Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 36, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 October 1822 — Page 4

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M.I.Ki'TKI) I'OKTUY. I R M THK PITTSBUHGH STATKSMAX. BKAUTY. Tit 1 f llowin; ex nsitcly hiMUt'ful uul hili1 :mvIk' .1 liia, arc iMv.n teil tVo:n I HK (ii vouit. .1 fragment of a Turkish talc, by L-.i! Byron : As rising n its purple winj T'u insect queen ot eastern sprint?, 0r emerald meadows of Ivas'imeer, 3a itis the voun pursuer l ear. Ail leads him on from flower to flower A iry chase and wasted hur, .'1 Uea leaves him, as it soars on h'gh, With p mtint heait an 1 tearful eve: S- U.-iuty lures the full grmvn child. With hue as br'ght, and wi;u as Wild, A chase of idle hopes and fears, Beiun in folly, clewed in tears. If won, to equal ills hetray'd, W'im waits t'ne insect and the mind; A life of pain, the loss of peace, Fr m infant's play, and m m's caprice; The lovely toy sn fie rely sought II tth lost its ch r;n by bring caught F'C eer toucu t!i it woo'd its stay II tta bruVuM its brightest hues away, Tiil charm, and hue, and beauty gone, Tis left tolly or f 11 alone. With wounded w ing, or bleeding breast, Ah! where shall ether victim rest? Can this with faded pinion soar Fro n rose to tulip as before ? O" Beauty bhghted in an hour, Fs iljoy within her bn ken bower? "N ; gaver insects fluttering by K rdronp the wingo'er tliose that die, Am I 'o lier things h ie mercy shown T ) every f iling but their own, An.l every wo a te ir can claim Kxcept an erring sifter's shame. FT" M'iS.ro .1 s W KKLY MFSsr.YGF.R. pourt NKso Nir.HL. mymtnt e. bij the author of IF vlnf -2 vols. T.ui is a storv of a voting Scotch Lord, raw from a Dutch c ege. who grs up io London to s :icit til the KJng tnen J unes e oivment ot a sum d m m ev v! r from the er wn for tin jtn p. sc of iv lee.n: g his paternal i iance from the forrel sure of a we i it y m. rtgage. The y niiii ma is accompanied by a sen ant. M". Kichud Moniplic, a shrewd, blunt, straight forward obstinate C(), who had been brought up a victualler, and who. will) maeh deference, to thektgreai unknown author," as the literary iuneturs stvle him. is pushed for adin life vastly beyond the . '.' promise ot til s education. The personage, w hose name ol Jsi ;el Olilauiit. hud G cmarloeh. g ts title to tlie work before us. ii makes acquaintance with a 1 lv London landlady, then Vitn Master George Il-riot, a la a!er in money, who comes to I id Td ship's acq uai ol auce t hrough ji 'voUen h au i eceived Irom the ndon Centres by Moniplie. iu wu witn an unuy.ia! lib rali t at once relieves Niel from his iv mia; v em'xu ras-meets (iienv i io 0 sim eq ently ft ds a fr end tn hi elaim in an old hiocnloid li e foi mcr eorm v of P." eTj hoie; and t e on nf tins (uu1 cotclun in. Hie lord Da'ar n . iutrodmes Gle.a' h'eh to an ' inary, kept by a ronuVal tKi'iium. wnei e he ,ets to i:amh n,f diiiaces himt il. quarrels wi h Da'iiarnoa? the eaiiM of his f II v. violates the law by tnakioa a i t uith nihe vereof the pala e. flie for s.ilet v trnn punKnnent foi t e otVence to the in dst f a nct of illians to tue AN nitefiiars, taes lodim; with a

n ted mier, kills a robber and lnurdei'o rescues the miser's d.ioa.iter Kh all her treasure. V t'dmuts to the KiiM'' me ev. is "ftm d i i t! e i'oer, fmally re lea-ed tecovets his es ate, and. v it i t e roval -auction, mari ies Td Mai-aiei Ham -ay. the (l .uiihter of the borolooeV of his sieied m i'p'sty. n.ilo-i' ,,0. hav

. - - n- setlu ed Nelly Ciuistie, the i la.n ()'r's wife w t ere (S env ar- ! lolT! di d, is coinpi lled to rs-.poua-wii Judy tu wuuui he hud

been previously unifel by a sham

m irriaie in Spain, is disgraced by Km?; James, leaves the coin t. and is murdered by a banditti led on by a bully of the name of Cole pepper of Peppereull.

The author of the -Fortunes of ler m.cssin,r.n,om decorated with XigeP his attempted, it would her own drawings, tables, stands, seem, to pourtray the characters-1 n0WCr pots, screens, and cabinets, ties and manner of the reign ftn;iy she tnay Jaiice like SeniproJames I. and it is possible he may j n-;; herself-land yet we shall in

have cauglit snme faint colouring ot the complexion of society at that period. B it almo-t all bi personifications, if we may judge from the general principles of human nature.areearicatui es There is much too of plagiarism fiom the author's self and others, in the work. Capt. Colcpepppr is nothing more than a new ed tion o the Capt. Bvtbidil of Ben Johnson; and lord Glenvarlnch, himself is just such atiother piece ot flesh and blood as Waverlv. The tale i. in all its pat ts, an improba hie one: and foolish as the first Stuart who occupied the English throne is represented in history, he could never have been so sheer a coward and harlequin as this romance represents him. The vulgar slang introduced in the course of the volumes is disgusting, and would suit much better with a B llinsgate calender than with a production intended for readers of ta-te and delica -y. and for the public at lavge. Torre i not a sing'e situ ition in which Nigel ex cites compassion: he always a nose of wax, or a blustering, pas siotu e fellow: always actimr from tne sudden impulse of feelioo without rcle ring to bis reason a a guide. Margaret Hamsey and M i! tha Tap!ois are counterparts, in lower life, of the two pinqhd lemilc characters in Waverly, up n wliih novel the writer, re-drawing, as it were, on his own intellectual funds, ha with considerable art, it mu t be admitted, fashioned much of the performance under present notice U would be too tiresome and unprofitable to go into a comparison of the two works; but those who have read them both with attention must, we think be struck with the similitude. It is very doub'ful whether such a colblood'd, unimpiioned, accomplished villian as Dalgarno ever existed; and it is not ar, all ikely that a woman with such st o lg common. sense as tliat professed by Martha Trapbois, would have bestowed her hand and fifty thousand pounds sterling, upon the pers-m ot tti :h;u d 31 miplie-. To render even fiction pleading it should partake of a sulficien degree of probability nut to viola'e ideas already finned in toe mmn: unices, nuteru. a wiiterj launches altogether into the re i . I mnns ot t e im itiin -v ion. and deals solely in fairy t des. a strain of invention which the author of 4 The Fortunes of Nigei" does not pretend io. AYhiWt we admire ound Kng-li-h rperatuie. we do not in the leat feel inclined to countenance the trash that is thrown out from tlle B itisb press; and we trust the day i not far distant when our own literature, like our manufactures, will look up tow ards a successful livalry ol the best specicimens of the genius and composition of the master-spirits of the United Kingdom, among which it will be perceived that we do not rank the volumes ia question.

FEMAT E ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

DY MRS HANNAH MOORE. A young lady may excel in speaking French and Italian; may repeat a few passages from a vol i i tunc of extracts ; play like a pro fVnr and sine like a siren: have sist. that she may have been vert badly educated. I am lar from meaning to set no value wluuever on many ol these qu ah lie a tions: they are all of them elegant, and many of them properh tend to the peifeeting of a polite education. These things, in their measure and degree, mav be done; but there are others which should not be left undone. Ma ny things are becoming, but, '-one thing is needful" B-side-, as the world seems to be fully appi ized of the value of wiuuever tends to embeilish lite, there" is less oc a Monl.ereto iiibibt on its impitrtance. But though a well bresd voting lady may lawfully learn m st f the fashionable arts; yet let me ack, d;es it seem to be the true end of education, to make women of fashion, dancers, singers, players painters actresses, sculptors gilder, va. nisbers engravers and embroiderers? Most men ate commonly destined to s, me profession, and Hie'ir mind ; are con sequent ly turned each to its res pective object. Would it not be strange, it thev we e ea led out to exercise their profession, or to set i'l) their trade, with onlv a little general knowledge of the trades and professions of all ot!:er men and without any prex ious definite application to their own peculiar ealiing? The prides-ion of ladies to woicn the bent of their inli ne lion s lould be, turned, is that of diiightepj, wive-, mothers and misuesses of families. Thev should tie tlieielote trained with a view to these several conditions and be furnished with a stock ol ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated, as oeea ion may demand, to each of these respeeiivesUuaiions. For though the arts, w inch merely embellish life, must claim anm'f ation; et when a man ot sense come- to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and ot an aitist It is not merely a creatine who can play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and uaoce; a is a being who can comtort aod compel him; one woo ca rea-ion, and rt fleet, and feel, and judge and discourse, ami discriminate; one who can assist nun to uisaiViiis lighten his cares. .. . . i so lie his sorrows, nun v his j strengthen his principics,and educate uia children. A ge-rfe:n:i:i having discharged his ma.: .ei vent for disobedient i ol u tie; . a -.other called on him the luhvuv iog moininr to offer I nis. j-crvices. and his character proving good, they w ere accepted Giving his orders ahci wards, he thus addressed bis servant, -John in order to n tain your ptescnt situatioti, and my good graces, you have nothing else to do but to pay attention to these two words, mind consequences i'ov instance, if I tell ou to lay the cloth, you must consequently put the knives, forks, and plates upon it Whenever you open the

J door consequently shut it after you

John prnmisM to be obedient, and his master happened to fall ill a few days after, be was despatched for an apothecary, who lived at the end of the street. One. two, three hours, however elapsed and neither John nor the apothecary was beard of; his master whose impatience was by this time wound up to the highest pitch, was at length i formed that six gentlemen headed by his new servant, .were waiting without to speak with him. Surprised at siseh an extiaordinary number of ft wunvifrd guests, he gave orders lor John to come in and inform him who they were. Yhv, sir' said the well meaning fellow, who had caught his master's words as he was enieiing the room, "Von knew you ti Id me always to mind consequences so I thought i! yon wa? ted the apothecary con seqiiV'Jly soon have occasion tor the physician, a ul where the physician make his appearance, tee unde; taker must consequently

onn f How, th i urd 'i taker renders necessary ti e se.ton. who is constquenfhf followed by tie grave lii ger and rlergN man; thus, i I have onlv fulfil led vour directi .n. to mind cunsequei as.' The icason as an inenagable ne, and the servant' inteipieation, togedter with the sight of the motley assemb'a&e be had brought with him, excited so much laughter in his master, ti at it proved foil as efticaci us as the medicines of the apothecaiy, in promoting his cure. An English modern traveller thus desci ibes a ludicrous morning scene," at ?Iadias. k Here a barber, uncalled for, was shaving a man as be still lay dozing: there anothei was cracking the joints of a man half dressed; l ere were two servants, one potni g wa?er on, the other washing a saheb's hands. In spite of m eft rt.5 to prevent them, two well dressed men weie washing my feet and near me was a lad dexterously putting on the clothes . f a sleepy brother officer, as if he had been an intant under his cai e." rn TA...o 4 ii: , x o ifoiLinneu iraeuing to gether took up camp at night Being much wearied by the faligue of the day, they soon fell asleep. Alter they had s'ept for some time oi.e of them was awaUei.ed by a thin der stotm lie got i p and in a bight called on his companion to arise as the day ol judgment had e me. 4 Lie tow n, I e tow n you fool,' says the other, do you think de day of sbudgment vouid Cume in de night.'' When TMiltuu was blind I e mat l ied a shrew. The Duke of Buckingham called her a roc I am no judge of colors replied ! Milton, and it may be so, fur 1 feci the thorns daily. A Frenchman bring about to remove from his shop, bis landlord inquired the reason stating at the same time, that it was considered a very good stand hr busii ess. The F. enchman icplicd. with a shiug of the shoulders, oh yes, he's ry good btand U v de business; by gar me stand a I day, nobody come to make u.c move A lew copies of the Constitution of Indiana, for sale at this ollice.

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