The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-28 00:00:00

~.. . t . &I . . . • s . • . . .. . 4 • '` , . . , . ~ 1 - . .../T; • . ./ 1 . / • . • , , . . k .. . _ ... . . - V • 1111=7 — -mot in the MIN its etisteoce could form no objec. 'Au action was commenced, and the money was paid, though not until 11 months after the acci dent. William Bedford, draper, Lincoln„_ having seeiree.advertisement in the Newspapers milling the reeeerMeeting, sent an account of the case of two • Inouye with 'the s i.Urrion Society. In 1802, he was seamier the Society, and continued until 1813.: — Jews Mepleson, a rope-maker, one of these-in mows, lad sustained damages by fire to the amount wr 501. The Union Society repli ed to him by quib bles so thin the poor man never received a single The 'damage of the other insurers from Bleckwall amounted to only 201. Being efilicted with paralytic affection. bl f. Bedford undertook to pay-for the repairs, end applied to Mr. Bignold for nneoiretion. From Mr. Bignold, however, be received enfy insulting answers. Among 'ether things he stated, that giving money for persons assisting in cases of fire was a great evil, and that it was the duty of all persons to assist an such occasion'. The coasequenee was, that Mr. Bedford had to pay the money out of his own pocket ; hot having, as agent, received some money for the Union, he kept it. — His final loss, however, Was a balance of 51. These cases and some others were so rapidly reed, that all the particulars could not be collected with 'efficient accuracy. When they had been all gone through, Mr. Grooves resumed the reading of the Report in the following terms r—o . Your Committee have before them reweeroes other cases of complaint; many more they know to nisi, , in which air apprehension of injery to tbeir interests ' in causes now pending in the different, Courts of Lew, bus restrained the parties from venturing to address themselves to your Committee. The follow. log eases are now in litigation, viz. Messrs. Weide: grave, Greaves, Robbed', Pighe, Brown, Hoppers, Baisheeds. Taylor, &c. in all 17 cases. In the coarse of their investigations it has an. avoidably devolved upon yoor Committee, to hear much of transactions of the Society not clearly within the letter of their instructions. On some of these topics your Committee deem it prudent at pre sent to .observe entire silence; but your Committee cannot forbear observing, that it -appears to them that many of the printed statements and publications of the Society by no means correspond with the teeth; and in the Fire Insurance Society in particu lar, they find that the Noblemen and Gentlemen held forth to the Public as Trustees disavow any knowledge of the funds or affairs of the Society ; and, in fact, inch delusive statements and measures have been retoeted to by the Managers of the So ciety, to iodate parties to insure, as no circumstances can widest, and prospects of advantage have been held out to the parties assured which it is probable can never be realized. Of the ', f ife Assurance and Annuity Society, your Committee can speak but very imperfectly ; the deed upon which it is established is not to be found in the fnrolivent O f fice. This Institution, in point of im portance, is infinitely superior to the Fire Insurance Society ; and as your Committee fear its management may involve errors of magnitude, they most strongly recommend a foil investigation of its principle and situation, which will require more time and more au. tbority than it has yet beau in the power of your Committee to exercise upon this highly important subject. Your Committee have no Information to tommunicste respecting the funds and property of the two Societies, from the circumstance of the rein eel of the Norwich Directors to " eater into any correspondence with, or in any manner recognize, your Committee." That large resources exist, your Committee entertain a doubt of ; the particular secu. Thiel in which they are invested, and of their ade quacy to fulfil the engagements of the Society, they .are unable to judge • but your Committee most ear nestly impress the Insurers with the absolute neces sity of coutinuing the enquiry, until they shall be :furnished with a full, clear, and satisfactory state ment *poll these important points. Your Committee :feel it incumbent upon them to notice an advertise. tient upon the subject of the funds, which has sp. „pelted from the Committee sitting in Bridge-street, and which poroorts to be a statement of the funds just received from the Directors and Auditors at .Norwich, but which, so far from affording any novel .Information on this head, is a mere copy of part of an advertisement which appeared in an Irish News ,paper in the month of July last, and contains neither the particulars of the funds, nor any account of the accounts outstanding against them. Upon the whole view of the case, your Commit tee are struck with the singularity of an immense In stitution lik-• this growing up under a provincial ad. ministration, the principles of whichare scarcely un derstood by one in a thousand of its Members. Of the actual exercise of all the effective functions of its management by a single individual or singlefamily; of a tong list of names of Noblemen and Gentlemen of the -highest rank and property in the kingdom Mewl to be Trustees, which have been used without the parties having any trust or participation in the affairs or concerns of the Society ; of a party or par. ties, named as Treasurys, whose whole knowledge or acquaintance with the Society consists in an ac coont being kept in the Society's name with the Danklog.hoose, of which they are the firm ; of the apparent abdication of all authority by the Directors appointed to superintend its transactions; of the rts lire ignorance of its Members of the state of its funds and property, and the general mystery and false co• looting which envelop its character and all its trans actions. Asid, In conclusion, your Committee are' decidedlyof opinion, that it is only by a full, clear, an d impartial investigation into the funds, affairs, and management of the Society that it can be rein gated in the good opinion of the country. Mr. TWISta moved, that this Report be received a nd agreed to. Ile then took occasion to refer to the numerous anonymous publications which had been in various ways sent forth to the world since their last Meeting, and which were dictated by any thing but a fair end liberal feeling. It was doe to the Committee to which he belonged, to state, that not one of these publications had directly or indi rectly, emanated from, or been issued by them. — (Hear, hear !)—They had sent forth no document whatever, but such as had the signature of their Chairman, in a public and authentic form.—(Hear, hear!)—lt was for those who wished to produce er+ , i4m among the Subscribers to the Norwich Fire and Life Assurance Ofice i to resort to undue "P'-‘9.17!TrA11;17-7 V-1.7 •._ , •71w- to act fairly, honestly, It had Ifeetrobjecierl to the —.wee, that it was partly composed of persons who had claims at Wee' with the Norwich Office, and who were thereby but indifferent judges in what might be saki to be their own cause. Now it was due to truth to Stele, that, only three out of the 17 Members of whom the Corn. mittee was composed, had claims on the establish. ment, and that the attendance of the Committee was never less than from eight to twelve in number, so that if ever the three were to be influenced by private feeling, they bed little opportenity of indulging - o it, for at no period bad a question been pressed t a numerical division in the Committee. Whatever was transacted there, obtained assent on its own merits, and without the aid of any particular number of votes. Another objection was, that the Committee did not want to institute the enquiry they pretended,' into the . alleged misconduct of the Norwich Office. The Report jest read was an incontrovertible answer to that assertion, for it at once showed the real feel. , ing of the Committee —their anziety to ascertain abuses, with a view to their remedy, and in the end] to re-establish the Society in the good opiuion of the • Qn this motion being seconded, and put from' the Chair — Mr. KENN.* rose, and said, that he was a Mete bee of the Committee appointed to communicate with the Directors and Officers of the Norwich Union; and to investigate the cases, wherever or whatsoever they may be. which had given rise to complaints against the office, which it wee the object of the pre. sent Meeting to ascertain, and put into a train of redress. The Committee, of which he (Mr. Kemble) was a Member, had proceeded to institute the fullest, enquiry, and were at this moment engaged in k it without at all considering the measures take he the George and Vulture Commit tee. He begged e, at the outset, to state, that he was not now present se the organ, or with the .privity or authority of his own Committee. lie merely came among them as an individual subscriber to the Norwich Office, and net invested with any authority. Ile felt himself, how. ever, entitled to state, that the Committee, of which he was a Member, meant to make no Report to the General Society at large until after the fullest end fairest investigation of all the cases they could re. tele., and until after the most ample enquiry iato all the facts submitted to them. They, would then lose not a moment in making such a Report as they could individually justify in their private characters. If the present motion were merely for a full and fair invest's, gation, so far from opposing it, he should have beers ready to second it for where it was insinuated in the government or conduct of a great establishment, that "there was something rotten in the state of Denmark" —(Laugh)—he thought that no time should be lost in instituting, a strong and persevering enquiry into the real state of the case.—(lleor, hear!)— Whe ther the result of the enquiry shall justify the ap prehensions of some, he should not now venture to pronounce; but the Committee, of which he was a Member, would shortly, he trusted, set the matter at rest, by the expression of an honest °Orden ; and Ire thought the Meeting should wait, at least,' the espression of such a result. He could assure the. Meeting, that if the Committee had been a patched. up one, or a set of men merely brought together to blink rather than to promote enquiry, he should not have been found among them—he would have scorned an association with men so formed. Ile did not mean to cast any itsvidines reflections on any set of men, but he could not refrain from impressing his regret that the invitation held nut by his Cum. mittee to communicate with that of which Mr. Al. Berman Thorp was a Member, had not been accepted —it was tendered with the utmost cordiality, and he regretted that it wee not received by the Gentlemen to whom it was addressed. Had the worthy Alder man or any of his Colleagues in the Committee at tended io Bridge-street, they would have at once seen that nothing was more unfounded than the no.' lion that the Committee were acting under the in. fluent . . of Mr. Bignold. in fact, that Gentleman's own influence was merely circumscribed to the London district, and that was only a branch of the great business of the o ffi ce, and a branch indee d so amid!, that it bore no more comparison to the gene ral business of the office, than the stalk of a cabbage tree did to the roots of an nak.—(4 laugh.)—But Mr. Bignold had not the smallest influence upon the Committee—their enquiry was general, and embraced every department in the largest manner, end eons.• quently the Report could net be made so easily as some people might wish. To the Report now pro posed he could not agree, because it was vitally de fective in several parts. It alleged that there rzisted seventeen cases at present in actual litigation with the Office; now, two out of the seventeen, to his own knowledge as a Me mber of the Committee, were not in litigation. Mr. Waldegrave's wee investigated and approved of by the Committee, emit he Directors at Norwich immediately ordered its full payment, with all espences. Mr•GREAT6II.--" It is not paid up to this moment: Mr. Wablegrave is himself in the room, and can verify what I say."—(Hear, hear! and cries of " Shame !") Mr. KESIDLE repeated, that he knew payment had beets ordered by the Directors at Norwich, but be believed some delay afterwards arose for investigat. ing Mr. Waldegrave's claim to being refunded the loss of certain wearing apparel.—(Hisecs.) The CilAlaStAN insisted that every Goalless, should have a fair hearing. Mr. Kuntz repeated, that his objection was to's Report which coutained erroneous matter. The ether case, of which he knew something, was New. can's. lie recollected that person's daughter calling with a professional man to the Committee in Bridge-, street, with a statement of her father's case; they' 'told her, that perhaps she meant to bring her state. ment to the George and Vulture Committee; wish. ing to act fairly and openly, and not take advantage of any mistake which may place in their bands in formation intended for another set of Gentlemen. — (Hear!)—She, however, placed her case in their hands; and though it appeared that insurance bad been affected at two offices, without the molar 110tifiCil ion of the fact to the second ) and coastqueatiy opeell I t —.wring; in legal Ouse, The icy, yet the Committee, 'biotin the fairly Warred, recommmended should be given, and no advantage " legal objection.—(Loud cries of teal so legal objection::)- - e could not het" jog, that to one of the Offices where .bard been effected, twice the premium that was to the other. This seemed, it ',wipes proceeding. li e was runtimes mild not take any prem atur ' it, h entreated they would welt until the was reedy; with this view he would amendment to the motion for receivit . Report, that this Meeting should adjot future convenient day, which she Worth , could fit, within a reasonable time. I with the authors of the present Meet , rode such extraordinary baste in theit I the fullest investigation was necessa , could not bring himself to decide on he had bees at present able to collect, until he esamined more facts. The ' any of the Trustees ad lent their names tar purpose, was di h sproved by the 1- - been read; and he, on the part of folly disclaimed that they, or any the puppets of Mr. Bigoold, or of and lie was also glad to find that the prom Meeting declared they were solely wish to redress abuses, end by that and support the credit of the Nor was, he repeated, glad to find that ready to convert themselves into a other Insurance Offices might " discos. quent mesic."—( laugh.)—Now, by the adjournment he meant to pt Committees might greatly assist in bit mon enquiry to a satisfactory terminal scriog with candour and good wi other. They might thus become, to mathematics, " co-iefficients."— (, regretted that be happened to ht Meeting, hut being present, he cou, Report which he believed to be pat and this at a time when, by a short scribers may have before them a facts. A Soto:mem enquired whether balances had been laid before the ( Bear!) Mr. !WHILE replied, no other mined from Norwich, and published Mr. Baootte came forward, at Member of the same Committee in , acted. The first thing he would sus ing was, the paramount importance to justice uniting in support of which, particularly in the Life Dek the properties and securities of so of families. It was in this view all party proceedings and general tad the effect of undervaluing the Protested against the introduction of an angry nature, when such interest , He knew the George and Vulture Comi actuated by any other than foie. thought them so far entitled to (Near!)-11aving done this jut L only claimed for the Committee of Member, the same candour ; ant' not able, as soon as this Committi ' Report, it was because they wen Honourable Friend had said, to tt told after- the fullest and mast mi and enquiry. Until that time art it right to abstain from disclosing As the question stood, there wen tees sitting to investigate the cone end was it too much to ask of II they should wait for a short time the Reports of each ? In corm/. fallen from Mr. Tssigg, he begged r ing, that the Bridge-street Commi one of those offensive publication, man alluded to. They were deteri nonce crude or ex.perte statement forth any thing, save the paw funds of the concern, which it circulate, to allay the apprelten, ple might entertain if the first I to circulate uncontradicted. Ili ed the adoption of sty party pri have a tendency to destroy, rat' institution in which was embarks of individuals, who had for yea, money into its funds.—(Near !, course was, he thought, to del any general measure until they fair report of the constitution I ciety. If, when this were givi tory, then it would he time eon, steps the Subscribers should di motion in which they were pl Meeting would not be led to premature step ; to prevent socl upw secoud Mr. Kemble's mo. meat. Mr. HANSOM expressed that he saw a Meeting like this anent' Kemble, while he was making • on the general business they sr —(Cries of 66 There teas nt doten.")—lle thought he had fiat, ; at all events, he hoped , I was not a single individual either Vulture or York Hotel COOP feel candidly interested in going the necessary enquiry. Ile or the interests at stake, in the I, Office, as a strong reason for steps that may tend to shake blishment. lie by no means ti this day read would justify the tion of any decisive mesiuree, - by no means ripe for decision. port. came, then the whole case Subscribers, and they could decide they had under their view. Mr. MATOR contended, tl of the funds of the concern, feted the notion that its shoat log one. Its annual preen thought, fully'covered any losses ' to s eulogye of the stability 411 8ma 1 . S TATESMAN / males a ..ct4b4,l, w oo. fltiti it wet .ter thole -PeChmiiii Vitiating. whet like t scputitit‘led .10 which he belonged, policy, let the f had 'waist bet a Eidress of theses iu view, and the bOil Welt itiab ultimate restoratlett - of its ptesperity as their object, meld should be .... fairlv_ honestly. and openly.—( Hear! ).,- of the legal olio -- —.. aan &sal obiec -. i ' • ; 4 1 e •=i- 1 ' ....frAt e ..)' t ),,,..t: 1 4 y r•••. 4 '--. , dierkatisea t the iffl led that pay. i a t ammo —The. Members of C osa I ; V ll ll et n h t ill a . la g b e llei sg t ).s al hea e :d n t iN L A'... o 6lrdi nti 6s4-11 0 jmi l lulei.irtwispadi7triglikIP4: Committee, uacel l i r i: d e f7F o d n ill seq P;jAn ti Awi e :l nee lng irli o l4ea i "a lie di l;g:altils os UCan i iebil°l csit.s°l7l: 4 7 , I d f.: 1241 : 5 bufi l ' pent a of 64 There themselves Cii.vreeisiltaatteldedieujiawrniireaus4inerthibeanNwarairsliewheirU:rliocanalltiejuipellia ,tot i n s el i P es n u bl r : n r e v e " (their time having been hitherto taken up to investigating na standing claims against the Society, and with other matters) i t s - inform the Insurers at large, that the Directarsaad ik a idi tar ; s i had t h le an f ace given of N F o nods.rwi e h i o ka th y p e G fn o r r n e i r s o ked men th t e b in er w u i rti a ee sta a t t e l u 4a t s of es ," PUr e rga i t n a l E igloos that Ibis a tmu onn it t les ini a i n i,, d ge t t h h e er . bo s la o nees loB. i 9 a j6 ib l e A ka i n ic d 9 s a cr i t n ite th seve ral Fire r apart.) 4 . meat, and fbi,lBol. 17s. 9d. is the Life: —And that although h e ti e ta o ra ther a r te ßePe p, an e d t Ilkibenof this Committee ha t c o e be ne- p cesson repared w to ba si t t ezo to d a oa:kt lri in addition to the ahoy% Pi Id move, as an the correettiess of this statement, they are prosecuting more p ar . cicalae . enquiry into the moire of those Funds , an d owe dime. ing the present tl isnineraitio:—Miateetnadisitin,so.spoepfpearseiregarsy shetbefor.ttlhayeelor that, in Kr t Pm% upon that sub. '. adjourn c h v ai ti r t m il an a tl orthy r, Foods , the amount of Annual Premiums for ekeeeds the p rt i: e . 41 . la e ag reed bank tomes %hick can be anticipated; according to the Arerhai sting, who had of former years.—ln t he name of the Committee , -- o FREDERICK A. CLARKE, gee, al fir enquiry, that al emery ; but he - o ., Legsd". Aug. 19, NM" Several Gentlemen then pointed oat that the Coma I the information mittee did not, in the last parag ra p h, s p eak with poi 1 at certainty—thee merely alluded to 46 PAO* V. d e agli ll eg o a r tcioonuldthhaet 1 I Fames for a Gioia. losses. • letters that bad Mr. MInDLITON stated, that be was a Member a the Committee,• the Committee sitting ~at the York Hotel, Bridge. 4 • street, end had seen the statement just read is th e ( advertisement. The Committee gave it as they had ' C r of them, were it from the Directors at Norwich, and were not rt. ny other person. eprinsible for it, though they had no reason to doak . e )romoters of this y actuated by a its gprrectn•ss. Th• Committee would be Gil / re . tat coarse regain H e sponsibie for their own acts. ' • wick Office, They, had. widen*" . to investigate the whale affairs of the concern, sad is •Ttyey were now engaged in &All at they wets not so,. and would shortly make their Report at a Pablic 0 i pipe, on which report thereon. 'course most aloe ~ he thoug h t , t h at .Mieting. Mr. 'l'wigg bad disclaimed on the part of his Committee sny share in offensive anonymous f propose, both the publications. For the Committee to which he (Mr. c bringing the cam - 1 'cat manner, the same alter diselelmer 'of their Wig 'nation, by merely M.) belonged, he had In make in.the most unequivs. will towards each directly or indirectly a party to soy such poblicia. I to use a term in• (d laugh.)— lle I have come to this no statement skould emanate from them, exce p t what ,old not agree to a. lions, At their first Meeting they had resolved that 1 1 l cameforth la an authentic and formal shape. artially incorrect, Semis( voices enquired, by what authority the Committee at the York Hotel had been formed?— )rt delay, the Sub- I I f u ll statemen t o f Others replied, it was formed by M r. Bignold, the Secretary; but this assertion was again contradicted, r any statement of and Mr. BROOKE said , t hat the Meetin g at the York Hotel had been regularly summoned, and that the Committee? there the Committee was chosen in the usual manner. r than that trans- 'A number of Gentlemen seemed also anzious lo;' hed as such. see if both Committees could be got to act cos. '1 1 : he was a jointly, but this did not seem to m eet the wishes of. .1 and said, the majority, which Mr. Kemble and Mr. KsuaLe said, t ha t his Com- t 'ohmic to the Meet. mittee had no power to add to their number, :e of all real friends Mr. Alderman Tuonr begged to esplain the f an establishment c i rcum stance to whirls Mr. Kemble had alluded, a partment, involved respecting ' the epplicatinn made to hi m. The to many thousands. Werth) , ;Alderman here read the letter calved from the he hid rm r that he deprecated York Hotel Committee, and alleys, rat aspersions, that so far from eeprefsing' a desire to communicant establishment ; he the manner insinuated, merely iticormi4 the COI,' )f individual feelings ,mittee at the George and Vulture, that they sere cre sts were at stake. ready to receieiCer the' York Hotel a n y atavism.) which the former thought• proper to. send theta.- Committee were not air motives, and he This was, he , saittAisy• thing bat .a cordial tender Lo public thanks.— of co.operatin.' I.lr . ,*ll(erikre, as he was bound, .. 'slice to others, he handed over 'the letter to his. own Committee, wits , of which he was a merely sent a n answer acknowledgidg i ts recei p t. . id that if they were They did not think !mopes to send oily Statement. to the other Committer, because the y thought that is , tee was, to prepare a re determined, as his follkite thern.selphi irt such a' Mode of ieekihg redre• take no decisive step for sufferers, Anna-fall far short of the esercisesi minute investigation , .eillbirit); seltivar hitt' tberwere invested. They case rrived, they thoirged• euryedittat:they, hart intich Wider field of action sad ; part i a l ineornatihn.'ioquirropisis feetitem, and 'they consequently pure re now two Commit. sued - their oatii'Aitnitsi v and Rained this Report.- - ncerns of the Office ; ( Ikar, hear !) , - .i. ..;...- J. t h e Subscribers, t h a t . Mr, 1 . 0(465011.11 THORP absent , that w i th mho enc.h to the mapper in- tr - 7M , 1;167 tit . Wieling it tit s to have before them equence of whet had York Hotel heal been cen;Se4; . ! :Paper had bees dto assure the Meet. just put-into his baud, from which it appeared that it mittee had not Issued eitinn from had been conceited by circularaicontainifig a regal. Mi. Thomas liignol d , thel r cretary. n s which that Gentle - ) rmined not to counts. (hear, hear ! ) ntsioor had they sent Mr. Kcstamt said, that hr had received on tech 'graph relative to the requisition. Ile had heard of the Meeting accideet. t was deemed right to ally, and being a Subscriber, went there. Heroic! ‘. nsions that some pee). a certain list of names about 'to be proposed as e rumour were suffered Committee to conduct the enquiry ; to this coursehe le strongly condemn. at the instant objected, and suggested that the pro• f . roposition. which may p er course would be to elect the The Comlist miwasttee fi tben ont 1 'her than preserve, an amon g the Gentlemen present. :ed estensive securities immediately withdrawn, and the Committee formed are b ee n p a ying their in the room. It was in'this.mitiner that he bombs. !)—The only proper ed to have been• placed upon it. He could theretere lelay the adoption of assure the present Meeting, that if any previous ion y could get a full and fluence•had been prepa p red or r econcerted (he knew and funds of the S. nothing of the kind himself ), it was en tirely render. ren, it was n nsatiafag• ed abortive by t he list being w ithdrawn, end the ' nugh to take whatever Committee selected from It the Gentlemen who had irat. [teem eligible in the sic trad ed the Meeting.—(A vo ice cried out, " plaCed. - Ile hoped the clear the plan was laid, though it subsequently faille ) the adoption of any —Hear, hear!) ch a course, he would Mr. Tw ion, as heing the proposer of the fore oriOginal otion for an mdjuurp- wltionr, claimed his right to reply, lie the w I Lion on the smendrent to adjourn was put . He sada ' at he felt hurt, when lie wa il aware Ami tlsk.lteport.this day- read was tiv, e . empt to put down Mr. m ature in one sense and that if the Co mmittee lse gan important address delayed it .for atwitter fiionth they would have bed • were met to investigate. able, judging from ihh they had already*seeet i• to attempt to rat hint. have swelled the list-of grievances and injuries 1 1 . 4 been such an inctins• fered by Subsciibeti to the `Norwich Offic yours' I Ind trusted titat•tkere tranrdiitary and beart.rending amount . —(Q-- her on the George and Rut , 'beiokawate Of the peat insistof the the Pak, ni mittees, who did nett they felt it right to sepaii . forward and' state 0011 one. The P I ng fairly and fully Into of their etiquirreelyets•far as they katig trged the importance of Instiratiee.4loe'sgaerd, of !sr leak importance Oise Life Department of the the Life liepaciment, aviiiiii so dearly coneernell so enike yr 0 term's: If the Gentlem en oho objecting tit any party imn r i irs e the credit of the es's. pressed vimAlhe dment'had waited until the Resole. thought that the Report tinots•*liich would be• Itv•anithy submitted, Def lib 'Meeting in thendop. w Natalie found that the Commi• tee hod by no WO as the question seemed fetfinil decision on their enquiry ;on the co: their 1. When the other Re. tiatr,they were about to seek fresh powers from tat would be before the constituents, for the pOrpose of following upthein soli' ecide on the information Ration in the most effectual manner. It was now stleor from what Mr. Kemble staled, that had it not b et that the brief statement for h i s h onourable conduct, a packed list ‘lo` , as lately advertised, ie• have constituted the Committee at the York I wet; ation was not a flourish. Even as that Committee was formed, it cootaies smiums, the Committee four or five interested persons; who may be it'd 1 osses'it could be moiled be enquiring into their own cases.—(Loutecos of Its capital. lof " Name ; name !")-IVheli called On lb I s ke `. I i i ! i i 1 1 I ' ' 4 f : 1 . 1 I 3 4 ° I 411 0 ' . , ~' P... -77 7