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 lal/4t 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 :WI, 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 stiosT 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 Link', near that place.
On Monday the cold w3s-so that Ihe thermometer, exposed
in a our 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.

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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. 11 weather has otherwise heru
fine ond seasonable.

DUBLIN, JAN. 1.3.--.'rom the uncommon depth of tho snow, the
stireets 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 himseff, He had property
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.

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