CHAPTER VIII.
IN DIPLOMACY _The Treaty of Ghent_ On May 9, 1813, the ship Neptune sailed from New Castle on the Delaware, having on board Albert Gallatin and James A.Bayard, ministers of the United States, with their four secretaries, of whom were Mr.Gallatin's son James, and George M.Dallas, son of his old Pennsylvania friend.
They were accompanied to sea by a revenue cutter.

Off Cape Henlopen they were overhauled by the British frigate on the station, and their passport was countersigned by the English captain.

On June 20 they reached the mouth of the river Gotha.

Here the vessel lay at quarantine for forty-eight hours, during which the gentlemen paid a flying visit to Gottenburg.

At dusk, on the 24th, the Neptune anchored in Copenhagen inner roads, the scene of Nelson's attack in 1801.