Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

New-York, August 4.

Extract of a letter from London, May 10.

"The fire which broke out on Saturday morning near the end of Stoney-lane, at Horsleydown, Southwark, will be attended with one of the most heavy losses that has been sustained for many years from similar calamity. The first buildings that were destroyed, were extensive turpentine, pitch and tar warehouses nearly adjoining, together with all their inflammable contents to a large amount. The turpentine, pitch and tar melted, ran amongst, and being thrown by the engines with the water upon the fire, the flames, instead of being appeased, raged with tenfold fury. Including the tea in two East India hoys that were burnt, an immense quantity of that article is consumed: the reports on this head are various and contradictory; some say that three, some seven, and others that fifteen thousand chests of tea were consumed. The fine and very extensive range of warehouses belonging to the Messrs. Davis's are quite destroyed, with their contents, to a vast amount. The ruins occasioned by this shocking conflagration cover several acres of ground, several hundreds of edifices, including dwelling, warehouses, and out-buildings are destroyed. The loss cannot be ascertained, but the most prevailing opinion is, that it will exceed three hundred thousand pounds."