Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 33, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 August 1810 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM, MiDNIGHT MUSiNGS. RefignerJ to flrcp's re frefhing power The weary villagers repofe ; While here I feek at midnight hour, That ptace which folitude beftowi. No foundg reets the lift'ning ear, Except the nightingale's foft lay; Jr when the watchful chanticleer Anticipates th' approaching day. The plumy tenants of the grove, Who cheered me with their evening lays Have ceafed their'tender notes of love, And fled with Sol's departing rays. Behald yon Giver queen of night In cloudy majefty arife ; See (he unveils her peerlefs light, And darknefs at her prcfencc ies Fond hope ! oh, that one cheering ray Might thus wiihin me light impart ; That thus thy beams might chafe away The gloom from a defponding heart Once, gliding down life's bufy ftream So fmoothly all was blifsful pleafure ? Uut ah the dear rlelufive dream DilTolved and fled I fear, forever. And now, my lonely way I grope, While gloomy darknefs hovers o'ermc, And fcarce one diftant gleam of hope Remains, to cheer the path before me. How dull the fluggifh moments are, While here in folitude I roam ; Howbleft the gliding moments wcrt I pafi'd in happinefs at home. A (tranter wis I then to fadnefs ; In gilded paths of pleafure led ; But forrow now fucceeds to gladnefs ; Thofc halcyon days of blifs arc fled. I've feen a parent's brow unclouded, And fmiles the peace within befpeak ; But now, in forrow's vefture fhrowded, Behold his ple and faded cheek ! I've feen full many a wand'ring elf Fed at his hofpitablc door ; 2son no one poorer than himfelf, He wcrps that he can give no more. I've frrn him cheerful, blithe and gay, Unknown to forrow, grief and care ; I've feen l.irn in a cmI a prey To gloomy Udncfs and dtfpair. At thececrrrs of righteous heaven I ould not irripiouCy repine ; And never fhJ! ofT. .ice b- riven By cue conn.Ia.uipg thought of cune. Bwt, f-jr-ly, rr;if fV.? hath hern W cpprriHve h d upon him ; And u-.r-V. y,y :crn His eat-.'.'y prcc ii.d comfort from him. D-ar mrrnt. 'Yh of wc-iltl, bereft, ilemTnb-r. you c i .! ren !tt Who lirvcr, i vrr, v. , .! f.iufce you. A i"ry u !,o r ; t dirr ctrt; to rinjr a perr,' ''' ru !'y. iiiS Cttfi Ccr frlf,(j, ret,,r:r'! - r .ct or NOT GUILTY T b.r ; .k; r1 ;Uf;.,rS driur.dtd the :e:fan, ' .T r y0lJr honors, (is v. :hr foreman) ti - t-,iy, ,'s l;reat a LUR. tU; vccar.;iui believe Linu"

A New Manufacture. We underftand that the true peunre and kaolin (the earthly iubftances ufed in the manufa&ure of China) have been difcovercd in the United States ; and that china equal to that imported from the Eaft Indies has been made. This fadl: is undoubtedly interefting, more efpecially as we muy be furnilhed with this article from our own manufactories. Decompofed feld fpar, which, according to the opinion of fome, conflitutes one of the earthy,, has been found in different parts of the country ; & the other, which to differ not very materially from this earth, will, when mixed with it in proper proportion, and expofed to a given heat, afford a femi tranf parent ware, poffefling the properties of china. The particular property of one ot the earths is to become fufible ina certain degree, & therefore to aflume in a meafure the property of glafs ; when it is mixed with an infufible earth, it muft form a compound, pofleffing the femi transparent and other proper ties of china. This effedt is

attributed by fome to the prefence of potato. (Aurora. COMMENTS On the Order tn Council published in our last, by American Editors The nothern papers bring no confirmation of the report under the Bolton head in our laft, that an order in council had ifTucd for blockading rhe ports of all nations excluding the Britifh flag from their waters. The report appears to be premature, & probably originated from the order in council in this day's paper for capturing the fifhing vcflels of fuch nations as exclude Britifh vefiels. Some of the northern editors appear to regard this order as authorifing the capture ot American fiihin? veilels. We put a different confirmation on it. However great an outrage it may be on judice and on neutral rights generally, it does not now apply to the United States. IkhUh veircls are now certainly admined freely to trade" at the ports of the U. States. On the occurrence of n certain event, indeed, which' there is but too little rcafon ' to cxpetf, the order would I apply to the United States, ! and may have been profpec-j lively iflued with that view.!

On the revocation by either belligerent of its decrees or orders, the law refpe&ing commercial intercourfe paffed at the late feffion of congrefs, authorifes the prefident. three months afterwards, by pro clamation to interdict com mercial intercourfe with the nation which fliall not have revoked its anti neutral orders or decrees. If then France fliould revoke her decrees, & Great Britain fhould refufe to follow her example, we ihould be in a flate of non intercourfe with her, and the order in council would operate on the vefTels of the U. States. Such a (late of things could fcarcely fail of producing immediate collifjon ; but of fuch a ftate of things we fee no profpeft. Whatever conftrufHon be put on it, this new order af fords ferious matter for reflexion as a link of the great chain of lawlefs domination which Britain exhibits a dif pofitidn to extend over every fea. (Nat. Intel The new Britifh order in council, is one of the moll flagrant outrages upon the rights and fovereignty of neutral nations that ever ftained the hifloric page of civilized man. It is neither more nor lefs, than the total blockade of the entire coafl of the U. states, authorifing the capture and condemnation of all A -merican vefTels engaged in our fifheries. The latitude given to the Britifh orders in council, by their admiralty courts juftifies the moft alarming apprehenfions. This order fhews, that G. Britain is determined to flrip France of the wreath of infamy, by exceeding her in her flreach of piratical depredations on American property. This is another efTedi of the weak and nervelefs condutt of the two laft congrefles. Inftead of fupporting the majefty of the laws, and maintaining the independence of the country, even at the point of the Avord they unfurled, unprotected, the fwelling fails of commerce

and left them to the mercy of the piratical diflurbers of mankind. The removal of the embargo, without an ef ficient fubfiitute, was a bafe delertion of public duty a furrender of national right a bafe fubmiflion to foreign edifts. The non intercourfe operated as the fchool cf turpitude for the debafcmcnt of

public morals, and the imbecile meafure of merely excluding Britifh and French public & private armed vefTels from our waters, has been made the pretext for the mofl infamous fcizures of our property in, and occlufion of, trade with continental Europe, c the total blockade of the American coaft of her vefTels engaged in the fidiery bufinefs luch is the refult of embargo violations, MafTachuTetts infurgency, congreffional imbecility and diplomatic over Teachings We are as it were children ftudying in the fchool of experience, with France and England as teachers, goading us for our aberrations from duty and refpedl to oupfelves. It refts with the pre fent congrefs to refcue themfelves from that odium, whicli the late proceedings have attached to them, by doing fome fignal aft of duty, in obedience to the wifhes of

j the nation, to relieve their fallen charader, and reftore, our citizens to their ffecdoni and independence Wef may be told that this new order is intended folely for European operation not jo. Read but the order, and compare it with the a& prohibiting Britifh and French armed vefTels from our waters and the conftruflion of that: law by the treafury depart;ment, and it will be found to be an order of retaliation for the aifl of occlufion ; intended for the deffrudion of American fifhefies ; inafmuch as "the Britifh flag is not freely ad'mitted into our harbors, i'c being reft rifted folely to unarmed and difpatch vefTels. ' (Bale American. . The new order in council afcribes the aft of congrefs, excluding the public and pri vate armed vefTels from our waters, to be the operation of rrencn influence." The fame aft, likcwifc, excludes the public and private vefTels of France from the Tame, and furniflics Bonaparte with the apology of "fJritifii inflti. ence," for the Jate infamous feizuresof American proper. c'- Ibid. NOTICE. Vy 0.1. of Auguft ntwe-, ,ef-re ail tJ.cic indebted to ! make payment before that dr.y.Charles Sviith & Co July 2Cf 1810. ' kom run i'kfcs or

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