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operatien will he ruinous to the far greater portion of
your Petitioners ; whilst in its effect, it will be disadvan-
tageous to the public, and that it is altogether unnecessary
for the attainment of the end proposed. And your Peti-
tioners therefore feel, that they may with confidence re-
pose upon the wisdom and the justice of your Honourable
House, for preventing such a Bill from passing into a Law.
Your Petitioners finally and humbly beg to call the at-
tention of your Honourable House to the fact, that no pro-
vision has been introduced into the present Bill for com-
pens•ating those who will be sufferers from its enactments.
That your Petitioners cannot but feel considerable surprise
at the omission of such a provision, inasmuch as it seems
to them most inequitable, and they believe it to be incon-
sistent with the practice of the Legislature in every case,
where the general good requires the alteration of any
existing Law—that those who have acquired property
tinder the sanction and guarant,e of the Law, or even of
the Government, should be suddenly deprived of their pro-
perty, their offices, or their emoluments, without an ade-
quate compensation ; and your Petitioners cannot there-
fore bring themselres to believe, that under any circum-
stances your Honourable House would in your humanity
and justice permit full 250,000 industrious subjects of his
Majesty, to be reduced from a state of comparative cam-
feet, to poverty and ruin.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your
Honourable House will lie pleased to take the
subject into your most serious consideration, and
that your Petitioners may be permitted to be
heard by themselves and their Counsel, cr
Agents, in support of the facts they have ven-
tured to set forth, and against the Bill passing
into a Law, and as in duty bound your Peti-
tioners will ever pray, &c.

ALLIANCE BRITISH AND FOREIGN LIFE AND
FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT
of the MEMBERS of this COMPANY, holden at
their Office in Bartholomew-lane, the 7th day of April,
1830,

JOHN IRVING, Esq. M.P. in the Chair,

The Report of the Board of Direction was read from
the Chair, by which a Dividend was declared of 4/. per
cent. arising from the in•erest of the invested Capital,
payable at the Company's Office on and after MONDAY,
the 19th inst.

James Alexander, Esq. N. P., William Howard, Esq.,
William Hay, Esq., and Henry Miles Thornton, Esq
were unanimously re-elected Directors of the Company.
Robert Campbell, Esq. was unanimously elected an
Auditor of the Company.

The Court having been specially convened to supply
the vacancy in the Board of Direction, occasioned by the
death of the late Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, Bart.
M.P., George Robert Dawson, Esq., M.P., was unani-
mously elected a Director of the Company in his room.
The Thanks of the Court were unanimously presented
to the Chairman, the other Presidents, and the Directors,
for their uniform zealous attention to the interests of the
Company.

The Chairman having quitted the Chair, the Thanks of
the Court were unanimously presented to the Chairman,
John Irving, Esq., M.P., for his able and impartial con-
duct in the Chair.

A. HAMILTON, Secretary.