Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 33, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 July 1809 — Page 4

POETICAL ASVLUM, DELINQUENTS FROM THE PATRIOT. t ra parr rider-s petition A PARODY. PITY the cravings cf a needy roan, Whom debts and duns have driven to feek your door, Whofe piirfe has dwindled to the (hortcft fpan, Oh I give him cafli and pry to Heaven for more. This thread bare coat my poverty betrays, And bills unpaid aloud my wants proclaim ;

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About the town, to tell trie world my fliame. Yon houfe erected on the rifing ground. With tempting afpcdl lur'd me from my way ; For there a rick subscriber might be. found, Who, much I hcpd, would be inclin'd to pay. Hard is the csfe of a pofrrider poor 1 Th?fp, as I fropp'd to afl: my legal due, A lurking flieritT chas't! me from the door, To feek wherewith to pay my debts, from ycu. Oil 1 piy me quick, and take me to your alk I The fherifT's Ionics well nigh my heart hath fhnn'd 1 Short is my pifiug? to the loathTome jail, For I am poor and miferably dunn'd. Should I reveal the lulfof what I owe, IfUrk of money ere your pockets curs'J Unftibfird you would not let me go, Nor afk me vet a little while to truR.' Keglecl lias cautM my want for this I pinr ; Brought to the Rate you fee, by tour nrglet : And your condition may be foon like mine To need tlut monc) , which ycu csn't collect. A pacing nig was my paternal lot, On which I brought ycu news each p.ffig morn ; Bjt ah ! no food poor poney now has T.t

Not cVn a a niefs of oats, or blighted com.

My fhc?, too, once the comfort of my feet, "Worn rnt by age, and tcrlYmg me with

Whom debts and duns have driven to feek your door, Whofe purfe is dwindled to the fliortcft fpan, Oh ! give him cafli that he may dur.n no more.

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p:, 3 lately ciO, sjandond, in the Arret, And d icm'd in fcuty mud hJc tj rein it in. fA.liM-.lns fvet focthrrs of my way ! 'Vauck xvrJi La anu.fii that 1 loll my IV.i, !.i :-,;r.;: ui, beneath their load to

And h it me cumf.rtkfi, and f,:ilil rry l'i:y the ciavings cf a ne:Jy nnn,

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AMELIA . OR THE SENTIMENT AL TATR. Alas ! raid the lovely Amelia, throwing herfelf on a couch, after having figured at an ailembly; alas ! repeated the fair fentimental. ift ; is this what the generality of mankind call happinefs ? Miftaken mortals ! Two yeais have I bowed before diflipation's flirine. and two years has not this foolifh heart lain Hill. Peace, peace thou throbbing heart, foon will I give thee e:fe : yes to-morrow will I quit this noify and tumultuous city, ck bid adieu to frolic a long adieu : in fome lone vale, far from the haunts of gaiety, will I feek that content which is a flranger tomy bofom. Amelia rofe with the lark, ordered her carriage Adieu, Hie cried, New York adieu; Thou phantom, no more will I truft myfelf within thy alluring doors balls, concerts and aflemblies, I bid you all a laft farewch Thus faying, fhe Hepped into her chariot, and drove to Elmira's, a female friend, who had oft folicited Ame

lia's company in her retreat. The meeting was tender; Elmira was happy, fo was Amelia. In this fweet fpot, which nature afMed by art, had combined to render another Eden, relided the amiable Henry all the powers of elegant, of foft perfuafion were his, he faw Amelia he loved her but was ; with-held by bafhful modefly, from telling her the tender talc. At length the opportunity oflered ; Henry was taking a penfive walk not far off, he beheld the miftrefs of his heart. In her hand the lute of voice mehdiout, Thro' the trees Iorj murmurivr wav'd ;

And on her lips the graces dropp'd ambrosia j

Her lute, her voice, tuned his gentle foul to harmony; he approached her Henry lighed ; Amelia gave the mild refponfe

amhrf'fial gales received the breath

of love, and wafted it to congenial bnfoms, from w hence Ijghs cfcaped no more, except a Ru'luen burft momentous of another's woq, Ilenrv told her his artlefs llorv. She heard with blufhiug cheeks, and the lilly hand her heart lie already had. He was extacv ltfelf for the invaluable blelling ; and alter a fhort time received it again with the fanclioucd benedilions of the alter. Tkrice hJv ! Mjy S.-rcnt ruzrr charm your hj'IovSd stept I rui nature's ipen cuutt to stay. Henry, with his Amelia, retired to a romantic part of the country, and not a ligli does the fair partner of domcflic joy, heave after the town and its dull pleafures. She pre litati s the Mils of paradile ; this is heaven be;;un on earth. Perhaps the following elegant lines mayeonvey fome idea of their happinefs, and the raptures of connubial fe licit v. Around the finding fwain, arc

ranged a happy family, his wife fair as the rofe when firft the blufh ins fpring fprinkles the balmy leal with moiflening dew, fat near hiiii decked in the rural robe of native elegance ; fhe fcorned the wonton drefs of luxury, high pampered ; her fimple garb improved whai modefl nature lent, and hightenec! graceful charms ; fmiling on hei knee, and infant played and laughcdat the gay warblers Tinging on the atrial boughs , pleafed, he joined the ftrain refponlive, and in lm little notes falutes the feathered fongflers ; both parents grafp the prattler to their breads by turns, they melt away in raptures of fu pernal blifs,and elder branches of the tree parental fport around their fire, orquaft maternal fmiles. Dean Swift's Eclipse. One day Swilt obferved a great rabble affembled in a large fpace before the deanery door in Keevenftreet, and upon enquiring the caufe of this) was told it was to fee the Eclipfe. He immediately Tent for the beadle and gave him his leflTon of what he fhould do A wayran Davy for his bell, and after ringing it fometime amongtthe croud, bawled out O yes, O yirp all manner of perfons concerned, are defired to take notice, that it is the Deao of St. Patrick's will and pleafure, that the eclipfe be put off until this hour to-morrow So God fave the King, and his reverence the Dean. The mob upon this notice immediately nifpei fed ; only fome more cunning UiJrahe reft, fwore they would not Toofe another afternoon, for that the Dean who was a very comical man might take it into his head to put oft the eclipfe again, and fo make fools of them a fecond time.

", Mr. FrefTendcn, the author of Terrible Tractoration,' has latey am u fed himfelf with quizzing the pedantry of fome folemn iMockhead whofe character he has mcetioufly defcribed in one of the New-England pipers. Mr. F. defcribes him at length, under the influence of Cupid. 41 About forty years fincc, the learned doctor was taken violently in love. He had however as little perfonal acquaintance with his goddefs, as Don Quixotte with Dulcinea ; but his imagination prefented her as a being that was quite the tip end of perfectibility. "After many cogitations relative to the mode of difcloling the ardency of his affection, he at length adopted an epiilolary mode of communicating his exquilite fenfations. A fhort extract will ierve as a fpecimeu of liis flyle as an amatory writer : 4k Mtj Dearest Miss Ineffable " The folar erf) all goi geous had jufi emerged from the Cerulean abyfs of the wide fpreading ocean. The mild radiance of his beams

refplendent gambolled eccentric on the verge of the g iy crimfo:itinged horifon, fnffufing a fupremc ferenity through the love lorn bofom of the ardent admirer of the moll adorable Amanda. 'J'he dimpled curling fuperficies of a capacious refcrvoir of apuatic particles,

ejently agitated by fplec t)rcnthing zephyrs, prefented to the admiring ubaqueous landfcapc, agreeably :o the laws of reflection and retraction. What raptures ccdatic hrilled the glowing identity of our amarous Allander, when thro the attenuated, demi-illuminated, intervening foliage the celeftial imige of the lovely Amanda arretted ittention. Your genuine goddefhip, in the moft enchanting attitude of demi-declination fat fecluded beneath the frondiferous opacity, where the pliant woodbine, romantically variagated by a multifarious diverfity of oblique curvilineal implications, moft deledtably mantled the vivid circumference of a beautiful alcove."

An Irilh furgeon, who had couched a cataract, and reltored the light of a poor woman in Dublin, obferved in her cafe, what he deemed a phenomenon in optics,- 0:1 which he called together his profeffional brethren, declaring himfelf unequal to the folution. He Hated to them, that the fight of his patient was fo perfectly reltored, that fhe could fee to thread the fmallefl: needle, or to perform any other opcration which required particular accuracy of vifion ; but that when he prefented her with a book, file was not capable of ditlinguifhmg one letter from another! This very lingular cafe excited the ingenuity of all the gentlemen prefent, 8c various folutions were ofFered, but none could command the general alfent. Doubt crowded on doubt, and the problem grew darker fromevery explanation ; when at length by a qufhon put by a fervant who attended, it was difcovered thatthe woman never had learned to read ! !

BLACKBERRY SIRUP. The prefent not only being a feafcnable time to prepare this valuable medicine, but to recommend its ufefulncfs, particularly amongft chiklrerf?afflicted with bowel complaints : a feeling mother offers the following receipt for public benefit. Take the fruit before very ripe, extract the juice,-& to each quart add one pound of white fugar, fkim and boil it about half an hour when cool enough to bottle, add a fmall tea cup full of brandy. From one to four table fpoons full may be taken frequently, as age & circumftances require.

Doctors M. RETXOLDS & A. CUIPVS Will pr.cicc Physic, Surgery &V. In- Kaskaskia, (Illinois Ty.) THOSK that makr choice of rcpofinr their confiJrncc in thrm, v,1! br at, tended with :h- utmoft of their :thiliii.s thry i!l he found in their fliop contiguous to the Hornn church. They have on hand a i.1rgf afTorttnent of M E I) I C I X K whid, will be fold wholcf.Ic on moderate terms. tf June 1809. rr.oM the rnr.es of Ii. STOUT. In I .VTF R TO TIIK TKRIUTOHV AyD Of THK LAWS Ot TIIK UNITED STATES.