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London, England, 1818-07-24 00:00:00

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NEXT TUESDAY WEEK.

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ad uf
that it is ■n nnprnr.•utrul uu his Well 111811 rat li,, hoot lA.iire y
fur which hr was (. ;Wow ; (if seth„„gii, Ihal 6,11„),
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19,0441 Tioitrts eutosiliseistly the Chaves. of it:silting is
311,0151111 Prise i• very ententltlethly
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(*.onset its vilveh he presto,' 41 three Ps s+s cat hal, in
inklittios to the Stitt sae—Two of Willi* h.• .15 valeil Into
Shores. Fall p,rurular• air canton'. 41 Si 111., Which
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NOR el( UNION INSUILINCE

SYSTEM.

Yesterday s 11111111,14111111 and rrepeetaisle Sleeting
of men tone Ware at the Georg" and V alt ure
Tavern, St. ‘lichatTivoi Nry. Cornioh, in pursuance
of s pahlue advertisrosont. ransom on those persons
oho had claims on the Norwich L'osioli Insurance
Compeers to rotor floweret and state their immure.
At twelve o'clock Mr. Alderman Toosts. M.P.
err called to the Choir. _

Mr. LowsTr, the agent for the flagrance Com-
pany in guessing', immediately rose GA ►tatrd, that
lee apprehended Ibis Meeting had ari►en from anme
private diwrgreements between parties, having claims
uti tie Office, and some particular individual. For
the purpose of makitig full isloiry into soy ►ub-
sisting comploints, he proposed that • Committee
should be now appointed, to meet • Continuer
from the Office. which would be really to sit to-
morrow morning, sod then discuss whatever was
submitted Ow thew consideration.

Mr. GRAVED apposed this preposition, and said
that he thought the most proper course of proceed-
ing would be to hear at once the complaints against
the Norwich 015te, and thus get jute possesdow of
the real stole of the cote.

This being also the opinion of the Meeting,l
Mr. GRATIS stated, that twenty-four casts of •
beery complaint against the office had reached
him. The smouat of the genteel claims upon this
insurance establishment was w great, that it ceased
to he • private concern, end the public became at
length essentially interested in seeing how this con-
cern was really conducted. The engagement,
already entered into by the Company, amounted
In life insurances to 2A25,0001, and to nearly
furry millions in are insuninees. He then pro-
ceeded to state that in • variety of instances the
Company had actually retisted the payment of
boirefide claims, and their Serretory, Mr. Sign*ld,
had thrown every impediment in the way of remu-
neration fur losses duly insured. Under such cir-
cumstance% it became important that the persons
insured on this establishment should ascertaiu on
what funds they had, in the event of leases, to de-
pend, mad through what eyelets of osamigement
they had to seek inquiry and redress. Application
hod bees made at the office of the Company in
London, to know whether any and what capital was
invested in the fends, list Mr. Bignold, tbe Secre-
tes''', declined answering any queseions on that
point. It wm thanker" for the Meeting to consider
what steps should be token for the security sad
indemnification of these who had stigisally placed
confidence in the establishment.
Mr. Romaiess.s. said, that • vonsidersble on..
her of complainis had been made by claimants
en this office • he would particularly mention
ou), which reheated the greatest discredit on
the Office, sad particularly on the Secretary.
Mr. Bignold, whet had equivocated, step by step,
throughout the baseness. He then related the case
of Daniel Stubbs. of Fleet-market, linen-draper,
insured in the Norwich Union S siety for 3.000 f.
On the 7th September, lOU, a lire happened. by
which Mr. Stahl,' suffered • great loss, and, in
.:orisequence, amide a dais upon the Society for the
sum insured. After delay, the claim way referred
to arbitration, by mutual agreement, and on the
30th May, lets, the Arbitrators *worded 1.9311.
to be paid to Stubbs at • particular time and place.
The mosey was bet paid at the time and place
bud, nor we, it paid vitae it was afterwards per.
nasally demasielvd. In cmmetnence, an applica-
tion was made to the Court of King's Beach for all
attachment opium Mr. Bignold, the obligor in
the Wad on behalf of the Norwich Society, which
the Court grantees.. This Gentlemen was fiassily
TAKIW to Evictrriovo open the Sheriff of Sur-
rey's warrant. kEPT IN CUSTODY. and COs- i
PI LIED TO FIND Tilt ISSAIIIS OF SATISFYINI
Till •WAILL It was impossible to view such a
transaction but with the utmost indignation at such
▪ total want of fair dealing.
-fair. Plat (a Solicitor) stated the case of Mr.
Bainbridge. whose house was consumed one eve's-
ing elide lee was absent at the play. The policy of
assurance granted by the Norwich Company was
burnt its the house, and application for remunera-
tion was made without iteect, through Mi. Mould,
the Company's Secretary. After repeated applica-
tion. wire made at the office, it was at length
*reed that their surveyor must see the place
first, but that be was not expected in town for
• considerable time, bring then engaged in •
duff rent pelt of the country.—(d Largh.,—
fir (sir. Pike) at length tiled a bill of discovery
inn the Court of Chancery, to ascertain who were
she responsible or prominent Directors in thr es-
tablailinseat—at length, after repeated likel eve-
*lona, a return was made of the names of some of
these persons, who were men in buiiiiess at Nor-
wich, and it was then insinuated that the fire was
not accidental; mod further, that a workshop, where
it was said to have blokes, out, was not stated in the
policy as part of site premises. To this Mr. Bain-
bridge replied, by offering the best evidence that
the her was accidental. and in his absence from
home, and also that the person who made oat the
Policy on the part of the Company. had steadily
tilhtd a part of this instrument in the workshop of
which they were said to hove been kept ignorent.
Nu settlement could be had frail' them, and lie was
now engaged in legal measures for the recovery of
the amount insured by Mr. Bainbridge. The Are
uteri, red • year and a half ago.
Gentlemen paid that the Truett. were sea
.1 rank and pooperty.
Mi. GaAvcs sail. that Earl Craven merely
put in his name as • Patron at the desire of •
itaircirig.marter who atteaded his family, and the
I)iike of Argyle consented to have his 'mine put
OU souse private •pplication, but disavowed
any responsibility on the occasion. Thew person.
agar di•clainsed any interest in, or knowledge of,
the affairs of the concern. It had also been staled,
that individuals were tusking great lifoparliell by
inana4iiig the concern. and that Mr. Bigisuld had
gut nu Sere that, Ii3OOUL oat of it last year.
Air. Rosters lamed that he hail iiii•ureil in this
• wre. and woe hermit out 12 mouth% ago, since
a inch he could obtain ao reinuuerat run Inc his. use.
Iles brother-in-law was precisely in the &ruse pre.
sticament for a length of time.
It wall also suited, that Mr. U'illiorns, of Sale.-
Lary-court was insured to the aiasuelit of 4.419 a at
list Norwich 06ce, and that in a Litt ire Saar Ins

THE BRITI S H PRESS.

LON DON.

FRIDAY. JULY U. ISM

We have received Pori. Pipers to Monday
last. They do out contain any thing new respect-
nog the Vitro-Royalist Consiiiiisey. The King,
however, has been snore prominent than usts.ll, hum
which we may presume he is not conscious tot alau-
ger, or affects to treat it lightly.

00e of the .Alimisteritil him* affects to lie very
silty upon the sive...ion of strength which it pre-
sumes tilt Oerubitiusi fl Atter themselves they 111,ive
üblriurd by the Geheral Vertioii. This liCerwooto

it estimates at about twenty site iecruita, but limn
it POI/OWN tort when they have COWS into Lcuuul
lint wore than 6411 a-dozen will prove staunch.
Nnw, the Election hot being yet condo/Jell, this
speculation is at least preniatuer, and it is totally
impossible. to know the isuntlwr of new ltlea,beis oho
will inufess tar prsocyles of the Opisusition. That
(hr *diktat's, to the ranks of the latter it greatly un-
deli:null, must. honarver, Le tieil the
total' in the Aletiopelis 11:‘,I1C would kite was tlor
'thole moonlit of the astamste. But

WWOII, Ir. WAIT:IIIAL arul Mr. THOII,, we
are 1.04, are of no weight or impudence. It is
not in the Member" of the Metropolis, contain•
ing a population of 1,400,000 souls, we are to,
look for the representatives of public opinion.
Nu! fur that we suppose we must have recourse
to the Members for Ohl Sarum. "These are
the true legitimate and adequate "Ilepresenta-
tires of public opinion. The rotten Borough is
the right plate in which to look fur sound con.ti.
lotions! priocipkv and doctrines; mid, if you
would find 'political luminaries, the capital, the sent
of Government, is the only spot in England
from which they are excluded. All men living
and educated three are consigned to mental dark-
,was, or if any part be enlightened, it is only
that within the purlieus of the Treasury sod
' other 'Aeblic offices, those patriotic and iudeperident
men, who would have returned Capt. MAXWELL
is preference to Sir SAIIII7III. R0M11.1.11% The
people of England, we believe, think differently.
They have been accustomed to look up to tire
judgment of the Capital with reverence and respect;
and in this view, if the whole strength gained by
the general election, on the side of the Opposi-
tion, were limited to the returns in the Metro-
polis alone, it is well calculated to alarm the Mi•
'sister, and does not deserve to be treated lightly.
Hut the most curious part of the 'peculation ha•
aarded in the Ministerial Print, a the expecte*

that the greeter part of the new recruits will sit
sort—that shout twenty may join, but not more
than half-a-dozen will stand to their colours. The
grounds of this confident anticipation should he
developed. How are these deserters from the ranks
Opposition to be procured ? It has never yet
been insinuated by the most servile retainers of the
Minister, that his powers of eloquence or argument
had made a single convert. In argument and elm.
epience he was uniformly worsted ; in every battle,
and almost in every skirmish, we have seri, him
glad to take up his quarters in the camp of his
enemy. or to follow in their emir, in hopes of safety.
The confident assurance of a grout desertion of the
new recruits in the next campaign, from the Opp°.
sition forces, must be therefore bottomed ou some
other ground than the superior talents of the
Ministry. It is to corrupt itillnersee, the influence
of place email pension, we are desired to loot fur
this disappoiutinem of promise, dereliction of
principle, mid abandonment of public duty,
Corruption, we are thus told, is to be the
order of the day, until the new House of
Commons is rendered as amiable in the eyes of the
filisiister as that lately consigned so ,the grave.
This confession may chew the candour of the
Ministerial %%Niter who has made il, but it can
neither please his patrons, um add much to his
character for prudence.

We yesterday stated, on the authority of ac-
tousle brought Isy the Brazen, arrived at Ports.
mouth, from the West Indies, that the Spoolsli
Royalists said Independent squadrons were on the
11th of June in sight of each other, off Barlsadore,
and prepac+wg for action. Letters, it is said, have
been received in town from Trialidad, stating, that
am action kid taken place, which ended in the lima
defeat of the Royalists; but these letters are dated
the 10th, said place the action on the preteding day.
These two act...unto are isoconsistent, and we are
disposed to confider that of the Craves the best
elititled to credit.

The followingestraet of a letter from Gibraltar,
dated June was received yesterday: The
plague is reported to have snide its appearance at
Taugier : it is not ascertsined to a certainty, bet
the symptoms are so suspicious that it causes the
greatest alarm. All communication wish ibis place
is of course prohibited, and the Spangler& have
thaws) a closely connected cordon of troops along
the coast opposite. The measures of precauiiou
here are so strict, that while they insure VI security
against the attack*, of that scourge, they promise
to have a verious effect on the quantity, and quality,
and the prices of provisions. A boat will he sent over
on Monday, with proper persons on board, in order
to investigate the nature of the disease."

Letters received from Jamaica mention the
shock of an earthquake. which had been felt
throughout the whole Wand. The day is not
specified. but it is supposed to have beets about the
Ipt of June.

The fullowiiig is an extract of • private letter
from %%rime, dated the Ilth irnt:—'• Young NA-
POLSOM was 'okra to Bode'', about three posts
from Vienna, two days 'lgo, to pay his respects
to his Imperial groodfsither, and congratulate him
on hi. return. Tire boy is a line thriviog fellow,
mod bears a close resemblance to his exiled [o-
ther. Ilia mother, Mattis Louts*, Duchess of
Parma is here at present. The rusiron• and rain.
parts of Vienna, which were so much injured by
the French, when they bombarded the city, are re-
pairing. Marry hundreds of the military are tm-
ployrd
upon them. It is rumoured that Lord
Seriwattr does not return Ambassador to N'ienn•.
The boil ul• Foucux, • tall handsome young also,
has been iu Lii.z those ten days, eraleavouring
either to purchase or hire a houre fur his father, who
is now at Prague. There wetness), large mansions
in the city of Lim to let, but 1144 our ►utiicirsstly
capacious to accommodate FIPIJCItIi and
The son declared that his mother and suite alone
must have toreNty-itou chambers. However. as it is
indispensable FUUCIIC should remove frosts Preget,
the ►on has talc.., as a temporary residence, a house
in the Grand Place, near the Cathedral of Lige.
From unqur►ttunabis authority 1 inform you that
Flit:tilt: la at lists Mae iu treaty for sir Srig
all tin toe batiks 4.1. the Danube. Fur two td• them
roily hr has offered ►txt) thousand pounds sterling.
Four 01 the tis•ues ate Weio
aatbuch, Zellluf, and Eleatic's."

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