Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 July 1811 — Page 4

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POETICAL AStLUM.

Whether sensibility conduces to Happiness ?

THE heart can ne'er a tranfport know. That never felt a pain . The point thus fettled long ago, The prefent quellion's vain. Who'd wifh to travel life's dull round, Unmov'd by pain or pleafure ? 'Tis re a Ton's tafk to fet the bound, And keep them both in pscafure . The Stoic, who with falfe pretence, Each foft emotion flifles j Thinks want of feeling proves his fenfe, Yet frets and fums at trifles. And he who vainly boafts the heart, Touched by each tale of wo?, Forbears to att the friendly part, That tender heart to ihow. Th unfeeling heart can never know, By cold indifference guarded, The joy, the tranfport that will flow, From Love and Truth rewarded. True SenfibiJity. we find, Share's in another's grief, And Pity yields the gen'rous mind, From Sympathy, relief. Yet there are ills the feeling heart Can never, never bearUnable to fuppurt the fmart, 'Tis driven to defpair. The point difcuficd, we find this rule, A rule both true and fad "Who feels too little, is a fool ; Who feels too much, runs piad.

roj2 the desk of poor kobkht the Scribe. A gill a day the thing is clear Twenty-three gallons make a year : Why, this would buy a cow & keep her A fuitof cloths a fcore of fiieep, or Twenty good things than brandy cheaper. OLD ROBERT. There is a pleafant little village which (lands on the borders of a fmall lake in the weftern parts of Connecticut. A tavern, the only one in the town, kept at the fign of the Grey Goofe, entertained the paffing flrangcr, and in the winter evenings was tl c place where we held our dances for old Robert ufed to dance in his younner davs. 1 remember well' the merry evenings I have enjoyed there, and xnethinks 1 could " tire 011" the puny firiplmgs of the prefent day. Among the companions of our recreation w ere 2, whole vivacity and uir 1 could not but admire, and whole rrood nature and v:r:ue I could not

but Jove, Ablliloai Atlive was

the cldeft of my friends ; hi father was poor, but he gave Abfalom a good common ed ucation, and then bound him apprentice, a a refpeiablt waggon maker of the town.

When 1 faw Abfalom laft, before my late vifit to Apple berry, it was his birth, and wedding night juft 23 years old. He had married black eyed Sufan, as we called her ; and (he might as well have been called red" lip'd ufan, tor I never faw cherries red der. He had taken a (hop for himfelf, and having got a journeyman from New York, had added the making of chaifes to the old bufinels. Abfalom was induflrious Abfalom was frugal above all, Abfalom was temperate : Grog and I (he ufed to fay) are fworn enemies.' Not but now and then he would take a glafs of wine or a mug of flip with a friend ; but he drank fparingly. They do fay thongh, that one 4th of July his eyes fparkled a little, and he could not fay Shiboleth for the foul cf him. But that's neither here nor there : he was a fober man. And what do you think was the confequence ? Why when i went to Appleberry laft O&ober, who fhould I hear 'em talk of, but good fquire Adlive and deacon Active.

Why he has money to lend he owns two of the bell farms on the fouth fide of the lake, the poor all blefs him. JHe now rides in his coach, on

which is painted a Bee, an Ant, & a Glais turned upfide

down, with this motto:

Induftry, Frugality, Tempe-

rancebv thefe I ride.'

Edward Eafy, my other

friend and companion, recei "

ved from his father a fortune of five thoufand pounds, yli the age of 19, he took his degrees at Yale, with Angular honor. The profeflion or the law beft fuited his capacicy and inclination he ftudipd that fciencc under the molt appu ved mailers, 6z at twenty two he appeared at the bar. J

never ihall forget the day he made his firft plea. All Ap plcbcrry went down to hear him, for fcdward was a favorite of the people : and well he might be, for there wan't a fingle one in all the village but could ;cll of fome good and kind thing he had done. The caufe he plead was for a poor widow woman .You remember her. h was old mrs. Kodgcrs, who fold gin-

fcr hir.it tV hror

o - w I

juft above

the flocks and whipping poft, iperate. Intemperance begat

iorth of the meeting houfe

-he had an only daughter, a ivvcet little rofe but juft 17, wvho was the folace & delight of her life. An unfeeling landlord demanded the facra fice of Mary, or threatened her ruin. Well, the court was opened the witnelles examined ; and t came to Edward's turn to (peak. lie role Oh! he was a handfouie man but now his cheek looked pale his lips trembled, and his white hand (hook. My heast trembled for fear he would not go on 1 by ik by his voice rofe--liis cheeks refumed their color he railed his hand mod grace

fully and hUeye fpai kled !

idlenefs and neeledl of bufineft

poverty, and wretchednefs followed and he who might have refle&ed honor on his country, poifoned by Grog, died a beggar. But 1 men of genius tread lightly on his allies, for he was yotir kinfman,' and if you would avoid his fate, declare with my friend yftive, that you and Greg are fworn enemies.' t 1 he Gleaner. Some time ago, a fon of Hibernia, an itinerant dealer in drapery goods, put up at the fign of the Dolphin, ia NewcaHle, under Lyme. . Going out in the afternoon.

and conceiving the bufinefs . .

r J I w You might have heard a!mi2lu dei" him rather later

pin fall he one moment (Ur

red up the feelings fo againft the hard hearted landlord that everyone was in a f rage. And tlen he painted the fuffcrings of the widow and orphan in fpite of me, I cried like a child. I never loved him half as well in my life. Our parfon I remember faid that the oil of eloquence was on his tongue, and the honey of perfuafion dittilled from his lips.' 1 left him juft on the eve of being married to unice Hearifree. She was worthy of him, (he danced delightfully fung ivveetly could fpin 50

Knots a day, and the parlon's wife was heard to lay, that ihe made the belt pudding of any one in the village, ex cept herfelf.' Now until the 4th day of laft O&ober, I had not been to Appleberry for 18 years, juft as the old town clock ftruck 4, 1 entered the village. My heart fluttered I looked anxioufly around in hopes to meet the welcome of my friend. A gloom and folemn ftillncfs feemed to pervade the village. Prefenily the bell tolled a funeral proccflion approached. I alighted at the inn and immediately inquired who was dead. Alas the day ?" exclaimed the old ta

vern keeper (who did not know mej "there goes the temains of a man who 18 years ago was the molt promifing youth in all the country. Fortune .education

genius, all united to render him every thing. But the morning bitters the noontide dram and the evening fling, have withered the finelt dower in nature's garden poor Eafy ! God reii him.' Edward had been intern-

than ulual, he requefted the

landlord to wait for him until eleven o'clock. This was promifed, but Pat forgot the hour, and did not return till twelve, when finding the door faftened, and the family all ia bed, he immediately crolfed the road, and fieizing the knocker of an oppofite door, began to knock moft furioufly The noife foon awoke the gentleman of the houfe, who in great furprife opened the window & inquired the reafoa of the difturbance ; Pat replied, . it is only I, your ho nor, I don't mean to difturb you ; I lodge at the fign of the big fifli, but the landlord being in bed, and the door made fall, I have only borrowed the loan of your knocker to wake him, that's all I9 a gentleman, not mucii verfed in literary affairs, once afked an Hibernian friend, what was the meaning of poflhumous works. Zound ! ( exclaimed Terence J don'c you know that? Why they are books which a man writes after he is dead, to be lure!

a gentleman of grenadier growth having travelled in the mail all night, obferved to his fellow paifengers in the morning, rhnt he would juft: gt us to ftretch his legs,' when his oppofite friend, an Infhman who had been greatly annoyed by them during the nighr, obfrrved, thac there was n occafion to trouble himfelf, as by Jafus they were quite long enough already.' 0

PROM THE PRESS OF II. STOUT. PRINTER TO TUK TKKRITOBT A?:d Of TI1L LAWS OF TUK UNITKO STATcS.