The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

ORIGI.V.4L POETRY.

row, like a monarch in the sky,

Th. sun his throne of glory seeks.
As if beneath a lover's eye
The blushing deep his welcome speaks.
The flowerets know his anti° beam

That slumbered 'ninth the sloe of night,
And wake, like infants. from a dream,
Smiling to keel a parent's sight.
Angel or light I thou art a King,
But nbt like those who reign on earth►
In every wild bush blossoming
Ty very glances waken mirth ;
And molt on mornings, Each u this.

When spring 'alaide so lovingly,
Preparing in the wilderness
A Paradice to glad thine eye.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

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FREDONIA, (N. Y.) Atm 14.--SomeTomo Or TEE
I;NFORTCNATIL-4-On Sunday, the 29th ult., the wife
of Mr. John Underhill, of the town of Gerry, went
about a mile from home, for the purpose of picking
birries. She was obligedlo follow a scarcely per-
ceptible path through the woods until she reached an
old clearing. It was nearly night before she attempt.
ed to return, and by some accident she lost her way ;
it grew dark ; her husband and children were waiting
in great anxiety fur her return; supposing however,
that she had got to one of the neighbours, her hus-
band did not think it prudent to leave his children to
search for her that night. Early the next morning,
Mr. Underhill went to his neighbours, and finding
she bad not.got in, went out to search for her, but
not finding her as soon as be expected, came in at
noon, when several of the neighbours turned out, but
after sconringthe woods all the afternoon, returned with-
out her. Tuesday morning the neighbours turned
out in greater numbers, and searched the woods in
every direction until about the middle of the afternoon,
when she was discovered standing in a hollow tree,
having subsisted nearly three days en the berries she
had picked, and sleeping at nights in a hollow log.—
She gave no other account of herself than that in en-
deavouring to return home she got out of the path and
was unable to regain it. Mrs Underhill heard the
signal of one man who was searching for her, Monday
afternoon, and answered it by a loud scream ; but this
redoubtful knight, with the courage of a Sancho,
imagining it to he a panther, took to his heels and fled
with the greitest precipitation, thereby leaving the
woman to remain another day and night in the woods.
SINGULAR ADVENTURE'S OP AN Ox.—An Ox be-
longing to Mr. Oliver Spafford, of the town of Port-
land, whilst feeding in a pasture adjacent to lake
Erie, on the 4th inst. being near the brink, the ground
on which he stood gave way, and he fell 10 feet per-
pendicularly, then continuing on down a steep de-
scent of 80 feet, in real somerset style, until he reach-
ed a ledge of rocks, from which he was precipitated
down another perpendicular descent of 26 feet, mak-
ing in all 116 feet, when be alighted upon a bed of
rock., covered with about one foot of water. Bat now
(to use the words of our informant) comes the alma-
lons : the ox is not only alive, but has received no ap-
parent injury, except a slight bruise on one leg, sup-
pied to be occasioned by being entangled in some
roots at his first departure from the summit. The
above distances were measured by competent men,
who are ready to attest to the correctness of this state-
ment.

BON-MOT or TUN DUNK or MARLBONOUGUWe
copy the following bon-plot of the Doke of Marlbo-
rough from the memoirs of an Officer who was in the
army of his (Irate at the time it was uttered the
end of the year 1708, before he laid seige to Ghent
(called by the French Gaud, a word which signifies
glove's), he was left by the King of Poland, who
was returning to Saxony. At their parting. his Grace
wished the King a good journey, and his Majesty
answered the compliment by wishing his Grace a good
voyage to England. The Duke quickly replied, in
French, " Le tems fait si froid que je ne veux pas
passer lamer eans band."
This season, a family of young sparrows, four in
,number, quite white, were observed, scarcely fledged,
'in Bothwell parish, and Immediately given chase to.
In the eagerness of pursuit three of this unfortunate
family were killed, the remaining one was caught and
sent to a gentleman at Glasgow, where it died on Tues-
day se'nnight, but unfortunately in an unfit state for
preservation. Thus has the beauty of this family been
tL• cause of its ruin.

A short time since a young lad of the name of
George tiilhy, who had been bathing in the Stour, was
lying on the grass, when a boy wantonly put a cherry
stone into his ear, which afterwards split and took
root, and was taken out by a medical gentleman of this
city a few days since.—(Kentish Chronicle.)
Pecs ENCE or 311 m D.—An Irish labourer near Rich-
mond (Va.) who was blowing rocks at 400 feet be-
low the surface of the)earth, had prepared his musk
for a bl.►st, and was ascending in the bucket to get
clear of the explosion, when the Ter broke, and he
fell 50 feet to his old place of.bilimur. He immediately
clopped his hands on the Attrning match and eel its-
gels/ted it :—.What an elan' moment!—(American

r'Per.)
Yesterday morning two labourers, who are employ-
' ed, amongst others, in pulling down souse old houses
iy Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, were at work on
Ike groudd door of one of the houses, when sudden-
ly a hugeheam at the top gave way, which, together
with an immense quantity of bricks and mortar, fell
"with an alarming crash, and the two men, named
button sad Davies, were buried underneath. The re-
mainder the workmen, with great alacrity, begaa
to remove :4o rubbish; and eventually the poor fel-
s were extrieated from their perilous situation, in
n state of. greatexhanstion. They were, without de-
lay, conveyed on shatters to the Middlesex hospital,
where they were examined by the surgeon, who de-
clared they bad not received the slightest injury;
upon which the men, after thankiag the surgeons,
went to work, previously taking a glass of whiskey.
On the woroiag of Saturday se'nnight, Ensiga
Burrows, of the Veterans. having arrived at Chathans,
went on the parade to shake hands with an IN friend,'
which be bad no sooner done than he fell down in a it
of apoplexy, and expired immediately; The deceased
was about 45 years of age, and has left a widow and
vii children to deplore their loss.