Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 August 1810 — Page 4

POETICAL ASTLUM, THE HARBOR OF HAPPINESS. Xmbark'd on the ocean of life, . I flecrM for the haven of blifi ; But thro' Paflion's tempeftious ftrife, My reckoning was ever a miss. For Pleafure's enchanted demaln Allured me from Innocence track But her commerce attended with pain, Soon hove all my tojtfails aback. On the waves ef Adverfity toft, And plung'd in the whirlpool of cart, The rudder of fortitude loft, I (truck on the rocks of defpair. But afloat and refitted once more, With the chart of experience to guide, Hope points to the much defir'd fhore,

While her breath bids the tcmpeft fubfide.

No breakers or quickfands I fear, , While Honor Hands firm at the helm, By the compafs of Realbn I'll fleer To Joy paradifical realm. Stern Virtue the port may blockade, Yet Hymen will fandYion my right, And his torch, Cupid's Pharos (hall aid To moor in the ftream of delight. Then, then may the genius cf love, An eternal embargo declare, I'll never evade it by Jove, Nor barter in contraband ware. SELIM.

MUNGO PARK. We have the fatisfaftion to communicate the very pleating intelligence of the fafcty of mr. Mungo Park, whofe fuppofed lofs, his family his friends and his country have fiuccrely but premature Jy deplored for fevcral years The event was confidered fo cei -tainthat a penfion was voted to ,mfs. Park, by the houle or commons, in confidcrauon ot her hulbatui's pub lie fervices, in a former fcfiion of parliament. This gentle man, as our readers will recoiled, has been loner and ulefully engaged in exploring the interior of Africa, and a fanguine hope may be now entertained that his country will have the benefit of his laborious and hazardous re fearches. The whole of the fuite attac hed to the enter prize, above fifty in number, Vv'itii the exception of three are faid to have ptrifhed. 'The intclliocnce to which we allude, and' which we hope foon to find fully confirmed, has been received by the Ihip

Favorite, of London, captain Truman, arrived at Plymouth from Goree. Previous to the departure of that vcflfel, in formation had been received at Senegal by a native of the Mandingo country, who accompanied mr. Park as far as to the interior of Seco and Sanfanding, that he was alive in the month of January, coi. Maxwell, the governor of Senegal, had in confequence of this information, dire&ed that a decked boatfliould immediately be fitted out to proceed up the river Senegal, for the purpofe of giving affiftance to mr. Park in his indefatigable exertions in exocrine the continent of Africa. -This account is further corroborated by a letter dated in March laft, received by a vefiel from Sierra Leona, from mr. Douglafs who writes as follows : c Permit me to lay before you fome information refpecting Mungo Park, which I was favored with from an inteligent Mahomedan whom I met at Goree, and who had attended as a guide xo mr. Park, from the time of his landing on the continent of Africa, Ito his embarkation on the Niger. He flates that the king of Sego, had Jhown much favor to mr. Park, and that the report of his aflaflination there was untrue. He had paiTed far, -along the Niger, without any moleftation whatever, from the na tives. My informant could not recollect the date of his embarkation on the Niger, but thinks it mull be about three years ago. Mr. Park had taken four months provifions for himfelf and two followers, with whom he in tended to proceed to the caftward, and onwards as far as the lied fea. some travellers who had fallen in with his guide fome months fubfequent to mr. Park's embarkation, he had been feverely fcorched in his breaft by the burning of a gun while firing at fome birds, but that he had paiTed

lomcuttoo in the night, by water. Lcndon Paper, NEW ORDER ix COUNCIL. r . t t

riom wc J.otuljri Gazette. At the court at the queen's palace, the id of May, rSio prefent the king's moft excellent majefly in council. His mnjefty is pleafed, by and with the advice of his privy council, to order, and it i hereby ordered, that all

veflels whichfhall have cleared

out from any port, lb far under the controul of France or her allies, as that Britilh vcJJMs may not freely trade thereat, and which are em. ployed at Whale Fittiery, or other Fifhery of any defcription, fave as hereinafter excepted, and are returning, or deltincd to return, either to the port from whence they cleared, or to any port or place at which the Britilh Hag may not freely trade, hall be captured and condemned, together with their ftores and cargo, as prize to the captors. .But his majefly is pleafed to except from this order veliels employed in conveying fi(h freih to market, fuch veflels not being fitted or provided for curing of fifli. And it is further ordered that all veflels fubjedl to the provifion of this order, as aforefaid, which fliall have failed on their prefent voyage

previous to notice of this order, or reafonable time for notice thereof, fliall be per mitted to return to their own port without moleftation on account of any thing contained in this order ; provided they fliall not have continued on their fiflicry more than twenty one days, (which are hereby allowed to fuch veflels after due warning of this order received at fea.) And the right honorable the lords commiflioners of his majefty's treafury, his majef ty's principal fecretaries of ftate, the lords commiflioners of the admiralty, and the judges of the high court of admiralty, and judges of the courts of vice admiralty, are to take the neceffary meafures herein, afc to them may ref pe&ively appertain. IF. FAIVKNER. On the 6th of October lafi captain Green, of the (hip Polly; bound from this port to Falmouth, was captured by a French privateer about ten or twelve leagues fouth weft of the scilly iflands. The commander of the privateer, after plundering the fhip ot many valuable articles, took away all the (hip's crew ex

cepting capt. Green, and im apprentice; and put on board a prize mailer and four men, with orders to condutt the fhip into the nearclf port of France or spaiu. On the 9th having failed 3 days for the French coalt, captain Green inzed a favorable moment, when two of the Frenchmen

were aflcep in the cabin, and when two more had jiil gone below, to recapture the lhip. Heinftantly fprang forward, nailed the cabin doors, fattened the companion, bolted the hatch over the fky light, and fecured the man at the helm. Thus, once more mafter of his fliip, he wore round and fleered for the nearelfc port of England or Ireland. The Frenchmen below having been two days in their clofc

confinements, luffering with heat, and tortured with the -weavils which had wandered from the rice in the hold and infeffed the cabin, requefted to be brought on deck, and promifled obedience and fub million. Motives of humanityinduced captain G. to relieve, them from their diflrcfiing fituation. He brought them up fepararely, and fecured., them on different parts of the deck. On the 18th of the fame month, after failing ia this manner 9 days without: c 1 o f 1 n his eyes, he arrived ia fafety at Briflol hi England. Captain Green is a native of this country, and, as will appear from the exploit above related, a man of a bold and rJ enterprifing fpirit. ilr T, Paper, Singular Circumstance A daughter of mr. Daniel strohecker, near Qrwigfburg, Berks county, pennfylvania, about three years of age, had been obferved for a number of days to go a confiderable diftance from the houfe with a piece of bread which flic obtained from her mother ; thecircumftance attracted the attention of the mother, who defired mr. strohecker to follow the child Sc oblcrve what fhe did with it. On coming to the child he found her engaged in feeding feveral fnakes, called yellow heads or baftard rattle fnakes. He immediately took it away, and proceeded to :he houfc ror his gun and killed two of them at one (hot, and another

arew ciays after. The child called the reptiles in the manncr of calling chickens, and when us father obferved ific continued the praciicc 'they would bite her-the child repiavd. no, falhcrf t, von'ibite; rhcy only cat the bread 1 give them."

Heading Eagle.

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