APPENDIX. 395 



'Lisbon: March 27, 1848. 



' Sir, While looking over my Brazilian papers the other day, I 

 came across the copy of a document, the contents of which are pro- 

 bably quite unknown to you, and I take the liberty of enclosing the 

 paper to your Excellency, since as it might have been productive of 

 the most disastrous consequences to the journey prosecuted by your 

 Excellency into the interior of America, it may prove an interesting 

 contribution to the account of your travels. 



' This document was given to me in Brazil by my revered friend 

 and benefactor, Count de Barca, who died as Minister there, -with 

 whom, as Antonio de Aranjo e Azevedo, your Excellency may pro- 

 bably have made acquaintance during his many years' residence in 

 Europe, when Ambassador at the Courts of the Hague, Paris, St. 

 Petersburg, and, if I mistake not, also of Berlin. He told me that 

 as soon as he was aware that an order of this nature had been issued 

 by the Ministry, he wrote immediately to the Prince Regent, 

 urging him at once to recall the order for the arrest of your Excel- 

 lency, whereby he would incur the odium of the whole of Europe, 

 and suggesting that an order should be issued instructing that 

 your Excellency should receive every assistance an application 

 which proved successful. 



* It thus appears that it was entirely owing to the influence of my 

 revered friend, who took a lively interest in science, and was in pos- 

 session of all the works published by your Excellency, that you es- 

 caped being arrested in the upper regions of the Orinoco, or on the 

 frontier of Brazil, which, if I mistake not, you crossed ; and further 

 escaped imprisonment in Ceazo, where you might have been detained 

 at least a year before an order for your release could have been 

 received from Portugal. 



' Hoping that your Excellency is in good health, I have the honour 

 to remain, &c., 



*BAKON VON ESCHWEGE.' 



The document is a warrant for arrest, and is as follows : 



' Notification of the 2nd of June, 1800, from Don Rodrigo de 

 Souza Coutinho to Bernardo Manuel de Yasconcelos, Governor of 

 the Province of Ceara. 



' The Prince Regent has commanded that your Excellency be 

 informed that in the " Gazeta de Colonia " of the 1st of April of 

 this year, it is stated that a certain Baron von Humboldt, a native 

 of Berlin, has been travelling in the interior of America, making 

 geographical observations for the correction of certain errors in 

 existing maps, collecting plants, of which he has secured 1,500 

 new varieties, with the intention of continuing his route through 



