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pated from all social bonds ? It is not so uitli Chief 

 Justices in America ; nor was it so in former days in 

 Great Britain, according to my recollection of the 

 great judges, the Eldons, the Tenterdens, and the 

 Stowells, who then presided over the administration 

 of the common law, and of the equity and admiralty 

 jurisj^rudence of England. Has the human race there 

 degenerated? I think not: no j^ossible judicial ten- 

 ure of office could transform or deform a Roundell 

 Palmer into an Alexander Cockburn. 



EFFORTS OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN 



REARGUMENT. 



The Tribunal and the j^ersons attending it are now 

 before us, and we resume its proceedings at the point 

 where we left them, namely, the session of the 27th 

 of June, at the close of the address of Count Sclopis. 



The "Argument," filed in behalf of the United 

 States on the 15th of June, was prepared and deliv- 

 ered in strict conformity with the stipulations of the 

 Treaty. It was, in eftect, the closing argument on the 

 whole case, consisting; of an abridg-ed view of the facts 

 on both sides as presented in their "Cases" and 

 " Counter-Cases," with appropriate discussion of the 

 questions of law which the claims of the United States 

 involved. We followed the ordinary routine of judi- 

 cial controversy, and the course of common-sense and 

 of necessity, in giving a complete resume of our Case 

 in the final "Argument," as contemplated and pre- 

 scribed by the Treaty. 



The "Case" and "Counter-Case" of each side -had 



