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and with confident expectation only as to thoS It en- 

 andoah after she left iSIelboni'ne. Without pausing 

 here to consider particularly the Jutrilmtioii and the 

 Georgia, sullice it to say that eventually they were 

 rejected; hut the ShciKdidoaJi, after special explana- 

 tions in writing submitted by the Counsel of the two 

 GoN'crnnientH, was lield responsible by vote of three 

 of the Arbitrators, Count Sclopis, ]\Ir. Stiemplli, and 

 ]\Ir. Adams. As the Shenandoah, after increasing 

 lier Jirmament at jMclbourne, had made many captures 

 at the very close of the war, when her cruise could 

 not be of any possible advantage to the Confederates, 

 lier exoneration by the Tribunal would have been 

 justly regarded by us as an act of great injustice to 

 the United States. 



Tiiic si'EciAL AllOL^^[I■:^•Ts. 



Jt remains next to speak of the successive Argu- 

 ments of Counsel before the Tril)unal, as well those 

 lieretofore indicated as othei'S called for in the se(iu»'l. 



On the 'Jijth of July, as we have se(.'n, the Tri- 

 bunal voted to require from the Counsel of Great 

 Britain a written or printed Argument touching cer- 

 tain points. 



On the 29th, Lord Tcnterdeu announced that he 

 had delivered the required Argument of the British 

 Counsel to the Secretary of the Tribunal. 



The copy thus delivered was in manuscript. As 

 subsequently printed, it consists of 43 folio pages. 



The replies of the American Counsel, each of them 

 addressing the Ti'ibunal separately, were presented 



