84 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
he himself avowed, had not yet begun to examine the 
cause, and seemed to suppose that every body else 
ought to be as neglectfully ignorant of it as himself; 
which sentiment betrayed itself on variaus occasions 
in the sittings of the Tribunal. 
VISCOUNT OF ITAJUBA. 
On the left of Count Sclopis sat the Arbitrator 
named by the Emperor of Brazil, the Viscount of 
Itajuba. 
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 Brazil, in view of 
