The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-29 00:00:00

21:12 iiCtiSTLE‘•V:ISOj.I7 7;KNE, DEC.

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On SatUrday afternoon, Durham Cathedral dock
began for the first time to chithe the qi.tarters.:
On 'Friday night, a gentlernan,.in passing the Mar-
ket-pface of North Shields, missed his roads rnd gut.
above the knees in snow, when a man sprung upon
his back, and with the greatest 'dexterity-picked his
pecket.Of- his gold watch, and escaped: He was,
.however,apprehended on Saturday night, when he
confessed the theft, and gave intelligence where the
watch was deposited. His -reason for committing
the a6flS-rather curious, viz. thqt he was weary .(if
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On TiMrsday night a Warehouse at.the Limekiln.'
shOrei North Shields., was broken into,ii4d aWbale-
'line, belonging to the ship Katharine, stolen there-
from.

.`Un Wednesday, night, during the perfortnance
'Of Life Below Stairs, one' -of the dresliing;
rooms of North Shields *Thealre'took fire and sevtirni:
dresSes were cOnsuined 'before the fiame3 were ex-
tinguished. There being au. ahu'redai-ice of snow in
the streets, the fire .was soon got under by carrying
buckets Tull into the theatre.

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NA VAt ANECDOTE.--The English are Charged,
and perhaps not unjustly, with maiiileiting;-on too.,
many.oecasions, a derogating opinion of ;he condUct*,,
oftheir enemy. :t is wffil much satisfadirin; there-,
fore, We state the following' reccnt fiti, so .hononr
able , to the diameter of a .vanqulshed.Yrench. Ch!1)--:
inander. After the desperate aelion between hiS
Majesty's Frigate Virginze," commanded by Captain' '
Baice, and the Dutch Frigate Cue/der/and, under
. the command of "Monsieur Beadait, the-crew Of
the latter 'we-o no sooner removed on board the Kir-
ginie, than'her, prize, the Gtieideiland, was Observed
to Ol on fire. While Captain litt.ACl; Was 'consult-
ing With his" First Lieutenant what was. best to be
done on the alarming oceaSion;having nearly double
the number of the enemy on board; Monsieur Da
iEiiilEitE, addressing him, said, c.‘ Sir, I see your
embarrassment, and, it you w..i1l allow me, f think
I can relieve it :-.-,-send me on board; with fifty of
my own people, and 1 trust We shall' be able to save'
your pi ize. 1 scarcely need tender you my word of,
'honour tot 'my, return.''—captain BRACc accepted'
this offer;: when Monsieur B4R-G-VaE, by„his prompt
energy, extinguished the fire, and hinnediately re-;
firmed; with his' people;on board the Pirginie.
The :contest for the vacant office of Physician to..
. the Surrey Dispensary is carried on with a spirirang
sscurril:ty, disgracefnl to several .01 the parties Con-
cerned. •• It is. quite shOcking to' see the gross and
indecent. personalities cast on such respeable cha-
raders as Dr. BABINOTON and Dr, CORRY, and it is
much to their honour that thy appear to disdain
that species of hostility. Who would believe that
general knowledge and learning in.a liberal profes«
liioll are requisite for the etlice in question.
On Tuesday last a person belonging to Drury-lane
Theatre; who had niounted by
,t ladder to the top of .
,'that building, with intention to sweep off the snow,
fell, and, extraordinary 'as it May.appear, pitched on
.a great quantity .of snow in the ‘i.aste ground near
Brydges-street, without sustainng any serious. injury.
An, unparalleled, insiptice of superstition,cruelty;•
and awful isitatichi; occtfriiiia'a liort payed- since
In the Hundred of I-foh i abfarnfer of disc;• dart-lea
• Fenner, lost a consideratile Oatility. al porAty. by a
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distemper Which they:wer6 selied Ata-d'havMg,
sometime prior to their mOitt.dity, reCeived a preterit.
of a duck froin a friend, it was suphsed,Troin'lijr
laying. dun-coloured 'eggs,- that she had
_been be-
witched by an elderly vC'ornan it) tille neighbOotlnod,
and that such was'" the cause.oc theloises sustained..
In order to prevent a .recurrence' of Similar disasters,
and to break the enchantment, it Was deter-it:tined,
by an ignorant and siaperititiOns female servant, to
burn the ill-fated, but int-tut:exit .lAPitii :live;',,.''ii.tell.
'horrid resolutihn she one mor:iing.carried into: pin-
tice, by putting the'.poor animal in An' 'oven; and-
burning a faggot of wood Over her.; i,vhiCh, thougic
it completely consumed all her 4",!t.,athers, did not ex,
tinguisb the vital • spark i on the following "horning •
she repeated -her cruelty, notwithstanding which the.
poor. duck still retained animation : 'on the, third
day, being determtned to-effeti her birliat-Ous inten-
tion; she had recourse to the. following 4loci;ing:ex-
pedient—she.scr fire to a lirge faggot in' the oxen,
add ivben- it bad completely taught , the flame, she
put the already, tortured body of the poor duck on it,
and confined it down; this sow terminated its ex, '
istence., - /it a short period.from -her inhunfan don:-
duets This unfortunate:dupe of superstition and igno-.
ranee was seized, with • fits, which appears likean,
awful dispensation_ of Prov.idence, to' deprive her of',
than life Which she was up worthy of, as: she sur-
vived•huia feW.days after, expiring- in the greatest
p.i;anies„ .. • • '• : ,

CEDE KT.

PRIVATE 'CORR ESPONDEKCE,

Extrakfrom ad Official RepOn of Gen. KLERCKER,
Commander in Chief of the Norlhein Anror of
Finland, date Head=quarters at Uleaburgh, No.
vembe*r.!..rsl

Though- I have been compelled, by the vast
Superiority of .the enemy's forces, to evacuate the
province of Uleaburgh, which, independently of
this consideration, I must have done, from the total.
want of provisiOns and provender; yet I derive no
small consolation froin the refleEtion, that I have
gained time, pending the
,negociatiotr for ah Armis-
tice, and succeeded in obtaining ten clear days to
evacuate the. Capital of this province. The interval
I have employed in cuttinc, and sawing the ice, and
fitting out small craft for the conveyance of stores,
&c. and I have no doubt, from the arrangementS
that hare been made, but
-the whole of the artillery
and anti-I-Mai-on will be saved. The check which
the Russians experienced at \Virg, is wholly attri-
butable to the skill and bravery of Col. Reuteiskold
and General Adlerkrueutz, -the latter of whim en-
couraged his troops by his presence and example;
and your Majesty will be pleased to allow rue to
state, that this General, notwithstadding the very
critical situation in which your Majesty's army was
placed, displayed his consummate abilities as a Ne•
gociator of the Armistice, in rejetling, under every
disadvantage, the unjust and dishonourable propo-
sition of the enemy, and by extricating our troops
from impending destruaion."

Extraß. from a private Letter, dated Stockholm,

Decen3btbr'l•s'.

-'•‘..A` Swedish -Messenger, Baron KlenkowstroM,
Captain in the navy, set' out by:the last Mail for
England. Ordets have been ;sent to Carlscrona to
prepare 'the Fleet Tor the spring. We. talk of no-
thing but --war. 'The. King is 'very 'popular, and
niorefSo than he;ever was. Every thing is Drell, ast
fir as re-.-latt.s to if)v7dt,,.,, patriotism,- and devotion to
he-zommoil ca'use but we have indeed hard times.
The poor-suiT&:''Oxeeedingly from"privations of every
wetiftve daily hundreds of emigrants from
V‘ilo arrive in the most deplorable Condi.i
tion, 'many of them being nearly naked. I heard
td7oy that the English have subscribed for the-poor
Finlanders.- :1 retnehaber ,when:- I was in Germans',
smile time since; how ninth good the English did
thersurely the'SA:edes have not forfeited their
Viendshipntidesteein. are all astOniShed at the
Itnqsian ,General's agretirrient to -the Armistice—
n,ooo Russians, and only 7000'S kl.:edes but thanks
to our brave generat:Adlerkreinz, who would not
agree' to' the first demands' made by the RUSilallii
though 1* uas in a most critical situation."

'Report front Colonel H. E. ItEur.EnAotn, Chief of
Br lade; dated What, Nov. I r.j., tBOO.
On the 11th of November, at 12 o'clock in the
afternoon, the corps,pagSed on the other side of Lan•
dex, and on the road to.-Kalajocki were attacked,
and though I sent a Company•of the regimentOt Ny-
land to their assistance, they were forced to retreat,
and having passed the giidge to Yppered, it w'as
burnt, its order to check the. enemy, who were in
pursuit •of our 'trtiop3. Meanwhile -the entniy hay-
with' a-superior force, driven b.ick the outposts
at Koskela and Pissila. I ordered the army to re-
treat Athout a mile, intending to halt at Wirat. The
enemy advanced towards us about half a mile-. On
our arrival at wirdt, • we:weresimmediaiely attacked
by a new force, who formed a juntlioit with the
other detachment of Russian troops, who by this
time had come up:-. The battle commenced at half-
past four o'cloCk in the afternoon, and was main,
tainect, with great obstinacy and bra Very tin both sides
till ten' at night; and though ,the contiitiing armies
were within twenty paces ()leach other,
.the enemy,
I mention with pride, was repulsed, and obliged to
pass the night upon the snow, exposed to the *le-,
'mency of the weather, .without making a single e't.
fort to citric:ate themselves."