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EAST INDIA HOUSE, JULY 21, ISIS.
frHE C'ONINIirrEF: of SHIPPING of the
11. COURT of DIRECTOR% of Ole UNITED COM-
PANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, Startles re She
EAST INDIES. do kerehe giro Aotire,
That the COMMITTEE wilt he ready to receive Pro.
pouts la writing, on or before WEDNESDAY, the foih
August next, from suds per.). or Petunia who may be
willing to hn,1,1 in the .Rivir Thames TWO HOYS, of the
bruilen of about flue Hundred Tout, for the Service of the
said Company.
11w Tenders., with the won's " Tender to build Heys" nit
the Cover, to hr lly sealed ep, and left With the CIA
to the said C 'tier, at or berate Twelve 0%1(.4 at
Nunn on the said Sth August next, beyond which hour 1110
Tender will be received.

JOSEPH DART, Secretary.
The proposed distension., and other particulars repperiing
die Hoye to be bnill, may be litiorrn spool application at
the Office of Captain Joseph inuldersou, (he Company's

Al a num, rm.s and highly reipectosblr Mretissz.
brld at the George and ',lnkster Tavern, Climbsll,
July /3, 1818. of MENIDERS OF, and CLAIMANTS
UPON, the NORWICH UNION FIRE and LIFE IN.
SVRANCE SOCIETY, in pursuance of public Adver-
tisement ;
Alderman THORP, M P. in the Chair.

The Chairman opened the Meeting by stating, the Meet-
ing had been convened by numerous respectable Memlwrs
of this Society, haring claims upon its Funds, to take into
consideration the present mode adopted by the Managers of
the said Society, in adjustment of claims npnn it, and the
general administration of the affairs of the Society.
Resolved—That it appears to this Meeting, that from
statements laid before it by 111111 l truing respectable Claimants
attending the same, that they hare experienced, and du eon-
finite to experience, unwarrantable and vexatious delays and
difficulties in recovering the amount of their losses.
That it appears to this Meeting necessary that measures
should be taken to inquire iniu the management of the
affairs of the said Society, the application and custody of
its Fundy, and the reasons why Claimants nn the same are
delayed iu the recovery of their just demand•.
Resolved—That it appears to this Meeting, among the
numerons'exsts that were presented, that on the 20th day of
June last, a verdict fur 7191. ds. was obtained against the
Society, in the Court of Common Pleas, by Richard Palmer
and Simnel Donal, assignees of Samuel Waldegrave, •
bankrupt; and that the defence made by the Society on the
trial, was reprobated by the Judge who tried the cause, as
highly disgraceful and improper ; and that it also appears
to this Meeting, that notwithstanding such opinion express-
ed, the amount of the said verdict remains still unpaid to
the said Assignees, although the paymest thereof bas been
deasauJed.

That it appears to be stated, in the Annnal Repnrt made
at Norwich, N JUNE I, 1619, THAT TWO-THIRDS OF
THE CLAIMS MADE UPON TH6 SOCIETY, HAVE
BEEN CONSIDERED FRAUDULENT," which suer.
lion, in toe opinion of Ibis Meeting, appears only In he
admitted for the purpose of giving colour to the litigious
spirit manifested generally in the treatnient of those who
have losses In recover.

That an Acting Committee be now appotaiett, sad that
it do whist of the fullowmg Guillaume

A klerciar

M.P.rildgate
restur, Grocerha
rien, Wahrsorth

Edward Crowley, Camomile-street
William Sherwood, Paternoster-ml
S. Walt!erase, 93, Biallopsgate-siirs
Gamble Fish-street-hill

George Graves, Manor-place
Canaille, Birebm.laue
Laurence, Blackman-street, Borough
Edwards, high-street, Newington Butt■
Bowers, IVeynsouth-terraee, Hackney.

That ■ ropy of these Resolutions be Seansmitted by the
Committee to his Grate the Duke of Argyle, and the other
Noblemen and Godless', stand to be Trustees of the said
Society, and that they he respectfully requested to inform
this Committee, if they are in possession of the custody of
any of the Funds of the said Society, or responsible in any
degree for the mauagemeut of the same, or otherwise ac-
quainted with the affairs of the said Society.
That a Copy of these Resolutions be transmitted by the
Committee to the &aid of Directors of this Society at Nor-
wich, and that they respectfolly inquire of the said fluent of
Directors, to whom are intrusted the custody and care of the
Funds of the said Society, and to inform the Committee
whether they are argil-tinted with the extent of unsettled
Claims upon the said Seciety,and the delay and procrasti-
nation practised in respect to the settlement of the same,
and at what amount the same were estimated in the ac-
count of the Company's affairs, presented to the General
Animal Court, held at Norwich, on the Ist June last.
That a Copy of these ltesulutioas he transmitted by the
Committee to the several Local Committees of this Society,
and that they be requested to inquire of the said Committees,
whether they lie iii possession orally of the Funds of the said
Society, or responsible in any degree fur the management of
the same, or otherwise aciraiuted with the affairs of the said
Society.
That it appears to this Meeting necessary to ascertain
wh.s are the perms, responsible to the Society in the 'WWII'
in question; and particularly to ascertain in what degree
the said Society are under the legal control and inflamer of
Mr. Thomas Bignold, the Secretary, who appears to this
Meeting to be the sole person effectively acting to the 1114.
nsgemetst of the same.
That it appears highly necessary, from the extent of un-
paid demands npuo the said Society, and the general dis-
satisfaction prevailing with respect to its management, that
measures be adopted for calling together a General Meet-
ing of all Members thereof, friendly ni a full and impar-
tial inquiry into its situation and affairs.
That a Subscription be entered into for defraying the ex-
penses incidental to this Meetiug, and the measures that
may result therefrom.
That the said Committee he lustrortird to ascertain the
extent of Unsettled Claims open the funds of the said
Society, and also to collect information respecting such cases
as may have been vexatiously delayed or titivated, and re-
port the same to the uext Meeting.

That these Resolutions he *deg rtisrel in the London and
Country Papers, and that the Committee now aproineed be
requested lu call &anther meeting as soon as they see fit.
The above Resolutions were unanimously agreed to.

Mr. Alderman Thorp having left the CLair, it nas taken
by the Hoe. Washington Shirley, when nn 111141111111011% vote
of 't hanks was passed to the worthy Alderman, fur his li-
beral and impartial conduct in the Chair.

AS SECRETARY to the LONDON DE-
PARTMENT our the TIOICIVICII UNION Flit F.
and LIFE ASSOCIATION, I requital the Public to SW-
pond their opinion un the affairs and protwedings of the
Society, which have been grossly milt 'presented and
calumniated by a Party styling themselves Claimants thereon,
until the Directors and Miser :Whiz Members have an op-
portunity of being heard, and captioning the ein•amsl.ntccs
alluded iv, and which they will be able very citisfAcinrily
to do.

A Meeting of she London Insurers will take place in a
ft w /lays fur the purpose of appoinittipt a Committee to go
into 11w inve ligation, and not time will hr lint 411 laying
the particulars before n General Ilersoig of the Me Owes.
(Signed) •rt:4IIIAS (SIGN( /1.1),
35, 13r0;c-street, BLickfrhars, 24tb July, 1818.

DON, SATURDA

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Ingo to be had issninit vensila few pant nfreccrs, and that
where the charge &ea mitt appear to he saiiijactunly made
out, we may (boort ranker inaptiry to be ma,le, its artier to
enable us to deteritine on the propriety of commencing
proceedings.
We direct you ta ti yoarmtvesaccorilingly.mst) tor he
very particular when pm transmit 11, ins any information
that may hays liven received by yourselves, or by say (Aker
rimier your egfreey, to state to as the Emelt of she perviuse
inquiries you hate sonic, in order to ascertain the truth of
such information, and how far and by whom the facts me
be satideeterily proved and corroborated, in he event of
proceellieice being hod thereon.
Caution ¢y t. ,fortoro of Br&
tilt roftels • of America.

PRICE SEVEN-PENCE.

been irropoaril by a worthy Deputy (Herritte).
whom I have known for a member of jeturs, atiel
under whose roof I lived when I first entered into
business in this city. Gratifying as it must be thus
steadily to preserve the nine:Muria and affection of
our earliest connexions, I c.nulot, however; conceal
front you, that I do not enter this office with that
degree or slacrity and cheerfulness with which you'
may think I ought. This is not au office conferred
on a mall as a simple ornamental appendage—it is
not a gift to gratify hi. vanity—hat a serious trusts
the functions of which impose the discharge snit
execution ur giitve and important duties. I cement,
accept, without the greatest aiosiety, 1111.•
I proof of your regard, when I recollect
great public duties which I shall hate t •
one of your Menthe's in the ensiling
Neither the one duty nor the ether
iutlividital seeking—my Weir% thee'
I Ilse eimeouragenseut, and cooldderice,,
Minn, of some most valuable sod isitel+
beta friends, to whose wishes I bowed with all due
humility. 1 could not resist their assurance of
unshaken ruppert, when I recollected, that When
neatly crushed ley the inachisiutimis of poser, and
the prejudices which were at one time most mats-
trioutly circulated—when the great cause, cf which
I was the feeblest etupporter, began to totter in the
City—when, l say, recollected, that cm such try-
ing occAsio. s I owed may awn preservii,i,in, and the
deliberate mid progressive support of the public
I:MISe, in the aid suit steads atia,hment of those
friends, I could no loot,irr rm sill their mallieitstions
to undert.ke the imt.u.taut dories stitch my fele-
-iss have been pleiisrd to confide to
ihe. With your saoctivii shit support I have
hitherto succeeded—with it I ieltell still featlec.ly
go on, sod ehileavour rt least to discharge my
ditty. With respect to the worthy Alderman (S:r
C. Price), whose successor hare how Liven
please.' to appoint nie, 1 can holy say that he Pus a
great public and private loss. and 1 wits efsinmss
selfish emingli to wish that Isis valuable life Initl
been prolonged, were it (tidy to save me from ii a
honour of the responsibility I iou-t now ilecessaii!y
incur. Ile was a man of guest CAllllOlll' and kilo's.
tie's; on great political question• we have of,eu di a-
fered—but it is due to Isis memory to state, that
while he zealously asarried his own opinion, I never
knew him to attempt to altiltle..• the rig!it of op
moll of those with whoth he dilfereil.—(Great /pa
please.)—Whatever have been our political dif-
ferences, I always lived on good habits with tl e
Ilinented Alderman, and in becoming his successor
I alllColltstiOUS 1 etlllllol (la letter than in the
charge of my Magisterial ditties to follow the ex-
iodide he has set me; end while I sliz!l ever be fouhd
strenuously to assert my tiwet light of judgineot,
never to obstruct the fair exercise of a sini:hir right
on the part of others who may defier from air.—.
AS a Magistrate and public servaat, I shall ever be
open to time proper applicant-not of all imersnes,
without reference to the opinions they
may happen to entertuiii.—(Great applause.)--i
I shall endeavour to he consistent, impemittal, and
just.—(elppleuse.)-1 am perfectly aware tat the
nature of the office to which you have elected use
is such, that, in the fair and inexorable exercise ..f
its duties, without leaniog to the right In the left, it
is Minn...dile fur any mini to haw threligh the
direct ordeal without incurring, at *sone period or
another, a good deal of individual odium. I shall
only say, that whenever these (Tensions tallboy! ily
arise, my error (if it be our) shall be an error
judgment cited not of intention ; and at sin it Ito-
ments I slia'l have to crave your inibilgeot considel.
ation of my acts.—( etpplituse.)—lt now oily re-
mains for nip to thank you for the honour you hate
dove no. The applause and confidence or thy
fellow-citizens has been the only reward I ever
sought—so the attainment of it can leave my ambi-
tion little to which it can aspire.—(Applause.)—
All I shall promise to you, Gemmtlenten, is, that, as
I owe to my past conduct the good opinion which
has led to the honours you have conferred upon me,
so shall my future conduct be the counterpart of
my past, in maintaining and preseiving those °pie
Itioll3 Wili. II have introduced Hie to your approbna
lion and support."—( Loud and reiterated up.
plause )
Mr. Ttiomesost, as soon as the applause had
subsided, came forward, and said, that the present
was, for two considerations, a great day fur the
frieuda of liberty. In the first place, it democs
strident the great and paramount advantage of free
discussion; and, in the second, the triumph and re-
ward of public consistency, as in the instanter of the
worthy man (t.lr. lVaithinan) whom they had this
day elected as their Alderman.—(Great applause.)
—The time had been, when, its canvas-Mg for dea
&rent offices in the City (this one among the rest),
ao etsettiimil credential to 'tad to success was, a the
elarstion of " I um not of Mr. Waithinan's
cal opinions." But, notwithstanding this dentin-
dation, such had been the uniform tenor and
email of Mr. Il'aithmait's efforts in support of his
principles, that in the end, lie had succeeded in
establishing in the City, that firm spisit of inde-
pendenee, which had led to the two triumphs of
which lie was now the distimiy,uished partaker. The
enemies of freedom, though supported by all the
nhettors of corrupt power; hug in vain attempted
to stay the torrent of public feeling—they had
fallen before the powerful voice of the public,
und the friends of Constitutional liberty hart
triumphed. this Ward had bent particularly
distinguished in holding itself forth us the esys
luin for the assailed friends of liberty and lode-
pend e ce.— ( Great applause.)—The Ward co. Id
nut indeed pay in the cons of corruption—they had
no wages or hire, save that which freeneeit could
give and a freentau receive.—(Great oppluute.)--+
This tewmil, though slow, wits sure, and, in the e.t.d.
as at present, was always liberally administered.—
(Applause.)—Their worthy friend, Mr. Wait holm,.
%Jould always be found an independent Member of
Parliament, and u virtuous Magitratir.—(alp.
plause.)—To slunk of the integrity of the roan,
would be superfluous, for his conduct was u.attcr

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of hiaterY, and stosil on record fur its }eolith,
weight and value.. He folly concurred in what had
hero said of the impartiality of their late worthy Re-
presetiatire, and though he often politically differed
from him, pet, is a Magistrate, he had always found
him impartial and upright—his urbanity of 111411-
tier, hi• upright conduct, and uniform 64(114 or ac.
• wooltl be ever rememhered—it woo, therefore,
that he proposed is Resolution which would record
the inerit• of an 'worthy a Magistrate. The worthy
Gentleman co:winded by premoine a Resolution,
Tramline the merits of the late 4ir C Mice.
Mr. Deputy itERRTNG viecondeil th.s motion—
Gentlemen rime at the moment for the
• porpoul—and said, that the friend' of the
late worthy Alderman must feel highly gratified at
the mantierin which the vote was proposed.
It was carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. Deputy HaRRINO, thanks
were then voted to the Lord Mayor, fur hit conduct
in the Chair on the present occasion.
The LORD MAYOR said, that he should at all
tunes feel happy in discharging his duty to the sa-
tisfaction of his frllow.citiv•ris.
Mr. WAITUIRAN then amended, in the moat
cmurlinierstary terms, M. Dimity Herring, and
Mr. Deputy Reeves, to be his Deputies, as they
had beet. thooe f the late worthy Alderman Sir C.
Price. Hearin! lie was fully aware that he would haVe
mulch need of the assistauce of tort, of their 'chi-
ractrr and efficiency.
Mr. Deputy Haaatsro Mid. that for hireiellf anti
his friroii, who was aboent is the country, be was
rely to accept the office intrusted m
Time Court was theu terminated hi the %aril
manner.

FOREIGN INrELLIGENCE.

IGERMAN PAPERS.

STOCKHOLM. JULY S.

By the King's camas oeder►, the body of the late
Queen was opened and 'unlined two days after
her death, in the presence of IS Gentlemen of the
Faculty, of the Baroness of Welleiiitadt, and the
Countesses of Taub and Ruoth, Ladies of the
Palace to the Queen. The cause of the decease
arose from the want of equilibrium in the system of
the blood, and iu the preponderance of the arteries
river the veins.

WEIMAR, JOLT 6.
The itaptism of the young Prince took place
yesterdirr, io the presence of the whole Court, of
the Deputies from all the Colleges, from the Dui-
versify. rod from several cities. He received the
names of Cloaks Alexander Augustus John. The
Estates of the Grand Duchy were represented
among the cruisers by the Marshal.

column, JULY 4.

ffis Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Snxe-
Goths mrtived here this morning, to be present sit
the belpflalll of the young fleredibuy Prince his
grmileon. 'fins ceremony will be peformed to.
niorrow.

MUNICH, JULY 9.
'' be Second Sopplement to the Fourth Chapter
of the Con►titntion, contains the Concordat, in
German and Latin, with his Majesty's ratification,
and his prumi►e to cause it to be observed.

tvant, JILT 4.
A letter from Smyrna, written by • per-
son worthy of credit, states, that newt has been
received there from Boasorali, that the Eisglish
army in indir, in consequence of its late victories,
is now in possession of all Hiasilostan.—(Journal de
Frankfurt, July 17.)
lA*AatA, :tun,
The following is the Act of Accession to the
Constitution, signed by the Crown Prince :
4 We, Lewis, Crown Prince of Bavaria, &r. make knbwn
by throe presents, it having pleased his hlsjesty the King,
our mach-lured Father, to give to the kingdom, by 1111 Act,
dated the 26111 of this month,. Cunstitation *ids a National
Represeutaiiim soiled to its external sod interval relations,
and the whole of the said Act having been contiountcated
to us, we have carefully examined its coldest% and not find-
ing the smalkst objection to make to them, we declare by
these presents, that we ackrowledp this Act as au obliga-
tory law of ibe State in all its parts; mad in conlrutation
of this unr declaration, have affixed to these presents our
signature and seal.

Dune at Munich, May 30,
(LS.) (Signed) LEWIS, Crows Prince.
NUREMBERG; JULY Id.

Several public papers hive frequently spoken of
the hardships suffered by many of the countries on
the Rhine. and a great part of the rest of °moony,
in consequence of the obstacles opposed by the
Netherla►►ds to foreign trade. Several of the Prus-
sian provinces (Rhenish) are especially affected by
the neighbourhood of the Belgic frontier, and of
the line of custom-bouses long since established
there.

Some exports and imports are entirely prohibited ;
many, and among these yarn, subject to a duty of
8 per cent. on the value, soul almost every thing to
• ►lroit de balance. Even goods coming froin
fu-
reign countries pay a heavy transit duty. Thus
a steam•eagine, ordered a few months ago from
England, by a manufacturer on the Rhine, had
to pay iu the kingdom of the Netherlands 500
florins fur transit duty alone. Those duties are •
great I trance to trade, and paralyze all commer.
coil activity ; the burdens are ►ende►ed still more
oppressive by the chicanery of the Belgic douauiera,
who in every respect go far beyond their colleagues
of French stamp, with whom we formerly had to
do; this is saying a great deal, but it is too true.
By these obstacles, trade particularly has suffered
so much, that on the high roaJ from Liege to Co.
logile, where you might formerly meet hundreds
of loaded waggo►►s, you now very rarely meet with

'Phis has even obliged the flamers of the tolls ou

tin, road to petition the Belgian Government f.r
reduction of the sum they hate contracted to pay.
Many goods from Fiance. intended fur Germany.
which formerly went through Brabant to Cologne.
now take the much longer and worse mold by
Saartonck, Treves, and Cottlenrt, in order to avoid
at any rate coming in contact with the Belgic fron-
tiers. Numerous urgent reprearintations have been
nude to the Pcussise Government at Aix-la-
Chapelle. The general wish ia, that measures may
he adopted to compel the Belgians to aholi.h the
import duties out Prussian prodactions. Holland
and Belgium are boonded from the north side to
the neighbourhood of Saerbrnik by the Prussian
States. All goods from the Netlferlands to the in-
terior of Germany. Switierland. and Upper Italy,
must absolutely pass through the Prussian domi-
nions. By threatening to ose reprisals and threats,
will not do; establishing a tine of thstoin-houses on
tilt Prussian frontiers. with a tad** modelled after
!kit or Belgium, might attain the desired end.
fehas also been proposed to lay a heavy transit
duty (for example. 10 per cent. on colonial good.)
upon all Belgian articles passing through the
Prussian Rhenish province*. Such urea-tires might
convince the Belgic Government that from the
geographical situation of the cou.stries, Belgium
and Holland are more dependant on Prussia than
Punkt on them.--( ithreadberg Correspondent,
Jaty 14.)

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