9G THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



personal considerations to the single object of win- 

 ning a great canse, the greatest ever committed to the 

 charge of members of the Bar, and pending in the 

 highest court ever organized, namely, the suit of 

 the United States acjainst Great Britain before the 

 Tribunal of Arbitration. Althoucrh diverse in their 

 habits of mind, and in their lines of experience and 

 action, they acted as a unit in the determination of 

 advice to be given from time to time to the Govern- 

 ment or its Agent ; — in the preparation of the printed 

 Argument required by the Treaty, a document of five 

 hundred pages, to be signed by them jointly; — and in 

 the subsequent prej^aration of a number of joint or 

 separate Arguments in compliance with the require- 

 ments of the Arbitrators. We may appeal to those 

 Arguments as the tangible proof, at any rate, of our 

 concurrent and united dedication, during nine months 

 of continuous and solicitous thought or laboi*, to tlie 

 discharge of our duty to our Government and our 

 country, as Counsel under the Treaty of Washington. 



Sir Roundell Palmer alone appeared before the 

 Tribunal as eo nomine Counsel of Great Britain ; but 

 Mr. Mountague Bernard, elevated to the office of a 

 law-member of the Queen's Council, sat by his side at 

 the Counsels' table, and also Mr. Cohen. The hand 

 of the latter was apparent in the estimates and ex- 

 hibits presented to the Tribunal to guide them in the 

 determination of the damages to be awarded to the 

 United States. 



The recent promotion of Sir Eoundell Palmer to 

 the pre-eniinent post of Lord Chancellor, by the title 



