The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-29 00:00:00

AMEkICAN PilEk?S.

The following eonfervion, which we coPY froin a
Charle raper, received yesterihy. exceeds all
we t ver read in the Inatory of individual er
'(here apiwins no reason to dunid 119 suthentiesty,
and iii pern.ing it we Illbk wunkeirr., with terror, can
human torture. ler 'my circumstances, be capable
of puck inonatrous. atrocity ?

Confession and Dying D'elaration of !same tinhorn',
who was executed at thitrilsre, New York, em the 4th of
April, for the aware of hit wife and sox children.
" I was burn at hisilaloe, to the Stile of New York, of
WIWI by, kilo!, and respectable 'omits, who shine ivoureil to
instil into my mind every Is Able awl wort 000000 s principle
as a Christian, according to the laws of God, which are here
establish/hi before oar eyes.
" Doris.; my youthful days my father made it an unal-
terable role to perform family worship Anil prover, which
was dime with purr hive inwards God, every evening.
" I led all hie life for 27 years, al which age
merriest a fine woman from the towns of Foie, Pa. some
miles sli.itlist ap the lake from Butfilsoe. I lived wills
r for 17 yearn, eujosyiiig all the pleasure awl happiness
ialueli a men possibly could experience in this frail world;
during shirk tune we lon a family of six children, Iwo
boys and hoar girls At this tone I got o wed that highly
dos rislool and toefnl orrnpation, n firms r, and, with the
;omits aiisisig from the prosinee of iny Cann and soy oats
Whim, I supported my wife and finishes with all those
comforts which belong to their mural frames.
0 Rio my natisrseen evils tire now beginning' about this
Half 1 isezaii In !row Conn Or driukiul, the root of all evil,
mid keeping bad entsonnit and gambling, hare as length put
an cud to my existence, by unlacing me to commit one of
the t dreadful acts that was our recurneil its the pages of
histio y
On the nizlit of the ilith of Merril last, I was at the
j 8,, Rahn. Ine• ell, Until it was about smile 0.4
earns, drinking, sweating. and cu • Sing all five sin and
wickedness which this kind of company are in the helot
of doing. Ily thie time my bean began ho swiw with the
arrin of ardent liquiors, so nlnell sit 1114 I. could scarcely
make my way home. I was just entering the gate of my
house, when I received a Wow on Ike head trith a bidet of
wood, front the furre of which I fo II insensate on the
ground, and lay almost senseless for smote 000000 tes; when
I awoke hum toy delirium. I began lit ronsider, and
thought that such firm es trite was too mach for
sue hi let pass unnoticed; I taerefore was noel 000 ioo ell to have
revenge upon her, and in the spare of half an hoar, as urar
at I can recollect, I endenromed with the stun of my wound
to crawl towards the house, and more is the pity, fur the
first thing which presented itself ID my hand seas the wood
ore nod now losing prepars 01, like a hatcher Komi to
%laugh's r, I slatted and tame to the bed where my wife and
three children were laying. 1 did out hesitate one mainent,
lint begin to cut and slesh among these four, while they lay
sleeping ; the first was my wife, the axe was hurled in her
bosom ; the childien clung so close to her that they were cut
to pieces, and by this time the ben was overAuwed with
human gore. The sound hf these &messed suffers-es alarmed
my color three chshos. Alas ! what must have been my
feelings at this time! they began to be much confused, but
I still pursued my shiloglitering until my wife and six chil-
dren lay Hosting in their own blood.
" The savage heart is never satisfied ; after committing
this horrid act upon my own Bob and blood, my two see.
emits lis'etnne the objects of my Istitcheriog heart ; they hail
some suspicion of my intention, and therefore endeavoured
to nuke their escape through a back window in the lower
part of the house; the old black woman bring half its mid
half out, I ran wit!, my axe and rail her legs oft; as she was
going out of the window ; her daughter, who had a trader
feeling for her mother, came to me and implored mercy
from my hand ; but rem, the devil woold out let my savage
soul slop here, hut I inunes!Otely put nn cud to their exist-
ence; this bring done, thew tlwu lay nine innocent souls
floatinc in their own crimson gore.
Still mot beiiig sahefi, ol with what I had already done, I
first took the two servants and Inuit a fire in the kitchen
lise.place, which was large e gls w bold half a quarter of
wood ; then placing the old woman uu she back part of the
lire, and the daughter on the front, I wrist up stairs and
brought down the bodies of sty wife and children, and bung
them likewise!!
" After committing these most dreadful crimes, I felt low
mud dull in spirits, and much concerned aluout my miseons
noel. I expo el the lawman acts whirls I have bet a guilty
of, will stand Wrote ene in my last days, which will be sow
very sums I expert."
Ills ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.
" Friends and Felbitr.ellizens-1 hope pm will take this
untimely death as au everlasting warning against keeping
bail company and gambhug, and the use of ardent liquors.
Take this short aerostat of my transactions into your hands,
and read it slyer and over again, and when none, seal it in
pole memories, asst the hearts of your childless, that they
nosy never devote hum the paths of eh lite slid honesty, that
they may he rewarded by the Almighty for their virtues, and
not suffer. as I leave 111 do, by an untimely and au ignonsi-
Limos deatli."—(.lhifoaian.)

Front the Cape Fear Recorder, June 1?.

The seosteer Delight (owned by D. Mitchell, of
this place), James It. Lark, master, bound to the
island of St. Domingo, went over the bar on the
Ist instant, and returned on the 9th, in consequence
of one of the crew, who had ►hipped by the name of
ElijAlt Libby, by birth an Englishman, having
strue k the Captain, with the sharp part of an axe,
two blows on the head, which it is expected will
cause leis dcsth. The circumstance, us far as were
reltvesl by the witnesses that hteve been es:entitled, are
these—that front the time the Delight weld over the
her. to the nooritiog of the coatrois►iou of the unfor-
tunate act, which was on Sunday, the fith, at eight
o'clock, a. to. the Prisoner appeared considerably
•• troubled iu mind"—that be conceived, or pre-

,
rennet' to conceive, thAt there were perboll% conversing
with him, who WRIt mei bourd—i hat hr threw a parlor
Ihis, clothes into the reit ; and said that the persons
cogpve isms c ilh him had informed him that the Trope!
%Timid be loot ; and that hr, the Prisoner, had no

other way of Waving his life ilian by taking a piece
of wood mud jaunting into the sea with it, winch
piece of woad would turn into a boat, and take him
aide on slitter. Ile accordingly gut a piece of wood
acd jouwd oat rhuard, upon which lie got, but soon
coal salt foe help, and irguraird that the vessel

should not leave I ,as 1w could not swim. All
tltr►r 114 IS were surposed to proceed from the effects
of liquor which he had (hank previous to his leas.
tug port. Ile ►tates, that the per►on who instructed
him as to the destruction of the vessel, also inform-
ed him, after he gut aboard, that he had MO other
ni.dinit of saving hie life but by taking that of the
Coptito's, which we are afraid lie has succeeded but
tun well in Olotog.
Owe of the u 'messes was at the helm ; the Cap-
tain unit Prisoner were on the deck; the mate be-
low. The man at the helm heard the Captain cry
out—osi turning round he observed the Captain iu
the set of lolling, and the Prisoner in the act of
repcatiog the blow, and which he succeeded in
guying before the witness cuuld prevent it, who hu-
m, dialety after, with the assistance of the cook,
took the axe from the Prisoner and secured him.—
C 1 the mate's coming on deck, he found that
the edge of the axe had been struck with great force
lulu the Captain's head in two places; that he lay
mi the deck bleeding must profusely ; mid from his
dmigeruus. situation, he thought it best to return