§ TRIBUNAL OF ARBITRATION (GENEVA).
§ THE BRITISH COUNTER CASE.
EARL GEANVILLEMy Lords, I beg to lay on the Table the Counter Case of the British Government which has been presented to the Tribunal of Arbitration. I Hope it will be distributed to your Lordships to-morrow. I take this opportunity of announcing to your Lordships that when the agent of the American Government at Geneva was informed by Lord Tenterden of the Statement accompanying our Counter Case, he, on his part, presented to the 1305 Tribunal of Arbitration a communication stating that his instructions had not contemplated the possibility of such a Declaration accompanying our Counter Case, and that he reserved for the American Government the full right of vindicating their view of the scope of the Treaty. As soon as this reservation of the rights of the American Government is in our hands, I shall present it to your Lordships.
§ Counter Case presented (by Command) and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ North America, No. 4 (1872).
§ Correspondence and Declarations, No. 5 (1872).