The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-23 00:00:00

J.l N• -3 • who hall lost I,eir pareuts in the crowd; tunics with sick prisons Ii foreing their way a:nong the thousands of horse, ; cries of miser.; and despair in every quarter. Such were the herald= that most !! fech .gly proclaimed the presence of the warriors mho have been celcOrated in so many regions, and whose imposing appearance has been so often admired. All these unti.rtunates crowded into the tildly corner formed by the eld Hospital and the wall of the Kohl garten•eate. Their cries and lamentations were intermingled with the moans and groans of the wounded who were going to the hos pitals and who earnestly solicited !neat! and relief. A number of Frenjh solilig ' probably such as had loitered in the rear, searched every basket and every pocket for rovisions. They turned wittratt ceremony the bleeping infants fleet of the baskets, and called not how the enraged motheri lacs.-:ated their tares in return. The scenes of horror changed •o quickly, that you could not dwell more than halt a minute neon any of them. The tenderest heart became torpid awl insensible. One tale of woe followed en 'the heels of &mother. " Sueli a person too hr.s been plundered! Steele a one's house has been set on fire I This man has been cut in pieces; that his linen transfixed with the bayonet ! Thwe poor creatures are seeking their children!' Such was the intelligence brought by cry new fugitive. If you a•ked the French when the march wonitl be over, yon received the consolotary answer- 44 Not beCo..r tix o'clock in the mooing." Dutinz the night the sound of drums and trumpets incessantly annont.eyd the ate of fresh regiments. At length, ahout Wiluight, the hnstle somewhat snbcided, at least so far as regarded the marcitieg of troops. I now seized the fa vourable mte•nent, and felt myself as it were a itcw creature ; when having made my way through the crisA:l of horseslute extrsa.r- 1 clitory mirage and dexterity, I once uptrr_. get foot the cit). Thus the morning and the erening .- enmpftt. d the first day qf horror. SEVERTIT Ole Wig IT-EA:MLR. NVe give, under particular heads, details of the state of ! I the weather a:•d of it-. Pill:els in the more distant parts of the 11 ympire. Io the capL al, the vast accumulation of snow already heaped on the ground and condensed with three, o►r rather more nearly, four weeks of continued frost, has been incteased by a fre,li full of 4S hours continuance, to a height never before known in the memory of the oldest in habitants. The cold has been intensely severe, the iinow doting the last fall liciog accompanied with it sharp wind, and a little moistuie. In many places whet e tlie houses are old, it became necessary to relieve the routs by throwing otl'l the load collected upon them, and by these means the carriage-Hays in the middle of the streets me made of a • depth altogether impassable for pedestrians. The carriages with difficul.y plough their way through the mass, which is cut in furrows and counter-furrows in every direction. There has been a little thaw, but it ha , rendered the state of the streets rather worse, the channels being cloaked up so as not to allow the wet to dischat ge. The house water pipes ate all frozen, and it has, therefore, become necessary for several days to alio' d supplies by opening the Pio in the streets. The streams from these, const.,mly flowing, add to the general flood and the i.uddle in their vicinity, so.as to make a most deep and Lamentable mire for a great way about. The coal market, which had been but scantily supplied befot e the frost set in, is now in a much more deficient state, and the difficulties of navigation and conveyance cons.autly inc: ea• sing, much inconvenience is felt in consequence,• even by persons in affluence, and extreme distress by the poor. seve ral days, even node' the most favour4ble circumstances, will be required to carry off the snow now in. the sit cets. It is with great ditli,:ulty the short stages make tilerr way into town. Their progle,.s is slower than even the ordinary pace of the heaviest waggon. They are preceded by men to clear their way, and others at the horses beads who lead them. It is stgges!ed, that from the continued severe weather having cauied many thousands to be thrown out of emrlov, thdevenittnt of those suffccipg under exv-auto peiverty, the :.3a^Mi~~ ..Y t ., y ...,,, ~ -M....:.... ~,,. .. high price'of coals, and advance on every articlo of life, that the print ipa! patishioners, not only of every pa. ish. hot of the several tiistricts of each parish, do immediately call meetings, and raise subscriptions, to afford relief to those who may need it, in the vicinity of their own neighbour hood. This example, once begun, would no doubt be generally followed, and be the means of affording relief to the numerous class of our fellow-creatures, suffeting from the tw o f o ld calamity of cold and hungers. The Postma,ter of Aylesbury ryached town with the mail-bag. Ile (onveyed it some part of the way in a chaise, and where the road was impassable for carriages, on horseback, or on men's shoulders. The Leeds Mail' arrived about twelve o'clock on Fridly. It was brought from Barnet in a post-chaise and four. The guard, wh o aci ompanied it, states, that he. was. oblige 4 to abandon the mail-coach on the road, and, with the a:sistatit%e of such persotli zs accident threw in his way, to drag the bag upwards of forty miles across fields berme he could proceed in a conveyance of any sort. The Thames, from Black friars to London Bridge, at ebb tide, is completely blocked up. The following notice will amply convey to our readers the effects of the present severe weather in all parts of the country : General Post Office, Lombaril-strivt,.Jam, " Tie: , /re o'C/ock, Nuom.• A - 11 the inland mails due nu the ‘itnli, have ;in ived; l.it thc Exeter maili nave not briiight the bap of letters from the didt;rent towP west of Piy month*, they ii•lt having been able to get tip in time.—Four Vass of letters from Fat month are due. " Of . the Mails which became due yesterday. the following have arrived, viz.—Bristol, Cambridge, Norwich Ipsu lel', Portsmouth, Rye. Dover, Glallow, Poole, I..ecdl, Norwich, Newminket, and Brighton. The Brighton, Rye, and eortsmouth coaches were in yesterday bctore one o'clock; the others value in in the course of the day. "The Inllowitnr it n correct Bo of the it now due.:--Bath,-t. Birmingham ltr;•tol 1, C imbridle 1, Dover 1, E . steter 2, Cila.gow 1, (;lonce%ter 2, Poole 1, Li t Tont L.eet' Matn•lwster Nor wich, Newmarket 1, Nor‘‘ len Ipswich 1, Shrewsbury and Talliltoll 2, Worcester 2. • The continuation of the frost and snow has induce d many roach. Proprietor., partirulasly is the Northern and NV e6:t. ern rciadf, not to continue running their coaches unFil change ot„Oather shaq take place. In many places whele the road Vx VW, the snow has dated higher than 6:e coaches, whitkii the; case as near town as Finchlev Com mon. "The strnW 'had drifted . into the read in the course of Wednesday night a depth of sixteen feet, and it was im passible even for oxen. On Bapho:. Heath there is a complete stoppage, and many accidents have occurreid by vehicles getisig off the read. Mena Esher and ColdsaJn the road is completely choaked up, and if the' e shosit.fl happen snore falling weather, conveyance muss cca•e. 1:1;e coaches on the Western road remain stationary at diPreat pasts. The Windsor coach got through the snow at Cobs brook, which was sixteen feet deep, by employing about fifty labourers; on Thursday, but since that the road is quite impassable. Lower down, at Maidenhead-lane, the* snow has diiited to double the former depth; and between wy- I and Heading it has ds sf:ed in mountaies. With se spect to the report of the Exeter snail ha' iug been I "st , there is no news on the subject. There %vas also a rPl'''; . t that the Chester mail wzs lost, but no accident to it occurred. These was a strong report also, that the mouth mail had gone off the s oad, and Wati precipitated ' the declivity between Uodalmiug and Lirbook, called " Der il'N Pouch-bowl ;" but these beeiliS to L r iv) fsunsia r.et , 1 • I,ad cats- low t , vim) • , . J / 4 •