ALABAMA CLAIMS. 123 
trine of Tetens as to municipal laws in excess of ante- 
cedent international obligations; the arguments as 
to the prerogative powers belonging to the British 
Crown; the true doctrine as to the powers of the 
Crown under British law; the British Crown has 
power by common law to use the civil, military, and 
naval forces of the Realm to stop acts of war within 
British territory; the preventive powers of British 
law explained; examination of the preventive pow- 
ers of the American Government under the Acts of 
Congress for the preservation of neutrality :—and so 
of diverse other questions discussed “by Sir Roundell 
Palmer under the head of due diligence generally 
considered. Very generally, it is clear. Nay, 13 of 
the 31 pages devoted to the question of “due dil- 
igence generally considered” are occupied with ex- 
amination of the laws and political history of the 
United States, in continuance and iteration of the 
groundless and irrelevant accusations of the Ameri- 
can Government introduced into the British Case and 
Counter-Case. 
Now Sir Roundell Palmer is, omniwm consensu, at 
the head of the British Bar in learning, intelligence, 
and integrity; and we may be sure that arguments 
addressed by him to the Tribunal would be the best 
that such a lawyer, so high in mental and moral qual- 
ities, or that any living lawyer, be he who he may, 
could devise or conceive. The British Arbitrator had 
gone “clean daft” in the hope deferred of hearing him. 
He himself had been earnestly seeking to be heard 
by the Tribunal for more than a month; he had com. 
