Only the convention of 1815 would no doubt be renewed.

He asked for further instructions on that subject, the joint occupancy of western territory, and impressments, all of which he hoped to arrange in the spring and summer, and return home.

Mr.Lawrence he found to be a secretary more capable in the current business of the legation than any of his predecessors.

Mr.Gallatin could safely leave him there as _charge d'affaires_.
In December, Chateaubriand used in the House of Peers the words which Mr.Gallatin had said to him, 'that England could not take Cuba without making war on the United States, and that she knew it.' Mr.Gallatin so informed Adams, and added, that France would no doubt agree, as Chateaubriand would have agreed, to a tripartite instrument if England were of the same opinion.
In March, 1827, Adams warned Gallatin that the sudden and unexpected determination of Great Britain to break off all negotiation concerning the colonial trade, and the contemporaneous interdiction of the vessels of the United States from all British ports in the West Indies, had put a new face on matters.

A renewal of the convention of 1818 would probably be agreed to by the Senate, but no concession in the form of a treaty would be acceptable.