The Sun.
London, England, 1808-02-18 00:00:00

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4iA.„-rsl3etween the hours of
'ten and eleven Or Th6raday night, one of theheavie,t
storms of snow came on here,ikit has been known
in the'mernory of inati, and before O'clock 1.1)
Friday moi•nitig, the roads were rendered completely
impassible.---126e Mail from London,-which- should
have reached us on Friday morning at four o'clock,
did not arrive till Yesierday (Sunday) about two P,M.
,when it canae, in with -eight horses, accompanied
with tlose of the two following days; and till this
morning no _carriage but the Mails have pass4.l the
northern road, netween Alconbury Hill and London,-
throuh this place. Many serious accidents are re-
ported to have laappenati, but which I.ettnuot give as
faas f.. one of the Mails,. however, in.leaving this,
by a circuitous route (not being able 0 proceed by
the two Stulwleys) was overset between Creamer :s
Hut and AlcoubttrY Hill, but I did not learn that any
of the passengers received any injury, thereby. The
road between this and CaMbridge to as }rot complete-
ly impas,sable for carriages,' and indeed not yet ty be
attempted on horseb:rek w al:out Serious difficulty :--
:Marly of the cottjkg-ers ip the neighbourhood of G6d.
mahchester, Branit)ton, and Hartford, bave, by the
driftcog of the snow, been neatlycavered, and their
inhabitants rescued froM 'them With the utmost dif-
ficulty.
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Thursday night there .was one of the most tee-
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mendous storms ever remembered at Bath, and we
tear 'that we Shall hear of most disastrous circum-
stances. The mail-coach could not proceed oil it 4
journey froiii the force of .the wind, the drifting of
the snow, and from trees bloWn Alown across the
The mail, many hours after its usual time,
w in tl)b
vilstebroOufgEhtildiln..Eaasteohba,isete.ii
IWlargeee learn, that
up. by the violence of the tempest. Several houses,
were d.:111.1;cd, and a gentleman's house in the
neighbourhood was completely unroofed, a sheet of •
lead, of full 2001 b. weight, being carried to a distant
field. •

• The London Mail coach, owing to the severity
of the weather-, 'did not rem+ Bristol on Thursday
until seven o'clock in _ the evening ; the bags, with
the letters, were dispatched in a post-chaise, and.ai.-
rived about four o'clock.
Ag the Mail coach from Lyndon to Exeter W 33
.going down Marlborough' Hill, on Thursd4 night,
the liorses sunk in the snow, and bet Ore they could
be extricated two ofthem perished.
The storarha4 conimitted great ravages. at Mar-
gate. The Lretnains of the Tim' present a toot
mournful spethtele t4at ntf,rded sects-
.rity and proteti6n•to the town, cn'coniap;ed its cow-
nrr?rcial interests, -and was rept*d as one of
brightest ornaments;, is Li o.til reduced to a pile ot

:During the storm eniThursilky-nifr,lic 3 trO.Nt be-
longing to FiArrow
.and I fuss s,._. ut I'et.3,
lying at ahcher neni:the Swash, at the niontim)fiht)
Severn, sunk by the violence 0f"t1fe,g,3,16.
.crew did not (pit the vessel:until the. ‘N4iter'Nrasl)
to their necks, and, the row from her
neatli them. They effeavd thiqr" deliverance, IS?
sl,vionling to o ship which lay at some distance from
the place; the Captain. of which took the poor fcl-
lws into 'lns cabin, and supplied thew with dry
clothing; The 'row IVas in ballast, bound for New-
port, in Atriindutlisbirc.

Snip NEU'S.

CRAVISEND, F6.AitUARY`I6.

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Passed by-.4he Maria, Brune, frottEllentel ; Medway,
Potts, from Niadeira ; Melandro, Turnbull, and ti►e acrirs4
Butcher, from Copenhagen.'
Sailed-she Adriatic, Grandison, for' the 13razils ; and 114
Sibelta, Butterwick, for the Cape of Good !lope.