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Attorney General.
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you have given this Minute to the Judge it is not consistent with the language I understood
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you to hold to me if the Government Kees when you informed me that Your attempts (made at my suggestion) to bring about a settlement had failed. You agreed with me there that the referee ought not to be bound as to the conditions
- you said you would yourself necessarily be guided by the reference if your hands were tied as to terms of the judgment you might have to give that
- you had been often an arbitration but would never arbitrate if a particular conclusion were insisted beforehand - you added that the Judge was extremely susceptible and required that the apology should be tendered at the club, but that you did not agree with him that such a condition ought to be imposed upon the Arbitrator, and you thought that Sir Michael Seymour might intelligibly be trusted with a decision upon the whole matter at issue.
"Cymour was in the neighbouring room when this conversation took place with you. I repeated it to him immediately. He agreed in my views as to inadmissibility of such a stipulation as the Judge demanded, and I have reported to the Secretary