Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 May 1810 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM, tor tbi Western Suit THE ELECTION. WERE ye at the !aft eleaion r Saw ye the voting train advance ? Did they borrow this invention, From flavifti England or from France ? v O no ! it was the gift of Heav'nf It is the facred right of man ; But great corruptions mix the leav'n. And fet afide fair freedom's plan See them with their jugs of Whilkcy, Deceive the voters' hearts array, Bafe men by this iniquity, Kece'iTe the laurels of the day Behold the mob with Whiflcey full, Cringe low, & flatter curfe and fwear The wicked band make them a tool, To deftroy the patriots care May the bright Sun of Freedom rife, And chafe the mifts of craft away , JtUy ev'ry Freeman ope his eyes To truth, on each election day M. April, 1810. EPIGRAM. Lucinda's luck did fpinfters grudge, While lovers twain purfued her ; For while flieiharm'd on old grave Judge, A young gay Shtrijf woo'd her. Thf Judge ws rich, the Sheriff poor, Papa ptcferr'd his Lordfhip : And mammon fcprn'd for Cupid's lure, Old Sjuaretoes deem'd a hardfliip. But Mifi , whom rank nor wealth could To be by dotard bedded ; move, (For if Jack Ketch had gain'd her love, The hangman (he'd have wedded) Said Since to love and cherish too, Was wedlock's inftitution ; 11 Judgment may have it weight with jou " But I'm for Execution i"

ANECDOTES.

A man blind of an eye, laid a wager with another that he had a good fiht, and and he could fee better than him : The wa. grr was accepted. I have gained, faid the man with one eye ; for 1 fee you have two eyes, and you fte 1 have but one." They fhewed to a peafant all that a Marflial of Frsnce had taken, the citirs, the countries, were all reprefented in a picture ; Pardicken all that he has taken are not there, faid the peafant, for I connot fee my meadow there."

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ADVENTURES of A KNIGHT. Ye posters cf darkness end cf helly Propiticus to the magic spell, ho rule in silence o'er the night, present nw Francis TOWARDS the latter end of the reign of Hcnry VII, fir Gawen a man of fume fortune and conli

deraMe cunofity fond of enterprize, and infatiate of knowledge, travelled through the nothern parts of Kngland. The following fingular adventure is Hill extant among the family records. It was towards funfet, f faith the manufcript) when lir Gawen after having traverfed a very lone and unfrequented path, arrived at the edge of a very thick and dark fared ; the Iky was fuddenly overcad, and it began to rain, the thun dcr rolled at a diftance, and (heets of livid lightning flaihed acrofs the heath. Overcome with fatigue and hunger he rode impatiently along the borders of the forcft, in hopes of difcovering an eritraace, but none was to be found. At length juft as he was about to difmount, with an intention of breaking the fence, he difcerned, as he thought, fomething moving upon the heath, and upon advancing towards it, it proved to be an old woman gathering fruit, and was overtaken by the ftorm, was hurrying home as fall as her infirm limbs would carry her. . The fight of a human creature fil. led the heart of fir, Ga wen with joy

and haftily riding up, he enquired hovvfarhehad deviated from the right road, and where he could procure a night's lodging. The old woman now llowly lifted up her palfied head and difcovered a fet of feature'swhich could fcarcely be called human ? her eyes were red

piercing, glancing upon every ob

ject but the perfon by whom fhe

Was addreffed, and at intervals

they emitted a fiery difagreeuble light ; her hair of a dirty grey,

hung matted with filth upon large

malfes upon her fhoulders, and horizontally from the upper part of

her forehead, which was much

wrinkelcd, and of a parchment hue; her cheeks were hollow, wi

thered and red with a quantity of acrid rheum ; her nofe was large, prominent and fharp, her lips thin fkinny and livid, her few teeth black, her chin long and peaked with a number of buihy hairs defending from its extremity ; her nails were alfo acute, crooked, and bent over her fingers, and her garment ragged and fluttering in the wind, difplayed every poflible va. riety of colour. The knight was a little daunted but the old woman having mentioned a dwelling at fomc diftance, offered to lead the way ; the pleafurc received from this piece of news effected the former impreflion, and getting from his horfc he laid hold of the bridle and they flowly moved over the heath. The ftorm now ecafed, and the moon rifing gave prcfage of a fine night juft as the old woman taking a hidden turn plunged into the wood by a path narrow and almoft choaked up u ith a quantity of briar and thorn. The trees were thick, and favc a few glimpfcs of the moon, which now and then poured light on the uncouth features of his companion, all was dark and difmal ; the heart of fir Gawen mifgave him ; neither fpoke, and the knight purfued his guide merely by noife Ihe made in hurrying through the bufhes, which was done with a celerity totally inconliflcut with

her former decnpittide. At length I

the path grew wider, and a faint blue light, which came from a building at fomc diftance, glimmered before them : they now left the wood, and iflfued upon a rocky and uneven piece of ground ; the moon ftruggling thro' a cloud call a doubtful and uncertain light, and the old woman with a look which made every hair of fir Gawen ftanc) on an end, told him the dwelling was at hand. It was ib ; for a Gothick caftle placed on a confidcra-

ble elevation, now came in view ;

it was a large ma fly ftruetun

mucrT decayed, and fomc parts of

it in a totally ruinous condition ; a

portion however, of the keep, or great tower, was 0. ill entire as was alfo the entrance to the court of inclofure, preferved probably by the ivy whole fibres crept round

with folicitous care. Large fragments of the ruin were fcattered a-

bout covered with mofs and half

funk in the ground and a number

of old elm trees, through whofe fo

liage the wind fighed with a fuller.

and melancholy found, dropped a

deep and fettled gloom that fcarce permitted the moon to ltream by

fits upon the building.

Sir Gawen drew near , ardent

curiofity mingled with awe, dilate

his bofom, and he inwardly con

gratulated himfelf upon fo lingular

an adventure, when turning round

to queftion his companion a glimpfi?

of the moon poured full upon his

eye fo horrid a contexture of feature, lb wild and preternatural a combination, that fmote with ter-

j ror and unahled to move, a cold

lweet trickled from every pore, and immediately this infernal being, fiezing him by the arm and hurrying him over the drawbridge to the great entrance of the keep the port cuilis fell with a tremendous found and the knight ftarting as it were from a trance, drew his fword in order to deftroy his treacherous guide, when inftantly a horrible and infernal laugh burft from her, and in a moment the whole cattle was in an uproar, peat after peal ifiuingfrom every quarter till at length growing faint, they died away and a dead filence enfued. Sir Gawen, who during this ftrange tumult had collected all his fcattered powers, now looked round him with determined refolutson ; his terrible companion had difappeared, and the moon fhlning full upon the porcullis, convinced him that any efcape that way war, impracticable ; the wind fighed through the elms ; the feared owl uttered his difcordant note ; broke from the ruftling bough and a dim twinkling light beamed from a loop-hole near the fummit of the f-reat tower. Sir Gawen entered the keep having previoufly reafoned himlllf i:io a flatc of cool fortitude, and bent upon every power to the appalling enterprise. He extended his fword before him, and proceeded carefully to fearch around in hopes of either difcovering fomc aperture which might lead to the veflibulc or Hair cafe or of wreaking his vengeance on the wretch who had thusdecoved him All wasftdl as death; but as he ftrode over the floor, a dull hollow

round lflued from beneath, an(J

rendered him apprehenhvc ot iau

ling through into fomc difmal vault from which he might never be able

to extricate himleit. in trus mu-

ation, dreading the effect of cacti lightfootftep,a found, as of many people whifpering ftruck his ear ; iic bent forward, Hilcning with eager attention, and as it feemed to proceed from a iittle diftance before him; he determined to follow it; he did fo, and inftantly fell through the mouldering pavement while at the fame time peals of iiorri d laughter again burft with reiterated clamour, from every chamber of the caftle. Sir Gawen rofc with confiderablc difficulty and much (tunned by the fall; although lortunately the fpot he had dropped upon was covered with a quantity of damp and foft earth, which gave way to his weight Me now found himfelf in a larger vault, arched in'the gothic manner and fupported by eight mafiy pillars, down whofe fides the damp and cold moifture ran in cold and heavy drops, the moon fhinins through three iron grated windows which although nifty with age, were ftrong cnongh to refill the efforts of fir Gawen, who having? in vain endeavored to force thern looked around for his fword which during the fall had ftarted from his

graip, and m fearching the ground with his fingers, he laid hold of, and drctv forth the frefh bones of of an enormous fkeleton, yet greafy and moilt from the decaying fibres : he trembled with horror a cold wind brufhed violently along the furfice of the vault, and a pondrous iron door flowly grating on its hinges, opened at one corner, and difclofed to the wandering eye. of fir Gawen, a broken (taircafe, down whofe fleps a faint and blue light fiafhed by fits, like the lightning of a fummer tve. Appalled by thefe dreadful prodiges. fir Gawen felt in fpite of all his refolution a cold and deathlike chill pervade his frame, and kneeling down he prayed fervently to that power without whofe mandate no being is let loofe upon another and feeling himfelf more calm and refoiyed, when a moon-beam falling upon the blade, at once reftoed it to its owcr. fTo be continued J A couple of American tars com-' ingdown Broadway (New. York; the other day, faw a number of people looking at Mr. Jackfon's coach, and flopt among the reft. Upon Mr. Copenhagen's getting into the carrage, two unite footmen jumped up behind, and took up the polhion ufuaiiy occupied by a Tingle African in" this plain republican part ofthe world. Seeing this, one of the Tailors favs to the other, " Dn my eyes, Jack, but it takes two Kngliihmen to make one negro in this here country."

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