Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 39, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 September 1810 — Page 4

POETICAL ASTLUM, THE COTTAGE O'ER THE MOOR. TV S night, and twilight'i dufky ray Hd fded in thr weft, The beft had fought her hiding place, The bird had fought her neft. The Twain againft the coming ftorra, Hid fifely (hut his door, .nd ever cot was dark except The cottage o'er the moor. Gloomy and fad a pilgrim ftray'd For 'twas a gloomy hour, The grii owl hooted from the tree, The Iky began to lower. The cheering light he fpy'd and faid, " Although the cot be poor, I'll try if charity has known The cottage o'er the moor. For riches as I've found hare power To turn to flone the heart, To ftiun compaflion from the b re a ft, And bid the wreatch depart. I'll knock, perchance fome friendly hand May deign to ope the door, And then while life Qnll laft I'll blefi The cottage o'er the moor." He gave the doubtful tap, and funk, Dffpairing on the ground A welcome in, a nymph cxclaim'd, He caught the joyful found 'And what misfortune drives you here," She faid, 11 fo wan with care, That in our humble cot you feck A (belter from the air. But welcome to our meek abode, For though it is but poor, Yet we againft the needy wretch Have never hut our door. My father, ever good and kind, (And here the heav'd a figh) Has taught me to relieve the poor And wipe the forrowing eye.But now, alas ! the fate of war (She wip-d away a tear) Has laid him lifelcfi on the plain, And left us weeping here. Ah I ever fhall I keep in mind The mournful parting day, I wept he lih'd and fot'tly faid, At home my darling flay For I'll return to thee, my child, As loon as war is o'er, Then gently kifsM and fweetly fniil'J, And ihutthc cottage door. Noiv many a year has roll'd away, A:. J we Ms hfs deplore, For never (lull he 0-r again The roiuc o'er the moor." lie AmII," the f.,!dier rri'd, 2nd prcft his duih er to hi hear: ; 41 I m t' y fuhcr. tl.'u r.iy child, And we Hill never par:. Tor t. )v the ileum of wat is paft I - 'sun. :-,s re .,fe to roar, And rr-un.'d ,TiV thild t ciiccr ULc tc;;t.c 0'cr ti;c mcsr."

I DKFKKKD ARTICLES. Extraft of a letter dated Fort .btoddert (Mobile,) July I, 1810. i I am forry to inform you that our neighbors at Mobile have for fome weeks part been in much alarm under the apprehenfion of a predatory expedition from this fettle, ment, under color of avenging our wrongs, & liberating the citizens of the U. States in this quarter, from the payment of Spani(h tribute. They think that they have demonftrative evidence of the exigence of fuch a confpiracy amongft us. For my own parti have doubted it becaufe I have feen no external evidence of it. Poffibly, however, the idea of forming a confederacy for the purpofe of attacking Mobile, may have exifted, or may now exift ; but I do not believe that men of property will put their all to fo much hazard ; nor do I think that they will be readily led away by a dodlrine advanced here, that as the Floridas are not pofleffed by any prince now acknowledged by the federal government, to attack them will be no violation of the law prohibiting expeditions againft the territories of powers with which the United States are at peace. Be this however as it will, the Spaniards have very imprudently collected, as I am told, a body of four hundred Indians, the confequence of which inevitably will be, that if any depredations fhould be commit ted by them upon our lettlement, even prudent men will be drawn into an indirect fup. port of the wicked machinations of the lawlefs, and will in defence of themfelves and their property, feel impelled to take vengeance on the favages and their employers L am in hopes, however, that the Indians have no ferious purpofe beyond that of eating Spanifh beef. " Some Frenchmen, and others have been apprehended and confined in the fort at Mobile, under fufpicion of being hoflile to the spanifh government. I know fome of the men and believe them to be innocent. But thus it is that weak men drive harm lefs men into guilt. Nat. Int. The following (latcment has lately come from the Ohio i Hate, and is generally believed to be correft.

A certain woman who had joined the (bakers on Turtle creek near Lebanon, being dillatisfied with them, deter mined to quit their fociety. Accordingly flie took a horfc flie owned and flarted. Before (he had proceeded far flie was overtaken by foinr of the (liakcrs and compelled ro return back with them. An account of this barbarous treatment having foon fpread through the country, and the inhabitants being fired with indignation at the deed, about eight hundred of them rofe in arms, with a commander at their head, marched into (hakerto wn, fet the woman at liberty, and feveral others who were in a like fituation, and promifed them their protedlion- They then demanded col. smith's grand children, but the (bakers hav ing previoufiy taken the a larm, had lodged the children with their father in Lebanon jail to fecure them. However, the (bakers were obliged to promife to deliver the children to their mother when (lie (hould call for them, and if they (hould not give them up they were threatened with another vifit, which would not terminate fo favorable as the prefent. The little army then marched oft in good order without injur ing the perfons of property ot the ihakers, and thus ended the expedition. Wes. Cit. Neiv-Tork August 23. FROM CADIZ. By the (hip Maria, capt. Church, we learn that the fiege of Cadiz, remained much the fame as for fome weeks paft that the party of 5 or 6000 men, that had been difpatched under the command of general Lacy, to get poireffion of the sierra of Konda, had returned to Cadiz, without accomplilhing its ultimate object, which was by co operating with the Britilli expedition from Gib raltar, to retake Malaga. General Fergufon arrived in Cadiz from England, and was to rank in the army fecond in command. We have not been able to learn any further particulars of the de feat of general Crawford in Portugal, as no intelligence had reached Cadiz, of his having effected a junction with lord Wellington's army. It was rumored in Cadiz, that gen. Maflena had made a retrogade movement, not having a luificienc force to

face the combined Britifh and Portuguefe army. We learn by a gentleman juft arrived from Hayii, that on or about the 14th of July, about 10,000 Brigands, under the command of gen. Gomas who is (uppofed to be in the pay of ChriOophe,) furrendered to the force under, gen. Kigaud, at Jeremie. Rigaud had under him at the time an army of 5000 men. The furrender was by negociation. Every demonttration of joy was exhibited on the occafion. Great preparations were making by the king of Naples Murat) for the invafion of sicily. The king was at schylla, with an army of 60,000 men, and had declared his intention of being at Palermo with his army by the 23d of June. The Britifli have 12000 troops in the ifland. Capt. Harriot from PorC au Prince, informs that a few days before he failed, Chriftophe had taken Prefque Ifle by llorm that general La Marre was killed by a cannon (hot from one of Chriftbphe's batteries, while in the adl of mounting his horfe. General Goman, who commanded on the fouth fide of the ifland had furrendered with his troops, which confided of between 2 and 3000 men, to Petion. It was expe&ed that Chriitophe would be obliged to raife the fiege of the Mole, as Petion was pieparing to march againtt the Cape in a few days. Petion's fleer, with a number of his wounded on board had efcaped from the Mole, and arrived at Pore au Prince, with the lofs of his three mafled fchrooner. The fchooner being clofely purfued by Chrifiophe's fleet, was run on fliore and blown up by the crew, on the ifland of Guanaba. The heart and entrails of general La Marre were brot to Port au prince, and there buried with orcac pomp and parade. N. Y. pap. The port of Koningfburg in pruflia, is faid, in letters from that place, of June eleven, to offer a fafc accefs to all American vefTels colonial produce was high, and in demand.

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