not yet authenticated. The military fired about ten rounds, and as the assailants were so numerous, the presumption of some havoc among them is rational.

11. This morning, when the gentlemen engaged in the Newbury bank entered it to proceed to business, they discovered that the whole of the property had been stolen, amounting, it is supposed, to near 20,0001. 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 taking the books away rendered it impossible to transact any business. An express was sent off to the Public office Bow-street, where every assistance was rendered to the distressed parties. The officers have discovered that bank notes, part of the stolen property, to the amount of upwards of 8001. were paid to a respectable man at Abingdon, on Monday morning, for the purchase 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.--The storm of the 7th and 8th inst. which was attended with such a sudden and severe frost, has done very great damage upon our neighbouring 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 exertions are making, partly to disen

gage the vessels surrounded with ice, and bring them into more secure 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 was 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 never came out of his cabin but in the evenings after dinner; he then, almost without exception, went and leant against the breech of the foremost gun on the weather side of the quarter-deck, whence he never moved. Generals Bertrand and Lascasses always came out with him, and with whom he ever continued in conversation: he appeared to take little notice of his other companions. His dress, upon these occasions, 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 23d of September, gen. Buonaparte made a present to old Neptune of one hundred Napoleons; the French generals and children gave him a double Napoleon each. The countess Bertrand is one of the most pleasant and agreeable women I ever conversed with.

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creeping towards Dines. I reached Dines first; he was lying on the ground: he said to me, "My My dear fellow, give me your hand, I am a dead man." I asked if they had shot him? he put his hand on his belly, said "Yes," faintly, and shook his head. I lifted him up, and Gurney, who had then got on his legs, helped me to hold him. I inquired how it happened: he said, that after he had been shot, he had fired both barrels, and thought he must have wounded some of them. It appeared that the whole charge of the gun fired at Dines, had entered the right side of his belly he died the following day, about six in the evening."

A Coroner's inquest sat on Monday, the 11th, on the body of Dines, and no proof having been then obtained against any individual, the verdict was-" Wilful murder by persons unknown."On Monday evening some circumstances of suspicion arose against a gang of notorious and desperate poachers at Biggleswade. War

rants were issued against them by Mr. Wilshere, the magistrate : before day-light the next morning two were taken, and in the course of that day four others.

It appears that the gang consisted of Edmund Chamberlain, John Twelvetrees, John Hopkins, William Albone, Thomas Jefferies, John Sutton, and John Humber stone, all of Biggleswade. That they set out from Biggleswade about ten o'clock on Saturday night, to shoot peasants at Southill, (which is at the distance of about four miles) that two had guns, and the rest bludgeons; that they entered into an agreement to stand by each other, and

not to be taken; that they had killed two pheasants before they were pursued. Chamberlain and the four next named, were taken on the 12th, and were on the 13th examined by Mr. Wilshere, and committed to Bedford gaol, together with Henry Albone (the brother of William) who though not present at the time of the murder, is implicated; Sutton and Humberstone are still at large.

Edmund Chamberlain has acknowledged himself to be the man who fired at Dines. It appears from the account of Thomas Jefferies, another of the gang, that upon Dines saying he would see them off the manor, Chamberlain snatched a stick from Sutton, another of them, with which he struck Gurney on the head, and knocked him down; that he immediately afterwards threw down the stick, levelled his gun, and fired it at Dines. That Dines, after having cried out that he was a dead man, sunk down on one knee, and fired both the barrels of his gun. He must have taken very steady aim, having wounded Twelvetrees, Hopkins, Jefferies, and William Albone; Hopkins Iwas found to have received more than 100 shot in his back, spreading from the neck to the loins.— William Albone received part of the charge of the first barrel on his left shoulder, and part of the second on his right arm. Jefferies was shot in the right shoulder and arm, and one shot passed through his right ear. Twelvetrees received a few on his loins, and one on his right thumb; they are none of them materially wounded.

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to Bedford gaol, under a military escort sent on purpose from Bedford, and numerous constables from Biggleswade; just as the delinquents were marched off to prison, the bell commenced tolling for the funeral of poor Dines, who was a respectable character and faithful servant, and shortly afterwards they met the hearse (on their way to gaol) conveying the body of the deceased for interment.

16.-A vessel is arrived in the Thames from New South Wales, after an extraordinarily short passage of less than five months. A dispute is said to have arisen between the governor and the gentleman at the head of the judicial department, which has occasioned a suspension of the judicial business, till the matter in question shall be decided by fresh instructions from home. The point at issue is, whether or not convict attornies, transported to the settlement by virtue of legal sentences passed for crimes proved to have been committed by them at home, shall be allowed to practise professionally in the Colonial Courts. The Governor, it is said, insists upon this professional practice, on behalf of several attornies so circumstanced, among whom is Crossley. The head of the judicial department, it is said, refuses the privilege, on the ground, that the dignity and purity of British justice would not be likely to be duly sustained in such hands; and that, moreover, there were in the settlement attornies, regularly appointed from home by his Majesty's government, fully competent to the business, with whose offices the as

sociation of the convict attornies in the practice would be an improper interference. Account of the Escape of M. Lavalette, who was capitally condemned at Paris for High Trea

son :

21. "I transmit to you, from the highest authority, the following details concerning the evasion of Lavalette.

"Madame de Lavalette's health has been, as you know, very seriously impaired by all her late sufferings. For several weeks past, in order to avoid the movement of her carriage, she has used her sedan-chair; she has been accustomed to be carried in this vehicle into the prison, when it is constantly deposited in the passage of the under turnkey's room; thence passing through a door, the yard and corridor lead to the prisoner's apartment. At four yesterday afternoon, madame de Lavelette arrived as usual, with a bonnet à la Française and a large veil, accompanied by her daughter, a young lady 11 years old. She was assisted up stairs and dined with her husband. About half-past five M. de Lavalette, arrayed in her clothes, taking his daughter by the arm, and supported by one of the turnkeys, slowly descended to the chair. No uncommon circumstances occurring to excite suspicion, he passed before all the Inspectors and Guardians of that horrible abode, and at the unbarring of the last gate was restored to the fresh air, to his friends and liberty. In the mean time mad. de Lavalette, who had thrown over her the large cloak of her husband, was seated, breathless, in