was liable to the United States in damages for the losses inflicted upon the latter's commerce by the Confederate cruisers built in England to the amount of fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars ($15,500,000), payable in gold. Sir Alexander Cockburn filed a separate opinion stating his reasons for disagreeing from the judgment of the majority of the Court. Thus, after many anxious years, when at times the feelings on both sides of the Atlantic ran high, a burning question of difference between two powerful nations-that, had it continued to smoulder, would certainly have imbittered their relations and might very likely have led to war between them—was eliminated, through a course of action alike honorable to both sides, in a peaceful manner from the sphere of their every-day relations. APPENDIX. DECISION AND AWARD. Made by the tribunal of arbitration constituted by virtue of the first article of the treaty concluded at Washington the 8th of May, 1871, between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recital of provisions of The United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty having agreed by Article I. of the treaty concluded and signed at Washington the 8th of May, 1871, to refer all the Washington. claims "generically known as the Alabama claims" to a tribunal of arbitration to be composed of five arbitrators named: the Treaty of One by the President of the United States, One by Her Britannic Majesty, One by His Majesty the King of Italy, One by the President of the Swiss Confederation, One by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil; And the President of the United States, Her Appointment Britannic Majesty, His Majesty the of arbitrators. King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil having respectively named their arbitrators, to wit: The President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, esquire; Her Britannic Majesty, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, baronet, a member of Her Majesty's privy council, lord chief justice of England; His Majesty the King of Italy, His Excellency Count Frederic Sclopis, of Salerano, a knight of the Order of the Annunciata, minister of state, senator of the Kingdom of Italy; The President of the Swiss Confederation, M. Jacques Staempfli; His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, his Excellency Marcos Antonio d'Araujó, Viscount d'Itajubá, a grandee of the Empire of Brazil, member of the council of H. M. the Emperor of Brazil, and his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in France. And the five arbitrators above named having assembled at Geneva (in Switzerland) in Organization of tribunal. one of the chambers of the Hôtel de Ville on the 15th of December, 1871, in conformity with the terms of the second article of the Treaty of Washington, of the 8th of May of that year, and having proceeded to the inspection and verification of their respective powers, which were found duly authenti |