Mr.Gallatin explained the independence of the House committees in the United States, but as a diplomatist he felt the need of a concert between the executive and the committees of Congress in all that concerns foreign relations.

Government, after all, is a complex science.
The simple directness with which Mr.Gallatin dealt with Lord Liverpool could not serve with a man of Canning's disposition.

Mr.Gallatin did not fail to bring to bear the pressure of a possible change in the relations of the United States and Great Britain, which might arise from the war which seemed imminent between that power and Spain.

The new questions of Cuba, and the old habit of impressment, might at once bring the United States into collision with England.

But the war did not take place, and the close of the year found the negotiations not far advanced.