The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-24
Occupation OF Uruguay by Brazil.
from the london Globe

The intelligence Just brought by the Liverpool and
Southampton packets from the BIa2ls and the Plate
(Which very stupidity manage their arrangements in
such manner as to arrive within few days OF eacn
other instead Of at equal hall monthly neryas) an
Pray Of tie republic of Uruguay On the lNth OF anu
airy, 1854, Senior LIMBO dAbIcn Foreign iiai'tr OF
Brazil issued Diplomatic circular in which tie reasons
and the objects Of the imperial government for this de-
termination fully stated and from that very able
document it appears that far from Brazil having any
ambitious designs IN adopting such policy, it has only
been resoed the earnest enreates and formal So
ctaon of the provisional government Of Uruguay, in
u6lment Of the spulaons of the treaty of 18th Octo
Der 1851 which defnitively settled the relations be-
tween the two States 1t is, therefore, loyal and
peaceable policy.
which followed and completed the liberation Of Uruguay
from the dominance and terrorism Of Rosas identical
under Lord Ponsonbys auspices the conclusion Of
the then war between Buenos Ayres and Brazil viz the
maintenance Of Independent State the eastern bank
of the estuary of the Plate But to its mante-
nance something than protection against assaults
from without clearly necessary Internal tranquility
and order are more indispensable And these Brazil
undertook by the treaty Of 1851 to establish when
called on by the government de fdcto Of Uruguay
This casus fGdeyis has arisen. So long as the ad.
minietraon Of President Giro could be supported 1t
had the support of Brazil; and at the very moment
that funci,nary away from his duties ashore,
and took refuge against nobody and nothing on board
French frgate, the Brazilian Minister sue
cessfuly negotiating compromise between him and the
opposition. His fight followed by the establish
ment OF provisional with Colonel Flores AZ
atty and frankness that it had the preceding govern
ment. But that the country is again threatened
with renewed and prolonged struggle between the two
parties Brazil has in conformity with the treaty of 1851
agreed to occupy in the interests Of and ORDER
the Banda Oriental and to preserve the tranquility Of
the country For this purpose the imperial government
has assembled al army of 900 men on its own frontier
and by this time the greater part of it has, doubt
passed into the republic Of Uruguay but not we repeat
boodshed and anarchy, and to give the people of Uru
quay opportunity Of establishing strong
enough to suppress oil disorders If that be possible
1t will not therefore, be the fault of the Brazilian 60
ve1nment il the Uruguay do not continue to be indie
pendent State such the governments of England and
France desire to It. In the step just taken 1t Is in
deed the policy Of those governments which Brazil by
it's intervention carrying OUT and as Is only in state
of peace that commerce flourish its Intervention
for the paciacaon Of Uruguay 10 equally advantageous
10 commerce So ar then, the present is concerned
The moderation of Brazil is in every respect praseworhy
babe prospects of Uruguay, to exceedingly
doubtful whether the policy which the English the
very nature of things, be permanently successful In
other words think neither past experience future
probabilities very favorable to the continued indie
pendence of the Oriental State.
The country forming that State is doubt large
enough to contain an independent nationality But then
it Is almost uninhabited The population Of the Banda
not $50 00ca very considerable part of which Is
centrated at and around Montevideo. The independ-
Of vast extent Of country, with only 900 peo
pie scattered its surface is diplomatic illu
sion. Either it can have government worthy OF the
name or 1t must pay for government ut rate ruin
to its material progress And thus it has turned
out. The government of Uruguay is literally over
whelmed with pecuniary liabilities Called into exist
only in 1928, it upwards of So 900 900.
II is in debt 10 the government Of Brazil it is in debt to
the government of France it is in debt to the English
merchants, to the French merchants-in fact it
money to every Of whom il has been able to beg
borrow TO steal OF il does not pay its debts
for how population of $50 0o0 250 900 deal
with insolvency enormous, attempt to lquidate
claims frghtfulY But the consequence is, that
the government of Uruguay leans this, and then it
leans that neghbor for support; now it is Buenos
Ayres then is Brazil that it calls for aid and assist
Nor are its 10000 or $4,000 inhabitants homoge-
1t is the fashion to speak of the Uruguay
Spanish American State; and doubt, when colony,
it last belonged to Spain. But previously 1t had been
Portuguese after separation IL again became Brazilian
and it has hybrid population-French Irish, TIA
liam, Portuguese Spanish, and African. The great landed
propretors Brazilian, and the mercantile community
is English and French. The navigation of the river Is
principally in italian hands; 1t is the lawlessness and
disregard for order that Spanish Now confess to
opinion that it is not for the interests of mankind to
maintain for the satisfaction Of diplomacy, indepen
dence to enable the Spanish part of the population
cut each others hroas retad the progress and depre
cate the property Of all the other in the country
We would much rather Uruguay undergo the fate Of
Texas and be absorbed by its most powerful neighbor
And to that 1t may probably come.