Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 41, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 October 1810 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM, THE JOY OF GRIEF." BY J. MqNTCOMERT. Sweet the hour of tribulation, When the heart can freely figW ; And the tear of refignation Twinkles in the mournful eye. Have you felt a kind emstion Tremble through your troubled bread ; Soft as evening o'er the ocean, When flic charms the wave to reft ! Have you loft a friend, a brother ? Heard a father's parting breath ? Gazrd upon a lifrlefs mother, Till (lie feem'd to wake from death ? Have you felt a fpoufe expiring, In your arms, before your view ? Watch'd the lovely foul retiring, From her eyes that broke on you? Did not grief tbn grow romantic, Baving on remember'd blifs ? Did you not,, with fervour frantic, Kits the lips that felt no kifs ? Yes ! but when you had refigned herf Life and you were reconciled ; Anna left (he left behind her, One, one dear, one only child. But before the green mofs peeping His poor mother's grave array'd, In that grave, the infant flceping On the mother's lap was laid. Horror then your heart congealing, Ghill'd you with intenfe defpair ; Can you recollect the feeling ? No ! there was no feeling there 1 From that gloomy trance of forrow, When you woke to pangs unknown, How unwelcome was the morrow, For it role on you alone I Sunk in fclf confuming arguifh, Can the poor heart always ache ? No, the tortured nerve will languifli ; Or the firings of life mud break. O'er the yielding brow of fadnefs, One faint fmile of comfort Role ; One fof; ping of tender gUdntfi Exquifitcly thrill'd your foul. While the wounds of woe are healing, While the heart is all refigned, 'Tis the fnlemn featt of feeling, 'Tis the fabbalh of the mind. Per.five memory then retraces, Scenes of blifs forever fled, Lives in former times and places, Holds communion with the dead. And, when night's prophetic fiumbers Rend the ril nf mortal eyes, From their tombs, the tainted number Of our loft companions rife. You have feen a friend a brother, Hrard a dear dejd father Ipeak ; Proved the fondnrfs of a mother, tell her tears upon your cheek ! Dreams of love your grief beguiling, Ycu hac clafp'd a conibrti charm;

And received your infants fouling, From his mother's facrcd arms. Trembling, pK, and agonizing, While you mourn'd the vifion gone,

Bright the morning ftar arifing,

Open'd heaven, from whence it flione.

Thither all your withes bending

Rofe in extacy fublime,

Thither all your hopes afcending, -

Triumph'd over death and time

Thus anTied, bruifed and broken,

Have you known fuch fweet relief ? Yes my friend 1 and by this token, You have felt " the joy of grief I"

DEFERED ARTICLES.

The recal of mr. Jackfon, (fays the Nat. Intelligencer) was announced to our government in a letter from his firi tannic majefty to the prefident of the U. .States. The appointmentof mr, Morter as his Britannicmajefty's fecrctary of legation to the U. States, was announced in a letter from lord Wellfley

to tnr. fecretary Smith, with the further information that

mr. Morier would aft in the

charafter of his majefty's

charge des affairs, until the

appointment of rar. Jackfon's

fiicceflbr. In the recal of mr. Jackfon

by the Britifh government,

will be found a compliance with the requeft made by the

executive of the U. States,

thro our minifter in London, delayed, it is true, longer than neceflary, and fo far tfhfatisfactory ; but yet fuch a com pliance as has faved the adminiftration the difagreeable alternative of ordering mr. Jackfon out of the country, which courfe, had his recal been refilled would have been juftified by the ufage of nations. Contemporaneous with the recal is an official annunciation that a fucceffbr will be appointed, & thatmr. Morier will aft as charge des affairs, until the fucceflor fhall arrive. It will be remarked, that

in the manner in which mr. Jackfon has been recalled the feeling of the American government appear to have been relpefted, inafmuch as there cal is not announced, as in ordinary cafes, in the cafe of mr. Erfkinc for inflance, thro' the minifter himfelf, but directly from the fovereign. In the manner of mr. Morier's introduction to the executive, alio, a defire is difcovered to avoid the dilema which mull have rcfulted from the annunciation of mr. Morier's appointment as charge des affairs in the ufual mode, through the recalled minifter. Had the Britifh government

been difpofed to aggravate

exifting differences, it wotyu have been left to mr. Jack(on

to announce the appointment of mr- Morier as charge des

affairs ; and, as the executive has refufed to receive any further communication from mr. Jackfon, the introduction of mr. Morier as the representative of the Britifh government could not have been received thro' that medium. Thefe circumftances, tho' indicative of a difpofition to avoid irritation, amount v to but little. Should the Britifh government unreafonably delay the appointment of a fuc cefTor to mr. Jackfon, it would give juft ground to fuf peft an intention to procraf tinate that attonement, and thofe explanations already too long delayed ; and would warrant the belief that the new minifter's nomination

was delayed with a view of

being guided by lublequent events in the feleftion of a fuccefTor, or in the inftruftions with which he is to be

furnifhed. Nat. Int. Baltimore, Sept. 7. It having been afcertained,

that among the feamen on

board the Britifh government brig Netly, now lying in our river, there was a native of Maryland, involuntarily detained, the people of Fell's point prepared themfelves to releafe him. All things being in readinefs, two gentlemen waited upon lieutenant Jackfon laft evening and demanded the man. The lieut. made fome hefitation in complying with the requifition, but was given to underftand that only I hour was allowed him to deliberate. Thefailor was fent on fhore within the limited time, and the brig has fince moved further down the river. The releafed American reports he was originally impreffed, and has been detained for 1 6 years in the Britifh fervice, during which time he made feveral attempts to efcape, and was as often unfuccefsful, & feverely flog ged. &c.He has for 12 years paft been accounted as dead by his friends, who refide on the caftern fhore. It is believed there are feveral other Americans on board the Netley, but their protections being deftroyed, and their pcrfons unknown, the truth cannot be afcertained. The public irritation has been uncommonly great, from a belief that lieut. Jackfon is the man

whobarbaroufly & wantonly

abufed captain Rider of this

port fome time fince. But capt. Kider being abfent, and

no poutive proof of the faft

being fubmitted, the people

have very prudently and properly treated lieut. jackfon,

and his crew, with their ac-

cuftomed hofpitality. Sucli

is the current account of an affair which has afforded much

converfation this morning. Norfolk, Aug. 29. The following was handed us by the mate of the fchr. Dafh. Wc give it as we received it. Lift of American feamen detained in Chriftophe's fervice againft their will by capt. Spaulding, who fhipped us at Baltimore, on board the brig Louifa for Barraco, but inftead of which he went to Cape Francois, where he fold the brig to Chriftophe, and immediately entered as capt. and upon our refufing to enter the fervice, we were thrown into goal and nearly flarved ; after being kept there fome time we were taken out under a guard of black foldierst and forced on board the brig when spaulding promiftd to

difcharge us at the expiration of three months , after the time was out we afked him if he would be lo kind as to perform his promife, when he direftly fcized thofe who fpoke up and gave each of them a round dozen on the bare back, and threatened them with the foreyard for the next offence, as he called it. We whofe names arc fub fcribed, hope tlje heads of their country will take our deplorable ficuation into confideration. and liberate us from a ferxice where we are forced to affift in capturing our fellow citizens. There are fifteen fubferib. ers to this paper, whofe names we omit on their own account for as fureas their mafler fees their complaints, as certain would he have them tucked up. 1 his fame spaulding has been a refident of Portfrnoutfi New Hampflrire, for a length of time, and failed out of this port for many years. BLANK WARRANTS For sale at this office.

FROM THE PRESS OF 11. STOUT. PRINTER TO TIIK TERRITORY AND OF THE LAWS OF T UK UNITED STATF.S.