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Adams in the Ascendancytreasuries of his allies. Napoleon's allies began dutifully toenact the tariff within their boundaries. 26 The mesh of theContinental System tightened all across the northern half ofEurope.On 6 August, Harris told Adams that he had heard that TsarAlexander had said to Rumiantsev, "The Emperor Napoleonmay do as he pleases—I will not quarrel with the Americans."27 Alexander had faithfully followed Napoleon's wishesin the matter of the Teneriffe ships, which had angered hisvolatile nobility and lamed his nation's economy as had nothingsince the last years of his murdered father, Paul I. InSeptember, Alexander petulantly claimed to Caulaincourt thatninety-six ships had been confiscated in Russia in 1810 (wemust allow royalty poetic license), but that he would not ruinhis ow n subjects and the merchants of neutral lands by adoptingNapoleon's ne w tariff policy. 28As the autumn progressed, gigantic forces moved to testAlexander's courage. At the end of summer a steady west windhad begun to blow across the Skagerrak, briskly pushing convoysinto the westward-facing harbor of Gothenburg, but permittingnone to leave. In September, Axel Pontus von Rosen,the governor of Gothenburg, took a careful count and discoveredthat a fantastic total of 1,124 merchantmen and 19 Britishmen-of-war were anchored in his harbor. 29O n Sunday, 7 October 1810, the wind veered around toeast-northeast and a convoy of some six hundred merchantmenand their escort got underweigh for the Baltic. 30 Fifty or soAmericans came down from Gothenburg and mounted a highpoint of land to watch the hugefleet move out of the harbor. 31179