122 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
on the 5th, 6th, and 8th of August, consisting alto. 
gether of 47 pages of the same folio impression. 
dt would not be convenient, and it does not come 
within my plan, to discuss the Arguments of Counsel 
on either side, except where some particular point of 
such Argument calls for notice. Hence, as in the- 
case of the general Arguments of April and of J une, 
so as to the special Arguments called for by the Tri- 
bunal, it will be sufficient to enumerate them, and to 
give to them their proper place in the history of the 
Arbitration. 
The first Argument of Sir Roundell Palmer, how- 
ever, calls for some observations. 
Of his 43 pages, 31,—say three quarters,—are de- 
voted nominally to the question of due diligence gen- 
erally considered. 
Now, in the previous regular Arguments, each Gov- 
ernment had fully discussed this question, and had, 
as if by common consent, concluded in express terms 
that it neither required nor admitted any further dis- 
cussion. That conclusion was correct. Accordingly, 
most of these 31 pages are occupied with matters re- 
motely, if at all, connected with the question, What 
constitutes due diligence ?—such as [copying, word for 
word, sundry marginal notes] rules and principles 
of international law; express or implied engagements 
of Great Britain ; effect of prohibitory municipal laws; 
the three Rules of the Treaty; the maxims cited by 
the United States from Sir Robert Phillimore on the 
question, Otvitas ne deliquerit an cives; for what pur- ' 
pose Great Britain refers to her municipal laws; doe- 
