Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 20, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 February 1812 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM. Vvm Xational Intelkgeiu er. STANZAS. To be sctd or Sung, Tune" Dull Bttfinefl, hence !" fcc, WritHA at Washington (it ( D. C.J 8'.'. December 1811. O r Eagle wnkes ! let martial ftionfs anfr To gre'-t bifll as lie f)att nnjclbc through th-- (ktrs ! Let winls cmvey the news alonj th' ex . iii Ihore, From Mexico's deep gulph te rug'd Labrador : And from thofe penpl'd coafls which bound h AtUrti" re;u Through thofe vft realms thlt ftretch to Je pcific main. Brave freem n hil ! your country aiks your aid 1 Be her maternal voice with promptitude oby'd. . Our facred Eagle long the Olive Branch has fwav 'd . While p ratr flolf your wealth and your brave 1001 er.il i l. But now the vrorous bird (hall act a bolder part And give his arrows wing tc every pirate's heat t AiilV, ye hrave I no more (: a war of words'1 Shall breathe ignoble ruft on your indignant fwords ! Be vigilant, be firm ! nor let a mifcrrant d ire By pleading for your fee, prlbte Columbia's air : Bid fuch vile tools depart, left they fliould be the fir ft Whom your awken'c1 wrath fliould Caufe p I y to 11 bite the dust.' Hear ye that fifeout ! 'tis freedom's voice invites Colrmbi . V Tons to gUHfd their independent right ! Like our Orav- fires, their fens forever will maintain Their rijjbt to rule theft realms and plow

that i qvr. J puid Wi!r'- Uwlefl airoguice yet bids our eale , cowr, And makrttU nations feel the intolence ol power Let not bafe Gear our d infers over rate ; 11 In public ceutUih, fear ts treason to the state." Let pale timidity behind our hills retire, Bui let a I1 ly geol our t Irnt youth infpirr To -mulate tneir fir ho brv'd a tyrant';, frowRi A-.'' g-Iorv'? brightefl riy their valiint deeds ilia II crown. raja Hi ' r m tfi: DetA of Poof Robert thi SCR LIE. Pray take WJ id vice if a fortune you'd get, Pay oft" what VOtl owe, and then out of debt keep. 1 his rmy be bad poetry, but depend on it. it i excel Icni lenle. h is an old faying that i he 4 debtor is a flavc to t!uQ creditor. ' it lb, half the v world enter into voluntary iervrude. The univerlal rage to m on rredii h ft'ei iuc evil in t coo it ry I any a valuable man is ruiucd by ic.

There was Titus Thornbury, mho was an j m m mi

indufhious honcft man. He had as good a tarin as lay in the north parifh of Applebury.

But unfortunately he gave way to the pre- j

vailing paffion of getting in debt, and a uo life be had of it. At the age ot thirty, he owed twothoufand pounds. His farm yeild ed about that fum. He could not live without purchasing fome things, and as all the money he could raife, went to pay principal and intereft on his debt, he had every thing to buy on credit. So, at the year's end, with intercfts, and coQs, and lofs of time aikl. extra prices charged for things hcaufe heli d not make ready payment, he was jult as deeply involved as the year before. 1 bus harrafled, dunned, and tormented was poor I hornbury for twenty years. Not lb was it with his coufin, Ned Forefl. He vowed he'd owe no man. The produce of his farm was about the fame as that or Fhorobury's ; but as he was not rorced by duns, or executions, to fell it out of leafon, he got the higheft price. As he paid for things as he bought them, begot them twelve per cent, cheaper ; as he paid neither intereft nor cods and lolt no time in running to borrow monc) or to lee lab creditors heliid up ninety pounds a year, lived quite as well as his coufin and infinitely happier.

When poor I hornbury law a man ruling

He f-ars neither conHablt1, uSeHtf nor dun t To bank or the jufticc has never to run. I lis cellar well filled, and his pantry well ftor'd lie lives for more bleft thnn a prince or a loid. Then take my advice, if a fortune you'd get Pay off what you ewe anft keep out of debt. HALIFAX AND THE CANADAS. It has been ltated by a judicious writer in the National Intelligencer, that Upper Canada could eafily betaken by a froall American army. We doubt of the practicability of fuch an expedition. I ts con fequences would be the lofs the fur rrncc to Britain and of her influehoe over the favages-to lay no more. J'ut, at the fame time that a force is difpatched to Upper Canada, let us not forget Halifax ; which is really or more importance to uQ than is generally fuppofed. It is, and has been, a refuge tor the piratical fquadron of England, which pillage our commerce all along our roafl. it is the receptable of plunder the place where pirates, wearied of one buccaneering cruize, put into refrefh and refit for another. So provoking Hat been and is the conduct of the naval officers and admiralty judges ;a$ they are culled !) who rendezvous there, that If we had not been governed by wordy incapable politicians, or miferable and cowardly intriguers. Halifax would have been in our pofleffion three years

go. However, by reducing that place, and

up the road, his anxious look told as plain as I jeizing Upper Canada in the Srft place, the

a look could tell M plague on that feiiow he

is coming to dun me," When a tuddsn rap at the door announced the arrival of a vifitor, no matter how lively he had been, he turned pale, and looked iorrowfully anxious until the viliiorwas known. Many a man goes into a flore for a fingle article. Looking around twenty things fluke his fancy ; he has no money, but buys on creuit. Foolilli roan ! Pay day mud come, and ten chances to one, like death, it finds you unprepared to meet it. Tell me ye who bavAexpei lenced it, oid the pleafure of pof

felling the articles, bear any proportion to

acquiiitiun of Lower Canada and its capital

Quebec ; will follow or courle We trult we (ball take the belt parts fir it ; but that not a fraction of territory will be left ultimately in ihe hands of the enemy. But our taking Halifax, the pirates would oe forced to Bermudas or the Weft Indies, or be ice bound half the year in the St. Lawrence, ckc. Halifax is a place of the utmofS importance. The Augufta Herald mentions that at a fuperior court in Baldwin county, Georgia, a certain woman by the name of Mrs Palmer,

die pain of being called on to pay tor them,? was punifhedjfor scolding. 1 fee the account:

when you nad it not in your pow er. copied into leverai papers, ana n appears iu Good people, luik yc : A few rules well ! be belie ve'rtffgrcry perfon ; indeed 1 fee no kept will com, :oute much to your happinels j reafon tc doubt it. 1 he cafe, however, is fo 8c independence. Nevei buy what you do not enormous is fuch a fcandalous breach upon really wan:. Never purchafe on credit what j the liberties of the fubjeft, that for the hoi, or you car: poflibiy do witliout. Take pride in of the country L with it were untrue. But being able to lay, 1 owe no man. V ves are ; fee the affair treated as a jeff Is it poffible lometimes thoughtlefs, daurrhters now and that a low and to courts of juftke a difgracetiien extravagnnt. Many n time when nei j ful love of mirth can induce men to Jport witfi ther the wife nor daughter would willingly j the moil folemn provifions of the conttitution. give a hngle-pang to a fond father's bciom. I iuppoic uus violent infraction of perfonal thev nrae and teaze him to ciet articles, plea liberty was endured by fome poor unbefrien-

ded wretch who couia excuc no lympacuy, n call back their remembrance to decency and law one on whom private malice or public folly could vilit its capricious tyranny with

knHfrr nrefents his comnliments to the ladies impunity.

uid begs they would have the goodnefs to thofe laws, dene1 as the fools that made read tl tflaft ten lines once a month till they , them, are again to be revived among us, let it net them by heart, anc! then act as their own I be by legiflative rnftment, and not by the excellent dilpofitions (hall ui.ct. j beatily brawlings of sn inl uman mob.

Above all things, jrood people never go in i he wi iters v ho approve oi men proceedings

fant enouffh, to be fure, to poifefs, but dirh

cuit for him to buy. He purchales en ere dit, is dunned, fued,and many an hour made wretched by their tolly and imprudence. Old

debt at the tavern. I o grog 1 o tot;ci to Uing ; to bitters! Oh horrid ; what a bill ! Never owe your (hot maker, your t ay lor, v , ur PRINTER, your blackfmith or labour or, Befides t!ie bad policy of being in debt, it is downright injustice to thofe whole Liber you have received the benefits ot. 1-1 w happf'l the farmer ho owps not a pwind, Hat lays up his fiftf each year that cornea rouo4.

may do well to conhder whether they act a part wortiiv of the high and r fponfibie lituatioa they hold as members of the public. The difturbers of domefttc quiet cannot, to ie fir e, exp"c mtich comtriitlerati )ii for t fie ev ila titcir perverlity brings upon fm, but with that we have nothing to do. ()ur dull is to fee that no violation of hi If ice or ol law pafl unc nfured.

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