196 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
bitration of the King of the Netherlands the question 
of responsibility for certain prizes, an incident of the 
intervention of France in the affairs of Spain in the. 
time of Ferdinand VII. In 1827, Great Britain and 
the United States referred a question of boundary to 
the King of the Netherlands. In 1843, France and 
England submitted a question of indemmnities claimed 
by British subjects to the King of Prussia. In 1844, 
France and Mexico submitted a similar question to 
the Queen of Great Britain. In 1852, the United 
States and Portugal submitted to the Emperor of the 
French the question of the responsibility of Portugal 
for the destruction of an American. letter-ofmarque 
by the English in the port of Fayal. In 1858, the 
United States and Chile submitted a question of pri- 
vate loss to the decision of the King of the Belgians. 
In 1862, a difference between some English officers 
and Tecal Brazilian authorities was submitted to the 
arbitration of the King of the Belgians by Great 
Britain and Brazil. In 1867, Great Britain and Port- 
ugal submitted a question of territory to the decision 
of the United States. In 1870, Brazil and the United 
States referred a question of damages to.the decision 
of Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister. In 
1864, Great Britain and Peru submitted a question 
of private claims to the judgment of the Senate of 
the free city of Hamburg. 
We shall presently have to speak of a fact of the 
same class in the question referred by Great Britain 
and the United States to the Emperor of Germany 
by the Treaty of Washington. 
