APPENDIX. 



INSTANCES OF SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ; DECLARA- 

 TIONS OF LEGISLATIVE BODIES ; RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESSES ; 

 AND OPINIONS OF STATESMEN, JURISTS, AND DIVINES.. 



The different modes at present adopted of adjusting international 

 differences, are Arbitration, Amicable Reference, Conference or 

 Congress, and Mediation.. 



The following, in chronological order, are the various historical, 

 cases in which international differences have been successfully 

 referred to these various systems for settlement. It is a pleasing 

 fact, that, amongst the large number of instances in which inter- 

 national differences have been so referred, one only is recorded in 

 which the decision was not cheerfully accepted, and the award 

 faithfully carried out ; viz., the Arbitration in 1839, in the dispute 

 between Mexico and the United States. 



ARBITRATION, 



is the settlement of a dispute when two States, by common consent, 

 refer the question in dispute to the decision of a third party, on the 

 condition that they will abide by the decision j and the following 

 are the cases, under this head : — 



GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES. 



In 1818, by the Convention entered into between Great Britain 

 and the United States, and signed 20th October, 1818, for the 

 adjustment of differences respecting the Fisheries on the coast of 

 Newfoundland a,nd Labrador, and various questions arising out of 

 the Treaty of Ghent, 1814, it was agreed in Article V. of the 

 Convention : — 



" The High Contracting Parties hereby agree, to refer the said differences to- 

 some friendly Sovereign or State, to be named for that purpose ; and the 



