Star.
London, England, 1819-10-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

liter'! ie hdvenisetnent, headed " National Fire-Office,"
which appeared in your Paper of the sth instant, I find the
Directors of that Office have declared to be a base forgery ; and,
a, my name appeared thereto without my knowledge or concur-
rence, I consider myself called upon to make the same declara-
tion. I should suppose, that those who inserted it must have
discovered, that several Gentlemen of great wealth and respect-
ability have lately examined into all the circumstances upon
which blame had been attributed to me, but who had declared,
that instead of blame, I ant deserving of the thanks of every
I:ele.her of the Norwich Fire and Life Societies, as well as that
• ary well-disposed Citizen.,
It should be recollected, that what has been stated against me
been wholly ex-parte, and has been sent forth principally by,
and at the expense of the Insurance Companies, or their Agents.
It ether of theist be the authors of the forgery above alluded
to. it looks as if tleay were unwilling to leave the insured to the
cool and deliberate exercise of their own reason upon matters of
Insurar.ce. And further, that, as I am the champion for the
system of Insurance Reform, it was necessary to assassinate my
reputation, lest I should ultimately succeed. I would recotn-
✓those who wish to promote the old expensive mode of In.
surxoe, to announce its merits, and chew bow far it surpasses
the pan of mutual guarantee, instead of depending on forgeries
and falsehood to accomplish their unworthy purposes. And I
we all also recommend to all those who have placed dependence
on the reports so copiously circulated against me, to examine the
documents which are in my hands (and to which they shall have
tree access), when I am convinced they will blush at their cre.
„ "limy in having so far trusted to what has been said by those

who have had san interest in misleading and misguiding them.
Brixton Lodge, Oct. 12, 1818. THOS. BIGNOLD.•

7-THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1819. •
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT OY.O.CLCCK
Bank Stock 2191 219 ex. div.
3 per Cent. Reduced 681 67f ex. div,
3 per Cent. Consols 69 64 69 6S+
84 per Cent. 771 761 ex. div.
4 per Cent. 8. ex. div.
5 per Cent. Navy 1030;1
ILtak Long Annuities 17.1 IS
Sadia Bonds 14 pre.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. pre. Is. dis.
Oninium, at pre, par.
Consuls for Acct. 69} 68f1.

As we stated yesterday, Parliament is to meet on
the 23d of November. The following is a copy of
the Proclamation which appeared in The London
Gazette of last night :

A PROCLAMATION. •
By his Royal Highness the Prince of Waks, Regent of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name

and on the behalf of his Majesty.
Whereas the Parliament stand; prorogued to Tuesday, the
second day of November next, We, in the name and on the be-
half of his Majesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's.
Pr y Council, do hereby publish, and declare, that the said
Parliament shall be further prorogued on the said second day of
Normiber, to Tuesday, the twenty-third day of said month;
and we have given order to the Lord High Chancellor ef that
rrrt of the Unit,t! King'dom 9f Great Britain and Ireland called
Great Britai:', to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same
azzordirsly. :Ind we do further 11..reby, in the name and on
tls. be:sal! of lue Majn,ty, ar.d hy and with the advice aforesaid,
FddiAs and declare, that the said I'arliament sheik on the
twenty-third day of November next, be held and sit for the dis-
p.:tch of dh:ers urgent and important affairs. And the Lords
Si,iritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, apd Bur_
ge,sus, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the
lloase f'..rirnons, are hereby required and commanded to
give thdr attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said
twenty-third day of November next.
Gives. at the Court at Carlton House, the eleventh day of 1
Ctztol,r, 1819, in the 59th year of his Majesty's reign.

(ion SAtE THE litho•

We this day lay before our Readers the proceed-'
Irgs which took place in the trial of CARLILI, from
the hour at which we closed our Report yesterday ;
with the farther procedure of this day down to the
time of our going to Press, Some of our contem.
per arias, ate loudest in their declarations against
blasphemous publications, but most assiduous in
giving circulation, on every occasion that offers, to'
the poison they contain, have seized on the present,,
opportunity to give publicity to all the vile trash in
PAINE'S Age of Reason, by publishing the contents
of the different Counts of the Information against
CARLILE. It was necessary that the Law Officers
should fully set forth the blasphemous matter -of the
defendant's publication ; but, to say nothing of the
bad taste exhibited by the act, where was the neces-
sity for these pretended defenders of morals and re-
ligion to disseminate the poison throughout the
country

As these writers seem desirous to compel all their
readers to taste of the poisoned chalice, that they
may learn, experimentally, its deadly qualitiesovhat
ray we expect from them now, when power is given
to them, by the public nature of a Trial, to com-
pel their readers to chink the entire cup, to its very
dregs?' The whole of the three parts of Paine's Age of
lieason was read in the course of CAattris defence,
and it is now lawful for them to treat their readers
with an entire copy of the wink, as forming part of
the Trial.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon,
A report is stated to be current in Paris, that a great
number of Deputies have signed an Address to the

KTNG, in which they protest, respectfully, against
the admission of the Ea-llishop Geac.olite into the
Chamber of Deputies.,-five per Cents, 70 fr, 18 c.
A liarnburgh Mail arrived this morning, which
announces the departure of the Duke of CVN/Mit•
LA' O flora Warsaw, and the arrival of
the Emperor 41atx4I1tatt at Rip, cm the V2d nlp
having been preceded by the Grand Ihtke thottoms
eq the 21st. Os the 23d there was a grand revie'
of 60,00 n mas; with a bell of artillery of 60 pieces
of own%

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