The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-02 00:00:00

944 • NARW U ICH NIOS' FIRE ANI) LIL'E IM SURANCre-An Montle,/ lost a MELTING took place at the York Hate!, Bridee-stee.et. Biee'etaiare. the the intrieue Ca taking into eansideatthin the Chargee letely eferreJ_ agehia the Nervach brims Office. 'rile Meeting; consi,ted of Gentlemen. high'e respectable. and Insurers in the Office to the amount of more than oil! La of property. • "Tilslel lIENSLEY, called to the Mr. Samuel Bittridd. Secretary to tar County De - ambient, infortr.- red the Meeting. ti nt 2, awn as the Read:Le:mis t h a d b een patted at tits George and Vulture 'revert). alio:ere". in the Newspapers,be felt it hi clay to commune:de them v. th e n ,„, 1 ihrhch.....h at Novi& The Board had met in eith, r2 eettec, and Caine Lief:nal:l Remlutions. a Copy of which !le ; they stated in subetatice that the Beard did not eFV . ...ler the Society fairly treated by the Meeting et the George doer Vulture.—that it was their principle te 'pay ate and ready aereition to all claims made upon them. mill that they stmal.l contihte e so to de; that the I.letete, sad in of their decisions 'here acknowledged by Committees forneed of the most TelpeCt'll';u: individuals throughout all parts of the country.— ' The Resolutions emeludesi by recommending the appointment of a more initherwie London ronim we to inquhe into and aljuet any claims tied might exist in that department. Mr. S. ffeheold proceeded to state, tiles there was on the part of the Board rig de.sire to euneeal any thugs.: It wee its wish wet both the princteles and conduct of the Institution might receive as much publiziry as possible. The Directors desired that 016 IlltitialtiOn should be, es it were, a house of glass. through which every person . might sea. They were he: fearful of re:runny. Every source of is teltigence eouneeted with the udiee. its Woke, and the State of in ftetds, would be open to ineeeetion.—Cloie investigation had already leeen male at Norwich. by D:putations, commiseionell for that pur pose, from Binnimehten, iitthrtn, Bristol, and other Sae? ; and it was the wish of tee Gomel, that the same system of itepstry should be pursued by the Ceinmittee they had proaosed to have es:radio:lied in London. George Redford, Esq. of lkelford-raw, then proposed several Re sioltinob. John Henson, Esq. of Kensington. raid he attended there as well for hi:re-elf as for his father, they beim: both eansiderelhe irstirere ; end that he expected to hear some answer to the charges which had been lately circulated. The ipso Jixit of the Board, however re. 'eatable. was not enough to satisfy him. The calumnies spread a hmed (ft)r such he believed them to be) elithrld be removed in a effectual manner. The coneern would then go on better, and the public be more confident, and of course mere cemented. ?rends Keinble, Esq. of Philpohlane, said, that however he might approve of the Resolutions so far as they went, he was not olopirtion that they went •far enough. He attended there as an independent Insurer, uacunneetcd with the Norwich Office in poiet et interest, but still desirous that a fair investigation should take plaze The tnectinh at which its concerns lied been lately made the subject of die cuseioe, was not one from which inueli impartiality weld be expected. lle would confess, that there was a time when the premdmes exesting against the Norwich Union Office had their tali weight upon his rand; but-further inquiry and better information hall enabled him to shake them off lie was now an Inearer to e cousiderablettraUttilt, and should probably, as opportunity offered, increase his stake in the concern. Inquiry could not be prejudiciel. Whatever might be his feelings as an Individual, it was unquestionably due to the members, sad to those gentlemen who had lent their names to this hetitution, that full, free, and impartial investigation should take place ; that the slightest taint of trifairness or impropriety of conduct that might adhere to it should be removed. It was an Institution eo beneficial in its tendency. if duly adminietered, that it WAS entitled to the most serious regard. He had always, in common with every persea con nected with Inland trade, felt inclined cordially to et:menage lesur slam Establiehinents ; ar:d so far was he from objecting to the large profits made by sonic Offices, that he should cheerfully contribute to them, if the advantages of Insurance were not to he obtained on terms much snore faeaarable. Though the Norwich Institution was taut eetahli: tied for purposes of profit, as other ettices were ; he had not the least doubt of is stability, because it. large returns were only in proportion to the profits ehared with other offices, yet to the gene rality of Insurers, the price of security was a minor eoneideration, but a prompt settienneat of claims was of the utmost importance. if the great object of security could be lathe slightest degree questioned, whether the probable return of premium was M. or 951. per cent. the Insurer would not be satisfied. Tee conduct of the Norwich (Mice in 311 parts of the country was .most iiberal and satiefactory. He believed that,exclusive of the Me tropolis, i,s insurances amounted to between thirty-five and forty millions, and that there was nut in this exteusive range a single out standing claim. The insurances in the London department amount ed to only tour millious, yet oft that several chtims were yet 1111241. jested. It was due to liar: oftlheus lives, who matiaged the altars in that district, to give them the opportunity of explamiug from whence . tide circumstance arose. It was but jutice to say, that he imputed no improper motive to the ManageMent °lila: London Department. It was iiiipm•sible, indeed, that any unworthy motive could have influenced their conduct. inasmuch a, they had nu private interest ; but it could not be denied that there were apparent errors of judgment, which must be explained. From some cense or outer, it appeared that the streams of liberality which issued from the fountain head at Nor which, to nourish and fructify the country deearuneut, were dammed up and intercepted from the London Insurers. it was impoeable lie should have any prejudice , : against the London Companies. The son of an original and most active Director of the Phomix; the ne phew of one of the Founders east most zealous Directory of the perial ; the nephew of 0.. e Ditector of the Albion, the partner of another, and the friend of very many Directors of that and other Offices, he must nevertheless conftwe, that it appeared to him that the head end front of the otli:nding of the Norwich Office was, that it I gave for notbiug to the public, that security by the vale of which the I other offices uerived a large profit. it would be nothing to prove, even teouelt it might weedy be dune that that motives from whichthe piece, dings at the George and Vulture originated, were very dif. fent from t .ose which hau been avowed with regard to the errorsitn puted to the Managers of the London Department; Their motive he did not mean to question ; but he believed the feeble to be univer sal, that inquiry ass nere.ssary. In one instance a verdict had been • obtained the Office, but tee amount wart not immediately raid. Some time was certainly allowed by I.w, but it was nut libe led, nor slut it evuic: spirit which would alone junta an appeal to a Jury. to avail theitiseleee, atter its decision, of the law's delay. He was not a Loudon Insurer; hut emit though it was owing to pri vate friendship towards a Alanager of a country department that he had no: effeeted his Puttee to twell, lie found that itialltanCeS to a large amount were eice,ted on Lonuon Property by pt.....this epprov lng the pr.:maple of the No. U moo us •tillic circuitous mode; and althotig:. lie endeavoine.. atieniget londoe insets to pre: note the mtere tae Norelea thee , Uttiee, had notstacceeded, in consequence of the system of meet,. mein prey:Ma e ; there. The Board weir humid to theaeow, or to pies:eating. of their agents. dome claims were refueeu tato appeared to ilium from the statement. i k etit Will ell steal goti.: lotto. to be p_iteetly etputanle in therwalvei; and :lentil e.thre were continued, tee concern could no: boot) peoeperou sy. .1 lie tied stated, itesied no doubt that lie eel:re:we tat ,Cl4:llnelib of :.re Loa lon Insurers, with many of whom he tied :tale:m ally waraitoceseel. Mr. linotild. senor. ,e4re.t it ta.u. charges preferred against It:. management h 1 , tied to by any eortgderable Insurer; • and vldeci. Met bang hi (sett the peion with whom the ide.4 of pro /haine t.:e prompt adjuisten- nt of dames by . means of Committees had orthmete,... .:meet reheineele hoists-eelthe: this slid not look Lke a to meat. Shay, or too trihold pitmen-ea There betag at 31st hut I.w inauttl, al liOakaili, it stitc, nue judged tleaeaai,iy to deem a Committee th.e . ie, but he he 1 tiiireell tigested anal tarn 4:hi:ousel it luttg Cue iteruris warei lied lately aplit.itOt in the Newt eepere It Avoid tt,ti. tae forgutten that all the Reputes wets re p.tete. When the etucuiftictut.: counecto.l with he eunlect were ruduced, he it.ut tie doubt but they would clear him of all im putation, ~.~ ti ~ • ~ M THE NATITIAT. RECASTER. Feetly . .efs Savery. E.g. of the house of Savery. Towgoo I and Co. I . .w.iikers, Bristol, aid was- the A.cting Member of the Society for 'lie Bristol District, and he had great pleasure in :toting to so .spatable 14 Meeting, that the instructions he had received front the Board were to act towards claimants upon the most liberal principles . ; he could further assure theta, that no unsettled claim upon the Office existed in Bristol. or r.ay of the counties under his stverin tesidance ; 11'7, .ti 11.! very believed, wera Oleic any to be found unadjusted out of Lotalom—Being h tuself a large insuvr, mud his .fttiter Wing Chairman of the brittol Cootatitee, he of course felt drip interest in the reports lately circulated. Ile came up to London int ioupose to 4.e:intuit% sl.ether the charges made referred to the generd practice of the Office, or were eoidutul to Lorttloo. Ile had been some time before to Norwich ; had conversed about the Office with the most respectable 'own there—heal informed himself of the star of the Fund.. and of the system of conduct pursued by the Board, and he felt no doubt that the prejudices existing against also Society were without Mond:Mon. From this conviction he had re commended the Institution to his friends, and having lately been throng). twenty-seven different counties in the kingdom, he had every where found the Society rising in estimation, and the conduct wits .tlitrutt, , ers spoketiof in the highestterins theinereaseof business as., in his judgment, u sufficient proof of the just and liberal prin ciple.; upon which it was conducted. In the county of Norfolk the amount insured had risen from one to Star millions, and in Wistol, during the last two years, it had iner.gised not less than one million and a Mr. Love% the Acting Member for the Birmingham distvict, spoke in similar tent's of the goneral estimation and growing impor u m:a. of the Society in the Midland Counties, and that no outs:Lind • ing chums existed there within his knowledge. Sanmel Brooke. Esq. of Lamb's Conduit -street, said, that very satisfactory testimony had certainly been borne to the liberality end genzral rood mar,itgement which prevailed in the Country Deteutovaits of the Institution.; but he spoke as a Londoner. and must contend that this was nil answer to the complaints which had Levu made, and the dissatisfaction which had arisen in the Metro polis. For his part, lie could sish that a Ctumnittee should be ap pointed for the express purpose olexaminitig into -the g rounds of this dissansfietion, and-'that noßeseilstion should be passed by theyresent Meeting, but what was confinA to that object. John Mittehton, .Csg. of Fhinner-street, said, that neither the get.erel tiooluct nor , the stability of the Institution had been at all qua 'stained, and he agreed entirely with the last speaker, that the at uottion of the 3leetine, should be .endued to the subject of the late alleged grievances in London. lie then moved a Resolution for the appointment of a Committee for that particular object, which, Ire: some farthrdiscussion, was finally put and carried. LLOYD'S BEAUTIFITL DOUBLE-COVEftEI) OVAL SHAPE BEAVER HATS, quite a new manufacture, excelling all others ever made on the usual plan, are f.a superior in Colour and shape, which they retaim to the. lest, and will out-wear in any weather or chalet., three of them, or the pretended patent Silk, so pernicious to the heed. The iinqualiEed and increasing rept.- tattoo these !lets are daily acquiring have already caueial a number of paltry imitations to be laid out to the Public, who arc positively assured that the Inventors and only Manufacturers of the unrivelled and universally admired Double-covered Beaver Hats, on the Owed Oval principle, ar.: It. and It. LLOYD, and Co. of 9'2, NEWOATE STREET, price VALUABLE !FA,vIILY MEDICINE, for all Inaction or Obstruction of the StomaCh and Bowels, Bile, Indigestion, Flatuleny, Bilious oreick Head ach, pains and distention of the bowels, csickness at Stomach, Habitual Costiveness, kr. PAI.- LAM'S ANTIBILIOUS LAXATIVE PILLS. This safe and elegant preparation is justly esteemed for its agreeable end certain operation, by which it effectually removes all Inaction or Obstruction of the Stomach and Bowels, whether arising from Bile, Indigestion, Flatulency. or Cold : Sickness at Stomach, Head Ach, de. It operates by dislodging acrid bile or other crudities retained in the intestinal canal, and acts as an alterative to the system generally. Free from any antimonial and mercurial pre , it is at all times safe ; and has beta given with singu ax good effect during pregnancy. Its action is particularly adapted to persons of Billions Haoits and those of sedentary lives, where a sufficient action of the bowels is not kept up, and crudities retained in those organs, are fre quently producing pains and distentions, bead-ache, la.ngour, and giddiness, ors cense of weariness and oppression. `• Remove the cause, the effect must cease !" A single trial will fully convince the patient of their efficacy. The worst cases of Bilous or Sick Ilead-Ache are certainly removed by a single dose, and in a much shorter time than could be credited, but from experience. The Proprietor thinks it proper to remark, they will be found not only to act without pain or uneasiness, but to leave the body, after their immediate action ceases, free from that costive state which generally succeeds the operation of laxative medicines. Sold, wholesale and retail, by Edwards, 6b, St. Paul's Church yard ; Sanger, Oxford-street; Ward, Holborn ; Wilmott, London blidge ; and Chandler, Oxford-street.--Price, 21. 9d. and aa. 6d. .per box. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, Aug. 1. -Ow- BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. BANKRUPTS. BLUNT C. late of Tavistoelit;e7ei,eovent Garden. optician, Aug. ►5. Sept. IR, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. itichard3on, Clement':: Inn. PLOUT A. Truro, Cornwall, .;rocer, Aug. 4,8, Sept. 12. at Guild. hall. Att. Mr. Davison, St. Clement's Inn. HOuhumourE T. late of High Holborn, linendraper, Aug. 4,18, Sept. 12, at Guildhall. .kus. May ,n . and Cc. C h ancery Lane. LAPAGE S. London, dealer. Aug. :;‘), 21, Sept. IC, at Guildhall. Atts. Morton and Co. Gray's Inn. ABBOTT J. Weymouth Street, Portland Place, butcher, Ang. 8, 18. Sept. 12, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Young, Charlotte Bow, Man sion Houle. FROST J. St. Albans, Hertford, linandraper, Aug. 4, 11. Scpt. 12. at Guildhall. Att. :qr. Resent. Guilford Place. Kennington. Lotrumi R. late of Snargate Street, Dover, fruiterer, Aug. 8, IS, Sept. 12, at Guiklhail. Att. Mr. Isaacs. Bury Street, St. Mary A xe. THVIDEN DS. M. A. Shiley, late of Shiffaal, Salop, money scrivener, Aug. 25. D. Elliott, Cushion Court, Old Broad Stteet, merchant, Aug. 25. .1. Johnson, late of Shadwell, cheesemoager, Aug. 22. J. and J. Mayor Leadenhall Street, Insurance brokers , Nov. 10. W. Wade. Ho lland Street, Oxford Street, baker, Aug. 29. R. Joy. Cockshut, Salop, innkeeper, Aug. 2.5. R. Evans, Shrewsbury, Salop, grocet. Aug. 25. G. Cooper. sen. Old Ford, Middlesex, dealer, • let. 6. J. Tushingliam, Chester. bookseller, Ang. 29, J. Lock, High Street, Woolwich, victualler. Aug. 29. W. La!;. mann, Tower lOU, me:lx:tilt Aug. 2;V. D. Ci.authers, Liv-rpool, nicrettant. S pt. 1. CCHTI IcATEs. Auth _ 1. Eta,ny. Dover, &apt r—.l. Racquet Court. Meet Str.et, m,•rc , ant -H. M•G ue's ta,liet. I r.a.l r xnlionl, merchant -S. 1 , r.• Ah!. att , iiinkreprr—F. 'lre*Jay, ta:e•o: k!..t4tings, der—tl. Marna, it awn .iLteet, Bond Strettoue.haer. Many persons thin': !Intl will sell the Two Prizn rya:3o,ooo it. the Lottery begins Next Tuesday; and wt. pr.:sunte tins opiniqn arises from his having shared Two in the lust L► tt. ry wiiich contained Pri 01 that aivount, or perhaps it is from his having sold Niue Prizes of £3(1,000 in the last 1() years, and there having been but IS in all clurink; that period. JUG. 2 _ PUBLIC AMUS EMENTS von Tun unsoixo nnEn• ENGLISII OPERA HOUSE. To-morrow--The Americana—Free and Eaby. l'uaday—The Americana—Doctor Huh's. Wedtwtday—The Anaricans--Thcll'e Huad. Thtusday—The Americans—Doctor bolus. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON: SUND.IY, AUGUST 2, 1818. The account of the Queen's health, received yester ilay was, that " ter Majesty is much the same."—Some alarming reports were in circulation yesterday, but they were happily without foundation. The Princess Augusta left her Royal Mother after breakfast in a comfortable state, and ca:ne to London. Her Royal Highness re turned agaiu in the afternoon. We have received American Papers to the 4th ult. containing the articles of capitulation agreed upon be tween General Jackson and the Governor of Pensacola. By these articles it is s:ipulatcd that the garrison, and some persons connected with the civil administration of Pensacola, shall be conveyed to Havannah, the troops to march out with all the honours of war. With re. speet to the causes of this capture, we are at length provided with sane exp:aiatien, which will throw a little light upon the subject. It appears from a proclamation issued by General Jackson, dated the 28th of May, that the depredations of the Seminole Indians, upon the frontier settlements of the United States, have occasioned this proceeding. Spain was not able to restrain those incursions, there fore Pensacola was seized, and is to be held by America till the former Power " can furnish military strength sufficient to enforce existing treaties." This condition is probably one of those referred to in the 19th article of the capitulation. it is evident, however, both from the terms of this ProJureation, and the tenor of the capitulation, that the seizure of Pensacola has not arisen, as crane of cur contemporaries have supposed, from any diplomatic arrangements between the two Governments. If such had been the case, a quiet and formal surrender would have been made on the part of the Spanish authorities, instead of a hostile attack by the American General, and a subsequent military capi tulation. _ Whether the proceedings of an Indian tau, were really the exclusive motives to this step on the part of United States, time will sliev:. The National latelli gencer of the 4th of July, talks of a rumour, which, if true, would tend greatly to discredit those ictives. This rumour is, that General Jackson was " procoeding• to capture the almost impregnable fortress of St. Ati gustine, the garrison of which consisted only of about 400 men." St Augustine, is the capital of East, as Pensacola is of %Vest Florida ; and the possession of those two places would render the ultimate acquisition of the Floridas themselves of easy performance. The following was receivel at Lloyd's yesterday. " Office of the Baltimore Patriot. J uly 6, 1 gi The schooner Colonel Gcorge Artustektd, t,atcchair, arrived here f: nn the Havannah in nine days. The day she sailed, two cartels arrived there from Pensa cola with Spanish 'troops and the Governor of that place. It was expected that American vessels would be detained, as a stop was put to loading teem. As might be expected, this affair created considerable sen sation." DISTURBANCES AT M ANCH ESTER, &C.--The fellow ing is from the Chester Chronicle received yester.lay.— " We are sorry to learn, that most alarming symptoms of insubordination have been manifested by the discon tented cotton-spinners, &e.—Throughout the whole of the week, they have assembled in great numbers— some say to tile amount of teu or twelve thousand men —und paraded the streets of Manchester ; and it is supposed, from hinds preview: Ay formed, they have been enabled to provide tl.emscl , %•: ;with fhcd. The :11 agit tracy, however, have not bccii inactive ; they have be• a preparing for a more alarming change, which ;vas fully exprcted to take place, tv,eii the money et hick they raised .vas exhausted. Accordingly, meteures ware taken to assenible the military immediately. in case of nz.ces.sily ; and for this nurpose, routes were i‘ , dged is the hands of several o the Magistrates by t ... Com "milder. in-Lliicf of the District, directing the concen. tration of a ciaisiderable force. These precautionary steps, it would seem, have not been unnecessary ; for t;.is morning, an order was received for the immediate more!, of a strong detachment of dm 95th itginicia, in garrison here ; and at a quarter past one thi , day, they marched yast our oidee on their way to IVanclicster, via War_ingual. the precise cause o f this snevement is not known hers.''