On both sides in spite of much diplomatic intrigue and of manifestations of national pride there was governmental desire to avoid difficulties.

At the end of the ten-year period Britain ceded to Nicaragua her protectorate in the canal zone, and all causes of friction, so reported President Buchanan to Congress in 1860, were happily removed.

Britain definitely altered her policy of opposition to the growth of American power.
In 1860, then, the causes of governmental antagonisms were seemingly all at an end.

Impressment was not used after 1814.

The differing theories of the two Governments on British expatriation still remained, but Britain attempted no practical application of her view.