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39 - 36 - and found this sack, the Russian squadron that lay in the port would have become a robbery of the flames. In the people and under diplomacy there was a persistent rumor that this fire was a work of the English. The English envoy in Petersburg reported on 1 August l78O to Lord Stormont, Count Panin applied the arson to English sailors and with this thought also influenced the Grand Prince. The Prussian and Danish envoys would be of the same opinion. Harris himself behaved suspiciously, as the French businessman told him, sent secret agents to Kronstadt and did not even protest against the heavy France against him skillfully able to incite Russia further against the English naval warfare methods. His efforts are linked with the complaints of the smaller negotiators, Holland, the Scandinavian states and Prussia, and the Russian endeavour to free himself from the trade-political patronage by England and to appear as the guardian of the Nordic states. In the first armed neutrality of March 9, 1880, she set out the principles which guarantee an unhindered neutral commercial advance during the war and have remained fundamental to the law of the sea until today: 1) free travel for neutral ships; 2) ownership of enemy nationals on neutral ships is free (free ship, free property), except for contraband; 3) definition of the contraband under the Russian-English trade agreement, i.e. 1) Aleksandrenko 1, p.56 and note 3, 2) AlekSandrenzo 2, p.187-194; text of the Declaration to England, France and Spain p.202-207; Brückner p.390-391. See also Alecsandrenko 1, pp.315-325.