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Fraudulent Tradingbrought into Danish ports while indignantly claiming Americannationality. 28By 18 November 1808, eleven vesselsflyingthe Americanflag had been captured. The American consul at Copenhagenfound himself with several score of stranded Americans on hishands. The problem of maintaining them was so difficult thatthe consul asked for and received permission to load them onthe "Live Oak," one of the captured vessels, and ship them allback to America. Som e the Americans, however, were of littleexpense or trouble to him. They enlisted aboard Danish privateers.O f the captains of the eleven captured ships, only CaptainStedman of the "Galen" was able to convince the Danishauthorities by November that his ship was, indeed, an Americanvessel. The "Galen" was released, and Captain Stedmanbound himself to sail her directly back to the United States. Asthe "Galen" cleared Copenhagen, there was in sight of thatport a British convoy. In full view of those on shore, the"Galen" joined that convoy and resumed its voyage to Russia. 29Danish faith in American neutrality was presumably notstrengthened by the event.Whe n the "Galen" arrived at Kronstadt, it found a city bynow fully aware of what the alliance with Napoleon was doingto Russia's commerce. Usually eight hundred to a thousandvessels arrived at St. Petersburg and her seaward offspring,Kronstadt, in a year. In 1808, sixty arrived. 30Russian merchants and nobles were grumbling, sometimesunder their breath and sometimes not, and developing a mercenaryinability to tell a false neutral arrival from a real one. Th e121