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America, Russia, Hemp,and Napoleontribunals of the Devil. George Thorndike, of the capturedMassachusetts vessel "Suwarrow," discovered that his BowdoinCollege baccalaureate thesis on international trade, which theprivateers had commandeered, was being used against his shipin court. Th e thesis contained deprecatory remarks aboutNapoleon. Therefore, the privateers reasoned in a non sequiturborn of greed, the "Suwarrow" must be English. The vesselwas not condemned on that fiction, though. She was condemnedon the charge that, although neither the vessel orcargo were English, they had become tainted with Englishnesswhen the "Suwarrow" appealed to a British frigate for help atthe time of the capture. Th e Americans shouted that therewasn't even an English sail in sight at the time—but to noavail. 13The forty-three American memorialists at Christiansand,Norway, who m w e met in the last chapter, agreed that theDanes did work rather too hard at trying to convict:In some cases, where the most trifling inaccuracy could not bediscovered in our ships' papers, we have found them, whenout of our possession, mutilated and defaced. In some instances,our people have been tempted with bribes, and threatenedwith punishments, to induce their giving false testimony against our property. . . .The Danes, the forty-three also agreed, did little to broach thelanguage barriers:In those cases which have been adjudicated, all the proceedingsare in the Danish language, (with which your memorialistsare unacquainted,) and w e have been invariably refusedeither a copy of those proceedings generally, or even the130