78 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
to the interests of humanity, resisting all temptations 
of vulgar ambition, had magnanimously and coura- 
geously traversed in peace the difficulties which had 
divided them both before and since the conclusion of 
the Treaty. He quoted approvingly the opinion ex. 
pressed by Mr. Gladstone, on the one hand, and by 
President Washington, on the other, in commendation 
of the policy of peace, of justice, and of honor in the 
conduct of nations. And he proclaimed in behalf of 
his colleagues, as well as of himself, the purpose of 
the Tribunal, acting sometimes with the large percep- 
tion of statesmen, sometimes with the scrutinizing eye 
of judges, and always with a profound sentiment of 
equity and with absolute impartiality, thus to dis 
charge its high duty of pacification as well as of jus- 
tice to the two Governments. 
The discourse was worthy of the occasion and of 
the man. 
Count Frederic Sclopis of Salerano, Minister of 
State and Senator of the new Kingdom of Italy, has 
attained the ripe age of seventy-four years in the as- 
siduous cultivation of letters, and in the discharge of 
the highest political and judicial functions. The 
countryman and the friend of Count Cavour, it was 
his fortune to co-operate in the task of the unification 
of Italy under the leadership of the House of Savoy. 
This great military House, with its enterprising, 
ambitious, and politic instincts, second in fortune only 
to the Habsburgs and the Zollerns, rose in the elev- 
enth century, on the ruins of the Burgundians, to the 
possession of the passes of the Valaisian, Cottian, and 
