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seat on the Bench, and he performed the difficult duty 

 with the impartiality of a jurist and the delicate honor 

 of a gentleman&quot; And this well-merited commenda 

 tion of Mr. Adams is prefatory to the exhibition of 

 Sir Alexander Cockburn retaining still &quot; the temper 

 of an advocate when lie took his seat on the Bench,&quot; 

 and not performing his duties &quot;with the impartiality 

 of a jurist and the delicate honor of a gentleman,&quot; but 

 to the contrary, as shown by his deportment at Gene 

 va, and authenticated under his own hand in these 

 &quot; Reasons.&quot; 



There is no escape from the dilemma : it was hon- 

 orable to Mr. Adams to act as a &quot;judge&quot; at Geneva; 

 and, of course, to act as a mere &quot; advocate &quot; was dis 

 honorable to Sir Alexander Cockburn. 



And thus we may comprehend at a glance, what 

 seems so remarkable to the Telegraph [September 26], 

 that when we pass from the printed -opinions of the 

 three neutral Arbitrators, whose &quot;fairness&quot; nobody 

 disputes, and from those of the impartial &quot;jurist&quot; 

 and honorable &quot; gentleman,&quot; Mr. Charles Francis Ad 

 ams, to the &quot;Reasons&quot; of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 

 &quot;We seem to- go into another climate of opinion. . . . 

 We find different premises, a different bias, a differ 

 ent logic, and we might almost say different facts.&quot; 

 So it is, indeed ; and the explanation is obvious. 

 The &quot;climate&quot; of Count Sclopis, Baron dTtajuba, Mr. 

 Stsempfli, and Mr. Adams, was that. of fairness, judi 

 cial dignity, impartiality, gentlemanly honor, such as 

 belonged to their place as Arbitrators : the &quot;climate&quot; 

 of Sir Alexander Cockburn was that of a self-appoint- 



