Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 15, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 April 1824 — Page 4

Poetical.

L I N 1 - S, 7y T.'iss. Mn r. iSiUt cWd aro'uul the conpieror's way. Au.l I'.g'atning slwwed the (hv.d.it hill, Yiieve those who lst that dreadful day blood tew and faint, but fearless tilh The snhlicr's hope, the patriot's zeal Forever di.nM, forever vrost; O.i! who shall mV, what heroes feel, Wlicnallbut life' and honor's lost? The List s id hour of freedom's dream, A ;d valor's t;tsk, r.rvd slowly by.

While mute thev wateh'd till marning's

be.irn Should rise, and give thcr.i light to die. There is a world, where souls are free, Where tyrants taint nt nature's bliss; If death," that world's bright opening be, U,i! who would live a slave m tins?

AWtcronro nf .1 1 nn rr lifp of enter-1 banpv creatures at the door of -like liberal hand; the bad lie kept

mCnnrl uuhiivv! Pronertv is theircells; thev beine obliged to in awe, the disaffected he paraly-

thus continually changing like stand up in a row, while their sev-

f f lip sfa(,nR wave rises I eral merits were discussed bv the

and is soon swallowed up in the rival bidders. We saw several j encouraged by his incitements,

vast abyss, and is seen no more, candidates tor purchasing ot up-1 ami use auani niaue niuic ai-

Auothcr arises, and having reach- wards ot fifty years of age. while j iant ty his appronation.

zed. the wavering he resolved by

his exhortations, the bold were

Obeyed in whatever he com

manded, gratified in whatever he desired, successful in whatever he

ed its destined limits, falls gently the friendless object of his choice

away, and is succeeded by ano was only fifteen. ther which, in its turn, breaks ''The diet of these unfortunate.

and dieentlv on the shore. The considering their sex. was of a ' attempted, never was there a

richest man among us mav be character with the rest of their ! chief more absolute, never was brought down to the humblest treatment, consisting only of a there an absolute chief for a time level-and the child with scarcely laf of bread and a small piece of more powerful. He ordered that

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STATISTICS. There area half a million of scholars at t he public schools

throughout the U S ; and more

tntn three thousand students at the colleges which confer degrees T ere are twelve hundred siu de t at the medical schools, five bond o I at the iheoiogieal seminaries. an 1 in re than a tuousand

Students of law. V Tnere are ah

all the nobles and cavailers should deliver up their arms to such officers as he should give commissions to receive them The order was obeyed. lie ordered that men of all ranks should go without cloaks, or gowns, or wide cassocks, of any other sort of loose dress under which ai ms might he concealed; nay. even the women, for the same reas m, should thrown aside their fax t bin-

nut ten thousand

physicians, and upwards of bix thousand lawyers. Tnere ae about nine thousand places of worship, and about live thousand elci ltv men

About four 'thousand and four ig" four shabby looking, ill dres

hundred patents have been taken j'd Turks, attired somewhat like 0't for new a id useful inventions, ; soldiers, and an elderly knave, discoveries and imnrovements in better clad though no hotter

looking than the ot tiers i ncse

the arts.

clothes to cover its nakedness, cheese twice a day; and although

may rise to the highest ofiVc in hve were buying oranges at only

our government; and the poor two paras (a half penny) each, man. while he rocks his infant on ue never saw one amongst them

-------- f, r his knees, may justly indulge the all. Whenever the owners went consolation, that if he possesses abroad, they locked their charge talents and virtue, there is no of up in their cells and eanied a" ay lice beyond the reach of his hon the key. Being returned from

orable ambition ." one ot their tours through the

town, we beard some bitter le-

Two English officers. Captains menting in the cell next to ours.

Toby and Mangles, have recen- and found that it proceeded from

1 1 v issued in London, a journal one of the young girls being about ;des, and tuck up their gowns of Travels in Nubia, Syria, See. tube sold, and consequently sep- somewhat higher. rrhc order performed a few years ago. The arated from her sister and com- char ged in an instant the who'e subjoined passage of their journal panions rriie mode of conduct fashion of the people, not even the hirnishes a striking and affecting ing these girls from town to town proudest and faiiest of Naples' illustration of the dreadful treat is on horseback; in this manner daug'-ters daring to dispute in the mem experienced by the female thev hadheen hi ought from Gmr least the pleasure of the people's sex under the Mahometan system gia. being exposed for sale at all idol. Nor was it over the Tiit of religi n and manners. the principle towns as thev came and noble alone that he exercised 'At ll unah, on our wayV along; they were now destined for t!ns unlimited ascendency. Toe Pa'myra we witnessed a melan Damascus, where it was thought tierce democracy' were as aeehollv scene the few last days we a good mart would be found for quiescent as the titled few On

were here, there arrived one even- them; they set out on their huirn one occasioned, when the people

ey two days before we did. Bruce in vast numbers w ere assembled, has given' some account of the ne commanded with a loud voi.-u Georgian and Circassian women ,nat tve,y one present should, which you can read and compare onder pain of rebellion and dcaiii, with this; I think in this "manner lcVC home The mu'tiiic comes much nearer than Vol- tlK instantly dispersed On

Between two and three million ; people brought with them eleven

of dollars worth of books are an nually published in the U. Stales N A too isatid newspapers are

puoiisiu u 'i nop arc more cnan one haodred steam boats, com pricing more than fourteen thousand tons navigating the Mississippi. The vessels of the United States, by sea. perforin their voyages on an average in one third Uptime than the English Tnere are live thousand post offices, and eighty thousand miles of past mad, and twelve thou sa.t 1 mi't's turnpike roads.

There are three thousands rgis-

Gcorguin gifls, the remnent of between i'ovtv atd fifty, as we were informed, whom they had stolen or kidnapped from their parents on the confines of Georgia; they were brought to be sold

as slaves or mistresses to such wealthy Turks as could atford to bid high sums for such unfortu nate victims. These poor girls

were lodged in the cells eontigu 011s to ours; they were mostly he tween fifteen years of age: two were younger, being about twelve. Thev were all exceedingly pretty. with black sparkling eyes ro sy cheeks, long black hair, and

laims There are two hundred yvl' hur complexions, giving a

printed volumes ol Law Reports ; very strong contradiction to the Toe proportion of believers in account w hich Volnev writes of

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the noo contagion of the veliow the Georgian and Circassian wo

men, where he says, that their

ft ver am-ng the physicians is as 567to2 w ho bciiee in conta gum.

fame for beauty arises more from the fancy of traveller."?, heightened by the difficulty they have found to get a sight of them than any real meiit thev possess in this res

1 icy. Tn the year lb 17, there lived at "Naples a poor fisner boy of the name of Thomas Anello, vulai!v

corrupted into M isaniello. He was clad in the meanest attire went about barefoot, ajid gained a scantv livelihood by anglin" tor (ish. and hawking them about for -ale. V ho could imagine that the populace were to find in him the

being destined to lead them on to one of the most extraordinary revolutions recorded in history? Yet so it was. No monarch ever had the glory of rising so suddenly to

so lotty a pitch ot power, as the barefooted Masaniello. Naples, the metropolis of manyr fertile provinces, the queen of many no hie cities, the resort of princes, of cavaliers, and of heroes Naples, inhabited by more than six bun died thousand souls, abounding

another he put his finger on

his mouth to command sileree; in a moment eery voice was hushed. The reign of this prodigy of power was indeed short, f.-.ing only from the Till to the lO hid" Julv. 1017; when he perished. U e victim of another revolution n affairs. It was a reign mat keel loo with many atrocious exe,sscs, and with some traits of ii.ucscribable "personal folly; yet. i;s

long as it is not an every ('ay event for a fisher boy to become a king, the story of Masanielio of Naples nuM be regarded with equal wonder and admiration, as exhibiting an astonishing mrar:ec of the genius to command, existing in one of the huir.blcst situations of life, and assei ting its ascendency with a rapidity of enter prise to which thcic is no parallel in history.

in all kinds of resources, glorying One Hundred Dolls Kewaid.

in its strength this proud city

saw itself forced, in one short day. to yield to one of its meanest sons, such obedience as in all its

history it had never before shewn

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ET710ANT EXTRACT Tie following fine passige is

CMncted from a speech of Judge pect.' The prices which were de

- i'rin the late convention at manded and offered for the-e 51 i-ae1usetts We have raiely girls is the best proof of the estinict with aov thi ig more beauti- mation in which they were held

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mi. iiii.i.iic fumsy is a lust as ny uie i uiks, t-sncciaiiv v:ip;i it ... 1,1;,Tlt:,.s, nr ;,c r,n,r

tl.e Uwnc cha,tc and ele- ii-.known that these people avc ci,,s. a fctt. ,ours ,7,c fishcr &"-' I allowed a plurality of wives. We j jil(J wa5 at tlu. h(.ad 0roncnln.

-In our e nintrv. the hincst were present at the hitluin tor :,)..,. i ... .1 i ... '.A l.. - fTl . I- I J

man is 1101 unnve tue people: the n,,L gn 1 l'j 11 ricu i or. w nen c,,.- 5. . .:...rn tv-i nn ;fl : .w luuMUfiaImmUiesns no. fccW he'pcple. , foumcn purses cud, purse bring j N::pl,, ; BnJ S T few

It i ne rich may he said to have 11 c nunureu piasters ( 1510s ) additional protection, they have were demanded, and although he

t r in the 5 vAxc r Au r

bi.T u: Su.ulay cci!i;;e, Sd inst. a ul-vo

man named 0 ciiaiili:s Ay And a hcimo wou'an naircd y i PATSEV, Charles is about twenty five years of ai;c,5 fect 9 or 10 inches hi-h, slti.cJcr ntadc, yellow co'npicxicn, hat! on wlan 1 . t

thousand men! in a nc cr,!nUr,a

coal, inicii unun-m!5, HIT Hut COUMlJei a-

liot additional power. Nor does ntVcred ten, they would not abate

wealth here form a perm ment (ne para; tue poor pjirl, who was distinction of families. Thoe about fifteen, standing up all the v. 10 are wealthy to d iv. pass t) "hi!c. and she hearing the disputes t ie tomb, and their children di bout her pureha-c. vide their estates Property thus 4 Tney were all taken out four divided q lite as fast a it at-cu dirterent times, and conducted mulates. S'v family can, witii through the tow n to the rich Turout its own exertion-, sta id eiect kish houses to he viewed and bid lor a long time under our statute for. the same as any other mer of descents aovl di-trihutions. and chandize; and on two occasions only true a id legitimate law. It considerable parties of the princisilently and (juietlv diss Ives the pal inha!)it ants came to our khan

boors, it was freed from all sorts of taxes. and restoied to all its ancient privileges. The fishing wand was exchanged for the truncheon of command, the sea

known. Patscv is about 21 or 22 tars ofac, shcit, thick set, quite b!.(k. coarse features and bid cuunttnMiCfS. S'ac had on a white muslin drcs and c IIcrctte trimmed with bluck lib! oy. Took with her two p!?in domestic cot-

hov's iaeket for .di.th M tIrcs o:,c SInl! d jaconctt mus.i.i

i.i n . dross und od.cr aiticlcs

of clothing i.ot

and gold

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ne enireneneu; he placed entxne s Tlu- abuc reward will he nitm 0...

, 4 1 to guard It against danger from dic'r apprchi r.sicn o: fif-v for either, witU

without; and he established a svs-

tern of police w ithin, w hich aw ed the worst banditti in the world into fear Armies passed in review before him: even fleets own-

ed his sway. He dispensed purr

all icavotiaMe cl-uiis if delivered to us

at ,fcVna Furnace, in Hart county, Kv or to any jail in t Lis state so that wv can ct ttiCio : . train. HOLDi: miAX WILKS. Nov. tr;, ;bm. " 41

lib ank xotk nnoKs r,

Uiass heaped up by the toil and and eAaunucd and bid for the un- ishmcnts and rewards with the l sale at this oflicc.