Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

LATE STORM IN ENGLAND.

Letters from Yarmouth, of the 7th state, that the mails had been conveyed to and from that town by foot and horsemen for a week, carriages being unable to travel. The up and down London mail coaches arrived in sight of each other near Saxmundham, where they stuck fast. The coach from Norwich was similarly circumstanced at Walton, twelve miles from that city; and one of the Yarmouth coaches was on Friday still blocked up at Lowestoft. Numerous vehicles of different descriptions have been upset with inconsiderable damage, amongst which it is related that a hearse, returning from Bungton to Botesdale, fell, with three of its horses twenty feet into a gravel pit near Barton, without either of them or the driver receiving the slightest injury.

The Mail Coach from Shrewsbury, on Saturday morning, stuck in the snow in Tilworthfield, from whence the guard carried the Mail some way, and then obtained a chaise, which being unable to get forward, he proceeded with his Mails on horseback to London... Nor was the Worcester Mail coach more fortunate; the passages which had been cut through the former snow upon that and other roads, having been filled by the heavy drifts of Friday night the Guard was obliged to leave the coach blocked up at Nettlebed, from whence he proceeded, occasionally walking and riding, to London.

A horse fastened by a chain to his leg, on the Hoe, near Plymouth, was, on the night of the 4th frozen to death.

Mr. Pendlebury, of Chester, was crushed to pieces by one of his waggons, in consequence of the chain breaking, by which the wheel had been fastened, in coming down a hill in Denbighshire. The wife of a soldier of the Worcester Provincial cavalry, was frozen to death on the baggage waggon, between Liverpool and Chester; and on the same day John Mauley, returning from Shrewsbury, perished in the snow, near Backchurch.

The Mail guards that arrived in town on Saturday declare they never experienced so severe a night as that of Friday. The storm of hail was so driven against their faces, as to numb and swell them.

A few days ago, as some persons were travelling over Stalling Down, near Cambridge, they were struck by the cries of a child at a little distance from the road. when they proceeded to the spot from whence the cries came, and, shocking to relate, they discovered two children, the one almost frozen to death, and the other quite dead. The parents of the above children had sent them to purchase coals, but owing to the great depth of the snow, they lost their way, and had it not been for the providentially passing of these persons, the other must have perished also.

The waggon of Messrs. Catchpole and Hazel was upset on Ballingdon hill, as was the Lynn double coach into a ditch between Barkway and Cambridge, but the people and horses were, though with much difficulty, dug out alive.

The second fall of snow has so completely blocked up the Newmarket road, that three passengers coming to town by the Norwich mail could not proceed any farther than Bournbridge. One of the superintendents, whom the post-office have employed to diminish, as far as possible, the ill-effects to correspondence, proceeded with the guard on two of the horses ; and, by great exertions and risk, arrived with the mails in London, though too late for Saturday's delivery.

A young man named Coleman, returning from Reculver to Herne, lost his way in the snow, and was frozen to death ; as were a woman, from the same cause, near the ferry at Rye; and a broom carrier named Fuller, within a quarter of a mile of his own habitation, near Ripe.

A gentleman, who should have arrived by the Chester mail, relates, that from Northampton, which he left on Friday night, he got on tolerably well, notwithstanding the violence of the driving snow, to Broughton Field, from whence the guard for two miles, explored a passage for the horses, which could with difficulty be made to face the storm. At length arriving at Hockliff, he found, among numerous other coaches that had left Northampton some hours before his, and were unable to get farther, the Manchester mail; and was told by persons that had returned with horses of the heavy Coventry and Chester coaches, that they and their passengers were stuck fast in the Snow on Chalk hill. The dawn having by this time broke, he, with one of the superintendents of the post-office and the guard, set off on horses, by riding which, with much difficulty, to Dunstable, and taking a chaise with six horses from thence, they arrived with the mail at the general post office at half past 12 on Saturday.

Our letters from various parts of the country are filled with accounts of accidents occasioned by the very severe weather. Inquests have been taken by John Ingle, gent. one of the coroners for Cambridgeshire, on the bodies of Rebecca Freeman, 60 years of age, frozen to death on the road leading from Ickleton to Chesterford; John Limmer, shepherd to Mr. Frost, of Wood Ditton, freeze to death on Newmarket Heath ; Abraham Rooks, found dead on the road near Little Abingdon ; and Wm. Bennett, froze to death in a field near Hardwicke.

A poor woman of Impington, named Woodcock, has been missing since yesterday se'nnight, and is supposed to have perished in the snow. She left Cambridge about six o'clock in the evening before, and notwithstanding a diligent search, her body has not yet been found.

On Tuesday, an officer's servant belonging to the West Suffolk Militia, was found near the Newmarket turnpike, supposed to have lain in the snow since Saturday. A faithful dog was found lying near his deceased master, buried in the snow, by whose barking the body was discovered.

Tuesday last, a melancholy accident happened on Hampton Court Green : As Quarter Master Colton, of the 16 Light Horse was kicking a foot ball, he tripped up, and falling with his breast on a lump of ice or congealed snow, was killed on the spot.

At the commencement of the late severe frost, a boy who was an apprentice to a farmer Pring's in West Buckland, near Wellington, Somerset, ran away from his master, and secreted himself in one of his out houses at a distance from the farm house, where he remained for three days with no other sustenance than what he had secured in his pockets: at the end of which time he was discovered with his feet and legs frostbitten and no medical assistance being immediately procured, his feet and legs absolutely rotted nearly to the calf, so that they were obliged to be both taken off, Notwithstanding the severity of this operation, he is now in a very fair way of recovery.

A few days ago two women were found dead at Weedon, near Aylesbury, Bucks; they had perished in consequence of the severity of the weather. One of them was known in the neighbourhood, but the other was a stranger, and had an infant in her arms, which was closely pressed to her bosom, the little innocent was alive when its parent's body was discovered, but expired in a short time afterwards.

A letter from Newcastle, of Saturday's date, says, " The country has seldom been buried under so great a depth of snow as at present. In many parts the roads are filled up to the hedges, and a passage can be obtained by cutting only. Many lives, we are afraid, will be lost in the snow; as yet we have heard with certainty but one in this neighbourhood.. Mrs. Pigg of Cullercoats, who left North Shields yesterday se'nnight in the afternoon, to return home, was found in a drift, not far from her own house on the Saturday morning. She was missed on the Friday evening, and the most diligent search was made for her, but unfortunately without success."