2S THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



earliest moment possible, signs became visible o[' 

 the singular want of discretion and good sense of 

 the " enfimt terrible," ostautcitioualy 2yi'otocoIe(l "Lord 

 Chief Justice of England," whom the British Govern- 

 ment had placed on the Tribunal. 



The 'vernacular tongue of Count Sclopis was Ital- 

 ian ; that of the Baron dTtajuba, Portuguese ; and 

 that of Mr. St?empfli, German. Count Sclopis spoke 

 and read English, and Mr. Stismpfli read it. All the 

 Arbitrators, however, were well acquainted with 

 French ; and it was in this language that they com- 

 municated with one another, whether in social inter- 

 course or in the discussions of the Tribunal. Thus, 

 we had before us a Tribunal, the members of which 

 did not either of them make use of his own language 

 . in their common business ; but met, all of them, on 

 the neutral ground of the common diplomatic lan- 

 guage of Europe. 



In this connection it ^vas that the United States 

 enjoyed their first advantage. Our Government did 

 not need to wait until the organization of the Tribu- 

 . nal to know in what language its proceedings would 

 be conducted ; and, in prevision of this fact, it ordered 

 the American "Case" to be translated from the En- 

 glish into French, so as to be presented simultaneous- 

 ly in both languages at the meeting of the Tribu- 

 nal : the exigency for which was not anticipated, 

 or, if anticipated, was not provided for, by the Brit- 

 ish Government. 



The American " Case " and documents are contain- 

 ed in eiszht volumes octavo, which consist in all of 



