Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 13F. Hunt, 1845 - Commerce |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alleghany mountain American amount annual Antwerp average bank notes bank of England barratry bbls Belgium bills Boston bottomry Brazil Britain British capital cargo cent charter Cisplatine coal coffee commerce consumption contract cost cotton Cuba dollars domestic duty effect England Erie canal Europe expense exports favor feet flour foreign France imports increase interest iron island land lender less letters liability light Liverpool loan London loss manufactures ment mercantile merchandise merchant miles nations navigation Orleans paid payment period persons population port Portage railway postage pounds present principal produce profits promissory notes quantity railroad railway revenue river Robert Carter ship South Carolina Spain spermaceti sugar tariff tion tobacco tonnage tons Total trade transhipment United vessel volume voyage western wheat whole York
Popular passages
Page 406 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 528 - April, 1790,(i) provides that "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death...
Page 406 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 80 - An Act to reduce into one the several Acts for establishing and regulating the Post-Office Department, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
Page 174 - The case was tried by a jury who found a verdict in favor of the...
Page 528 - That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall, on the high seas, commit the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations...
Page 528 - The register is not a document required by the law of nations, as expressive of a ship's national character.
Page 75 - Be. it enacted by the Señale and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That...
Page 406 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 398 - Christian Retirement ; or, Spiritual Exercises of the Heart. By the author of "Christian Experience, ae Displayed In the Life and Writings of St. Paul.