in heart, is a free-trader; and, should Destiny ever appoint him the arbiter of Morocco, the protectionist pressure of a certain deluded class in France would be impotent against his policy in Western Barbary, a country perhaps more hostile to the European than China.

He would have been attacked as he was leaving the senate-house, had not the tribunes very opportunely appointed him a day for trial: thereupon their rage was suppressed, every one saw himself become the judge, the arbiter of the life and death of his foe.

But with all due allowance for the force of circumstances in the development of character, and for those imperial surroundings which blind the arbiters of nations, there were yet natural traits of character in Napoleon which call out the severest reprobation, and which make him an object of indignation and intense dislike among true-minded students of history.

The threat was intended to coerce the arbiters of the treaty terms by menacing the success of the plan to establish a League of Nationsto use an ugly word, it was a species of "blackmail" not unknown to international relations in the past.

" The Boy tore himself away from his old friends, and followed the arbiter of his fate.

It strips us of that peculiar and unimitated characteristic of all our legislationfree debate; it makes the bayonet the arbiter of law; it has no argument but the thunderbolt.

The law can compel an owner to sell any slave upon whom he may be proved to have exercised cruelty; should any party offer him the price he demands, he may close the bargain at once, but if they do not agree, his value is to be appraised by two arbiters, one chosen by each party, and if either decline naming an arbiter, a law officer acts ex officio.

The absolute power was thus preparing a rampart against encroachments of authority on the part of the sovereign courts; it had fortified itself beforehand against the pretensions of the States-general, "which cannot pretend to be anything but a more extended council on behalf of the sovereign, the latter still remaining supreme arbiter of their representations and their grievances.

You only hear it thunder from afar, And sit in peace the arbiter of war: Peace, the loathed manna, which hot brains despise.

Carefully selecting a pebble in readiness to emphasize his remarks, he addressed the shaggy arbiter of their fate.

While, therefore, the undersigned agrees with Mr. Fox that the arbiter did not consider these rivers as falling directly into the Atlantic Ocean, the undersigned can not concur in Mr. Fox's construction when he supposes the arbiter to give as a reason for this that they are not divided in company with any such last-mentioned riversthat is, with rivers falling directly into the Atlantic.

He ordered that securities should have a fixed valuation according to their worth, and to decide that point he assigned arbiters to be allotted to persons disputing any point.