About half after nine in the morning, three powder-mills in Hounslow-heath blew up, by what accident is not known; The explosion was felt throughout the cities of London and Westminster, and the inhabitants were greatly alarmed, supposing it an earthquake.
About the time the explosion was felt at London, some families at Stockwell were terrified with the rattling and breaking of their china, which they attributed to a preternatural cause. A Lady of fortune was so firmly persuaded that some invisible agent was concerned, that she discharged her maid, whom slie suspected of having an intercourse with the wicked spirit; and, when she was gone, as no more mischief ensued, consoled herself that she had got rid of so dangerous an inmate.
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