The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-01 00:00:00

STATE, or am:, wEiTtiErt, &c.

There was a fresh fall of gm :NI; on the 29th) to
serious depth, across from the West of El gland
to. the East; it was deep in-Cheshire; at Leeds
and at Barnsley no wheel carriages could travel,
and .the mail was forwarded by horse from that
town to Kettering. The snow had in some places
occasioned a deep flood, but being succeeded by
frost, much damage has been avoided.. At Wens-
ford the waters had risen to the height of three
feet when the mail coach came through yesterday;
also at Clapton, on the Bedford road, and Cax-
ton, near Huntingdon, as well as many other
other places ; hut as they are decreasing, we hope
it will not wholly prevent travelling, as the
coaches have,. with much difficulty come through.
After the frost had set in -about three hours, and
at. many places, in the lanes and hollow ways; the
water and snow were frozen over, and being
about knee deep, the ice cut the horses feet tilt
they bled. The Manchestcr Mail had not arrived
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at the Post-Office yesterday at three o'cloek, and
it is apprehended, as the snow had again fallen' in
the lower counties, that travelling over the Leek
Hills has met with obstruction.

The Edinburgh and York mail was set 'yester-
day several hours in
.Caxton waters. These wa-
ters, which are situated a few miles on-the Lon-
don side of Huntingdon, were completely 'stopped
in the ice, and the hove mail was more than five
hours at a stand still, (mph at, length labourers
were employed four feet deep to ,clear the way.—
Theßostbn auxiliary mail clown was more thad
three hours in the same situation. The Lincoln-
shire low-lands, although much inundated, are
not so bad as might have been anticipated, as no.
particular (haulage has yet been done. Edmonton
Wash has rendered that road impassable, and the
coaches are going by a circuitous route of more
than two miles. In town, even in Cow-lace, se-
veral axletrees and springs have, been broken in
coining in and going out, from the impaSsahre
state of a principal street in Lomin. The Exe-
ter coaches leik town yesterday for the -first time
thes._ several days.

Dating the whole of the afternoon of yesterday
hundreds of people were assembled on Blackfriars
and London Bridges, to see several adventurous
' men cross and reeross the Thames on the ice.—
The late Taw has sent such a quantity of ice down
the River, as completely to chock up the Thaines
bet-4-een those two bridges ; and the frost on Sun-
' day night 'and vetcrday has so united the vast
mass as to render it immovable by the tide.. At'
One time 70. persons were counted crossing from
Queenhithe to the opposite shore. It is strongly
teeommended to parents and masters to use their
utmost influence- in preventing. the youth under
their charge from venturing on this frozen mass, -
for the ice Which composes it is exceedingly rot-
ten, in consequence of the late thaw.
It does not appear, according to the statement
of the-cold, during the seeson, given in the news--:.
papers, that the present winter, hOwevev severe,
has been :remarkable for intensity of cold. A
scientific Gentleman of this cjty inforins us, that
he has frequently observed Fahrenheit's Thermo 7
meter at 20 ; several times at 15 ; more than once
at 10 ; once at 6 ; and once so low as 2 below 0;
viz. 3-1 degrees below the frct2.7h)g point. This
happened on the morning of Christmas ,Day 1796,
and is reputed to be the most intense degree of
cold ever observed in England. The same Gen-
tleman has. favoured us with a general rule of his
respecting the weather, long since published, with
other matters of a similar nature, viz.. " Upon
the whole, there seems to he a greater disposition
or effort in the atmosphere for clear dry weather,
during the increase of the moon, than during the
wane of the moon, anti vice versa." This is an ori-
ginal observation, anti not to be confounded with
the ordinarily received opinion,
.that ". every
change of the moon, Ivhether -.New, or Fall, may
produce a change in the weather."-,-(o4ord
Herald. )-
To such extremities is the animal creation re.
duced through the present inclemency of the sea-
son; that a hare actually made its appearance this
last week in the garden of an. old inhabitant of
the town of Fulham, on the King's-road, yvh;ch
after affiirding much short to its pursuers, made
'for a saw-pit, into-which she leaped, and suffered
.herself to, be taken.—Thev have also made their.
appearance' so near the =Metropolis as between
Pentonville and Islington.
On the-morning of the ISth nit, the frost was.
so severe, that a wood-pigeon was taken alive in
Pitfirrane-garden, near I)umferluie, having -its
feet frozen to. a 'cabbage, on which it had alighted
but a few secOnds_before.

.A 'gentleman and 1n wife were proceeding. last
week, in a chaise, from Torpoint to Launceston,
Ivhen they missed the road, and drove over a
precipice into a quarry. The gentleman and lady,
with the driver, were dug out the next day, quite
dead.
A melaneholy catastrophe took place in the
road leading our of the North road, some distance
from Royston, to . Bellington Abbey. A Mr.
YATELEY, a farmer, and his twa sons, were tra-
veiling in a chaise-cart, about nine in the evening
of Friday se'nnight, when they got off the road
co sonic drifted -snow, ten or twelve feet ,in
height, and. the vehicle was precipitated into a
st(m.: pit thirty feet deep. The horsi was killed by
the fail, but 'the- three persons were.got out alive
at nine o'clock the next morning, but the youngest
'son, a fine youth, fourteen years of age;ilied soon
aster. • Mr. YATKLEY and his other son were
nearly frozen to death, but they are in a fair way
of recovery. Ihe pit was completely-filled with
light drifted snow.
Several accidents have occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of',Exeter, saute of which are fatal :
On Wednesday a soldier was found dead Within a,
short distance of Haldon, and on Friday three
of the Renfrew Militia were dug out near the
same spot, ,and their bodies conveyed to Child.

POE 11117", Act.

PAItoDV ON Tat wboD-PP.cRER TAPPING TI4E ItOL-

LOW BEECH

[Supposed to be sang in Character by' Mr, WAITBItEAD at
the late Dramatic Entertainments at his seat, Southill.]
(From the Satiric! for Pebruary,)
kne-a by the sign oNhe perriwig curled . '
Upan the droll block, that -a pot-house was near,
And I said, -" if there's drink to be fouud in the t'orld
The Chap that was thirsty milt hope for it here." •
The Chap, &c.-
Every thief had got drittA, and I heard not a sound,
llut the Publican tapping the, Mellow Peer-.,as.k.
Every thief, &c.

On the Bench hi the trapLroom, with Dips)
From the fll'op of the Chandler, /Iwr sweet to recline,
And to know that f ot the full pot to my lips,
Which had never been swigged at by any but mine.

tver}ltliief, &c.

And here in this snug little place, I exclaimed, .
With a Bar-maid to pity a soul that was dry,
T bring in good liquor, and change what I .blamed,
How much could I drink, and how blest could I lie.
Every thief, &c; '