Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 45, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 October 1816 — Page 3

THE MAIL ROBBERS. Thos. Williams (known here by the name of Noble) was tried last week, before the Circuit Court of the U. States, at Chillieothe, on a charge of robbing the Mail, near Momstown in this county, last winter. He was convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment. His partner, who had bceti confined in Chillicothe jail, after his removal from Somerest. in Pennsylvania, made his escape through the funnel of the chimney some months since. A post rider of the name of Hunt, was also Convicted of having robbed the Mail, and sentenced to pay a line of ,1840 and to suffer five years imprisonment. Ohio Fed.

THE WESTERN SUN. Vine canes.... October 12, 1810. Li the charge to the Grand Jury by Ju Raymond, published in our last the following Errors were overlooked. For u Ohio" read " the Ohio" for rt we all know our predelietions" read " we all have our predelic lions," for fc- the four years" read K though four years" for " a difficioficy to sustain the public spark of life" read u a sufficiency to sustain the feeble spark of life" for u may we not sav that Enirla id a read a may we not say to England" for "should not that leisure" read - would not that leisure." Constitution of Indiana. The Constitution of the State of Indiana has just been published, and is for sale at this ofhVe Price 25 cents. We are authorised to state that the following gentlemen will be candidates, to represent the state of Indiana in the Senate of the United States : Waller Taulor. Jesse L. Holman E McNamee, Jarm Scott, and Ja m es Nob 1 . Vc are a!s. authorised to say. that Alexander Joltoti, will be u candidate for the office of Secretray of State, lor Indiana. To the Editor of the London Statesman. Sir However unpleasant it may sound to British vars, the truth must be told, and it cannot be too often repeated, that Britain has fallen, from her high estate: and if the present system pursued, she will lose her i ank in the scale of nations, and be reduced to the level of a second or a third rate power but she may vet be prosperous and happy. Let not )riiish pride be offended at the humiliating confession, or refuse to accommodate itself toachange of circumstances. That such a revolution was destined to happen in the course of events cannot be doubted, unless we should imagine that all the world was form ed to be tributary to Gieat Britain; but that it has been accelerated by a rigid adherence to the Pitt system, is capable of being proved aimost to demonstration

The debt entailed upon us by the war, and the refusal of ministers to diminish that debt by economy and reform, have left us unable to contend with othernations, more cheaply governed, in arts and manufactures ; and they have learned to supply themselves with what we used to supply, or dispense with our expensive manufactures. By the insolence and arrogance of our Pitt ministers, we forced the Americans to become a manufacturing people ; by the ignorance and incapacity of those same ministers, we suffered the Americans to take our best ships of war in three years, and thus destroy the long established illusion of our naval superiority. It was Mr. Pitt who first attempted the overthrew of the French revolution ; an attempt which must, at any rate, work a great change in this coun try ; if it had succeeded it would have deprived us of all pretensions to freedom ; as it has partially failed, it must, in the end, work the overthrow of that system which he meant to establish Ministers are at this moment in a tottering situation, if their revenue fails them they are ruined ; if they can pay the army they may reign for a few years longer; but two or three more such coun ty meetings as that of Ker.t, and two or three more such assizes as those of Ely. will sha-ve the throne to its foundation ; for men have begun to find out that the value of every form of government depends not on the power it gives to the few, but on the comfort and protection it affords to the manv ; and that robberv may be committed under the name of law, as well as in defiance of it. Tell me Mr. Editor, if the oldest man in this country ever remembered in such a state of distress : and if that distress is merely partial and temporary or arising from the radical vices of the system. It requires wiser and more honest men to conduct our aliairs than the present min istry. I will say bonester alone, for it is not wisdom so much as honesty that is requisite. Let them reduce the taxes let them reduce the enormous and shameful expences of government and all will go well our manufactures will revive, tho' they never can 1 v what they have been ; the price of corn will he reduced to what it was last winter ; rents wileontinue low, and our laborers and manufacturers may live. Ve will have a market for our goods where we have none and tho' much reduced, we will stiii be able to hold up our heads as a naval and a emmereial nation. Pursue the present system, and in two years our country will he almost a desert, peopled only by slaves Sv t rants. I remain, Scc. W. BURDON Haiiford. near Morpeth July 5 181ti. Baltimore. Sept 14. The following article is thof worthy of a place in the American. The contrivance seems to be an improvement on the balloon ; it shews the ingenuity and industry of the contriver, and deserves the attention of the curious in a country famous for its mechanical genius.

Exfrdct of a letter from a gentleman lately arrived in this city from Paris, to his friend in Nexv- York. u Dear Sir I am once more in your happy country, and hope you have likewise safely arrived in the bosom of your family. As I know the lively interest you take in my discovery, I think you will not be sorry to know how it goes on ; had you remained some days longer in Paris, I could have shown you a whale 15 feet long, swimming in the air ! and carrying in its mouth, to a distance of 150 paces, a wreath of flowers to my wife ! You should have sen it ascending thro the aetheria! plain, or crossing in a horizontal or 'circular line, by the mere impulse of its mechanism ! Henceforward, man may, at his will, hover in a calm day, over the surface of the earth or. in tempestuous weather, rise to the middle region of the air, where reigns an eternal calm ! It is useless to add, that when the wind is favorable, it may fly as quick as ths wind itself, at any distance from the ground ! 4i Such is till now the fruit I have g ithered from 15 years meditations. I saw at first, that since man found the means of making heavy bodies, float in the air, it was only nccessatvy to anply with intelligence to these bodies, a power to propel and direct them ; I thought that the means till now invented to obtain that end, have been badly contrived and calculated ; I imaoined. that a body Boating in the air could be compared to a fish, which beino; supported by the element in which it lives, wants, but a feeble power to advance, very different in that from a bird which being a thousand times heavier than air, has need of large wings and an horizontal tail to support itself. Starting from that principle, elared by the grandeur of such a discovery, by the glory it will reflect on its author ; and still more, by the persuation of the immense advantages which will result from it to the human species. 1 abandoned myself with enthusiasm to my ideas on the subject ; in fine, after 13 years of reflection, and 2 of labor, I made on the 14th of January 1815. at the Cheateau de Bercy, an experiment, in the presence of my friend G .With what violence did my heart throb when i touched the spring ! the animal starts the animal Hies ! From thut tunc I have not tcafrd to wo'k with ardor ro re h pe rftcVion now it rjf s without the nrcrfil'y of throwing out any part of the ball ft, and can defcend without letting out any portion of the gas flics with the facility and vr locity of a bird. Aid to this, tht if excu'ed on a targe sole the mechnifin would cr.U but a ttifle and br eaflrr to manage than a fnull boat. 11 I fee from here crowd of incredulous perfons, finding out of pity ; but I will imitate Diogenes, who when a(ked by the per. fun a in headers, how he wouh) prove the exigence of motion walked in their prefence I will make my scial animal fly. If on the formidable element which encircles the globe, no danger can appal your intrepid countrymen, they will not, 1 prefume, be afraid of truHing themfelvet to the one of wi.ich I am (peaking to you. 11 Do not laugh at my hobby horfe ; for I am convinced that, like its predeceffor Pcafus, it will one day carry man acrofi the xtheria regions." jji GOOD MILCH'COJV" granted immediately, enquire of the PRINTER. Sept. 28, 1816.

JOHN H. AVERY, (eldest son of the Rev. John Avery of Stamford, Conneetieut) having been many years absent, his friends, after a long and painful state of anxiety and suspense disappointed in every effort to obtain information respeeting him make this earnest request, that a-

ny person possessing an v knowledge of him, or of his situation or I circumstances, will eommuniea the facts for their information.mimiiiauuii i expecting mm, (which may lead to a knowledge m mr mtAi'rirtofiAii . . ..A 1 of his p esent situation if he is still li vino;, or if otherwise, of the plaee and circumstances of his death) directed to Mrs. Ann Ripley. Sagatuck, Connecticut, will be very gratefully received. At the time of his departure, Mr. Avery was about 25 years of age. He possessed a serious and thoughtful countenance : Sc was, at times, rather inclined to melancholy. He has been absent about eb-ht years. 44 Notice "ILLbf f Id Hy public f,c on rhe V f Jilt dy of (M nrr it'n.r f hi '. fore th;itd-y by privatr fale, thr plantation on which I now live containing about 2 0 a rrs of I n, about 17 rlrare-J, rd nfrrLond fence, a good ai d commodious dou fe rabin nn it on Sin ls crerfc i-b'-ut fix milrs from Vincennea. il w tl h" rxpol d for f r ,!!" a nombrrVf t utte J-Ts isf Sh ?p. H-trses. & a G )od Sf, IV ggon a W ' .vers L?om, with a mini of othf r - r r i. fs :.) trtlirns to motion. S!e will nn tbr prrmilVg, 12 months credit with booo1 :ioH Ce uritv. Edward R. Seel. Octnh"r 9, 1816. 45-3f TEN BOLL IRS RE WARD. SI RAYED or i ol-o fr. m fubn i b r on th n;bt of th - 2b Srptt ruber, at F. Sholi's on White Kivrr. two hot fr c rra tors. odp a forrr I w i h 4 brtld f.c, the ntbrr a ! irgfr- hty horl y r, u h u idcr tbr foot ork of his hind f-f-r. white ftot about thr fizr rf a qu-rtrr dollar oQ his left flnk, a number of wliitr fpots on his right (boulder, alfo a nuinpr of white fpots whr re he girths the above rwrd! will hr iven to any perfon who wil! orli v;-r the above bay horfr to rpr in Viiurnn'-s or to Simuel Chdir.befs's on the road to Louisville. N. B. BREADING. Oober 2, 18 I 6. 4-3'. LOST OM the Vncrnii-s rn-td, between the French In k and Lu k creek, on 9th inO. a Tnn TRAVELLING V. ILICE, m ide of fair leather, with n ornamental p:ere of rrd mrorro m pa, h ,T ,3 marked with the fubfi ribers nme on the .up, inu on one rna ; it r ititamrd n.itbn but clothr? r4 papers, of n ufe buf to the own-r. A liberal rrwr1 w II h ivrn to any perf.in forwarding t Vinc-nnei SERGE A N r H Ml,. Vincennes, Ooher 12. 1816. 45-3t r r LAW NOTICE. Nathaniel Huntington, Attorney at Law Se Conveyancer. H ASoprncd a hw ..ffi. e in a r om of Mrs. V ander Burghs, on Mam ller t in Vmcennes, where he will give cor ftnt attendance to all who may favor him with profrflional bufinefs. Vinccnnes Sept. 2 1, 18 16. 42 tf THOMAS" H7 BLAKE Attorney at Imw. OFFERS his ptofefllonal fervicrs to the public, thofe who may wish to COflfuIt or employ him, will pleafe apply at the Vincennei Hotel." 33-tf Jy 16, 1816. ISAAC BLACKFORdT Counsellor at Law and Convcyarcer. ANY bufinefs in his prefefiva will he thankfully rrctived aid puncludly attended to he refides in Vincenncs, and may be fouod alwiys at home. 15-tf Msrch 12, 1816.