;^S THE TIU:ATY OF WASHINGTON. 



tlon ^vllloh lie liad so pcivmptoi-ily rejected, but wliicli 

 ;Mi'. Sew.'iril persisted in asserting as \viso in itself and 

 honorable to both Ciovcrnnients. 



Tiiosc negotiations u\iled. But the rejection by 

 the Senate of the Clarendon -Johnson Treaty, ^vith 

 ^[r. Svunner's conunentary thereon, if it had the ap- 

 parent ellect, at lirst, of widening the breach between 

 tiie two countries by the imtation it produced in En- 

 gland, yet nltiniately had the opposite elVeet by forc- 

 ing on public attention there n more general and 

 clearer ])erception of the urong which had been done 

 to the United States. 



I'OLirY OK riU:slI)KNT CilJANT. 



At this stage of the question. President Grant cuino 

 into olllee; and he and his advisers seem to havi' well 

 judged that it sulViced for him, after giving expres- 

 sion fully and distinctly to his own view of the 

 questions at issue, there to pause and wait for the 

 tranquillization of opinion in England, and the prob- 

 able initiation of new negotiations by the British 

 Ciovernment. 



It happened as the President anticipated, and with 

 attendant circumstances of peculiar interest to the 

 United States. 



During the late war between Germany and France, 

 the condition of Europe was such as to induce the 

 British ]\Iinisters to take into consideration the for- 

 eign relations of Great Britain ; and, as Lord Gran- 

 ville, the British ^Minister of Foreign Ailairs,has him- 

 self stated in the House of Lords, they saw cause to 



