By this means frequent and lengthy sessions of the XIX., at vast expense to the Company, might be dispensed with, and these need not be held more than once, or at most, twice a year, for which time all business should be prepared by the aforesaid permanent Board, and full information and explanation given of the circumstances of the foreign conquests, as well as of the state of the receipts and expenses, and the entire condition as well of the general Company as of each particular Chamber.Thus all inequality and disproportion between these is remedied, and principally the troubles and canker of jealousy among the Chambers removed or diminished ;

inasmuch as those proceed mainly from the fact, that the one Chamber does its business without communicating with the other; each pays more attention to his own Chamber's profit than to that of the general body; yea, endeavors to defraud the latter. In which case, this Board, being general and impartial, would study the common interest of the Company and hold such balance between the Chambers as that the one would not be wronged or oppressed by the other. snperintendence in Thus much of the Superintendence in this country. ihu country. rp|^g government of Brazil being after mature deliberation, recently composed of one president and four supreme councillors, a Court of justice and Board of Finance, with other additional high and low officers in the Company's employment, although it costs, on account of their wages and salaries a considerable sum, yet no fundamental reform can be introduced therein until it be seen how far the lost conquests will be recovered, and with what number of officers and servants the business there can be carried on. And especially when population increases and Brazil becomes inhabited by Netherlanders, many suitable persons from the Commonalty should be employed at a small stipend in the Company's service.