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

THE N'ATIONAT, RF,CISTER. for the report, as a mail ariiyed yesterday. The middle North wad is impassable as near as ilighgate-hill. Last Fiiday week the mail was dispatched ft om Falmouth at three o'clock in the morning, when, after travelling with niucti difficulty through the snow, they were not able to reach the second stage before ten o'clock, though only twenty-four miles. where the guard proceeded with the mail on horseback, accompanied by a guide; bur, after many hours fi uitle-s attempts, they wete obliged to return, and the snow continuing to fall, the country was so covered; there wag no possibility of proceeding till the tinday morn ing, and then it was on'y effected by the guard and assist ants car' ying the ba..;s on foot over the fiozen snow, at great risk of 1) , Mg oveiwhtlined in the drifts, which at that time continued t fall. They reached Exeter on Monday, haying been nearly seven days on the road between Falmouth and Exeter, from whence the bags were forwarded on to London ; and again were with notch difficulty got through the snow between Bridport and Dorches:er. At ley-hridge, in Devonshire, the wow was fourteen feet deep on Monday last. with every appearance of increasing ; several gangs of lahouiers were employed in various pails of that county, to cut through the snow and ice, to open a line of communication, if possible, along the main road le.aling to the capital. • The Cornwall Quarter sessions were obliged to be ad jouined till Tuesday sennight, the impassibility of the roads having prevented many of the Grand Jury from alending. All persons who are liable to be injured. or incommadated by the over flowing of sewers, or livers, would do well to prepare for a very high flood, on the 'breaking up of the present frost. The whole face of the country having been frozen berme the mew fell, may he considered as an ex tensive pavement, which will not absorb one drop of ,mois ture for several days after the weather changes. The !nag bitticle of the iloed will depend on .ht state of the weather at that time. Should the thaw be sudden. and accom panied with much rain, a tremendous inundation may be expected, as the whole will precipitate itself into the rivers. Ex rfEtic Cot D.—Thc (Arming is an accurate statement of Fahrenheit's the mometer exposed to a north aspect, in B.t . h, dining the la l / 4 t few days. The observations were taken between the bouts of eight and nine each morning : Mot•day (.14n. to. )• •• • •14 Thursday .... •e-day eavy Itio i) • • Friday 13 Wedursday `4!e t J 14.—The fall of snow in this ncighbonrhood, since n lay vv i• :treater than has been reniembered for forty y , L . .. The inv.-wet iuttry and stagnation of business it has occa sioned are distil -A :W I , as im persons venture out but those whom ey es...So) compils. The roads in all direction: are many ti.et deep with *thou traveilieg is partia!ly suspended. The mail and ()tiler coache*ll.4ve hi est gencrally impelled, and for two 11:1%14 the London nreil wa- lorg.ught fr-in Mach( • WI in a chaise with four horses, and did nut arri , e till 1:111.11rs afte r die usual time. The loads west of this city h eve bei n totally impassable tor carriage:, and the h ,gs culoolning toe mails lia%e been conveyed on hears. several arel dfn ve occuned, of which acre Will. On IVedne-day, a :wittier was found dead on 1 - laldim, with Vll. in his pockt t ; and, ye,. t May. eof the Its IX: e(t lltl. tia were dug out in ar the same spot, and 1 , 0 lies eonvee,i to Chralle4zli. (11.01 CESTEI2, JAN, 17. The severity of the fro , t, for the No rtnigh , II s hot In I II eNrerded by ittlV that has preceded it for n a The t i% et Severn is frozen over, and ti:e ice is in many p!ace - sotticiently stios T to sustain pl run. em its sorface ; indeed, sz a 1 persons u,oing to Tewlve4itiry minket onfl edne•da) last, rode eel o - the ice on hot vback. at the Li n k', near that place. On Monday the cold w3s-so that Ihe thermometer, exposed in a o u r th ea-tern %slicer, stood at LI degrees, which is V below the treezing point. On die eastern coast, it stood as low as 9 and 10, a degree of cold very n 11114411 in this country. 4. .wf JAN. 23. SHREWSBURY, JAN. I:).—Last week, several of the West Mid. silesex Militia, who had volunteered for foreign seryiie, were frozen to death on their march from Nottingham. The unfit' tunate men hail been drinking till they were i4toxieated, and, laying by the toad side, slept—never to wake again ! (Salop Journal.) WIIITEHAVEN, JAN. 14.—We have had a very intense fro •t for about a week, which serms likely to continue. From its gradual pro. cress, it reminds people of that which commenced ow the zirth of December, 1784, aud continued till the t2vd of rebrusry folowing. A heavy snow fell here in the night of Sunday lag, end e..t yester day morning, whirls was preceded by a violent. bunt Elt POOL. JA N 17.--We have now bad three we. ks of t.,e most rigorcus host which 11.. s been rem. inhered in tins et:natty for a to ea t tininher of )ears. On . Friday, Fahrenheit's thermometei ..tood at Li degrees (17 below the freezim: point) at the Ado:. *tun; in the country it was, is doubt, much lower. Such a quantity of ic. has 1)..7en accumulated in the Mersey, that boats could not pass over.— . Almost every kind of Isbour performed w ithont doors is nearly at a stand ; and in so impulous a place as this where 'minims as e only able to provide bread for the pa.sing day, a very great distre-A can. not tail to be experienced in weather so unusually UN( IV. hose yrhom Providence has blessed with the means of relievivz the dis tue-scd, cast never find an occa‘ien w hen their compassion wad °snotty ale more pres‘iogly demandvd, I.7niNitunclr, JAN. I.s.—The frost continues inteAse, and the tall o 1 snow has been so deep in the southein psrts of :he country, *hat the different mails have arrived with difficulty, and beyond their usrial time. At tart lye o'clock on Thursday nizlit, Fahrenlo it's thermometer, in the neiglibmis hood of Glastow, stood at heven ile tzree , ,or '25 below freezing; and yestei day moriiiiz, at nine, it vva. 11 degrees. ABERDEEN, JAN. thVsc ft•W ttoi, we have had a very se. veie and constant tiost, ‘vitli flit! tlicrinoweter, during the ingot. .omrtimes so low ns eight degices. 1 1 weather has otherwise heru fine ond seasonable. DUBLIN, JAN. 1.3.--.'rom the uncommon depth of tho snow, the st i reets yesterdry . appeared almost detcrte3 ; none u ere to be Seem abroad bait au occasional messenger, a wa!kiag pliy,iehn, a lettur earlier, or a batik runner, scrambling througii tile snow to their seve ral aVOCiI iOIIS. We have hear' of a bakei's wife, 'law(' 11nri liv, having been smothered on Mondey night last, doling the severity of the storm ; by fAing in the snow. A respectable dressed man was found lying in the road leading from Longford to Upham, on Tuesday inoroiog, frozen to de.ith. The deceased turned otit to he a Mr. Apthor u, a grazier, at Colts worth. He had left Hounslow at dusk on Alooday eta nirq, a!ter having drank tolerahla freely, and proposed to go that night to Marlow. His nurse was found in a field on the road sole, and had evidently been down, therefore it is stipposed the deceased was somewhat stunned and unable to a:sist hi m seff, He had p ro p er ty to the amount of WI. in his poekets, besides a watch and pocket book,• some memorandums in which lcd to the discovery of who he 'On his return from Wakefield market. Mr. Husband, of Holrovd Hall, was found frozen to death, within little more than an hundred vards of the house of his nephew, with whom lie resided. _ . _ On Monday week not It'i4 than seven boys were drowned in the Trent, by the breaking of the ice, on which tkey had imprudently ventured before it was sufficiently strong. The accident happened about vOO yards above Wilford-boat, in the immediate neigh. bourbon() of Nut thezham. Wednesday last, an inquest was held Tenterden, on the body of Mary Wrllar, wits of Wm. Wellar, I,logiirer, who was fonod frozen to death iu the snow, %Own the Jury f'iuld a verdict—Died from the effect of intoxication, and the severity of the weather. Thursday seinnight a boy, slighog at Harrow, was tripped up by hip etutpanion, an , l, falling down, received a kick on the kid u ies, Which occasioned his death. The Coroner held an :nipiisition on the body. Verdict—Aeridet:tal Death. Sunday last, a poor man, usinillv earning sivves about the country, dismovered a short distance from Guildford, nearly frozen to death ; and on being taken to a house in the neighbourhood, he shortly after expired. Mr. Chapman, organist, and master of the Centrpl Sehonl at Au. Mover, ‘va , : frozen to death on Tuesday, near Wallop, in that county.—Young Mock, whilst driving one of Allen's stage-roaches, was thrown Mt . ..the box over a lump of frozen snow near Reitra•e, and killed on the spot.—Soch has liven the severity of the weather, that a person who lives at Havant, caught 71 dozen of lajcs last week, iu the course of one day, in springs. 1