The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-17 00:00:00

I is, aesio, may Ibe fumbled Into ilia lowest it of bell If
ever I saw Mr. Shelton's house, escept the roof of it, at sloe
distance I have nientioned. I sew Not afraid to die. The
Miss Shelton' might have mistaken me. I forgive them, and
all who bad a hand In my
brood ; may Almighty God forgive
them! My Lord, I have ear request to make—that my
body, when I am dead, should be given up, that I may be
buried with my rather."
[The Court said, it *mild make no order to the contrary.]
" I have further to Artiste, that a gun, sword, oe pistol, I
Serer took from a Gentleman's house—was never at the at.
tack of • Gentleman', house—nor toe, of a• attack
upon any Gem temew's house."
This proiestatioa wm boned to by a crowded Court with
emotions of surprise and osiontshmeut.
After the Prisoner's removal, Mr.Gostet, of the riAe bri-
gade, on the part of Miss Shelton, applied to the Court to
recommend him to mercy. Mr. Gusset stated, that it was
principally by his persuasions that the Prisoner bad been
brought to trial and conviction; that Miss Shelton felt leo
muck at the mealtime, that she could be happy if it was
executed, and prayed that it might be commuted.
Baron PUN AAAAA int mid, that he would fret most happy
to receive a anemia' from her, and would forward tt to
Government. This has since been done.

While motion was prosouseing the mother-In-law of
Comets appeared in the gallery, and called out " :11y Lord,
my Lord! recommend him to mercy."

JONATHAN KENTUCKY'S JOURNJL.

[FrOllll The N. Monthly Magasino)

What • different animal an Englishman is at
home and abroad ! Abroad, he cannot move a sten
without abusing every thing and every bode, while
lie sings an exerbrating /o Pierre in praiseof Old Eng-
laod ; at home, he rails, with equal violence. at all
the custom* and institutions of his own count iv. At
home he is a lover of liberty, and anadvocate fur this
equal rights of mankind ; abroad, he acts, like the
Roman proconsuls in their provinces, as if the
greater past of the human species were brought
into the world for no other purpose but to wait
upon his pleasure. In lighter maters, too, the
distiociion is equally striking. Abroad he is an
indefatigable sight-seer, and will not pass through
the obscurest town without an accurate scrutiny of
Carry thing that a laviais de place eau point out to
his notice ; at home he loses entirely this shirt for
information, and I verily believe there are many
Eieglislitnen who have lived half their lives in
Linda', and yet know less of its curiosities
than they do of Rome, Athens, or Thebes.—
An English friend, who has visited three quar-
ters of the globe, called on me this mating,
just as I was setting out upon my daily pil-
grimage, and upon lily applying to him to di-
rect me in the selection of the worthiest oh-
jests of curiosity, he candidly acknowledged
that, excepting Westminster Abbey. the Tower,
the British Museum, sod Exeter 'Change. which
he had been taken to see as a school-boy, lie had
never deVtred a single morning to the examina-
tion of London. " Come theft," said I, " you
shall accompany me today ;"—and so off we set,
For the first time in his lire lie saw St. Paul's; for
though he had often looked at it through the fog
of Fleet-street, be had newer surveyed it in all its
details with the atteuiion which so noble a "true-
tura deserve.. St. Paul's is cv.:ly second to St.
Peter's; and in comparing them we must not forget
what the English with justice boast of—that while it
required le architects, 19 Popes, and 145 years to
complete the building of St. Peter's. S.t Paul's was
begun and finished iii the short space of 35 years,
under one Bishop, Dr. Compton, and by one archi.
leo, Sir Christopher Wren, alto laid the first stone
it) the year 1675, and lived to see the last stone of
the is placed by the hands of his son, in the
year 1710. Wren. the son of the architect, in his
Purulent', relates, that " in the beginning of the
new works of St. Paul's, and incident was taken
notice of by some people as a memorable omen,
when Sir Christopher in person bad set out, upon
the place, the dimensions of the great dome, sod
fixed upon the Centre, a common labourer was order-
ed to bring a flat stone from the heaps of rubbish
(such as should first come to hand) to be laid
fur a murk and direciion to the masons; the stone,
which was imired-iitely brought and Ind down fe.r
that purpose, happenel to he a piece of a grave.
stone, with nothing remaining of the inscription
but this simple word in large capitals—Rssua-
n AM." This accidental hint suggested to Sir
Christopher the idea of the plicents, which be
placed on the south portico, with the same word in.
scribed beneath it.

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