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pated from all social bonds? It is not so ultli Chief 

 Justices in America ; nor Avas it so in former days in 

 Great Britain, according to my recollection of tlie 

 great judges, the Eldous, the Tenterdens, and the 

 Stowells, who then presided over the administration 

 of the common law, and of the crpiity and admiralty 

 jurisprudence of Knghuid. lias the human race there 

 degenerated? I think not: no possible judicial ten- 

 ure of otlicG could transform or deform a Houndcll 

 Palmer into an Alexander Cockburn. 



EFFORTS OF THE IJIUTISII GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN 

 REARGUJIENT. 



The Tribunal and the persons attending it are now 

 before us, and we resume its proceedings at the point 

 where we left them, namely, the session of the 27th 

 of June, at the close of the address of Count Sclopis. 



The "Argument," filed in behalf of the United 

 States on the 15th of June, was prepared and deliv- 

 ered in strict conformity with tlie stipulations of the 

 Treaty. It was, in elfect, the closing argument on the 

 whole case, consisting of an abridged view of the facts 

 on both sides as presented in their "Cases" and 

 " Counter-Cases," with appropriate discussion of the 

 questions of law which the claims of the United States 

 involved. AVe followed the ordinary routine of judi- 

 cial controversy, and the course of conunon-sense and 

 of necessity, in giving a complete n'sunia of oiu* Case 

 in the final "Argument," as contemiilatcd and pre- 

 scribed by the Treaty. 



The "Case" and "Countcr-Case" of each side had 



