98 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
sketches, and bring us to the consideration of the ul- 
terior proceedings of the Tribunal. 
Occasionally, but not frequently, at the present day, 
we hear in the United States ungracious suggestions 
touching the personal deportment of Englishmen. No 
such observations, it is certain, are justified by any ex- 
perience of the city of Washington. The eminent 
persons, who, in the present generation, have repre- 
sented the British Government here, whether in per- 
manent or special missions, such as Sir Richard Pack- 
enham, Lord Napier, Lord Lyons, Sir Frederick Bruce, 
and Sir Edward Thornton, of the former class, and 
Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Elgin, Earl De Grey, 
Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Mountague Bernard, Sir 
John A. Macdonald, and Lord Tenterden, of the latter 
class, with the younger persons of their respective 
suites, and so many others who have visited this city, 
were unmistakably and with good cause popular with 
the Americans. Indeed, it is rather in Continental 
Europe, and especially in France, and by no means 
in the United States, that overbearingness or un- 
courteous deportment toward others is regarded as a 
trait of Englishmen. 
And it is agreeable to remember that, of the ten 
Englishmen with whom we of the United States came 
in daily contact at Geneva, and sometimes in circum- 
stances of contentious attitude of a nature to produce 
coolness at least, all but one were uniformly and un- 
exceptionably courteous in act and manner,—and that 
one Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench. 
Is a holder of the office of Chief Justice emanci- 
