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AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
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BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDIToR AND PAorHEToA.
TINE Number for December 1850 completed ths TWEEN
Il ty-third semiannual volume. Ths work has been
enlarged It's oomnsncsent In ulys 1885, and each
volume cont~ins than seven hundred large &c
obtained the publishers ONCE, 142 Fulton strest, New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
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ters received by tho editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen: -~t
Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1st9.
Dear Sir: wish 10 express to you the qualification
derived receiving the July number Of the Merchans
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
%hsn We
legations to those who have contributed to our infma-
ton and amusement we are naturally DESTROYS TO possess
all the knowledge Of them, Of their appearance OF the lea
lures OF their and Of the and ha
Its Of their mind which acquire You have placed
not speak for them under those obligations; and the
number of your valuable work before me- in some
degree satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have hesitation In expressing my humble
opinion that It emnenty entitled TO the public regard
amount Of valuable statisical and other information,
highly useful not only to the merchants but to the states
to the mariner in short to all classes Of the business and
reading community.
hope that may continue to be, literally patronixed
Offering you cordial assurances Of my esteem and re-
freeman Hunt esq. H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Miuayd Fillmore a,
~ have read 1t gierchants' .Magazine) with good
deal of attention, and have hesitation in saying that
think 1t one Of the most valuable periodicals that was
pensabe and to the statesman and Of general infer
nation almost equally desirable. is grand repository
Of useful facts and information which can be found no
where well dgested and accessible in these
bers only regret that do not own the whole work.
Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton. ~
WARRINGTON CRY, April 20, 1s49
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine and have found itin reality to be magazine and
that well repenished Of all the useful matter which the
clearness which delights while 1t instructs 1t in fact
merchants magazine in tho large acceptation of the
term-merchants who go between nations, whose largo
view of the state Of the world into daiy requon But
it is not the great merchant only but the Of mere
modest but nevertheless Of most useful operationse
merchant the interior asowho will find this
to abound with the information the pursuit of his bust
and the elevation of the mercantile character
quires Nor is its utility at all confined TO merchants but
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation For
myself have found 1t most useful to me in my senate.
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years Of
carefully consulting It, as tr er .r.t IA
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON
Letter from Hon. Vim. III. Seward.
My Dear Sir: Have the goodness to place nv name on
your list Of subscribers for the Merchants Magazine
regard it as an invaluable work for the Of all who
would understand not merely commercial operations
this extending country, bat the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration of the govern
ment #sEg as&H Z. 5~I1.g4&sa aAa All
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
The Merchants Magazine Is published monthly, 142
Fulton street, New York, by FREEMAN HUNT and fur
nshed TO Subscribers for Five Dollars year. in advance.
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