Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 October 1807 — Page 4
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POETICAL ASYLUM.
COLUMBIA'S EAGLE. Let England's Lion boft his pow'r. Let Gallia's Cock defiance crow ; Columbia's Eagle ne'er (hall cow'r to any foreign foe, With equal eafc aloft fhe waves The branch of Peace, or flufts of War, And wafts the fame 0; Freedom's name, To lands enflaved and realms afar Once, could the Roman Eagle foar Bryond the reach of human eye ; But now, fhe plumes her wings no more, No more invades the fky ; For Freedom fled, and with her bore The Eagle's power, the Eagle's fway; Her wings are weak, And dull her beak, Her name no more (ball ftrike difmay. Not fo Heaven's fav'rite bird that wilds The weapons of Columbia's ire, And every dear bought intereft Ihields From mad Ambition's fire ; While time rolls on the palling hours Her flight the world fhall awe, And widely fpread The Olive's (hade, To fhelter Liberty and Law.
Augwt, 15
The editor is requefled to publifh dip following, with a i eque(l 'that it may be publiihed throught the uinon. - INHUMANITY! At Georgetown, diflritt of Columbia, Madame Turreau, the wife of the F rench am baffador, has been tor many months, and now isf in tht utrooft diflrefs and mifery ; where (he has been on a bed of draw, till relieved by oie lent to her. She is left in thisdeflitutc'manner, without a cent, and with two of gen. Turreau's fmall children a girl of about 7 or 8 years old and a boy of two years old. 1 enquired if any mifcondufl of hers had reduced he to this miferable fituation ; but heard that her chara&er was without a blemifh, and her conduit in this country has been fo marked with prudence,
that flie may defy the tongue
of calumny ! From the fplen . did flyleof the ambafladorof
the powerful government of
France, he cannot want the means of fupplying his lady
with luxuries: inftead of Ict'V
ing hcrtoflarve, and yet flic ftarves! To tell all that she
has fullered, would harrow
up the the foul of the mofl
has hot vet tranft
callous. Suffice it at prefcot boats by earn now , ;
to lay, that the wife of the proved, i ;e mormng t, y ' n Mondav. and' h :
New York there was nut pci-: -- ;
French ambaflador and grand
member of the legion of hon-
or, witn ins two cnnoren, ttarvc at the feat of govern-
ment of the United States ! !
HUMANITY. Citizens of America read
the above. Nothing more is
neceflary to excite your fym
pathy.
Every perfon that feels for
a (tranger that cannot fpeak
our language a mother in
dirtrefs, with two children in
a foreign land, and without a fingle relative to whofe fuc cour she may fly, will naturally wish to render fome aid. A trifle from each affluent family, would refcue from mifery one who has a great
ful heart, who weeps lefs the
brutality that has brought her
fo low in mifery, than the re-
milfence of that touching
from thofe whole benevolent
hearts have been open to her
at all times, and whofe exer
limited by want of ability.
addrefs to my country, and
let us shew she is not among
barbarians.
Let thofe who feel for her
From the Washington Federalist diflrefs, depofite for her what
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haps thirty perfons in thecityithe troops arrive iney wm
who believetl the boat would.n.eei u.cu. rhm in their unitorm.
ever move .one miie an wuui.v.w- --. -
or-be of the iealt utility and a wh.te dreis: Due ipencer
whileAve were putting .off. turned up iviin vvn. e Kinc ufrom the wharf, which was niforni of the Hate) blue fhoes
crout'ed with fpeclators, l ine neao ureis j nave not
heard a number of farcaflic yet learnt. J neir appearance
remarks ; this is the way you
will be truly beautiful and
know in which ignorant men;granu. wuiuh.
:nt what they callithern ftates lay, our Virginia
compliment what they
philolophers and projectors,
ladies are too puny to bear
Having employed muchifatigue. l ean aflure you that
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time and money and zeal in accomplilhing this work it gives me, as it will you, great pleafure to fee it fo fully anlver my expectations. It will give a quick and cheap conveyance to merchandize on the Mifliflippi, MifTourl & other great rivers which are now laying open their irea
lures to the enterprife of our
kindnels she has experitihefed countrymen. And although
the profpeft of perfonal emol
ument has been lome inducement to me yet I feel infinite-
tions in her favor are only 'y more pleafure in rcfleAing
with you on the immenfe ad
She knows nothing of this vantage that my country will
ever fum they can fpare in the
bank neareft them, and each
cashier will be To good as to tranfmitthe fame, occafion-
ally, to the cashier of the bank
the office of difcount and de
pofite, Washington. Thefe
are gentlemen of humanity, and I know will ad honoaa-
bly, though they, js well a 1 r KIT '
mauaiuc 1 urreau, are igno
rant of this addrefs.
A Chriflian.
To JOEL BARLOW, Philadelphia New-York, 22 Aug, 1807. My dear friend My dream boat voyage
to Albany and back, has turned oat rather more favora
ble than I had calculated.
The diflance from New York
to Albany is 150 miles; I ran it up in 31 hours and down 11130 hours. The latter is jufl
5 miles an hour, 1 had a light
breeze again!! me the whole
way going and coming, lo that no ufe was made of my fails ; and the voyage has
derive from the invention.
However, I will not admit
that it-is half fo important as the torpedo fyflem of defence
and attack ; for out of this will grow the liberty of the feas ; an objedl of infinite im portance to the welfare of America, and every civilized country, But thoufands of
they poffefs the true Amerl
can ipirit.
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of Columbia, or the cashier of witneffes have now feen the
fleam boat in rapid movement
and they believe : they have not feen a llnp of war deftroy ' ed by a torpedo, and they do not believe. We cannot ex pet people in ge neral will have a knowledge of phyhes, or power of mind fuflicient to combine ideas and reafonfrom caufes and effefts. But in cafe we have war, and the enemys (hips come into our waters, if the government will give me reafonable means of aftion, I will foon con vince the world that we have furer and cheaper modes of defence than they are aware
of. Yours &c. ROBERT FULTON,
Extrattof a letter received at
N. Y, dated Richmond,
July 25, 1807.
41 The people of Richmond
been performed wholly by, are trulv patriotic : we infi
the power of the fleam en-'nitely exceed you in enthuli
gine. I overtook many (loops aim ; even the ladies of this
and fchooners beating to city are forming thcmfclve:-
windward, and pad them as into volunteer corps ; the)
if they had been at anchor, jwere to meet to day to cletf
The powers of propelling their Officers, the rcfult of
Philadelphia Jug. jfune 9 Capt. Mayne. of the brig 5t. Croix Packet, arrived at the Lazaretto, informs that before he failed, the Britifli Packet had arrived there, which brought inteligence that Bonaparte was about concluding peace with the powers of Europe ; but that Great Britain would not be admitted to join them unlefs the treatyof Amiens was unequivocally acknowledged by that power; T he britifli Packet brought papers to the 29June, but they contain nothing material.
As the appearance of a
rupture with Great Britain, on account of the late attack
n the Chefapeake, has put
every perfon on the alert to
find where (he is mofl vulner
able, we have here given a
(tatement of her population in
Canada, hoping it may be ac. ceptable to a number of our
readers.
Great Britain, claims all
the country inhabited by Eu
ropeans lying north and cafl: of the United States, except
Greenland, which belongs to
Denmark. Upper Canada
twenty thoufand ; Lower Ca
nada one hundred and thirty
thoufand, that is, Kingfton.
Detroit, Niagara, Quebeck, Montreal ; Cape Breton i-
fland, one thoufands ; new
ISrunfvvick, nova Scotia thirfy five thoufand. Towns, Sidney, Louilburgh, Fredericktown, Halifax, St. John's i
(land and new Britain not
known. 4 (Carlifle Reg.
BLANK DEEDS For sale at this Office.
F N O M TBI PRT.SS OF S TOU T 8c S MOO T, ri( INTERS TO THK 2 M I) I J It A T M R It J TO r.