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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
By rnxnnAs HUNT, EDITOR AND PHopRmron.

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BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VNHE Number for December 1850, completed The TWEEN.
III ty-third semiannuai volume. The work has been
enlarged since It's commencement in July 1889 and eAh
volume now contains more than hundred large 90
tsvo pages few complete sets Of the Magazine MAY be
obtained at the publishers Office l42 Fulton street New
York neatly and substantially bound for two dollars and
half per volume. 44FE
The following are few Of the many commendatory let
ters received BY the editor Of the Merchants Magazine
from distinguished statesmen:
Letter from ne Hon Henry clay.
ASHLAND, 10th July, 1S49.
Dear Sir; wish 10 express 10 you the qualification
derived on receiving the July number OF the Merchants
Magazine and Commercial Review, from yieNm ing Jour
portrait in the beginnings and from reading your aduiess
TO your friends at the end OF It, When we feel under OBJ
legations TO those who have contributed to our nolna-
ion and amusement naturally DESTROYS to possess
all the knowledge of them their appearance OF the lea
lures OF their countenanee and OF the character ana hab
It's OF their mind, which can acquire You have paced
your numerous readers Cat least you have me, II may
not speak for then) under those obligations; and the
degree satisfies the desire to which have alluded
have become quite familiar with the Magazine and
Review and have no hesitation in expressing my humble
opinion that Is eminenty entitled to the public regard
and support 1T collects and arrange in good ORDER large
amount of valuable statistical aud other noimaton
highly useful not only TO the merchant but to the states
man, the cutvator Of the earth, the manuiacturer
the Mariner IN Short to all classes of the business and
reading community. ia4f3sA frss.tg
Entertaining this opinion am glad that il has been and
hope that it may continue to be, literally patronized
Offering yon cordial assurances of my esteem and re-
gard, am truly your friend and obedient servant,
Freeman Hunt, esq. Ii. CLAY.
Extract Of a Letter from Ion AsIard Fillmore.
81 have read it merchants Magazipe) with good
deal OF attention, and have no hesitation in saying that
Enk II OF the most valuable periodicals that
ever published TO the merchant it quite ndis
pensahle and to the statesman and man Of general ntor
nation almost equally desirable grand repository
OF useful facts and information, which can be found
where 50 well digested and accessible as in these
bers only regret that do not the whole work.
Letter from the Hon. Thomas III. Benton.
WASHINGTON Cry, April 20. 1s49.
Mr. Freeman Hunt.-Sr. owe you many thanks for
the opportunities have had to read the Merchants Mag
azne and have found it in reality to he Dogaeiae and
that well repeGished of all the useful matter which the
title would imply and presented with fullness and
clearness which delights while it instructs 1t is in fact,
merchants magazine in the large acreptatiop OF The
term-nerchants who go between nations whose large
operations bring many departments OF knowledge and
view Of the state OF the world into daily requison But
II is not the great merchant only but the OF more
merchant of the interior alsowho win find I'll magazine
TO abound with the information the pursuit his busi
and the elevation of the mercantile character re-
quires Nor is Its utility at all confined to merchants hut
extends to the legislator and dplomast and to all who
charged with managing the affairs of the For
myself have found il most useful TO in my senate
rial abors and have been in the habit for many years of
Very respectfully sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS IL. BENTON.
Letter from Hon. I'm. FL .Seyard.
My Dear Sir Have the goodness place my 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, but the fiscal and commercial
questions involved in the administration Of the govern
ment. sE4
Freeman Hunt, esq. WILLIAM H. SEWAl,D
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