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duties of the office he did honor to the Tribunal and 

 to the United States. 



The deportment of Mr. Adams as a member of the 

 Tribunal Avas unexceptionably dignified, manly, cour- 

 teous, even when compelled on more than one occa- 

 sion to notice rude acts or words of Sir Alexander 

 Cockburn. While the conduct of the latter was too 

 frequently on the comparatively low plane of the nisi 

 2)rius attorney of a party before a court, the conduct 

 of the former was uniformly on the higher one of a 

 member of the court and a judge. Hence, in the 

 same degree that the personal influence of Mr. Adams, 

 by reason of his recognized impartiality and integrity, 

 w^as beneficial to the United States, on the other hand, 

 the influence of Sir Alexander Cockburn, by reason 

 of his petulant irritability and unjudicial partisanship 

 of action, was unfavorable to Great Britain. 



Such, then, were the Arbitrators representing the 

 five Governments. 



SECRETARY OF THE TRIBUNAL. 



Their Secretary, Mr. Alexandre Favrot, was a gen- 

 tlemanly person of literary attainments and profes- 

 sion, actually residing in Berne, but born in the 

 French-speaking Canton of Neuchatel, who had be- 

 come perfectly acquainted with the English language 

 by a sojourn of several years in England. 



AGENTS AND COUNSEL. 



The Agents of the two Governments, Lord Tenter- 

 den and Mr. Bancroft Davis, were peculiarly qualified 



