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threw aside the reserve with which a diplomatist is 

 usually supposed to mask his opinions, and took 

 his hearers entirely into his confidence concerning 

 the Fisheries Treaty, in the negotiation of which he 

 has played so important a part. His speech came 

 as a surprise, and created a profound impression. 

 It was a bold and ingenious defence of the Treaty 

 against the attacks upon it which have been current 

 both here and in Canada. Mr. Chamberlain spoke 

 with great force and earnestness, and concluded 

 with an eloquent appeal for judgment on the Treaty 

 upon a higher plane than what he called mere 

 partisan politics. 



Erastus Wiman, President of the club, presided 

 with his usual felicity. At his right were Mr. 

 Chamberlain, Mayor Hewitt, and W. Lane Booker, 

 C.M.G., the British Consul- General ; on his left 

 were George E. Foster, Canadian Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, and J. H. G. Bergne, C.M.G., 

 of the British Foreign Office. There were also at 

 the President's table Professor J. G. Schurman, 

 the Rev. Robert Collyer, H. W. O. Edye, W . Robert 

 Hoare, the British Consul ; Henry Lang, the Rev. 

 D. Parker Morgan, the Rev. Dr. S. Rainsford, 

 General Horace Porter, ex-Governor D. H. Cham- 

 berlain, E. F. Beddall, Sir Alexander Gait, George 

 G. Williams, C. N. Jordan, C. J. Canda, Nathaniel 

 Niles, Theodore N. Vail, James R. Cuming, J. E. 

 Larned, Willoughby Maycock, Jonathan A. Lane, 

 President of the Boston Merchants' Association ; 

 Jacob Wendell, and W. R. Driver. Among the 

 others present were Dudley Phelps, J. W. Lovell, 



