86 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
thought in apt language, but without the tendency to 
run into the path of debate or exposition, which ap. 
peared in the acts of some of his polenenes of the 
Tribunal of Arbitration. 
In comparing Mr. Stempfli, with his deep-brown 
complexion, his piercing dark eyes, his jet black hair, 
his quick but suppressed manner, and the Viscount 
of Itajubé, with his fair complexion and his air of 
gentleness and affability, one, having no previous 
knowledge of their respective origins, would certainly 
attribute that of the former to tropical and passion- 
ate America, and that of the latter to temperate and 
calm-blooded Europe. 
SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN. 
On the extremes of the Board, Mr. Adams to the 
right and Sir Alexander Cockburn to the left, sat 
the American and British members of the Tribunal. 
Sir Alexander Cockburn represents a family of 
some distinction, the Cockburns of Langton. His 
father was British Minister in Colombia, and one of 
his uncles was that Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 
whose service in American waters during our last 
war with Great Britain has left some unpleasant 
traces or memories in the United States. His mother 
seems to have been a French lady, being described 
by Burke as “ Yolande, dau. of Viscomte de Vignier - 
of St. Domingo.” He was born in 1802, called to 
the bar in 1829, became distinguished as a , bariistar 
entered Parliament, and, after passing through the 
routine offices of Solicitor and Attorney General, was 
