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The Danish ProblemThere they, too, left, and the merchantmen were stripped of allbut the indirect protection of the British cruisers that screenedGotland and Danzig, from which French privateers sometimessallied forth to capture an occasional merchantman. ButFrench privateering in the Baltic never compared to the Dan ­ish in magnitude, and not until 1811 and 1812 did the activitiesof French privateers become one of the primary worries ofAmericans on the way to Russia.Americans and other neutrals seeking convoy on the returnvoyage from the Baltic gathered at Karlskrona, Sweden, untilNapoleon obliged Sweden to declare war on Britain in 1810.After that they gathered in the harbor of the island of Han onear Karlskrona. 55 As in the case of Wingo Bay, the Swedessmiled upon the use of this anchorage by the "enemy." Theconvoy system from Hano was, as one would expect, the sameas that from Wingo.In the ports of Russia, the targets toward which the vastapparatus of convoys was aimed, the government of AlexanderI continued in its attempt to mak e Russia a dutiful membe r ofthe Continental System. In May , 1809, the chancellor, CountRumiantsev, issued a ukase augustly proclaiming that Russiahad always protected neutral shipping:But, as w e have learned by experience the last year that theenemy found means, through the medium of neutral vessels,of obtaining the produce he required, and of exchanging hisown to his aggrandizement, ... we command . . .and there followed a list of legal hurdles a ship must clearbefore she or her cargo would be admitted to Russian ports.Th e ship's register, logbook, muster-roll, etc., must all confirm