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them under his care to the hospital, from whence 
on the following morning, having slept off their 
intoxication, they were dismissed as cured.— 
Another, and a different anecdote, I heard from 
a painter from Vienna, who was residing in Rio 
Janeiro. The Emperor, wishing to have a 
whole-length portrait of himself, sent for the 
painter to place his easel in a room in the palace, 
and commenced sitting. The first outline was 
scarcely made, when an officer, whose business 
it was to report the arrival of ships, entered 
with the list. The names of the ships and cap- 
tains, of various nations and languages with 
which the officer was unacquainted, puzzled 
him, and he read so stammeringly, and some- 
times almost unintelligibly, that the Emperor, 
enraged at his ignorance, seized a stick, and 
the officer, only by a rapid flight round the 
easel, in which he was at first pursued by the 
monarch, escaped the intended chastisement. 
We shall be less surprised at this conduct, if 
we consider the point of civilization to which 
the country had attained when this Prince first 
seized the helm. May he succeed in elevating 
it to what his government may make it,—the 
