Representations of the Brazilian Merchants Against the Insults Offered to the Portuguese Flag (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Representations of the Brazilian Merchants Against the Insults Offered to the Portuguese Flag The British nation is too generous and its government too enlightened, to tolerate the abuses which may be committed by any of its subjects. The acts of individuals must not, there fore, be laid to the charge of an impartial public who disdain and disavow every thing that has the least appearance of being either oppressive or unjust. If, therefore, a few of our naval officers have overstepped the bounds of propriety, and some of our inferior courts of admiralty have lent them their legal countenance, let them suffer the disgrace attendant on such a foul charge. If however their conduct has been misrepresented or if they have acted only from an honourable though mistaken zeal, it is their duty to vindicate themselves from aspersions which are unworthy to rest on the characters of British officers and of honest men. From these prefatory remarks, I wish to call the attention of my readers to the conduct which some of our naval officers have observed towards several Portuguese vessels trading on the coast of Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.