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Colonial trade, on which he asked precise instructions as to what was desired.

To the President he complained of his instructions as 'of the most peremptory nature, leaving no discretion on unimportant points, and making of him a mere machine,' and he requested that it be officially announced to him 'that the instructions were intended to guide but not absolutely to bind him.' He was not afraid of incurring responsibility where discretion was allowed, but he would not do it in the face of strict and positive injunctions.

Mr.Gallatin sailed from New York with his wife and daughter July 1, 1826.

Mr.William Beach Lawrence, then a youth, accompanied him as his secretary.

They reached London on August 7.
Canning was then at the head of the foreign office, and the temper of the ministry was not that of Castlereagh and Wellington.