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The Wars of 1812England, he wrote from Plymouth that he was taking the"Golden Age" to Russia in an English convoy. "The prospects,"he said, "of obtaining a good price for the wine at St.Petersburg appearflattering."Last seen, the lamb was of? tothe Baltic with an escort of wolves. 2At thefirst news of the war, American merchants sent theirfastest vessels to warn their captains and supercargoes of thedanger. It was a race against the official dispatch vessels. If onlythe news of the war could reach the Americans in Saumarez'sconvoys before Saumarez himself learned of the war!Boston sent a pilot boat schooner, the "Good Intent," CaptainRussell, speeding out past Deer Island under a full press ofsail, bound to the Baltic. The New York house of Minturn andChamplin sent out the pilot boat schooner "Champlin." Theexistence of the embargo obliged her master, Captain Sum ­mers, to declare to the harbor officials that her destination wasEastport, Maine. Once outside the harbor, he laid a course forGothenburg and set every stitch of canvas weather wouldpermit.Twenty-eight days out of Boston, the "Good Intent" wascaptured by a Danish privateer and carried into Farsund, Nor­3way.Everything depended on the "Champlin." Th e littleschooner sped into the Skagarrak, white water purling at herbow.In the latter part of July as man y as forty American ships layin the roads of Gothenburg in British convoy. Neither theAmericans nor their British escorts nor anyone in Gothenburgknew of the war between the United States and England.The American consul at Gothenburg was Richard S.247