THE. NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY -LINE. 921 
years solely on account of pretensions which ought not 
to have been raised, and the injustice of which has now 
at length been demonstrated by the Award of the 
Emperor of Germany. If this Award be unwelcome 
to the people of Great Britain, no feeling of unkind- 
ness in that respect should be attached by them to 
the United States. The Canal de Haro was undoubt- 
edly intended by the negotiators of the Treaty of 
1846 as the water-boundary in that quarter: that in- 
tention accords with the obvious and only reasonable 
signification of the language of the treaty. 
THE AWARD. 
This conclusion is clearly-and conclusively proved 
In the Memorial presented in the name of the Amer- 
ican Government to the German Emperor by the 
American Plenipotentiary and Agent, Mr. George 
Bancroft, and in his Reply to the Case of Great 
Britain. 
Mr. Bancroft was pre-eminently fitted for the per- 
formance of this duty. Possessing intellectual quali- 
ties of a high order, and particular personal estimation 
at the Court of Berlin, he enjoyed the advantage of 
having been a member of the Cabinet under whose 
auspices the Treaty of 1846 was negotiated,—of sub- 
sequently representing his Government at the Court of 
St.James at the time when the present controversy 
commenced,—and of being thoroughly master of all 
the older diplomatic incidents of the question by his 
studies as the historian of the United States. Of the 
value of all these qualifications to his Government on 
