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coiiHidrnito om! at Now York. Jiiit JCurl do (Jivy 

 and llipon, who Lad now become ]\Iarquess of Ilipon, 

 deported Limself with admirable dignity. It was, in- 

 deed, "wittily said, or reported to Lave been said, by^ 

 Mr. Lowe, that Lord Ki])()n was going about veiy sick 

 at tLe stomacL of a niarquisate, wLicL Le would be 

 glad to tLrow up; but the reproacL'was wholly un- 

 deserved. Lord Eij)on manfully nu'iintained sik'ncu 

 wLilo to speak woukl liave been unwise; when at 

 length it became expedient to speak, he did so with 

 discretion and with judiciousness, beyond what ap- 

 peared in the speeches of some other members of the 

 Oovernmeut. 



ACTION OF THE AMERICAN AGENT AND COL'NSEL. 



"Whilst all these discussions were going on in Great 

 Britain and the United States, we, the Agent and 

 Counsel of the United States, were busily occupied, 

 partly at Washington but chiefly at Paris, in the 

 study of the British Case and the preparation of the 

 American Counter-Case. We had fixed on Paris for 

 our head-quarters, as a neutral city, as a great centre 

 of international jurisprudence and diplomacy, and as 

 a place in easy communication with London and with 

 Washington. 



From this ground of vantage we could observe 

 and estimate correctly the current of discussion in 

 America, in Great Britain, and on the Continent of 

 Europe. 



Speaking for myself, at least, let me say, it appear- 

 ed to me that much of what was being said in En- 



