84: THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



lie LImself avowed, had not yet begun to examine tLe 

 cause^ and seemed to suppose tliat every body else 

 ought to be as neglectfully ignorant of it as himself: 

 which sentiment beti-ayed itself on various occasions 

 in the sittinsrs of the Tribunal. 



VISCOUNT OF ITAJUBA. 



On the left of Count Sclopis sat the Arbitrator 

 named by the Emperor of Brazil, the Viscount of 

 Itajub^. 



The people of the United States do not seem to be 

 generally aware how much of high cultivation, es- 

 pecially [but not exclusively] in the departments of 

 diplomacy and jurisprudence, exists in those countries 

 of America which were colonized by Spain and Por- 

 tugal. Nevertheless, on careful consideration of the 

 sterling merits of such historical writers as the Mexi- 

 can Lucas Alaman, — such authors of international ju- 

 risprudence as the Chilean Bello, the Argentine Calvo, 

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

 of travels, or of statistics, as the Colombians Samper 

 and Perez, — such poets as the Brazilian Magalhaens, 

 — such codes of municipal law as those of the States 

 of Cundinamarca and of Mexico or of the Argentine 

 Confederation, and of other Republics of Spanish 

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

 erature and science are not confined to our part of 

 the New World. 



And, among all these new Powers of America, there 

 is- not one more deserving of, respect, — Empire and 

 not Republic though it be, — than Bi-azil, in view of 



