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pated from all social bonds I It is not so with Chief 

 Justices in America ; nor was it so in former days in 

 Great Britain, according to my recollection of the 

 great judges, the Eldous, the Tenterdens, and the 

 Stowells, who then presided over the administration 

 of the common law, and of the equity and admiralty 

 jurisprudence of England. Has the human race there 

 degenerated ? I think not : no possible judicial ten 

 ure of office could transform or deform a Eoundell 

 Palmer into an Alexander Cockburn. 



EFFORTS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN 

 REARGUMENT. 



The Tribunal and the persons attending it are now 

 before us, and we resume its proceedings at the point 

 where we left them, namely, the session of the 27th 

 of June, at the close of the address of Count Sclopis. 

 The &quot;Argument,&quot; filed in behalf of the United 

 States on the 15th of June, was prepared and deliv 

 ered in strict conformity with the stipulations of the 

 Treaty. It was, in effect, the closing argument on the 

 whole case, consisting of an abridged view of the facts 

 on both sides as presented in their &quot; Cases &quot; and 

 &quot; Counter-Cases,&quot; with appropriate discussion of the 

 questions of law which the claims of the United States 

 involved. We followed the ordinary routine of judi 

 cial controversy, and the course of common-sense and 

 of necessity, in giving a complete resume of our Case 

 in the final &quot;Argument,&quot; as contemplated and pre 

 scribed by the Treaty. 



The &quot;Case? and &quot; Counter-Case &quot; of each side had 



