Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 30, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 August 1822 — Page 4

SLLKUTEI) PUKTRY. WH AT IS LIFE? . S .iv, '.vhnt is Life? it is a dream, Whirl; files at morning's early glow ' 'Tis like the rapid mountain-stream. Which seeks the silent vale below, 'Tis like that lonely flower, W:nch just expands and fades away Tis like the early summer shower, llxal'd from every glittering spray, 'Tis "error's unavailing sleep," A vision, transient as the hue Of that bright bow, whose brilliant sweep i G ilds the fair arch of heav'nly blue. Then, Man, frail creature of a day. Why to pei form thy duty loath? Vhv waste the precious hour away? House from thy dream of mental sloth!

cuse their adversaries 'of the per land Portuguese provinces are

seditions which one portion of, much more highly gmed; out tne society experience, and the inse- rapid increase of population, unicurity felt by the other. The versal comfort, the increase of evil, I say, is every where before ' morality and of knowledge, the

our eves: ncre we nave seen a . nounuiess umusioo ui napping

The r.';ht shall come that night of gloom SVdi wrap thee in its darksome shroud! But there's a light shall pierce the tomb, And scatter every sombre cloud. It is the ray which beams on high, To guide us. thro' the last dread strife it shews the portals of the sky It is til' ETKR2CAL LIGHT OF LIFF.! FLORIAN. The night-blooming Ceres. From the National Gazette.

Sismondi the author ot the History of the Italian Republics, of a History of the Literature of Font hern Europe. & of various harts on Political Economy, all of great excellence and establishJ ,ed reputation; who lias been proclaimed bv the Edinburgh lie-

crowd of estimable men consigned to prison; there military commissions pursuing dispersed guerilla parties the secret proceedings of ftie Italian tribunals have covered Europe with fugitives, and the ordonnances of Germany extinguish the ancient glory of her Universities In Ireland the insurrection of the peasantry, suffering from famine, are suppressed by the executioner. In the East, Turkey, and Greece exhibit a scene of horror the writhings of an agony which cannot be contemplated without shuddering " 'When the present is so melancholy, when the future is so dark, one finds an ineffable repose of mind and heart in lookingtowards a new world, where all is full of happiness and hope towards a new world, where twenty-two republics, free from the trammels which shackle us, from the obstacles and doubts which arrest us

j in all our projects of public good

advance gloriously in the career

! of human perfection and universal

view to he the first historian of 1 prosperity. Among them, labor

V e age, and is considered by the is always in demand, and well French Institute as one of its paid there, he who toils, lives in msi brilliant and able members, plenty and reaps the fruits of his has published in the March num exertion; while in Europe, whoe

b'r of the Paris Journal, called ver contributes by the labour of

'La Revue Eneyclopedique " a his hands to the creation of wealth lespecting all rights. ' The legis

copious article noon Miss is almost certain not to share in ! lators of Europe nave sought to

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are traits seen only in the twenty two Anglo American republic. The Canadian remains poor and lazy, ignorant and loyal; the Lou isianian was still farther behind: but thirteen or fourteen years of connexion with free America have communicated a new vigour to Louisiana: and that territory, so long oppressed, is now one of the most flourishing parts of the Union. ' How, indeed, could a government like that of America, fail to secure the prosperity of the na tion obedient to it! It has refuted the predictions of all our speculative politicians who reasoned from imperfect experiments in other quartets; it has surpassed even, the expectation of all those who take an interest in the preservation of the dignity of man and the prog ess of freedom and morality. The United States of America have demonstrated that a government may be simply and solely the expression of the na tioual will, without hereditary power or prerogative, without a balance of privileges, and that, though entirely within the nom ination of the people, it is not on that account, the more tempes

tuous nor the les "scrupulous in

maintain an exact equilibrium be,

opious article upon Miss is almost certain not to share in Wright's "Views of Society and ifs advantages. All inventions

Manners in America." He dwells and discoveries in America go to ! tween the partizaus of monar with great delight upon the pic- the benefit of every class; which cniai authority, who have conse tore which the fair author has is not the case with us all, therO Crated their affections to the heie

ch-awn of these States; eontem have some leisure for recreation plates every thing on this side of and instruction all read and the water with the kindliest eye write and take an interest in puba ul the most liberal spirit, and lie affairs all many early and pursues a strong comoarison be look without alarm upon the intween American well being and crease of their families " t anquilritv on the one hand, and "This prosperous condition of

t ie miseries and disorders of Eu- the labouring clas-es it is, that

ditury representative of the nation, men powerful by their titles c their wealth, with all the vassal train ot Aristocracy; new men and new interests, with the whole mass of tiie people. The legisla tors of America have discarded all such distinctions they have confounded politically all individuals and classes they have suppi eed all balancing; and yet

general tactions ana parties are

moe on the other. Tne language, makes of free America a world sediments, anticipations, of the wmch no longer resembles ours, illustrious hitori in, whom we It has given dignity to the people, sioiddnot hesitate to pla -e at the who do not sell their services to

head of t.he literati of France, each other, but exchange labour &omo out a? 11 were, instead ol

f;m a remarkable contrast to all and tajent; it has placed them a 14,01 caMng in strength and am t a; we have seen from the pens bove the grosser vices into which j mosity. America is not a De of the T) ills'! reviewers and poli- the multitude in Europe plunge ; mocracy; but a great repreenta-tYti-aos irener dlv, resne'-tincT the in order perhaps to blunt theilne Hepuhlic, which embraces

Amerjcan people and their insti- sense of their wretchedness; it at.jTT!uoo7s. From a B itish states laches them to a country which m tu a id scholar of the principles they know well, to a governa .1 disp isiti'ons of sir James ment which they comprehend, I t .m-h the friend of ris and over which they ate woVthy m -uii we might expect a similar to exert an inlluenee it prevents ta"u of ideas and freedom of tes- those popular commotions, those tinrmw hut from none other of violent tumults, to which the ir-

V-r same rank, wuether Whig or norance and ahjectness of the peo-To-v, who is now within our re-: 'e in Europe naturally lead it e . ic f i.m. We could w ish to remains betw een them and the ot-

which after a time, is devotion in its maturity; the contemplation of Deity is devotion at rest, the execution of his commands is devotion in action. Praise is religion in the temple or in the closet; industry, from a sense of duty, is religion in the shop, or in the field; commercial integrity, is religion in the mart ; the communication of consolation is religion in the house of mourning; tender attention is religion in the moment of sickness; parental instruction is religion at the heartlrjudicial justice is religion oh the bench; patriotism is religion in the public councils." When Arnold, the traitor, deserted his post at West Point, James Lurvey,a corporal in Col. Putnam's regiment, was the cockswain of his" barge. After their arrival on board the Vulture sloop of war, and Arnold had held an interview with the officers in the cabin, he came on deck and said to his bargemen, my lads. I have quitted the rebel army and joined the standard of his Britannic majesty, if you will join me, I will make sergeants and coiporals of you all, and for you, James, I will do something moie" Indignant at the offer, Lurvey promptly replied k,no. sir. one coat is enough for me to wear at a time.'7 llost. Cenlincl. Juan Fernandez Thi3 island, in the Pacific ocean remarkable for having been the residence of Alexander Selkirk, alias Robinson Crusoe, was visited by the American ship Franklin 74, in January last. There was then plenty of peaches, cherries, strawberries, figs, peas, carrots, radishes,

grass, &c also horses, cattle, goats and hogs, most of them wild. The Chilians had attempted to colonize it, but withdrew their colony a few days after the Americans visited it, so that it is now uninhabited. The island presents a noble and romantic appearance from the sea. HONEST PRAISE. In a late debate in the British house of commons, on Irish distresses, Mr Rice, one of the Irieii members' in pionouncing an eulogium on the late Mr Gratia??, declared him to have been the

twenty two others of the same nature. home writers, while they conceded that popular and

federative governments mwht aim ' mst anc most illustrious patriot

at doing rigut, contended however, that tney must be always incapable of struggling w ith political difficulties. Nevertheless, wehaveeen the Americans, in

their last war, recover from theii

of any

age or country, Leor?z

Washington only excepted.

FRANCE. The death of the late Duke ds

Richelieu (says the Democratic

first defeats, full of courage and P,css hnngs to mind an histori-

cal tact ol some value. That no-

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w i.oV ot Mr Sismondi's re iew; feeding of equality, which is foun-: resources, lepet gloriously the ar- i .b,rma"' lt 13 we,J known, was, it U huvp.-rr ti. l.imr f.inlmded there upon realitv whil maments of the most powerful of 1,1 lol.l)y the Emperor of Rus-

k; o .. 'with us: it ic hiir jifi-f;., ri. emoites. and coniiiipr nn hnnmir. Isia. made 1 rune Minister

t w , 1 1 ! n on ' 1 iv- u m v n; cifti!i.- ' - - - - 'v-vmi ui iiil 1 ' 1

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a. id we must, therefore, confine laws.' It would be a mis-ou'-elves to a few extracts, take, indeed to suppose that the W it ;e has said of America prosperity of America is owing o : ; h not to tern tin entirely un-! to her liberty alone merely to l;!i.)V!i to Americans In En- the form of her government.

's with it the highest; She has great and fruitful advan

tages in her youth as a nation

rotvijt. can n

auf t)! it v

In the midst of the animosity her immense and fertile territory

mine raitics w rich divide our; ye to he peopled' But ifjiber

old Europe, in the midst of the p riiuca! p t-sions. which the con-

v Mi mo us f mrc than 80 years have ex -ited io all her divisions a general gloom overspreads our a icierit cn iuent. The evil eanii.it he denictt. although we mav nut agree touching its causes lu ll mis witu their onnosite pinions, are always ready to ac

ty has not alone producedhhe

felicity of her condition itolitne assures to her the harvest of good fortune; it alone has given her a spring and impulse without example throughout the world Tne other parts of the American continent enjoy the same natural advantages as the United States; the greater part of the Spanish

able peace w it h the arms of citi

zens, opposed to veteran soldiers." E L E a A X T E XT R A C T.

ljui uiis iuea uae in our

France He remained in that

station some years. During all that time, and, we believe, to the present time, the name of the Duke de Richelieu has been re

minds, that our duties to God and Bular,y published in the Russian our duties to men are not distinct calcruJar a3 a MaJor Gc,ncral J" andindependai.t duties, but arc the Ilusbian service, absent on involved in each other; that devo- j leavc"

tion and virtue are not diffeient

things, either in different stations,

IK U I'lCL is hereby given to all pcr1 N sons tuvinpr just aiul leiral claims

indifferent points of progress or against the estate of (Icoree Kirkuorcl, .

circumstances of situation. What 1 decd '?te ol Viscounty, k Otter creek .11 j i . 1 1 r township that they exhibit their claims we call devotion. nr the s.ikp nf ... r 7 . . ....

; legally proven ior settlement within one distinction, during its initiary and year horn the date hereof. And all those instrumental exercises, is deVO- 'indebted to said estate arc requested to tinn in he Infiin..!- tUn virtno ake immediate payment to me.

... .v y , TIMIVT riiwivool.

which after a time it produces, is

devotion in its infancy; the virtue

Jdm. fjf George Xtrkwocd, decd, July 31, lb23. 38-31