 With "The Baltic Gambit"; Lewrie is ashore on half-pay at the start of 1801, but at least acquitted of the charges relating to slave theft.Bored and idle, he eventually takes up a relationship with an attractive young prostitute (ending two years of celibacy) while also wrapping up the issue of the anonymous letters.As anti-British Neutral League of Denmark, Sweden Prussia and Russia threatens British interests, the Admiralty puts him in command of another frigate and sends him into the Baltic.