Western Sun, Volume 5, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 January 1813 — Page 4

Man ts io Jfart the sorest, surest ill."

It Is a finguhr faft that the whole civilized world is, at this time, in an achual Bate of war tp event which has not happened for many years, nor hnce the art of priming was 1a. 1 1 1 x C 1 1 r n n o

discovered, or mc iime wucu ui mu pa vtuu u wvi general a ftate of v. art air as the prcient, is not recorded in history for added to the evil, a part of the favage world are alio engaged in war. Did we believe in the doctrine of aftrolgy we might fuppofe that fomc malevolent (lar now perhaps for the firit time Once creation was in its afcendant and ruled the deftiniei of nations by its malignant influence. N. Political. lMj i Newport December 9. . On Sunday last the citizens of this town witnessed a sighf that gave rapture to their feelings and unfpeakablc joy to their hearts that sight was the arrival in this port of the late British frigate Macedonian, John S. Carden Esq. commander a prize to the U. & fi igate United States, Com. Decatur. The Macedonian sailed from Spithead on the 29th ScmembtT with a number of ships bound to the r.ast Indies,

which she was to convoy to a certain distance. The day previous to her capture she parted with the last of her convoy which ship had on board four millions in specie to pay the troops in the Eastindiea. She had notice of the capture of the Guerriere, twenty days previous to her tailing from England, and had a crew of seiecred men. She received a com mission to cruize on the American coast two months and then to return to England. On board of the Hi idol: frigate there were several impressed Americans, who were compelled to light againll their country.' One o! these unhappy men fell a victim his name wasCarr. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE, On the the 6th of December, thirty six years ago, the Britfli fleet, with troops, under the command of fir Peter Parker, was feen (landing into the harbor to take pofieflion of this lown. Qi the 6th of December, 1812, a Britilh frigate, with the CiiuHi Bag dying under the American, was fcen coming into our harbor, Thofe of our aped fellow citizens who witneffed that af&ifting fight then, and who have lived to wltnels the glorious fight on Sunday laft, probably felt with extreme tathfaclion the pleafing contrail.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. We learn from undoubted authority, that a millwright, at V'helnut Hill, near Philadelphia, has diicovei cd the Perpetu-

:tl Motion. This ai! important uiicovery has been examinee by feveral gentlemen of this city, who aie convinced ot its reality. We further learn that a company of oentlemen of the city of Philadelphia, have offered for the patent r ight of this difcovery, the enormous fum of 100,000 dollars. The Philadelphia Daily Advertifcr, remarks As to the meafure, without pi onouncing pofnively upon it, we are free to lay, that we lie nothing in its mode of operation at all inconfifteut or irreconcilable with the laws of matter and of motion. The principle is limply an application of the power of gravitation, in fuch a way that the action can never terminate in other words the prefiure of a weight that can never defcend the movement of a common clock is produced by a power of gravitation, or what is called 4 the weights.' But the weight continually defcends, ar.d when it has reached the bottom of the cafe, or exhauflcd the chain, it requires a new application of external power, or what is called winding up. Now if a clock could be contrived, that the weight X could conflantly prels upon the chain, and impart a momentum to the woi ks, without defcending, the clock would never require winding up, and therefore would exhibit a perpetual motion. This is exactly the principle of mr. ccdheffer's machine. It is a machine or gieat fimplicity and well worthy of atten tion, The editor cf the Aurora fpeaking of the above difcovery fays : " v "The power of a perpetual motion then, we can allure our readeisis actually accomplifhed. The machine, which is a beautiful piece of workmanfhip, the work of the inventor own handtj is at prefcut exhibited

at a houfe contiguous to Crofs tavern, on the right fide of the high road from Philade! phia, and near the ten mile Hone. It Hands in a room ol about twelve by fourteen feet fquare, and nine feet high. 1 he machine rcfis on a fquare frame of al ut fix feet, fuftained at the angles by four polls of about eight feet high and refemblig in that relpecl a weaver's loom. In the center flandsan upright poll, which ferves as an axle to a horizontal wheel below this upright port or axle moves in an eye or focket on a tranfverfc piece which croffes the top of the frame in the mid die, and a gudgeon in its low er point, turns in a focket placed in another tranfverfe piece, which palTes acrofs the frame at about two and a hall feet from the floor. The defcription beyond this is not eahly given with clearnefs in any form ol words, without

the object being firlf feen and

prcfent above the lower ho rizontal wheel, which is at tached to the perpendicular axle, there is a wheel of dou ble its diameter, but this

wheel is perforated at the cen tre, and not there attached to the upright axle, but it is fuf pended to an iron cap, which is placed near the fummit of the upt ight axle, by 4 hooks and chains. Two vertical wheels of unequal dimenfions are moved by the cogs of the horizontal wheels, and it is

by the horizontle axle of thefe vertical wheels, that exterior motion and power is to be communicated for all ufefui purpofes. The main 6c moving power is yet to be explained ; and although very fimple to the intelligent eye, cannot be fo fatisfaclorily defcribed, from the peculiar fimplicity and in genuity with which the power of gravitation is applied to produce a perpetual horizon tal aflion. T his power, how ever, is produced by a preffure of the weight of two correlponding boxes, on a plane inclined on an angle of forty five degrees ; the application of this power, and the means by which it is brought to aft, are evident to the fenfes, on a flight exami nation ; cc without the view, we could not expeft to render it intelligible to our readers even with the befl drawing.

who is the proprietor of federal houfes on Mount Sion, has long been memorable, when any of thefe are about to be untenanted, to give out a particular pfalm, which, not detracting from its fpiritual objeft, might ferve, at the fame time, to announce, under the fame denomination; fome temporal concerns of his own below. A Sunday or two ago, however, he had no fooner given out the firft line of this hisfavorice ejaculation, 1 Mount Sion is a pleaiant place!1 than a perfon, having a counter intereft in the dwelling upon the oppofue hill, immediately, and in ihq lame clerical tone of voice, rejoined, Mount Ephrahn is much more fo !' which threw the clerk into fuch a a confufion, and the auditory into fo irrefiflible a tit of laughter, that it was a considerable time before thecongre-o-ation could be reitored to CD

its wanted gravity. London paper. Perhaps no chancellor ever gave fo many church benefices to poor clergymen of real merit as f bur low. Among other inflances of his eccentric goodnefs, the following appears to deferve peculiar notice. A curate who had a numerous family, but no patron among the great, wan prompted by his wants and a tavorablc opportunity, winch the fudden death of his rector afforded, to make a perfonal application to Yhurlow. The chancellor wasflruck with his

appearance and addrefs, and after hearing his flory, whimlically alked him, ' Whom have you to recommend you Only the Lord of Hods, my lord'' Weil replied I hurlow inftantly, ' as it is the firit recommendation I have had from his lordfhipj be allured that I will attend to it-' The living was given to the meritorious applicant. Zerah Colbnrn, our mathematical prodigy, isexhibi ing in London. J he Courier of July 29th, mentions, that he had been visited by the duke of York, in one of the rooms in spring Garden, and who was aftonifhed at the arithmetical queftions anfwered by a boy under 8 years of age. 7i Tank 'dee ds. For sale at the mce mi the W. SR

A whimfica! incident lately occurred in the old chapel of Tunbridge Wells, The clerk,

FROM THE P R ESS OF E. S T O U T. PRI.VTFR TO THK TKUTjRY A NT OF THE LAWS OF T II . (7VIT10 STATES.