The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-26 00:00:00

Sothiaktowsts, he was constantly gratified by hearing the health of
thee the Fourth given, in compliment to the English stranger.
Ha tbss relates his visit to Bunker's Hill, where, among other
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'pit, a wit had scribbled the following :
This monument was Wilt of brick,
Because we did tl.e Engltsh lick;
This monument was built of stone,
Becauso Lord North wouldn't let Austria* alone.

Hue he meets with an odd character, Jonathan W. Poubekin.
who relates some extraordinary talcs of his uncle Ben, who com-
manded a vessel, and after a voyage to the West Indies, sent the
following laco.:ic despatch to his mnployers :
I am well,
The mate's well,
As for the rest they're gone.
Mr. Mathews afterwards gives a sketch of an American Court of
Justice, in a hich the Learned Judge is delivering his directions to
the Jury, and informing then, that forgery mean when one man
swears one thing. and another man sweats another ; that bigamy is
when a man metrics more than once, and polygamy when a woman
does the same ; that swindling is a crime unknown in America,
and is of English growth, like the American aloe tree ; that
adultery is a sin which every one knows when he comes to
yam of discretion ; and that the greatest crime, of all others, is to
soil wooden nutmeg, instead of real ones, because nutmegs make
nangalee punch, and Sangalee punch e.rtiagitisics human beings
Mm the brutes. This is, of course, a carricature of the broadest
desaiption, and must have been purely the invention of Mr.
Mschars's brain. His " Trip" then draws to • close ; and after
having given s dinner to Jack Topham, his cousin Bray, Mr.
*Reventop, Major Orimetone, Mr. Pennington, and a few others,
he takes his departure from the land, determined to follow the
advice of the latter gentlemen-.-to laugh at the Americans at his
convenience, but to mingle good-humour with his laughter ; and to
encourage a feeling of frimip between Jonathan and John Bull.
The This.) Put of the entertainment is " A M000polylogue,"
called " All Well at Natchitoches," and is introduced more for the
purpose of sharing how rapidly Mr. Matthews can change his
dresses than for any other. An old Maiden Lady-. 4% Dutch
liciress--la courted by tour lovers ; an American Colonel who is
also a colder, a French tgilor, a real Yankee, and an Irish
im-
prover of his fortune. The Lady elopes with the Irishman in a
sleigh, to which is harnessed, in compliance with the mania of the
day, a end pony, introduced, as the play-bill declares it, with
the view so inner and so the piece terminates, and the performance
of the evening with it. Such is the plan on which Mr. Mathews
rests his helms of amusing, thrice a week, his gumtrees auditors ;
and although we are convinced that he will succeed, and deserve to
sumend, we cannot avoid expressing our surprise, that he has not
b afrom America some more originalsketches of American
cheencters, and manners, and why be has found it
aicarary stilletroduce so many hackneyed jests, stale puns, and
worn-out anecdotes into the body of his lecture, when we arc con-
vinced hie mind and his observation might have furnished him with
abundant mature more original and more characteristic. His per-
formulas, however, met with the decided approbation of one of the
most crowded lIIWICUCCII we have ever met at a theatre.