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London, England, 1818-06-13 00:00:00

FIRE DEPARTMENT. .

The Members of this Association have the satisfaction to find,
that although the number of losses had far exceeded those of
former years, yet the sum subscribed since the last :Ar.m.:al
Meeting had been sufficiem to d.:fray them, and term:tease con-
siderably the joint stock of the Society.
The Directors lamented the necessity of making known, that
full two-thirds of the Fires were wilful; being either the work
of incendiaries, or of men in desperate circumstances, seeking
' to retrieve their affairs by the commission of this heinous crime.
Numcrousrewards haie been offered by this Society, for the
discovery of the guilty, and many irosecutions carried on at con-
siderable expence. In four instances the offenders have been
convicted, three of whom have suffered the most awful penalty
of the law, and the sentence of the fourth has been commuted
for transportation for life. These awful examples it was hoped
would heave the desired effect, in deterring persons from com-
mitting an offence so injurious and diabolical.
The Directors hope their vigilance, aided by the Local Com-
mittees, and the cordial co-operation of every well-disposed
Member of the Society, will in a great degree remove the temp-
tation to commit such a crime In future. They lament to Aid
that the number of incendiary fires had (since the establishment
of so many Insurance Companies) increased considerably. The
competition amens such Companies, to obtain business for the
sake of profit, has prevented them from using such measures
against the frauduLat claimant, as ought to have been adopted;
and the Directors were confirmed in this opinion, from finding
that in Paris, where no Insurance Company has been established,
their fires compared to ours, bore only the proportion of one to
thirty.

The Increase of an evil so dreadful in its consequences, and
46 ruinous in its effects, deserves the attention of every well.
disposed Citizen, and 'hews the necessity of adopting a plan
which is not only calculated to relieve the honest and unfortu-
nate claimant, but to detect and punish the fraudulent.
Itiany improvements have been made by the Society for ex-
tinguishing and preventing fires, and other plans have been
suggested for the same purpose, and are intended to be carried
into effect—particularly one for improving the Tire Police in

this Mxtropo
It is hoped, that, notwithstanding the calumny raised against
this Institution by designing and interesr persons, and rhos.
who are.making a trade of Insurance, the Public will see the
necessity for uniting to accomplish what they have so loug in
vain expected from the Trading Insurance Companies.

At the Annual GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS
of the NORWICH UNION FIRE at," LIFE ASSOCIA-'
TIONS, held at the Office at Norwich on tht Ist day of June,
1818, STARLING DAY, Esq. Alderman of the City, and
Treasurer to the Institution, in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to:

Ist. That the very satisfactory Report of the Fire Insurance
Society, which has been now read, be received and approved;
and that it be circulated an-.ongst all the Members.
2d. That whilst the Meeting laments, in cr.lator. with the
Directors, the unprecedented extent of incendiary and fraudulent
Fires during the past year, and highly approves of the consequent
measures which have been pursued. it is impressed with a strong
persuasion that the result of such measures, and other concur-
rent causes, will be the prevention of similar delinquency in future.
3d. That the Meeting highly appreciates the sinful labours of
the Local Committees, end desires to express its sense of the im-
portant services they have rendered to individual sufferers. to
the Board of Directors, and to the Society at large.

4th. That the Report of the contint.ed prosperity cf the Life
Office be received and r.pproved, and that the same be generally
circulated.

sth. That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the An.
Sir IL Bays's, Ban. J. C. Conway, Esq. M. P. Major-General
HAW, 'W. STANTOY. Esq. H. H. BIBLE?, EMI. ISA,A= Coors.
Esq. and Jestrm llttucas., Esq. for their acceptance of the

'Office of Trustees. and to the Noblemen and 'Gentlemen com-
prised in the last of Trustees, for their continued support of
the Establishment.

6th. That the Thanks of this Meetir.g be giver to the Direem
tors and Auditors for their attention to the general eoneeros of
the Establishment during the past year.

STARLING DAY, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the auk, the following Resolu-
tion w►t proposed and put unanimously :
That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to STAWWKS DA*,
Esq. for his audition to the business of the day.

S.UtUEL BIGNOLD, Seerttary.

Ampruntaik
TTNDERSTANDING that it is soot the intent=
v of your present Members to solicit the honour of repre-
senting you in the nest Parliament, I beg leave to offer myself
a CANDIDATE. and to request the favour of your Suffrages.
I trust you will consider it a laudable ambition, in a Gentle_
man resident so near your respectable Borough, to be desirous
of Representing it in the Legislative Assembl7 of the Nation ;
and should I attain the object of my wishes, I shall, in the dis-
charge of my duty to the State, have a particular satisfaction in
attending to the local interests of Chippenharn, and proving my-
self grateful for the honour conferred upon -ne.
I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble Servant,
Lacock Abbey, June 10, 1818. J. R. G ROSETT.

A' a very numaous and respectable MEETING
of the LIVERY of LONDON, held at the City of
London Tavern,.on Tuesday, the 9th of June, 1818,

ROBERT WILLIAMS, Esq. ht. P.
ntizen and Goldsmith, in the Chair.

Resotven—That it having been the opinion of a very large
and respectable Meeting of the Livery of London, held at the
London Tavern, on the 30th day' of September, 1812, (Sir
ROZEILT WIOIAM, Bart. in the Chair), That the Representatives
in Parliament of this gnat and opulent City, should, from long
habit and experience, possess an intimate knowledge of the
Commercial, Shipping, and Trading Intzrests of the City and
Port of London, and of the Kingdom at large; that they
should be Persons of unquestionable Loyalty, and firm Attach-
ment to the trne and genuine Principles of our most excellent
Constitution ; and that they should also be Persons who had,
by their Conduct, shown a lively Zeal and Interest for the
Rights and Privileges of their fellow Citizens; and Who bad,
by their active personal Attendance, supported the Chartered
Rights and Municipal Regulations of the City of London and
that at the same Meeting It was
Reinter:N-4 hat Mr. Alderman ATMs, from his long and
extensive Eerrience in the Commercial, Shipping, and Trading
Concerns of this City, from his acknowledged Talents, and
.from his tried and well-known Loyalty to his Sovereign, and
firm Attachment to the true and genuine Principles of our most
excellent Constitution, appeared to that :Meeting peculiarly
fitted to be one of the Representatives is Purli.tment for the
City of London :
It was now moved by Sir Rosser Wicaass, Dart.
And seconded by Jos Marvrew RAIXIII, PAq. and

USAWIMOVILLY RemoxvxD—That Mr. Alderman Aura has,
by his Conduct in Parliament, fully justified the Opinion which
was thus entertained of him in the year 1812, and that he has,
by his invariably unwearied and persevering Attendance in his
Place In the House of Commons, used his utmost Exertions
to secure to the City and Port of London, that preponderating
Share and Influence in the Commerce of the Kingdom at large,
to which the Metropolis of this vast Empire is so justly entitled.
That Mr. Alderman ATKINS has, by his uniformly affable
Conduct to the Livery of London, and by the readiness of per-
sonal Access at all Times afforded to his Constituents, 'hewn
himself alive to the Duties of their Representative.

RESOLVED—That the Conduct of Mr. Alderman ATEIM in
Parliament has been such, as not only to justify this Meeting in
recommending the worthy Alderman a second Time to the
warm Support of the Livery of London; but that it will be an
act of Justice to this intelligent and indefatigably industrious
Representative of their best Rights, Interests, and Privileges,
to return him again to the House of Commons as one of the
Members for the City of London ; and that this Meeting will
collectively and individually use their utmost and most strenuous
Exertions to effect that Object.