Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 1, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 December 1809 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM FOR THE WESTERN SUN. THE LOIlD's PRAYER. OUR father Goil, etrrnal Lord, In Heaven thou clnft dwell ; All tultow'd be thy ftcred name, That triumphs over hell. Mw thine all glorious kingdom come, To rule nnnkind in love ; AIw thine Almighty will be done Here, as it is above. Our daily bread give us this day, That we through thee my live, And Oh forgive our debts we pray, As debtors we forgive. Into temptation lead us not, From evil fet us free ; For kingdom, pow'r and glory's thine, Now, and eternally. September, ISO?. MISCELLANY. LOUISA VENONI, THE MAID of the VALLEY. IF we examine impartially that efhmate of pleafurc, winch the higher ranks of focitty are apt to form, wc fluill probably befurprifcd to find how little there is in it either ol natural feeling or real fatisfacVion. Many a faliiionuble voluptuary, who has not totally blunted his talle or hi judgment, will own, in the intervals of recollection, how often he has flittered from the inlipiditv, or tin- pain of his cnjomcnts; and that, if it were; not for the fear of beinj; laughed i:t, it wt re fometiuu s worth while, even on the fcore of pleafurc, to be irtuous. Sir Edward , to whom I had the pleafurc ol being introduced a Motence, was a character much beyond that which dillinguilhes the generality ol Enirlilh travellers of fortune. II. s lloiy "was known to fome of his counts men, who then r ' ikied in Italy ; from one of whom, who could talk of fumcthing bclides pidurc and operas, 1 had a particuiai reei tal ot it. He had been fi: fl abroad at an early pci iod of his hie, loon alter i!r dea'h of father, who hid kit him a vvry Lfv;r eftate, which he ha-' the -od famine to i'.hetit, ini : all th l .eunatiou i.a'mal to o" h, o c ei it. Tho1 a!w:is buu.p'uous, however, and foiue ; tinus pi..-;!".- he u ;is )':ki wd i.e- j tf) r'- e u. m, in his epcnCos; ;ui(i ili'ii;;a t.r klis now and, l! en ta1! d l a lS unn of pleafi.rc UV'l difh;j;;: n . he ;..v Jv Jr , . hi':uiuj:e iniLiiccs oi Lciulkviiie

than of irregularity. For that i efpecl and eflccm in which his character, amidll all his little errors, was generally held, he was fuppofed a good deal indebted to the focicty of a gentleman, who had been his companion at the univerlity, and now attended him rather as a friend than a tutor. This gentleman was, unfortunately, feizeil at Marfeilles with a lingering diforder, lor which he was under the neceflity of taking a fea voyage, leaving Sir Edward to profecute the remaining part of his in tended tour alone. Defcending into one of the rallies of Piedmont, where, notwithIhmding the ruggednefs of the road Sir Edward, with a prejudice natural to his country, preferred the conveyance of an Englilh hunter, to that of an Italian mule his horfe unluckily made a fa lie Hep, &fell with his rider to the ground, from which Sir Edward was lifted by his fervants, with fearce any (igns of life. They conveyed him on a litter to the nearell houfe, which happened to be the dwelling of a peafant rather above the common rank, before whole door fome of his neighbors were a lib m bled at a fcene of rural meriment, when the train of Sir Edward brought up their matter in the condition 1 have defcribed. The compaflion natural to his iituation was excited in all ; but the owner of the manfion, whofe name was Venoni, was particularly moved with it. He applied himfelf immediately to the care of the iiranger, and, with the afliftance of his daughter, who had left the dance Ihe was engaged in, with great marks of agitation, soon rtilored Sir Edward to fenfe and life. Venom polleffcd fome little ikill in furgcry, & his daughtor produced a book of receipts in medicine. Sir Edward, after being blooded, was put to bed, and tended with every pofiiblc care by his hoil and his family. A coniiderable degree of lever was the confequence of this accident ; but alter fome da s it abated; and in httle more dum a week, he was able to jom in the fociety of Venoni and his daughter. He coiwd not help exprefTing some furprile at the appearance ol refinement in the couveifation V the latter, much beond what her Iituation feemed likely to confer. Her lather accoun ed lor it. Shehad received her euueation in the houfe of a lady, w ho happened to pals through the valley and to tak inciter in Venom's cottage (lor his houle was but a better kind of cottage; the night of her birth. hen her mother died, laid he, the f.nora, u li ,!c name, at lu i detire, we hae r'ven tiie chi.d, took her home to her own hoale ; ihei e ihe was tau. ht niai.v tuing of which there i no met! here yet Ihe is not fopioud of her kar ning as to will: to have her lather in his old age ; and 1 hope fuon to iia e he i lettieu near me h.-r hie. Ihit eiir Edward had now an opportunity ot know hig E aula b'etter th.:u from the thleiip:i.ai o her f idur. Muiic and paimiug.

m ho ii of whi'di ait., (he w.is i toh ! le pr il.ei: nt. Sir Edward iladlldivd wilU fUwwei,. Luuila

felt a fort of pleafurc from her drawings, which they had never given her before, when they were praifed by Sir Edward ; and the familv concerns of Venoni, were very diRerent from what they had formerly been, when once his guefl was fo far recovered as to be able to join them. The flute ol Venoni excelled all the? other mm lie of the valley ; his daughters lute was much beyond it ; Sir Edwards violin was finer than either. But his' converfation with

Louifa it was that or a fl perioi order of beings ! ! fcience, talk, fentiment. It was long liuee Louifa had heard thefe founds; amidll the ignorance of the valley, it w as luxury to hear them ; from Sir Edward, who was the ..moll enga ging figure 1 ever faw, they were doubly delightful. In his a untenance, there was always an expreflion animated and interelhng; his licknefs had overcome fomewhat of the firft, but greatly added to the power of the latter. Louifa was no lefs captivating and Sir Edward had not feen it so long without emotion. During his illnefs his thought his emotion but gratitude ; and when it firfl grew warmer, he checked it from the thought of her fituation, and of the debt he owed her. But the llruggle was too ineffectual to overcome : and of confequence en creafed his paflion. There was but one way in which the pride ol Sir Edward allowed of its being gratified. He fometimcs though, ol this as a bafe 8c unworthy one ; but he was the fool of words which he had defpifed, the flave of man ners he had often condemned. He at lalt compromifed matters with himfelf; he rcfolved, if hecould to think no more of Louila; at any rate, to think no more of the ties of gratitude, or the rcilraints of virtue, Louifa whotrufied to both, now communicated to Sir Edward an important feeret. It was at the clofe of a piece of mulic w hich they had beed playing in the absence of her tatlier. She took up her lute, and touched a little wild melancholy air, which (he had compofed to the memory of her mother. Th.it, laid fhe, nobody ever heard except my fatiier. i I play it fome times when I am alone 1 T a and in low lpuits. I uont know how I came to dunk of it now ; yet 1 have fome realVn to be fad. Sir Edward pre fled h know the caule ; alter fome heii'ation ihe told him ail. iter L.ihcr had fixed on tiie Ion of a neighbour, rich in poilefiions, i.ut rude in manners, tor lur hulbai.d. Ag..:;dt ihih match Hie hatl protefled as lira: as a leufeof (iu'y,iii::i ;U: mining t her nature would allow; btr N'enoni v. as (j! limaiely 'bent ai the match, and ihe was wretched from .He thought of it. ''0 ll; i; j v where we cannot love to man v Miciiaman, Sir Edward It was! m opportunity be;o;id his power of rciillance. Sir Ed ward prelild ner hand : laid ir tr,,.Li t i I . . . . , t , , ul JJI OUl ! "MM" think of lueh a manias j palled her bu.eoay, extolled hjr wrtoes ; and coiududed bv fwear- : dntt he adored l.Jr. She Ib.ardimu ui;h uufuIpcdiKs plea-

sure, which !cr blun.es could ill conceal Sir Edward improved the favourable moment ; tallied, of the ardency of paflion, the inhVni ficancyof ceremonies and forms, the incfiieacy of legal cnaen:e:e ; the eternal duration of thofedie.) -ted bv love ; and, in fine, urr;ed her going off with him, to crown both their days with happinefs. Louifa fiarted at the propofd. Siic: would have reproached him, but; ncr heart was not made for it, fhe: could not weep. They were interrupted by the arrival of her father, and the intended fomin law. lie was jufi fueli a man as Louifa had rcprefentccl him, coarfe, vulgar and ignorant. Pmt Venoni, though much above; their neighbour in every thing bus riches, looked on him as poore? men look on the wealthy, and difcovered none of his imperfections. He took his daughter alide, told her he had brought herd mure hufband, and that he intended they Ihould be married in a week at fartheft. To be continued. J Original from the Boston Mirror A Legal Pun. Some time finee, when it was becoming iafhionable to transform crops into quctiesCj a celebrated law character now on the bench, happened la call in at a Barber's Ihop, while a certain fashionable was undergoing the operation of having three inches of Jake hair tied to the back part of his head, by the help of one inch of his own. The operator had made fcveral attempts without fuccefs ; the queue would not Itick. His endeavours to grafp as much of the inch as pofiible, gave his patient intolerable pain ; till unable to contain himfelf any longer, he firfl vented his paflion upon the frizcur, in fafhcnable and appropriate language, and then demanded ol the counfciJcr, if there was any legal method of bringing the offender to condign pimifhment ? 1 Moll undoubtedly there is, (replied this oracle of the law) you mult have him indicted tor UE-TAILING without licence contrary to the llatute."

t : j::- : Extracts jrom London paper w a Mr. Downe, the pededhian, finifhed a talk of 70 miles a day in? G days at Dorchcllcr on Saturday lalt, by which he has won SCO guineas. UYt'ilt verenr. The pun a. bout Wardle cc Wright, one wotd t think, had often chough been p!ayecl upon, yet i: remai ed; for the sapient Do:va,7 i tor to difcover :hai I Tar die v Right in not paying the Upholih r's bill, ana tin: li-'tiht was H'ron?. in the front of a tailor's fhcr hi Vv ales, ir a board with tin , iii ni. ne'l mtcripnon, M. IJ. M. 1). A. M. which t!:r: owner inHrpits, )rccchjs 7 .. and Drum Mr: or ti the An: l T- J lniniia. r t i"Hor. i :i r. ra nss or E. STOUT. I'ni.VTFR TO Til K TKHIUTOHV AND OF ti::; laws of thi. usiiri) states.

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