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not yet authenticated. The mili- 
tary fired about ten rounds, and 
as the assailants were so nume- 
rous, the presumption of some 
havoc among them is rational. 
1].—This morning, when the 
gentlemen engaged in the New- 
bury bank entered it to proceed 
to business, they discovered that 
the whole of the property had 
been stolen, amounting, it is sup- 
posed, to near 20,000/. All the 
books and documents relative to 
the bank were also carried away. 
The robbery had been effected by 
means of false keys. It was in 
vain to keep the bank open, as 
there were no notes or cash to 
pay with; and the cruelty of tak- 
ing the books away rendered it 
impossible to transact any busi- 
ness. An express was sent off to 
the Public office Bow-street, 
where every assistance was ren- 
dered to the distressed parties. 
The officers have discovered that 
bank notes, part of the stolen 
property, to the amount of up- 
wards of 800/. were paid to a res- 
pectable man at Abingdon, on 
Monday morning, for the pur- 
chase of some property. There 
is every reason to believe that 
the extensive depredation had 
been long in contemplation by 
some old thieves. 
Amsterdam, Dec.12.—Thestorm 
of the 7th and 8th inst. which 
was attended with such a sudden 
and severe frost, has done very 
great damage upon our neigh- 
bouring coasts. Many ships are 
stranded in the Zuyder-Zee, or 
entangled in the ice there, in the 
mouths of the harbours, and in 
the Y. In all the ports of the 
Zuyder-Zee the greatest exer- 
tions are making, partly to disen- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
[815. 
gage the vessels surrounded with 
ice, and bring them into more se- 
cure births, and partly to repair 
the damage done to others. 
Extracts from letters received from 
officers of his Majesty's ship 
Northumberland. 
“ H. M. S. Northumberland, 
Oct. 20, 1815. 
‘¢ We arrived here on the 15th, 
after rather a pleasant, though 
long passage, of ten weeks; and 
general Buonaparte landed on the 
16th in the evening, when it wag 
quite dark; he was muffled up in 
a large surtout coat. A guard 
went before him to disperse the 
mob. You must judge of the 
state of his mind and spirits by 
what he did, and what he did not 
do, during the passage. He ne- 
ver came out of his cabin but in 
the evenings after dinner; he 
then, almost without exception, 
went and Jeant against the breech 
of the foremost gun on the wea- 
ther side of the quarter-deck, 
whence he never moved. Gene- 
rals Bertrand and Lascasas al- 
ways came out with him, and 
with whom he ever continued in 
conversation: he appeared to take 
little netice of his other compa- 
nions. His dress upon these oc- 
easions, was invariably a green 
coat, with two plain epaulets, 
small clothes, with silk stockings, 
and pumps, with gold buckles. 
At the usual ceremony of passing 
the Line, which we did on the 
23rd of September, gen. Buona- 
parte made a present to old Nep- 
tune of one hundred Napoleons ; 
the French generals and children 
ave him a double Napoleon each. 
he countess Bertrand is one of 
the most pleasant and agreeable 
women I ever conversed with. 
