The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-20 00:00:00

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567.-VOL.

ISITION.

[TICAL
ON THE COHN BILL.

WE learn that subscriptions continue to be sclicitel

to the petitions for raising the importation price of
grain. We w.trn those who are concerned in this anti-
national and 'Amnion proctieiing, to de.iist. Govern-
niCat, it is said, will not lend them its support : bat
they expect to carry the measure by Ptitrise ; and
*ace 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
resaltfrom it, if they should be successful ; our firm
persuasion is, that not only would they oppress the na-
iion,ll!but 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 families
and small incomes will go where it is cheaper : emigra-
tion to the continents both of Europe and America will
increase, and the consumers will be diminished at home.
Be it observed also, that the temptation to emigrate will
be the stronger, because as bread rises in price here,
(e4ept indeed in the case of an universal scarcity), its
relative value will be likely to be less abroad, on uc-

count of the export to this country being prohibited, or
the price at which it is allowed raised to an exorbi-
tantly high amoimt.
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 same proportion raise
the wages of his journeymen, to enable them to buy
bread; the manufactured articles must then be sold
dearer ; and the foreign dealers would in consequence
so longer come hue to make purchases in the same
lumbers; and if the landholder supposes that such a
state of things will not ultimately and by re-action
affect him as tic.! primary cause of it, he is grossly mis-
taken. He will first lose many of tho native consumers
by emigration ; and ho will secondly drive away. the
liatign consumers, who invariably flock in great num-
bers to those countries where manufitetures flourish,
and commerce is most free. In a few words, it appears
'that we have those among us who, if they hail their
i 1 1 , would not suffer us to derive the alvantages

which we might otherwise at) from b ini,;• at pvtle.—

They are making war upon us in Buonaparte's very
• method, by endeavouring to cxelude us from the con-
tinent. hey are prohibiting, su fir as they are able,
the use of our many 'teture-i throughout the states of
Europe. 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 (litre:vitt languages, Cm the cammon advantage,
and from which %to, by our superior spirit and enter-
rri:; have it; ways derived more than an rital share ol
gond, they would actually intercept.

PARLTAMI NT.tItV A N Erin) re. Sir Robert Walpole
wanted to carry a question in the douse of Commons,
to which he knew the.e would be great opposition,
and. Well disiiLe.l Ity s.,:ne of his own dependants. As
he WAS pits:iing throniugli the (.our': of Requests, be ruct
a member ut the e i:ttr,trt piety, whose avarice he ima-
gined wouia out reject a large bribe. Lie took hint aide
and said, 6' Such a question cones to this day ; give
me yotir vote, and 11.'re is a bank bill fir
which he pot into lii.. hands, The member mate him
this answer :—" Sir Robert you have lately served steate
city partiettha tisientls aid whet Inv wife was last
at t mat, the ting was very graci.ms to lien, which
most have happened at your tasiance. I s amid tivere•
re think tit..self very to:grateful (putting the bank
lath into Ms pocket) it' I were to refuse the favour you
it c now pleased to ask me."
Among the rumoured changes in Admids:raiion, it
is soil that tibe .wittrtptis eh Buckingham to iii succeed
Loa Pdavilie as First Lord of the Admiral' J.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 00, 1818.

umoy ivsuitANcE SOCIETY.

On Fiiday a meeting of dor Lon‘lon insurers in this
,/gociety Wis held at the Cite or London Tavern, Bish-
'olnotte• gt curt, to reCe:V.htivid take i.n•o c •n.itleration
the final Report of the Londou Committee, and for

to liv their tins, Report before the meeting. He
trusted the meeting would hear it with patience, and
aiso wridld g ve their attention to every gentleman who
should offer his sentiments upun it, whatever they
mizlit h, .

The motion was then read by the Secretary. it was
divided into three parts. The first related to the ar-
ranvonents which had been made respecting the re.
meitting claims upon the Society; tl•e second, to th •
sta eof the funds; and the third, to the constitutions
of the S y; and the alterations which the.Conniniftee
suggested to be made in them. On the subject of the
constitutions of the Society, and the alterations which,
mi.zht be made, and which had he n suggested, the
report gave a long correspondelice between the Lon-
don Committee, and the Norwich B .aril of Directors,
and also of the commu ioations of the former with a
deputation lro:n the Norwich Board, l'rom those it
itapertreil that the Boa] ol of Dir ct ors at Nor% fully
approved of the 4.otHiu,t of the general nieetioig which
had resolved that \lr Biguold, •;eii. should be ills,
charged iron) his situation ; and it was added, that he
should he requested to deliver up his books. and all
documents belonging to the Society, It then noticed
a proje..t which the London Committee had drawn tip,
of having the principal management of the Society con-
ducted in London. .But the rn est important part of it
was teat which felated to the determination of the
Bated of tfliectors at Norwich to separate the Lon-
don branch of the Society from the patent stuck. 'Chi,,
it was alleged, was done in consequence of the answers
to some queries which had been submitted for the opi•
Mon of counsel. From these optuiolos the report
Aated, the Norwich Directors hail conk• to the deter-
mination of not considering the London iwurers any
leoger as menth,rs of the Society, further than the
time to which their present unexpired policies ex.
tended ; and it added, that notice had been served on
nil those moose policies were to erdite at Cliiistmas,
that they would not be renewed ; but, at the same
time, that the London insurers should, for the time
they load beloorged to the Society, rec:ove an aliquot
pert of the profits as well as the country members.
The Report further stated, that the sum insured in the
lire department this year, above the amount of last
year, was five millions; and that the losses in the fire
and life department were much below what could b •
expected.
Mr. A! t-rraan Pattison, of Norwich, moved, that
the Report be received, and printed for the use of the
neenher.

The question being seconded, was about to he put,
when—

Mr. Hroo addrus:ted the merlin:. Hi' said, he
(-wild not 341ee to Cit. whole of the Report, though
there were tome parts of it which he did concur.
l'he only important fart of it wav that w!tiell concern.
e.I the 4...undan insurer* ; and on th.at virt he should
ay, th it the Directors at Nor aka hau eel acted us la
could have wi,betl. They thou4itt to shake off Ihe
London insurets; and this they did upon the opinions
of tttree learned gentlemen of the law. ifo, however,
tor one, it d nut think tic Film. a u a from the Nur
t. kit tentletron "mild be a :treat la,s, for he trusted
ta-re woall he laurel genee.) ea in Loatioa fully adv.
to the eaana,,onient ot a ~..palate concern, (hear),
and tha, lie trusted. amid take place. He blunted
the Directors for making such Irtattient r h rence to
the name o! one individual ; fin', if the Dirrii•ir,
thought proper to dismiNa lam, there the matter shunoi
end, anti hlt weir biloUlll nut brolo.;(u forward oat
every oce,:sion, as it to cover the et rurs of u;h. rs. Ile
a.lutled to the name of IN: !, !.. tio late Sc.
eretaty Its cutaelastoit• the gehthitoo looted tit tar
I/enteral), of anonier imeetitl2., tor tit, pet ..;
fishing a Society in I.otitloat upau a *atooar pi maple
to that at tht• Norwich Union.

Mr. (WIT) I:1 AN Wig terra% coltdommql the
of the Nurwich Dire. tol3, who, he oboervt•J, had u, t

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other affair.%
T 13,11%141. E q. wrts railed to tip. Chair ; on taking
Nhich h.• tos..rred, that dm; Committee which had
h'.ll gloreoczalitikitfbrito fttSeepwilloolastutp.
tion of fiv-ir former ileport, in Septl'inber bat, had
+lnce then continn'ett tbeir lalu urs, and were now ready