| Content Description | Reports that in the Hertfordshire election Mr Caesar received most votes, Sir Thomas Seabright was also returned, and Mr Freeman the sitting member was defeated; describes a terrible fire in a barn at Burwell which took place while many people were watching a performance; states that there was only one door which was openable and that panic caused a crush; adds that 80 bodies have been found and a further 120 people are unaccounted for; 'the Andrew', a player, escaped but is so badly burned he is not expected to recover.
Mentions that Henry Flanders wishes to stay in the earl's employment; adds that there is a great epidemic of fever in the neighbourhood but that now the weather is getting cooler it is hoped that it will die down. |