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 Cock-
burn 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 burn-
ing question of difference between two powerful na-
tions--that, had it continued to smoulder, would cer-
tainly 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.

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