PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, No. 6, BRIDGE-STREET; (Price Twelve Shillings half-bound.) Printed by J. ADLARD, Duke-street, West-Smithfield. THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 160.] AUGUST 1, 1807. [1 of VoL: 24. "As long as thofe who write are ambitious of making Converts, and of giving to their Opinions a Maximum of * Infuence and Celebrity, the most extensively circulated Mifcellany will repay, with the greatest Effect the **Curighty of those who read either for Amusement or Inftruction." JOHNSON. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. An ACCOUNT of the PROGRESS of IN A SURANCE in GREAT BRITAIN. 30,400,4871. official value. The amount of the Marine Insurance duty in England BOUT eighty or an hundred years and Scotland for the year ending Januago the business of Marine Insuary 5, 1806 was 215,4851. which, if dirance in this country was inconsiderable. vided into one hundred parts, above nineBefore that time, Antwerp, and after the ty seven would be found to be contridecline of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotter buted by private underwriters, little more dam, Venice, and Hamburgh, were the than two parts by the Royal Exchange principal places where Insurances were Assurance, and considerably less than made. This circumstance was one cause one part by the London Assurance. of the establishment in 1719 of the two Chartered Companies, the Royal Exchange Assurance, and the London Assurance. The risk in marine insurance may be estimated by the value of the imports into, and exports from, Great Britain, which on an average of five years, euding January 5, 1805,.were, imports,, 18,861,6601. official value, and exports Houses Furniture Clothes In the year 1805, the gross produce of the marine insurance duty in England was 113,4641. and the aggregate amount of property insured from sea risk, in Great Britain in that year may be estimated at about 100,000,000l. The property insurable from fire in Great Britain may be comprized under the following heads, viz. £270,000,000 135,000,000 Household Stuff, viz. 15,550,000 Agricultural Stock, i. e. Wheat, Oats, Beans, &c. . British Manufactures for Home Consumption, viz. 3,000,000 2,000,000 5,450,000 50,000,000 5,000,000 |