Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 12, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 October 1821 — Page 4

SELECTED POETRY.

' heart bleeds, when they are' A woman Is often imposed on in

crying around me for bread Uut these mattets. as to your bounty, sir, I must "The poor woman very thankinsist on returning it ' fully put the manuscript into MiMr Allen, who was astonish- Allen V hands, ed at these, noble sentiments, with -Depend, madam, on my ut

such a picture of distress on all most zeal to serve ou ( said he. J sides most vehemently insisted on , I will return in a short time." the acceptance of what he called baying which he put the mana trifle meript into his pocket, and iml feel (said he; for the suffer- mediately departed ; highly satis ingsol these little ones; I have fied that he now had an opportubeen myself a parent. I am. ma- nity of serving a woman of such dam, most deeply afflicted with exalted merit, without hurting your sorrows; my tears ynu see. her delicacy. And she on her

will flow an old man' tears part, looked on him as an angel

No! wrwerc form'd to smirch for truth, lui wnai OI HUM i I ne arc tears sunt uuiu uuvui i uiiui n nu

ruvougii p.nhs m:uir pi .tin is re Mton, I of sincerity. Once more let me relief in her pressing necessity.

beg your acceptance of what you After passing an hour at an adsland in such extreme need; jaecnt coffee-house, in looking oUis persuasions, however, were ver the papers of the day, he has in vain, and the poor woman con- tened hack to his own room, and tinned inflixible in her refusal having locked up the manuscript of his generous offer. She ae- in a drawer, instantly went up to

knowlcdgcd in the warmest terms tlie wretched lamily.

"Here, madam, (said the good man as he entered the apait

The little children now gath ! ment,) is the purchase of your

-red on his knees, whom he kis- book, (putting twenty guineas m sed bv turns, took them in his her hand.) and I hope it wi; arms, and treated them with cakes content you.

bill of twenty pounds in apiece :m,i cvp, rtii:ifi whir h lw i-A,M frhe unhannv woman as mav

v miu u 1 1 V.L (lavMiv, 'tiiiiiii,iivv' 1 I of paper, bade him carry it up to brought in bis pockets on pur-1 be easily imagined, was all joy

nose. He felt himself uneom-iaud thankfulness.

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WHAT DC) WE LIVE FOR?

BY ALBERTO. WHAT do we hvc Is it to be - The sport of fortune's power ; To laurchour bark on pleasure's sen, And float, perhaps, an hour ; To waste our time m idle dreams Of what may be to-morrow ; To glean, with care, from present scenes, The source of future sorrow ? What do we live for ? Is it to find The ties of friendship broken ; That love's a sound to cheat mankind, And dies as soon as spoken ; To mark the woes on other hurlM, Nor wecpthtir hapksslot; To hate our fellows, curse, the world ; To die, and be forgot?

To hail that liu,ht in earliest youth

Which shines m ev ry season ; Yes! we were made to win below The boon hereafter "i ; To calmly smile at earthly wo, Knd tinil a horn m heav'n. IliSTOttY (TfMR. ALLEN ( continued )

M A .leu was so extremely her gratitude, nd begged him to

au -cted wiiu me uistress anu sim- down

plicity oi this lovely boy, that he could not help bursting into tears lie took the child into t lis diniiiiT room, and inclosing a bank

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his mother, and not to sell her fa

voritc bird, and that he would see her the next day and enquire

if he could be of any service to her. The little boy ran with his message to his mother, whose sur-

minlv affected whilst, the little

Despairing sir ( said she,) of

innocents, who were now playing your success, L Was just before

around him in the highest spirits, j'011 aruved, considering now i .- . 1 , k . 1 "I ..I.I iW a .. A. ..

prise it must be imagined was questions with the beautiful sim

great. As to Mr. Ahenhe re- plicity of their early ycai s. tired to rest, and enjoyed that "Tell me, madam, said Mr. sweet repose which never fails to Allen, (wiping the tears which attend the slumbers of the good flowed down his aged cheeks,)

(for with children of that age)

"Their tears forgot a9 soon as shed,

and were asking him many little ; babe, when it occurred to me

that I had a little miniature pic

II V 31,1 could procure a sufficient sum to f,.t,m Spain pay for the coffin of my dras Hg .;t',, 'a

lure of my excellent mother set around with diamonds, which 1 have carefully preserved a the

verv last, resource in my extreme

need. 1 cannot trouble von a

As this humane gentleman felt what can I do to serve vou?

himself uncommonly affected Have you any parentsany j gain with my affairs, otherwise I with the sufferings of this little friends to whom I shall apply for ; would beg of your servant to disi . . . i r i . . . .i ...... i r-i V , .

aisuesseu nimuy, ue was tne next your reiieir day uneasy till the hour arrived I have none, she replied he intended calling on them. He weeping no parents, no friends taoped gently on the door, which and have no one to apply to for

ias upcncu a nine sinning leiici. i am u biranjjer in a girl. strange land ' Helpless! I wish I It is impossible for any pen but knew whereto dispose of this a Fielding's to describe the scene manuscript, (reaching her hand to of misery which presented itself a bundle of papers which lav on 'The wretched mother sat weep an old broken chair by her side.) i g over her dead infant vainly If I could find a bookseller to fancying it still had life, and was purchase this little work, I

not gone forever J The other should then have the means of

procuring biead for these poor babes. I have offered it to one or two of that profession, hut have met with inconce'n able dif

m miK'S ill lilt: UlSOOSai OT it. a

one bookseller told me he never

published a work without name, and another "

a

Oh my throbbing breast !-Iut f "c lllT.f,',.m.nst leavers to mv wife mv lovely Fanny, both fv'u lf livin , v olljtnvi had a watery gmVc in their pas 'uV Jor m,-. A,a.! this dear sage from Lisbon.' I""1; lfvri'k a?,T 0,,r llv' From Lisbon did vou sSv? ,,va1 ln . .I;on4!lo,,1 .ihr sn,''!I , .i t. : ... v: winch ta'al distrmner . 1

"Fray, (interrupted Mr. Allen ...l 1! 1 . . - . '

u urn uiu vou write it.'' Is it a

novel ? 1 have no great opinion

of modern novels. 7

"li i inn aimxri. bir It 19 a

miscellaneous collection ; but they a-e not of my writing chance brought the work into my

hands by a very odd accident.

As 1 was ooe day rummain

an old worm-eaten chest. 1 sawi

in one corner of mv wretched a partmrnt, a large bundle of panels, but so defaced by mildew

children were crying of hunger and cold, the season being ex tremcly severe ; and they had not thU least spark of tire in the apartment, in which was every mark of the most bitter distress. The poor woman was surprised at the appearance of a stranger, and looking up with her face covered with tea's and with an air of dignity which appeared in the midst of this scene of wretchedness, she attempted to iise ; but Mr Allen prevented her. bein"' her not to be disturbed by his presence 'I saw, midam. your little bov and by him 1 found

that I am gal 1 sir, (said she. interrupting him) of a:i opportunity of returning you the bank bill . . i. -ti

Oil M II OV tlU' I'll! I Im.n t 1 .1 U T I I I II

t , . iiik. il : iiuu (jumps, i nai i cuuiu naruiy is-unnroken I assure vou. tuit : make out the rontnits. J .annot aa-epi of that which it! -I have h.-wever. wiihmncli M .U neve- ht- ,n mv pou,-r to rc-! difficulty. evtvv evening when p:iv I am it is tauMiudortiH- mv ehil.iien were aslt-eii. set a-

mm imiiu m po vortvlv.it m-.hont tran?erihincr the work, asa'.l ;ss transport, whilst the extatic

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pose of these diamonds, which

are round this little pictuie." The unhappy woman then o

pening a small casket' which w as

by her, and sighing oitiei ly. tool

out a small picture and presented

it to sir Allen

4 (iracious heaven Yf exclaimed

he, statting pack, - w hat do 1 see !

the imuge oi my deaiest wife t

'My long lost Louisa! Q u

ncart ! it is it is Louisa! bay, dear madam, how this pictuie

came m your possession r ou

mentioned just now a mother

"Yes, my dearest father ('answered his loniilost child j look al the letters of my lamentca mother: and these from yourself to her after your departure from Lisbon The servant wlio attended me from my infancy, and who e life was saved with mine, carefully preserved these letters, and this casket - Anne Williams is her name ; she was my nurse maid, and you must well remember her.7' 4,I do---I do--cried the amz zed father, Good Heavens, when did she die ?,' "About six years since ; and it was from her I often heard the sad catastrophe, of my dear mother's death, and that Mr. Robert Alien, mv father had lived some where to the West of England " - lint say. my child." said this fond parent who, as Shakcsprar ays of old King Cymbcline, on the discovering mogene to be his daughter, "Wiis wild in his bchc-Ivrrriir kav mv Tannv what melanholy accidents have reduced thee to this distress Oh ! to find lhee---and to find thee5 thus, so

firm in virtue, is too much for my

tMart to bear. Who did you marry ? Oh tell me all.

A 1

.y.i, I'll, I 1 S ' ' I It

to Jamaica, carried pt Osmond (who

happily preseived) to that

Island. That worthy man hfs me to the care of his sister, who

was settled there; and with that

iood woman I have lived to ihe

age of seventeen, when a nephrt

of hers soon alter married rr.r.

and with him 1 lived lon enough

to be tlie mother of these little

t';pf you now see around m-

We wrote to you my dear Sir,

a'd sent toe letter under cover to

a friend uf my husband's in London to forward it to you, but e

cemng no answer, we concluded.

vou were no more Mr Ashley, my husband, was no economist ; V died suddenly and left me

oreativ involved. To saMsrv all

hie creditors. I reduced myself io straits. A lady, who was com-ino-to England, kindly oiVered to brar my expenses, and promised

interrupted the amiable youi g

woman) Alas; that was the place of my birth ! and at the age of three vears I was with mv dear mother shipwrecked on the coa-t of pain. She. alas ! was lost forever ; whilst her wretched Fanny was doomed to Fanny did you say ? Oh. tell xwi what be quick

i i"; it. it. i me; madam wnat war

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;.den name t , Sir.'

m v child ! mv child !

cried the enraptured father it is it must he so. clamping her in his arms in an agony of joy and wonder. His happy daughter for so she was, hunt; on his neck in spveeh

m

wmcn urai dtemr.er . I

h'kewjsf eaunht and all my little one. This was a great andunexTected expense to me and it vns ctiP increased a- I wa- soon aOer delivered cf this poor bale n w dr?d These events follow-

o i:irinr a a I mv

oeen dead

I say. wi'ic

poo:-

t

!jnMnd l ad not im'n's : a" fl e-

too much for my spirits to sustain, and I sunk in flow ie n hi whieli T lannjchrd several weeks T wa- now reduced to ward even t' '.e common necesralieof liV : indi-ed mveasc wa

tnuy lamenta:eah'ne r-

tn nif flmf if

re eept of this ( again offering the j might, perhaps, be some little adbdl) on any consideration ; vantage to me inmv distress bu't

i. n mis poor nane who expired thi mrninir. is laid in the earth, (continued she bo? sting into tears) these hands will provide a sunport for mv little ones left it

father continued Say, my child.

how hast thou been preserved : O secret wonder working hand of providence! the dreadful tidings of my shipwrecked Louisa and my little daughter an infant.

in Captain Oim-d' ship on tb

j alas ! after all the incredible pains

I -'ave UK-en 1 cannot get a pur cl as r for the work.' lf t'Oll Will frlttnrf rrtn ,!!. !i

.'it i' t ii.v witu ir iii vypicMn sni' vi 9 M.ip on tee madam, f said Mr. Allen, j I will eoat Spain, i an undoub:cd

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, u.u ulai.cia aionc tlut my ; endeavor to dibPuse of it for vnu ft-.w W , v.

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morvv !- -in a strange countrv "O cease my dearest child. I cannot hea- ?hi. (sah the tender father, hnr-tif-g into tears. if is ton much ! T will suppose, after much Miffering. the secret hard of that heavenly power. who-e ci-ief-est ea'e is distressed iinorenc-e.

led me here to this amazing discovery j,ave I fourd thee:' once more clamping her in hi arms ; "not the united worW sliall ever part us more.' concluded hi 2d page.