Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 January 1812 — Page 4

rOETICAL ASTLUM. ' FOR i i: vvT-..TfKN SUN. THE fftive fefid in 1 ifte prepare, AnJ load it v.'. i gcrtd ihter ; Our harts arc free fro:n doubt and care, Ttiia firl u .y of New Year. The liqmr, ftlgftr, fpices brin, And all things nice and dear: V-'i! drink, we'll laugh, rsnd dance & fiog lhia fit ft day of Hcff Tear. Eut now tlie potent juice has fpread A cu IVJ m dnefi here, For new we fi.J foe in our friends' Ptcad Ti fiiit dy of New Year. Aghfl the ftupid wretches ftare, A warning voice wc hear ; 'Tis reaTon (peaks in accents iYir, This Gilt day ot New Year. "Refrain poor mortals, ah ! refrain To t. Qe the fnid'ning cheer ; Noi with btfe l&i yoU ijlory ft.'.in 1 his fir ft day of New Year. With TtnpfVlftCfe I lm to dwell Fr from all D ife and fear, Uo paflious mad my vot'ries fwell This firft day of NTcw Year. Then ceafe, forevrr mfc to t-fla The Cup whioh I f- e here : Your precious time you idly Willi Tim hrit day of New Year. The glftl of G nA do net ahnfe, Then you will find me near : Of natures' Dounty fieely thill Tit rough e.,ch revolving year. SINGULAR !

At the late diftnft court nt Raleigh, N C. Kobert Mitch cil and others were fined 2,ooo dollars for a violation or the embargo-fa Wii Had thefe men been tried ki any ether place, it is probable thev would have been actuated.

xtb, of 3 I 6 millions Lthc feventb, of 6 to millions ftcrling thc eigi.ch, of .Total, tor the Sr ft leven, t welve hundred and leven ty two milliuns fleiling. From the year 1688 down to 1803, the Britim government, by various means, but principally with the aid of the finking fund, have ar different times, redeemed two hundred and twenty leven millions Hcili ng, fo that upon the whole the nation remained (addled with the enormous debt of one thou land and forty five million fterling; Now,

it may be afkeJ, what are the advantages

reaped by Great Britain from al! thele wars?

Has (he ever been indemnified for this trig it-

ful watte of refourcei i No! on the contrary

we find that by one of thefe wars, (lie lull the

vafl continent of Nortlj America !

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from a file of the Bordeaux Indicateur, received at this office. From the lttdtcdteUf of Sept. 23. since the revolution 'in I68S) to this time, the Britilh government has been engaged in eWht wais Taking them together, they have continued no hffi than fixty three years. '1 he public debt has fucceflively increafed in the following progreffion : During the Hri) off thole tvarl of 20 millions frerHng i during the fbcond, bf 36 millions; the third, of jS millions ; the fourth, of 6 millions; the fifth, of j 47 millions; the

T'tom the thdicatcw of Sept. 6. The horrid hngulatity of the facts wc are

going to relate, and the fcarcky of the pamer e .... 1

phler in w inch the details are continued, creates the defire of giving the following narrative ail the extent of which it is fufceptible. Matthew Lovat, a (hoetnaker of Venice, offers an inltance, extraordinary as it is deplorable, of the dreadful effects of a fanatical rrfdancholy, when exvitcx! to an enthufiaitic excels. One ot the fir 1: acts of this man's madnefs was to every thing neceffary todrefs up his wound, he effctled iiis cure io luccefsfully thai no kind of accident or any other bad confequencQ refulted therefrom. Not long after, he perfuaded himfc If, that God had Ordered him to die on the crofs ; and horn thc moment his mind was conllantly employed in the contemplation of his ob jecf, and his hands to prepare all the intlru

rhents tor his martytdom For upwards of two years, he meditated in lilence and retirement, on the means of ex tcutii;g his project. At. lalf the fatal day arrived9 f this fad cataflrophe happened at Ve nice in the month of May, 1805) everything had been previoufly prepared, and nothing omited to infure the execution : Lovat placed on his head a crown oT'iorns, and Ifuck

three el four thorns in the ftin of his fore head : with a w hite handkerchief, tied around his fide and thigh, lie covered the wound he had inilicled on himfelf the remainder o his body was left naked. In that (ituation he placed himfelf on the middle of the crofs, fixed his feet on the lower part, the right over the left, and drove through both, with a hammer, a nail lixtecn inches long, untii it penetrated deep into the wood ; he then with a rope, sround the middle of his body, tied himfelf fall to the crofs ; having pi ovid ed himfelf wish two GfthoLiong nails, well (harpencd, he fucceffively droVc them through each of his hands, bv firfl placing the point to the middle of ;he palm, and then by fhik ine the head of the nail on tiie floor, got

v. them through, this done he flretched his

hands up to the place w here they were to be

fattened, and fixed the points of the nails in

the holes he had rii ft pierced on the tranfverfe

part of t!e crofs. But previous to his nail

inn- the left hand, he made ufe of it, w ith his

ftioem .ker's knife, to cut ilarge wound into

; is leit fide (he had forgotten, lay writer,

that it ought to have been on the right fide)

th:s accompli (bed, he had nothing more to

Jo, but to exhibit himlelf to public view, ane

for that purpole Lovat had Io well contrived

the diflribtttion of his ropes, and the end of

I the crofs fo placed on the edge of the winI dow, by a fhht exertion of his body he

launched himlelf out of the window, and hung up to a rope prepared for that purpofe. JHsrving thus completely fucdeededt at eight o'clock in the morning, this unfortunate era cified, was found fufpended to the front of his houie with his right hand only detached fiom the crofs and hanging down along his body. He was immediately taken down and carried to the imperial clinical fchool, under the direction of profeflor Kuggieri. None of his feveral wounds were found mortal. That on the left hde was not deep, tli nails had pafled the through the hands without doing the leafi injury to the bones. The long nail drove through his feet had alfo pafled be

tween the bones without doing injury to any. Finally, the unfortunate Lovat recovered from all his wounds, but the difeafc of the mind remained the fame. During the treatment it was remarked, with no fmall degree of furprife, that whenever he had any fhort. lucid interval from his melancholic delirium, he fuffered moft excruciating pains from his wounds, vvhilfi at any other time he did not appear to have any. On the 20th of Aug. 1805, he was taken to the mad houfe of n. Servolo, and there he exhaufted himlelf to fuch degree by voluntary and reiterated abliinences, that in a fhort time he became a phthifick and died on the 8th of April, 1806. The foreo-oino; details are extracted from a letter publifhed in Italian by Dr. CeTar Kuggieri, profelTor of Chirurgicai Clinic at Vcn ice the lame phyfician who attended the unfortunate Lovat. Jour, de TEmpire.

We cannot conceal the pleafure which we

feel in communicating to our readers, an ex-

trad of a letter from an 1 nfh antiquarian and fcholar, received per the Hibernia from Beltalt. He fays i have many of the original poems of 'I nadus uddy, who wrote about

200 years ago in the Irilli language, as alfo ieveral others, the productions of unknown bards. Thefe poems, tranflated into Ofiianic mcafurc, (hall be at your difpofal asfoon as properly arranged indeed it is not an eafy tafk to do vvHh any kind of propriety into En. giiih particularly the I riili of the Fili cans.' Shamrock It is underftood tnat Count Pahlen will fhortly leave this country for the irazilsf in quality of Minifter from his fovereign to the ielf-fix'rf&ejd Dynasty of Portugal. Go when or where thay may, count Pahlen & his fuite will carrw with them the regrets of all who had the pleafure of their acquaintances. We believe noforeigners ever vifited this country in an official capacity whole conduct more generally conciliated theeftcc.m of thofe with whom they mixed. Nat. Intel. We have pleafure in (rating that the appointment of Mr. Monroe to the office of Secretary of State, made by the prefident during the recefs of Congrefs, was yefferday confirmed by an unanimous vote of the Senate. ib. The legiQature of Georgia convened on the 5th inlt. at Milledgville- Mathew Talbut was chofen prefident of the fenate, and Robert Iverfon, fpeaker of the houie of representatives. ib.