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TO-JULIA. O ! fay when cn my burning brow, Thy hand was plac’d with tender zeal; Why d?d my p'ulfes'throb—and how, Or why, did I such transports feel ? I thought—and O ! that thought forgive, Or prove the fond idea true, . That, Julia, you would have me live, l’or love, for happi.iefs, and you. <*- From the Mercantile Advertiser. Th F. rR: so w E R ’s Wrongs ; or, the living Biography of Pct ( y Tyrants. “ FT nought extenuate “ Nor aught set down in Malice.” Shakespeare. The natural -biafs of the human heart is understood by all who permit them felvcs for a moment to refled. An accurate observer of men end manners 5 with peculiar pathos, exclaims, Man and refled in a little brief authority, “ Plays such fautallic tricks before Heaven “As make even Angels weep.” Ths exemplification of the poet text, in the case of tlve unfeeling ditor, shall be exhibited and if dtecu • lots are not fufficienily luminuu?.: and the likeness so Unking that out fallow citizens may point the linger of 1 fCorn at him, and fay “ Thou art the \ sftan,” it will he the faliltof the [aimer apt! not of the nib j est. The fir'll who fits before me is a mart whole bio ted vanity and insatiable ava-j me render him truly contemptible. —; Devoid of one good quality to win our i affefiions; he has rifeu from the low est, grade in focicty by cunning and trick. In political and religious faith aperfeft weathercock, a fpauie! breed J that will cringe and fawn, “and futile, and be a villain (till.” This sycophant. is one who on the prisoner has heaped accumulated wrongs. With honey on his tips he profclfcd pretended redund ance to deprive a man of his liberty, and.his btead who had a feeble aged parent dependant on his exertions for lupport. His partnersjoin in the hol low hearted profcflion. Being a co partneifhip debt, he orders the poek,r partner to languish out months of wea ilforne days and nights in aprifon s and leaves the richer at large, lie after wards acknowledges a fcttlemcnt be tween the rich partner and hirr.felf fli pulating the pcrfccuiion of opprclfed poverty —yet this whining double fac ed Janu, who conspires, with igno rance and malevolence, to rob the un fortunate of the lall cup of comfort which fickle fortune has left—talks loudly of humanity—and boasts of his chnflian difpolitions. Shall I men tion this being who is less than man ? no, the colouring is so true, that he cannot be miltaken. The next is one who according to the ftrtctell sense of the word may be esteemed a pharisee—a Heady church going, prielt-ridden being ; who fus tatns a fair reputation by wrapping it up in a religious cloak. This man has pend up in our jail for years, a frail fellow mortal whole support and the support of his family have depended on an old father-in-law, who by his in dustry drives want from their door.— Can this man, have the feeling of hu manity ? can he possess one part of the chriftian spirit! Impoflible. The third is a fine gentleman—his polite manners would make you be lieve he is poffcffed of the foul of fen frbility : yet this man has retained in pnfon a poor industrious mechanic for more than two years, who has wife and four (mall children to look up to him for support—but to look in vain. The fourth profile is Hill more dis gulling—fee in him a man who him felf has eaten the bitter fruits of mis fortune; yet is callous to the call o humanity, and compels a brother ful serer with a numerous offspring t< wade his life in confinement! Tho> inhuman wretch i if thy punifltraen be delayed in this wctld, it awaits thee I in another. But what grey haired old man is this who approaches ? Let us hear the tale. Misfortune has blanched my locks — a falfe friend his deceived me—po verty and dillrefs have drfotated my once happy dwelling : an English a gent, to whom I became security, has seized on the wreck of my fortune, and for years consigned me to the dreary jail. Fellow-citizens ! let disgrace and contempt follow through life these tor tures of your species, and let the claims of oppressed humanity prompt you to. refund a lav; which puts it in the pow er of the rich to lord it over the poor. PHILO BENEVOLUS. —— IT ROM A NEW-YORK PAPER. BRITISH AGENTS. There can be no doubt but the -3riiifh agents and toue-, wril use every endeavor in their preffe.s, to obtain it confirmation of the till mataiim code of law, ft on the next meeting of Con.ueb, Hut the persons and prop*, r; v of .the;; employers (hall bt ; UvttO, bcca.rieon iaure, -v hi lit that of i the poor unoffending American tailor, jbccuufe on the ocean, (hall be fubjefct ! 10 .he p.uv y and iuiprtTonmcnt oi the In * */I j ijriui') navy. j U'v. are certain ihat the American j citizens will not eorinive at those dil ! tindio'*;. —ih y f e enough of Britifb laws in the acquittal of-Burr—and i they never will fubiriit to further | wrongs in the adoption of other laws I from the diktat.s of the cabinet of St. | j UIIK'E. I We repeat again, that there is no i Hep within die tread of Congrcfs, . which can so cffcftually command ; peace ivi.ii Briuin as the rejection of Inch a clause. Only one declared | that, if in case of war, the U. States knew no difference between property ,on fiiore and property on the feas— and Britain never goes to war with l you. This reminds us of a circurn- I fiance :n the Bi itifh hi [lory, under the j government of Cromwell—A Quaker ; had his vefltl seized and condemned .under feme pretence or other by the I French government—aftar hearing j his depafitions, the merchant was or ■ dered to call at a certain time, and he fliould be informed of the settlement of iis case—in the mean time Crom jwtii ordered tome of his cruisers to I bring in the firft French merchant I fhrps they met with, the cargoes of j which were immediately fold—and I when thequaker called for the redress jhe expected—he was paid the full a j mount of his lofs—Marzarene though equalling Pitt or Dundas in blustering dared not refer.t the mode of indemni fication. j Such we are fatisfied is ;he situa tion of Great-Britain, that if Congress at their next meeting, only declare . that British agents fliali be imprisoned jfor American teamen —and Britifii , property be a remuneration for the ; plunder of our merchants, why then Britain will know and feel her situa tion—even if they do not commence hostilities before that period . Every letter from England, and we appeal to every BritiOi agent for the truth of our assertions, declares the dreadful alarm they are under-—we know that if the affair of the Chesapeake had happened only one month previous, that not a tenth part of the exports to this country would have been made. We alk the British and Scotch agents if we are not right in our assertions ? We ask those lately returned from the united kingdoms, what are their ideas of a serious dis pute with this country ; what are the opinions of their connexions there; •re they ready for war; merely to gra ify the individual pride and refent nent cf their minillers ? We aflc them ♦hat would be the real Hate of the tna •ufaclurers and workmen; will they ell us it mere smuggling into the con tnent of Europe, or into the United j States would warrant a manufdfturer • to employ his capital, cr to make pur chases in cotton on credit; in case cf a war ; we appeal to them if toe Aura a has not been always right in its cf the real situation of Britilh affairs : There are divers Scotch and Britifii merchants lately retured, we could mention, their names; we know their opinions and we leave it to them to in form the tories at the coffee houses. - By making the persons and property j of British agents refpon'ibie m case of j a war, we doubly serve the.U. States ;j we hold hostages for our seamen, we preventives from informing the ene my of our movements ; by the pro perty we indemnify our merchants, and from the surplus we prevent taxes or new tmpofts on our foreign com merce ; we diftre ft our enemy and we moll effeftually serve out lelves. As to the “'moral honesty ” of the J •measure, sure enough it is lor the inte-! reII of the British and their tory ad- 1 Keren ts here, to cry up confiscation on land, as a breach of “ moral honesty m ihe code of the piratical govern meat o! Britain, it may do well enough, for it is her intent to fay so, exnftly as it b the law, and frith of the follower'- ll the Mahometan code; to declare universal hostilities to all christains. — But let the United States Gazette or a nV such like paper, or all the tory ad herents of George ! ll.eilabliih if they can, tire 4t moral” difference between property cr persons on the ocean cr on land. Can they tell ns the difference ? will any American citizen dare make the diflinction ; will he dare fay that his fellow citizen who is navigating bis vcflc!, is to be immured in a British dungeon, and that the Britifii agent. I who Is exulting over the piracies and i murders of that government, who rolls j his caiviage through our. fireets— - with ; invpuni y—to (port his liveries and lux juries in lafety, to give his traitorous i feats and toafl; whilll the navigator of our vefitls, pines under flarvation | in the cells of Britifb despotism ? will jany merchant at the coffee house poir.t lout the “ moral Jifjerencz” between the two r The truth is, that a!! Britilh cus toms and laws are equally bad—we have and daily do experience them in this Hate— Burr has reaped the benefit of them at Richmond—and Btitifh ad miralty courts have been always en richcd by them—and it is fulltime that others were adopted equally beneficial .to the whole world—the United States Gazette we hope will give equal cur rency to all our opinions, as it did on Friday—foT nothing which we write on this fubjeed but we wish diffemir.ated as wide as poffible—for the days ofde lufion are palled, and the editor of that Gazette and hi % friend Phineas , well knows that the tyranny, the madness ol the British miniflry, has by the mur ders off the Chelapeake, realized the prayers and the wishes of every true American—it has given the complete slate and damn’d all British and tory influence throughout the U. States. ■— mi tananerj.?.- Foreign News. KIEL, Augufl IS. Patent concerning the war which has taken : place between Denmark and England : Gottorf, 16th August. U'e, Christian ihe Ith, King cf Danmark and Norway, isfe. To all our well beloved and faithful fub jtifls we make known by these presents, that the j Engliu ambassador, Jackson, has declared on ! the 13th of this month, that hostilities were : about to commence again!! Denmark, and at the fame time he demanded a pafiport to depart with his fnite. From that time, war between Denmark and England is confidereJ to have broken out; and every faithful fubje<s i 3 re quired by the present order, to take arms to re pulse the violent audacity of the enemy. Every Englilh veflel which iltall approach thy coast, ouglit to be treated as an enemy. We impose upon every one to obferv? atten tively, .md to denounce to the rnagidrates, every individual foreigner who infpiies i'ufpicuau. Every bill, of Exchange drawn by EngLhh men, and every payment Is? their addrefks, ar general!” and fir .ft! y promo*. ru L toe , p ients. Further, we place ourlVlves under Ee protection of God, in thejuftice of “our caui'e.as well as in the proved fidelity and courage 0 , onr Danith monarchy. The present order fhail be notified r.ud aih/.ed in all public places, to the end that all may conform thereto. And in faith of the above we have placed our Lai royal, HAMBURGH, August 17. Several meffeagers-arrived yeiterday from Cos. penhagen, and different places in HoUleim— They bring the news, that war broke out on the 13th, between the Danes and Englilh ; all the vctfels in the perts-of Holstein are put under embargo ; all Englilh stores are seized all Englilh who are not Danifii citizens, are arretl. cd. The Daniih admirals, Stein Bill?, Peymaa and Rever, command the maritime forces em. ployed in the defence of the Island of Zeeland. We may expefit a vigorous rclillance on the part of the Danes ; the preparations for defence are well organized ; all are indignant at the per. Selb y and arrogance of the Englilh. Since the appearance of the Englifli fleet in the Sound, all commercial -aft airs which are made by fca, with the north, are suspended, and all {peculations deferred until anew order of thing; takes- place. We flatter or •. Selves, ncvcrfrheUlt, that on one fide the Danes will make a vigo. roes refittance, if they are attacked ; and they will be fuccoijred by the French ; and on the oth r hand, the emperor of liuflnr will take cn. ergetic measures again!! the eternal enemies of the repose of the worlJ. PARIS, August 18. At five o’clock, his majesty went in ftate.to the palace cf the legislative body, in order u> open the session. ills serene highness the prince vice-grand elector having obtained :m. million of his majesty to present the oath to the illative body, appointed lsnce the feflicn or the year ll,'thefe deputies were calleg in rota tion by Mr. Lejeas, queftor, and each of .thrm was accordingly fworu in at the foot cf the throne. The call of new members being ended, bus majesty said ; “ Gentlemen deputies of the departments to the legislative body ; gentlemen t rib tints, and members of my council of date, “ Since your hit! session, new wars, new triumphs, new treaties of peace have c gtl j the face ol political Europe. “ If the house of Brandenburg, which vtn* the fill! to conip ire againif our independence, ftiii reigns, it 13 indebted for its crown to the sincere fiiendfhip v.hich the powerful Cinpetor of the north has inspired me with. “ A French prince will reign upon the Elbe jhe will k- v how to con.ii.ate Use intcrcfts cf j Ins new ii;bje£ts, with Jus firft and mot! iacr-'I ‘duties. ‘ ‘ I “ ‘[’he ’houfe of Sarcny has recovered, after m interval of fifty years, the independence v.hij'u zt had loti. “ The people of the duchy of War few cr.d of the city of Dantzic, have recovered their country and their rights. “ All nations rejoice with common accord, to fee the maleficent influence which England exercised upon the continent, irrevocably de ftroved. “ France h united to the people of Gerrr.rny by the laws of the confederacy of the Rhine, to those of Spain, Holland, Switzerland and Italy by the laws of oar federal system. Our yov relations with Rtiffia are cemented by the reci procal efteemof these two great nations. “ In every thing that I have done, I have had solely in view the happiness of. my people, which is dearer ia my eyes than my own glory. “ I have w.fc.ed for maratirne peace. No re* fentment will ever influence my determinations; I can have none again Aa nation, the sport asd vidlim of the parties which rend it, and deceived with regard to its own affairs, as well as con cerning those cf its neighbors. “ But whatever be the issue which the de crees of Providence have assigned to the marc time war, tny people will always find me the fame ; and I ftzail always hud my people wartby of me. “ Frenchmen, your conduft ia these latter times when your Emperor was upwards of Sfl o leagues removed from you, has augment ed irf dteem and the opinion I had received of yot ? character. I have felt myfelf proud of being the firft among you. If during those ten months of absence and perils, l was present to your thoughts, the marks of love which you give me, constantly excited my mot! tiwly etno tions. All my solicitude and every thing that could relate even to the prefervau'on of my per. son, affe&ed me only by the intereli which you took in them and by the importance they might be of for your future destinies. You are a *)d and greet people. f “I have meditated upon diiTcfent arrange. 1 ments in order to firnpleiy and improve our in*, ftitutions. “ The nation has experienced the two ft hap. py effects from the eftabliihmuit cf the L’rioii of Honor. 1 have created different IWoerh! titles in order to give anew hi ft re to r..; prin cipal fubjocts, fur the purpose of hcnoriiM ihining Cervices by filming rewards, and preventing the return of all feudal tinea, w!,...: are incompatable with our constitution. ! “ The accounts of my Mmitfers of Finite? and of the a reafury v, ;.i make known to y; - the profperonr. ftft, of o Ur finance. My per pie will experience a caofiderabli diir-iV"A’ A tUeicij4i#d;iß in laud tax.