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Surveys within the Bills of Mortality, when considered reees-
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to the Insured. Fees have never been permitted to be taken in
any case or under any pretence whatever. Commission to
Brokers on Shipping and Foreign Insurances also, have always
been allowed. Eadorsemenis of Alteration or Reft.oval entered
without Pee.

Engines of the best construction, and Firemen of activity and
undoubted integrity, (whose exertions have been acknowledged)
have fru:n the Ls' tablishment of the Office in 1799. been provided
by the Barrisa Flat-Orme to attend at Fires. _
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to prevent the misunderstandings and disputes dependent upon
ill-digested, unadvised, and ignoi-ant PLms, equally baneftil to
tie Proprietors add those Insuring.

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ANN-D.9li
Colman insurance, 2s. per Cent.=-Hazardons, 3s.
Double Hazardous, Gs. 1
legume*Ai FARMING STOCK, at Gd. per Cent sped.,
king tha alienate be intend on the clift'erent forts of Orala--14
64.PtiCpa4weuiy.pn the whole Stock of at,y on: Fawn, with:
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COUNT Y FIRE OFF:CI,
SOUTH /IteTo!l-STREET, sTRANtyLOVIONs
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TRUSTEES,
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The Most Noble the Maagurs of BucartronAlt, K. G.
The Right Honourable the EARL of NORTR•MPTON.
The Right Honourable the EARL of Bucitittouutsurals
The Right Honourable the EARL Of Cress Ossost.
WILLIAM PRAtU, Esq M. P.
SCROPE BERNARD, Esq. M. P. '
THE unprecedented approbation which this eStte
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All persons, who continue insured with this Association Seven
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• Farming Stock insured generally, without the average clause.
at the reduced rate of es. per cent.
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Persons insuring for seven years by one payment, are charged
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Losses have t:ren always made good by this Office, without
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J. T. BARBER, Managing Director.
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WESTMINSTER SOCIETY •
For Insurance on Lives and Survivorships and granllog Annuities*
STRAND AND CORNIHILL, LONDON.
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mature consideration and approbation of several of the most was
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ersocat estate.
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Affords a resource against Old Age, Sickness, bodily euenottr,
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-Great Britain and Ireland. ROBERT Sjal.TON, Seta •
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No intelligence of. a- latei date than the' 20th of
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Fmistice proposed by General Klucker will be granted
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;boat:issue to ise made in' all the Royal Dock-yards, and
In particular at Carlscrona, for the continuance of the ,
mantime war. Recruits are also arriving, in great
:numbers, to complete the regiments which have suf.'
Lered most during the campaign in Finland, al•hough
3t will lee hardly possible to increase our armies in such.
Is manner as to enable them to recommence offensive
'operations against theßussians, on account of their vast
periority in numbers ; our exertions must therefore
for the present be confined ,to defensive measures ;
find in this point of view the efforts made by our
Government are as great as the urgency of the case
demands.
• We remain still without intelligence from oar as.
'mies.
DECEMBER 12.--Our last letters from Berlin advise
that General St. Hilaire left that city with the last
French regiment, on the 10th of last month ; and that
the Royal Palace is fitting up for the reception of the
Royal Family, who are expected there in the course
of this month.

GOTTENBURGH, DEC. 16, • ,*
The first ship ,of the new East-India tompgny,
called the Hope, commanded by Captain Flogt
sailed on the 12. th Instant, under Unglish
,convgy,
bound for Bengal.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27.
ST. 0 N.—N business done at the Stock Exchange.

O
It is with deep regret that We announce the less of
his Majesty's ,ligate the CRESCENT, of 36 guns, on the
Coast of Jutland .Captain TENPLT., and all the crew,
with the exception of ;bout 40 men, miforttmately
perished !

Our Readers have already been informed that the
Report of the Board of Ir.gniry had been laid before
the King. After an attentive consideration of the
subject'and the conclusion drawn by the Board, his
Majesty, we understand, has ordered the Bbard to be
Again assembled.

Two Mails from Gottenburgh arrived at a late
hour last night, but they have brought hardly any
thing worthy of notice. The Convention concluded
between the Russian and Swedish armies had not yet
received the sanction of the Emperor, indeed, there
had not been time for the return of the Couriers.

Dutch papers to the 18th inst. have been received,
but the principal part of their contents have been
already received through the Medium of the French
papers, and published in the STAR more than a week
ago. They mention some movements of troops in
Italy, preparatory to an attack on Sicily. These we i
should suppose to be mere demonstrations, for thi
purpose of preventing any British troops being sent
from that island to Catalonia, as we understand it
was once intended. They have produced all the
effects to the enemy proposed ; for it is known that
a strong detachment that was within a few honis
of that part of the coast of Spain, some time agO, was
ordered back. Had Moral' the means of ccoirgia g •
an army to Sicily, and of protecting it during-ttlie
passage, there is no doubt, from his enterprising elia;.;
meter, that he would make a bold effort to' :railer',
himself master of that Island, by far the most vaii}i:
•
ble part of the former dominions of his Sictitosn
MAJESTY.

. M. KRime, who has been for some time in Lend
don, on a secret mission to our Court, left town on"
Monday afternoon, for Portsmouth, from whence he
is immediately to proceed to Vienna, by Trieste. Mr.
SHAW, one of his Majesty's Messengers, accompanied
that gentleman on his journey, he being the bearer
of dispatches from the British Cabinet to our Am-.
bassador at that Court.

Sunday /icing Christmas Day, their MaJEsTirs,
Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZARE SOPHIA, and ASIE.
LIA, and the Dukes of KENT and Camaatuce, accom.
panied by Ladies Cnamxv, Avis...au:ay, G. MUR.
RAT, and C. WALDEGRAVE, Count MENSTER, Gene.
rah DE Boos and FITZROY, rode to St. George,
Chapel, Windsor, from the Castle, at half past eight
o'clock,- where the morning church service was per-
formed ; afterwards the Royal Family received the
sacrament from the Archbishop oP CANIERBURY.
They returned to the Castle to breabfast. At eleven
Q'clock their MAJESTIES and the same party went to St.
George's Chapel again ; and after the Cathedral ser-
vice of the slay it-as performed, a sermon was preached
by the Rev. MpDicay.
On Christmas Day, the LORD MAYOR, caused to be
distributed to the prisoners in Newgate, the Giltspur-
street, and Poultry Compters, amounting to 690, a.
large quantity of • bof, porter, and bread, and has
besides ordered a large quantity of coals to be sent
there, for their comfort in this inclement season. •
A Swedish Courier, with dispatches Prom the Court
of Stockhbho, arrived yesterday about fcur o'Cloek.
The Marquis of HUNTLEY and her Grace the Du-
chess of M4scuairrsa., are on their way to town from
the North.

ebrisnra. 3.Eve, as Mr. Coots of the theatre, was
Ming into coach at Brotigston, unfonaatelY
fell,l owing to the frost, and was, caseequestly us-
able to play yesterday awning.

TI-Ig AMY•
• •I
,
Os the *ode of conducting the Medics! Duties ef tie British
Army, and on the Constitution of a Board for the direction
thereof; with some Remarks oa the comparative utility sad
advantages of General and Regimental Hospitals, Sec.
--- miht nano discrimbie agouti.
. 'The proper care and treatment of the sick 'soldier
are points of se much national importance, and so
intimately connected with the welfare and effective
state of, our armies, as to excite much surprise that ,a
subject so deeply interesting to this'country should],
have been, until these late times, so little known or
attended to by the State. •
In every age .and country, a certain degree of pro-
vision has been progressively made for the sick and
wounded soldiers of regular armies, in proportion
RS Nations and States have emerged from barbarism
and approached towards ci*ilization, and militaiy
distinction : in the British Nation, hoWever;. the me.
cfical provision, for sick and wounded soldiers has not
kept pace with the high degrees of improvement for
which the country is so remarkable in every other
point in which she is viewed.
When men voluntarily devote themselves to the
service of their country in a military life, the preset,-
-cation of their health, not only by the consent of ci-
vilized nations, but from a• principle of justice, is a -
iare which necessarily devolves on the State. 'AO
‘,hen we see them spontaneously sacrifice the comforts
of domestic life, and the, society of their deanit:
friends,—when we see them quit their native soil, and_

ONOWNO,