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ened age, has been performed 
this week in the catholic districts 
about Basle. A solemn maledic- 
tion and excommunication has 
been pronounced against the mice 
guilty of committing depredations 
in the fields. 
8.—Last week, a man of the 
name of Bishop, who lives in 
Redcliff-street, Bristol, had a 
quarrel with a farmer Phelps, of 
Knowles, when a scuffle and bat- 
tle ensued, during which the for- 
mer bit off the thumb of the lat- 
ter: mortification and death fol- 
lowed. Coroner’s verdict —Man- 
slaughter. 
Venice, Dec. 9.—The horses 
of Corinth have become the ob- 
jects of akind of idolatry. Since 
their arrival the people flock in 
crowds to the square of St, Mark, 
and kiss with enthusiasm these 
ancient monuments of Venetian 
glory. To satisfy the public cu- 
riosity, medals have been struck 
with the heads of the horses. 
The civic council has voted a sum 
of 4,000 ducats for the relief of 
the Austrian soldiers wounded in 
the last campaign. The city has 
also voted thanks to lord Wel- 
lington. 
Petersburgh, Dec. 9.— They 
write from Moscow, that that 
city rising from its ruins will be 
finer than ever it was, though not 
so large. The change which has 
taken place in so short atime is 
almost incredible. The present 
governor, Tomazow (admiral and 
general ), is incessantly and active- 
ly employed in its rebuilding, It 
1s a spectacle astonishing and truly 
novel in our times, to see that 
immense plain on which the eye 
distinguishes a various and con- 
sed mixture of ruins of palaces 
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1815. 
in stone and in wood, of houses 
large and small, of the nodding 
walls of burnt mansions, of un- 
cultivated fields, every where in- 
termixed with piles of Brick and 
heaps of lime, while swarms of 
workmen of every kind give ani- 
mation to the picture. The whole 
reminds us of the tower of Babel 
with this distinction, that the re- 
sult will be very different. All 
the roads leading to the city are 
covered with trains of carts laden 
with materials. The Kremlin is 
in part rebuilt, and on a more 
regular plan; those of its old 
walls that remained, are pointed 
anew and whitened. The can- 
nons taken from the enemy are 
ranged in several lines in the 
grand square, in front of the Se-~ 
nate house. The new Bazaar is 
a much finer building than the 
old one. 
9.—Letters from Rome an- 
nounce a piece of intelligence 
highly importart to all friends 
and admirers of antiquity, name- 
ly, the discovery of an ancient 
building in the neighbourhood of 
Palestrina. A broad marble stair- 
case, descending 60 steps, has 
been already uncovered, and a 
place or room in which several 
statues are still standing upright 
in their niches. The further re< 
sults of this discovery are eagerly 
expected. 
Dantzic, Dec. 10.—On Wed- 
nesday, the 6th of Dec. about 
nine in the morning, the remain- 
ing gunpowder, consisting of 
about 60 cwt. besides the filled 
bombs and shells, were to be re- 
moved from the powder magazine 
close to the rampart within the 
city, near St. James’s gate. For 
this purpose the canneneers, a 
