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<hi rendition="#i">BARON HUMBOLDT.</hi><lb/><milestone unit="section" rendition="#hr"/><lb/></head>
<p>Baron Alexander Humboldt, the celebrated travel-<lb/>ler, having opened a public course of physical geogra-<lb/>phy at Berlin, was said in a German paper to have<lb/>commenced subscription lectures, and to have de-<lb/>manded 3<hi rendition="#i">l.</hi> for each admission ticket. The <hi rendition="#i">Moniteur</hi><lb/>copied this statement, and thus spread it over Europe.<lb/>The Baron, who was instructing the public without<lb/>any remuneration from the purse of individuals, has<lb/>addressed the following letter to the French official<lb/>journal, contradicting the false report. As we have<lb/>mentioned the object of the correction, we may give<lb/>the letter itself in the original.&#x2014;</p></div></div><lb/><div n="1"><head><hi rendition="#k">a monsieur le redacteur du moniteur uni-<lb/>versel.</hi></head><lb/><p>J&#x2019;ai lu avec la plus grande surprise dans votre journal du<lb/>7 Février, Monsieur, que j&#x2019;ai ouvert des cours de géographie<lb/>physique à Berlin par souscription, &#x201C;le cachet se payant trois<lb/>louis.&#x201D; Vous donnez cette nouvelle sur la foi d&#x2019;un journal<lb/>étranger, qui m&#x2019;est resté inconnu jusqu&#x2019;ici. J&#x2019;ose croire, que<lb/>toute réfutation est superflue pour la France, <choice><sic>ou</sic><corr>où</corr></choice> j&#x2019;ai résidé si<lb/>longtems: mais le <hi rendition="#i">Moniteur</hi> étant répandu dans les deux mon-<lb/>des, j&#x2019;ai pensé devoir signaler la fausseté et l&#x2019;inconvenance<lb/>d&#x2019;une assertion, dont je ne veux point examiner les motifs.<lb/>J&#x2019;ai ouvert deux cours publics, et en Allemagne, comme en<lb/>France, on ne paye pas, pour obtenir le droit d&#x2019;assister à un<lb/>cours public.&#x2014;Agréez, Monsieur, etc.</p><lb/><dateline>Berlin le 23 Février, 1828.</dateline><closer><salute>A. DE HUMBOLDT.</salute></closer></div><lb/><milestone unit="section" rendition="#hr"/><lb/>
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