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cidessus. Si lune ou autre de ces conditions vient 4 manquer, 
est au Tribunal d’y suppléer en interprétant et appliquant les 
trois Régles de son mieux et en toute conscience.” 
At the time when Sir Alexander sent to press his 
misrepresentation of the opinions of Mr. Stempfli, he 
had in his hands the authentic statement thereof 
as printed at Geneva. ‘There is no excuse, therefore, 
for this malicious and dishonorable endeavor of the 
British Arbitrator to prejudice the character of the 
Swiss Arbitrator in Great Britain. 
Nevertheless, Mr. Stzempfli, according to Sir Alex- 
ander, having cut adrift from all positive law, adopts 
instead “speculative notions,” or “some éntuttive per- 
ception of right and wrong ;” and such ideas Sir Al- 
exander repudiates: or, as the London Zélegraph has 
it, “the Chief Justice, armed with sarcasm as well as 
logic, runs full tilt against that doctrine:” to wit, the 
doctrine, still in the words of the Zédegraph, “ that the 
duties which nations owe to each other must be de- 
termined by the light of intuitive principles of jus- 
tice.” The Telegraph goes on, with truth and reason, 
to say that, after all, Mr. Steempfli is right, if he insists 
that “the rules of fair dealing, which we term inter- 
national law, are not law zn the same sense as the pos- 
itive edicts of the common law; for the essence of 
such edicts is that they come from a lawgiver in the 
form of a parliament or a sovereign: the rules of in- 
ternational justice are simply the code which experi- 
ence and the judgment of able men have shown to be 
fair or expedient, but every civilized country feels 
‘them to be not less binding on that account.” With- 
