66 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



On the 26th of April, 1809, Great Britain 

 revoked her Orders in Council of Nov. 1, 

 1807, and substituted a blockade of the 

 coasts of Holland, France and that part of 

 Italy actually occupied by the French. This 

 blockade was supposed to be a real one, 

 and neutral vessels were no longer com- 

 pelled to go first to England, but the trade 

 in licenses and simulated papers went on 

 as merrily as ever. The limitation of the 

 blockade, however, was, on the whole, 

 helpful to American trade, which now 

 began to revive, 1 but which, as Mahan 

 says, "did not again, before the war regain 

 the fair proportions of the year preceding 

 the Embargo." 



Although 1807 was undoubtedly the ban- 

 ner year for American commerce, so far as 



1 "Cleared from the port of Salem, from March 16, 

 to April 15. To Canton 1 ship, 1 brig. Sumatra, 6 ships, 

 1 bark, 1 brig. Gottenberg, 2 ships, 5 brigs, 1 schooner. 

 Rio Janeiro, Sardinia, Sicily, Tangiers, Azores, Fayal, 

 Portugal, St. Barts, Havanna, La Guayra sixty vessels 

 manned by 574 sea-men." Salem Gazette, April 13, 

 1809. 



