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Alliances and Embargo"stood down the river Tagus, the wind N by E." Once in deepwater she settled on a course north for the Baltic. Eight daysout she was boarded by an English frigate, "one of George'sships," and inspected. Te n days out a French privateer sightedher, but she showed him a clean pair of heels. O n the nineteenthshe passed Beachy Head. O n the twenty-first, seventeendays out, the British sloop-of-war "Ariel" obliged her to heaveto, "pressed a Danish sailor" wh o had shipped on the "Susan,"and "sent on board an American seaman in his place, JohnRust."O n the twenty-fifth, the "Susan" came into the watersaround Zealand. "At three A.M . saw the Kole light south fourleagues, was boarded by an English frigate. At eight passedElsinore Castle, passed a number of English ships anchoredunder the Swedish shore. . . ." Th e "Susan" had found theBritishfleet. O n the twenty-first she also met and "suppliedCaptain Cavendish of the brig 'Rover' of Salem with twobarrels beef, one bag potatoes, six saltfish, one cask water, onebag flour."By the time the "Susan" entered the Sound, the BritishAdmiral had clapped a blockade on Zealand and was puttingtroops ashore to scatter the meager Danish forces and set upbatteries bearing on Copenhagen. The weather was all thatone could desire for such an operation—pleasant and suitablefor outdoor work according to the log of the "Susan." O n thetwenty-seventh the "Susan," continuing through the Sound,"passed afleetof men-of-war, transports and merchant ships ofabout two hundred sail of English and Danish prizes, at anchorabreast of Copenhagen. Briskfiringof cannon and heaving ofshells kept up on shore. . . . Passed a number of ships of war103