No one can reflect upon the pressure of business which must have existed in the foreign office at Copenhagen during the past year, without feeling that the Count de Knuth must largely share his sovereign's zeal for science, as well as his love of justice.

Nothing else will account for the attention bestowed at such a political crisis on an affair of this kind.

The same attention appears to have been given to the subject by his successor, Count Moltka.
It was quite fortunate for the success of the application that the office of charge d'affaires of the United States at Copenhagen happened to be filled by a gentleman disposed to give it his prompt and persevering support.

A matter of this kind, of course, lay without the province of his official duties.

But no subject officially committed to him by the instructions of his government could have been more zealously pursued.