Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 January 1812 — Page 1

WESTERN SUN

EACH CENTURY HAS ITS PECULIAR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS, AND MEN GUIDED MORE BY CUSTOM THAN BY REASON, FOLLOW WITHOUT ENQUIRY, THE MANNERS WHICH ARE PREVALENT IN THEIR OWN TIME.— HUME.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1812.

NO.17.

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whence to judge-but It is unnecessary to inform the reader, that the fur trade has always been considered extremely profitable to the company, as well as to Great Britain. But from the causes which I have before explained, the exports of the Canada have wonderfully increased within a few years. It is believed they do not now fall short of 5,000,000 of dollars per an-num--and this is in articles of the utmost importance to Great Britain. They are either precisely fitted for the support of her fleets, armies and colonies or to employ her merchants and mechanics in such way as to give the greatest scope to their capital and ingenuity. I have now to give some account of the

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e, . 1 n.niioy llrtnpth ot tne (jan.iua?- ; aud v.i 1 n t s , ; r ero'v after wstft.etu , y ,x ( J ' .1 While on tnislu j Ct, tt.v if..Jvr mult beai jo tttoid utohteas mt disNttes. tt is re' ! ir. , . ,vjf M h- '1.. ; rr r ,

yjiested of Adtm-tising customers that I dimininicd, actotdin they bar titular ly specify the number Great Driutn may tl times t:ietr Aeerltsem tit's arc tfl Ii the prefrrvataon oi t

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After the reduction of the country, a station might be Chosen and fortified above Quebec, which would prevent inroads from garrison, and at the same time cut off its supplies. Thus situated, the city would be of no service to Great Britain, but would be kept by her at enormous expencc till a proper time should present for us to reduce it by a regular siege. A B.

The emigrations from Ireland to the

United States has been unusually great this year; and probably in= no former season1 have so many respectable and substantial farmers came over as in the past. Besides the badness of the times there, and

the prospect of their being worse than bet-

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to then enjoyment here

other cause has operated to swell the emi- ! . - ! ..1 1.. 4' .....

continued.---Those sent without such directions will be continued until forbid and must be paid for accordingly.

make every with the

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T9. T I V THE C Ar AOAS,N In m) I U I p-t f ' I a 1

the i I, climate and wat a.id I. 1 that inhat it t itm to 1 life1 th ni to ti;

importance As no recent enumeration has been made, and as the settlements are extended over a Vast region it is not to be expected that an accurate estimate of the population can be made. My opinion is that lower Canada contains about 160,000 inhabitants, and Upper Canada contains 150,000 being together 310,000. The population except the cities of Quebec and Montreal, (containing about 10, 000 souls each) forms a narrow but almost continued settlement from Quebec along the St. Lawrence, round lake Ontario and along the Niagra river ; thence westward, settlements are scattered throughout the whole peninsula formed by lakes Erie, Huron, Ontario, &c. and are rapidly increasing.--The residue of inhabitants are chiefly in the neighborhood of mall trading establishments. The French population may be eliminated at 80 or 90,000. These are a simple ineffective people -- dissatisfied towards Great Britain, partly from a hereditary national antipathy ; and partly from

viewing her in the light of a conqueror.

principle, I take it for certain that they will

d that city

country above Q thi United Si

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in the power of

long and the sender chain of settlers

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Cv iV I Ir Dy a 114) 1 TOW " hd powei t i ; - mi ( t ta'nce of G eut flril ih Lawrence Mthe ti duu ra rutting in rnt) it initiiu oe outuum'if

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c to

arat-

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iio:t rend ii ei .or.

i' e rate with h i i d from thr U h:t d

the imp ffibility (t retreat in v'ei n1. ! preire it () t Brrtnin

Co h c i be ;'-..) in the

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tab l Ii been mn thi fe fl f !'ir h t ereReckifiny , of it itiont d r.-:v larc e

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n p ui b f r r1 city Ihe h i

It was lit ngly fortified by the French i in thru p lV liion- the works were

col huer ibiy Rtvengthened at

tie about. Some authors

tii the Briattb, and have been greatly ex- wonderful fpeculationa toprint, iuft to Ihew

tciKd and improved within the lafl . jj yean At ptrfent, though not regulate!

it is IKoi e,!y and ty Iter.i uu a'ly fort

younger, about the year 445 or a year or two earlier. A Comet in 442 ushered in a severe winter, in 443, the snow fell to such a depth, and continued so long in Illyricum that multitudes of women and children perished. The ycar preceding the Hunt had ravaged the courtly and destroycd the provisions, which added to the public Calamities. An eruption of the sea, in North and South Wales, 441, preceded the first comet, a second comet appeared in 444.--In 445 severe famine and pestilence distressed Constantinople and pestilence appeared in all parts of the world. In 446, Sept. 17, occurred a tremendous earthquake, which demolished the greatest part of the walls of Constantinople, with fifty seven towers. The shocks Continued unremit-

ter ii bept ; plenty ann liberty which j ting for fix mon thy, and extended to as reat

part of the globe, &c. In the 311, Olympiad, which comprehends the year t from.465 to 468 inclusive, appeared a comet. Whether the the destruction of Antioch was in 458 or 464, the extent of the flock through Trace, Hellespont and the Grecian isles, together with the deluges of rain which are said to have swept away whole towns in Birhynia, leave no room to question the approximation of a comet In 480, or the following year, another comet was visible ; oi probably two years later In 484 a drought most terrible and distressing not a vine or an olive branch retained its verdure-- the earth was pale and deflate, and the sun assumed a mellancholy face. A comet is noted in 502, and a severe winter in 507, but I have no account of any public calamity attending these phenomena, except a pestilence among and cattle in Scotland in 502. In 518 a Comet in Dardania a series of Earthquakes demolished twenty four castles, divided mountains and in one place opened a fissure of thirty paces in length and breadth. In 539 appeared another Comet, the famine now raged with double horror It is recorded that many persons fed on human flesh. The bodies of the famished

gration at this time, and particularly from

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1 11 e t a I o ,i o vt - . 1 1 r

that she will be attended Pursuing this

of a great many of the old leases made the doubling, trebling and quadrupling the price of land in the new. Many have under their old leases made comfortable liv-

up a little from year to year

1 up a little from year to year 1 under the new leases they be able to make any thing, what they had made. They

would neither nor to keep

therefore wisely concluded to leave a country which was continually sinking deeper o t in debt, distress and despair, and to embark their al1 in one which is in the full enjoyment of happiness and the full career of prosperity. We bid them a hearty welcome to our shores--and they will never find occaision to repent their choice. Tren. True Amer.

From the New York Evening

Post,

All the

THE COMET.

is busily talking

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engaged

with it, and all the astronomers are employ-

at it

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their

tokens great heat, others j peojile become thin ind pale ; th- flcip w

the U ii d Sta bom io a? Kurop- in n t r mofl incori

w 11 oil 1 towards Ot the rei ,i del a 000 m v I e 1 onfidei ru 1 :c n toi ies the lat le 11 it i; ... re ;.

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mixed multitude having few except these created by interest,

frequently leaning on the side of America.

I have thought this adians the more neetuo lv connected with tlv-ir lat ion With tne Ui i The com m rre ot i n f I rbt, fl . F fms ii '

fit vl h-ra rarrifon of out b

0( 0 men. It is Well known t ed in the military art, thit a; r reduced by a regulat fig befieging army he fufficiently protect i-" works ; a'ul pun the oeceffary cxk nt of ground v !j nwv thofe works, i

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r f u 1 to rh t i ought

hut almoil :i!i of tKm ai-rte

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; excepting lUoeeo

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f ?. n

author wttofc t-oc nts

nc.l and dry like 1- her aft'd clave to

I the bones ; the flefli affumeid a r!,k-p-

cur c u trnance

lily extolled in onr of our qvrjrterly

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ws) whf intimate that aftei

ranci of a certain C met. it was ;obferv-

ived tin ir

iit-r degfeetbtn ufual ; o

in a o ule the

never to be attempted

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am ottectec nv ikiiiiuii rngmcrrs i , . 1 .;ieat reafon to believe th..t Ore--.: tain haSk not more than feven c- i

oimt of the Can il it l; int)niate luCiioti and . tfil

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alt nth r

r.- di ri ro.'Y have

InroW to the ent d field, I lomp idea what x?r?.ordina'y events b ve

Lr;i c . 1 -t u witn cometi therefore ; fjHrietiim ; the comet betokening the mif rluef.fnd fpmc times the mifchiei betokwn ing the comet : T h -.e TftKfn the t oublc ti copy the followinw hiflorical accdUnts tiom the works oi thafcu nous and ir.de-

wotiUi be the duty of the government of 1 fat ig able compiler, Mr. Noah Webfteti i,' d St ' 1 to loofe no time in re- j who h gravely informs uo he .i not all

rneDec, j ci eauioot.

ve t ' ' I 11 :.i o ihouhl w a r v i

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uctug the wnoie COUl try aPo

coi thai fcrvice rbout S 00 men would v proper, two f , ds cjf whom might be

p i ; t - third reruhirs Thty p n !! rc? d to the regi n d - t hi IFU I t r " V. iVo-m re.

T! is few ce would

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ind ' -uc 1300 bo itmen, . ' ! Capital etnphv d.the fa ui vs. bai no data '..0111

In 418 appeared a Comet, in 419 sev-

several cities of Asia were overturned by an Earthquake, and in 420 there was an eruption pf Mount Etna. There was also an inundation of the sea iu Hampshire, in England in 319. Famine and pestilence

ly reduce the com try with little - praWailecl -r.';, iu this period; A gi.-atflo:m (h d lei j we Id m ks itnore c?ifl 1 I '.ail h c:,.o pientioacd under tli year m ;J would fu 1 j i' our weltern from j 41R, and deep f, ow.

t period of penral peflilenee

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J was fenfelefs ai d fiero. the bi! redundai -

Among these frightful effects of hunger no pestilence appears-- a circumstance that the philosopher should not pass unnoticed. The account which Baronius gives of this famine, is, perhaps more philosophical and deserves notice. He says the crops failed, corn ripened prematurely and was thin ; in some places it was not havested and that which was gathered, was deficient in nourishment. Those who subsisted upon it became pale, and were afflicted with bile. The body lost its heat and vigor, the skin was dried, the countenance stupid, dif-

torted and ghastly, the liver turned black-

Many perished hunger ; many betook themselves to the fields to feed on vegeta-

bles, and being too feeble to pull them, lay down and gnawed them off with their teeth In 538 a Comet appeared, a severe winter followed an universal plague, especially in Constantinople, where the living could not bury the dead. in 590 appeared a Comet : an inundation, from deluges of rain, overspread Rome

Covering the walls of the city and lodging

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.... 11 . .. .'. J conftncAced in the rnjii cf Tbewdouttl the f innumerable fftjpciiU on the ; '.u.- i