140 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
by extra-judicial accusation and inculpation of tle 
United States in the “ Reasons” of Sir Alexander. 
And it is amusing to read the imputations of “ con- 
fusion,” “vague and declamatory,” “ignorance of law 
and history,” which he applies to the American Coun- 
sel, in view of what his own countrymen say of his 
own methods of argumentation. Indeed, it would 
seem that the hard words of Mr. Finlason and others 
concerning him had made such effectual lodgment in 
his brain that, whenever he writes, they rush forth 
hap-hazard to be applied*by him without reason or 
discrimination to any occasional object of argument 
or controversy. 
If, like Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Sir Alexander 
had simply prepared brief and temperate opinions on 
all the questions, whether favorable or not to the 
United States, both Governments would have been 
left in an amicable mood. As it is, in professedly 
throwing off the character of a judge,—which. alone 
belonged to him of right,—of certain specific charges 
of the United States against Great Britain, submitted 
to him by the Treaty of Washington,—and in under- 
taking to become the mere accuser of the United 
States—he does but insult the American Govern- 
ment, while subjecting his own Government to much 
present inconvenience and great future embarrass- 
ment. 
There is one particular feature of the “Reasons” 
too remarkable to be overlooked. 
In reading these “ Reasons” carefully, one can not 
fail to be struck by the frequent manifestation of the 
