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years solely on account of pretensions wliicb ought not 

 to have been raised, and the injustice of which has now 

 at length been demonstrated by the Aw^ard of the 

 Emperor of Germany. If this Award be unwelcome 

 to the people of Great Britain, no feeling of unkind- 

 ness in that respect should be attached by them to 

 the United States. The Canal de Haro Avas undoubt- 

 edly intended by the negotiators of the Treaty of 

 1846 as the w^ater-boundary in that quarter: that in- 

 tention accords wdth the obvious and only reasonable 

 signification of the language of the treaty. 



THE AWARD. 



This conclusion is clearly and conclusively proved 

 in the Memorial presented in the name of the Amer- 

 ican Government to the German EmjDcror by the 

 American Plenipotentiary and Agent, Mr. George 

 Bancroft, and in his Beply to the Case of Great 

 Britain. 



Mr. Bancroft was pre-eminently fitted for the per- 

 formance of this duty. Possessing intellectual quali- 

 ties of a high order, and particular personal estimation 

 at the Court of Berlin, he enjoyed the advantage of 

 having been a member of the Cabinet under whose 

 auspices the Treaty of 1846 w^as negotiated, — of sub- 

 sequently representing his Government at the Court of 

 St. James at the time when the present controversy 

 commenced, — and of being thoroughly master of all 

 the older diplomatic incidents of the question by his 

 studies as the historian of the United States. Of the 

 value of all these qualifications to his Government on 



