153 JErf/ 7 Stanhope’s Remarks^ &c. 
fecurity of thofe magazines is a great national obje&, not only 
on account of their importance in time of war; but, alio on 
account of their vicinity to the City of London. For, from the 
immenfe quantity of gunpowder they contain (when full), 
their htuation upon the river Thames, and their being within 
the diftance of only a few miles of London, thofe magazines 
being blown up would probably produce, in the Metropolis, 
a violent Ihock, like that of an earthquake. 
