90 Tin: TllI'.ATY OK WASHINGTON. 



l)ersonal cousiiU'ratlons to tlic single object ot' win- 

 ning a groat canse, tlu' greatest ever (ioniniitted to the 

 cliarge of inenibers of the Bar, and pending in the 

 liiglu'st court ever organized, namely, the suit of 

 the United States against Great Britain Lefore the 

 Tril)unal of Arbitration. Although diverse in their 

 liahits of mind, and in their lines of experience and 

 action, they acted as a unit in the determination of 

 advice to be given from time to time to the Govern- 

 uient or its Agent ;— in the preparatiou of the printed 

 Argument required by the Treaty, a document of five 

 Inmdred pages, to be signed by them jointly; — and in 

 the subsequent preparation of a number of joint or 

 separate Arguments in comjdiance with the require- 

 ments of the Arbitrators. ^Vo may appeal to those 

 Arguments as the tangii)le proof, at any rate, of our 

 concurrent and united dedication, during nine months 

 of continuous and solicitous thought or laboi-, to the 

 discharge of our duty to our Government and our 

 country, as Counsel under the Treaty of Washington. 



Sir Ivoundell Palmer alone appeared before the 

 Tribunal as co nomine Counsel of Great Britain ; but 

 ^U: ]\IountaLCue J5ernard, elevated to the ofiice of a 

 law-URMuber of the Queen's Council, sat by his side at 

 the Counsels' table, and also ^Ir. Cohen. The hand 

 of the latter was apparent in the estimates and ex- 

 hibits presented to the Tribunal to guide them in the 

 determination of the damages to be awarded to the 

 United States. 



The recent promotion of Sir Roundell Palmer to 

 the pre-eminent post of Lord Chancellor, by the title 



