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I confess I should dread a negotiation for a general peace at this time, because I should expect propositions for short truces, uti possidetis, and other conditions, which would leave our trade more embarrassed, 63 our union more precarious, and our liberties at greater hazard, than they can be in a continuance of the war, at the same time it would put us to as constant, and almost as great an expense.

The uti possidetis as regards territorial possession was recognized.

Nominally a truce for 25 years on the uti possidetis basis, Peace of Karlowitz. the peace of Karlowitz left in the emperor’s hands the whole of Hungary except Syrmia and the territory lying between the rivers Maros, Theiss, Danube and the mountains of Transylvania, the so-called Temesk�z, or about one-eleventh of the modern kingdom.

The Minister concluded the conference by observing, that a great object was to secure the United States from the proposition of uti possidetis; that the surest 483 way to obtain that end was to reduce the English to confess, that they are not able to conquer them.

That the mediators might propose the uti possidetis as the basis of the negotiation.