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Sir Alexander Cockburn, as one of the Arbitrators, 
declining to assent to the Decision, presented a state- 
ment of his “Reasons,” which, without reading, the 
Tribunal ordered to be received and recorded. 
Thereupon, in an appropriate address, Count Sclopis 
declared the labors of the Arbitrators to be finished, 
and the Tribunal dissolved. 
The discourse of Count Sclopis was immediately 
followed by salvos of artillery, discharged from the 
neighboring site of La Treille by order of the Can- 
tonal Government, with display of the flags of Geneva 
and of Switzerland between those of the United States 
and of Great Britain. 
It is impossible that any one of the persons present 
on that occasion should ever lose the impression of 
the moral grandeur of the scene, where the actual 
rendition of arbitral judgment on the claims of the 
United States against Great Britain bore witness to 
the generous magnanimity of two of the greatest na- 
tions of the world in resorting to peaceful reason as 
the arbiter of grave national differences, in the place 
of indulging in baneful resentments or the vulgar 
ambition of war. This emotion was visible on almost 
every countenance, and was manifested by the ex- 
change of amicable salutations appropriate to the 
separation of so many persons, who, month after 
month, had been seated side by side as members of 
the Tribunal, or as Agents and Counsel of the two 
Governments; for even the adverse Agents and Coun- 
sel had contended with courteous weapons, and had 
not, on either side, departed, intentionally or con- 
