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America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleonlower courts of Christiansand paid between them 19,800 rixdollarsto avoid appeal. 18 T o give a specific example, WilliamAdgate of the "Good Friends" waited for a year for his ship tobe cleared by the lower court; and whe n that wonderful dayfinally came, he was told by Gabriel and Ebe Lund, the privateerswho had brought in the "Good Friends," that they wanted20,000 rixdollars or they would appeal. Adgate settled withthem for 6,700 rixdollars and blessed the moment when the"Good Friends" weighed anchor and stood out to sea. 19Th e whole problem of Danish seizure of American propertywas immensely complicated by the lack of any but the mostminimal United States diplomatic representation in Denmark.Th e United States did not even have the standard treaty ofpeace and commerce with Denmark, although the absence ofsuch a treaty meant that Americans paid higher Sound duesand half again as muc h duty on goods they brought to Den ­mark than merchants of Britain, Holland, France, and all theother nations which had treaties with Denmark. 20 At the end ofthe American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin and the Danishminister of foreign affairs had drawn up such a treaty, butbecause of inactivity by our Congress it died in embryo. 21During these barren negotiations, Franklin had written to theDanish minister:. . . those ministers are wise who look into futurity andquench thefirstspark between two nations, which neglectedmay in time grow intoflame,all the consequences whereof nohuman prudence can foresee, which may produce much mischiefto both and cannot possibly do any good to either. 22Danish-American relations between 1807 and 1812 exactlyconfirmed Franklin's moralizing.132