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the magnitude of its territory, tlie greatness of its re- 

 sources, its military strength and successes, its enlight- 

 ened and reforming chief ruler, the substantial li]:)er- 

 ality of its political institutions, and the unbroken 

 domestic tranquillity of its independent life, so strik- 

 ingly in contrast with the revolutionary agitations of 

 most of the Spanish-American Republics. 



Marcos Antonio d'Araujo belongs to that numer- 

 ous body of jurists and statesmen, the natural growth 

 of parliamentary institutions based on popular elec- 

 tion, who do honor at the present time to Brazil. He 

 filled in early life the chair of Professor of Jurispru- 

 dence in the University of Pernambuco. His first 

 diplomatic appointment was that of Consul-General 

 of Brazil in the Hanse Towns, with residence at Ham- 

 burg. After that he held successively the ofiices of 

 Minister or Envoy at Hanover, at Copenhagen, at 

 Berlin, and finally at Paris. At the time of his ap- 

 pointment as Arbitrator he was Envoy Extraordi- 

 nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in France, 

 by the title of Baron dTtajubd, and he was made a 

 Viscount during the progress of the Arbitration. 



With exception, therefore, of the judicial studies 

 and occupations of his youth, the Viscount of Itajubd, 

 is a diplomatist, having passed nearly forty years of 

 his life in the discharge of diplomatic functions in 

 diff*erent countries of Europe. He j)ossesses all the 

 qualities of his career and station, namely, courteous 

 and attractive manners, intelligence disciplined by long 

 experience of men and affairs, instinctive appreciation 

 of principles and facts, and the ready expression of 



