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Fires Bombs and Fire Engines Foreseen in London Note
A long miscellany reports royal letters urging pacification, troop movements to Jutland, and a major proposal to arm parishes with gunpowder bombs to extinguish fires. It details the Copenhagen and London items, a Dublin murder case, stock quotes, and theatre notices with Mr Povey promoting fire extinguishing bombs as a public safety advance.
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Warsaw
Senate
Germany
Copenhagen
Norway
Jutland
Holstein
London
Robert Alhurst
Difaff-Lane
Fith-street
Essex
Woolley Holborn
Rochester
Paris
Paris, and That Mr. Morris
Julie Pratt
Enfield
Mead
General Assembly
Church of Scotland
Edinburgh
James Smith
Charles Earl of Hoptoun
William
Newgate
India
Royal Exchange
York
Stockholm
Sweden
Westminster
Povey
Bellfire
Mr. Povey
Peter Cook
Turner
Cook