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ed "advocate," making no pretensions to "fairness" or 

 "impartiality," but, witli tlie "])remises," "l/ias," '• log- 

 ic," and "facts" of sucli an advocate, drawing np a 

 passionate, rhetorical plea, as the oflicious "I'cpresent- 

 jitivc of Great I^ritain." 



As siich " i'('presi'iitallv(! of Circat I'ritaiii," il'lic In* 



ni)t ])r()Uiptly disavowed l)y tlie Jh'ilish CJovorunu'nt, 



it will bo found that liis " Reasons" lay down many 



■positions -which may somcwliat embarrass present or 



subsequent jMinisters. 



The jVc'Cs notices numerous eontradlctoiy opinions 

 or conclusions which appear in tlie "lieas')ns." Jn 

 one place Sir Alexander eomi)lains that r/////llules are 

 laid down by the Treaty, and in another jilace ex- 

 presses the conviction that it is well to s(itlle such 

 (pU'stions by Treaty llules. " He complains . . . that 

 till! Arbitrators have not been left free; to a])i)ly the 

 hitherto received ])rincij)les of international law, ami 

 that tliey have; that ruh's have been laid down, 

 and that they have not; that deilnltions have been 

 framed, and tiiat they have not been framed." Here 

 is most ex(piisite confusion of idi-as. It is the very 

 same extraordinary and characteristic method of 

 thinhinir and writing:; which i\lr. Finlason had ex- 

 hibited at length, and which ]Mr. Gathorne Hardy 

 pointed out in the case of the Queen against Nor- 

 ton: the "intlammab'^ry statements," — the "extra-ju- 

 dicial denunciation," the "extra-judicial declamation," 

 the going "from one side to another," and the say- 

 ing "it is" and "it is not" upon every point of law. 

 The perfect similitude of these repulsive features of 



