1 8 READJUSTMENT AFTER WAR 



in setting the standard of peaceful methods for 

 the determination of the vexatious problems 

 that arose along the whole long boundary be 

 tween the United States and British America. 



The comprehensive consideration of the ques 

 tions at issue between the United States and 

 Great Britain in connection with the late war 

 was taken up in 1817 at London. Two years 

 of general peace had by this time cleared up 

 many cloudy matters of domestic and foreign 

 politics and the British cabinet could devote 

 some leisurely attention to the issues which 

 the Americans were so insistent on bringing 

 forward for settlement. It could not be said 

 that the slow progress toward a settlement was 

 due to any ill feeling on the part of the British 

 Government toward the United States. So far 

 as Castlereagh s conduct at the Foreign Office 

 was concerned, not even John Quincy Adams, 

 temperamentally indisposed to approval of an 

 adversary, could find much to criticise, while 

 Richard Rush, who in 1817 succeeded Adams 

 as minister at London, positively and warmly 

 proclaimed the conciliatory disposition of the 

 secretary. Charles Bagot was sent to Wash 

 ington with imperative instructions to promote 

 cordial relations with the American Govern- 



