189 _seq_.] [Footnote 442: Among the communications were several on international law points by "Historicus," answering and belittling American legal argument.

W.V.Harcourt, under this pseudonym, frequently contributed very acute and very readable articles to the _Times_ on the American civil war.

The _Times_ was berated by English friends of the North.
Cobden wrote Sumner, December 12, "The _Times_ and its yelping imitators are still doing their worst." (Morley, _Cobden_, II, 392.) Cobden was himself at one with the _Times_ in suspicion of Seward.

"I confess I have not much opinion of Seward.

He is a kind of American Thiers or Palmerston or Russell--and talks Bunkum.