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and with confident expectation only as to the Shen- 
andoah after she left Melbourne. Without pausing 
here to consider particularly the Retribution and the 
Georgia, suffice it to say that eventually they were 
rejected; but the Shenandoah, after special explana- 
tions in writing submitted by the Counsel of the two 
Governments, was held responsible by vote of three 
of the Arbitrators, Count Sclopis, Mr. Steempfli, and . 
Mr. Adams. As the Shenandoah, after increasing 
her armament at Melbourne, had made many captures 
at the very close of the war, when her cruise could 
not be of any possible advantage to the Confederates, 
her exoneration by the Tribunal would have been: 
justly regarded by us as an act of great injustice to 
the United States. 
THE SPECIAL ARGUMENTS. 
It remains next to speak of the successive Argu- 
ments of Counsel before the Tribunal, as well those 
heretofore indicated as others called for in the sequel. 
On the 25th of July, as we have seen, the Tri- 
bunal voted to require from the Counsel of Great 
Britain a written or printed Argument touching cer- 
tain points. 
On the 29th, Lord .Tenterden announced that he 
had delivered the required Argument of the British 
Counsel to the Secretary of the Tribunal. 
The copy thus delivered was in manuscript. As 
subsequently printed, it consists of 43 folio pages. 
The replies of the American Counsel, each of them 
addressing the Tribunal separately, were. presented 
