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earliest moment possible, signs became visible of 

 the singular want of discretion and good sense of 

 the &quot;enfant terrible,&quot; ostentatiously protocoled &quot;Lord 

 Chief Justice of England,&quot; whom the British Govern 

 ment had placed on the Tribunal. 



The vernacular tongue of Count Sclopis was Ital 

 ian ; that of the Baron d ltajuba, Portuguese ; and 

 that of Mr. Stsempfli, German. Count Sclopis spoke 

 and read English, and Mr. Stsempfli read it. All the 

 Arbitrators, however, were well acquainted with 

 French ; and it was in this language that they com 

 municated w r ith one another, whether in social inter 

 course or in the discussions of the Tribunal. Thus, 

 we had before us a Tribunal, the members of which 

 did not either of them make use of his own language 

 in- their common business ; but met, all of them, on 

 the neutral ground of the common diplomatic lan 

 guage of Europe. 



In this connection it was that the United States 

 enjoyed their first advantage. Our Government did 

 not need to w T ait until the organization of the Tribu 

 nal to know in what language its proceedings would 

 be conducted ; and, in prevision of this fact, it ordered 

 the American &quot;Case&quot; to be translated from the En 

 glish into French, so as to be presented simultaneous 

 ly in both languages at the meeting of the Tribu 

 nal: the exigency for which was not anticipated, 

 or, if anticipated, was not provided for, by the Brit 

 ish Government. 



The American &quot; Case &quot; and documents are contain 

 ed in eight volumes octavo, which consist in all of 



