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and witli confident expectation only as to the Slien- 

 andoali after she left Melbourne. Without pausing 

 here to consider particularly the Retribution and the 

 Georgia, suffice it to say that eventually they were 

 rejected; but the Shenandoah, after special explana- 

 tions in writing submitted by the Counsel of the two 

 Governments, was held responsible by vote of three 

 of the Arbitrators, Count Sclopis, Mr. Stsempfli, and 

 Mr. Adams. As the Shenandoah, after increasing 

 her armament at Melbourne, had made many captures 

 at the very close of the war, when her cruise could 

 not be of any possible advantage to the Confederates, 

 her exoneration 13y the Tribunal would have been 

 justly regarded by us as an act of great injustice to 

 the United States. 



THE SPECIAL ARGUMENTS. 



It remains next to speak of the successive Argu- 

 ments of Counsel before the Tribunal, as well those 

 heretofore indicated as others called for in the sequel. 



On the 25th of July, as we have seen, the Tri- 

 bunal voted to require from the Counsel of Great 

 Britain a written or printed Argument touching cer- 

 tain points. 



On the 29th, Lord Tenterden announced that he 

 had delivered the required Argument of the British 

 Counsel to the Secretary of the Tribunal. 



The copy thus delivered was in manuscript. As 

 subsequently printed, it consists of 43 folio pages. 



The replies of the American Counsel, each of them 

 addressing the Tribunal separately, were presented 



