Star.
London, England, 1824-06-29 00:00:00

AS the present unexampled rage for New Insurance
Companies occasions the public attention m be engai;ed by
`various attractive promises, it may not be improper to remind the
Friends of the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE what have been its
Performances.
The County Fi-e Office has now been established Upwards of
seventeen years, during which time Sixteen Hundred Sufferers
bare been indemnified, and only one claim has been brought into a
(bun of Law—namely, that of the Thurtells.
By vigilant and prudent management, the County Office grew
rich during the years which were favourable for Insurance ['tidiness,
and in this, advantage, persons who now insure participate.
Returns to the amount of s6eft,ooo have been paid to all Persons
ale halve continued Insured Seven Years, upon Annual as well as
upon Septennial Policies, and whether they have been Claimants II
far Losses or otherwise—an important advantage which no other
Insurance. Office existing has afforded.
Spice the establishment of the COUNTY FIRE OF FICK, no
less than eighteen New Insurance Offices have broken up, besides
many which have been carried on as losing concerns.
Several of these, which were announced under High Patronage,
sad with the most captivating Promises, have expired in total In.
'solvency, and left the disappointed Claimants in fruitless litigation
. with their Trustees and Directors. It is not difficult to anticipate
.what most be the fate of the numerous new Offices which are now
;reposed; and now that their funds are not improvable, at half
their former rate of Interest, are outbidding each other in extrava-
rant promises upon reduced means.
Time who are aware of the confusion and misery which have
resulted from the numerous failures of Insurance Adventurers, and
the probability that such failures will soon recur more extensively
than ever, will not hesitate to choose between realized benefits and
...ctriedyromises.

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