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America, Russia, Hemp,and NapoleonIn the convoy itself were perhaps two hundred other Americanson board more than a score of assorted vesselsflyingtheAmerican flag.Captain Coggeshall of the "Eliza," who m w e met in the lastchapter, was in Gothenburg harbor waiting for convoy toRussia at this time. Years later, he wrote of the convoy of sixhundred that left on 7 October:This whole vastfleet were nominally neutral ships, sailingunder the different flags of nearly all the petty states ofGermany, and their cargoes purporting to be the bona fideproperty of their respective countries, while in point of fact,most of them were English property, cloaked or covered bytheflagsof these different nations by simulated or counterfeit32papers.A few days after clearing Gothenburg, a violent gale struckthe great convoy. Over one hundred of its vessels were wreckedor captured by the Danes while the British men-of-war battledthe winds and heavy seas. More than two hundred othersturned back to Gothenburg. The scattered survivors continuedon into the Baltic. 33O n 23 October, Emperor Napoleon wrote to Emperor Alexander:Six hundred merchant ships, wandering in the Baltic, havebeen refused admission to Prussian ports and those of Mecklenburg,and have steered for your Majesty's states. If youadmit them the war still lasts. . . . Whatever their papers,under whatever names they are masked, French, German,Spanish, Danish, Russian, Your Majesty may be sure they areEnglish. 34On 4 November, Napoleon sent off a complaint to Russia(this through normal diplomatic channels) that part of the180