The joint occupancy of the Oregon Territory, agreed to in 1818, was continued in a similar manner.

On September 29 a convention was signed, referring the northeast boundary to the arbitration of a friendly sovereign.

Mr.Gallatin believed that, had Canning lived, he would have opened a negotiation on the subject of impressment.

Huskisson considered that 'the right, even if well founded, was one the exercise of which was intolerable, but that this was not the time to take up the subject.' The new British administration did not dare to encounter the clamor of the navy, the opposition of the Tories, and the pride of the nation on this question.
Having accomplished all that was practicable, completed all the current business, and leaving the British government in a better temper than he found it, Mr.Gallatin returned to the United States, reaching New York on November 29, 1827.

Nothing remained in foreign relations in respect to which Mr.Gallatin felt that he could be of much use except the northeast boundary.