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High Contracting Parties further engage to consider the decision of such 

 friendly Sovereign or State to be final and conclusive, on all the matters 

 referred to." 



• GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. 



In 1822, the Governments of Great Britain and the United 

 States having agreed, in accordance with the Convention signed at 

 London, 20th October, 1818, to refer the differences which had arisen 

 between them upon the true construction of the Treaty of Ghent, 

 24th December, 1814, to the friendly Arbitration of the Emperor of 

 Russia, and on 22nd April, 1822, his Majesty gave a decision in 

 favour of the United States. 



To give effect to this award a Commission was appointed, con- 

 sisting of Count Nesselrode and Count Capodistrias for Russia, 

 Sir Charles Bagot for England, and Henry Middleton for the 

 United States, who met afterwards at Washington, but it was not 

 until 1826, that a Treaty was signed for the full and complete 

 satisfaction of all claims. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. 



In 1831, the boundary dispute between Great Britain and the 

 United States, arising out of the Treaty of Ghent of 1814, was 

 submitted to the Arbitration of the King of the Netherlands, who 

 gave an elaborate decision on the loth January, 183 1. 



THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. 



In 1839, it was agreed by a Convention between the United 

 States and Mexico, that all claims of the former Power upon the 

 latter should be referred to four Commissioners, two to be appointed 

 by the Government of each country. In the event of any difference 

 of opinion between the Commissioners it was agreed to appeal to 

 the decision of the King of Prussia. 



The Commissioners met at Washington in 1840, with Baron 

 Roenne as Arbitrator for the King of Prussia. Iti 1842, under this 

 Convention, the power of the Commissioners and of the Arbitrator 

 ceased. Eleven claims, amounting to 439,393 dollars, were allowed 

 fay the Commissioners, and the Umpire, upon claitns disputed by 

 the Commissioners, allowed fifty-one, amounting to 686,745 dollars. 



This Arbitration was not a success, owing to the refusal of Mexico 

 to fulfil the terms of the Convention, and it is the only instance on 

 record in which an Arbitration, once entered upon, has failed 

 between two States to prevent war. 



