Indiana Gazette, Volume 1, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 October 1804 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM. Susan and the Spider.

BY P. PlNDAR.

J Come down )ou loud, cried Sufan

I 10 a ipu", J ftghon i&c giJJcd cornice a proud riJ And canton, Twinging by his filken ! rope I j'H iuui thee to (pin cobwebs round tnt room ; I Ytur no upon fme murder I preiuaic : I I'll D.tis thee ; if I dei't, fay I'm fio I Pupc.'

Then Sufan brandifhed her long brufh j DcitrmineJ cn a Uial pufli, ! To bring il e rope dancer to the ground j5nj ail h s fchemes ot death confound. I I ti, Cniitpr Klr-ft ith nratorv rrace.

! Slipped dow n, and, flaring Sufan in the

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i Fic, Si.l-n ! JuiKi there muruer in i tVs ) r hrxrf ?

! ' n i i .... I Ci,r- t Trr m

J VilV IVilJ) lUItl Ulll'll ' - S zed !

On ninth I've peeped with wonder roarya r..ghr, Kay, wit!; i fit ft fingers tcuchtd too, Icr n f fnv, Origin a btzn ot cruelty ! no, no ! 7 ha-bofo.n whiih exceeds the newfa' rn .'no a , All lottfiefs, lueetnefi, one eternal M?y.' How! 5u'm fcrteehed, as with difcre'ered brain, How, impudence I repeat thofe words apiin ; Come, come, cnnfef$ with honefty fyeak, fpeak, Say, did ycu really crawl upon my retk f Sufan, by a'l thy heavenly charms f did ; , I ftw tl e llcrpirg by the tapers lighf ; Thy rkek, (0 bluihtul, and thy brc?ft i" w (ki OanJ it, and down I slid,' i'jH,d,fwecr Mr. Spider? fo von

faw

'Ve; ian nalurc ; a powerfuf '.rn'rvnia murderer? gravely Sul'n f rir. . 7 Ain't ycu ' forever bufy with that cb"., Tie ocr unc Mending littl. Merely tyaufy your natty maw?' BU'lamf?n'd0 n,,'Cuffed ongemV Dncr? " FCtfy ,iUlC Fcni Dn't you on harmlefi fifhei often dine ?' 'Tha.', vrry true, quoth Snfan, true d! vi,tl 't eloquence thefc SpiT h l rafcd beat, a grave divine. (u'a'r spider that feduced por Eve Buttsare fotfyAhr CUvcmade;;tIhldl)efn

And hear me fiSeuldft thoa look wfti longing eyes, f At any time, on young, fat, lufdon flies, ri I'll drive the little rafcals to thy ne. ' Lord ! then bow blind I've been t form and feature : I think a Spider, new, a comely ires tare!

4NECD07E.

r

A famous phyfician, iho wasi Hu

gonot. being converted, told bullv

44 Friend your Religion is very lick, fince the Phyficians have given it up."

Al1 Miuajvbufinefi j g0alof(r ,

IRISH ELOQUENCE. o:o CURRANT SPEECH. ( Coo tinned, J

Let me suppose that you had known the charge upon which Mr. orr was apprehended, the charge of abjuring that bigotry which had torn and disgraced his country, of pledging himself to restore the people of his country to their place in the constitution, and of binding himself never to be the betrayer of his fellow laborers in that enterprise ; that you had seen him upon that charge removed from his industry, and consined in a goal, that through flow and lingering progress of twelve tedious months you had seen him confined in a dungeon, shut out from the common use of the air and his own limbs: that day after day you had marked the unhappy captive, cheered by no found but the cries of his family, or the clinking of chains ; that you had seen him at last brought to his trial ; that you had seen the vile and perjured informer deposing against his life; that you had seen the drunken, and worn out, and terified jury give in a verdict of death, that you had seen the same jury, when their returning sobriety had brought bock their consciences, prostrate themielvcs before the humanity of the bench, and pray that the mercy of the crown might save their characters from the reproach of an involuntary crime, their

consciences from the tortures

of eternal self-condemnation

and their souls from the indeliable stains of innocent blood.

Let mefuppoie thatycu ha ;if j (i0not therefore jiroflly err nt v(ju. 1 could

tViof rontrite and honelf re-1 iortm.off- uoon fuch

ner, that tlrrleis takenVSs the learned council for the crown nascxprettedit, to fee whether mercy could be extended or net that after that period of lingering deliberation paffed, a third reprieve is tranfmitted the unhappy captive himfelf feels the cheering hope ot being rellottd to a tamily that he adored, to a character that he had never itained, and to acoutry that he had ever loved ; that you had feen his

rwifeand children upon their

knees, giving theic tears to gratitude, which their locked and frozen hearts could not give to anguilh and deipair, and imploring the bk flings ct eternal Providence upon his head, who hid gracioully (pared the father, ;;iid iiltored him to his children. Alas! no vvue, nor children lucre mall behold, no friends ncr facrcd home I" Ko leraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to life and lidu, but them'miller of death hurries him to the i'cene cf fuflering and of lhame ; where, unmoved by the hofble array of artillery and armed men collected together cither to fecure or inlult or dil'uib him, he dies wirhafolemn declaration ot his inocence, and utters his

last breath in a prayer for the liberty of his country. Let me now ask you, if any of you had addressed the bublic ear upon so foul and monilerous a fuhjed, in what language would you have conveyed the feelings of horror and indignation ? Would you have Hooped to the meannefs of qualified complaints 2 Would you have been mean enough: but 1 enrrcatyour forgiventfs, 1 do not think meanly of ycu ; had 1 thought 'fo meanly ot you' 1 could not iufier my mind .to commune with you as it has done, had I thought you that bafe and vile inltru ment, attuned by hope and

by fear into difcord and iaiiehood, from whofe vulgar ftii'ng no groarf of fuflering could vibrate, ' ho voice ot integrity or honor could fpeak jet me honeMy tell you 1 mould havc fedrned to fling my hand acrofs it ; I uti

have letcit to nut ...

ufe no language upon men a

muii noi

of

that contrite and

commendation tranlmittefl . WeA 3S tns that

to the feat, where mercy, was, -1 urF.fnd'the rapidity

prefumcd to dwell; that new.-j feelings, and that would and before uxiheard of cnmc$oi disfaCe th0fe feelings, arc dlfcovereB againft theiri-.f k attcnipUd to defcribe

former, that theroyai Uicrn.

iui t , - t V ' fecms.to relent, nd that, a:

Gentlemen, I am not un-

conscious that the learned. counsel for crown seeme to address you with the confidence of a very different kind ; he seemed- to expect kind of respectful syrnpathy from you with the feelings of the castle, and the griefs of chided. authority. Perhaps, gentlemen, he may know you better than I do if he does, he has spoken as he ought ; he has been right in telling you, that if the reprobation of this writer is weak.it is because his genius could not make it stronger ; he had been right in telling you that his language has not been braided and festooned as elegant as it might ; that

he has not pinched the miserable plaits ot his phraseology nor placed his patches and feathers with that correctness of millenary which become so exalted a character. If you agree with him gentlemen of the jury, if you think that the man who at the hazard of his own life, to rescue from the deep the drowned honor of his country, must not presume upon the great familiarity of plucking it up by the locks, I have no more to lay: do a courteous thing. Upright & honest jurors, had a civil and obliging verdict against the printer and when you have done so much thro the ranks of your fellow citizens to your own homes, and bear their looks as you pass along : retire to the bosom of your families and your children; & when you are presiding over the morality of the paternal board tell those infants who are to be the future men. of Ireland, the history of this day Form their young minds by your precepts, and confirm those precepts by your example : teach them how discreetly allegiance maybe perjured on the table or loyalty be foresworn in the jury box : and when you have done this tell them the story of Orr : tell them of his capti-

vity, of his children, of his crime, of his hopes, of his disappointments of his courage and of his death ; and when you find your little hearers hanging trom your lips, when you see their eyes overflowing with sympathy and sorrow, and their young hearts bursting the pangs

of anticipated orphanage, tell

them that you had the boldness and justice to stigmatizc the monller who had dared to publilh the tranfk'C tion. 7 )f IcmctuJcJ,

V) ' etd, their f4 touJt

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