Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 6 September 1823 — Page 4

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Poetical. S E LECTF. H. FROM THK F. U. COHKLSPONDENT. I KNEW BV THE SMOKE. A PARODY. I knew by the smoke that so gracefully r irl'd Around yonder meat-house, that Bacon was near, And I vud, if a ham's to be found in the world. The man that was hungry might hope for it here. 'T was night, and on feather beds Rcatter'd around, In silence reposed the good pcrplc asleep. Every leaf was at rest, and I heaixl not a sound, But the frog as he clnntcd his plaintive peep peep. And here by tiic side of the smokehouse I cried, With the ham that was sweet to the smell and the taste, If 'twere only well cooked, and then stripped of its hide, How fast would I eat, and how little I'd wast. By the light of yon moon, that sparkles so sweet, In the gush of the fountain, I'd scamper me home, And reflect that I had stolen the best of smoked-meat. That never from short of Kentucky had come. SHETUCKET BAUD. MISCELLANY. AARON BURR. The following portrait of this once distinguished personage, is copied from a work recently published lie now lives in ohscuri ty in the interior of New York. The Ciesar of America the most astonishing and dangerous man 01 nis age; a man luai mius r i . - i .-i I . . cd his own rebellious and fiery spirit into every thing, material or , t 111 immaterial, wim wmen ne came v..v nout working treason, tampering

with the bravest and stoutest not onjy ;n Navarre, but in the hearts of all our country m the neighboring provinces of Alava light of heaven, with an audacity and Arragon. Such was the raunlike any thing ever seen before pidity of his movements, that noin the history of deflection set thing rould escape him: not a conting our laws at defiance-, mock Voy, not a detachment, could ing our strength-doing that move from one place to another, which now he has failed in it, has that hc did not rush upon it and been called madness; yet, for in aimost every instance, he was which, all the talant and learning, successful. The loss which the and power of the country were French sustained in this kind of unable to punish him! A man warfare, was incalculable: while

that poured his spirit of revolt,

ukcaiiuuuui ineiiHoocry nearc the intelligence which he receivthat he came near disturbing ed prevented him from being ever the oldest and most cautious of surprised, and when he was far our veterans, one that seemed to outnumbered, his troops, disbandput himself, hie and name, into the ed by signal, and re-united again power of every human creature ;n a few hours, and resumed oflen-

that he approached; yet with all his seeming, was he never in the power ot mortal man. (as Yilkin-

son ami iviton can snow;) a man 000 men into Navarre. He not that suflered the legal wisdom of only stood his ground, but eventhe whole country to array itself tually remained master of the proagaint him, without trembling vince. He was, in tact, often deand then, just put out enough nominated the Kimr of Navarre

olMiis own strength, ami no more (waging no jot. or tittle of his power) to defeat and shame them G,it was miraculous! and since ceed. is the question with me; not a it is with the deeper politicians of the age, why did he attempt it? The plan is deeper than is known his resources greater. Aaron Ilurr was never the man to hazard all for nothing; a step more, and Mexico had had been hi; and then who would have stayed the conqueror? Y here could you have entrenched yourselves? In no other place, and by no other

tiic time ot the Roman, there has 1813 consisted of 1 1,000 in faTifry never been a man upon this earth, and 2500 calalry, and with this hc so !ikc Julius Csar, as was Aa- co-operated in the blockade of ron Uvv. Why did he not sue- Pamoeluna. and reenvrrprl Sara-

means, than by encompassing vorcd to persuade the other Spanyoursclvcb round about by a wail ish generals in the capital to join ot fire. You must have had with him. and make an effort in swords passing torever about you the cause of freedom: hut his rf.

and artillery roaring night and

day. Aye, one blow! and we who now laugh the threat to scorn, would have seen the president of these United States, the

congress, and all others in author ity, driven into the rotomac. But enough. .Let us thank Uod, that a soldier and a despot was blasted when he was; and not believe, as we are apt to, that we are inaccessible." GENERAL MINA. We arc much indebted to a literary cntl;man tor the loan cf a very valuable Ene; lish publication, from which Vc extract the. following intcrcstinc and authentic account ! of the character and military services 0fi Cicneral MiSA the celebrated commander of the constitutional trocps in Catalonia. A. 1 . btatesmiTi. aT)0N PnANCISCO Espoey Mina, one of the most distin guished of the Spanish patriots, is a native of Navarre, and was born in 1782, at the village of Ydocin, about two miles from Pampelu na. By some he has been represented as the son of a mere peas ant, a circumstance which, if true, U'nnlH nnlv pnhnnpp Viic morlf but he is, in fact, of a family of ; c.,m i I war against the French, his nephew, Don Xaviter Mina, then a student at the university of Sara- ! i r-i :ii sussu, raiseu i uruenna corps, I With Which he perffmed Several j . -j i -l milieu CApious. Aavicr ueing taken prisoner, in 180, the command of the corps was transferred to Francisco who soon rpnHprprl I -rww. " "--- V , mjrable presence of mind, he in cessanuy narrassea ana wore down the strength of the cnemv. nis Was trifling, as the accuracy of s;ve operations. It was in vain that, resolvW to exterminate his division, th enemy poured 20, hn isil, the Uegcncy gave him the rank of colonel; in 1812. that 0f brigadier gcnersl; and soon q ter that of general. His force m gossa, Monzon, Tafalla, Jaca, and various other places. When the peace was concluded, he was besieging St. Jean Pied de Port After having put his division into quarters, he went to Madrid, and had the mortification to firithvt he had been laboring only foiStbo ly foiStlw. ... nntur..i a i i . ic-cMuuiibiiment oi uespotism. espot DlSOUSteil With thp rrmHnr t of Ferdinand, and having fruitlessly remonstrated with him hp nrW forts were rendcied abortive, by

his name the terror of the French.! P. ic "urriea to 8var- , pn? nv, nt i.f,.;n-,m r.,n c, collected a few hundred of his , ?1 f.n','rj7 ... .q". tIty..01 ' " '

resources, and possessed of an ad-I Vr ' u a H1UV "jon . merous and valuable mill streams, ar.J

the baneful influence of the priest-1 send it in larger portions." The hood. Mina, then hastened to Spaniard answered without besiNavarre, with the intention of tation, uSire he thinks the siege putting himself at the head of his will be long, and he is afraid the division; but he found that the ice may be exhausted." When new Captain General had dismis the messenger was going, the scd the troops which composed it. duke de Charrost, captain of the He, however, gained over the gar- guards called out. tkTell Bruuai rison of Pampeluna. and was on not to follow the example of the the point of proclaiming the Con- governor of Douai, who yielded stitution, when his plan was frus- like a rascal. ' The king turned trated by the pusilanimity of round laughing, and said, "Charsome of the officers. He had rost are you mad?" "How sireP now no resource but to seek an answered he, Brouai is my cou-

asylum in France, and he readied par;s Jn safety. While he W3S . . ii i i V rcsiuing in me rrencn capuai, n was arrested by a commissary o police, whom the Spanish Ambassador, Count de Casa Flores.

had persuaded, or more probably .ver.V young one, snatched her up bribed, to commit this act of ino- 1,1 ms arms and landed her in lence and injustice. On this oc- safety on the other Slde- lvben she casion Louis behaved in a man indignantly turned up a face exner which was highly honorable Passive ol the anger of fifty winto him. He turned the commis ters and demanded why he dared saryout of his place, insisted on to take such a liberty. "Oh! I the Ambassador beine recalled, humbly beg your pardon, (said

and not only released Mina, but f anlcd 'mua PT?8""1 f,600 francs. I lie bpanisli General was Spanish General was not ungrateful. He refused to have anv intercourse whatever with Napoleon; quitted Fiance, and joined the King at Ghent, . , . . , ' . ' Umed 'l ? Till the armv at Cadiz raised thp. t . . f reedom hp rnnf: " fta"dara 01 "eedom, he contmulivc vcry Pnvaly in France; UUL a3 auun u& u,ai event 100 K and was advancing against Pampeluna, when a deputation was sent to him by the inhabitants to inform him that the city had accepted the constitution. After 4. 1 T j . . , the King had submitted to the neW order of things, Mina was appointed Captain General of Navarre. His talents, however, j a i i j were soon required in the held. A tew lanatics and lovers ot despotism having succeeded in exci ting a formidable insurrection in Catalonia, Mina was entrusted with the Command of the army destined to act against them. The

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ness of his own army, and the strength of the rebels, rendered his operations seemingly tardy at the outset, and the ultra royalists I , ' n . .1 . . fldence and exultation. But they soon discovered that they had wofully miscalculated. Mina was too prudent to commit any thing to chance, when a repuls.mkrht have been productive oVsmjsastrous consequence; but, as stKm as he had fully prepared every thing for the conllict, he attacked the bands of the traitors with his wonted impetuosity, routed them in several encounters, and drove them before him in ti'e utmost confusion, over tin i'vrenean frontier, into the Fiench province of Rousillon. These victories increased his fame throughout Europe, and hc is regarded as the most experienced general in Spain, and as the sheet anchor ol the con stitutional cause." Chivalry. When Louis XIV besieged Lille, the count de lft a ue iio ce, uvi3 ilo )ply oicJl uai, governor of the place pome as 10 scna a sut every morning for the kind's des ert Louis said one day to thV gentleman who brought it, l- arn much obliged to M. de Erouai for his ice; but I wish he would

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MISTAKEN CIVILITY. A gentleman mistaking a very small lady, who was picking her way over a dirty channel, for a the gentleman,) I have only one iwtiu j inurwu. auu lie aaui i i t it caugm ner up ana placed tier where he nad irst found ber. GreeilCCLStle. jILL be exposed to sale, on the sca aw " v"u w sc, uh &uV? nd Monitay of September next, the LOIS in the townof grrkxc.is. TLE, being the seat of justice, established by ,awbfor coun Thi$ town is situated about one mile from the - W alnut Jork oj l.cl Kive r, in a district of Period of time surpass most of the ecu'. iy WY9m m 115 neiSurnooa. GREENCASTLE is situated about 40 miles west of India?;"J11' 30 mi,cs south of Crawfordsw!:c. and 35 or 40 north, or nearly so, o. Bioomington. The terms of payment will he, one th in hand, and the balance in three c V an"uai sia.ments, wun i thereon if not paid punctually on : fcrc the time thev become due. nterest or btAMOS ROBERTSON, Agent for the county of Putnam. Greencastle, June 25, 1823. 27-8t XCT t he Editors of the Western Surry Vincennes; Indiana Farmer, Salem; and : Indiana Intelligencer, Charleston ii,' will 1 eacn please to insert the above for eight FRUIT TREES. THE subscriber having a large nursery of younp APPLE TREES, ?!l.ual.c in Wal,,uJ I'rairie, Clark conmy, . llllliuiil) HIIW OUUUI Ul UAUM l.N, j invites the citizens of the Wabash coun- ? try adjacent, to give him a call He will sell at six dollars fier hundred, and take n payment. Corn, Cattle, Cotton, Wheat t and almost any other good trade, but the above articles will be preferred, and ai low a liberal trade firice for the same The purchaser shall have the light t choose the trees ; none need be afiYaid ot not being supplied, as there arc at leasts 40,000 fit to set out. W. B. ARCHER. July 7, 1823. 24-tf NOTICE. CONSIDERATIONS of an imperative nature will induce mv absence from the state for the space of three months During this period, my friends Mr. lJlakc and Mr. Dewey, will attend to my business in court and Mr. George . hwing, will at all times be found a my office. MOSES TABBS. Vincennes. Jul? 8. 1823. 24-tf One Cent Reward. R ANA WAY from the subscriber ort the 4th of this inst. in Posey county, Ind an indentured apprentice, a boy of colour named DAAIEL, about 18 yeax of age all persons are cautioned aeains harboring or employing him at their peiil Kj-the abavc reward will be paid for rielivI . t ... ering mm 10 mc in 1'oscv couniy, out no charncs paid. THOs. JONES. August 20, 1823. 30-3t Printing neatlv executed at this OFFICE.