New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
THE r1sHIyG10y TREIrY IN ENGLAND
COMPLAINT OF UNFAIRNE,'.
Iv-,s TIE Touff0n .,ueefrtyF


Mr. G. W. Smalley, the very able CORE
spondent OF TIE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE; la, written TWO
letters to Ihs Times 10 7ow ,a t ~, TTesV the state.
men there were a. confident and a. uhdalnous ulat
the Treaty included the submission o. Ine 'hu'itC,
it excluded them. His evidence, so far
deut Mr. Caleb Cushing Mr.. Adams, and Mr. sumner
all certainly held this view. II hT. Swalleys menoIy
does not fail him. He does not however, mention
Mr. Fish the principal in the negotiation Al we can
say is that. this being so, 1t was hardly decent
mems attention the deluson under which they were
nboling when the debate Of the i3h June got out 10
America That debate tre9iy used I'm the prepara
ton Of the American Case, ap cannot therefore possibly
have escaped the eye Of me Anglican Statesmen Gan
they point to any PUBIC expressions OF American Oca
opinion TO WHICH have been equally bndf
Mr. Otway ans stated that the draft Treaty was never
%oed fbot If woud be; but SIR stafford Northcoe
saws i'm letter to The Globe n defense Of his colleague
GSoTSaf9 answer 10 the charge Of loose work IN the
drafting Of the Treaty which however it Is not at pres
Vet know the full strength OF our own case.
DR6LL COMPLAINT.
From The saturday Retigr
Mr. Smalley, who has for some years been
London correspondent OF THE NEwloRK TRIBI Ne has
stated IN letter to ne Times that ME- 9G az fn
and influence expressed, shortly after the conc!u-
sion Of the Treaty. their opinion that the Vain
for four or five hundred millions was included IN
the reference Mr. Smalley, indeed remarks WIN
sueer that the calculation Is OF English origin: but he
scarcely deny that the costs OF the war ir9ih me
battle OF Gettysburg To the surrender OF Lee
part, Mr.. Smalley processes 10 have been To-
tally unaware that his own Interpretation or me
Treaty was not universally accepted in England The
TRIBIN a. the advocate Of Fenansm and the consist
ent enemy OF England from the days OF -mlll
OBrien's rebellion has q ht representative IN MI
smalley, who has uniformly written OF all En-
glisb matters In \ tone OF cOntemptuOus acrmOny
which il remarkable proceeding from an Amer
lean correspondent. IL Is probably part OF Ms d 20
ascertain understand, 10 communicate 10 readers
OF THE TRIBUNE the real state OF English opinion; nut
when he proceeds 10 mpute 10 the Engu,h Colnmls
sopers fraudulent completely with the understanding
y6iH tbev have publicy repudiated, he fOrgcts the
statements OF Lord Granville and Lord Rlpon IN me
House OF Lords BY a curious oversight the trainers
Of the American have for other purposes quo'u
two passages from the debate thar their Govern
ment must have fully that the clam LOT III
direct damages had in the belief OF the English COM
njssiOners, been abandoned. Mr.. Summers eNpect'-
tion that his hostile version OF the Treaty W0ud D5
v the result nevertheless certain that the peO
ME OF the United states believed that the controversy
was virtually settled, St the moment when theII
agents were concluding an lniiammatOry InVecuVe
AGAINST England with a demand which II III were
allowed could only be enforced by IL IL also more
than probable that the American Government lnenutu
In indicate the tribunal by the manner OF their Cam
that IL was merely nominal as II was utterly
unfOunded Mr. Smaley, who appears to ENJOY the cOn
ond letter 20 The Times the conjecture that the demand 1f
indirect damages would not have been seriously pressed
An American who capable OF understanding tla ~
English Government had any feelings OF hOhOr OF SCI
resncct would scarcely ask that IL would submit 10 arD
ratjon monsrOus and baseless demand In the nope OF
avoiding actual payment through the nnal nOdeiaou0
the eXtOrtiOnate claimant