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 Cruel Punishment ia Russia. .--An cx- traordinary event occurred in l765. up. on the frontiers of Kioa, upon the Dnie per, in Russia; when a man was seer fast tied upon the back of stag, which probably terrified with this uncommon burden, was gong at full speed. It was to TO purpose that tine spectators at tempted to stop or pursue the animal; it was soon out of sight, and about eight days after, the woodcutters found them both dead ina wood, near Miedzyryez in Poland; the man so much torn and mangled, as to render any recognisance of his person impossible. It was howe. yer conjectured, that he had been the victim of some great Lord.

 Another instance is related in the German histories.-A similar circum. stance, care informed, occurred in the neighborhood of Iariedburgh, in the six tcenth century, through which place, a man chained to the back of a stat, was seen te pass, and distinctly heard to cry for assistance; saying, he had been three days in that dreadful situation, the stag having brought him all the way iron, Saxony. Sometime after the man and the beast were both torn 10 pieces near thc city of Solms.- Portfolio.