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the peace had been made and the British Gov 

 ernment had sufficiently recovered from its 

 Napoleonic distractions to give some attention 

 to American affairs, it came to pass, happily 

 enough, that the situation on the frontier of 

 Upper Canada was the first of the many dis 

 turbing questions at issue that was satisfac 

 torily adjusted by diplomacy. 



The work of the diplomats on the problems 

 left unsettled by both the war and the treaty 

 of peace was begun in the middle of 1815, with 

 the negotiation of a convention of commerce 

 and navigation at London. John Quincy Ad 

 ams, Clay, and Gallatin wrestled again with the 

 Britons who had been at Ghent, but made no 

 progress toward securing for the United States 

 the eagerly sought privileges of trade with the 

 British-American colonies. The treaty signified 

 practically nothing beyond the formal resump 

 tion of reciprocal commerce as it had existed 

 before the war, the East Indies becoming again 

 the only transmarine dependencies of Great 

 Britain with which American vessels were per 

 mitted to carry on trade. 



The matter of the armaments on the Great 

 Lakes was formally entered upon diplomatically 

 only at the beginning of 1816. Under instruc- 



