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Sir ij^lexander Cockburn, as one of tlie Arbitrators, 

 tlecliniug to assent to tlie Decision, presented a state- 

 ment of bis "Iveasons," wLicli, witbout reading, tbe 

 Tribunal ordered to be received and recorded. 



Thereupon, in an approjiriate address, Count Sclopis 

 declared the labors of the Arbitratoi's to be finished, 

 and the Tribunal dissolved. 



The discourse of Count Sclopis was immediately 

 followed by salco-'^ of artillery, discharged from the 

 neighboring site of La Treille by order of the Can- 

 tonal Government, with display of tlie ilags of Geneva 

 and of Switzerland between those of the United States 

 and of Great Britain. 



It is impossible that any one of the persons present 

 on that occasion should ever lose the impression of 

 the moral gi-andeur of the scene, where the actual 

 rendition of arbitral judgment on the claims of the 

 United States against Great Britain bore witness to 

 the generous magnanimity of two of the greatest na- 

 tions of the world in resorting to peaceful reason as 

 the arbiter of grave national differences, in the place 

 of indulc-inc: in baneful resentments or the vulcrar 

 ambition of war. This emotion was visible on almost 

 every countenance, and was manifested by the ex- 

 change of amicable salutations appropriate to the 

 separation of so many persons, who, month after 

 month, liad been seated side l)y side as members of 

 the Tribunal, or as Agents and Counsel of the two 

 Governments; for even the adverse Agents and Coun- 

 sel had contended with courteous weapons, and had 

 not, on either side, departed, intentionally or con- 



