The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1814-09-20 00:00:00

1:17:C1710N OF alletillfLL AND liQuiNits.

These two unfortamite tssety,• i 6 who received sen-
tence of death on Friday laist. the (miner for the
murder Of Nliss Welchinan. ItLid the latter for the
murder of Ebrubsttlo Pilchio, otual.•;•wetit the pu-
nishment due to their crimes lost Morning, oppo-
site the Debtors' Door, Newgate. The crowd
assembled to view the awful sr•ene was immense,
extending in a loess from Ludgatc-liill on one side
to the end of Giltspur-street nee the.other.
r the inotnent that I hollows was token from
the bar at a hido his dread fate was pronounced, lie
onditeted hionielfwithChristian fortitude, aseknow-
leilging the justice of his sentence, mid fervently
praying for pardon of that tribunal at which he was
so shortly to appear. lie was confined in the same
cell with Mitchell, who exhibited a very different
sniped. This man. was bunco awl gloomy in his
manures: andralthough he could not deny the jus-
tice of his apswoaehing exit, he seemed little dis-
posed by an expression of contrition or regret for'
his crime, to make a favourably impression on the
'Muds of those. Aunt him.. Ile said but little,
and that little in a tone of moroseness perfectly
,iu.uniaass the general atrocity of his cha-
racter. :It • tlw entreaty of the I friliitry, • whose
attention to tlw weeteheri men ewes unremitting, he-
joined in prayer with Hollings:- lois heart, however,
seemed little aoserptiltir of the comforts.. ..of reli-;
gismo, while his unforttmatr connsmoion evidently
rested happy in the l'Onwitiustirvi that the sincerity
of his repentance would jolted his cause in the pre-.
settee of the Almighty.
At u (porter Iwtiore eight last ;nor • g, they,
were emalowttd frosts their cells to the Press-room,
where the Sheriffs, the Ordinary, the officers of the
prison, and several fit rUligYril whom curiosity had
collect d, omitted to receive them. .
Mitchell came first—he uttered not a word, but
with a gloomy passiveness submitted to the %icor
tions of tying Ins hands mid arms, and knocking off
lois irons, lie aas, however, firm and collected,
and abliongli he seemed to feel the horror of his
fate, he displayed u iir ttttt es* which would have
done him honour in better house.

110 who hod r. habitual smile on his coun-
tvisonse, vutue forwrord with promptness, and re-
:viols:a thou: urnmsd hint with a lOok of COOtellt.
- be UWIt fully sensible of the horrid
crime lie had vs "ttell, and felt that was about
to stmier.,n n svnteme which he Iwd. deservedly in-

eivelty, Its said, was unboen . ot
ex er,-
if poweble; better thou hi, outs, child, and rather
than mitt*w kr, ht: would bare %uttered any print
I un. 11,..w to art:omit ft* 11* crime he had coin-
otitt,..l he Liiew not ; •lw eyelid coil, attribute it to
the totf et of u lietith•trongraisitni.; lhe aincerely.
!opt Al would ta.1,..1: watiasig, by hi. rate, and learn,
bt till thirly 'wily to cot trot their di-tires, to avoid
tlw it;. •to %Inch he was exporetl. lie con-
cluth.4l his short ittlilretnt by expressing the pleasure.
which 1w felt 111 fili.r into the imittls of
his Alriker, front the eouse.r.ttantar 1* felt of
Itupin-
uttrr licretifter.

All lieing in rewritten tie mifortimate men were
led !Milo to tl.e tit.-wirnlol, which they both mounted
with steolty steps. The murmur or the multitude
%reined fur w moment to taker Alin...hell, but he
soon ie1up,,..111 iiito his limner glotoitinew. liolliugs
provtd lei vently to, the be,t, utol it kw minutes niter
fight, the platform fell, und the Wretched ineti were
lanasehed into eternity. 110116 gs was dead ulenost
but Mitchell wt convulsed foi7iwurly
ten ini tttt tr. utter be wyi tnnosientied.
'lll* 'witch were delivetell for clittectiou in the
course of the worsting.

A moat novel 'peek% of minimal combat occurred
10‘t week in dig Soil 1.. ft. I'l3 mouth, in the dock-
betaern a timid magpie nod a rat. The lat-
ier haul fretitwiitly smirked tlw ioniser ; but the
,itatt.les itrote.l 11111lasirr. 4)n this oceavicm .the
.m.itone lweinne the mod, after a desire-
rate ireineq4„ in which it ft•ilowed the rut steroll
bow, runisil the 1011, at lest succeeded iu dextio)
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