36 MEMOIR OF 



made known to all those who are interested or oc- 

 cupied in similar inquiries."* 



The following extract represents the subject of 

 our sketch as the accomplished courtier, and gives 

 some ghmpses of his manners and personal habits. 

 It is taken from a publication by an English travel- 

 ler, t and refers to a visit which he made to the 

 baths of Teplitz in the month of July, 1834, when 

 the late King of Prussia and Humboldt were so- 

 journing there : — 



" Even the formalities which here surround the 

 Prussian monarch have something of a redeeming 

 quality from the character of those who are its 

 agents. He admits about him nothing that is pre- 

 sumptuous or impertinent : his chamberlains are 

 philosophers, and the honorary offices of his court 

 are bestowed on those most distinguished for their 

 civil and military talent. He is the zealous patron 

 of science and of art ; and Humboldt is his chosen 

 counsellor. Except the Grand Chamberlain and the 

 Minister-at-War, this great man, in whom profound 

 and varied science is combined with the most grace- 

 ful elegance, was the only attendant of the Sove- 

 reign at Teplitz; for his high talent and habitual 

 knowledge of courts and politics, and men, render 

 him a counsellor almost as valuable for the general 

 affairs of the state, as for those to which the labours 



* Edinburgh Journal of Science, conducted by Dr. Brewster, 

 vol. X. p. 227. 



+ Austria, by Peter Evan Turnbull, Esq. F. R. S., F, S. A. : 

 London, 1840: vol. i. p. 33. 



