Warning to Watchmen

The following *Warning*, addressed to the Watchmen of London on the occasion of a great fire, which destroyed nearly 100 houses in the neighbourhood of Exchange Alley, Birchin Lane, the back of George Yard, &c., among which were Garraway's, the Jerusalem Coffee House, George and Vulture, Tom's, &c. &c., is extracted from the *London Magazine* for 1748, and is very characteristic of the then state of the police of the metropolis:— "Mr. Touchit's Warning to the Watchmen of London. From the Westminter Journal, April 2nd, No. 331. (1748). "Whereas it has been represented to me, *Thomas Touchit*, W…