4 
The Duty for the year, ending Janu- 
ary 5, 1802, was \ 
dn Dabin oa arog 8) -S 
inthe Country . . 218 5 4. 
£AA1S 14.0 
The amount of property insured in 
Treland, is, therefore, probably less than 
10,000,000). and the total amount of pro- 
perty insured in the United Kingdom 
about 270,000,000). - 
The sun Fire Office was the first that 
attempted the insurance of goods and of 
houses, beyond the limits of the bills of 
mortality. They have a fund of 100,000I. 
to defray all claims upon them. 
The imperial has acapital of 1,200,000]. 
on which 10 per cent. has been deposited, 
amounting. to 1,200,0001. 
The Albion has a Capital of 1,000,0001. 
on which 10 per cent. or 100,000). has 
been deposited. ; 
The old Bath Ofice has a fund of 
$0,000. 
The New Bath office has one of the 
same amount. 
The Bristol Ofice has ane of 10,0001. 
The Salamander Office one of 120,0001. 
The Royal Exchange Office in Dublin 
state their capital at 100,555!. 
In North America. several insurance - 
companies have been established. 
There is a chartered or Public Marine 
Insurance Company established at Stock- 
holm, and also one at Copenhagen. Their 
capitals are not very considerable, and 
they never venture large sums in one 
risk. There are private underwriters, at 
Stockholm, Gottenburgh, and Copenha- 
gen, who insure moderate risks. Many 
msurances from Sweden and Denmark 
are, on account of thisinadequate supply 
at home, ordered to be made in Amster- 
dam, Hamburgh, and London; and are 
effected with the companies or under- 
writers, according to circumstances. 
It is believed that before the American 
war, there was not any Marine Insurance 
Companies at Hamburgh, nor any in 
Germany. At present (Nov. 1806) there 
are about thirty Companies in Ham- 
burgh, two or three in Bremen, some in 
Lubeck, and Trieste, and one even. im 
Bérlin and Breslaw. Ti is remarkable 
that there are only akont sixteen under- 
writers in Hamburgh, Merchants on the 
Contingent, before these Companies were 
formed, supposed that our underwriters 
at Lloyd’s were a body of men linked 
together with a common capital, but by 
the Failures amongst them which hap- 
pened during the American war, they 
On the characteristic Excellencies of three female [Aug. 1, 
became undeceived; and in consequence 
of their private underwriters experiencing 
similar misfortunes with the English in- 
surers, they were led to establish Compa- 
nies at Home. 
There are five Marine Insurance Of— 
fices at Calcutta, four.or five at Madras, 
and one at Bombay, but none in China. 
The advantage they supply to the mer 
chants resident m !ndia is the certainty 
of having their property covered; wiich 
from the precarious communication with 
this country, they are not always sure of 
having done in Great Britain, These 
gifices are respectable, but their busi< 
ness is not very extensive, being princi- 
pally confined to the Insurance of the 
coasting trade in India, and the trade 
from India to China. J. ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
if is with pleasure that I have obsere 
ved in your Magazine the attention 
of some of your. correspondents directed 
to the present state of music im this 
country. Our national taste in this re- 
spect, in the qgpinion of those among 
ourselves who are competent to form a 
judgment on the subject, no less than of 
those whose musical talents have distin- 
guished them on the *Continent, is con- 
tessed to be truly deplorable. If you 
conceive that the subjeined ohservations 
have any tendency to promete a rey 
formation in the public feeling on this 
head, you, will oblige me by imserting 
them. 
Every one knows the superiority of 
the human yoice over any mstrament 
hitherto invented. The most obvious 
cause of this, is the impracticability of 
conveying ideas, and a correspondent 
melody at the same instant by artificial 
means. Another reason to be assigned, 
is the impossibility of trausfusing into a 
mere machine, that degree of feeling 
which is continually necessary to interest _ 
the hearer, and which is effected with sa 
little labour by the experienced vocal 
performer. Besides this, it might be 
maintained, that the rich tones of the 
* A friend of mine once told me, that 
during his residence at Berlin, he expressed 
his astonishment to the Countess B, a lady of 
no commen accomplishments, that he never 
-saw any English music ia her collection 
—‘* You are perfectly right, said she, I have | 
not a single piece, and when I want any, J 
will make Angelina (her daughter, thea 
fourteen years of age,) compos¢ me some. 
i ac Hades yt Yores 
