Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 August 1809 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM, V A R 1 e r V, A SONG. ASK you tlio is tinging there, "Who lb bl the can thus appear ? I'm the tViend of mirth and gtcc, And my name's Variety. Ke'erhave I a clouded face, Swift 1 change from place to place, . Ever wand ring ever free, Nothing's like Variety. Like a bird that fl:ims the air, llrre and tlure and eery where, v , oip my plt aTures like a bee, Such am I, Variety. Clouded fcnes and lonely groves, All hy turns, I cju rpprove ; Follow, follow, follow me, I,ltn of life Variety. Love's fwret p-iflhn charms the bread, Roving love hut breaks my reft, One good heart's enough for inc Though my name's Variety.

ANECDOTES.

A lusty young man was earnest with his father to be married, and after much importunity he was married to a neighbour's daughter, he had not been married 6 months "when he looked so bad and was so ill and feeble, that he could scarce stand upon his legs. Sometime after he espied a man running a bull over a ploughed field--he enquired why he did so ? the man told him it was to tame. Oh! says he, marry him, marry him, if that dou't tame him, I will agree to be hanged. A learned schoolmaster being lately interrogated bv one of Ins scholars with respect to the etymology of the word syntax, replied after some sage consideration, that it received its meaning from the circumstance of the ancients having laid a tax on Some years ago, a lunatic in Bedlam was asked how he came there? He answered, "by a dispute!" What dispute? The poor Bedlamite replied, "the world said I was mad--I said the world was mad--and they out voted me." CURIOSITY. Curiosity has been the source of human misery ; what a price did Eve pay for it? what a price is every day paid for it by the human race? That curiosity, which is an inquisitiveness after the business and pursuits of other people, must ever be condemned. The ancient inhabitants of Crete, enacted laws, whereby they were forbidden, on pain of being publicly whipt, even to en-

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London, May 6 THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. The annexed intercepted letter from the French minister for foreign affairs, to Bonaparte, is positively stated to be authentic. If so the hopes of any material change on the part of Russia, in favor of Austria, must be considerably weakened, if not altogether at an end. One passage of it is very important, as it shows that the violation of the integrity of the Austrian dominions formed an object of the conferences held between Alexander and Napoleon. Notwithstanding the very confident assurance which is given of the authenticity of Champagny's letter, we cannot give complete credit to it. Intercepted letter from mr. Champagny, minister of foreign affairs to Bonaparte. Paris, Dec. 11, 1808. Sire, THE correspondence of this day does not furnish me with any letter to lay before your majesty. M. de Romanzoff has converted with me upon the dispatches he received from St. Petersburgh yesterday. The emperor, his master had the goodness to write to him, upon the affairs of his department, a letter of four pages, which places him altogether au courant. Before he received it, he scarcely conceived himself to be minister for foreign affairs ; for he was no longer informed of any thing. He had the kindness to give me an analysis of it it is as follows : "The emperor of Russia speaks of the successes he has just obtained in Finland ; yet he is about half satisfied with gen. Buxhowden, & he means to displace him. The reply of the English government deprives him of almost all hope of a speedy peace ; yet he thinks that it is of importance always to keep a door open for negotiation, and afterwards, whatever be the success of it, to go forward. He has given an example of this in his reply to prince Kourakin, who had gven him an account of the little success he has had in demanding, of the court of Vienna, the acknowledgment of Joseph the first. M. de Romanzoff read me this letter of the emperor to prince Kourakin ; I think your majesty will be satisfied with it. The emperor of Russia is astonished at the refusal of Austria, under the pretext on which it is founded. Austria wishes first to know the result of the conferences at Erfurth. 'It is by disobliging, says the emperor ) that she pretends to merit complaisance? what has been signed at Erfurth? Far from having wished to injure the interests of Austria, there was stipulated there the integrity of that monarchy." (This affection is evidently a mistake of the emperor who had not the treaty before him an error occasioned probably by the recollection of some conversations with your majesty.) 'Thus whist I am occupied with her interests, (continues the emperor)

she replies by a refusal to accede

to the demand I have made of her, j and in teeming to leek my friend- j fhip. lhe evinces to me her dillrull . of my conduct at Krfurth," The i

emperor accufes Aullria of cont: adidlions in her conciucl, and in the language oi Al. de Metternieh, M.

de Station, and M. Vincent ; he 1 fays that the acknowledgment demanded of her was but the efl'ecl . of the management which it was wilhed to fliew her, in thus difpen- j fins with the demand of a catagor- ;

ical declaration upon the prodigious increate of her military force. He does not fee the object which

lhe is pucfuing ; and after having

obfcrved, that when king Jofeph (hall be at-Madrid, the refufal of Aullria to acknowledge him will

only be an aCl of rediculc ; he declares that lhe has formed the tenfelefs projects of forming a new , coalition, by leaguing herfelf with j England, Turkey, the Spanifh infurgents, he is in a condition to oppote it, and that united with the emperor Napoleon, he could ealily

break the new league whieh would be to Auflna the caufe of difailers, if not of total ruin. Such is the reply of the emperor Alexander, to the Kourakin.

It was tent to the Ruffian charge

des affairs at Vienna, who has or- j ders to communicate it to M. de Stadion. The charge des affairs

has lately written to Kourakin ; it j

appears that the dif patch of the emperor's had not reached him, though it is dated the 8th November. "I could have wifhed that M. de RoxnanzofF would have left me a copy, but 1 loon perceived that he was defirous of prefenting Ivimtelf to your majefty, and that he was in hopes of your fpeedy return. That hope was too fweet to every Frenchman, as well as RomanzolTCwho refpecMs & admires your majefly almotl as much as a Frenchman.; for me to weakken the hope which I am fond of fharing with him. But if it cannot be fo on realized, I fhall renew to your majelly the demand of repairing to you, if, after the reply from Kngland, my remaining here lhouid appear ufelefs. kfc i had the latisfaclion to an

nounce to M. de RomansolT,

arrival of-your majeily at St. Mar

tin, near Madrid, referring him for the details to the balletin which will appear to-morrow, of the contents ot which 1 am not yet informed. 1 am with refpecl, " Sire, your majel'yVs k Moll faithful 'devoted kk Serv.-ut nnr fnbj "CHAMi'AGNY."

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L:bon June t , The nrmy conmuiidet! by gen. Romana, atrackci the Ficnch at Meira, and followed i!;e:n to V:raday. Here the enemy hid tiiemfehes in a forefl. whirli iw r..r

rounded, fired on them, and kilted

many, i iwy tiien retreated to hu(j, leaving in our hands thrtc pieces of cannon, c. Our troops loilowed the enemy to the gales, lurrounded jr cj-y, p! tC;in;; llro; detardm.ents a: the gates, ; p cing tint i: v-u!d furr'nder iv m.

pilulation oroompulnon. Fortunately the apollate Mazarrade who had fo long been prailing king Jofeph in Allorgo, is now Ihut u) in Lugo. V. S. This day at 7 o'clock in the evening, we have rccehed the official account of the taking of Lugo, bv marlhal Nicola Maki, tecond in command of the armv of the left, and commander in chief in theabtence of the marquis Roma.ia. In this glorious adlion, the refillnnce made by lhe enemy was obilinate, but they were defeated, after loftng 4,000 men, in killed, wounded and pi "doners. June x Letters from Livas of tiic 28th ult. mention that general Cuefla, had advanced his head quarters from Monallcrio, to Fucnte del Macllre. The Dutch papers mention a bout a battle in Rolonia, archduke Ferdinand, commanded there ; but fay nothing of the reiih, a convincing proof that the French were defeated, and it is believed that Worfovia had fallen into his hands, We learn from Seville, that it is certain, that 'peace has been made .bet ween Ruflia and England and that Ruflia has entered into the coalition againfl the grand ufurpcr of Europe. With impatience, we expect a confirmation, as we have good reafon to give credit to this news, which is given by Alva, who had arrived at Seville. In Kngland this event, as late as the icth of May, was confh dercd probable. Stockholm, April 9. His excellency M. Alnpcus lias arrived here, to congratulate tlie duke ofiSudennania in t!ie name of the emperor Alexander, upon the recent change. Mis royal hglu nefs has given a fuitable anfwer, and in order to accelerate peace with Ruflia, has lent to Peterlhurff the grand marlhal of the court, M, Schucrin. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Robert Burns. Another volume

oLthe poilhumous, Zzin Ihort, tin-

rmbniiied wniincs of of this admi-

j rable poet of Nature, has lately

made ;ts appearance in Britain : f-c is now re-printed pui)iifhing by Brandford h.fkerp of Piiiiadeh p!da. it is eiitiih cl Rdi'iucs of Robert !i::rn u will be peruted witi ari uncoininon degi ee (if iutert 11 by all who an: acquainted u ith the ta-te-nts and ability ol tint extra ordinary but unfortunate genius. Th? Edhnr is a mr. R. 1 i. Ciomek, w hole admiration oft'e h:i. d, and an ear'udl wilh to p;d: T; a icrap cC his hand writing, firll I n ily.z idea of this puUkatr. T'vA'z motives, and the naayc of di i comiiUt.O!i, do equal honour to the Wiiter, and to the memory of the Poet. 4 - ', J - . t

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