English Translation

78 -75 - 18ll but he fell to 20 Sous." The shipping trip on the Baltic Sea had to be stopped. Especially much suffered from everything involved in the supply of the naval stores to England in Russia: the owners of the ironworks, the hemp and flax cultures, the shipbuilding wood, like the manufacturers of tar and tallow, of pot case, leather, wax - but afterwards also the producers. Russia, which, as we have seen, had a kind of monopoly position in these marine materials, has now suffocated in these reserves, while England languished after them.1 One could only have been freed from the dependence on England if a new turn had been made to Russian trade after the Black Sea, which was not dominated by England, as Napoleon had proposed. But in Russia, people and means were lacking. Soon, the English under the American flag and with the support of the Russian customs authorities, despite the mainland barrier, once again led an extensive trade with Russia, Russia even became a transit area for the English banning goods to Austria, Poland, Prussia, yes, to southern Germany and Italy, to Switzerland and to France itself. Napoleon's ever-more urgent protests since October l8lo remained unsuccessful. The adverse consequences for Russia were the opposition to narrow country in its Caucasian policy. In Persia, until the agreement between Alexander and Napoleon, the Russian and French influence had fought against each other. Now, the French replaced the English. They supported the Persian government against Russia in the war that ran from l805 to l8l3 with arms deliveries and payments of helpers. On English suggestion, Turkey and Persie formed an alliance against their common opponent Russia. Russian attempts to attack the Shah of Persia against England 1) Stählin 3, p.133-135.