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Fire devastates Smyrna’s Frank Quarter trade hubs
From Smyrna the alarm spread of a massive 26 hour fire that swept the Frank Quarter, destroying English, French, Dutch and other foreign factories. Officials estimate losses near 200,000 pounds sterling with ships’ magazines and merchants’ houses all ruined amid protest by Turkish officers.
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London Gazette
Constantinople
Heraie
Smyrna
Porte
Genoa
Prusian
Potzdam
Count Worpenzow
Russia
Waples
Berlin
Frances Frederick Augustus
William Adolph of
Prunsia
Marmora
Count Viry
Sardinia
England
Hamburgh
Prince Augustus of
Hluistein
Lubeck
Petersburgh
Holstein
Whitehall
Charles Duke of Richmond
Sussex
James Lowther
Cumberland
John Myhill
Great Windmill-street
Westminster
Hrick- Jayers
Copartners
Guildhall
London
Montreal
New-York
Plymouth
Cornwall
Belleisle
Montague
Firm
Kent
Fame
Burford
Berwick
Wareham
Balmborough-castle
Howick-Burn
Elizabeth
Jobson
Dundee
Maudlin-fields
Thomas Hagerstin
Barton
Meyer Michael David
Hanover
Electorate of Hanover
Gerrard Bates
Bushy Park
Dunckley
Fe’nnight
Edinburgh
Launceston
Huntingfield
Suffolk
Jones
St. James’s Park
Barbary
Dunkirk
Spain
Portugal
Goree
France
Perlin Bing
Hanborgh
Verfiiles
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Dresden
Petuween
Vienna
Rusia
Paris
Malesherbes
Cadiz
Bernardin
Chac
Grand Council
Lecoms
Che Bearer