Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 February 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM,

DULL TIMES. NoBufincfs all things at a ftand Pecplc corrplnin they have no "cafli at

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ct Dull timet ?" re-echoes now from ever)1 mnrter.

Even from father to the fbn and daughter.

Merchants cry out, " No money to be

had Itailen fty, " The times are very had ;

Ivlachanics work, but they can get no

pay ,

Beanxdiefs genteel, Sc ladies too are gay ;

Cifh very fcirce at taverns half a week,

Bufnirfs fo dull, amufement ftill we feek,

Some fport away, and then perhaps they

f.til ; "While many run in debt and go to jiil The ladies mft have ribbons, gauze and Lnce ; And pint befides, to fmooth a .wrinkled fate ; Short waiH, filk gown, court chefs and a new fafii ; Dull times indeed, my friend ! there is no cfh. Bucks will drefs genteel and billiards play. Sit un all night, and 1 ty a bed ?11 Jay ; Powder an empty pite, look fmart and ptim - Follow each trifilrjr pflion fir odd whim. Young and oil', now yivx the though'lcfs

rabble,

And run with ( ami p'1 if irr, to the tab!-.

Are thefe bad timts, when people will pro Ms,

To worlhip gimlng, arc! delight in drefs?

No ! lim:s r.re gocd, but people arc tt b 1 ir - , Who fperfl too much and jullly mere ihame.

(aw this trouble on ourfelves How loth

.-.re we top .f rvtn a moment in I'olhudc. How unwilling arc we to fcarch into our own hearts. With what rdudUr.cc do we obferve our own fraihirj, and follies ; and how flow, how criminally negligent are we in reforming ourfelves. Man loves himfelf better than any body elfe ; and yet

there is no one whofe company he fo much dreads. I have an acquaintance who

would fpend his time more fatUfalori!y

even with his favorite do-, than with him-

ft If alone. Whence this dread of foiitude ?

Whence this averfion to reflection ? Do

we not too often find a folution of thtfe que ftions, in the lines of the poet above quoted. Mentor,

AM EC DOTH.

Wr r nmmonly f iy, frcoa-i tl..u;-iits a? l)fft ; aVt V3U S? wo:iicn 'Vi.o pretend t. b- :ttiU- 'a marrir?, cMirc rot to be t Y.-r. t t1 ,rv,Mi!;, Jack, our thy, ikrr h:- i i!tr-rt i Die would h.ivr l.ini : nt J'it., t ij itt y0U ,Iiay i)ave me it you will.

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LOOK OUT ! ! i Tt is fid, that orders have been given to march all the force of tbe United States, fouth and weft of the Delaware, to New Orleans. It is expected, th it rrquilitions

ot 1000 militia irom the Orl-ans nrri

Mifliflippi territories will be made ; and that Congrefs will be called on fcr 2000 cr 2500 feamen, to man the gun. boats and fmaller fhips forty of which, it is expected will be deQined for Lake Ponchartrain

and the MifiilTippi. LONDON, Oaober 25. Pacific overtures. A Ruffiah and Trench mcfienger arrived from France on Friday morning.

and returned on hunday.

Nothing certain has trnnfnired

either with refpecl to the dilpatches to, or the reply returned by our government. We have heard

that the former are very ihort ; that tliev confift of two lettr-rs rhi.

ted from Krfurth, and addrclli

iy fvi. de Champcrnv. tlie rreneh

w A W - - mini iter for foreign affairs, and M. de Komanzow. the Ruffian minilK

r, to his excellency George Can-

ning, inquire : that the two lety a X .

ters are in lubitance the lame, -tta-linfr that his maieliv the emneror

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ot all the Kuilians, and Ins lnajt-llj. the emperor of the French, bring vrquaily animated with a defsre to out an end to the calamities oi v.ir, he (the mini ftrr for foreitjr. H'ursy has in command from hinajelly to requefl l.is excellency i) communicate to his Biiiniiic .uijedy that ch lire, and if his Brkric majelly be influenced by iimilar deiire, to propofe that ic;ui)otcntiaries fhall beimmt-di--eiy named, to proceed to a p'ae hat inav be fixed upon, to open a icgocidtion with the plnip'jientir,ies of liis imperial mnje y lor til?;onclulion of a marit ime peaee. If wc be correct the mw cv that will be returned In his rmi'flv,.

uiinitlers to fuch a c:ommuniVati.

s obvious-. The epithet npplh-r. y the eiiemy t the kind ot ik-.

.tnicii t ney arc deiirons oi m;;or:tjtiir, l'hfv.-s us at oncf that th: ?o not admit o:ir inter!! rence

of tlte C(utinent. II : minilters, we fhouh

i lecture, would lepiy to M. d

ing In the nnrne of h!s catholic H T i, .....

majclty reromanu tne vilth.

Other perions have indtitced vet

diHeient conjectures. Tiiev im

agine, we think contrary to all probability, that Bonaparte and his vaifal emperor, have at once milled ' medics res; that they have propofed a bafis iimini ; and that they had begun by mentioning terms. Some fuppole, that in the overture to our govern incnt, we are told we have no right to afiifl the Spaniards ; that it is a mere family quarrel with which we, as if landers, have nothinitodo. This he would hardly do'in the firlt infiance. It wfli be found, we dare fay, that the overture which has been made us, is of a loofe and general nature.

and does not touch upon terms or

baits,.

The arrival of the meflencers

hadfome effect unon th.e funds.

but jt proc'ueed difull inftead oi pleafureto the nubiic nind. ' Kv-"

try body viewed the overture as an inlkhous attempt to detach u from the Spanhh 'and Bortuguefs patriots ; there was not a man who

OKI not lay, is bonaoarte ready, as a preliminary ro negotiation, to withdraw his troous from Snain.

and relvafe Ferdiiiand the Vilth.

if he is nqt, let us have no negoei ation ; let us hear of no neace :

let us fend back his meifengers

ana ins overtures with di dam and

defiance.

It is probable that we fliall havt

another flag of truce over in a few-

days, with die aniwer to the reply

ot our mirmters,

October '27. Among the Bmilh officers in

Spain, are 40 members of Parli-

ment.

The French troops embarked at Lifbon on the tth. 'I he tranfborts convevincr th.-

French troops from Lifbon to

France, met with ieverc crahs

ioonaftei leaving port, which dil perfed them. One was lolt, and

287 lou'iers peruhed. Th-: French g, ral Kelierman, Irom BtJi-tli;.;::!, at his requelt hah been brought to Knghsnd.

Parhmcnt is further prorogue) to the loth December. Seven vvfllrls L'jumd to Ileligo land, and five from the Baltic, have been taken by a French' pri atcer. '1 Iv Sritifb'fqiuuiron has quitjvd i)r bfje-ade of the Ruffian 3( -; J'; Bon Br.Itic, leaving three ;5 .vctui'h ib'ps to watch it.

Apodaca, Charged' affairs at the Court of London. A military Junta has been formed, compofed of live generals, viz. (. aflanos, Marquis de Cdleiar, Morla, Sangro, and the Marquis de Palacoil. Th.e Supreme Junta have formerly demanded King Ferdinand of Napclcan. Rreadeo, Sept. 30. Yeflerday arrived two rranfports with Spanifb troops, re fc tied from the French in the North of Europe. Portugal Sept. 1 5. The eflabiiibment of the Regency will immediately take place. The lofs of the French here ia battles previous to the capitulation are killed 2226; wounded 1703 ; pnfoners 2634 ; capitulated 26,368 infantry, 1093 cavalry, tnd 161 conductors, with 2303 waggons, and 82 boxes of canrid-

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ed bept 28; one ol the principals in it, is the Archb;lhop of Oporto Parch, Oct. 9. The day before ycilerday arrived here the 76th Hegimcnt on its march to Spain ; this is the laft regiment w inch isto proceed from the grand army to that country. Within thefc I ail two days, no intelligence of any moment has oeen received from Spain. General Lefcbre has arrived in Bayoime from that country, and is daily expecled m this capital. Imperial interview. There has been a friendly meeting oi the Emperors of Ruffni and France at Erfurth. They had continued there three weeks at the lait dates From thence the pacific overtures had been fent to England and there the f fate of Europe will be determineel on. Bon marte was accompanied to Krfurth by Talleyrand and Cham

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!. lv - ::pi-fied, and whicii wa , -i to all Europe, to put an I ': r' the cal unities of w r. I" v? r he could do fo co'-ifi '1- ' v ' h the fectirity of his do-

s, t.u nouor of his crown ' t:.r ujyal f nth he owed to In.'b' s ; th it he was ready to cnti: :'o a negoi::tif,M j;i eoncerlwit! ' iliy s. and that he wouh .iii,!cdiately comiuuniea'r fhf r

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t Plymouth, Oct. 25. Arrived, the Iiowe.ua, from nrunu i, v.iii.;ii is I'l i I tr.

; oug'ii a port that the Spaniards

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fweiuy ihoufand Siri?ilh iro-sp.s :VL n'.tlLi:';' -kmhi from .'or:tig.:d. 1 he r l thejc are or:e:ed to tl)e Mcdiurranian. u; imhai.d to pievent inUrcouife .ith f',:. gland. An ,ih::r;:n has been laid at IVteiluurgh, when- fevera! Amer

ican c bus are among the dctainrd. slrar.jwz, Oct. 1. I ne v-ritral Junta iiave Ordrrd military fuco-irs to Catalonia

truiaViM.d uith frelb

n( ;u,jr.t have communicated heir n:!u ; f,: s to til- fbicn;;, 'omllcrs at M, .!i hJ, t.nd their rtV-x-eh'.e Cou.rs, ;,nd to a;j tj,f V"Ms d Europe v. !,o!V f irr.fi. hl v (' lid e;;)- ( Th y i:ae upjjiiitcd Don Ju.m Euii:

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Hismaicflv the kinn: of Wofl-

phall, his imperial hicrhnefs -the.

grand duke Conftantinc, and the duke and hereditary prince of

eimar, have arrived nt Erfurth.

Armhtice between the Swedes and Russians. The-propofnion ofUuffia for an trmillice with the Swedes, is conjrclered to be, becaufe ibe wants to employ her troops eifewhere. A letter from Sweden fays, there is nothing in this armiltice to warrant a peace between Sweden and Rufiia. The Swedilh king, diflatisfied witli his guards, has broke woo of them. The Swcds have tuHeied iiiuf-h latterly in Finland 'i'he armillice is faid to be confined to military operations in the north of Finland. It is tor an tin-

limbed time, and is dated Scp-

einoer l r, l hos. rhe RutTian fhips which caplurintcd at Ldhon, have arried at V rtlmouth. Eng.

i uere is no new indication of a h(,!bie dtfpofuion on the part of Auftria.

'Aventy thonfand Rritilh troop.? hiving manhed hom En'hjn, i-ooo bavin;; arrive! .3t B:U,oi, Hid others prep.snng loo t to fail hom England, it ivpiv)!)able there 'vould fooji be -to.ooo i'lnlilh fob dier.? in the n 'rd:ernput of Spain o aliilt againlt the Ficch. - FROM TUT. PI! ESS OF STOUT. i'ni.VTMt TU TJJK TKItHITOTY AST) Of TKL LAVS OF THK UNXTLD bTATtS.