ral Brown, or as Commodore
Purvis calls him, "Mr. Brown, the British subject, commanding the
Buenos Ayrean squadron before Monte Video," will never run the double
risk of being sunk by an English broadside, or of being hung as a
traitor by resisting the orders of his own Government, if he is
convinced that his Government means to be obeyed, and the moment that
he strikes his flag, Oribe will have nothing left but to make the best
terms for himself and his army. He draws all his provisions from the
fleet, and must retire when his supplies are cut off.

Within the last few days information has been received from Buenos
Ayres strongly confirmatory of some of the views stated above.
According to letters from that city of the 7th February, the
Governments of Brazil and Paraguay have formed a treaty offensive and
defensive, in which they stipulate for the freedom of the rivers
flowing through the territories of both. This is a movement of the
greatest commercial as well as political importance, and if the
independence of Monte Video is preserved, there can be no doubt that
it will join this league, and that the line of communication with the
interior of South America up the River Uruguay will be kept open, even
if General Rosas should persist in his illegal anti-social policy of
closing the Parana against foreign nations.

FOOTNOTES

[A] The Monte Videan Government has granted a patent for
introducing steamers on all its rivers to an Englishman, Mr.
Bugglen.--(_See Appendix._)

[B] Plans for forming such a canal were under consideration by
the Commissioners appointed under the treaty of San Ildefonso,
in 1778, to fix the boundaries of the Spanish and Portuguese
possessions.

[C] MR. MANDEVILLE'S SUMMONS.

_Buenos Ayres, December 16th, 1842._

The Governments of England and France having determined to
adopt such measures as they may consider necessary to put an
end to the hostilities between the Republics of Buenos Ayres
and Monte Video, the undersigned Minister Plenipotentiary of
her Britannic Majesty to the Argentine Confederation, has the
honour, conformably to the instructions received from his
Government, to inform H. E. M. Arana, Minister for Foreign
Affairs of the Government of Buenos Ayres, that the sanguinary
war at present carried on between the Government of Buenos
Ayres and t