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No. WT.—Vol.. XI.

MONDAY, DEi

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POLITICAL DISQUISfrION.

NORIVICII UNION, INSURANCE SOCIE•TE

ON THE CORN HILL.

On Friday a meeting of the London insurers in this
Society was held at the City of London Tavern, fish-
opegate-alreet, to receive and take into consideration
the final Report of the Loadon Cotnaittee, and• for
other special affairs.
T. Bensley, Esq. was called to the Chair; oo
which he observed., that *he Committee which had
been appointed, encoureqpid by the favourable reeve i
tint. of their former Report, in September last, had .1
since then continued their litbours, and were now reedy
to lay their final Iteport before the meeting. He
trusted the meeting would bear it witir patience, and
also would g ye their attention to every gesittemain who
should offer his sentiment upon it, whatever they
'sight be.
The motion was then read by the Secretary. It was
divided into three parts. That lint related to the ar-
rangements .which had been made respecting the re_
maininl claims upon the Society; the second, .to the
tae of the funds; and'the to.the constitutions
of the S teiety, and the alterations which the Cousin', tee'
suggested to be made in them. .On the' subj. ct .017 the
constitutions of the Society, and the alterations which
miAlo be male, and which had Ire n suggested; the
report gave a long correspondence between the Lon-
don Committee, and the Norwich i earl of Direittors,
and also of the .cummu ketions of the former swith a
deputation from the Norwieh BoarcL From these it
appeared that the Board of Dir ctots'at Norwich fully
;approved of the coodu.ct of the; general ineetiog which
bid reso'ved that Mr. Bignold, Sen. should be dis;
charged from his situation ; mud it was added, that Ise
should be requested to deliver up his hooks, and all
documents belonging to the Siciety. It the,. noticed
a project which the London Committer haeldraon up,
of having the principal mnuagement of the Socleiy con-
ducted in I,fooloo. But the most important part of it
was that which lodated to the determination of the
Board of Directors at Norwich CO separate the Loll-
dote branch of the S.wi..l). hi the parent-stock. 'lids
it was alleged, was done in .e of the answers
to some queries which had been submitted for the opi-
nion of counsel. From there opininee the report
:totes, the Norwich Directors heel come to the deter-
of not considel beg the Lonitna insurers any
leii4er as mem!)e rs of the Swiety, further than the
time to which it present unexpired policies i.e.
tended; and it added, that notice had been served on
all those whose polities were to expit• et Chriatnv.
that they would not be renewed ; but, at the same
owe, that the L insulters -email, for the time
they ;mil liloo.;eit to the Society, receive all aliquot
put of the profits as well as the comory members.
Toe Report further stated, that the sum iisoired in the
are department th's year, above the amount of la,t
year, was live millions; and that the losses in the fire
sod fife deportmeitt were much below eirit could be
peeted.
11r. Alderman Pattison, of Norwich, moved, that
the Report be received, abed printed for the toe of the'
members.

• WE learn that subscriptions continue to be sclicited
to the petitions for • raising the importation price of
grain. We warn those who are concerned in this anti-
national and inhuman proceeding, to desist. Govern-
ment, it is said, will not lend them its support : but
they expect to carry the measure by surprise ; and
hence it is that no meetings have been called by them,
but that they enlist partisans secretly. They cannot,
we should in candour hope, conceive the full wickedness
of their conduct, or the public injury which is likely to
resultfrom it, if they shrinld be successful ; our firm
persuasion is, that not only would they oppress the na-
tion, Ibut likewise injure themselves ; for if bread is
raised to a price not easy attainable here, the conse-
quence
.will inevitably be, that 'men of large
and small incomes will go where it is cheaper : einigra-
lion to the continents both of Europe and A:aerie:l will
increase, and the consumers will be diminished at home.
1k it observed also, that the temptation to t.:* migrate will
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be the stronger, because as bread rises in price here,
(except inleed in the case of an universal scarcity), its
relative value will be likely to be less abroad, on ac-
count of the export to this country being prohibited, or
the price at which it is allowed raised to un exorbi-
tantly high amount.

The first pressure of the injury of raising the im-
portation price of corn would of course be felt by the
manufacturer. He must in the sante proportions raise
the wages of his jottrucymen, to enable them to hoy
bread; 'the manufacture] articles must then be sold
dearer; and the &reign dealers would in consequence
no longer come hate to make purchases in the same
numbers; and if the landholder supposes tout such is
state of things will nut ultimately and by re-action
affect him us the primer! cause of it, he is grossly mis-
taken. He will first lose many of the native consumers
by emigration ; and he will secondly drive away the
foreign consumers, who invariably flock in great num-
bers to those countries where manufactures flcurish,
and commerce is most free. In a few words, it appears
that we have those among us who, if they hal their
will, would not suffer us to derive the advantages
which we might otherwise do from being at peace.—
They are making war upon U.S in 13aonaparte's very
method, by endeavouring to exclude us from the con-
tinent. They are prohibiting, so far us they are able,
the use of our numaCietures throitgliont the states of
Eumpe. Some of us indeed may,- as we have above
stated, seek a refuge on the other side of the Channel,
in the way of emigration ; but that liberal intercourse
which nature and Providence intended to subsist among
men of different languages, tier the common advantagcN
and from which we, by our s.-:ierior spirit and enter-
prise, have always derived mare than un equal share in
good, they would actually intercept.

The question being seconded, w *bout to he put,
when—

14.00 k addrecceil the tynnelityr... I-fe sail, he
(amid not agree lu the it hol-, of the R. port, though
r • w,te some par ts of It in i hich he aid concur.
l't.e only important hart of it wat that wltkit cour.rn.
ed the London injurer. ; IMO oh that loin he should
y. di it the D.rectors a N orn icli had not act-d a, hr
have oi•h.11 They thuill:lit to ',hake Of the
London insurers, and thi4 tin y did upon tilt., °pull in.,
of tt ree learned geniis of the law. /1.., however,
for one, d d nut ilikk the tfp.ty on from the Nor
nich eittletnen out il hr a great IJ4s, for lie trtiA. al
th• re *nal be lotus.' ginit'when in Lonloa fu'ly ade-
quate (tithe 'num.:einem, orti.f•imratt•c4ncere, (krai.;,
I that, hr iruNted •vuuitl take place. He blamed
the I lire tor, fur in a king such rri (went re femme to
the n Dine of one iii•liesdual ; fur, of the Unetiora
pr ~,rr Rift), there the matter should
his n tine should nut he ttruttlit forrtartl on
, ,) ls if to tuner the errors of titbits. lie
a.lii•tett tu tlii• 11.1a1P of Mr. Sen. the Lite Sr
ereitt,y C the tilted at mt.
proprit ly of another met for the parpthe tot estatto
li,tiog a Society in I.o.iduts upon a similar prits‘yie
to that of the N •
Nit.. Ilan) in strong lei tas condemned the c-niluet
o. the Norwich Dire tori, tlbo, h- Obi rrctl, had .; 1

PAULTAStiNTAIII" A NF:Cllo r Sir Robert Walpole
wanted to carry at question in the [loose of Commons,
to which he knew there would to ~rcat. opposition,
and tVild disliked by some of his men elepeadants. As
he was passing through the Court of Itevests, he met
a member of the contrary party, whose avarice he ima-
gined would not reject it large:bribe. Ile took hint aside
and sail, " Such a Tie/atm comes on this day ; give
me soar vote, and here is a hack bill tin. '2,000'..,"
which he put into his hands. The member made him
this answer Sir Robert you have lately served stow:
of rtly particular friends ; $lllll WIWil HIV Wire WAS last
at court. the King. was very gr.ei pus to her, which
most have happened at your iustan,:e. I there.
fire think myself very nue:redid (putting the bank
hill into his picket) if I were to refuse the favour you
are now pleased mask me."
Among the rumoured changes in Administration, it
is said that tie Martinis of Buckingham will suLeved
Lord Melville as Fie: Lord of the Admiralty.