But as they got there nothing but ambiguous engagements and evasive promises, they let the negotiation drop, and, whilst Count Louis was on his way to rejoin Philip at St. Quentin, Artevelde, with the deputies from the Flemish communes, started for Brussels.

GEORGE CANNING APRIL 30, 1823 NEGOTIATIONS RELATIVE TO SPAIN

So long as we shrink from attack, they can force us to submit to their will by diplomacy, as the upshot of the Morocco negotiations shows.

At what time and in what manner would a new negotiation terminate?