people of their own might fail them.  There is no printing press in Brazil.  They consider the North American revolution as a precedent for theirs.  They look to the United States as most likely to give them honest support, and, from a variety of considerations, have the strongest prejudices in our favor.  This informant is a native and inhabitant of Rio Janeiro, the present metropolis, which contains fifty thousand inhabitants, knows well St. Salvador, the former one, and the mines d’or, which are in the centre of the country.  These are all for a revolution; and, constituting the body of the nation, the other parts will follow them, The King’s fifth of the mines, yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars.  He has the sole right of searching for diamonds and other precious stones, which yield him about half as much.  His income from those two resources alone, then, is about ten millions of dollars annually; but the remaining part of the produce of the mines, being twenty-six millions, might be counted on for effecting a revolution.  Besides the arms in the hands of the people, there are public magazines.  They have abundance of horses, but only a part of their country would admit the service of horses.  They would want cannon, ammunition, ships, sailors, soldiers, and officers, for which they are disposed to look to the United States, it being always understood, that every service and furniture will be well paid.  Corn costs about twenty livres the one hundred pounds.  They have flesh in the greatest abundance, insomuch, that in some parts, they kill beeves for the skin only.  The whale fishery is carried on by Brazilians altogether, and not by Portuguese; but in very small vessels, so that the fishermen know nothing of managing a large ship.  They would want of us; at all times, shipping, corn, and salt fish.  The latter is a great article, and they are at present supplied with it from Portugal.  Portugal being without either army or navy, could not attempt an invasion under a twelvemonth.  Considering of what it would be composed, it would not be much to be feared, and if it failed, they would probably never attempt a second.  Indeed, this source of their wealth being intercepted, they are scarcely capable of a first effort.  The thinking part of the nation are so sensible of this, that they consider an early separation inevitable.  There is an implacable hatred between the Brazilians and Portuguese; to reconcile which, a former minister adopted the policy of letting the Brazilians into a participation of public offices; but subsequent administrations have reverted to the ancient policy of keeping the administrations in the hands of native Portuguese.  There is a mixture of natives, of the old appointments, still remaining in office.  If Spain should invade them on their southern extremities, these are so distant from the body of their settlements, that they could not penetrate thence; and Spanish enterprise is not formidable.  The mines d’or are among mountains, inaccessible to any army; and Rio Janeiro is considered the strongest port in the world after Gibraltar.  In case of a successful revolution, a republican government in a single body would probably be established.’