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years solely on account of pretensions wLIcli or.gLt not 

 to have been I'aised, and the injustice of which has now 

 at length been demonstrated by the Award of the 

 Emperor of Gei'many. If this Award be unwelcome 

 to the })coj)le of Great Britain, no feeling of unkind- 

 ness in that respect should be attached by them to 

 the United States. The Canal de Ilaro was undoubt- 

 edly intended by the negotiators of the Treaty of 

 184G as the water-boundary in that quarter: that in- 

 tention accords with the obvious and only reasonable 

 signification of the language of the treaty. 



THE AWA1{D. 



This conclusion is clearly and conclusively proved 

 in the Memorial presented in the name of the Amer- 

 ican Government to the Geiman Emperor by the 

 American Plenipotentiary and Agent, Mr. Geoi'ge 

 Bancroft, and in his Ke])ly to the Case of Great 

 Britain. 



jMr. Bancroft was pre-eminently fitted for the per- 

 formance of this duty. Possessing intellectual quali- 

 ties of a high order, and particular personal estimation 

 at the Court of Berlin, he enjoyed the advantage of 

 having been a member of the Cabinet under whose 

 auspices the Treaty of 184G was negotiated, — of sub- 

 sequently representing his Government at the Court of 

 St. James at the time when the present controversy 

 commenced, — and of being thoroughly master of all 

 the older diplomatic incidents of the question by his 

 studies as the historian of the United States. Of the 

 value of all these qualifications to his Governmcat on 



