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r of her. There is also a Journal of the Good Brig Hope, Capt. Thomas Tate 1805 from Salem to the West Indies. From Salem towards Martinico:— Sept. 2, Monday. At 4 P. M. was boarded by H. M.S. African 64 guns and took out one man by the name of Wm. Wood. From Martinico she went to Laguayra and from there to Havana. On October 21st, was boarded By french Privateer, they used us very Perlightly and let us go. On March 28, 1807, the Hope is reported in distress from St. Petersburg to Salem. They often made a triangular voyage to the Baltic and Russia with French manufactures and wines and brought home Russian hemp, canvas and iron. Napoleon tried to prevent this Russian trade to complete his continental blockade. In 1810 he demanded that Alexander should stop it. Alexander refused. Then began Napoleon's preparations to invade Russia. Thus the Baltic trade of Massachusetts played an important, if unconscious, part in the chain of events that led Napoleon to