In the offing the ship fell in with one of the large boats trading between St.Bartholomew and St.Martin, and put the soldiers on board, who were thus promptly returned to their barracks.
The Swedish authorities were justly indignant at such high-handed proceedings.

Arnold remained behind to transact some unfinished business, but was arrested and thrown into prison, where he remained several weeks.

Seeing no prospect of being released, he feigned insanity, and acted the madman to the life; insomuch that the authorities were glad to discharge him on condition that his friends would send him from the island.
During the year 1809, a French privateer, called the Superior, a large schooner of the "Baltimore pilot boat" model, was the terror of the British in the Caribbean seas.

The pilot boats built at Baltimore, to cruise off the mouth of the Chesapeake, have ever been celebrated for their sailing qualities, especially their ability to beat to windward; and vessels of larger size than the pilot boats, reaching to the capacity of three hundred tons, but built according to this peculiar Baltimore model, were for many years acknowledged the swiftest class of sailing vessels in any country at any period.

At what particular time this model was introduced, it may be difficult to ascertain; but as early as the period to which I refer, the term "Baltimore clipper" was a familiar term.