96 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
personal considerations to the single object of win- 
ning a great cause, the greatest ever committed to the 
charge of members of the Bar, and pending in the 
highest court ever organized, namely, the suit of 
the United States against Great Britain before the 
Tribunal of Arbitration. Although diverse in their 
habits of mind, and in their lines of experience and 
action, they acted as a unit in the determination. of 
advice to be given from time to time to the Govern- 
ment or its Agent ;—in the preparation of the printed 
Argument required by the Treaty, a document of five 
hundred pages, to be signed by them jointly ;—and in 
the subsequent preparation of a number of joint or 
separate Arguments in compliance with the require: 
ments of the Arbitrators. We may appeal to those 
Arguments as the tangible proof, at any rate, of our 
concurrent and united dedication, during nine months 
of continuous and solicitous thought or labor, to the 
discharge of our duty to our Government and our 
country, as Counsel under the Treaty of Washington. 
Sir Roundell Palmer alone appeared before the 
Tribunal as ¢0 nomine Counsel of Great Britain; but 
Mr. Mountague Bernard, elevated to the office of a 
law-member of the Queen’s Council, sat by his side at 
the Counsels’ table, and also Mr.Cohen. The hand 
of the latter was apparent in the estimates and ex- 
hibits presented to the Tribunal to guide them in the 
determination of the damages to be awarded to the 
United States. 
The recent promotion of Sir Roundell Palmer to 
the pre-eminent post of Lord Chancellor, by the title 
