text:  This treaty is not important only in reference to the greater facilities and increase of trade conceded with the provinces on the right bank of the river Plate and of the Uruguay and Parana but inasmuch also as in the possible failure of the negotiations for the renewal of the commercial treaty with Brazil now approaching its term it cannot fail to secure easy access for British wares in the territory of Rio Grande lying on the borders of the republic of the Uruguay and far the most extensive though not the most populous of Brazilian provinces; and this in despite of the Government of Brazil which does not and cannot possess the means for repressing its intercourse with Monte Video even though its possession and authority were as absolute and acknowledged in Rio Grande as they are decidedly the reverse