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III.— OPINIONS OF EMPERORS, STATESMEN, JURISTS, 

 AND DIVINES IN FAVOUR OF INTERNATIONAL 

 ARBITRATION. 



NAPOLOEN BUONAPARTE, 1818. 



"At the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, I had a project for general 

 peace by drawing all the Powers to an immense reduction of their 

 standing armies. And then, perhaps, as intelligence became 

 universally diffused, one might be permitted to dreani of the 

 application to the great European family of an institution like the 

 American Congress, or that of the Amphictyon, in Greece ; and 

 then what a perspective before us of greatness, of happiness, of 

 prosperity — what a grand and magnificent spectacle ! However 

 that may be, this agglomeration of European peoples must arrive, 

 sooner or latter, by the mere force of events. The impulse is 

 abready given, and I do not think, after my fall, and the disappear- 

 ance of my system, that any balance of power will be possible in 

 Ejurope, but this Union and Federation of the great nations.'' 

 — Vide "Napoleon in Exile," by B. E. O'Meara, M.D. 



THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER I. OF RUSSIA, iSip. 



The Emperor conversed very freely upon war, and his desire to 

 establish a Congress of Nations to prevent a resort to the sword. 

 He stated : " His soul's anxiety had been, that wars and bloodshed 

 might cease for ever from the earth ; that he had passed sleepless 

 nights on account of it, deeply deploring the woes brought on 

 humanity by war, and that whilst his mind was bowed before the 

 Lord in prayer, the plan of all the Crowned Heads joining in the 

 conclusion to submit to Arbitration whatever difierences might arise 

 among them, instead of resorting to the sword, had presented itself 

 to his mind in such a manner that he rose from bed, and wrote 

 what he had so sensibly felt ; that his intentions had been mis- 

 understood or misrepresented by some, but that love to God and 

 to man was his only motive in the Divine sight." — Vide " Life of 

 Stephen Grellet" by Benjamin Seebokm. ' 



RICHARD COBDEN, 1 846. 



" I cordially approve of the expediency of recommending the 

 insertion of an. Arbitration Clause in all International Treaties, by 

 which questions of dispute shall be settled by mediation ; but may 



