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duties of the ollice he did liouor to tlie Tribunal and 

 to the United States. 



The deportment of ^Ir. Adams as a member of the 

 Tiibunal was unexceptionably dignified, manly, cour- 

 teous, even when compelled on more than one occa- 

 sion to notice rude acts or words of Sir Alexander 

 Cockburn. AVhile the conduct of the latter was too 

 fre(piently on the comparatively low plane of the nlil 

 prins attorney of a party before a court, the conduct 

 of the former was uniforndy on the higher one of a 

 member of the court aiid a judge. Hence, in the 

 same degree that the })ersonal inlluence of Mr, Adams, 

 byi'eason of his recognized impartiality and integrity, 

 was l)eneficial to the United States, on the other hand, 

 the inlluence of Sir Alexander Cockburn, by reason 

 of his petulant irritability and unjudicial partisanship 

 of action, was unfavorable to Great Britain. 



Such, then, were the Arbitrators representing the 

 five Governments. 



SECRETARY OF THE TUinUNAL. 



Their Secretary, ^Iv. Alexandre Favrot, was a gen- 

 tlemanly person of literary attainnients and profes- 

 sion, actually residing in Berne, but born in the 

 French-speaking Canton of Neuchatel, who had be- 

 come perfectly acquainted with the English language 

 by a sojourn of several years in England. 



AGENTS AND COUNSEL. 



The Agents of the two Governments, Lord Tenter- 

 den and jMr. Bancroft Davis, were peculiarly qualified 



