Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 December 1815 — Page 4

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POETICAL AS1LUM.

Considered F j end Con. Before I'm I) and ill Hvm's fetter, Tittlt to w:l , " f r WOrff for heitcr," ! II lit 'T- don tn count ihr cf, , .! f if "ir begain'd ttiati lofl : Fur who, ttMtl 'A -c'. would e'er io thro' it, A .-.1 bro fe tl.r 1 1 i g f i'i and il's bruit, '1 : Ki h l! 'f f (t'.'i fol CU:;e. A id nuke a 'vti condition worse ? A li'tL.!" m mi irtTts mnv a tfouM, I lift in v in hrk's Pi in'f's hi : 1 h - h i the wiuf worl ' ti fl t to, i b f n ! iftld h rii y h Ircr to,

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T' -i- rr th gn-s, nd grf at ones too, Thlt each u ti married b'ad'- pu fur. "NfXt lrt us turn tin- Cinvafs over, A d r f ht fcenes r the tt discovers, If fmootlifi t! iws the tide ol lite, Beneath the ii fiueme of a wifV . N.iw itiitnmo ial Rtifes si if, rVnd Lo.-, affi ighttd, HytDMi lilies ; Now curtain I Uir-s trz r dun one, A 6 f'tnilr ybh!r threats to Hut) one ; J i" o i rentmiu1! '. trars n fi'?, I ;i draw or dtivi yu t-1 m yotir wits : And yield you rnu't, or life before ye, Is but aw e.-fthSy purgatory ion r 'dreti b wttng, deaf vour ears, Or ti i!r youi ur'ui wi !i aiiXIous frrs ; One ptovet fool, ii t1 one ungrteful I r Uirns a :l : f, ar,d one drceitfttl : ouf hop e. ire g - vour rhoice i epcntttl I life until til, dte unUmeiited i m ' cithet ft ite has rare Ann w i? ir)a lj -,r ine t t'othff ill rauft c through, A ' 1 th' only i !i life, where none is Itvcl li which unen ro id to trve?t

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Rut '1 ' 1 rJetermination tnuH, Where both, G )i knows, ate bad enough.

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thoi ns V e ire the beings ot :t'.-.t, aa like the heedless i.ti ii fl A !Ul11UtCI 's J JV, u ho in Qecinc t:(H7i the toot Heps t ilie incautious traveller, i jius nn the furf'dCe ot a me a -iivi line Uieam is borne aw i to deltrucVhui, or rpent h!i fatigue, reaches an un kiHvvn heath aid piolongi a Wretched existence till the cold breath the evening

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Wealth 1 ei c h stir t ootids him ; li depiived rJ i!i if, his v if rue i vice, an J t'is ttlagnant tmty tneannet nl eiul. Mt is a bmtio'ted to float uoatfiited do n the Iti cam ol lite, nil Hie cl J of t! alley fhall c vi i hi head, ami t be his pel i iz; of the bret ze that

in u titer through the branch vet the vtllow I h t o ( rfltadOV ins tomb, M. ill he the only herald 10 proclaim hit UiUtor-

tnnes and his virtues to the world. May you my friends estimate n en by their innate vvorth and not by (he fplendnnr or poverty which furrounds them. He p.mfed " May you disiingutfli between the unafFeclen and real friend (hip tf the virtuous and the taile flattery of thofe who are your friends as long only as vou can he ot fervice to them." uch etc the wotds of Mr. Howe having finifhed which he learned his head gently back on Ins pillow from which it was never mote to rife tdl raifed by the arms of furvt ii g friends and borne to i-s long and hi em home. He had long been declining nov i-a s lie infentlble of his lituar tion. I he period had now arrived which wa to chJe his misfortunes and his lite He vie v ed every one prefent with a look of aifecHon ; his eeselofed ; his breath grew

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A FRAGMENT I plot? edit Wlill my own hand, laid my lurle tisrer holding up a flower that was dead 1 covered it from the fan I watered it night ami morning and after all wiping her eves wi h a corner ot her handkerchief . after all is d e u d . Alas ! how many are the occurrences in life, thought I U Inch t elemhle iVlary 's flower li cry eafiily believing what w e with, we adopt tome pretty tnfle, and lay it, as it were in our bofetn, love it as a daughter. Fancy paints it in gay colours ; increafing in beamy

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and trace i r s progrefs wbh auxiotis lolicitude, from the i eihog oud to itc. full blow : and then, oh w hen u e fondly expert to eitjoy it reality i c ! 1 us alter all is cCtut. How ohen t!)e only foneng olb a!l the cae of liis par rents and wind himfelt round erery Hbre ot their heartsloch rtlh thf idol, ic every w ifh on the It retch to indulge it, all the rarities of art and nature are producee. Sleep less nights and anxious days are their lot, a nd lo ! w hen they hope to tee an end to their Ubot s ll t uc k by i he hand of disc fe or tic bate ti by 1 1 e t on rati ioating hand of vie e the agonizing parents tind iter 4 1 1 ir is tie ad. Aral how I anguine are the expectations ot thofe relatives and tin litis, who potstSS a ot! girl, endowtd with all the char mi ol beauty & good nets how do they exulf in her very idea fhe is ihe lo lace ot their cl imnities, and the ilati of depciiULiice ior

their declining years. Friendllnp riles in her defence like a wall and atteClion nourilhes her as the wild dewsof fpring. Ah ! to how little putpofe. 1 he canker worm of mve preys upon the root ot this tweet feuTrive ; and the fcotching winds ot disappointment chink up us moisture ir fades the hands ot fiiend (hip and affection at e united to luppoi t it in aio tor The deep drawn oft rrpetrd ;jh, Hull culed heath's bluthra to oVcsy ; The tr that moistened beauty's tye Hath worn its lustir quite iwy i t languiihes ik dies and regret, bitterly weeping raves round the lovely fallen and i x I aims a.ter all it is dead. A Prudent Hiru to young Ladies. I'Mlip I hickuei in one of his publications, tells the following anecdote with much pleafantry, and very politely conveys a modclt hint to young Ladies : When I was a young man fays he, I often vilited a dis t ant reiatioti whom I much loved and to whom 1 and my family had been much o. blidged 1 his gentleman had nine agreeable, nay beautiful daughter, who had otted entertained me with the flipfl op convcrlation of a rich, but low, underbred woman, their neighbour w hofe husband be ing appointed high Iheiirf. occahoned her to talk much to theie ladies about the grand Iheiitf dinner (he was to give. l am determined laid (he to ha ve no custards ; f or it 1 have custards I mult have cheeiecakes ; a net if I have cheefec ikes, 1 molt have tome jellies ir y Hies trui s.M d c. A s I usu illy ipent niy Chrilimas at the country (cat of this hiend, with his lovely tjmily there fometimes arole a kin J of merriment, called Chrdtmas gambols, questions and command, c:c. Now thele innocent tports led the gen: leman fometimes to lalnte the young ljJies all around ; a pleaiure vhicii 1 alone, w ho perhaps loved them be fl , always declined partakeing. i his (hvnt-ls in me jecmeu" so un ccountable to them, that tiny one ami all leized an oc cation to rally me tor poffefli nc a mauvais hunt, fo court a. ry to tit;.' etiquette at thai time ot the ) ear. I confellt-d toice ot the cliarge, and tully ac knondedgrd mv gmlt ; addiog that t! e only excufe that I r oui d rl r v a s that it J hd c uit t c's, L mull li jv e clieelc cakes; it cheefe cakes, jellies ; it j- Hies, tt uii s ; and ii in fhori before I had half done with n ii:;, they 11 r ti away, and lefi me in the field c t battle, and net er rallied to make an attack on me anain DANCING. 1 am an old tciloiviM Says

Cowper, in one of his letters to Hurdis, 'but I had once my dancing days as. you have now, yet 1 coul I never rind that I could leatn half fo much of a worn nVs rel character by dancing with her, as converting with her at home w hen I could obferve her behaviour at the table, at the fire tnie, and in all rring (cenes of domestick lite. We are all good, when we are plealaiu ; but file is the good woman, who wants not the fiddle to fweeten ! er.' Misers, (ays th.e lditor oc the Annual Necrology, ari3 generally baclulots Tiic cit cumllance undoubtly originates in a peculiar tpeciesof ec onomy ; ten pofTt fhng the faculty of re tent ion in an emnetit digtee titcy feem aver fa to the idea of even (qutndering avay tlnir affection. The American fat lor, in evrer' inftance. has been confpicious for cnolitefs & courage in the moment of battle, fhe following little ant cdcir lhws iiis true character : A failor who was with Macdonongh in the engagement with the Briufh fleet oh Lake Champtain, &c who had been hard at work fr.im the commencement nmil the conclrfi ti of the fight feeing the Britilh flag lowered, with a fmile on his countenance he addr fF (3 a companion, Well Jack this is all the fun I've had this war," at the fame time very lie furely w iping the fwt-at from his face ik Then by Jov e." replied the other, M I am flill more fortunate ior thia is the fecond frolic 1 have had." HEREDITARYMONARCHY FROM GIBBON. 41 Ol the various forms of government ivhich have prevailed in the world, an heriditary monarchy feems to prefent the f irtlt fcope for ridicule. Is it poflibh ." fays this celebrated historian of kk the Decline and Fall i the Roman Krppire," " to relate without an indignant fmile, that on the farthtrS deceafe, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen decends to his infant fon, as yet unknown to mat kind and to himfi 11 ; and that the bravelt warriors, &. the wifelt linesmen relinquifh. ing their natural right to empire, approach the royal cradk uiffi n nded knees, and protestations of inv iolabU fide ln t" SINGULARITY. An alligator, meolunng 3 fret 6 incites, wa& Ihot in a fw amp about three quartc r s ol a milt fiom Bufhw ie k lc t ry , L. 1 I on Saturday afternoon lafi, by John 'I . Bronutre While in fhe acl of levelling his puce at a flock otfnipesYt. he discovert d the alligator within a lew ards f ihe (pot where he flood, makmg towards him ; vthen he iailantly loo"g d the com en ts of the pu ce in the throat oi the mon ft r. who now pel 's the catalogue ol natural cut ir.f ies exhibited in Scu dtis American MuRum in this city . N. Y. Fap.

FROM J II Z f n ESS OF . STOUT. PRINTER O THfc LAWS OF THE VNITfcD ST4TKS.