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It is aszertained that the se town, foreisly taken
out of the Chaves/re, were native American Cit.-
*ens. But some allege they had rollaway:4 entere.t
on board a British ship of War, out of our territ,ry,
and were, of course, deserten from *service in which
they had freely rage. 4. It is inferred from t'H ;
that the aritish naval Commanders mere trove t
recover those who bad cimp zed part of a British
crew, by their own consent. Before we engage in
Wes, with ail its at .enta.ant evil., it is perfectly right.
dispassionately to vi‘w r`!t• cao.os inducing this last
1...50rt, an the evri•eove:sies of Rut it it
:.juriuni, sod unneeessari -.re'ng to the
public feelings, -where tam are plat x•-• 1 ••oicluct
not; rions, to hunt op grolroiless palliation. Viilfl
the Frenen meanie pieveiled some years ago, it was
ti.t c habit o. those afP;;:ted wire:.:, to deny.
r p dilate, the most a• -:eious tett. It i most a,-
dcm.ly &sired, by the gi.- t f our 1.. -pie. to
be ct peace with all the nat 1/11 0..4 in dreg •
diet. fitub• who wish for war with either, ar : w ;
and it is belies.'., rot extensively influential. it
would be miraculous, if amorg our mixed populatioN
some discontented term. Ts, and dispres.:;nes, either
desperate, interested, or visionary, shritthi not be
found. Yet the late deplorable occurrence ha' !Ito-
&aid en union of sentiaretn, unalloyed by ta • e 1
attachments ; and 1., u it resras this happT result,
a fortunate event. trty bitterness and jealousy
have hitherto stimular I rep• niches, and mutual
charges of British or Fre,:ch propensities. in those
of opposite cps: ions in torsi poli.:cs. Patrintism
and safety now require, that a contrary temper
sh aid be cheri,heds And the evens` which has
universally roused our sensibilities, has proved, that
these reproaches had either no foundation, or were
shailow-rooted. Free inquiry should, however.
candidly be permitted by all parties: And when we
are satisfied of its justice, and unavoidable neces-
sity, we shall the more firmly sapport a contest, al-
ways to be deprecated, but never to be shunned,
when national degradation is the alternative.
I leave out of the question, the leterence we owe
to our Government ; who have exarnioed into the
fads, and decided on suck as they Lave promulgated.
Let it I.: viewed in the light stated, as It is said, by
the British Commandets, or those in connexion with
them. It appears to me that their cor.dut cannot.
in the slightest degree, he justified, if even their men
statement be taken for granted. If this opinion be
coned (and it can be supported by *behest &Wiwi.
ties) any engagement catered into. by Ye seamen
who were the subjeas of the late outrage, is illegal.
as it respells their duties to their o sa contary,
on the principles of the laws o nations, nrjustifiahle
and void. It is true that a citizen bite the rigi.e of
migration. or expatriation; but this point has been
deliberately settled by our Federal Notts, as it re-
lates to the present question. The entry on bia!t4
of a belligerent armel ship, is so far from
being .in as ot expatriation, that en rircere rand
of course not warranted by any words, or intent, of
ouriConstitution or Laws. There mutt be a cor
p ler. change o: dot/nit:Lan I abandonme*t of
soils, for permanent purposes ; and sot for the
illegal and unneutral objea alone, of enter-
ing into tie service of beii:gerent. party.--
When this excuse was insisted •., in deleace cf re--
sons having engaged on board Erewrit .p‘vate.re,
nor.e wets more convinced of the prucritl-1-
of the drecitions of our Courts. than the :x;;-
nisters and subjeßs of His 13,stawrie allejtete.
Let it not be said, that however isvalid a ccattei
of out seamen, under the circumstances of those in.
letestioo, m ty bz, al it Woks to ear sec.'s, a
not is not inhibited from employing tier seerneri,r
oho voluntas ily engage, out of awe Anus. The te-
neral laws of nations fottid the employment at
neortral mariners in any puce, to hostiar purposes:.
and such a exuara:t would he held unlawful by e,t-
-11.4 Courts, whatever may be the opinion of their
administration. who are snuc.n under the intleretroei
of their naval Aims, t., whose 1 rejud;cea, or Ins,
teresti, they often accommonate. It is of na Ito.
pomace how the subjeci is viewed, as between cne
enemy and another. It is a breech of amity *tad,
friendly obligation, as it retpeas the neutral n.stiont
to seduce or encourage neutral citizens, to viniate
thea duties to their own coo

ro.scle cor.tra7 to municipal,
LAWS, of OWaiggitiOOT. i 1 binding,
me less repreheosible, beesuse

c:vic duties have bola inctied an

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totry. No contract,
or gentrat national
. or valid. La is nue
✓ such violations of
our own ten:myna

on former occasions. The place is not at all essen-
tial ; though it was an aggravation of the ad. It is
therefore glaringly fallacious and inconsistent now
to set up on behalf of the British aggressors, an
engagement by our citizens on board ene of their
ships of war, as a justification for a condo& un-
prscedented its the naval history of any other na-
tion, from the remotest times to this day. I cen-
trist- myself warranted to say, that in no respeB-
- writer, ,-iter on policy, law, or history, can be
found a justification of. or even • discussion upon,
the tight of entry, by a belligerent into, and search
of, a national ship, of WAS in amity, for the purposes
avowed, or any other. It has been presumed, that
it was a case so improbable, indecorous, and hos-
tile, that it could not occur. I do not grant that
the violence would have been justifiable, it the sea-
men had not born American citizens.
It has been said, that it is not improbable that
those who took the engagements of the seamen,
were ignorant of their being American citizens.
If lists circumstance were unknown at the time
(though I doubt the 148), it was perfefily deve-
lop. Jb. fore the perpetratico of the atrocity. Let
the feet of communication to the lit itish Minister,
of the examination made by our executive, be how
it may, the decision was known to the British Agent,
in Virginia, sad of course to the Naval Command-
ers there, who arranged, in our own waters, the plan
executed for dishonouring, and deeply wounding
our nation. These sentiments have no other objets,
than the duty we afl owe to each other to endeavour
to give ircormation upon the true principles of a
subjeB of the first impurtance to every American
citizen The uarii y about what our administra-
tion shoal how done, is now useless ; and only
serves to keep alive local uissension. The question
with all of us is .1 what ought to he done under ex
ruing circumstances" into which we have become
involved, col trig• yto our wishes f l'he idea that
the rapport ej she British I'a.y depea.ls on a per-
sistance in recovering oltsori,rs jssat their some*.
of every daerritiorr. is one much dwelt open, and
apptchended. Every Erman), has been aWorded by
us to recto/et jorela seamen, deserters from all to
reigit ships lying within cur territory. But if the
support of the British navy depends on an infi.nrible
deteseobsodoa to Jaws es i..ws a the sohjeas or
citiatna of utttral nations into their service ; and
whensbey morn to their dive, :Ira into the bosom
of I:kir cuuotry, to claim then: deferrers. and for-
cibly to eater eve ,:stional ships in pursuit of t: em,
there is an end to the independence of all nations
over whom their tiay..l power is predominant. We
must therefore twepate unr m:nds for the result. If
pride, jearluusy, and lust of power, should prevail
(contrary to tee true interests of both nations), over
t;Je magnanimity and jus ice, which ought to ac-
tuate the Bikish Administration, we shall the more
cheerfully pass through all the viessitudes of war,
when we have used our ends-avows to avoid it. Our
fortitude and patriotism will aft with double force,
when, by careful and candid investigation, we arc
as we c ugit to be, convinced of t;,e ratitude of our
cause.

1 he spirit a must emulate that of 1776 ; and
be supported r•itn etill 41 firmness. The contests in
butt eras are mat ked with equal reluetanee, in their
or h.ia on cur pert ; and are 'pally unmerited and
ui.prowkei It Great-Britain avows the late out-
rage, and r• i 6 .es atonement, and fotore security, on
some reesn..eble terms, of which oar Gnvernmeht
must judge— :ur second struggle may Jimmie the
motto. •• /We disthie S reffigalthat."—but it is hoped,
we nerd not ado—•• ihirrier tt. ,itedht eri." lhe ques-
tion will not be. the right (firefly to tax, ur govern
us, but wl.seh.r we 'hall securely hold what we gained
by our former wires'. and treely enjoy nn the ocean
the privileges of right belonging in etre, y independ-
ent hatiorr ? It will sect Ire, who shall hold tee of-
fices in our goverron:!ar ba: wirrther we shad have
a government uneoritrouled by foreign power. nr
degraded trots its rink amung the n air.ns ? Inva-
sion we need n.. 1 dread; if we are teitlard to our-
selves. Common dang.r and inseparable interest
will. (or common safety, enjnin and enforce an ir-
dir.oluble untor. ; whereof jatriw tin must always
furr.ish and inviborate the vital prirciple. a.. S be-
come the leading stir. Horatesius.

lORNION INIILLIUBNCII.

GOTTILIIINKOIi ItAIL.

tiovmscsan. *co 31.

We have heard this day that Copenhagen has
been on tire in several places, that a church has been
burne.i. and that the English in approaching too
near the Danish batteries, bad lost several MU by
the musquetry of the Danes. and among the rest
two eminent water/ officers.

r 1.51 N 010 diva. £7.

There has been a good deal of firing hca:d here
daily, but nothing of importance has yet taken
place between the Engl'sh forces and thosls of t!
Ptnes. A great part of the suburbs of ,:sper,h4gen
'have been burned by the Danes, to impel• the ap-
proaches of the English, but nevertheless the latter
go on rapidly with the works. A peat number of
Danish vcssels. made Fixes, lose ►een taken to the
F.ny,lich fleet.

IXTR AC A LIITII DATED XING'S PALACI
%u LuITASAND. NAAS COMM AGES, ALTO.
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•• Copenhagen is entirely surrounded, the fresh
water is cut off, and there is so great a scarcity of
provisions, that in a few days you may expel to
hear of its surrendering. The Royal Family ap-
pl;cd to get leave of Lord Cathcart to withdraw
from Copenhagen. In passing through the Eng.
lish army, they received military honours ; they are
gone to Holstein, there to remain the fate of
the capital is decided. The politics of Europe are
such as to have rendered it of the Ireatest import.
ante for England to take possession of the island,
and to keep it."

aI:G. IS.
ppoiated a
:perinteact-

ance of the Commander in Chief, with the manage-
meat of the Police and other Civil Affairs. The
said Board consists of the Adjutant-General Peyroa,
and four Members of the Senate.

On the 6th instant, the enemy attacked the frost
of our chain of posts near Triebsa, and drove in our
troops. The enemy continued to work at the
parallel. In the night between the 15,h and 15th
inst. they carried out two traverses from the first
parallel, and began the second, which they com-
pleted the 17th. They have not yet mounted any
guns in the second parallel. Our art,:lory has con-
tinually fired on the enemy's works. 'lle .;id-dr—
Camp, Major Von Vine% went yesterday with a
flag of mice to the Fivncit head 41ar:ers, at
Mittzau, and returned from thence at eight o'clock at
Gazette, Aug. '4'2.)

HOIATF.IN, AUO. 20.

Since the retut n of the Crown Prince, w:to, on the
15th instant, arrived at Kiel from Copenhagen, all
English property at Altona, as wrll as throughout
the whole kingdom of Denmark, has been seques-
trated, and all Englishmen, who are not Danish
subjets, have been arrested ; at the same time
an embargo has been Lid on all Danish shipping
in the river Elbe; no English ships have ac yet
been seized in the 1) tnish p Tts. Steen 13;11i com-
mands the Danish naval force, and Peyniann and
Bielefeld are app..inted to the command in Z:•alard.
The garrison of Copenhagen consists of 6000 re-
gular troops.—(l6/1.1

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. &mum 12.

RIM um &Gyp it.
STRALIIOND, AVG. IS.
On the 12th inst. His Royal Majesty appointed a
Board of Direaion, entrusted under tha superintend-
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