94 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
duties of the office he did. honor to the Tribunal and 
to the United. States. 
The deportment of Mr. Adams as a member of the 
Tribunal was unexceptionably dignified, manly, cour. 
teous, even when compelled on more than one occa- 
sion'to notice rude acts or words of Sir Alexander 
Cockburn. While the conduct of the latter was too 
frequently on the comparatively low plane of the nis: 
prius attorney of a party before a court, the conduct. 
of the former was uniformly on the higher one of a 
member of the court and a judge. Hence, in the 
same degree that the personal influence of Mr. Adams, 
by reason of his recognized impartiality and integrity, 
was beneficial to the United States, on the other hand, 
the influence of Sir Alexander .Cockburn, by reason 
of his petulant irritability and unjudicial partisanship 
of action, was unfavorable to Great Britain. 
Such, then, were the Arbitrators representing the: 
five Governments 
SECRETARY OF THE TRIBUNAL. 
Their Secretary, Mr. Alexandre Favrot, was a gen- 
tlemanly person of literary attainments and profes- 
sion, actually residing in Berne, but born in the 
French-speaking Canton of Neuchatel, who had be- 
come perfectly acquainted with the English language 
bya sojourn of several years in England. 
AGENTS AND COUNSEL. 
The Agents of the two Governments, Lord Tenter- 
den and Mr. Bancroft Davis, were peculiarly qualified 
