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the error of characterizing him as “ the representative 
of the Crown, sent forth to discharge his duty to his 
Sovereign and maintain the honor of his country :” 
which affords to Mr. Lowe opportunity of responding 
triumphantly as follows: 
“T have not spoken of the Lord Chief Justice in the lan- 
guage in which the honorable and learned gentleman has 
spoken of him, and which filled me with unbounded astonish- 
ment. The Lord Chief Justice was sent to Geneva as an Ar- 
bitrator to act impartially, and not to allow himself to be 
biased by the fact of his being an Englishman, but to give his 
judgment on what he thought to be the merits of the case, 
That is my belief with regard to the Lord Chief Justice, with 
regard to whom J am arraigned by the honorable and learned 
gentleman as having treated him disrespectfully. But how 
does the honorable and learned gentleman himself speak of the 
Lord Chief Justice? He says that learned Judge was a plen- 
ipotentiary,—that is to say, that he went to Geneva to do the 
work of England, and not to decide between two parties im- 
partially, but to be biased in his course, and to go all lengths 
for England. The conduct of the Lord Chief Justice negatives 
such a statement, because in some respects the learned lord 
went against us, Then the honorable and learned gentleman 
said that the Lord Chief Justice was sent to Geneva to defend 
the honor of this country; but the fact is that he was sent to ar- 
bitrate, and Sir Roundell Palmer and others were sent to defend 
the honor of the country. Jt would be a libel on the Lord Chief 
Justice to insinuate that he would undertake the office of going 
to Geneva nominally in the character of Arbitrator, but really 
to act as an advocate and plenipotentiary for this country.” 
It is difficult to judge how much of what Mr. Lowe 
said on this occasion was intended as sincere defense 
of the Chief Justice, and how much was mere sarcasm. 
But this uncertainty is due to the ambiguous and 
equivocal conduct of the Chief Justice himself, and 
