98 THE TKEATY OF WASHINGTON. 



sketches, and bring us to the consideration of the ul 

 terior proceedings of the Tribunal. 



Occasionally, but not frequently, at the present clay, 

 we hear in the United States ungracious suggestions 

 touching the personal deportment of Englishmen. No 

 such observations, it is certain, are justified by any ex 

 perience of the city of Washington. The eminent 

 persons, who, in the present generation, have repre 

 sented the British Government here, whether in per 

 manent or special missions, such as Sir Richard Pack- 

 enham, Lord Napier, Lord Lyons, Sir Frederick Bruce, 

 and Sir Edward Thornton, of the former class, and 

 Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Elgin, Earl De Grey, 

 Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Mountague Bernard, Sir 

 John A. Macdonald, and Lord Tenterden, of the latter 

 class, with the younger persons of their respective 

 suites, and so many others who have visited this city, 

 were unmistakably and with good cause popular with 

 the Americans. Indeed, it is rather in Continental 

 Europe, and especially in France, and by no means 

 in the United States, that overbearingness or un- 

 courteous deportment toward others is regarded as a 

 trait of Englishmen. 



And it is agreeable to remember that, of the ten 

 Englishmen with w 7 honvwe of the United States came 

 in daily contact at Geneva, and sometimes in circum 

 stances of contentious attitude of a nature to produce 

 coolness at least, all but one were uniformly and un- 

 exceptionably courteous in act and manner, and that 

 one Chief Justice of the Queen s Bench. 



Is a holder of the office of Chief Justice emanci- 



