However, if the inhabitants are
satisfied, there is nothing more to be said. Should they ever be convinced
that inconveniences exist, and that nuisances are too frequent, the remedy
is in their own hands. At present, certainly, they seem perfectly
regardless of them; and the Captain-General of Pernambuco walks through the
streets with as apparent content and composure as an English statesman
would proceed down Charing Cross. Custom reconciles everything. In a week
or two the stranger himself begins to feel less the things which annoyed
him so much upon his first arrival, and after a few months' residence he
thinks no more about them, while he is partaking of the hospitality and
enjoying the elegance and splendour within doors in this great city.
Close by the river-side stands what is called the palace of the Captain-
General of Pernambuco. Its form and appearance altogether strike the
traveller that it was never intended for the use it is at present put to.
Reader, throw a veil over thy recollection for a little while, and forget
the cruel, unjust and unmerited censures thou hast heard against an
unoffending order.
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