The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-11 00:00:00

FROM TI!L GO TTE .V BURGH MAIL.

Srocknot.m, Nov. Royal 111ie•ty has receivett
the followy4; report from the General iu Chief of the Vinot,h
Army :
" My last report was dispatched from hence on the' :314 of Or-
tuber, by Licutenant.Coloncl and Adjutant-General Martineau.
" On the '27th of October, an :Minn took place 11,..tucen the
fourth brig:ale of your Nlajesty's nrry, and a I; ti►.iaie corps
greatly superior in number, in whit-h the 10,.s tVitS very
con i.
derable GU both sides, without any signal advanlu;;.' having l)'e
obtained.
" Colonel Sandell, Chief of Brigade, ha• found it advkable
with the main body of hi!, division, to fall back to th
miles on thi4 side of Idemahni, leaving, however, hi- ad% a
post% iu \ ietima, by wiiieh eimitioa he would hat.• hero •z,

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to cover the environs of those places ; hut, it i 3 to be apprehend-
ed, that the Want of fOrk;t• has obliged him..l y this tinte. to re-
treat ...
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to Nassau.
" On the sth-instant, the enemy attacked our posts at Sippo-
berg, in the vicinity of Koligocki, and forced our troops, by.
a cannonade kept' up *lib gretit vigour., Ao fall back ;,.t.be
enemy thereupon threw a bridge auto the river, and formed ano-
ther attack on our advanced position, which he forced to inalw
a yetrogalle movement nod joiti the main body of our troop.
posted near Kalajocki river. The Russians continued their a:-
tack the two following days, without making the least impres-
sion on your lajesty's troops.. In the mean time the enemy colt.-
structed a bridge across that liver near Alawieska, and ..crossed
t with a strati: detschment of iteautry. As soon as revrt of
this movement had bent received, orders were given-to attack
and repulse the troops, who had passed the river. Althougn
this attack proved successful, yet the extreme want of forage
compelled the arm to take up another position near Pyhajocki,
whence it will fall back to Pakilla ; and I have strong reason
to apprehend that; considering the superiority of the enemy aid
the want of forage, it will not prone possible for your Alajesty's
army to maintain that #o4i tion far any length of time. In addi-
tion to the above Want of forage, which it will be hardly pos-
sible to supply at the prewnt season, the dampness of the wea-
ther, and the severe fatigues, sustained by your Majesty's troops
under my canonistic), almost continually obliged to he on their
arms, have greatly increased the number of the sick, wit° ea
ceed 80110, and 4hrose transport and removal increase our ditE-
cut t ie, in a very considerable degree. Hut in spite of all these
difficulties, I shall strenuously endeavour lir impede and obstruct
the enemy's progrees, as far as circumstances shall, in any way,

C. N. DE KEinEza, General in Chief of the
Northern Finnish Army.
Head-quarters, Brahestazi, Nov. 10,1808.
BrocKtronst, Nov. 22.--,Major-General Monter, who in
absence of Field.Nbirshal Baron Toll, commands the Southern
Finnish arm: , has transmitted to His Majesty the following re-
port of a naval action which took place on the 10th inst. off
Helsingboargb.—" This afternoon four sail hove in sight, which
soon after were ascertained to be two English cutters and two
merchantmen, which they had under convoy. Whet the said
for sail had reached the Maude of ilillarp-reef, six Danish
gun .)oat.s aid two armed vessels pot off from Elsineur, and at-
tacked beadmost cutter, sshich had parted company with
the rest that were standing with th.• Swedish coast. The Eng-
lish cutter fought most rill/wily, bet could hardly have escaped
being taken, had not our battery opened upon theeetny, which
our tire seemed to do much execution. The 114nish gun-boats
thereupon left the latter, and stood to%, Ards the other three sail
w hid: immediately Iwgan to cannonade them although at some
distance, and three English gun-boats heaving in sight soon after
the Danish, gun-boats stood oil, and retreated with all passible
haste under the guns of the fortress of Oronenburgh, which com-
menced a heavy eannonnade, most vigonrously answered and kept
up by the English until all the ships bad cleared the Danish
coast. •

One Danish gun-boat v►as considerably damaged, and nue of
;be enenir's armed vescels is slated to have foundered. The lose
au the part of the English is very trifling._

ilelsingbourgh, Nov, 10,

G. B. CBDBkSTRDM•

PROVINCIALS.

Last week was held at lietling-House, Bath, the Anni-
versary of the Bath and West of England Society for the eocou-
rageinelit of Agriculture, Arts, M;inufacture:!., and Commerce,
which was most numerously attended by Nobility, Members 0-
Parliament; .ant the principal Gentlemen of the &Kitty, from
various parts of the West of England, and fif the nation at large,
His Ito., al Highocostbe Duke of Gloucester being present, and
condescending to he appointedan HounrarN Member gave pecu-
liar •o this Meeting. The exhibitions of Live stock
were more valuable titan numerous, and deemed b. !ter than for
sever.:: years past. The samples of manufacture in broad cloth,
'kings, &c. Isere numerous
.owing importance of the An•
sere made, and which, so
!creases in firmness of pile, to
and with every prospect of
.oktn)ty; Carcasses,. also, .of
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anittan of which was beautiful. , Several useful implements is
mechanics were produced for the Society's approbation. 00
the whole this :Meeting was highly iniportaut. The Members,
with their President, dined together at The White Hart ou the
principal days and much interesting discussion Was maintained
till the final close of it4,e
A SPORTING i3CT.-Oil Saturday last several Gentlemen
met at Great Baddow, to decide a very singular bet, th't a dog,
(between the limpid mid spaniel) the property of Mr. Willimo
Bridges Wiggins, of, Litde Sir Hugh's, should wit mat the as.
s stance of any other dog. run down a hare which wa, to by
(mud for him. The hare was started in the pre,elico or upw aids
of twenty horsemen. when Taller immediately set about hia
work, and after an hour's hard running, during which time the
!og and hare crossed two rivers, the dog won the b.,t, never
losing see nt during the chase. The bets were universally
favour filthy hare. hut to the astonishment of e% cry simr:nntri
present, the dog performed w hat was thought almost imp's:bi-
ble, being eight years old and nearly blind. The same bet as
been made again, and is to be decided to- morrow, at Great Bad.
d ow—the hare the favouri:e.

Clf A RGE OF WiTCUCRA lzzard, an elderly dame,
of Great Paxton, in Huntingdonshire, was lately accused by
her neighbours of having bewitched three persons of the names.
if Mice Brown, Fanny Amey, and Alary Fox. The supposi-
tion was so strongly confirmed by the overwriting of a cart,
drawn by a restive horse, the property of a grocer in the
village, that her neighbours resolved without delay to indict
upon her the summitry punishment they thought she so justly
merited. The cottage in which Anti lived with her hu,liand,
Wright Lenard, is at some di,tatice from the body of the
et Patton. Thither they marched in the silence of night, :opt
having reached the door of the poor maii's house, they broke it
'.)34.11, and inhumanly dragged his wife out of her bed, awl threw
hor naked into the yard, where her arms were turn with pins,
'ter head da-hed against the large
.s 40111•3 of the eau-eway, and
her face, stomach, and breast severely bruised w ith a thick
stick, that served as a bar to the house. In about five days
after this. finding the old lady still alive, they paid her a
second visit,.and treated her with the same cru •Ity a: before.
Learning !hat she was not deal the next morning, they re-uheti
to see whether she could ni.t be. drowned at algal, bit fortu-
nately fur ail parties, this experiment was froe-trated by me
timely removal of the poor object to a awighbooring village,
w here, under the protection of a worthy clergy man, she now lives
free from the further persecution of her barbarous and ignorant
nrighbout s.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

PA RTNERSH I PS DISSOLVED,

Tait and Datison, Liverpool.—Till and Horn, Manchester,
bricklavers.--Sliackleton, Oldtield, and (itillon, Kingston-
uprin-Iltill, merchants.-11. and J. Mitchell, South ('adbury,
Soiner,et.'---Sterndale, Llo)(1 and Robley, Winchester, malt-
.i..:lers.:--11njor, and Co. Brooke's Wharf, •I'haine!,-street,
ol.tle-merchants.—Fisher and Houghton, Liverpool, milliners.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Joeseph Ellis Batley and Johu IliuchLifle, Meithain, York,
d)ers.

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