Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 20, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 May 1810 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM PATRIOTIC SONG, YOU angry holh on Briuin't ftioret That lo?c to hear loud cannons roar, That tyramzei o'er the feat, And think to fway nt as you pleafe ; Americans like hearts of gold, Once quell'd yur rage like Lions bold But you combined like herds of fffine9 To captivate us to your mind You once took part in our behalf, And then did at us fcorn and laugb, And like Goliah fpoke contempt, 'Whom David (lew the firft attempt ; The God that rules above the Iky, He fought our battles from on high. He did oppofe our tyrant foes, And fcreen'd us from the pain of woes He made our hearts like flint and fit el, He made us valient in the field ; Although we mercy Hill did fhew, When we had (truck the fatal blow ; But ftill revenge you feem to feek, By your conduct on the Ches'peake, We'll make you rue that favsge way, Like freedoms' fons we'll bear the fway Forbear your f ondtf & on the feat, Nor think to fway us as you pleafe, Our lih rty do not invade, You cannot live without eur trade ; But we can independent be Alio fupport our liberty, Our foils' rich, man'faclories we haveg Prom you no favours we do crave Forbear your rage no more be fierce, The mutual powers do not you pierce, Led to your heart the fpear return, And you in woful forrow burn ; Think on your fate, intrude no more, ConfuU your friends from (hore to Qiore, Larn to be wife as we are free Wc will fupport our liberty. O freedoms' fons both ftout and brave, That wifti your country for to fare, Falfe hrarted men we will not have, They're neither flout nor truly brave ; Succefs to cv'ry freedoms' fon, O may this theme fore'ergo on, We'll drink a health to each one round, In memory of great Wafliington. Let Britifli iflcs forbear to boaft, Columbians beef they (hall not roafl, We'll keep them from our (bore and land, With one eternal hoOile band ; While we enjoy our fall and fpring, In plenty here of every thing, Oar hearts could wifh to have no more, On this delightful happy fliorc. Great JcfTcrfon has much forhorn He bore infults upon his (bore, His patience now is quite worn out, He raifes men both bold and flout ; And by God's help we will oppofe, The tyrant bands of Britifh foes, Whom God once fated from their claws, And fcreen'd us from their tyrant laws Unite yourfelves Columbians' fons, From vinion firft our freedom fprung, United he in one firm band, United Dill forever (land ; United (Vill fortver be, VJm'ed to eternity, Unite in heart be firm tn3 brave; Unite in Hcma beyond the gra?c

MISCELLANY.

ADVENTURES OF A KNIGHT. Ye powers of darkness and of hell Propitious to the lhagic ipelU Wherule in silence o'er the night Be f resent now (Continued) Sir Gawcn having thus returned his wanted fortitude and refolution held a parley with himfelf, and perceiving no other way by which he could cfcape, boldly refolved to brave all the terrors of the daircafe and once more recommended himfelf to his maker, he began to afcend. The light ftill flafhed enabling him to climb thofe parts which were not broken or decayed He had proceeded in this manner a conficlerable way, mounting as he fuppofed, to the fummit of the keep, when fuddenly a (fhrill and agonizing fhriek iflued from the upper part of it, and fomething rudely brufhing down, grafped him with tremendous ftrcngth ; in a moment he became motionlefs, cold as ice, and felt himfelf hurried back by fome irrifillable being but juft as he had reached the vault a fpectre of fo dreadful a fhape (talked by within, that draining every mufcle, he fprang from the deadly grafp ; the iron door rufhed in thunder upon its hinges, and a deep hollow groan refounded from beneath. No fooner had the door clofed, than yelling fcreams, and founds, which aim oft fufpended the very pulfe of life, iflued from the vault, as if a troop of hellUh furies, with their chains united, were dafhing them in writhing frenzy, and howling to the uproar. Sir Gawen ftood petrified with horror, and lear ran to his very heart, and dilmayed everjr fenfe about him ; he flared, with his long locks upllanding ftiflly, and the throbbing of his heart opprefTed him. The tumult at length fub(iding, fir Gawen recovered fome portion of ftrength, which he made immediate ufe of to convey himfelf as lar as pofiiblc from the iron door and prefently reaching his former elevation on the ftaircafc, which, after afcending a few more (leps, terminated in a winding gallery. The light which had hitherto fluihed inceflantly, now difappeared, and he was left in almoft total darknefs, except that now and then the moon threw a few cool ras through fome broken loop-holes heightening the horrow of the fecne He dreaded going forward, and fearfully looked back, left fome yelling fiend (hould again plunge him into the vault. He ftood fuf. pended with apprehenfion ; a mournful wind howled through the apartments of the caftle, and lidening he thought he heard the iron door grate upon i ts hinges ; he darted with terror, the big drops of fweat dood upon his forehead, his knees fmote each other, and he rufhed forward with defperate def. pair, till having fuddenly turned a caurfe of the gallery a taper burning with a faint light gleamed through a narrow dark pafEige ; fir

Gaweri approached the light it :ame from an extefivc room, the folding doors of which were wide open he entered, a fmall taper in a mafly filver candleftick dood upon a table in the middle of the room but gave fo inconftderable an illumination, that the one end was wrapped in a palpable darknefs, & the other fcarcely broken in upon by a dim light, that dreamed in through a large ramafied window, covered with thick ivy. An arm chair fhattcred and damp with age was placed near the table and the remains of a recent fire were dill vifible in the grate. The wainfcot of black oak had formerly been hung with tapedry and feveral por tions dill clung to thofe parts which were near the fire ; they pofTefTed fome vivacity of teint, and with much gilding yet apparent on the chimney pice, and feveral mouh dering reliques of codly frames and paintings, gave indifputable evidence bf the ancient grandeur of the place. Sir Gawen clofed the folding doors, and taking the taper, was about to furvey the room, when a deep hollow groan frorfi the dark end of it fmote cold upon his heart ; at the fame time the found, as of fomething falling with a dead weight, echoed through the room. Sir Gawen replaced the taper, the flame of which was agitated, now quivering funk, now dreaming flaming aloft, & as the lad pile portion died away, the fcarce didinguifhid form of fome terrific being floated flowly by, and again another dreadful groan ran deepening through the gloom. Sir Gawen dood for fome time incapable of motion, at length fummoningail his fortitude, he advanced with his fword extended to the darked part of the room ; indantly burd forth in fierce irradiations a blue fulphu rious fplendour, and the mangled body of a man didorted with the agony of death, his very fibres racked with convulfion, his beard and hair diffand matted with blood his mouth open and his eyes protruding from their marble fockets rufhed on the fixen and maddening fenfes ot fir Gawen, whofe heart had beat no more, had not a hifs as of ten thoufand fiends, loud, horrible, roufed him from the dreadful fcene ; he darted, uttering a wild fhriek. his brain turning round and running he knew not whither burd through the folding doors. Darknefs again fpread her fable pall over the unfortunate fir Gawen and he hurried along the narrow paflage with a feeble and fathering ftep. His intelle&s (hook, and overwhelmed with the late appalling objecls had not yet recovered any degree of recollection and as he wandered in a dream, a confufed train of horrible ideas paffing unconnected through his mind ; at length, however memory refumed her function, refumed it but to daunt him with harrowing fuggedions; the direful horrors of the room behind him and of the vault below, were dill prefent to his eyes and as a man whom hellifh fiends had frightened, he dood trembling pale, and daring wild.

All was now filcnt and dark and he determined to wait in this fpot the dawn ofday;buta few minnutes had fcarce clapfed when the iron door fcreaming on its hinges bellowed through the murmuring ruin. Sir Gawen nearly fainted at the found, which paufing for fome time, again fu elled upon the wind, and at lad died away in fhrill and melancholy fhrieks ; again all was filent, and again the fame fearful noife llriick terror to his foul. Whillt he was thus agitated with horror and apprehenfion, a dim light ftreamed from behind accompanied with a fof t quick and hollow tread, convinced fir Gawen that fomething was purfuing him and ftruck with wildering fear, he rufh ed uneonfeious down the fteps r the vault received him, and its portals fwinging to a clofe, founded as the fentence of death A dun foetid (moke filled the place, in the centre of which arofc a faint and bickering flame. Sir Gawen approached and beheld a corfe fuf pended over it by the neck, its fat dropped' and a flame flafhing through the vault gleamed on a throng of ghaftly and hideous features, that now come forward through the fmoke. Sir Gawen. with the desperate valor of a man who fees de truftton before him ran furious forward : anuniverfal fhriek burd forth , the corfe dropped into the firn, which rifing with tenfold brilliance, placed full in view the dreadful form of his infernal guide, dilate into horror itfelf ; her face was as pale as death, her eyes were, wide open, dead and fixed, ahorri--ble grin fat upon her fertures ." her; lips black and half putrid weredrawn back difplaying a fet of large: blue teeth, and her hair dandinc--

diffly ere, was of a withered red.Sir Gawen felt his blood friezcv withinhim his limbs forgot to move: the face enlarging as it came, drew" near and fwooninghe fell on the: ground. (To be Continued)

ELEGANT EXTRACT (From hc Italian) I enquired of time To whorrfc faid I, was erefted this building, which you have levelled to the ground ? Time made no anfwer but fpread his quick wings and hadened his flight, then fpoke ta Fame O thou the parent of alL that furvives! Thou who She cad her troubled and forrow-fwol-len eyes upon the ground, in the attitude of one whofe heart is too full to utter words. Wandering; and confufed at what I had feen, I was turning afidc from the monument when I f iw Oblivion fieppinsj from done to done. Thou exclaimed I, thou mud be acquainted with it, ah, fhrw me He inter, rupted me with a voice like deep thunder at a diftancc I care not what it has been it is now mine.'.

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