Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 10, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 April 1823 — Page 4

SELECTED POETRY. l i n r; s. On being presented ivii.h an 1fifile by a young An apple caine'd cur present state, And by inevitable t.Ce Comkmn'd us all to die ! Hilt it" that apple was otmc, And cane from such a hand as thine, Who from its charms cuuld fly ? How can I, then, old Adam blame, When I myselfhad done the same, Had yon the apple given ? I should, like him, witnoat dispute, Hae eaten the forbidden fruit, And lost, for vou, a heaven.

0!i ! deem not that the tie of birth K'ulears us to this spot cf earth : For win resoc'r our steps may roam, Iffri' nds are .vor, that place is home ! Ki matter where our fate may guide us, If those r'r love arc still beside us MISCELLANY. C Coneluded from our lavt ) 'Gabriel, never could we have been happy; for you often, often told nil, t hit all the secrets of your heart were known unto me. 3 et never did you tell me this How could you desert the poor innocent creature that loved you; i. ii ana now couw vou use me so, who loved you perhaps as well as s'v but whose heart God will teach, not to forget you, for that may never do. but to think on you with that friendship and af fection which innocently lean be stow upon you, when vou are Sa rah's husband. For, Gabriel, I have this night sworn, not in anger or passion no but in sorrow and pity for another's wrongs in sorrow also, deny it I will not, tor my own, to look on you from this hour, as one whose life is to be led apait from my life, ami whose love must never more meet with my love. Speak not unto me. look not on me with beseeching eyes. Duty and religion forbid us ever to be man and

wife But you know there is one, besides me. and. therefore it may be better too ; and that she loves vou, and is faithful as if G d had male you one I say without fear, I who have known her since she was a child, although far ally lor the peaee of us both, we have long lived apart. Sarah is in the house, and I will bring her unto you in fears. but not in t'avs of peniteive. fur she is as innocent of that sin as I am who now peak ' Mary went into the little parlour, and led Sa ah forward in her bund Despairing as she hud been, yet when she had heard from poor Mary's voice speaking so fervantly, that Gabriel had come, and that her h iend was interceding in her behalf the poor girl had arranged her hair in a small looking glass, tied it up with a ribband which G ibriel had given her, and put in the breast of her jrown a little gilt broach that contained locks of their blended hair Pile but beautiful, for Sarah TVmgle was the fairest girl in all the country. hc advanced with a tlush on that paleness, ol reviving hope, injured pride, and love 'hat was ready to forgive all a d forget all. so that once again she k cou'd he restored to the place in hi heart that she had lot What have I ever done, Gabriel, that vou should Hi fig me h orn you? May my soul never live by the atonement ot mv Savmur. if ! am not innocent of that sin yen. of all distant thought of that sin which yon, even you, have in your hard heariedness changed me. Look me in the lace. Ga

briel, and think of all I have been ?

unto you. and if you say that be-; tore God, and in your own soul, : you believe me guilty, then will I go away out in the dark night, and Ions before morning, my j troubles will be at an end.'

Truth was not only in her fer-j This adv erse fortune attended vent and simple words, but in the ! him ten or twelve times succes j tone of her voice, the color of hersively because he adroitly mana-;

face, and the light of her eyes, j Gabriel had long shut up his heart ; against her. At first he had doub ted her virtue, and that doubt gradually weakened his affection. At last he tt ied to believe her guilty, or to forget her altogether, when his heart turned towards Mary Robinson, and he tho't of making her his wife. His injustice his . wickedness his baseness which j he had so long concealed, in some measure, from himself by a ! dim feeling of wrong done him. and afterwards the pleasure of a new love, now appeared to him as they were, and without dis guise. Mary took Sarah's hand and placed it within that of her contrite lover; for, had the tumult of conflicting passions allowed him to know his own soul, such at that moment he surely was; saying with a voice as composed as the eyes with which she look ed upon them 4 1 restore you to each other; and I already feel the comfort of being able to do my duty, I will be bride's maid And now I implore the blessing of God upon your marriage. Gabriel, your betrothed will sleep this night in my bosom. Wc will think of you better, perhaps, than you deserve. It is not for me to tell you what you have to repent of. Let us all three pray for each other this night, and evermore when we are on our knees before our maker. The old people-will soon be at home. Good niiht, Gabiiel' lie kissed Sarah and. giving Mary a look of shame, humility, and reverence, he went home to meditation and repentance. It was now Midsummer ; and before the harvest had been gathered in throughout the highest valley, or the sheep brought from the mountainfold, Gabriel and Sarah were man and wife. Time passed on. and a blooming family cheered tlmir board and fireside. Nor did Mary Robinson, the flower of ,the forest, (for so the woodcutter's daughter was often called,) pass her life in single blessedness. She, too. became a wife a -id mother; and the two families, who lived at last on adjacent farms, were remarkable for mutual affection, throughout all the parish; and nvre than one intermarriage took place between them. at a time when the worthy parents had almost entirely forgotten the trying incident otitheir youth. THE GENEROUS MASK A TALEIMITATED FROM T II K GERMAN. A beautiful lady of ) nirdeax , mourned with the sincerest grief for her husband, who as she had hea d by report, had perished by shipwteek A numerous crowd of suitors attracted by her youth and charm only waited the con urination of this rumour to solicit ; her hand. She behaved towards them with the utmost decency and propriety; vet, as she wished to make return for the politeness they shewed her, she made a splendid entei tainmcnt for them,

on one of the concluding days of

the carnival. While the compa ny were engaged in play, a stran ger, marked and habited as a genius entered, and sat down to play with the lady. He lost, deman ded his revenge, and lost again ged the dice in such a manner, j that the chance was continually against him Other players then wished to trv their luck with him. but the expeiim nt did not turn to their advantage The lady again resumed her place and won an immense sum. which the mask lost with a good humor and gaiiry that absolutely astonished the spectators. Some pe.snn observed, loud enough to be heard, that this was not pla ing. but lav-

ishly throwing away ones money: l),e wm gave use to this severe on which the mask raising his Prohibition, does not appear; but voice, said, nhat he was the Da?- n om whatever cause it proc eemon of Riches, which he valued dedit is certain, that the ancient not, except so far as it was in his sobriety of the Romans ceased, power to bestow them on that la as soon as the grape became abundy;" and immediately to prove dant; and excess in wine became tne truth of his words, he produc-!S() prevalent in Rome, that Pliny ed several bags of gold, and others 'speaks ot men in polite society, filled with diamonds awd different who aflcr diinking to repletion, kinds of precious stones; offering. nave songht to create new means to stake them, one single throw, j t con,inum against any thing ot the most tri-j Of this number was Marc Anviid value she might please to ton.v U no published an account propose. The lady startled, and,' of drunken levels; and the you.ncmbarrassed by this declaration, 8pr Cicero, who acquired great now relused to play any more; celebrity by the quantity he could and the whole company knew drink at a draught, as if," says not what to think of this extra- Pliny, 4-he wished to deprive Anortihmry occunenee. when an old luny tne muiderer of his father of lady present, t bserved to the per thc Smry f being the greatest son next her, that the mask must drunkard of the age." certainly be the devil; and that recorded of the Emperor

nis riches, his appearance, his uis- 1 '"enus.that he passed two days Conine and his dexterity at play, ad nights at a table with Panipoall sufficiently shewed that he nms Flacus and Lucius Piso.

w as. Tie stranger, overhearing this profited by the hint He as sumed the air and st le of a magician, which could be known only to the lady, spoke several foreign languages, pei foimed many ingenious tii. ks, and eoncludtd by declaring, that he was come to demand a certain person in the company, who had given bet self to him, and who, he protested, belonged to him; assenting, at the same tune, tnat he would take her to himself, and never leave tier more, in defiance of ever) obstacle. All eyes were now turned on the hdy, who knew .iot what to think ol this adven line, the women trembled, the men smiled and the genius still continued to excite the perplexity and admiration of the company. This extraordinary scene lasted so long, that some grave persona ges, at last, arrived, who intcrogated the deamon, and were on the point ot exercising him. The mask however turned every thing into ridicule with so much wit, that lie had the laughers on his side At length when he found it was no longer time for raillery, he t.mk off his mask, . wtncli immediately on the do nouemcnt of his extraordinary en teitainment. by exciting an excla mation irom the mistress of the house. In the generous stranger she immediately recognized her husband; who bavin" been in Spain, had gone from thence to Peru, where he had made an im mense iortune. and returned laden with riches. He had learned on his arrival, that his lady was to give an entertainment and a masqued ball to some particular menus. An opportunity so favorable to disguise, inspired with

a wish to introduce him without

being known, and be had chosen the most extravagant dress he could meet with. The whole company, which, in a great measure, consisted ol Ids relations and friends. congratulated him on his return, and willingly resigned to him his amiable lady, whom he bad cry justly claimed as his own. ROMAN DISSIPATION. The sobriety of the ancient Uomans formed a striking contrast to thc,r subsequent excesses In u,e eany ages 0 tne commonwealth no one was permitted to drink wine until he had attained n,s thirtieth ear. Whether it u as the scantiness of the liquor, or the more probable motive of attention to the morals of the peowhose ronvival qualities he afterwards rewarded the one w ith the government of Suia thc other with the perfecture of the eitv and so far was he from conceal ing the motive for their advance ment, that the patents of their ap pointments expressed it So dissipated, in beer, was Tibeiius that Seneca says lie was only drunk once in his life, that was fiom the moment he became intoxicated to the day of his death. Cossus, pei feet of the city un der Tiberius, was in the constant habit of going in a state of intoxi cation to the senate, whence he was frequently carried in so sound a sleep, as not to be awakened by the motion of his removal. It does not appear that the Romans were acquainted with the distiliation of ardent spirits, but Pliny speaks of a kind of beer that was made by fermenting several species of grain with water; and mentions as an instance of the depravity of thc times that men, not satisfied with wine, contrived that even water should contribute to inebriate them. Aurora. An excellent rule for living happy in society is never to concern ourselves with the affairs of others, unless they desire it. . Under the pretence of being useful, people often show more curiosity than kindness. Flattery, nothing can lie more nauseous than a ilatterer, who out of a base complaisance applauds every thing that he hears, without distinguishing what is true from what is false, or what is good from what is ill. Printing neatly -executed at this OFFICE.