Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

50 ships sailed from Toulon, with provisions, ammunition and money, for Genoa. Some of these with provisions have been taken by the British frigate Phaeton, several have been carried to Minorca; several have been burnt; and a few, it is said, succeeded in getting to Genoa.

A remarkable instance of the ferocious obstinacy of what is termed the truly bred Bull-Dog, was witnessed at Carlisle (Eng.)

A horse belonging to a poor man, a porter, at Stanwix, contrived to get freed from the halter with which he had been fastened, in Castle-street, and had proceeded several yards on its way home before the owner was apprised of its escape. Immediately on his discovering it, he gave pursuit, and called to the surrounding people to aid him in the recovery of his beast. A bull-dog also taking the alarm, pursued, and soon coming up, seized the poor animal by the upper lip.

The horse, affrighted, ran violently along Castle-street, by the Market place, through Scotch-street, into Rickergate-street, the dog all the time depending from his lip

Here a crowd collecting prevented its further progress, and turned it again up Scotch Street, where it was met by those who had been its pursuers; to elude being caught by whom, and frantic from pain and fear, it ran into the shop of Mr. Porter, ironmonger, and thence into the parlour, where the family were at tea. After overturning the table, but without doing any other injury, the unwelcome visitors were driven back into the shop, when every exertion was made in vain by the owner of the horse and several other persons to extricate the suffering animal from the gripe of its merciless tormentor, till one of the company with a penknife, put a termination to the existence of the savage brute, after it had kept its hold, in despite of threats and blows for above half an hour.