advantages: "No charge is made for policies; no fees are taken for indorsements or alterations; no charge made for any survey deemed necessary; a commission of 51. per cent. allowed on shipping insurance; no fees taken by the messengers of the company; an advantage in payment of rent, never before offered to the public; abatements are made on country insurances (effected at the company's office in Cornhill,) where agents are not appointed, equal, and in some respects superior to any other company; abatements allowed, where agents are appointed; in case of fire, every reasonable charge paid, for removal of goods insured with this company; a body of able firemen, powerful engines, and other instruments in constant readiness, in case of fire; also parties with bags, bearing the office mark, to render assistance in the removal of goods*. This office also insures for lives, on the following conditions: "Persons proposing insurances on lives, or survivorship, must state the name, residence, occupation, place, and date of birth, of the life or lives to be insured, and if employed in any military, or naval service, and whether subject to gout, asthma, or other ailment likely to shorten life. They must give a reference to one medical, and one other peron of respectability, whose statement may be satisfactory on these points. They must also sign a declaration, verifying the above particulars, which declaration is to be considered as the basis of the contract be tween the assured and the company; and the insurance to be valid only, if the declaration be found to correspond in all respects with the facts stated. * Account of duty on fire insurances. for the quarter from Christmas, 1809, to Lady Day, 1810. t. Sun Phoenix s. d. County 3,645 2 11 Hand in Hand 3,161 15 3 3,133 8 6 "Policies become void, if the party or parties shall go beyond the limits of Europe, or any where on the high seas, except in passing between Great Britain to Ireland in any of his majesty's packets. "The premium must be paid before any insurance shall be considered as having commenced. And no policy to continue in force more than fifteen days after the period limited for its re newal, unless such renewal be actually made within that period. "Such policies may, nevertheless, be revived at any period within three months from their expiration, on paying a fine of 10s. per cent. and producing sufficient proof of the good health of the party or parties insured.. "Policies granted to persons on their own lives, become void if they die by suicide, by duelling, or by the hands of justice. "If the person whose life is to be insured does not appear at the office, or before one of the company's agents, a fine of 15s. per cent on the sum insured will be charged, in the first instance only, subject to return, provided the person whose life is insured shall appear within twelve months, and the health of such person is unobjectionable. "Before any claim can be made on the company, in the event of the death of persons insured, certificates, on oath, stating when and by what means the death of such persons shall have been occasioned: likewise certificates of burial, and such other documents as may reasonably be required, shall be delivered to the office: when such proof shall be satisfactorily made, the insur ance shall be paid within thirty days. "Parties insuring their own lives, may dispose of the policy by will, as personal property. "Persons preferring the payment of a gross sum, or single' premium, to an annual payment, will be charged a sum exactly equivalent to the annual premium." P. 193. at the bottom, erase the article respecting the Mint, and add as follows: "On the site of the Victualling Office has been, erected a sta cly structure, intended for THE MINT. The architect is Mr. SMIRKE. The building is composed of a long front of stone, divided into a ground floor, and a first and second story, sur mounted by a balustrade. The two wings are ornamented with pilasters, and the centre with demi columns, over which projects a pediment, decorated with the arms of England. The porch is covered with a gallery, balus. trades, &c. There are seventeen windows in the length of the front. The whole of the Doric order. Attached are houses for the principal officers. We should have been more ample in our description of this fabric; but the scrutinous exactitude observed by those employed about the building, bordering upon rudeness, necessitates us to hope that our readers will give us credit for our inclination, though at present unable to produce what we desired. TRINITY HOUSE. P. 213. 1. 20. after "convenient," add, "This room contains portraits of George II. and queen Charlotte; James II.; the earl of Sandwich; earl Howe; and the right honourable William Pitt. Here is also a group, consisting of twenty-four of the Elder Brethren, a donation by the Merchant Brethren in 1794." P. 215, last line but one, insert as follows: "Between Tower Street and Thames Street, on Tower Hill, is now erecting a plain handsome building, intended as a MARINE EXCISE OFFICE. The basement is rustic; above which are a ground floor and three stories, appropriated as offices for the different departments; the whole surmounted by a pediment. MONUMENT. P. 320. 1.9. from the bottom, after "parliament," add, "Was begun in 1671, and finished in 1677, at the expence of 14,500l. 321. add to the description of the Monument, as follows: "Several extraordinary suicides have taken place at this civic column. The first of these happened on the 25th of June, 1750, when a weaver having been to see an eagle which was exhibited in the iron gallery, in projecting his body |