling of our goods, gives employ
ment to sixty vessels every year, furnish
es us with returns essential TO our wants,
and that when the interior of the country
is opened, will be more than tripled.
Hence then does the Portuguese ag-
gression deeply affect British interests,
and for this reason deserves full inquiry
into its nature. The Buenos Ayres gov
eminent, as early as June 1916, published
manifesto on this subject, stating, that
several emi~rants from the River Plata
had signed memorial, encouraging the
| Brazil Cabinet 10 attempt the projected
conquest; that another had been handed
| to Lord BEREsFoRD, urging him 10 ac-
cept the command, and that both even
tuaily had been forwarded TO the British
government. The recall of Lord BEREs-
FORD is said TO have been the result OF
this measure, but the new Sovereign OF
the West was by no means disheartened
in a project that had been long premedi.
tated and combined, and had already
costlarge sums. One would have thought
that Sovereign, who by usurpation had
been driven from his home in Europe
| would have hesitated before he again
placed his personal safety in danger, by
| recurring to plans similar TO those OF
| which he had nearly become the victim
Landed, however, in the western hem
| isphere, new order of things had com
| menced. Forthe first time then did King
JOHN and his ministers learn tue politi.
| cal importance of the Brazils, compared
| with the corner in Europe they had lust
| abandoned. Removed from the clogs oil
| European politics, there they found ali the
| elements of powerful and extended en-
| pire. The Brazils were also situated in
| the centre of the great revolutions which
had already began TO agitate the former
| domlniOns of Spain in America and il
was evident that the consolidation of 2
throne IN Rio Janeiro, was the only mean.
| Of exiinguisbing the flame of liberty
which already beamed in every direction
| of tile western hemisphere. TWAS there
| fore necessary, not only to preserve. BIN
TO aggrandiZe, and Minister ARAUJo haC
the courage TO conceive the project, anC
dared 10 tell his master, he must SPUR
at the vessels England had sem TO conve,
him back TO Europe. This, added I've. i.
the only way to break the letters imposed
by the Cabinet ofSt. James, 10 keep sloo
from the future broils and coniingencie.