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bitration of the King of the Netherlands the question 

 of responsibility for certain prizes, an incident of the 

 intervention of France in the aftairs of Spain in the 

 time of Ferdinand A^II. In 1827, Great Britain and 

 the United States referred a question of boundary to 

 the King of the Netherlands. In 1843, France and 

 England submitted a question of indemnities claimed 

 by British subjects to the King of Prussia. In 1844, 

 France and Mexico submitted a similar question to 

 the Queen of Great Britain. In 1852, the United 

 . States and Portugal submitted to the Emperor of the 

 French the question of the responsibility of Portugal 

 for the destruction of an American letter-of-marque 

 by the English in the port of Fayal. In 1858, the 

 United States and Chile submitted a question of pri- 

 vate loss to the decision of the King of the Belgians. 

 In 1862, a difference between some English officers 

 and local Brazilian authorities was submitted to the 

 arbitration of the King of the Belgians by Great 

 Britain and Brazil. In 1867, Great Britain and Port- 

 ugal submitted a question o^ territory to the decision 

 of the United Stales. In 1870, Brazil and the United 

 States referred a question of damages to the decision 

 of Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister. In 

 1864, Great Britain and Peru submitted a question 

 of private claims to the judgment of the Senate of 

 the free city of Hamburg. 



We shall presently have to speak of a fact of the 

 same class in the question referred by Great Britain 

 and the United States to the Emperor of Germany 

 by the Treaty of Washington. 



