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trine of Tetens as to municipal laws in excess of ante- 

 cedent international obligations; tlie arguments as 

 to the prerogative powers belonging to the British 

 Crown ; the true doctrine as to the powers of the 

 Crown under British law; the British Crown has 

 power by common law to use the civil, military, and 

 naval forces of the Eealm to stop acts of war w^ithin 

 British territory; the preventive powers of British 

 law explained ; examination of the preventive pow- 

 ers of the American Government under the Acts of 

 Congress for the preservation of neutrality : — and so 

 of diverse other questions discussed by Sir Roundell 

 Palmer under the head of due diligence generally, 

 considered. Yevy generally /\t is clear. Nay, 13 of 

 the 31 pages devoted to the question of " due dil-. 

 igence generally considered" are occupied with ex- 

 amination of the laws and political history of the 

 United States, in continuance and iteration of the 

 groundless and irrelevant accusations of the Ameri- 

 can Government introduced into the British Case and 

 Counter-Case. 



Now Sir Roundell Palmer is, omnium consensu^ at 

 the head of the British Bar in learning, intelligence, 

 and integrity; and we may be sure that arguments 

 addressed by him to the Tribunal w^ould be the best 

 that such a law^yer, so high in mental and moral qual- 

 ities, or that any living lawyer, be he who he may, 

 could devise or conceive. The British Arbitrator had 

 gone "clean daft" in the hope deferred of hearing hirn. 

 He himself had been earnestly seeking to be heard 

 by the Tribunal for more than a month ; he had com- 



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