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day evening, is greater than has 

 been remembered for forty years. 

 The inconvenience and stagnation 

 of business it has occasioned are 

 distressing, as no persons venture 

 out but those whom necessity com- 

 pels. The roads in all directions 

 are many feet deep with snow, so 

 that travelling is partially suspend- 

 ed : the mail and other coaches 

 have been generally impeded, and 

 for two days the London mail was 

 brought from Dorchester in a chaise 

 with four horses, and did not ar- 

 rive till thirteen hours after the 

 usual time. The roads west of this 

 city have been totally impassable 

 for carriages, and the bags con- 

 taining the mails have been con- 

 veyed on horses. Several accidents 

 have occurred, some of which were 

 fatal. On Wednesday a soldier was 

 found dead on Haldon, with twen- 

 ty-one pounds in his pocket : and 

 yesterday three of the Renfrew mi- 

 litia were dug out near the same 

 spot, and their bodies conveyed to 

 Chudleigh. 



Skreicsbury, — Last week, seve- 

 ral of the West Middlesex militia, 

 who had volunteered for foreign 

 service, were frozen to death on 

 their march from Nottingham. 

 The unfortunate men had been 

 drinking till thej' were intoxicated, 

 and, lying by the road side, slept — 

 never to wake again ! 



Plymouth. — On Monday night 

 last, our streets, and all the roads in 

 the neighbourhood, were inundated 

 by a fall of snow, the equal of 

 which is not within the recollec- 

 tion of our oldest inhabitants. The 

 fall averaged full twenty inches, 

 which unusual depth was formed 

 in little more than six hours. Since 

 this event the roads have been 

 completely impassable for the mail 

 coach and other carriages ; and 



there has been no other mode of 

 keeping up a communication with 

 the metropolis, Exeter, Bath, &c. 

 than by horses. 



The roads from Exeter, in every 

 direction, were buried many feet 

 deep, insomuch that all travelling 

 was suspended. During the whole 

 of Tuesday, the streets in that city 

 had a most dreary appearance, the 

 shops mostly shut up, and no per- 

 son appearing without doors but 

 those whom necessity compelled ; 

 whilst the snow drifting by thewind 

 completely blockaded the houses 

 and windows, and was, in many 

 streets, three or four feet deep. 



The masses of ice and snow had 

 accumulated in such quantities at 

 London-bridge, on the upper side, 

 yesterda)', that it was nearly impos- 

 sible for barges or boats to pass up. 

 Edinburgh. — The frost is still 

 intense, and the fall of snow has 

 been so deep in the southern parts 

 of the country, that the different 

 mails have arrived with difficulty, 

 and much behind their usual time. 

 At twelve o'clock on Thursday 

 night, Fahrenheit's thermometer, 

 in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, 

 stood at 7 degrees, or 25 degrees 

 below freezing : and yesterday 

 morning, at nine, it was at 14 de- 

 grees. 



17. Gloucester — The severity of 

 the frost, for the last fortnight, has 

 not been exceeded by any that has 

 preceded it for many years. The 

 river Severn is frozen over, and 

 the ice is in many places sufficient- 

 ly strong to sustain persons on its 

 surface ; indeed, several people 

 going to Tewkesbury market, on 

 Wednesday lait, rode across the 

 ice on horseback, at the Lode, 

 near that place. 



On Monday the cold was so in- 

 tense, that the thermometer, ex- ' 



