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Po" •P NORWICH UNI01'11121? 441rDl.IFE INSURANch, yesterday a numerous and respectahle Meeting o r t he l,• n tdoo Insurers at I iir Norwich U n i on Office took place at the George end Vulture Tu. tern, 000'811, pursunot to public advertinement. 'flie large room was crowded to excess'. No per son'. wete admitted. who did nut produce their 'w hew to a gentleman who was placed at the d o or to etamine and see that the person seeking admission w4s duly quelilied In attend. Shortly Liter the room stns thrown open, Mr. ilderusais TsioaP was Unanimously called to the The woethy Alderman then addressed the Meet ing, and lamented that the Chair war suit filled by route person more able to give effect to the very Importaat bullpens whirl► was the object of their inquiry, and the consequence• of which were of such moment to the Immense number of sub scribers to this Insurance Office. Ile earnestly en treated that the Meeting would give a calm and patient hearing to every gentleman who might think propner is, address them. He cusicluNed by reeding 11. e following advertisement, in purulence of which the present Meeting Wlll4 as.emilled Coweirtre-ReOws, George due Voltaire Totem Leyden, Aagoof 20, 1810. Nerviieli Union Fire and Life Assur ance —The Committee appointed to examine ioloo the Con. duet and Funds of the abuse Society mistral the atiesidasee of tie Insu, rr,mident in bind," at • Getters, Alerting to be held at the above Tavern, coo Thursday west, 27th inst. at twelve o'clock, to receive a Report. To ensure ilia ac counutudation of the parties where interest is immediately concerned. rune bat Lamina lasurers, producing their Poli cies and Receipts for the current year, will be admitted.— J. T. Thorp, Chamois." Mr. GIMAYEII then read the Resolutions passed at the last Meeting, which w•e alreelly He then proceeded to read the Report prepared by liar Committee, which was as follows : The Acting Committee, appoint 111 at the General Meeting of Members of, and Claimants open, the Norwich Union Society, held in pursuance or pot die advertisement, at the :Geo.ce and Vulture Tavern, Corn:1111, London, on the 211 of July, IBIS, haviog diligently employed themselves in the '.napurtent investigations awl Inquiries intrusted to their care, Report as follows : Your Committee, in obedience tat ivte resolution pawed to that effect, addressed letters In his Grhtt the Duke of Argyle and the usher Nubkasen atolGet.tlernen Mated to he Trustees of the Society, inquiring whetter ii they were in possession of the ....Indy of any of the (Mills of she said Society, or respnustble iu any degree fur the management of the same. or were otherwise acquainted with the affairs of the aid Society ;" to which the following usurers have been re ceived:— --- PROM HIS GRACE THE DORE Or ARGYLE. SIR—I have received your letter and the Kewlotion , . it tonisteed, and malt refer you W the Dirretora of the Nor. •idd lastitutios for the isforeastion yes require. am, Ike. ARGYLE. now MR. J. D. MILLER. SECRETARY TO THE DIRECTORS ♦T NoRWICH. Ito-1 so directed to refer you to the striver given by the bowl to Mr. Alderman Thorp's controonicattors, and to say, that the Directors do nut feel n. 164114,90 to answer say cusimoutestion from se onaothurisett body. I so, &c. J. B. MILLER. !ROW THE DUKE OF sOSIERSET. Stu—l so unable to give you the reply you desire to your commusicalios, but there emit chaniels through which you esu terrier the isforination you desire, and I refer yOn to ibe Board of Direetoes fur that parttime. 1 Sat, Ike. SOMERSET. TRODI THE EAST. OF SURREY. reply to your application, I have to stale, that ara not In posorosioo, or have any haunted:, of any of the finedeof the Norwich Fire Office. or rirepineihle in soy titre fur the resaageneut orate saise.-1 ant, Ike. SURREY. . PROM TIM RAIL OF ROSFBRRRY. Eta—lie assurer to your letter, 1 barr to inform you that airi nut in restudy of any of-the funds of the Norwich Othrr, or at all responsible, for the name. 1 have no arquaistaner with them further that, as an instorn• in. the touters.-1 am, ke. ROSEHERRY. FROM VISCOUNT BARNARD. Sta—ln answer so your Inter I Live to stair, that my paw is the Norwich Establishment mrs.•l7 notaind , sod that 1 am mot rispowisible fur them:faits of the concern 1 am, ke. BARNARD. MX •ISCOUNT NI.TIIORP. Stn-1 ham SO emtudy of the foods of the Norwich Insti- Intion, directly or indirectly ; nor .10 I conceive myself as responsible for the inauagement of it• funds, with which 1 Lice nut the slightest actrintintalice.s-1 am, Me. A LTHOILP. ltir George Areaylages answer w i.; precisely the same as Lord Ableirp's. . . The letter from Mr. Meek %soder% the local Diretittr of the affairs of the Office at Itiranneltirm, conveyed the ex presume of bus regret at ray dignities' anoint the soloieribers, and stated that all he knew of the fouls of the ttffire was, that they had invested 25,000/. in the Five per Cents. as a security for local losses at Birtninghni t. Mr Ralph Caldwell and Mr. Day peufessell no knowledge of the general affairs of the Cmtipany. Mr William Linskell, of Teignmuoth belt", allied in his Wier, that all he knew of the omelet (stints was from the %banal Report. The Society had always acted liberally to hi neichieuurhood. Mr. Hemp Nahanni, of Hyike, sent au answer precisely similar to Mr. Linskell'a. Mr. Jame. Revell, of Blackburn, soil Mr. Edward Pitcher, of Migrate, wrote that they had only the local losisledc t of the business of the Odic! to their districts— they hnt sill general information of its affairs. From the answers now read, it appears that, in one case '..oy, is a bona 06 trust on behalf of the Soot ty acksiow• 1ed:A.40.. 1 . 26,000 f. Navy five per cents. invested in the Lanes of six Trustees, fur the express iaPestaity, as y o ur noon attre learn, of the Birmingham insurers; in two Caws 11W " er rs are evasive, referriag solely to the Direetoss of the S , f.tty for the reeisired information in all the remands: , atintenications, every delve, of inert, retrogßibibih. or "Nnlialstlee with the affairs of eke go , tetw, is lion tainted. l'utlt Committee cannot his hear remarking, that Mr. Star -1"= bay, of No. a ids, who is nnu o by the Managers as Truitt/ a'sl Trwtritrrr of the Society, admits, in his reply, tint tip. Norwich thoun Olbee keep an uremiat it the hank tet-ttotin. of which he is the senior partner, but that the /loin s it museeisaiefed with the affairs of the Society. Vont Committee also addressed a letter to the Hoard of I hree l ars of this Society at Norwich, in puranitoce of your !at 14 5011811 mi pissed to th a t t hr u m ; its this letter a reply kit bees received, which will now he reed. The imply ( nor Chairman of the llutrd of Ikreeturs, stating, that the whale series of Resolutions adopted at the George and Vol. hire Commit'. e evinced a spirit so entirely inimical to the hetblisliiiii tat, licit they could have ins hope of entering, sub any effect, into a correspondence with such • Commit *. The letter further referred all claimniits to itse Cool "knee at the York H..trl, where eirt.sy ni•Pficatt '''' .""1.1 be , aUittill.oeh, inquired tido and iiimatis.robly adjuvleit. ~y,,iir raornmitter deeply regret that the limn! of Directors midi thoulil have been led to 8 me sock a reply, sh , chi 'Ads it denim all iiiformation tan I he sulijset of the fowl* ...""' S Oriely, charges this fileetta g with psi Mit-lotion of e :± p ubli c, and disparegong the Institution on '. •Tet of the Your Coownviter feel it dor to i heni. ' 4. '2. 2 , and to the politic Ifert4iT 4 rich appointed them, to . °suit any kettot ot kottilitty, ant to declare most trecids . ' . . eddy, that their sole 0 Jed litte bola lo safe the Society from disgrace and rum, by an impartial inquiry into the abases wlitch, to their opinion, have teen suffered to exist, and in which opinion they have been materially borne out by the recent conduct of the Norwich Director. themselves. Your Committee also addressed lettere to the local Cum. millets, in compliance with your eighth Readlution, but feet atuswere have been received—those which have, will now he read. Your Committee have obtained an official copy of the Deed Pull of the Fire Insurance Society, executed mi the Ist day of March, 18011, sufficiently explanatory of the COO atitntivu of the Society, as then remodelled, and at present existing; from which it appears, that the management of the Society is reelettively vested in a body of eighteen Di recline 1 that there were then appointed nine original Truss lees, fame of whom to be 'elected by the Directors—the funds MOO existimt, were to be transferred; that a. (mean cies nesirred, Directors were to noininite Trustees, and Ttiodeditlei notainate ntreeters, reciprocally—all power of elaillb• lie felatelreal by the members at large (ail was establish ' Iffilin t effideteitgoof constitution of 1197) being abrogated by n now regyffialleme-and in Ibis new deed it is especially ea dallereess...." That the said Mr. Monad shalL and remain Secretary to the said Society while his Zht that situation shall be as usobjeclioooble as it been to the bone of holding the grit of the said 0 1 gm In tke moan of Apra lair (1806 ) ' The fifteenth article of the original deed of settlement in tfillffi declared, that the Secretary should not be removed without the consent of a majority of members at a general Illeetimc. The ninth article of the new deed of 1806 declares, filet ottnoesser a majority of the members of the Society fist Ilieellilaio being shall, snider their hands, signify their desire 111 l &ewe Is remove any of the officers of the raid Society, and le solielitute another or others in his or their stead, such removal or substitution shall take .tote accordingly. Your Committee therefore apprehend that it is not sow Codi: went to a majority at a general meeting to illsplece the Seeis: tailor ether officers, but that a Nrio. ity only of the members at large of the Society, consisting of about eighty four tkovisamil persons, ran by their desire repressed under their hands (if so universal an appeal were practicable) displace and remove any officers of the Society whatever. That your Committee find, in the coarse of their proceed- int., that upon every occasion, and in every transaction, the real and effective power of the society appears to have de. volved upon Mr. THOMAS RIGNOLD; they fluid that the authority and interference of the Directors, in the concerti• of the Society, have been nearly nominal, and in constant subservience to their own officers. In obedience to your 10th resolution, your Committee pro ceeded to ascertain the extent of unsettled claims upon the fouls of the Society, and also to collect information respect ing inch cases as may have been vexatiously delayed or liti gated. They have fumed that their investigations have opened the I:oeir to communications from various parts of the kingdom, as well as in the London District ; these iffiest so extensive a sentiment of disgust with, and disapprobation of, the proceedings of the Society in respect 10 the adjust ment of claims, as to leave no doubt that its conduct has been marked by much injustice and vexation —ln attach ing to this Report the cases which have been committed to y o ur Committee, they will not assume the respousibi lity of pronouncing upon Ilia merits of the different de mands and complaints made against the Society. Of the truth and justice of must of them your Committee are strongly inipresseil, nor can they dissemble their mortification at discovering that in a Society professing the objects of mutual benefit and assistance to the respective members, any of them shoold have just grounds to complain that iudemnifi cation for their losses could only be obtained at the expense of the most re.rations delays, unwarrantable litigations, or by more or less compromising their undeniable rights.— From an extensive correspondence upon these important subjects, year Committee have selected the following cases for your information:— Your Committee have before them numerous other cases of complaint—many mom they know to exist iii which au apprehension of injury to their interests in causes now pend ing in the differeat Coasts a Law, his restrained the parties from venturing to addriem themselves to you' Committee. The following cases are row in litigation : Thos. flal, of Williams-ewort, Rotherhithe, had his house bound, in consequence of a Are breaking out in as adjoinissie house. Many objections and caveats were throws in the way of a sedulous by Mr. Bignold, arid at last the Court of Directors agreed to allow him 351.; but Mr. Bignold would give him only 25f. saying, he would get some of his things back again, and lie was glad In take the SU. sumer than be kept waiting any longer —a:Crlee of " Shame .'") John 'Elearkery. of Manchester, said, that he effected an insurance on his machinery for 1,9511. at the Norwich Office, soil 1,2271. at the Phoenix—he had the misfortune to suffer by fire—the Phoenix Office instantly and handsomely paid their share of the loss, but be in vain sought redress from the Norwich ; lie was invariably sent to and fro between the Board sled Mr. Rignolil. He was at last offered by the latter 1,100/ Of nothing, and he was at length, after his isetiessee became worn out. obliged to accept this sum, and saertfice the Fesitai ttttt g 6001. though every body in Man ellester knew the extent of his loos.—"Cries of " Shame f"J James Kinnaird resided at Plymouth Dock, and had been a slop merchant there; he had insured 1,0001. of property at the Norwich, and subsequently had his whole stock, to the value of 1,600 f. burnt. Six weeks afterwards be called ou the agent at Plymouth, and was for nearly six month. ap plying to one quarter or another of the concern, when at last they said they heard an unfavourable account of the fire; enraged soil mortified at this shuffling moil evasive delay, which had involved him in bankruptcy, hie assignees brought ass action, which was treed at the Spring Assizes of 1814, at Di von, and after a trial of 'eves hours, in the course of which every legal siniltlsle to defeat his claim was resorted to, the Jury without quitting the box returned the Plaintiff a verdict fur his full amount, to the great approbation of the Judge Bud a very crowded Court. Mr. Plimpton, 48, Flert•market, whose bombe wax burnt in September 1817, in conseipience of a fire that broke out in the adjoining one, wit. insured at the Norwich for 3081. Wt. Riesokl appointed a day for payment, and when the day came iftlillitit 011 a deduction of 15 per cent. fur cash, or else Mr. Plimpton must remain out of his mouey fur sixty days longer 31e. Plimpton in vain tried to reduce thus die count, mid being imperatively pressed fur cash, was obliged at length to pay the 15 per cent.—(Cries of" shame .'") The late Mr. Bryan 311.Dermott, of Winchester Wharf, Sessithwark, had insured 1,8001. at the Norwich, and had sof fered a loss of 1,30(11. by R Are which communicated front an adjoining l ance; hist as Mr. 31` Demon had died, Mr. Retoold refused to heostilate the I Milk to the execittors, and the latter, after three years and a hall Ni litigation, in which every impediment was thrown jam the way, cousented to re ceive 1,0301. Mr. Newman, of RnCkine, in &sex, was insisted to the amount of I,sinat His boss by tire was over 2,8001 He had its vain solicited remuneration, Ail without effect, until lie was on the eve of having his action against them tried, and Own they came forward dud paid slat money. But he was got vat Of blillitlelo for the space of twelve months, and his family ruined by this delay. He sought advice to know whether he was witliont redness fur the sufferings be had eta dosed by being in this maim..r wantonly kept out of his snowy. William Emerson, of resichurch-street, also set forth the many difficulties thrown in his way before lie obtained 1,1/001. insured at this Office. William Redford, a draper at Lincoln, who hail been it agent for the Office set forth the losses of individual* in his town whirls remain ed unsettled—this induced him to resign thin agency. Mt. Illanlestoo, a rope-maker, was insures! at the Nor wich for ifillf , snared a loss by foie of fitil., aud never could jet It halfpenny Delhi,. sum paid. There were other canes, 17 iu number, mentioned. In the course of their isive.tigatious it has neavoidably devolved upon your Committee to loair much of transactions of the Society, mot clearly within the letter of their instruc t . On sume df them. topics your Committee deem It lit 0 lent, al present, to observe entire volcoce ; het )our r ttttt osittee cannot forbear observing, that It appears to them ilia* many of the printed statemeuts and publication, of de Society by nu means correspood wish the truth; and in the Fire hisarroce Society its particular abet find that the Noblesueu and Gentlemen held forth to the public as Ttolers, disatoth ast) knueledle of the foods or affair' of ....0.•."' • the Society; and, in fact, snrb iNasirri kafestrais and jen niess have hems resorted to by die Managers of Ike Society to sliders parties to linnet, as no circumstances can warrant; and prospects of advantage have been held oat to the parties asoneed, whieh it is probable rail never be realised Of the Life Assurance nod Anonity Society, your Com• mote, can speak but very imperfectly ;Tait ntin vim* woteN R Is ►TTiSNLtENtO is NOT TO SE TONTO IN TNT ENROLMENT °Traci. This lostitution, in point of illll. pursuer, is infinitely superior to the Fire loathsome Society, and as your Consmitteefear its animaaremeol may involve er rors of magnitude, they most strongly recommestel a foil inves tigation of its principle and situation, which will require more lime sod more authority than it has yet beeu in the power of our C.oesmitsee to exercise opens this highly important sub ject. Your c t ,„,,,,,ti ce h e se no information to communicate respecting the funds and proper's, of the two Societies, front the circumstance of the " refloat of Me Norwich Direelors" TO &STIR INTO ANY CORRCIPODRSCIS WITH, 011 IR AZT *anti= 'MCOO7II3II You& Costtatms. That Loge re sources exist, your Committee entertain no doubt ; of th e particular securities in which they are invested, and of their adequacy to fulfil the ►ngagements ot the So ciety, they are on .file to judge ; but your Commit• lee moot earsiestty imperils the insurers, with the abso lute necessity of oustinising dm inquiry, mild they shall be furnished with • fell, clear, and satisfactory state ment wpm' these important points. Your Committee feel it encunibent upon them to notice an advertisement upon the subject of the fends, which has appeared from I he Committee sitting in Bridge•street, mid which pnrports to be a statement of the fonds JUST ■aotivßD frueslhe Directors and An- ditors ■t Norwich, but which, so Gr fr affording any novel information on this head, is • niece cops of part of an advertisement w hi r l, appeared in an I•tsw New•waren fir Ms meads tal . July last. and contains neither the parti culars of the fund., lour any account of the demands out standing against them. Upon the whole sieve . of Ilse ease, your Committee are struck with the singularity of an immense Institution like this growing up andera provincial administration, the prin ciples of which are scarcely understood by one in a thousand of its Members; of the octant exercise of all the rffersiye functions of its management by a single indiridaal or a slag,' ; of • long list of names of Noblemen and Gentlemen of the highest ronk and property in the kingdom, stated to he Truster., whirls have been used wits 1 the parties having any trust or partiripstion in the affairs or con of She &nifty; of a psrts or 11111111141 llMlled as . . . . . treasurers, whose whole knowledge or acquaintance with the Society consists in an account being kept in the Society's name with the banking home of which they ars the firm ; or the apparent abdication of all antiiiirsty by the Direeturs appointed to imperisitenil its transactious ; of the entire ignorance of its members of the elate of its fonds and pro. perry; and the general mystery anti false colouring which envelopes its character and all its trammelling'. And, in conclosion, your Committee an of opinion, that it is only by a fan, clew, and impartial investigatios into the fends, affairs, and onawagement of the Society, that it can be reinstated is the good opinion of the country. Mr. TWIOG moved, that this Report he received and agreed to. He theft took occa.iou to refer to the numerous ationyitions publications which had been in various ways vent forth to the world since their last Meeting, and which were dictated by soy thing but a fair and libercl feeling. It was due to th►e 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 Chairmen, in a public and :iuthentie form.—( Hear, hear.)—lt was for those who wished to produce schism among the Subscribers to the Norwich Fire and Life Assurance Office, to resort to undue means to effect their purpose ; but it was for those who, like the Committee to which lie belonged, had nothing but a redress of abuses in view, and the ultimate restoration of its prosperity as their ob ject, to act fairly, honestly, and rownly.—(Heer.)— I t had been objected to the Committee, that it was partly composed of persons who had claims et issue with the Norwich Office, and who were thereby but indifferent judges iii what might be paid to be their own cause. Now it was due to truth to state, that only three out of the 17 Members of whom the Committee was composed, had dolma on the ertablts►hnteut, and that the attendance of the Com mittee was never Iris than from eight to twelve in number. so that if ever the three were to be influ enced by private feeling, they hod little opportu oily of indulging it, fur at no period had a ques tion been pressed to a numerical division its the Committee. Whatever was traosected there, oh. brined assent on its own merits, and without the aid of ally particular number of votes. Another ob jection was, that the Committee did not want to oistitute the inquiry they pretended, into the alleged misconduct of the Norwich Office. The Report just read was an incontrovertil►le answer to that so sertion, for it at once skewed the real feeling of the Committee—their anxiety to ascertaiu abuses, with a view to their remedy, and MI6 end to re-establish the Society in f o r good opiaioft of the public. On this motion being seconded, and put from the Chair— Mr. KEstaix rose, and said, that he wasa mem ber of the Committee appointed to communicate with the Directors and (Ares of the Norwich Union, and to investigate the cases, wherever or whatsoever they ► n sy he, which had given rise to the coa►plaifttr against the office, which it was the object of the present Meeting to ascertain, and put into a train of redress. The Committee, of which he (Mr. Keitible) was a member, had proceeded to institute the fullest inquiry, and were at this mo ment engaged in it, without at all considering the measures ►aken by the George and Vulture Com mitter. He begged here, at the outset, to state, that lie was nut now preri4tit as the organ, hr with the privity or authority Of his own Committee. He turret) , came ammo; them as au individual rub ►criber to the Norwich Office, and not invested with any authority. He felt himself, however, esitittpd to state, that the Committee, of which he was a member, meant to make no Report to the General Society at large mod after the fullest and fairest investigation or all the cases they could receive, and until after the tnost ample inquiry into all the facts submitted to them. They would then Jose nut a moment in making such a Report as they coal(' individually justify in their private characters. If the present niotiou were merely for a frill and fair investigation, so far front Op posing it, be should have been ready to second it; for where it 1 , 44 a tttt ated in the govermtient Of conduct of a great establishinent, that " there W ts somethittg rotten in the state of Denmark— (A lamest —he thought that no time shoold be lost tit ►nsttttiting a strung mid persevering inquiry Oita ' the real state of the case.—(Heal, Aeur.)---Whe ther the result of the inquiry shall justify the tip.: prehesisfons of some, he should not notch venture to prolonince ; but the Committee, of which he Mat a member, would shortly, he trusted, set the matter at rest. by the expression of an honest opinion ; and 'be thought the Meeting should writ, at least, the exprrtsitth Of stab a ►Halt. He Could assure the Meeting, that if thk Conti ttree had been a palibed up one; or a set - reif mete ' nirrely brought together to blink rather than to promote inquiry, ' lie should soot have beets; found among theni— he would have' scorned an misociatiou with men so formed. He did not meats to cast any invidious reflections ma any set of mess, but he could net refrain front' expressing his regret that the invitation held out by his Committee to (toms roonicate with that of which Mr. Alderman Thorp was a member, I sad not been accepted—it was tendered with the. utmost cordiality, and he re gretted that it silos not received by the gentlemen to whom it was lAssire wed. Had the worthy Aldo's... man or any of hie 'col.leagues in the Committee at terideirin BridgeStorr et, they would have at once seen that nothing was more unfounded than the 110• tion that the CoOtinittee were acting under the in fluence of Mi. Bignidd. his fact, that geotleinan's own infltienieWa a ' merely circumscribed to the London district, rind that was only p branch of the great busiiieis of th e office, and a branch indeed so small, that it bore. no more comparison to the genetsl busineas c f the office, than the stalk of a cabbage-tree did to t use roots often o.4k—(,t lung/r.) —But Mr..BiosiOld had not the smallest influeisce upon the Committee. -I-their inquiry was general, and embraced every &pa rtmeut its the largest manlier, amid consequently the Report could not be made so easily as some people= might wish. To the Report now proposed Ise could not agree, becsuse it was vitally defective in several parts. it alleged that there exiSleri "event ten cases at present in actual litigation with th.! 'Office ; How, two out of the se venteen, to his won 'knowledge as a member of the Committee, were out in litigation. Mr. Weide grave's was three ti Isted and approved of by the Committee, mid the Directors at Norwich iininedi ately ordered its full payment, with all expenses. Mr. GRAVES--" It is not paid up to this mo ment : Mr, Wald ewave is himself its the room, and can verify what I 6 sy."--( Hear, hear, and cries of " Shame !") Mr. KIMBLE repealed, !hut he knew payment hail been ordered Ity , the Directors at Norwich, but he believed some delay afterwards. arose fur investi gating Mr. VValtiegraire's claim to being refunded the l o ns of certa:in wearing apparel.—(llisses.) The CiIIAIRUAN insisted that every Gentleman should have a hear nearing. Mr. KEMBI.g ' , Tested. that his objection was to a Report which contained erroneous matter. The other case, of whir-1s he knew something, was New mail's. He rece fleeted that person's slaughter call ing with a profe.si anal Indll to the Committee in Bridge-street, wit t a statement of her father's case; they told her. that. perhaps she meant to bring her statement to the George mid Vulture Committee; wishing to act -fairly and openly, and not take ad vantage of any mistake which may place in their lien& information intended for another set of gen tienien.—(Herze.)—Slie, however, placed her case in their Italicise ; :suit though it appeared that insur ance had been effected at two officer, without the regular untifica talon of the fact to the second, and consequently, Is.o.oatis, vitiating, in a legal sense, the subsequent policy, yet the Committee, thinking the loss bad been fairly incurred, recommended that paytnent should be given, mid nu advantage taken of the leg sl objection.—(Cries of " There mar no legal •6,4etion.")—lle could nut WO ob.erving, that t.. one of the Offices where this insurance had been effected, twice the premium had been git , en that was to the other. This seemed, on the face of it, a curious proceed ing. He was anxious that this Meeting should not take airy premature step, and entreated they would wisiit until the other Report was ready; with this view he would move, as au amendment to the motion for receiving the present Report, that this Meeting sr hi rutd adjourn until a future cosier nient day, wh;cli she Worthy Chairman could lie, within a realm mettle time. He agreed with the authors of the present Meeting, who had made such extraordinary haste iii their inquiry, that the ' fullest investigation was necessary ; but he could not bring hin iself to decide on the infoi motion he had been sit prroesit able to collect, nor could lie until he examined snore facts. The allegation that any of the Trustees had lent their names for a sinis ter purpose, seas disproved by the letters that had beets read; and he, on the part of the Committee, fully ilieclainsed that they, or any of them, were the puppets of heir. Bignold, or of any other person. He was also! lad to find that the promoters of.this Meeting declared they were solely actuated by a wish to redress abuses, nod by that course regain and support the credit of the Norwich Office. He was, lie repeated, gird to loft that they were not ready to coe , vert thomretves into a pipe, on which other Insure nce Offices might " discourse most eloquent music."—(A lusigh.)—Now, he thought, that by the mellow ttttt ent lie meant to propose, both the Coanniittees might greatly assist in bring ing. the comment inquiry to a satisfactory ter ttt i tt a tion, by merely acting with candour and good will towards each other. They might thus become, to ore ,a tertis in mathematics, " co-efficiems."— (4 hiugh.)--1,16 regretted that he happened to have come to this Alleetitig, but being toretrot; he could not agree to a Report Which lie believed so be par tially inconreot; and this at a tinse wisest, by a short delay; the . subscribers may have before them a full statetrieot of feels. A Subsaiber inquired. whether any. statement of balance* had beau told before the Committee 1.( Hear.) . • • '. Mr. KENCILI replied, in other than that (mar lighted fools riortvich, and published as such. jr.A Carman came forward, and said, he was I nienther of the ranee Committee in which Mr. lieuible acted. Time first thing he would submit to the Meeting was the paramount i m p ortan c e o f a ll real friends to justice uniting in support rtf an esta blishment which, particularly in the Ille Depart ment, involved the properties and aecorities of so many thousands of families. ft was in this view that he deprecated all party proceedings amid 'gene ral aspersions, that had the eltect of undervaluing the Estetilishinent ; he protested against the lotto duction of individual feelings of au angry Wore, when Such interest" were at stake. He krfew the George sod Viilture Committee were not reunited 1 by any Otter thaittoir motives, and lie thought them so far *tietsk r d tv public thanks . — ( Hear .) -1-lasing k l done this 'tiler to others, he only claimed fur the Commits of which he was • member Use same candour ; and that if they were not able as soon a• this Committee as to prepare a ftt • port, it was because they were determined, as gilt,, Honourable Friend had said, to take no decisive' step until after the fullest and must decisive iiices- ligation and inquiry. Until that time arrived, they thought it right to abstaiu from disclosing punts( information. As the question stood. there were now two Comminutes sitting to investigate the coo.- ceript of the Office ; and was it too mach to ask of the subscribers that they should wait for a short time to have before thesis the Reports of each ? Ifs consequetiee of what had fallen from Mr. Twig*. be begged to olivine ilie Meeting, that the Bridge.. street Committee had slot one of thew ofti-,117. live publications which that Gentleman alluded . to. They were deterniiiied not to calumet/Unice cru'ife or ex-parte statements; nor had they. sent forth any tint*, wave the paragraph relative to the funds of the concern, which it was deemed right to eiregiate, to alloy the apprehensions that some pro Pitt the first rumour were ..offered to eireqlitte • uncontrudieted. He strongly., con. detuned the adoption of any party proposiii.m, which may have • tendency to destroy,, rather, they pre. serve, an institution Hi which was eisibisfheil sire secbrities of individuals, who had for 'eons been paying their money into its fonds.— (Hear.) , 'rise only proper course was, .he thought, to delay the adoption of any general measure...until they could get a full Roil fair report of the cpostitistiats and funds of die Society. If, whet. this were given, it was utisatiardctory, then it would be timwevougli to take whatever steps the subscribers should Juin eligible in the situation ill which they were placed. He hoped. the Meeting would not he led to the . isdoption of ally premature step ; to percent such o Course, he would now second Mr. Kemble's motion for an adjournment. . Mr. IlAttsom exineased that he felt hod, wheat he saw a Meeting like this attempt to put (lows' . Mr. Kunkle, while he wive wukitig Ka. important address on the general buaintss they were suet In investigate.—/(-'ries rf " T/ere was no allernpt pat him down.")—lle thou g ht he had seen such alt inclination; at all events, he hoped alisl,trusted that there was not a single individual either an the George and Vulture, or York Hotel C ttttt 'Miters, who did not feel candidly ',arrested in psiiiig foie Iv and fully into the tiecertary inquiry, ,Ile orgra the importance of the interests at stake, in slat Life Department of the Office; tW a stroiii; reasou fur objeCting to any party steps that may trod to shake the credit ,of the establishment. Ile by no means. thought that, the Report this day read would justify the Meetitig in the adoption of any decisive measures, as the question see sued by nu means ripe for decision. When the other Re port came, then the whole case wo u ld be before the subscribers, and they could decide on the to forniation they had wider their view. 51r. MAYOI contended, that the brief siatemect 0f the funds of the concern, as latriy advertised, refuted the 11(010i1 that its situation was out a tl-o- rishing one. Its unusual premiums, the Comusitie thought, fully covered any losses is could be. ex• posed to, exclusive of the suability of its copital. Some difference of opinion having here arlseu, the advertisement alluded to was reed, tiA follows : Norwich URIEIII Fire God tife limn once Offare,Neie Bridge:treat, Bhrck riars=the Memliwt• of the Loudon Committee, in consequeoes of sarious reports harms; been circulated injurious to the Norwich Union fort themselves called upon cubic than wail their tot. gitiiel intention (Sheir lime hating been hishereutabria up in itorratigaiing outstanding claims against Ills Soeiroy, met with usher matters) to inform the Insurers nt Logs, that, Ulu Directors and itudifOrs at Norwich, hilyefoiseisloal ehrm nob StOleinent of their cxistn.Q FIIIIIII.. to the Gorttetinthall • Mortgages, Purchase of Aossuilita, mid Ow lances in the heads of the several Airemiss-Tarriomithiss to _ ether to 108,006/: Ili. hid. in she Fire I)eparew:les,„,.. l 257,1801. 170. Od. in she Life ;—And that autio4 oc h the . Members of this Cummiehre leave nu rra,cin r,'baarrr n. &NM the earrectoess of ibis Stale:neat, they use onto rot lag more partiealu inquiry. into the, stature uf those Flunk, sad their disposition—and hope very shortly to be M prep*. 4. to submit to a Geiser*, eeting of Members s more s a i l Report upon that It also appears to thiliN OW, is Seltittion to the above Fonds, Ilse amount of Atimmil Pr.. minim far eareektkr probable tosses which tau ter antici. paled, according to I* Average of former years.--In rho same of the Consiebtee, Frederick A. Clarke, See. " London, Aittici 19,1818 ." Several Gentlethen then poioted out that the Committee did opt, in the last paragraph. speak with positive certaiuty—they merely alluded to 44 probable losses." Mr. MIDDLETON stated, that he was a Member of the Committee sitting at the York Hotel, 11, tiler street. and had seen the stutemeht just read its the advertisement. The Committee gave it as they had it from the Directors at Norwich, and were nut re. sponaible for it; though they had no reason to doubt its correctness. The Committee would be only re sponsible fur their owe acts. They had undertaken to investigate the whole affairs of the Concern. and to report thereon. They were now engaged in doing so, and would shortly make their firport•uta public Meeting. Mr. Twigg had disclaimed tut the part of his Committee any 'share sit ofiensiSe untionymous publieuiionsi Fur the Cutiiiintiee I.• which he (Mr. M.) belonged, he had to make, sit the most utietluivocal manner, the same utter dis claimer of their being directly or indirectly a party to any such publications.—At their first Meeting they hod resolved that no statement should winsome from them, except what came forth it ,ait authentic and formal shape. C ote Ine li r t u t l ee vo a i t ce t s he in y g o u r i k re H d, ot l t iy i i ‘ i v a l d ist b s e t e t u tliti f t:i w t i y ne t d il Others replied, .it was formed by Mr. Hignold. the Secretary ; but this assertion was again contra dicted, sod Mr. BROOKE Said, that the Meeting at the York Hotel had been regularlF ea . 54: 01:0 , ,,d, and that there the Committee was ct,, s en i n I k e mutat manner. A number of Gentlemen seemed also anxious to are if both tl.!oaninittesll could tie got to act con jointly, but this did tint seem to meet the wishes of the majority, and Mr. Kesettut said, that lass Corbinittee had no power to odd to 'heir 'mother. Mr. Alderman Turns , begged to MXpl utt the circumstance to which Mr. Kesnble had alluded, respecting the application mode to huu. The worthy Alderman here read the letter he had rta caved from the York Hotel Committee, and which, so far from expressing a device to communicate its . the manner iniisauated, merely informed the Cote. mottee at the George aud Vulture, that they sive ready to receive at Ike York Hotel stay staientent which the former thought proper to scud them. Thii was, he mid. any thing but a cordial temlet of co-operation. kle, therefore. es he was butual. banded over the letter to his own Committee, wire Y . 11/4 I A