The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-29 00:00:00

TIIE WEATHER.

Lord SIDMOUTU, by.order of the PRINCS RR-
GNNT, has addressed a' Circular Letter to the
Lieutenants of the respective counties throughout,
the kingdom, exhorting them to resort to effec-
tual means for restoring, as much as possible, the
accustomed facility of communication bettyeen
London and the -several parts of the interior, so
essential to the interests of all, and for. alledating
'the diStress,which large and meritorious classes of
the. people have-suffered by the necessary suspen-
sion of their usual employments at this severe
season. _

Notwithstanding the rapidity
.of the thaw, it
cannot he expected that the communications with
the country can be regular for some time to come.
The roads having been a solid sheet of ice, are
n6w full of holes through to the ground, so large
and deep as to render it-dangerous for a carriage
to drive over them. The course of la-t,t night pre-
sented all the varieties of frost, rain, and snow.

The road from Puckeridge to Buntingford,
on the Huntingdon road, is a complete river ;
and, for the last two days, passengers, for
their own safety, have been obliged, to wade
through, for, the ground is so broken, that it is
next to' impossible to keep the :Oath on the
wheels. Beyond Royston, the coacimien go oven
some ploughed ground for .several hundred yards,
as the road is quite broken up. The road from
Royston to Cambridge is also 'impassable ; and
.the Cambridge coachmasters have laid by their
coacheS, rather than subject the coachmen and
passengers to risk their lives. The low grounds,
all the way to Carlisle, are very had,: It is not
too much to state, that it is ainiracle for the
coaches on the north road to travel 60 miles with-
out going over. The York mail went over at
Huntingdon on Wednesday morning, but no par-
ticular injurywas sustained. The mails were se-
veral hours behind their time in going down yes-
terday. The western road is also very bad.
A letter from Warwick states, that an intelli-
gent Magistrate had suggested the expediency of
the Justieei of the Peace in their respective di-
visions, being -called upon to issue precepts to the
Parochial Surveyors, in order that the labourers
who had no work should be employed on the roads
at two, shillings per day,- and ,that the several
parishes should be responsible to the Quarter-S
Se'ssions for -their own boundaries. The Chief
Constable of each Hundred being ordered. to su-
perintend and to report accordingly.

METEOROLOGIC.9L JOURNAL

BY It. BANKS,

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER, STRAND.

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Jan._ ° '-' ° ,° Inches
22 25 27 30 20 29.83 Fair Fair
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£4 .28
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25 29 27 82 26 ,30,03 Fair Fair
26 34 35 36 34 29.76 Snowt Rain
27 (35 36 37 35 .37 .01 Rain Do.
28 36 343 33 33 ' .3,4 • .13 Do. I Fair
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Snow at Four r. m .
j-Great fall in the Ba!ornether this morning.

A few days ago three recruits of the Artillery,
accompanied by a young woman, set out from
Stockport to Buxton on their way to head-quar-
ters, when night overtook theta. The woman,
within h few miles of Buxton, complained of
cold, and urged her companions to make the
best of their way, and procure a chaise, as she
found herself unable to walk much farther, they
dill so—but two only had power to reach Buxton.
On returning, they discovered the body of their
comrade lying in the snow, and had proceeded
but a short way when that of the woman was also
found—the spark of life being extinct, they were
both interred in Buxton Church-yard, on Thurs-
day.