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America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleonthe United States to this port has increased beyond anythingthat could have been expected," 30 and a tidal wave of sugar,coffee, cotton, dyewood, etc., glutted whatever market forAmerican cargoes there might have been in Sweden.The number of Americans waiting at Gothenburg grew solarge and man y of them stayed so long that an American colonycame into being. The American ship officers and supercargoesfrom Philadelphia and other ports south of Connecticut tookrooms for the most part in Gothenburg itself. Th e Ne wEnglanders preferred a suburb called Massthuget, where theystayed at a small hotel run by a Scotchman named Todd. Toddset a good table, and many Americans came out from the city todine with the Yankees, transforming Todd's Scandinavianhostelry for a few hours into as American an inn as one couldfind east of Passamaquoddy Bay. 31The Yankees in Todd's dining room were probably not anexceptionally cheerful lot, but they were undoubtedly lessgloomy than their compatriots across the Kattegat and Skagerrak.The Danes brought little but woe to Americans in 1810.Tonningen was open to American shipping at the beginning ofthe season, but the steady constriction of a neutral's rights therediminished its attractions. In 1809, a pilot was able to extortfour to six hundred dollars for guiding an American vesselfrom British-held Heligoland to Tonningen. In the spring of1810, he only got $50 for the same job. Finally, in midsummerNapoleon intimidated Denmark into closing all ports inSchleswig-Holstein to American ships.As the shipping season opened, the Danes naturally wentback on the job of snapping up passing merchantmen. Theactivity of the naval gunboats was again supplemented and164