All stipulations on either subject were in the end omitted, the British government on December 22 withdrawing the article referring to these points.

In the course of the negotiation Mr.Gallatin proposed that in case of a future war both nations should engage never to employ the savages as auxiliaries, but this article does not appear.

To the credit of civilization, however, the last article contained a mutual engagement to put an end to the trade in slaves.

An agreement entered into in perfect faith, but which the jealousy of the exercise of search in any form rendered nugatory for half a century.

On Christmas day the treaty was signed.