gj. Tin: TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



lie liliusulf avowal, liml not yet begun to examine tlie 

 cause, and seemed to suppose that every body else 

 ou<;bt to be as neglectTully it^Mioi'ant of it as himself: 

 whicli sentiment betrayed itself on various occasions 

 in the sittings of the Tribunal. 



VISCOtNT OK ITA.IL'nX. 



On the left of Couut Selopis sat the Arbitrator 

 named by tlie Emperor of Hrazil, the Viscount of 

 ItajubA. 



The pcoi)le of tlie United States do not seen\ to be 

 generally aware how much of high cultivation, es- 

 pecijiUy [but not exclusively] in the departments of 

 diplomacy and jurisprudence, exists in tliosc countries 

 of America which were colonized by Spain and Tor- 

 tULjal. Nevertheless, on careful consideration of tiie 

 sterling merits of such historical writers as the INIexi- 

 can T.ucas Alaman, — such authors of international ju- 

 risprudence as the Chilean Bello, the Argentine Calvo, 

 or the Peruvian Tando, — such writers of belles-lettres, 

 of travels, or of statistics, as the Colombians Samper 

 and Perez, — such ])oets as the Brazilian ]\Iagalhaens, 

 — such codes of municipal law as tliose of the States 

 of Cundinamarca and of ]\Iexico or of the Argentine 

 Confederation, and of other Picpublics of Spanish 

 America, — we should be compelled to admit that lit- 

 eratin-e and science are not confmed to our part of 

 the New World. 



And, amon^r all these new Powers of America, there 

 is not one more deserving of respect, — Empire and 

 not Republic though it be,— than Brazil, iu view of 



