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"Inland trade" is given as the ostensible motive for the journey. thus doing away at once, with the necessity of carrying into execution any of the arrangements. I had proposed to you, in consequence of the offer that occasioned them I should add, that from the information I have acquired, I am strongly inclined to think, that in the present state of this country, were I to travel in the character of a Naturalist sent by the British Government, I should incur both suspicion, & mistrust, and at all events; have to encounter obstacles. arising from either real or pretended officious civility, which as a private individual I shall be totally free from.
It indeed appears to me, that the weak & criminal system of policy the cabinet of Portugal has adopted towards her So American possessions,