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fraudulent tradingJ0N 1807, EIGHTY-EIGHT AMERICAN VESSELS Came tO Kronstadt,two to Archangel, and one to Narva. These last three hadbeen chartered by the English. 1Whe n American sailors are seen in Kronstadt's streets bythe hundreds, whe n Americans steer through ice floes to farArchangel, and whe n England, with the greatest merchantmarine in the world, begins chartering American merchantmen, "the time is out of joint" and conditions are becomingdesperate.1807, however, was prosaic compared to the year that followed.In 1808, American, English, and Russian tradersreaped the harvest of the tares and dragon's teeth their governmentshad sown the previous autumn. In America the embargoreduced the enormous export trade to what little could besmuggled out by alleged coasters or over the borders into Canadaand the Floridas. A tiny number of American vessels weregiven permission to clear foreign—the brig "Leopard," forinstance, was authorized to sail from Ne w York to St. Peters­109