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HUNTS. MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
"a Al AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW. TS
BY rRngnAa Hus9. EDITOR AND pHopHIEroR.

By FREEMAN HUNS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
HE Number for December, 1850 completed ths TWEEN
Il y-uhird semiannual volume. The work has, been
since It's commencement in July 1saas and each
volume now contns more than seven hundred large oe-
tSyo pages rev 1onplete sets Of The Magazine may be
obtained ut the publishers ONCE LAP Fulton street. New
York. neatly and substantially bound for two dollars ana
half per volume. E. 100
The following few the many oour,eadaiosy let
ers received by the editor of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished Statesmen:
Letter fran tie Hon. Henry Clay.
... s.g. FgH ASHLAND, 10th July, ls49.
Dear Sir wish to express to you tho qualification
derived receiving the July number the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from viewing your
portrait ia the beginning and om reading your address
your friends at the end OF it, When feel under OBJ
legations to those who have contributed to our iniorma
on and amusement naturally desirous 10
all the knowledge of them, OF their appearance, OF tbs ea
of their and OF the character and hab
it, of their mind which acquire You have placed
your numerous readers lat least you have me, II may
not speak for ther) under those obligations; and the
number of your valuable work now baiore me, In some
tegree, satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Heyiew and have hesitation in pressing humble
pnon that is eminently entitled to the public regard
~ collects and good orders large
mount Of valuable statistical and other in9fuaton,
nghy useful moi only 10 the merchant but to the states
man 10 the cultiVator OF the EARTH the manufacturer
reading community .lI fs 4ti 1890 mn. -
Entertaining this opinion am glad that BEEN and
nope that II may continue to be, literally paronized.
Offering you cordial my estees and ro-
sard, am truly your friend and obedent servant
Freeman Hunt esq t.s tr sH1, H. CLAY.
Extract Of a letter from Hon. Aillard Fillmore.
al have read it (Merchapts Magazne) with a good
Teal of attention. and have hesitation In saying that
hink it of the valuable periodicals that was
published To the merchant 1t quite ndis-
)ensabe and to the statesman and Of general nfor-
nation almost equally desirable 1t is grand repository
# facts and information, which found no.
where well dgested and accessible In these num-
bers only regret that do not the whole work"
Letter from the Hon. Thomas H. Benton
| WASHINGTON CRY, April 90 l849
| Mr.. Freeman Hunt-,yr: owe you many thanks for
The opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azine, and have found it in reality be nagas,, and
that well replenished, of all the useful matter which the
title would imply, and presented with fullness and
searness which delights while 1t instructs Tt is In fact
!. merchants magazine in the large accepation OF the
term-nierchants who go between nations, whose large
perations bring many departments of knowledge, and
view of the state OF the world daily qujsiion But
is not the great merchant only but the of more
modest but nevertheless of most useful Operations
merchant Of the interior asowho will find this magazine
abound with the information the pursuit OF his bust
and the elevation OF the mercantile character re.
ures. Nor is its utility at all confined merchants, but
extends to the legislator and dplomatst, and all who
charged with managing the affairs Of the nation. For
myself have found it most useful to me in my senate
rial abor and have been in the habit for many years of
| carefully consulting it, 'N 3 ~ & yatanah, ~
Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS H. BENTON,
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